skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current version of Adobe InDesign costs $20/month on subscription. Used copies of older versions can be found for relatively cheap.

I would advise anyone who values their time against using LaTeX for any document that doesn’t primarily consist of mathematical formulas.
Facebook just needs to lose its "evil" image. I could throw out ideas but let's face it everyone does that and I have zero experience running a social network. Right now the biggest obstacle facing Facebook is that people are starting to think that using Facebook is bad for you and bad for society. Facebook cannot survive in such a climate indefinitely. If it's true, make it false. If it's false, prove it.
Spotlight ignores hidden directories (e.g. .git) and directories whose names end in .noindex. You can create a file in one with a unique name and try to mdfind it to verify this.
Buying junk bonds sounds like the worst idea ever. Buying Facebook/Google/TSLA shares or Bitcoin has risk as well, but at least I'm closer to knowing what I'm buying.
"That's exactly what I've said, you've even copied it verbatim"

No, I didn't. But I will now:

"The iPhone X is the best device I've owned. The notch quickly became unnoticeable but took a few days to get used to lack of a physical home button but that's also become natural to use and going back to use my wife's iPhone now feels more mechanical/primitive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16403374
What would happen if we had aggressive progressively scaled corporate taxes based on some mix of employee count, revenue, or other measures of size? As a thought experiment (disregarding international complications, measuring problems, etc, for now), how many of the worst effects of capitalism are mitigated if every company has several direct competitors?

With enough participants in the market, you might have enough potential defectors to keep oligopolistic collusion down. Employees get better treatment because they have options. BATNA.

Inspired by stuff like https://slate.com/business/2018/01/a-new-theory-for-why-amer... - the recipe to extracting maximum profit is to pay as little as you can get away with while demanding as much as you can get away with and charge as much as you can get away with. Our current tooling is fairly bad at limiting that "what you can get away with" for corporations. So what pressures would change it?

Currently we tilt the playing field in favor of larger corporations, in addition to the natural inclination in many areas of economies of scale, with stuff like forced arbitration being allowed. "Should Amazon be broken up?" is just a small part of the "how do we make sure economic power is well-distributed instead of concentrated?"

Or do we think systems with too-big-to-fail players are a good thing?
I am a vegetarian, but I'm more troubled by these totalitarian laws. Yes, I know they 'are just helping animals,' but throughout history, too often tyrants strip your liberties in the name of of moral righteousness.
It's a relatively new market so its possible flavours will evolve as farmers and roasters mature their experiences with the product. And I would expect the price to level out once the novelty of sampling it has passed.

But yes, living in the self-appointed 'coffee-snob' capital of the southern hemisphere, I do notice that fancy single origin roasts that dazzle the experts often leave the average man in the street underwhelmed "It's nice, but..."
>Documentation is meant to be read by everyone, not make you feel good about being forced to write it.

I think you missed the point you were trying to make here because nobody has any difficulty reading the PDFs rendered from latex.
Up until less than a year ago, offline web apps were not really possible. Until service workers became commonplace, the only option was AppCache, which is one of the most broken and convoluted specs ever to weasel its way into the web platform.

You should start to see more and more offline-ready web apps making an appearance as the tooling around service workers improves!
Did you just equate modern science based medicine with witch doctors? LOL!
Apple HFS+ didn't have file data checksums either. The default filesystem on most Linux distributions, ext4 doesn't, it just stores checksums of the file metadata, not the file data. Same story with Windows NTFS filesystem. Microsofts newer ReFS filesystem has file data checksums disabled by default.
So it seems like a tradeoff that most of the major operating system are making. Most likely related to performance.

Edit: macOS disk images do have a checksum of the whole image data though. The issue mentioned in the article seems to be caused by an oversight in the disk image helper app, rather than in the APFS filesystem itself.
I didn't have a textbook for mine, just class notes. But I remember there was some topology, required for defining manifolds and their relations with one another so that it makes "sense". here's a book that your might find interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Computer-Graphics-Undergradu...

On a side not, a lot of current research focuses on simplifying CAD models to use them as inputs to simulation programs (CFD, finite element analysis codes etc). Indeed, since your CAD model is highly precise, the models are hard to mesh (need very fine mesh to discretize the details), so you simplify them manually and it's very time consuming.

One of the methods that most struck me to automate this simplification was taking the CAD model, transforming it to the frequency domain where high frequencies represent small geometric details and large frequencies, larges underlying features in the model's geometry. So you can filter out the high frequencies, transform it back and end up with a simplified model. You've literally filtered away the smaller geometric features of the model. I remember the paper describing the method for 2D geometry only.

Here's a paper surveying the some of the state of the art methods to simplify CAD models and prepare them for simulation packages.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001044850...
For anyone else who gets distracted by the "famous study" mentioned: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/people-pr...
Supportive of it being illegal for one individual or group of individuals to give an item with an agreed upon element of randomization to another individual in exchange for money?

