skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem here, actually, but not in the way you think. There are alternatives (Canvas, SVG, etc.) but they're not as good for the standard use case of coming up with something quick that fulfills the business requirement.

And then we need to recognize that that stack is a fucking abomination that should be burned with fire. It should so deeply embarrass us, that we wouldn't want to admit that we use it in polite company.

We need people who are willing to experiment with new ideas and give us something better than HTML/CSS/JS. And we need them to get funding.
They only made 10 of them.

I'm guessing they will make other watches with this movement eventually.
People really are finding any way they can to make raising the minimum wage look bad. With rising inequality, a growing lower class, and a shrinking middle class[1], it seems like the business owners are going to grasp at everything they can to pay the lower class less and less each year.

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/05/11/americas-shrinking...
I can't take credit for this one, but there's a HN clone: https://github.com/traducer/hypernews
I guess ex-employees could be nudged to volunteer info on open plan arrangements in their Glassdoor reviews.
Apple's “Town Squares” Show That Tech Wants to Look More Transparent Than It Is
I am a long-time watch nut, and I loved this write-up - it concisely explained what makes this mechanism unique and was most educational.

Fun to see a departure from the norm - until this, the probably largest innovation horology over the past couple of hundred years was George Daniels' coaxial escapement (which basically eliminated friction from the equation, ensuring all transfer of energy in the escapement took place between components tangential to each other, allowing for excellent long-term precision)

The plural of anecdote is not data, but my ten year old Omega with coaxial escapement (in a c.2500C) is still accurate to within a second a day without ever having been serviced. That,in my book, is remarkable.

(It is due for a service soon; I do not intend to run it into the ground...)
Are there any IDEs and associated languages that by design are well suited to viewing code in different ways, where these views are all first class?

For example, maybe I want to structure my code by class. Helpers over here. Another module over there. But with a single keystroke switch to a code view where my functions have been inlined and my classes have been collapsed so that I see all of super's calls inline. And in a recursive way so I can expand or collapse how deep this flattening and unrolling occurs.
Intacto is a Spanish film about people who can steal other people's luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto
Hollywood Accounting
oh double trouble!
There are several items in the list that seem glaringly out of place
I am demonstrating that OP is cherrypicking an example and that a broader view of technological progress, such as the Performance Curve Database, shows that very gradual improvements are the norm.
What is a fair profit for the owner of a small restauraut? Put 500k in to start it. Puts in 70 hours a week. Since you want to say what a fair profit is, what is it? 30k a year? 200k? 500k?
some companies do, one company I see openings for on the local job board puts something like "on your first day you will come in and go to your own private office" in all their ads. I have thought of working there just based on that...
I cannot believe how short sighted companies can be when it comes to these things, but I don't think it's malice per se, it's usually a variation of the person who makes the decision does not have to live with it and so doesn't have any incentive outside of spending as little as possible.

It's like how in many cases the desktops/monitors for developers come out of the IT budget, so the IT department tries to buy the crappiest things possible (24" single 1080p monitors, because they can't find anymore the 22" 900p they had before, 500 gig hard drives, etc.) because it does not impact them if developers are happy or not or are hampered by having to work with substandard tools.

In several past companies when we moved offices or had an office redesign, it was always up to the facilities department to deal with this, and developers were involved only at the very end when it was time to pick the seating and by that time all the design was locked, contractors hired and so on and so there was no way to change anything of significance anymore.

If I ever had a company I would make it a rule that any decision has to be made by the department / people affected by it. Other departments can offer support as needed, but I would never have IT control which hardware the developers get, or facilities decide for open office/cube height/chairs, or the CTO decide for the code review tool, etc. etc.
I like this approach a lot, especially as implemented in [1].

Perhaps a tutorial, or some examples can be documented in that style. Hyperapp + hyperscript-helpers[2] is my favorite combo at the moment.

1. http://dave.kinkead.com.au/modelling-the-boundary-problem/

2. https://github.com/ohanhi/hyperscript-helpers
And now many java apps bundle their own JRE (at least on windows).

Like anything else it's a tradeoff, and for the average user not having to install separate dependencies (at least on windows and mac) is going to be easier, and 50 or 100 mb isn't something anyone is going to really have an issue with in the vast majority of cases.
I will eat your billygoat.
PenTesting Active Directory Environments (2016)
One thing I like about the Hyperapp approach though is use of plain JavaScript objects and pure functions to build your app. This means that it's possible to only have a dependency on Hyperapp in one place as part of assembling the overall app.
He is probably talking about Asset Seizure by government for unexplained income.
That would be so nice! I am working on a "how it works" post, but it's still not finished.

