skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt a developer would buy such an underpowered machine in the first place.

That said, I currently use a laptop that's seriously underpowered (by choice when I bought the thing ~7 years ago) with 4GB of RAM running Fedora and it does everything I need -- never once have I found I wasn't able to compile whatever random code I happen to be playing with at the moment. If ever I had to do serious dev work (like, it was my job) I'd need a better laptop but for the tinkering I do it works out just fine...though I did have to give up on Blender hacking a while back because of OpenGL versioning issues and I can't afford to buy a fancy new machine. That might not be an issue anymore, haven't checked on the OpenGL compatibility in quite a while TBH.

I actually used to hack on Blender with a 2GB netbook (also running Fedora) before I got my current "beast" so those things aren't completely worthless as you would suggest.
Also it's not a product or a service, I really like Gordon Brander's "Patterns" [1] on his website.

[1] http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/
What "massive amount of data" from Tesla? They don't send all the video back to HQ. Tesla owners have observed large uploads, but apparently they are software crash dumps.
Not a perfect solution for everyone as you need a computer to be always on (eg. a server, a NAS, whatever) for sync, but I've been using Orgzly on Android with Syncthing to handle the sync between all my computers and my phone, and it's much better that everything I've tried before.
I did and still do a lot of the 'unhappy' activities and few of the 'happy' activities. I seem fine. What gives?
Cyberbalkanization and the Future of the Internets
Hmm I have a similar setup except I use gitlab private repo... but really there isn't that much of a need for a 'commit history' in notes... I think I'll try the dropbox approach.
Consumer science (a.k.a. home economics) as a college major
If you call something (watching videos/pictures or browsing in a framebuffer) which has been working since the end of '90s "new" then you've grown old. A while ago, if I might add. And the ability to use a CLI on a large say 1280x1024 resolution was nice as well, given the dots per inches on CRTs in late 90s.
Nodebook¹ is the tool that I've been using for the last couple months. IMO, it beats Zotero and Evernote, or any other tool I've previously used.

¹ http://nodebook.io
Its a good point, if you overlook the fact that the British destroying the Indian & Chinese economy (through war/invasion) created a vacuum for the US economy (British colony at the time) to flourish.

So the US closing up trade at this point is immoral from a historical perspective and shows an obscene level of hypocrisy when compared to what it has promoted for the 50+ years post WW2.

Never forget India was #1 in world GDP (for more than 1000 years) pre-invasion.
Multinationals and globalism are definitely where the study of markets need more light & publicity. Maybe governments should be responsible for its people when they are abroad and commit crimes, and this should include companies. If it is a crime for a US company to infiltrate US government in order to use its power, then why isn't it a crime for a US company to infiltrate foreign government to use its coercive power?

And if one government wants to offer a foreign company better deals than that company's home government, then I don't see why that should be illegal. However, if that company is making (nuclear) weapons for a foreign government that might be used aggressively against their home government, then that's a serious case for debate. However, this is what treaties seem to be for...
The company I work for uses Microsoft libraries, and we deal with timezones and DST all the time. In my opinion, Microsoft does a great job keeping track of the different changes instituted by politicians around the world.

It's unfortunate that the two systems aren't in sync, but they were developed in parallell and have different data structures.
I know you asked Company one, but my personal dropbox has these folders at root:

Apps

All applications based folders go in here, all auto sync, backup access, any app which ask access to my dropbox, goes here. Like Whatsapp, FolderSync, ifttt, etc etc

Documents

All of my educational & work related documents/certificates go here. Subfolder are Education, Work, Passport, Passport Photos, Country One, Country Two, Matriage, Family, Other

Office

As in MS Office files. Subfolders Archive, Word, Excel, Banking, Finance, Domains. Anything currently not active goes in Archive. Banks have subfolders labelled per Bank Name. Finances has everything related to money matters.

Own Data

Data I generated by myself. All subfolders are YYYYMMDD LABEL. Any greeting card I made, Any mug I made, all source files. Active ones only; completed ones go out of Dropbox to Hard Disc

Shared

Anything I got invited to.

