skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daydreaming here... so how about a community that funnels users into buckets automatically? Think of an HN where you only discuss an article with a pool of ~500 people instead of 80,000. When new users join, they're distributed to the smallest groups. Nobody is overwhelmed with an influx of noobs. And you might actually be able to start remembering the names of the active people in your group. Perhaps you could see top comments from other groups, but not interact with them directly.
I used to work in a bicylce shop as a kid. In the workshop over the bench hung a sign that read "if you've got nothing to do, don't do it here". It was rude but quite effective. The next level up (for those that didn't get the hint) was that the guy running the shop would pretend to 'oil the spokes' (as if that was ever needed) causing several people to hastily depart the workshop area because they were being splashed with lube oil. He would pretend to see a lot less well and shake a lot more than he usually did during these episodes. Super nice guy by the way, long since deceased.

One problem with internet websites is that it is not clearly separated into work or leisure, which leads to people in leisure mode disrupting other people's work mode.

This is not an easy problem to solve and I'm sure that this is not a binary issue either, but some form of continuum.
Honestly, I find sites that completely rely on Javascript to be somewhat unreliable.

The web is fundamentally a document retrieval system. Content needs to work without Javascript.
> I find it rather ironic that filtering by price in product selectors is new and or rare

I suppose it is much more common to ask "what is the cheapest thing that can do foo and bar" rather than "what we can get for x dollars"
I would suggest that you don't try to "avoid" the corporate phase. Instead look for a company that makes a product which you find meaningful. Once you do, you'll likely be able to find creative avenues regardless of the company's size. You just have to go about it the right way:

First, you'll want to become a expert in your company's product domain. This will make your creative flashes much more relevant, and therefore more likely to see the light of day.

Second, start small. Use your own time to create a new tool which you know your team will find useful, and use the opportunity to teach yourself something new while you're at it. After a few successive wins you'll be allowed more and more leeway to apply your creative energies during company time, and the impact of your successes will grow.

Third, don't ask your manager for permission to work on Side Project X, at least not until you have somewhat of a reputation for delivering useful innovations. It truly is easier to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Lastly, give your colleagues a sense of ownership. People tend to be much more supportive of innovations that they feel they're a part of.
If those are the sorts of comments that you view as over the top, I question your familiarity with tech criticism, or criticism in general. Making mistakes on a shipping product has consequences. Clownpenisdotfart on the internet spending a sentence emoting his dislike is the very, very least of them.

The thing is, the engineers KNOW all the stuff we're talking about, and the products ship anyway. I bet they're frustrated for reasons a little deeper than an HN "shakes head" comment.
"i) new members are unable to become assimilated into existing culture"
"ii) entrenched users quickly become the minority and are unable to enforce cultural norms."
"iii) The culture is co-opted by the newcomers."

I just feel like that breaks down in terms of logic. The new members must have a _different_ culture to the entrenched ones correct? If they had the same one there would be no conflict. They must have a different one and enter at such a rapid rate (the AOL example) as to overwhelm the existing base. And they must all have a pretty similar new culture so that it can become the dominant culture. But now the dominant culture reflects the majority of users which is what we'd want right? Anything else would be elitist and/or totalitarian?
I've had some pretty extensive conversations around that theme with a bunch of other HN'ers (some of who have moved on in the meantime), and that's pretty much the solution we hit on. Keep only the +x and -x active users in view for you at any one time.

One problem we foresaw with that approach is that it becomes hard not to have duplicate discussions or missing chunks of information. In the end we did not do anything with the idea but it was certainly interesting.
Looks like the Core i7 version is the i7-4650U model, with HD5000 graphics.

Details in Ed Bott's article: http://www.zdnet.com/which-cpus-will-you-find-in-the-surface...

Link to Intel specs: http://ark.intel.com/products/75114/Intel-Core-i7-4650U-Proc...
It's all relative. There are probably a lot of subway riding Japanese ladies that would argue that this problem really really should exist.
That really depends. If I'm writing a small module that others will use, there's no reason to build that. Or I might just be experimenting with some new browser API.

It's nice to be able to just start coding without the friction of setting up every project as though it were some large thing that would include production builds, automated tests, and many other developers. Of course you can work on those types of projects with client-side loaders just as easily.

I recommend trying out jspm: http://jspm.io/ It is all about removing the friction that people often have with client-side loaders (I have to maintain another config file, the horror! ;) but is also forward-compatible as it implements the upcoming ES6 module loading stuff. You can use CommonJS, AMD, or ES6, and mix and match the three.
I wonder if Apple is intentionally forcing the shutter sound, to prevent secret upskirt shots. I know several phones have had shutter sounds that cannot be disabled, and some countries have required it. In that case Apple might reject apps that use this trick.
I've been dealing with Apple for months trying to get them to fix Mail in OS X Mavericks 10.9.2, which crashes on me about every 30 minutes, or sometimes more frequently. Their answer, which they refuse to put in writing, is that engineering is "aware of the problem."

