skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JBL just launched a new (non smart) loudspeaker line at CES in January. Their Arena line was just launched in 2015. A new product line every three years seems like a pretty thriving business.

JBL and Bose aren't really any cheaper than the other vendors I mentioned. And both of them have lots of non-smart speakers for sale. I'm guessing they are both big enough companies that they can do more than one thing at a time: release fancy smart speakers and dumb speakers.

I guess I'm just always a bit dubious when people think the companies with market research, sales data, and customer interviews are getting it all wrong. Sure, that happens sometimes. But it happens so rarely that we're able to remember and cite the exception to the rule.

My guess is that they release a lot more smart speakers because there is just more market growth there. Two years ago you sold some guy an AirPlay speaker and now you're selling the same guy an Alexa-enabled speaker. People normally aren't going to be upgrading their speakers every two years. Dumb speakers just don't advance in quality that fast.
I've tried a lot of applications for notes, and I always end up back in a plaintext editor like Atom. This is for common, work-related notes, etc. For everything else, its all about pen and paper.

For me, one reason I used Evernote for the longest time was so I could load my notes on my Pebble. This worked, but not consistently. Next best thing? Pen and paper.
In which Dean Moriarty writes a paper.
It would add some traffic to/from parking lots but reduce the “find a parking space near my target” traffic.
Matt Levine repeatedly writes about it with a very good explanation: it would be strange to think that companies should always grow - from time to time there are better investment opportunities outside the company and it makes sense that in such circumstances the company returns money to the shareholders so that they can invest it somewhere else. That outflow of money from the company to the market is interpreted as short-termism - because buying shares by the company looks as if the company tried to increase its share prices instead of making investments.
Not sure what API approach they use, but in the area of microkernels:

- GenodeOS is reportedly used in production by some commercial clients, though mostly undisclosed IIRC; it is a higher-level layer (~OS) compatible with numerous microkernels

- Fuchsia OS - in dev; it's a recent development by Google; as much as Google is officially silent about it (I understand they're not sure how the experiment will work out for them), observers assume it's most probably hoped to be used as a successor to Android

- Redox OS - in dev; no concrete news of mainstream usage plans I know of, but has some mindshare among developers

- Minix 3 - used in production; infamously by Intel in their IME
Excellent social support structures?
A stick can handle both inwards and both outwards, but if one is in and one is out then it's no good.
112 works in all of the EU, many other countries, and on all GSM phones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_numbe...
That's good news. I've been coming around to Apple, I admit. They've given me no hassle about having a pseudonymous Apple Store account, funded from Bitcoin via giftcards.

I was blown away when I discovered Shazam. Waiting in line, I heard a song that I vaguely remembered. So I asked this guy if he knew it. He pulled out his iPhone, waited a minute, and then told me. Very cool! Although also a little frightening ;)
You `open()` a directory, and `getdents()` takes that file descriptor as input.

“These are not the interfaces you are interested in. Look at
readdir(3) for the POSIX-conforming C library interface.” — getdents manpage
Wealth and power still get concentrated in families and corporations. I would argue that these are just as valid "agents" as the individual.
Lol, I would wager that shareholder value maximization is far from "optimal"!

In the face of poor human judgement it might be one of the more robust resource allocation schemes available to us. But optimality should never be claimed without proof.
Unless you're claiming that they were refusing to run the most moderate ads, and would only run the more left wing ones, I still fail to see how this could be seen as them trying portray him as more left wing.
The irony of the theory that American companies are all focused on short term profits at the cost of long term profits is that it is refuted by simply looking at graphs of the S&P 500 over the decades.

The theory also requires that the aggregate of investors are fools.
I don't think they can blame a slight increase in violent crime on marijuana.

And the increase in homelessness is something every state in America will need to get used too. It's not due to legalizing marijuana. It's a complex problem that will just explode.

Homelessness is Americas #1 problem, and is just going to get worse.

