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TL:DR; I made an app that makes you write 10X faster. It basically takes the research process out of writing and tells you everything you should write about, in an organized way.

So, let me tell you the story of the app quickly.

4-5 month ago, I was hopelessly thinking, how could I make a news site I own compete with the big players in the industry but at the same time,
keep operational costs as low as possible.

Creating enormous amounts of content daily was the issue, of course.
To solve that problem, I first needed to understand the content creation process.
So I've setup screen recorders both on my and a few editors' PCs and we've started writing news/reviews articles as usual.

Soon after I watched the screen records, I realized an odd pattern, instead of actually writing,
80% of our times were being wasted browsing through tabs and reading what others have said about the topic that we're writing about...

At that point I knew I was onto something, because, if there's repetition, there's a room for automation.

With those findings in my mind, I came up with a hypothesis; Anybody could write great and in-depth articles without banging head on the keyboard, as long as s/he knows what to write about!
So, long story short, I made an app that scans the web for you, finds relevant articles, extracts key points , important events and feeds you with new angles in an organized way as you continue your writing. So you never get distracted and waste precious time browsing through the tabs to see other people's point of view.
My hope is that, it'll help each one of you by taking your content costs down and freeing up your time! So, here you go;

https://seotify.com/word-assistant/
Samsung is pretty good at security updates actually. See this 4.5 years old phone here [0] (july), or this 3.5 years old one [1] (september).

0: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s4/GT-I9505/

1: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s5/SM-G900F/
The USA interfered with the middle east essentially since the end of the second world war. There were several generation since then and it seems not unreasonable that their motivation is based in different events. While the motivation for 9/11 and earlier attacks certainly did not come from the last war in Iraq or Afghanistan, this does not rule out that the current generation is not significantly motivated by those. It quickly becomes a rather philosophical question how many steps you want to go back in the chain of events in order to pick one as the cause.
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Not sure if it helps, but you're not alone. I'm a quite introvert person and often feel that things that interest me bore others and vice versa. This can be a real problem if you have to communicate.

I'm learning Czech now just for fun for about a year and tried to find tandem partners with an app called Tandem. I had some chat partners but they were text only as I find it much easier to have a conversation this way. Of course this didn't go very well. Most of them stopped responding after a while.

So right now I'm not sure what to try next. I definitely need some “hands on“ experience but don't know how. There really should be more offerings for introverts. I'm sure there's a big market for that.
Ugh figures I read that after updating.
Yes, you can even go as low as 20-30 seconds if your goal is not competitive powerlifting and more aesthetics, I wasted way too much time for inferior results before switching to short rest time
Ahh the NYC ones all stock milk from local dairies, I assumed the others would be the same.
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It's not like people don't learn about scientific ideals. Everyone involved certainly knows them well enough to at least pay lip service to them.

But you also can't prevent people from learning about how the world works: the rewards and penalties that will affect their careers.

Even if you could, teaching students a myth about what a career in science is like would basically be malpractice.
A network of free services will always have gaps. Food, water, shelter... what about power, internet, clothes? Something equally important that not everyone needs?

Basic income guarantees that the gaps are filled. It even makes markets more likely to try to fill them. But basic income can't get basic services to people who can't control their own money. Getting food to children of alcoholics requires that the system doesn't pass through an intermediate step that can be exchanged for alcohol.

So both a thorough network of social services and basic income are required for a society that aims to raise the standard of living for everyone. Both individually have blind spots.

Basic income can serve as a substitution for other services though, so if you're going to add things one at a time instead of magically willing it all into existence, it makes sense to start there.
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Yup, I also wondered if he was craving ethernet to find the refund website?
There's so much hate for "NIMBYism" on here, why? Looking at the wikipedia article, it just means putting things undesirable to have in a residential area farther away from residential areas. Do you really want to live next to an airport? Is it so bad for people to want their neighborhood to be nice?
I know of many such stores. Usually they are proxies: They download the app from the Google store, you download it from the proxy. The question is, how do you know they haven't inserted malware? It seems like a very obvious vector for attack. You could authenticate signatures or hashes, but where do you find the authoritative signature/hash?

For those interested in taking a shot at using these services, here are a couple of the more credible ones I've run into in the last couple years (I haven't used them in at least 6 months, so possibly their status has changed). Use at your own risk!:

- APK Downloader: By someone on XDA-forums, a leading Android dev community. It comes in several versions and forks by other XDA members, and for several platforms. I don't have time to sort them out now, sorry. Beware of malware-infected hosted implementations.

http://codekiem.com/2014/08/07/official-apk-downloader-v2-do... / http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515021

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809458

https://github.com/Lekensteyn/apk-downloader

- Racoon: Desktop OS client for Play Store (along with its Github and XDA links)

http://raccoon.onyxbits.de / https://github.com/onyxbits/Raccoon / https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772436
I think what OP meant was having to make an account inside the app
I seems to me the whole point is that "valid ID" was extremely limited to only include "current driver’s license, passport, or state or military ID". This was not widely communicated until only a few months before the election.

