skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this looks promising on paper for Python user , it will probably just die in the coming years due to a lack of vision and of community.

Electron is backed up by Github , we are talking about a billion dollar unicorn , and a lot of commits made are coming from outside github ( microsoft engineers for instance)

For this ? I doubt it would go beyond 1 year of surviving .

Also I've been using VS Code for years ,it's incredibly well optimized and doesn't have a problem in terms of memory or CPU .I personally found electron very reliable , it has surprised me on this point.

Ultimately this tech feels a lot like all the 'I hate javascript so here is my alternative' frameworks we had for the past year.
Thanks, but is there a facebook-free version as well?
(1) Test coverage has dramatically improved.
(2) Improved, and to some degree a matter of taste (Julia is not statically checked, so some errors can only be discovered at runtime)
(3) There has been significant refactoring since 2014 to improve consistency, especially in the recent push toward 1.0.
(4) Developers are much more disciplined now, and just about everything goes through CI.
(5) Docs are much, much better for both users and developers. For the latter, see https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/ast/ and others in that section (none of which existed in 2014, IIRC).

> And bonus community problem:

I can't comment on private discussions to which I was not a party, but people can search the archived google groups discussions (julia-users) for the blog author's name to read the public threads.

That said, the core of the concern, as I understand it, was that these perceived issues would put a damper on growth. Young languages, especially, need growth to outpace attrition to maintain viability (ecosystem, broad testing and platform support, etc.). Three years on, with sustained user-base growth, increased funding, and Julia having been used for a number of articles in high-impact journals (e.g. Nature) -- I think this concern is somewhat less pressing. See
https://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html for a snapshot of the sustained ecosystem growth, and
https://discourse.julialang.org to get a sense of the breadth, depth, and responsiveness of the community (in my obviously-biased view, of course!).

A related concern, was (quoting the blog post):

> A small team of highly talented developers who can basically hold all of the code in their collective heads can make great progress while eschewing anything that isn’t just straight coding at the cost of making it more difficult for other people to contribute. Is that worth it? It’s hard to say. If you have to slow down Jeff, Keno, and the other super productive core contributors and all you get out of it is a couple of bums like me, that’s probably not worth it.

Julia as a whole has had 697 contributors right now. At the very core of the language, the parser and lowering code have well over 40 contributors, and code-generation (LLVM lowering) has over 60.
That is a hard one, I would suggest trying to find a programmer that you trust that would even be willing to meet every week or few weeks to spend a good chunk of time with you on strategy and technical stuff. Maybe that would be open to some smaller equity arrangement with the agreement of a co-founder level if the product / service takes off. It can be very difficult to navigate the technical waters / get ripped off if you don't have a basis for how complex or difficult various tasks are.
There are two reasons for this:

* a pair of jeans, oversized t-shit, baseball cap, white socks and flip flops last every person a really long time

or

* americans are getting poorer lol
To be fair, Windows' file open/save dialogues are so far ahead of everything else that the competition seems like unusable garbage to me. I'm glad KDE/Qt chose to emulate these very closely on Linux. Wouldn't want a desktop where my only choice is Gnome's take at this.

(On the flip side, Windows' select-a-directory dialogue of the same vintage is such an utter piece of garbage that I can't imagine there being any overlap of designers between the two dialogues.)
Define Network. Does that include online communities etc? :)
The official page (https://www.videolan.org/) doesn't list it as released yet ("VLC 3.0.0 is tagged. Expect a release in the next 3 days... (if no big issue arise)") - so it seems to be in a "final final release candidate" state.

I'll be waiting at least the day or few and upgrading when it is fully released.
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I've used Django Rest Framework a few times: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

It comes with alot of nice to haves out of the box (auth, an admin backend, browsable api...) . Built on top of Django of course so there's some overhead there.

I wouldn't use it if high performance is top priority above all else.
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That's a very un-Classic-Mac-like way of using windows.

In the olden days, Mac users would tend to have lots of overlapping windows. Dragging anywhere on the window edges would move the window, so it was easy to arrange them as you wanted - almost like shuffling bits of paper on your desktop (strangely enough) and if you wanted to move something out of the way, you could fold it up (window shade). There was no need for maximising or minimising and "zooming" just meant "make this as large as makes sense for this particular document", not "expand to take up all the space on my desktop"

As OSX/macOS has developed, all that document/desktop-style behaviour has been lost.
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I also thought they were going to die but they kept on and have been contributing a lot to the pool of public knowledge about these things.

In particular, their opendbc repo, the stripped down version of Android and the cabana sniffing tool.
• the language is easy, very attractive for non-CS people

• the language is consistent (everything is an object, or a pointer to an object rather, you can only pass by pointer, scope and namespace that make sense all the time, etc...)

