skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Of the developers using macs I know who have bought touchbar-equipped macs, a couple find it OK, most hate it. None are enthused. Only a self-worshipping Designaaah-darling could have entertained for more than a moment the absurd bad dream of replacing a whole keyboard row with a minuscule screen. For this same daft confection to make it to production is the apotheosis of .. well, I don't know. Something very, very broken.
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The truth of that depends on how much you spent on the flooring.
Add an extra space in the front to prevent your shell from adding the (potentially secret) env vars to your plaintext history file.
Okay, fair enough :).

Anyways, I have always had immense difficulty accepting someone sharing an opinion without them explaining why, and it's often led me down paths that in hindsight didn't seem very productive or for that matter justified.

So I think I agree with what you've been saying so far and I'll take this whole thing as a personal lesson to learn to deal with that 'quirk' of mine. Because it probably does upset my calm more than I'm aware of and than it's worth. Thanks for the reminder.
Substitute the phrase economic demand or as Adam Smith termed it, effectual demand, for just "demand".

(I'm not saying this because I agree with economics, necessarily, I'm just trying to clarify the distinction.)

The problem is that economics has a domain-specific set of definitions and terms, many of which have similar but meaningfully different definitions in common usage. Or in other scientific disciplines (or if you prefer: in scientific disciplines). So an economist and a biologist might see a different meaning for "demand" when talking about food needs of an individual, where the biologist is looking at metabolic requirements for calories, macro-, and micro-nutrients, and an economist is interested in market prices and ability to pay.

In the case of the Jevons Paradox, the market price of a service that's been made more efficient effectively falls. This exposes more effectual demand, that is, consumers with a capability to pay that market rate, for the good. Hence the total quantity demanded increases.

This actually isn't a shift in demand, as an economist would see it, but a shift in the supply curve (or supply function). The demand function itself, what economists call "demand", remains unchanged, but the quantity demanded increases. Again, as a result in the supply shift.

Confusing at first, yes. But this part of economics, usually, actually makes sense.
I used https://subtitlesapp.com/ for a while, but I think they started charging for it, so I stopped using any subtitles program.

Thanks for giving me an alternative :)
I have faint feeling that (atleast in Scandinavia) - if you find a suitable employer, they will help visa legalities if you are a match for them.
Most readers I have experimented with in the US will allow a swipe after 3 unsuccesful chip reads (inserting card in opposite direction w/ chip exposed).
If you're a news publisher, sure it looks like RSS is dead, because all you see is its use for news publishing, and it seems unfit for purpose.

I subscribe to hundreds of feeds, and none of them are news publishers. Still works for me.
I learned to cook from "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" by Julia Child et al. I still think it's the best instructive cook book I've ever seen (with the exception of some bread books, of which there are numerous incredible examples).
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I live in Australia and I haven't even signed my signed my credit card. Technically I'm supposed to, but I have never had to sign for a transaction in the past decade that I've been using cards.
Yes, my point, really anyone who looks at urls if this became prevalent couldn't trust their intuition - maybe trusting intuition isn't a good thing anyway. For some reason though I got minus 4 points for what seemed like a reasonably clear and uncontroversial observation.
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Does this sync subs to the audio?
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that sounds interesting but in what scenario would you really use it?
That would be good as the driver would start to learn your pattern and be ready for your ride (if you're a regular).
No Check This: <a href="http://allin1-net.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-ending-of-swedish... In 1 RSS</a>
Writing every day

Coding rather than writing for me, but this really helps. Ensuring I do something every day on a (non-work) code project helps me feel that I'm always moving forwards.
FYI: Find another undead feed parser library (in ruby) @ https://github.com/feedparser Build the next facebook! The future of online news is... news feeds. See my humble talk notes from a tech meetup last year - https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/webfeeds2.md
The UK was relatively late to the party, some large retailers here campaigned against it as they were afraid that going online for authorisations would increase the time it took to serve people. I believe that the offline mode was enough to appease them, even now you occasionally run up against offline-only EMV terminals.
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The Win95 styling of the toolbar and some other oldie-looks are likely due to a missing application manifest, not because Win32 doesn't support the newer visual styles.
"I tried to read it [On Food and Cooking] straight through, and stopped dejectedly in the middle of a history of dairy—I think around where McGee describes the first time humans turned water-buffalo milk into mozzarella."

