skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also misses the part where Macs are perfectly fine for a wide range of developers (I almost said 'most' but there's plenty of people out there writing code in environments I'm no authority on).

If you're a kernel hacker, then yes. I imagine it's shit. But writing Go works fine, despite his protestations to the contrary. I'm also happily running GCC in parallel with Clang. And a ton of other programming environments too.

Problems like the lack of a package manager are more of an easily-solved annoyance than they are a fundamental flaw. The problems I've had with HFS being case insensitive were more the fruit of people doing stupid shit on case sensitive file systems than they were fundamental 'sky is falling' problems.

All in all, this reads like someone trying to emulate one of Linus's shitstorms, while missing the fact that Linus gets away with it because his ranting is usually backed by pretty substantial arguments.
We had many of those fears when we (Vivisimo now Watson Explorer) were acquired. I'm a consultant on the implementations side. It's been almost 3 years. The C levels did leave but most of the founders and original employees still work for IBM even after the mandatory period. Basically, my job is still the same with a little bit of extra bureaucracy that comes with companies of that size.

Our client base seems to be growing much quicker now after getting fully integrated. It seems like people may be buying our technology almost by accident (packaged deals, etc) and now realizing they have it and want to actually use it. That's something that seems unique to these huge tech firms. Before we had to sell each person.
My colleague has lost about 2 days in total due to Ubuntu updates killing her Ethernet connection at every update. This was about 2 months ago.
hur dur. I'm gonna use this thing that I know it's not for me and I'm gonna cry about it anyway.

Different things behave differently (shocker). You're not gonna like Y after using and getting used to X for god knows how many years.
Well it's not really clear what he was hoping to modify in OSX that found impossible to change. Many of the settings mentioned are readily toggled off, you can install most linux software (Homebrew is necessary, i readily concede that without it OSX packaging is a problem), I'm not really sure what he wants apart from that. Not sure what he means by "developer workflow"...

Maybe it was more UI customization - there are definitely things which would be nice to tweak which are not tweakable, although there are a good range of apps and plist hacks to do so too. Mostly get the feeling he was primed to dislike it and, surprise surprise, disliked it.
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Twist: you are actually visiting the region and you're currently dreaming vividly.
I can't really imagine a client describing "I want to be able to replace any part of the system I would like, and it should be easy to replace" as an exceptionally simple requirement and being taken seriously. In fact, I think only some open-source operating systems even come close to that goal.
>Is there a similar "practical advice" type of list.

I think https://prism-break.org/en/ is what you are looking for.
Arch is clearly the OS of choice for dragon-fighting free thinking Athiest scientists who don't have time for artsy pursuits and their associated mind-numbing animations.
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>why should I not vote to block and prevent this growth?

Because you don't want to be Detroit.
RIP. The wars today are WebP (Google) vs. JPEG-XR (Microsoft) vs. BPG ?! Maybe they will all also die... I only heard that WebP is/was used by Facebook and is used by Telegram.
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FYI: The term is "perjury".

And to answer your question, it's only perjury if it is a deliberate misstatement - which WB will argue this isn't.
Languages I learned as an early teen, in the oder I learned them:
Commodore BASIC
6502 Assembly
Pascal
C
C++
etc...

I think you severely underestimate kids.
Ask HN: Can you show me your budget calculation from your first ask?
Paige Craig in his recent article on how he did not invest in Airbnb (https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/) discloses Airbnb's budget calculation before their first round of investment and describes how he corrected some unrealistic assumptions. What are the guidelines for creating realistic budget calculation? Are you willing to share yours? I don't mind if it is anonymized but it would be great if it was annotated/explained. Thanks.
What I do is set up billing alerts through CloudWatch. I have $25/month in personal AWS usage paid for by my company (to encourage people to learn) and I set an alert when my monthly usage has hit $20 (which just went off yesterday).

The billing and cost management page should show you which regions you are incurring costs from on an ongoing basis.

But yeah, you have to know about all of this to use it. They should probably set a default alert at about $25/month on every new account, then let you change or delete it if you want.
I don't think there is a problem in that, they are just considering a subspace of the system.
I see this argument a lot, yet I have not spent one second customizing a linux driver for anything in the last 8 years.

Maybe, if I'm running games or 3d software, I'll update to the proprietary drivers, but I've not touched anything else (wifi or otherwise) in a very long time.

What hardware are you having problems with?
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That's the primary purpose of most infographics these days, linkbacks for search engine juice.
I haven't given OS X a try yet, so I don't have the experience to know whether his rant is validated, but how about his example: using gcc. Is it difficult to get gcc running smoothly?
That's pretty cool. How do I sign up? ;)
As note in another comment (by erikb) "what to include" has crystallized on these items (problem, team, etc..) for a while now. What has evolved has probably been the space dedicated to each (we are down to 1 slide each, and I assume Guy does not mean 20 bullet points Font 9) and possible the relative weight... e.g financial projections have definitely lost weight and apparently can now be merged with key metrics)
Am I missing something? I've re-read the article and can't find anything informative other than an "I don't like OS X" opinion post.

