skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to give one of you of the role of calling these shots and trust the other to make the right tech decisions so you don’t burn energy and time on trivialities like these.

As developers we think picking a tech stack is an immensely important decision for the foundation of your company. It isn’t. As developers you should be competent enough to pick up the slack and learn new tech as needed quickly, and leave the extra cycles to pick up things that you suck at but will need to figure out: customer services, business model, etc.

Echoing what other commenters have said, if you’re already running into problems about decision making then it’s likely to get worse. I also think you’re optimizing for developer happiness way too early.
I also prefer physical books and use them for most of my (non-internet) reading. But there are a couple situations where I think e-books have an advantage.

1. No wait. Occasionally I've discovered a book and wanted to read it immediatly. My kindle lets me do that easily.

2. Reading before sleep. There is something nice about getting ready for bed, turning off the lights, and reading on a backlit e-book reader. It means that I can read until the exact point that I feel like I am drifting off to sleep without needing to get up and turn out the light. Obviously this is good for light fiction. You wouldn't want to read anything that demands attention this way.
At least for me, I've been buying tons of books used from Amazon. You can't beat the less than 10 dollar price vs 20 plus for the ebook.
> Regarding the data protection specifics, well, maybe it makes sense to follow the standards of the most rigid country globally?

Have you really considered the implications of that precedent? Blasphemy law in Saudi Arabia. Censorship law in China.

Never mind what happens when the laws in two different countries conflict, e.g. privacy vs. data retention.
The delightful accumulator tower north of Tower Bridge (Royal Mint St) was demolished at the start of last year -- to make room for some exclusive, majestic luxury apartments. spit

Photo (not mine) of the doomed building here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cybertect/10944119093
You decrypt locally.
it is very interesting!
I'm not sure the Huge companies forming is a good thing. If we need more competitive pricing, having only 1 or 2 health care systems in a given locale could be seen as a local monopoly.

I know the bigger systems get more negotiating power so in the short term this should probably help but if the local competition isn't there than that money just stays in the hospital pockets.
I still purchase hardcover of books that I love, from a collectors standpoint. Especially if they contain complex layout, illustrations or just beautifully made. But there is no denying the convenience of using my kindle, and get $1-5 books. The last time I was in a book store, it was totally packed with people, so I really don't think they are going anywhere, at least not in the immediate future.
That's pretty vague. PC? Mac? Chromebook? OS version? Browser version?

Could be a browser extension; FB app you gave access to; malware; any number of reasons a website could access audio devices on your machine.
Histrionic statements receive histrionic reactions; I fail to see connection with fear, fright or threat. I mean, we're all just flinging poo here and that's about it.

What got to me is not the title, but the way how an fascinating topic was dragged down to the gutter and then just choked to death.

I mean personal space is just another boundary, which one has to cross to "get up close and personal". It is an act of aggression. Now who displays that aggression, is what determines what kind of response you'll get. If it's your sweetheart in a sexy mood, the response will be sexual. If it's a skinhead with a knife, it will be a fear response. The action is the same: violation of personal space; the circumstances are not. You could write a dissertation on that alone. And well here we have a person obviously not in the field, writing a biology column on neuroscience using one quote of neuroscientist and a case study of a brain-damaged patient to drive her point that "personal space is a fear response" and not even doing that well. Sorry. The article is just bad.
As much as I like paper books in theory (I have an entire room in my house dedicated to being a library), I found I haven't actually really read one in a few years. Kindles, Tablets and the like are more convenient for linear reading (novels, etc.). For my last couple vacations, where I do lots of reading, I just brought my tablet and kindle along, where I would have brought a couple of books in the past. Bonus, they do other things that books don't do.

Downside is all the obvious, needs batteries, charging, etc.

However, for non-linear reading (e.g. reference books), paper books can't be beat yet. But funny thing, I bought some reference books for one of my teams recently and had to teach a couple of them how to use an index because they had only learned to ctrl+f to find things. I'll admit that well organized hypertext reference guides work almost as well as a reference book, but you consume screen space trying to display the information while an open book on your desk automatically provides that "screen" space.

On the flip side, I can start reading a book on my tablet, move to my computer and then my phone all in the same day and modern reading apps keep everything synced pretty well.

I feel sad sometimes because my physical library hasn't grown much, but then I remember that I've read many times the number of books on my digital devices because they're so convenient.

I don't like e-reader software and the way the information is displayed. I've found that the full-page image scans of books is more beautiful in many cases and works wonderfully on modern tablets with high resolution displays. There's an entire library of these scans over at archive.org for those interested, in many genres.
Irrelevant to the question.

>Even if they are turned off.

Citation needed.
BAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES NOW!!! ;)
> My life would certainly be easier if I could rely on the Kindle to properly display math or tables, but I can't.

