skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Apparel is being displaced by travel, eating out and activities—what’s routinely lumped together as “experiences”—which have grown to 18 percent of purchases. [..] That now tops all clothing and footwear expenditures.

I have a completely blunt theory on that. People learn that pictures of them smiling in their bathing suit in the Maldives or with that exotic plate of food attract more 'likes' than the pictures of them with that new handbag or handmade watch in their office. So they spend more time eating and traveling and posting pictures, instead of buying that bag. It's what sells. It is no surprise to me that """experiences""" sell likes better than things on Facebook.

If that was true, what determines what people spend money on depends what the dominant social network/ source of news is. Past: magazines at checkout lines: expensive bags and clothing. Now: Facebook: travels and food. Future: who knows what will be the dominant one. But here are my guesses. Pinterest: Hobby Lobby. TMZ: back to expensive clothing. /r/fi: mutual funds. Slashdot: Thinkpads. Hacker News: Tesla cars and Juicero machines. (Let's be honest here, I want a Tesla car and a Juicero machine, so if you have a job that allows me to afford those, feel free to connect, ty).
Will we someday see some low-latency, low-persistence TV screens, like the panels we can find in VR HMDs? These could easily replace most uses for a CRT TV.

What I miss the most on a modern TV or computer screen is the low persistence. Just look at some moving sharp edges on a CRT versus an LCD screen (glxgears, for example). The difference is striking, as you can follow the edges on CRT TVs, but not on a regular screen.

I actually suspect that the 144Hz gaming craze has more to do with persistence than framerate!
I wouldnt say Gnome is by or for mac users. In fact in many ways it is way more similiar to Metro than to OSX. Gnome 3 just broke the common Windows 95 workflow, however many others did before.
I use several windows at a time (around 5 in average), but they are all maximized. I just alt-tab and switch workspaces?
If you ever found yourself in a car, not driving, in a semi-desert place where it's sfe to put your hand out of a window, try that:

- First, put your hand parallel to the ground, and see what the wind does to it.

- Then, incline your hand so you raise your fingers, and see what the wind does to it.

Lifting has no relation to the wind being flat or curved. It's the overall shape (the one you change once you incline your had) that causes it.
My biggest pet peeve with the device is the software. What runs on the tablet is fine but the Android and Windows app have a pretty unattractive UI and there's a lot of things that are broken. I did some digging into the Android app and it looks like both that and the Windows app (and presumably Mac) are based on the same Qt interface.

I'm hoping they'll work on native apps at some point in the future. A web app would be particularly nice too. I wrote a very brief review myself a few months ago[0].

[0] https://michael.mior.ca/blog/remarkable-review/
It's not a perfect world.
> Or perhaps from an unknown jurisdiction.

Good luck with that, unless your vision of doing business doesn't involve ever charging customers, especially for b2b.
This is a weird article at this point in time.

The question it addresses:

"Does Python's performance matter?"

Has always had the answer:

"Sometimes, and you have options for those cases."

The OP found a "sometimes", and he's using one of those options. In this case, he's got Python for prototyping and glue, with Haskell improving performance. This is as it should be.

I don't know of any Python advocates who say it's the right tool for every part of every job. What we will say is it's usually a good "first" tool for every job. Building a system out in Python allows you to get something representative fairly quickly, which helps identify if there are areas where Python alone is not enough.
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For someone outside the USA, a targeted attack by the NSA is no different than a targeted attack by anyone else. They are breaking the law, and you are allowed and supposed to defend against them. If you are within the USA, however, they can use things like these National Security Letters which you are not allowed to go against.
No, it wouldn’t and hasn’t. The whole point is that this type of bias does lead to discrimination in the workplace. Our prior should be that discrimination is happening. This doesn’t mean we are horrible people ... more often that we simply have reflected on the background assumptions/heuristics that drive our behaviour.
And this hidden setting makes working with Hide/Hide Others much more intuitive:

