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This is ArXiV, a place where you can post preprints. Little if any moderation is done here, even less if you post something outside of the topic of math or physics. Presence of a paper on here does not mean it has passed peer review or been published in a reputable journal.
Yep hosting your own ads is the way to go. This way you are actually in control of your own content instead of relying on Google.
> companies' profits, their sole motivators

Their primary motivators. You cannot profit in exchange for nothing. It is always profit/loss in exchange for a particular business.
149 comments and no mention of http://www.ulyssesapp.com/ yet. Although the recent change to a subscription pricing model was off-putting at first, it is reassuring in some ways because it underlines the developer's longterm commitment.

That said, I've recently been using Notion for EVERYTHING at work, and now considering if I could do likewise for my personal notes/essays.

PS. It's funny how the intense competition between 'distraction-free' writing tools has almost become distracting in its own right.
This is probably naive but if we already know Alice and Bob will win by both retreating, can't we simply say that if there is no acknowledgement by a pre agreed timeout, it means we both retreat?
This worked for me - sure it took three years until I met the right person; but you need to put the hours into meeting people.
The firm certainly does exist independently, e.g. see Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_v_A_Salomon_%26_Co_L...
That only applies immediately before insolvency or immediately after acquistion. Primary motive does not mean no action of a corporation is allowed to lower its short term profit.
I'm sure someone is working on one, saying:

"There are too many competing social messaging systems - we need one, central system that brings it all together in one place."

https://xkcd.com/927/
As far as Jane Street develops or commissions software, it is fintech software. Who cares if it isn't their end product?
Central locking: if you're in the centre of the car yu can lock all the doors.
Yep, this is generalized as the "standard litany" for bugs reports/request for assistance:

https://jdebp.eu/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html

and if you don't provide that you risk to slip on a chocolate covered banana (or XY problem):

https://jdebp.eu/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.h...
I used recent speakers as simple Bluetooth speakers for a few years, and recently exhumed my old loudspeakers, those classic wooden box pairs with cables and rotative potentiometers. There's no photo: the sound is (was) much better.

Do you know the story with Spanish tomatoes? It's the same, they made them more convenient, easier to carry around and sell, better calibrated, more stable, etc. but suddenly some people tried the old tomato type and noticed that the only thing we should care about when buying them is... taste. Same with speakers: smart or Bluetooth it whatever is just a way to sell us speakers whose sound is fake (because it is cheaper to process the bass with a chip)
I've found the Search function in Gmail to be lackluster. Not only does it require an Internet connection, it's not as fast as I'd expect and oftentimes wouldn't surface information I knew was still there.
Here it is the compiled list with all apps mentioned on this thread https://www.saashub.com/reviews/post-news-ycombinator-2018-0...
You are taking a very narrow look at these software.
Show HN: A Gin middleware for reporting to statsd deamon
Previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993330
The crux lies in the word «pre agreed» since this involves communication.
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Dividend and stock buy backs are mostly the same thing - the company returning money to the market, but yeah in the specific case of management stock options they might have different effects.

As for involving workers in the company governance - this is common in Europe, I know that at least in Germany and Norway at some size of the enterprise the workers elect representatives for the board.
They are not comparable. Typora can handle images, render graphs, render markdown and show outlines and is cross platform. It also let's you edit markdown in a WYSIWYG-format.

Notepad can't do any of that.

Do you also complain about the size of blue-ray movies, when .txt documents are so much smaller?
That is possible, but more impractical. In Evernote, I just click Win-Shift-F within any application, and then directly type the search keyword, and then get the list of notes, which I can preview in another window. It's just not the same experience.
I’ve given up on absolutely everything; As of now, I just keep .txt files in my Dropbox, accessed via any app on the market.
In that case every bank, insurance company, etc in the world is ”fintech” and the term is meaningless
> written in big, bold letters in company's charter

Banks and insurance companies have that.
Typora also handles copy-pasting of images really well. It essentially copies the files to an assets folder next to your md document. If you paste image data from the clipboard it will create the file too.

This is extremely handy!
It's not proprietary, it's still just plain text, and can be edited with anything. Emacs adds a lot of nice features on top of it to manipulate that text, but it's still just text.

See http://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/.
The speedball (stimulant+depressant) has long been popular. In the mainstream, that would be coffee plus alcohol, and often tobacco. For the hard-core, that would be cocaine or methamphetamine, plus morphine, heroin or eucadol. But without medical supervision, the risk of overdose is too high. Because opiates tend to wear off faster than stimulants, and titration is nontrivial.
Thanks for your words.

Because my other classmates all found their jobs easily. When I apply, just fail and fail. I felt burn myself out mentally.

