skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sublime's performance keeps it #1 for me. Not just for large files, but in general use (opening files, navigating, etc) it seems much faster. Plus I prefer the way it handles multiple files being opened at once (tabs at the top) and some other "small" features. I just never have gotten used to Atom or similar interfaces.

I need something tabbed and simple, with internal syntax highlighting (css within html, etc) and Sublime so far has been the best option for me. Many others swear by it as well. I doubt it's going to "fall" or go anywhere.

I think they could re-consider the pricing to widen their user base and maybe pick up some of the users that use it without paying, but that's a side issue.
For politicians, authors, popular business people: this is called convention speeches.

For rappers, DJs, and Reality stars: this is called club appearances.
> During his initial appearance in a federal courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif., the prosecutors indicated a willingness to reduce or drop the child pornography charges if he would tell them about the C-17, said Sara Naheedy, Gartenlaub’s attorney at the time.

Really? Really.
VOIP Is Ready for Mass Adoption
Wow, this was a tough read because it hits very close to home. I'm in the same boat as the author financially and career-satisfaction-wise. I truly empathize with the author, and I think people here are being too critical of him. It is difficult to go through life full of regret of your career choices, full of bitterness of the bad luck you encountered, and having the good fortune of others rubbed in your face every day. Commuting two hours past nice neighborhoods knowing that the only thing that separates you from them is that they rolled the dice and picked Netscape for a career back in the 90s and you rolled the dice and picked LayoffTech, and then IncompetentManagmentSoft.

Look on the positive side though. It could be worse. You could have decided to be a factory worker or a cab driver or someone else whose livelihoods are being deliberately and systematically hollowed out. People should be grateful to be in tech no matter how frustrating the lottery-like nature of your career is.
Microsoft debuts new Edge browser extensions
In SF, I'd say my experience with Lyft has been more varied while Uber has been more consistent.

With Lyft, the driver completely flubbed up the meetup point at SFO despite me getting text instructions from Lyft and me articulating exactly where I was in the terminal. Meanwhile, the Uber experience was seamless.

And in the 'burbs, I've requested a Lyft only to be left stranded with no options or a driver who signals they are going to pick me up only to pass me and basically leave me waiting for another 10 minutes with no response. Also, I've been in experiences in SF where the Lyft driver almost got into accidents because they weren't paying attention.

In comparison, my Uber experience in various cities have largely been the same. Not that personal but no problems.
Defining “Participatory Ecosystem” Grow the Pie, Not Slice It
legal documents are as complicated as programs, plus they depend on external inputs (i.e. 'laws', 'cases') which are in constant flux.

plus think about how hard it is to program for edge cases (vs well-defined inputs). In a legal document, clauses are only 'executed' in edge cases.

wacky right?
The container section of this was surreal. The WSL makes it far easier for Microsoft to natively support Linux containers. In fact, I would say that containers on Azure are probably most of the reason for WSL.
dailymail should go on your forbidden list, UK red tops are terrible;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_journalism#Red_tops

example;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296282/I-dos...
A rudimentary search or two would seem to indicate that driver happiness and driver safety are connected. I don't know how to effectively measure it, but it would seem to me that at least some consideration should be paid to driver happiness as a safety factor.
It was featured in "Thinking Fast and Slow", and those authors seem quite academically rigorous.
Is the torrenting it really illegal when you own the book already?
Gag me with an entire place setting.

Might as well add "Rock Star" to the list of meaningless drivel.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with describing yourself as a "programmer" when that is indeed what you've been doing for the last 30 years.

The world needs less people spewing streams of hype to describe their own self importance, not more.
I was bored recently and scanned the terms for an amusement park ticket. I gave all rights to my likeness and it was specifically listed that I could not make copies of photos taken by park equipment without explicit permission (I assume when you buy a CD or whatnot you pay for that).
> (and arguably in violation of the constitution)

There's nothing arguable about it.
Video: Octopus-inspired robot shows the potential of soft robotics
Does US$2000 per person for the energy to solve the potable water problem for 30 years seem like a lot to you? Compared to the cost of other survival necessities (housing, food, sanitation, heating, cooling — http://resiliencemaps.org/) it's quite reasonable. 16 m² is also pretty small compared to the space customarily used for housing.

