skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question: for those of you who said Windows, is it by choice? And if so, why?
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An alternative that is not to be easily dismissed is that in 100 years we will have learned to manipulate our contentment. If handled badly enough, this could become our final discovery. Not that we would then care.
My primary computer is mine computer, not the one my boss wants me to use. With your interpretation the poll would mean "What OS your company forces you to use" since arguably most HNers work.
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25.5 billion in revenues last year.
The person who voted for iOS, care to explain? Not sure any device except for iPhone, iPad, iPod running iOS.
For many consumers, mobile has already replaced the primary computer. If you count tablets as mobile, they do almost all consumption at least as well as, and often better than, desktops.

For creators, nothing beats a great big screen coupled with a keyboard, and (mouse|trackpad|graphics tablet). Plus, as you say, for a certain type of creator, the kind of freedom that a walled garden just doesn't offer.
Thanks for the feedback. Out of curiosity, what version of Android are you running on the Moto G?
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What about a tele-presence robot? A technician can just operate the robot and fix whatever needs to be fixed remotely.
OS X, ever since I switched "cold turkey" when the first Intel Macs hit. Despite the niggles with the Finder and all that, it's hard to go past the Unix/BSD underpinnings and the open source software available because of it. There's also a ton of fantastic, polished GUI applications that I'd miss far too much if I were to swap to Windows or Linux.
Their primary computer must be one of those.
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I'd like to reply because I use this paradigm quite often (shipping work to the client).

What I used to do was this: write an API, write a web layer that talks to the API and serves up HTML, and write a bunch of javascript that runs in the browser give the app a bit more juice.

What ended up happening as more and more browsers started to not completely suck is I moved 99% of the web tier that sits inbetween the API and the browser into javascript. When clients hit the app, they download the entire app: javascript, HTML templates (not fully rendered views), etc. The javascript ties everything together and uses pushState to replicate what happens when a user is browsing a normal HTML page. Any data that is needed is grabbed directly from the API in the background.

This offers significant advantages: not only are you farming off the entire generation of your app's views to the user's browser (taking work that you would have to do yourself and distribute it), you are reducing the complexity of the app. There are now two pieces to maintain: an API and a set of javascript...no web layer in between.

This makes things a lot snappier for users. Pages switch instantly because everything they need to run the app is already there and ready to go.

So, no, I'm not shipping 800GB of data to each of my users and expecting them to crunch SQL queries, but I do like to send any work that I would have to do to their browsers, assuming they are capable.
old and well established user-generated blog with an extremely well moderated (best on the net, imo) discussion forum in the form of comment threads, with a medium-sized user base. the pice tag is only to comment, and as you might imagine it tends to make people value their ability to participate more than on other, free forums. it's the only place on the internet where i genuinely enjoy reading comments.
@robzyb hit the nail on the head - a great many of us just want something that works, every day. At some point in my life I loved tinkering with my OS, jumping between distros weekly, etc. now I just want to get things done. I used desktop Linux for 10 years before jumping to OS X in 2011.

I'm sure people will immediately chime in and say that Thinkpads work well with Ubuntu or that System76 does the job, and I'm sure it does, but the experience of running OS X on Apple hardware is simply unmatched.
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Ask HN/YC: Do any/many YC companies employ remote engineers? 
I frequent /jobs where YC companies post their openings. Yet, I rarely see posts that mention allowing remote employees. Why is this? If one is looking for work but not interested in relocating to SV/SF, is it still worth contacting them?

(for the record, I'm not actively seeking employment but I may be later this year)
What hurts both G+ (and HN) is the absence of a specific blockquote markdown.

None of italicize everything quoted, "put quotes in quotes (especially for long passages)", nor > prefix quotes with a greater-than sign work particularly well IMO. Though I suppose they generally suffice.
I don't get the impression that HN is desperate to keep growing and bring in new users. Usually it seems like the opposite is true.

Visiting MetaFilter this morning from this story, my first thought was "They're still using that same look?!"

There are many ways to gradually modernise a site without terrifying the herd (the way Slashdot has frequently in its past) - font and font size, headers and gradually the colour scheme, improve on-boarding, etc. It doesn't have to be done in one hit.
There are so many ways to define primary... but my home desktop, my work desktop, my work servers, my ebook reader and my smartphone (N9), depending on the day i pass a lot of time with some of them, and all runs more or less pure linux.

What is not primary is my tablet, that runs Android.
> I moved on to an "individual contributor" role with a company that provides higher level career opportunities that don't involve having direct reports.

