skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the hardware, stupid. :-)

I mean, compare: http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/
with: https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
(ok, you could also buy an Asus laptop or something that would be nice looking enough, and cheaper than a novena laptop).

Another point, is that when you're at home, with a linux laptop, you can spend two days configuring the wifi. But when you're going out to a conference, MacOSX shows its worth.

Oh, and for several MacOSX versions now you can map the modifier keys as you wish, in the System Preferences / Keyboard panel.

MacOSX is not entirely proprietary. Darwin is open sourced (in large part). And as developers, we use a lot of free software on MacOSX, starting with emacs, and all the linux tools you can get from MacPorts or Homebrew. Right, because between ourselves, the BSD tools provided by Apple suck.

But actually, it's the econony, stupid! ;-)

As a Linux hacker, I much prefer to earn the money I need to pay for taxes, internet, electricity, food and shelter (oh, and clothing, sometimes you get to go to conferences), developing applications on a unix machine like MacOSX, or iOS, rather than on MS-Windows. (Yes, there's also Android, but java...)

So don't make a mistake, the main workstation is a Linux box, and even while developing MacOSX application, most of the code is written from the Linux box, even if it's compiled by Xcode on the MacOSX system nearby. Because, honestly, Linux is much more ergonomical! (if only because you really can configure it as you wish (and also strangeley, the keyboard feels much more responsive with linux than with MacOXS, let alone MS-Windows)). Anyways, remember, the Network is the computer! But most customers are still MS-Windows users, or MacOSX or iOS users, (or Android users right). So while you keep Linux close to the heart, you have to have a MacOSX system to earn your living.

(And there's also the possibility to run MacOSX on a Virtual Machine on Linux, but let's be honest, it means that legally you still have to own Apple hardware).
Legally, you still would have to, yes.
Maybe this is a sign of me getting older, but was I the only one to think, "go outside and spend time with each other instead of spending time via a phone app!"?

Perhaps I am no where near their demographic...haha.
Some would say that the difficulty in signing up is a feature—Metafilter wants dedicated people who've really thought about it to sign up.
Also note that their (free) video software make creating this style of video incredibly easy, and just happens to have a pre-reel "GoPro" trailer by default. Everyone leaves it in because they want their video to "look pro".
Pardon the random questions:
Did you stay in hostels or family-run hotels?
Have you written about this somewhere?
What jobs did you do for the money for the trip?
Yes, "in your opinion." I agree as well, all I have is an opinion. I'd like to hear a scientific opinion.

I thought it was awfully presumptuous to leave out science in such an important issue. I guess we'll have to settle for another opinion piece masked as scientific fact.
Judging from the live-map, I'd say a lot of this app's users are using it to maintain long-distance relationships. Spending time in person may not be an option.
>Yes, it is that much more difficult for people whose primary goal is doing stuff other than tweaking their computer.

Come on now, it's not 2005. Ubuntu runs smoothly on just about everything I've installed it on and I usually end up having to do more tweaking on Windows 8 than Ubuntu. As far as OS X goes, it's not perfect out of the box either, especially for anyone coming from a different environment who needs to tweak it to meet their standards.
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For me, the point would be having an OS that was really easy to study, extend and modify, due to how easy to read Go is. No more ifdefs, no preprocessor macros, just clean code.
I think the way UPad organises things just happens to fit in exactly with how I used to have my paper notebooks.

eg. Workbook for each client, a pad for each task or project, and then pages of notes as needed.
If only I had finished my framework framework.
I have, but I am not trying to create digital art or anything here. I've simply replaced my notebooks and pens.
You sexist...
How dare you challenge feminists, They have every right to fight mother nature... So what if they are biologically and mentally a perfect fit for taking care of children and domestic duties. So what if men are the obvious natural choice as breadwinner. So what if this ruins countless marriages and families, so what if kids are raised by day care providers who don't give a lick about them, so what if it causes tens of thousands of abortions by career women each year.

Taking the man who is biologically programmed (via evolution or creation) to be the leader, head decision maker, and breadwinner essentially switching him into the minority power role because he is not the primary breadwinner? How could that ever hurt a marriage? How could that ever make his wife respect him less?

Taking the women and putting her in roles of abstract logic and non emotional decision making against her nature? how could that ever cause stress for her. How could sending her kids off each day to be raised by a day care provider ever cause her guilt or grief due partly to her in-built nurturing instincts/programming? How could she avoid hating her husband for not being the mother that he should be?

How could any of this negatively affect society today and for future generations? That would be obscene. Just look at the positives of where we are today... Emmm better get a microscope.