After reading your comment, just like a lot of Adrenaline was injected into my body. I will push.Wish you the best.
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Notepad for Android – A simple, bare-bones, no-frills note taking app.

Lots of features. No ads. Apache Licensed.

https://github.com/farmerbb/Notepad
I have never seen this situation at a swimming pool, and I have no idea why it would be necessary at all? Just have a cubicle with a shower curtain, or an ordinary change room.
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They are a bit fancy! The JBL LSR305s (and the JBL 305P MkII that I have) aren't just desktop speakers, but 5" nearfield studio monitors. Their nearest competitors are the Yamaha HS5 & KRK Rokit 5 G3, which are both common in recording studios. They're all designed to integrate and work with professional studio equipment, which smart speakers certainly aren't.

Point is, for the price of just one HomePod, you can get a pair of studio quality speakers instead. And for the price of two/stereo HomePods, you could upgrade to a pair of Genelecs or Dynaudios or Adam monitors.

(I have a couple of Google Home devices, but I've barely used them since I got my JBL 305s. I still use the Google Home sometimes for casting podcasts through the house, but not for music. I use my Pebble smartwatch for timers instead.)
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Laziness is quite dangerous given existence of side effects in Clojure - this would the most common error for new developers. I missed LOOP even it has a bad reputation - nevertheless it covers almost all useful cases in practice. We were misusing AOT compilation, the behavior of that code was surprising sometimes.

But the main failure in my opinion was absence of good development patterns which leverage strengths of the language and mitigate weaknesses. Dynamic languages such as lisp absolutely need REPL as primary development mode, conventions has to be strictly enforced and consistency is much more important than in languages with rich static typing. Clojure can be and is successful in many projects. But if your team is trying write Java with parenthesis everything is hard.
This often got me into trouble on IRC. Sure there might be a more elegant way to do it, but I'm learning here!

Curiously I also regularly got into trouble for what I trying to do, not just the how.
Though this article sounds plausible, I became more skeptical when I noticed he put the word "facility" in scare quotes.
Index cards.
Sounds like a cool idea. I run https://hackclub.com and can tell you first hand how much of a nightmare nonprofit fundraising is for early nonprofits. Talk about an inefficient market.

I wonder how they're dealing with due diligence. Organizations lying about their numbers is rampant, especially in early stage. I once met with an administrator of one of the larger prison workforce development programs in SoCal and they told me that when they measured and reported program participants, they actually only measured the number of inmates that entered their program. They didn't measure completion rate, let alone long term outcomes.

What does "inmate hours worked" mean? How do you prevent a race to the bottom where the org optimizes for butts in seats instead of actual outcomes?
For the last few years most of the work has been happing in the LibreOffice fork. If OO crashes on you, try LO.

https://lwn.net/Articles/699755/
In short, after 5years you will see devices with 8gb ram and 128gb storage at much lower price which can be offered by everyone. We are no longer living in the era of floppy disks where we need to optimise on RAM and storage space. We are moving towards the world where multiple tasks to be done efficiently using all the memory you can use. We are no longer designing for single efficient task.
I assure you that I don't need to read about "socialism" anywhere, grew up in it. And it was even worst than East Germany. What people need to understand is that the state had the hammer and the nail, you had no recourse. They had a thousand options to force you to do whatever they wanted to; including to rat on your family members. If you did something "subversive" your entire extended family suffered, and you were blamed by them too.
It's not a matter of legality, it's a matter of pragmatism.

Shareholders own and run the company. A majority of shareholders can effectively do anything they want with it, it's theirs.

That a corporation may possibly exist independently is a corner case.

It doesn't matter, the logic of the article is twisted.

It implies that profits can be used by the board of directors for whatever reason, obviously. But that board is elected by shareholders to carry out their bidding, and they are a proxy of shareholders, thereby abnegating the logic of the argument.

"The business judgment rule ensures that, contrary to popular belief, the managers of public companies have no enforceable legal duty to maximize shareholder value"

My god man, the board will act in the best interest of the shareholders or ultimately they'll get the boot. If the shareholders are dispersed and can't coordinate themselves, they'll have less power and see more go to the next entity with power, probably the executives.
can i use two of these at the same time?
No serious cash to be earned in that market? If you optimized software for low resources, I'm sure most websites would throw away js ads...
Zim is great. It has grown to be a part of my working process.

My TODO lists with tickboxes are in Zim. (use [] to make a box). This way I can check what tasks are left and which are done. When the list of "done"-tasks grows, I move those to an own page to declutter and have a searchable history.

When I read an interesting paper or book, I add summaries to be reviewed later. When I develop, I build "case files" of things I am doing (e.g. set of commands, replies from a device, mini-HOWTOs, observations). Often these can be communicated to other people after a little polish.