Well, that sounds pretty slick. How's it working out? As someone who was just approached by management about a director position, and this being somewhat familiar ground, I'm concerned about the lack of expansion and technical progression as well. Haven't really seen many "no direct reports" situations in my neck of the woods, unfortunately... but it seems like that could be something to aspire for.
do you really think reddit is a model of what a web community should look like? genuine question, because if that's the case then you're not exactly the intended audience
This is a bait-and-switch post which obfuscates an advertisement for the OP's startup.

There have been multiple submissions like this from the OP.
For the same reason it's difficult to hide an ICBM launch, it's difficult to hide a spy satellite launch. Such launches are routinely mentioned in the press before they even occur.

We know when new satellites go up, we just don't know their exact orbital characteristics until somebody actually spots them. They are then routinely lost again, either because their orbit was modified, or whoever spotted it didn't get its orbital characteristics quite right.

They're also a heck of a lot bigger than tactical warheads.

You don't really have to shift the orbital plane of the warhead at all, just raise or lower the orbit a hair so that after a while, the warhead's location has little if any discernible link to the host vehicle's location. Even if you did go for a plane change, it's really not "quite a bit", it's a question of how long you're willing to wait.

The blackout period is overblown. Look up TDRSS -- the Shuttle didn't have a blackout period at all for most of its operational life, thanks to the mind-blowing strategy of... not trying to broadcast downward through the ionization layer.

Soyuz is also a lot bigger than a tactical warhead. The comparison is off by probably 2+ orders of magnitude.
Fair enough, maybe "primary" should be interpreted however you want it to be, but the original comment asked what that interpretation should be. I guess a sizeable proportion of HNers either use their own laptop at work, work freelance or on their own startup, actually use a computer at home more than at work (e.g. are managers).
I don't understand this sentiment. We need roads. We need cops. We need schools. We need things. As a society, we pay for these things through taxes. When you don't pay your taxes, you're stealing from all of us. Even someone that despises taxes, can understand the free rider problem.
So...a train? but more complex and prone to failure?
If you want to buy the best laptop hardware available, and price is not much of a concern, you get a MacBook Pro. I hate the keyboard, but everything else is top quality.

Once you've done that, you could install Linux or Windows or FreeBSD on it, but if you don't have an overwhelming requirement, you'll keep it on Mac OS.

And if you're like most hackers, you have one work laptop and you carry it around everywhere, and it's your primary machine.

Personally, I don't carry a laptop back and forth: I have a Linux desktop at the office, and a Linux desktop at home, and a Mac laptop for travel and moving around the house.
Gains in productivity don't help the working class much; they mostly help the owners of companies. Those owners have no financial incentive to reduce working hours to compensate for gains in productivity when they could rather cut half their workforce and tell the remaining workers they need to work harder/longer because there is more competition for their jobs now.

Those who predicted a "leisure society" back in the 1950s obviously didn't realize Marx predicted the opposite would happen a century earlier.
or you can use Trello

If you need to integrate with other apps, think about Zapier or IFTTT
Agreed, dotting the Is and crossing the Ts isn't what the developers want to spend their time on. I've unflagged the article.
Are you looking for the link between expressed behaviour and social standing? Or between social standing and reproductive access and mate selection? Or, maybe there is a link between the use of tools (including social constructs) and "an evolutionary trait towards survival"?
What I don't get is all the hate out there.

Well you did hype it quite a bit. Just pretend the "hate" is HN hazing for your launch; it's a bit of trend around these parts.

I have a question: is the Lumosity iOS app built on Famo.us?
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Arch / Gentoo here
According to wiktionary [1]:

1. (literally) To leave a reservation to which one was restricted.

2. (US, politics) To break with one's party or group, usually temporarily.

3. (by extension) To engage in disruptive activity outside normal bounds.

Why would this term even be seen as negative in an HN context? It sounds like every startup founder/rebellious techy would want to "go off the reservation."

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_off_the_reservation
Why not go a step further? http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12
What about showing the cursor in the middle of some placeholder text, and highlighting the desired final cursor position with a red dot? This would offer a very specific goal to the user without the need for more complex, high level actions.
You can still see some patterns today. For instance you see interleaving in the code emitted by llvm (patterns like insa,insb,insa,insb,insa,insb)
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We're using Akamai for XERQ's static assets and have noticed a 20% traffic drop today. After scratching our heads and remembering that Memorial day is next week, it's a bit relieving to see this isn't just us.

Can anyone recommend a monitoring tool that can check from many locations at the same time? We're using nagios and a few other homebrew solutions from 3 different datacenters, but none of them picked this up.
this is really good advice.