That is more than a little heavy handed, if not a downright Draconian economic policy.
CommonMark _does_ support images: http://spec.commonmark.org/0.27/#images

Some other, non-standard variants of Markdown also handle tables via a syntax which resembles ASCII art. And while that format does do an excellent job of adhering to Markdown's ethos of remaining readable in plain text; I usually prefer to use HTML fallback anyway as it's easier to maintain.
Your car dealership analogy doesn’t hold any water. Amazon is an “open” marketplace with millions of products, some of which are amazon private label and compete against other third party sellers on Amazon. Amazons track record with this is ugly http://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/

This is more akin to a scenario if apple were to block Spotify from the App Store because apple provides a competing service to theirs, totally leveraging and abusing their power to diminish competition. It’s hard to argue that not allowing them to sell the physical product on amazon isn’t anti-competitive, regardless if amazon does or doesn’t develop chrome cast capabilities into fire sticks.

This is laughable -
>> Both the Apple TV and Chromecast were pulled from Amazon in late 2015. The company’s justification for the move was that consumers would be confused and frustrated if they purchased streaming devices that didn’t offer a direct, convenient way to view Amazon Prime Video content https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/14/16777508/...
Yes unit sales were down 1.24%, which is contributed by Q1 2017 results reporting 14 weeks instead of 13 weeks this quarter, the iPhone X being supply constrained and basic economics 101 law of supply/demand when raising prices.

Since you're quoting percentages to justify your insistence of "Demand for the X has actually been pretty weak", here are some more percentages you've left out:

> The Company posted quarterly revenue of $88.3 billion, an increase of 13 percent from the year-ago quarter and an all-time record, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $3.89, up 16 percent, also an all-time record.
Hell no.

Accidentally catching my hand on a table saw was bad enough, thank you very much. I knew very well I wouldn't die or suffer permanent damage and it still sucked like hell.
You're paying for the risk that the doctor is taking. It's going directly into his pocket though. That's why regional prices are so far apart.
awsomesauce.
What if it’s a function of age, rather than amount of tech we’re exposed to?

For example, I feel younger people are able to focus for longer periods of time on reading long form texts, and an older person may benefit more from finding specific sections from a longer work that they may find interesting or useful that they can read.

As you age there is much more repetition in things than you are consuming. Maybe it’s not bad to be filtering out certain repetitions while hopefully not filtering out things that go against any personal biases.

Furthermore, the books I’m interested in reading now I feel require more time, maybe even a year or two, whereas when I was younger I was really interested in reading massive amounts just for the sake of it.
Way to go! Can you explain more about Watsi coverage actually does? Very cool article and process.
No, they are wrong because they are analyzing secondary market prices, while the discussion was about introductory market prices, which are indeed set by WotC and made to, on average, be higher than the payout for selling the cards within.

I think there have been two, maaaaybe three expansion sets in the multi-decade history of the game where the average price for selling all cards in a booster pack exceeded the price of the booster pack itself.
> First off, she never mentioned Overwatch.

My apologies, I should have explained the context. Perhaps you don't follow gaming news, but the whole reason that this is an issue on Hassan's radar is that there has been a lot of criticism recently targeted at Overwatch specifically over their use of lootboxes, even though other games use lootboxes too.

So no, Hassan doesn't mention Overwatch by name, but in the current context, it's pretty relevant to discuss.

> And the option for 'no support' did not seem to be a problem for say, League of Legends. Which until recently was surviving without any sort of lootbox paradigm based off of buying cosmetics. SFV is also similar.

...you're using League of Legends as a point of comparison? LoL uses almost the exact same system as Overwatch, except some of the items do actually have an impact on the gameplay, introducing a pay-to-win dynamic. It's strictly worse than what Overwatch does. SFV uses a DLC model.

That's what actual pressure to spend money looks like - "If you spend more money, you will literally be a better player".

> Second, there is constant pressure to buy boxes.

Compared to any other game of its ilk - including the ones you mentioned - there's basically zero pressure. You're complaining that they give out free boxes, except the alternative to that would mean that there is no free way to obtain the items, and also no other way to obtain them except by random chance and spending money.

I can't imagine a better system that still provides a revenue stream for the company without affecting the game quality, and both of the games you've mentioned are strictly worse.
It's not concerning if there are actually a couple significant contenders for the top, competing in the same space in a fair market.

The problem is that when you get one dominant player, they use their dominance to change the market so that it's no longer fair, buying any competitors that approach relevance, lobbying for laws that no competitors have enough voice to combat, etc. In a fair market, consumers benefit because companies compete to provide better products/services/prices. But a single dominant player can compete in other ways, which don't benefit the consumer.

