skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tab-o-phile reporting!

I currently have ~500 tabs open, unevenly distributed among 20 "tab groups". It's very much like expecting your editor/IDE to open a bunch of files and git status when you switch to a "project".

- I'm pursuing a multi-pronged agenda which requires context switches to get different things done (multiple projects/activities, each with their own group eg: communication, project1 at work, project2 at work, paying my bills, topic FOO that I've been reading about in the evenings, HN content, etc. ). I prefer for my browser to display the state at which I left things, including the possible resources I was consulting -- so that I can continue from exactly where I left off. Also, one might actually want to save the state of the javascript objects on the page or something, rather than just the URL!

- A lot of my browser activity has the flavor of research. A lot of searching, consulting references, trying out things in Jupyter notebooks, etc.

- A large part of it is keeping track of interesting things to look into. Whether you call those "bookmarks" or "open tabs" is just jargon, since Firefox only loads tabs on demand. So, for all practical purposes, it has an amazingly convenient way to save context, without having to click once for each page. And closing a tab feels easier than deleting a bookmark.

I sometimes think that this might be the electronic analogue of some (creative?) people who have messy offices and are able to get along just fine. As an example, refer to the recent discussions about Claude Shannon's style:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819377
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14774163
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776520
No it does not, but I think it could be done with Quantlib. At least that's what I see in this paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2219548

And I think QuantlibXL has the multiple curve bootstrapping implemented.
Same. I've considered making my own interface for building family trees, as an exercise in UX design. But I'd want it to plug directly into Geni. You can't beat the feature to find other users' trees that match yours. Find long-lost cousins and great-great-great-whatevers that you didn't know you had.
Yes, mis-typed when I typed purely functional. My intent was to lean closer towards mostly-functional languages than languages which _can_ be written in a functional style (a la JS or Ruby).

I should know better than to use the word "pure" on the internet, someone will always correct how inaccurate my usage is :)
Low-latency live streaming and video conferencing on the web.
I went from fine dining cook to Marine Corps infantry to developer. Though the GI Bill takes a lot of the impressiveness out of a massive career change helped by a college degree.
We're leaving Facebook.

http://www.quitfacebookday.com/
This should be the top answer. Hiring an CFO, especially one with ties to investment bankers or who has taken other companies through exit.
not really team sports though.
Is this project downable? Github?
I have the opposing opinion

Who are these people with a shockingly low number of tabs, and how do we get them the help they need?

Those I usually see with few tabs are either those who only browse the web for extremely simple things (ie facebook, netflix and google for very simple questions), or those who only just maintain like a single docs page at any given moment.

The hell kind of absurd usage pattern is that? Do you keep one book on your shelf too? Do you just not have any interests? Nothing but one thing at a time? I keep around ~300 tabs and a heavily organized bookmarks storage with some 400 links; tabs are ram and bookmarks are disk.

How else would you naturally organize your web-information? I can only imagine you have very little information to organize...
Yes, but there's value is persuading people that this latest things The Worst - commercial value in terms of selling the story, genuine news value for Swedes if it is in fact the worst breach of Swedish data, and political value in undermining the credibility of the Swedish government. You might like to consider this in the light of Sweden's recent decision to re-introduce military conscription and who the winners and losers from a stronger Swedish defensive posture would be.
I imagine the hyperloop design where cars are independent makes drag costs worse compared to trains (compared at the same speed).

However, autopilot cars don't have to operate independently over long distances, in ways that specifically reduce air resistance!
No, it's not. Or at least not necessarily. Here in Norway all doctor offices and public hospitals are independently operated at some level (there are hospital regions though). We are however in the process of introducing a shared journal system which will result in all of these providers sharing information about patients. This information sharing is also something that can be done in fully privatised (aka uncivilised) systems such as in the USA, so it's not really a trait of public healthcare system. But while sharing the information has a lot of benefits, there is as you mentions huge risks with data breaches as data will be sent around. And something we have been discussing here in Norway recently due to a few outsourcing as well as software data access issues. But nothing compare to this case in Sweden.

> i guess the difference is optical: instead of blaming the evil corporations, we'll blame the evil government.

No, that's a huge difference mate.
Client certificates are best from security perspective but lack UX (this could be fixed) and are not designed with privacy in mind. U2F on the other hand generates unique pair of keys for each origin. By default.
There is a similar trend in Urban Design called Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design [1] (CPTED) great acronym, hard to remember and meaningless.

The gist is that you make a place so exposed and inhospitable, so uncomfortable that no-one will want to be there, thus ZERO crime! It is how to build in a natural panopticon to parks and buildings to maximize sight lines and exposure.

