skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because that route won't provide insight as to PG's thoughts on the matter?
Do you drink alcohol?
Well I think the issue may have been that everything was set up to use the old-style XLFDs instead of routing everything through freetype. Not sure when you are referring to (it's been a while since I've done a clean install of debian myself, I just move my install from disk to disk as the years and hardware pass), but AFAIK font support in X has been pretty good for about 10 years, and by now most distros have the newer stuff enabled without a lot of fuss.

Then again as I mentioned I am not a "font snob" - it's not very distinguishable to me, beyond the "old-style" (pre-freetype) stuff looking kind of bad; YMMV.
As I have worked for public universities for the past 14 years I've gotten used to this particular tidbit of knowledge being public information. The only time it's a problem is if pay is unfairly distributed among the workers. In which case it's a good thing to be aware of. Public salary data would help everyone understand what their jobs are really worth. Credit reporting agencies, banks, the government, management, and the NSA all know everyone's salary. Why should the bottom rung workers be the only ones left in the dark?
Siblings of the aunt.
Why post this if you need to subscribe to read it???
For me, it's a happy in between. Come home from work, have a bag from the vaporizer and write a bunch of code for my side project. Though, Friday, when everyone else goes out to the bar, I stay in have several bags, watch some stupid TV and fall asleep early on the couch. Works for me, but I also know how to not overdo it, etc. It's honestly a lot like alcohol in that regard.

Can you imagine how weird it would be if people freaked out if they heard you had a beer at lunch or had a beer at 4PM while working from home? Weird to me at least...
Because I often feel impeded by the partially closed nature of OS X and the extremely closed nature of iOS.
"The only pot smokers I know and am aware of are burnt out, so they all will burn out! Oh and it's immature, whatever that means."

Sorry for the snark, but when there's clearly a visibility problem, these one-off negative anecdotes given as universal observations and advice are nearly useless.
Bitcoin Alternative 'Dogecoin' Hacked, 21 Million Coins Stolen
"...packing a mighty can of whoop-ass in the name of your company..."

Dude, that's awesome++
Thinkpad X or T series.
> Have you actually tried and compared the physical buttons to the new ones?

No, not yet. However, I'm not holding out much hope, considering that the change to the chiclet keyboard was also proclaimed as being an "improvement", when in reality it was not. Also, as a Linux user, having to configure the trackpad-based buttons is definitely going to introduce driver headaches, something else that I have been able to avoid so far by sticking to the TrackPoint.
"Problems just become simpler"... here is my story about that!

I've smoked ever since I was 14. Most of the time about once a week, at times not smoking for a year, and sometimes all day for months.

Smoking very frequently has a negative effect on me when it comes to business. I have more trouble finding motivation and caring, I am less in control of myself and get along less easily with people.. I become a feral hacker pretty fast.

On the other hand, I find a lot of benefits in smoking occasionally.

It seems pot disconnects you from your "hard-drive". You have problems pulling data that is otherwise readily available, and much that happens when you smoke doesn't seem to get stored at all.

So what's the advantage? Well, it doesn't seem to affect what's in your "RAM". You're like a super AI with a completely fresh storage and barely any data. Now data in most cases is useful, specially when you're trying to reproduce things that worked previously. When you hit a wall though, it can become a burden.

Most of you probably remember the sentence "You must unlearn what you have learned"! Except in this case, you lose factual data, but not cognitive processes. You certainly won't suddenly be able to levitate, but it's amazing what the brain can come up with when you lose track of all the common practices.

I've done a year of math prep in one of EU's hardest universities, and it was amazingly hard. Trying to solve any of the problems while high would lead to a ton of execution mistakes (copying stuff wrong, losing track of what you were doing etc), and was generally bad. Being slightly high for a test would cut my grade in half.