If you are interested have a look here:

https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/8dc33b7947f3193eb2ea3d5700e...
I have seen this pattern in other people with interesting but narcissistic personalities:

"Steve wasn’t capable of being friends. That wasn’t his personality."
Free, but you get exactly what you pay for: a rather bad VPN bordering on "this is not a VPN at all". Of course, you should not believe a random commenter on HN for that, so hit up https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/ and use that as a starting point to verify for yourself whether or not Opera's VPN is any good.

If you want security rather than security veneer, use a real VPN instead, with browsers set to either use or ignore the system proxy, depending on what you want out of each browser.
> You need to invest staff time in testing and automating said updates, and will inevitably lead to more outages.

It should follow the same processes as any other application update. Are you suggesting it's impossible to push updates to software without incurring outages?
Thanks!, last question, how's the tech employment in there?

Which TBH doesn't really matter since i like to work remotely.
> While many people would expect Chromium to drastically slow down the performance or “consume precious RAM” I haven’t experienced any of this in practice and haven’t heard bad feedback from thousands of test users.

Well you seem to be looking only at process attached to a window, look a bit down in background tasks: see those chrome and other electron-based apps eating your RAM?
I meant to type "AZ", availability zone.

GP is "grandparent", the poster who started the line of discussion. (mrb)
By and large those who oppose it are not evil for the sake of evil but concerned that the alternative is not a higher minimum wage but no wage at all as workers in unskilled jobs are replaced by self-service or automation. McDonalds is already doing it. The answer is using technology as a lever to help people do higher-value-adding work and incentivising people to upskill into those jobs after a brief period at entry level. Not raising the level of entry level so high that it pulls the ladder up.

I say this as someone who started working before the minimum wage even existed, at a fraction of what it was when it was introduced.
His ideal vision is always described in very abstract terms. If he took the care to write it down precisely, what it should look like, I'm sure there would be hundreds eager to build it for him.

Look at Squeak. http://squeak.org/ The idea that you should be able to dig in and modify things is very powerful.

Another way to look at it is in terms of discoverability: you are at one level of understanding (using the phone, clicking on things), and it should lead you to a deeper level of understanding (perhaps moving things around, modifying them). At each level, there are hooks inviting you deeper, drawing you in. Ideally you get down low enough to start programming, to actually understanding how assembly and the CPU works, so there is no longer any area of magic.
As a migraine sufferer I feel the same way. I tell people who don't take my pain seriously to watch me take a round of Botox for them. It's something like 8 syringes in my scalp. I absolutely would not go through that if a single migraine didn't inflict much more pain upon me.

I'll never forget having a migraine come back on as I was leaving the ER one night. They had already dosed me up well. All the drugs did though was make me not care that it felt like an ice pick was boring into my head. Still felt the pain.

I've lost way too many things to this pain over the years. It's awful.
Are the pursuits of knowledge and profit in conflict?
Can we try to move away from phrases like "Grow a pair"? It's such a classically unhelpful line. I feel like this isn't even being too nitpicky -- women can't grow a pair, and saying that men lack a pair is nothing more than an insult.

The underlying message is "shut up and deal with it," which is also unhelpful. People can feel how they feel, and there is no shame in expressing those feelings in a productive way.
The Cassini Team Reflects on How It Feels to Say Goodbye to Their Spacecraft
This. The addicts in Kansas don't have any regrets.
Hyperapp 1 KB JavaScript library for building front end applications
> If the job of the CISO is to deliver the project under budget and on time, rather than to do the job correctly as you and I understand it, then we are certainly more likely to find ourselves in this position

The same fault is responsible for the Space Shuttle Columbia crash. It's called "leadership without vision." If you put a manager in place and give them tight constraints on how they deliver the product, they will almost universally deliver a critically flawed product ... albeit, on time and under budget.
I have been working with the web since 1997, but almost only on the server-side (back in the the simpler web 1.0 days) and (during the past decade) on the browser UX/network side.

I just recently started looking at actually creating some web content that uses the modern web stack. Holy moly. What a cluster f__k of insanely over/badly-engineered craziness.
The web platform has its virtues though. I can still load a webpage made in 1996 and at least read the text if nothing else; we can't say the same of erstwhile competitors like Flash, Silverlight, Java applets...
Lots of mobile apps are written in Objective-C, and Objective-C is C. A superset of C to be exact.

Since it's a single hybrid language, it's trivial to remove slower features fro, performance-intensive parts.

See my UIKonf talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHG_zw7%205SjE&feature=youtu...

Or my book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321842847/ref=as_li_tl?ie...
Show HN: Embeding in Markdown
The subject is not new at all, and this is just opinion. Why does it deserve more attention than an HN comment?
Whos rule of thumb is that, the banks? I am below 10% and this is after a pay cut (i.e. its not because I make 500k).
more-discoverable undo

I think he wanted more discoverable everything, the undo was just used as a particularly bad example on the iPhone.