However, I made an error! It turns out I left out the coefficient of performance in my calculations. So it's actually 105 watts, 8 m², and about US$1000:

You have: (8 liters / day) * (41 kJ / mol) / (18 g / mol) * (1 g / cc)
You want: W
* 210.90535
/ 0.0047414634
You have: (8 liters / day) * (41 kJ / mol) / (18 g / mol) * (1 g / cc) / 2
You want: W
* 105.45267
/ 0.0094829268
You have: (8 liters / day) * (41 kJ / mol) / (18 g / mol) * (1 g / cc) / 2 / (13 W / m^2)
You want: m^2
* 8.1117442
/ 0.12327805

My guess of US$1000 for 8 m² is based on my guess that 8 m² is about 8000 watts of solar constant, and at 16% efficiency that's 1280 peak watts, and people quote PV modules as below US$1/watt, which I assume is a peak watt. The actual price right now is about US$0.55/watt, depending on where you are, so a more precise estimate is actually US$700:

You have: 8000 watts * 16% * $ 0.55/watt
You want:
Definition: 704 US$

My friend who's getting those 13 W/m² has her panels in England, though. So that's kind of a worst-case number. You'd need a fraction of that (like, say, 20% or so) in an equatorial desert.

If PV modules return to their previous price trend (they were dropping fairly smoothly by 36% per year in 2010-2013, but have been nearly plateaued since hitting grid parity in much of the world in 2013 and therefore having a hard time with capacity keeping up with demand) then they'd drop by another factor of 4. The Credit Suisse doc posted earlier today to HN https://doc.research-and-analytics.csfb.com/docView?sourceid... about how we are now in a "solar manufacturing oversupply" situation suggests that something like that might actually happen. Like what happened to DRAM prices in 1996 after the price-fixing cartel collapsed and they went from $40 a meg to $10 a meg almost overnight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/nyregion/new-water-tunnel-...

> In one of the most significant milestones for the city’s water supply in nearly a century, the tunnel — authorized in 1954, begun in 1970 and considered the largest capital construction project ever undertaken in the five boroughs — will for the first time be equipped to provide water for all of Manhattan. Since 1917, the borough has relied on Tunnel No. 1, which was never inspected or significantly repaired after its opening.

> “When I came into office,” Mr. Bloomberg said, “I asked, ‘What could literally close down this city?’ And a water tunnel failure would have really done that.”

Manhattan is safe now, but eliminating the possibility of instantly plunging half of the most important city into the third world is more important than any of his other projects. This needs to cost him the election.
Jim All Khalili's BBC documentary on Islamic Science's Golden Age & the Rennaisance is illuminating on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9eLxDm7mrE
"I've seen (I still see) junior managers who can barely tie their shoes make more money than excellent engineers with 25y experience, but that's the way the world is.."

Screw that. I'd never work for a place like that.
Give Keyboard Maestro [1] by Stairways Software (headed by Peter Lewis, author of Anarchie) a try.

No connection, just a happy user.

[1]: https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
I get the same effect using bandits. I practice my craft by spewing out volume rather than focusing on quality. The penalty I pay for the bad content is negligible because the bayesian bandits cull them very quickly. I am learning and getting better, but it is because I am not paralyzed by perfectionism.
Awesome! I'd totally be up for chatting. How much water does it produce?
>This is dream which happens only when you are asleep. In real
>life an older person is less energetic, less enthusiastic,
>can't do weekends, has health issues, has responsibilities,
>has family commitments etc etc.

>Young people work insane hours, they do that for cheap, they
>show up on weekends and are more flexible in general.

Your assumption that income is directly related to your output is wrong. Making better, more qualified decisions is one way to differentiate yourself as you get older. Another is to quantify your output; maybe you do less programming but the pieces you do write can provide the company with a million+ lift in revenue?

Or you position yourself as writing a cleaner implementation, without having to rewrite 3 or 4 times to get it correct (ehem, those "energetic" youngins).

Company's pay for experience all of the time; and when it can be tied directly to increases in profits/revenues, you're way ahead of the game (especially ahead of any Jr. programmer that just blindly pumps out code).
Yes. In post-industrial society, we seem to have lost the true sense of independence. Almost all of us now depend on the good graces of an employer to be able to pay for our needs. That is not independence, it is fiefdom. Meanwhile, true independence is derided as families who provide for their own and are able to pass an inheritance on that grants their children and their grandchildren a degree of autonomy are mocked, which honestly can only really be attributed to jealousy.

I hope that I am able to pass a sizable estate to my children and grandchildren, so that they will not be dependent on banks, universities, and employers that will charge them outrageous fees in time and money just so that they may have a hope at a normal middle-class lifestyle. True independence for ourselves and our posterity should be the goal for all of us. For most of human history, it has been; these days, we are confused and pretend that being enslaved to usurers is the ideal.
That doesn't do anything to resolve consistency issues. The only time that quorum, pinned to primary replicas (i.e. disallowing sloppy failovers), helps you with consistency is when all reads and writes to those replicas are funneled through a serialized reader/writer. Then that serialized process can ensure "Read Your Own Writes" consistency using majority quorum (again, pinned to primary replicas).

