skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Word processors" were always a stilted compromise; they try to weave together the acts of composition and layout, when each necessarily constrains the other. As you compose a document in a word processor, you end up "fighting yourself"—making changes on the composition side that require matching changes on the layout side, or vice-versa. And not only this, the two tasks are mutually distracting—fiddling with layout after writing a single sentence can be used as a means of procrastinating from writing the next sentence; and endless copyediting can be used as a distraction from deciding on layout. A program that functions to do both tasks concurrently, is often far less than the sum of its parts, in productivity terms.

Everything is much simplified if you just avoid this weaving altogether, and adopt a content pipeline approach, as every commercial book publisher, newspaper and magazine does. In this approach, you use pure-composition programs for your composition, and pure-layout programs for your layout. When you are working on one, you are not distracted with the demands of the other.

In fact, two different people can be working asynchronously on these two components; and, indeed, if the work of one stage is finished first, this enables an extremely useful static constraint on the work of the other, simplifying the decision-making for it greatly. Layout can determine target word-count; or word-count and paragraph composition can decide layout.

What you don't have is the constant tweaking, pitting half-finished layout and half-finished prose against one-another. Each is effectively opaque to the other until the end of the process.

The most wonderful thing that has happened to composition in recent memory is the GUI Markdown editor. Until these, all composition programs that weren't simply plaintext, had at least some layout elements. (This is because their target format was RTF, and RTF contains things like per-line margin settings.) But .md is a fine format for storing compositions: it lets you specify the "tone" of text with markup, but contains no mechanism to (reliably) specify final appearance.

Combine such documents with a program like Publisher or InDesign (or, partially, LyX or Pages) for layout, and you've got a very nice workflow. And, as a side-benefit, the prose created during the composition step will be exactly what is needed for web publishing as well.
I argue with my friends all the time. To the point one of the wives threw up her hands and said her husband and I were like an old married couple.

But FB is different. It's like being in a big ballroom with all of your friends and acquaintances standing around watching you argue with one of them at the top of your lungs. It feels somehow boorish.
Just use Searchify?
> Since gaining entry into the US middle/professional class I have been informed numerous times that disagreeing with one's friends is impolite.

> I miss the times when I could say things like "No, what you're saying is dumb" without drawing shocked stares.

I think you may be mistaking cultural norms about the manner of expression of disagreement with a cultural norms against disagreement generally.

“I think, if you consider X, Y, and Z, that you would find that it's more case A than case B” may get a different reaction than “No, B is dumb.”
Isn't 100% of Wikipedia's money from donations? Maybe they don't need to raise money every year, but eventually they do need people to donate. MIT doesn't, they have other sources of funding. That was the point of the comparison.
SharePoint was a great asset for my proposal team over in Finance for version control issues and Word compatibility. Not a cure-all, but it worked for the non-technical folks well enough (and saved a lot of heart burn).
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> I've spent many years reading police reports and paying attention to how people are caught.

The jails are full with people who thought they were really smart. Reading police reports does not prepare you for the reality, it only gives you a theoretical knowledge of what life on the other side of the line is like. Ironically, it might be the worst possible source of input because it only shows you what did not work, it does not show you what did work because you'll never hear about those things.

> It's easy to be a keyboard warrior.

Precisely.

> But you're dismissive of anything you feel treads on your domain.

No, I'm dismissive of advice that could get people in a lot of trouble. It's funny how people will prefix even the mildest legal advice with huge disclaimers but it's perfectly ok to dish out tradecraft advice of which you admit you only have a theoretical understanding and which could easily get someone in trouble, jailed or even killed.

You might as well tell people to watch CSI for inspiration if they decide to go after the mob by their lonesome.

And no, people are not here for advice on how to start a war with organize crime on a budget, I can see how it is nice to fantasize about being some kind of vigilante super-hero but those are typically movies, not real life. In real life unless you have a powerful organization of your own behind you when you start messing with the dark side you will wind up dead. Talking tough is not going to get you points and clothes bought in a thrift store do not offer magical protection.

But every time you power up your cellphone you tell a lot of people that can be bribed where you are (burnerphones hide your identity only as long as you use them in places that are not associated with you), every time you walk out the door you leave a nice DNA trail, every time you use an app on your phone (and plenty of them just running in the background) will tell tons of people (and networks where you can buy this info for cents or even for free) where you are to within an even smaller radius and so on.

Being anonymous and staying anonymous over a long period of time are really not the same things. The risk of discovery goes up with every interaction and with the power of computers behind the party doing the search the fight is asymmetrical.

Let me give you one concrete example of how short the distance can be between being at large and the dreaded knock on the door.