Also, Mavericks broke Samba support completely. Apparently 10.9.3 doesn't fix it.

http://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/mavericks-broke-s...

I agree with the comments about this being the least stable Mac OS ever. I'd put it up there with Windows ME. Multiple times per day I have to interrupt what I'm doing to deal with Apple-related bugs.
It also depends on MongoDB as your sole backend database. I played with Meteor when it came out and I concur maybe Meteor is OK for prototypes but for something production ready I'd rather just use Angular + Google App Engine + Google Cloud Endpoints.
Projects are well-served by scheduling time for 'technical debt', which is whatever the developers say it is. Its time to revisit code and repair/replace weak links.
Neat! I opened up some issues on the repo, I didn't see a link the first time I checked it out.
>The best way to approach it is to define and understand the needs of your project, research, and choose.

But reading someone's "X vs Y" is one way to "research" and reading the factors that the author compares can also feed back into the reader's "define and understand the needs of your project". When there are new technology options, novices often don't have the background to know "what or how" to compare them. Reading some "x vs y" opinions is part of filling in that background.
That's the kind of advice that I constantly see in the Apple community boards for all kinds of issues.

Why is such a solution even acceptable? I had no issues before 10.9.3, but if I have to go through a clean install just to fix the issues, there's no way that Apple is going to keep me as their customer.
Wow, what a great app. So simple and easy to use. Love it!
Occasionally a user is particularly invested in an online conversation for really valid reason, e.g. area of expertise, Show HN, etc. So having a hard limit in a large scale (x comments in an hour or y comments in a day, as opposed to z comments in 60 seconds) may actually abruptly lock-out a particularly valuable contributor.
My guess is that if your backend has the same interface as Meteor's, you would just need to come up with your own deploy script and have it include the Meteor client bundle. Also, you would lose the ability of sharing any code between the server and the client.
"Playful avatars", a "cheeky sense of humor". How is that a benefit to us? It's like they left in copy from the agency pitch.
I see what you mean, but since the 1970s speech researchers have been splitting seconds into 10ms or 25ms intervals, that's not my decision. They could have started from any duration but they haven't. And you could start to express time with the Aztec calendar if you wanted. But you won't.
>With DKI: You search "Lawn Chair" and the first thing on the page is "Cheap Lawn Chairs". //

... and then you go to their site and they have no lawn chairs available. Yeah, great /s.
Another trick is to invert one of the stereo channels and add it to the other one: this eliminates everything that was mixed in with neutral pan. That's typically where the voice is. It will also remove e.g the drum kick, but this can be salvaged with a low-pass filter. Note that you end up with a mono track.
>'The probability that I will interact with any one user ever again on a site like YouTube tends toward zero. I have no real incentive to be polite or to put much effort into anything I say.'

My sense of a terrible 'community' like YouTube is a bit different. I've always had the impression it's more about performing and the size of the audience - more about votes and reactions than expected interactions.

No matter how nasty or inane your opinions are, you can share them on a related YouTube video and receive anonymous validation from other people who agree with you. When you're feeling bad about yourself and want to lash out, you can post something vile and get a response.

I believe this was a source of a lot of complaints about changes to the comment system. It hurt ones ability to receive instant gratification by dropping a comment on the top of the stack.

In the bat analogy, upvotes/karma are a sort of secondary 'junk food' blood supply that costs the giver nothing and some bats don't care for it as they prefer real sustenance but others are addicted to it. The 'community' ends up as a circus of votefiends bludgeoning each other for another hit.
"Decay" is a loaded word reflecting the author's bias. All communities change over time as they grow. Their culture then reflects the users. We may not like that community but clearly a lot of people do (after all these are the largest sub reddits we're talking about right?)

This is sort of the "This neighborhood was so great until all the yuppy/hipsters moved in and the art stores were replaced with coffee shops serving $6 lattes" argument.
Karma on HN doesn't work. I've been here 500 days, but because I only post from time to time I only have 335 karma and I can't downvote. Since my karma per post is just over 2, that means I've only made ~150 comments in that span, one every three days.

So all the politics posts get upvotes from people who have enough karma to upvote, but not enough downvotes because people like me can't downvote.

In this way you can post a liberally biased article and all the Democrats will upvote it and the Republicans can't downvote it. So you get several hundred upvotes on your submission.

There are enough new members that can't downvote who have the ability to upvote to put any garbage article on the front page as long as it appeals to enough of them to overpower the people who consider the article not to belong on HN.

