skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not suggesting that anyone else run a Web browser with javascript switched off - I interpreted the list as some kind of survey of current use.

However I'm pleasantly surprised at how many Web sites do actually convey their main content with javascript disabled, and the increase in speed and battery life is marked.

The 'year of the linux desktop' meme is a little moot as phones/tablets now provide the mass computing experience for many people, and the primary experience for people under 25 or so (I'm a teacher).
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> So I wish I could "save" a window (as a "workspace") under a name

Naming would be too much explicit action for my taste (might as well go back to the lost ancient art of bookmark management), but I think most usage patterns of grouping tabs in windows would work much better if each window had some kind of designated primary tab (leftmost tab?) defining a more permanent window identity than using whatever tab is currently active for window naming.

Planning a trip is spot on for my gripes with ephemeral browser window names: "The Maps Window" might have a hotel website currently active (that might get promoted to its own window if the hotel makes it to my shortlist) while two of five windows for candidate hotels have a maps tab (individual hotel surroundings) active. Now every attempt of going back to "The Maps Window" will be a voyage big enough to forget why you wanted to look at maps in the first place.
For anyone curious, a VAWT is a Vertical-axis wind turbine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_axis_wind_turbine). I always thought these were less efficient than the conventional designs but they're clearly simpler.
I don't think so, as none of those used "snarky epiphets from other people".
I also wonder if any religious video of any faith that calls for beating one's wife,inequality between men and women, death for non believers and homosexuals, antisemitism or female genital mutilation will also be counted as extremist video.
Hmm, the submission should be flagged
Thanks ! did not know about this one.
It lacks the ability to sort tabs by activity and is messy when you have 150+ tabs over 20 activities, also lack the visual preview of tab content but it's still useful.
There might still be a place for what you were working on back then. As a favor to a friend, I recently set them up on Wix for a simple site they wanted to present for their new one-person business. It has been a long time since I've had such a horrendous experience with a product, and all I needed from Wix as an outcome was a one page site that my friend could then manipulate on their own. Nothing worked very well, it wasn't easy to use, few things worked as Wix claimed, there were a lot of limitations on customization below their limited framework (with custom code of most any kind you immediately start to run into problems with Wix).

Somehow Wix is a growing, soon-to-be $400 million sales company worth $3.3 billion.

There's a huge market for destroying these guys with a better product. Google to their AltaVista.
As long as economies of scale apply, mining will centralize, regardless of blocksize. Bigger miners can push out smaller ones.

As far as full nodes go, incentives are a big problem IMO: there's no direct profit in running one, so whoever runs a full node is either a hobbyist/altruist, or needs one to run a business. I don't really see what kind of user needs a full node yet is unable to pay for one, if Bitcoin is more of a high-value settlement network than a high-throughput payment network.

The point is, while blocksize has some effect on centralization I don't think it's all that big a factor in the end.

I'm not sure what you mean with your last point - that the code that gets used is always made by the developers best equipped to set economic policy? Because that is what decisions on blocksize are.
Free will arising from quantum indeterminacy, well, that's a thought of Robert Penrose. The bad news is that even he didn't manage to convince others and the theory didn't really took off. In other words, we are not yet ready to understand such a link.

However, there is the Strong Free Will Theorem of Conway and Kochen. Essentially, they prove that "if humans have free will, then elementary particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity", see http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf
you want as many miners as possible or the whole network will be in danger when there are only a few miners having 50% of the mining power. it would be grate if smartphones could mine when they are charging or idle, and also run a full node and make transactions.
it is possible, but most of the times it's not anonymous.
I.e. after an anonymous survey for some ridiculous "company of the year" award (by a third party mind you..) it was identified that some women didn't vote the place as meritocratic or equal opportunities. They were dragged into a meeting room to "discuss" about their views.
This served as a lesson to all these women and all of their colleagues to never trust "anonymous surveys" in the workplace, ever.
I love Firefox and never had issues, except at work. For some odd reason it will break, all tabs will look white and all I see is a loading icon on the middle no matter what tab I click on ruining my workflow. No idea what that's about since at home Firefox works fine, Chrome seems to work fine at work on the other hand. I guess I'll be using Chrome at work and Firefox at home till I figure out how whats causing the Firefox issue. I only usually have no more than 20 tabs open at any given time. Very unusual for me to keep 10 tabs open really.
It's a shame in a way that mobile internet has become so ubiquitous, and that people tend to therefore spend so much of their time on the beach looking at their phone.

One of the nice things about being away is that you're away. That you're forced out of your routine, unable to keep up with the same day-to-day stuff as usual, and cut off from your friends. It forces you to make new friends.

