skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of 3 main reasons:

- in the vast, vast majority of cases, it's not as bad as they (you, feminists, the UN, the "victims") claim it is

- the solutions they suggest are difficult to implement - for example, you would need to eradicate online anonymity - whereas my solution is very simple - use personal blocking software or, better yet, just ignore the trolls

- both of the points above lead me to conclude that their goals are insincere - that they're using "harassment" just as an excuse to legalize and implement more censorship and restrictions that will be used for nefarious political causes, the same as happened before with e.g. the "threats" of piracy and pedophilia

Edit: another reason is that I don't really recall many laws that made the internet better (DMCA, EU cookie laws, the "right to forget", Australia's blacklist), so it's seems unlikely that this time they will do it right
I found this one pretty good to get an idea of the thing
Americans believe in myths about their non-conformist culture. Fact is that all cultures are highly conformist. And Americans are highly conformist in their highly consumerist culture that expresses non-conformity as a key aspect of the culture as a way to stimulate thought and creative destruction. However, at the same time there are huge barriers to taking full advantage of the non-conformist culture which is mainly money. To get money you have to conform, and to get more money you have to conform even more... while at the same time being individualistic and non-conformist in your thinking.
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That can bring difficulties, as far as I know the commutative property is a fundamental property in many algebra systems. So it's one of the few assumptions from where everything else builds up, not sure how would you go about explaining that.

You can show a few pictures of examples of how it works in real life, but axioms are the basis from which you build everything else. You just accept them as being useful and prove the rest.
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Wow I must be lucky. Every order of mine brings welcome encouragement coupled with optimism. Of course I will shortly be conquering the world with my newfound knowledge. No questions asked when the first chapter gets read excitedly and then shelved for eternity.
The web is a cesspool. Its monetization is so twisted and unnatural, with individual users worth next to nothing. Companies engage in all sorts of dark patterns, tracking and other scummy bullshit to try to squeeze out an extra tenth of a penny per user. Hell, click on the link to this article and Amazon, LinkedIn, Google, and a dozen others all get to know what you just read!

I don't share the excitement about bringing this bullshit to apps. Maybe the web will improve: as websites become more sophisticated, customers will increase their expectations and start demanding better treatment. But this would require reversing the current trend.
And since it ends in a 9... :)
Having a large pool of potential employees to draw from and also you have to be close to the VC firms.
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Could it be the lack of ad-blocking on mobile that amounts for the majority of that difference in traffic numbers? Can't help but wonder that and it makes me giggle because this is yet another forced and overhyped wanna-be-informative article. Many publishers want the mobile traffic to be more due to the mobile users having less control on their devices than your average well-informed PC/laptop using semi-power user.

I personally abhore the lack of control on my Note 4 and iPhone 5c and that's what's gonna drive many users away -- not now, but in 5-10 years you can count on it. The market always wins. Get control off of the users hands and you shouldn't be surprised by the results. (Sorry for off-topic in this paragraph).

Bad article with skewed stats is bad. No way around it.
Sex? Ill just strap on my free time helmet and squeeze down into a free time cannon and fire off into free time land.
Audio production: https://soundation.com/

3D animation: https://clara.io/

Video Editing: https://www.wevideo.com/

CAD design: https://www.tinkercad.com/

Writing/debugging software: https://codenvy.com/

Now of course I expect we'll here the "but it misses feature X". I'm sure that's true. Next, someone will point out that generally, 80% of people don't need feature X, and the fact that it is online means it is many times more accessible. We've seen this over and over again.

Remember when everyone thought web based email couldn't possibly work for them because of feature Z? I'm sure that's still true, for a few people.

So can we skip that whole discussion?

But I don't know if the message we should get out of this is that the web wins, or than new ways of distributing functionality to more people cheaper wins.
In terms of ATM struggles for foreign visitors, Brazil really holds the record. The workflow requires you to insert your card twice (at least for Banco do Brasil). It goes like this:

Insert card -> Take card (no PIN entered yet) -> Choose account & amount -> Enter PIN -> Insert card again -> Take card -> Take cash

Also, most banks in Brazil have ATMs that DON'T give cash right beside ATMs that DO give cash. The ones that don't give cash are meant for deposits, balances, payments, and transfers, but the GUI is otherwise identical, i.e., they display a cash withdrawal button even though they aren't equipped for cash! "If you then proceed with a cash withdrawal, the machine will hold onto your card for several minutes while making dispensing noises and finally return your card without giving any cash or receipt."[1]

[1] http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Bank_cards_and_ATMs#L...
This is why good management is so important.

