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Ask HN: iOS program to capture notes?
I use OneNote as my commonplace book, but I want a separate application that can capture my thoughts quickly.

I am using Google Keep, but going from notes to pure text is cumbersome (especially when you are doing this multiple times a day). I move all tasks to org-mode as well.

What is a good alternative to Google Keep?
Super MARIO Bros – Excel Stop-Motion
Now that people are coming up with ways to put people's real facial expressions in VR, most video calls are probably going to be replaced with avatars generated from your face that use your facial expressions captured by the front-facing camera.

https://vimeo.com/156034648
expert-novice: funny, but the expert is not doing the job. You're there to teach. If you're not going to, why bother?
> But worst was probably the missing import path structure, i.e. "github.com/<company>/<repo>" that people simply just didn't get.

You obviously didn't vendor your dependencies in your project's vendor directory.
What s compensation Delta (normalized by the cost of living)?
From experience unless we are talking very big raise , the added happiness gain by your new salary won't offset the stress of leaving your friends
Girls refuse video calls all the time because their hair isn't ready

Your premise is invalied
No, Hangouts doesn't require G+. You can use it via Android or https://hangouts.google.com/ without joining G+.
Sports Hooliganism Comes Down to a Fear of Death
> It's also impossible to refuse a video call

My camera never works. I've never had anyone lash back against this.
Physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature
Peter Thiel is also on the steering committee of the shadowy Bildeberg group.
I think a floating head is a lot scarier than people not looking directly at me...
Bitcoin payment app Circle raises $60M, expands to China and the euro
SSA is standard for the middle end but not for the backend. According to my knowledge there are only two compilers with an SSA-based backend: libFirm (www.libfirm.org) and the Go compiler.
I only started using Hangouts a few months ago, and find the macOS experience acceptable and think the iOS implementation is dead on.
And to those curious on how it senses it, they literally stick a microphone in the engine calibrated for the ping (knock) frequency.
Do we have high-quality research showing that porn regularly causes long-term damage?
Actually, video calling can be useful for those without hearing. Being able to use sign language in video is a useful alternative to texting.
I wonder what this Google recruiter would say about this: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768.
Hi, your homepage "unparsing" link goes to #evaluating, but the anchor on the docs page has id="eval"

Also, how flexible is the unparsing? Does it have to be the same regular expression? [Sorry, I haven't read in detail and I'm only slightly familiar with ocaml - I'm interested from an academic perspective.]
sugar is a good counterexample to that
A bit cynical but that was my initial thought as well. It's sad because FaceTime exists for so long and is so easy to use and I'd really like to have an app that I can use with both of my parents (one Android, one iOS). But I see Google failing with this already.
MongoDB was initially designed to beat other nosql systems in benchmarks, is what I take away from reading about it. Someone took issue with that and wrote an article. "MongoDB lies" and "is slow" were some of the claims made from your link #1.

Now that these issues are gone, by having reasonable default settings for write concern and journaling, how well does MongoDB do in the benchmarks today?

Rewgarding default settings, how is "w=1" considered a safe write? The data exists in a single node and has not been propagated. If you only have one node then I guess it's as safe as can be. Is MongoDB suitable as a single node installation though? I would have thought "w=2" or "w=majority" would be the "safe" setting.
> It's also impossible to refuse a video call for fear of being seen as secretive or worse

Really? I refuse video calls all the time (or answer with audio only), and people never make a problem of it.

> I also wonder if it's mainly nerds who care about video calling because it speaks to their otherwise rather broken social skills. "Normal people look at each other when talking, right? Look! Using this heap of high tech makes me a normal person!"

That's a pretty horrible thing to say.

> Meanwhile, I note that amongst actual normal people, interest in video calling is low because they see it for what it is: a poor substitute for the real thing. Just as no normal person is into cyber dildonics.

Your personal experience is wildly different from mine. I know a ton of people who care deeply about video calling, and most of them are not technical at all. Parents and their adult children often use video calling to keep in touch (no as a replacement of real world visits, but as a supplement), and pretty much every expat or immigrant I've had extended contact with uses it to talk to their family back home.

Just because you have a personal distaste for it, doesn't mean you have to be mean towards everyone who does care about it.
Aren't a bit late to the bot party?
Latest stable Safari on desktop (9.1.2). Getting jpegs actually.
It was a sha2 (or rather, a 64-byte length hex string). I wondered myself if it wasn't the secret key to some encrypted file.
Perhaps its same back in silicon valley of india too.Life here comes with reduced perks from unlivable traffic to substandard infrastructures.But the story is same everywhere across the industry I believe given greatest advantage is being close to your loved ones.
So many good nuggets in this analysis!

"If two people wanted to buy a home together, only the lower of their two credit scores would be factored into important calculations like the mortgage’s interest rate."