• you can learn it gradually, you can start using it even if you know only 10% of the language

• Amazing documentation. The official tutorial is easy to read, and by the time you are through with it you are fairly proficient with python

• error message that tells you exactly what the error is and where it is happening. A lot of other languages do that now, but that wasn't the case 25 years ago.

• inline help / magical docstring (`a=4 ; help(a)`)

• The REPL, especially being able to get into the REPL with your apps (`python -i`)

• batteries, again 25 years ago, no language came with such a huge standard library

• PEP 8, the grandfather to gofmt and rustfmt. Makes a big difference when working on a team

• the Zen (`import this`)

And of course as the language grew in popularity:

• the ecosystem (pypi.org)

• the amount of resources, from books to website, the answer to every questions you can think of in SO, very active and helpful mailing list/usenet group, active and helpful /r/Python
I would have written the headline as "In an Absolute State: Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Could Be a Marker Specific to Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation" but maybe that's only because I'm in a good mood.
Those stoves are "responsible for 10 per cent of winter pollution", the article mentions. What makes up the other 90%?
Really glad to see ReMarkable getting some love. E-ink is such a promising technology. I pre-ordered this and overall have been thrilled with it. I've loved my Kindle for years but had always wanted a device big enough to read full-size Magazines, textbooks, and letter-sized PDFs. This device allows me to do that. The hardware is fantastic, most of my complaints are on the software side of things. With how open-source friendly the company is I have confidence the software quirks will be fixed (either officially or unofficially). I didn't originally think I would write on it that much - but the writing experience is fantastic...far better than what you get on a glass screen (iPad, surface pro, etc).

I hope this device continues to remind people that E-ink has a future. If the technology can continue to advance - I think someday we could have e-ink displays to use for software development/writing...which would be an absolute dream.
I was in China last year. The airplane newspaper had a few articles devoted to how the government is trying to reduce pollution in many different areas. But one of the big measures seems to be to go hard after corrupt local officials that let industries pollute for money.
Haven't used ShiftIt, but I've been using Spectacle to accomplish the same thing. They seem pretty similar, overall. Works pretty well and I've had no issues.
That was my first thought as well.

The algorithm likely shows controversial content for the same reason we rarely see good news on TV: Dramatic, sensational and outrageous content is simply much more appealing and entertaining to a large audience (which doesn't necessarily mean that they agree with it).
No discussion of Outside Art would be complete without mentioning Henry Darger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger) and his uber-epic In the Realms of the Unreal, a "15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript". He lived almost all his life on 851 W. Webster Avenue in Chicago. If you're in Chicago you can also visit the INtuit Center of Outsider Art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuit:_The_Center_for_Intuiti...) to see his work, in NYC the American Folk Art Museum has a center dedicated to him.

Or you can watch the documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlvDKcDvsI, although I didn't find it do too much justice to him or his work.
H264 is also used by Blu-Ray isn’t it? I know my cable system switched to it from MPEG2 a few years ago.

H264 is used in other places in the electronics industry. That’s one of the reasons Apple picked it. Isn’t it the format most digital cameras record video in?

WebM/VP9 is used by... Google. And Wikipedia (who won’t use something with patent licensing). Is there anything else big?
Please don't burn wood, or if you do, use a gasifier/pyrolysis stove. They are also called "smokeless" stoves. Smoke from a normal wood fire is a really awful pollutant.
Don't they also need to import wood? I can't imagine they have such oversupply. On the other hand they have oil in Scotland.
From my perspective here, you're shifting the goal posts. In particular this conversation began with you apparently thinking that Mono lacked full implementations of ASP/ADO/etc. And I think that might justify the original comment that Linux implementations have been treated as second class citizens. I say might since ADO/ASP are not really part of .NET, but rather independent projects built on top of .NET. But in any case, that hasn't been an issue for many years now.

You have now shifted into claiming that your issue is that the licenses Microsoft released their code under were insufficiently permissive. I could argue against this, because it's at best misleading -- different code was released under different licenses. You can see an archive of one of the CLI releases [1] with the license it came with. Or this [2] is a blog from the Mono founder expressing thanks for Microsoft and ECMA members releasing code under open source licenses. That blog was from the huge 2.0 release, in 2008.

But ultimately that feels like a red herring, even if a fun one! You seemed to believe (as did the person I was responding to) that C# was a Windows only thing. That hasn't been the case for a very long time, and it is completely ridiculous now a days. In either case, it might seem we agree if you think that people are basing their views on obsolete information. But that then rather begs the question of why is that so especially the case here. If I was discussing e.g. javascript frameworks from the perspective of somebody 4 years out, let alone a decade, I'd be quite justifiably skewered. In other fields, 4 years ago things like TensorFlow did not even exist as public projects. 4 years is a very long time in software, so why are people so particularly slow on the uptake in this instance? Bias, bad marketing, something else?

