skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Macs for 5+ years and can safely say "It just works" is pretty much BS.

At least the pain in respect of Finder can be almost totally mitigated by XtraFinder. [1] It's a truly useful addition to Finder.

Think cut&paste, tabs etc, without the slow bulk of CocoaTech's Path Finder. And it's free too! I mostly use the terminal, but nowadays I no longer dread having to fire up Finder when the situation arises.

[1]http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
You'd think I would have figured that out. Somehow I completely missed that part. Amazing.

Thanks for the help!
Sheryl Sandberg Doesn’t Have to Occupy Menlo Park to be Radical
Here are a couple reviews

Super Hexagon: http://gamewoof.com/game-reviews/super-hexagon-pure-gaming/

Beat Hazard: http://gamewoof.com/game-reviews/review-beat-hazard-ultra/
Gif yourself.
Democracy? He spent time in jail for leading a coup d'etat.
You sound pretty normal except you have confrontational anxiety.
Circular snark is circular.
It was unbearable because the abstraction was inconsistent when it came to:

a) talking to the library from the command line - the mapping between the UI and the filesystem was completely abstract.

b) talking to the library from apps - the UI was horrible and inconsistent.

c) metadata was entirely non transparent and hard to get at.

Bearable was removing iPhoto and installing Nikon ViewNX which came with my D70. This has no abstraction - the filesystem is the abstraction.

(I know how to access the source files BTW).
Shipmentapp
Sometimes I think this guy just wants to be controversial.
believe it or not Windows has actually had a POSIX subsystem since the NT days, and MS still provide it for Windows 8.

I'm not sure what POSIX certified means, but Windows is UNIX in the same way Mac OS X is...
>This algorithmic craze is too clever for its own good. It is particularly evident in the false-positive bans.

Source?
Backend-as-a-Service platform Backendless goes public beta
Starting projects is not the same as starting startups.
Yes and that isn't actually the problem I had :)
Fostering Female Friendly Companies
I thought this might be why. Fair enough, not a bad feature.
Comparing Lisp to C isn't fair. Both are arguably difficult to master, but one took off because chip manufacturers decided to optimize for it.
America is getting over the white bread thing.
Open Source Software seeping into the .NET Developer world
Strange... I was able to enable third-party sources and install APKs from the web with no issues on my Kindle Fire HD. I don't think that it would be impossible to install an appstore on one.
The value of "exposure" is never as valuable as the offerer says. "It'll be good for your portfolio!" is a hoary joke in the creative and producer fields, which gets touched on here in "business founder vs. technical founder" threads, not to mention the entire animating principle of hackathons.
Hate Swedish supermarket eggs. Open the packet and it just is a disappointment. (Grew up on farm with plenty of fresh brown beautiful eggs).
Many open source advocates like Miguel a decade ago have really been motivated by two things: Their love for Open source as a concept; and their love for Unix. This particularly shows in Miguels great essay "Let's make Unix not suck".

And the Mac achieves 2/3 of that. It made Unix not suck. It provides most of the open source goodies on top (using something like brew). And it also provides the kind of proprietary software that simply can't be matched by available open source software (like most of the Adobe tools).

Although I can sense some bitterness in his recent essays, he simply acknowledges the fact that the classic Linux desktop won't make it. (However I think it may actually succeed even on the desktop in the form of something Android related.)

As I see it, there will be a peaceful coexistence of proprietary and free software. Free software succeeds a) where collaboration is needed (Webkit) and b) to provide the kind of pluggable modules that OO programming promised to deliver but never did. Just think of all the stuff on github that you probably pull into your projects all the time.
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Is there any way to make it so that the gutter is always present? There's a bit of a noticeable jump to include it when I save a file, it's sort of annoying me.

I tried

let g:gitgutter_enabled = 1

but that does seem to work.

I'll have a poke through the source.
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The Chromebook Pixel is exactly the laptop he requested in a rant last year: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/ByVPmsSe...
It's not a silly idea as it actually works, and works quite well, for some people.