Temp

Anything I neede temporary & can be deleted safely anytime.

Misc

Anything which does not fit anywhere else.
> It's just that Rails, and Ruby in general, is in clear decline

[Citation Needed]

In my experience the demand for rails has only gone up within the last few years and rails is only getting better.

> Rails hasn't shown to be that adaptable to more modern front end trends

You clearly haven't been keeping up with rails .. Rails now integrates seamlessly with React, Vuejs,.. and has built in support for yarn and webpacker .

In addition, with the introduction of ActionCable, you can have websocket integration as well with Pub/Sub.

All in all, Rails remains a very mature, robust framework to build your business on.
Part of the differences between chaebol and zaibatsu is in the restrictions on banking that may have helped Korea keep chaebol from collapsing.

You’re correct that chaebol are far closer to preWW2 zaibatsu overall. Keiretsu are professionally managed and more decentralized though than family-owned and managed chaebol. It’s not really clear if Japan would have fared much better by staying centralized or if South Korea could be doing even better with decentralization. I have my doubts that Samsung could have made it to where it is on an international brand scale if it was forcibly decentralized (Korea has the most bizarre record when it comes to branding arguably due to lack of innovation).
+1 to this, but I'd also add Facebook/Instagram/etc... banning you if you show a nipple.

Go to the beach, and want to post about it, better put a top on, or get banned (if you're female)
SimpleAdmin – simple way to create an administrative panel
Hi guys! In my free time, I write my project to quickly create control panels. At the moment, the alpha version is ready, there are still a lot of points to work on, but I really would like to hear your feedback.

Plans for the future version:

- Adaptive design for mobile devices
- Automatic creation of fields for the model
- Make the process of creating the first project more interactive and user-friendly
- Make another integration.

http://getsimpleadmin.com
thats the premise for the book "the big disconnect the story of technology and loneliness"
Fair enough, I didn't realize that these persons were volunteers and not employees. That, uh, changes things.

To be clear, I wasn't suggesting anyone at Canonical should be fired. If anything, the opposite so they would have more resources to deal with bug reports.
I would say Evernote but I’m not sure you want to cram movies in there. Works for everything else though, even searches on its attempts to recognize handwriting. Won’t give you a transcript of that though.
My congresswoman (and senatorial candidate) majored in home economics.
WordPerfect died for two reasons: the transition to Windows (and WP6 for DOS, which was the worst of both worlds); and its lack of a real office suite integration. Lotus 1-2-3, the other application that owned to office, lost out for much the same reason. SmartSuite was a whole lot closer to an integrated solution than bundling WP with Quattro Pro and friends was, but Ami Pro was a less-than-competent word processor for business purposes.

TeX/LaTeX may make some pretty documents, but the learning curve is pretty heavy-duty, and compiling a typeset document isn't exactly dash-it-off quick for normal typist/secretary activities. It doesn't matter much what you can do with technical or book-length documents; that's not what the world runs on.

And Gimp ain't Photoshop. It's not even a close thing.
An analogy is rewriting a codebase from scratch to retain only what is really necessary and experiment with large-scale architectural changes.
Couldn't be importing tens of thousands of people from a regressive country that forces women to wear veils and be escorted by a man everywhere they go has anything to do with it.

Let's blame social media and smartphones! The absolute state of westerners.
Well I haven't seen an ad on any of my computers or phones in the last 2 years. Obviously if everyone was like that the entire tech industry would have collapsed already.
Compatibility is actually the least of my worries. I think it's a losing battle that's not worth fighting.

Better to create an open ecosystem that people adopt for that very reason - that it is open. In the early days, Excel would actually obfuscate its output, making it extremely difficult to parse. Now things are a bit better, but you're still trying to hit a moving target.

If we have an open format, and a corresponding high-quality, open application ecosystem, I can see many corporates making the switch. Not easy, but I can see a future without total dependence on Excel.
> new Function('import("' + src + '")')();

oh god the horror. using EVAL AND not escaping the input. Can't you just check presence of `require`?
Seems the United States of America is going for a cultural victory [1], doesn't it? Imagine, that you'd walk with your toddler on the beach in St. Tropez and your kid would see a nipple. That'd be downright traumatising. I mean, the deprivation of milk... Heck even Louis de Funès movies which took place in/near St. Tropez contained nudity. Now those would be 18+. A shame.

