skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Still, my machine at home was far more responsive than my workstation ever was. There were tons of weird glitchy times where it would just sit there and lag for no apparent reason.

I never worked for Big G, but I've felt that exact pain before--that sounds like the classic "enterprise diskless workstation problem." Lots of big companies like to obviate reimaging their Linux boxes by just mounting /usr over NFS. Then, they don't fan-in correctly, so they have too few servers serving too many clients with too little disk locality between requests, so your request to read, say, a font from /usr/share/fonts has to sit in a queue.

Please, if you are a sysadmin who does this: just run a daemon which, in effect, rsyncs the system to the disk server instead. Your workstations have big disks, sitting around doing nothing. You can be as clever as you want, serving squashfs underlay images over bittorrent in the background and then switching out the rootfs link on download completion--just, please, do something other than NFS. NFS is meant for shared filesystems that change; it has absolutely no advantages for a shared read-only rootfs.
That's a very accurate portrait of that article

"I hate technical interviews and I waste the recruiter's time because I can't be bothered to write a little bit of code in an interview. But when I hire I don't want to read resumes, just code, well, BECAUSE"

Talk about being a self-centered, idiosyncratic prick.

Thank you very much, but this is one thing I won't accept in a job.
I would be concerned about this as well; they'd better be damn confident that the people they hellban are actually scammers.
> and nothing stops a promising career in white collar crime in its tracks quite like a decline in the Walmart checkout aisle with $5000 of merchandise in the cart.

It is not Walmart that suffers, but the thief trying to use a stolen / fraudulent card at Walmart that suffers.

OP mentions it is a automatic and manual process of hellbanning. I am sure they will have the corner cases covered.
Perhaps converting some of those processes in to shell scripts that invoke libraries which only compile with custom-patched versions of GCC would help. Having the entire set of scripts be solely located in a ZIP file on a tumblr page from 3 years ago would be icing on the cake.
You left out: "Windows: Best for business and enterprise software"
And since Homakov gave quite a detailed description of the class of bugs, it would be quite dangerous to use a browser with an active session to facebook now.
Yes. I've been using this thing for a couple months now. I haven't had anything fail on me at all. The system has not crashed or frozen.

I can edit pictures for website development, I can use iTerm2 for programming in Vim and SSHing around to various boxes. I've been able to configure multiple local development environments including, but not limited to MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, nginx, Ruby, Django, and so on. Other various programs like my IRC client work splendidly and without issue.
Two YouTube UX design examples: Bad and Good
Show HN: federated login for Common Lisp webapps
A thief running a scam like this will try 5-10 cards before moving on. Your average customer only owns 2-3 cards. We usually flag a user when when they get 3 declines from 3 different cards - and if it looks suspicious enough at that point, we hellban them.
I really liked Nano Assault.
Gunman Clive just released and it's very good, and only like $2.00.
Yeah, I had an account hellbanned here for over a year before someone finally told me. There's no way to find if someone replies to you on this forum so I rarely went back and checked if anyone replied to me, but it still bothered me that the admins would find it acceptable to let someone waste their time over an entire year without telling them their account is useless. Not to mention the additional 10-15 seconds of latency opening every page on the forum.
"I agree that Ubuntu is pretty much ruined after version 10.10 or so..."

Try CentOS /Scientific Linux/Springdale Linux 6.3 in a VM or booting a live version off a USB. You may be surprised. Same apps/kernel family as 10.04 and support until 2017.
So I moused over this weird little black dot. It changed shape with the words "Don't move" next to it.

1 second later it seems I'd given this blog the equivalent of a thumbs up.

wtf? Dear plusbryan. -one kudo. THEN -another kudo for having a stupid system. In fact, -two.
A visualization of how Oscar winners express gratitude.
I have moved from a Windows only machine to a linux only machine about 3 years ago (I had two machines for a while: one running windows and the other Ubuntu 10.04 with common input using Synergy, those were the weird days). I did this mainly because linux gave a better environment for RoR development. I did not upgrade from 10.04 till 12.04 was out, and by that time I had discovered Xmonad, vim and a bunch of great linux tools (I had always loved the terminal even on windows). Even after upgrading to 12.04 I have been using Xmonad so I don't run into the problems with Unity (I do login into Unity at times and it almost always shows a popup with some error). Well, long winded reply but I think if you spend enough time learning/configuring your tools you don't run into many problems and if you do run into problems you will be able to fix them. I have three computers with the same setup now (My office computer, home computer and my laptop). I have a setup script (https://github.com/minhajuddin/setup/blob/master/setup.sh), a huge number of finely tuned dotfiles (https://github.com/minhajuddin/dotfiles/) and I love my setup. I love the time I spend working on my computers. I rarely touch the mouse. I have two monitors which act as three virtual monitors (one for vim, the second split into 1224x1080 for the browser and 696x1080 for the terminals (https://github.com/minhajuddin/dotfiles/blob/master/.xmonad/...). I cannot imagine giving up the amount of control I have on machines for anything.

