skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple, most other window management paradigms are terrible. The author agrees:

> On a laptop screen or normal-sized desktop monitor, I end up putting these different windows on different macOS spaces, but then half the time I swipe the wrong direction to switch spaces and end up going to the wrong space. By the time I get to the correct space my short-term memory is blown and I’ve forgotten what I was doing.

I've never had this issue on a tiler. You get 10 (maybe 20) screens accessible with a single key combo. You can thoughtlessly toggle back and forth between any two as fast as you can blink. "Swiping" between a few desktops sounds terrible by comparison.

I'm do embedded development, PCB CAD, some graphic design and manage a fleet of servers all from a single 10" laptop screen thanks to tiling.

Unless you were asking how a 720p screen can have more real estate than a 4K screen? 4K is 3840x2160 or 8.3M pixels. 1280x720 is 0.92M pixels. So with 10 virtual desktops the 720p screen gives you 9.2M pixels. Slightly more than a 4K screen.

You also get the benefit of not having to move your eyes or head from one corner of the screen to the other. What you are working on is always front and center.
Not at all. Look at the Macintosh OS - it's the polar opposite of Windows and it didn't take much to gain more popular acceptance than Linux.
I've never understood the thing about taking notes myself (mind you I never did any higher education); what is the lecture explaining that isn't in the textbook? The textbook should be all the notes and information you need, maybe supplemented with online; not keeping notes will allow you to focus on the lecture itself, which should be an extra on top of the book.
What in the world happened to Vipjerseystore.com?
Why isn't it a round number of BTC?
As an outsider to the whole open-source culture, this line struck me as...strange:

>"When I first heard of the practice of selling exceptions, I asked myself whether the practice is ethical. If someone buys an exception to embed a program in a larger proprietary program, he's doing something wrong (namely, making proprietary software)."

This might be a kneejerk reaction, but why does he feel the world is entitled to the labor of a programmer for "free"? What's his alternative business/labor model? Is it compatible with capitalism? What am I missing here? I'm reading through some of the philosophy on gnu.org to try and sympathize but it still seems insane to me:

"When you use proprietary programs or SaaSS [Service as a Software Substitute], first of all you do wrong to yourself, because it gives some entity unjust power over you. For your own sake, you should escape. It also wrongs others if you make a promise not to share. It is evil to keep such a promise, and a lesser evil to break it; to be truly upright, you should not make the promise at all.

There are cases where using nonfree software puts pressure directly on others to do likewise. Skype is a clear example: when one person uses the nonfree Skype client software, it requires another person to use that software too—thus both surrender their freedom. (Google Hangouts have the same problem.) It is wrong even to suggest using such programs. We should refuse to use them even briefly, even on someone else's computer."

You're free to stop using Skype any time if you don't like the terms. When I use the subway, aren't I surrendering my freedom since I can't get off whenever I want? So are subways that don't stop whenever any person demands it unethical? What is this guy smoking?
There are whole classes of firearms that are illegal in the U.S. Fully automatic weapons require a class 2 license which is very hard to get. No rocket launchers, RPG, missiles, cannons, and even tanks! What is a guy supposed to do for fun on the weekend!
You shouldn't treat multiple monitors as a single display.
Humoristic books can be also the poignant. Humour does not invalidate an authors observation of human condition.
> Most governments can now no longer make it illegal.

Ha. Wait and see.
And you can't transfer an apartment complex to the other side of the world within minutes without asking for permission. What's your point?
Why America’s Biggest Bank Digs Anonymous Cryptocurrency
Current market capitalization in US dollars:

Global M2 money supply over $90.0 trillion [a]
US dollar M2 money supply $13.8 trillion [b]
Euro M2 money supply $13.2 trillion [c]
All coins and banknotes in circulation $7.6 trillion [d]
All gold ever mined $7.1 trillion [e]
Bitcoin under $0.2 trillion [f]

The world needs these money-like assets to function everyday. Otherwise, the global economy would ground to a halt.

Bitcoin has very different, unique characteristics compared to the other money-like assets on the list. For example, like gold, Bitcoin's continued existence doesn't depend on the good management of any national economy; however, unlike gold, bitcoins are digital so they can be encrypted, backed up, emailed, etc. Bitcoin is truly a new kind of money-like asset.

The trillion-dollar question is, to what extent does the world need a money-like asset with Bitcoin's unique characteristics to function in the 21st century?

[a] http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-v...

[b] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2

[c] http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/reports.do?node=1000003501

[d] http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-v...

[e] https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/08/17/how-does-bitcoins-...

[f] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
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I'm going to repeat myself here, but please bear with me if you haven't heard this argument before.

