skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you promote your blog articles?
I noticed that posting just once to Twitter/FB/LinkedIn/HackerNews works so-so. Some articles get surprisingly little number of clicks. If you're a blog author, what do you use to promote your articles?
My dad's old stereo receiver from the 70s. It was easy to connect an MP3 player invented decades later.

By contrast, my 5-year-old car has a useless built-in GPS that can't be replaced.
10 Reasons Python Rocks for Research (And a Few Reasons It Doesn’t)
For anyone that needs to implement grid-based editing in their application, here is my two sense:

I have spent the past few months looking at a variety of grids in react. The requirements for my grid were

1) drag and drop update columns (like excel)
2) editable single cells
3) column sorts
4) column resize
5) searchable table
6) column level search
7) double click column resize (like excel)

I obviously was not able to find any that did of these things well. I started out looking at / modifying the code for:

adazzle.github.io/react-data-grid/examples.html#/all-features

But quickly realize the horizontal/vertical scroll performance was horrible on OSX Chrome. I ended up using facebook fixed-data-grid. Unfortunately they are no longer maintaining it but I am using this fork:

https://github.com/schrodinger/fixed-data-table-2

I have had two problems with fixed-data-grid, and the performance is awesome. It is very easy to extend.
I get it - it's one of the reasons I don't really get excited about some of the higher end pencils (and why I avoid most mechanical pencils) -- the graphite feel is silky smooth, almost feeling like writing with a ball-point, but I am accustomed to the way the pencils I'm used to feel on paper.

It's just one of those things, I guess. I think of it this way -- I buy the cheapest coffee beans on the market because when I started drinking coffee, it was at my first job where the boss was really cheap. The coffee came out of this huge can with a white label and large bold-faced text that read "Arabica Beans". He'd also regularly just throw more grounds into the filter cavity without tossing the old stuff and just "rebrew". This stuff tasted like dirt, but because that's what I got used to drinking, it's what I think of as "coffee". I can't make myself swallow Starbucks as a result.
Netbeans.

Sublime text.

KDE 3 and KDE 5.

My fathers old IBM 486. (Had working suspend resume back in 95.)

The G3 back in military.
Kim DotCom claims a victory here. He was arrested for criminal copyright infringement, judge ruled that is not a crime in NZ ( it's a civil offence not a criminal one ). Now his original arrest warrant which mentioned this non-crime faces validity issues. Case continues...
Yes, this is by far the worst app on my phone.
Quickbase and NetSuite. Can't decide which one is worse.
Seriously I really believed this thing: back in the days when I was practicing Ninjutsu I ate carrots 2 times a day!

I always thought that it didn't work just because you needed a few years of carrots eating to get results.

Now I feel fooled and by a 75 yo fake news at that!
Add actual weapons fired from car to car and you've got something that I'd pay money to watch.

So pretty much the movie Death Race but with self driving cars.
a book, with some strikingly similar ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_Larry
It looks like this is neither an editorial nor a hard news story, but rather a column[1]. The difference being an editorial is an opinion piece (typically?) representing the publication, and a column is a recurring opinion piece by named individuals. At least that's what wikipedia says--I can never keep these terms in my head.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-interpreter
Ask HN: Pricing comparison switching from Cloudfront to Imgix
Would love to hear some stories about people switching between the two or mashing them up for an optimal setup.
What services do these generally work with?

Facebook? Google? Twitter?

And which not?
I administer my company's internal Confluence server and author most of the content, and I have a few complaints but overall I love using it. What do you dislike about it?
Probably (Linux) Skype. I have a phone number with them that I depend on, so I keep using it.
>It might help reduce emissions directly in city centers, but the power plants are generally not that far from large cities anyway. Since EVs are also much heavier in general (Tesla P85D is ~4936lb vs a Corvette at ~3347lb or a Civic at ~2738lb), even though they are pretty efficient, they're still pretty close (when I ran the numbers before, they were higher) in greenhouse gas emissions once you factor in how much energy it takes to drive one vs an ICE vehicle.

