skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Web started as a tool for rendering text and occasional images pretty much as soon as it comes out of the wire. TeX on the other hand, was meant to be a typesetting package which compiles textual description of the document into a beautiful printable form. That compilation takes noticeable time even today, I imagine it was unacceptably slow for the web back before. Also in TeX you deal with paper sizes, in browsers you deal with adjustable viewports of unpredictable size.

I guess that the Web just started simple and evolved from that, and then nobody bothered to remake it for prettier text.
So... your throwing your vote away? The two party system is deeply flawed, but when has a third party candidate done anything but taken votes away from reasonable candidates?
I'm of the exact same dietary philosophy as yourself. I derived it through reading and experimentation before paleo was even a thing, as it appears Jack Lalanne did as well. Most people who attack a simple sensible diet like this are really just exposing their own insecurities and desire to not give up the crap they injest themselves.
> Similarly, why don't we ever talk about Megameters?

I think we do - I went on a 10 megametre trip when I went to Japan by land and sea. It's just very rarely a convenient unit because not many things are that long.
> Can we please try to stop talking about this specific language ecosystem as an awful deplorable hell hole or whatever?

Back in the second century BC, Cato the Elder ended his speeches with the phrase 'Carthago delenda est,' which is to say, 'Carthage must be destroyed.' It didn't matter what the ostensible topic of the speech was: above all, Carthage must be destroyed.

My opinion towards JavaScript is much like Cato's towards Carthage: it must be rooted out, eliminated and destroyed entirely. I don't know if I'd go quite so far as to say that the fundamental challenge of mass computing is the final destruction of JavaScript — but I want to say it, even though it's false.

JavaScript is a pox, a disaster, a shame. It is the most embarrassingly bad thing to become popular in computing since Windows 3.1. Its one virtue (that it's on every client device) is outshone by its plethora of flaws in much the same way that a matchstick is outshone by the sun, the stars and the primordial energy of the Big Bang added together.

JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, where there are so many better alternatives (to a first approximation, every other programming language ever used), is utterly appalling.

JavaScript delenda est.
Not only that - you lose sight of the larger problems that need solving, but don't get to solve for too long that it becomes forgotten.

I've worked some 30-35 hour weeks at my current job, but work has been super happy with my productivity that it isn't an issue (plus I do a lot of open source work outside the job, so work still benefits from that) - occasionally I still participate in some prolonged hours due to major deadlines, but those deadlines are malleable and not prioritized over product team work-life balance.

It is a refreshing contrast with the typical startup here in the Bay Area
Sonic Pi is another on of the new Live Music Programming Languages. Sonic Pi has a nicer GUI presently.

Right now it is the early stages of these kind of musical tools for live music coding. I really look forward to the near future for these new tools. I know that we have had programming for music for decades but this is a different genre at least to me.

Here is a video of Overture going over live coding from 3 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imoWGsipe4k&nohtml5=False
This reminds me of a story when I was a headhunter in 2009 before I became a programmer. It was that time of the year again and bonuses were being given out. I talked to a candidate about his bonus for that year and he said he got promoted instead be the leaders. Then I ask how many got promoted, and he said the entire team. Finally, I asked, so what difference has his job been since getting the promotion - None.
None of which guarantee a job anymore, which is exactly the problem. The average student loan debt for graduating undergrads is somewhere around $30,000.

It's not like they're taking out loans to buy their way into Dartmouth. They're taking out reasonable amounts of money to go to a reasonable school to get a reasonable job.

The "unrealistic idealists" in this situation are the people who think it's the student's fault for planning on getting the job that was more or less promised to them by society. And when they are woken up by the fact that there aren't jobs waiting on the other end, the rhetoric seems to be, "these stupid kids listened to what every adult in the country told them for the first 18 years of their lives!"

It's shameful to act like kids should've known better than to pay for a quality education. What the hell kind of society actually places that blame on children?

Now, the alternative is the same thing. Now adults are telling kids to go to vocational schools. Okay. By the time they get established in those fields, those jobs will be gone too. Then we can blame the kids for listening to us again!
I was just listening to Theo's pledge presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7S1eqKsFk) and immediately wondered how this is applied to scripting languages.