(Sorry about the know it all attitude. I'm tired of politicians looking for easy targets, especially when it comes to homelessness. I don't like weed. I would have thought DUI's would have skyrocketed, but missed that in the article.)
Unlike what popular opinion suggests, there, there is no legal requirement for directors to maximize shareholder value. In USA, as far as I know, there is not a single law saying that.

Unless something like that written in big, bold letters in company's charter, there is literally nothing like that a director of public company should care about.
> It's proprietary, what I mean by that...

That’s not what that means.

I take your point in it being bound to Emacs however. Pandoc is an excellent tool for conversion though, and other editors are catching up quickly.
Have you tried using it on mobile?
I lived in on-campus student housing that had bathrooms like this (the locks on both sides of both doors version.) My friend was in the bathroom during a commercial break of X-Files and I locked him in there. Ha ha. So he knocked on my neighbour's door and got out that way, but he still needed to get back into my room from the public hallway. I was watching him through the peep hole in my door, and to taunt him I opened the door and quickly closed it again. The two problems with that were that the peep hole made it look like he was further away than he was and the door had a hydraulic arm on it and didn't close as quickly as I expected. Anyway, I put ice on my forehead for the rest of the episode and then went to the hospital for three stitches.

I'd say that the likeliness really depends on whose bathroom it is. ;)
MS OneNote as it features a nice integration with MS Outlook. You can create tasks directly in OneNote and have them automatically show up in Outlook. As my employer uses the enterprise version, I am not worried about the Cloud.
Madrid adopts Tor and GlobaLeaks as whistleblowing tools against corruption
Yes. There's an option to download sections . It shows how much space it will take. Expires in 1 month I think and gives a notification to update it to reflect latest changes.
I would say that you are misrepresenting the thing you are quoting.

It was a side effect yes, but it’s not like a working compiler was released and a users found this.

It was discovered during the design phase of templates by people involved in standardisation process.

And it sounds like leaving it in was even a contentious point that others were against.

So far from an accident, it was a feature that was extensively discussed and intentionally supported.
Or shorter:
You donate 1$. Of that only 0.9$ go to the cause and 0.10$ is used as premium to insure that goals are met.

I don’t see how the insurers have any leverage to make the non-profits meet there goals. That means that they will probably only pick non-profits with a very good reputation. But then the donors could just give 100% to the non-profit.
I have found org mode to be really useful for free form note taking. Granted, the emacs factor may scare away some users, but I think org mode is worth it even if you are using emacs solely because of it.

Org mode has configurable todos(todo, next, scheduled, deadline). You can attach tags to notes, have nested todos with percentage completion tracking, can write code snippets in any language with full syntax completion, log time for different tasks, and this is just all I can think on the top of my head.

And to top it all, it is just plain text. You can store org documents in dropbox and access them just like your other dropbox documents.
... grep?
Yes, and to begin with. Retail sales numbers were surprisingly bad, given the enormous marketing spending.

I feel this is another smartwatch moment
Huh. I see them discussed all of the time; they are your co-workers at just about any tech company. I've worked with a bunch who got green cards. Not much like a caste.
Resophnotes synced to simplenote
Well, many Chinese scholars claim the Chinese are descendants from Homo Erectus.

It's even shown on a BBC documentary, they get disappointed when DNA analysis disproves their skull-shape "evidence".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Human_Journey#2...
I love Sublime with markdown notes.
Why on earth would someone publish a paper like that? This is absolutely rubbish. A guy wanted to show the world how special he is because he writes Lisp, listens to jazz, and practices Aikido, and wrote a whole meaningless paper for that. I thought that papers where examined by some committee before publication, and you need to have serious work done to get your research published. This lookes more like an article on some lifestyle magazine or personal blog, rather than a scientific paper.
Don’t take notes. If you can’t remember it, it’s not worth knowing. If there is something you want to remember but you can’t, simplify it down to the basics until you can explain it back to yourself in such concepts that you would never forget.
A smart popover component with animation support for ReactJS
Fake news and the role of algorithms
I have been using Dropbox Paper for about two years now. I highly recommend it for cloud note taking app, because:

