skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought my first notebook in 2006, it was a dell 640m, hell of a machine. I had it until 2013, upgraded way above their recommended specs (more memory, ssd drive). I had a dual boot with windows (although it was really never being used) and a happy all time debian user. But everytime a new version was out, and evenhough it was an old laptop with old hardware and all the drivers were pretty much there, there were always something to fix. Spending 2-3 days sorting some annoying issue out was the norm rather the exception. I think linux is and awesome OS and a great one to work on.

I switched to a macbook air on 2013, and not being an APPLEist (switched my iphone 4 for a rooted Samsung galaxy s3, which I still have), It's hardly to ever look back.

Once I get used to all of the MAC-ish things I was as productive as before, if not more. Things just work and it's a unix system underneath, so overall, I have everything I had on linux, compiling packages, package manager with hombrew, command line, etc. Just the fact of closing the computer, move around, open it and be working just where you left in 10 seconds, for me, worth the premium. Right now they are not that expensive.

I still had to overcome a few annoying mac things, it's not 100% fool proof, had to fiddle with open size limits, some specific configurations, proper web dev setup, but this time, I feel it was the exception and not the norm.

My +1 goes for a mac at the moment.
Which industries do this? A day or more of tests seems excessive to simply determine skill for a given job. The candidates that go through it must be pretty desperate.
Buy a MacBook. With Windows/Linux machine you will learn much more about getting OS to work :)
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No kidding. I just started learning Angular, and now this.

Fortunately, it sounds like it will die an unpopular death.
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> though I can't think of a common use case

You can't? I'll tell you: 30+ Chrome tabs open + several webkit/atom-shell based apps (Slack, Spotify, Atom, etc.). I hate people packaging web apps with a passion. (Funnily enough, we might end up doing it too, because it's easier)

This is after I restarted Chrome (I had several Chromium Helpers using more than 0.5GB each before that): http://i.imgur.com/vN8EfDu.png
Did I mistakenly go to Tumblr?
Sure, the GPS does the planning. But my choice of routes is restricted. I am limited in the detours I can take. 10% doesn't sound extreme, but when I stop to refuel, 20+ minutes is not appealing.

No, it definitely isn't the car for me. I think better battery technology is one way to make the car more palatable. Another possibility is a LOT more charging stations, combined with some sort of battery swap approach (instead of waiting to recharge).

A few generations from now, these will be nice cars. Wouldn't be able to get there without you early adopters, so thank you.
Does not work (sending or receiving) in firefox, which is a damn shame. Works rather well in Chromium, as expected.
I believe you're referring to Sidekiq[1] as the Ruby task manager? The author does have a business dedicated to it and another monitoring tool now[2].

[1] http://sidekiq.org/

[2] http://contribsys.com/
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Yep. There are some nice Windows machines out now like the Dell XPS, HP Spectre x360, Surface Pro, but when specced out they cost the same as a refurb Macbook Pro.

edit Except the windows machines come with touchscreens and some have active digitizers for drawing with a pen.
I'm pretty sure this is similar to meteor js and transparent reactive programming, except just getting rid of the templates and using html instead. I don't think he realizes it that way, bc he keeps mentioning wanting to not have to use js.

I would be down to have a nice standard way of providing templates , adding onto html thus keeping it backwards compatible but that's it.

what he's proposing could be could be backwards compatible
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Although I largely agree, especially the part about the hardware where the physical differences are measurable and obvious, but "best OS in the world" is highly situation specific.

Best for your needs? Sure. Best for gaming or servers? Not so fast.

As great as OS X is, It's obnoxious to use in a server environment compared to other options like Linux and BSD.
Kubuntu is in a great place today. Five years ago KDE developers were pretty fragmented between Mandrivia, Suse, Fedora, and Kubuntu. Today, thanks to Blue Systems adopting Kubuntu and the general decline of most other KDE spins (Suse lost its commercial support, Mandrivia died and got forked a bunch, Fedora continues to be Gnome-first in a good way) my impressions from the ML and general developer mindshare is that Kubuntu is becoming the KDE distro for the betterment of the platform, because then you don't end up with all this wasted effort making an 80% great experience on every different package manager, fs layout, login manager, and init stack. Kubuntu CI is pretty much the only place one should go to develop KDE software and that means Kubuntu and Netrunner are always going to be the core KDE distros.

And that is not bad. Desktop environments in my view do a lot better when they have a blessed implementation. Cinnamon, Unity, and even Enlightenment have seen resounding success because they are developed for single distros and that focus lets them dodge the semantics of their environment and get to the good stuff.