That's fine and all. But why is this submission so high on the frontpage?
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As someone who typically is a top performer, I found the dance just added overhead. I must keep tallies of all my "goals" and lists of everything I've accomplished in every respective category, and then waste hours cranking out my side of the review. Sure, I don't have time for it, so I make time for it, meaning less time for sleep.

A good manager should know what you're contributing without this kabuki theater.
California has always managed to think of itself as forward-thinking because they've never asked what anyone else thinks.
If you're willing to buy specific pieces of hardware in order to make sure your wireless works under OS X, why not buy known good hardware for Linux? You could buy a nice Zareason with support for less.

There's nothing wrong with liking OS X, but Linux is far better than it with hardware in general, and nearly equivalent if you are willing to only buy from a tiny range of hardware.
I experienced these a year or two ago.

Btw you should give Homebrew a go, really like it over other package managers.
Why even accept ranges that span more than 2^32? That seems like an easy solution to a broken function.

Also fun:

echo "<?php echo mt_rand(-mt_getrandmax(), mt_getrandmax());" | php

is always even on my PHP 5.5.20.
This underlines the craziness of copyright and intellectual "property".

If DMCA claims were expensive, companies would bother requesting takedown for the most profitable movies/albums/games only and they wouldn't go on autopilot, claiming whatever they think might infringe their copyrights. But then the garage bands and individual artists/musicians would be left out of the game completely, they couldn't use DMCA to take down their music.

On the other hand, how do you prove you are the author unless you have lots of money for lawyers? If you say "I composed this song at home, and published it under CC licensing" and MAFIAA say they represent the copyright holder, is it not clear who owns what?

If there was a digital notary service where you could digitally sign and timestamp a file, that might help a bit. But the downside is that people could take public domain works or someone's un-notarized works, claim ownership, have it stamped and they would begin to hold a stronger position pretending to be the author.

I think this is somehow similar to how indigenous people wondered how the white man could possibly think of owning forests, rivers, and land. They considered Earth unownable, not belonging to anyone but rather people belonging to the Earth. Similarly, natives to the digital world wonder how somebody could possibly think of owning bits, numbers, and copyable files.
From Arch to OSX. Riiiight.

I don't get this kind of posts either, and am not at all sure it's newsworthy. I run minimalistic Linux desktops _all the time_ (even gone as far as setting up a Docker image for one I can instantiate on the fly[1]) and like them for testing and debugging stuff I need to run as native ELF binaries, but OS X has saved me _decades_ of frustration.

If you have nothing nice to say...

[1]: https://github.com/rcarmo/docker-templates/tree/master/deskt...
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I tried OS X for about the last year and a half on my primary work machine(s) whilst ssh'ing into remote Linux boxes and using Vagrant locally. Finally plopped a dual-booting Xubuntu partition on the drive and I'm happy as a clam. I understand and acknowledge that I'm not the target market for Apple products, but what I fail to understand is why other developers like the Apple ecosystem so much. It would be one thing if I were writing iOS and OS X apps, but usually I'm writing native binaries for Linux servers or at least interpreted code intended to be run on Linux. The OS X development environment for this kind of stuff is plain nutty to me and I've yet to find many people defend it without saying "just use boot-to-Docker or Vagrant or Vagrant with Docker or ssh into a VM in the cloud or an ESX cluster". No one seems to say "yeah, writing C or Go that links in C libs or Python that uses native modules on OS X is a pain, but here's why I prefer that to Linux..."
While documented, that is surprising behavior. If it takes in an int, shouldn't it be able to take in PHP_INT_MAX? And shouldn't it yell at you instead of just silently going about its day?
Martin Crane: "I wouldn't like it."

Frasier Crane: "Oh Dad, how do you know if you don't try it?"

Martin Crane: "Well I didn't have to get shot in the hip with a .38 to know I wouldn't like that."
put in the wrong hands at google this could be the end of the web as we know it if some intern decide to take down 127.0.0.1
It's a nightmare for doing real software development on.

For you. I have programmed C, C++, Prolog, Java, Go, and Haskell on OS X since 2007 without any problems. If you go to any developer conference, you'll see that a sizeable chunk of the audience agrees.
dave would you mind explaining that, I am pretty interested. How do you get linkbacks with an image, and is it effective/ethical?
It's not 2002 anymore, it used to be like this before but it's been a long long time since I had to do this. On my case, using Linux over OSX is also about time, I could use OSX but you need to install a lot of stuff to make it usable for a development environment (which is pretty normal, I'm not the target audiance).
Cool input!
You can pretty much treat "http://127.0.0.1:4001/?f=" as a quasi protocol. The DMCA takedown request is for the URL "http://127.0.0.1:4001/#/fr/", they are almost taking down a whole protocol, not just specific contents. It's like wanting to take down "magnet://" from search results.
I don't buy specific pieces of hardware. I just buy a Macbook. This goes together with the it "just works" part.
Nice going :)
It just feels so much better, it feels lighter
Assuming your program of choice even has a manpage at all.
> Everyone goes on for hours about how OS X is a "better user experience".

