skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are. Org format is kind of a better and more powerful Markdown. As plaintext, it looks cleaner to me.

The thing is, Org format is defined by the way Org-mode in Emacs handles it. Beyond Markdown-like features (which are rather easy to parse out; the format is similar), you get things in the data format that to date are handled only by Emacs. Think of Emacs + org mode as a better Jupyter notebooks than just editor for static text documents.

Consider this note I have in my org file for work tasks.

** DONE [#A] Testing prior to syncup meeting :CUSTOMER_development:
CLOSED: [2018-07-13 Fri 14:04]
:LOGBOOK:
CLOCK: [2018-07-13 Fri 12:14]--[2018-07-13 Fri 14:04] => 1:50
:END:

- [X] Baseline test for REDACTED
- REDACTED NOTE
- [X] Baseline test for SOMETHING ELSE

If you rendered this as a static document (e.g. export to HTML), you'd see the headline "Testing prior to syncup meeting", and the bullet-point list at the bottom. The remaining things are metadata, nicely formatted by Emacs (and partially hidden; e.g. :LOGBOOK: / :END: block starts folded by default). The metadata shown are part of Org-mode's task management aspect - the todo state (DONE), date of task's finalization, time clocking (CLOCK: entries), tags (CUSTOMER_development). Together, they enable me to very efficiently mange tasks, track spent time, and autogenerate invoice data.

In this sense, org format is both a nice Markdown alternative, and - when coupled with Emacs - enables very powerful interactive documents that can handle task management, time clocking, literate programming, spreadsheeting, and other tasks.

I suspect Org will never be as popular as Markdown simply because, if you wanted to go beyond Markdown feature parity, you'd have to reimplement half of Emacs to handle those "advanced" aspects.
Salon has been around for a while and they're not quite what you would call "fake news", but they are very Left leaning and "progressive". They also tend to focus a lot more opinion and analysis, so while the facts are probably correct, the context is entirely speculative and about as biased as you can get from the that end of the spectrum.
"Reports that I am a top donor to GOP are categorically false. I am not a top donor to any political party." - Elon Musk on Twitter

Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018330925384458240
> Google Maps is free for 25,000 map loads per day

This statement is true for a few more hours. As the headlined article informs us, Google changes its pricing plan tomorrow, 2018-07-16. Instead of 25000 free loads per day, as of tomorrow people get USD200 credit per month, on accounts that now must be backed by credit cards (or have billing enabled). Google tells us that a credit of USD200 per month is equivalent to 28000 free loads (of a dynamic map) per month (not per day).

* https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/

* https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/

Hence the timing of the OpenStreetMap article, of course.
Over time the idea of what "computing can do" has evolved to a point that now a days it is even used to "implement the behaviour of a mechanical system" rather than just being a tool to do data processing. The problem of building the mechanical system basically boils down to what all components and what all connections between the components are required to achieve the desired behaviour. This would be what a mechanical engineer would think about. A software engineer on the other hand would think about the components required and the algorithm that would control the components to achieve the desired behaviour. Both approaches have their pros and cons but as the desired behaviour get more and more complex, the algorithmic approach tends to be more simple and feasible.
Technology Diffusion and Adoption
Also search for tap & tun based tutorials. Make sure to be ready to read tons of RFCs in the area of neighbor discovery, path finding in graph , and parsing
The big neural network I keep behind my eyes feels otherwise.
> I assume I'd be using at least a day to set things up

You assume wrong. :)

It takes an hour or so to get a tileserver up and running with the switch2osm instructions. I've done it countless times. (You do then need to wait for the Postgres database to populate, but that's just fire-and-forget.) They're written for Ubuntu LTS versions so the "newer versions" issue doesn't arise.

