skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can supply better service at lower cost because they don’t have to line the pockets of executives and investors.

Instead they line the pockets of bureaucrats, unions and the local mayor's brother in law who had a truck and "won" the contract to lay fiber.

Then a citizen posts a screed decrying the behavior of the city board, and lo and behold, his website is suddenly unavailable to the rest of the city.

In a free market its competition which lowers costs. Firms can try to "line the pockets of executives and investors" but if their competitors don't, they're going to lose. We need more competition not a government owned monopoly.

A municipal internet is tolerable because a local citizenry can hold it accountable, but the further up the chain you go, the more likely that power is going to be abused.

Particularly as it relates to free speech.
That would actually be okay for me. But it wouldn't be okay for google as it would directly affect their revenue model of using traffic analysis as a means to promote advertising. There's probably more money in it for them that way. But Google's right to make money doesn't trump all other rights.
Wow. Thank you for you thoughtful and long replies.

> ...you have to decide at some point where you can trust the results of others.

Exactly. My personal attitude in asking is very much in the "hacker spirit"; mainly I point out appeals to authority as an identification of an opportunity to dig deeper.

> Foucault pendulum

Oh! That's a thing I had forgotten. Back in the day, I remeber using several of these and correlating their positions against rotation rates to estimate the Earth's radius. Not quite a backyard experiment though.

> "The Ring of Truth" miniseries

It seems this is on YouTube. Thanks for the pointer! The oil drop experiment sounds really cool.

> Moon does have an atmosphere... all you can do is set an upper bound for the thickness of the atmosphere.

Fair enough. You're speaking more precisely than I. I'm also wondering at what point the variance drops beneath the noise from Earth's atmosphere. This is something that's worth taking a top-down approach by initially trusting our Handbook of Physics and Chemistry and slowly working our way back.

Anyway, thanks again for your in-depth replies. You must be an amazing conversation partner!
Bitcoin casino hosting
Tweaking the Moral UI (2014)
Weird Dialog Boxes
Microsoft to Expand Campus, as Amazon Looks Elsewhere
Instead we got a mix of Scheme, C and Self. What a shame indeed.

Atleast you can transpile to it.
I totally believe it. I don't ship anything from China specifically anything else but epacket, but I do know that elsewhere in southeast Asia, it's either DHL or eons of waiting.
So to solve bitcoin's problems they reinvent the current centralised banking system?
I just wanted to point out Typora as a nice interface for a markdown editor, it's not really a note taking app.
Why did you click on this link? Are you unhappy with orgmode? Why? If not, why bother writing a comment?

These "questions" invariably come across as "this thing sucks because it's not the thing that I am used to".
Tweaking TCP for Real-Time: Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed Acknowledgment
How do you decide if it's work-related reading/browsing or not? So watching a music video on YouTube is clear but I'd say HackerNews is muddy, leaning towards entertainment. For example you need to sleep to work too, but that doesn't count. HN may provide general nourishment about latest tech news and have interested articles that elevate your general knowledge but hard for me to pin that down as hours worked. That's the problem with work today, it's not easily measurable, in the old fashioned way of thinking of work as putting caps on bottles I'm guessing most people do far less than they believe, I wouldn't be shocked if it was only a couple of hours for many.
Here is why Enterprise Architects need a quick primer in Finance, Costs and P&L
I would think most people are conspiracy consumers rather than producers or dissiminators like Alex Jones.

There's also the genuine held belief aspect. I think some of the latest conspiracy theories are not born out of a genuine held belief, but are used just to troll or for political purposes (Obama is a Muslim). Also IIRC Pizzagate was born out of 4chan, it just escalated QUICKLY.

I am guessing trying to debate someone who is genuinely invested in a conspiracy (spent time and money) is harder than someone who listens to late night radio and watches Alex Jones.

