skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my town it increased traffic (and road accidents). Players would drive up to the nearest Pokestop, collect their loot, and drive to the next one. I saw more than a few drivers make sudden turns or stops when an interesting spawn would occur. I don't really miss the craze.
"Ridiculous" is right, especially from a UI perspective --- it still puzzles me why they would design it so that by default all the tabs are crammed into the place which used to be the titlebar, making it difficult to both read the title and find the tab you're looking for.

I've seen others start opening multiple windows when the tabs get too small. I usually do that to keep tabs grouped into "pages I am unlikely to view simultaneously".
I frequently play a little game with Chrome:

1. Open up Window->Task Manager

2. Sort by CPU

3. Tap back and forth between tab clusters with single digit+ CPU usage and the "End Process" button as they bubble to the top of the list

4. Try not to kill extensions

5. When I'm not seeing too many >1% processes, sort by memory usage

6. Kill everything over 99mb

7. Continue enjoying Chrome

Every time I do this little dance, I think: this would be much more fun as a little Space Invaders style video game. Wave 1 of enemies would be processes that bubble above 1%. Extensions would be friendlies. Wave 2 is high memory processes. It'd be fun to get a little score every time.

Of course, Chrome should just have a "use less resources" button that did all of that for you.
Except those who end up out of a job, and unable to provide for themselves and their families.
Out of curiosity, what are your customization args for Iosevka?

I do like it a lot, but find myself going back and forth between it, Fira Code, Pragmata Pro and Operator Mono.
- Blizzard can't wipe your balance

- You can't destroy anyone's balance after you've issued them currency

- Balances are publicly verifiable

- Balances can be stored in one's mind

... lots of things. Tons of affordances differ from a game currency.
I start doing that, but have made an effort to always start a week with a fresh browser, one tab open. If I haven't read the article before the week was up, clearly it wasn't important enough.
Obviously you haven't been to Portland lately. Any plot of land that doesn't have an overnight closure turns into a homeless camp.
When you're reading an article on a subject you don't know much about and it cites many articles, and each of those cite many articles, it can grow quite quickly
It used to be keynote (the original)[1]. The format was really useful to me[2] in that you had the left-hand side panel, common in many PIMs, but it also had tabs to further organize by category/field.

Since I moved over to Linux, I settled on ZIM / Desktop Wiki[3]. I love that it's directory/file-based. The organization is done via directories. The content are text files. I no longer have to worry about whether alternateOSx or mobileOSy will support my content. Any filemanager will do... in a pinch.

[1] http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html

[2] screenshots: http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote_screenshot.html

[3] http://zim-wiki.org/
A better way to solve the housing crisis – tax land, not development
Thanks for your response! Most of my knowledge isn't personal experience, it's from speaking with other people and I will admit it isn't super comprehensive.

I know that there is a distinction to be made from EMRs and EHRs right? (I thought EMR was the electronic version of the old paper medical record, while EHR was designed to create a more longitudinal view of the patient's care).

Yes I did know that though two hospitals with EPIC's system will still face interoperability issues due to varying data dictionaries, but I didn't consider the difficulty in updating features, etc.

I agree and recognize that the incumbents are not pushing to make major changes (after all, they don't have strong incentive to, right?). But I did notice companies like RedoxEngine which provide a layer of abstraction to address interoperability issues for health tech startups. And also projects like this which are moving to slowly consolidate rather than silo data: http://hospital-zsfg.medicine.ucsf.edu/research/homerun.html

Anyway I will dig more into it to inform myself -- appreciate your response.
It's absolutely slave labour.

Slaves alternatives were absolutely brutal as well. I'd rather do the work than get whipped or hanged, but having those as my only choices is the real problem.

These people are being punished, so limiting there options to work or be bored is reasonable. But that doesn't really excuse using them as slaves.
May I recommend Peter Thiel's book, "Zero to One"?

In the book, he describes how one of their engineers, exasperated by their competitor, X.com, matching them feature for feature, designed a bomb to blow it up. It probably would have been more shocking were it not for the fact that four out of the six key people at the company had designed bombs in high-school. He didn't go through with it and, instead of an explosion, the companies fused.

This is just an anecdote; Thiel has incredible insights and the eloquence to make them useful.
In principle I agree, but in practice... I can't let go of my hoarding ways. What if there's a nugget of information hiding in all those tabs that could ︎change my life?
A German pirate just saved our right to take public selfies
From a hotel accounting standpoint I honestly wonder which is more profitable for what I'd assume can be classified as a low-skill job:

1. Hire more employees and/or pay higher wages or other benefits to retain experienced (and thus presumably more efficient and effective staff)

2. Churn and burn with abandon because there will always be people desperate enough for any job to keep themselves off the street, even if it's just until they can find something marginally better

I'm not making any judgements on the morality of this...just raising the question since I have a guess that #2 is more profitable.
Who among us have called in sick to the day job just to put in a solid block of daytime hours on a side project? It's happened to me a few times over the years, and I've been 97% guilt-free about it.
If we're getting into the nitty-gritty, then let's also include energy cost inflation into the equation. These numbers are for PG&E which is roughly equivalent for SF:

2001: 0.10c kw/h
2017: 0.28c kw/h (as per my recent bill)

That's an average of 10% increase in energy cost per year!

