skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not conceding to be on your "amorphous right," but the amorphous left seems to put words in everyone's mouth. I haven't seen anyone in this thread say that they are certain that Google broke the law in this case - since they are a private organization. What I have seen a lot of is people reframing and mischaracterizing the memo as "anti-diversity," "sexual harassment," "pseudoscience," etc. I don't need to know if you think his termination was reasonable because I'm not arguing that you were. However, you were arguing that he was cloaking hate speech as science - as you stated, "...were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment, notwithstanding his effort to cloak his comments with “scientific” references..." This part is very worthy of debate!
Fun to be a corporate under Trump. Big surprise
Open source project trends for 2018 from GitHub
Thanks - deleted.
A clarification: With "wrong direction" I mean off-topic or for example comments which are certain to trigger a heated discussion taking us nowhere.

Different opinions are what I expect from HN, but I wish the discussion revolves quite closely around the title.
Yeah, you kinda got the impression that things were changing when Iridium was launching a 5 billion dollar satellite on a 50 million dollar rocket.
So an ASIC chip basically like what mines most of the Bitcoins these days?
Obviously it's impossible to provide such metrics since you can not run Firefox on older iPads.

It does not run on Android < 4.1 either, but the devices remain useful since you can update Android even if the vendor support is long gone.

Thus an Android tablet with similar hardware as the iPad has potential for a longer lifespan.

I've not yet seen any valid arguments to counter this.
It does lack connections between documents like a wiki. While you can do hyperlinks, it does not feel connected.

Also, can you structure documents into find hierarchy or tagging system?

Finally, no self hosting.
> technically the queen is above the law as she is sovereign and the source of all law

What rubbish. In the UK, Parliament is sovereign. The British monarchy can be entirely removed by an Act of Parliament. Not only is it sovereign, but it cannot be bound by any previous Parliament.

Your fake facts portray the UK as an absolute dictatorship.
The audiobook by Jim Norton (aka Bishop Brennan) is a good way in to FW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAc901X7gK0
There were multiple unicode issues on APFS reported here on HN, but I think those were before it went live.
Here's how to see all your PRs:

https://github.com/search?q=is:pr+author:YOURNAME&type=Issue...

Here's how to see all your open PRs:

https://github.com/search?q=is:pr+is:open+author:YOURNAME&ty...

Replace YOURNAME with your GitHub handle, or pick your colleagues names.
It's not that anyone ever sat around a board room with an evil plot involving the protection of guinea pigs. It's that it is so normal that the state act as your parents, which was never the intention of Western democracies, that nobody even thinks "should we really be letting ourselves hand over so many decisions to a monopoly on violence?"
Movies and tv in the US generally have modern pirates be from Somalia
Oregon Steps Up to the Plate on Network Neutrality This Month
Imprisoned Blogger Eskinder Nega Won't Sign a False Confession
The thing is, once you have a monopoly on violence, you've inherently handed over all of your decisions to them already.

(There's no alternative, though, so deal with it)
Alfalfa is also a nitrogen fixer, so on top of being something farmers can sell it reduces furtilizer costs.
The first thing I do with a new PC laptop, after making sure Bluetooth and the other hardware all works in Windows, is to wipe it and start installing Linux. Lately I've just cloned my Gentoo install that I've maintained since 2012.

I keep around one Win10 laptop for gaming, but I prefer Linux for any real development work.
On the flipside, there's also the point that while it's cool that Operational Transform allows for a decentralized service without a central server, it also makes the requirements to use and extend the algorithm (e.g. with new editing commands for new types of media) needlessly complex if you're going to be running it with a central server anyway. I can see why it might not be seen as a solid business strategy at Google to launch a service with an increased development and maintenance burden just so others can EEE it. This also reminds me of the present day where blockchains are popping up in tons of places where a central server would solve the task just fine.

Edit: Could any of the people downvoting me please state their position? I didn't think my comment was disrespectful or off topic, so I'm wondering what their problem with it is?
How NYC’s subway got wireless in the tunnels
Sure, but if you do not have the proper painkillers, it's
hell of a lot more painful than the pain it ends. You are trading long term nagging pain, for short intense one, which is totally worth it, but is a lot of pain.
I don't know that you've hit on the whole dynamic, but you've hit a lot of it: scale.

In 30+ years of online engagement, I've seen again and again and again numerous transition points for communities as they've grown and hit various sets of problems. These seem to pop up fairly regularly at specific points. The small group (a handfull, maybe two), then the social circle of 20-50. Most online groups seem to fist start hitting behavioural issues that surpass a single admin/moderator after a few thousand or so active members, maybe 100k on the outside.

Facebook, in one view, was successful in surpassing these limits, but in doing so it's discovered others.

Scale matters.

As does speed, cycle time, UI/UX dynamics, incentives, (media system) memory, and so much more.