Sorry to keep posting OT and about politics but do you know who would be a perfect candidate to study believes in conspiracy theories SO deeply held that they keep talking about them after they no longer matter? Rhetorical. It's Trump. He keeps talking about Obama's birth certificate, losing the popular vote to illegal voters and a new one, the Pussygrabbing tape is fake.

So everybody loves conspiracies, even presidents - a simple, black and white explanation for the increasingly complex, dangerous, chaotic time (e.g. DPRK).
Electron really pisses me off, and even I would rather use an Electron app than learn Emacs.
> It doesn't make much sense to 'buy' cash instruments when you can just get the real thing

It does if you only want to be exposed to price movements. With futures you can get that exposure with a much lower initial outlay than if you bought (or sold) the underlying. Leverage, in other words.

That's pretty much the point of them. Whether it's something that you'd find value in is somewhat beside the point. As well as speculation, I'd expect there is probably a market for people who actually want to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange. The current price fluctuations are a pain in the arse.
[Case Study] Why we chose Vue to build our desktop messaging app
How about AI with Voice activated software to do just that?
Exposing Tanium: A Hacker’s Paradise
I have tried a bunch. Notion is super cool, but doesn't do tables at this moment (though they seem to be working on it). Some apps have one level of nesting only, which is not enough structure for my use case. By now I have settled on Dropbox Paper.

Also, having a WYSIWYG editor is cool, in raw Markdown links and images just do not look good for my taste (and tables, and more, compared to Dropbox Paper or Notion). The number of files for which they support syntax highlighting is small though. In particular Elixir is not in the list as of this writing.
Playing devil's advocate:

Where is the problem? Or, what does a passport or id card contain, which should be kept secret?

Your name? They have that anyway?
A passport number? What could be done with it, except verifying that the passport is legit and not stolen?
My height? Who cares?

While I really think there's much too much shenanigans, which can be done with an (US) social security number and personal information I just don't see the same issue with identification.

I'm happy, of course, to be educated otherwise.

Disclaimer: i did upload a foto of my passport in ordet to rent an AirBnb in Sapporo.
The man didn't want to be tracked, so he went to work for Uber.
Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Siemens partner to develop an electric hybrid plane
Jedi Confidential: Inside the Dark New 'Star Wars' Movie
It kind of sounds like you're making an argument akin to "auto manufacturers should not be obliged to provide seatbelts, because that increases entry costs for smaller auto manufacturers".

If anything, I'd propose the counter-argument that startups can more nimbly respond to these edge-cases, whereas the cost of change for a large hulking conglomerate is where the problems lie.
As founder: about 12 hours, I take about 4 hours total breaks in the day to swim and often an hour or two nap in the middle, nap required because two 6 hour chunks is quite strenuous

This is not rigorously followed - sometimes 3 hours then an hour break then 3, sometimes 6,

I eat when I’m hungry and I sleep when I’m tired, I don’t have fixed meals or fixed schedules

First ~6 hours normally admin, emails, proposals, reseller support, mentoring juniors

Next ~6 hours is 100% coding

Work from home so no commute, nothing else to waste time on

Work 6 days a week, Sunday’s reserved for rest, reading and research
I never have, but if this is something he considers a good idea I think I'm going to have to just to understand what idiotic crap to expect in the next few decades
I think this is because people perceive multiple monitors as giving a better overview, regardless of switches being available at a lower cost, which has caused the market for switches to become a niche market.
Focus on making a product that makes money and afterwards build with containers and these complex-to-maintain technologies.

Start simple and take care of your scalability problems when you have them, not before.
> The major alternatives (JS, Ruby and Python)

I strongly disagree with this statement. 10 years ago this would be correct, but as you said yourself the tooling is so normalised that pretty much everything is an alternative to PHP.
Airbus, Rolls Royce, and Siemens are teaming up to build a hybrid-electric plane
Simplicity, freedom to really migrate your data.

