skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about it this way. If your work only allowed you to use a tablet to do your work, how productive would you be?

I'm pretty sure every business prefers a 'narrow view' of what productivity means. The article is in relation to productivity.
If it's for a legitimate reason (credit card fraud, trolling), then why not? They more than deserve it.
I didn't like the direction it was going at all. I tried it again last year in a VM - it's OK, but doesn't have whatever it was that attracted me to KDE3 (and 2 before that) in the first place.
Sitting here, still using a Mac as a dev/everything machine. I know Lion is supposed to suck and all, but my 2010 MBA still gets insane battery life under OS X, the tool chain is top-notch (Clang, LLVM, etc), there have been a ton of improvements under the hood (TLS support being a big one), and I actually appreciate full-screen XCode or Emacs given the 13" screen. Even Xcode seems to, in 4.6, be getting back to the stability levels of 3.x.

I'm not seeing it. This "Apple doesn't care about the Mac" "OS X is going downhill" griping is lost on me. Was 10.4 -> 10.5 really a much bigger change? Or 10.5 -> 10.6? OS X has always had very incremental, gradual changes, and now that it's pushing more than a decade old it's pretty mature and doesn't need to be revamped every other day. At the same time, for all the teeth gnashing about walled gardens, Apple still ships the thing with a terminal, there is XCode in the App Store, etc.
And if you read more than the title, you would know that he was actually talking about barrier to entry.
It's unclear from the data:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homici...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdExS...

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook...
I briefly touched on this in the post, and did kind of hand-wave it away, but this Reddit comment sums up my research: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/18irx0/the_minecraft_...

Now, I'm really curious about the next-gen Xbox, which will almost undoubtedly be built on a version of Windows 8. Hopefully this means the same tools for developing Xbox, Windows Phone, Surface, and desktop apps (HTML-based, if I recall)
Absolutely true. They use propaganda and emption as much as the anti gun crowd.

But that link is way off base. The NRA is as pure a grass roots organization as exists in American politics. The gun industry is tiny. The NRA's lobbying budget is no where near the top of the list of political spenders. But they have roughly 4 million members (give or take - it grows in times of need) who are extremely passionate. They open their wallets, they vote, they organize, and they have an uncanny political memory. They terrify politicians (as the citizens should) because they are a well organized, focused group of single issue voters without party affiliation.

When someone from the NRA sends a letter saying "don't vote for this or I won't vote for you" it really means something. They're not like the suburban housewife who demands that politicians "do something about guns" and then forgets about it a month later.

That is where the NRA gets it's power. The gun industry and their money is peanuts.
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Doesn't sound crazy to me. iSSH is one of my favorite iPad apps.
Name correction: Marissa Mayer, not Melissa Mayer!
I recently updated my PC that I only use for gaming. Since my MacBook Air that I work on is getting a little slow I thought it would be time to give Ubuntu another shot on my PC. Well, installing Ubuntu from a USB stick didn't only give mr a black screen, no it also broke my screen's firmware! How is that even possible? I got it fixed from OS X, tried installing Ubuntu again and it has the same result. Ubuntu wasn't even installed yet an already broke everything!
That seems like a silly generalization. Surely it depends who your partner happens to be and what schedule they follow.
I have walked into so many interviews where it is clear that the interviewer(s) haven't had even the briefest glance of my resume, that I have to answer "yes".
HN... why are you upvoting this to #1...? I say HN "is going downhill". There's so very little substance here.
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I'm curious as to how the "real-world" programming task works. I find that most task are either new features, in which case domain knowledge is essential - e.g you need to talk to the users before you can write any code. That doesn't lend it self well to a homework task.

The alternative is bug fixes and inceemental tweaks and improvements to existing systems. These are often of a more technical nature, but they are also 90% about understanding existing code, which means that the candidate would need copies of the existing code base. I'm not sure I would be comfortable dishing that out to random strangers, which job candidates essentially are.

How do you do this in practise?
Would that really be profitable for them? The state of nintendo emulation on mobile devices is really good and the existing emulator code bases tend to get ported to new platforms, legally or not. It seems like they would be better off just making original content for mobile platforms rather than trying to cash in on older titles.
The concluding sentence, "I'm not looking forward to the next couple of years in tech.", strikes me as incredibly odd. The technologies and software that we have available, whether you use Linux, OSX, or Windows, or anything else, has more potential than ever before. It seems like something to be excited about.
> And I do hope that science can be held to a slightly higher standard of objectivity than the general economy (maybe that's too idealistic?).