Or if Docker's your bag, you can get a ready-to-go image from openmaptiles: https://openmaptiles.com/server/

> where anyone can spin it up for $5/mo

Not gonna happen. Running a worldwide map server needs a lot of (SSD) storage and decent CPU. I have a £10/month Hetzner VM just to do geocoding (with Photon: https://github.com/komoot/photon) so you aren't going to get a tileserver for half that - and that's no surprise; OSM is ultimately competing with Google, and you can't really expect to host your own Google for $5. But there are plenty of hosted options with tiered pricing.
You can render a subset of Org mode just as easily as Markdown - they mostly differ with syntax. The problem is, Org format is not just a format for static documents - it also accounts for things you'd like to achieve with plaintext notes, and most of those "extra features" are defined in terms of their Emacs/Org-mode implementation. Which is something very hard to clone.
Is there a tweet where he denies giving money to this particular PAC?

I imagine $35,000 puts you on a fairly short list.
could also use a mechanical interlock such that when one door opens, it locks the other door, then when you return to your room the act of closing your door behind you unlocks the other door.
Thank you for the recommendation. Does Bear have a web version? For me, that’s one of Evernote’s killer features. It’s very convenient not having to install Evernote on my Windows computer at work.
One of the interesting trends I've been seeing are the amount of companies that are rebuilding there maps from the ground up. While Google currently provides the best data set, there is a resurgence of companies mapping from the ground up to solve problems that Google isn't solving for its customers. You've got Apple[1], Tesla[2], and Uber[3] all rebuilding maps and all current/previous customers of Google.

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...

[2] - https://electrek.co/2017/07/03/tesla-map-navigation-open-sou...

[3] - https://www.uber.com/newsroom/mapping-ubers-future/
The error was just bad, it could have been more explicit, and by now SBCL even issues a compile-time error for this problem. But you have a very valid point: the error was shown on the first testing of the function. And it is a very underappreciated feature of Common Lisp, that you can test almost every function by itself, you don't have to build and run an executable, you can, as the blog author did, test the single function and very quickly get to the problem.
> Or maybe the true engineers are solving other problems
Nice gatekeeping.

Nice gatekeeping.
To give you an example: Having to work for a living is beyond horrible. I have to spend the majority of my life slaving away just struggling to survive in a world I never chose to be a part of.

I can 'change my perception' of this, but no matter how I change my perception it won't give me my freedom. CBT's goal seems to be denying the problem instead of trying to fix it and convincing people this shit doesn't stink.
I think this is on the decline today.

The caricatured history of the idea is basically: (1) Smart people looked at NGOs, say international aid NGOs. They note that some spend a lot of money raising money. There are ugly examples like for profit chuggers with a >50% commission. Other examples where "donor country" administration budgets are far larger than "recipient country" budgets. (2) They create a KPI, that basically defines two categories of expense "admin" and "work." Looking over existing NGOs, a low "admin %" structure correlates strongly with effectiveness (3) Foundations adopt this, optimizing to the KPI (4) The KPI does not survive transition from measure to goal. This is a recurring problem. If that is what attracts donations, NGOs can improve their admin/total cost ratio. Improving this ratio directly does not cause an improvement to overall effectiveness, even though a correlation existed pre-intervention.

This happens a lot in business, what was a good measure does not make a good optimisation goal. Selling financial products may be a good measure of a bank teller. It means he engages with customers, and knowing which products products they might want. Once you make it a goal and pay tellers a bounty, they achieve this goal by pressuring or tricking customers. Wells Fargo recently did this, and ended up incentivising tellers (and managers) to commit outright fraud.

Meanwhile, such broad measures bucket things in ways that do not make sense. Chuggers are incentive-pay fundraisers who sign up donors to make monthly contributions. They get big bounties, often more than the charity gets. When a donor realises that half his donation went to the door-to-door salesman, they feel totally ripped off.

In terms of the administrative/total budget KPI, a fun run is just like a chugger. Fun runs are costly to run, and less than half of what you pay actually goes to charitable causes. But, the "donor" is probably fine with this. They paid to participate in a run, raising money and awareness in the process.