The expectation gap after reading fanboy blogs for years is pretty huge. OS X is a pretty luke warm experience.
Couldn't you use VM, or double boot?

It's clear that OP, just like you, are not in the market for OS X (I am not even talking about windows, or probably ant proprietary OS).

For me, OS X is the best option, I do not need to deal with Linux intricate setup, but I can develop software I want to develop. OS X, in my case, is developer friendly, just enough so I can do what I want, and casually friendly enough so I do not need to worry about some (broken) things, I do not want to be in my way (FileVault, Time Machine, printing[1] and any other nice feature for everyday normal guy[2] (mail/picture/pdf annotation, continuity, Photo/Video editors)).

I want to stress, that I know that many equivalent software and features exist in Linux world, though usually it is much more troublesome to use. Not everyone is (or want to be) Linux guru, rockstar hacker or simply willing to solve bugs or errors for and at uncertain time.

Simply, Linux vs OS X is a flame war without any point. Everyone has a subjective opinion and discussion must end there.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/270328/cannot-print-pdf-pages...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw
Watched the video... Why do they have a guy screaming in the middle of the video. So annoying and unprofessional, and I'm listening with headphones.

But anyways, seems like an interesting idea and concept. But looks like no free Wi-Fi or a place to sit, which I know some people love that about Starbucks.
It's sad and sort of amusing that most people here seem to be misunderstanding the point of this entirely. Unfortunately, this is likely prophetic of the way people within Accenture will misunderstand this too.

Most of the grievances in comments here at this point are not so much about the feedback system as about the pay system. There is no mention in the article of "pay", "compensation", "salary", "reward", or any other word talking about the pay system. There is no indication that this is what's being operated on. What is happening is that they're replacing a yearly feedback process with a continuous feedback process.

That's very worthwhile, but it won't solve issues with the pay system, or with politics, or with people "playing the game", etc. It just means that people will have more regular feedback. That's good in and of itself, but it won't suddenly transform the company or turn it upside down.

Now, at the same time, reading this CEO's statement, and comparing it with the sort of stuff that was being said when I was working there, this guy seems positively enlightened. I hope this is just one piece in a pattern of many different things he'll be changing at Accenture. If it is, then there could be large scale change in Accenture.

As it is, this is just one encouraging bit of change around the feedback process. NOT a change of the pay model. NOT something that will get rid of politics in the pay model. NOT something that will majorly change the culture. JUST something that will encourage everyone to operate in the way that good managers (of which there are many at Accenture) already operated.
Hah, this is exactly the first comment I was going to write.

I work in Node, Go, and occasionally Python or other things and it works great.
And I find it unfair from Adam Surak and Algolia for not writing the new post explaining that he/they actually wrongly accused Samsung for failing TRIM support.

Even the edits of the initial blog post aren't clear enough that the last edit of it links to the patch that is a solution and that the whole problem isn't what it was initially presented to be.

Because bad news travel faster, I'm sure more people still believe that these Samsung SSDs have something inherently bad, when it was actually the Linux driver problem.
There are various firms that use a quarterly review/bonus cycle. While great, this fails to account for the slow moving hulks that are US corporations. Remember, in most places you'll not get in your "Annual Goals" until March/April, will have you mid year review done in September, and then have your annual review due by early November (lest people's year end vacations be a problem). How could you possibly hope for management to promulgate their vision and read a sheet of paper in 3 months or less?

Perhaps Profit Sharing is the better angle? At ZoomInfo, each quarter everyone gets a bonus based on the company profits of the quarter, distributed ~equally. If every everyone did a great job and company did well, everyone gets a bigger bonus. Not as great for the rockstars, but it's an incentive for everyone to work together. Of course, if the market is down, it will fail to incentivize people working their asses off to keep the company afloat.
This silly zealot never intended to be objective to begin with.

> I care about feeling the power of a modern operating system

I'd say OS X has this one covered. It could even be said to be the most "modern" OS out there. But of course, however he'd define "modern", it wouldn't be favorable for OS X.

> and being able to build any software I want. I cannot do either with OS X

What can't he build on OS X? I have no idea.

But can he really not live without whatever esoteric thing might not compile on OS X? Especially considering OS X does look nicer, and things do just tend to work..
Awesome. It's incredibly annoying that I can't watch Netflix when I go and visit my family in Poland, even though I'm a paying UK customer.
> Honestly I haven't seen anything GTK+ based that looks as good as KDE (4.x).

