skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You don't know what you're missing.

Or it's diminishing returns, and most of it is busywork (fiddling with settings) and the pride of customization -- as opposed to any real tremendous productivity gains.

And I say that as someone who've used Vi(m) for 15+ years in platforms ranging from SunOS (pre Solaris), to Linux, Windows and OS X. I've also fiddled with Emacs for a year or so before (in uni) but it never really stuck. I use ST3 and Vim (terminal sessions) now and don't find Vim offering any huge productivity boost.

For all the folklore it's just an editor with some nice ideas, and a lot of random stuff throw in stolen from this or that earlier environment (read how Joy came up with vi).
Seems like there should be some good margin. It's a Mediatek Quad Core Chip at 1.8x2/1.4x2, 2GB RAM, 32GB Flash, single antenna wifi, VGA/2MP camera. I think the case is still plastic as well?
I would certainly dispute that programming time is necessarily slowed down. Ironically, I find myself thinking much harder about types in a dynamic language, precisely because there's no compiler there to do the rote work for me. Lately I've been using pandas dataframes quite a bit, and the number of hours I've wasted due to problems with types is mindboggling.
These tablets, given their price point and availability, seem like fantastic platforms for hacking on. Anyone know why they haven't seen more adoption for that use case?
There have been a few projects that followed a link to, possibly from this site, looked at for one to two minutes, and quit looking after being unable to even figure out what the project is, what it does, and whether I should be interested in it.
Can you elaborate a little more on this strategy?
It's conflation to compare coontown with the_donald. Go there right now. You won't find "kill the jews" posts. You won't find "kill the gays/black people" posts. You'll find a ton of supportive people with a particular worldview--and there's nothing wrong with that.

If you assume the people you disagree with are "insane" or disregard them as "full of hate" then you'll never understand why they think the way they do and the division in our world continues unabated.

It still blows my mind that people who support the currently elected president, are considered a hate group. If the other candidate had won, would we consider her subreddit a hate sub? Would we care what the losing party thought about her subreddit? We all know the answer to that: "No." I have never before seen an election where "only one candidate is considered a human being."

Strange times.
Bitcoin investors sue the government and win.
NJ can be 30-120 minutes depending on many factors.

From my house in NJ to the office is 90 minutes including a 15 minute walk to the train station. Last Monday there was a delay on the NJ train and the subway so it was 2 hours door-to-door.

That's why I work remotely 2-3 days a week.

PS. I work at stackoverflow.com
Yeah, I guess the Head of the Department of Economics at Oxford must have missed out on that classical training somehow.
Would you provide a reference for this? Searching for "Safari permanent website data bug" didn't lead me to any definitive conclusion as to what you mean.
I don't think the dev went in and broke the old version. I think it didn't run on the new OS and they built a new version that did. This happens in the desktop space as well where there are apps that worked on Windows 7 but don't on Windows 10. You can buy a newer version that does work on Windows 10. This is generally for much more involved apps that are quite expensive to build and to buy.
That's a strange argument. Alcohol is a drug sold in the open pretty much everywhere.

You still see plenty alcoholists unable to keep a job, stealing things, fighting and even dying from their habit. It's almost as if easily accessible drugs doesn't fix the underlying problem here.
This. And if these things happen to you with any frequency they aren't so friendly. I've gotten my debit card skimmed several times (I was able to determine through the process of elimination that my at the pump usage at the gas station was responsible). The last time, which of course happened to be the only time I got hit for any significant amount of money, the bank fought every step of the way and ended up ruling against me. I had to go back and forth with the BBB to finally get it sorted out. In the end, it was a months long process with lots of headaches.
China can exert a lot of control on it's business regarding bitcoin but they wouldnt be able to control or censor the network so this wouldnt kill bitcoin.
Again, exploding people with bombs and using trucks as bullets is already illegal. More to the point, it's important to not conflate extreme ideologies with specific groups which use those ideologies. ISIS uses Twitter to recruit people to ISIS. There are many violent extremist groups that aren't ISIS, and would love to see it's demise.
> "internet’s economic model".

