skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-A (poor) idea I have is to train people to do start-ups as a 'day job' with a vast social safety net to pick people up that fail at them. Just like HS is today meant for factory workers, you could change HS to make it meant for start-ups and the like. Its not a good idea, I know.-

Sounds like UBI with unnecessary complexity. If we provide a basic level of support, many may/would attempt a start-up or take other risks. As it stands now, many/most of us are just fighting to keep the remaining scraps that are left and have no room for big risks.
Actually I believe they said something like "You people are just placeholders until we can create a viable autonomous vehicle"
This:
https://github.com/pimterry/notes

This is not my repo.
How do you organize those 'notes' in Slack?
Mobile Chatbot Helps People Defeat Their Addictions in Private
If only everybody had such starry eyed optimism.

Rather it leads to the conclusion that "forget 9-5, the new "gig" reality will be closer to indentured servitude, and forget "successful happy life" while you're at it too, it will just be a living, if you're lucky. Oh and those other 9-5/non-gig jobs? They're on the wane...".
Day One is one of a very few apps I miss from Mac OS X, another being Alarms from Mediaatelier I think although that one disappeared from Mac OS X as well because the API it used was phased out.
Onenote.

For me the killer feature is the ability to put text wherever i want, and move it later, i just click where i want to write in the page and type, it really changed the way i take note, it feel more natural and more close to the "paper experience".

i tried opensource solution, but all the one i found allow only for "linear" note taking, witch is ok if i need to take a quick note, but if i need to "prototype" or brainstorm something i feel them to restrictive.

where onenote is not avaible or overkill i simply use markdown files, with git for versioning and Syncthing for syncronization.

edit: correct some typo
Nice one!

But it is not a full replacement firmware, only alternative book-reading application.

From the website: "I am working on a replacement (called OcherBook) for the Nickel application (the core of Kobo’s e-reader software stack)"
A fine-pointed Lamy 2000 fountain pen with Sailor black ink on Quo Vadis notebooks. Typing distracts me.
I'm not quite so sure what your point is. The examples you gave of places that don't do so well on the Joel test still sound like places most of us would not want to work.
I went about 20 years ago on a scuba trip to the "Outer Reef" (25 mi offshore). Paid a few hundred dollars for a guided tour of a few reefs.

Blew my mind so much I got off the boat, handed over my credit card and said I'd be back the next day to do it again.
Graph notebooks, the real, dead tree kind. I also like sharpie pens.
Default Notes on iPhone.

TextEdit > iCloud on desktop.
Drafts seems interesting for mobile (with nice Markdown support). http://agiletortoise.com/drafts/
A Telegram group with myself, only.
When its here you'll know.
> Yes, people seriously underestimate the damage done by carrying over the near-absolute monopolies granted by copyright, which were originally intended for superfluous creative works.

Explain the use of "superfluous" in that sentence, please.

> One example: copies of content kept in RAM qualify as infringing copies under the Copyright Act. Judges have been lamenting that in their decisions since the first one, but they feel the law must be interpreted that way. This has a lot of complicated consequences, and it's just a single example of how our technology law is badly damaged and needs repair.

Can you give some examples of judges lamenting that?

I don't see why you think this particular thing needs repair. Generally programmers and engineers do consider a program loaded into RAM to be a copy of the program. Copyright law uses a fairly simple, common sense definition of "copy" which generally includes things that most people would consider copies. So, we end up with programs in RAM being copies of the program on disk from which they were loaded.

But we don't want running a program that you have a legitimate authorized copy of on your disk to require extra permission from the copyright owner, so we need to find a way to make doing so not count as a violation of the copyright owner's copying right.

There are two ways to do that.

One way would be to change the definition of "copy" so as to not include it.

Another way would be to add a specific limitation on the copyright owner's exclusive rights that says they are not applicable in this case.

The first approach, changing the definition of "copy", is bad. First of all, it makes the legal term "copy" further diverge from the English term "copy", and in this particular case from what programmers and engineers mean when they say "copy". Second, nearly everything in copyright law depends on knowing what a copy is, so adding complexity to the definition to deal with one special case complicates almost everything.

The second approach addresses the particular problem at hand, and does not leak complexity into other parts of the law.

We went with the second approach. See 17 USC 117, "Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs" for details.

That's the approach for most special cases in the Copyright Act. Section 101 gives broad definitions, usually reasonably well aligned to the common understanding of the terms. Section 106 gives the copyright owner certain exclusive rights. Then there are a bunch of sections that reign in those rights somewhat, for example with fair use in section 107, library use in 108, and first sale in 109.