On the other hand, on many occasions, I spent a couple hours attempting to solve something from any possible angle and failed, like solving a rubik's cube and always coming back to the same configuration. Then at some point, later in the day or week, I'd think about that problem again while being high, and have my mind elegantly walk through the complexity of it and see the solution.

I spoke about it with people at that school who smoked, and most of those who were naturals at math seemed to have had the same experience. Ever since, I've had it happen to me on many occasions about different implementation/design challenges. I've worked with other people who were occasional smokers, and sometimes when failing to solve problems (more policical / vision related than technical), mention them again when we were high, and have extremely interesting things come up.

Obviously you want to review / implement / apply those new ideas when you're sober, because you need to run them through your experience and memory extensively, but weed can be a great source when you need an alternate angle of approach.
Good points. I have already gone through several levels of engineering mathematics, so do understand differential and integral calculus well. I am assuming that is that Spivak's book is about -- please correct me if I am wrong; Amazon is not showing a preview of the book.

You are right in bringing countability arguments into the picture; I understand them only to some level. I would love to read a book that gives it a formal treatment. The following has been great for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6838917

Another one showed up on HN recently that I am still to read in full:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966695

Thanks

Finally, cannot help but mention in praise, Colin Wright here on HN has been a good help before in clearing some of my doubts on the subject.
> As for developers, where are are the matte displays?

And floppy disks
You want to yell at Apple for using notebook CPUs in their compact systems, is that it? Need a convenient target for your rage?

Take it up with Intel who for years has been shipping soldered on CPUs. Apple doesn't make these chips, you know. They just work with whatever Intel can give them that fits in their desired form factor.
> I know a lot of people with PhDs, but I can't think of any who want to be called "Doctor", because that's exceedingly silly. I know it works a bit differently outside of the US.

Yes, I've noticed a very strong correlation between country and insistence on using a title conferred by a PhD. Americans do in general seem fairly relaxed about it.
What about the RV folks, same criticisms?
About as likely as Microsoft being run by lizard people.
"And, of course, carrying and using a camera in the 1970s took a lot more effort than it does today."

Taking pictures did not take more "effort" back in the 70's. Cameras were small and lightweight and if you wanted to take pictures you could easily bring a camera to work and take pictures. We are not talking the 1920's here.

What was different was you had to get the pictures developed and obviously with the roll size (24 or 36 exposure) there was less impulse shooting unless you had a polaroid camera (Kodak also made an instant camera). You would certainly be less likely to take casual pictures which is why pictures would typically be posed and setup.
I've been trying to integrate PyV8 into our production environment and have been experiencing a lot of trouble with it as well. There are two main issues that are killing it for us - the first is the challenge of building it, as you mention. There's also a difficult-to-reproduce segfault issue that crops up sometimes when V8's GC runs.

Is your custom version published online anywhere? It would be great to build off the stability work you already seem to have done.
> I've been a soft rim diehard for near 15 years now.

Yeah, I also only use the soft rim. I've worn down and had to replace them many times over the years. The one that I've got on my ThinkPad external keyboard[0] (unfortunately no longer available directly from Lenovo in the non-chicletized form) is almost flat now, probably time to order another one.

0: http://www.amazon.com/ThinkPad-USB-Keyboard-with-TrackPoint/...
I have to say, the idea of lowering my goals in light of increasing stress haunts me at night. It would be so easy (or at least it feels that way now) to just stop being ambitious and stop chasing the dream, as stress levels increase along with risks. I just can't do it. Even though it's intensely stressful at times, I think that striving for a grand goal is a part of who I am, in much the same way that my personal stress tolerance is. If I was going to change anything, it would be to reduce my stress through any other means than to stop trying to achieve more than I am physical capable. I take nootropics, stimulants (light ones, these days, though I had previously been on much stronger ones) for cognitive/performance enhancement so I can excel further than I would be able without them. I could have removed the need for them, but that, to me, is a far worse fate.