So they're either doing strongly coordinated writes to make sure replication changes are consistent (serializer, consensus, or chain), they're encoding other causal information in the data and have some method that deterministically picks which replica should dominate the others, or they're silently losing updates on conflicts.

It would be cool to know what they're doing.
Data analytics for the legal industry
Unfortunately there isn't really one at this point that I know about. There are some in development. The one I am most hopeful about is briar: https://briarproject.org
The author confuses subscription pricing with the increased cost in this essay. If TextExpander 6 had a one-time cost of $60 (3x increase), or a SaaS pricing model of $1/mo (about the same cost), I couldn't tell which of those the author would pay. I can imagine different objections to each.
Decline in on-the-job training (buried at the bottom) is the most import stat here; more important even than declining tenure.

Training speaks to what employers are 'buying' when they hire someone and engages with other trending topics in econ research: the changing skills-mix of jobs (i.e. the weakness in the middle), the employability of college grads as the metric for the worth of a degree.

A positive take on this is that free resources make it easier for people to self-train so jobs don't have to train you. The negative take is that 'labor alone' is of declining value and we're increasingly employing people for their 'information content', not their rote performance.
I regret sitting down.
You should try something new. Try a startup or perhaps just something smaller where you have to wear a lot of hats and be included in decision making and such. I can't relate to your experience at all
I put a client's site in a git repo once, but I never figured out how to safely and effectively git the database too. Kudos to VersionPress! I've only learned about them today but they seem to be doing a really solid job.
Reminded me of this, from Douglas Adams's Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency:

"An Electric Monk is a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers wash tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watch tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believe things for you, thus saving you what is becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expect you to believe."
I think it's a function of time and effort. Every day you're not in a dedicated developer role, you will lose a tiny bit of "free" updating about what developers do, use, love, hate, etc. You can offset this somewhat by your own efforts, but they will be limited because the process of working with other developers bringing something to production is its own thing, separate from just keeping tech skills sharp.

I've always been quite active with side projects and moved back into development after about 5 years being in management. It went OK. Everyone was younger than me, stuff had obviously changed and I was out of my comfort zone for sure, but it was a successful transition. If I'd not been so into development on the side (i.e. constantly writing tools and apps with new technologies), I feel it would have been pretty difficult to switch back.
Airbnb: Forced arbitration and more data collection
>> Personal computers with attached storage are disappearing and giving way to thin clients attached to the mainframe - without computing power, individuals have less choice.

> Only for those who don't use more than a smart phone. Everybody who takes photos, does engineering, develops software, works with media, plays games, or has a laptop, will at least have external local storage of some kind.

I don't see why (if we're talking 10 years time here). Cameras comes with wifi, Photoshop and other software is rented in the cloud, arguably it's easier to have your data in one place, close to the processing -- publishing is done in the cloud (even if the end result is a photo print, it's likely that you use a third party to do the printing).

Games streaming is already a thing. Granted, there are some hard physical limits on latency (speed of light roundtrip) -- but I see no particular well-founded reason to believe all our computing privileges can't be locked up in "the cloud".

It's much more feasible for a small team to produce an entire computer today (as in instruction set, volatile and non-volatile memory, i/o etc), than it was in the 70s - but it's still fantastically more expensive than buying off the shelf hardware. Which means that if the majority of the market truly moves to locked down devices, everyone will have to move to locked down devices.

>> What's the next step?

> Something else produced on IBM compatible PCs or Macs, naturally.

I think how Apple handled Final Cut Pro is a great example of how dangerous tivoization of an entire platform for computing can be.
Needs much of the proofreading. I'm arrays\slices part, and there are a couple of mistakes already

Like

// define a slice with 10 elements whose types are bytes
var ar = [10]byte {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j'}
Sony had issues when filming the first spiderman movie; they had to pay likeness rights to landmark buildings (chrysler building, I think) and also had legal trouble over digitally replacing the ads in time square.
It's a clear case where there is a gap between a community segment and the police and also my original comment was about my own experience of what seems to be "hyper white privilege" in terms of grooving along abnormally well with the cops.
the average life of a nightclub is not very long, perhaps a few years and that's IF you're popular. as such, there's huge pressure to just create a lot of buzz and ride that wave until inevitably you become old hat.

those people here talking about how it's convenient for laundering are missing this fact. you can point to the mega clubs in vegas as the few examples of those raking in money, but the vast majority of these clubs go out of business and make nothing. living in nyc there are handful of these big clubs that have been around for longer than a few years and even then, the popular ones have to "re-invent" themselves every few years to keep attendance up.

the more common story is that doors open, and you get some mediocre attendance and basically just losing money hand over fist every week thereafter. people come and see that your establishment isn't that popular and the next week even less people come. momentum is crazy important and i can see paying thousands for a guest appearance even if you're losing money that specific week.
> So typically American [sic].