Most parks that we consider wonderful would have never been built under CPTED. They use all of the thought-crime rhetoric in their writings, Feng-Shui, community, etc except they do the opposite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_envir...
Being ubiquitous is a kind of power (just like Javascript).
I'm a Qt programmer. It's very very good because it attempts to look as much as possible like a native app rather than forcing a "cross-platform look and feel" like Google has been doing lately.

But it still feels wrong on the Mac. Little UI details which just "aren't done" on the Mac. Plus Qt is always a year or two behind on everything means that when MacOS alters or refines a UI element that Qt apps will still be doing things the old way.
the luxury is adding every kind of sensor without considering cost, engineering time, computing power, etc.

complexity is extra-linear, so you have to have to do the cost-benefit analysis to determine if it's worth it. and it may well be, but my point was that it's not a knee-jerk answer to always add more sensors. there is clear benefit, but is it worth the cost?
Building an ARKit App with Foursquare and Mapbox
Toyota reportedly plans long-range, fast-charging solid-state EV by 2022
Why we rewrote Lua in JS
Mira Prism and Dreamworld AR – (What Disney Should Have Done?)
I think he meant "crashes logged on Mac OS" not that the operating system itself crashed
Perhaps I can give you some perspective from... the future. I've been doing what you're doing for about 20 years now, and have worked on (mainly with one other partner) probably 100 things? Some were full blown companies, some were just fun side projects, some were apps that made pretty good money, etc. Perhaps some things I've realized recently will be useful to you:

* It took us around 6-8 years before we made any money at all on anything we did. The thing that ended up making money wasn't even a sure thing, it just happened to work out. For a good part of those 6-8 years we thought we sucked because things never quite worked out. It turned out we were learning a bunch of stuff that turned out to be very useful for a whole new thing that came along (phone apps).

* Making money wasn't the most important thing for me in these projects, but once we started making money we could quit our jobs and do our own stuff full time. That turned out to be super important, and is the most important part of making money on your projects probably.

* Making technology and making a business are two pretty different things, and it's pretty rare that someone is really into both of them. That's probably ok! There are a bunch of businesses that naturally develop out of good technology, so you can probably just work on things that make sense given your strengths.

* Jumping around and doing lots of different things is one of my traits as well, and for a while I thought it was a big weakness. It can be. Sometimes an idea needs a few years of consistent effort to see results. Other times though, you were right to give up as it wasn't going anywhere. For me, what helped was to think of what I'm working on as the collection of ALL of the projects that I've done. Then I am making progress no matter which ones fail. Then jumping around doesn't feel as bad. That all being said, there are boring and discouraging times in every project and it can be important that you see things through beyond where you're simply interested intellectually.

I'm sure there are a bunch more things that might be helpful that I can't quite think of now, I'll add them as I think of them.

Bottom line, what you can do is surprisingly rare (it just doesn't feel that way on HN). It's ok to take some time to develop these skills, one of which is filtering ideas to work on. If you spend enough years working at it then you might even end up an overnight success :)
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I'm not a user, but I assume ads exist in some IOS apps?
You know, it's pretty easy to make a fast, responsive fun car to drive if you ignore all the safety precautions required to make it street legal. As a bonus, when all you have is a steel tubing chassis and no body panels, working on the car and adding new components is really easy. That doesn't mean we should all drive that type of car, or allow them on the public roads.
If another program runs in a rectangle in your browser, it should not be called "the web".
Yes, Jones in the Fast Lane!!!

http://home.broadpark.no/~kboye/jones/jones.html
> I say once average developer costs over 200k, companies will start move jobs to other places that are still cheap.

Seems like a feature not a bug to me.
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I feel so bad for the Scratch language, which converted to Flash at exactly the wrong time.
I've heard this but I've not yet seen these UI ads people keep talking about. Are they in pro?
Isn't this scary ?
I think this is a pretty common practice. I know I have hundreds of tabs open as a temporary bookmark system over many windows(48 windows, 354 tabs right now) ... to the point that I made a simple extension to find what I am looking for visually and have links on the page that focus that window and tab. I find it pretty useful in practice.

firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

source: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
Patio11 has a pretty extensive blog about marketing software and a bunch of other stuff : https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
I'm just talking about the people I've personally helped out. I must not have helped you before.

You surely aren't saying it's as simple as "people with stuff hate the poor people".
Trust-To-Trust Design of a New Internet [PDF]
Most actual developers currently using Adobe's products will only want to know whether Adobe AIR is safe. It is.

https://forums.adobe.com/message/9723772
I made a celebration post! https://medium.com/@theroccob/in-honor-of-the-end-of-flash-8...
I don't think basketball comes with a lot of TBI, and baseball is pretty safe if you don't get hit in the head by pitches. That's 2 out of big 3 in America.
> In my very limited experience with companies that hires H1B to fill programming jobs, it's because they can't find qualified local candidates.