Bigger issue with weight is the road wear and tear it causes. The effect isn't even just linear, but much more than that – some studies have calculated that road wear increases to the fourth power in increased vehicle mass[1].

By that account a 5000 lb. Model S causes 16 times the road wear compared to a 2500 lb. compact car. Also, cars do not “eat” the road, they pollute the local air with it (especially the smaller particulates are very nasty stuff indeed in heavily trafficked areas).

[1]: http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf
Countries don't arrest/extradite people for actions that aren't criminal in said country.
Serena Dimensions, proprietary configuration management
My dad was in the industry for ~35 years, but he wasn't a nuke. In the late 70s it was easy enough to get in with a 2 year degree (which is what he had), now an engineering degree is required. Many of my dad's coworkers were from the Navy, though at least one was a Seal rather than a nuke.

From what I got from him, its not like many people are clamoring for these jobs, or have the necessary credentials. It seems like anyone who could do them could get a job as a civilian nuclear engineer. The problem with working in nuclear is that...they only put nuclear power plants in fairly bad locations (NIMBY is a big problem), so you are either stuck with a very long commute or are living in a rural area.
Which is sad because the pre-acquisition confluence wasn't even bad...
Sharepoint, Rally, Chatter by Salesforce
The Apple TV remote control has to be up there, because clearly it was designed for use in a lab rather than a darkened room.
I agree. However, most of the info. I've read comes from "health journalist" Bill Sardi. Despite the sound ideas, he is still brushed off as a crack-pot. Nevertheless, I'm betting on the "over-mineralization" theory of aging.

I doubt it will ever become accepted. People seem to like to think in terms of genetics (because that's what the "experts" talk about most of the time) and "hi-tech" dreams (e.g.nano-bots killing off cancer). Even when epigenetics is mentioned, they still get it wrong when applied to age-related illnesses.
Oh great, a race and gender discussion based on an internet user's personal opinion. That's going to be fascinating!
Looks like it could be useful.

For anyone who wants to play with Windows 10 virtual desktops, just FYI, can use the keyboard shortcut Win + Ctrl + Left Arrow/Right Arrow to move between virtual desktops (might have to create a second virtual desktop before this works, I can't remember).
This is an old idea that is finally coming to fruition.

See a Microsoft paper from 2011 that prominently features cookie isolation [1]. Or a 2012 proposal in Mozilla's bug tracker [2] which resulted in some proof-of-concept code early on, a writeup in 2013 hosted on Github [3]; blogged about independently and contemporaneously by others [4], which hit HN [5].

I've always taken a dim view on cross-domain requests in general [6] and the sprawling set of specifications (like most security headers) us developers have to learn and implement properly to stay one step ahead [7], and am not particularly enthused that this is opt-in instead of a heavy-handed mandate like some other recently-introduced features, the default opt-in is the more-secure but essentially session-destroying version meaning it's guaranteed to encourage a long and impassioned debate about whether Strict or Lax is the preferred balance.

It's fascinating to go way back to ~2006-2008 and read about when CSRF was first starting to be recognized by mainstream evangelists, commentators, developers and decision-makers as a problem instead of a feature of just how the web works.

This article on DarkReading from 2006 [8] was soon after cited by the OWASP wiki [9], Jeff Atwood first wrote about it in 2008 [10] and admitted its sublteness yet seriousness took him by surprise, and yet it's amusing that going back to 2003 you can find references to CSRF by that name and instructions on how to protect against it [11] -- the author of the 2003 article, Chris Shiflett, is credited in the announcement about the 2008 Felten & Zeller paper [12]: "On the industry side, I'd like to especially thank Chris Shiflett and Jeremiah Grossman for tirelessly working to educate developers about CSRF attacks."