http://osxdaily.com/2010/06/22/make-hidden-application-icons...
That doesn't surprise me at all. I was going to install Linux on it eventually, so it wasn't worth the effort digging through the oddities of Win10.
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Exactly, the ecosystem is the only reason IMHO why Python is "easy". I find I'm much quicker at developing C#/F# if the library is available on NuGet (which is often, but not always the case). They're both reasonably fast, too. Python only has a very large community and thus ecosystem to offer.
I bought a couple 27-40 hour audiobooks, so I just put my audible subscription on hold while I caught up. Switching between kindle & audio can definitely speed things up
As far as I know, the center core was a block five one, but they didn't intend to refly it anyway, from what Elon said in the press conference. Maybe they intended to study it? If that's the case, there will probably be another "expandable" block five flight.
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Also, we're adding the ability to add files to tasks soon. If there's any particular functionality you're looking for but can't find, let us know - if we think it can make the app more useful, we'll build it. We're only at 30k active users, so are still small enough to be able cater to specific needs!
I think people are going to switch to voice-only interface not because they are eager to use it. People are starting to realize the mobile phone is a time black-hole, and will restrict themselves from using them. But they still need to stay connected, that's where voice interface comes in.
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It's a coffee shop because coffee shops typically have WiFi. :) He doesn't hand over a physical object at all: you just show him the cash, then have him transfer the Bitcoins to your account, and wait for the transaction to post/verify in your wallet program (reversing even a single verification block would have an astronomical computational cost, so you don't have to wait for 6 verifications even though that's the cryptographically sound way to do it). Then you hand over the cash.

Bitcoins are highly divisible, so you can purchase $1 worth of Bitcoin if you want. Probably that's not worth it to make it worth anyone's time, but lots of people are willing to show up to a coffee shop to sell amounts of Bitcoin >$200. So the astromical cost of Bitcoin isn't really relevant to how much you can buy/sell in a single transaction.

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that transfers <$10K don't require an audit trail legally. That said, if you don't want an audit trail, Bitcoin's public ledger makes it not the best choice. There are lots of reasons you might avoid buying from exchanges that aren't about leaving an audit trail (for example: simply to screw over the exchanges for political/social reasons).
> And when you have kids the utility of electric windows becomes obvious.

How?

My kid is too young to open car windows as it is but I grew up with parents who owned a car without electric windows, and the next version of their car had electric windows (both Saab 900). I could open the back window in both cars, but only slightly (mechanically very limited; see pictures).

Now, kids can't control the front seat windows either way. If you close the back seat windows while they hold their hand out, it gets crushed. If you tell your child they may open or must close the window then you give them responsibility. If they don't take that responsibility you can act upon it with consequences (I suggest minor consequences at first sight though). So I think it very much depends on the implementation of the back seat windows.

As for IoT/smarthome market, when Nest (= Google) acquired Revolv they disabled the $300 hardware soon afterwards [1]. That serves as a warning what cloud computing does for you when the overlords decide they no longer want to support your product. At the very least you need an offline backup. Same with smarthome depending on an Internet connection or wireless connectivity (I wonder if vulnerable to KRACK, too).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest_Labs#Intentional_disablin...
ya tbh i never tried using it for more than 10 minutes
Yeah, 30% of cash flow sounds absolutely ridiculous. Treasury should be happy to scalp a few bps here and there.
Sometimes I wonder what happened to the display class which was built into the Notion Ink Adam: Some kind of an LCD, e-ink hybrid. When the backlight was enabled it had colors and when you disabled it, it became an e-ink display of some sort.

While the result was a display which neither had good colors nor a perfect e-ink experience, I found it had some practical advantages, as you never had problems using the display: In bright sun light you had the e-ink display and if you wanted to watch a movie in the dark you had the LCD.

Overall the displays quality was far away from what we have today, but the tablet was released in early 2011 so quite some time ago in terms of display technology. At the time it was trying to compete with the iPad, but had several problems in the process which resulted in many dissatisfied customers.
Pretty sure he is referring to the configuration structure. You get this fancy 8.1 sidebar configuration screens that may solve 80% of a average users tasks, but once you start digging you'll find configuration Windows in the style of W7, and if you dig even harder you'll even find stuff that looks straight out of 98.

I am a linux users myself, configuration inconsistency gives me nightmares.
Always-connected is a plague on modern computing that has ruined the experience for anyone with slow computers and/or unreliable networks .. ...and people with tendency to distraction, procrastination or addiction-ish habits.
Not quite 20 years ago I did my first consulting work in Europe. I was concerned as I did not have business clothes. I had only worked for and consulted for companies in the western part of the US. I knew that European dress standards were higher than the US, and even that East Coast standards were higher. When I visited my sister's then-Big-Five company she had me change my socks as I apparently wasn't dressed up enough.