Sure, you theoretically can migrate your notes from, say OneNote to Evernote (and vice-versa), but doing so is a great experience in frankensteining. I'm not even very confident there isn't outright data loss in some places, and with a high volume of notes, it's not feasible to check manually. Even with no loss, lots of stuff look ugly and/or do not work anymore, even if there is an equivalent on the target platform.
Web Fonts Guide: Using Type on the Web
One person mentioned it in a forum thread. Apparently nobody involved in the conversation realized the implications of it, and I don’t think anybody in the thread works for Apple.
Douglas Adams' Guide to the Macintosh
You can already type name your classes and even primitive type.

You don't have only "object".
What about recurring to-dos?
Overall it looks pretty easy to explain, such that one doesn't need to leap that far.

For example, if you build your costs for a $2.4 to $2.5 billion sales run-rate, generating $80m in net income, which is what they did for fiscal 2015. Then, you drop sales to $2 billion instead (which is now where they're at), while not reducing their operating expenses (which actually went up slightly), you get a big fat loss.

I'd attribute their mess to a wildly incompetent management and board, most of which should probably be thrown out of the company immediately. The crazy stock valuation is the sole thing keeping that from happening now; reality will catch up to that however as it almost always does. When the hammer does come down on the stock, activists will start shaking the company for changes.

The 30 million share repurchase program they proclaimed a little over a year ago, is equal to about a $3 billion cost in today's stock price. They're losing a lot of money, and they have $1.7 billion in cash in the bank, with a negative balance sheet. Then consider the zero growth for a decade and the poor prospects for turning that around near-term. Management & the board are doing something extraordinarily egregious and a large number of Autodesk employees are going to get hurt in the coming years most likely (very tragically). I can't see a scenario where Autodesk doesn't have to slash a further 1/4 to 1/3 of their staff in the next few years (they have to cut deep to get back to even on net income). When the bloom comes off this stock market bubble, their $109 stock will be a $20 or $30 stock if they don't quickly find a way to drive growth again.
That's exactly what I just built for myself. Flatnote, on the windows store (and soon on mac/Linux/mobile) is a rich-edit note app which stores files as .md files in the file system. Sync is handled by just putting your notes folder in Dropbox
You can get a USB switch and a 4K HDMI switch for about $40.

I don't currently have a 4K HDMI switch, but my HD switch works just fine. Sure you have two buttons to push (USB and HDMI), but it works and it's cheap.
>I don't get the underlying fascination with using markdown

As a programmer, most of the notes, I take, have code snippets. With markdown notes, I get nice code highlighting in my notes.

Also a lot of times HTML/RTF notes end up having hidden invisible characters. So it messes up commands. That's why I prefer plain text notes over rich formatted notes.
I think for most people it is portability. I can use my .md files in any Markdown editor and reasonably expect it to look the same.

If there isn't an editor to hand it is easy enough to read as plain text.
Where can I follow your project? I currently use QOwnNotes on Linux which does exactly that, but would be keen to try some alternatives, in particular if you're working on a mobile version.
I'm doing it this year. In D, because I'm stubborn, enjoy the language, and couldn't immediately get to like Rust.

Going by hype, I have a feeling learning Rust will some day be as inevitable as interacting with git, but for the moment I'm sticking to D.
But it's available? Seems like your comparison with Tienanmen Square falls a little flat.
Every monitor I've owned since the early 2000s will switch itself off (or at least go into a standby state where the screen is entirely off and there's a tiny blinky LED indicating that it's still powered) after a period of inactivity. I know some monitors never give up waiting for a signal but at this point maybe it'd be simpler to treat yourself to a new monitor?