Camarades.com had a bit of a problem with people stalking others and one lady in particular was taking her chances. For 10 seconds she once pointed her camera at something else than her body, a mirror in the room, which reflected part of the scene outside. That was all it took for some crazy Italian to figure out where she lived and to show up on her doorstep three days of continuous driving later. I'm sure she never saw that one coming and for you in the tech world this may seem like an 'obvious' mistake to make. But just like that you too will be making obvious mistakes, just different ones.
> breadth of experience for rust's userbase is much larger than e.g. C

Really? I think you mean the opposite here.
Yeah, and another complicating factor is that Facebook's control over your news feed feels invisible. How much pro-Trump content you see in your news feed feels like it's entirely the fault of how pro-Trump your friends are. How much pro-Trump content you see in your newspaper feels like it's the fault of the paper's editorial board, regardless of whether it's a letter to the editor or an official piece.
I think it's also valuable to take a look at how Joy handles quoting program fragments. I just wish there were better online resources around the language.
At my last job, we used https://retailmenot.github.io/shield/ to both handle versioning and our microservices. This lets you even entirely swap out the microservice between versions!
Do these companies that keep offering unlimited plans not know about reddit.com/r/datahoarder? I feel like the users of that subreddit alone will crush pretty much any cloud service offering unlimited storage plans.
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I use Twitter once in awhile, but I tend to use apps like Nuzzel, and CrowdTangle to get "curated" news from my friends/followers
Yikes, why still even use TPB when private trackers exist? It's not like they're that hard to get into if you dig a little bit on the internet.
Thanks! I agree -- we've literally been writing the docs all throughout the night, and don't expect this to be used by any customers yet :)

Security is definitely a concern when we have access to your data. In the coming week, we'll definitely open-source the backend and allow it to be deployed via Docker. We're also thinking about doing a complete on-prem solution -- email me if you're interested! (email in HN profile)

Thanks for the feedback!

+ write privacy / security policies to guarantee we never see nor touch your data; coming soon
That's probably true in the US, though I wonder if it is more important internationally.

There are a lot of people living under potentially abusive dictatorships.
Much like another reply to this comment; your sentiment is one I've heard frequently, but never comes along with any supporting data. It certainly feels like a reasonable statement; but anecdotally doesn't seem to jive with what I and friends have seen.

Furthermore, I find it hard to accept that if there are bubbles on social media they are materially different than the natural geographic and social bubbles from the pre-internet age. Again another topic light on actual data to make more informed conclusions.
Pretty much. You don't see nearly so much panic about the Twitter filter bubble because journalists consider it home, even though it's no less filter-bubbly and even though there's been no end of bogus claims that have spread virally through it - a surprising number of them started by real journalists.
If you select stringently for WBI ability, you'll get strong WBIers. However, you're also paying the opportunity cost of not selecting for other traits and skills that might matter a lot more.

+1 though for "Senior Whiteboard Engineer"--that term is genius!
A friend of mine is an extremely talented developer (between jobs actually) and he loves his tech gear. Specifically smart phone tech.

We had a long argument about usefulness, because as a Writer, I carry a small notebook and pen. Our joking back and forth went over stuff like "Battery Life" (Phone has a concern, notebook does not) and "Water Resistance" (neither scores that great), "Cost and Maintenance" and so on and so forth.

For my needs - writing notes - the little old school approach won, but it was inferior for his needs.
But you don't. You have only control over the former. History has shown us time and time again you don't have control over the latter.
I'm a plaintext evangelist but "the focus should be on the data" is not the only priority for the general user. The reason When the average layperson sees anything (Markdown formatted or not) in a Sublime Text tab, they see "code".

Rich-text, WYSIWYG editors give people more of a feeling of control and perceived ability to see the big picture. Sure, we can argue that this impression is largely superficial and adds more distraction than anything. But that's because we're experienced computer users who know that "code" directly relates to what WYSIWYG displays, i.e. WYSIWYG is just a middleman. But this is something that has to be experienced to really be grokked. If it weren't for sites like CSS Zen Garden that made it clear how style could be completely separate from content, I'd probably still be making pages in Dreamweaver today.
21st century? This has been an issue for about two decades--since browsers first gained the ability to play sound--going well back to the '90's.
Yes,

especially if you have records that not even change often.

If you have 300,000 items in an index that you want to sort in 4 ways and want to update eg the price daily, you already consumed 36 million operations of the biggest non enterprise plan that includes 50 million operations.

Just by testing and tweaking the index every other day, we already use up to 500,000 operations.