And it's not just anonymity. Not by a long shot.
I can faintly understand the usefulness of this in a browser context, but why would you ever run APL over node... Very cool learning project though.
How well do IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ AI services guess the gender of a face?
Other people's (when pair programming)
> I wonder why there's not an option to pay/donate to bump the limit temporarily

> I could have avoided this by combining names into a single certificate

You can get a cert (via <=20, 100 SAN combined certs) 2000 subdomains per week.

I actually don't really understand your problem case though. What do you mean by:

> when moving domains
They are arbiters of truth whether they choose that role or not. The question is only who (or what) chooses, andd how well they do that job. The obligation cannot be shirked.
I mean, whoever is dumb enough to gamble, deserves to lose everything. And if they want to then shoot people, I'm sure the police will be more than obligated to do their jobs.
I sincerely hope that Snap and Flatpack will die.

Linux package management is a rare example of successfully tamed complexity. It's magic: having a single copy of, say, gzip implementation imported and used by hundreds of installed applications.

Sandboxed approach works on servers, where a single machine is usually dedicated to running just a handful of rapidly re-installed apps, it has no place on a desktop. I am not interested of every little component (of which I use dozens) landing with its own "runtime".

this madness is caused by the common techno-disease of seeing a nail everywhere when holding a hammer. yes, containers are great for the (trivial) server use case and no, it's stupid on a desktop which is two orders of magnitude more complicated.

I clicked on your link and saw exactly what I expected:

> VisiFile is a NodeJS application built with Express, Sqlite, and various NodeJS modules.

yep. another example of wheels coming off: no, NodeJS is not an appropriate tool to build desktop software. by picking the wrong tool you're dragging the wrong deployment model along with it. I will only use an electron-like app if someone pays me for it (Slack at work).
Are you arguing that the solution to all controversy is to pass a law? You are proposing to solve all problems at gunpoint.

What space for different conceptions of the good, for diversity of values and preferences, could exist in such a society?

You must have limiting principles for when we should resort to the remedy of the law. Perhaps yours are different than mine, but I doubt that you have none at all.
I think the killer idea with Google Wave was real-time collaboration on anything. It was just way too broad. We used it for project planning like many others here. Now I don't think there is anything a shared Google Doc or Google Sheet doesn't solve more intuitively, with more specialised tools for the task.

I love the idea described in the article of real-time collaborated _things_, as opposed to a timeline of ideas from a team. Specially for things like Github Issues or other bug management. The goal would be a shared living document, not a list of discussions. Really cool!
Use both. RMarkdown + Beamer or something.
Facebook doesn't need China. They'd like to be in China, it could be worth several billion dollars in annual profit, but they do not need it.

Facebook nearly generated as much profit in 2017 as Tencent and Alibaba combined, to put it into perspective.

The flip side of China's behavior, is that their domestic tech giants have been unable to go global like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Netflix have (Amazon is still trying to push its model fully global with mixed results). Baidu was supposed to challenge Google globally, it has completely failed at that. The US is the world's most lucrative advertising market, Alibaba and Tencent can't access it because they're wildly incompetent at operating outside of their protected kingdom (as witnessed by Alibaba's embarrassing failure with 11 Main). China is an extremely unique market, the approaches and protections that have given Tencent and Alibaba their dominance there, will not translate well to most of the rest of the world.
File systems are hard. They're incredibly difficult and incredibly important. It look a long time to get to ext4 and NTFS, and there's a reason HFS+ has stuck around for as long as it has, despite all of its shortcomings and limitations.

Even in the Linux work, thinks like btrfs, even though some distros consider it sable, is still treated with scrutiny. Back in the early 2000s, many Linux distros refused to install on XFS or JFS.

Apple's APFS rollout really does fell like it happened way too fast.
Once you hit this limit, you are not prevented from renewing existing certs.

You do have to be a little careful, for example adding a new SAN to a cert might fail due to 20-per-domain-per-week limits, attempting to renew that cert without removing the extra SAN will fail.
You haven't been reading then.

For people doing enterprise work and backups it's been a nightmare - here's one backup vendor that's been tracking issues with high RAM+CPU usage for almost 2 years now [1]. Early on if data reached over 2.0 TB, it would silently corrupt on certain cluster sizes and when deduplication was enabled. [2] Per the Veeam thread, the "fix" for [1] is only preventative, meaning that currently affected volumes will need to reformat entirely.

This doesn't excuse the APFS goofs, but silent data corruption and grinding servers to a halt just writing data to the system are pretty major show stoppers, never mind that ReFS can't be used for a host of every-day operations (i.e., it's a storage level solution, not really an every-day-driver style File System).

[1] - https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/refs-4k...

[2] - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2017/01/30/windo...
I guess I don't understand the question. If one publisher gives away books for free, should another publisher be allowed to copy it?
> Sure, it's a new filesystem; it's bound to have bugs.