Kubuntu 15.04 is looking to be the first release of the distro I can be proud of as something to show the uninitiated and get them excited about using it. The bugs are falling down by the dozen each day and all the best of Linux is ready for the release, its going to be a blast in my book.
Yeah. Actually, web browsing was a poor example. The issue is more that there are a lot of things which just have almost no software support on Linux. OS X is quite mainstream and so this isn't generally a problem: if you need to do a task, there's either an OS X version of the tool you need, or an OS X equivalent. I can do things like play games and edit videos on OS X, or collaborate on Unity game projects. If there's some obscure thing I wish to do some day, I usually have a tool that can do it. These were things that were almost impossible on Ubuntu in my experience.
Mobile news is a new form of storytelling (WSJ skunkworks)
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Taxing by size is how Israel does it. It isn't a good idea, though, because it falls disproportionately on rural owners, and it ignores the central insight of the law of rent.

The point is that monopolization of prime locations is what drives "real" wages down. In other words, the amount you can afford after rent and taxes take their cut, is determined by these factors.

You should instead pay for what you use, by value. If that doesn't happen, rents will just flow as unearned income to owners of the best land, and wages will be depressed. And then we'll additionally need to tax productive activity to make up the shortfall.

The "margin of production" is the best available rent-free land, and the point is that the better this land is, and the more productivity is possible upon it, the better your next best alternative to paid labor is. Thus, employers must pay you more, or landlords must demand less... because otherwise you'll take that next best alternative.

Of course, the alternative includes all subjective and intangible things too... but that is what I mean by "real wage."
AppleCare?
Customers hide faces as they wait to collect free breakfast at McDonalds (2013)
Much more straight-forward. Much closer to being the same thing.

Would still have been pretty ridiculous if a verdict had been made that this counted as copyright infringement. (They settled it amicably)
I'm guessing he meant "M". "k" is usually described to count thousands. [1]
I'm curious, in what country do you live that finance uses different prefixes?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...
So many languages supported, but no plain C?
As someone who thinks about making a HTML/CSS/JS replacement at some point in the future, I look forward to these guys completely fucking up the standard.
I abuse curl most weeks. How many more web apps would fail at a header only request, if not for prodding from a curl user.
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you're supposed to map caps lock to control and never look back.
It is not necessarily a sign of storing passwords in plaintext. They might have as well prepared several combinations of different letters from your password and then hashed each combination separately.
I don't use Chrome, and my favourite editor is vim, so I guess this doesn't affect me so much.

The one time I've really needed memory was when working on a WebGL Minecraft client. Firefox could deal with 4GB RAM, Chrome fell apart.

But yes, 8GB means your machine wastes less time shuffling memory around in some situations.
Am I missing something? You can add Applecare for accidental damage protection, and you can bring it to any apple store. Is that not the same thing?
This is actually a nice summary of data, not an opinion piece.

In contrast I hate hyperbolic statements like "the middle class is vanishing" which pretty much has to be literally untrue but I can appreciate as an attempt to express something true about the objective difficulties of the middle. I just don't think it helps much to hammer on a rhetoric that is calculated to fog the brain.

Good short summaries like this are I think easy to understand and contribute better to a national dialog.
I hate these picture gallery clickbaits sites on facebook. If you are visting mobile, almost every "next" click redirects you to some ad site and you "have to go back". And yes, I still click on them because i want to see funny/sexy stuff ;-)

I will never understand though how people manage to just "burn" serveral thousands of dollars after they got them. I like to save and don't need any of this funky stuff. Why would I want to spend 1200$ on some vodka? WTF, seriously!
Sell pain relief instead.
First thing that popped into my head was "This might be an article about why we don't have a Rotating Wheel space station" (mostly cost and ability to transport the necessary parts into orbit, and some other technical details).

The article itself explains the layout of the ISS nicely though.

I'd still like to see the construction of a rotating wheel station some day ;)
You're directly swapping cash for time. It'll take you longer to maintain a working Linux install than OS X over the life of your laptop.
This is very nice, congratulations on shipping! This being open source is a huge plus.
Requiring execution of unnecessary code increases the surface area for any potential exploit.

You don't need JS to display HTML text. Browsers have had that ability since Berners-Lee.
I think comments like this are OT and misplaced. It adds nothing to our discussion here and assumes that the author will read all of the comments here (though I did note that in this case the author has submitted the post himself). This is direct correspondence to the author, so send him a message.
As a regular Arch user, I would not recommend it for new Linux users. When things go wrong in Arch, they have a tendency to go very wrong (e.g. when they symlinked /bin and /lib to /usr/bin and /usr/lib, which caused major problems if you didn't follow the news and just did a normal update).
The last 5/6 times I've installed linux it's been pretty much flawless (wifi included) out of the box.
Upvoting based on "this comment brings up good points and arguments" rather than "this comment says things that I think are true" helps fight against the community becoming an echo chamber.
The Roko's Basilisk thing is way overblown. The author addressed the issue here: https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2myg86/xkcd_1450_aibo...