Edit: Oh, you're talking about things waking your computer up? Maybe turn off 'wake on USB'? Although that's less convenient otherwise. I know when my desktop computer is fully hibernated, mouse motions don't wake it but button presses do. And you can get into this state (assuming Windows 8+) by right clicking on the Windows icon / 'start' button and selecting 'sleep'.
There is usually no time constraint when filling out an online form. And I'd imagine the physical nature of the in-person alcohol exchange allows the booth operator to evaluate the physical response of the person being asked. All of this is to say, while I understand the idea in physical exchanges, to me the logic breaks down when I can find a completely valid and full address on Google maps in a couple of seconds (assuming one of the reasons they ask for full address is the difficulty in generating at random a valid address that exists).
writing your notes in markdown is a bit ass-backwards though - it's great as a storage medium but having to manually reformat a markdown document because you're not live-editing the output is a needless pain. I'd much rather write using your usual rich text interface and have that export markdown for me.
Except for one random guy on an old forum thread, everybody found out about the bug two days ago.
The Shadow over ShipPoint
The Battle of the InfiniBands
I’m a bit surprised that this is all it broke, given how quickly the patch was released.
Hi, I'm the author of this app. The notes on each client are stored in an SQLite database for performance reason. If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be very hard to make it work on mobile (and even slower), and you wouldn't be able to easily create relations between notes and tags, notes and notebooks, resource links, etc.

It's when exporting them or syncing them that all the app entities (notes, but also notebook metadata, tags, etc.) are converted to plain text files. One advantage of this is that the notes are not locked into an obscure format - it shouldn't take more than 1h to create a script that read and convert these text files to any other format.
I know you didn't mean it that way, but calling it doodling is quite a disservice. It's like looking at a DaVinci and calling it professional finger painting and a precursor to ascii art. These are the hands of a master calligrapher and it's quite apparent. The term zalgo is also not apt considering that's just digital vandalism/noise using stacking diacritics, while every swash and flourish in this writing is quite deliberate and strikes a visual balance. Calligraphy is an old and distinguished artform (which informs modern typography to this day) that takes tons of practice and dexterity. I suggest reading up on it or even browsing some random stuff such as https://www.reddit.com/r/Calligraphy/top/. Certainly not "doodles".
Opioid Crisis Affects Farmers Harder Than Their Rural Neighbors
>That's what happened to steel production in the US.

*Some of the steel production in the US. I am certainly not making the argument that the steel industry in the US is as large or vibrant as the 70s or 80s. However, USX still does have several plants open and is doing fairly well. In my slightly knowledgeable opinion, this is because there is such a high up front cost of building a plant (especially a continuous pour caster).

The industry also made a very large shift from producing new steel to recycling scrap to produce slabs. Virgin steel is much harder to work with and produce than its recycled counterpart. This lowers the barrier to entry, increasing competition.

After this shift, I don't think there is any way that the U.S would have been able to compete with Chinese steel regardless of unions. Even if you removed all of the union CBA stuff and just left U.S compensation laws and OSHA, I highly doubt the margins are there to compete in regards to recycled steel.
I am imagining "self-driving" cars driven by mechanical turks! Big halls with what looks like arcade car games, workers specialized in all aspects of driving, controlling cars on the road at the other side of the planet...

Too crazy?
The whole point of the articke is that the IARC does not do a reasonable job, and calls just about everything carcinogenic without scientific evidence, qualification around dosage, etc.
One way or another everyone is ignorant about something, the problem is when people start to feel comfortable in ignorance and they do not make the effort to open their minds to change.

I wonder if there is something systematic in the US of A's education system that allows this or if it's just arrogance on their ideas and "national" pride.

But with all this divide in that country I hope other governments and more important, people from other countries do not take them as a role model to follow. But that's just my 2 cents.
Maybe in a hundred years it will be insane, once society catches up with technological progress.

For now, what's insane is thinking that society can survive with people not working in their able-bodied years.
Erm, I would call spiritual something different ...