Just my thoughts.
Why would you smirk at people who eat lunch?
Apple's using CNC machining on an unprecedented scale to make their products because it offers superior results to a purely stamped or cast part.

If 3D printing offers something novel, I'm sure Apple will be all over it yesterday. The only thing I can think of where this would work is materials like glass.
THANK YOU! I've been a loyal spotify premium member for two years going and it seems like their products are on a DOWNWARD trajectory. The mobile app used to be just fine till they updated with messed up information and ux flow. Depressing!
I think technology is the enabling factor behind the tiny house movement.

Books, CDs, movies, photos, files, paperwork, videogames: all compressed down to the size of a hard drive. So many random gadgets have been replaced by a smart phone, like camera equipment, phones, flashlights, calendars, etc. Now people are ditching TVs as well and just using iPads and laptops to watch video.

There are other more subtle things as well. For example, I haven't needed to iron a shirt in years because nice shirts come out of the dryer looking perfect. So no need for an iron or ironing board.

Then there's service-economy-ification. Most of my neighbors don't mow their own lawn, none of them fix their own cars, and several don't even clean their own house. I wonder how many brew their own coffee? That's a huge amount of equipment that is no longer needed. When I lived in New York, literally 100% of my local friends used wash-and-fold and owned nothing to take care of clothing. A close friend of mine confessed recently that he hasn't prepared a real meal in years; his kitchen cabinets are nearly empty.

The sharing economy is pushing this further. There's a tool-share co-op in my city for those things you need once-in-a-while, like a ladder. Car2Go and ZipCar mean people don't need 2 and 3 car garages at all anymore.

I can't wait to get rid of more stuff!
While Steve Jobs is an entrepreneurial outlier, and I recommend against smoking weed often simply because it can be a crutch for psychological issues, Jobs had an interesting history of LSD and cannabis use: "The best way I could describe the effect of the marijuana and hashish is that it would make me relaxed and creative" [1]. And then went on to found what became the most valuable company on the planet.

[1] http://archive.is/20120916001237/http://www.smh.com.au/techn...
In another news, Euro alternative US Dollar Hacked by bank robbers.
> I switched from OS X to Ubuntu and now I'm free! Well, no, you just switched from one corporate controlled Operating System to another.

You're joking, right? Please tell me you're joking. Because there is an obvious difference between the two that you're eliding: Ubuntu is forkable, and OS X is not.

In other words, Canonical only "controls" Ubuntu in the sense that a community of users and developers trust their stewardship of it. If they squander that trust, that community can pick up Ubuntu and take it wherever they prefer it to go.

This is not a theoretical freedom; people exercise it all the time. Look at the diaspora from MySQL to products like MariaDB, for example, or the split from OpenOffice to LibreOffice. These are both cases where the communities around the products decided that the company stewarding those products (Oracle, in both cases, as it happens) was failing in that role. So new stewards stepped forward, and the communities followed them.

If you feel that Canonical's decision to include online search results in the Unity dash is a deal-breaker for you, you are free to vote with your feet in the same way. You could use Linux Mint, for example, which is basically Ubuntu without Unity.

Here is how "corporate controlled" Ubuntu is -- so much so that a third party is free to pick it up, strip out some features, and re-distribute it to users who don't want those features! And those users are free to switch over to it, if they wish; Canonical won't stop you. They couldn't stop you, even if they wanted to. Which is kind of the point.

Now imagine what would happen to someone who decided that OS X would be better if (say) Chrome were the default browser, and released their own re-spin of it where that is the case. The flaws in your comparison become evident.

> If people are going to write about their holier-than-thou articles about how they switched to free software, they better be running something like Trisequel Linux on a Gluglug Laptop or perhaps they should think about something else to write about.

So either you are 100% Pure, or you are 100% Impure. This would come as news to (among others) the makers of Ivory soap, who famously advertised it for decades as "99 44/100% Pure." I could understand an argument that this degree of purity doesn't make it better or worse than other soap products. What I could not understand would be an argument that unless it is 100% pure, it is not soap.
"If only they knew"

I think though that uncertainty is part of the journey that provides fulfillment. Not knowing is certainly part of the fun and the struggle which gives you a daily boost.