If we tried to handle all of that by diddling with the definition of "copy" to make doing those things not involve copies the law would end up ridiculously complicated.
What to think about when choosing a VCS for game development
I feel like Sony took over the mantle from Apple several years ago for putting out high quality and innovative products. Stuff like this is really cool to see.

Sony's cameras are the perfect example of modern prosumer tools, incredible quality, and thinking outside of the box. It would awesome if this translated into an iphone killer.
How Redesigning the Abrasive Alarms of Hospital Soundscapes Can Save Lives
I've never seen SXML before, but that looks way worse. All of Lisp's frustration of trying to match closing parens with none of Lisp's power.
Or the cost of living wherever they live.
I heard Young Poo has a featured track on Kendrick Lamar's next album
There is extraordinary dispute over this, and any account that claims otherwise should be distrusted.
People do that? And it's widespread? I've never heard of this.
A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
Yes, it is still possible, though increasingly harder to do (some of my friends expressed this explicitly and publicly). And even if it wasn't, silently doing your job is one thing — and enthusiastically supporting the current regime is another.
The "Gig Economy" may have started off with good intentions, but it's obvious to me that its really just a "Transition Economy". Almost all of those jobs are on the front lines when it comes to automation.
So then I wonder if with enough play, people can beat AlphaGo once more. Maybe would should let people have a chance to keep playing against AlphaGo till they recover from the flaws it finds in human games, and maybe human creativity can win out once more.
That's great that you found out chickens can be smart. You may be surprised at how clever fish are as well!
Actually you don't need to adhere to any standards. If there's nothing that inspires you - OK, you are just not passionate. It's normal, there are millions like you. Accept yourself, you are you, nothing to worry about.
Huh? 2200 calories of Brown rice would give only 50g protein, and 400g carbohydrates. It's not that you it's impossible to get lots of protein on a vegetarian diet - the issue is that it's very difficult to maintain a high ratio of protein to carbs and fat, since even 'high protein' beans and seeds etc have less than a 1:1 ratio.
Ask HN: Want to beta test DropZap World for iOS and tvOS?
It's not all about performance and scalability. Nginx is better, imo, because it has a better design and configuration.
Making Node.js service always alive on Ubuntu Server
I just looked around online and it's still impossible to find a DPT-S1 in Canada. There's no mention of when the US version of the DPT-RP1 will be available.

Which is a shame because I'd love to purchase this for reading technical books.
The poor have a safety net too, though.
I value my time and don't particularly like airports so when I search for flights, I look for ones with no connections. Of those, I look for flights with a departure and arrival time that works for me. If there is a Southwest flight that fits all those criteria, I book it because I've generally had good experiences on Southwest. If Southwest isn't in my search results, I just pick pick the least expensive option in my results set.
Workflowy. Simple and effective.
e.g. being able to determine one's own work schedule

This is, of course, something of a Hobson's choice. They can't work their own schedule; they have to work to the schedule of the temporary employer. The choice they have in this is to simply not work at time X, rather than move their work to time X.
Scalable Fonts and Zoom Detection IE9+ via MIMETIC JS
Russian man arrested in Spain at request of American authorities
> There is a (locally) famous quote from the Australian writer Donald Horne: "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck." (1964). A great many idiot politicians, jingoistic fools, and tourist offices are fond of repeating the first clause of this statement whilst omitting the latter, oblivious to the sharp irony of the full statement.

Yup. It's our very own version of "Born in the USA".
Vim + VimWiki
Has Apple Lost Its Innovation Mojo?: All Tech Considered
I have a directory ~/Documents/TODO/ inside which I have single file for each feature I'm working on. These files simply contain a list of items marked as completed or not completed using a tick/cross. It's simple, non-proprietary and is easy to put under source control.

For long-term note taking I use Evernote. This is for things like obscure git commands and 'how-to's.
Why a third category? Just classify them as employees.
Why does everything that might be flawed about the economy have to tie into the "American Middle Class". It seems almost this fabulist's position of Things Were Better Back Then, And Can't We Make America Great Again?
> Hard work will really only pay off for your employer

Convincing employees that it will pay off for them is basic marketing 101.
Traefik https://traefik.io/ is pretty cool.
Why the Videogame Industry Is Powering Down on Employees
Time scrubbing dishes enabled me to realize how lucky I was and that I should work harder in college.
For now, at least. The thing that will happen is that as they continue to "win", they find deeper ways into the platform. Cordova apps on Windows already run "first class" in the UWP app platform's JS stack. Electron apps don't currently, but there are bridges being built there too.