Travel for me used to be a good hack to overcome a natural tendency toward introversion. At some point, after not speaking to a human for a few days, I would go in to Emergency Survival Social Mode, where I had to strike up a conversation with the person at the next table right that minute just to preserve my sanity. And nearly every time I'd find that that person was going through the same thing and was thus happy to chat about whatever for a while.

That's a lot harder to do now, when everybody sitting alone at a table has their phone out, facebooking away with their friends at home as per normal.

I don't know what the solution will be. Hopefully the pendulum will swing back and people will realize that it's nice to disconnect for real from time to time. Especially when there is real sand between their toes and a real sunset going on in front of them (and a real girl sitting at the next table).
> Tech Details

> The SPIF format starts with a header that tells the offsets and sizes of the images in the SPIF. The images are stored smallest first, but there are no image size restrictions apart from that.

So... two HTTP requests per image load? That is probably going to hurt more than it helps. Also, that probably means a Range request, which don't have great support. (For example, the builtin Python http server SimpleHTTPServer doesn't support them.)
Most modern motor-homes I've seen/used have a solar panel for trickle charging the leisure battery.

Some other good examples of retrofits here: http://www.goalzero.com/solarlife/stories/en-route/
What is less clear, however, is the capability of the traditional payment networks to improve. Before bitcoin et al, they might have had no reason to. I don't find it very likely that the 60 days transaction speed, for instance, is unfixable.

Some people just needs to get off their asses and dive deep into some horrific legacy code and/or processes and fix or rewrite them. If they are pushed hard enough, they'll do it.
Otter[1] has made much progress in recreating the opera 12 experience.

[1]:https://otter-browser.org/
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fefe23 said "hide behind snarky epiphets from other people" (my emphasis) suggesting that the criticism of dynamic programming was discounted because it was snarky.
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Not many at the ordinary-worker level have a meaningful equity participation or bonuses. 10% of your salary at most at most companies if an impossible set of conditions are met, or laid off when the company needs to save some money, versus executives who will pocket millions whatever happens.
I didn't mean about the separator at all, just the ordering. But good point.
When this thing runs its circle a lot of people are going to feel miserable and depressed.
Have you considered AzureML? http://studio.azureml.net It's really slick, and you can program it in Python and/or R, you aren't tied to MS stack.
Bookmarks sucks ! link rot makes them useless and it's time consuming and tedious if not impossible to manage when you have a lot of them.

I use wallabag instead which is basically bookmarks with a local snapshot of content that you can easily classify and sort.
A 0-confirmation Bitcoin transaction similarly needs only < 1 sec to be broadcasted to the network.

No, payment networks verify that the user can spend immediately. That is full confirmation in a few seconds. Bitcoin fails dismally here on very limited transaction volume by taking 10 minutes at best for something approaching confirmation and has no chance with the current architecture of POW of ever realistically replacing those transaction networks - both because of energy use and time.

A merchant needs to wait 1-2 business days before he can spend the money he received through these payments networks.

Yes, Bitcoin has the advantage here - you'll get your money faster, though there is no real technical barrier to existing networks paying out faster, the banks are just incompetent and greedy. This does depend how the payment is done - using FPS it's available instantly, using cc it's not (often more like 7 days, not 2).

A merchant must wait typically 60 days for a CC transaction to be considered irreversible.

That is a matter of policy, not tech. If Bitcoin were a serious transaction protocol, customers would demand the same features, or a guarantee in law that they could return shoddy goods - either way, the protocol is not the problem here.

When I sell computer gear on Craigslist in person and someone pays me in Bitcoin, I only wait ~1 second for the tx to reach my phone's wallet before letting the buyer walk away.

In that case you have no idea if that transaction is actually confirmed and not a double spend (typically Bitcoin requires at least minutes to confirm), that's not equivalent to them paying you by bank transfer in seconds. Comparing a zero confirmation transaction from bitcoin to a full confirmation transaction from a bank is disingenuous at best.

That's not even touching on all the other flaws of bitcoin as a method of payment - irreversibility (yes people really don't want that!), pseudo anonymity (just enough for criminals, not enough to stop states), complexity meaning average users hand their entire savings over to someone else, lack of insurance or regulation (yes people really do want that!), lack of backing as a currency making it extremely vulnerable should it become popular to being targeted and cornered by states or money markets, hidden centralisation through miner cartels running the transaction network and a small group of devs/companies producing the complex software required, energy use of POW which means it could never handle enough volume....