He wants the world to be more discoverable, to modify our very culture so that learning is easy (an example he gave was with math, so it's not just a small, 'smart' percentage of the population who actually gets it, but everyone absorbs it from a young age).
That sounds like an oxymoron. Signing folders is hardly interesting.
Some Muslim and Middle Eastern developments that are missing from this list too (off the top of my head):

* Al Khawarizmi's development of algebra

* Al Zahrawi's creation of commonly used surgical instruments

* Ibn Sina's Canon

* Ibn Al Haytham's description of optics and how human vision works

* Ibn Khaldun as the founder of modern sociology.
Open standards tend to win/survive...
How to Sleep Better?   Stress and Anxiety
I think 10 seconds is long enough for most purposes.

Let's say the drop tower is open 9am-7pm Monday-Friday, so 10 hours a day, for 5 days a week, and 50 weeks a year. That's 2500 hours of drop time a year. Let's say the building can be expected to last 100 years (probably lasts much longer, it's solid concrete after all) and cost 20 million dollars to build. Thus, you get 250k hours of drop time for $20MM, so each hour of drop time costs $80.

[edit] whoops, turns out it's only operational for 30 seconds a day! That makes the price go up about a factor of 1000, so the cost is now roughly $80k per hour.

Let's say you have a vacuum chamber (usually required for zero-g experiments) that takes up 3 seats, and you pick the cheapest zero-G flight I could find at $5000 for one flight, 15 periods of 20-30 seconds of weightlessness each (let's say avg 25 seconds.) That's $15,000 for 375 seconds, or 0.104 hours. So your hourly price is $144,230.

With the revised math, the tower still wins, $80k to $144k, but I'm surprised it can only drop three times a day.
Try yograj guggulu with yoga, the Indian Hindu sages knew their stuff
Show HN: Vital Signs App to Log Blood Pressure
Sagemath really competed with Mathematica IMHO, not MATLAB.
If anyone is confused like I was:

"Gold open access": publish paper in a publicly accessible academic journal.

"Green open access": self-publish. For instance, throw it on a website, and allow it to be indexed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
FWIW, this worked for me.

I had absolutely debilitating pain in a hip joint as if I had a handful of needles loose in there. I had it for several months, I had an MRI, a bone scan, tried physio, acupuncture and what have you with zero effect. At some point got a "procedure" scheduled for some sort of steroid injection directly into the spine column and was prescribed some nasty anti-inflammatory pills to "prep" for the thing (but in the end decided against the whole thing). The only thing that helped _a bit_ were the 600 mg Ibuprofen pills.

In any case, saw this book recommended here on HN, picked it up, read a quarter and realized that it applied. I was under an enormous stress at the time, both on work and personal fronts. On the work side I was running a one-man project with several thousand active daily users. On the personal end we just had a kid and the massive lifestyle change that came with it. A couple of days after realizing that the stress might've been the cause of the pain, the pain disappeared. Just - poof, gone. This was over 10 years ago and it never came back. The end.
Even if you're self-sufficient you should still pay taxes, because the government still protects your property by enforcement of laws by police.
This is what I've been trying to get at. What makes people offended or uncomfortable is much more arbitrary and subjective than I think most people are willing to admit.
How does it differ from
https://github.com/mamins1376/Subscene-API ?

And from https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal ?

In regard to Subscene, does it hammer the server as the former supposedly does?
Alan Kay is the one who said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." He did so by inventing quite a bit of the technology that is in every PC and smartphone today.
Maybe a more sophisticated modern numbers game with lottery insiders colluding with 'winners'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game
You can use dumpfs for that.
Restaurant profits are controlled by landlords. The rent goes up just to the point where the business survives. Due to the natural shortage of space, this works perfectly for landlords and not very well for anyone else.

What the minimum wage does is create an unmoveable barrier that can't be negotiated away. Minimum wage lowers the maximum rent the landlord can charge without killings the tenant. The wages come out of the landlord's pocket, not the business's.
One of my frustrations is that scientific papers decades old are still locked behind a paywall - so while I might voluntarily donate something if I find the content useful - I'm not for example willing to pay 40 dollars to find out if an article that is 60 years old is interesting or useful - but I might pay 1-2 dollars after the fact. I totally get paywalling say.. anything newer than 5 years - I don't get the point of paywalling something 40-50-60 years old.
Information economics seem to be playing out exactly as expected. The price of a good is reverting to its cost of production--near $0 for copying bytes. You can't stop the rock.

In Information Rules, Shapiro & Varian argue that if you're selling an information product, all that you can charge for is the value that you add on top of the information, such as convenience, freshness, etc. It's best to assume the information itself is free.
Is this a satire? Because you are framing this exactly the same as command line vs GUI and hardware keyboard vs touch screen debates. I don't think apple has the watch figured out but something will replace the phone.
Why Boys Swam Naked in Chicago High Schools
Open access to knowledge is in conflict with the pursuit of profit because knowledge-asymmetry is easy to monetize.
This is an interesting comparison. Is verbal intimidation illegal/immoral because of the words being said or the intention of physical violence behind them?