For the impoverished a driver's license and passport are extraneous to every day life, a military ID is unlikely, and if you read further, state IDs were not easily obtainable in a reasonable amount of time.
Thanks! I’ll check it out. So you’re saying I can just show up and boulder or are there lines? Or appointments?
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I dislike the redesign, some parts at least. The bottom navbar particularly irks me. It's a navbar a la iOS, completely nonstandard for Android, where the sliding sidebar is preferred to navigate between sections of the app.

The previous app had perfect compliance with the standard interface guidelines, no unexpected custom elements. This version has them by the truckload. It was much cleaner before, so this feels like a regression (even though I like some parts, such as the "Latest" screen. EDIT: The "Categories" screen is very pleasing and navigable too, were it not for the floating Search button senselessly blocking parts of the screen. I've always hated that trainwreck of an element. Particularly needless in this case: search belongs on a searchbar on the top (most usability and least surprise).
I know I am going to be downvoted so hard, but really it's very easy to build you own css these days, css frameworks look an easy solution for beginning your project but they become a burden gradually as your project grows
"it just means putting thinga undesirable to have in a residential area farther away from residential areas"

Infamously, at least in the Bay Area, the "undesirable things" in question are typically new neighbors.
> less rigid than classic relational ones

Less rigid than what? The schema is going to exist somewhere...
I’d like to add to the question a further question: which one would be best in the situation where I want to regenerate the static page programmatically? So basically something running on a server somewhere will run periodically (probably on a trigger) and deploy a new copy of the static page to the proposed host. So the question is which host has the best platform for that kind of rapid deployment? Hoping not to use FTP for example.
So you gonna do all those JOINs in code???
If you think it through with a simple model, you might challenge your intuition.

Let's say the entire economy consists of three people: #1, #10 and #100. #1 earns $1,000 per month, #10 earns $10,000 a month, and #100 earns $100,000 a month.

Raising #1's salary to $1,500 a month might have a small effect on prices in the economy at large, but prices certainly wouldn't go up 50%.

That's because #1's share of the entire economy is very small.

In the US, 14.5% of the population are #1s, and 85.5% are #2s and #3s. And that 14.5% of people represents a minuscule portion of the economy, maybe something like 5% or less, since their incomes are so low.
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I really don't understand why it's so hard to understand why there's a difference between the mediums. I've made it pretty clear.
F-Droid 1.0 – is client app. There was few "1.0betaX" before "1.0" release.

f-droid.org – is website of F-Droid project. And, yes, website still in development and has some issues. Hope, F-Droid Team will fix website as soon as possible.
Not sure if that's really relevant to the quality of the apps themselves.

Since everything (at least by default) through F-Droid is FOSS, there is a significant lack of ads and other misfeatures. Apps that depend on an account with a non-free third-party service are clearly marked as such. Most apps aren't foolishly tied at the hip to Google Play Services. Malware is non-existent.
(disclaimer: Netlify employee)

We do indeed offer free HTTPS and custom domain support (as well as the two together) on our free plan. I haven’t used GitLab Pages myself, so I couldn’t compare further off the top of my head.
Our use case was not simple, but MongoDB made it simple to implement. We used pretty much every feature of MongoDB. Any other database could have been coerced to do what we needed, of course, but with greatly varying degrees of extra complexity or overhead.
YikYak was a bit different in that it was anonymous (initially). When you don't know anything about your users, it must be tough to monetize them.