I have one apple product a 2GB shuffle, I love the hardware but it's an awful thing to force your users to sync their music only using iTunes. When I first purchased it I could get it to sync only with iTunes from a windows machine, however now that it is a bit old I can use Rhythmbox from ubuntu to do the same. While hunting for tutorials on how to sync my ipod I ran into this from the ubuntu site:

>Apple closely guards and purposely obscures the workings of iPods even going so far as to alter it from time to time to intentionally make it difficult for non-Apple software and hardware to interoperate with iPods. Nevertheless Ubuntu works very well with iPods, except for the newest generation iPod Touch, iPhone, 5th generation Nano iPod and any other future generation Apple portable devices where Apple changed their systems so that they no longer show up as generic storage devices. To work with these new-generation devices, look at this article on using Ubuntu to sync with your iPhone/iPod touch. Most firmwares are supported with the installation of Ubuntu software to get them to work.
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPod)

I cannot in good conscience buy anymore Apple products. The idea of changing your software just to break the syncing of existing tools made by people other than you (who made it without your help) is just unfamothable to me.
To be fair, a couple of those problems have nothing to do with the OS. Virtualbox, for instance, there is zero good reason they couldn't leave an uninstall .mpkg laying around somewhere convenient instead of requiring you to keep the original installer around (stupid stupid stupid).

The other issues are spot on.. I'll never understand what it is with everybody and their dog on the mac ecosystem wanting money - it doesn't happen anywhere near as much on any other platform's appstore.
Are you talking about the default synaptics driver or have you tried xf86-input-mtrack-git?

There's something in the wiki but I have no mac, so I don't know what I'm talking about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook#Touchpad
In a nutshell, this is why the problem is so hard to fix:

> When I was raising my first round, it fell apart because
> an A-list investor who had given us a verbal commitment
> backed out. He did this because he had heard from his
> friend, who I had went out for beers with, said that we
> were struggling and unsure of what we were doing. I don't
> blame the investor for backing out and I don't blame his
> friend for relating his honest opinion he took away from
> our conversation. But I will tell you that I now never
> share my struggles with anybody I think might be even
> remotely close to affecting my future opportunities. And
> in San Francisco, that pretty much means everybody.

It's not a problem of attitude, or perspective. It's that investors and potential hires and partners really want to make the best choices for themselves, and that means working with companies that are doing great and founders who are driven and aren't going to flame out or give up, which is perfectly understandable.

And so founders who want to have the best chances at "winning" have to create an aura of momentum, of inevitable success, around themselves and their companies. That's perfectly understandable too.

How would you even fix that? How do you even define the problem you're trying to fix?
Of course it's not a good thing... If you want to hack on your system only to find out that it's all been prepackaged and filled with bells and whistles that can't be removed, there ain't much hacking you can do!
Devious. Underhanded. Evil.

I like it!

Upside is that it slows down the thief. Downside is that it will cause legitimate users to rain hellish social comments down on your head.
Ask HN: Smart job interviews you've experienced?
I feel some employers don't train the job interviewer and it results in bad interviews. Some just copy interview questions from things they've read and throw coding challenges, which could be a turn-off. They don't think enough about the candidate's psychology and the fact that there's some persuading to do. Would love to hear if you've encountered any smart interviews (styles, methodology) that shows the intelligence of the employer and their passion to hire you, and if you took the job, what was your deciding factor.
HN uses hellbanning? Neat.
So going from "I don't read resumes" and "I don't care about your resume" to "I usually read resumes" seems a bit self-contradicting. Regardless, I agree with your point of view. When we were interviewing, we got a bunch of impressive resumes but in reality...
> Storing data in any application results in some restrictions in how that data can be transformed and/or used in the future.

And not all applications are equal in that regard. I store plenty of data in Dropbox, never run into any problems. Same with git, mutt, Shotwell, Rhythmbox... Usually, exporting doesn't involve any action. All the data is just stored in files that can be used by any application.

There is a strong correlation between free software and convenient data formats. Why pretend that all software has those same problems to a similar degree?
I'd recommend you read some of the tutorials here (even if it looks old-school), as it gives visual examples of each algorithm's output:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/wksheets.htm

You could also try to read the documentation/source code of some open source image analysis software, and prototype your application around them:
http://opencv.org/
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Once your prototype works as expected, you can learn more about the algorithms you used, and implement it yourself in your language of choice.

