skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your lack of interest in football is already what makes the rest of your search fruitless: You are looking for information with little relevance to the article.

The article is about international soccer competitions, not national or international club competitions. So England might have a strong league, with a lot of rich teams with wealthy owners, but when you get to the World Cup, the English team, made up only of English men, underperforms, while Brazil and Germany, which have far weaker club leagues, do far better. It's not just a matter of league quality either: Spain has both recent international success and perennially strong international clubs, despite having a weaker economy than the UK.
Where i work, most of our libraries have a version number with a single component, which we increment with each release. So i recently released a new version of AdminTools, taking it from 37 to 38. Should i go and register SerVer.org so i can tell the world about this incredibly trivial scheme?
I find I retain information better if I hand-write it on paper. I carry a little Leuchtterm1917 notebook around, and I use the bullet journal method which, if you remove all the washi-taping, watercoloring pinterest/livejournal hype, is actually a good system for productivity.

That said, orgzly is org-mode for android and works pretty well. It's FLOSS.
On linux you can use firejail if it's necessary (or a container if it's needed).
I agree with you, however, I think the difficult part is finding an entity capable of enforcing such a patent. I mean, we have things like the EFF or Apache foundation, but what organization could manage such a patent type? There would have to be enough trust in a granting body of such a patent, and it would need to be able to operate unencumbered for the global public good. I think this is an interesting problem worth solving though, if it can be.

Edit: this was an interesting related HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17240429
One question about this model: does the client app need to contact the developer’s licensing server on every app start, or after every app upgrade, or only at the time of in-app purchase?

If there’s only a one-time “phone home” to the license server, this seems like a good revenue model that balances the needs of users and iOS developers.
> The America Invents Act signed on September 16, 2011, switched U.S. right to the patent from the previous "first-to-invent" system to a "first-inventor-to-file" system for patent applications filed on or after March 16, 2013.

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

Thought it could be challenged as unconstitutional:

> Many legal scholars have commented that such a change would require a constitutional amendment. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution gives Congress the power to “promote the Progress of ... useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to ... Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective ... Discoveries.” These scholars argue that this clause specifically prohibits a first-inventor-to-file system because the term "inventor" refers to a person who has created something that has not existed before. (Wikipedia)
I’ve tried a lot of things and I still don’t have the perfect solution, but markdown in sublime text works well enough
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I think we should hire the best and brightest from anywhere in the world, regardless of race, color, religion, sexual preference, etc.

On the other hand, my current employer has a large number of H1Bs and junior OPT recipients. These guys are happy enough to be in the country and are honestly hired in the name of hiring the best and brightest to keep wages low and keep an environment where people don't speak up.

These guys would rather live in the US than go back to India. They'll put up with a ton of shit that a person born in America wouldn't want to deal with.

I've only worked at a few companies in my career in both tech and non tech companies. It was the same everywhere.

Tech companies with shitty conditions for devs use this to pay less than the industry and keep these guys on call 24/7.

Non tech companies hire them through third party contracting companies who basically eat the majority of their hourly rate.

It's a messed up situation IMO.
> there's an underlying assumption here that some person or company has to receive a wage or profit for a software to be maintained or repaired, which is simply not true.

Indeed, one can have unpaid maintainers. But it is more difficult to keep a healthy team running when none of them can focus full-time on the thing because all of them have to support themselves with other jobs.
The firejail is the closest i know.
Pick off the smallest piece that can do something useful then iterate from there.
At the root of much of this, I find "leaders" who call for such things while simultaneously exempting themselves from the same level of scrutiny and accountability.

You're a "leader". You, first.
OneNote. I like how it can support multiple users by just saving data in normal files on a network folder. No special server setup or cloud needed.
Wikipedia has decent coverage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer_chemotherapy

Use of mustard gas in WW1 led to post-war research into its effects. By 1942 the US was conducting human trials of nitrogen mustard for treating lymphoma. Separately, a German air raid on US ships occupying a port in Italy during WW2 resulted in the release of mustard gas that was aboard one of the US ships. Autopsies and tissue samples from that incident also pointed to the potential medical uses.
tl;dr ordinary gradient descent is sensitive to the parametrization of the problem but natural gradient is not. This is an important fact (and one that is fairly well-known within the ML community), but it is not totally clear to me why it should be particularly relevant to neuroscience.
Apple Notes. OneNote before that, but it started being very buggy about synchronizing.