(1) Can easily collaborate and share
(2) Markdown syntax with LaTeX support
(3) Embed images, youtube, PDF and lots of other stuff straight into the note.
(4) Visually clean and elegant

The downsides are:

(a) No offline editing (only limited support on mobile)
(b) Dependent on Dropbox Inc
Yes, it’s not clear which org is responsible for performance management of each bond, e.g. such an org requires both individual talent/expertise and institutional memory. What incentive does the nonprofit have to meet the target goals, if they get paid in all scenarios?

Here is a 2016 white paper on their process for setting up a fund, https://npxadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NPX-White...
Democrats turned hard left, recently. Sure, on banal stuff like identity politics while keeping ties with Goldman Sachs & co.
Based upon what our users have said from developing our own ad blocking product; most people actually aren't against ads, what they are against are:

- Slowness in web page loading, rendering and UI responsiveness due to excessive ad embeds and excessive usage of Javascript

- Losing their privacy by being tracked by ad networks and analytics code; especially across sites and across devices

- Auto-playing videos and animations which are excessive and distract from the actual content

It's likely that if the adtech industry had self-regulated earlier and shown some restraint then adblockers would never have become popular.

For those interested, our adblock product is available for iOS and macOS from https://www.magiclasso.co/
Please take http://write.pub for a spin. It has built in Versioning
Corporate profits continue to increase, while wages continue to languish
These look fine on my 4K display, but too small in my phone.

https://osm.rrze.fau.de/testhd.html

OpenMapTiles.org provide vector tiles using OSM, but they don't include all the data for efficiency.

I think the problem for OSM is choosing which data to include in the vector tiles. The tile could get very large, but the outdoor view benefits from including electricity pylons.
its seems that the same software has been just adopted by the municipal office against fraud and corruption of Madrid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17534287
So I'm still using a pair of JBL L96s that I bought used in the mid 80s. And they still sound great. I've replaced the bass speaker surrounds twice, I admit. And if I live long enough, I'll probably need to rebuild the crossovers. But hey.
Looking at the chart in the article, heroin overdoses have grown by about the same amount as meth.
Show HN: How I Use a Computer
Have you performed a fifty-state survey on this?

How do you square your assertion with Smith v. Van Gorkom, 488 A.2d 858 (Del. 1985) and the subsequent need to enact section 102(b)(7)?
This will probably be boring to many of you, but it could be valuable to many others! Enjoy!
For some reason I find the 'full range' bluetooth speakers (Tronsmart T6) are better for background music while doing stuff than a more immersive 2.1 system, maybe because the sound is from a single point source so less distracting?

Also I like to record favourite radio shows using curl then play them back, makes it easy to repeat tracks or skip overly intrusive ads, though I find the non-targeted advertising quaint these days. :)
Do note that most of the language as specified isn't yet implemented yet. There's no GC nor is there (afaik) any form of memory management beyond malloc/free. Also pattern matching isn't there yet. However, development seems to be reasonably active so I'm sure those are in the pipeline.
It works, but it doesn't sync to mobile devices
And at least 100W clean power per channel :) Plus good filter, mixer, etc software.
Linus wrote (2002):

"But what would you _do_ with them? What would be the advantage as compared to the current situation?"

