skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I am in favor of banning non competes, but only because we lack the freedom due to lack of competition. I think the evidence of that is when Jimmy John's can have force fast food workers to sign them.

To me it seems, banning non-competes, will create more competition.
That's a bit like saying the alphabet has been exhausted, so we should come up with new letters.

There is a huge, potentially indefinite space of possibilities of combinations of melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre, even within the constraints of the chromatic scale
The EVF lag is the primary reason I've stuck with DSLR over micro-4/3 until now. Every one I've tried, no matter how fast it's purported to be, has just enough lag to make me feel slightly queasy.

Another reason is that the EVF is a screen with all its inherent issues. A screen is its own light source, compared to a DSLR finder which is the sunlight bouncing off the scene via the mirror directly into your eye. Your eye via a mirror can see a much larger dynamic range than the EVF screen, and you can make a call on exposure based on that. That said, if the EVF was truly representative of what the sensor was picking up, it may actually be useful, but the EVF is almost certainly showing a quantized version of what the sensor is seeing, and when you get the image in Lightroom or whatever it'll be different to what you saw on the EVF.
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No, the fees are still insignificant compared to the block reward.
Evernote seems to meet each of these requirements.
I do a combo of a little notebook I always carry around and iPhone Notes. Simple!
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"I'm getting out of this while it still looks good." MADE MY DAY xD
Multiple (7 or 8) hostile inquiries cleared her of any culpability for Benghazi. Why do people persist in spreading this nonsense?
The only thing i want from opera now is open source,
I enjoyed opera for years now, and it is my favorite one by far,

But i am a little concerned about it is not opensource, witch make forefox a better choice for privacity...
Taste is dependent on the audience. An audience of kernel maintainers would probably share Linus' taste here, while an audience of enterprise developers would find the original code more palatable.
Wunderlist was a gamechanger for me:
https://www.wunderlist.com

Still looking for an optimal solution for calendar though, and other information I keep in Dropbox, iCloud notes and on paper lists.
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Just under 40 years ago, I worked along with half a dozen other people (all on overtime) until 8pm on Christmas Eve so that a ship could leave Liverpool on the last tide before Xmas deadline, thus saving significant charter costs. We got free takeways and naughty beer afterwards.

Swings and roundabouts.
>> Zdoom has lots of niceties like the ability to aim up and down with the mouse and support for modern hardware.

I'll be honest, I don't think I've ever seen a source port that can't do that.
Thanks, my employer does yeah so paid conferences are ok. This looks interesting!
Wickard v. Filburn can be twisted in virtually any way you like: "Noncompetes in one state affect national labor market price levels, thus are subject to the commerce clause, and are heretofore banned."

Not that I support this reading, but it's been used to shake off commerce clause challenges for the better part of a century now.
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I think the market for high-end phones and devices is probably starting to saturate. Apple has also been relying a bit too much on planned obsolescence, specifically through software updates.

Iterating over iDevices and essentially making them thinner and thinner or mini versions of them (i.e. the watch) doesn't really speak of "innovation" to me.

Apple's real prowess has been in economies of scale, industrial engineering, and supply chain management. This is how they extract more profit from their devices.

However, that profit is now largely based on the same principles of why high-fashion brands can charge $500 for a pair of jeans or shoes. It's also a bit perilous in the sense that once demand falls for "the brand" then a lot of margin just vanishes off the books.
What is the best resource which explains an outsider why developing software is hard and takes a lot of time in general? I'm thinking of a small accessible book (perhaps even a cartoon) that starts with a bunch of analogies, and then explains why those analogies are true in real life (this last part is important).
Exactly. In Ireland the plate is made of [registration year]-[county]-[count of cars registered that year].

16-D-17891 : the 17891st car registered in Dublin, in the year 2016. They have recently introduced a third number in the year position to indicate 6 month sections (ie. 161 or 162).
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- flat file markdown wiki, md files synced to my phone with managed owncloud. Has a few main categories just to avoid the need to tag. i use it for todo, long written texts (writing my thesis in there), song sheets, arty collections, recommendations, documentation etc.