I could post some political garbage every day and get a huge karma/post score. At least 10 per each link submission which is more than 4x what I'm getting just commenting.
If only they would sell stuff to me (I'm not in the USA).
It took a while to find, this old kuro5hin article is a good read on the subject:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000

Titled "Attacked from within" it details the problems in scaling a community and community life-cycle very eloquently.
That was very interesting! thank you for posting that. i've forwarded your link to a scientist i know who works on sedimentation in riverbeds who'll find it a very nice reference. (e.g. 'angle of repose' is a surprisingly complicated concept)
I've had the exact same experience. Rabl is horribly slow in template generation...

Also, FWIW-- older versions of AMS, with caching, are a total crapshoot due to marshal dumping the objects into the cache and re-serializing them to JSON each time. Much better to cache the response itself instead of the objects making up the response.

Granted the caching feature was yanked out of AMS, but pretty painful for those of us that actually tried using it. Carrierwave + AMS caching = Problemzilla

At this point, we too have had Rabl, AMS, and Representers and the best one of the lot-- by far, for our use cases has been: Roar. https://github.com/apotonick/roar-rails

Plus, it's the only system which will de-serialize the data using the representer. Boom-shaka-laka.
Is there anywhere I can go to actually see NASA's (or CSA or ESA)'s "Lessons Learned"?

I'd love to track how they've evolved different characteristics of spaceflight/rovers.

to improve my KSP game, obviously.
Lots of crashes here too. In the graphics driver.
A product needs to ship at some point. You can't expect a product to be polished 100% free of limitations or defects for 100% of the scenarios.
To be fair, "reinstall Windows" is oft-quoted as the best solution to a lot of Windows problems too.
It is hard to appreciate the change in tenor the network experienced when AOL gave its users access to Usenet. I have never considered it in the context of the prisoner's dilemma as a one shot exercise but that certainly has an intuitive appeal.

We see it here on HN of course, someone creates a new user account, makes a single low value snarky comment and then off to oblivion.

An interesting counter example is twitter, which I've seen that as people become more invested in the reputation of their 'handle' the less ill considered their tweets seem to become. When that isn't the case that is also interesting.
That's a rather interesting concept. My big issue is that I'd be missing the best content from other buckets. Perhaps content can 'emerge' from a bucket after garnering a certain % of support from the bucket?
We are having problems, when using multiple displays connected to the iMac.
Solution could be the same as for palm rejection: disable start button when pen is near the screen.
if you've modified your roots or are behind invasive proxies and the site uses STS or iframes then exceptions won't be offered.
One persons decay is anothers gentrification.
I'm still developing on SL. That's one way of never having a crash or kernel panic...
Have you read the book? It is clearly not his focus (or area of expertise!) but the book makes its premise clear: extreme inequality is inconsistent with the meritocratic ideals upon which modern capitalist democracies are founded, and can lead to social unrest. This is close to a direct quotation from the book's introduction --0 I would quote it exactly if I had the book in front of me right now. Maybe you don't agree with this premise, but I don't think you can fault Piketty for taking it as an assumption (explicitly!), particularly given that he is not a sociologist or political philosopher.

And in either case, it strikes me a significant contribution in itself to move the debate from "does capitalism and rising productivity raise all boats?" (answer: no) to "ok then...is extreme inequality really such a bad thing?"
Dammit. Finally updated last night.

No crashes or kernel panics since then, but I agree that switching graphics modes seems to cause most of my crashes. I get the "rainbow crash" where the UI freezes and garbage appears in stripes and blocks on the screen. I can still ssh into my MacBook and reboot it (or even restart the UI, I think).
Testing Ansible Roles with Travis CI on GitHub
I can't help but wonder if perhaps the perceived failings in Microsoft products could be the result of an internal attitude towards criticism that is similar to the attitude towards criticism that you are expressing here.

Does Microsoft have an internal culture that discourages criticism, which results in criticism from the outside world catching Microsoft employees by surprise?
to be clear, the lawsuit was against apple and the publishers, who were accused of price fixing by refusing to participate in under-pricing books, but also refusing to price ebooks as high as ~$25.

it was a really odd application of antitrust law at the time, since Amazon is the one with monopoly power, and price fixing typically means competitors agreeing to price things higher than the market would otherwise bear.

antitrust has never been reasonably applied to tech, going as far back as DOJ going after microsoft for bundling IE, not for leveraging the Office team's relationship with the Windows team to push out competitors like Corel.