It's holding my teenage son's interest. McGee wrote a good textbook, not a novel. You have to want to understand the topic and be willing to put in some work, to stick with it.
Many parsing algorithms were designed with the idea that the input cannot stored in memory as a whole and that you need the parse the file from start to end. However, nowadays, memory is usually not a problem, especially not for parsing files that are editted by humans. Who is going to use a gigebyte sized source file? When you store the source in memory this allows for parsing algorithms that can go backwards. I implemented a recursive decent algorithm with back-tracking which stores all parsed non-terminals at the location where they were first parsed. This results in a simple and relatively fast parser. I used it to implement an interpretting parser, which takes a grammar and input file and parses the input file according to the grammar, returning an abstract parse tree. Actually the parse takes an abstract parse tree of the grammar to parse the input. The grammar is parsed by the interpretting parser itself using a hard coded abstract parse tree of the grammar of the grammar. See https://github.com/FransFaase/IParse
Why does an extremely dangerous tool, such as a database cleaning tool/library, rely on an environment variable to define the target?
Analytics are a hell of a drug. Analytics gave us A/B tested clickbait and listicles. I appreciate it's hard to go cold turkey, but maybe it's even harder to have an analytics system and use it responsibly?
I think it also depends on what buttons they press. I believe if they select credit card it forces it to be a signature.
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Why would you let the grammar dictate the architecture of your compiler?

Left recursion in things like expressions is completely trivial to eliminate. If you want to e.g. embed a DSL in a language, something that's really easy to do with recursive descent, it's worth spending 30 seconds or so to remove left recursion from your expression rules. Etc.

> You first write/immagine the grammar that you want to write, whatever is most intuitive for you.

IMO this is the road to hard to parse languages; if you genuinely advocate this path, you'll end up needing a GLR parser before you know it. I think it's much better to ensure your grammar is parseable with LL(1); not only is the tooling simpler, but the language will be less ambiguous for human users too. Follow the example of Pascal, not C++. This is what I'd advocate even for people doing hand-written recursive descent on a new language: validate your grammar with an LL(k) tool even if you don't use the generated parser.

(You've ended up sounding a bit like Ira Baxter, who's often seen around the net selling his DMS toolkit. He has a strong self-interest in people writing complicated grammars, so that he can sell them his services...)
What's the ideal way to do so? Most of the production systems I've seen distinguish between prod and staging with only this.
Pardon the delay, but I've been trying to think of a good brief description. I'm not sure I've got one that's particularly clear.

"Common weal", that is, the common wealth or common good, a/k/a social benefit, is probably the best general description. The notion being that there are positive externalities not addressed by the market (or there are offsetting negative externalities not imposed on the producer).

In either case, a useful functioning requires some entity with the interest, capacity, and power, to act in the public interest. The notion is an old one. It comprises Book V of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations ("The Expenses of the Sovereign"), or in contemporary economics, the area of public sector economics (or welfare economics).

And is the domain of government, as my initial response indicated.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/commonweal

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_economics
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> This release of FreeCAD is dedicated to our friend Roland Frank[0] who left us in 2017. He was an active and well-appreciated member of the FreeCAD forum, and his video tutorials on the Learn FreeCAD and BPLFRE Youtube channels helped many people get started with FreeCAD.

R.I.P.

[0] https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25673
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You're not alone, this isn't a CMS anymore than Django is, and Django could fall under that role if it's considered a "Developer CMS" but those are just Web Frameworks. This is more accurately a Web Framework. IMHO a CMS is something an end-user can setup, a Web Framework is a software library for developers that gives you some batteries (not always all, but sometimes: sure!) see CppCMS[0] as an example of a project that went the route of claiming the 'CMS' title the idea was similar to this projects I suppose "Write your own CMS"[1] but it's much more accurate to call it a Web Framework.

[0]: http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main

[1]: http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/faq#If.CppCMS.is.not.a.CMS.....
>> RSS also offers very few opportunities for branding content effectively.

> This is a feature, not a bug.

I know where you're coming from, but .. I'm one of the rare people who, for a while, read a significant number of blogs without RSS because I actually liked having the different distinctive visual styles to remind me who I was reading. It's a pity we can't have a little bit of styling without going bananas.
NB: I've finally addressed a request for clarification from a couple of weeks back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687856
What's the new legislation to be wary of? For the benefit of those using Dutch hosting services...
Unfortunately, not at the moment. It would be awesome If I could get that nailed. But that feels like it's a whole project of its own.