That's rich. Wonder which genius came up with those wordings in the complaint.

Are ads really the majority of the revenues generated on the internets?
> I wouldn't touch Apple hardware.

Just curious, what is your reason? Is it standard "Apple hate" on an ideological level, or is there a specific technical obstacle?
"[Bezos] starts in on the mantras of Amazon’s e-reader and tablet business. Mantra one: premium products at non-premium prices. Mantra two: "We make money when people use our devices." - https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4766878/jeff-bezos-interv...

See for example Rapids (https://rapids.amazon.com), FreeTime Unlimited (https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-FreeTime-Unlimited-Monthly-Sub...), Kindle Unlimited (https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/hz/signup?_encoding=UTF8&*...)
I think the headline kinda buries what I take to be the lesson from the data... companies don't like Java devs. Which is understandable, I imagine they find dealing with their ResumeAdapterFactoryInterfaceFactoryAdapterInterface needlessly gross.
Be careful equating 'evaluate' with 'interview', when TripleByte has incentive to obfuscate. I suspect hundreds of engineers may apply through Triplebyte each week, but they may interview only a small fraction of those. If true, this makes your point about small sample size even more important. I was disappointed their charts didn't have confidence intervals or count numbers. Makes it harder to guess at how the numbers generalize.
At least in the past, they've been stupendously locked down with bootloaders that were almost impossible to crack. There's be a version or two that was crackable, and then nearly every one purchased would be newer than that.
I teach, there are plenty of incompitent students using vim (and other editors of course).
The higher the volume of tickets the more precise our insights can be but as a general rule 100 tickets are required to gauge trends in feedback. For some companies this is an hour of customer requests and for other companies this could take a week to accumulate.
> I said the Scheme specification was modern.

It's the same old Scheme, repackaged.

> Patently false. Guile has had a JIT since 2.0.0. [0][1]

That's simply not true.

It's not in the 2.0.0 release. What you point to is experimental & abandoned code.

There is a new JIT called Nash for Guile, but it's also not in the released version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1uU07xMQs

> Now allow me to complain that usage somehow is equivalent to integration

Search through the Guile code. Goops is almost nowhere used. How can it be integrated?
So if I write Go in vim does that mean I'm insta-hired? :P
Not sure how to respond. Marketing in the 30s was limited to broadcast based approaches. You were not able to reach out to an individual, much less one you have even close to as much information about as is available today.
Web truths: CSS is not real programming
Interesting - but isn't Bitcoin more of a protocol and WeChat more of an application? Couldn't WeChat offer Bitcoin payments?
> The mystery to me is how a geographical demographic of drivers somehow all got together and said, “fuck it, I’ll drive in whatever lane I want!” I know that’s not how it happens, but how does it happen?

I think you have it backwards.

It's not that they're thinking "Fuck it, I'll drive in whatever lane I want!". It's that they were never told the proper thing to do, so they just have no idea that it actually matters.

Some people are actually specifically told the WRONG thing. I had a friend who was taught by his parents that if his exit isn't coming up any time soon that he should be in the left lane.
It never ceases to amaze me how otherwise intelligent people think it‘s a good idea to send unencrypted user data to random servers on the internet in the background.
> I don’t think it’s true to say selection is purely sexual in the modern world