I'm one of those people. While this particular site's ambient noise doesn't suit me (too many sharp, distracting sounds) there are many sounds that do help. I typically find I get far more done and am able to focus better when i have my headphones on playing music that has few words.

Many others are the same way. While the paper you link to might not be 'research' (don't know, not paying the $14 to read it) it's not a silly idea by any means.
Patton once said "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." If the author's third point is an accurate representation of reality in the Air Force, I wonder how the armed forces went so far to the other extreme since WW2.
They do, you can go and up your price after buying:

“Like what we're doing? Click here to increase your order amount!”
It is almost impossible to install software by independent software vendors. This is not an issue for you (and me) but for almost everyone else.
Oracle is the same - DDL is automatically committed. I think in SQL Server DDL can be transactional. Not sure about Postgres.
I love the snarky comments in the reply URLs, too; I missed them on the first pass.
Google’s Foray Into Home Delivery Is a Sideshow in the Real War With Amazon
people who like hi-res displays care, because this guy might add some momentum to the push.
Already rebinded those to toggle insert mode.
Particularly when the subscribed user has several email accounts that all forward to another. It is a pain in the ass to click back and figure out exactly which address something came from.
'iWatch' could 'be a $6 billion opportunity for Apple,' says analyst
But if you have to do the same on linux - "its broken out of the box"
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez dies aged 58
Older eggs are fine for baking though.
That would be Amanita's Botanicula, I believe. Also, LIMBO got some flack for not being native Linux but the Windows version in a CrossOver wrapper.
VPN!

I'm trying them out right now. Seems interesting.
> No - email on iOS is a piece of shit. It regularly drops connections to exchange, mail bombs people when sending a message and IMAP is unreliable as hell as well. Not only that, it starts to lag unbearably after a few days (up to iOS 6). I send and receive a LOT of email - it just can't handle it well.

Fire your email and/or network admins. I'm serious. I only receive a couple hundred emails and send a few dozen, so maybe I'm not a heavy user like you are, but I literally can't remember the last time Mail.app crashed. It's always worked, day in, day out, and without failure.

> Won't play mp3s - this is rife.

All the recent "iphone won't play mp3s" query hits were problems with iTunes Match. I absolutely agree that it's had its issues, but it's been running smoothly for quite a while.

> Nokia Drive - do you even know what this is?

I guess I didn't. So it's like one of the apps listed at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple_iOS#Navigating_feat... then.

> iOS's ActiveSync is a piece of shit. It doesn't work properly, duplicates my emails, mailbombs people etc. Now whoever's fault this is I don't know (it may be Microsoft?) but I'm not concerned about this - it just doesn't work properly.

"My mailserver is obviously misconfigured because I'm having symptoms that almost no one else is describing. I shall blame my phone vendor."

You know, I'm not even really that much of an iOS fan. I've been eyeing my coworker's Galaxy with increasing envy. As a Linux developer, it's looking more attractive to me by the day. It's just that some of your claims ring hollow and a bit outrageous, like if I were to criticize a Lumia 920 by saying that it crashes hourly. That just doesn't jibe with anything I've seen online or heard from friends.
> a) talking to the library from the command line - the mapping between the UI and the filesystem was completely abstract.

So... doing "find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -print" is outside of your capabilities?

> b) talking to the library from apps - the UI was horrible and inconsistent.

What were you trying to do?

> c) metadata was entirely non transparent and hard to get at.

man mdls
I'm not sure how this is controversial. I mean, it doesn't seem news-worthy either, but also not controversial.
Even unrefrigerated, fresh eggs last an amazingly long time. They aren't as pretty but are fine to eat.
Pew: Twitter Is A Mainstream Liberal, But A Conservative Wonk
I'm pretty sure every Humble Bundle I've ever bought has had a "Like what we're doing? Click here to increase your order amount!" link on the download page, so they've already covered that base. :)
> I can totally vouch for having your own hens.