Doesn't sound to idealistic to this science-oriented engineer. With the field of scientometrics, the feedback loops look like they can be closed entirely within the domain of science instead of needing to extend outside of it to be closed.

There is no reason to think that actual experimental studies can't be brought to bear on the matter of what ranking/organizing metrics of papers/research best (for various definitions of 'best') help scientists do their work. Also no a priori reason I can see why various fields would converge to the same measures; or that those most used within science would be the ones that the press, students, people external to the fields, and such would find most helpful.
But why would she want to switch? Some of the best code editors are there for the Mac. Why fix it if it is not broken?
The best part i like about your schedule is resting immediately after a full days work. This gap (of rest) between your work day and the time you aside for yourself to do some parttime learning/work is very appealing.
How hard is it to implement a chess engine?
And stop vertical videos!
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This is amazing. Thank you very much!
In fact, you could unlock the bootloader on any Nexus device, load Cyanogenmod, and not deal with anything Google aside from the core OS, using fdroid to get free software apps.
It does not matter the platform you use. The data you use is far, far more important.

I use Windows 8, Linux, and Mac OSX boxes on a daily basis. I play music from all of them. I watch movies, view photos, and browse the web from all of them. I code on all of them.

The reason I'm able to do this is because I've relentlessly managed my data and set up systems to allow that data to be shared effectively between environments.

All of these people who say, "this OS is way better!" are missing the point. Each one does a good job at something. Here's a surface analysis:

Linux: Best for automation. LAMPP. Industrial strength box for administration, security, and development. Great performance. Has problems with applications that require advanced graphics or specific sets of drivers (read: games). Can accomplish almost all basic computing tasks without an issue. All of these things make it a great server OS and great for high performance applications too.

Mac: Best for consumption. Beautiful UI, intuitive software, merging of hardware and software. Has problems with any sort of software that requires performant hardware because hardware is far more expensive. Can accomplish almost all basic computing tasks without an issue. All of these things make it a great laptop OS.

Windows: Best for games. Good performance. Not as good performance as linux, but incredible driver support means that most users will see better performance on Windows. Can accomplish almost all basic computing tasks without an issue. Makes Windows by far the best gaming box, but also very comparable to other OS in other applications (except server role.)

The lesson here is: Use the right tool for the right job, and make your data tool agnostic.
As a company you should always advertise if you want your employees to work under a lot of stress. I would for one never choose to work for such groups.
"So, I just sat there and lived the passive life of a consumer at home. I clicked around the web and read stuff. I talked to people online. I listened to my music and watched the latest cat videos. I watched a lot of TV. But I didn't write any code. Oh no."

nothing stops you from writing code on OSX. Plenty of people do it for their business. IOKit is strange coming from a Linux world, sure, but it works as well as you would expect. It's a pain but it's possible to write kexts and other low level osx stuff.

"All of my music is in iTunes, having been re-imported from the original CDs over a period of time. I can just re-rip all of it on my Linux box, but that's going to suck. Or, I can try to grovel around in their grungy database and try to make sense of it and "export" things, but I'm sure that will be even worse."

I don't understand the itunes complaint here. If you are leaving the mac ecosystem, the most you lose is the playlists -- the metadata is still stored in the individual files and VLC is perfectly competent in playing those files. It's not like itunes magically combined all the files in one big mess.

"Then there's my phone. How do you use one of these things without a computer upon which to sync your data and backups?"

Windows VM?
I'm wondering if there is anything legally wrong with falsely saying that a certain transaction went through when it actually didn't.
>The only thing that may save the tablet is the advent of Windows 8

What world is this guy living in? He barely mentions Apple, and the only thing that may save the tablet is Windows? That footnote of a tablet OS?
extremely psychologically damaging to thieves? I'd vote for it anyday!
(This is, in fact, the shirt I came across; I didn't get this at all. Combined with that tweet being from October, is why I said it must have been an old shirt.)
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it's not like it's a good thing for hackers if their OS doesn't "just work".
At least I can look at the first one and it's more obvious to me what it does. The braces help.
Terrible...
"UK residents are simply not afraid of being shot, because there are so few firearms."

Perhaps because they're more concerned with getting stabbed! I see that some British doctors are calling for kitchen knife control:

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/british-doctors-cal...

"the generally accepted procedure is that you give the robber the material goods that he wants and then he goes away."

How do you instruct your wife or children to respond to rapists or pedophiles? Indeed, how would you respond?
It seems like backing up your media files to a Dropbox-like service instead of iCloud would solve the problem of being able to get your files from any device you want.