I admit I skimmed the OP, but I didn't see the writer (of either book or the review) actually arguing for that at all, just that it's a piece of the puzzle.
That's a really good point. There's no million dollar Patreon yet. Assuming scale and steady-state, Patreon will have a much more impressive model with a predictable month to month revenue stream.
It's a great way to plant false plans. You don't have to carry them out unless the threat was never mitigated(if it wasn't taken seriously, then you can carry it out for 2x damage: part being the attack itself, the second part being that "they knew and did nothing!").
But Brooklyn hardly avoids the additional costs of NYC. That said, if you find a 4 bedroom on 1/4 acre of land somewhere near a subway for under $300k, let me know and I'll move back :)
Exactly. I had a legacy app like this that was generating next to nothing in revenue. I lol'd at all the work I would have had to do to bring it up two versions of iOS, and left it alone.
What do you score on?
wiremine's question upthread as to how this compares to debian:stable-slim seems like it would benefit from an answer from you or another maintainer (assuming I correctly read the "we" in your comment)
It did a good job of finding other artists that I like, but the playlist didn't have any central theme or mood.
Radical anything on Twitter/Facebook/mainstream-whatever is a honey pot. Stick your hand in and watch the suburbans roll up.
The Neuroscience of Storytelling Will Make You Rethink the Way You Create
this enables RL research that supports multi-agent environments, multiple views (cameras) and doesn't need to pick between physics or graphics because a game engine can do both! this is cool
US town where +90% of prisoners are black, and +90% of residents are white
My 3 year old has had a kindle fire 7 (standard one not the kid case version) he can use to play games and watch shows in the mornings rather than have the TV on. Bought it for £29 at Xmas and at that price didn't bother buying any protective case or screen protector. Thing is like a tank. It's been thrown, stamped on, was the primary target of projectile vomit twice, juice spilled, food rubbed into crevices. It has 1 minor scratch but other than that it's solid.
Could you please leave out the personal attacks and instead participate in the discussion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Registered for this. This is so wrong.

I have iPad and currently I use wifi _only_ to download iOS updates. All the other (voip, netflix and spotify for example) is done over LTE/3G. Why? Because I can.

I don't want to be scanned and located by APs or have unnecessary radars in my backpack.

tldr; ever heard of terms privacy and need to _not_ use specific networks? kthxbye.
Xcbm – block measurement for Swift
This is a great example of something that just boggles my mind. With all the regulation out there (on financial stuff in this case), how do people naturally come to the conclusion that such a scheme bypassing them is not illegal? (genuine question; not disparaging you)
This could replace my aging iPad mini that I have double side taped to my fridge. It's perfect for setting timers and grocery lists and things.
So they're only mentioning bitcoin because every exchange offers bitcoin trading pairs, right? This is effectively suppression of every cryptocurrency, not just bitcoin?
Curious: does Code roll-up into Visual Studio or Other in this chart?
Correct - we only have chip, not chip + pin in the US. Sometimes the chip requires a signature and the merchant sets their own threshold.
I seem to be in the same ballpark:

- Photos & Camera 16.89 GB

- Overcast 2.57 GB

- GroupMe 1.12 GB
I agree and all dating apps(though Match.com isn't as superficial i've found) and life in general your going to have it a lot easier purely based on your looks. From dating being a feast for you where you sign onto an app for example and filter each day through dozens of suitors to people wanting to get to know you/give you things (better job, invest in your startup, etc) based on looks.

How many of the highest paid actors or actresses are deemed unattractive?
I think this is exactly right, but it also shows why bitcoin is actually a very good candidate for a currency. It has every characteristic that makes gold a good currency, and additional ones as well. In the ways that gold is convenient, bitcoin is more convenient. As far as currencies go, I think that the less intrinsic value it has the better it fulfills its purpose. It is not meant to be hoarded but serve as lubrication for the exchange of goods and services. I could go on, but basically I think bitcoin could be seen as superior to gold as a currency, if its value was as globally accepted. But still, I think it is inferior to the dollar. For a truly stable economy we need to be able to control the value of our currency.
According to his bio, James Macintosh (author) has a degree in Philosophy and masters in Psychology. Probably not the best basis for in-depth Bitcoin analysis/advice. #justsaying
I find it gets slower with each update - have you tried the latest with 6-8 active repos open? It spends most of its time refreshing, even with very few changes.

I’ve also had some broken commits due to changes not being shown until I hit refresh.