I don't blame feminists for their beliefs, I blame men (past and present). If men would have respected and taken care of their wife's and daughters the way they should have, they would have been happy, fulfilled, and never started rebelling and trying to turn against men and even against nature itself.
I don't think you have enough data points to draw a meaningful conclusion about whether the problem was with you or if it was with the environment you were working in. The best you can do is look at the individual situations and circumstances you were in and think of what (if anything) you will do differently next time when faced with the same scenario. However with that said, it has been my experience that when there is a lack of leadership above in a company, the knock on effect is generally a bad working environment for everyone working in the organization below the bad management.
C-Reduce: Test-Case Reduction for C Compiler Bugs
An OS that was really easy to study, extend and modify, due to the simplicity of Go.
Will anyone do jail time? I wonder.
They'll be covered with cameras on the outside, unmanned boats would be way too easy targets for piracy. You wouldn't even have to sneak aboard, just get aboard and find the expensive cargo. Set off a bomb in the engine room and then unload what you can in a reasonably safe time before someone can get close and track you. It could potentially make piracy more viable in currently safe areas.

You'd want cameras to track when anything even remotely in sight is moving unexpectedly. Anything coming close would be reported to the coast guard/navy.

There'll be heavy monitoring on these ships, even just for liability issue in case some dumb guy in a yacht sails right into them and tried to sue.
Operating expenses, not the cost of the ship. Other operating expenses are just fuel, aren't they? Not that fuelling a container ship is cheap.

The capital cost is probably as much as fuel and crew together. Still, if crew is ~20% of costs, it's worth looking at.
The wifi thing was true a few years ago, but isn't anymore if you are using a mainstream distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora.
Am I the only one who thought seeing the title "oh, nice, a new GoPro model already!" before clicking the link?
Oh I'm sure you're right, didn't know that (my knowledge comes from years of exaggerated Scientific American articles :) ).

I suppose the cooling is electromagnetic, the whole process must be really difficult! Cool it while keeping those atoms from interacting from stray particles if the vacuum isn't perfect.
Exactly. To achieve a leisure society we would need to see GDP grow while the productivity index either was flat or decreased.

If you use the same link and look at GDP per capita on that same graph, in 2008 area, productivity started to overtake GDP.
I choose Windows because it runs the software I value the most (Foobar, Photoshop, FlashDevelop). I prefer the Linux ecosystem (package managers, better terminal, etc.) but the software just isn't as good for my needs.
Don't listen to the young idiot.
Rather, invent a time machine to send him back a good advice or two.
Those screamed Starbucks to me too. I guess starbucks have done nice work with their branding and marketing, such that anybody looking at a circle with some writing and frilly bits thinks "Starbucks".
When my wife and I met playing video games online (back in 1998, before it was cool), we lived about a thousand miles apart, and maintained a relationship over that distance for about 3 years before we finally got married and moved to the same state.

I initially worried her grandparents wouldn't approve of starting a relationship online. It turns out they were reminded of their own relationship -- courting through letters during the war.

Relationships happen. So do significant life/world events that can separate people by vast distances.
Of course. It is not that I wouldn't be aware before signing up (and hence don't), it is that this is such a good visualization to demonstrate that they have stored this information for|on you.

Irrationally, I am more comforted by large companies having this type of data on me, under the _wrong_ assumption that I am part of a larger dataset and hence more anonymous. I understand the fallacy of this, especially when considering the additional meta data big players like Google have on their users. Yet somehow this vis creeps me out as I watch that couple messaging long distance between Paris and Sydney. Even if the data is anonymised, details about their private lives are being shared.

Then again, I am the nut who never signed up to facebook et al, having rolled out a private communication site amongst friends beforehand.
>something that works, every day.

>the experience of running OS X on Apple hardware is simply unmatched.

Eh. Seems a lot of people on HN believe this, but it's not always the case. Just a quick visit to discussion.apple.com will show all sorts of issues people have with the OS including bugs like http://www.cnet.com/news/some-lion-users-plagued-by-black-sc... which is a bug in the OS.

Edit: just some things I noticed in the short time I used OS X:
The gmail integration is buggy. I didn't get messages on time, and I have to either quit the app or take Mail offline and then online again before new mail will start streaming in. Sometime I couldn't get it to quit.

The 'quicklook' thing seemed really slow, which seemed to be a problem a lot of users had.

Multi-monitor support isn't that great. I had multiple windows on multiple desktops for some reason and it just felt weird.

I had issues with audio stopping and not working again until I did a reboot.

In some apps scrolling was really rough.
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline (Richard Branson).
For me it's a few things:

- The battery life is very, very good and combined with the screen (Retina 13"), made it perfect for me.

- It's still a POSIX environment so I can still use most of what I had from Linux without issue.

- It doesn't require as much maintenance as Linux. I don't have to fiddle with things to get it to work the way I want, it already does that.