I'm not attached to any one device in particular because all of my content is stored on a third party that can be accessed from anywhere.

I could drop my Macbook Pro or iPhone 4 at any time and not feel like I'm missing something.

Good thing about Apple products is that they last awhile, my Macbook Pro is now 3 years old, and my iPhone 4 is 2 years old, and I haven't had any issues and don't plan on upgrading them until they break.
But would a thief sue them for this? Would be fun to see someone sue them for no disclosing declining payment from a stolen credit card!
the way I read this is that it is less about not having control over your data (pictures and music?) less about freedom and software and more about just wanting a piece of portable hardware that works for simple tasks. I can sympathize with you if that's the case; It seems like every laptop I've bought for the purpose of running Linux has been a hassle and I don't enjoy the tinkering as much as I used to. I haven't given in yet though.
In the same boat as the author, with the exception that we don't have a (working) TV, so the wife and I use my iPad as a pricey way to watch Netflix.

I have an iPhone 5, I have a MacBook Air (at work and at home) and I have a Kindle. They're each very very good at what I want them for, and I rarely find myself reaching for the iPad other than Netflix...
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I loved Arch, but I recently bought my Mac after USB keyboards and mice stopped working on my arch box after a `pacman -syu`. I spent a week trying to figure it out, essentially putting me a week behind on the project I was working on. Decided that it'd just be cheaper to get a Mac. :(
I've installed Ubuntu on my Nexus 7 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation, the desktop version, not the new mobile version) and now I code on my tablet, which is awesome for something that I can carry easily around everywhere. I also carry a keyboard that doubles as a case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWy3C4DAoOc&list=HL135376...), and now I have the smallest computer I've ever owned in my life.

If you're able to put a serious OS on your tablet, you essentially just have a tiny portable computer.
"Apple doesn't care about the Mac"

There are two different arguments here:

1) Apple axed xserve and basically made it a risk to depend on osx servers (they may decide to axe the mac pro without warning). This is a legitimate argument.

2) The OS feels more consumer based and buggy. I think osx coasted on the lack of popularity for years (if you are writing malware, are you going to target a small mac population or the wide windows population?) and the market penetration is improving. So what we are seeing now is the world adjusting to the idea that osx is a more popular OS.
Addendum. Oh gosh:

var someObject = new Object();

Is that real?
Great post Bubs. It's really unfortunate that the world responds better to "we are killing it", than to the truth. Thank you for being around to chat. You rock!
Agreed, although it should be stated that Ceasar Milan ("Dog Whisperer") is basically a fraud that has no dog training experience and just makes shit up. There are tons of documented examples where he makes things up on the fly, entirely contradicting what he's said in previous shows.

Sure, you can control any dog by beating them (literally) into submission...but you won't have a dog that enjoys your presence. His tactics are effectively "Be the boss, choke that dog, ALPHA ROLL....see how well it's behaving now? Shaking and with it's tail between it's legs?"

If you get a dog, invest some time in learning about positive reinforcement training and buy yourself a $1 clicker. Your dog will love it, love you and retain it's natural curiosity...instead of crushing all sense of self-importance and initiative.
Maybe there's some "compassion" bit that's stuck on in my brain, but I still feel sorry for trolls when they get hellbanned. Aside from that, a decent number of [dead] comments I see are not worth being [dead]. I used to make a point of trying to let the owner of the account know that either they made a stupid comment in the past and they should ask about getting let back in, or someone accidentally pulled the hellban drigger on their account, but it was happening often enough (and I have no connection with YC so there's no direct incentive) that I got tired of it.
> it's delightful .... yet ... not "productive" in the narrow sense.

I totally agree. I like the idea of tablet very much and I own an iPad 3, but I don't use it at all. My MacBook Air is the same size and weight and gets 99% of my time.

The tablet is a gaming device for mu kids.
My experience with Hackathons has often been that in the days immediately following the hackathon you have to invest a LOT of time to clean up the mess.

Everything that was done post-haste, not documented, not version controlled, so on and so on.

To make the project usable, manageable going forward, requires plenty of effort to now redo or improve upon the messy state left from the hackathon.

Certainly I can agree that there are some gains made from the hackathon environment that are lost working in a normal business environment and pace (lets say iterating faster on product while its in infant stages). However, I'm not sure that many of the principles apply after that, when having to continue maintaining and collaborating on a more mature product.
> If the market decides that the Google experience is subpar, they will be replaced.