I respectfully disagree with the idea that Bitcoin's killer-app is to be used as a currency for transactional purposes.

I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).

On the other hand, I can definitely see the utility in a censorship-resistant digital medium to store wealth. To me, this latter use case has much, much more potential to serve the unbanked (as well as the banked).

Some use cases I can think off the top of my head:

(1) You are from Syria and need to flee war and escape into Europe – however bank transfers into Europe are almost impossible if you are a common Syrian. Bitcoin allows you to take your wealth with you, in your brain, as you escape across the border, by just memorising your twelve word private key.

(2) You are from Venezuela or Zimbabwe – The government has issued capital controls and is devaluing currency by the day. You transfer your wealth into Bitcoin in order to offset capital erosion due to hyper-inflation. When the situation stabilises, you transfer your Bitcoin back into fiat.

(3) You are Saudi billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal. The government freezes all your assets in a political coup. If you have a portion of your wealth in Bitcoin, you could protect them from government expropriation and anonymously transfer them to associates or family members abroad.

(4) You are whistleblower Julian Assance and have been cut off from the financial system as a way to censor your speech. Bitcoin allows you to have an unbreakable digital "Swiss bank account" that the authorities are not able to reach.

This reminds me of Peter Thiel's recent words about Bitcoin: "it's like a reserve form of money, it's like gold, and it's just a store of value. You don't need to use it to make payments."

Reference

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/bitcoin-underestimated-peter...
None of this was covered directly at any level of school (well regarded public school system in Northern VA).

I'd guess 50% or more I learned from my parents, 25%-ish from other school work ("advanced" math in secondary school, economics major at university), and 25%-ish from experience (huh, how did I run up this credit card? I shouldn't do that again!).

I had the impression that as an honors student, enrolled in primarily advanced classes from middle school onward, and then attending a top-20 university, it was just assumed I would know this stuff, or figure it out before getting into financial trouble. That was mostly true, though it's hard to comprehend how hard it can be to manage credit until you have a large credit line and a stable income.
While this comment is down-voted, it is not necessarily wrong. As an Indian, I was so exasperated after Americans voted a criminal as the President that I subscribed to multiple organizations which are considered left-wing by American conservatives or libertarians. These include regular fees to NY Times, Propublica and Guardian with occasional donations to various organizations in the United States.
This is really cool, albeit a bit high-level and leaves you with the question: ok, what does this actually mean for me?

I hate these startup plugs on random threads (genuinely), but here it actually might be helpful for people. At Finimize, we're basically taking all the stuff that Adam is talking about and we're putting it into an algorithm that will tell you what you should be doing – from savings to investments to debt.

Like I said, not trying to pitch anything here, but feel free to check it out www.finimize.com/mylife – or ping me an email to hello[at]finimize.com if you want to get a demo (we're still in closed beta).

Peace!
The term "conspiracy theorist" was promoted in the wholly-owned MSM (look up Operation Mockingbird) by the CIA after the JFK assassination (clearly a cover-up, as it's coming out now--recently released autopsy report shows bullet entrance wounds in front and rear) to discredit people who questioned the official narrative.
I have a couple of browser extensions, one of them acquired 15k new users in the past two weeks and it is still trending on Firefox Add-ons, yet donation links are rarely clicked, and I haven't received any contributions.

The effectiveness of asking for donations can vary a lot, and in my experience it is not sustainable at all, unless your project is wildly popular, or it supports the needs of an affluent and passionate user base.
The conventional bombing killed more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well.
> definitely not what HuffPo does

I went to their homepages, both of them had some article on "harry and markle", watchdog suing trump, sexual assault article.

Whats the difference?

PS: just scanning the homepage put me in bad mood, why would ppl voluntarily do this to themselves.
Same, I have a number of devices here on my desk that will never get a Rust compiler targeting them. With C, it's simple, the "only" thing you have to worry about is what bugs or quirks the C compiler will have on that specific platform, not if there's a compiler at all.

Now I've left embedded development behind me for a while now, things are mostly Linux on relatively modern ARM in the field where I used to do stuff, so Rust would probably be an option there, but I still have a hard time considering them to be "embedded".
I used to go via the ngrok way, but thanks for a better-targeted solution.

BTW, just curious is there any other alternative apart from this ?
Mostly lack of demand. But I would really want to get a big 10 inch ebook with smooth interface.
The user 'jstanley' is probably one of the Bitcoin speculants. Just check his comments...
Televisions aren't optimized for interactive use. They often have a very high latency path from input to display, often over 10x that of the same panel used in a monitor. Depending on the application, this might be a showstopper.
> It is just terrible to know that people like this exist.