One example of this: Amazon allows third-party sellers to sell on Amazon. If you create a product, such as Iron Gym pull up bars[1], you can create an online store for it. But your store is competing with Amazon, and even though the Iron Gym pullup bar was better than the pull up bars on Amazon which required you to screw them into the wall, people would likely buy an inferior, more expensive product from Amazon simply because they didn't know your product existed. You can easily compete in the home gym equipment market, but Amazon's dominance in the online retail market forces you to sell through their platform. No big deal, you're trying to compete in the pull up bar market anyway.

So you sell your Iron Gym pull up bars on Amazon[2]. Now Amazon has all the market data on your product, and sees that it's doing well. So they release an AmazonBasics version of your product[3], price it automatically cheaper than your product because they don't have to pay a cut of their profits as an Amazon third-party seller, prioritize it higher in their search results, and wait for you to go out of business. Amazon's dominance in the online retail market lets them completely reverse dominance in the pull up bar market, without any real competition in the pull up bar market.

It might seem that this is good for consumers, because Amazon provides a cheaper product, but keep in mind that if Iron Gym goes out of business, Amazon is free to hike the price of the pull up bars up to whatever they want.

[1] https://www.irongym.com/products/total-upperbody-workout-bar...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Gym-Total-Upper-Workout/dp/B001E...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Pull-Upper-Body-Workout/...
I haven't. Neither has my 13yo daughter, she seems to do nothing but read. I tend to read on my phone, she reads mostly paper books. When I read on my phone I... read. I don't get distracted as the thing is usually in flight mode due to it being late, no bleeps or bloops, no silly animations, just black on white (day) or white on black (night) text.

Reading, and reading books, does not depend on actual paper books. It depends on the level of interest the reader has in doing just that, reading. Someone who reads to kill a dull moment might be easily distracted but that is true whether that person reads from paper or from a screen of some sorts. This was true back when the only option was paper as well, it is just that distraction is easier to come by for those who seek it.
No, but it requires the purchaser to be informed of the odds. The only reason a company wouldn't want to inform a customer about their product is when they are hiding something.
NY Times shows Facebook ads.
> or more traditional therapies which may not be as effective.

It's not proven. There are a few articles and a few success stories. It isn't a panacea. The cost is only an issue after someone has tried many traditional therapies.
You pay $x, with a chance to receive items worth between $0.1x and $10x.

It's true that x might not be able to converted to fiat or resold.

That makes it effectively equivalent to a raffle, which often put restrictions on reselling similar to these cases.

Raffles are considered a form of gambling, and are heavily regulated, in the UK[0] and Australia [1].

[0] http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/for-the-public/Fundrais...

[1] https://www.vcglr.vic.gov.au/gambling/raffle/licensee-resour...
Does it ignore them, or does it traverse them and throw them out?

Anecdotally it certainly seems like indexing is slower on my dev drive than anywhere else, so I'm curious.
Well, that's how they sell it. When they started the lottery in my state, they sold it as a wonderful benefit to society, because all the proceeds would be used to fund education.

What they didn't tell us is it wasn't additional funds to existing budgets, but they would pilfer the existing budget and replace it with lottery proceeds.

Lying, smarmy politicians. You'd figure we'd learn by now.
You missed the point. The anecdote was to illustrate how even power users might be working around filesystem bugs so a lack of bug reports specifically mentioning APFS is certainly not proof that there aren't problems.
Does that fact make the requirements uninteresting?
As an European, I can't understand this beancounting. Yes, technically it may not be gambling, but that does not heal the issue. The problem a predatory practices that ultimately harm the victim in any way e.g. money but also time spent unwisely on collecting lootboxes instead of exercizing for college.
The bar for infringing on people's freedom should be high. Laws should exit only to protect human interests. That can include things like preserving biodiversity. But to use the power of the state against people for the sole purpose of protecting animal interests is unjustified in my opinion.

I believe we have a moral duty to treat animals well, and certainly to avoid causing needless suffering. But not all moral duties justify state compulsion.
Publishing math formulas (and other non-textual content) with Markdown in KaTex is possible on P4 https://onp4.com/@p4/77z1u
I wrote my MSc dissertation in Markdown
You forgot to mention that the explicit grant came with obnoxious conditions, and those conditions were the crux of the issue. Your characterization of the change says a lot about the internal discussions in which you participated.
Sure, they do, sometimes. We'll see I guess.
They're influencing the internet in more ways than just social stuff, though. From a technology perspective, Facebook is doing solid work. And it looks like they're continuing the trend - rather than being at the end of it.

Facebook's open source footprint is quite influential. Namely, React + Redux + Reselect are pretty sweet. React-Native. Haven't used it, but hhvm.