Personally I'd hate to know in advance how good of a year I am going to have. It's a game. Same reason nobody wants to watch a sporting event that has been decided and has been recorded.
In the header at the top it says Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu, so it was carbon copied to the mailing list.
If you don't want to fork over the $400 to pass the paywall and view this article, check out vallywag's summation:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be...
You may want to try a couple of varieties of pure Sativa. You may be one of those people that is sensitive to the CBDs in weed. Higher concentrations can make you sleepy.
Still on a Macbook Mid-2007 on Mountain Lion with the original battery! :)
Look, I'm all for legalization, but let's not kid ourselves.

Alcohol doesn't make you more sociable. Tobacco doesn't make you look cool. And weed doesn't help you relax.

Or rather, all of the above certainly do that, but there are ample alternatives that do it better and have zero consequences for your health.
This is the Land Grid Array (LGA) socket type (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grid_array) where the pins are on the socket and the pads are on the chip. This supplants the Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) sockets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIF_socket), those being a reworking of the Pin Grid Array (PGA) packaging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Grid_Array) which was a higher density version of the Dual Inline Package (DIP) standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package) used for the 80286 and prior chips.
Very rarely, because I find the smallest amount of alcohol makes me sleepier the next morning and that is annoying.
That's still no reason why you would need "power loss protection", in the sense of energy storage. What is needed is proper brown-out detection and properly set up reset circuitry so that the write gets aborted before lines start glitching (that is to say: energy needs to be dumped so it can not cause any damage once the CPU starts losing its brains).

That the storage location where a write was in progress is indeterminate afterwards shouldn't matter - between the time that some software initiates a write() and the time an fsync() on the same file returns, there is no guarantee what the written location will contain after a power failure, and if your software relies on the value in any way whatsoever, your software is broken.
I am holding out hope.

I have used the 4 trackpoints on the market. I own an HP Elitebook and the trackpoints aren't as nice as the ones on the Thinkpads, but are the closest I have found to the Thinkpad pointing sticks. If I have to leave Thinkpad/Lenovo I might go to an Elitebook. HP quality control is terrible, but it might be the only option if the new buttons are really that bad. HP at least has buttons.

They should have kept the mousepad as an option.

Charge extra for it, just don't blatantly remove it. Maybe either Lenovo or someone else entirely different will figure out a way to install the old keyboards on the new computers.
You really have no idea what my experiences are, but you seem quite judgemental and somewhat defensive, and eager to pick a fight.

The point remains that there is a non-zero chance of harming your chances of achieving you career goals if you light up frequently. Ther are no doubt outliers who can work well stoned, but for the regular person this is not likely to be the case. In fact for most people they'll regret endless hours stoned on the couch when they look back, after they realisr their youth and enthusiasm were precious assets that don't last forever.

Growing up and facing the world clear headed is a worthy goal. I don't think anyone can really argue against that.
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Absolutely fantastic. Don't miss the projects control.
Unfortunately the quality of the Spotify products is horrendous. I pay the ~$10 dollars a month because I absolutely love their catalogue of songs and artists but their mobile and desktop apps are the absolute crappiest pieces of software that I use on a daily basis. I know this is sounding snarky but the bugs that plague their products are inexcusable.
toshiba alinware is good linux
Well, I wanted to give a "frank" tit for tat, to anyone who might argue this "crutch" position.

