skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use https://www.notebooksapp.com/. It works with plain files, txt, markdown and WYSIWYG (HTML). It also allows you to write your own stylesheet and JS. So I have a custom template (CSS) and I write almost everything in WYSIWYG (ie HTML). Works really well for code too, as I get syntax highlighting.

Other apps I have tried and used over the years:

- http://www.mweb.im/ (markdown)
- https://ulyssesapp.com/ (markdown)
- http://lightpaper.42squares.in/ (markdown)
- http://alternoteapp.com/ (Evernote GUI)
- Many, many others

Notebooks really stands out because it has a great iOS app, syncs via Dropbox (plain files), and handles TXT/MD/HTML + Custom CSS&JS.

The Mac app is not great, but it's adequate. I frequently talk to the author and they are rewriting it to be more "Mac friendly", but that's a bit away (1 year maybe?).

For the longest time, I tried to stay true to Markdown, but as I get older, I just want things to be easier, and to look nicer, and I now prefer writing everything in WYSIWYG. Since I have custom styles, I can stick to standard structure (ie H1, p, ul, ..), which is in spirit close to Markdown (ie structure only). And I can still customize when I want complicated things (I wrote a couple special classes for some use cases).

Plus, it works with the filesystem, so you get folders, which I personally prefer to all this tagging BS. It makes it easier to have everything in one place: work stuff and personal stuff, and to keep it all neat and tidy. Also, because it's files, it's always available offline (iOS app too).

The iOS app is like a small file manager, so I also keep pictures, PDFs, and some other docs. So I always have all my important stuff on hand, no matter where I am.

Overall, I think it's a great app, which still has room to grow (better GUI on desktop, encryption, ...)
163 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong SE Asia region in 2015
It comes with the Linux subsystem.

Honestly, I haven't had much luck with it as it is still lacking serious features. It has improved in beta versions, but I think it is going to be a while 'till it is stable enough to use instead of a Linux VM, at least on standard builds of Windows 10.
I didn't know that was a feature. Oops!
In Windows. Driver issues in Linux drop battery life to more "normal" levels, IIRC.
That leads to selling a crap e-car at a loss to push your profitable lines. A race to the lowest common denominator is not what we need.
Sensics Is Building a VR Headset Specially Made for Arcades and Theme Parks
Sorry for not adding anything new to this discussion but that's exactly my thought! Couldn't agree more.
You want the Nintendo Switch of computing?
RISC-V has a compressed extension that compares favourably to even x86. See https://youtu.be/Ii_pEXKKYUg?t=13m55s (bottom of the slide).
There is very little interpretation in this article and none about the differences, just a note that men's brains are not structurally changed.

Is this a pre-emptive warning to fellow commentators?
but once in volume production even this is dwarfed by
software development costs...

This is one of the strongest arguments for RISC-V

Not only do you avoid licensing costs, but the ELF files you have from the 2-3year old model will still execute on your new model chip.

All one needs to do is dynamically link against their new special instructions.
Returned my echo while back. Did a few tests between Alexa and Google on my phone. Google one everytime.
> Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.

I use hammerspoon to paper over a lot of the annoying parts of macos (after using linux on desktop+laptop for over a decade). Here's a minimal excerpt from my config to get a more-reasonable "maximize" behavior: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/c19506dec17597ab9e4bf02f8d2...
Container Connectivity in Docker Swarm and Overlay Networks
Same, though I used to use Fedora.

The Win 10 Linux subsystem is still a mess, though it is improving in beta versions.
OneNote on a surface. I sprung for the office suite which includes a different version of OneNote with a better UI and more features. It is worth it if you take a lot of notes.
With XMPP and federated messaging servers they would have at least working infrastructure within their country.

But ...

What exactly happened that XMPP lost on mobile phones? What did they do wrong? XMPP was there before smartphones came, had working clients, and had (for that time) pretty decent encryption.

While I understand that big players like WhatsApp want to bind all users to their own infrastructure, I don't understand why even the niche instant messangers go through the burden of creating their own infrastructure (or relying on Google's) instead of just concentrating on the client side to provide better XMPP clients.

Is XMPP so bad that nobody wants to do that? If so, why?
Your arguments are really convincing!
Not only job configuration. But the entire configuration of your jenkins setup.
For example this issue was a blocking factor for automatically provisioning a new jenkins.
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-34035
IBM still calls the POWER ISA RISC because it has fixed instruction width and load/store architecture, just like ARM it has a large number of instructions now as well (~1300 I think). The actual implementations also do all kinds of pipelining and fetching optimizations that maybe traditionally would have been more the domain of CISC CPUs (and arguably are not directly connected to the ISA).
Most pollutants actually come from brake pads, so lack of ice will only knock total emissions down 30ish precent. But everyone likes to think its only the engine. Also consider the impact of mining copper and lithium. Its still in favor of conventional cars by a wide, but closing, margin.
Seems logical: a temporary "this isn't the time to think about the needs of your extended family" signal lasting just up until the point the kid can toddle around would be survival enhancer.
Or just setup Tor and keep using whatever they were using before.
Voting to leave the UK would in effect mean also voting to leave the EU because the UK could've and rightfully so declared that Scotland needs to apply independently for membership, and if the UK really wanted to act like a twat they could also block Scotland's membership indefinitely.
XFCE is very stable so it should work almost exactly the same on every distro. Just pick the one that you like the most / is easier to install for you / etc.