So I went out and bought some new clothes. Not business shirt/jacket/slacks/etc. but still a button down shirt instead of T-shirt or polo shirt.

Now, this was Sweden, which I visited for a couple of years for this consulting project. Towards the end of the years, I talked to one of my co-workers about me having to buy new clothes. He was quizzical. "But in Sweden we dress down compared to other countries."

My reply - "Exactly. And I had to dress a step higher than I usually do."

As you can tell, I'm not an East Coast person. I visited NYC once in fall, and was surprised that I was the only one wearing a white T-shirt. The same sister commented that it was after Labor Day, and in that part of the country they don't really wear white once summer ends.
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I would love to work in the audiobook space. Anyone aware of exciting opportunities, unexplored ideas?

I’m a developer with a very wide (and doubtless shallow) experience. And I love audio books.

I use Audible a lot but I do rue Amazon’s excessive dominance in this space.
Or Dilbert http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
>So, whenever I design UI/UX for an app, I ask my mom to test.

I have an informal rule that I will try to get someone at my job that has never seen or used the application to be the one to test out new features or UI changes. Generally just asking when they have some time, handing them a phone or laptop, and asking them to do a task in the app (with a small amount of background about the task if needed).

There has never been a case where this hasn't monumentally improved the application. Questions like "what do I do here?", "how do I get it to start?", and "did it work?" were extremely common for quite a while before we managed to get the UI in a good state. You just don't see the implicit assumptions you make at so many places.

Sadly it's hard to "formalize" something like this (at least in my experience), because the benefits seem to be greatly reduced if the person testing has seen or used the application before, and I found it works best the "further away" someone is from software development.
Dan is thorough, and I trust him to make a good faith effort to understand things. If you'd like to refute the arguments and not the messenger, I would love to learn more.
I've also found that loops with dictionary (or set) lookups are a pain point in python performance. However, this example strikes me as a pretty-obvious pandas use-case:

interesting = set(line.strip() for line in open('interesting.txt'))
total=0
for c in chunks: # im lazy to actually write it
df = pd.read_csv('data.txt', sep='\t', skiprows=c.start, nrows=c.length, names=['id','val'])
total += df['val'][df['id'].isin(interesting)].sum()

I'm not exactly sure, but pretty sure that isin() doesn't use python set lookups, but some kind of internal implementation, and is thus really fast. I'd be quite surprised if disk IO wasn't the bottleneck in the above example.
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It is good for Personal Workflows but lacks any feature that Org-agenda offers. It is a dumb down org-mode for web.
I used to use audible solely. Their incredibly high prices drove me away. Their subscription is stupid in my mind. To me it’s just a way to make users forget so they pay for another month. I’ve been using hoopla for the past 6 months and love it. It’s free with a library card.
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They keep people in the area where rockets liftoff and land (a few kms away) and besides, they launch rockets in space, do you really think they lack the technology to, for example, send the video feed to another ship waiting at a few kms distance?
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> Python's little tin god really likes his CPython implementation being the One True Python.

No, he likes it to be the reference implementation, as it both is and should be. It's simple for a reason.

> This functionality is very rarely used

It's used all the time by debuggers, and the underlying features that allow you to do this is one of the most core and intrinsic things in Python.
On the other hand, if you look carefully at the landing video, it looks like they did a three-engine landing boost on the other boosters: https://youtu.be/BBA7su98v3Y?t=517
So they have definitely learned something valuable in that landing incident.
Some cool facts about the device from a hacker point of view:

- Main developer/CTO is a KDE dev and very open source-friendly.

- You get root access to the device out of the box.

- The device is running a mainline kernel with minimal patches, which have a good chance at being upstreamed[1].

- The toolchain is open[2]. They use vanilla QT/QML and people have already built simple example apps.

- There's an unofficial Linux client which works just fine.

- Desktop client and device run the same code, so you can just sync the files locally without connecting the device to the internet. Works both ways (it's the setup I use).

[1]: https://github.com/reMarkable/linux
[2]: https://remarkable.engineering

Community:

https://reddit.com/r/remarkabletablet

https://discordapp.com/channels/385916768696139794/385921743...

https://github.com/reHackable
Looking sexy, being comfortable is the trend. "It's not like a mini skirt, it's workout clothing!"