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/atlanti...
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795346
[3] https://github.com/mozmark/SameDomain-cookies/blob/master/sa...
[4] http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/02/rethinking-cookies-origi...
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5183460
[6] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=niftich%20crossdomain&type=com...
[7] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=niftich%20another%20damn%20hea...
[8] http://www.darkreading.com/risk/csrf-vulnerability-a-sleepin...
[9] https://www.owasp.org/index.php?title=Cross-Site_Request_For...
[10] https://blog.codinghorror.com/cross-site-request-forgeries-a...
[11] http://shiflett.org/articles/foiling-cross-site-attacks
[12] http://freedom-to-tinker.com/2008/09/29/popular-websites-vul...
I'm not sure I've ever read a paragraph with as many twists and turns and unanswered questions as the description of the radioactive hand-towel in this article:

"In 2006, the most radioactive object ever discovered by Scotland Yard was found at the base of a hotel laundry chute in London. Two Russian FSB officers had traveled to the U.K. to take out a dissident using liquid plutonium. They succeeded in poisoning the man but only on their third attempt. After they finished, the two men, who had little knowledge of the material, poured the most toxic substance known to man down their hotel drain and disposed of a polonium-soaked hand towel in the hotel’s laundry chute. The hand towel was sent immediately to the U.K.’s Atomic Weapons facility."

It reads like poorly written fiction. Surely, it wouldn't take trained assassins 3 attempts to kill a person with the most toxic substance known to man. Surely, the people who supplied them with the liquid plutonium would include some basic care and guidance instructions with it. Finally, the story ends with a hand towel being delivered to an Atomic Weapons facility.

It's like a fire at a Sea Parks - the mind boggles at what series of events happened.
So glad someone peeled away the lies to get to the root of the matter. This fallacious carrot shtick must come to an end.
Please comment civilly and substantively on HN or not at all. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13688417 and marked it off-topic.
I'll take a hack:

1. Imagine the retina as a field of neurons that are receptive to light. Imagine different types of neurons are sensitive to different types of light (RGB). Each person has two copies (or alleles) of the R, G, and B genes. The R & G genes are on the X-chromosome.

2. In a color-blind person, the R & G genes merge to form a R-G allele that is sensitive to some red-green combination. Thus, men who carry this R-G gene have cells that express B and R-G genes and thus are red-green colorblind (they can't distiguish between the two because they only have one type of receptor for the two). Remember they only have one copy of these R and G genes.

3. Women might carry the R-G allele, but in those cases their retina as a whole display R, G, B, and R-G. These people are known as heterochromats can can distinguish colors better than normal people. Note that X-inactivation leads to cells even having R-G allele, or R or G gene.

4. It's rare for a woman to have two R-G alleles. When they do, they are red-green colorblind.
It depends on what world you operate in. For science-related work, then yes, I agree it's a dealbreaker. SILE is currently focused towards humanities publishing where not having math support is not really that big a deal. But I would like to see it added, and have been looking into how hard it would be to get MathJAX support.
We have Bamboo which I would consider the worst of the Atlassian stack.
Access rights, submodules and remote agents don't mix well.
I stand corrected: the type that's quickly forgotten after qualifying on a boat.
I don't understand. The 'practical steps' for one to become a millionaire is to be and act and look like one is frugal?

This will probably result in being a millionaire..as in one single lonely million.

Money is the easiest thing to create..they print it to create it, you know.

Being and feeling rich..on the other hand is entirely different.
This stuff just scratches the surface. They wouldn't post official training materials that went in depth on how ship specific systems work (even for older systems that may no longer be in use).
> using a known light source and a large enough set of color swatches with known response curves? Inferring device parameters should just be solving some system of equations given enough constraints, and if you overconstrain the system you also get an estimate of how much noise is in your parameters.