BTW when reading the title of the article I expected something about Debian's package manager, aptitude :)

Edit: to answer to the more general question in the post: if a problem is interesting enough I would invest some time in learning how to solve it.

If it turns out that the domain (image analysis in your case) is not as interesting as I thought, or would require a significant amount of time to learn properly then I'd probably avoid that domain for a while. But I wouldn't give up on it just because I didn't learn about it in school.
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Ref: http://askubuntu.com/questions/192269/how-can-i-remove-amazo...
I tend to sleep from 5am - 10am and take a 3 hour nap during the day, say 1pm - 4pm. It's a bit degenerate but I work from home and can do this.

The advantages are I fulfill all my night-owl hacking needs and have a good social life. And I can make any morning meetings by adjusting my first sleep to 4am - 8am.

Apparently before the invention of the light bulb, most people divided their sleep into two sections. The details are sketchy but there's widespread reference of "second sleep" throughout history. I think it was the sort of thing they went to bed at 9pm - 1am and then 4am - 8am.
Er...It's how Svbtle works...It's not OP's fault.
DIY is a great lifestyle. And it comes with many positive benefits, not least of which affect mood and outlook.

I'm typing this on a 7-year-old Thinkpad X60s, and with the right Firefox add-ons, surfing feels more responsive than on my (untuned, unoptimized) i7. The clunker is way more fun.

Getting something relatively "perfect" and finished is just not as fun as having something which needs a lot of fixing, assembly, experimentation, etc. If only for the feeling of control, transparency and understanding how things work, it's worth it.
"Hurting others is the only purpose of the gun."

No, during an attack, stopping an assailant is the purpose of the gun.

I'd settle for a phaser on stun but they aren't available. Guns are widely-recognized and visually-effective deterrents: often mere presentation stops an attack presentation. But they also can be used to shut down the assailant's CNS if necessary.
That's correct - I'd suggest flagging for immediate attention based on activity bounds beyond the norm (3 declines from different cards for instance) and then hellbanning if appropriate. Obviously we'd never want a situation where a real user ended up hellbanned, so the final decision is left up to a human.
Just know that "we are killing it" doesn't mean anything. Like how do you do, it is just an empty phrase.

If things are really going well for people they will say things like we doubled our user numbers, became profitable, received an investment, got aquired, had an IPO.

"Killing it" is just a vague thing people say when they have no actual success but won't admit it.
Understanding extreme weather in an era of climate change
Falcon pro has reached its Twitter token limit
I'm constantly amazed at the human mind's inability to measure happiness on an absolute scale, and societies inability to acknowledge that this is normal.

I know that I'm well off. I know I'm incredibly lucky to be working on exactly what I want. I know what I'm working on matters and will have a huge impact on the world eventually. And yet, the uncertainty of success (or at least its timing), and the inexplicable daily feeling of unworthiness/ineptitude combine to put stupid mental roadblocks in my path.

While unsurprising, it saddens me that an investor would pull away from a founder because they found out he was human. Silicon valley's greatest strength is accepting and embracing failure, I hope that strength will begin to extend to embracing the humanity of founders. If you expect founders to be perfect models of confidence, skill, willpower and brilliance, you will be lied to and eventually disappointed. It strikes me as part of our culture's maturation process that we begin breaking down these myths and replacing them with understanding, compassion, and realistic expectations.
That will be a little bit of inconvenience for them. But since they don't get shipment or get charged, they will most probably contact customer care and get themselves unblocked.

If they are not charged and then system tells that order is sent, that is not much harm. I know, not the best condition for a customer but acceptable to stop cc fraud!
When I came to the Valley to raise funds for my first startup I called up Bubs connecting from a TechCrunch article he wrote [1]. Not only did he spend time with me through calls from Hawaii, he introed me to others from YC who went on to have significant impact in influence, connections and capital for my startup.

Bubs taught me an important lesson. A lending hand to a fellow entrepreneur can take you a long way. I am sure all of us entrepreneurs can relate to this article very deeply.

Thank you.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/28/the-art-of-raising-seed-you...
Does anyone have good numbers for how much storage we'll need? We have data on wind and sun across the US going back a while, though most of it isn't from an energy perspective. I know that so far Europe's done well with the "it's always windy somewhere" strategy, but they haven't been doing it very long.
I don't see what you mean. All my music in iTunes is neatly organized inside the Music folder - DRM free and easily copied to any device.
The iPhone is a different matter, you have to accept that you will lose (a lot of) freedom for the syncing convenience. There are some apps that allow you to exchange data over wifi through FTP/WebDav when one does not want to use iTunes at all.
For a few months I tried to convince myself that an Asus Transformer Prime (with keyboard) was a great productivity device. I used it in class and did some work on it, it was great (I thought). However I realized, like you did, that I was actually pretty annoyed. I could do everything OK but nothing really well. Even for web browsing, it was still not great.