Here is one answer (2008):

"This paper presents PipesFS, an I/O architecture for Linux 2.6 that increases I/O throughput and adds support for heterogeneous parallel processors by (1) collapsing many I/O interfaces onto one: the Unix pipeline, (2) increasing pipe efficiency and (3) exploiting pipeline modularity to spread computation across all available processors. PipesFS extends the pipeline model to kernel I/O and communicates with applications through a Linux virtual filesystem (VFS), where directory nodes represent operations and pipe nodes export live kernel data. Users can thus interact with kernel I/O through existing calls like mkdir, tools like grep, most languages and even shell scripts. To support performance critical tasks, PipesFS improves pipe throughput through copy, context switch and cache miss avoidance. To integrate heterogeneous processors (e.g., the Cell) it transparently moves operations to the most efficient type of core"

Sounds pretty good to me!

https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/pipesfs-fast-linux-io...
"Science (what we can explain), and Art (what we can't)"

Er, no. This is a horribly limiting definition of both terms.
I'm using OneNote for sketches and handwritten notes (Tablet). For everything else, I use a private DokuWiki instance. I like having a web-based, but private, note-taking solution that supports media files and hyperlinks.
I read this specific file weekly (or when lost) and as I read it I’ll often erase stuff that aren’t too useful anymore (or move to other file). It’s important to keep this file in a size small enough for me to enjoy reading it often, and so I force myself to only keep the winners there.

I read the other 20 or so files monthly or when looking for something specific.
Passwords for Tens of Thousands of Dahua Devices Cached in IoT Search Engine
Nice post - I knew a lot of this but it's good to see others on the same page.
The video embedded in the article pretty much made the point that legal weed brought transients to the state, and they are in turn people that would have committed crimes regardless of what state they are in. Legalizing nationally would negate the issue.
Came here to say the same thing. I used OneNote for a while and then SublimeText + PlainTasks which was actually great but I couldn't find a good mobile client for PlainTasks. And every single time in between I would go back to org-mode so eventually I just stopped searching. It has everything I need.
Probably not exactly what you had in mind, but there's something called a skyhook which might act kind of like an orbital trebuchet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure)
You may find this useful.
https://youtu.be/rNu8XDBSn10
How's stencila supposed to produce reproducible research?

No one's fudging the formulae, they're fudging data. And stencila will digest whatever data you give it, real or fake
If you are talking about share buybacks, I think they serve management with stock options exceptionally well.

Sometimes that incentive is aligned with shareholders and people working at the said company, but not always.

It would be interesting to look at new methods of corporate governance for making these type of decisions, that involves the investors and people working in the company more directly.
Imagine a CPLD that is hardwired.
The company I currently contract with does almost everything in Google apps or other web based services.

That allows me to use Linux (by corporate policy again) for day to day development.

Does web based enterprise apps count as thin client?
I just downloaded the app and opened it, and it showed me white, and told me I had to download my city first (56MB). I doubt you can download whole countries at that rate.

Also, including the App that was a lot of downloading just to look at a single map.
Not so much now though, printer sales have been in decline for some time (and office paper sales).
A Tiny, Pure Python Implementation of Gradient Boosted Trees
I'm reminded of a discussion we had here a few weeks ago, where somebody noted that humanity wouldn't be able to invent, for example, a machine to automatically rack pins at a bowling alley today.

The 2018 solution to that problem would automatically involve computer vision, AI and robotics. The idea that one could construct a giant mechanical device the size of an entire bowling lane that is purpose built to lift, sweep, collect, rack, and place pins with no capacity for customization whatsoever wouldn't even occur to today's generation of engineers.

You can see it happening in some of the comments here.
This question would benefit from answers that reflect what the large public cloud providers, such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft choose for their server farms. I would hazard to guess that they would use AMD as a lever on Intel and vice versa.
This. I take notes of concepts that I don’t clearly understand/agree but have a gut feeling that is interesting, and as I read it repeteadly overtime I often get surprised by how the concept evolves on my mind.
I think assuming malice the problem becomes much harder.
A much easier but pathological proof is simply that Eve burns all messages and therefore Alice and Bob can never communicate a single bit to each other.
VimWiki, old version https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki/releases

mobile: termux + vim
windows: cygwin vim
chromeOS: crouton vim

Tried evil with OrgMode and deft but always come back to VimWiki

TiddlyWiki if only non-mobile
Yeah, way to boil that down to what you want it to say.
I'm not sure how long ago you tried Apple Notes but I've use it all the time now after trying many apps. I don't have any sync problems and it has good support for images, pen input, tables, styles etc.