Here's a phrase I never thought I'd heard :-).

I don't really like Greybird, but Bluebird is nice. Now if only there were a (non-hacky) way to consistently disable the frickin' client-side decorations, I could almost use Gnome 3.
This is the second LWN subscriber link to be posted in as many days. I suspect they might have been a little peeved as posting those for the entire world to use isn't exactly the intended use.
OS X is arguably more Unix-y in its low-level programming interface than Linux, being fully POSIX-compliant and certified.

Any Linux userland tool which doesn't rely on specific kernel features and Linux-specific libraries can be built under OS X with rarely any issues.
There's nothing broken about that. If you want to do full text search, do `man -K` instead of `man -k`. E.g.

man -K MANOPT

Works for me on Ubuntu 14.04, though slowly so and I still have to ask the pager to search for it within the manpage which is opened. Because of this, I read the manpages when I know where to find what I'm looking for but otherwise just Google.

A far more severe problem IMO is the fact that many Linux distros ship without manpages in their default installs.
Here's a counter point.

I have been using Linux since the mid 90's. I love it. I too am a developer. Pretty good one too.

I also love my rMBP.

(Also, using loads of curse words is a cop out for trying to find a more expressive way of saying what you wish to say. Just saying.)
Hi Guys, Im the founder of Snorelax.

Snorelax is an IOS alarm app which analyzes traffic and wakes you up earlier in case of a delay.

If you guys have any questions, I'm happy to answer them!
[Disclaimer: we're doing http://www.graphistry.com , which helps with graph views of big IT infrastructure and log data.]

While doing research at Berkeley, and now building IT sec/ops visibility tools, several phases:

Basically:

-- Start simple: Excel :)

-- Advance to Python: pivot tables and plots via IPython/Jupyter notebooks with Pandas. (I used to do R but Python largely caught up, thankfully.) For bigger stuff, we started playing with PySpark.

-- For IT time series & logs: graphite/ganglia/ELK, and if you can afford it, significantly more polished tools like Splunk.

-- Network graphs are an evolving story. Small graphs are easy through something like Neo4j's built-in explorer. Alternatively, the Linkurious team is friendly, and Keylines is embedded all over the place. Big graphs are the problem: Gephi can do ~50K nodes and has a lot of features, but hard to use and showing its age. We're building something more scalable and analysis focused, and particularly focusing on sec/ops, so happy to share beta access. (We use GPUs and focus hard on smooth integrations, which let us change the rules a bit.) Let me know.
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In other news, "malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000, and by 33% in the WHO African Region"

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2011/malaria_re...

I wish people would quit making shit up.

As for the observation that companies only spend billions in research for markets where they can find can paying customers, I would say that others are free to raise money and start companies to cure other diseases. Even in the developed world, there are literally thousands of other diseases for which a handful of people that don't have large markets either. The WSJ ran a large article on this a year or so ago.
Agreed. Essentially what happened here is that Samsung got enlisted to solve a linux problem that they had no hand in creating because of the bad press. An apology would be nice.
Looks cool! You should probably have a more obvious signup link on the login/landing page - it took me a few moments to work out how.

I'm also getting lots of little 'Failed to fetch' errors around the site. I can provide more detail on request :)
It's all about how many other people share your belief.

If it just you or a small handful of people, you're crazy or eccentric.
If it's a few hundred you start getting into the cultist region.
Pass a few thousand and you become religious.

Yes, those number were pulled out of thin air, but the sentiment remains.
Former 9 year linux only user here, recently switched to using OS X (mostly) for development. I live in a terminal, always have, and unless I need something specific to linux that will not work on a VM, apart from the mac fancy button crap, I hardly notice a difference. To each his own I guess and at least he stuck with it for a week.
Also while most of OS X is closed source, they do use some open source tools:
https://www.apple.com/opensource/
but if you want a 100% open system, obviously OS X is not for you.
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Hrm, I have eyesight issues. They are worse when I use a computer for a length of time. Retina display improves it.

I have 2 astigmatisms. My left eye is worse than my right. I'm not sure if computers can change the shape of the eyeball but that is what the problem is.

When light enters my eye, because of irregular shaped eyeballs, the light that reflects onto the retina is out of sync. It's easier to see things closer to me because details are more prominent, so the misalignment doesn't have much of an effect. It's not a problem of lens focus.

The reason computers make it worse and retina display helps is because the lack of definition adds to the lack of definition caused by the misalignment, causing terrible headaches and a sore dull ache (the latter does not improve with glasses).

On top of that, the usual dry eyes are a problem. There's a spray that's come out in the UK which is handy since it mitigates the aim issue somewhat, though I have sprayed my forehead whyen being careless.