Tools aren't a money sink, they are a competitive advantage. Effort put into tools isn't a loss, it's an investment.
I always find his videos fascinating but this is way over my head.
Can someone in the know please provide a bit of a breakdown of the design decisions he has taken and how they compare with other compilers?
That's because these tricks is how you perform the operation quickly and efficiently. I'm not sure if you can even meaningfully derive the algebraic process and meaning from first principles. You should nix the cute mnemonic stories, since those probably serve to confuse people, but the methods themselves are absolutely solid. And the one shown right on the front page (for me) cross multiply is how you divide by fractions. a/b / c/d = a/b * d/c. The fact that 1/a is the reciprocal of a, whatever a is and that 1/(a/b) = b/a should be the first thing you tell people after you tell them about fractions. Then you show why cross multiply works. That shouldn't take more than one lesson.
That's the feeling I'm getting as a result of this. I think it's great that Instagram took a long time before they launched this, and I'm not sure what tools people have in order to report, block and hide ads, but it's clear from this experience it's something the community wants.
Mud does sound very reliable or having much bandwidth. Plus is the drill not made out of metal? Why not just use the entire drill as a conductive "wire"?
Oh, I am happy to accept speed of light as the limit.

I was more thinking about (hypothetically) using the same techniques as a quine to store a simulation of the universe inside a universe.
He is not trying to prove it because if you think about it, it doesn't matter who/what he is.

At least, not from his non-conformist perspective.
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Your comment made me realize that they did not even try. If they're afraid of not being able to anticipate the cost, they could do it using subscription type in-app, like "a year without any ad" and only offer it to a limited number of random people at first.

But they didn't even try. Which is astounding when you think about the general hate for ads.
> The problem is terminology and the exact focus of each study. Morgan Stanley’s study [browser > app] is focused on unique visitors — calling it, somewhat misleadingly, “traffic” — while comScore’s report [app > browser] is focused on actual user time spent.

Explains the surprising result.
On Firefox OS and to a large extent on the Ubuntu phone, most apps are web based apps.
I have my own theory over the root of polarization in US politics:

Newt Gingrich & the "Contact with America"

Gingrich & GOP party thinkers (not the politicians themselves) were tired of losing the congress for so many years (and it was a very long period) and made a "war plan" to take it.

This consisted of rallying the troops, and being ruthless with anyone who strayed. Up to that point, Dem & GOP were actually civil to one another. Gingrich made it known that his side of the aisle was not to talk to - I mean that literally - was not to talk to Dems or socialize, bargain, anything at all. The party would deal with that. No personal relationships would be tolerated.

"You just don't get it". Remember that phrase? That was Gingrich's way of saying, "you believe what we say, or you aren't one of us". He made it clear there was no free-thinking, no wiggle room. This wasn't about good governance. This was about rallying the troops to win the Congress and White House.

This was, IMHO, the start of the no negotiating, complete polarization period. This was taught not just to the GOP politicians, but to the party followers. There would be no more compromise; this was a war, with only one winner.

This simply deteriorated into what we have today. The media did nothing other than pick up the blood scent and run with it; they never drove any of it, and none of it came from personal thoughts of the average American.
One feature that would be cool is an Excel addin to which you would designate a bunch of cells from a spreadsheet as inputs and one output, would follow the logic and emit code to replicate this logic as a function.

Code in VBA would be an obvious candidate, allowing non technical users to apply a complex Excel based logic to a whole list of entries for instance, by making a function that can be called on every line. Or allowing to hide the logic in a password protected VBA project so that the spreadsheet can be shared without disclosing the logic.

Could also be used by IT departments when they inherit from spreadsheets they need to integrate in systems. In fact it could even be used as a UI. Business users express the business logic in excel, a syntax they are familiar with, and update the logic in a system automatically by the system parsing the spreadsheet.
Same, but I'll take it one step further.

I have never had an actual _conversation_ with my own mother (single parent home) who is now in her 70s. Every attempt at a discussion has always ended up without her actually trying to listen and heaping on (berating) criticism that is either coming from her own shortcomings/fears (and she's a very fearful person) or she'll interrupt me and heap on criticism based on what she thinks I'm going to say. At least that's how it's been since I was too big for her to continue to beat me.

There hasn't been a shred of concern for my own interests and goals and in my 30s I don't expect that to change from her. She's been trying to break up my older brother's marriage for near 20 years (after successfully driving his previous partner away and a few of mine). She wasn't invited to my brother's wedding and if I ever meet someone that I care about again, she will not get to meet them. Ever.

If I were more cynical, I would say that every time our goals aren't lock-step with her goals for us, she makes a concerted effort for us to fail, but I imagine that she really thinks she has the best of intentions. She is just crazy.

So sure, love your family, but that doesn't mean your family is good for you. If your family isn't good for you, limit their ability to do damage in your life. If you can't do that, cut them off.
This just being a better vibration motor is totally fine! Nothing wrong with it.

