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i have something like 600+ articles to read in pocket since I started using it 8 years ago. I've tried to go through and delete some of them a few times but i never make a dent since i do sort of want to read most of them.

the only thing that helped the last few years was to uninstall the browser extension. it means i have to log in to the website if I want to add something and I only go through all that hassle if i 'really' want to read it later

im thinking i might set up wallabag soon and jailbreak my kindle because I think I might have a better chance of reading them there
While this might be a set of problems, I don't think it is the current bottleneck. There are plenty of opportunities for VUI in quite/private settings, if it was a better way of interacting with machines.

IDK what the eventual VUIs look like, but I have a feeling were still at the discovery phase. Even operating GPS/calls/music via voice while driving is still awkward. In a car you have privacy, quite and a need to keep hands and eyes free. It should be the ideal environment for VUI.

Personally, I'm curious to see more voice used as an additional input to existing UIs, the way mouse, keyboard & touch are currently used simultaneously.
I think you've somehow misunderstood the purpose of this website.

The guidelines here describe desired content as: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Aside from the fact that most of the content here is programming related, if it's not enough for you, your best course of action is to seek out actual programming forums.
I've found Spotify to be vastly superior for discovery, in the genres I listen to (metal and hard rock, mostly).
I have heard about the Messenger where they have 25-50% of the web client codebase in Reason, but I have not heard about the Instagram story. Can you share more info or some links about that?
Didn't Apple have major issues with overwriting and syncing up imported music?
Try Deezer it might also work in your country
In France there was a referendum about the EU, with the No winning. Then 2-3 years later Sarkozy, the president at the time, said sod it, I'm signing what the people of France has refused back then.
That's what openttd.org has been doing.

When they grew in popularity they gathered to completely redraw new assets from scratch.

It's a good way to kick start an MVP.

Also the technology choice doesn't really matter, there's a sweet spot where the new features outbalance the nostalgia of running the original game. At least that's what I think when I play OpenTTD
Didn't mean to offend your faith. I am talking about the way faith spreads and not about faith itself.

People who need faith are very similar to people who need a job or an income. They are all suffering. That is the commonality. One way faith spreads, if you are a student of history, is to claim faith is a "shortcut" fix to suffering. But if you know your faith, you know faith is hard work/just like keeping a job or earning a living honestly.

That doesn't stop people from selling a "shortcut". Because selling a shortcut is easy. Neither does it stop people from buying into it.
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We're hiring for a whole bunch of positions as the company is growing:

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Perhaps you're referring to programming in the small. In which case reddit or a number of other websites would be more appropriate.
Why would she need to go to the office? Work is something you do, not a place your'e at. If you, as a manager do not have any way of measuring how the people you are managing, then you have no reason to be there.
And this is just CSS. As a full time frontend dev (started it back in the days of table-based designs) sometimes I look into the mirror and honestly think that I'm a hero :D From mm_mouseover and Netscape Navigator to PWAs, electron apps, responsive layouts, REST apis, webpack, babel and object spread, the web today is getting dangerously close to rocket science.
Not the main point, but those are some very nice illustrations.
Anybody know where they're from? Is there an art book?
I think the time would be ripe time for a second try at this . It's something tweaks to DST and Timezones* wont fix.

I still struggle figuring out times globally, without good reason. Local time could still be the regular 24h, but for business meetings, etc. something like Swatch Internet Time would be great.

* https://metropolitan.fi/entry/finland-seeks-to-drop-daylight...
It won't be for awhile yet. Add to all the other issues mentioned here its drastic reduction in accuracy when dealing with accents, let alone non English languages. We're far, far from it working universally. And that's before you even get to semantics or whether it even make sense as a UI.
is there source code to SC2K anywhere? If not, won't it be really hard to even approximate the simulation behavior?
DPD is wholly owned by La Poste which is 73% owned by the French government.

Seems ironic that a company owned by a government with strong social welfare and laws preventing long work hours would act in such a hostile way towards staff in pursuit of profits.
I dumped tablets a long time ago, since no one seems to be willing to make good tablet apps, instead of just scaling up their phone apps.

Tablets had their time, but they're just junk now. Netbooks/ultrabooks have 10+ hours battery life now, and can run an actual full-featured OS, with actual applications.
No it isn't. Huge screens are, whether they come as standard monitors, virtual reality headsets, or 3D displays. People consume orders of magnitude more information that they produce. When compared to large display, voice output is just painful.