And of course some of the topics he writes about are always going to be controversial. But utilitarianism is hardly radical.
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I have started and coached a new FIRST Robotics Competition team last year for 2014-2015 season and wanted to use Java. Initially I thought the programming would be very complicated for the high school students, many of whom didn't have any prior programming experience.

How can you control the speed of the robot proportional to the pressure applied on the joystick for example?. However, I was very pleased with the WPILib framework that comes with the kit. This can be accomplished by essentially a single line like (ignoring the variable initialization),

myRobot.arcade(stick);

http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/4485/m/13809/l/145307-cr...
I thought it meant "nice contribution to the conversation". It's easy to come to this conclusion when you think down-vote means "you're not contributing". I up-voted many comments I totally disagree and down-voted many I agree (because they were unrelated to the discussion). Am I a minority?
Super Angels = Micro-VC?
The lesson I learned from Roko's Basilisk event that I think Eliezer and most of the LW community also endorses is that if you're not careful, applying some models too far can have those "extreme, nay dire consequences for certain thought experiments" - so it's best not to commit too far to those methods, because they may have some caveats, or you might just have applied them wrong.
I think the real value is in seeing who's tracking that you wouldn't expect. Yes, most know that marketers are tracking the hell out of us, but there may be use cases that many are not aware of.
Yudkowsky's "good", at that of his fans, also tends to be naively utilitarian, ignoring modern development of that philosophy (see his whole "it's better for one person to be tortured for 50 years than for a very large number of people to each get one speck of dust in their eye" thing, for example).
I'd wager it's because Shakespeare did a fair amount of flattery himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_of_Hamlet
One more hour can't hurt: http://caniwearshorts.today/?location=Z%C3%BCrich%2C+Switzer...
Macbook+vagrant.
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Heya, I have the opposite problem - I keep inventing physical products, and the people who buy them are happy with their quality, but I'm too shy to market them properly. Want to talk?
We have a load of lenovos at work that work at 100% with standard ubuntu install. I have 2 laptops at home (pretty new ones) that have Arch running with no extra fiddling after base install. In my experience things usually just work and the situation you've described is from around 5-7 years ago.
Interesting historical artefacts.
Usually it is not hard, to install Ubuntu Linux. Normally it's a piece of cake. If you want install on your (20 minutes) than I would buy a Thinkpad.

If you would like to have Ubuntu preinstalled look at one of those vendors (The Dell looks very nice.):

https://system76.com/laptops
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m3800-workstatio... (choose Ubuntu)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2849795/purism-librem-15-linu...

Or look at amazon for Linux laptops. Hope that helps.
Well, if you reverse everything, you've got predominantly left-handed nega-humans made out of antimatter.
Not enough "oomph" usually means processing power. However, your screenshot reflects memory constraints. I run VMs and multiple tabs similar to you without a hiccup. I think most developers (myself included) tend to go with the 8 GB of RAM though when getting the MBA. You only have 4 GB. That's the issue here. :)
I disagree... In my mind, "class" is about wealth, not income. That $250k couple likely has little or nothing to their name. They are yuppies, middle class people going through the motions of projecting affluence. They think a lot about money.

The "upper class" makes money as they sleep. They don't think about the money the way you do.

If you need a ratio/figure, I think looking at housing/income ratio or housing/cash flow ratio would tell a good story. Or, look at the 1st standard deviation of non-retirement wealth.
I do it all the time, most people seem to like it. I usually apologize for being "that guy," though, because I don't want anyone taking it personally.
But think how much harder, still, it would be without the snooty diaeresis on "coöperation".
Isn't "good" just as subjective as "things I think are true"?
He wants to see contextual ads for a random person each time he visits, so that the advertiser still pays up.

It could be done by sending a x-proxy-for header with a random ip address, within normal home-user ISP ranges if you wanted.
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usually people coming from a non-rich/poor family might have this need for "Status". it's not usually about having value for your money, but most the time is about feeding the ego, feeling the power and sending a signal of success to the world around you.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You could develop from an iPad with iSSH on a Digital Ocean droplet if you wanted. Plenty of web dev is done from Windows. Plenty is done from OSX or Linux. Plenty is done from BSD. The host OS doesn't really matter for the web, that's the point of the web. Unless you're trying to learn ASP.NET, then... yeah it kind of matters.
Really great read. What seems to be missing from the author's 10 years is actually building value. Affiliate marketing, arbitrage, finding a cheap ad platform to flip for some clicks - none of this is really building something of value for users to buy. I feel like 10 years spent product building or building up a set of useful services would have had a much greater ROI for this guy.
Canadian here. Worked for the forestry service 10 years ago on a team building out software to measure forestry carbon impact in a time before our elected leaders strove to imitate the conservative south. (Broke our national census, fired the scientists, chilled various debates, made it harder to vote, pursued a punitive approach to crime and drugs, etc. . . . but I digress[0])

Your assumptions are the same as we had in our published model. In an organization that wanted to earn money by cutting trees, we considered it a source of carbon we had to offset. Once the trees were cut, we assumed it was released.