But then again setting up search infrastructure in different countries and synching it in realtime also comes at a hefty price. So we will stick with Algolia for now, the speed is breathtaking and we will never be able to achieve 20ms responses with eg an Elasticsearch cluster.
Wikipedia is part of a non-profit whose purpose is to spread free information in the world, while MIT is also (supposedly) a non-profit which takes thousands of hundreds of dollars from its students. Not sure if Wikipedia has any other sources of income, but whatever they may be, they're not even close to the potency of MIT.
What/who is "Brave"?
I would suggest re-doing the exercise on an 8 bit cpu with < 8 K of RAM. That will open your eyes to what is so special about Forth.
nothing that shows up on any sites when I enter my name and the state. I can delete particular tweets and facebook posts from years ago.

I think I was just having a bad day.
I believe you can disable the restriction for particular sites if required.
Ok, what's a word that's the opposite of hyperbole and a verb? We've done that to the title above.

I haven't read this article, but Bershidsky tends to be one of the less hyperbolic pundits, so this is a good time to remember that major-media article writers don't write the headlines.
identity politics divides us
Don't get the finance degree. Everything they teach you will be theory that is literally from the 1950s and has been empirically proven incorrect. Almost all the jobs open to you will require you to be fundamentally dishonest.

Go for a math or CS degree.
Just today MIT receives anonymous unrestricted $140 million gift.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/07/mit-receives-mi...

$13.2 billion dollar endowment.

Operating budget of $3.3 billion dollars.

$1.6 billion dollars in sponsored research.

I think my wallet can safely stay in my pocket.
Winning a Nobel prize in itself doesn't automatically make a person non-ideological. As others have pointed out, Mises and Hayek have faced (justifiable) criticism for being too ideological, which you can't wave away by simply stating that they're Nobel laureates.
Then there's the Google debacle. Google bought Boston Dynamics, Schaft, and some other robotic startups in 2013, and they were seldom heard from again. The companies that had customers, such as Bot and Dolly, lost them. For a while, the industry assumed Google had the Next Big Thing in the works, but after a few years, it came out that Google's robotics effort had collapsed. That was a real disappointment.

Boston Dynamics's hydraulic technology is just too heavy and bulky. Big Dog was impressive, but it took $120 million to get it working as the Legged Squad Support System. Then the USMC rejected it as not useful in combat. Atlas version 1 was basically a Big Dog mod. Version 2 is better, but still weighs 150Kg.

What you want in an actuator is a spring with adjustable spring constant, neutral point, and damping factor. Muscles are like that. You can do that pneumatically, and that's been done at CWRU, but a compressed air supply is needed. Series elastic actuators are a research tool for faking muscle-like motion. They're a good way to let a motor with a high gear ratio handle a shock load, but they're inefficient; there's no energy recovery. Humans recover over half the energy in running as elastic storage in muscles. (Cheetahs, around 90%) Ideally, you'd like a direct-drive electric motor, which some SCARA robots have used. They're large-diameter devices, though. Schaft used liquid-cooled electric motors and didn't gear them down too much, which worked well. Their humanoid was a great piece of engineering. Electric linear actuators (real linear, not screw drives) once seemed promising but didn't work out well.

(I used to work on control algorithms for legged robots. A key insight there is that slip control dominates; priorities are traction control, then balance, then goal. Once you get off a flat surface, slip control becomes more important.)
I'm working on GNUnet[1]. It needs a lot of help.

[1] https://gnunet.org
> That is a very anti-consumer way of looking at it. Storage, especially for businesses, is not like a gym membership.
> These bait and switch tactics are harmful for the consumer as well as the industry itself.

The point of the comparison was to stress the fact that unlimited amount of space doesn't necessarily mean for an unlimited amount of time.

> Storage, especially for businesses, is not like a gym membership.

I though that the unlimited plan was only for personal use. If it was open to businesses I understand why it became so quickly a money sink for Amazon.
Thanks! Got data you want to explore in your database but can't be bothered to spin up some React boilerplate? Use us instead!

Our goal to let ordinary people build the tools they want, much like Excel has. To that end, I think we're missing these features:

- input and store data, instead of connecting to a postgres db
- build wrappers around APIs so you can pull in / write data to/from anywhere
- make it as non-technical as possible, but building a GUI query editor, and possibly changing the widget templating syntax
Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
For routine care, people with insurance have a copayment that's fixed and printed on their insurance card. They care about and can easily find that price, and it's the price they pay, so why should they care what's going on behind the scenes between the doctor and their insurance company?
For a <5Kb library, I recommend removing the underscore dependency. You should make this as lightweight as possible if you want a lot of adoption.
Yugoslavia and Poland where the two socialist countries where citizens were allowed to travel to the west. Exceptions: both countries were relatively poor and didn't mind a few people leaving (also in Poland (PPR) the government used to make consessions when it faced popular pressure)
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Yes.. this is something our startup is working on fixing. How you sort and how you prioritize your fields to be searched are all configurable at query time.