We had 5 in our backyard in urban Oakland. It was a true joy, esp letting them out of their cage into the chicken run at 6:30 AM EVERY DAY.
I wouldn't install rails on a windows box. That's like mixing acid and base together. Forget it. Use Linux. Even I said I have a Linux VM.

Try PowerShell ISE v3 if you want a shell for windows. That's actually a pretty scary powerful bit of kit:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4...

I think you are trying to hammer a nail in with a screwdriver by expecting it to be the same. Embrace the platform's strengths, not try turning it into UNIX and whinge when it doesn't work.

OSX POSIX Certified? That means typically "buggy as fuck but the API is complete". That's as far as the certification goes. They couldn't even get rename(2) to behave properly for about 8 years. Google it. So many little bugs like that shot me for ages. That and the fact the whole damn CPU architecture changed one day.
I'm not happy at a man's death. But, I'm happy for the Venezuelan people who no longer have to suffer under this tyrant.
Firefox / Windows 8.

It only appears to impact the blog post. If I go to your home page, middle clicking works as expected.

Also, I'm getting a character encoding glitch that's rendering gibberish next to your login button.

One last thing: it also looks like Tumblr is adding stuff to the top of your HTML. On the blog, I see two doctype declarations; one's on the first line, and one's at the very end of the second line.
Sometimes I wonder if he didn't kick off the Linux kernel if he'd just be referred to as a troll.
Links are broken. Can't reply on any threads. DAY RUINED
I have the same setup and the same experience. More importantly, I've had the same setup for many years, so there's no pain, ever. I'm baffled as to why people keep changing OS and setups and repeatedly incurring the cost of change. It's just an OS, it's mostly a solved problem. Spend time fiddling with stuff that can actually make you more productive.
This is what sourcemaps are for. You can minify your JS files with the Closure Compiler and tell it to create a Source Map. Then tell the developer tools to use that sourcemap and you'll debug looking at the unminified code even if you're running the minified one.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
The SSD models do a good job of hiding any underlying file system issues. With my MPB from 2010 it would hit a limit after a week or 2 of running where the file system would grind to a halt just about and struggle to browse a directory and be slow to sleep/awake.

With the SSD I don't seem to hit this and in any event the restart speed seconds instead of something like 10 minutes in the example above.
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That doesn't make sense. How are they going to prevent you from installing a store APK?
Well, in my case svndiff never worked fine, it would showbad diffs 9/10 of the times, but maybe it was just a misconfiguration on my part.
probably not, the way vim works if there are no more signs attached to a document the gutter goes away. This isn't plugin related, it's just a manner of how vim works.

Although I suppose you can work around this by displaying a fake sign (color match gutter background?), but that has its downsides (depending on colorscheme, the sign can show up. and vim doesn't support whitespace characters for signs, at least not from what I can see).
I'd consider it too, if not for the size of the drive.

Right now, unless something with a >1080p screen comes out, the ThinkPad Helix (https://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-...) will probably remain on the top of my list for when the warranty on my current laptop runs out. At least it has 1080p on a 12" screen, rather than making me choose between a 720p I don't mind carrying and a 1080p boat anchor.
I would like a record/replay feature for AJAX requests or at least an interface where I could easily assemble a request as if it was sent from the current app.

A possible "exporter" for the changes you made on the current web page would help some people I know, specially with CSS stuff.

Some integration with MDN documentation would also be a boon, like right-clicking a function and seeing the docs. Like Lisp HyperSpec gizmo.

I don't think that the inclusion of dev tools is cluttering or bloating. We should always include them even if the final user never uses it. The potential for a free tweekable web is there. Lots of people start learning more about webmaking by trying stuff on web consoles.