And I haven't heard of this one before, but it looks cool: https://github.com/facebook/prepack

https://github.com/facebook

That's a nice portfolio.
There's a more subtle point in the article about how digital media have trained us to be less tolerant of delays, more impatient for new information. How often have you gone to a website on a whim, but clicked "back" after waiting 2s for the page to load? -- Nevermind, it wasn't important... I haven't got all day, what's next in my feed?...

This reflexive aversion to interruptions and delays make prolonged focus more difficult. Maybe you don't experience it, but I do, and like the author of this article I notice it most when I try to read a book.
Show HN: Deployable Raspberry Pi image that doesn't need SSH for connecting WiFi
I look forward to the day where the suggested ROA of an FDA approved drug is insufflation
The difference is that this feature (ideally) only affects implementation complexity, not interface complexity. It can also be dropped again tomorrow without breaking the world.

This makes it wildly different from language changes, which require a lot more consideration.
Tovala (YC W16) Hiring for Data Analytics Role
I used to do all my docs in Adobe Framemaker. The output was amazing. The software itself felt a little obtuse, but seeing the printed pages was great.
That's a ridiculously simplistic and incorrect way to think. The fact that apple makes the rules doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss our opinion of said rules. Also, they control the entire ecosystem. Do you remember how that worked out for MS and IE? The fact that it's their app store is not the only relevant details, and using that as a reason to ignore what they do is just lazy.
Seing that "people at the top" hold a non-negligible fraction of world's assets lends some credibility to cryptocurrencies.
The truth is this is really a populist movement of gamers who don't like lootboxes for reasons unrelated to gambling or addiction. They only latched on to this addiction/gambling argument because it suits their purpose. Very similar how child porn laws are pushed and abused by the copyright lobby because it suits their purposes.

Gaming as an addiction is a much much larger problem than lootboxes as an addiction. If this is truly about addiction then where is the movement to restrict the amount of time people spend playing video games everyday?
They also tend to cause permanent personality changes (increasing "openness to experience")
Do you disagree with most animal cruelty laws then? What about dog or cock fighting?
In what way does it strip one's liberties to be required to keep at least two guinea pigs if one must keep them?

The "liberty" to keep exactly one guinea pig: that is just silly.
For an intermediate choice, I would recommend AsciiDoc [http://asciidoc.org/]. I currently use it for some of the more complicated pages on my company's GitHub wiki, and am very satisfied with it.

For an example of its usage and look, here [http://asciidoc.org/INSTALL.txt] is the source from which this [http://asciidoc.org/INSTALL.html] page was rendered.
Hey HatedUser2, why don't you knock it off with your political crap links
200B in the bank and they couldn’t find a way to port it to other platforms? I think they could.
Prepack is one of the coolest ideas to come out of FB OSS.

The idea is to run your JS program as part of compilation, evaluating it as much as you can. Then take what's left in the heap and serialize it back to JS. Then ship that to browsers/devices.

AFAIK, that sort of AoT evaluation has been limited to academia and niche applications in Haskell and OCaml because purity analysis is so tricky in languages that don't track effects.
>...you're using League of Legends as a point of comparison? LoL uses almost the exact same system as Overwatch, except some of the items do actually have an impact on the gameplay, introducing a pay-to-win dynamic. It's strictly worse than what Overwatch does

I mean, this is objectively incorrect. League of Legends is not P2W, in that you can't buy your way to victory. You can get champions, but even the newest ones are not strictly better than earlier ones. The pressure to pay money in this case is to avoid grinding. I don't particularly care for League of Legends either, but their dynamic is not any more P2W than SFV, considering they both have very similar models.

>Compared to any other game of its ilk - including the ones you mentioned - there's basically zero pressure. You're complaining that they give out free boxes, except the alternative to that would mean that there is no free way to obtain the items, and also no other way to obtain them except by random chance and spending money.

The free boxes are given out for the sole purpose of getting you hooked. It's not out of good will. Every single Gacha game on the planet does similar things, they dole out small amounts of currency so that players can play the game without paying money, but the incentive is to pay to have a higher chance of getting something they want.

I'm complaining that the whole concept of lootboxes is predatory, and that every aspect of it is carefully designed to appeal to you, the player. That's why loot is colorized by rarity with special sounds depending on how rare/awesome your loot is. It wants to induce a dopamine hit, then reinforce it through encouraging the player to pull. More and more and more.

That's Gacha Game Design 101.
I use pluralsight, I've considered using Udemy, but certainly not after this, you should definitely be seeking legal counsel.

Dispicable of them.
None except I want to buy their stock.

Lately: https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/
Does Ketamine possibly influence an increase in depression when it wears off?

And how long does it take for it’s anti-depression effects wear off?
360K in passive income a year?
I great conditions a coffee tree produces an annual yield of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee.

So we are only talking about ~250 bags of coffee. Which is still nothing.
Love your consideration in order to get us to reflection.