Basically, this article describes another idea for solving a hard problem... one that isn't solved.
For jotting down quick markdown notes with your keyboard that auto sync to every device, Simplenote is hard to beat.

For pen-and-paper notes, Apple Pencil, iPad Pro, and GoodNotes with iCloud sync & Dropbox backup is a great choice.
Show HN: Pushbar.js Tiny JavaScript plugin for off-canvas drawers
Grep works fine on a desktop OS but not so well on a smartphone or tablet.
The finance industry essentially succeeds by jumping between two people making an exchange and skimming off as much profit as they can get away with. A giant vampire squid if you will.

So of course someone has looked at the billions going to charity and tried to figure how they can get commissioned on it as well.

While it's of course theoretically possible that this increases donor efficiency somehow, that's an extraordinary claim which requires evidence and proof. The initial reaction should be extreme skepticism.
Yes, sure - We should. But Dolores12 was claiming notepad's superiority over a feature rich editor using only one parameter.
> find problems with the solution

You would be surprised to know how many nobel prize winners do that.
There is a remarkably active Amiga fan scene that continues to use these OSes for "real" and develop new applications and games. Frankly, it's amazing; random examples: https://amitopia.com/muimapparium-0-7-for-amigaos/ , https://amitopia.com/inviyya-shooter-for-amiga-500-in-develo... .

I've fantasized about doing it myself on more than one occasion. The price of new Amiga hardware sort of puts me off, but it's not outside the range I could afford. Unfortunately, I don't quite have the time right now (and, for once in my life, it's not a silly "i don't have time" excuse), so I'm watching it from afar.
Common Lisp as hackish vs protective is nice way to describe it.

Another way to describe it exploratory vs implementatory.

In some ways Common Lisp is like Mathematica for programming. It's a language for a computer architect to develop and explore high level concept. It's not a accident that early Javascript prototype was done in common lisp or that metaobject protocols, aspect-oriented programming, etc. were first implemented and experimented with Common Lisp.

>Dalinian: Lisp. Java. Which one sounds sexier?

>RevAaron: Definitely Lisp. Lisp conjures up images of hippy coders,
drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Late nights at Berkeley, coding in Lisp
fueled by LSD. Java evokes a vision of a stereotypical nerd, with no
life or social skills.
Cool! If anybody else would like to chip in I would love to hear more examples of how people use Filemaker these days.
> If you spend an hour thinking about how you suck at various aspects of your life, how is it making you feel?

It doesn't matter how you feel about it. You need to focus on the bad things in life if you want to have a chance of improving things. Burying your head in the sand doesn't solve anything. Don't waste your time focussing on the good stuff, it doesn't need fixing.

If all you want to do is feel good despite everything around you being shit, why not just do heroin ? You'll feel great and it's a lot less effort than convincing yourself that black is white.
You misunderstand the Two Generals problem, which is that regardless of how many messages Eve burns, the two generals can never be certain of shared knowledge.
this carmack guy is really not cut for graphics programming
> They take action A unless they receive a message from the other general

The missing piece in your algorithm is how long do they wait to receive a message from each other and how they can know that it's long enough? If they don't wait long enough they will not receive a message and will make wrong assumptions about the other general, will not reach consensus and will take each their own action. To fix this each has to wait as long as it takes to receive a message from the other general and know about this (which in itself requires more messages).

But what if one of the generals dies in the meantime and stops sending messages? Or what if both Bob and Alice got the same random integer? There are other issues too.

But the important thing is it's all about time. You can always wait out uncertainty, but of course you won't be able to make progress waiting.
Give me Emacs that handles inline images in buffers better, and I'll switch :).