- The hardware support has been great whenever I've had issues.
Anyone else want to kickstart an airline that operates with as few humans as possible? You aren't allowed to check luggage at all...(all the underbelly goes to companies like fedex and ups) just attacking it as an engineering problem?
One of the situations when the V in MVP has to be taken very seriously.
Realign the things you want to the free things in the world and your perspective may change a bit. I have a habit of sometimes vanishing from work on particularly nice days, for no reason other than to lay in the grass at the park. I live way up north, so there are only so many nice days a year here. I figure a few hundred truly perfect days over the rest of my life.

I also enjoy fishing, which really only has startup costs for a rod/reel combo and some accessories (or a found stick and a hook on a line). After that, I can find bait in the garden, to my wife's dismay.

Anyway, the point is fun is really what you make of it. As they say, some of the best things in life are free.
Watching Cute Girl
By choice.

I was a diehard Linux nazi until I got my first internship where everyone used Windows. Initially I was appalled; I had brainwashed myself with the spirit that `configurability is power' to the point that no one, not even I could get any work done on any system I touched. This philosophy carried over when I started using the work computer, which I plastered with ``productivity software'' on it in an attempt to morph the system into something more like my personal laptop. I became part of the ``Cult Of AutoHotkey.'' In retrospect it is absolutely absurd that there exists a subculture which revolves around changing the settings of computer software.

The first week of the job my boss had to do something on my computer, and within thirty seconds told me "What have you done to this poor computer." He was a Smart Guy; he is highly educated, has been working with for longer than I have been alive and adapted to modern standards, (sucessfully) administered company server farms, directed software projects (embedded, web and everything in between) and most importantly had a life outside of science and technology. It was at this point that I woke up. Obviously there was a problem with me. Now I leave every conceivable default untouched unless I absolutely cannot avoid it. I use Windows 8, IE (Firefox with no addons when that breaks), Visual Studio, Windows Photo Gallery, etc. Most of the less common software I must use is run out of a folder in my home directory. Now I and everyone can be productive on my system. The only thing I have lost since switching is the smug self-righteousness of Linux veganism and Lifehacker articles.

There is no default on Linux, so there can be no expected behavior. That is why I use Windows.
Taxes prop up a fiat currency, which by definition is generated out of thin air. Govt does not need taxes to pay for the aforementioned things you mentioned, it can simply generate the required money.
That's pretty much exactly what's happening with some locations. We do our best to get an accurate location based on a few sources, but ultimately Maxmind is the database we fall back to for pure IP based location if that's all we have.
Down arrow? Nope. Click and drag? Nope. PgDn? Nope.

Nope. I tried, but while there's obviously more stuff to read below the viewport, I can't get to it.

Oddly, this may increase the likelihood I will conclude I'm not missing anything.
Using OpenCV, Python and Template Matching to play “Where’s Waldo?”
Are action sports really that new? People have been skateboarding, surfing, and mountain biking for decades.
I found mine washed up on a beach in a waterproof case (had no way of identifying the true owner). No idea how long it had been floating in the ocean before it washed up on the beach, but it works perfectly.
I signed up and got to the https://go.hoistapps.com/welcomeSource page and when I try and click "Get started" with upload selected I get a js error.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6437831
With all this wealth of information available at my fingertips, it is now 10,000% more likely that I will start an airline.

Yet, the probability this will ever happen still is very close to zero.
Only one of those is universally considered offensive. One is a recently-manufactured "outrage" that only the terminally-gullible actually find offensive (i.e. folks best described by exactly that adjective). I've never heard of anyone actually taking racially-based offense to the fourth one there, outside of a dumb joke on a bad sitcom 15 years ago, and even then they were faking it.
It's easy to get by for cheap if you are not picky about where you live.

I don't work 80 hours a week, but I also would have trouble getting by on less than $20k/year, largely thanks to cost of living. I am bound to a limited set of locations by the career I want to have.
I'd go for the opposite.

An exclusive airline that is basically 1st class through out the entire cabin.

* No carry-on suit cases

* Free alcohol

* Free meals on all flights

Membership required, and can be revoked by:

* Talking on your cell phone

* Not following crew member instructions

* Trying to prevent the person infront of you from reclining

* Trying to jump the line and board when your row isn't called

* Not being able to actually lift 40lbs but requesting an exit row seat anyway

* Trying to smash your carry on into an already full overhead bin

* Listening to music loudly
etc.
That "Overwhelmed" book is excellent. Halfway through it now and it's really altered my perspective on everyday life.
Technically, it should just be OS X. As its no longer called Mac OS X.
Family members eating roaches
I actually sort of like the membership idea, that makes the rest really easy and invalidates the need for a "rewards program" Just always provide good service.
Those data points appear as circular flashes without a line, there are quite a few of them there. The app appeals to a lot of long distance Couples so the map is somewhat biased towards long distance communication.