Using merkle trees to store transaction ledgers is really interesting, but with the current architecture of bitcoin is not a rival to current payment networks mostly because it appears to be designed for something else entirely (to replace fiat cash it seems, which is on the way out anyway).
Gdebi

Meld

KeepassXC

mpv player and SMPlayer

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Geeqie image viewer

Caffeine (to turn the screensaver off)

Devhelp

IDE: GNOME builder

would be great to add those to the repos for Ubuntu server / command line:

micro editor

terminal_velocity
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Crypcocurrencies need to stop requiring us all to hold every transaction in one unified blockchain dump. There has to be some way to break the network out into shards while still preserving the distributed nature and ability to pay anyone.

No matter what we do, moving and storing every single transaction is insane. It's like my bank account needing to know what every person in the world's purchases are this morning. I shouldn't need to know what some guy on the other side of the world spent his lunch money on, just to buy my own.

What am I missing? Surely the uber com sci phd's have fully solved this?
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I don't any cryptocurrencies, but my perception observing the field somewhat casually is that these kinds of discussion sometimes only appear to be about technical details on the surface level. In reality, one or more of people involved can personally lose a huge amount of money if a certain policy is or isn't adopted. For example, it's usually understood that the inventors of any particular cryptocurrency hold a large sum of "pre-mined" money, but somewhat taboo to state it because the appearance of a benevolent dev team that acts in the best interest of the community has to be maintained.
But you lose the state the tabs were in, which means risk of losing hours of work and tedious work to restore each state.

Not even mentioning dealing with managing several thousands of bookmarks, duplicates, link rot, and so on. Definitely impractical for power users use case.
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> and men are paid more for similar value of work

That's the thing. These different people don't bring similar value. When you work as a tv show star the value of your work isn't what you do but how many people will listen to you. You're not paid based on your "Senior TV Show Performer" role (or whatever title is being used in this industry) but based on your personality, your past and current successes, your potential awards, your negotiations skills, etc. If you can make the company feels that you will reach a large audience and that they will get a good return on investment, your market value will go higher.
It’s a datapoint clearly demonstrating that women aren’t paid the same as men for the same work. I’m not sure you couldn’t dismiss every example so trivially.
I cannot tell if this is a practical joke or what. At first, I tried to learn it in earnest but then I fell totally apart and virtually threw my hands up. Either I have some sort of learning disability or this is there to simply waste my time.

Is this a real thing?
I can see scenarios where you have someone in your extended family/friends who constantly attempts to leech money off you because they know you have it. This is something people who win the lottery often face which is why (in the UK) they can choose not to make their win public.

More fundamentally, you pay taxes on your private deal with your employer but the government is just a third party involved in that transaction, the same as your bank. Neither the government nor your bank makes the amounts of tax you pay or what you earn public, them knowing doesn't really impact your privacy in any meaningful way. I don't quite understand how you've got from "well the government knows what you earn so everyone should!".

I don't consider that something being a "societal good" automatically overrides peoples right to privacy, different people will consider different things to be private, many would consider that my personal medical data would be better off open to the public in fine detail as it would help medical research but this is generally not the case (in the UK at least) and neither should it be.
They enjoyed the park because they were able to play the game in a nice park instead of on that parking lot. The park is there so that people can spend time in a nicer place, and it is "doing its job" no matter if they're just walking there, having a picnic, playing ball, sitting on a bench, jogging or playing a game.
> You need to get your coins to and from it you know.

Once LN works people will need to do this every few weeks, months, or even years.
I think Scott updated the sample used for the screenshots after putting it in the post.

The code is listed as:

// FIRA CODE
object o;
if (o is int i || (o is string s &&
int.TryParse(s, out i)) { /* use i */ }
var x = 0xABCDEF;
-> --> ==> != === !== && ||<=<
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<=><!-- HTML Comment -->
i++; #### ***

I think what was actually used is:

// FIRA CODE
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0123456789!@#$%^&*()_+={}[]<>/?'";:~`
object o;
if (o is int i || (o is string s &&
int.TryParse(s, out i)) { /* use i */ }
var x = 0xAB_DE_F;
-> --> ==> != === !== && ||<=<
</><tag> http://www.hanselman.com
<=><!-- HTML Comment -->
i++; #### ***

The underscores in the hex literal are not part of the font, which looks like it is confusing some people.

A couple of those lines are new C# 7 features (patterns and literals) that appear to have been partially lifted from this blog post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/03/09/new-featu...