"The market" has done no such thing (the atrocious Kindle Fires excepted) so if you have a beef with the "Google experience" (I personally don't) you're pretty much screwed.

There are no good, Google-free options for Android. I don't find that to be a problem but I can understand why others would.
> - For multi monitor support I had to install nvidia's drivers from the repo and set up the dual monitor config from their utility. (This is a PITA utility and I blame nvidia)

Nvidia drivers gained randr support in version 302. This allows you to use the program xrandr or, my personal preference, arandr to setup your monitors.

I have had no issues with multiple monitors after I updated the drivers.
"Storing data in any application results in some restrictions [...]"
- I think you understand her point pretty well.
WebGL. I can see it being used for a lot of interesting graphics applications in the browser.
They should just make a law that requires all legislation to be hosted publicly on github.
Given the choice between having all my files stolen and my credit destroyed by russian hackers and having to eventually figure out how to get my photos out from iPhoto, I'll choose the latter any day.
i'm assuming a couple chargebacks would need to get the ball rolling.
But, I'm stuck. All of my music is in iTunes, having been re-imported from the original CDs over a period of time. I can just re-rip all of it on my Linux box, but that's going to suck. Or, I can try to grovel around in their grungy database and try to make sense of it and "export" things, but I'm sure that will be even worse.

You'll find all of your music neatly organized here: /Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music

Another problem is going to be iPhoto. I've cropped, rotated, geotagged, sharpened, level-adjusted, and done countless other things to my thousands of pictures. They all also live in some database which is effectively opaque. While there's probably some way to get it out, it will be far from trivial.

It's pretty trivial:

http://macs.about.com/od/appleconsumersoftware/ss/Iphoto-Lib...

You can export the original or current versions, as well as converting to JPEG, TIFF, or PNG, retaining location info, metadata, etc (depending on the chosen format). Exported photos can be assigned filenames by title, original filename, sequence, or album name with number.
I had an internship at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory almost two years ago; we got similar directions related to alarms, klaxons, etc. They had two kind of alarms. A ringing bell meant basically "there's a fire, leave the building". The other one was a high-pitched alarm that meant "something bad (likely nuclear) is going on, find a nearest building (or stay in it if you're already there), close all windows, shut down air conditioning and wait".

Another funny anecdote from that place: one day we got an e-mail related to some power problems we experienced earlier. The message suggested to avoid using some part of the parking lot near the transformers, as there was a slight chance that an explosion could eject the doors of the transformer station.
That's correct. http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#ownership
Sometimes when you're down everything looks like a huge mountain to climb. I'm all for relinuxing! The itunes is just a tree of mp3's now, so it'll be super easy to import into whatever. Best way to take control of your phone (no mater the brand) is to jailbreak it. Poof, your mortgage is paid off.
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No answer means: Yes, yes it does.
I don't use my iPad much because these things suck:

- The cursor placement

- Copy&paste

- Lack of a file system

- Inability to choose which app to associate to various links and files

- Difficulty to switch from one app to another (compared to the laptop)

- Constrained web experience (as the parent post said)

It's a toy. It doesn't even come with Basic or some shitty scripting language to play with (unless you count the browser & javascript)
parties each had their own march

Sure, but they were all Protestant Social Democrats, nevertheless. I mean, they may call themselves Marxists or Sweden Democrats or Red Front or whatever, but still they'll fundamentally believe in a society where everything's lagom.

But of course there's been political diversity in the Nordics; however e.g. the likes of Arvo Kustaa Halberg were a bit too politically diverse to live in Finland so moved to the U.S.
I am at a point where a computer is an appliance to me. The requirements while I develop a workflow try to keep it that way. There is of course some limit to this, but given the options I try my best.

The often discussed but rarely given the credit it deserves in such discussions value in linux/open source software is the, well, openness.

As I just mentioned in one other post, I loved Ubuntu until 10.10. With Unity, they pulled the rug from under me. It became buggy even after choosing Gnome-Classic etc to be used with latter versions.

But I had tens of options to choose from without affecting my workflow too much. Colleagues have since moved to Linux Mint without as much as a 'I miss this from Ubuntu..' and I have moved to Lubuntu.

There's Arch and Slackware if you know what you're doing.

None of these make you wonder what tomorrow will bring and if it does bring something you don't like, you're not cornered. You can choose what to do.

I mean this is the simplest most obvious advantage of choosing Linux. Some people choose to give in to the walled garden for the seamless experience, but you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

And that's really okay, just choose what works for you best.