At least they’ve fixed the large diff lockup’s. And yes, the line and hunk staging is brilliant.
But that would just create an invalid side chain and result in all the miners' hash power being wasted.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/55316/what-happe...
It's a stupid monetization model anyway. Imagine I want to increase the price of my service; how do I do that with ads? Do I increase the number of ads on my website? At what point will that break? Probably pretty soon.
Any plans for the ability to add custom sources? I'm assuming that's not a trivial thing to add, but definitely something I'd be interested in.
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Even back in the day when they were still getting paid, the overall quality of mainstream media content was almost as bad as it is today.

Even back then, they were still businesses. Their customers were still the advertisers, not the subscribers. If there was dirt to dig up on a politician, they'd probably cover it. If there was dirt to air on the local car dealership, grocery store, or real estate brokerage--silence!

To be an actual public service, the agency relationship has to be right. It was never right for the mainstream media. Bloomberg terminals do have it right (I'm the customer, not the product), but expensive!
Imagine if the purpose of highways was the billboards. The need to go somewhere is just the content to get you out and seeing the ads.
Stop SESTA – US Internet Censorship Bill
On the desktop side, worried sites could just block Safari since it's only 3.87% of users and those users can use other browsers. On the mobile side, Safari is more popular but also forced on iOS users since all browsers use Safari underneath. I'd wager Apple is doing this at the app level and not the renderer level on iOS.
You can pay like $10 a month for their "Gold" offering. Gets you margin (which also nets them some money) & after-hours trading.
> Because I'm pretty sure you can't write a fast numeric code without the knowledge of which type you will get on input. That's why fortran still rocks and we do nat have anything beyond fortran, c and c++ in the field of computation.

You're not far off.

The first trick is that even though `x` can have any type, `x[4]` and `x[5]` must have the same type. This kind of array whilst uncommon in Python is extremely common in array languages. Array languages tend to have a lot of vector operators (and so therefore are very competitive users of the AVS512 instruction set) which tend to be very fast. Programmers of array languages also tend to avoid things like loops and branches -- indeed you might enjoy http://nsl.com/ if you want to expand your mind a bit on that point.

The second trick is that an interpreter can be made very small. If you can get your entire program and the interpreter into L1 then you do not stall the CPU while your program fetches various parts of itself from memory. This is a trick languages like Fortran and C and C++ don't miss per-se, a very experienced programmer can usually identify the hotspots and optimise the hotpath for these things, but it is very time consuming to do this when your entire program is the hotpath!
Shutting down may not be desirable, but water efficiency might be. I don't know Coke's manufacturing line, but in the days of cheap acre feet, many industries would go through it like it was... water. Why drip irrigate when you can flood irrigate for cheaper.
What do you mean by "make a site"? I made qemu.org last year with 10-years-old knowledge of web development and, apart from the obviously not-done-by-a-graphics-designer theme, it _is_ a decent site, responsive and with a 2010s-ish look.

99% of websites can be done with either a static generator (lean) or WordPress (somewhat bloated, but really mostly standard libraries that can be cached and/or served by a CDN). The remaining 1% are the really bloated ones and sure they are the ones that we visit all the time (medium, BBC, whatever). But it's certainly possible to make a site with not too much knowledge of web development.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7910096?start=0&tstart=...

Website data is viewable in Settings> Safari> Advanced> Website Data. Some items won't delete even if they appear so, when you check again you'll see them return. This is especially onerous considering Apple's stance on privacy.

This happens even with private browsing on both iOS and OSX
That will bring the smarter character to the game developer. And make the game much closer to the real world. Meanwhile, this is also a start for the AR/VR world.
That's such a dead and boring meme. Honestly the attacks I always see on Java (such as this one) always come off as completely naive.

The amount of open source big data projects, and large profits and companies relying on Java technology should clue you in that this is unfounded. Hell, half of the modern smartphone market is all about Java.