[0] this is a 5 minute google search:
http://www.leadnow.ca/elections-act/

Though our Conservative press may try to convince you our failure to get a seat on the UN security council doesn't imply our international reputation is eroding, their figures still show our tourism is down a third from 2005-2013, our immigration is down/flat, and we're half as likely to be Google searched. http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/has-harper-hurt-canadas-po....

On top of that, Nader has called us out: "We used to look to Canada to hold up a higher standard. There was a propensity to wage peace and engage in peacemaking — I'm sorry to see this Conservative government mimic the U.S. policy of militarization," he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/19/ralph-nader-stephen-...?
http://www.harperscrimes.ca/
Did AngularJS borrow some concepts from JSF?
This argument is certainly logically sound but maybe it is ok for law abiding citizens to be prevented from owning machine guns. Also, lets prevent them from owning missiles, nuclear weapons, and deadly nerve gas.

But where does one draw the line? Cars can be deadly weapons too! And plastic forks! Maybe it's somewhere around "objects whose sole designed purpose is to kill large numbers of humans in a short period of time".

Isn't there a base level evolutionary incentive for everyone to have as few objects like that near them as possible?
Like many, I was tempted into these same areas - driven by success stories and my own technical knowledge which fooled me into thinking it would be "easy".

What I found is there's lot of money to be made in... telling people how to make money! Those guys like Shoemaker who have an almost cult following end up making an empire on those in the "pyramid" below them.

Not to say this is shady, just that the real "riches" are in charging people to tell then how ... not in actually practicing what you preach.
I agree with you and would like to add (to the author of Hippy): Why not contribute to HHVM (or fork it and improve it)? If you made a few tactical improvements to HHVM that sped it up a bit, and kept a few good ideas in your back pocket, I'm sure the whomever is PMing the project at Facebook would love to talk to you.

Don't want to work at Facebook? I understand that, but before you say no, infrastructure teams at large companies tend to have a lot of freedom and lack of politicos sniffing about. It might actually be quite a bit of fun on the HHVM team.
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Tell that to my brand new laptop with Windows 7 being unable to apply its updates even after 42 reboots.
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You may underestimate him, Pharell's probably written well over a thousand songs. He has 59 songs with wikipedia pages!

You're absolutely right about people writing fast though. Even Bob Dylan wrote some of his songs in under 20 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pharrell_Williams_song...
The more I watch the security theater, the more this all looks to be set-up. I really don't fear the chinese, as the NSA is far more competent and organized, and is much more dangerous to the world at large, not just the citizens of the United States.

anyone remember that story a few days ago where China said "Hey, we want NSA-level backdoors in hardware, too!"? can someone help me with a link?
Several states have a metro area on the most gay list and one on the least gay list. Here are those bipolar states, with the metro areas from the most gay list on the left side of the semicolon:

California: San Francisco, Los Angeles; San Jose

Texas: Austin; Houston

Virginia: Virginia Beach; Richmond

Ohio: Columbus; Cincinnati
Exactly. The terms "low," "middle," and "upper" imply that your economic class is somewhere on a spectrum based on a single income measurement, and you're just kind of sliding around on that spectrum as your income changes, potentially even gradually moving between classes.

I think it's more accurate to look not at your raw income number, but what percentage of it derives from labor (or investments backed by labor, like a pension) and what percentage comes from capital investments. For most of us, 99% or more of our income ultimately comes from labor, and close to zero comes from capital. For the real rich, it's the reverse. Throughout your life, your percentages tend to be pretty sticky. You don't tend to move suddenly or even gradually from a labor-based lifestyle to a capital-based lifestyle.

Lots of people think, "oh, if I made $XX,XXX more a year at my job, I'd finally move from middle upper middle class to upper middle middle class," or something as ridiculous. But in reality you're not relying on your labor to make more money. You're not even close to the class of people who don't even have to work to make money.

EDIT: Grammar fail
It appears you missed the last line of my comment:

And you don't need to stick to threads.

Anyway, the GIL makes no difference to the level of parallelism of most Ruby apps unless you're on a server with lots of cores, so all you're really saying is that "true parallelism" is irrelevant for most use cases.

On a server with lots of cores, it can start becoming a constraint if you can't use multiple processes for some reason, but if you become constrained with it on the type of small systems this is intended for you're doing something very wrong.