KDE is a bigger and more complex system so it works a bit differently depending on what distribution you use. Some distros like KDE Neon always have the most recent KDE while other like OpenSUSE Leap prefer to use stable versions of the applications.

When it comes to wifi/sound/etc it has to do with whether the driver for that contains binary blobs. Some distros don't ship blobs due to security and/or software freedom concerns while other distros have a more relaxed policy when it comes to proprietary software.

Thinkpads have a reputation for being very easy to run Linux on. You should expect everything to work out of the box. For the Dell computer you might have to install drivers separately but you can't tell for sure without knowing the exact model you have. You could do a test drive with a Live USB to check out. I wouldn't expect things to work out of the box on the macbook though. Apple isn't very Linux friendly and their macbooks have many specialized components that are only found on Apple products so Linux support is not very good. But even then, some dedicated hackers still try to reverse engineer them so you might have better support if you have an older model instead of the latest macbook.

The following table can help a bit with determining if wifi will work on your computer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wire...
> Even if GitHub stops growing and doesn’t reduce the Marketing/Sales costs, it would still have enough money in the bank for another 20 months

20 months of runway if growth stops? That's it? Is that called "doing (much) better"?
>That's a bit disingenuous

People love to misuse that word.

I just tried it with best case scenarios, and it's still a second or so faster using voice (1.5 seconds) vs control center (3 seconds). I mean, voice is literally just yell out "hey siri set a timer for 15 minutes" and that ends the interaction. Done, just like that.

If you're changing the time that is set, it's significantly longer.
Completely ignoring what the 25 countries do that rank higher when it comes to education.

You mean have lots of Asian and white students but not so many black ones? Unfortunately it would be kind of racist to do that. Trump is hoping to come up with a plan that helps all Americans, rather than simply excluding the underperforming ones from the stats.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150525165748/http://super-econ...

(Archive search is down, but search archive also for this URL: https://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abo... )
How we could spot a 'Death Star' in real life
That pesky Napoleon, spreading his nonsense units all over the place without regard of consequences. Didn't he learn his lesson on Waterloo?
Why you should avoid cheap software development
Ask HN: What was your favorite technical book(s), talks, online courses in 2016?
This type of comment makes me wish there was a higher bar for car ownership.
See, I don't think it seems consistent.

The author says that the reduction would make mom's MORE aware of social threats.

What am I missing?
A new Ukraine power outage may have been caused by hackers
While the privacy policy sucks I don't really have personal notes. It's mostly just lists. A lot of lists.
>It shouldn't be a problem though, since you probably will use a virtualenv anyway.

virtualenvs don't create a new interpreter, they just fudge the python path?

Definitely not recommended on interpreted languages (although we use it all the time on our go apps).
> Is XMPP so bad that nobody wants to do that? If so, why?

No it'd be great but unfortunately the things that make something technically great don't align with the business of acquiring monetizeable users (either directly or indirectly by selling the resulting social graph).

I'm convinced that the only reason we still have email is because it predates walled garden land grabs.
Not the original poster but I'll have a go...

1. OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock so I can connect my existing monitor and wired network (not yet available): $279.

2. Replacement for my USB-A Superdrive: $39.99

3. Thunderbolt 3 hdmi media kit for presentations: $49

4. USB-C SD card reader: $29

5. USB-C to Lightning cable: $20

6. USB-C to USB-A dongle so I can connect my ANT+ dongle: $9

7. Power supply extension cable (you don't get that included anymore): $19

8. Probably would want a USB-C to microUSB lead too (although I could go through the USB-A adapter with existing cables): $19

Total: $463.99

That doesn't seem too outlandish a set up for me. I haven't included an extra PSU, VGA or TB3 to TB2 for example.

Now I live in the UK and the exchange rate isn't doing us any favours at the moment so all of the above will be somewhat more expensive too.
It uses a lot of data, which even in 2016 isn't cheap for majority of mobile users.
Granted, especially for business models with low initial revenue / high lock-in / winner-takes-all properties and for young founders without large assets, you are completely right that there's often a lack of other options.