I need something that syncs with my phone.
Plenty of rich nations have decent football teams. Germany for example.
C programmers have the worst time with this; your compilers are so unextensible and opaque. Here's an example of extending the SBCL compiler to support a new instruction: https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/08/16/how-to-define-new-intrins...
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The future of African traders in China, their bussiness and families
> Income, which does not

I believe you actually need to remove the comma there, so it becomes

> Income which does not

English and German have different rules for commas surrounding relative clauses. In English, including the comma changes the meaning of the sentence, and I'm pretty sure the meaning implied by the version of the sentence without this comma is the correct one (equivalent to the intended meaning in German). You'd also need to remove the comma at the end of the clause (before "are").

In any case: what you're describing seems to be analogous to what the US already does with regards to tax treatment of benefits.
On that case, you do just like in C++ and look at the type definition.

Unless you can magically understand it is a struct just by looking at the name, instead of a typedef, using definition or even a macro.
> "You're imagining a world where everything is Node or Python or Java, or at the worst C on top of the well-defined standard library. And I'm telling you that the world is bigger than that."

Why do you keep putting words in my mouth?

> "But what if I don't have a heap? Not even a wrappable heap."

I'm forced to repeat myself over again. At no point does my proposed API force you to rely on a heap. On the contrary, it lets you rely on whatever solution works best for you, in your specific case.

In your custom kernel project, your custom allocator() can return a buffer from a memory pool you handle yourself. Your custom deallocator() will reclaim that memory back into your custom memory pool.

In a different project, say a desktop app for Windows 10, the allocator() will simply call malloc(), and the deallocator() will call free().

This way, your allocator() can do whatever. Your deallocator() can do whatever. How is this restrictive in any way shape or form?
If the car in front of me doesn’t stop until it’s too late (or at all) it doesn’t matter how attentive I am, I probably can’t stop in time either.

Most of the time I can’t see past the car in front of me. It’s too tall, no windows (commercial truck), etc. so the ONLY way I know I’m in danger is how they’re acting.
I think it's human nature. Everyone wants to get out of the small tube that is a plane, and get to their destination. They also want to be the first to get their bags and beat the crowd.

It's true primate behavior, motivated by the release of adrenaline and stress hormones even
Alternatively, investments should have much higher tax rates. If someone invested money then they clearly did not need it, thus they need returns even less.

Really, you can try to justify any tax policy by reframing the question, but the root argument breaks down to having other people pay more so I pay less which is never really justified.
Or to ask the question another way: why would your one line script not?
Well, an equality function could be defined that compares closure values and instructions, as mentioned in the article.

As I understand it, the reason it isn't typically done is conceptual: two functions are mathematically equal if the same inputs produce the same outputs. (The same way you'd define equality for a hashmap by comparing keys and values.) But this is impossible to calculate for arbitrary functions.
I see, I thought they're all the same.
Apple Notes, Sublime Text, Pen & Paper (and all in that order depending on context).

Taking notes digitally without syncing, I'd say stick to your current favored plain text editor. For syncing, there isn't a lot of good stuff out there. You'll be stuck with closed source (like Apple Notes) or using a generic syncing or versioning system like Git, Dropbox, GDrive, S3 etc.
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But there are definitely people who sleep right in the middle of the day, eg siestas in sunny places.
Wow, that increases it by a lot; it's much, much heavier than the mass of the visible universe [0]. Universe is ~1e50 kg, the marketing exec's request was ~1e500kg. Now you can go back in time and tell them just how wrong they are ;)

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?source=frontpage-immediat...
I use standardnotes. I just use the webapp pinned in a safari tab on the Mac, and the iOS app on my phone. Syncs between the two well. It's encrypted, too.

It has minimal features, namely tagging/folders for organization. Makes navigating between my notes fast and easy, and the minimal amount of text formatting allows me to jot thoughts down without being overwhelmed by the desire to format things the right way, which is counterproductive to me.

I found it to be worthwhile enough that I actually pay for it to take advantage of its additional plugins (markdown, dark theme)
The Paracas have nothing to do with the Inca Civilization!
Get on an independent study arrangement if your HS has one. These are extremely easy and will allow you plenty of time for self-paced technical education online. If that's not an option just go back and get your diploma BAMN. Teachers will generally work with you if you talk to them and make some kind of custom arrangement. I personally found HS extremely boring, so I finangled my way out of most of it. I disliked my school's PE uniform and noticed my PE teacher was an alcoholic, so I worked out an arrangement where I would leave campus to buy him his daily cup of coffee and newspaper in lieu. At the end-of-the-day, the only legitimate excuse for not graduating from HS is that you couldn't.
Well it used to be that no action was necessary to prevent someone from patenting something you've already invented and released publicly: The first person to invent it had the right to patent or not patent it, and nobody else.

A few years ago we switched to a "first-to-file" system and this is a direct consequence of that. Someone who didn't invent something can now file a patent. Doing so is a lengthy, expensive process, so the immediate consequence is there is no more "public domain" inventing.