One problem is that some notes tend to become spread out and somewhat chaotic, especially when having to multitask under time pressure. Many notes taken have little if any value after some weeks or months so I don't pay much attention to strict discipline there. Zim is essentially a somewhat messy lab journal intended for myself.
Not to say that the legal logic of that case was defeated numerous times
Your life would have been saved in USA too---followed by a massive and fatal heart attack the second you the preliminary $875,214 bill :). Doctors at the hospital bill you extra a lot of times so the bill just keep growing.

You pay for the medicine, for the nurse administering it, for the syringe, for her breaking the ampule, for mixing it, for disposing the syringe and for the gloves the nurse used. I'm exaggerating somewhat, but they do try to find a lot of little things to pad the bill. So what in another country would have cost $2, in a USA hospital might cost well over $1000.
I would gladly work on large scale Haskell project and make a fair comparison! I managed to write my code in Java like Haskell (using FunctionalJava) and it was very successful, so there is a big potential for Haskell in more traditional shops.
There are many reasons for this, mostly because we keep getting more hardware that can handle more not many optimize for lower spec hardware which I find sad. I want to be able to run much more apps with better hardware not the same amount of apps I could run 10 years ago (very limited number). With 16GB on my workstation at work I have to worry about opening up too much because as you say software takes up 512MB of RAM. I usually close all apps on my phone.

The only thing I saw Android doing was 'Android Lite' which Nokia plans on supporting only Android Lite. I too wonder where Google is going with Android, but I fear as many have suggested they only care about using it as a means to track people and lock them into their own services... Sadly Android could be so much more and they clearly have the resources to make it so and yet... Nothing.

I would love to see Microsoft take Android OS fork it and make something that isn't a Memory hog and conserves on energy someday.
The concept of profit maximization rules most of the corporate sector.
... and I was feeling smart because I implemented compile time float calculations...
Within my family and circle of friends, many of us are abandoning Apple iPhones due to their forced obsolescence and upgrading to Android phones. In most cases we end up saving quite a lot of money as well. So if your target demographic isn't the cool kids and people who will pay over $1000 for the latest iPhone, then you might want to consider Android first business model.

Being a one person software team having a good share of only one market is going to be more profitable than a tiny share of two markets with the attendant costs and effort of supporting two environments.

@jerrac's comments are worth taking heed of.
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I used OSM instead of Google Maps for a tracking project because I didn't have 11000USD to pay them upfront for the licence.
as long as the user controls what its cpu execute, they have an edge :) It's a losing race for publishers on desktop.
> organizations/people that I work with would not tolerate

Almost all organizations are highly dysfunctional...and in my experience particularly the ones that are intolerant of passionate discussion.
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Reading this, I was reminded of Hardy's Mathematician's Apology. He mentions several of these points.
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why do you think haskell is the ultimate static language? surely it has tough competitors in f#, sml, and idris, all of which have big features haskell doesn’t have.
For such generic statement of the problem, it's certainly unsolvable.
But with encryption, timeouts and defaults it can be - as seen by many the distributed systems on the Internet
It's a fair-sized city (population of 200000) in the French-speaking part of Belgium near the Dutch-speaking part, with historical ties to the German language. Of course it is known in all three languages. And as with all cities of some importance on OpenStreetMap, its entry includes the names it is known by in a variety of languages. These aren't shown by default, but they can be used to search for in ones native language.

> because it looks very ugly when you only drive through it on the highway

A lot of places look ugly if you stay on the highway.

Your attitude pegs you as a fellow Dutchman holding the classic but outdated, tiresome, and condescending view of that city that you only pass it on your way to France for the holidays. But do stop there some time, the past decade has been kind to it (the modern train station is beautiful). Keep in mind that this is a large city in an area dominated by the coal industry for the better part of the twentieth century.
A similar distinction was made by Yegge before [1], which he (unfortunately) labeled as "liberal" and "conservative". It was quite controversial [2].

Another similar idea is Fowler's software development attitude [3]. He uses the terms "enabling" and "directing" instead.

[1] https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365255

[3] https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/SoftwareDevelopmentAttitu...
That could always happen regardless of the locking mechanism.
I like Quiver too, but hate the fact that‘s only on Mac. If your open sourcing your project, i would love to help. Just let us know.
By the time Google does it, prices memory /chip will drop drastically. But then Android will develop to use the new resources fully
The closest thing I can think of is the 'slingatron'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
I don’t think this is true.

It may be true if you asked software people to build it.

