skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I use Devonthink Pro for notes / research: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002....

2. Many use Scrivener for writing, but I have never quite managed to agree with it properly, so I just use Word.

3. I use Bookends: http://sonnysoftware.com/ for citations. No one it seems really likes their citation manager, but I like this one best.

See also http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/06/02/practical-tips-....
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The author points to the fallacy himself in the second paragraph when he mentioned that job growth used to be going towards the suburbs when population growth was moving into them.

People create jobs, not places, not governments, not even money... people. Yes, all these things can help (sometimes dramatically) but ultimately all jobs are the product of the creativity and hard work of people.
Construction isn't cheap, but making it more expensive or impossible certainly doesn't help things.
You're correct. The table of content links didn't work. Fixed now if you want to try again (refresh browser cache first). The anchor part (to link directly to a header) doesn't seem to work in the frame, but does work if you open in a new tab. Thanks for the bug report!
Why There’s New Hope About Ending Blindness
The conclusions do not follow from the facts presented
Gates pioneered copyright protection for source code. Ballmer said Linux is cancer. This company has betrayed its own values. Actually it hasn't. The strategy is always the same: destroy the competition. Undersell. Even give away software for free. Whatever it takes. Money to burn.

What's interesting is that they see the UNIX shell, which has long been open source and free, as competition.
Oddly enough, I've found the reverse to be true. More suburban = more fast food chains crammed in one spot. The urban areas usually have more interesting local restaurants.
I Can Only See One Problem With PowerShell :)
“TV Overload” or how to easily pirate TV shows from the command-line
PowerShell is an improvement on Bash, but I'll still be using F# .fsx files for my .NET scripting needs. That said, the real reason I'm excited about this release is that there's finally a great example of a very large project based on .NET Core [1]! Most other examples I'd seen were pretty small, so this is really helpful.

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
Lanes in swimming are according to speed. If you have the fastest prelim time, you're in lane 4. Second fastest in lane 5, then continuing down to 3,6,2,7,1,8. As for the boundary stuff, at the top meets, they don't have a swimmer in the lanes closest to the wall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXC4hYnH4n0).
So is this a sort of online alternative to MS Visio?
Or just be sane and use ctrl-r and search.
You're being absurd, all I said was "no you're not thinking clearly" in response to being accused of not thinking clearly. I was perfectly civil, and I created another account because of your unjustified slow ban on me. I've bent over backward conforming to your absolutely inhuman and ridiculous civility rules that expect people to never ever ever have the slightest conflict with one another. I behaved fine, check yourself, I didn't start this conflict, he did.

As you seem to be dying to ban me, then ban me already; I'll just bounce through a proxy and open another account, you know as well as I do there's really nothing you can do to keep me off the site and that your best option is to keep me civil, which I've been doing for quite a while, so drop the empty threats please.
UK government is 'freaking out' about the potential of open source, says Red Hat
The goal of the British Empire, as with every empire, is to exploit the empire to the benefit of the ruling country. Everything else is white washing.
I get:

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Wow. I've been very impressed with Microsoft lately. They could have easily set themselves up as the next IBM, in the sense of being a monolithic corporation relying on corporate practices, but they've been spewing some crazy fun things that shows they're not out of the league yet.

Might just be MY miscontrued perception that microsoft was becoming old/monolithic, but really excited with the direction they are heading.
You've likely heard of this before but Haiku[0] is a modern open source continuation of BeOS, which is almost usable.

[0]: haiku-os.org
The initial British response was to buy £100,000 of corn meal from the US to import to Ireland to combat the famine.

This doesn't seem like an action of a government intent on genocide.

It seems more to me that British policy in Ireland during the famine is marked by an extreme ideological commitment to laissez faire economics (ie, letting land owners export food from Ireland in large quantities to make money, letting ports export food etc) and no little incompetence and prejudice against imagined "workshy" irish layabouts.

But I wouldn't say there was a deliberate policy of genocide as such.

As far as I know, the potato blight was not started by British settlers gifting infected towels to the natives.
Is that a problem? Everyone is always in a rush these days :) by its very nature. If you need this messenger app working "right now" then it won't do the job for yo
Can you prove that human behavior can be replicated using pseudorandomness?
I don't know if this is possible, but I would love this as a layer above existing messaging platforms.

For instance, I just want my iPhone to batch my notifications until a certain time, without me having to worry about becoming distracted.

I want just 20-30 minutes of unhindered communication (real-time as well), and then go back to the batch-mode.

I am currently doing this with "Cellular Data Off", but it's a bit annoying when I want to listen to music without being distracted. I want the data, but not the notifications. Right now, as a time-consuming hack, I manually turn off all messaging notifications.