Furthermore, moving eyes is way faster than any kind of navigation input, even voice. That's why displays contain way more information than what people are able to process at any given moment.

And then there's this old principle of GUIs: making choices visible. Screen can list all available options. Voice UI cannot. Even command-line UIs support tab-complete for this reason.

If I were to be very cynical, I would say that voice UIs shine when people are illiterate enough to avoid typing and reading. A less cynical answer is that voice UI fits where big screen doesn't.
The headache that having non-deterministic code causes more than makes up for that.

Among other things this makes writing tests much easier.
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Discussion about music? You'll always see a Tool fan.

(Am a Tool fan. Have ripped all albums to Apple Music. Everything else is Spotify).
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> To use Sass, you need to install Ruby

Nitpick: You don't need to. There is `sassc`, a Sass/SCSS compiler written in C (which is great for someone like me who hates Ruby with a burning passion). (The article surprisingly hints at this by mentioning libsass later on.)
Yes, a good approach is to look up tax and insurance rates and then look for cars with rates you can stomach. There are lots of hilariously cheap big engine cars in my area because of the additional cost. On the tax side, there may also be beneficial loopholes, like tax credit for vans and strangely enough SUVs for businesses. Basically the car itself is the last thing to consider. Saves you the heartbreak of discovering that your dream car comes with tender loving by the taxman.
The act of programming itself is surprisingly hard to talk about in a way that isn't boring. There are some people that livestream it and I find this incomprehensible.

Programming languages are tremendously specific, have their own communities, and move slowly.
Yes, it's an employer-paid pension that is very similar to the U.S. 401(K). Depending on how you slice it, Swedish pensions are divided into 3 or 4 layers:

1) Income pension - equivalent to U.S. social security. Taken out of everyone's taxes, and you have no control over it.

2) Premium pension - it's considered part of Income pension (1), but when you earn above some amount it goes into this bucket and you can tell the government a bit about how you want it to be invested.

3) Occupational pension (tjänstepension) - An "optional" employer-paid pension that you have some direct control over. Depending on the management company, you can either choose between a few fixed investment schemes, or you can have full control over it and invest in stocks/mutual funds. It is "optional", but mandated by the unions, so not really optional.

4) Private pension - your own personal account, like an IRA

There were a bunch of deportations over tjänstepension problems. Companies that were not in unions paid employees that were not in unions and didn't offer the same tjänstepension as the union agreement. Migrationsverket decided (also in 2015) that the exact terms of the union agreements are required for all non-EU citizens, even if they aren't involved with the unions. (If you are Swedish or from the EU, there is no legal requirement.)

I got in trouble because the union requires a 4.5% tjänstepension contribution from your employer. My employer paid 8% to mine, but it was structured in a different way... which we later found out was unacceptable.
Have you considered that maybe the language had not evolved enough for them to be appealing. With b'' and u'' string syntax coming into the language, there is a realisation that string interpolation can be an opt-in feature among other reasons.

What you have is decision making analogous to the function

evaluate(string_interpolation, python_ecosystem)

which is different from

evaluate(string_interpolation)
>Look at the coinbase horror stories - it's now well established if your money is stuck there, you must get the help from having a high post here on HN if you want a reasonable response.

There is a dozen of those stories for the 13 million registered users on coinbase, most people can buy & cash out without any problem

I've withdrawn money easily, all my friends too

It's the internet negative reviews biais
Xcell – a tiny, open source library for building spreadsheet-like calculations
If you are looking for more hardcore programming stuff take a look at lobste.rs
Huh, that's inconsistent. I guess they changed it to avoid the security problem and forgot to change the docs? Or maybe they didn't update 2.7 at all and it still behaves that way.
That's only in the free accounts.
Have you seen p2k.co? It sends Pocket articles to Kindle using Amazon's free email-to-kindle service.
Actually, only those who are talking loudly into a sensitive microphone held right next to their mouth get dirty looks. Plenty of people sit there having a quiet conversation and even from the seat in front or behind you can't hear them speaking
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Useful to get an overview.

I tend to delegate a lot of this to 'whatever bootstrap does'.
Does anyone know if bootstrap fits neatly with any of these methodologies?
This is a recent development however, the first few years of using SASS was with Ruby and more often than not Compass as well. In the context of what he’s talking about he is not wrong.
The profession was always stale and boring once you become aware of the meta cycles and boom-busts of concepts and buzzwords.

