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>Consider appointing one or two moderators from the community, ideally people with less bias towards SV or startup culture

While I agree that this would be a great idea, it's laughable in that, as a service run by Y Combinator, it's always going to be for startup hucksters primarily and for the rest of the tech industry and Internet at large secondarily.
But you pay for Dash subscription, this one seems to be free.
Agreed but it does happen. Sometimes, the line between content and decorative it pretty thin.

Should you add an alt to a stock photo?

Should you disturb a user with a reading of "stock photo of a business man smiling" next to a sales paragraph? What about "sunset over a mountain" on a page for a SaaS website?
For a muslim, I would suggest to be extra careful with choice of words describing God especially with point No. 3 and 4.

I don't know if I understand what you really meant to convey (your context, nuances, etc.), but you would not want to accidentally commit subtle shirk and invalidate your faith without even noticing.

We don't think about God.
We think about God's creations instead.
A few hundred thousand is expensive, but not so expensive as to create a barrier to entry restricting the supply of stores in the market. My point is that the risk and possibility of return is so low that it's not worth opening a store, and if that is the case then the existing stores are not "overpriced". They're priced exactly where they should be in order for the business to operate.
Due to some very annoying behaviour of gratipay (the donation service devdocs uses) I have donated over $100 to them last year of the course of a few months. Not what I wanted to donate, but then again there aren't many websites that I use more often in my day to day work. So I am not too bummed about it.

Great work guys!
It feels like they should have some kind of place where they lay out all of their powers, no? Mentioning it in a few threads or comments scattered across the site isn't exactly a useful way to disseminate this sort of information.
Yes, but this is free and more complex.
This is my Q implmentation: https://github.com/zakoud/mlq/blob/master/neuralnets/terser_...
Cool, it's even integrated in DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tldr+tar
You would think so. I mean, that's obvious, right?

And yet websites are slow. That's not just "get off my lawn" crankiness, either. We're now downloading multiple megabytes, and things are rendered via javascript late in the process, so we start seeing content later than we used to, and we get the final render later than we used to.

Modern websites are largely slow and annoying, a topic that has come up many, many times--with benchmarks--on HN.
Snap is only considered one of the more innovative companies in consumer facing social. That's it. There's no sense in expanding that to include everything in tech, they are not one of the top few most innovative consumer companies in all of technology.

That Snap gets pegged as that, is a fake set-up to write articles that stick to a script that the writer wants to push. It's equivalent to asking someone's opinion when you've already entirely made up your mind, except in this case it has a particularly negative effect as it's being pushed out into the world as a form of media propaganda.

Here's how it works (to use a famous example of this setup): we expected flying cars and all we got was 140 characters. That's a bullshit setup, it fails to even question whether flying cars make sense, and then sets up Twitter as an ideal example of today's level of innovation (which it never was). While Thiel was pushing that bogus premise, incredible innovation (both hardware and software) had occurred in mobile all around the world in a mere ten years from 2007 to 2017. Drastically improved communication, as one example, is far more important than flying cars.

Innovation is so terrible today! Then hold up mediocre examples of innovation while ignoring the vast, extraordinary innovation going on (from quantum, to crispr, to AI).
I think most people are still just running installers on windows
The vast, overwhelming majority of email users --- who also encompass the vast, overwhelming majority of users with serious privacy needs, contrary to the opinion of "privacy nerds" --- use whichever email client they were first introduced to, never change clients, and don't use any of the advanced features in those clients. Those are the users who are better served by Signal than by some janky attempt to make email almost perhaps under the best circumstances 60% as secure as Signal.
"Shift+K" does the same in vim. However, it looks for a manpage matching the word under the cursor, so it won't help you unless you're doing C or Perl.
And open-source :) (https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs)

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of DevDocs
Then the answer is simple and logical: we need a revolution. Make capitalists afraid again!
In particular, it stands out that the cauldron is removed from the fire and then the priest prays over it.

That's going to improve everyone's chances of acquittal, and even if it was manipulated it doesn't take any conscious fraud. You want a good judgement, you believe your prayers are a factor in that, and perhaps if you're biased it's simply by praying longer for those you believe innocent.