The github link for Python seems to be a high-level wrapping of the entire Python environment itself. I was wondering if there is a way to surface pledge in an environment such as Python so that a developer could drop privileges, for example, open files for writing and then drop the privilege to open any further files.
Most of you guys seem to be suffering under a big misconception. MathML was never intended to be typed by humans. Perhaps a few programmers might need to do it but not mathematicians, students, engineers, scientists, etc. Saying things like "I hate typing mathematics in MathML" is much like saying "I hate typing my word processing documents in RTF". Just say no. Like most XML languages, MathML is a computer representation meant to be read/written by software. If you want to enter math notation, use TeX or an interactive math editor like MathType (my company's product).
Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
It's every 7 years, 2 months paid vacation. Must be taken as a contiguous block. Has a 3 year window of opportunity, then expires.

Is available to all full time employees (unless that's changed in the last 3 years)
Fructose is not bad, no food is inherently bad. It's all a matter of degrees.

If you consume 10 cans of coke a day, and you're over your maintenance caloric intake by 1000 calories daily. guess what? you'll get fat and probably not be healthy. if you overconsume sweet potatoes by 1000 calories over your maintenance intake daily. guess what? you'll get fat and probably not be healthy.
wkhtmltopdf doesn't frustrate me a lot.

Except when doing multiple pages and multiple table, footers and headers, splitting tables correctly. Ow yeah, and the difference with local files between windows and linux.

That's about it :)

PS. I use it to create invoices, there aren't a lot of alternatives for it though. So i'm happy it's here! I don't think it's an easy problem to solve..
> The key is F major.

Where is this coming from? It's pretty clearly G minor to me. The bass is playing G. The main phrase starts and ends on a G.

> This 1.334 is a ratio of adding 5 semitones in hertz. This should sound like this.

This harmonic overtone kills it for me. I know there are some overtones in the original, but not like this. 5 semi-tones is an interval of a perfect fourth. I think maybe a perfect fifth would work (7 semi-tones) but this overtone pretty much destroys it for me.
76 out of 80 beds are rented out currently. I might close 2 more tomorrow.

We only provide for mid to long-term stays. We ask for a minimum stay of 6 months and bill them monthly. Airbnb becomes too expensive for anything longer than a few days. We have learned short-term stays need a different setup and doesn't suit the way we are currently setup. People who stay for longer periods care for the house and it aligns well with the owner's interests.

I haven't seen too many people using Airbnb; OYO Rooms seems to be the dominant player in this segment.
Most of this is just healthy working practice for anyone, regardless of their remote/office status (schedule time for yourself, don't work too much, see people face-to-face etc).

Good post overall though!
Just saw Maduro on tv telling women to avoid hairdryers, or at least, to use it in case of emergency
They can shut it down by changing the reddit API so it no longer works, thus forcing users to switch to the new app.
> Recorded speech is also searchable so not sure that's relevant.

It is ; recorded speech is not very searchable, especially if you are talking in a group in a conference where people can be from different countries with different dialects (which is the normal situation for our group talks). Also it is not convenient and sometimes not possible to record every (conference) meeting (too much noise etc). With text it's automatically recorded and perfectly searchable...

Also some of my colleagues are not good at English listening but are very good technically; if I type what I mean they understand while if I/we tell them, everything has to be translated and/or repeated many times.

I think the tech is not there yet to say it's not relevant.
Withering on the Vine
Start of financial year and resume database building in anticipation of anticipated hiring.
raises hand I usually watch one movie a week, two on a good week. I consume more TV and video games, by far.
Library for Algebraic Effect Handlers in Haskell
https://youtu.be/6IWMbdAuy1M?t=198
Google, for one. Chromium is an open-source project, but Chrome is and has always been proprietary.
Two reasons:

- I originally wanted to build a symbolic algebra software to compete with Wolfram's Mathematica but realized it would require too much work for a solo founder.

- Math had always been my favorite subject and I saw studies about the decline of math level in first world countries so I thought I could try to help.
MAPS.ME is an awesome product, and probably the best alternative to Google Maps: great performances, free and open source and not trying to track you everywhere.

Allowing user to contribute back to OSM makes it even greater.
I guess this could be automated. For instance, you could download all html files using a plugin like "Download Them All" with a renaming mask like "inum-nameinum.ext" and then try:

find . -iname '*.html' -exec wkhtmltopdf {} {}.pdf \;

There are also tools to convert the resulting files to a single pdf. The only problem I got is, that the woff fonts are not rendered by "wkhtmltopdf" :-/ Ideas?
> You visited the US and "weren't impressed"?

Yes.

> Where did you visit exactly?

San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle. I plan on visiting New York this year or maybe next year.

> Its a very large country with over 200 million people.

I think it's over 300 million now :)

> What weren't you impressed with?