Ask some mechanical engineers.
I think you'll find that they are. Have you seen the Nokia 1 Android Go edition? It's a phone running an Android OS specifically targeted at low memory devices, along with low memory versions of it's apps suite (Google Go, YouTube Go, etc.). When it comes to programming languages, memory usage is usually more dictated by features (e.g. graphics, video) than by the programming language
The language itself is not the bottleneck, it's the shitty software everyone writes. Hardware is like an arms-race where it only takes a few months for the shiny new generation phones are as fast as the previous gen, because app developers rapidly can't justify the cost of keeping an app speedy on old hardware. This is why your phone feels slow, not because of the hardware or language.
The few cases I've seen posted seem to be exactly about someone deliberately inserting bad code and MOST work is done by people who ARE in fact being paid for this mediocre work AND know better.

Example https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=mty1mza

Glass door estimates Kay is presumably paid 80-160k for this work and people have somewhat a right to be angry if code like this is pushed.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into headspin. I'm not into mobile performance or testing so not sure how I would automate and log the performance on different devices. Honestly I'm not sure what tools I would use on the device to run the tests.
Have today's engineers somehow stopped believing that the simpler thing is the most useful? Or is it that writing some code to glue together off-the-shelf parts is cheaper and easier than designing and manufacturing a giant machine?
As I’m exclusively using iOS and macOS I simply use Apple Notes.app. It syncs and you can even collaborate with other apple notes users.
EDIT: not to forget the Apple Pencil support it brings.
Don't mistake it for golang (unrelated name), but there's a suite of Go Google apps https://www.androidauthority.com/android-go-apps-820153/

They're aimed for lower spec phones with slightly reduced functionality, but still official / good quality.
Yes, I have been fooled by the "oh it's just plain text" notion also and have regretted it. Did you try to actually open an org-mode file with anything else than Emacs? Did you try get any meaningful information out of it on a mobile phone or with an another editor? I did...
I think it should be the Python App: https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks

I remember someone was discussing it here last week but I cannot find the post.
> MsgSend is a more useful primitive than a file

Are they symmetrical philosophies? As a layman, this appears to mirror the financial debate between everything being stocks (“the quantum of an economy is a dollar of assets!”) and everything being flows (“the quantum is a transaction!”), or physics’ particle-versus-wave formulations.
"If all you have is a hammer..."

You're talking to software engineers here. Equating 'humanity' to us on Hacker News forgets about all of the mechanical engineers who would do a great job of racking those pins.
We can’t really use google maps in the Danish public sector where I work, because they track your data. So we use osm and I think you’re daily spot on.

I work in a small municipality so we don’t really have the resources to do the integration ourselves. What we did was find a company which specializes in making google maps like APIs/integration to osm as well as having a support line that can correct osm mistakes for us.

This is not free, like doing the integration ourselves would be. I can’t give you the exact price, but it is a lot cheaper than google maps and it’s worked great for us for several years now.

We did by a package with little osm support because we can update osm ourselves, but calculating routes is something we could never do within our budget.

If your country doesn’t have any companies offering these types of osm services, then I bet you could make a lot of money by building it though.
I'm not so sure.

Electronics works at different economies of scale than websites/web applications/saas, where usually (at least at the beginning) you will probably churn out bloated applications to "go fast and be lean" and say who cares since you can just relatively easily bring in another 64GB VM.

If you need to produce 10 million units spending 0.1$ less on each unit is a godsend, you instantly have 1 million dollars more for R&D (and/or possibly profits).
In that sense markdown is also proprietary, since you need some editor making things easy for you to manipulate and navigate the text document(that's all emacs does; even github renders org docs).
Any symbolic communication required pre-agreement as well(that is, Alice sending her intent in Chinese won't matter if Bob only speaks Swahili)
But that’s a big part of designing anything: Trying to find a solution’s faults to then be able to implement a better one or at least be aware of the faults and work around them. I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Thanks. Of course. I see what you meant now.
https://www.globaleaks.org/

> GlobaLeaks is an open-source, free software intended to enable secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiatives.

The other main option is https://securedrop.org/

Both rely on Tor onion services.
Part of the problem is Java itself, it's too easy to add a 'binary' dependencies in Java, so applications get bloated.

Part of the problem is that Google remove the interpreter of Android so and AOT codes creates big executables which need to be loaded in memory.

Part of the problem is not Google but the fact that application makers test on flagship phones Pixels, Galaxy etc.

Part of the problem is that Google waits too long before introducing Go edition (available since Oreo) which re-introduce the interpreter and provides a clear target.

Part of the problem is that low cost smartphones is not where the money is, so there is no real insensitive to target low cost smartphones.
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All of those are not a problem if you want to address problem of low memory and design for it.