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/electric.shtml
Also out of curiosity, what editor / plugins are those?
No, that could easily happen. The parent was right, that panel should be secured in some way. Wind gusts can do some crazy things.
If VR gets broadly popular it might also have some effect in this direction, since the most popular games so far (Echo Arena, Job Simulator, Climbey, etc) all require a fair bit of arm and body movement. It's not the most intense exercise, but it's way better than nothing, especially since the engagement of it means looking forward to it rather than dreading it as unpleasant exercise.
Again, I think this is where we differ - you're thinking in terms of stocks and shareholders, but there are no shareholders here. There are no shares that represent ownership of anything, and the most important distinction here is that when the fork was created, there was no transfer of ownership, which is the key concept in your argument.

Also, if I change my level of abstraction to think about the problem as you say, it would appear that the attacker was trying to injure the project, opposite to your Casey example, where she was the victim. Those that had 'skin in the game' did what they had to do, to protect themselves from the attacker. I don't think the attacker was naive, they would have known that such a move would inflict a loss of value for the project.

I also think that the hardfork was the best outcome for both parties: Classic represents the value of Ethereum should it have chosen to keep on going with the attacker, and Ethereum Fork is the value representing the attacker absent. Everybody wins, the thief would be pretty happy with their loot regardless (if it's legally theirs, maybe it's not). In your Casey example, she was left with nothing, so it's another important distinction to make.

Btw, thanks for replying and for the debate. It's been a pleasure.
Also looking up what you want when you have dozens / hundreds of tabs open is no better than going through your history browsing history. In fact going through your browsing history may be faster because you can actually use key words to search for what you want.

I have 2-3 tabs open most of the time. If I am looking something up, I go to 10-12. When I am done, it goes back down to 2-3. I can't even fathom under what situation people are using hundreds of tabs.
Ask HN: Screen luminosity changes when scrolling on HN
I have this really weird behaviour : when I scroll on HN using Chrome, my screen luminosity changes. I could not reproduce it on any other website and it does not happen if I scroll when HN is not focused.
Has anyone experienced the same?
You could pay them minimum wage and then withhold some percentage to cover costs.

You could take some of the money and put it into an account, so when a person gets out they have a bit of money to get basic necessities while they try to reintegrate.

For people who are getting out the focus should be more on making sure they learn to function in society.

> I've never heard anyone say that 'prisoners should be subjected to as much suffering as possible

Read literally any reddit thread where the criminal is convicted of child rape. You have people wanting the state to kill them, people wanting prisoners to kill them, cheering for prison rapes, etc...
No, and oddly, kids who were years ahead weren't necessarily viewed as being gifted - just ahead. The scholars were the gifted (grafters, bluntly, rather than gifted) ones, and wore special gowns and got discounted fees.

Rather than having a number of classes for each year, they operated a set system for each subject, so if you were great at maths and sucked at Latin, you could be in the top set for maths and bottom set for Latin.
The main thing to keep in mind at this point in time is that these contracts have very little tolerance for inefficiency, since inefficiency in this case costs money. Even solidity is very inefficient. Sure it would be great to write contracts in Haskell or Coq but can you insure O(1) or at most O(n) run time with little to no constant overhead? For example LLL (Low-Level Lisp-Like Language) produces 70% more efficient code than solidity [1] and thus it is the chosen language for the ENS (Ethereum Name Service) registry smart contract (who wouldn't want to pay 70 less for interacting with a contract?). But no doubt, better languages will come with time :)

[1] https://media.consensys.net/an-introduction-to-lll-for-ether...
The whole point of the discussion was to highlight a feature that I was missing here - ability to audit who accessed what.

There will always be a person with admin (or master password) access who can edit logs or bypass them entirely, but this is suppose to be a person who has the final responsibility in the team's 'chain of command'. The audit log exists so that this very admin can monitor the logs for suspicious behavior and clean up the passwords after a team member leaves. Hence, having the ability to decrypt the db with a master password is irrelevant as the master password should only be accessible to the admin.
Then please stop using the internet. You know, that taxpayer funded military thing opened up to the public to promote the general welfare.
So what's the likelihood of a naturally occurring geostationary satellite vs one created by alien life?
This appears to be very similar to MasterPassword. Do you have a minute to explain to me what advantages LessPass offers?