That being said, other sources of funding than VC (debt, mezzanine capital, government grants, incentivized programs, early temporary monetization options or getting experienced execs as cofounders for real shares (not the usual .5 options)) instead of paying them hard cash with borrowed money later on are often totally overlooked by startups IMHO for their own detriment.
A Quick Guide to Org-Mode TODO's
When you purchase something at an Apple Store they associate your Credit card with an email if you give it for the receipt. Extremely dodgy that they are keeping this information after the purchase.
GitLab (YC W15) Is Hiring a Production Engineer and More
Have you tried setting up the jenkins docker image?
I'd expect an experience where it works out of the box, or works out of the box after setting up some environment variables.

Actual experience:
you need to manually click a wizard, and set up an admin password, or google and find a hidden github issue of an ansible playbook with a workaround how to make jenkins startable for the first time unattended.

Just a bunch of xmls? Which ones? With what content? Have you tried ansible for example? I'd like to declaratively define my initial setup:

- jenkins admin password, users, passwords, roles, ssh keys
- slaves
- jenkins plugins can be listed and are installed
- git repository lists which contain the Jenkinsfiles

Good luck doing this non-iteractively with those bunch of XML files... (the jenkins cli randomly does not support parts of these steps)
> I think we need to ensure people pay attention, instead of adding even more information to these systems.

How do we ensure drivers pay attention?
I wouldn't say its too late, you might have a rough start with learning and everything, but there is a lot of new technologies you can specialize in and come out on top if you invest enough time into it. Keep in mind there will be uni/college folks starting at the same time as you, regardless when you start. It's just about getting things done and get started. :)
Don't forget motorbikes!
> Not really? I don't look for cameras and I legit don't see them pretty much anywhere. I know they're in all the tube stations, but it doesn't make me wary?

Are you saying or are you asking?

> I'm sure cameras mean you're less likely to do things which are not allowed - but guess what, I actually would rather have less vandalism, less assault, etc etc.

Yes, and you are also less likely to do things that are allowed, but that could still harm you depending on who's watching. Kiss your girlfriend. Do a silly dance. Participate in that protest. Use that t-shirt with the political message. Hold hands with your gay lover. The public space changes when you point a camera at it.

Don't worry too much about arguing with me -- I will lose this argument. Every day that passes, fewer people will remember what a world without constant monitoring looked like. You can't miss what you never experienced.

> Now if you want to straw man and say "well they can make anything illegal and use the cameras against you" - well sure.

A strawman is when you attack a claim that was not actually made by your opponent. Maybe the expression you are looking for is "slippery slope"?

> Come back to me when they do that,

"They" have already done that over and over in analogous historical situations. I can show them to you, but you will probably just say that I am exaggerating and that this is a different situation. Just as people did back then.

> until then I'll keep enjoying lower crime rates.

Crime rates have been going down for decades, long before all this new tech. The perception of crime rates has been going up, because of many things including the lowering standards of journalism. I live in a very safe big city where CCTV cameras are mostly illegal.
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GM has paid off the auto media for nearly a century now, you would be amiss not to at least suspect it.
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>They are essentially discounting the future to provide cheap services today.

This statement describes a problem I have with a lot of the Republican/Libertarian outlook. A lot of deregulation is just risking the future on today. If the EPA goes away all will be fine and dandy until we're all underwater. Consumers will choose the cheap option with no regard for the future.
I'd be slightly careful here about separating out the findings from the speculation.

The study[1] looked at what changed in the women's brains, the regions in which it changed, and then tested to see which areas 'lit up' when viewing a picture of their own child vs. other children. In addition measurements were taken over time to see how permanent the changes were.

The reasons for change and the actual/quantitative impact of the changes would have to come from another study. While what the "researchers thought" is interesting, it's not supported by any evidence, i.e. no measurements were taken to see if any of the suggested improvements were present.

[1] http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.44...
Currently quite a few people from the OCI community (including myself) are working on implementing a CRI-compliant runtime[1] around runC and the various OCI specifications as well as the containers/image and containers/storage projects. There's a lot of cool design to ocid which means that it doesn't require a daemon to be constantly running.

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o
pretty much everything has a vi-mode these days. all shells, tmux, browser via extension (vimperator/vimium/cvim/surfingkeys) or by default (uzbl et al), wm by configuration or default (bspwm/i3/awesome etc.).
intellij even has support for an .ideavimrc which surprisingly works quite well.
Besides time, what other benefits do you get from speed reading?
Author here: The point I tried to make is that GitHub has plenty of time compared to most of the other companies the raised VC and burn a lot of $. GitHub's ARR went up drastically, the underlying assumption in the article is that their recognized revenue will perform well too because of that shortly. Because they have at least 20 more months of money (and that's a conservative projection, ignoring credit lines, pre-paid contracts, etc.), they will not go out of business before their actual revenue increases (which could make them even profitable again immediately).
I think they are saying he parked his truck across the rails when it broke down

The article isn't really clear on the events, but I'm interpreting it a different way.