> All the really qualified people are in the bay area working for tech startups, etc...

> So a company outside of the bay area would have to bring in H1B workers who are willing to live in the area.

So the answer to a lack of local candidates is to start reaching across oceans? How about elsewhere in the massive expanse of North America, where many people don't even need a visa or can get one much more easily?
Probably similar to yours: mostly subjective ones. I was born and raised in California and love it here. My older brother was born and raised in California, hated it, and loves it in North Carolina.
If you're a programmer, how many files do you have open in your editor? Less than 10? All the time? Why is a browser different?
> Do you keep one book on your shelf too?

I would argue that 300 tabs is like having 300 open books piled on your desk.

> Do you just not have any interests?

Yes, and my bookshelves - and bookmarks - are crammed full of them. But I don't need to have every project I'm working on on my desk.

I guess it's pretty arbitrary, but I find it easier to organize things in bookmarks - for certain things, hierarchically in folders; for others, with tags - but if I'm done working on Thing X, and want to start working on Thing Y, I don't want to have to search through my 300 open tabs to figure out where things are.

An advantage of many open tabs, I will freely admit, is that they're typically scrolled to where you last left off, sometimes with information pre-filled if it's something interactive.
Even if autopsies were standard practice for all Americans you wouldn't see docs running tau-staining tests on every cadaver they received.
Every time H1B related stuff comes up, I make the same simple suggestion: just inflation adjust the minimum H1B salary from when the law was passed in 1990. 60K dollars in 1990 is about 110K now. This should be able to see a lot of support from different groups because:

1. It makes a clear appeal back to the original intent of the law.

2. It would most likely end most of the perceived abuse/misuse of the law, which occurs at lower salary ranges.

3. It will not prevent tech companies that actually do cool stuff like Google & co from hiring, since most of their hires probably start over 110K now.

I also think that the impact on American workers in this salary range from H1B is pretty low. Many companies with salaries in this range are always hiring provided you have the skills.
Please take that (((globalist))) stuff and head back to whatever alt-right board you came from.

Nobody takes the positions you're taking in earnest sincerity. Nobody. Well, maybe Peter Singer does.
Not off topic in the slightest! In fact, all too topical, given the past few weeks.

For what it's worth -- I'm a former engineer at Coinbase / Google and recently graduated from Stanford. Though I didn't touch Solidity as part of my work at Coinbase, I've been following Ethereum extremely closely since its beginnings, and any mainnet release I'd push forward would certainly undergo rigorous third-party auditing at the smart contract level. I've also been iterating on this protocol for the better part of the past 9 months, so this is by no means a weekend project.
So hi, I made a living doing Flash animation and development around 2000-2007. I don't do it any more, I draw comics now, but I still keep the Flash editor installed just in case I need to scratch the itch to make something move.

The SWF format, and the plugin that plays it, is going away.

The program that started life as FutureSplash Animator, and became Macromedia Flash, then Adobe Flash, is not going away. It got rebranded as Adobe Animate last year.

Animators working on stuff for Youtube or TV probably haven't touched a .SWF in years. You export a .MOV and post that to Youtube. Or you drop it in a video editor along with the .MOVs of all your other scenes for this project. The Los Angeles TV animation industry still uses Flash for some projects; check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis... sometime, you'll probably recognize a few shows you or your friends love.

If you're using it to make interactive content? You can export to HTML5 now. And to WebGL and WebAssembly. I haven't ever done that myself, I dunno how much hassle it is to convert an old Actionscript/.SWF project to those platforms. I would assume that the 'Animate' rebranding coincided with Adobe feeling that the HTML5 capabilities for interaction were on par with .SWF's; they've been working on that ever since Jobs refused to let the Flash plugin onto iThings.

.SWF is dead, and good riddance. Its plugin was a CPU-hogging binary blob that needed regular updates. It was amazing back in 2000 when it was all we had; it's a lot less amazing now.

The program that compiled a bunch of art and code into .SWF files will live on. The penultimate sentence of Adobe's press release? "...we’ll continue to provide best in class animation and video tools such as Animate CC...". The tool ain't going nowhere. The tool's just distancing itself from its now-much-loathed first export format.

But I would bet money that Animate's file format - the .PSD to its Photoshop - is gonna continue to be called .FLA for the next ten years.
Well that's a big surprise. But the NFL is a gigantic cult, people are not going to boycott it just to improve the well being of the gods players.
You need to remember that at the time HTML5 wasn't around so if a developer wanted something more "multimedia" then it meant resorting to Flash. This meant that Flash ads had a lot of annoying traits like audio effect which you wouldn't get with HTML+JPEG/GIF ads.