A very important aspect of life, and a step in the right direction. But does not seem like a worthy replacement just yet.
Respecting the Value of Face-To-Face Communication
The Feds Want to Give You Money to Learn to Code
> For instance, on Windows I could press the up arrow through my history 20x to find a group of commands I want to run, press Enter, then press DOWN for the following command, then enter, then DOWN until I run them all. In Bash, I need to press UP 20x every single time.

I think the Bash default is better here. If I wanted to run 20 closely related commands, I would make them a single line; far more commonly I want one command from 20 commands ago and then the last command, which is a pain to do on Windows. Much worse is that Windows seems to lose all history every time I close and reopen a command window.
Show HN: Collaborative Product Strategy
Honest question: how many of them reverted to mean afterward [0], that is, thought they saw other things coming, bet on them and were wrong about as often as everyone else?

John Paulson wasn't featured in the movie, but fit the bill. But I don't know about those in the book/film.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
You might not be subject to US jurisdiction, but the US asserts that entities using a TLD administered in the US, are subject to US jurisdiction.
I just tested it. It works as you would expect.
Many good recommendations in here, but I use froot and am pretty happy with it.
As I wrote above: I don't want to give them my phone number.There are other ways of registration. I don't want my phone number flying around in God knows what ad Networks. This is unneccessary madness and nobody should be OK with that
> Perhaps OP thinks housing doesn't behave like a normal good

Unfortunately, to some extent it doesn't. House prices go up, especially in a terminally low-interest rate environment, and lots of people with (unearned) equity from that increase pile in buying more as speculative investments. You'd hope that government would step in to break such an obvious vicious circle, but... no, it's no use, I can't keep a straight face.

(Not defending OP's specific claim. Also speaking from a London perspective; YMMV.)
Bash is awful. But so are shells in general.

Even Rob Pike says as soon as your shell program gets longer than a few lines, write it in a proper language.
Man Who Introduced Millions to Bitcoin Says Blockchain Is a Bust
JsSocials – Simple Social Network Sharing Plugin – v1.3.0 Released
I think it will be clearer with an example. So we have an application with a left menu and several links in it, here's an example list:
/Dashboard/WorkLoad
/Accounts/AllPeople
/Automotive/CarGallery

I want to add a few new pages, "/Dashboard/Monitoring", "/Dashboard/Logs". I want this to utilize angular with html5mode enabled. This way they can still bookmark the links and come back, or at least the url won't look weird.

I don't want the old links to be broken, as I add pages with routing enabled it should work. It ends up breaking though because if those other three links don't match my two configured links (Monitoring, Logs), it uses "otherwise" to fallback to the home directory "/". There's no way arround this other than detecting and turning on/off the routing.
Would you mind elaborating on Power Shell's lack? I've never used it so I'm curious to know more.
> Since the growth is exponential, if the pain becomes too great after N years, then everyone is forced to sell after N years.

This is why a real land-value tax wouldn't simply grow, but would rather reflect the current market value of the land.
The first phase of the British empire was roughly from the time of Queen Elizabeth to the start of the Seven Years War in 1754 (or up to 1688 if you want to use the Glorious Revolution as a division point). This is precisely the period when the British were among the world's most active and enthusiastic slavetraders. The abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire was obviously a bright point in its history, but it's worth pointing out that this happened two hundred years into the British Empire's lifespan, not at the beginning.
Indeed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598
Medium is really easy to use and your articles look nice. Also, there's an audience already on Medium that you can tap. I guess if blogging isn't your thing and you just want to write and publish, Medium is "ok".

I used Medium for a short while, for these reasons, before realizing that it's actually pretty bad. There are a few heavy hitters on the site and everyone else is busy pandering to one another with fake internet outrage and "listicle" style articles.
It's happy to gobble up whatever improperly-capitalized cmdlets you throw at it, heck you can even forget some letters ;). And with a little tap on that tab key it will helpfully fix your laziness so there's no trace of it in your shell history.
^ this, please!

I'll definitely be looking into this to replace Evernote for my current clipping archival system.

Check it out at http://jaytaylor.com/notes

I've been very dissatisfied with the absolutely terrible bastardized HTML served up by the Evernote API for web clippings, and this looks it could become a fantastic replacement!
Strongly typed cookies you say..

Maybe we all can just write our scripts in Haskell and eat some delicious type cake!
Is this really so useful in practice? I have never used PowerShell before (nor do I have plans to do so in the near future), but I would imagine the downside is complexity, both for user and especially for developers. With text you just read and parse, while with objects you need to know the object type, its fields,... Whatever happend, I hope text stays here (and I have a bad feeling about it ever since I met systemd).
Show HN: Slow-deps – show which dependencies are slowest to npm install
Steve who?
Is this actually useful?

I always thought powershell was largely just for interacting with windows components, like installing an msi or talking to active directory.