PS: On saturday I will be a speaker on the largest Javascript event in Rio de Janeiro (http://riojs.org). I will be speaking about Firefox OS (I am a mozillian volunteer) and I will be showing all my stuff using the current devtools from the responsive design view to the web console, so BIG THANKS to @paulrouget and the team for making my life easier!
Do you have to do anything special to get that behavior from the email appender? I can't find anything in the docs about setting appender-specific log levels.
Check out Tycho, which is available on Spotify. Similar to BoC and also excellent.
More info on the Chromebook Pixel[0][1] (in case other's missed the press launch like I did!):

[0] http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/google-announces-1299-chrom...
The tiobe index has lisp in the top 20 (at 13th) while Haskell is at 33rd, so lisp is more popular than Haskell even though lisp is over a half century old. Being in the top twenty after 50 years looks like the very definition of "survivor" to me.
I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know how he put this together?
You're supposed to make it a sacrifice; something difficult.

Give up everything except Comic Sans for Lent.
> These ideas are my own

Funny, they sound like management in every big company I've ever known.
I hope that some of you who use/play around with the Common Crawl data will try out using the JSON files from the URL Search and then share your code.

If you didn't see the details in the blog post, Common Crawl is giving out $100 in AWS credit to the first five people who share code that incorporates a JSON file from the URL Search.
So... doing "find . -type f -name '.jpg' -print" is outside of your capabilities?*

No but doing that when iPhoto stores backups of your images is a pain in the arse.

b) talking to the library from apps - the UI was horrible and inconsistent

Automator + Photoshop.

> c) metadata was entirely non transparent and hard to get at.

Yes but that doesn't deal with folders which aren't indexed. For example if you do an iPhoto import it can lag for a while before Spotlight catches up. Bang - synchronisation problem.

This shot me badly.

The whole solution is just bad.
Sounds rather French you have to use a name approved by Google - France used to until recently only allow certain names to be used by law.
>so badly

Yes, so badly that I even wrote a small menu bar ("tray") utility labeled as "[ X ]". When clicked, it quits an app with the currently active window. But well, this is not an ideal replacement...

I'm just very used to quit an app when I'm done working with it, no matter how soon I'll need to re-open it...
I got a chance to use one this weekend and if it didn't have a cripplingly small SSD I'd swap out my 17" MBP for one.
I do not think ghc/haskell-platform targets homebrew, as most programs/libraries do not right?

So some amount of leg work is bound to come up if you install many packages through homebrew.
This will probably be the only "Nice article" comment to end up vote positive.
Control differences tend to get in the way.

Arcade games that recreate the classic joystick and buttons on touch devices are often less than immersive. Games made for accelerometer or gyroscope input don't make much sense on a desktop computer. Games like Tetris aren't fun to use with a mouse. Etc etc.
It's not just practically, it is bleached. But as tptacek says, at least on the coasts we're moving away from white bread.
How is he trolling in this instance?
I'd suggest leaving the highlighting of SignColumn to the user's colorscheme.
I honestly like vim fugitive because of it's awesome power. I just type ,gd to see a diff in a split. I probably don't want to scan the gutter for files i've changed, and fugitive diff folds all non-changed lines

also, who the hell sets their font size that small? (screenshot in the readme). that's a sociopathically small font size. I will never trust you airblade. never.
Yeah, I just noticed that now.

It seems to just grep through the diff itself, so adding a fake sign would be a pain and, as you mentioned, probably not display correctly anyway.

I'm sure my eyes will adjust :).
Yeah, he was definitely at the top before, and now he doesn't appear at all. I'm pretty sure you're right, and he coded in a rule to remove himself from the list.
This is possibly in violation of CAN-SPAM:
You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request.[1]

[1] http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia...
It seems a bit scary that forwarded mails can be changed. As a spammer, send something interesting and make it an ad when forwarded?
I recently switched back from Mac to Windows. I was using Windows 7 on my work computer, and I found myself being more productive and enjoying it more than my home Mac.

Windows 7 really is quite good, and I don't much care for the directions Mac OS X is heading.
You might try asking this on http://stackoverflow.com/, but you'd be surprised in how many companies would go for a paid product over open source. The main reason, so they can "choke someone when it all goes to hell" (to quote a coworker).
Oh, I never saw that! Thanks!
Read the linked article. Email clients wrap the contents of forwarded messages in a <blockquote>, you just have to use CSS rules to hide the contents of a "blockquote yourfooterclasss" while otherwise showing yourfooterclass by default.