This needs to be reversed.
Google tried to do code hosting before, so they must see some value in it.
My guess:

They believe it gives them some kind of advantage in getting off the plane sooner.

That if they stand up, get their luggage down from the overhead, and wait for the door to open, that they somehow will get off the plane significantly faster.

There may also be some amount of "follow the herd" mentality as well. That seeing one (or a few) stand up, others think those standing individuals are going to "get a jump on them" and they then themselves stand. Ultimately leading to a majority of "stand and wait for door" individuals.

The reality is this is likely partially a "tragedy of the commons" situation. If only a very few stood up, then yes, they would likely get off sooner than the rest that remain seated (because they are "ready to go" the moment the door opens). But if almost everyone stands (and seemingly almost everyone does) then the ensuing jam to get down the aisle likely means everyone ends up waiting longer overall.
For many years I have been taking notes in https://workflowy.com/ . The extreme simplicity of the tool coupled with the way that nesting brings structure to my thoughts is ideal for me.
Apple was granted a HomePod Patent this week covering Acoustic Change Direction
A version number which includes the date it is released is more common for development or “snapshot” releases, so you should only use this versioning scheme if you are fine with people assuming it is in fact that kind of interim or unofficial release.
For GitHub's developer users/community, same as Microsoft.
> I find fourth-wave feminist articles like this to be a complete sham, because they completely stop short of asking a far more constructive question:

> 'Why is this happening?'

> How happy are men (as a class) in South Korea? How beneficial are their 'good' alternatives here?

Who the fuck cares if these men are happy?! This isn't a peer reviewed journal, this is an article highlighting the fact that thousands of South Korean women are so sick and tired of being mistreated by the police and by their fellow human beings that they had to stage a protest just get some attention on the situation.

If you want some deep philosophical understanding of the scenario, then you do it. "Sham"? Get off your pedestal.
I read an article long ago (I searched now but didn't find it) where a family had a rare genetic disorder that prevents sleep and gets worse with time. The afflicted family members essentially go into an early dementia in their fourties or early fifties that's fatal. I don't know how similar that is to Alzheimer's, but it seems to lend weight to the theory that lack of sleep could be a contributing cause of dementia.
The same question can be asked of other small nations which dominate or excel in a particular sport.

Why are the New Zealand All Blacks so dominant in rugby union?

Why is Austria so good at winter sports?

Why does Ireland produce so many top class race horses?

In each case I think it has something to do with a unique cultural and natural environment, which then leads to the best in class supporting structures being built.
The bikeshedding is strong in this one.
I wonder if it can compile with -pedantic-errors That would be awesome.
Hey guys, I'm bootstrapping a pretty ambitious language learning project, and would love to get your feedback on it.

I started working on it almost 4 years ago after moving to Berlin, and discovering how crazy-hard learning a language was, and how ill-suited apps were for getting students to any kind of conversational fluency. So I spent about 2 and a half years going through multiple iterations of the app while incorporating elements of different language learning techniques including audio-book courses, Youtube channels, Assimil books, shadowing, tutoring, and of course other apps.

About a year ago I started working on it full time, and started collaborating with a Youtube teacher to produce content. We ended up really stressing humor and fun as a guiding principle of content creation, and think in the end we've made a pretty unique app because of it.

Anyway, I'd love to get your guy's feedback on it! There is an walkthrough video on the home page if you aren't learning German and don't want to register.
Yeah, we’re working on a way to grab real-time stats during peak load conditions to help correct for outliers lost in averages.

Another key thing is to be aware where heavy write load generators are on SMB, and scope the SMB shares around them to scope failure domains. There are limits, and the vendors (Microsoft or 3rd party NAS) have a hard time finding them too.
The idea of latent risk is interesting, but it doesn't seem like the interesting part of a latent risk is it's riskiness. It's true that smoking a cigarette a day accumulates your risk of dying early, but the important part is the accumulation. We can see that if we replace smoking cigarettes with eating donuts, and replace dying early with suffering from obesity. Then we've got exactly the same phenomenon---a bunch of small decisions that are rational taken singly, but disastrous when put together. But there's nothing risky about it---if you eat 5 donuts a day and leave everything else about your life equal, you will become obese with probability 1.

We don't have a really great theory of this kind of boil-the-frog-by-inches phenomenon yet (unless Jon Elster has buried one somewhere in one of his many books, which wouldn't surprise me... and honestly it wouldn't surprise me if Elster anticipated a lot of Taleb somewhere, he's done so so much work on rationality over time), but latent risk probably isn't it.
Not OP but I too encountered performance issues with WinForms.