They had a really rapid decline, eh?
One wonders what percent of the "windshield effect" is a direct result of killing billions of bugs on the windshields of our cars, rather than a side effect of climate change or pesticides.
It depends if it's a project that is going to grow. For so many things Bootstrap does so much for so little effort. I use it any time I need to spin something up quickly, prototype an idea, put an internal page together. Bootstrap is a tool for making a page where you don't care how it looks look good.
Maybe it's due to fear of social stigma? Something like, "Yuri Milner spends $100 million on psychedelic drug research" —could be reputation changing.
I like HN because it is more mature and there's lots of places for people to have fun like that.
You aren't wrong. I will say I do still find myself surprised that many sites don't test cross browser and I find that these frameworks can alleviate that.
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Well you got a point, indeed the actual community is really nice at a personal level, I was talking about the image of the language you get from advocates you see on random discussion boards and blogs posts, so my use of the term "community" was probably imprecise to say the least.
And I remember having issues with documentation in general, there's usually a lot of academic jargon which is kinda unique to Haskell, monads is the obvious example but there's a lot of concepts that seem to be treated on a much higher level of abstraction that I think is actually needed to get things done, and I'm sure things improved since I last tried Haskell, but that's why I think Haskell is elitist and pedantic.
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Well, the SGDBs of the 70's were nothing like the ones around today.
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I think it's clear to everyone how the mediums are different. What's not clear is how subjective decisions CNN makes about what to air are acceptable, but subjective decisions HN makes about what to allow on the front page aren't.

What's especially weird about this argument is that the US media market is in fact in the middle of a giant debate about how acceptable CNN and Fox News's editorial decisions are. It's not like it's a reach to get from moderation to CNN's editorial decisions; it's a pretty obvious comparison.
> Nitpick, but why "m = new Math() s = m.sin(x)" would be "the OOP way" instead of "x.sin" ?

Because you can't do the latter post-hoc. You can't add hyperbolic functions
by yourself if your standard library didn't anticipate them. Well, in Ruby you
can and it's a standard practice to pollute this way classes at random, and in
Python you can as well, though it's frowned upon, but certainly you cannot in
C++ or Java.
So... when are we going to start seeing Political Science and Philosophy taught in the US public educational systems?
Apologies, I could have been more clear.

What I mean is that I haven't heard of guys receiving death, rape etc threats accompanied by doxxing (ie 'this is his address, let's go get him') at the levels I've heard about with women[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
F-Droid could be improved in next versions, if you will send your feedback (issues, bug reports and feature requests) directly to F-Droid Team ;)
Which is why women put the "not here for a hookup" disclaimer on their profile even more than their height requirements.
I honestly believed this to be released already. Completely surprised by this :).
Sounds closer to Poe's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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Flip coin.

If you like the side that popped up - go with it.

If you don't like that side - go for what you'd prefer.
Just because you prefer other things doesn't mean it's wasted effort. Even if no one else used it (which isn't the case here), there's nothing wrong with working on a side project just to build your skills.
Watched it, it was quite nice, but way less "technical" and magical than this.
I've been using the Bootstrap 4 beta for a couple weeks building a side project (https://nanagram.co) and I must say, it's been great to use. The built in utilities for responsive views and spacing are especially useful. Made optimizing the homepage for multiple screen sizes super fast and not painful at all. The Beta 1 had pretty good documentation and seemed pretty mature as well. Looking forward to upgrading to the Beta 2.
Bootstrap 4 is great and a pleasure to work with. Documentation structure on the other hand... Main nav section on the left with subsections on the right is totally counter-intuitive.
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I wonder if anyone's built one on top of an API-first CMS like Contentful?
Heh, I've had the same thought (https://noamswebsite.com/r/books/). We are physical beings after all; at the end of the day our nervous system evolved for the sole purpose of helping our bodies do stuff within a a physical world.

I hope soon with augmented reality I can get the best of both worlds and, for example, point at a word on my book and immediately hear the definition.
Thank you for such a thoughtful and detailed response. I'd like to apologize for contributing to the spread of rumors around FDB's acquisition, as you guys could never tell the real story, rumors are all we had.

Regarding FDB's architecture, I'm going to agree with you wholeheartedly that the world is built on layers of abstractions. It's how we make any progress at anything. It's useful, and it can save time that can be focused on more important or beneficial areas. I would hope nobody in CS would disagree with your premise there.

However, there's a reason nobody writes a high performing database in Python. Or just uses the filesystem as a KV store. Abstractions are obviously useful, but it's equally trite to say they're always beneficial.

So the question with FDB: Ddoes basing everything on a generic KV abstraction yield enough benefits to make up for the losses in performance? I'm not qualified to say. Clearly the developers of FDB think so, and they'd be the ones most likely to know.

My opinion, as a database developer with many years experience is that any performance losses from building over a generic KV-store are probably solvable or mostly solvable. They also likely pale into insignificance next to the performance losses from trying to run a relational database over a distributed cluster. I'd question the sanity of doing that when the vast majority of people can fit their entire OLTP dataset in memory on a single server. I know I'm in the minority with that opinion though.
Except for all the edge cases which is a big reason why CSS frameworks are a thing. If you need to support lots of browsers it is certainly not easy to build your own.
POSIX has deprecated pthread_atfork because it is unworkable. In particular, atfork handlers can only call AS-safe functions, which means they're useless.
> She then claims her letter is "science"

Please link to the place where she actually makes this claim.

