skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's cool! Let me respond here, rather than edit my response :)

> but isn't this basically flirting with the conclusion that developers tend to prefer proprietary platforms?

I don't think they prefer proprietary platforms, I think they prefer good platforms, and will put that desire over "is it open source or not." But, I think you also can't split that by "platform", that is, in some areas, the open source aspect wins out. There are also hybrid platforms, with some open-ness, some close-ness. I think ultimately my point is "most developers are not free software absolutists."
That's a shame. Looks like this one song managed to get on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Thsq5haec2ixuguqiep4bnfzcmi?...
Vim worked out of the box for me on my macbook. I guess someone fixed it?
I find it weird that no one is mentioning that this article is written by an EN competitor.

I've been an EN user since 2010. Yes they have had some problems and I have even tried to jump ship (as recently as last fall when I gave DEVONThink a go). I keep coming back though. I've yet to find anything that touches it in terms of features and functionality. Only ones that come close are OneNote and Notion. OneNote is fine but I don't like they way it handles organizing data. I prefer a nested hierarchy which I can get with tags in EN. Notion covers most of the bases but its an electron app and its SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW if you have a lot of notes in it. Takes 30 seconds for the mobile app to open and be useful for instance. Thats a dealbreaker for me. I need to be able to get a piece of knowledge on the go fast. If you can't give me what I want in less than a few seconds you go in the bin.

EN has the advantage of being available on Mac and Windows (and Linux w/ Wine), allows you to capture from literally anywhere and has a fantastic and fast search. You can encrypt notes. You can schedule notes. You can make todo's. Capture emails. Scan documents (and then find them with OCR). It's got a very usable api to integrate it into any part of your workflow they don't cover. I dunno, I've tried em all and EN is still the best IMO.

ps. I've been using org mode lately too. That _might_ be what finally gets me off EN but the mobile experience just isn't there yet. Beorg (iOS) is great but still pretty short on features. Especially capture and search.
There’s a problem with DHH’s survey, which is that nobody whose keyboards are working cares to seek out and vote in it.

Anecdata of course, but my 20 person engineering team has been using MBPs with the new keyboards for the last three years (various models), and so far no one has had a keyboard problem.

I’ve got a 2018 at home which I hammer pretty hard every day and no issues either.

It’s not a popular opinion on HN but I actually like how the keyboard feels.

So I’m not sure the despair is as widespread as it seems on HN. That said it does still seem like the failure rate is unreasonable, and I can easily see Apple losing the class action suits. More than that, this is a PR nightmare, and I’m not sure their “silent treatment” culture is an effective way to handle it.
I agree with everything except for a missing MagSafe. I don’t miss it at all, I prefer to have extra type c port to connect extra screens and if you accidentally pull type c cable from a MacBook it pretty much does the same as MagSafe, it disconnects without moving the laptop (I tripped on my cable multiple times and it got disconnected every time).
I once worked with a professional cyclist. His attitude about PEDs were largely similar to yours: less about increasing your maximum ability and more that they allowed for better recovery between training/racing sessions. This is anecdotal, of course. No idea if it’s true.
How is advertising them to tens of thousands of real followers not valuable?
A bunch of us at my office have problems with the USB-C sockets.

We have external monitors/kb/mouse through OWC Thunderbolt 3 Docks and we have a lot of trouble with the connectors on the Macbook making everything unreliable.

The whole thing is a little crazy since the OWC dock is as expensive as an iPad or a cheap windows machine.
The file stream app still does the old drive behavior if you enable it.
How would that have improved the current situation? The videos that Metastream wants to play would still have been DRM'd and would still be playable in the mainstream browsers. What would the benefit have been? What burden is being placed on people now that wouldn't be placed on people in that scenario?
No the reason housing is cheap is because housing is a depreciating asset because of poor construction quality.
Google's only obligation is to its shareholders. AMP serves its interests. So does building covert search engines to help root out chinese dissidents.

That 'cat and mouse' game is the natural order of things. There is no stopping that other than making things anti-competitive which is what Alphabet clearly wants to do.

Google has become evil and we should expect nothing less from a multibillion dollar conglomerate like Alphabet. This isnt the Google we grew up with. This is the publically traded company Alphabet which will do anything to increase their bottom line whether its ruining the internet with things like AMP or selling search services used to imprison chinese citizens.

Google should be ashamed of itself. Would never take a job at a company like Alphabet. It conflicts with my sense of ethics and morality.
So he tried to create a chromium based browser which sync the DRM protected video playback with other peer and blocked by Google. He totally deserved it. He was just wasting time to build software on top of evil DRM.
I tried giving some keyboard input before using the mouse, no change. I am using Debian Stretch. If there is a more appropriate venue where you'd prefer continue this conversation, let me know.
Study maps 'extensive Russian GPS spoofing'
Nowadays you only really "license" the games, rather than own them.