"Mean down payment on new mortgages by credit score tier"
I believe ethanbond is alluding to the literacy tests that were instituted in order to vote prior to the federal 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The tests were predominant in the South and were designed so that nonwhites would fail them.

Here is a sample: http://www.crmvet.org/info/la-littest2.pdf The instructions alone made my head spin.

More from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/voting_literacy.html
NSA's Hacking Group Hacked
Building HTML email is hard. Building responsive HTML email is even harder. But email opens on mobile are at 50% and rising. Hoping this article shares some useful advice and lessons learned.
Programing games is much more than just graphics.

At GDCE it was being sold as a way of doing graphics, AI and vector optimizations of code in more developer friendly than GPGPU.

Of course, framing the graphics feature is a nice way of sidelining the issue that it also didn't delivered those other features to the games development community.
Using artificial intelligence to create invisible UI
WhatsApp is not specially an emerging market product, I think it is the most popular chat app in a bunch of European countries.
Tim Cook just admitted Apple is working on a new computing platform
There are calculators for this, NY Times and Washington Post have them. Your anecdotes can be played around with variables on their data visualizations.

The break even point is typically 11 years in NYC and SF. Find and play around with the calculators yourself.
Postage stamp-sized device can disinfect water in minutes
I was imagining something a bit more like http://store.steampowered.com/app/274920.
Video calling may be a poor substitute for the real thing (face-to-face conversation), but there's so many use cases where the real thing isn't possible. What about when they don't live in the same place?

When I worked at Apple Retail, video calling (whether Skype or FaceTime or whatever) was mostly popular with the older generation - their relatives have moved away and when they call they still want to see their face.
No not really, It's really solid. But stuff like correlating writes with feeds are not possible atm.
Good catch!

Puzzler: at what latitude does 101 become "Teh 101"?
Not in India :(
Raksha Bandhan: Gift your sister with ethnic wear on Rakhi
QuestHub shuts down
Do you know who is Michael Abrash?

GDCE 2009, "Rasterization on Larrabee: A First Look at the Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni) in Action"

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1402/Rasterization-on-Larrabee-...

There were another Larrabee talks, but only this one is online.

The marketing message was not only about graphics, but how the GPGPU features of Larrabee would revolutionize the way of writing games.
Sure, you're right about the average American. I'm pretty sure most people in this discussion are taking about the perspective of someone who works in the tech industry in the bay area since that's what the article is about.
Vendoring doesn't work outside $GOPATH
UX Design Tools to Use Today
There are already literally dozens of "proper" MediaWiki parsers out there: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
The 105 year-old Nazi secretary
That's been my feeling for a long time now. After getting spoiled by Pythons enormous standard library, other languages feel incredibly bare-bones and getting things done takes a lot more work. I wish other languages focused more on including lots of library functions.
Circumcision was done to prevent masturb*tion. Not much has changed.
Yea I think the US is definitely an outlier there; Out of the couple dozen countries I've visited recently outside of the US, Whatsapp seems like hands-down the most popular messaging app (whereas in the US, almost no one I know uses it unless they're in frequent contact with a non-trivial number of foreigners).
I remember reading that facebook had done something similar to a social media aggregation for scraping content from its website. This whole opening up of law suits for getting information that companies put out publicly for all to see seems like a dangerous new precedent.
Given how taxing these types of drugs are, why are opiates not an option for most people? They don't cause any long or short-term damage to organs.
It didn't have any external dependencies, only multiple packages.
پکیج تور ارزان کیش – تور کیش ۳۱ مرداد ۹۵
It just got released! https://github.com/gradle/gradle/releases
Vouching to shed light on what seems to be the cause of a lot of dead comments. (SM4's comment was marked as dead when I viewed it.)
The problem with the idea that someone can do no good on a board if they are outvoted on issues based on moral objections is that it assumes all the other people have identical views and motivations, and every vote and issue will be ineffectual. I think that's doesn't match with reality. Look at the supreme court, and the different a single judge can make on the myriad cases they see. People are complex, and have nuanced views. An ineffectual vote six days out of the week may still yield a positive result one out of seven. Do we throw that away out of idealism?

There's a place for grand gestures. Giving away real, tangible power, even if unable to be expressed most of the time, in lieu of increasing awareness about an issue that everyone already knows about is not what I consider a smart move. To have any gain, it would at least need to increase awareness of the issue. I'm not sure that's even relevant in this case, given the widespread public acknowledgement and numerous media outlets addressing the issue already.
Hello, Perl Developers
How much is Ken involved in the language today?
I hate that this is true, as another Canadian Seattelite.
But no sane hedge fund will short the stock without also buying a call option

Bill Ackman reads this and says "Oh, shit ... you can do that? Why didn't someone tell me that before I lost about $1 billion shorting that POS Herbalife pyramid scheme?"