React Native and NativeScript are exploring different tactics beyond the most limited webviews on Android and iOS systems. Crosswalk and others explore yet another approach for bringing better webviews to such platforms.

At some point too, performance doesn't matter so long as the users are happy. A lot of technical folks notice performance, but most consumers do not. WebView-based application toolkits don't need performance to "win", they just need that sweet spot of developer productivity and user engagement that is much easier to do than you think, with or without "performance".
The gig economy would likely exist even if the middle class wasn't declining. In fact, there would likely be even greater demand for gig economy work if the middle class were thriving.
Thank you for the really interesting comments!
Yes, and changing fat molecules into trans-fat molecules isn't all that different than any other chemical reaction.

The devil is in the details, and nutrition touches upon highly complex systems. The point being, we've already seen how seemingly simple, innocuous changes to nutritional substances can have nasty consequences. To think this time is different is pure hubris.

I get your point, but you seem to be missing mine.
Not too many.

- Bring back the public interest requirements for broadcast licenses to shut down the right wing crazy on the airwaves.

- Restrict ownership of media outlets.

- Require that election districts overlap with contiguous existing geographically defined areas. Assign designation of districts to an independent commission and make it a crime for a political official to interfere with the commission.
They aren't employees. They provide their own materials, they set their own schedule.
Have you written about your setup anywhere?

I'm right now working on porting my manifests + kubectl manual k8s workflow to helm+gitlab-ci(to automatically build and push imagines and then deploy to cluster), but I'm only just at the stage of creating the helm charts, so any literature about how to set up a ci to build the Docker images, push them, bump the chart version, deploy to staging environment for every PR and so on is something I'm very interested in.
Handmade Hero - a complete game, from scratch, in C [0]
Jon Blow - new programming language (Jai) and game implementation therein [1]

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/handmade_hero
[1] https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88
Hum, but this project seems dead. Last update was one year ago and it's got only 1 contributor.

Can anyone recommend some alternative project (even for other e-readers)?
So... the original DQN paper already did Space Invaders as part of the ALE environment, getting better than their human player's score. The DeepMind source code as well as other reimplementations have been out for years, and likewise for Double Q-learning, so it didn't really need someone to reimplement it either. Looking at this paper, I'm not sure what is new or interesting, other than the experiment with using the Atari RAM as features (but even that doesn't seem as interesting as the paper which used MCTS on the RAM: "Deep learning for real-time Atari game play using offline Monte-Carlo tree search planning", Guo et al 2014 http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5421-deep-learning-for-real-time... ). Or is this just the report from an (impressive) student project and not intended to be groundbreaking research?
Is this actually happening? In legal terms, what does it mean?
Good work at devil's advocate. Maybe you can help me with this -- how can someone be a flat earther in the absence of any evidence of any edge to the surface of the earth? What is the counter argument to this?
I googled around for a bit and can't find any evidence for this enthusiastic support do you have any pointers?

This besides the fact that nginx is software and software doesn't really have opinions.
Happy with Asciidoc FX with gitlab as backend for now although I am sometimes looking for and might[0] be happy to pay for an even better solution.

[0]: yep. I sometimes even pay for inexpensive software just because I like the idea even if I don't end up using it.
Such as? At that point might as well just use a slimmer binary format without so horribly complicated parsing rules.
The top 10 books Americans tried to ban last year
Can you relocate? I have seen shops like this, but if you can relocate that expands your options by several orders of magnitude.

One example: where I work we have our choice of windows/mac/linux (though if you want to run a linux other than debian, ubuntu or redhat/centos, you're on your own as far as IT is concerned); workstation upgrades are every 3 years. I'm due for a new one in May, so I only have 8GB of ram right now. Every desk has at least two monitors, and every office has a door[1].

This is not in SV, nor is Fog Creek (where Joel wrote the "Joel Test" from).

It costs nearly $200k to employ a software developer after taxes and benefits, so not being willing to shell out a few thousand a year in tools that will give a performance benefit (even if it's just making that person happier in their job), is wasteful.

1: There have been points in the past where cubes were used as a stopgap while we were finding more square-footage, including when I started. The person getting me set-up apologized for putting me in a cube.
From https://ssl.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1012.pdf, you are in fact allowed to run macOS in a VM so long as you do so on Apple hardware:

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.
Personally, I draw an arbitrary line between fish and chicken intelligence.

This is true for most people except that pigs are smarter than dogs and many people won't eat dog meat.