That's one reason why Frost's poem is misinterpreted, due to American belief in destiny.
There are similar accounts in that book and it all seemed not-so-extraordinary until I got to the accounts of maps that described features of Antarctica. Whether it's true or a hoax, the human mind is amazing.
The book contains accounts of evidence of tides of human civilization: planned cities in Pakistan, well-developed waste management systems, advanced ship building and navigation (for the time they lived), possible advances in weapons and warfare, including nuclear weapons (evidence in an Indian desert and writings describing a nuclear explosion), writings describing space travel and some other marvels of the ancient world.
Just a quick comment for content creators. On your personal websites, please make yourself prevalent. Most of the time, I like to get to know the author before reading their blog post. Having that background helps to frame the article(post), so I don't have to jump to conclusions about your experience.

In this case, I only have the author's name because of the copyright line at the end of the page. There are quite a few entries in the archive posts, but quickly skimming through them, I don't see an obvious introduction post. The first few posts look well written, but jump right into the subject; again, without giving any background on the author. And, it appears that the articles are out of order (possibly because the earliest articles have been updated).

Google search brings up a few people with the author's name. Researching an author, without a wikipedia article or some other published article, feels more like stalking.

In conclusion, please have an 'about' section. It doesn't have to be your entire CV, but, please, give some basic info about yourself.
The only amount of money people really need for autonomy is the amount of money it takes to supply their immediate needs and some reasonable wants; the amount of money necessary to provide for a normal middle-class lifestyle. I would ballpark this around $80k/yr. It's not enough to make big donations to candidates, companies, or charities, and it won't buy the most expensive stuff out there, but it's plenty to keep your life running reasonably comfortably.

Big money is a different ballpark and I don't think that's what most people want. I think they just want to be comfortable in doing what they want to do.
Rolls her eyes - but secretly impressed, am I right??
My bandit system generates an ordered list of the content for each individual user. I then will track if the user came back tomorrow or churned. Yes, they may churn due to many other factors, but the signal of the content itself is strong enough.

In the past I have used the share rate to optimize, but I've realized that retention is more important.
I have found exactly that: Lyft drivers are happier.

I had an Uber driver coerce me into rating him a few weeks ago, while I was in his car. He had a BS reason for wanting the rating now, it was just a ploy to get 5 stars. He was also insanely talkative. Uber might be a little more professional, but one is also playing the odds.

Right now, I check Lyft first, and take that if available. Unless I'm in a downtown area, then I will check an actual taxi app ( flywheel or yotaxi in SF ). If the lyft cars are sparse, I take uber. Just so I can keep mixing it up and trying different services.

( Flywheel has a terrible new design where they ask you for a "guarenteed tip" before the car is called. I tried to bail out of that - I don't like tipping in general, and I really don't like tipping before I can judge the service ), and I was charged $6 for cancelling. Whoa. No wonder people don't like Taxis.
Isn't that a good argument for using $$ as the metric to optimize for? If you're going to get wiped out by variations in behavior because highly-retargeted legal clicks are worth 500x more than mobile clicks, isn't that an important variable?

The problem I frequently wonder about is that you have to assume independence about the stable variables to be comfortable testing them. In reality, the bounce rate of a people who make you lots of money is probably driven by different factors than the bounce rate of the overall population.

I guess what you should really do is optimize the bounce rate / pages per visit / etc. for just the population of people that could make you money, but you don't typically have access to that information.
I haven't finished the article yet, but one thing that strikes me is the flamboyant use of vocabulary. Given the topic, I'm not sure whether it's just a peculiarity of the author, an attempt to tailor the reception of the piece with regard to specific audiences, a slight trolling or the reader, or a combination thereof.

For example, early on we get "impecunious" and "shibboleths", followed up shortly afterwards with "booboo" (!). I find it distracting, to the point that I've lost the main thread of the article and I'm now wondering what the author was trying to accomplish with this style, if anything.

I often find myself switching to a different form of conversing when debating here, but I would like to think that's because I'm trying to be precise, and so I switch to a more precise method of expression. Sometimes that makes it into my speech, for example when I'm trying to explain or diagnose a problem. It can be detrimental to communication if leaned on too heavily though.
Fair enough. Still, wouldn't it be both cheaper and easier to pay the employees more to cover social security, etc. and have an assistant do their paperwork than establishing a subsidiary in Greece?