In other words, sometimes "insane" hedge funds are run by BSDs[1] who are convinced they are the smartest guys in the room. They're so convinced that a stock is worthless that they don't bother doing something prudent like buying protective calls.

And then guys like Carl Icahn buy HLF stock just for the lulz, knowing that they are giving Ackman a very painful galactic wedgie.

Wall Street is definitely Adult Swim. And occasionally joker hedge funds need to be reminded of that.

[1] not Berkeley, but Liar's Poker
What puzzles me with the variational autoencoder is that there is no reason to expect the covariance of p(z|x) to be diagonal. This sounds like such a crude approximation that there ought to little benefits to even treat it as a distribution rather than a point mass. And yet it seems to do rather well (though not as well as GAN which do represent arbitrary distributions).
Colorized man pages
iirc the Victorian view on masturbation is the reason of the popularity of circumcision in the US (and Anglo-Saxon world but mostly US didn't reverse course).
> By definition victims of crimes have had their rights violated.

You haven't actually made an argument here. We have already established that I don't agree that this is a true statement, and you've said nothing which could change my mind... Can you provide the definition(s) you're thinking of which establish that crime victims have had the correct kind of right violated?

In context, we're looking for rights of the kind which we would need to consider when judging the correctness of the post you responded to; i.e., rights which somehow should influence the legal procedures to which the accused is subject. My edit above was intended to reflect that I do think that the victim has suffered some kind of immoral and illegal behavior, but I do not agree that this implies, a priori, that the victim has suffered a breach of rights.
Looks like he really struck a nerve based on the comments.
Not to mention promoting Trump at the GOP convention.
there's a reference to using dynamite and a water column in the 1949 movie "Tulsa". I'd always heard that this was done in the '40s, maybe even in the 30s to "wake up" a dead well.

Is that fracking? It's mostly likely about breaking rock, but it's not hydraulic fracturing. It's more like what perforating is now. Or something.
I'm curious whether this was specifically a late 18th through 19th century thing, or if there have been other times/places where similar beliefs were prevalent.
Re: homosexually, there are several possibilites. A plausible explanation is that it's linked with genes that confer fitness to siblings. As with most traits, however, it's likely to have both heritable as well as environmental antecedents.
It's opinionated, and not the good kind. Some people like having simply a `projects` directory with all coding projects inside. For almost any language, I can clone into this directory and run the associated build scripts. But Go has to be special and use a special directory or else it throws a hissy fit.

Aside from that, I do enjoy the language a fair amount.
It's even worse. The syntax of MediaWiki markup (parser functions, etc.) will vary depending on extensions installed in a given instance. And there is no way to obtain a list of parser functions and extension tags (the latter of which look like HTML tags, but parse differently). There is literally no way to reliably parse MediaWiki markup offline. [0] can give you a parse tree — but only of a top-level page, you can't recursively expand templates with it. And even that parse tree only gives you information about which templates should be expanded. After expanding templates you have to parse the whole thing again to actually interpret the formatting markup. Oh, and expand strip markers: [1]. Because some extensions which define their own tags will want to output raw, unfiltered HTML. But tags are parsed in the template expansion stage and raw HTML isn't allowed in the formatting stage, so what do the extensions do? They output "strip markers" that are later substituted for the raw HTML.

Most alternative parsing libraries (at least all the ones I looked at, and that includes Wikimedia's own Parsoid!) don't bother with implementing all that complexity. Which means that they can be often tripped by sufficiently tricky markup; and this turns out to be a quite low bar.

Parsing MediaWiki markup properly is an insanity on a level comparable only with TeX and Unix shell scripts. Even PHP is saner.

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Strip_marker
I think I recall some articles about studies that showed that homosexual people (that don't reproduce themselves) are useful as caretakers for close relatives as they want to ensure the survival of similar genes.

Your question is similar to the question why old humans don't just die off when they can't reproduce anymore. This is most obvious with women when they enter menopause but also the quality of sperm declines with men with age.

They are either useful to some extent to reproduction or improving the survival rate of the offspring, or at least the evolutionary pressure is too small to eradicate these traits.

But as we have descended from group animals, I suspect the former.
>a feature in Duo called Knock Knock which lets you see live video of your caller before you answer, giving you a sense of what they’re up to and why they want to chat

Where can I report this as a bug? That literally misses the point of "call". Call starts before it's started for a caller.
From that article, it sounds like the SEC wait until they hit television news..
Given the recent banwave, and niantic's statements about targeting bots, it feels like a bad time to try automating the game.

Besides - convincing me to get out of the office and take a few minutes to walk around outside is the sole reason I still have Pokemon go installed!
It's asking me to create an account. Can you take a screenshot?
I found vendor directories to be documented in a confusing way, so I'm not surprised.