Real new concepts are rare under the sun by now. New Problems, are usually old problems rediscovered by new Programmers.
An idea that is worthy of people's s support
Similarly, tv channels on YouTube (for the UK, see BBC, C4, E4) appear to be jumping on the bandwagon with clickbait, videos empty of genuine content, misleading titles and clips repeatedly churned through different videos.

This appears to have short term benefits (huge view counts), but surely it turns people off long term and impacts the brand.
The use of the term "pure energy" always grates me; it gives the impression that energy is an entity unto itself, which is not the case. I realize that it's used as a proxy for photons most of the time, but I still always think it's misleading.
Not in a dedicated app, and not on Linux.
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Not really what you're asking but I like lobste.rs for more tech-focus and less politics/startup/other related content. Posts are also tagged so it's easier to find something interesting.
If you are producing roughly in line with everyone else then your 40% might be enough to last a few years.

Still expect to be fired suddenly.
What's keeping you? I switched my default search engine nearly a year ago and in large part I haven't really noticed. At first, occasionally I'd not find something I was looking for, and would switch to Google to see if I could find it. The number of times that I've found something on Google but not DDG in the past six months would be low single digits.
Hoping not to be mistaken as a chauvinist sshole, a set of honest questions I hope someone (possibly affected by these problems) can help re get an answer to: is it necessary to state your sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, country, age or any other personal indicator when producing code?

Isn't tech beautiful exactly because what matters is problem solving, and letting code be the ultimate super-partes judge?

Wouldn't it be easier to get rid of chauvinists and racists and ableists and any other superset of dumbssess by removing these divisions? Wouldn't said patriarchal idiots feel less threatened by certain groups, and possibly just focus on being good at coding/designing/engineering?
Wouldn't they stop complaining about women or minorities being given a "special", "priviledged", "snowflake" status (and the job offers/funds that come with these?)

Doesn't labelling lead to divisions, and ultimately help push for an orwellian future by removing anonimity?

Again, honestly looking for answers and i'm AS FAR AS POSSIBLY IMAGINABLE from the bro dude image that these questions might lead you to paint over me.

Rock on!
IMO, there was big churn 1990-2015 in people's attitudes about the right way to develop software. This manifested in lots of discussion about languages, platforms, program architectures, hardware, etc.

Since I started reading HN around 2010, I perceive that interest in these topics has decreased. There has been convergence/compromise: some static typing probably good, favor pure functions, C pointers too risky, pay attention to object layout in memory, comfort with phone apps, etc.

I think we are entering a new era when people are going to focus more on advanced applications of technology. Using technology to communicate and store/retrieve data is no longer novel. IMO, HN still has a lot of content from the previous era that feels boring. It's programming content, but not cutting edge.

Edit: not saying there is nothing interesting left to do in systems fields, but the next challenges will be things like formal verification, making massively parallel stuff easy, distributed systems as language primitives, etc.

Edit2: HN also has lots of good content in the latter category, just wish it were a larger percentage of the mix :)
> It seems to me that before Newton, people only had a vague notion of what a force is.
> When Newton stated that F=ma, he defined the concept of force precisely.

Newton wasn't the first to define the concept of force, nor the first to formulate the basic laws of motion. E.g. Galilei had formulated both the first and second laws in some sense, restricted to cases such as straight line motion on a plane. The laws came out of experiments.

Newton's brilliant work was in collecting the three laws, generalizing them and realizing their combination applied to celestial mechanics as well as the mundane brick sliding down a plane.
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They would have to try pretty hard to create a public performance in a workplace. Public performances need to be accessible to the public without any sort of signup or invite, and just the act of being an employee means you have an invite/signup.
On the face of it, sure, but really it's some new bytecode that gets rid of the limitations of using kwargs like that, namely it's slow, impossible to really optimize and doesn't support duplicate keys.
Indeed, this has been implemented in G'MIC [1], which can be used as a plugin in gimp. I definitively recommend it! (based on the exact same paper :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsHgQY6025I
I'm allergic to the { ... } thing. And I like terse and cryptic, but for some reason I find it the less attractive syntactical trick of all python3 (that I know).

dict(a, ... ,b) feels cleaner.
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As I work with schoolkids, I've found the best way is to direct with long thin stick like a baton. You can keep your hand well out of their vision and indicate where you want the mouse to go. If you drive for them, they will not know what you did. (to be fair, when I point and tell, they don't always know what they did either)
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I believe it is manager's responsibility to set reasonable goals without resorting to micro-managing people.

Trust does go both ways.

I've seen it first hand what happens at an office where management does jack. Employees slack off as well.