Before going full Org Mode, I used MS OneNote, and liked it very much. My notes from that period has tons of images and annotated screenshots dumped into them. I miss that in my Emacs workflow nowadays. My dream software would be pieces of Org Mode on a OneNote-like canvas, with support for easily pasting images and drawing on them (especially using a graphics tablet, or at least a touchscreen). And of course with plaintext format (though the attachments could go into directories, automatically managed by the notetaking software).
Betting requires a license in many countries to be legal, apart from the requirement for age verification.

As your site is now, this is basically calling for a lawsuit.
Excellent website design.

So little effort (just AmigaOS 2+ colors and some amiga-ish gadgets), yet so much better than the average site these days.
I think it came out his payments are about 2 to 1 in favour of the R side.
If he would fuck her in the pussy it would have made quite the difference.
>But it also appears that Apple is preparing to drop Mach: mach_msg / MIG is buried, xpc is conspicuously designed to be separable from Mach, etc.

Why? What benefits do they have to drop it ?
>The criticism of creative destruction in particular - sure

>it may have costs but is not doing so any better? Thinking

>that preserving the status quo at the cost of advancement is

>in itself a distortion arguably.

This creative destruction obviously only has to happen when something cannot be changed. Then there's the question: why can't it be changed? In stiff organizations this is well-known to be there virtually anywhere but of course in startups as well.

My far-fetched theory is that teamwork is still something very rarely found. So individual people always have their own space, be it a project, microservice or some module. It's their baby, they've designed it, deployed it, maintained it etc. If someone else needs to join the project, this person always needs to ask the creator for permission of everything until the creator's rules are followed 100%. Maybe I'm alone with this observation but this has happened to me far too often. I wish these projects would rather emerge of joint thought processes and also be evolved like that. Then there would be no need of people having to go through walls, exposing border-line anti-social behaviour...
One must supply a credit card or have an account with billing enabled. Existing users will have accounts. But they must be altered to have billing enabled if they do not have it enabled already.

* https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/
Does this need a special pen/pencil/stylus? Apple Pencil?
Bear's tagging is objectively not as nice as true hierarchies. For example, you can't create a new folder and then drag and drop a bunch of notes into it. Changing the "location" of multiple notes requires search and replace, something I don't think Bear even does (at least not the iOS version).

Tags also clutter notes. Do you put them at the beginning? At the end? Either way you will see the tags. Very strange for an app which boasts about providing "beautiful" notes.

Same goes for the Markdown. Maybe some people find Markdown codes scattered all over the place "beautiful", but I don't.

Bear also doesn't handle images very well, at least on iOS (I don't remember how it behaves on the Mac). Images are rendered full width. You can't create nice grids of images like you can with Evernote.
Got a link? I can't find the page in Google, DDG or Stack Exchange search using that search text.
To play devils advocate..

Better capital allocation could make the NGO sector way more effective, and help it actually solve issues like extreme poverty, infant nutrition and basic healthcare. Currently, one charity could be doing the same thing (say, rural inoculations in Bangladesh) 10X more effectively, but raising far less money.

If a financial market can skim their 6% while solving this problem, the return in terms of the number of people inoculated could be 60% or 600%.

I share your skepticism though, of solving these issues with with a new type of security. I think money markets may be the best example of free market failures.
I love yr work
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I started using onenote, and it still pleasantly surprises me from time to time. The last feature I stumbled upon was that it autocompletes simple calculations[1].

[1] https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/insert-and-calculat...
For “off road” use, Gaia GPS is great. Especially since it syncs to their website.

I love OSM but editing is horrible. Draw a small path that wasn’t there before, pick from 500 different labels and tags (landuse:path or landuse:track?), make one small mistake, get a passive aggressive reply from an experienced editor that is basically “get off my lawn” and have your edit reversed...
Is This Man the Elon Musk of E-Waste?
Archaeologists in Egypt discover mummification workshop
I dont think I should be chasing up my bank on why authorization failed. I have zero interest in using google maps for my production environment
I use plotly quite extensively. Never needed to pay a dime. Never even needed an account (until I wanted to use their forum).