It's literally one of the most critical components of an operating system. Bugs in the filesystem or disk utilities are not small things. They have the potential to be disastrous.
This requires sharing the same cert and key for everything. Lots of software doesn't really like this way of doing things, I've been bit by the 20 limit too - and yes, I could have swapped to SANs, it wouldn't have fit with the deployment tooling for all the different things!
That could be hardware failure. I've had one SSD fail, back around 2013, and the often just lock up without warning. They'll work for 30 min ~ 1 hour and just stop and freeze.
> Don’t go

Who are you saying that to? Maybe the person reading the article needs it?
That’s some crazy expensive coffee. If I buy the most expensive coffee the importer brings in here is (copy paste) GUATEMALA FINCA EL SOCORRO YELLOW BOURBON	$20.70NZ (which is $15.28 US).

In that sort of price range are some fantastic coffees - I struggle to see how something 4x more expensive could be that much better.
My go to is Ethiopian Yirgacheffe which is a few dollars cheaper at NZ $17.50.
Uhh..wow, thank you. I didn't actually expect you to do the work for me(not your job/it's why I said I believed you in the initial post), I was just making a point that others might be skeptical.

I guess I was googling for the wrong term - implicit patent license leads to a very different set of speculative answers compared to "implied patent grant" and "federal circuit exhaustion".
Yes:

# diskutil verifyVolume /dev/disk0s2
Started file system verification on disk2s1 macOS
Verifying file system
Volume was successfully unmounted
Performing fsck_apfs -n -x /dev/rdisk2s1
Checking volume
Checking the container superblock
Checking the EFI jumpstart record
Checking the space manager
Checking the object map
Checking the APFS volume superblock
Checking the object map
error: btn: invalid key (210, 16)
Object map is invalid
The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 could not be verified completely
File system check exit code is 8
Restoring the original state found as mounted
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: Exec format error
Well lots of people are still reading books.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/19/slightly-few...

The number seems to be holding steady in the low to mid 70% of the population reading at least one book per year.

Further, the MOST likely readers are 18-29 (as of 2015)

The follow up Pew study in 2016 showed similar trends.

Neat human interest/hot take, I guess? But the reality doesn't seem to match with the author's experience.
A group of friends excitedly signed up for wave and never found out how it was better at anything than a Google doc and it's built in chat.

We spend a lot of time just figuring out what we wanted to communicate about inside wave and settled on planning a trip abroad, and eventually migrated to docs.
Scientist: Under extremely low-energy, highly controlled conditions, photons can be made to act in a way that strongly suggests some sort of bond or attraction has been created between them.

"Journalist": So, photons did something, that's like, light, right? Lightsabers! By Jove, you've done it!

What utter tripe.
I just updated my resume two weeks ago. Too bad couldn't find the original LaTeX code, so I had to write a new one.
I tried looking for some free MS Word templates, and didn't find anything fit.

Curiosly, I found one while browsing at https://www.overleaf.com. LaTeX again :D
Depending on what your non-profit is in support of, Koalephant (my company) may be able to provide some pro-bono hours to assist/advice on that 'not quite perfect' setup, if that's at all of interest to you.

My email is in my profile if you want to get in touch.
People painfully remove perfectly good wisdom teeth all the time just because it's convenient to do them all at once and on the off chance that they're preventing some pain in the future.
Future of Wine Staging
The architecture...
While I understand the point that the article is trying to make, i.e. that no "standard" markdown offers sufficient features to write documentation, I don't think that it matters too much as long as the final result is good.

I always wanted to write manuals and documentation in markdown (or any other lightweight markup language for the matter) but not even a specialized flavor of markdown was able to provide all the features that a technical writer expects from a documentation tools (I am talking especially about block-level formatting and content reuse).

So I came up with HastyScribe (https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/) and then HastySite (https://h3rald.com/hastysite/).

Basically, I used Discount as a base and added features on top of it. I am now using it for all my sites and all the documentation of my open source projects. And I know of at least one company that is using HastyScribe for their own user documentation.

OK, there's some degree of vendor lock-in, but at least the final result is OK and both tools are open source.

For more info and a preview of what an HastyScribe document looks like, here's the user guide:

https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm
> This requires sharing the same cert and key for everything.

That entirely depends on where/how you're terminating TLS.

Do you really have > 20 different pieces of independent software all doing their own TLS?