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20060421052106/http://www.micros...

[2] - http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Oct-06.html
Air purification at environmental scale is actually an excellent space for new startups ;)

In NYC, there are initiatives for electric vehicle adoption. But we would still require an array of "scrubbers" to remove existing containments.
Sweat Pants should be trending up then!
KU Leuven states the grid fins at 41kg. (The same volume of material would be 193kg in platinum)
I bet SpaceX could engineer something in spec that wouldn't leak fuel or need to be immediately refueled though.
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Honestly the term 'dashboard' is a bit inappropriate here . I was expecting to see a real dashboard with metrics showing how many liters of beer the brewery was doing etc...

Shouldn't it be called "Beer Brewery Browser" rather than "Dashboard" ?
I like that "she's so far behind technically" can be interpreted two ways here.
Does everyone say "RISC 5"?
Audible, I’m a regular user and a big fan, but if you want to make me happy and increase my book purchasing volume:

1) get rid of the subscription service, I have avoided purchases altogether because the book was cheaper than my credit was costing me, but couldn’t bring myself to give you more money when I have a bunch of credits there.
2) include the kindle book. Just make it so I’m buying the rights to the content and I’ll willingly let you lock me in to both the kindle and audible.

3) improve the UI of the apps. I have 50 or so booos now, and it seems inconsistent how they are ordered, where they are downloaded, which devices recognize I’ve listened to them, etc. give me a way to organize my books, give me adjustable playback speed on my echo.
I've spent time in both these places, and based on my experience, London is nowhere near as bad as Beijing.
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`isin` is worse in terms of performance as it does linear iteration of the array.

Reading in chunks is not bad (and you can just use `chunksize=...` as a parameter to `read_csv`), but pandas `read_csv` is not so efficient either. Furthemore, even replacing `isin` with something like `df['id'].map(interesting.__contains__)` still is pretty slow.

Btw, deleting `interesting` (when it goes out of scope) might take hours(!) and there is no way around that. That's a bona fides performance bug.

In my experience, disk IO (even when using network disks) is not the bottleneck for the above example.
That's because the Beijing authorities simply ban burning coal and limit the gas supplement in nearby areas.

check this out
http://www.xinhuanet.com/local/2018-02/05/c_1122367331.htm
I suspect most companies that offer audio books have jobs. In particular they don't pay as well and I can't say anything about what they actually do, but Overdrive is a local company to me and I know from friends that work there that they're definitely hiring.
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So much thought, effort and research went into this - and was thrown away altogether in Windows 8.
I think it's very dependent on where you live.

The way we do it is to walk into the forest with the axe or chainsaw (often electric) and cut down a tree. After that we drag it home and chop it up with an axe using muscle power ;)

There are even books[1] about firewood and how to stack it so it's very ingrained in the culture.

But if it's done industrially with machines then you are very correct.

[1] https://www.bokklubben.no/livsstil-hobby-og-fritid/hel-ved-l...
Doesn't seem to work on High Sierra.
No, I usually will find a hacked up solution or give up.
ah okay, that explains why check for updates on mac reports 2.2.8 as latest

I'll have a wait too.
I love the idea of someone individually targeting Stallman with ads.
Double-clicking on empty window chrome also works.
The UK stopped the urban use of coal in the 1960s in order to deal with the infamously lethal smog problem.
To quote Scott Galloway: "An iPhone is saying to the opposite sex, or a potential mate, 'I have good genes. You should mate with me.'"

Ain't gonna happen with those $800 Common Projects sneakers.
The best part is the cost! It costs nothing to host and runs basically everywhere.
Good luck milking 1B poor people.
Most "clever" programmers makes code a lot more complicated than it should be to show how "clever" they are. The more complicated the language, the more complicated code they will produce. I've seen this a lot of times.
> still get frustrated on OSX when I minimize a window and have to hunt around for it.

Learn to use the dock? The taskbar on Win 95 was evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and the Dock from NeXT was one of the influences. Which is the same dock was have today in macOS.

You can still have personal preference, of course. But if you have trouble using macOS to find minimized windows, that's because you haven't learned to use it not because it's not possible.
That's the way I've always heard it.

And it's the fourth successor to RISC I.
They sound like a mess. When an interviewer doesn't even show, that's not a good sign. When this boss says, "I guess you're good enough", that's a worse sign. This is rocket science, after all.
Maybe people are slowing down the fashion cycle and keeping their clothing longer and not tossing them after a season.