- managed owncloud for calendar

- managed, but small and lovely email provider with catch all on my own domain

- semi managed hosting (shared server with multiple non root users and ssh, unique thing) for website and quick online sharing of text or screenshots (upload via shareX+ftp)
This is sadly not uncommon, it just was a fairly famous case because she had a lot of followers in the west.
Honor killings are sadly the norm in many parts of the world, and are not even that rare anymore in the west at least as far as Europe goes.
re: the kilogram issue:

Redefining the Kilogram with the DIY Watt Balance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQkE8t0xgQ
Here's how you should do it:

for(var i=0; i<=3; i++) count(i);

Or a real world example:

for(var i=0; i<texture.length; i++) createPattern(i);

function createPattern(i) {
texture[i].onload = function() {
pattern[i] = ctx.createPattern(texture[i], 'repeat');
}
}

I've made a blog post about closures: http://www.webtigerteam.com/johan/en/blog/closure_en.htm

It would be cool to write like this (but you cant):

pattern = texture.map(t => t.onload => ctx.createPattern(t, 'repeat'))
My most recent project has taken more than 18 months.

I implemented 2 major subsystems that I later realized I could simplify the system by throwing out.

My product is very technical so there was probably about four months trying to make things work and learning what did and did not work.

I had to learn about 75% of the development tools and languages I was building with.

I don't like the idea of releasing half baked, half working software that represents half of my vision.

I had to fit the project in between my money paying job, family, friends, life.

I had lots of great ideas and the fun bit about developing software is when you get to implement those "wow it would be cool if...." functions.

I just want to fix bugs after the software is released, not just be starting on the code.

I want the software to be so far along that it would cause a competitor to think twice about copying.

I think software should be great, not just barely functional, so I added lots of things to polish and make it awesome.

Near the end of the build I realized I could make a major leap forward so I redesigned a key area of the UI.

I built as much of it as I could before release because after release its MUCH harder to add new features.

There you go, that's why it took me so long.
1) There are limits to the freedom to make contracts. I can't sell myself into slavery and that is a good thing.

2) maybe I have better information than the government, but my potential employer has better information than either of us. I won't have a better picture of the local employment market than a business so I will easily get swindled.

3) allowing the desperate to sign a contract no wants to sign leads to a race to the bottom where everyone has to sign a non-compete. How can I refuse to sign if 99% of applicants will sign even if I am the best applicant? They will just say no to me and take the #2 applicant. The only way to fight non-competes here would be a union to form collective bargaining at which point we have lost the ability to make our own contracts as individuals entirely.
Your work sounds interesting. Do you capture what really happens in the manual system (trust based work-arounds(1) and all) or do you work from what the procedures say should happen? Just wondering.

(1)E.g. An reference number is needed to set up X on a system. To get a reference number you need to get Y to sign off. Y is notoriously slow, and I have been doing this for years. Z lets me have a reference number on trust knowing that Y will sign off because my paperwork will be in order. Someone new would not get that trust until a few successful cycles. C.F. Lave and Wenger, communities of practice.
In the cited cases, not only tried, but actively used them. If you mean multicamera phone, no, never used one. Not from Apple or any manufacturer.

I think it's wise to consider that there might be more to "Apple did it first" than hype, specially since it's such a common praise/criticism: Apple II, Mac, iPod, iPhone.

Do other phones show real time preview? Do they look as good? Although far from perfect, are the photos good enough that you might want to share/keep it more often than not?
Have been seeing a lot of dead LinkNYC kiosk's in Manhattan. What's up with that?
It looks for me that despite what author wrote, he WAS indeed in exploratory phase:
`So now we have a sequencer device, how do we get events from it? Can we do it in the main loop? Turns out it probably doesn't integrate too well with Qt, (...)`

`My initial thought was making a grid of spinners,(...) but then I realized that there isn't an easy way to make headlines in Qt's grid. (...) So after some searching, I found out that it would be better to have a tree view(...)`

And many similar things. Exploration and technical spikes - nothing wrong with that but author wrote:
` It's pretty common to do so if you're in an exploratory phase, but in this case, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do right from the start, and that plan seemed to work. `

and then he contradicted himself writing about various difficulties and explorations... (I don't see anything wrong with that, absolutely. I think that exploratory phase is essential to good design).
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Maybe this? http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...

But I don't think it catches just how much of an expert on all sorts of quirks of how many libraries a programmer must actually be, like the current article does.
Compaq later created similar promotional license plates with the number "LINUX," and yes, they still said "Live Free or Die" on them. I managed to wheedle one out of a trade show representative, knowing the history of the original "UNIX" promotional plates.