I wrote a section on C# 7 for a new chapter in the upcoming second edition of my book from last year. There are loads of useful new features in C# 7 (and 6 if you're still on 5) and I thought I recognised those snippets.
There are loads of examples within the dataset that give examples of direct comparisons (news readers for example). There is not a single female newsreader who earns anything like what the male equivalents do. I call wilful ignorance.
The Hurd does this the best in my opinion. It is really flexible and you can just install a translator on any file system node that you control. That translator could do pretty much anything: XML parsing to represent XML as a file tree, FTP listings, SSH access, etc.
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Not ahead of the curve at all, it describes a quite common use of the web for power users. I've had the habits 100+ tabs open in browsers a few years before maxthon released its international version in 2006.
Not getting into this discussion, but a slight reminder - Google can and does serve different search results to different people (or even different browsers on the same computer).
Haskell is very readable if you learn to understand the type declarations, which are nicely set on their own line above every function definition. Haskell allows very general type declarations, but ideally once you've gotten your program running, you go back and make the types more specific. Anyone reading it can then see exactly what the whole codebase does without even reading the functions.
I hope all videos advocating violence are included.
Just don't use chrome, it is not at all suited for this use case.
How about taking photos on scene, and post some pics later (taxi, hotel, etc). When your family is several time zones away it time doesn't matter that much anyway.
Lazarus: definitely cool
It's about the taxed income.
Even the most determined defenders of taxes usually concede that they have downsides. It's entirely reasonable to propose limits on what the State should do with tax information. As a hyperbolic (but real) example, the State also usually has access to single transactions from your friendly neighborhood sex shop.
I don't know anything like Lazarus, but I do know a language that shares many of the characteristics of Pascal (small, fast, native binaries). That language is Nim and I think there is a good chance we could get something like Lazarus out of it.
That's probably the right behavior for those people who are never going to open the tab; but for people like me who have few tabs, open in new tab is a great way to load something I'm actually going to read soon; eg open the article in a new tab, scan the HN comments while the article loads (especially if it's from one of those sites that takes 3 minutes to load)
Bookmarks are stateless hence useless for many use cases.
Yes, any religious video as such should absolutely be counted. Feel free to start flagging them with your brave throwaway account:

https://www.youtube.com/results?

search_query=CHRISTIAN+PASTOR+death+homosexuality
Even if the video calls for none of those, you mean?

Of course, like you, I would quite like to see all Christian videos banned, but I'm afraid it might set a precedent.
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You might be interested in wallabag.

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Lazarus looks interesting, but what holds me back is that the language doesn't seem to have evolved. I enjoy functional languages much more these days, and I prefer not to go back to an old language. I would be happy to be proven wrong on this
Then why'd most of them leave?
Deleting my Facebook account has been one of the best decisions I've ever taken. It has helped avoid a lot many negative emotions.
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Opera did back when it was not a google chrome skin.
> nested functions in Pascal and D

Or just have first class functions, and prototype based inheritance. Way more flexible and powerful than class based inheritance. See JavaScript 5 as an example, ask Crockford.
No, it is not your salary per say, but your taxable income that is available for everyone to see. All income, including base salary, bonuses, and perks are taxed the same and included in this number.
Agreed, that sounds about right.
This is like saying because you've never needed to have a fire put out, we should get rid of the fire department. Nevermind that they often do things like fire safety, prevention, first aid, and community outreach and other things you are likely to generally benefit from.

The same with the CDC. You might not have needed an intervention, but you've probably gained in general from disease prevention efforts, research, education, and so on. The benefits of military are slightly more muddled, though most won't argue to get rid of all of it. You might not use the roads there, but I'm guessing many of the things you consume have used them.
What a beautiful presentation!

Tangentially: I am really enjoying the book "All of Statistics" as a reference for better understanding things like histograms, kernel density functions, etc, and their parameters.

https://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-...
>If you can't tell //

Does it matter if you don't exist? I reckon, yes.
So, if that is the overall and encompassing reason one does things, what reason are we supposed to use? Should we lie? Should we list all the things that "general welfare" includes? Do you have a more specific term that relays the same meaning? Or any sort of suggestion?
Tree Tab Style.

Try it, then read the original post and the comments again. :)

I think this is the missing piece on all this discussion.
> Satoshi added the block size cap as a DOS-prevention mechanism (to stop blocks from being bloated with 'dust' txns and grinding the network to a halt).

Please spare us the pure unsubstantiated and uninformed conjecture.
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You don't need to hold every transaction why do you think you have to keep all blockchain? Right now you can use pruning on a client like Core ar Unlimited or you can use light clients like Electrum.
It's not like Bitcoin does it because it _wants_ to; in fact, semi-anonymity is a semi-goal of Bitcoin. It's just a tough problem to solve differently.

I haven't heard of any recent updates, but I believe ZCoin was supposed to address this issue, to an extent.