What would you actually practically use this for on a linux box?
What hedge funds are really good at is creating a tax strategy for the rich. Let's say you have a business and you want to pay less tax. You talk to a hedge fund.

The hedge fund says, let's convert all your earnings that should be taxed at the short term gains rate and convert them to long-term capital gains!

The hedge fund takes two well-correlated stocks, let's say Coke and Pepsi. They make a hedge going long Coke and short Pepsi. The hedge doesn't make or lose money, but you engineer the hedge so that you hold your long Coke shares 366 days (long-term). You sell your Pepsi shares after 364 days (short-term).

You haven't made any money, but you've engineered short-term capital losses and long-term capital gains. Of course you've created your hedge such that your short-term losses offset your business' short-term gains. Now your profits are in the long-term Coke stock, and rather than paying a 50% marginal tax rate, you pay 20%.

Yay hedge funds!
It seems weird that the feature of PS that you're most impressed with is something so... trivial? You have full access to your history in both shells so you could easily emulate that feature in bash/zsh or you could create a special binding to run all commands from a point in your history so you only have to press Enter once.
>We will be extending the PowerShell Remoting Protocol (MS-PSRP) to use OpenSSH as a native transport. Users will have the option to use SSH or WINRM as a transport.

Is possibly an even bigger announcement (this means there's actual momentum behind https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH)
I get the feeling that most users have only accessed 5% of the features available in their unix shell of choice
Good tongue-in-cheek, but I see no incentive for them to add such a feature.

There is zero economic incentive to pay and stay in that frame, and subsequently none for the company to adopt that approach.
You are clearly not a pedestrian or cyclist in a major city.
For me, the place to start with wound up being POJ [plain old javascript]. Earlier I dabbled with [insert javascript library here]. I thought about [insert javascript framework here]. Last year I tried a few other starting points that seemed to hold promise: Elm, ClojureScript, Rails, ASP.MVC.NET, etc. Eventually, I realized that each effort was a way of avoiding Javascript because the barrier I ultimately hit was not understanding the underlying Javascript.

When I decided to learn Javascript I bought the thickest best book I saw: Javascript: the definitive guide. And the most important thing I've learned I learned from the Table of Contents.

Javascript means two things. The obvious one is the language. The non-obvious one is the browser's Javascript API. Google a something about javascript and you will get a suspension of one in the other or vice versa...and it's actually worse because Node means that you will also get things that pertain to the server as well.

The other resource I constantly use is MDN. Again, written around POJ.

Javascript is the lingua franca of the front end, and here 'javascript' means the API not the language. But the language matters because the best most accessible writing about the API uses javascript the language. The most popular framework or language or library of the week may abstract away many details I don't care about, but as soon as I hit one I care about, I need to understand the javascript API to know why what I am doing doesn't work.

Maybe later when I can understand what they're over, I'll pick up somebody else's abstractions. But even then, I 'm not sure I want to try to sort through the exponential combinatorics of possible toolchains built on other people's code.

Good luck.
Well they certainly have the resources to grow and support the .Net tech stack, that's for sure. I'm finding myself stuck in it more and more.

TypeScript was my gateway drug.

Linux is still my daily driver for getting work done but I can't help but enjoy breakpoint debugging Node applications in VS Code.
I've recently switched to Ghost after using Medium and Wordpress for other things. Ghost is by far my favorite, it's really nice.
Yeah. Was speaking to a realtor yesterday actually about this (just an acquaintance) and homes in some areas in a particular midwest city have risen in value 23% in one year. As soon as a place goes on the market it has 10 offers over the asking price. This isn't good. But if you have a great job and good job security it is idiotic to not buy a house right now with the low interest rates assuming it's not way overpriced (and these can be found).

I purchased a home that costs about twice my annual salary. I think it's reasonable. I put 0 down and walked away with a check at closing after seller closing costs for some items I wanted repaired.

Anyway this is just my general commentary and my experience. I don't know enough about the market as a whole to make any real informed contribution, but just wanted to share anyway.
Objects are discoverable in powershell. Enter the object, and lists the object out as text.
FAT is not very interesting from a filesystem design perspective (ask someone who doesn't know much about filesystems to try to design one; chances are it will look like FAT¹), so that hardly surprises me. Anyone who buys a book about filesystem design and implementation will already by quite familiar with FAT.

¹ Which is why FAT is so ubiquitous—it's dead simple.
Can anyone provide any background/documentation on the claim "Now 65-80% of new mortgages are stamped with a guarantee from Uncle Sam that protects investors from the risk that homeowners default"? I don't really doubt that it's true, I'd just like to learn more about what that is and how it works.
U.N. Admits Role in Cholera Epidemic in Haiti
Excellent news. Now I might actually learn PowerShell
Well, it should be, since there's nothing of consequence in it.

IMO this topic in Ycombinator is being heavily blogspammed on this book and the topic should be deleted.
>One side believes that unrestricted building will solve everything, despite ample evidence to the contrary.