[1] http://masterpasswordapp.com/
Huh? Its not reasonable to expect automated password rotation for all shared secrets, especially for external services that a team could use. Some passwords will always need to be rotated manually.
That applies for the Amazon rainforest only, but keep in mind the low level of education in the area and its remoteness for the rest of population, so absurd that they don't care anymore. The Atlantic rainforest, as I said, is a different matter. It was long gone way before the 20th century. So it is all about reforestation and not protection. But yeah, I agree with you :-)
Drug Expiration Date Excuses

FDA requires testing. testing expensive... really ... how hard would it be to grab 50 tablets per drug for each environment (high UV, extreme humidity etc..) let them sit and once a year grab a pill and run chem analysis. Sounds like it could pretty much be automated, except for maybe the maintenance of the environments. Maybe 500k to 1m per year with the work out sourced
with various statistical validations. (Yes I realize this is hard part, damn humans) Take all the generic tablets and voila..

Drugs are cheap to produce

Really though, medicine doesn't cost much. It costs because society deemed it so. As it's been explained above/below, but, paying for research, marketing and regulations is probably 90% of the cost.

The hard question is

A more interesting question is how much can we afford to help others when they are sick? If the difference between health is as trivial as getting the right medicine
I know I'd feel guilty if I didn't do something. This is especially true for chronic disease, as the cost benefit is tilted.
Drug Expiration Date excuses.
FDA requires testing. testing expensive... really ... how hard would it be to grab 50 tablets per drug for each environment (high UV, extreme humidity etc..) let them sit and once a year grab a pill and run chem analysis. Sounds like it could pretty much be automated, except for maybe the maintenance of the environments. Maybe 500k to 1m per year with the work out sourced and gov't providing oversight. Take all the generic tablets and voila..

Drugs are cheap to produce.
Really though, medicine doesn't cost much. It costs because society deemed it so. As it's been explained above/below, but, paying for research, marketing and regulations is probably 90% of the cost.

The hard question is.
A more interesting question is how much can we afford to help others when they are sick? If the difference between health is as trivial as getting the right medicine
I know I'd feel guilty if I didn't do something. This is especially true for chronic disease, as the cost benefit is tilted.
Yea, but that reduces the value of tabs overall. You can't just glance at the top of the browser to remember where you just were.

If i don't look at a tab for a few hours, it's not worth keeping around as it just adds to the noise without providing value. If i need to read something, i either read it immediately or bookmark it to read later. The result: i can confidently resume work without distractions at any time.
Surprised to see no mention of Tab Center (https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center) in the comments. I've gotten so used to it that now I find it hard to use a browser with tabs on top. Being able to see more of the page title when tabs are displayed horizontally is extremely useful. There's a search field too. This combined with the "browser.ctrlTab.previews" set to true in about:config (enables MRU tab switching with ctrl-tab) makes managing tabs awesome for me.
Why don't you try marketing your opensource experience or software? It seems like you have a product that has traction.
I agree. You kind of have to roll your own for every language you use which is odd. And retries. Hopefully some more standard way of handling this will emerge.

EDIT: I enjoyed the GopherCon talk... I don't think the video is up yet but when it is I recommend watching...
if Einstein or Shannon hadn't discovered their respective theories, someone else would have
Maybe

It probably wouldn't have taken very long, either.
It actually could take decades, centuries, millenia. Think of all the discoveries lost to antiquity that had to be rediscovered. Think of Eulers findings that would take decades for some othe mathematician to figure out afresh
Interesting. I'm no entrepreneur, but I imagine this might be more useful if available as a one-off instead of, or in addition to, a subscription.
Probably they intended to use and demo the signed investments to "sell" their fund / raise the money.
Relative to what? Humans have been farming for thousands of years under worse condition and worse pay, yet humans still did it. In fact, even more humans used to do it. So awful pay and conditions are not a showstopper.
Even though "average" is a statistically non-rigorous term, we should be out of the "5-15 second maximum" holding times mentioned by GP by at least one order of magnitude.
This is surprising given that there Python implementation is apparently C. Anyway I can't imagine this is the bottleneck in any nontrivial Python app.
Well if he's not contributing to the project in any meaningful way, why is his opinion valued?

It's not a matter of lines of code, but of contribution at all.

What does RMS enable the emacs project to do that they couldn't do without him?

What does he bring to the table?

I'm not being rhetorical, I mean it: why do people care what he thinks?
I was hoping someone would mention Newton. I think if we measure Genius by (time of discovery before that discovery would have happened without the individual), Newton would rank as the greatest Genius in human history.
Why Self-Driving Cars Come Loaded with Many Types of Sensors
Thank you! I'm currently helping my mother through a medical crisis, but I do plan on getting in touch.
Its not installed size to memory usage. Its shared common libraries vs unshared libraries. Pulling in Qt means every Qt app will load so's for all the same things the core GTK libraries do, and take up memory that in a purely GTK environment would never be used because all the apps shared the same libraries in memory. This also dramatically affects the performance of app switching and opening new apps.