I sold the tablet, but I still didn't want to go back to lugging my 15" MBP around. Solution? The Samsung Chromebook. This is the perfect cheap productivity device. The keyboard and trackpad are as good as a Macbook air, it's thin and light, and it lasts a long time on a charge. With a $5/month Digital Ocean VPS to SSH into when I need to do programming, it's absolutely perfect. Never been happier with any tech purchase than I am with my Chromebook. People tend to bash Chrome OS but they haven't tried it. For people who think they should buy an iPad for "work anywhere mode", what you really want is a Chromebook.
I use http://hnnotify.com/ to get the replies to my comments. It's pretty useful.
Same here.

I hover over links to see where they go, comics to see their title text, and vote-buttons to see where they're from. That shouldn't and does not indicate my approval of this article, and I can't reverse it.
I guess I'm thinking of TV shows and movies, which are DRMed.
The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress already does this. In fact, it's what this particular agency was created to do.

Maybe Rep. Amash should spend more time learning about existing resources and less time passing redundant laws?
Great comment.
Your comment on GMO. I had always thought that Monsanto had huge sway in American political circles, although I have no idea where I got this from. Unfortunately the big stick seems to be used to get other countries to accept Monsanto friendly labeling - American backs its businesses in a way not all other countries do. This doesn't have to be a bad thing though.
this is part of the popular svbtle blog network theme and the obtvse theme copied from it. You'll see this theme used on at least 1/3 of the blogs posted on here, I've always been against the whole "mouseover-as-action" thing too.
Thank god they finally introduced all this classes and inheritance kerfuffle in PHP, so we can now manually handle Iranian dates by calling "toJalali" on a pseudo-singleton "jDateTime" class.

In all seriousness, I wanted to punch myself in the face when I had to instantiate a "GregorianCalendar" in Java, but the general idea has a lot of merit, even if the implementation is terrible.
oh?

My mistake then

Dear Svbtl. -one kudo in general. THEN -another kudo for having a stupid system. In fact, -two.
And to a certain degree the 2nd episode of the second season. Whilst it's not entirely central to the plot, it is touched upon with the pervasive recording via mobile phone.
So I guess Ubuntu is Unity and nothing more now?

This is insane.

Don't like Unity? Remove it. I'd like to see you pull the DE out of an OSX or Windows box and lay down a new WM.

I run Ubuntu server on all of my boxes, and the development systems that actually need a head get Fluxbox. I have never experienced anything like I see so zealously maligned from articles like this.

I should add to confront the other seemingly pointless gripe from the article: I'd rather have text configs over relying on a graphic config manager that I have to just assume works. Staring at a checkbox/ button/ dropdown and wondering why your config isn't sticking is just infuriating.
there's also Susy, which builds on sass and compass: http://susy.oddbird.net/
1. Why Quora specifically, rather than, say, StackExchange?

2. Why does Google need to buy Quora? If Quora has relevant answers, why aren't they appearing in the search results anyway?
Nice Hadoop:HDFS tutorial
Awesome thanks for this. Only thing I could recommend would be an extra column for any processor :)
I can very much relate to being the uncomfortable smart guy. And it's not about "being right". What bothers me is not when there’s a discussion that I come short out of, but when no one bothers to respond because then it seems like no one cares about the project as much as I do.

Related to this I think is that I don't really see problems as problematic, but interesting. I actually enjoy twisting and thinking about every possible solution, and lately I've started to realize that a lot of people (especially managers) don't have the same associations to the word problem. So previously pointing out problems and thinking every body would be exited about them, turned out to be a very counterproductive approach.
I'd agree. It's more like a composable set of shell scripts at the moment. How things fit together differs quite a bit from other build systems I've used (make, rake, ant) and after a significant amount of cursing, I've come around to it.

I believe the lack of conditional execution as a result of the kind of tasks javascript programmers encounter. I'm currently building a 125k sloc js app and the most expensive step (minification) takes less time than firing up the jvm on my machine and a clean build is 4s total. There are potentially more expensive things a build system could do but I think that's fairly representative and can see how saving a second or two off a build wouldn't be a priority.
I have a vert old LinkedIn profile, noone ever tried to recruit me, dunno why.