What evidence?
Retrospectives that Make a Difference
It was the first 3 chapters until about 6am this morning. I can offer a 50% off coupon code though (fwiw)

"mltrask"
Officially, 10,000 died, but the numbers could be far higher.

Very tragic and makes for an interesting read about how safety protocols were not followed.
Sure: here you are!

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/07/writing-...
If I am remembering correctly, it is the Z order.
One thing I do with my iPhone that helps is turning off lock screen display for the most distracting notifications.

iOS will then batch these notifications and show them when you unlock your phone next. It's not perfect, but it prevents stuff like a Snapchat or a Twitter @mention from totally distracting me while I'm at my desk.
It is just another tool in the toolchest.
As you know, on Linux, there are tons of great interactive shells and it is sortof a lifestyle choice.
You might want to kick the tires and see whether it fits your lifestyle or not.
If you use Bash as your shell, think of PowerShell as you would python or perl - something you write scripts in and call from Bash.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
hedge funds with less limiting investment "thesis" tend to massively outperform bear markets. long s&p500 index funds (all the rage) has been a great strategy since the last real market downturn (7 years), it won't look so ironclad ingenius when stocks take their inevitable 2 year 30-50% dip.
One of the comments on that twitter thread: "Very glad it’s fixed. Not so great for users of other browsers though. God knows how long they’ll take to correct it."

Except none of the other browsers have that bug. Somehow Chrome is still better though.
Added on the to-do list. Thanks!
WTF is it a good read? Rah-rah stuff on why one should study NNs? Geez!
In Android, you can disable App notifications. That may accomplish what you're looking for.
From what I know, you cannot fine-tune your DND. For instance, I want certain notifications to show up versus not.

I prefer "Cellular Data Off," because there is greater need distance that way.
Prointerview
Strongly-typed scripting is nice, but I think PowerShell has horrid syntax. I would rather take .fsx scripts any day.
I've been working on this for some time now, and am ecstatic to share this project with the world!
Not having a unified L3 cache is an interesting choice, I can see how it would significantly reduce the cost of the chip and considering many multi-threaded workloads are operating on separate chunks of data chances are it shouldn't incur a noticeable performance penalty (especially in virtualization workloads, I'm interested to see what their 32-core server chip ends up looking like).
Apples to oranges. Both incidents you cite were third-parties directly trying to stage political disruptions by causing death and destruction.

Rio is the government and other sponsors just plain failing to follow thru on commitments.
> but more density adds complexity and more costs (waste disposal, parking space, public transport, local commerce, health issues).

Not per-person, which is the measure that matters. Density largely makes those things more efficient.
Why not forget about the Holocaust, then?

In education, there are few things more important than teaching the truth about the horrors of the past, and the human capacity for violence, racism, and bureaucratic indifference, in the hope of creating empathy and stopping future genocide.

Also, understanding the actions of the past helps us understand the actions of the present. Without historical context, it's nearly impossible to have perspective on why an individual or group of people hold certain beliefs or act in a way we may not at first understand.
People laugh at me when I tell them I switched "back" to Windows after decades of Unix and Mac programming. But it's a really good, productive platform. Microsoft really seems to be heading in the right direction now.

I hope .NET starts taking off on other platforms, too, because it really is a much better system than Brand "J".
Advice from Anton Chigurh's rules to live by.
this looks like a fun project, maybe there could be some use among a small circle of friends, for example.

that said, i won't speak for what the market will sustain, but in terms of what we need as a society, i believe we are past the point of needing to invent new messaging platforms. we have email, we have xmpp,(and we have a smattering of other pretty good platforms like WhatsApp, though it is not open) etc. we have mature spam filtering technology built around email, we have TLS, etc etc . this stuff already works. and when it doesn't, we should be working together to improve upon them. there's a lot of work to be done making existing communication more secure, and also things like personal data warehousing of one's communications, etc. etc.

we are not in need of another app (i don't even know what platforms this will run on -- linux? probably not.) that does less than what email did 40 years ago.
so you buy this fund, have no market exposure, have some correlation issues, pay tons of fees, and make nothing?

i think you need to brush up on hedge funds and investment management generally.
On my camry, it is shared with the ebrake light.
No they don't... cares combust on a fairly regular (albiet low probability) basis... and Tesla actually has sensors and warnings unlike most cars...
I would say not just the shell but most software
I fully expect this to be in the AUR in under a week. Probably within 48 hours, even.
Citation please? I would love to share this with some of my coworkers.
Yes, this is so awesome. Can't remember the exact parameter/field? Just dump it to the console.
I'm still confused by the CDS bit. Is there a good eli5 article on it? I've already checked the eli5 subreddit and couldn't find anything specifically on the mechanism that allowed shorting.