Besides the motto and the big number, the plates carry the Compaq logo, "1999" (the year they were made), and the statement "LINUX is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds."
I haven't tested this, but my intuition is that any musical sound with harmonic (as opposed to inharmonic) partials will sound like a single note, if the first fundamental is clearly the loudest, and the harmonics follow some kind of natural distribution in terms of loudness and temporal decay.

Two notes played in an octave would be quite distinct since you have a clear first fundamental for both notes, and the loudness/decay of the harmonics is slightly different between both notes
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Search and Replace for Windows (that nifty little tool with blue binoculars icon), HxD - Hexeditor, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Express (web and desktop), Beyond Compare, MS Paint, GIMP, sometimes Inkscape, Calculator, Glary Utilities (This was a lifesaver when I accidentally deleted source copy instead of last modified backup copy of code I had written all day. I learnt a lesson - never do file delete at 2 AM when tired and sleepy). All these are pinned to the task bar, except calc which I can just start->run.
With Scala, if I want to build a distributable application, I need to bundle a JRE and the Scala library, which means that a "Hello World" installer would be around 30 MB in size. It's bad practice to assume that your user has Java installed.

With compiled languages like Go or Swift, that same application now is 2 MB or so. On top this, the application runs natively on the OS since it is compiled to LLVM.
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> not an enormous technical challenge

No, but once they officially make the thing, they have to support it.
Doit.im GTD

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Evernote (I might be way too dependent on this)
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I've used the Ignite UI grid at work, and it is one of the better ones for large data sets.
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Oh yeah, I have almost no qualms about using this old one, well except for the fact that it is officially not receiving new OS versions - which eventually will become an issue.

The small resolution, no battery life, slow processor are only minor annoyances to me. It is fast enough for me, I do iOS development/browsing/movies.
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>As a general rule, religiosity goes down as intelligence goes up. //

Which tells us nothing about theistic belief. It would be foolish to conflate the two IMO; as appears to be happening in this exchange.

You say "mythical intelligent religious person" - few people could be considered more religious than Newton, you presumably consider him not to have been intelligent? What's your yardstick for intelligence?

Or did you mean "mythical" in the sense of "I'm going to ignore examples I know of because they contradict my position"?
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>To go meta for a moment: I think that this sort of statement exposes a flaw that many of us have in debates. It's related to the "argument from ignorance" fallacy, but is not exactly the same thing. I take it as one of my priors that people at news.yc are intelligence. When lots of intelligent people argue for X, and X makes no sense at all for you, you should ponder with some real seriousness that perhaps N intelligent people are not insane, but, instead, you are missing something.

That's a strawman, since it assumes that only insanity or ignorance makes people favor a position that's bad for the general public. There are much more probable causes for such a view, such as personal interests.

>1) deontological: freedom to contract is always a good thing. It is a human right, and government has no legitimate moral power to remove that right from people.

This is not an argument. This is a conclusion, or an axiom. ("Because human rights" are not an argument either. See where how deep this rabbit hole goes?).

Second, it can be argued that freedom to contract is NOT "always a good thing". It's a good thing only when one side is not far more powerful than the other to the point of forcing the contract. When one side is coerced to sign (because e.g. else they cannot find employment in SV because all employers require non-competes), then it's not a freely chosen contract clause anymore, nor a free job market.

Third, even if freedom of contract was "always good", still what's good thing for an individual, is not necessarily a good thing for society.

Stealing and cheating, for example, can be good for the person doing it, but it's not good for society (and even less so in many people start doing it).

>2) Hayekian / information theoretic: I have local knowledge regarding both my costs and my benefits from signing a non-compete contract. Government legislators and bureaucrats, at some great remove, has almost no knowledge of either my costs or benefits.

That's a naive view that assumes government as some removed from society enemy entity. In a democracy a government is the representation (imperfect as most human creations are) of the will of the people, and laws are based on historical experience and reasoned arguments, with input from people "in the field" in drafting them.

Also, government has much more complete information and view of the overall societal cost of non-competes, whereas you as individual mostly have your local knowledge to go by and personal gain as your guide (assuming of course you're freely entering the contract out of calculation, and not because employers have created a trust on the issue, and you are left with no other option).