now you're seeing amazon flex that monopoly power - hey buddy, you had to pay a fine to the DOJ for refusing to participate in our monopoly, and we were able to hurt apple's book-selling business, and now we're shutting you off entirely unless you agree to our terms.
Installing Apache/Nginx is a 1 time deal. A browserify/webpack workflow requires that you set all of that up for each project, and to start your watch task every time you develop. So if you're working a few different projects you either have to switch between them or start new watch tasks for each. I understand that some people enjoy this workflow and am not saying they are "wrong", just pointing out the added requirements.
Experience a lot of crashes on my Macbook pro retina which is the latest model. Screen gets artifacts everytime the gpu swtiches from nvidia to iris pro or back. Coupled with the crashes that I now see on my Ipad air, I cant help get the feeling that things are starting to bitrot at Apple.
No such thing as a "simple" patch in the context of Windows: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2003/10/28/how-m...
Lessons on Hiring From Facebook: Going from 500 to 5,000 employees
Yes, but no one talks about the 99 other snake-oil, age-old wisdoms that the scientific method debunked :)
Now we need to make giant wheels for dogs!
Experts in one field are amateurs in all the rest of them. So even a community of just experts in some field would have a much larger number of amateurs than experts across all fields.
When my team is testing new AdWords functions or whatever, we like to pick a funny keyword like that, which is also guaranteed to have no one competing against us, so we can easily view our ad in the #1 spot. Sometimes Amazon will actually outbid us on ads for things like "Pre-Chewed Bubblegum" or whatever stupid phrase we've chosen that week. It's always funny to see. You can't even be angry that your ad isn't visible when that happens.
Why am I getting down-voted for this?
Sorry for the confusion - that's what I meant. They both vaguely work around the microkernel architecture, except where it's not desirable for performance reasons - so for example on my Mac basically every hardware driver runs in supervisor mode.

I agree with the premise that it's more hackable, though.
Just booked a flight I'd been putting off; the new experience is worlds better than other airlines, though it still has its issues.

My favorite airline is still United; their website will let you get to the final billing page, and submit your cc, only to find that "that flight isn't available".
One important difference between Meteor's front-end and Angular is how we track data dependencies and changes. As it happens we've been working on a Meteor manual and just published the first chapter on Deps, our 1kb library for doing this.

https://meteor.hackpad.com/Understanding-Deps-aAXG6T9lkf6
Really clever idea, I'd love to see more on this.
From wikipedia:

> A basic concept in some CBT treatments... a technique
> where the patient is gradually exposed to the actual,
> feared stimulus.

This is not merely "describing something like meditation." The subject may be taught meditation techniques to help them learn to stay relaxed when exposed to the anxiety-causing stimulus, however, the therapy is not meditation alone.

For example, the military has been experimenting with using virtual reality to "expose" soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to a combat-like experience, since it's too dangerous to expose them to actual combat during therapy: http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Top_Story/Using_V...
I've had only one kernel panic so far on my late 2013 rMBP 13. At least that's what I found in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports, and I've been through the 10.9.3 betas as well.

On the other hand I experienced random WiFi problems upon wakeup, had to do a couple of hard-reboots, suffered the rainbow static problem and other miscellaneous problems with external displays. Lately I've been experiencing some weird issues with the sound system: I hear music in my headphones but some notification sounds are sent to the speakers.

As a first-time Mac user (after a decade with Linux) I must say this is quite a frustrating and "meh" experience.

Love the screen and the battery life though.

Glad to hear I'm not alone, my colleagues rolls eyes when I rant about the problems I'm having.

Side Note: It seems to me that the most problematic models are Retina MacBook Pros.
Awesome. Thanks for the feedback. We're working hard on pushing things forward and will fix the initial problems we've had.
Notably absent from the article, but spelled out in the comments, is that the author doesn't have an AppleID because he doesn't want to agree to Apple's terms, and therefore cannot acquire a kernel debug kit.
You just need more loyal customers. My first stop is Amazon. But I would not say I am loyal to Amazon above all else. If I really wanted something and they didn't have it, then I'd move on the next stop. In this case (that book about Amazon) I'd head on over to Barnes & Noble and pay just $0.31 more to order it there. No big deal.
It may be data, but it is not a statistically significant amount of data. And there's an awful lot of selection bias in product complaints.
I thought the whole point of the various social graph implementations was to build a datastructure that handles details on the level of an individual: who your friends are, what you shop for etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_graph

E.g. I was browsing cutlery on Crate and Barrel, suddenly I'm seeing ads all over the internet for products that I was viewing. I visited Digital Ocean's site and I see ads everywhere offering their hosting. Same with New Relic.

If I had to guess, the economic systems that underpin these ad networks are getting stronger and eventually they will all merge. Well, of course there will still be big players like facebook, but you get my point.
I have the OS X 10.9.3 on a Macbook Pro , Mid 2009 and there is absolutely no problem with it. Is it on newer macs?
I only would like to point out that all the comments I copy-pasted are gross generalizations, unrelated to the main points in OP comments.

You do have a fair "design process" question.