I'm sure some priests did rig trials intentionally, but there's plenty of room produce a result like this out of piety.
I think you're thinking about the EOMA project. Boards are soon to go out for their production run.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/pcb...
Mutter has experimental support for a PipeWire stream, exposing two APIs: org.gnome.Mutter.RemoteDesktop and org.gnome.Mutter.ScreenCast

Thanks to the gnome-remote-desktop project, which landed in stable Fedora back in September.
I'd use this if you added the kubernetes docs
USB-C carries analog audio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Analog_Audio_Out_.26_Mic...
That 'for some reason' that made the web win was one thing: search. The user interface of being able to type a few characters or a word in the arena of what you want and to be actively doing what you wanted to be doing a moment later is something people very much want. And desktops never provided it, so web won. It's as simple as that.
You are talking about certificates with subject alternative names. SAN has nothing to do with SNI (server name identification).
One might look at the founding of Fox News and its relationship to the GOP and be forgiven for thinking the last thing has already happened, even though it only reaches diehard GOP voters.
I grew up on the other side of Lewiston. =)
This was first posted 1500 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=devdocs.io

It seems that this time it got more traction. Good luck with your project!
Is it though.

Because it seems like we have zero evidence either which way, and your account is seemingly always on the status quo side.

Myself, I see fuck all discussion on here any more that reminds me of old HN.
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There’s a difference between a state actor controlling the whole of the public arena and a private individual controlling their own privately-sponsored forum; the latter allows you to crack open a blog and flog whatever opinion you want, and the former does not. I admit there’s some gray area for something like google, which by virtue of its size and role as intermediary has censorship abilities approaching governmental levels.

Freedom of Speech is a restriction on the government, not a duty on the part of private individuals to let you come in and piss on their living room carpet.
I don't really understand how half of the time people claim display ads are completely inneffective, while other times they can argue spending $1k on a user for display ads is worth it.
Can you expand on how they were bullied? It looks like it just wasn't as well-received as Canonical hoped and no longer fit their goals anyway.
Use, a non-US based VPN, this is a good one:
https://airvpn.org/?referred_by=287899
*yeah, that's a referral link, I'm a happy user
Coda is a next-generation spreadsheet designed to make Excel a thing of the past
Interesting, I don't use the daily, but when I need, I REALLY need it. How come you use it that often is it your main go to? My day to day is mainly googling as a portal to stackoverflow for specific doubts.
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Intellisense, in-line code documentation, debugger, unit tests, refactoring, file browser/project support, find usages/jump to definition, full project intelligent search.

Even where vim supports these, it’s support is far weaker, less reliable, and much more painful to set up than IDE support. Among devs serious about productivity, it’s hard to imagine choosing vim.
I can't recommend devdocs.io enough! It's such a fantastic resource.

* It links to the real documentation

* world class search

* lets you pick and choose versions and languages/frameworks you want to have searchable

* provides a consistent UI across all docs which is fantastic when you are switching between several while developing.

* Is updated with terrifying frequency (I don't think I've ever opened it and NOT had some kind of docs update notification!)

* There are editor plugins available that let you press a key and open the highlighted word as search in devdocs.io

If you use devdocs.io and feel like it has saved you time or money, donate to them on Gratipay [0].

[0] https://gratipay.com/devdocs/
So........ basically Hugo, for people who care that it's written in Rust rather than Go, and who don't care that there's no themes ecosystem?
Even though HN is a community, the front page is essentially the mods' personal judgment. They are the editors, and HN is a newspaper.

I like it this way. They have excellent taste. The community has repeatedly proven it cannot be trusted to upvote intellectually gratifying content. pg's original HN code contained a flag for "rally", meaning the story is a rallying cry, and is therefore penalized because it's so easy to mindlessly upvote it.

The results speak for themselves: HN is now almost a top-1000 site by traffic.

They had to be phenomenal. I don't think many people appreciate just how difficult this was to pull off, or how much they work their asses off every single day. If they ignored HN for even a week, it would deteriorate noticeably.

Yet technology is at least as important. The fact that our upvotes do matter makes the situation unique -- although the mods can determine the relative weights of stories, we can still push a story upwards if enough of us are interested, and the story fits the site's original goal of gratifying intellectual curiosity.

There is no company anywhere in the world like this. At this point, HN practically defines our culture. When news stories say things like "so-and-so story about <technology> has been making the rounds on social media," at least some of them are talking about HN now. And your coworkers probably hear about the tech they use at least partly from HN.

The sole reason they're in this position is because they deserve to be. I hope they stay selective. As to being secretive, we should let them choose. If they want to reveal, fine. If not, fine. They've earned it. Even still, they've been remarkably transparent.
> You've argued over the years that the justice system is in fact a justice system, not merely a legal system. In other words, you believe it's mostly fair.

To the contrary, I think it's incredibly unfair. But probably for different reasons than you do. For example, thousands of people every year are sentenced to an average of over six years in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. It's "fair" in the sense that the error rate for those convictions is almost certainly negligible, because proof only requires showing possession and a fact that's a matter of public record. But in my opinion the crime and the sentence are unfair: we shouldn't take away the rights of people who have served their time, and six years is a sentence more appropriate for murder than possession of anything.