I learned from a superb mentor Laurie Litwack who was a great program manager at microsoft that you should learn about each of your reports "heart, tree, star".

heart: what do you love?
tree: what / where do you want to grow?
star: how do you feel rewarded?

especially in an environment where you can juggle awards, this can be really helpful, if someone values a bonus and someone else values titles & public recognition, you can balance them out and make everyone happy. and hit a budget. ideally...
There are actually several brands of pressure-sensitive styli available for the iPad, including Adonit Jot Touch, Hex3 JaJa, and Wacom's own Intuos Creative Stylus, and even more on the way such as the Hex3 YuFu and Adobe/Adonit's Project Mighty, though it does appear that none these offers come close to devices with actual Wacom active layers built-in, as most of these pens are bluetooth hacks that attempt to make up for iPad's shortcomings. It's really a shame, though, since I find iPad's library of note-taking and drawing apps to be significant better in terms of quality and quantity than those found in Android's Play Store and Microsoft's Windows 8 Store.
OSX for app dev.

Otherwise, I prefer windows (7).
I would say that relative to other countries forces, their reputation is very high.

Which may not be saying much, depending on your general attitude.
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Agreed, I owned the Asus VivoTab TF810c for about a year. It was close, but it was asked to do too much with too little. The processor power was pathetic, the emmc drive was too slow, and it frequently froze. These issues made it too unreliable to use day to day. In the end, I bought a MacBook Air and began typing my notes instead.
Dropped one without the case: lens onto concrete floor and it chipped it.

Consequence of fumbling while trying to take it out of the case for SD card retrieval and charging. Now, I unmount the case, take it to a desk in a carpeted room & open the case.
Nuclear weapons in general do no good to overall world security, that doesn't seem to stop anybody.

The UK's strategy is unique, and, for the same reason, probably ineffective. Nobody else uses it because nobody else is willing to leave the matter in military hands. So long as a zombie Margaret Thatcher doesn't reclaim the PM's office, I doubt anyone believes that the letters instruct the captains to do anything other than report to an ally.
> The way the DMCA works ISPs or any other service hosting third-party content must comply with every takedown notice immediately, regardless of it's legitimacy, if they want to continue to enjoy the protections of the DMCA.

AFAICT from actually reading the act, they only have to comply with notices meeting the facial requirements, and failing to do so only exposes them to liability for the content covered by the particular notice for which they failed, and only where they would have had liability without the DMCA safe harbor provisions. I'd like to see any analysis supporting the characterization you make here.
I have some feedback for you:

- Within moments of getting to your page, my first thought was 'Wow, this would be a great way to use Trello.' Then, I went to Trello's homepage before I started digging deeper into yours.

- Your favicon's colours are close enough to Netfirms that, while I was on Trello's page, I actually thought that your tab was an advertisement.

- A scrolling background is all the rage, so I can't blame you. However, in my browser, the animation isn't very smooth. The loop point is quite jarring.

- The other animations don't add anything.

- What if I have a list of 300 contacts and have three people making cold calls? Can I import the list of 300 contacts and have those numbers automatically divied up among my three callers? Can I make sure that the same customer does not get called twice? Can my contacts use your app to update my Do Not Call list?

- When I have done cold calls, I use a spreadsheet. It is free, I can add a limitless number of columns, and I can easily share the document. Why is your product better than my method?

- I found it jarring that the 'Buy', 'Contact' and 'Log in' menu items took me to a page with a different main menu. This is one of my longstanding pet peeves, so at this point, it might not even be rational anymore.

All in all, I think this is a good idea and there might be a good business in there. But, these things kept me from converting to your free trial. You've done some great work so far and best of luck with your product!!
I don't think it is. Famous is the first I've seen to complement reimplement (and fuck up) something as fundamental as scrolling.
Frontier's awesome, but they're not available in any apartments in the area and they've ceased fiber expansion a few years back :/
Serious question: how is this better than trello, or a Google spreadsheet?

Your target market seems to be small companies who don't have an entrenched 'system' who are probably using one of your alternatives.

(I solve my problem w/ spreadsheets, so if you convince me, I'll switch)
> there is judgement in play that can't be offset by technology and especially an actual human with seat of the pants feel and judgement.

I thought the same thing at first, but I then I thought that a) These ships are too big and slow to be agile enough to respond to the kind of seat-of-the-pants type navigation I'm familiar with and, and b) I'm sure people said the same things about driverless cars.
4.4.2 (the normal Motorola version, which is very close to stock Android). Chrome 34.
I thought this was fascinating. It walks around for two to three minutes and gets better at it over time. I thought it might intrigue the science-y people here.
For me, yes. I've used Windows, OS X, and Linux, but prefer Windows the most because of the huge amount of software available for it, and it's the most familiar (I've been using Windows since 3.11) - I've done a lot on Win32 API applications. My environment has been setup with everything the way I like. It'd be perfect if the default command line shell was more *nix-like.
I think tptacek is thinking of content with longevity, such as essays - observations of human behavior, for example, wouldn't benefit much from a date. He's damaging his argument by calling them "tutorials", which you and I associate with learning particular tools which will soon be out-of-date.
...or 3) Launch a product that is polished, but lacks some features.
Done. Mines in Australia's Pilbara region have had autonomous trucks for some time, and they are expanding nationwide.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-25/computer-controlled-tr...
I use Ruby and am massively jealous of this.