For anything more technical I use Quiver which supports MarkDown, code with pretty printing, LaTex and diagram markup, but it doesn't have an iPad editor (just reader).
This article is riddled with bad logic and makes no reasonable assertions, in fact some of them fare just false.

We can have a debate about 'shareholder primacy' but this is not it.

"Consider first Friedman’s erroneous belief that shareholders “own” corporations. Although laymen sometimes have difficulty understanding the point, corporations are legal entities that own themselves, just as human entities own themselves. What shareholders own are shares, a type of contact between the shareholder and the legal entity that gives shareholders limited legal rights. In this regard, shareholders stand on equal footing with the corporation’s bondholders, suppliers, and employees, all of whom also enter contracts with the firm that give them limited legal rights."

This is essentially rubbish, debt holders, suppliers and employees all have a relationship but they are not the firm. The firm does not exist independently of shareholders.
Emphasis on appropriately sized as near field monitors might be inadequate for a large room.

However, there is anyway no rigid line between studio monitors and regular speakers. Plenty of hifi firms try to optimize for a true representation of the music. Hence, you might actually overpay because you pay for studio “extras” that you might not need at home (e.g., an extra solid build)
Ask HN: GDPR works – I don't trust LinkedIn
So most sites have popped up a "please sign up to our new GDPR compliant Ts&Cs". Generally I have gone through a thought process of yes or no. A couple of times Inhave walked away from the site, presumably I won't ever go back, but most times the cost of being tracked by a newspaper site seems low enough.

I just returned to LinkedIn for the first time in a while - and they popped up the question.

I realised that they had long ago burnt my trust, and I am now walking through the settings page trying to work out which one is "keep acting like an address book, and don't spam anyone I know"

Just wondering if anyone has found that button?
For those of you who also enjoy the Reddit crowd,
here's a link to r/programming: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ysgc2/apl_at_...
Nice post. I, too, think folks should aspire to never using the mouse. I think the mouse has caused decades of damage to software design.
I used to use OneNote and quite enjoyed it but always felt it was slightly heavy weight.

As I’m fully in the Apple ecosystem I now just use Apple Notes and in all honesty am totally happy with it. It’s fairly simple but does everything I need for free.

I also use Notability on the iPad for when I want to scribble something with the Apple Pencil and am also quite happy with that!
Oops. Need to get my retinas checked.
I've been using Evernote for 6 years, and still continue to use it for the following reasons:

* Everyday I use https://marxi.co to write my technical work journals in Markdown (with nice extensions like flowcharts) that gets rendered into rich text format within Evernote

* I archive and tag each article I read with the Evernote Web Clipper, because URLs always go stale so you want your own copy.

* Evernote works with https://ifttt.com so it integrates seamlessly with my other applications and workflows

* Evernote is also capable of OCR within PDFs if you use the paid pro version.

* This means that all sorts of note taking is in a single place, making it a breeze to quickly search.

I pay for Evernote to get around the device limit, offline usage etc, as the free version is pretty crippled. I know there are definitely cheaper alternatives in terms of price, but I feel it's worth it for all the features available because I value my precious time, which I don't want to consume more of to maintain the same set of features using FOSS alternatives. Good thing is that Evernote allows export to a human readable archive format which I use to ensure that I have a personal copy of the notes to prevent vendor lock-in.

EDIT: Just formatting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695
This is kind of a boring post for most of us since we basically already do this and already use keyboard shortcuts :).
Markdown-oriented app for iOS, Mac & Windows, with WebDAV support for self-hosted or direct device sync, http://notebooksapp.com
Why settle with "just fine"?