I think the under-funding of public defenders is a travesty. But most public defenders will admit that most of their clients are guilty, and they spend most of their time ensuring their clients plead to the right charges and get a fair shake at sentencing. It's "fair" in the sense that the system mostly convicts the right people (except at the margins, which is why public defenders should get more funding) but it's "unfair" in the sense that sentences are too long and many of these crimes shouldn't be crimes.

> One of my worst fears is being accused of some kind of crime, like cybercrime or anything else.

You should be afraid! Take, for example, 18 U.S.C. 1001, which makes almost any sort of false statement vaguely related to the federal government a felony. It's "fair" in the sense that there is almost never any doubt that the accused made the false statement in question (either in a recorded interview with an FBI agent, or in in writing in some official paperwork). But it's "unfair" in that it's often used to trap (or, more often, threaten) people who only did something marginally wrong. E.g. lying to a federal agent to conceal a workplace affair.

> Yet on the flipside, it seems to work, and we seem to live in a pretty decent and free society. I'm not sure how much or little we should credit the courts for that.

That's a really fundamental question. I think the way to look at it is to look at what happens in places without enforcement of certain kinds of conduct. E.g. sex crimes in rural India or Pakistan. Why do victims plead for enforcement of the laws on the books in such situations? Partly retribution. Probably not really deterrence--even with enforcement, the odds of getting caught are so low that there can't be much of a real deterrent effect. The biggest value of punishing crimes is, in my opinion, creating social norms. The overwhelming majority of people aren't "good" or "bad," but they will readily follow social norms that are visibly enforced. The primary benefit of putting people in prison for robbery thus is showing everyone that it's conduct that is so unacceptable that we put people in prison for it.
Curious what the alt-tab problem is/was? It, in accompaniment with alt-backtick does everything I'd expect...?
I just got a 502 Bad Gateway from Cloudflare. Reloaded the page and it worked, but mildly bizarre.
What does auto-updating mean?

I run a website builders review website and have always wanted to write a script that captures every pricing page so that my readers could scan them all at once.

Two problems have kept me from this:

1) Scrolling (which it looks like you've fixed— haven't seen other screenshot APIs do this— awesome!)
2) Pricing pages change often— so manual screenshots don't make sense. Does your auto-updating take care of this? (ie: captures a new screenshot each time the page is updated)
“How to Survive in Our Strange Universe” by Ashoke Sen (HRI Allahabad)
That would clearly be a violation of both the terms of service of the site (and thus the CFAA) and require breaking the embedded DRM of the site, a federal crime under DMCA part 1201. No one would be so reckless!
Kite is a start-up in a very competitive field. It wouldn't surprise me that publishing data wasn't that high of a priority vs. getting FDA approval.

That said, it's very common for biotechs to publish after the phase 3 is complete as they can put much more information in the paper vs. what their sales reps can say to physicians.
Yes, agreed. In general I guess my point is, I'm not willing to spend several more years of my life while they continually rearrange things that don't matter. I just want a stable, well-supported distro that gets out of my way.

The time cost of switching has still been high enough that I haven't looked elsewhere, but that barrier is approaching...
Find product alternatives
If the bootloader is unlocked / fastboot can write to the bootloader / etc you can put whatever code on your phone you want to run.

The problem is the hardware is undocumented and the shipped drivers are proprietary so you would need to reverse engineer support for everything from the chipset to the modem to the display adapter.

So you can go throw a Debian Arm image in place of a system partition on many Android phones... it just won't boot.
Is it against the rules? I can think of lots of legitimate (and obviously nefarious) reasons someone would.
Bulk pricing generally implies a reduced price for a larger purchase.

$7 per 10k stops being cost effective at that scale.
What sort of GUI library/libraries are you using?
"A few days later, the defendant’s hand was inspected: if it was burned, he was guilty; if not, he was innocent."

No. That isn't how it worked. The miracle was not that the hand was not burnt. It always burned. God's intervention was measured upon whether or not the hand was healing. If it was infected then god was not with you (and there was a good chance you would die). If the wound/burn was healing nicely then god was with you.

They did not expect miracles so dramatic as a hand not being burnt. To think that they did suggests that everyone was found guilty. They were not. The OP also suggests that ordeals were rigged. Some certainly were but people in the past weren't idiots. They knew what boiling water or red-hot iron looked like, fat better than we do today. They could spot a trick.