Anyone know of good Ruby alternatives?

thanks!
>are not offensive.

How exactly is "off the reservation" not offensive in the way that several commonly used idioms are now considered offensive, such as "that is retarded", "that is gay", "you Jewed the price down", "I got gypped"?

>are not offensive.

Right, literally nobody takes offense to "off the reservation" because you of course don't mean Native Americans. Are you seriously saying that slightly racist terms are only ever offensive in literal contexts?
oh man, what a failed launch.. so much hype and then those uber-simple single-click demos.. wow..

I'm back to using the browser like it should be (with a bit of angular on top)
Of course they blame men. Never mind blaming misguided feminism, pushing women to endlessly new heights of perfectionism, elitism and competition both within and across their fairer sex.

And strangely its not OK that the man knows how to relax, minimizes extraneous work and does a sufficient job...

Hits a nerve for me if you can't tell.
Well, with 1 client, you have one machine which renders the page and with 1000 clients, you have 1000 machines which render the page.

The processing capacity depends on the amount of clients.

With a static site generator, the processing capacity depends on your own machines and is independent of the clients.

But yes, for a static site, this just doesn't help much, since every client gets the same data, so why should every one process it on its own.
> FWIW, KitKat isn't on the list of versions we support. We target Ice Cream Sandwich and above.

Since when is KitKat (4.4) not "above" Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0)?

> Also, are you using the stock Android browser or did you install Chrome?

Well, I said Chrome, but the problems (at least, the ones listed in my previous post) are identical in the stock browser.

> Many people replace their mobile phones every 1-3 years.

Well, yeah, I just replaced my long-in-the-tooth iPhone 4 with a still-top-of-the-line Galaxy Note 3 (though the GNote 4 will be out fairly soon.) That's the phone we're talking about here.

> Now that smartphones are becoming feature phones and all these phones have the most recent versions of Android, it's only a matter of time.

But KitKat is the most recent version of Android, and you just said you don't support it.
Yes, by choice. Because I know it well and it just works.
Oh great, an unflattering scrollbar you can't actually drag. This isn't as bad as native scroll hijacking, but why? There are lots of libraries which will handle making custom scrollbars for you if you don't feel like at least meeting the standard behaviour of scrollbars.
I've been running FreeBSD on my primary desktop since 2004.
- by choice (win 7)

- I simply prefer the experience. I feel like I can navigate around the environment more quickly. Also: not being tied down to mac hardware is freeing. I've found the HP ProBook to be a decent windows laptop. It shamelessly mimics a lot of the MacBook Pro form. In fact, the chiclet keyboard can use MBP silicone keyboard cover.
That's a topic I wouldn't mind seeing on the frontpage even if it was dated from 1928. What I had in mind was more like "Reading the clipboard in Java (2004)" and "Configuring Apache for maximum security (1998)".

Sorry for the confusion.
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Very cool visualization. It appears as though this buffers events if you leave the page. So leaving the page and tabbing back to it results in a flurry of activity.
Nothing unfortunate about that.
We're planning to do a larger tech focused write-up on this infographic soon. On the backend it's powered by Node and Redis and runs within an EC2 auto scaling group.

Let me know if I can elaborate on any of the tech behind this visualization.
My Hero3 is one of my favorite tech gadgets. Awesome video quality, stupendous battery life, tough enough for bitter cold days in the wilderness skiing. I hope they continue to make good stuff!
Overtime the market (through price competition) ought to pass those savings onto consumers (ie the employee) . That is a form of increased compensation -- when your paycheck buys you more of what you want.
It is time to ask what has tormented me for years. What's so bad about "It was a dark and stormy night"? It seems decent enough. "Dark night" is redundant, I guess, but then some nights are darker than others. So I don't get it—why the worst-ever reputation?
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Sorry to have to break it to you but "K" comes after "I" in the alphabet..
Instead of Ctrl+Shift+I, I usually use F12 because it works in all 3 browsers Chrome, Firefox, and IE. In IE, Ctrl+Shift+I brings up Favorites/Feeds/History.

However, on Mac OSX, Ctrl+Shift+I makes more sense because the default for F12 is to adjust sound volume up. You have to press Fn+F12 which is more awkward than Ctrl+Shift+I. (Or Cmd+Alt+I in Safari).
Macs cost too much and ubuntu just doesn't support enough /stuff/
"Linux is only free if your time has no value"
> Because the submitter added ?share=1 to the link

That was us. Maybe we should make the software do it?