I sometimes think we overlook we are just mammals who like/need to "peacock"? After all you are just showing off good genes, or what society, at this point moment in time, considers good genes? Strike "genes". It's just breeding. It's nothing to do with good healthy genes.

In all honesty, those pants look comfortable. I would literally be arrested for something if I started wearing them.
I thought this was a troll on every cryptocurrency ever
>I used to make this argument. Some of it is just a form of utilitarian programming: having a program that runs 1 minute faster but takes 50 extra hours to write is not worth it unless you run it >3000 times. For code that is written as part of data analysis, this is rarely the case.

I find this argument breaks down if you consider human psychology. Especially with a program taking 15 seconds or 30 minutes (which is a reasonable time span between say a C++/Rust implementation and a Python implementation in some cases I've experienced).

With 15 seconds exec time you might stay in flow. With 30 minutes you're almost guaranteed to have started something else. Maybe you even forget and only get back to it the next day. All of a sudden your 30minutes delay become a day. Then you notice you made some wrong inputs, and you lose another day. In the other case you're still under a minute.

I find small increases in program delay often lead to big increases in time inefficiency. It's hard to constantly context switch in and out of tasks.

I think the utilitarian argument should take human psychology into effect and weight more towards faster programs.
A key plank of neoclassical economics - taught in every econ 101 class - is that "people respond to incentives". Do you disagree with that? Coz I think most of what they teach is bullshit and even I don't disagree with that.

I don't see any reason why economists wouldn't respond to incentives too. They're people just like us, no? Perhaps not always 100% rational, but a close enough approximation.
It can't be the only reason, or how would it ever have attracted such an ecosystem in the first place? Especially with its performance characteristics, and lack of corporate backing.

No, Python was invented at a time when its closest competitor was Perl - and you need only compare typical Perl with typical Python to appreciate that Python really was a usability revelation.

But that was nearly 30 years ago. I do think we can do better now.
Network effects overpower everything in social media.
If they increased the heap until the JVM was exactly as fast as their compiled Rust code on the same/equivalent hardware, you could get those numbers as some kinds of GC significantly decrease overhead with increased heap size.

With that said, that's an almost entirely useless benchmark, except as a testament to the amazing JIT compilation the JVM does. That the JVM with GC is capable of matching a compiled language specifically made to have efficient memory management at ANY heap size is positively astonishing!
I think you've got cause and effect the wrong way round. People who enjoy hobbies are going to be drawn to Pintrest, people into finance read /r/fi, and people who are into tech read Hacker News.
Personally i love it but it took me way more than 10 minutes to realize why :) IMO it is highly underestimated, mostly because you need to change your workflow which takes time, but when you did it feels super productive.

You wouldnt judge i3 or other completely different approaches after only a few minutes.
With the exception of shoes and jackets I buy all my clothes at Goodwill. It's awesome! Every couple of months I spend around $20 dollars and I always have nice new tee shirts, button ups, pants etc. You wont believe how many nice clothes people simply give away.

Plus it makes me feel great knowing I'm contributing to reuse and giving money to a company that helps employee less fortunate people.
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This is one of the first roles in our new in-house tech team, making it a great opportunity for someone looking to take a step up. Our offices are in Clapham South / Balham, SW London, conveniently located for tube and train services.

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NASA’S successful quantifying of comedy timing(by Penn Jillette and Teller)
Absolutely, With Trello you can always scale from small beginnings to full fledged system with plugins. And if you have a DIY nature you can write your own plugins the same isnt true for say JIRA.
This is incorrect for a few reasons: you can certainly defend against NSLs, even those that you can't defend against are targeted (see the ones Twilio received), they're from the FBI and not the NSA, and as hackers the NSA is more skilled and more well-funded than most other attackers you're defending against.
Can anyone recommend a particular maker and/or model which are, from their own experience, hackable in the sense of the book?
Fahrenheit is "tighter" and has a better resolution in the "human" range -- ie. 0-100 degrees fahrenheit is roughly the range of temperatures that humans can exist in, and one degree celcius is a bit too coarse for human comfort, thermostats generally give you at least half degrees celcius precision, but can get by with only whole degrees fahrenheit.