Well... homeless people. The fact that cities don't seem to be very "walkable" (and from what I've read SF is one of the best US cities in this regard). Food in supermarkets. Various other minor aspects.

> What was lacking?

I wouldn't say "lacking". Instead I'd say that I like other things more.

> Also where are you from that's more impressive?

I'm from Romania (not hard to guess, considering the topic). It's not "impressive" either.

What I find "impressive" instead is Germany.

And you seem to be bothered by a part of my previous comment. So I'll repost another part which you might have missed:

> But I wouldn't judge the US based on just what I saw in a couple of weeks, considering what I've read and seen about it.
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It's called a piano roll, after the 19th century player piano systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_roll
Hmm, works for me. But fair enough, I see the point.

Reddit (as a page) is still up and running for everyone. I can't see how an app would be more controversial.
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Thanks for the clarification. I wish I could be as unconcerned, but I remember what IE did to web developers.
I didn't go through it, but you should almost certainly apply. You can always decline later.

I'm too old for it, but it's basically free money. You can always return to college later if you really want to.
There's definitely a productivity hit, but it's also not the kind of thing that isolates people. For the cost of a cheap BT keyboard you can be fairly productive using just a tablet, even a phone maybe. If you have a TV and use casting, a phone could do quite well.
My expectations are too high. I shouldn't except HN crowd to understand the difference between mainstream and intersectional feminism.

But it is hilarious that posts on gender and race issue get flagged to death, posts about class are always voted to the top, and anything that threatens the status quo spurs outrage.
Would there be a kid friendly area of lumiverse? As a mom of 3, I think this would be great if I knew it was safe for my curious kiddos.
If you need fast storage resources you may notice a performance hit. Performance for CPU and memory resources seems to be mostly the same as Docker on Linux.

https://caleblloyd.com/hardware/docker-performance-bare-meta...
You say I mustn’t write down my password? Let me make a note of that
But even the C=64 wasn't that terrible when Atari was still selling the 2600, or at least this is the perception I had at the time. Sure, there was the C=128 and the ZXSpectrum and Apple and so on, but the C=64 was still a perfectly respectable and massively popular platform. C= US marketing must have been really terrible.
> What if they decided they would rather be a teacher? A musician and band director?

There are literally government-subsidized student loan forgiveness programs for exactly this purpose.

> A serial backpacker?

Most student loans are backed by the government. As a tax payer I have no interest in subsidizing someone's backpacking trip. You can't be a serial backpacker if you have a car payment, rent, or a mortgage either.

> What if they are injured and can no longer take the 40, 50, 60 hours in a chair at the office it would require to maintain the level of salary?

A. Disability insurance exists for exactly this reason

B. You can make the same argument against getting a mortgage. FUD.
I wasn't in it myself but am friends with several who were. It seems to be absolutely worth it. As morgante said earlier, you can always turn it down.
Off-topic: anyone else find the article picture really odd? (who uses a laptop that way?)

http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160407&t=2&...
Construction is feast or famine. I remember friends whose parents were laid off all winter -- makes life tough and uncertain.
She totally has options available. She has me for guidance! I'm not forcing anything on her. Right now she is interested in everything and I'm just helping her understand how things really work. Things like I mentioned above are critical for success - college or not.
The minimalism in the examples is a brand statement and a form of social signalling.

It's UX - in the marketing sense - rather than UI. And yes, a lot of web marketing assumes the buyer is exactly the kind of person you're suggesting - maybe because often they are.

Craigslist, Plenty of Fish, and all the other "Can't be bothered to add styling" sites are taking the opposite approach.

The lack of overt social signalling becomes an inclusive social signal of its own. By making the design as functional as possible and not aiming for any demographic, they're more likely to create something that's acceptably styled and useful for all of them.

Trained designers don't seem to understand this, because although they pay lip service to the idea of usability, they're mostly only interested in designs that include aesthetic signalling.

In fact there's a whole tradition of professional 'get shit done" design in hardware and software which gives users all the options they need at the same time with minimal fuss. This kind of flat design can be very productive, but it rarely looks pretty.

Tangentially, I think FB has the worst of all worlds. The aesthetic choices are poor. The ergonomics are poor. Critical settings are hidden. Content appears more or less randomly. You have limited control over what you get.