This is how Android has a tiny memory footprint - one gui toolkit, one runtime, one way to do everything. You really notice on Android when you open an NDK app that isn't using the Android Frameworks GUI components because they take a long time to open.

This is also why Windows in general is a bloated mess - depending on what software you are running it might be Windows Forms or XDA or their new app frameworks (Metro and/or 10) or .net or Qt or the old style COM API from the 95-98 days. Or worse, nowadays, you can get an Electron app that starts up its own browser rendering engine and doesn't share anything with the Chrome instance you have running at the same time despite using the same libraries. None share fundamental primitives, so opening programs from each toolkit eats memory alive. And then every program you install pretty much has to assume you don't have any library dependencies installed as well, so they pull down their entire toolkit in some .Z patch version that is incompatible with any other app using it so almost the same library gets loaded multiple times.
I have been to Cuba. In my experience, that's not an accurate description of their homes. And "deep poverty" is a meaningless statement in a country as different as that - despite a lack of wages, Cubans are well-provided for by the government, which is more than can be said of a good part of population in many Western nations.

>USSR never managed to turn to US greatest opponent

This is a very interesting take on world history. What do you consider the USSR's role in the world to be during the Cold War? What makes you reject most modern historical thought?
After Hurricane Ike (and 8 days without power) I built almost this exact setup to power my CPAP machine in case of another long-term power outage.
I wonder if you can mount this over a roof rack for a plug-in hybrid car like he Chevy Volt/Bolt. It'd be an amazing way to charge your car.

Although, 200 W might be a bit too low for the Chevy Volt. It draws circa 100 W when charged via the slow charger that you plug in to an outlet.
This is wrong morally and politically.
The source article from "The Oregonian" paints a much bleaker assessment of the parents abilities.

"According to child welfare records provided by the couple, Ziegler "has been sleeping with the baby on the floor and almost rolled over on him. There were also reports that Eric is easily frustrated and often forgets to feed his dog.""

Its sad, but the question we need to ask is, does the government have an obligation to provide the best opportunity for the child? If so, given that the mothers mother is dead and her father is quite old, and that both parent suffer difficulties, maybe this is the least worst option for the child and the parents.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...
> You can't just glance at the top of the
> browser to remember where you just were.

You just look at the last X tabs you opened. Just because it's not your workflow doesn't invalidate it.

With tree-style tabs, each root represents a train of thought. I just collapse them until I decide what to do with them. Sometimes I bookmark and banish them. Sometimes I come back to that thought next weekend.

Chrome's default tabs at the top, to me, are the distraction where each tab has equal weight. But I'm not going to say that anyone is doing it wrong if that's what they prefer.
Do you folks happen to have Kindles? I use instapaper to save articles as I come across them and then have it all wrapped up and sent to my Kindle once a week. My own customized magazine to read throughout the week as I see fit on an easy on the eyes e-ink format.
Wouldn't we currently rather bury plastic underground than decompose it into CO2?
Doesn't a lazy-loaded tab solve this problem?

To me, the problem is that bookmarks are "while browsing, go to a different component that loads the browser tab with what I want".

Tabs, OTOH, are a placeholder for things that I want to keep just 1 step closer.

Saying it that way, I don't think it makes rational sense. But 1 cognitive step to a page instead of two is huge for me.
Some people effectively use tabs as bookmarks.

Or, if you want to look at it the other way, bookmarks are just tabs that don't load until you click on them.
On TJ and older Wrangler the tray on the opposite side battery tray is empty. People will run dual battery setups that way. There are even options for all Wrangler models to put dual batteries in the stock location. $100 to $200 on a TJ Wrangler.

The cost and amount of work to do it is minimal.
It doesn't help that the bookmarks toolbar is not shown by default. I prefer to keep my tabs down to a reasonable number, and put folders on the bookmarks toolbar instead. If I want to bookmark something, I can just drag that link to the appropriate folder.
Nope, it just that older extensions will and IIRC the developer of the tree-style-tabs extension was really vocal about the fact that he disliked the new API. He had claimed it would be impossible to port his extension to the new system. I'm not clear on the history of it all, so I don't know if it was possible at the time or not.
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Yep! No need for extensions, you can see it working here: https://youtu.be/pKE0Oc3yIBs?t=53
I just checked and I currently have 450+ tabs open. I closed around 100 the other day. I work on a number of projects at the same time, so I'll often have a bunch of documentation open for one project and then switch to the next one without closing everything.

I also research a project and then wait a while before starting it. This helps me get a better perspective on the project. I'll often leave my research open in a tab group so that when I start the project I can very quickly review everything and get up to speed. Using bookmarks in this scenario doesn't really work because bookmarks don't save session state very well.