I'm exploring the idea though and doing some research on how this can be done. So it could be a feature for the future. :-)
Yep, in 2013 Google Reader was axed. Feedly alone went up 500k users in 48 hours, 3 million within a few weeks and 12 million by the end of the year. Given that this definitely represents active consumers and probably only represents a proportion of the total number of consumers, the numbers aren't trivial. They aren't facebook level (or even twitter level) but there's enough to say that RSS isn't dead.
I have security clearance. This required an interview.

“What forums do you regularly participate in?”

After a raised eyebrow, I had to explain in some detail the meaning of the word ‘hacker’...
It's actually somewhat infantilizing to tip someone, unless they need it to be paid. You would never give a lawyer, consultant or someone else "respected" in society "2 dollars to buy something nice".

Tipping is a very in the face sign of inequality and really needs to die (as soon as the inequality is gone of course).
It would be nice if the questions were factual (like Google's guides) but that's too many questions. For a simple one input perhaps rating out of 110% would be clearer.

Was your job/ride successful? 0-110% ? (and probably use intervals of 10).

Then most people for the average ride where it works will give 100% as the job was done. If the driver went above and beyond, you can give them 110% If you pick 110% an extra option asks, "What did the driver do that was above and beyond?" Which stresses that 110% is for exceptional service, and also collects what makes it exceptional.

For rides where the driver didn't do the job properly, like took a wrong turn, was late, etc. You can mark it accordingly, 90%, 80% etc
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Good point. If high schools were to prepare all young adults equally well in the fundamentals (reading, writing, math), it is conceivable that they would be able to continue their education on their own.

There is a really nice essay titled "The aims of education" by the mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, which talks about what high school education could be. Summary: https://minireference.com/blog/the-aims-of-education-accordi... Original http://www.anthonyflood.com/whiteheadeducation.htm
I'm glad you find this useful!
Regarding Infinality: note that it's long deprecated and unmaintained, and it will break freetype2 stuff.

See <https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5...
Has anyone estimated whether SaaS in general reduce or improve the uptime in aggregate over all users ?!

The obvious arguments is that a specialized SaaS is more reliable, but the rare outages are horrific...
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I think there is a related fallacy which is to see a current level of demand / characteristics of a market as representing a "natural" and fixed state, rather than a function of constraints such as the cost of resources. E.g. criticism of the viability of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket hinged on weak demand for putting large payloads into space. But this ignores the possibility that payload sizes are constrained because it's too expensive to launch them, and that having a cheaper option will create the market for it. I'd argue that the core of successful entrepreneurship is being able to see through this fallacy, and being able to identify gaps in the market that are the result of hidden, unmet demand, either in terms of price or functionality.
Ah, I had no idea it was already implemented in those browsers!

It appeared to be disabled by default in my Firefox install - for anyone else, I followed these instructions to enable it:

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/02/configure-dns-over-https-i...
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But a fact is that lots of incompetent site makers do not add RSS feeds to the websites they build.
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Some feeds include javascript and XML readers fail on them. And then there's the Wix or Squarespace or whatnot websites, and they are a total failure (especially because they can't do this RSS thing whereas even Tumblr does it easily).
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I really believe we should somehow certificate programmers and some certain specialisations. That means ensuring that a "web developer" does know about the base specifications on which the web is built, and the most common best practices. If a web dev fails at making an RSS feed, that's a big problem.

I bet most of those older sites ended up getting RSS feeds by default as part of whatever Content Management System they had. And since it wasn't a feature actually requested at the time of deployment, the users of the CMS didn't miss it during a redesign. And since no one has been asking for it, and well-known tools like Google Reader are defunct, services like SquareSpace and Wix don't have it, and their customers are not web-savvy, and so aren't asking for it.

Hey, I wish just as much that more people were more competent at whatever it is they're doing, but saying that leaving out edge features that weren't requested is somehow the sign of a bad programmer or a bad engineer is plain wrong. Good engineers work to solve the problem posed, not their own fantasy work; they may try to convince that something is needed or a nice to have, or may refuse to work on a job they don't think is taking the right things into account. In the case of the former, stats most likely indicate that more traffic comes from AMP or twitter than it does from RSS feeds. And in the case of the latter it just means the customer gets someone else to do it.

RSS wasn't a specification on which the web was built. It's a useful addition, but the fact that the WWW existed before it, and continues to exist after RSS's heyday, means it's not considered critical.
My user experience with Kodi's plugins was not good. It kept finding subtitles for the wrong episode, or even worse the wrong show. And once I found a decent one I had to manually time sync them almost every time.

The thing is I didn't have a lot of trouble manually finding the right subtitles in any popular website, it would be different (i.e. not Kodi's fault) if the data was wrong or difficult to find on the first place.