Also if you look at big cities (LA, NYC, SF) you'll see a continuous stream of circles flashing without lines. So the data just overlaps a lot.
Tips for reading a Patrick McKenzie essay:

1. Get a laser printer

Sorry, Amazon, but the truth is that staring at the flickering, dancing lightbulb that you call a computer screen wears the eyes, and can lead to serious sleep disorders. e-ink readers are okay but, for an essay of this magnitude, there's still nothing that beats good old fashioned ink-on-bleached-woodpulp.

And don't even think about using ink-jet. For the price of the ink, you could hire Patrick for a full one week consultation.

2. Paste the text into a wordprocessor

If you're au fait with LaTeX you don't need my help here. But for the rest of us, a word processor is the way to go. And, for you Windows users, bypass WordPad and go straight to MS Word (if you have it) or LibreOffice Pages (if you don't). Either is fine.

(In the past, I would would have suggested WordPad in a pinch, but LibreOffice is free and has important features that we're going to make use of.)

Now, at this point, you'll encounter a technical snag. If you just blindly copy and paste the text into your word processor, the formatting will come out all messed up. This is because Patrick uses '90s style tables for website layout. This is no big deal -- just go to the webpage, open up the developers' console, and copy-paste the text one table-cell at a time -- but you need to be aware of it.

3. Find and tag the section headers

There are usually 4- or 5- section headers in the text. Pick them out, and tag them as section headers.

4. Style your text

If you're a design maven, go knock yourself out here. The system I've found that works for me is:

- typeface: Arial Condensed 6 point (hate it all you want, but it's free and it gets the job done)

- page layout: minimal margins, 3 column

- paragraph style: 1 cm indent, no leading or trailing space, full justification

For the section headers, I allow myself a generous 9 points bold font size.

5. Check your printer

Make sure you have plenty of printer ink and paper available, because this is going to be a big job. And make sure you're not going to need the printer for anything else for a while.

6. Print!

By the way, don't attempt to take a Patrick McKenzie essay with you on a plane: you'll exceed your in-flight handluggage allowance.
That's the route we went eventually, but inputting geographic data directly into MySQL is not something that temps could handle. We needed the time to create the tools to be able to hire temps. In the meantime cash flow depended on the data being there.
OP lists all the issues from the point of view of management.

From the employee point of view, here are some common manager problems:

Employee comes in earlier, leaves earlier than manager: manager assumes employee is only working the hours they see; they act on this and insult/piss off the employee with their assumption of slacking.

Manager optimizes group for his own metrics e.g. maximize resources/minimize commitments to increase likelihood of meeting all objectives. Company loses (spending way too much for the minimal accomplishments); employee loses when manager won't permit taking on anything but the most mundane projects.

Manager cherry-picks opinions in group to justify the approach manager Wants to take, instead of letting the experienced employees make their own plan. Managers don't 'get to' make decisions; they are supposed to gather information to make the Right decision.
The planes practically (can) fly themselves these days now anyway. Remove the ticket people, checking bags, food/drinks on the plane, and build a nice, efficient website for booking... Then structure your routes on flexible demand. Almost like crowdbuying tickets... There are probably a low number of people (outside business travel) that need to be somewhere at an exact time. Operate the ticket buying process like Massdrop. Let the collective decide when a plane takes off.

There's a lot of tweaks that could change the airline industry, but certainly no easy task.
About Jeff Bezos's 10,000 year clock ...
The problem is that you can't actually fire anyone on board the plane. Those flight attendants aren't there to serve your drinks. They're there to guide/assist you "in the unlikely event of an emergency."

The pesky regulations say they need x attendants per passenger.
The company I work for (based in NYC) offers exactly this kind of career track. Individual contributors are comparable with management in every way (salary, seniority, title, etc) but are not forced into management in order to continue advancing. I don't want to hijack this thread with an advertisement, but if anyone is interested in more information feel free to get in touch.
Before anyone goes out and does this research supply of planes. Locked up for many years to come from Boeing and Airbus. CEO of American Airlines outlines this in details and suggests fairs will go up and stay up as a result. Not sure if he's right but he seems pretty sure of it.
The point of Marx' view is exactly that he saw capitalism as necessarily forcing capitalists to continuously adapt for their businesses to survive competition. What zenogais set out are how this, according to Marx, leads to the kind of adaptation that gives the state of affairs in question.

The Red Queen hypothesis alone just claims that continued adaptation is necessary to prevent extinction. In that respect it is much more limited, as it does not predict what those changes will look like.

But in terms of mechanism, the Red Queen hypothesis is very much in line with Marx' views on capitalism. He saw the inexorable need for adaptation to remain competitive as a critical part of driving production to a level where socialism would be possible.
yeah welcome to 2014
I'm going with something completely unsexy, this being what only the second flight? My money is on it was a long duration test, to see how well it held up.