FB is only popular because of network effects. If the design was less dictatorial, it would be more popular still.
> The labor market research firm Brainspotting reports that Romania, with just 20 million people, ranks in the top 10 globally in number of certified IT specialists

What exactly is a "certified IT specialist"?
Do you have the option to work remotely?
They spent billions on WhatsApp. I'm open to suggestions - how would they profit on it if all the data that passed through it was opaque to them? Perhaps they are just catering to a recent strong interest by the public in encryption.
API auth tokens are per user per app.

I have not seen anything in the terms that would put us of of compliance.
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Would it have hurt them to include a single phone running Android in their announcement?

I've no confidence that this won't be some sort of half-assed browser-based app which doesn't follow Android's conventions.
I don't know what the conversations around FB's early investment were like, or if expanding to a billion users was always part of the plan. My understanding is that very early on (i.e. the first six to nine months after it started) they wanted to be a kind of information hub for school campuses, with course listings and whatnot.

Even if that's true and they pitched investors on a kind of online campus hub for students, they woukd still have been going after a pretty big market - they could sell software/functionality to schools and/or they could sell advertising (reaching young people is quite valuable for brands since young people tend to have less fixed opinions and loyalties as consumers).

It may well be that investors thought it could grow to compete with MySpace. Others might have just thought being an essential part of every student's life would be a good enough outcome. (After all, there's plenty of VC in "ed tech" these days).
Yeah, Ultima Online should be a case study into how to completely destroy a game.

I loved T2A so much that I tried all the way up to Samurai Empire to stay with it, but it was hopeless. By that point, they turned what I still believe was the most original MMO out there into a tepid World of Warcraft clone. Only it could never compete on graphics, and everyone just played the same five boss "Doom Gauntlet" on auto-repeat for months on end to get psychotically overpowered gear that lasted forever and couldn't be stolen or lost.

It was so great back in the day. Some of my best memories were playing that game. I get really weird nostalgia in the truest sense just listening to the old MIDI files from the game. The classic servers just don't capture the mood with ~800 people on at most. That world is so huge that even pre-T2A, 800 people would mean maybe you'd see three people at the Britannia bank and that's it.
It's such a joy being able to walk everywhere in the city. Besides what time you or money you might save, it's great for your health too, especially if you normally take public transit.
Call it "pretty" to signify the idea that the only things designers care about is aesthetics. But I think designers care about building an emotional connection to the customer and ensuring that only the right functionality appears in a given context. I feel like using the word "pretty" is code word for demeaning the value and thought that people put into creating an app/website beyond the functionality. Oh it's only a thin veneer who cares.

All too often, people want to cater everything to everyone so they just throw all the options on the page and expect you to know where to find what. Or they don't think you're a human and should just be happy with whatever you're given because hey, the functionality is there.

But as consumers get used to a level of design through the apps/websites they use on a day-to-day basis, the ones who do care are going to want that sense of quality in their other tools.

I don't love the F16 analogy. Some things do require highly specialized training. The vast majority of websites and applications don't. Furthermore, there's an additional layer of difference since physical buttons/gauges have an advantage of easy access as compared to layering functionality in digital interfaces.
If they do that, they would break every 3rd party reddit app, which reddit said they wouldn't do. Of course, that doesn't mean their position will change in the future.
nothing is inherently unhealthy or bad for you.

let's have an example, lets say you eat a balanced diet, plenty of fibre, micronutrients, protein, fats, and you have 300 calories left for the day before you go over your maintenance intake. you decide to eat a mars bar. unhealthy? not at all.

another example, you don't eat enough fibre, because all you eat is pizza pockets. you drink coke instead of water, you go over your maintenance intake by 500 calories and decide to have a mars bar. unhealthy? yes. but it wasn't the specific food that was unhealthy.

unfortunately things aren't as simplistic as you want them to be, you have to look at things in the context of the diet.
>end-of-the-world absolutely need performance/hard realtime guarantees

As someone who spends much of their time inside a editor, I would say that this is pretty important to me.
It's another case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. It's a good indicator of bad management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version.

The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
There are highly processed food ingredients like whey protein and resistant corn starch, oat fiber, etc which have compelling health-promoting effects.

The problem is that people are ignorant with regards to the purpose and effects of various food additives/ingredients, so they just take the simplified stance "more ingredients = bad" rather than do a little research. As a heuristic it might be fairly functional (you can still eat unhealthily without processed foods though), but it means you're going to spend a lot of time preparing food and you're missing out on the opportunity for engineered superfoods.
This is at least reassuring. I don't think it's a big leap from saying that a link to a site with infringing content is itself an infringing act to saying a link to a site that links to a site [... etc] is itself infringing.