Sucks that it's $60+ to do so, but that's how it is.
You're basing that on pure speculation so be careful what conclusions you're drawing from it. Chromebooks have historically gotten very good support, even though they tended to be relatively underpowered - the pixelbook isn't so I wouldn't expect support to stop anytime soon.
One underdiscussed factor when talking about housing prices in the US is that average house size has shot up over the decades. https://www.darrinqualman.com/house-size/

Housing is going to be more expensive if people are buying 2.5x more house.
I have a 2015 MBP. First model with the haptic touchpad and the last model to have a sane keyboard. It has a physical ESC key.

I'm waiting for Apple to get over its design anorexia and fix the damn keyboard. I had a brief stint with a brand new MBP from my workplace. Keyboard broke within a few weeks.

Here's to hoping my 2015 MBP lives a long and happy life.
i had an intergraph reactor with the E chip; it was revolutionary.
Doesn't Japan also have a big problem with depreciating houses? I.e. everyone wants a brand new house, so the value of the structure drops rapidly and it gets torn down after a number of years and replaced?
This ignores the fact that houses in Japan are treated as disposable property and not investment vehicles. Only the land has value. A 40 year old house is a liability.
I usually read TM backups from the Terminal but I discovered here is increasing lockdown from SIP since Mojave using a new entitlement dubbed "Full Disk Access". Adding Terminal.app allows for browsing external TM drives (System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Full Disk Access), which definitely came in useful lately.

https://blog.wadetregaskis.com/full-disk-access-is-required-...
Absolutely. But the fact that I'm even considering switching OS's indicates the seriousness of the problem.
The congress of vienna didn't set up a world order. It was a european ( great powers ) "arrangement" at best localized to europe. Claiming that set up a world order is like saying the creation of the EU set up a world order. You could argue it created a european order, but it was in no way a world order. A world order maintained by whom? Which currency? Which legal system? Centered where? It was more of a peaceful disorder than order.

There was no world order after ww1. It was great powers building up to fight. How anyone could claim there was an international order between ww1 and ww2 is beyond me.

I've read the foreign affairs article before. It's propaganda junk like all foreign affairs articles. Foreign affairs is published by a think tank ( aka propagandists ).

Take one of it's central thesis : "The American grand strategy that emerged in this era—continental expansion and internal development combined with self-righteous aloofness from the world beyond the seas—suited a commercial republic deep in the global periphery. It could work, however, only because the United States was protected by geography and British naval supremacy. "

The idea that america was "aloof" in the 1800s is laughably false. And the idea that we depended on british naval supremacy is also patently false.

Nevermind that we fought and won against the "mighty" british in the early 1800s and essentially forced our will on them in the western hemisphere, we were also busy partaking in the opium wars in china, destroying the spanish empire in the US and abroad and forcing japan to open its ports ( something the "mighty" british couldn't get japan to do ). We became a world power in spite of the british naval supremacy, not because of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1750_perry.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty
I've had to all but disable mine on any newer MacBook I use, too. It's become part of my first-day setup routine. Otherwise getting a finger near one of the "buttons" on the touchbar triggers it. So, away go any "buttons" near where my fingers might ever go, and away goes the per-app settings which override it, leaving me with [esc] [scrn light down] [scrn light up] on the left side, biiiiig gap, then three volume control buttons way on the right.

My personal machine's still a 2014. Keyboard's much better (almost as good as the design that came before it), I don't miss the larger touchpad at all when I'm on mine with its smaller one, and I do not want to pay extra money for a touchbar that I basically have to disable first thing to have a usable machine. Oh and I have to disable force-touch because otherwise I can't reliably click-n-drag files. So all the new fancy stuff I turn off because I can't use the machine with them on.

Getting rid of the long cable for the charging brick while raising prices is a slap in the face, too. Oh and all my stuff's still USB-A. Friggin' Apple. I hate that they can mess up so badly and still be far enough ahead of the competition that it's hard to switch.
Getting Started with Base Web – A New, Extremely Customizable Component Library
The weird thing about this is I can find a high-quality torrent for anything on Netflix in under a minute.
Maybe it's more about not feeling like he's shilling the account, focusing on the methodology instead.
How is that "threat" a problem? That sounds like an Old Microsoft objection to cross-platform code, but the web is already cross-platform code, so that doesn't make any sense.

And if the browser vendors really didn't like it for unknown reasons then they could have just stopped supporting Java in the browser, as has largely already happened for various other reasons.

This is one of those "we all must hang together or we shall all hang separately" situations, and they apparently decided they'd prefer to hang separately.
Not ones with DRM which is the point of the entire discussion.
Open source was such a powerful movement. In 2011, I was making six figures in a major city for a huge company. Then, I got laid off and couldn't afford rent anymore, so I had to move back to my hometown in another state that same month. I had barely any savings at all due to the relocation costs I just paid to move to said city.