Relative intelligence is difficult to measure. Would I eat a person if they were actually dumber than a chicken?

In a survival situation, not having a choice, sure. I would eat the dumb person before the smart dog. That is a strange thing to say though..
Not sure why you got downvoted, you are clearly speaking out of your experience working with different teams and expoisng real answers which many people could say loud every second day.
Other alternative readers for kobo include koreader: https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Alternative shells for kobo include the Kobo Start Menu: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266821

The kobo developers corner forum is very useful https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=247
I wonder if this could ever learn to play Spelunky? :-)
+1 for this..

I'm guessing the proprietors would have to sell chips in the marketplace to actually get money, unless Microsoft adds a Player.takeMinecraftCoins(int) function...
I'm a pretty big fan of taking notes with pen & paper then setting time aside to transcribe them to a markdown file and saving them in a GitHub repo.

The pen & paper part means I don't have to lug my laptop around so often - I try not to use meeting times to actually do things anyways. I figure if a handful of people are in a room together it's best to focus on the reason we're all in one place and pen/paper lets me do just that.

Then the digital archival is a way to force me to review my notes and commit the better parts of them to memory. So long as I can get that done within a few hours it tends to work well. Then they're available for me and others to text search accordingly.
1. Set up priorities

2. Focus

3. Take a break
Facebook's Sandberg says number of monthly advertisers tops 5M
https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/reverse-proxy/
Or they can learn some skills and work for a different employer or start their own business. The options are always going to be limited for those with the least skills that aren't learning new skills. It's 2017. Never before in the history of mankind has so much knowledge been accessible for so many at such a low cost (typically just the cost of a computer and internet access).
Maybe the idea of an everlasting supply of stable white-collar and well-paying blue-collar work was a mirage in the first place.
I feel like I'm missing some "between the lines" stuff, like, is this some sort of velvet-gloved veiled takeover attempt? I'm not saying that's what this is, but it seems like there's more than meets the eye here. Is there anybody with experience who might be able to comment on that? Either way it seems related to the fact that this probably wouldn't be getting discussed if the stock was doing well.
Sorry to hear that, meanness and hate reverberates through generations.
Calling this "a new form of currency" seems a bit odd. Its the same "fake" money used by every freemium game or arcade (tokens).
This must be the single most common use of nginx, I'm totally blown away that someone as prolific as you has never heard of it.
As opposed to closing tags? All decent text editors have matching parens highlighting.

SXML is much easier to parse and it's more concise.
Very nice. I love the idea of integrating tab saving with bookmarks. OneTab is great, but it's easy to rack up a stupendous number of saved links, with really important ones lost in the accumulated junk.

I've bounced back and forth through a couple different approaches and tools. I have a ton of browser bookmarks in Chrome, many of which are old even after I did some cleanup work a while ago. Plus Instapaper. And, of course, a ton of saved tabs in OneTab. I've toyed with a couple of open-source tools like unmark and bookmarks.public (git-based, which sounds fun but is really just a couple extra steps removed from your browser), but never really found something that satisfied all of my needs.

https://github.com/plainmade/unmark
https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public
Because it's one of the only politically acceptable ways of discussing capitalist exploitation.
And we often allow ourselves to be distracted by hypothetical future policies when discussing whether to allow current protections to be undermined.
While technically true, "most lazy people end up being poor" is still misleading. Most lazy people stay where they are, and there are already more poor people than rich ones. Statements about the resulting correlation aren't as constructive as statements about causation would be. "Most lazy people don't advance" is probably about as close as one can get to the original statement without being offensive.
We laud(ed) this largely because most are consumers and are enjoying a nice consumer surplus from the development. Also for some workers, it's been a nice way to turn spare time + depreciating capital into short term income. In a vacuum it looks like a clear win for all involved.

The larger trend is where it looks worrisome, and that's basically what we're considering as some time has passed.
why doesn't google just buy the damn thing?
I agree, gig economy is just a symptom. College grads aren't working as baristas and Uber drivers by choice, it's because the economy is absolute garbage and has been for nearly a decade now.
This story will probably get flagged and removed, but I think it's worth discussing.

Apparently United offered only $800 for that seat. As I understand it, they needed it to reposition crew so it was obviously worth a lot more than that to them.

I think there should be better consumer protection laws for situations like this. If United wants to oversell a flight there should be actual consequences for them besides some ridiculously low payment to customers for breaking their side of the deal. They should have to do something like a reverse auction.
According to this article:

>We have a model that allows us to give more than 50 percent of revenue to the creators

So it seems worse than both of those?