EDIT I actually meant "read the article linked from the linked article" — I too spent a good minute there trying to find out their solution.
It’s not Apple’s job to be a parent to your kids
1. Yes, this.
2. Try the Aurora channel. Now the developer tools look pretty much like Firebug
3. Yes!
I'm a big Firefox fan for one major reason : it's the most customizable browser out there. I just love the right-click/Customize and all the available extensions.

My suggestion won't be for a new tool, but it's a suggestion anyway : Please always allow users the decide what they prefere. Choose any defaults you think are the best, but always add a configuration to be able to change it!

An example of this : I don't remember when exactly, but in one release, Firefox devs decided to remove the "loading cursor"( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482985 ) without any config:about setting to enable it back!!! I was furious, not simply because I prefere to see this loading cursor, but because Firefox didn't allow me the choose what I wanted.

Thanks for reading and thanks a lot to all devs contributing to this wonderful browser!

-----

(By the way, it's now possible to enable the loading cursor using ui.use_activity_cursor = true)
What the hell do placebos have to do with this article?

And I still think the most important part of that article was that placebo ingredients were not included in studies, making them hard to understand/reproduce. Wasn't that completely accurate? Set aside any implications that may or may not have been there.

I'll give that it's probably poorly researched, but what you're linking is only half-relevant to that.
I'm using this exact technique in my daily work right now! :-). It's an embedded DSP doing real-time signal processing for digital radio, and the technique you describe allows the execution flow leading up to a crash to be determined, without the timing jitter introduced by the "real" debugger.
Especially when some cradle robber lies about only being 99.
May Venezuela advance and avoid other aspiring tyrants.
That actually drives me nuts about Mailchimp in particular, and I've seen a good number of folks grouse about it on Twitter. Interesting to see someone having the complete opposite opinion about them.
Given the reportedly rapid decline in his health, not entirely surprising.
Don't expect major changes in the country's governance.
Change comes from the people, with a revolution or uprising, not the death of a leader because of an illness or for natural reasons.
Shipping goes a long way.
Intent and Opportunity: The Value of Being Vague
Why not open-source it? I'm sure your company has benefitted from OSS, it'd be nice to give a little back. Not to mention the positive PR buzz you could generate.
Substitute "treat like a pariah" for "eliminate" and you're good to go!
Another interesting though experiment:

A lot of people respond to the "why is it ok to eat these animals" question with, "because chickens/cows/turkeys are dumb." Following that logic, it's ok to eat people with a low enough IQ, or mental handicaps, no?
This would be the preferred way for my systems, yeah.
I understand F# is in the ocaml family. Any reason why one would prefer ocaml over fsharp?
I smell sulfur...

lets hope the next guy unites rather than divides.
It seems that Linus was praising the screen of Chromebook Pixel particularly its resolution. Sorry if I am being ignorant here, but has Linus heard of Retina Display MacBook Pro? rMBP has roughly the same PPI as Google Chromebook Pixel and had been available for almost a year by now. And surely you can install Linux on it. *[1]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro_Retina
Thanks a lot for all your words of wisdom! I really appreciate it.

Regarding sushi: I've found that if I get cheap sushi (like the kind in a cafeteria or supermarket), it often makes me feel like crap. So they must be slipping something in there made of gluten. Any idea on what that is and how to avoid it? (Of course, the easy answer is "don't eat cheap sushi," and that works pretty well.)
Yes, I actually do it quite frequently (in Windows and Linux).
There used to be some high-res laptops(compared to what's popular today)at non-16:9 aspect ratios. Anyone remember the IBM T21? 1400x1050 (14.1")... in '00-01! I guess a combination of waning consumer demand due to OMG WIDESCREEN and corner-cutting brought 1366x768 to the forefront. Also, it's kind of funny that 1366x768 is not actually 16:9 anyway.
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