I'll give this a try and see if it performs better.
> A DSLR has always got a mirror to move at the minimum.

I know very little about cameras, so this might be a question with an obvious answer, but is there a reason why a DSLR camera could not operate in a "mirrorless" mode as well? i.e. retract the mirror (thereby disabling the optical viewfinder) and use the sensor to show a digital viewfinder?
Does anyone have a good RSS feed reader for Firefox? I don't need to be able to read the actual feed in the reader, I just want a list that'll notify me when a blog I've subscribed to has a new post.

"Feeder"[1] looks like exactly what I want, but the requested permissions list is insane. Are there any that don't request to "Access [my] data on all websites"? I've tried a bunch and they all seem to - I guess so they can detect RSS links in web pages?

I know Firefox has the built-in Live Bookmarks thing, but it doesn't give a notification when there's a new post to read.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feeder
"If someone steals my laptop while I'm logged in, they can read my e-mail, take my money, and impersonate me to my friends... but at least they can't install drivers without my permission" https://xkcd.com/1200/
That's an interesting idea. Do you leave the eggs to cool prior to breaking or are the cool enough to be handled after 20s?
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Generalizations are always bad.
Both the card and the terminal are able to make a decision about whether this transaction must be "online", a live session. If either insists on being "online" and that's not possible the transaction fails.

If the card is reported stolen, all such online transactions are (should be) blocked, and the risk is up to both the issuer (you could ship cards that insist on all transactions needing to be online, and some cards intended for people who struggle to manage their money do that) and the merchant (you can insist on going online for every transaction).

However, forcing every transaction online is super annoying. Train sat in a tunnel? No card purchased G&T for you until it gets out again. Internet down at the burger shack? No burger until their Internet is back up. Merchants would usually rather risk some fraud for smaller purchases, than lose sales when there's a problem.

"Weird money" causes the same issues, it's rare in the US but some places deliberately issue loads of different money that's all theoretically worth the same but you rarely see some types. In England for example a Scottish or Northern Irish bank note, issued with the name of some company you've never heard of, is still "worth" the same as familiar English notes. Except if you live closer to France than Scotland you've probably never seen one before. Maybe it's fake. Should you, as a shopkeeper, risk taking this weird-looking money? Again, risk of fraud versus risk of a lost sale.
Access to top-tier education and credentials simply needs to be a competitive effort open to every person on the planet, not held hostage and available via a selection process which has socioeconomic biases.
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For the most part you can apply some simple rules to transform the BNF notation from being left recursive to being right recursive. It's most useful when you have a right recursive language but are using yacc or bison for the parser.
Unfortunately for the fart detector (but fortunately for us!), human farts average around 100ml [1], whereas an adult male breath averages about 500ml [2]. That could still be sorted out for your title, but we also have to consider that a fart is only about 7% methane [3]. This suggests the one mile sensitivity is going to be at around 18 simultaneous average farts, or 5 at the record-breaking end of the scale -- conditions which might indeed justify further surveying the region at altitude.

If we're willing to get closer than a mile (questionable in the above scenario), we can apply an inverse law for gas diffusion [4] (I was surprised it wasn't inverse square!) and find that the apparatus can can detect a single average fart at a distance of around 30 feet -- easily covering most elementary school classrooms and automating away the "whom smelt it dealt it" dilemma.

[1] https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/explainer-the-chemistry-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_volume
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence
[4]
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/290059/inverse-s...
Yeah, but still it's a pretty easy problem compared to de-novo sequencing, since you have a good reference to map to.
What do you think about this https://github.com/go-playground/universal-translator ? I am planning to use this as the core component to provide i18n for sites hosted on daptin cms.
> Any one of these recipes offers a fix under specific conditions, but after cooking through enough of them, those isolated recommendations can congeal into a realization

> The downside of learning to cook primarily through recipes, then, is that these small eurekas—which, once hit upon, are instantly applicable to nearly any other dish one prepares—are most often arrived at via triangulation. It’s like trying to learn a language only by copying down others’ sentences, instead of learning the grammar and vocabulary needed to put to paper lines of one’s own.

Is that necessarily bad?

I can totally buy individual differences in how people take to new information, but I've always had best results with applied learning, and later reading or realizing the rules. It's how we all learned to speak, and it's how I later learned this language.

I'm sure that it's most efficient for a machine to learn the game of football by just parsing all the rules, but for a human I imagine it's much harder to retain those rules without having played some touch football in the park or watched games as a kid to build a model on which to apply those rules.