"he would have been less likely to misinterpret the visual cues and mistakenly turn onto the railroad tracks"

It sounds like he was driving along the main road, when the GPS instructed him something like "turn left", and displayed a junction with a 90º left turn: he turned left 10 yards too early, onto the railway track, rather than 10 yards later, onto the road running alongside.

He had abandoned it on the tracks with the headlights and hazard lights on and the driver’s door open.

It suggests that rather than breaking down, once on the tracks, he was stuck (maybe "beached" on the rails), and couldn't get the truck off the track.
Thanks for that. Can you suggest some additional reading?
It all depends on you. I hear a lot of people in the tech industry that are 40+ complain about the difficulty in getting a job, finding a team etc. But the reality is I am in that category and yes, startups can be a bit harder cause in general the older we are the more likely we have a life, kids and obligations outside of work. And yes, there are a lot of interview techniques are lacking in finding quality people and focus on the wrong things, but that isn't everywhere and it isn't honestly new.

Can you make the switch? It just totally depends on you. You will need to be aggressive in looking for work, you'll have to demonstrate you are qualified and you'll need to show people samples of work. The samples can be personal sites, little things you built, open source you contributed to whatever. You would be essentially a junior web dev, so your expectations of pay and position should be in line with that, if you accept those things and can do the work, absolutely you can make the switch.
> they're still figuring out what it's supposed to even be

"It" can be any distro. GNU/Linux distros aren't a single entity, and they never will settle on a common interface---that's a good thing. Larger distros like Ubuntu will, but if you're going to adopt this perspective, you'll need to start thinking about the individual distributions and companies/communities behind them rather than "the" GNU/Linux desktop.
I have horrible handwriting. It is really bad.

But OneNote and ten-finger-typing makes up for that. If I need to share it, I can easily copy it in to an email, everyone can receive these without needing another account.

You might want to look into http://www.codefoster.com/codeinonenote/, a code highlighter for OneNote
The Bolt is not Ugly; it's not as good looking as a Model S, but it looks very good for a car in it's class
Scary Tesla steering problem
My previous laptop was a windows machine that acted as a web browser, music/video player and VirtualBox host. All of my work was done in linux in virtualbox (and my SSH terminal was also bash running on linux in virtualbox).

My linux environment was very minimal though (mostly living in the terminal, used a tiling WM, vim as my editor). In many ways my mac environment isn't that different except without the tiling WM.

That setup worked quite well, although used more resources than if I hadn't used Virtualbox.
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It is fair to have doubts that charter schools will be regulated enough and held accountable by a guy who was largely elected on "getting rid of all that red tape".

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2014/06/22/mi...

When we turn children and education into a commodity, the problem is not going to get better. The system will be turned into a cost center for the country, and we'll get what we deserve per the usual.
Apologies, not yet (correction: see my edit in the parent comment). It's a newfound "love" of mine only for 2-3 months now (and I am a busy guy). I am just getting immersed in the art and short comics aspect for now. I haven't gone to reading the Blade Runner fanfics just yet. ;)

FWIW, Tumblr and DeviantArt have a lot of art and fanfic work in the cyberpunk genre. Pinterest too, to a lesser extent. You should start there.
Yes, my bad. Must have been confusing # of states with # of presidents
I'm not going to say this is the whole story, but...

I recently tried XMPP on Pidgin for the first time on my laptop (Ubuntu), and I hate it. There's something very wrong and very ugly about the UI. It's feels just wrong. And not just that, I had to jump thru numerous hoops before I could get the thing working.

I also recently tried to install Signal on my Xiaomi Redmi2, and it doesn't work. I don't know why but the registration always fails when "connecting to the servers", even though everything else on my phone works. (before I start getting responses about this, if your suggestion can be found on Google I already tried it)

I think some things, like messaging where it's easy to create an MVP but hard to get the number of users that actually brings in the value, the entire game is polishing your one client to reduce frictions and increase experience. WhatsApp works as flawlessly on mi Redmi2 as it does on any Samsung or any iPhone. When you have zero friction to join over time your user base grows. When you have enormous friction to join, where users have to be wrestling with your broken app, it just fizzles. This isn't the case for every industry, but seems to be the case for messaging. Another example is Telegram. At one point they were ahead of WhatsApp in terms of features, now they're behind. Regardless, they keep growing their user base. My opinion is this is because their UX is at least as good as WhatsApp and has just as little friction.
I just wish that mapping apps had information about traffic lights—"turn left in 2.3 miles" is much less useful than "turn left at the third light".
Depends on what you want. US usually has the highest $. You can also remote to get as much $ and as few costs.
Reporting it as a bug is a direct method of feedback - this trimming of functionality (for little good reason) shouldn't be accepted.