I don't think companies dislike Java devs. I'd also take an article from a company trying their hardest to commoditize engineers and turn them in to test scores with a grain of salt.
Bogle has gone on record [1] that he's comfortable as long as indexing doesn't account for 75%+ of the market (I suspect he means 75%+ of market-wide AUM, but interpretation of "the market" can vary between people, like total daily trading volume or total daily trading buys, YMMV).

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/john-bogle-has-a-warning-fo...
I hear what you are saying and I've seen people who get paralyzed like that, but I'd say that 95% of the time public speaking is not something you must do. So, if it that "painful", I'd say just don't do it. The world won't end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVp5a38WT_0
Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator for Developers
No offenses. :)

At first, FLTK, does not look much better than the old Windows widgets.

In addition, I strongly want Fresh IDE to be portable to MenuetOS, KolibriOS and other assembly written OSes. As a rule, they all are written with FASM and a good IDE that can be ported for days (not for years) can be great tool for the OS developers.

That is why I started the development of special GUI toolkit.
Can confirm. VSCode's Go extension is really nice. I started using Atom for Go, but quickly switched over. The only thing I miss from Atom is the extension that shows inline test coverage.
Apple also randomizes your MAC address when probing to alleviate that privacy concern.
Is There a Single Online Service Not Put at Risk by SESTA?
>I can't even put a copy online for people to download, the game is just dead and gone thanks to Apple. I can still run Windows games from 20 year ago and with DOSbox, DOS games from 30 years ago.

On the other hand, thanks to this kind of "burning bridges" users are not tied to 20 year old compatibility kludges and legacy BS in the OS and libs.

>My own iOS game on the other hand is dead, never to be revived.

Which, App Store or not is the fate of tons of games -- most 8bit/16bit era games we have, we just have thanks to emulators.
No matter what you're replying to, HN just doesn't have room for comments like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use emacs, have a .emacs file that I carry around with me, and have no idea how to write lisp.
Maybe that was poor wording on my part, but ease of use in combination with the features are important.

Take the database secret backend for example. Getting that same feature out of other simple systems, would be a lot of work. Audit trails are another low effort high reward feature. When you start to get into combining those features, it is an even greater pay off. When you start to take into consideration HA clusters...well if you want to put that together on your own have at it.

Much of "easiest" has to do with familiarity as well. I've seen new users get Vault up in minutes that still don't have GPG setup "cause it is hard". If you are already working with DynamoDB or Consul, you already know how to setup the storage.
Those are common skills. I'm sure there are folks that fall on the other side of that use GPG often, but it doesn't make either side more objectively easy.

If you only have the need for a simple system, then Vault may be overkill. I would say Vault is comparable to Kubernetes. Does everyone need it: No. Simpler stuff can be done with config management or tools like Nomad. Does it have features that most people will eventually want to use: Absolutely.

Secret management is one of those things were simple solutions end up easily becoming more and more involved just like container orchestration. Especially when you get into chicken/egg scenarios regarding stuff like some of the tools you mentioned.

Side note: I've tried at least 12 other tools for this purpose , and I would recommend Vault over all of them for most every scenario that is more involved then "Use 1Password".
I have been coding for 36 years and currently do Swift/XCode. Used plain text editors back in 83/84 time frame but have using some kind of IDE since Turbo Pascal 1.0 and have zero desire to use either vim or emacs. I wouldn't hold a lot to the idea that old programmers use them more than young. People should use whatever they feel makes them more productive.
On the technical side, their compatibility with Linux was always very poor. From some weird hardware interfaces to many other issues[1]. Just avoid the frustration and use better laptops. From other perspective, I don't like Apple's extreme lock-in attitude, so not interested in supporting them.

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apple+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmjg59.dr...
I'm at the 25th percentile (in Canada). In my case I'm not in a tech heavy area so can't job hop to get the usual raises. I imagine in the states the numbers probably vary more too.
To be fair, it also EXPLICITLY states:

> Twitter said about 75 percent of the blocked accounts this year were spotted before a single tweet was sent

So the impact to average users is probably not very substantial.
Presumably you meant to type "Twitter" there, which Weibo clones.