Buy quality and keep them for years. Except of course for those items from the 2000s.... The oversized fashion, even Hollywood could be embarrassed by those ridiculously oversized outfits.
This is basically any trendy city though - you could say the same thing about Brooklyn or Paris.
It's impressive how long the "Desktop" paradigm of Windows 95 has stuck around, particularly if you're in the Linux Desktop world. Most of the popular desktop environments--Xfce, Mate, and Cinnamon come to mind--still follow that pattern. The last major one to go in a different direction was GNOME 3, and the backlash against it was so fierce that several other major DE's forked an earlier version in order to keep consistency.
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Ah, remembering Win95 makes me yearn for a simple, clean GUI again. All of the major operating systems have been in a downward slide in terms of UI/UX since the early 2000s.

As far as UI/UX is concerned:

Windows peaked with Windows 2000.

MacOS with OS9 (Why didn't they just throw the classic GUI on top of Darwin)?

At least with *nix you have choices and can go with one of the several variants of Gnome 2 (Xfce, et al).
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experience is subjective, numbers is objective, so what maybe one kind of experience is different for someone else
That visit was 15 years ago.

Style do change. As https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/labor-day-white-fashio... writes (in 2016):

> More recently, fashion magazines have moved away from the rule and regularly put out suggestions on how to wear fall and winter whites. A 2011 People poll shows nearly 60% of respondents would totally wear white after Labor Day, and 30% would consider it, depending on the outfit. That means only about 10% of people thought white was totally verboten.

That poll shouldn't be taken as anything more meaningful than to get an idea that it was a thing for some people, even recently.

Do you have a better explanation for why I didn't see anyone wearing white in early October in NYC?
Have you been to thrift stores lately? They're pretty crowded, at least a lot of the time. I think a lot of people are doing this. Income inequality might also play a role; 20-somethings unable to get a good job are much more likely to buy used than new.
Because that is extremely non-intuitive. It's an "Open" and "Save" dialog. That is what it should do. Joe Public is not going to know it does anything else, yet it does.
Of course. If you think you need a lawyer you want to be the one paying them. A company lawyer ultimately works for the company.
If you're using leverage, and not able to lose more money than the fixed amount of shares you purchased, how else would it work?

These instruments are a way to do fancy portfolio balancing, not bets and speculation. You'll need "real" leverage where you can come out in the negative instead of $0 to do that.
you're lucky it fits you. the only sizes i see at thrift stores are L-XXL
Cant reply directly to wand3r for some reason. Re his comment spacex could engineer something that wouldn't leak or need instant refuelling - I wouldn't be surprised if they could - but they have around 30 years of advancements to help them!
Perhaps when such stoves are readily available for home use, and the time comes to replace the old one I've got, that might be worth doing.
My thoughts exactly. When I read the headline I thought, how did London suddenly get to 500 AQI? Then I read the actual article and it's "just" 200.
So what is persnicketiness a marker of?
Hypothesis I'm considering, don't know if I believe it yet: a lot of clothes were once bought at the mall, not so much because they were wanted, but because you were at the mall and it seemed like the thing to do. Now people are at the mall less, and only buy clothes when they actually need them, so fewer clothes get bought that sit in closets unused.
I would imagine similar to a Wealthfront for crypto
All correct. In daily use, I almost never use those buttons - I end up manually sizing/placing windows.

The the MacOS scheme of doing this leads a sort of organic, emergent window layout - I always end up with windows staggered to display relevant bits. With Windows (and with most window managers, X), things always end up either strict tiled or stacked.

I'm very used to the Mac way and prefer it, but that could just be the result of long use. It doesn't waste space (Windows apps always seem to have lots of dead space to me and makes me work to be able to see parts of other windows) and forces me to switch windows far less. But it is a fiarly subtle thing.
Large is pretty standard size for tall men. Pretty much required over 5'11.
Okay. Why not pay for help?
Fomerly, I viewed TempleOS as some kind of useless exercise.

But now I think this should be considered a piece of art.
> A key plank of neoclassical economics - taught in every econ 101 class - is that "people respond to incentives".

That people are “rational actors” is, indeed, a central tenet of neoclassical economics, but it is more “people respond to incentives”; it specifies exactly how people respond to incentives; the rational actor model holds that people behave so as to optimize the output of their own utility function as if they had perfect knowledge of the available options and the net utility of each.

Of course, that idea is at best a very loose approximation and, at worst — as behavioral economists tend to see it — a dogma that tends to lead people away from analysis and application of the available information on how people actually behave, which is very consistently at odds with the rational actor model.
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maximized window ≠ full screen

in Maximized state the window is set to maximal available size (so you are not wasting any part of the screen) while you are still provided with fast and easy access to relevant OS UI elements

in full screen you explicitly tell the system that you don't want to be distracted by OS UI elemtents (typically in situation when you know that you won't need them for extended period of time, or if you REALLY need every single pixel of the screen)
Looks like it's no longer possible on recent browsers
Sure it's free, but it can still be difficult to implement at scale in large companies. There's probably a market opportunity for a consulting service to help companies implement nocode frameworks. (/sarcasm ;)