When you have long lists, or any large content inside scrolling panels, you’re technically creating an enormous amount of controls, and the performance degrades.

Possible to workaround, e.g. lists have ListView.VirtualMode property + associated events, for long web page-like content you can use an embedded browser, etc., but these workaround tend to be quite tricky to implement and debug. WPF too has a couple of issues with UI virtualization, but by comparison, it’s much simpler in WPF than in WinForms.
Absolutely. The first to file system greatly disadvantages individual and/or poorly funded inventors, because for big corporations, the cost to file is no great hurdle.
Write it down on paper and Google Drive.
(sorry - I little off topic) Just curious, how did you come to your current pricing? (I saw your blog post about sublime)
I’m still not sure why people are complaining.

MS is the biggest contributor on GitHub, and VSCode/TypeScript are exemplary pieces of open source projects.

Maybe we should wait and see before bashing MS and migrating everything on another centralized for-profit platform?
Time to stretch. It's been a long, cramped flight.
There are guidances. The ICO for example.

You might misunderstand law in general. Much of it is expert guidance. For complex areas, like GDPR, you might have 3 lawyers with 5 different ideas. Most law is educated guesswork until it reaches court.
Your post belies one of the most harmful stereotypes that many rich and right-leaning people hold, that the poor would simply "rather have just one coconut today", and it's due only to their own short-sightedness and lack of impulse control that that they are poor.

For many people, it's not a fucking choice. It's eat your last coconut or starve until your next paycheck.

The recent story on HN about performance on the "marshmallow test" being predicated on being born rich is relevant: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...

Your point about "penalizing future consumption in preference to current consumption" makes no sense either. Capital gains tax could be 99% and (modulo inflation) you'd still be ahead by investing, so I don't get your point. God forbid someone who earns their income from investing rather than manual labor should have to pay taxes on it.
We've tested the ability of the market to smooth out instability caused by attempting to artificially fix monetary aggregates. We got high and wildly fluctuating interest rates and record levels of unemployment. And that was a looser policy regime than the one being proposed.

Market makers do not sit around with huge piles of uninvested cash waiting for the day that loan demand to exceed its supply on loanable funds, and consumers with interest-free deposit accounts are not exactly the ideal people to make markets. And of course when loan demand exceeds the amount of cash available to be loaned at that point in time interest rates rise. That's Econ 101.
Watching Germany play Brazil is so beautiful - so fundamentally and obviously different, it's like you can determine the entire national character form just a few minutes of football.
Aah, Peter Bright (the resident MS promoter) and arstechnica.

I still have bad memories of those two from time when Windows 8 was released. Immediately before the release, arstechnica instituted down-voting. Then, upon release there were a flurry of articles (Mostly from Bright) talking about how great Windows 8 was, what a game changer etc. etc. In the comments anyone questioning the validity of that view was downvoted out of site.
There often isn’t a good solution, only a bunch of “bad” solutions. Pointing out that they are bad is useless to everyone. GitHub wanted to be a successful independent company. That failed. What is the next least bad solution before bankruptcy?
One of the cited papers "Measuring the tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities" is also a great insight into this phenomena [0].

> Our main finding is that CNNs exhibit a tendency to latch onto the Fourier image statistics of the training dataset, sometimes exhibiting up to a 28% generalization gap across the various test sets. Moreover, we observe that significantly increasing the depth of a network has a very marginal impact on closing the aforementioned generalization gap. Thus we provide quantitative evidence supporting the hypothesis that deep CNNs tend to learn surface statistical regularities in the dataset rather than higher-level abstract concepts.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11561
This whole article imagines that football is only played by men.

Part of the reason the US does "worse than predicted" is that they're only looking at the Men's game. US interest in the women's side (current World Cup champions) is arguably higher than in the men's.
Thank you for your thourogh explanation. My question was indeed sincere in that I wanted to understand how you perceive the decline. And, your statement makes sense to me. I think HN is becoming much more mainstream these days. It’s growing out of its niche is my feeling. That is probably driving “the decline”. I don’t know whether this is a good or a bad thing. Maybe, however, the development makes a good case for an HN alternative once enough people think the way you do.
This doesn't address what they just said - dropping privileges incrementally. Firejail is just a whole process filter applied at process start.
Because my ass is numb from sitting down so long.
I think the downvotes most of all reflect the fact you didn't bother to read the article.

The discussion is about soccer, not american football.
Sure, why not?

If it spreads the idea that there are several ways to do versioning, and not only semver, and it gives a proper rationale, I'm ok with that. (server.org might be difficult to register though).

CalVer is just a pattern with a name so you can talk around about why Ubuntu uses year.month as version, and some ideas on when it is good to use it or not.