If that's true, and those constraints aren't terribly well understood, it would make for a good machine learning problem. Fwiw.
I'm still running google analytics but I don't look at it anymore, the spam is unbearable and I don't have time to figure out how to create filters. Its not my problem to figure out either. I'm really excited for Mirrorshades. Keep it simple.
Lately for me it's the iOS Music app. Every iOS release it gets further away from the original purpose. Off the top of my head, the "Search" screen used to show the last 10+ things I searched for (artists, playlists, songs, etc). Now it only shows the last 3 things I searched for, and fills the rest of the screen up with what's trending on the iTunes store. I didn't ask for that!

It also regularly refuses to play music which has been downloaded to my iPhone because my cell signal isn't strong enough. I have to put it in airplane mode when I'm on the subway.
"The team is so kind, helpful, and responsive."

Founder of ChartMogul here...thank you for the nice comments, you made our success team's day! <3
Basecamp 3.

Projects list is a pain in the arse and the layout is weird. Emailing a client involves witchcraft and switching to some whole new client interface. Doesn't have time tracking, have to use yet another garbage app to do that. People keep using Campfire instead of Slack. Everyone gets a notification for everything by default. So much goddamn white space on this thing. MY BROWSER IS MASSIVE, USE IT. The timeline thing under projects feels like someone thought it was clever so they included it, in reality it's all squashed up and has no real purpose.

Can I just mention this separately. "Like this? Clap for <Name>" - is that supposed to be a sarcasm clap? Like seriously has anyone ever used that legitimately? The only time I'd use it if there was a message "oops I deleted the server" or similar.

I am going to throw a damn parade the day we find an alternative.

Edit: Oh also 3.basecamp.com is stupid. Use your domain.

Also when I log in why am I suddenly on 37signals.com. I get there's a switcher to go back to the (slightly more tolerable) Basecamp Classic but what's this domain about. Branding all over the damn place.
Siri via CarPlay, because it makes me scream with frustration with 75% likelihood upon use.
Sleeping is fasting, that's why the first meal of the day is called break/fast. It only takes about 6-8 hours for food to be digested, when you aren't digesting, you're fasting. Skipping a meal is fasting, doesn't matter if you're hungry or not, if you aren't digesting, you're fasting.
getting a travel card in stockholm subway/bus system. Absolute nightmare
Funny - I have much the same feelings as you, but I believe in individual guilt rather than collective.

If an individual human doesn't seek work, does lots of oxy/other drugs [1], and refuses to do work that Mexicans are happy to do, I similarly don't consider their plight a priority. I hold this view regardless of who demographically similar people voted for.

I'm curious why are your sympathies based on collectivist voting habits rather than individual behaviors. To me that's just such a strange way to view things.

[1] I recently learned that approximately half of the male leisure class take pain medication daily, and they mostly just sit around watching TV and playing video games. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21...
Ergonomics is very personal. I rest my palm on the CST trackball so my wrist is in a (near) neutral position and fingers are positioned with easy access to the controls. I manipulate the ball itself with my pointer and two other middle fingers usually with the phalanges proximales part.
I use it for everything that my TV doesn't have a native app for, which is primarily Crunchyroll. Occasionally it's fantastic for random things -- my local soccer club FC Cincinnati was playing a preseason match yesterday that was only watchable via a livestream on the venue's website. Pulled it up on my phone, and sure enough, the little Chromecast button appeared, and it streamed without issue -- was anticipating having to hook up my laptop to the TV instead.
I put up with it for 12 years. It was genuinely a highlight of switching jobs when I got to leave that behind.
I eat nothing AT ALL and just drink water enough to not be thirsty.
With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
JIRA is horrendous. The search is a pain.
I agree & sympathies with you all. I also think technology plays a vital role in helping us better understand the content of ones character. A little bit of self promotion but platforms like www.peertal.com can maybe help us better understand people & their relationships with the world. Our next UI release in March should make it more user friendly. Ping me if you're interested in helping or collaboration. We need all the help we can get....
Signal can now be used without Google Play Services
Everything, depending on resources available. There are hundreds of ways to promote, free or paid. The best one is to build your own loyal user base/mailing list and announce each new blog post. Guest posting is great, but requires a lot of effort.
Maintenance might be a bit difficult...
Rails::API vs. Sinatra vs. Grape
Declarative state machines for Redux: Reduce your async-state boilerplate
Quickbooks Desktop - I've had a long history with it going back well over 10 years, the basic edition all the way to Enterprise. It is consistently a headache at wherever I was working at the time. I still to this day see businesses struggle with it when they move beyond just one computer using it especially. Performance, stability and data corruption all issues that still come up even in the latest versions.
Just a heads up that the landing page's dependency on emojis makes it look very confusing on Ubuntu 16.04