I personally enjoy the pain of hunger as I code. That's why. I smirk in that I more fully realize my difference from others when I know they clearly do not enjoy that pain. I'm surely not saying it makes me better or smarter. I smirk in that I, in a way, come to know myself better: that I enjoy the pain of hunger, and what it looks like of others who do not, given the context.
Kingston used to rebrand Intel SSDs (same controller, just a smaller amouht of flash) for the "value market", so not surprising they were good.
I've managed to almost completely replace evernote with Vim, Markdown text files and Bittorrent Sync. The only downside is adding images isn't as wysiwyg and "clipping" text from the browser can really suck.
I'm curious: Are Indians generally not allowed to have bank accounts denominated in US dollars? Are they allowed to buy US stocks? US real estate?
Derived from The Magic of Thinking Big, by David J. Schwarz, derived from Ulysses, by James Joyce, and not derived from Dante, not by Shakespeare. Any daggers?
(throwaway)

Hi. I'm a software developer that smokes multiple times daily even as I work (remotely).

Started smoking weed semi-regularly when I was 15. It helps me get over certain anxiety issues. Never really kicked the habit, but I never really felt like I wanted to except to pass a drug test.

It was a little harder to find a job after college. I have quit for small periods of time while looking for a job. But my clients and I are happy. Isn't that what really matters?

On being a public face: Are you setting up your company's culture and image? It's up to you to decide if the risk of fallout is greater than smoking your nugs IF the public finds out.

On being an amazing hacker: Maybe. I'm not old enough to have put in my ten years or 10k hours for 'expert' status as a software engineer yet. I do not consider myself to be a 10x (engineer), but I'm definitely not a 1x either.

Background: B.S. in EE/CmpE, software engineer (Rails primarily right now) and sysadmin
I've been impressed that typography on Linux isn't as bad as Windows, but it's still got a long way to go to measure up to Apple. It's not just clarity and accuracy of the typefaces themselves, but subtle details like how the ligatures (things like how "fi" and "ff" are rendered) are properly applied.

Typography is one of those things that, once you've seen it, you can't un-see it. You can only try to not care.

Apple's not interested in adding USB to the iPad since Bluetooth already does anything USB can do and more, at least from the perspective of a consumer. If you want a portable USB-capable tablet, maybe you want a Surface Pro. That thing would be pretty awesome if someone can Linux it.

In any case, you can already use pretty much any Bluetooth keyboard you want, and there are a large number of third party ones to pick from.
Of course you know that colleges use LISTSERV to this day.
I got an Intel SSD (G1 80GB) in my laptop to do OS development (drivers), which incidentally is a use case that requires lots of hard resets. Never had any problems with it, and it's been through dozens if not hundreds of hard reset cycles. In fact I got the SSD specifically because I didn't want to be spinning up/down a disk that much, and laptops tend not to have reset buttons (they really need one, IMHO.)
Re my comment, "as was pointed out by gmaxwell...". lol, I see that you are gmaxwell. I guess you'll just have to talk that one over with yourself. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6669735
Awesome. Just what I've been looking for!
I'm currently using an HP ProBook 4530s. I've had it about 2 years now, but there are similar models with newer parts. I cannot think of any problems I've had running a linux distro, and I've used several. The only bit of hardware that doesn't work is the fingerprint scanner, but I don't think that worked under Windows either.
Audio in and out works fine. The keyboard works with no hacks. The touchpad supports 3 finger usage.
You can get ProBooks with either an Intel or AMD components; mine has Intel.
Additionally, this laptop is pretty easy to take apart. Pop out the battery, slide the bottom panel off, and you have access to the ram and hard drive. With tools you can access / remove the optical drive and keyboard. I was even able to replace the display. It came with a 1366x768 and I upgraded it to a 1920x1080. HP does have a fairly extensive disassembly manual for it, if that's important to you.
I would definitely look at this line again when I need to get a new laptop.
> Taking pictures did not take more "effort" back in the 70's.

Yeah, it did. I had (and still have) a Canon AE-1 in the 70's, and it's enough of a pain that it mostly got left on a shelf. You couldn't put it in a pocket, it was easily damaged, and would swing around on your neck strap. You weren't going to take it skiing, to a club, or on a date.