What you do, is just helpful, applied psychology ;)

edit: spiritual, I would more call, praying to whomever, to fill you with love, before going into your family life ... which can also work, wheter for psychological or divine reasons ...
The complete lack of any automated testing whatsoever is not ideal but what's nightmarish about JavaScript? It's my favorite language nowadays (modern JS) and I've used C++, C#, Java, Python, Objective-C, Swift, Lua, and about 6 or 7 others over the 15 years since I graduated. JSON objects are easy to verify if that's how your 'business data' is passed around.
I setup a local chronyd server on AWS for long time, it's good that now I can use AWS local instead.
Vue numeric keyboard
Well, given an image of an ID uploaded to service A you could obviously use it as credentials to service B; someone else could reupload your ID in order to rent from AirBNB as you.
The only universal HN blacklist is the one where dead and flagged items aren't shown which is the default (you can still show the flagged items if you're logged in and set it in your preferences). Everything else is entirely personal preference. So there is no such thing as a "good filter list" in this context; it depends on your preferences.

Example: One person is not interested in anything about Bitcoin, another person is not interested in anything about North Korea, and yet another person is not interested in Facebook. They wouldn't end up with the same blacklist.

It seems to support normal regexp, so you gotta learn that if you don't know it. Other than that, I'd argue that whitelisting is going to take a lot more initial time and effort. Go with blacklisting instead, and compare with the real thing to see if you're missing out. Then reiterate ad nauseam...
A numeric keyboard used in mobile created by Vue 2 component. It contains a pluggable keyboard component and a input + keyboard suit.
You have a controlled environment for the workers, who do their work on locked down software and hardware. Basically, employees don't get to bring any personal possessions into the room where they do the work, the software through which they do the work does not allow them to copy or export any data, the OS that hosts the software doesn't allow them to do anything but run the software.
Nothing is collapsing, it went down ~1k and now going back up. Just a regular day in BTC.
Referring to "a baby" as "baby" is cutesy because it kind of treats "baby" as a name, or perhaps because it immitates the way young children talk. In normal circumstances dropping articles just makes you sound foreign.
I think the real isssue is with HDCP.

The output device "ensures" the display device is authorized via a key to output.

So, you would need an intermediary device that would accept any incoming signal, while also having a legit handshake with the output device.

So, as you switch "inputs", there is no additional authorization required, because the output device does not detect any changes.
Race is a cultural construct.

Quick, what's Barack Obama's race?

(Hint: your answer will depend on your culture and what you know of his ancestry and upbringing.)
The numbers seem reasonable. They don't include bonus and equity, and they are averages. Google/Fbook/Uber aren't "average" in their comp.
Since you're dancing around the point so much, I'll be more direct. Here are specific questions that I suspect Coinbase also had:

What vitamin is unavailable in the US but available internationally?

Is said vitamin legal to import to the US?

Why does the vendor not take anything but Bitcoin?

Why can't you wait a couple weeks to get it?

Where were you getting it previously without Bitcoin, given that it's so critical you can't go without?
The need to standardize things like std::filesystem was my point.

> Additionally there are ways to implement compatible ABIs in C++.

Eh... when even compilation flags affect ABIs, it's hard for a particlar C++ file to have a stable ABI. The same is true in C, of course, but the way C libraries are generally designed, it's simpler to be ABI compatible. In C++, arcane and unexpected things like noexcept specifications (affected by changes in underlying libraries!) can change your ABI.

> Instead, one needs to write unsafe C code, JNI boilerplate or wrap them again in C++.

That's a fair point. There might be reasons they'd do that (SLAs they can afford), but that's a presumption.
admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
In 2011-2012
I've seen apps that asked me to submit a crash report. That seems like a better solution than monitoring all the data all the time.

But I don't think it is REALLY about improving the app.
Qt 3D Studio 1.0
Currently I'M coding on Zend Framework 1 under PHP 7.2, it's definitely more pleasant than PHP5.anything.

The docs don't help a lot in my experience, common sense goes a far way though; always use type hints, always use classes, wrap any PHP native functionality up if it has nasty stuff.

If you want to create a new project you can use PHP, it's usually not a bad choice if you want to use a cheap shared host or want to integrate with wordpress or similar.

That said, if you plan anything complicated I severely recommend picking literally anything else (sans Node.js, with which I have other axes to bury)
Rapid Fire Thoughts on Libya: What Africa Needs to Do