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Vendor_Directories

I think the example there is hard to follow. Perhaps with more standard package names, such as golang.org/x/net or a popular github.com package, instead of the made up foo, baz, quux and so on it would be easier to understand exactly what advantages vendoring gives you.
Two people. Writing One story. Alternate days
The Pro-Israel Lobby Have Already Won the American Election
Court: US seizure of Kim Dotcom’s millions and 4 jet skis will stand
And let me put it this way: Every working couple except for one that I know with a kid has hired a nanny for at least some portion of the time, including myself.
Isn't that a desirable feature though? It means your latent features are uncorrelated, which arguably makes them more interpretable? For example you could get gender and hair color instead of (0.5gender + 0.5colo)r and (0.5 gender - 0.5 hair color)
> For me, the competing product is vim.

This sounds like a troll. I would expect that the guys at Jetbrains get screamed at quite often for their IDE's memory and CPU consumption (they even have a "low power" mode, which is quite telling). But on the other hand, users (I am in that group) of Jetbrains IDEs are there for the sheer awesomeness of their inspections and refactoring abilities. UI perfs notwithstanding, they have the best tools out there.

So you comparing their product to Vim shows how trollish (or really badly constructed) your argument is. You can't compare the two of them seriously, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Jetbrains team simply glanced at your email and classified it as "troll" or "don't bother with extremists".
For quick capture, I think Drafts could work for you. It is built on the idea of quickly writing things down and then (possibly later) sending them to somewhere else.

http://agiletortoise.com/drafts/
From the post: "We’re beginning to roll out Duo for Android and iOS today, and it will be live worldwide in the next few days."
Hangouts has always worked a lot better for me than Skype and Facebook video chat. Both on Android and desktop.
i think it's more that skype and facetime are amazing
Yeah I remember early years gchat all my social network was using that for chatting, because you always had the email open anyway when on a browser and a chat right there was just too convenient.

Also, centralized chat history! Very few did that at the time and most had massive issues with unread tracking.

The moment I went on mobile and tried hangout it was dead to me. Read notification duplicates, phantom notifications for read messages, long startup times, and group everything came mich much later

Everyone jumped ship at that moment. The hangout app was THAT bad early years, and even after quite some time later real usability issues were never fixed.
An approach that's worked well for me was to first hack qemu to add some new (emulated) hardware, then write the kernel drivers using qemu to test (followed by running on the hardware). That does leave you with two problems instead of one, but is quite flexible when you are trying to track down bugs and can increase your hack/compile/test velocity.
The Robin Hood Group and Ethereum Classic
Right. Talking about that kind of money as merely "decently high" is only a slightly different kind of bubble as the one this medium post is satirizing.
I love the comment about being prepared for many types of interviewers.

I had an on-campus interview with Microsoft last year for a pm internship. The interviewer immediately said, "your resume says you know F#, implement xyz algorithm with this function signature." He had a thick Russian accent and a mean face. Normally I would have had no problem answering, but I was caught off guard and panicked. Its good to be prepared for that kind of unusual circumstance and I will be next time.

He ended the interview with 'Maybe try again next year.' Ouch.
Now i understand why Kim Dotcom loves Bitcoin so much
Chainpoint: A Standard Blockchain proof protocol
I agree on the point where it doesn't work well with mix languages. we can, however use `go get` rather than manually doing a git clone.

I understand it'd be a pain to have Go setup, but once it is setup, it is great, When I write Go programs

I do

`$ cd /go/src/github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks`
`$ Tasks go build -o tasks`
`$ Tasks ./tasks`
Classical consensus only solves the problem for up to 33% failure (3f+1 nodes, with f failures), having half of your servers fail can not be done with paxos.
Increase traffic and revenue with social sharing
Mind providing link that would prove this? I looked a decent amount of time and couldn't find anything relevant other than a few articles on how to disable settings or providing some vagueries. If it exists this explanation certainly isn't front and center, perhaps an obscure C9 video?
Slightly related, Cucumber will soon support a typed expression format called Cucumber Expressions: https://docs.cucumber.io/cucumber-expressions/

It's a standalone library and may well be used outside of Cucumber.

It's currently implemented in JavaScript, Java and Ruby.
Imaging, Snapchat and mobile
Nanny != babysitter
Mozilla Enables Netflix DRM on Linux
Exposing the Myths of Credit Score
If Fashion Is Your Trade, Then Travel to Ura-Hara, Tokyo – Trdinoo
The top 1% of earners make $450k/year [1].

Although they obviously spend a lot [2], at some point discretionary income gets pretty blurry. I'd hope any reasonable society would consider they have a lot more than $60k at their discretion, though. I make about a third of that, putting me just barely in the top 10%, and have more than $60k at my discretion.

Wealth inequality is pretty insane in this country.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/

[2] https://douggollan.com/2015/05/02/how-do-the-super-rich-spen...