http://i.imgur.com/S9zOiDY.png
Atom. Because I sort of love it, and then it freezes up for just long enough to kill my train of thought.
Independent virtual desktops per monitor would be my most missing feature in Windows 10's implementation. Just something similar to the "Displays have separate Spaces" feature from macOS.
That's a minor quibble compared to how far they've come from where they started.
If you're craving more interview with him, there's a pretty interesting podcast with patrick hosted by vox's Ezra Klein. it was useful for giving lots of context to somebody whose tweets i had spent a fair amount of time reading but who i didn't really have a grasp on (other than knowing about stripe): https://soundcloud.com/panoply/eks045-patrick-collison-ads
theimdbforum.com
Post on a subreddit that relates to your blog
I didn't say anything about disbelieving any women - I take issue with simply "guessing" that stuff like that happens all the time. That is just confirming bias with bias, completely removed from reality.

Apart from that, I wonder what evidence you are talking about? References? How often are claims waved away? Or is that just something you intuitively know?

And by the way, people coming out in response to such an article is also just classic confirmation bias. You need to put stories in relation to the total workforce before you claim almost everybody gets harassed.
They have a pricing consulting business that finances it (http://www.priceintelligently.com/) so the data feeds their consulting business (I'd imagine). I use Profitwell and love it.
I thought it was an upcoming hip new alternative site here to replace the endless search results of "Closed. Off topic."
Asana. I don't want to open links I get by email, because I know it takes always forever to load all the js crap.

I also like to use my arm chromebook, which is perfect for tasks, but Asana literally kills it performance wise.

Fuck your all fancy javascript, I can make the same app using jquery and it will fly. Unfortunately people I need to use it with wouldn't use my app.
What is the “--” operator in C++?
One of the interesting things that Apple seems to do in MacOS is to remember specific screens. Plugging into them recalls a previous display arrangement setup. I noticed this when I had two external screens at work, and one at home, and when I moved my Macbook between work and home the arrangement would stay correct, even though they were on either side at work and above at home.

Sadly this is something Windows 10 does not do well. When I plug my Surface Pro into an external monitor my app moves from the laptop screen to the external screen and stays 'full screen'.

Here is a simple example of what I would appreciate if it existed:

I am at work, I am connected to two large screens. I put Outlook on my right screen at about 1/4 the size of the screen. I disconnect, all my windows jump to the laptop screen (great) and I have outlook in full screen mode. Now I reconnect my dual monitors. I'd love Outlook to jump back to where it was, and the size it was, on that right screen when I unplugged. Now I get home and plug into a 2K screen (rather than the 4K screen at work) and I want Outlook to be a bit larger on that screen. When I unplug I want it back on my laptop full screen, when I plug in at work, back to the right monitor quarter size, when I get home back to the monitor about half size.

Remember which screens I plug into, remember what the app settings were when I last plugged into that screen. Restore them when I re-attach.
VMware vcenter, hey, let's make vcenter fresh and modern, let's make the management tool in freaking flash! This was even after the 'rise of' html5. It is by far the most painful tool I've ever used, it's so bad that you eventually start to miss the horrid Windows only client
Outlook is incredibly powerful, but wow is it a pain to use and terribly laid out.