Which ones, the capitalist dogs or the commie bastards? If you dislike those people enough, you'll want to go to war with them if you're in a position of power.
New-style Classes
It's mostly the screen. Manufacturing costs scale non-linearly with area due to defect rate.

I think they are really worth it, though. Now some 13 inch models even accept video input, so you can potentially use it as a terminal / PDF screen.
> I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West

I can think of one: if you get paid in Bitcoin, having to buy some GBPs just so you can buy a coffee or a sandwich is a hassle.
So you've completed CS007. And graduated Stanford. You've even managed to save around $10K in cash from various summer jobs and gifts from relatives. The consensus advice investment management professionals would offer is to sock it away in a well-diversified set of Vanguard Funds. Which you keep adding to on a monthly basis allocated from your paycheck. As well as re-investing any dividends generated. Which will compound nicely over the next thirty years. Leaving you with a $1M nest egg that will provide stable yearly income during your golden years. As well as a decent inheritance left over for the next generation.

But I have a really hard time giving this advice to a 22 year old. I certainly didn't heed it myself. Instead I used the cash and spent 100% of it on my own professional and personal development. So, naturally, since this is Stanford and Silicon Valley. I'd include a section on Risk. Taking it. Managing it. What are the rewards. As well as the costs. But with the emphasis the post-graduation 5-10 year window may represent a unique opportunity in your life to take it. And that there are programs such as StartX and YC available to assist should you decide to go all in.
Not quite, since the "backing" of Bitcoin is in it's proof of work, an alternate won't have as much hashpower backing the work, so it won't have as much guarantee.
Maybe he read the accompanying document and saw that wasn't a document recording any instance of "the US faking attacks on its own citizens for political purposes", merely a document about possibly acquiring MiGs which noted in passing that if such aircraft were acquired or replicas built without it becoming known there would be more potential for use in "a deception operation designed to confuse enemy planes in the air, to launch a surprise attack against enemy operations or a provocation operation in which Soviet aircraft would appear to attack US or friendly installations in order to provide an excuse for US intervention".
Show HN: Dynadoc, dynamic docs for Clojure(Script)
>I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).

If you had the choice between a form of currency not controlled by a bunch of extremely corrupt entities that is much more convenient and cheaper in terms of storage and transactions, why would you use traditional money? I can't even transfer money to my friend overseas, it is too difficult.
The whole idea of mutation is not common in mathematics, so of course mathematical vectors don't commonly resize.

The idea of appending an element to make a new vector is however extremely common, particularly in induction like proofs.

Vec<T, n> is in a sense already what we have, it's just that we are not capable of storing the n in the type information^0 so we store it at runtime.

^0 For a number of reasons. n can change with mutation while types can't. We don't necessarily know n ahead of time when building a vector (which happens in math too) but we have to know types at compile time. And we just don't have a great way of storing numbers in types in Rust anyways.
I wish they would make defective units available at a lower price. I don't mind some stuck pixels if it means I can get the reader half off.
This is a dangerous misunderstanding.

The issue comes when features correlated with race are used to make inferences. This can occur in complex ways but a simple example, used elsewhere on this thread, is zip code. It might be that people from a mainly black area are more likely to exhibit whatever negative behaviour the model is looking for than a mainly white area, perhaps for the reasons you mention. What then happens is two otherwise identical people in the model are treated differently based on race.
It’s a 38” 21:9

I had a 34 inch with a second 27” monitor, but a single 38” hits the sweet spot of not needing another monitor
I feel its too late for me to buy in and to get any value out of Bitcoin. 3 years ago (when it was around $350 per coin) I asked my friend about buying one up and I received a pretty good reason not to jump in.

3 years later and it looked like I made the wrong choice. I don't have $10,000 just hanging around to buy into one whole coin.

Oh well...
Third party scripts is what everyone is talking about, yeah.

Good example: MetaFilter does not show Google Ads to logged-in members.
No. Reread my comment. It hasn't been edited and explicitly mentioned highly trained scientists. The last three words for the first paragraph... Your characterization of my comment is just a plain and obvious misreading.

More over, as a scientist, I don't think highly trained scientists are "higher" than highly trained engineers. They're different and not well-ordered. So your "maxes out at" verbage is not agreeable to me.
I get the feeling a lot of people are going to get a very nasty shock in the not too distant future.