Trial by ordeal was not some scam or legal trick. People actually believed in the process took it very seriously. And we see remnants of it today. Many still believe that sickness and recovery from wounds involves "faith" and regularly pray for healing. Others believe that sickness is the result of God's displeasure, evidence of sin. Trial by ordeal is alive and well.
I also prefer plain vim or plain neovim, mainly because plugins aren't guaranteed to be on the servers I have to do work on.
Just moved from Jekyll to Hugo and I'm planing to stay there. BTW it's nice to see more alternatives to Jekyll coming on the scene.
Language learning apps are step 5 in the ten step process of achieving programmer hubris nirvana.

1) I'm in college and I'm going to build an app to easily buy and sell books

2) Off campus housing is hard, I'm going to build an app to find roommates

3) Splitting bills with roommates is hard, I'm going to build an app for cost splitting

4) All my previous apps sucked because they weren't social, I'm going to build a social network app

5) I'm bored partying with my new friends, I'm going to level up and build an app to learn a new language

6) I'm lonely, I'm going to build a dating app to find a mate

7) I found a mate and the whole engagement/wedding industry is a fraud, I'm going to make an app to make it easier to navigate

8) My children are awesome, I'm going to build apps to manage their time/friends/eating/sleeping/learning

9) Technology is a waste of time, I'm going to spend my time on other hobbies and my family

10) I've been working 20 years in a boring industry and I see an opportunity to write boring software that solves boring problems that businesses will actually pay for. Jackpot.

Edit: As others pointed out, should have included: ToDo app, Blog App, and a travel app. Travel should probably be 5 with language at 6.
In my opinion, far more than moderation, HN is effected by who votes for the new articles. If you look at the "new" page then most stories never even get one upvote. Those who do go over there and upvote stories have far more power than those who only ever look at the front page. Sadly, it seems that there are too many stories on "new" for a person to sit there, read each one, and upvote, so the only real way to get a story on the front page is to get lucky or gang up with your friends.
HN's cool but it's just one forum among a million others. The moderation is good though sometimes arbitrary. That's a lot easier for users to accept when they know why they are getting positively/negatively moderated, which is a good reason for more openness. But at the end of the day it's a forum, the moderators have the final say, that's the contract you agree to in using it.
Well only one at a time. Then as each gets banned I make another one. Note that they get banned if I just visit HN from the IP in question no posting required.
BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) control

"Are responsible for its day to day running" perhaps but there is only one entity "in control".
It takes a very small amount of research to note how often Google visited the White House, how much money Google invested in political campaigns over the last number of years, and how FTC staff found more than adequate reason for an antitrust investigation of Google until the White House ordered it dropped. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's board, was considered part of Hillary Clinton's campaign staff and personally funded the company that provided a lot of the Clinton campaign's web dev.

(Hopefully this is enough specifics for you to find any sources that may be of interest to you.)
I can't help turning this into a headphone-jack argument:

I was able to plug my phone in at the last hotel I stayed in because its ageing 30-pin dock also had an aux plug, which my modern phone still supported. It also seemed a lot better for my device security to not give some random active device direct access to my phone.
>it could be that the property (or any other) rights of person A are more important than all of person B as such.

How would you determine this? Is this not the same argument made by slave owners?
I used to root the devices I got. Relying on CM supporting my device or totally breaking carrier updates got old though. I switched to Google Fi and am using a Nexus 6P (Android 8) and it's really nice.

I wanted to get a PCAP from an app a few nights ago, I was surprised it was possible without root. Now there are apps that can act as a VPN to sniff traffic. Having the most up to date firmware and Google Fi's international rates are worth giving up root to me.

It would be nice if they built in secure root access interface to Android though.
This is actually a great point. And its something that's not exclusive to the US. Western European companies use low-cost labor provided in Eastern Europe to get many of the same advantages and compete with China (I was very surprised that the Nivea shaving cream I use is actually made in Poland!).

The US should embrace Mexico: the Mexican govt. is a close ally, its a source of low cost labor. US companies can continue their ownership/expertise and control over products manufactured in Mexico, while protecting their IP and such. Whereas with China it is a different story....
I wrote a longer comment, originally, but cut it back to the single sentence when I realized that by dignifying the argument I was only lending your tossed-off slur more credibility. HN is not moderated so as to be agitprop for YC. Nobody who's talked to Dan for more than a couple minutes, or watched this site discuss the SFBA tech industry, could believe that.

The difference between the site post-Dan and pre-Dan --- you know, the "old" HN vs. today --- is that you can repeatedly write unfounded accusations like that today and not have your account shadowbanned and all your comments rank-penalized, like they were when Paul Graham ran the site. We all accepted those arbitrary moderation decisions back then, when there was no pretense of fairness or equity in moderation. Now that we have it, we attack the people who spend their time assuring it by making preposterous comparisons to the "good old days".