I pulled a 5-year-old desktop computer out of storage, bought a new $50 hard drive for it, put my resume on Craigslist (of all places), installed Ruby on Rails and all my development tools, and within two weeks I had a job working from home for $40 an hour. I didn't have to re-certify, renew any licenses, or pay anyone any fees of any kind. I didn't lose access to any tools I relied on in my previous job. My only expense for maintaining my employability was $50. I have a four-year degree only.

I don't know of any other industry where that's possible, and I don't know if it's possible to do that in this industry anymore. I know it is because of the hard work of the open source movement. I've been thinking a lot about how to preserve that level of economic empowerment in software. I don't think the answer is in licenses, but in something like a union (although you are right in that most developers are rabidly anti-union). Perhaps an alternative corporate structure would have the same result, and that's why I decided to start the first for-profit software collective.
> But any and all energy that Idaho does extract from the river is energy that would otherwise have been available downstream.

This is false. Huge portions of that kinetic energy are going to be lost to transfer, heat, and sound if it is not captured by Idaho.

> Which hypothetical river contains more energy when it reaches Oregon?

Assume a spherical cow...

In order for any of your claims to be true, your 'rivers' would have to be straight, frictionless channels.

To know the actual impact on flow you would have to measure it. It is possible the flow will be reduced. But this is irrelevant for energy generation, since it is the gravitational potential that is being harvested[0]. Any kinetic energy coming into the system from upstream is dissipated when it reaches the reservoir.

[0] - Yes, step 1 is to convert the gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy, so you can be pedantic and say you are actually harvesting kinetic energy. However, this is not the kinetic energy in the pre-existing flow.
Formlabs announces two new SLA 3D printers
I would have expected this to be common when heads of state travel?
The reason the keyboard is defective is because they made it thinner and moved to a new design because the old key mechanism wouldn't fit.

Let's add a few millimeters back and give us MagSafe and the old keyboard.
> Wish Lenovo could match up with form factor and screen quality.

I'd encourage you to check out the Dell XPS series. My XPS 15 with a 4k display seems higher quality than the macbook display. It looks really good. It also has USB A and USB C ports, and even comes with an escape key! And Linux support is top notch.
I just can’t believe it. I’ve been holding on to my 2013 MBP and iPhone SE for years, ready to buy, waiting for the time when Apple comes to its senses, but it looks like there’s no upgrade path in sight and never will be.
I did C bit twiddling for the first 12 years of my career and I worked in assembly a little bit as a professional and a lot as a hobbyists growing up. I had to understand simple data structures but the most complicated algorithm I had to implement was the “shunting yard algorithm” for a preprocessor I wrote.

I’ve even had to maintain a bespoke development environment/IDE/compiler/VM for Windows CE written in C when I was transitioning to an “enterprise developer”.

But, for the last 10 years, I can honestly say that nothing I have done takes any level of advanced computer science understanding that you would learn in school.

Schools don’t teach what I consider “computer engineering” - how to build a maintain complex system within a team that translate business requirements to working maintainable systems.

Most developers aren’t doing anything new or complicated, they are just taking preexisting tools, frameworks, packages and putting them together. They aren’t even working in non memory managed languages anymore.
this model works great and can solve all kinds of problems. Rather than investing directly in companies like solyndra, incentivize public sector investment with tax incentives but also X-prize style awards for achieving major milestones.

For example 10 million to whomever can come up with a system to reliably educate inner city kids, reduce homelessness, reduce drug use, violent crime, etc.
I used to agree with you on this, and was a Mac OS hater for years.

But even now, desktop Linux is constantly broken. I just recently spent an hour getting wifi drivers to work again, and switched back because I remembered just how frustrating it is to have everything feel like it’s “third world” computing.
Out of curiosity, is there any reusable alternative for Google's Widevine module? It seems both Chromium and Firefox use this, and all other open source browsers are based on them. Safari and Internet Explorer DRM would be tied to specific platforms and also not reusable, I'm guessing?

How (re)usable is Adobe's Primetime DRM for something like this? Primetime was removed from Firefox in version 52 (pre-Quantum) in early 2017 [1]. Are there any others?

[1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/10/firefox-52-adobe-primetime...
Housing was a significantly smaller proportion of family budgets in the US during 1900 and 1950 — two years in which the US had seen over 10% population growth in the preceding decade:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-ame...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_Uni...
Sorry, but what?
I never understood why people would want to press the same key twice to get to normal mode. Here's what I use:

" j + k = normal mode
inoremap jk <esc>
inoremap kj <esc>

And yes, it does happen that I want to enter jk or kj and it exits the insert mode. Usually when pasting something and not more often than about once a month. `:set paste!` to the rescue.
Japan’s population is shrinking, right?

didn’t read the article... no wsj subscription
Teen started playing video games 18 hours/day, makes more than most adults
Source?