There is also nothing wrong with iterative improvement. I quite like it actually, and I think people who dismiss it out of hand are weird.
Timothy Gowers has a few thoughts on this:

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/commutative.html
I have to ask, do those "tricks" represent the way math is usually taught in America? It looks like a bad joke to me.
The minority of them do, yes. And they never carry work business cards[0]; these are personal "business" cards. (I guess the name is a bit of a misnomer in this case. ;) )

[0] Doing so would be really, really strange for anyone who wasn't in sales [1] (and even then, it would be a little strange).

[1] Or, I guess, one of the founders of a tiny startup.
Neither is the oil industry.
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Let's be clear - I was never suggesting the the web can't beat native. The op was stating that the days of native are behind us. It is strictly untrue.

> Remember when everyone thought web based email couldn't possibly work for them because of feature Z?

No, I've always used web-based email clients. Did a software developer really say this?
The idea is that if elephants are owned. The owner would protect their investment in order to profit from the elephant in the furture when the tusks grow back.
You’re conflating two things: the polarization within the Congress and outside it.

Before, when people didn’t have access the way they do now, the small connected elite of politicians and other decisionmakers were able to coerce and smooth out issues for their constituency. Now, for better or worse, the people’s views are being enforced more directly.
And in iOS 9 you get Siri suggestions, so most likely you won't even need to type anything.
Also no burgundy, blonde and many more.
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I'm not sure I agree. I'd much rather lose a card than money.
The basics are very simple, but there are some very intricate rules/quirks...

For example, the following are valid formulas:

`=SUM(IF(TRUE,A2,C7):C10)`
`=SUM(A1:B3:C2)`
`=SUM(A1,,,,,,A2)`
`=SUM((A1,A2),A3)` means something different than `=SUM(A1,A2,A3)`, both are valid
`=SUM(A:A 1:1)`

We still have only <<100 production rules while the official Microsoft one has hundreds.
If you don't care about the complicated structures (and our research indicates that they are very rarely used) you can make the grammar a lot simpler.
Wow, there's some amazing work in that article.
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Oh really? I never bothered to check the exchange rate. Good to know, I'll let my German bank do the conversion from now on!
I don't know if I'm the only one but I just tried that and it still felt distinctly vibration-y.
The important point is that Gowers was the one who initially stood up and said "Elsevier delenda est."

(I mean, a lot of us thought it, but he did it really loudly and prominently as an unimpeachable leader in his field.)
P.S. On a tangential note, it would help if the names for mathematical terms were in English, rather than some weird amalgamation of Greek, Latin, French and German. In my language, all n-gons are called n-anguloids. So you have threeanguloid, fouranguloid, fiveanguloid, "a proper N-anguloid", etc... And we use the normal names for numbers, rather than Greek ones. And a rectangle is "right-angle-oid" (granted, that's the name in English too, if you squint a bit and know what phonetic shifts to look for and your German is good). Square is quadrat, though. Then again, it's still an everyday word, even if we borrowed it from Greek millennia ago. And the word for "perimeter" also means "a walk around" and "a lap". You literally tell people "the length of the lap of a rightanguloid is the sum of the four sides", which is kind of obvious if you imagine walking the perimeter. And the word for "angle" is the same as "corner". Sadly, that ship has sailed long ago.
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He's deliberately making it extremely conventional in every way except where the papers are hosted. At this point the game is to gain prestige. Elsevier et al will have a hard time knocking this one down.
"Too often, corporations use information machinery to try to persuade"
> This breaks for filenames with spaces.

Useful things in bash:

export IFS=$'\n'

or

export IFS=$'\n'
for I in `$COMMAND` do
$OTHER_COMMAND "${I}"
done

or, generally:

find ./ -print0 | xargs -0 $COMMAND
I can't help it, this made me think of a thread from the comic strip User Friendly from a few years back: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010111
I wouldn't so firmly say "not anymore" when only 15% of Android users[1] are on the latest version of Android almost a year after its release. That number probably won't go any higher over time either because Android's update cycle is a mess.

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
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didn't get chartreuse, tangerine or rust
Really loved the project. Would love to get one of these if you ever make this available to purchase.
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the phrase "Operating System" here is being used in the sense of "software to manage resources"... not the resources of the computer, but the resources of the whole system.
It is not referring to a replacement for Linux, Windows, VxWorks or uCOS, rather incorporating individual subsystems running those OSs into a whole oilfield-management-system.
UX in its rawest sense, although with a programmer slant. That said, programmers are a subset of a wider group (spoiler: it's us!) and it would be nice to see these patterns break out of the developer world, so they can evolve further.