If you pay for a million records, you should be able to store a million records.

https://searchera.io

We are currently in beta and our website is not fully up but the demos give an idea of what is possible.
I think Facebook could actually be really great for democracy, but for a couple of huge flaws:

First, the lack of a real threaded comment system. When replies below the first level all appear at the same depth, it becomes extremely difficult to have a real back-and-forth debate and nigh impossible to read/participate in someone else's discussion. It is not conducive to substantive dialogue.

Second, the lack of a dislike/downvote, particularly an anonymous one. When one shares something they agree with and only see that some (if any) of their friends like it, they might figure that the rest just didn't see it. Very rarely will someone register their disagreement with a comment because, even when you're receptive to discussion, a real discussion cannot be had because of the aforementioned shitty comment system. Worst of all, when you disagree with most of what a friend posts (and aren't the type to carry on pointless arguments all the time, or don't feel comfortable sharing your disagreement), having no way to easily register your disapproval, you quickly tire of seeing their stupid posts in your feed and the temptation is to unfollow them, further insulating them from dissent.

If people who post crap saw that many of their friends gave it a thumbs down, they might not think themselves right all the time. If you could hold a real back-and-forth discussion with someone and have it be readable by others, and see everyone's approval/disapproval of those comments, you might feel more inclined to participate. The conversations would better reflect the opinions of one's social group. There would still be some bubble effect, but it would be greatly moderated because hardly anyone has only friends who agree with them about everything and their friends who disagree would have a way to make their disagreement known by engaging in a substantive conversation or at the very least in the form of adding a dislike to their post.
A better characterization would be "the first mover fighting off large competitors". (Unless I'm misremembering) There was no direct equivalent of Dropbox at the time. I had tried everything from Skydrive to rsync. Dropbox solved a real problem with storage at that time.

(I don't use them anymore because they are too expensive but good for them that they are able to charge so much)
6 people controlling your bubble is still better than 5. Especially if the new guy is at war with the old guys.
Thereby enforcing your own filter bubble ;) I have one "friend" in my feed, former colleague, and he continually shares all sorts of things that I don't remotely agree with & find pretty racist, Islamophobic etc. However, I keep him in my feed just to remind me what other people are thinking about, believing and sharing. I'm continually tempted to block him though.
Any advice on where to look? I majored in finance because I thought this is what I would learn. Instead they told me to trust in DDM. Waste of money.
Walled Gardens - Do consumers really feel that it's a big enough problem? As for filter bubbles, a consumer need only visit another news site, right?

I hope I'm wrong about this.
> we will never be able to achieve 20ms responses with eg an Elasticsearch cluster

Why not? Assuming good hardware, why isn't that possible?
I read this as saying "not depth", that is, C programmers will have a deep understanding here, but since Rust is drawing in a lot of new blood, they on average will not.
I think the original point here is that almost everyone interacts with google.com daily.

As such, if a company with a non-add business attaches a tracking business to their existing domains, they can circumvent the deletion policies.
Saying something "requires unsafe".

Literally means "something violates the safety model".

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Here is the truth about safety guarantees. You can do a lot valid things type systems prevent you from doing. You can do a lot of valid things if/else/for/while prevent you from doing.

But 99% of the time is isn't worth it. Following the rules, even with strange BS they create is easier than managing the mess of GOTO's you'll find yourself in a year or two.
They dominated the first DARPA robotics challenge because of this and got bought up by Google.

Which screwed them up. That still annoys me. Google bought up most of the leading robotics startups in 2013 and ran them into the ground. I wonder what happened to the people. Did they end up in other parts of Google, probably working on making people click on ads?
I don't think that the many eyes make all bugs shallow style of approach is one people should be relying on for their security. Ever since shellshock (which was present in a very popular open source program for 25 years (1989 -> 2014)) there has been more effort applied to open source libs (e.g. the Internet bug bounty programme) but that's still a vanishingly small percentage of libraries that are being covered.

What I'd say is that given an equal amount of security effort an open source lib is more likely to have higher security, however by far and away the most important factor here is the amount of security effort employed and that is not generally correlated with the software being open source.
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It needs to be echoed into somewhere on the page. Not necessarily stored on the server.
...which can be stymied by using first-party cookies for lead attribution, which is exactly what webkit is recommending that sites switch to. Voila!