This is exactly what things like HAProxy are for.
What difference does 1mil vs. 1bil make when they're deploying software on identical hardware? The type security and stability bugs showing in modern macOS and iOS are unacceptable at 100.000 installs. What does volume have to do with accepting empty root passwords?!
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a QA Lead – Help People Find Their Purpose
For someone outside the industry it’s suprisingly hard to get good data on the water needed to make milk. A search has given just under 1000L for Waikato NZ and just over 1000L for Canterbury. However the Guardian suggests 255L of water for a single litre of milk.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/10/how-mu...

https://sciblogs.co.nz/waiology/2012/05/24/how-much-water-do...
Why would you kill spiders? I wondered after reading your comment. I never had the urge or need to kill one; do other people and why?
Is it a drought or is the baseline taken from an unusually wet period?
Design Your Services the Right Way
That’s a hell of an ‘if’. The other stuff is surely easier to get than water is?
For the end user it's black and white - can you run that app on your device or not?

Android continues to run everything also on a 32-bit CPU and iOS does not.
I mostly write in Java for work. Back to the good old high school days, I spent 2 years learning programming in Pascal (yes, Turbo Pascal for DOS!), so seeing arrays started at 1 is not something strange for me :)

Of course, in Pascal you actually can pick any number where the index starts/end.
This is great.

I write 100-200 page functional spec documents at a vendor for large scale file based broadcast systems (10-300 linux servers) for a number of customer projects, and have been trying to get away from word since it's slow at that scale and I don't want to spend any time on formatting, and want to get to a templated approach for the others on my team with a consistent output.

Currently I'm using markdown with some CSS and just use Marked2 (Mac) to export but don't have it all worked out yet. Markdown + LaTeX + Pandoc is probably better and more powerful or precise than using CSS. I don't use equations but I do use tables a lot and I'm using multimarkdown ascii ones for now (with a nice atom.io auto-format plugin to make it easy to author) and some code blocks with syntax highlighting.

The idea is to have a folder per customer/project spec, with a consistent structure of one .md file for the body and a local sub-folder for images (svg workflow(bpmn)/system diagrams mostly, some jpgs for logos, screenshots). The folder would be in a local git repo so we can commit changes and export diffs to see what changed between versions and have multiple people work on the same doc with tracking.

I'm using "invisible links" for in-line comments at the bottom of each section that are added while going though it with the customer since it usually takes 5-30 versions before it's finalized and signed off. Those keep a record of discussion with the customer and don't get rendered out in the final output. Also using standard set of status tags (@outstanding, @done, @info) within the comment text.

Ex; `[Note: <initials> YYY-MM-DD]: # (comment text @status-tag)`.

Going through the in-progress spec with customers and typing notes inline has been much better than word's commenting system and using markdown makes it easy for the customer to read without extraneous formatting code in-line.

Currently using a multimarkdown header for variables; customer name, project name, author, author email, spec version, etc., but I might move that to a separate YAML file.

Ideally, to make each version of the spec it would be markdown through LaTeX/Pandoc to render a PDF with;

- Title page generated automatically using variables (multi markdown header or separate YAML)
- Automatic Table of Contents
- Automatic header numbering (h1-h6)
- Automatic header/footer using variables & auto page numbering
- Ability for basic control of image size; 80% width (svg), original pixel resolution (pngs), etc., positioning.
- Ability to have global paragraph numbering in sidebar that the customer can reference while discussions are ongoing, and turn that off for final output to PDF.

I'm going to spend time with the examples from the original link to try to work that all out but any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. I'd be happy to post an example of the final template and write-up of the approach on GitHub.
Google Wave had quite an effect on how I react to 'cool, new tech things'. I was very excited about it and convinced friends to try it out, but then in practice it just didn't 'click'.

Ever since I've been paying a lot more attention to the somewhat indefinable 'feel' of a tool. Trello, for example, felt right despite its relative simplicity (or because of it?), so I felt like it had a bigger chance of working out.

If I had to define it, I guess it would be something in the direction of what someone in an early React presentation described as the 'pit of success'. Using the tool feels like it was optimized for how 'you' use it, and I suppose if everyone feels that way, it's got a chance of succeeding.

tl;dr: 'apart from the clunky UX' is probably a bad sign.
LaTeX in my experience, is worse than markdown for one crucial use case: formatting code. Formatting large blocks of monospaced text (especially monospaced text that includes character sequences that can be interpreted as LaTeX commands) has always been kind of a chore. In markdown, on the other hand, it's as simple as enclosing the text between two sets of triple-backticks (```).
Drones have harder parts and I would expect hardness to play a big role in damage done. But it doesn't even need to be hard, raindrops can also do a fair amount of expensive damage.
So, forgive the cynic in me, but if this is completely free, who pays for it?

We know the model web social networks use.
Call it cactus milk and then it’ll sell.
Thanks! No, I was genuinely curious :)
I'm curios on the 10+ downvotes this received since posting; would someone care to give me a reason. Thx
Yup, having a default Markdown doc project that you clone is a big help. That way, you can include a Makefile, as well as embed LaTeX header info.

For cases where you really need to share your doc with coworkers in an editable form, you can even define an MS Word target...