From a pure consumer point of view, I'd already be glad if I had consistent, working footnotes in my Kindle books. Somehow, every ebook does them differently, and exactly zero make them convenient enough to bother with them.

Even the one or two foot notes per page in Discworld books are a chore to handle, non-fiction books with 5+ are impossible – and I only read those for leisure. At work I'd never even consider using ebook formats. I'd honestly prefer PDFs. At least their reader ecosystem isn't quite as dysfunctional…
Unicode: The solution to, and the cause of, all life's font problems.
You can't use an ebook to level a table, can you?
Hah, funny seeing this here. I have never been able to get into this album no matter how "prepared" I get for it. The vinyl reissues of it are real pretty though so maybe one of these days I'll buy it and try again :)
Electric Wizard's Dopethrone is another venerable classic.
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So setup your tab to insert four spaces, like every editor on the planet.
I was thinking the same thing, it almost looks a little too good to be true -- although it does kinda make sense given the focus on GPU-based clusters. I wonder how this compares to Baidu's warp-ctc [1]. They don't really seem to be the same thing, and maybe I'm missing something since I'm just starting to get into ML, but it seems to be conspicuously absent from this writeup.

[1] https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc
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> EBooks are in the cloud; you can never actually lose one forever. Just buy it again, which is very, very likely to be cheaper than photocopying a paper book.

In 2012 I bought some music in electronic format from Amazon. A bit later they introduced the Amazon music service. I looked in my purchased music section, and the music I'd bought in 2012 wasn't there, and if I lose the downloaded files it's not available to me unless I buy it again or the rights holders come to some agreement with Amazon.

It's possible that stuff will drop out of the cloud when the rights become impossible to work out. I'm not sure how likely that is with books, but it happens with films. The most well known is "Point Break", which now can't be shown in public by cinemas because no-one knows who owns the rights.
I recently read about ad-sources correlating smartphones with desktops via transmitting ultrasonic tones that another device can listen for. I can't find the article now but it was mentioned on HN a few days ago...perhaps in a comment.
Anti-homeless spikes are part of a wider phenomenon of 'hostile architecture'
Amazing. But I also have to wonder: why put that board of directors together? It smacks of gee-whiz marketing from the beginning.
I also like the "airgap" benefits of books vs proprietary readers, nobody can log into a book and ninja edit for future political reasons or delete them for copyright reasons.
Off to a Mumbai train station – to catch Google's free wifi
On the flip side, Idris is listed depite

- a wiki article,
- a book, "Type-Driven Development with Idris" by the language author, and
- a subreddit

So I'm guessing it's just not a super well-maintained list.
Don't worry, just give me some keywords so I can type them into my Kindle's built-in search function at a painfully slow pace!

Oh, never mind, the wifi is down, and the on-screen keyboard driver is broken. Again.
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To be fair, they could apply to BizSpark and the licensing and hosting costs would be moot for 3 years (and it has lots of great benefits):

https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

Btw, you can host Node.js apps on Azure if you like (I do), and a Linux stack if that's your thing, so it makes sense to apply to BizSpark even if you're not going the C# route.
I am 70% e-books in the last three years or so. A quick count gives ~200 books in my kindle library, and I dont think I've bought more than 100 paper books in the same time frame.

Paper books are mostly read and dispose of for me anyway, and I don't typically re-read books, so e-books just give me the flexibility of not needing to bring 5-6 big logs when I go on vacation, and mean I dont need to run to the book shop when I need something new to read.It is also cheaper by a significant margin.

For me - having access to a huge library at the click of a button, and less weight to carry around far outweighs any disadvantages of screen light, battery time etc.
The only thing I want to know is if it breaks every dependency, on every update, like ImageMagick does.
So, a question: why? Just so that there is an alternative (not that there is anything wrong with that), or is there an issue with ImageMagick that discourages some people from using it?
That quote was strange to me too, but for another reason, reading is a solitude activity, the point is to think for yourself.
Ebooks are still inferior to paper books in many ways and that's mostly because of stupid, artificial limitations inflicted by publishers. Until Ebooks have open, multi device, easily reformatable standard (my experience reading on a small phone screen varies from terrible to utterly unreadable) and sharing ability among friends, it's no deal for me. PDF is close, but still not there.
OCaml support on iOS is really cool but it needs more tooling and a critical mass in community size before it'll gain any kind of traction.

Many developers still won't use Swift, for instance, because they think it's not ready for production yet. And there have been over three dozen Swift books published in 18 months: http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/books
> only press a single key instead of tapping 2 or 4 times.

Consider changing your editor.
Sonic Titan. Snappiest song on the album. My fave.
Books go out of print too - maybe the e-form is more reliable in that regard.