Consider, when was the last time you saw a website with perfect keyboard integration..? The lack of universal patterns does get in the way (as does keyboard-less devices, which are clearly a whole other paradigm), but still..
I feel similarly about autocomplete (particularly the "best way to learn Python" bit) and suggest Python users looking for autocompletion similar to zsh at the command line pip install bpython (which I work on).

See https://github.com/bpython/bpython for source, http://ballingt.com/bpython-curtsies for some (old) gifs.

More generally, build your own tools like this with the excellent Python Prompt Toolkit! (https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit)
Both of which have really tiny userbases and aren't desktop.
It still seems bizarre to need two thousand software engineers for something whose functionality is as simple as twitter.
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Another application of determinants:
- Compute a vector perpendicular to other two vectors.
- Compute the rotational of a vector field
- Determine if three vector are linearly dependent
- If you consider a complex number z = a + bi, then there is a linear transformation from C to C given by x -> xz, than you can see as a linear transformation from R^2 to R^2, the determinant of that matrix is the amplifying factor for the area of figures.
At least poo works.
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I meant Levi's specifically and am referring to the thickness of the material and the accuracy of the size which now seems to have an error bar of about +/- one or two sizes.
IMO it would be good to have 'Show HN:' in the title to see that the [owner?] of this site submitted this post.
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I see his work as a real testament to the power of the individual when given the ability to focus and freed from restriction to pursue their calling in life.

Not drawing any parallels here, but I am sure that there have been many 'Joan of Arc' and 'Moses' in history, and only a very tiny number of those received any recognition or praise. How many doubtlessly countless numbers were forgotten or plain ignored? Their lifes work and passions laid bare for all to see, only to be shuffled away when they weren't successful by others measurements.

Tl;dr I see Terry as a reminder to march to your own drummer and to support others to do the same; whether they win or lose.
Terrible clickbait title for a terrible article.
I think, I don't see there the "proving backwards" trick described. The technique goes as follows: a student starts with something (for example, an equation) they need to prove, and transforms it until they get some trivial identity like 1=1.

If they succeed in this procedure, they claim that the original equation they started with was correct too.

Everyone does it, and it takes ages to make them unlearn it.

If somebody is wondering why the technique is incorrect: starting from a false premise, any statement can be proven, including things like 1=1 or 1=0.
Scholastica's practice of charging $10 for each submission seems ridiculous: if someone submits a million dummy submissions the journal has to ask support to forgive the charges...

I think that a much better approach would be to require papers to be submitted as Git pulls adding TeX files, and then use a free code review tool like Gerrit to do peer review.

That might take a bit more learning than Scholastica, so starting with Scholastica until the journal is more popular might make sense, but using such expensive proprietary software doesn't seem to be acceptable long term, and if a tool works for peer review of code changes, it should work for peer review of articles as well (maybe with some customization if needed).
> One feature that would be cool is an Excel addin to which you would designate a bunch of cells from a spreadsheet as inputs and one output, would follow the logic and emit code to replicate this logic as a function.

From having "you suck at excel" run in the background a few weeks back, I learned that feature is already in excel, there are "input", "calculation" and "output" cell formats/styles: https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c?t=2756
Nashville is one of the few Real Cities(TM) in the Southeast. If I were forced to go back, my top three places to land would be:

* Nashville, TN

* Atlanta, GA (Assuming that I still possess enough of my tech "fortune" to purchase a place inside city limits.)

* Chattanooga, TN (For EPB internet and what appears to be sensible city stewardship, obviously.)
My bank switched to this layout recently, and it took me a good minute to work out what was going on, and how I should go about getting my money out. It might not have been so bad if I had just read the screen though, but I was trying to find the normal menus.
I'd say that is a reason for why this is bad. If I've got bad hardware I want to know about it and bad hardware should be flushed from the market. Not function "okaish" enough to not annoy users to the point of boycott.
Mobile, AL?
Who really is?

I don't watch TV so in Germany I'm a minority. But of I only consider people my age (30) I'm probably normal.

I share a flat with my friend despite the fact that I Marke enough money to rent this whole thing alone.

Do these facts already make me non-conforming?

Most people here would probably say "no"

To convince most of them, I would have to add, that I work remotely and don't do monogamy anymore.

Also what is non-conformism an way? I'm not vegan, so in sense of eating I'm pretty conforming....
Medium DNT policy is useful for blocking your embedded video that tracking your user.
> An app usually has read/write access to large parts of my device. The whole sd-card, raw internet access, the camera, the microphone, ask me for money etc. And it can keep doing so even when it's "closed".

The Play Store and installing APK's shows you a full list of permissions that the app will have access to before installing. If you're not happy with it, just don't install the app.
I think that adding the "probably" is being overly careful.
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