Plus even back then Flash had a tendency to grind modest hardware to a halt (particularly if you were running OS X or Linux).

So Flash definitely made ads worse. However whether you want to blame Flash or the developers for that is really just a philisophical question. But suffice to say the most annoying adverts around that time wouldn't have been possible without Flash.
Flash's selling point was compatibility, which is why people put up with the clunky APIs, performance, etc. If you changed very much of that you end up with something which isn't Flash and is on a steep mismatch in resources versus the huge investment going into web technologies. I don't think there are enough places with massive Flash codebases to support anything like the work going on in the web space.
They can go to finance then. If that is what Americans need to incentivize themselves to learn Mathematics, from your description sounds like gambling, such industry already exists, that is the finance/hedge-funding industry.
What walled garden?
It's part of Windows 10. Windows 7 still has Paint.
Condition was listed as "new", via Newegg. Both times.
Once again Sweden is leading in transparency
I can't put together a simple number based on the papers I'm finding, especially if we're limited to mesothelioma. Cancer risks are reported in units of f/mL.yr (fibers per milliliter of air per year) or f/g (embedded fibers per gram of dry lung tissue). And there's a huge range to occupational exposure, which I'm not capable of relating back to the risk numbers. (I don't have the numerical skills.)

But suffice it to say that, surprisingly, AFAICT for even exceptionally heavy occupational exposure (e.g. mining asbestos or removing asbestos insulation) lifetime risks of developing mesothelioma seem to be well below 10%, and possibly even below 1%.
>To know if you are cutting edge somewhere, run an experiment if your work cannot be undercut in a week by a small team of low wage country workers or programmers.

Building Uber and creating Uber are two entirely different things.

It is easy to build something if you have the blueprint, it is much harder to imagine something new and build it without knowing the exact next step.
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The bodies were all donated with the vast majority of them having symptoms of CTE while they were alive.

Essentially, it's not even close to a representative sample of former NFL players.

It would be the same as people who had knee problems, then were found to have arthritis in their knees after an autopsy.

I would be very careful to say that all (or almost all) NFL players will have CTE when they finish football.

I have seen more research on people's brains where they categorize them in two types, ones that recover from brain trauma and others that don't. For me, that seems more likely.

If you are an NFL player with the type of brain that recovers well, you probably will be fine later in life. If you have a brain that just doesn't seem to do well with that, then you could develop CTE. That would be my guess.
Pretty cool, thought Foursquare was dead. Glad to see that they are doing something forward looking.
Exactly true. I use chrome as my secondary browser. I have max 5 tabs open. But my primary workhorse(firefox) has close to 30-40 tabs.

I need to jump from one to another trying to solve a problem. I will be able to close those tabs only when i am done with the debug. I guess clean slate is for people who have written their own tools and use.
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thanks! your a life saver :D
Just to clarify, did you mean that pinning something to the taskbar is a little difficult, or did I misunderstand? It is very simple to pin something to the taskbar, requiring only one right click and one left click. That's why I thought maybe I misunderstood your question. I was just curious. And I completely agree it's stupid the Chrome doesn't even respect Microsoft developer guidelines. It's normal behavior for Chrome or any other Shmoogle crapware lol!
"Regardless of the dramatic drop in crime over the last 30 years, more than half the population believes crime is worse than it was in years past."

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
- Socrates

This argument keeps popping up. To confirm it we would need a control group. It is likely that even before social media people believed the state of affairs worse than it actually was. Maybe people are more prone to believe that our condition is deteriorating rather than improving.
I would be careful here. The prevalence of CTE in former rugby players is unknown but there have been documented cases. This is all pretty new ground and we may be surprised to find that rugby poses similarly unconscionable risks.
I would also say that it isn't quite fair to try and concentrate all of the thought and progress in one small area. Not fair to the rest of the world, and not fair to the area which has to suffer increased cost of living because of it.

Note: This post is in no way, shape, or form arguing against immigration. Immigration is great. I'm more saying that we should try and spread around the SV effect, so that more places can prosper, and one place isn't strained so much.
> That someone outside of our society chooses to break those rules doesn't create a license for us to do the same.

Perhaps it creates a necessity. Dying to uphold a principle is fine and good, and very much easier when you get to have the principle and someone else has to do the dying.
I downvoted you because your comment did not contribute to the conversation.
Same as what xxr said below. Meetups.com usually will list informal or formal get togethers. Could also email your local startup association/incubator and ask. They may know of people hanging around or coming out of a startup and are looking for a new project. Also check out reddit subs /r/startups and /r/entrepreneurs I see a lot of "marketing experts" on there, however I would take anyone on the internet claiming to be an expert or a "growth hacker" with a grain of salt.