So to me your critique isn't quite understandable.
MacBook Pro 2018 (13-inch) Review: Crazy Speed, Disappointing Battery Life
So since the Japanese write 日本製 on their products you agree all maps should write it 日本 then?
Bear lacks folders. Sure, it has tagging, but it's really a poor man's organization tool; for example, you can't create a new folder and then drag and drop a bunch of notes into it. Changing the "location" of multiple notes requires search and replace, something I don't think Bear even does (at least not the iOS version). Tags also clutter notes visually. Do you put them at the beginning? At the end? Either way you will see the tags. Very strange for an app which boasts about providing "beautiful" notes. There are ergonomic issues; copying a note into another app includes the tags, for example. Selecting a whole note and clicking the "italics" shortcuts will make the tags italics, too. And so on.

Same goes for the Markdown. Maybe some people find Markdown codes scattered all over the place "beautiful", but I don't.

Bear also doesn't handle images very well, at least on iOS (I don't remember how it behaves on the Mac). Images are rendered full width. You can't create nice grids of images like you can with Evernote.
Had no problem. Even on mobile FF with adblock active.
> I'm going to assume that Eve is not able to block everything.

This problem keeps coming up in distributes systems and sadly, a full breakdown of internal communication is also possible.

I.e. internet routing works, switch for lan/cluster communication broke.
I think it looks off putting, but it really depends on the audience.
what do you think a rule to guard against it is - in my world that's a law.
Agreed on the keys.
His interpretation of open source licenses is weird, he feels cheated when people use his stuff in accordance to the license. He wants to stop people from accepting donations for example claiming it's "commercial use". In that regard he's out of touch with reality.
What about WriterPlus? I've been using it for years to edit my Markdown files on Android. (I was about to say that it's also open source but that seems to have changed recently.)

Also, what do you mean by "Dropbox-aware"? It's all just files after all.
So how come the ones that seem to do well on visa's test come from less stellar backgrounds.
So, here's a project that wants to 100% focus on privacy (according to their crowdfunding campaign).

The first task they start with?

Write a new launcher, of course!
...granted my partner (who comes from near Liège and studied there) also doesn’t like it because it is pretty grey, but so is most of Belgium. I find the mix of old and postwar architecture quite beautiful and there is lots of cool stuff going on now; it’s like an edgier, more “Brooklyn” alternative to Maastricht.

What I find interesting is that the road signs in the Netherlands say Liège whereas in the few km of Vlaanderen on the way there, they insist on Luik. But this is what makes Belgium, Belgium.
That's not a very convincing argument given that modern ANNs are only vaguely inspired by the biological neural network behind your eyes.
A worldwide tile server for low load (up to <30 tps) decent latency (<100ms per tile) can be set up with 2core, 4GB ram and 70GB HDD machine. Key is to use “prerendered” vector tile stack. Geocoding is way harder task. The old sites like switch2osm tend to have old and slow imposm/Postgres stacks.
People are much too afraid of Emacs to ever use it.
If you know that at least one message from Alice goes through, and Alice says "do this with priority 0", then yes, you can solve the problem.

The issue here is different to what you are modelling; imagine this payoff table for A

B attacks B holds
A attacks +1 -∞
A holds 0 0

The question is, knowing nothing about the reliability of the connection, is possible to have a strategy that has a positive expectation? B is only going to attack if they are absolutely certain you will, and vice-versa.

The issue with your strategy is that even if Eve never interfered with the connection once, Alice does not know that, so will hold.
Comparing the mix of moprhine and cocaine with coffee and alcohol is both misleading and inaccurate.

Even cocaine and amphetamine are apples and oranges, despite both being classified as stimulants.
Do people really reference NYT pieces by issue number? There are actually references like "The front-page article on issue 54,324" instead of "The front-page article on December 4th, 2007"?
Design decisions on creating Jai: A new language for game programmers