Other than buying purely for speculation, does Bitcoin really have any purpose right now, at scale? Geniunely curious.
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This. Years ago it was obvious to most newspapers that paid subscribers are their lifeline. Advertisers come and go, daily sales come and go, but long-period subscribers keep you afloat. Somehow, when the respected newspapers moved to the web, they forgot that, and kept pumping ads like crazy. This, in essence, moved the sense of their product from quality content to clickable content - these two don't mix. Consequently, this eroded quality journalism, investigative, explanatory view of the world (and let's face it, TV could never replace that void, as they are solely relying on ads to survive). And then, a lot of bad things happened with peoples' opinions and understanding. I am glad many outlets are now seeing the correct path. The best news source in Poland nowadays is a wealthy, but niche, "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" ("Daily Law Newspaper") with great, balanced content on serious issues - that relies mostly on subscribers. The best English periodical I have found is Foreign Affairs, also a very subscriber-focused outlet. Note that both of these seem to offer much better content in their paper issues than online.
I don't think "invest" is the right word when talking about speculation.

Your points 1 & 2 are decent, and your lead-in is okay. But I counter with the following: bin Talal is an out and out criminal, and may be partly responsible for 9/11 and other heinous crimes, we'll see. You really want people like that having some escape mechanism? He's probably going to lose his head anyways, so Bitcoin isn't going to help him any.

I'm sure I don't understand the needs of the unbanked. There may be a good use for Bitcoin there. However, "unbanked" people may not be cognitively capable of using Bitcoin, we'll see.

The world does need censorship resistance, I'm with you there. You may not like what happens with that resistance--it could become a far left or far right genocide. I'm thinking the Federal Reserve already has a monopoly on that level of killing power.

In the end, I don't think Bitcoin will end up being the thing that solves any real problems. People who are "unbanked" have very little in the way of money. A reform of the banking system itself is in order and long overdue (e.g. they have been sticking customers with crazy fees for decades and need to stop). Banking reform would solve the problem better than some janky cryptocurrency ever will.
It's probably also partially an economies of scale thing. Amazon used to sell a 10 inch version of the Kindle but discontinued it due to poor sales.
I thought the begging letter was shown just because I had an ad blocker on. The site works well for the ad blocking crowd, maybe they make it so deliberately, so at least they can send you the begging message.
Agree. In your 20s, your main competitive advantage is your ability to take risks. Plus your skill set is incomplete, so you’re likely to see much better returns from investing in yourself than the market.
I find this especially true for my STEM classes, I can't for the life of me derive anything of value from lectures in math or anything math based unless we're talking about the broad overarching concept (like what an integral represents or what cache memory is for). If its the details of what some code does or how to do some operation on a matrix, forget it, I'm not going to glean anything more in that time listening than I would be able to figure out on my own with google in that same timespan. I find trying to follow examples to be simultaneously too slow to keep my attention and too fast when something was not apparently obvious to me leading to this effect where I'm either lost because I got what we were doing and my attention wandered so now I'm lost or my attention wanders trying to figure out the part that was not readily apparent.
In these cases, a tiling window manager would help.
There's only a single manufacturer of e-ink panels and they haven't managed to get the prices down. High prices lead to low demand.
The competitors in this market seem to have given up.
Agile and Scrum are not the same thing. In fact, there is no such thing as "Agile" - as a methodology.

That said, you can always be "agile". Re-read the Agile Manifesto and think about it. There's nothing about story points, velocity, or any of that crap.
I'll have to dig for a citation, but I thought the act of writing the notes was educational (helps with retention) in and of itself.
There's a long list on https://github.com/ekremkaraca/awesome-rails, the most "grown up" app might be https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq

https://rubyweekly.com/ collects advanced articles, conference summaries, new tools. I prefer it over blogs or individual tutorials.
Some of the most interesting and thorough public work on just how problematic these algorithms are was done by ProPublica[0]. They have a series of articles specifically focused on how machine learning/algorithms can either enable or create racist outcomes[1] that are all worth reading.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-ho...
How does the rising transaction fees on the BTC network effect these people? I could easily see a scenario soon where both 1 and 2 might have to pay 50% of the money they are trying to save in fees to the network.

I mean a transaction today can cost $3-4 USD. With valuation rising, and the network automatically paying out less per block, we could soon see a flooded network that is asking for $10-15 for a transaction. Is this an impediment from it becoming a large scale value store?
Why fake anything when propaganda works well enough.
You don't have to buy a whole coin though.

Bitcoin can be broken up. You can buy 0.01 BTC for $100 if the price is $10k.
They are however terrible at remembering to delegate them from experience!
It's the good old debate on building human capital vs. financial capital.
You forgot the use case where you're a drug dealer or other shady character and would like a means of transferring money internationally without relying on a regulated payment system. This group was responsible for the most payment-related bitcoin transfers a couple of years ago, at least until that exchange site was shut down. Also, ransomware.
Deciphering Haskell's applicative and monadic parsers