The core G+ userbase was vastly smaller.

(I've done, and am continuing to do, estimation of that.)

There were 3.4 billion profiles, about 110-120 million ever posted anything publicly, but it was a much smaller core of 50-100k who were posting 50-100 times monthly (roughly 1-3x daily). And I figure a large share of that was span churn (the 50-100k was basically a month's worth of activity, and the attrition rate of active profiles was high).

We're collecting metrics of active G+ users through the shutdown, and that's, various:

4650 or so registered to the Google+ Mass Migration community on G+ (main migration community), since October 2018. (I'm a mod/owner).

12,000 at Pluspora (since Sept 2018)

38,000 signed the Change.org petition.

MeWe and a few other sites claim upwards of 10,000 G+ registrations, though they don't give sources or retention rates. Given that you have to sign in just to see content that's ... probably inflated.

Exodus communities in various places tend to be in the tens to 100s of members, from what I've seen (and again, I've been compiling sets).

This all skews heavily English-language speaking (though not necessarily native), and G+ was huge among Spanish, Arabic, Indonesian, Japanese, and Chinese speakers based on some indicators (mostly Community titles -- I've archive 8.1 million of those).

Upshot: if G Suite hits 10k or so members, that's an appreciable fraction of the core community G+ base, and might be more strongly motivated to use and like the product. Though of course, it's not public Internet.

(I'm frankly not a fan, but I do have a good sense of the numbers.)
> would argue that the frontend js changes are mainly to do with user expectations for what constitutes a well designed user interface

Are those expectations met though? I have yet to see a fast and delightful user experience in a SPA.
Sooo the author builds a browser with the assumption that he just can use DRM stuff?

Thats an assumption i would say is not given. If you build something like this and you expect to support DRM, do your homework on DRM before you start building stuff around it.
This is often what's missing in the discussions I see on facebook among people that have no knowledge of real estate. "My parents bought a house that they paid off in 5 years on his meager salary!" Well yeah, but it was half the size of your apartment, Susan.

This should absolutely be talked about more often.
> Maybe I have different values, not having grown up in the US of A

This gets really, really tiresome after a while.
They could be your friends if you'd stop.
I recently wrote a piece of software and wanted to make it open source. GitHub's helpful dropdown of license choices gave me more pause than I expected as I struggled to choose between MIT and GPL.

"I definitely want someone to be able to modify, fork, and publish better versions of this code. Do I also want them to be able to commercially license their derivatives?"

On one hand, this code was contributed to the public commons and it'd be sleazy for Amazon to come along, improve it, and license it. It seems unfair, and the spectre of giving free labor to innovation-killing, rich entities discourages me from contributing. A GPL license takes care of that concern, and provides a much-needed codification of fairness.

On the other hand, giving people an MIT license and saying "You can do whatever you want! Go nuts! Innovate!" is a boon to creativity. If some startup took my weekend project and made $1 billion off of it, good for them! That's the innovation that open-source is meant to encourage!

When the article mentioned that coders are confused, it hit the nail on the head. We're confused individually and collectively; emotionally and conceptually; theoretically and concretely.

We're looking for a simple answer to the question "Which option do I select from the GitHub license dropdown so I can get back to making value" when there's no simple answer to be found.
MS Bob?
Do you think Silicon Valley and Westchester County tract homes are appreciating due to their superior construction quality?

(There are many far nicer houses in the Midwest facing abandonment.)
Why Openbook has a good chance of making social networks relevant again
Is this really a selling point after the recent security issues?
Has anyone just considered farming these?
Microsoft and BMW Team Up on Open Manufacturing Platform for IoT
> a modern desktop Linux can do pretty much everything that a developer's likely to deeply care about.

Except work reliably without me having to waste time fiddling around with drivers and settings.

A few weeks ago, I installed Ubuntu 18.04, the latest LTS version, on my desktop. So, this isn't some nerdy Arch or Gentoo setup, it is basically the most mainstream GNU/Linux-based OS you could possibly imagine. I couldn't even log in because the Nouveau driver would crash every time I tried. (Maybe they've never tested it on a 4K display? Or with my specific card? Who knows.)

Also, Ctrl+Alt+FN to go to a TTY did not work, so I couldn't even fix it by installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers from there.

I was able to log in by changing to a non-default desktop environment, or maybe login/display manager? I don't remember the details. Anyway, it "worked", with slideshow-tier FPS, until I installed the proprietary drivers and everything was fine.

This isn't a fluke -- it is consistent with almost 15 years of experiences trying to use GNU/Linux on the desktop.

Something like this has simply never happened to me when using an Apple product.
They aren't claiming to make it open source - they are making it open source. I explain my perspective on the motivation here: https://medium.com/@adamhjk/goodbye-open-core-good-riddance-...