And sure we're not quite there yet - the entire library of congress isn't online yet. But we all imagine its going to end up there, no contest.

The real issue is, does e-book loss (losing rights) compare unfavorably with real book loss (loaned out and forgotten; burned or discarded; degraded to unusability)?
It's all "View Code" so separating HTML/JSX from "view" JS (as opposed to separating HTML/JSX from "logic JS" in handlers/reducers/etc which is a legitimate abstraction) is very superficial abstraction and gets in the way of comprehension. But if your brain refuses to parse HTML in JS then you can always specify the DOM fragments as JSON in your render() function.

The thing that I don't agree with about the blog post is the inclusion of State in the main App props in the form of maxSomething (forgot already the prop name) App configuration should be gathered in one place as a set of constants, IMO. App state should only contain the data, not the meta.
At what kind of scale? I don't think any web application should have problems unless the queries are very badly designed.

I've worked with MS SQL for 10+ years (at financial institutions) with no problems. Oracle might be a tad better, but it's also pricier. No idea about Postgre (I've heard it's good), but what you mention shouldn't be a good reason to dismiss MS SQL.
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I desperately hope this is humour, and if so then well done, you had me going there :)
Tesla and even EVs in general with battery thermal management (that is pretty much everyone each Nissan LEAF in USA) are working just fine under extreme conditions (cold / hot). Sure the temperature does affect battery range as much as 50%, but you can recuperate some of that via pre-conditioning - that is to warm the batteries to improve the chemistry.

I drive an EV myself and living in Northern NJ, temperatures can go below lower teens in some years. After a 30 minutes pre-conditioning, batteries get warmed up to 42F, which would certainly alleviate the range issue.

Additionally, ICE cars also suffer on range under cold conditions. [1]

[1]: http://www.fleetcarma.com/cold-weather-fuel-efficiency/
Probably the most terrifying "feature". I agree wholeheartedly. Its kinda scary how technology, if universally adopted, could be a past censors dream come true.
If I read an ebook and it really hits home for whatever reason I'll buy a paper copy. Not to read, but to act as a sort of physical reference point to stop me from forgetting about its existence. A souvenir of itself.
I think a better starting point is Sleep's live performance at Hellfest - see it on youtube. This music is much better understood in a live context.
In Angular separating logic and html works fine

And of course Angular's html is enriched html: by including directive, you can put databinding, and limited logic

Either it's logicless or it isn't, surely. To me, databinding is absolutely the kind of logic that shouldn't belong in a template in the world of strict code/template separation. Another reason why it doesn't really work.
This is based on what? Your knowledge of Korea via TV shows?

According to the article it sounds like it's just a camp with no Internet and the kids do other things for fun. The horror!
Is it really HTML or directive/component definition syntax

<MyComponent mySuperCoolProp={this.state.someState}></MyComponent>

This is not traditional HTML from the early days and because it is not it has a higher chance of reuse outside of just an internet webpage, and makes it easier to transfer across other view layers, canvas, native desktop/mobile views, etc
Serious reading is best with a book, but news and quick reads are ok on a screen.

These days I find I can focus much better with a physical book, maybe I've trained myself. With digital reading I'm automatically in skim mode - though I might be obtaining a broader sense of knowledge.
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Hm. Many of those objections are objections for paper books too? When was the last time you 'reformatted' an article from a magazine into a pamphlet form? When was the last time you magically ported a book onto your airplane? Even sharing - you have to actually give the book away to accomplish that, and you have to actually be in the same room as your friend.

Its easy to criticize ebooks; there's much to criticize there. But lets be careful not to claim that means ebooks are worse than paper. Because paper can do none of the many things that ebooks can do.
>The vinyl reissues of it are real pretty though

Unfortunately, coloured vinyl/picture discs sound pretty awful and degrade much more quickly. A novelty item only.

Although tbf unless you're a DJ any vinyl record is sort of a novelty item.
I can't help but think there could be two solutions to this problem.

1) A speech-to-text transcripting intelligent system that could automatically make some guesses at the notes the doctor would want to write. Could save them quite a bit of time if it can be tuned for utility
2) (the cheaper short-term solution) An assistant who can focus on taking notes while the doctor focuses on the patient.

Unfortunately, (1) is a technologically challenging AI problem and I bet the current medical rules and patient's expectations of being able to 1:1 with their doctor without a third-party listening in probably scuttle (2).
IIRC, Jerusalem wasn't the original, but a bootleg. The album was cut up into several tracks, if memory serves.

I will say, however, that the bootleg cover art by Arik Roper is probably my favorite of the bunch:

http://www.roadburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sleep-jer...