I think a good weekly stand-up is sufficient.
MLM scams are massive in the Philippines right now as well. The baffling thing to me is, when I've laid out how this works to friends talking about joining up, they agree with the math but join anyway! It's like they need something to believe in subconsciously even if their logical mind knows it's bullshit.

Maybe these schemes really sell hope to those that need something to believe in, replacing religion on some level. Except in this case it's economic hope, the belief that if they work hard enough they will be rewarded.

I've noticed a trend amongst participants. The people at the top are straight up psychopaths looking to exploit human greed for their own gain. But the lower level minions are usually simply poor. They have very little to lose, so why not try it? Ultimately they usually end up poorer, but there's always the story of Bob and Betty who made a million dollars last year and came from nothing to be top sellers.
I'm no expert, but isn't sassc just a C wrapper around libsass? If so, there are wrappers of libsass in most mainstream languages - PHP, Scala, Go, JavaScript, Python, etc.

http://sass-lang.com/libsass
The problem is people respond differently to doping - and some people are hyper-responders

An example being Lance Armstrong was considered a hyper-responder to his doping, and it put him at unfair advantage.
Neat, is there something like this for FF as well?
I think you are missing the point, you don't need to get 2.2 bn to migrate to your new platform, just "strongly connected components". This is why for example Discord or Slack can exist even though they have some overlap with Facebooks functionality (mostly messenger and groups). I don't really know what the value of facebook is to most people, I've heard that it has groups for almost everything, but most other features I would guess are easily "unbundled" as Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat are evidence for.
bear in mind that most things javascript got recently are old. literals, closure syntax, destruct, spread .. (lisp, scheme of course, but yeah python took it a while back too) this is all very very old but now ECMAxxxx is bringing it to the mainstream.
Not really, and it's not getting most pythonic way of doing things IMO. With the syntax above (I think) you can work with any iterable, whereas with a dictionary union operator you'd have to define it on every class you'd want to use, and you'd be out of luck with generators.
Why is there so little programming related content on HN?

Most programming articles and blog posts have extremely limited appeal. They generally need to be on a platform you use, with a language you know, and about an algorithm or tool you might find useful. Things that get up voted on HN also need to be new(ish) and broadly appealing to a group of people who are also interested in startups.
This needs a part 2 on the history of the philosophy of CSS code. It should go through 4 eras:

Table and Frames - how layouting dominated the CSS school of thought

Grids and Frameworks - the mighty grid frameworks that gave you lots of stuff for free at the cost of the language itself (and your freedom)

CSS Themes - how SASS, naming conventions, and framework customization created the era of CSS theming

CSS Components - how we realized everything we did in the past was wrong, fixed up the language itself, and made styles servants to modular components, the way it should have been all along (spoiler alert: Javascript helped).
> Maps is also irreplaceable right now, but over time competitors will get better.

The last company to pour significant resources into maps was Apple and they have essentially given up. If the most valuable company ever created cannot defeat Maps, nothing will. Including OSM. There was a story on here a few months ago called Google Maps’ Moat. Give it a read. Maps is not going anywhere.
Holodomor even more, 2.4-12 million people have have died of starvation deliberately caused by Soviets.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
OpenTTD didn't actually include the assets, you had to use ones from the real game (until their project to draw their own had enough).
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This is a tragic story for the delivery person.

Obviously, DPD could change to employees and offer sick leave.

But I think the bigger opportunity would be for DPD to add more requirements on their independent contractors to require that they offer sick leave or participate in health savings accounts that can cover these types of fines. The tragedy here is that the company that employed this driver wasn’t able to pay 150 pounds and instead worked the driver into a grave. I’m not sure if the company is just the driver himself as a one person company (pretty common in the US, not sure about UK).

A big risk in contracting is not setting enough aside to pay for benefits and taxes. In the programming space I’ve ran into people who were happy as well as stressed out based on how they structured their cash flow management and set asides for benefits. I had two peers with the same rate ($70/hour x 40/week). One worked out a salary, set aside IRA, healthcare, taxes, vacation. The other just paid out the gross amount and was very stressed about company holidays, vacation and even routine healthcare expenses. It was curious how they functioned like an employee and didn’t have an advisor to help them structure their company. We all sat in the same room and were all 30 year old single people.
They had. There was a problem when Apple Music would try too aggressively to pull in songs from their library if it had the same name/artist. But this has been fixed some time ago (by doing fingerprinting properly)
In 3.6 dicts are ordered (by insert order) as an implementation detail. From 3.7 on it will be a feature.