>3) pragmatic (overlaps #2): perhaps I am desperate to break into career field X and would pay almost anything to get in. Or perhaps my skills are much lower than other competitors. What can I offer employers that my peers can not? My willingness to sign a non-compete.

Or offer to have sex with them. This rabbit hole also goes very far...
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one of those?
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This sounds great for static websites but I'm not sure if it's a good idea for a dynamic web app where data needs to update on the screen in realtime. Some questions which come to mind:

What if you had a 'chatbox' component which updated every time a user wrote a message; would Next.js have to resend the entire HTML for the 'chatbox' component (containing the full message log) every time a message is added to that chatbox? Am I right to assume that only the affected component will be rerendered? Or the entire page has to be re-rendered (and the entire HTML of the page resent over the wire) for every change in data?

It sounds like a nightmare for caching: If data is updated dynamically and you constantly have to rerender components in realtime on the serverside; you can't really cache every permutation of every component's HTML for every data change and for every user... That's insane.

Regarding CPU, it sounds like it's going to eat up server-side performance and increase hosting costs massively! What, like 10 times 100 times? Are there any benchmarks done on performance for a typical single page app built with Next.js?

Then there is the latency issue...

Finally; if we move back to full server rendering and get rid of the need for client-side code; why would we want to stick to JavaScript?

I haven't used it yet so please correct me if I'm misunderstanding something.

Next.js sounds great for building static websites... But so does PHP!
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I have had my iPhone 6P for over 2 years. I would not be upgrading if my sound button wasn't touchy. I don't see a lot of innovation for my needs with a 7P.

Could customers just be upset with the supply chain issues too? Apple hypes devices. People order. Then the orders take months to fulfill. Customers get tired of waiting and cancel orders?

Example. I ordered at launch. My order failed to complete. I get an e-mail the next day saying that my iphone was held for me, please finish checking out. Estimated delivery October 1 - 15. It is now the 26th and tracking shows it will arrive on Oct 31. A whole month late. Meanwhile I have a nice case here that arrived 1 day over my iPhone order...
To be fair, those authors have some credibility since they're part of Project Zero.
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Maybe it's just me; but games played in dosbox never feel... right? That's my biggest gripe with it, at least.
Such an amazing contrast between the Amiga and the Atari ST community.

In the Amiga community, which is larger and more fanatical in general, it seems like people figure they're going to get rich or famous. So there's a bunch of balkanized not-profitable companies creating bizarre ventures and trying to claim the Amiga name or lineage. And so here we have a company owning the OS assets and trying to sell them 20 years later.

The Atari ST by contrast has a completely open source operating system stack now in EmuTOS. While it's not directly from the original Atari sources it is based on the GPL'd sources of the original GEM/GEMDOS from Digital Research and then modified until it is super compatible with the original OS. On top of that there is MiNT, a Unix-like multitasking OS extension, open source since its creation in the late 80s. And open source desktops, task managers, terminals, etc. And the Firebee, new hardware which implements the Atari ST/TT platform over the Freescale Coldfire, and while the hardware is expensive the design is open and the VHDL etc in it is open source. Oh, and there's open source VHDL implementations of the whole original Atari ST design.
Sales is tricky because you build up a relationship with said client on the companies dime usually. poaching customers seems wrong to me.
In most places, it's the power company that owns the poles because it's the power company that builds and maintains them. In a few places, the phone company does it. In theory, though, they are supposed to offer non-discriminatory access to the poles.

Re: preferential treatment, Google definitely didn't get away scott free. Building an ISP in any municipality means agreeing to a grab bag of concessions. Build out requirements tend to be the most expensive. Every house you pass that doesn't subscribe means you need to recover $500-1000 from a house that does subscribe. But any municipal cable franchise will be full of stuff like requirements to build fiber to government facilities and schools, payments to support public access TV, etc. Google did get a better deal, though. For example, in KC, it ultimately ended up paying half the pole rent Time Warner does.
Most severance I've witnessed was paid out in a lump sum. Severance that wasn't paid out in a lump sum generally did not end when the former employee accepted a new job. However, I have heard of some that does.

But that's irrelevant. The severance and non-compete contracts were two separate contracts, not linked in any way. The fact they had the same length wasn't a coincidence, but after they were signed it may as well have been.

And no, I don't agree that NDA's are flawed in the way you describe. If a former employee is willing to commit criminal fraud or theft then the choice of paper you make them sign isn't going to make any difference.
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