I prefer it over the recent reissue cover, even though Roper did that as well.
Note that it's 2kb when gzipped - but that is still a fraction of the size of jQuery when gzipped.
Looks like a raster library to me. I imagine if it does handle vector graphics, it's only on the input side, same as ImageMagick. Didn't see any indication one way or another on color spaces.
BMW offer this as an extra when buying an i3, but really you want to use your Tesla with all it's autonomous driving all the time right!

"BMW i also offers additional mobility modules which allow even longer distances to be covered – for example a conventional BMW vehicle can be provided on a given number of days per year."

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/pressDetail.html?title...
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Actually paper books are an inferior product for many reasons:

1) moderately large to large books are uncomfortable to hold after a while.

2) Fixed font size.

3) Take up physical space (i.e. you can have books and other kind of "publications" like magazines in a Kindle).

4) Unsearchable.

5) Every reader essentially has to "hack" something as simple as progress saving.

>"they require no battery":
This doesn't really make paper books a superior product. The same argument could be said of landline phones but that doesn't make them better than cellphones.

>"accidental touchscreen events":
Not all ereaders are touchscreen based, an in any case it's a poor, circumstantial reason.

Your other reasons amount to pretty much preference, none of them make paper books categorically superior to ereaders.
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"You can also use Brain Script (beta) to specify the configuration or use Python and C# (in future releases) to directly instantiate related objects."
Yesterday's discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964902
You can try https://www.expensify.com/ .. they have a really nice App and they are nice people as well .. i read their startup story once and it was really interesting
Which is why fake books are a real thing you can buy.
That's why I really like Riot.js, looks much nicer and simpler.
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I see. You're one of those people who don't have an issue with the very idea of copyright and patents.
Personally, I'm not this paranoid. I buy the books on my kindle and copy them into Calibre and strip the DRM. I get all the benefits of having an permanent archive and being able to enjoy modern technology.
If anyone was curious, this quote is credited to Robert A. Heinlein, a science fiction writer.
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I want to be nothing but encouraging, but I have simultaneous positive and negative reactions. On one hand, we need better FOSS alternatives to imagemagick, on the other hand, using imagemagick as the target to compare against means it's doomed to repeat some of IMs mistakes. And sure enough, using the online server's filter examples, so many of them seem to exist to fill a checkbox and increase the filter count, but are utility wise, useless as a serious filter, and aesthetically unpleasant to boot. I have the same contention with a significant portion imagemagick's feature set.

The IM/GM command line is also a disaster of weird names for things and inconsistent conventions and hundreds and hundreds of pages of manual. Reinvent IM's command line to be pleasant and simple and make sense, and it'll be a HUGE win!

What we really need is an open source alternative to is Nuke or Shake (RIP). Anyone want to help build that? ;)

I can't get to the project page, but I hope that GMIC borrows the positive developments from GraphicsMagick. One of the things GM improved over IM is large image handling. GM can stream a gigapixel image resize in minutes, while IM gets stuck in virtual memory swap for hours.
I actually use them quite extensively and I don't mind the implementation.
Not sure how Factor is remotely "fledgling".
It's also a GIMP plugin. ImageMagick is command-line only.
Excepting the cringemarsh that is "import <jsonfile>", this is actually very useful. This looks very unpythonic:

my_json["this"]["can"]["be"] == "nested"

and is impossible to write defensively and cleanly after the first call:

my_json.get("this", {}).get("no way to not crash here")

Something that could do:

my_json.this.can.be == "nested"

With a default value would be very useful. Does anyone know something like it, or should I whip a module up in an hour?
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Sleep hygiene does not include exercise, but has half-dozen smaller things. If you don't have enough motivation for it, you need to see a doctor asap.

Creating a startup to treat a mood disorder is a very roundabout way of doing things.
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It is specified - a struct tag is just a string literal after a struct field. See https://golang.org/ref/spec#String_literals

If you use backticks, the tag must not contain another backtick. On anything but a struct tag, you could get by by concatenating literals, but that's not allowed for struct tags: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Tag You could use double quotes instead of backticks, but that leads to a dark corner of escaping hell and an utterly unreadable mess.

Thankfully, the language strongly nudges you to very, very simplistic and light uses of struct tags.
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I get the joke, but that highlights something I value in books: their physicality chimes well with my ways of thinking. Sometimes I can only remember that a book was blue, and will wander my shelves looking at blue books until I find it.

Likewise I can remember the bit I'm looking for was on the bottom left of a page with a big picture on it, and will scan through the book till I get to it.

Both things I lose with eBooks; though of course there are plenty of other compensations.
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>As for casual reading, there's always tons of stuff on the web.

For me, ebooks make it possible to replace much of the casual reading I do on the web with books. I've been happy with the change and I read significantly more books.