> in her journal

Not hers, and not a journal.

> while his self-published piece is "methodological terrorism."

She actually outlines the practices that ought to be singled out as unprofessional and unacceptable in the second to last paragraph, and none of those are mere self-publication.

Have you considered the possibility that both sides are wrong? That this is crap science, and that the conduct of certain groups of people rallying against crap science is overzealous to the point of cruelty?

Finally, it's also worth noting you've COMPLETELY proven Fiske's point about social media: sure, there are some valid critiques. But there are also people being absolutely vicious to people actually trying to science because of very trivial and obvious misunderstandings (e.g., because they think that APS Observer is a journal). I think to some extent that's a reasonable price for free discourse when things stay online and especially when they're anonymous, but you're calling a real person with a real job on the line corrupt because you made an incorrect assumption (that would've taken you 10 seconds of googling to correct).
I thought he meant in the browser, where it is actually a real problem.
Relying on a single client/company for 50% of your revenue puts you in an extremely fragile position. Very common reason for failure in B2B companies - relying on a single big fish which will make or break the company.
You forgot to mention: bringing a database to market that didn't work. Because for any real definition of "works" MongoDB didn't deliver on that.

(Note: I used to be optimistic about NoSQL, but I was dismayed by the extremely low quality that NoSQL products started out at, and stayed at, for a very long time)
> studies have shown MDMA users to literally have shrunken bits of their brain. http://www.maps.org/news/media/2462-media-reports-of-ecstasy....

I only had a chance to skim that article, but it is equating tablets of ecstasy with MDMA, which is a false equivalence. "Ecstasy tablets" usually contain some MDMA, but can also contain a whole bunch of other shit, including cocaine, heroine, speed, MDA, etc. I think the jury's still out on whether pure MDMA has the same downsides from frequent use.
After being introduced to the MongoDB stale read issue in 2015 [1] we abandoned MongoDB and never looked back. Anyone knows if this is resolved in the latest versions?

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/322-jepsen-mongodb-stale-reads
Sure, but a smart Chinese researcher can move to Vancouver or Toronto very easily, so does a researcher from Bangalore or Buenos Aires or St. Petersburg, but its harder for a firm or a research lab based out of say, Shanghai or SV even, to have access to the same type of global talent. Remember China is not Asia, China only has access to 20% of population, and also isn't that migrant friendly from what I have read (could be wrong here), so I assume the rest of the world put together would have better chance of success in competing with any Chinese city or even SV. Again I base this on the premise that access to information is freely available for everyone across the world. For example a person living in, say, Argentina, has the same access to ML coursework as someone who lives just across the street from Stanford. I think its an increasingly safe assumption to make, given the direction the world is moving towards, with MOOC and OMSCS type of degrees etc.

I sincerely feel other things considered equal, access to human capital becomes a tie breaker.
Wait, CAP theorem just says that you have to sacrifice availability of you want Consistency and Partition tolerance.
Well, I for one think PostgreSQL is overrated.

The number one reason for why people want NoSQL is horizontal scaling and for that PostgreSQL is terrible, with all available solutions being hacks that don't work.
Honest question: why? Why would you roll your own buttons, headers, footers, modals, panels, grid system, and alerts, which all respond responsively, when you could just take a framework off the shelf and start being productive immediately?
Genuine question: what does the term "static app" refer to? As I understood it, "webapp" explicitly refers to a site is not static.
While this will free up a few hundred gigabytes of disk space, it'll make it a little harder to run your node apps.
It stands for iproute not "internet protocol". :p
THANK YOU. At first I was very confused as to why there were so many half-full milk jars in the fridge but it soon made sense. I don't think this is WeWork's "fault" in that Ronnybrook milk only seems to last about two hours after opening, but they should really buy another brand.
The problem with obscurity is I don't know where to find another HN when it goes the way of Slashdot! How do people find small unique sites like this?
Last I knew, F-Droid was a linchpin in the FOSS smartphone world. Without it, I'm not sure where people could reliably find FOSS apps (without taking big risks with malware).

If FOSS is important to you, and you don't want to see a (or the) major platform abandoned to proprietary systems, consider supporting F-Droid.

Thank you F-Droid! You guys make a difference.
in Brazil it's actually subtracted, if your stock is worth a dollar and you receive a cent of dividend the stock will be priced at 99 cents. Like, it's as if the dividend money you receive is actually a part of the stock you own.
Is there a good reason for this article forcing me to scroll back to the top of the page half way through?