Is there a difference between saying, "I'm going to kill you tomorrow", or "You must sleep with me or I'll fire you", and "I like your behind"?

Edit:

To answer your question, yes I do believe that the verbal nature of the non threatening harassment means you don't have a basic human right to be free of it. If the harassment occurred in a language she didn't understand would it have affected her the same?
Fragmentarium and the burnt Anglo-Saxon fragments
Open access journals have failed in part because they lack the prestige of top tier journals like cell or nature
The numerical system developed by Indian hindu sages without which there would be no maths or binary

The discovery of the Boson,by Sathendra Nath Bose

Yoga
1. It has an abstract and a long list of references.

2. It is much longer than an HN comment.

(Not saying those are valid reasons…)
It's on the website of a company that has some clout in the academic publishing industry.
We need more demos of AI models: there is what people claim their model does, and there is what the model actually does.
So, network effects? How familiar.
I don't understand why we need a special language for IoT. RasPi is more powerful than computers which we had 20 years ago and we were fine using many language which we have today.
It's not that complicated. The author seems to think that academic journals were somehow high-quality products that were co-opted by privacy. The music industry also, once upon a time, thought that offering disks in record stores was a high-quality offering.

Music pirates forced the music industry to realize that they were charging too much for user-hostile formats. Publishing pirates ought to force the publishing industry to realize that they are charging too much for user-hostile formats, too.

The music industry started to win back market-share from pirates when they understood that they had to compete with pirate offerings and offer a better, higher-quality product. The results were iTunes, then Spotify and similar competitors (Google Music etc.). The publishing industry ought to be no exception.
Yes.

They have been for decades.

Thankfully the internet created another door, but we'll see how long that lasts...
Ibn Khaldun should replace Adam Smith on the list for modern economic theory as well.
> The issue is business owners who want to earn some ridiculous multiple of what their employees do. The haircut should come from their profits.

Profits for most restaurants are razor thin relative to the amount of work the owner puts in and risk taken, so I'm not sure what the relevance of what you're saying is. The average restaurant owner isn't that much better off than their employees.
People don't normally use the word "beg" in that sense. "I'm begging you, please shut up" is the closest to an ordinary usage of the word -- and even that's being a little melodramatic. If they're talking about highlighting something for discussion, they'd say "you make a good point," or "you raise another issue," or "that brings up a question," or "which leads to another thing," etc.

This leaves "begs the question" as a weird, pretentious-sounding, overly emphatic expression that automatically annoys some percentage of the audience and will slightly confuse the rest (for at least the next decade or so until the purists give up as they did with "irregardless," "could care less," and "literally").

Of course, if your goal truly is to unpredictably annoy semi-arbitrary subsets of people with something as neutral as your speech, then by all means, beg away. Personally, I don't have a choice. I'm a parent, and as is the case with any parent, my kids internalize everything I do. So I can't have fun adding auto-troll expressions into my communication, because they'll do the same without realizing the consequences. I don't like that the world is full of people who both (1) have the power to decide my fate, and (2) set the bozo bit from small things like the quality of my communication, but I'm pragmatic enough to accept that those people do exist and will judge my kids' fate. That's why I speak as if it matters.
I like the description of some modern tech in terms that Einstein might understand... however the biggest change would probably be computers.

(I think I remember hearing that) We're getting small enough with integrated circuits that quantum mechanic effects are important considerations, including potentially forcing us to come up with new models of system function.
Not one mention of The Mindbody Prescription (if only to dismiss it)? If you're suffering from back pain, or carpal tunnel syndrome, or such ailments, read this book, it might change your life! (and if it doesn't it can't harm)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0446675156/
Excel and PDF Docs
I have 3000 pdf files that all in the same format but have different information on them. I wanted to know if there is anything that I can use to extract info from these pdf files and enter them to excel. For example a specific line in the pdf. I wanted to avoid sitting for many hours and imputing each one
Hasty downvoter, do your research first. That Rule 6 was not made up by me, it was the real thing, by one of the people mentioned in the parent comment - Rob Pike:

https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html
When demand for oil peaks what happens to all the people - and countries - that dpened on oil maintaining a certain price per barrel. What is the new source of demand for oil that replaces internals combustion engines in millions of cars?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it... just like thinking about those ramifications.
Slack for example is 192 MB. I guess if everyone had that theory I might have 30 extra copies 6 extra gigabytes. More importantly I would have to ensure I killed apps lest say a calculator app or editor ruin my battery life by itself for the dubious privilege of rendering a blinking cursor.
Java was the problem here. DLL hell is a problem if you don't ship with the needed DLLs. Which you shouldn't do in the first place.