Although I don't want my child naked on the beach (she's half a year old) not because I mind someone seeing her naked but because of all the cameras/smartphones. The loss of privacy is real, and its a direct effect due to the common practice of taking your smartphone -with quality camera these days- with you everywhere.

[1] http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Cultural_victory_(Civ5)
As this question comes up quite frequently, here are some past discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17586375

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945882

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736102
I follow Antonio García Martínez on Twitter and he's usually always making this same argument: that any privacy regulation is just going to entrench Facebook and Google. Which is very convenient because the implied solution to that is no regulation at all [1]!

But no one who cared about privacy thought this California bill was anyway a giant triumph. Everyone knows it's not equivalent to GDPR, for one because it's just in one state. This was just the result of a handful of people taking advantage of a quirk of California's legislative process to a put a gun to lawmakers's heads. If not for the ballot proposition process, California would be the last place I'd expect to pass strong EU-style privacy laws, because it's home to the surveillance capitalism industry.

What that California bill did do was show some tangible movement can be made in the US, to the point where the internet companies are now mobilizing to make a federal law (in the hope that this current Congress and Administration will not pass anything close to what's on the books in EU) [2]. What they didn't expect is that it's not just the left that is gunning for Facebook, Google, and Twitter anymore, it's the right as well. You might believe both aisles of the political spectrum are motivated by partisan reasons, but it doesn't matter. The bipartisan environment required for strong regulation to happen is here.

Privacy activists should seize on the opportunity to pass a federal law that's equivalent to the EU's. And if there's no movement on that, force the issue by creating a patchwork of laws in state legislatures. They should also seek out the backing of Apple, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle, or anyone else in the tech industry that has the straightforward business model of selling a product or service for money to a customer. It's critical to make clear to legislators that there's no united front from the "tech industry" on this.

[1] The real answer is antitrust enforcement, which is also gaining political support.

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/technology/tech-industry-...
I imagine SPA trends with frameworks such as Angular are leading to the parent’s conclusion. However, you can still use SPA frameworks and just use Rails as an API, or you can take a step back and realize a large percentage of web apps still don’t need a complex SPA framework and might get enough front-end functionality out of something like Vue. In other words, many developers fall into the trap of choosing tools they prefer even when they may take more time to use and not provide enough business value. Plenty of web apps would ship faster if built with Rails and be just fine.
You’re replying to the wrong person.
> That if a thing is more readily available more people will do is just flat out wrong.

for real?
Show HN: Skycoin – Decentralize the Web
None of the cases I've seen have been related to the policy of avoiding API changes in stable. Most of them seem to be instances of "user files a bug with Debian; package maintainer adds a patch to address user's complaint but doesn't relay the bug report or the patch upstream".
I am not a medical professional, but I have lost a great deal of weight (was on the low end of obese before, and trend towards very thin now). I've kept it off for at least 5 years, with a small amount of fluctuation (one pant size, isn't so much). I always suggest folks eat most when they find they are the most hungry. It takes a bit of paying attention, but after that it gets easy.

I'm personally better off eating very lightly early in the day and eating a large meal at dinnertime. I feel satisfied being full then and don't miss the food early in the day. When I try to eat a full breakfast or lunch regularly, I'm actually more hungry the rest of the day and still want the full dinner. I'm also a night owl, but I do not know if this is related. This holds true no matter what waking schedule I'm on, however.

I personally eat a very light breakfast (a piece of bread with some cheese, for example), a light snack if I'm hungry during the day, and a full dinner. Only dinner is a warm meal, mostly vegetarian save for fish once a week.

My mother, on the other hand, has done the opposite, She's likely to eat a decent breakfast (instead of a piece of bread with cheese), a lunch, and a light dinner. Her weight loss wasn't as drastic as mine, but she didn't weigh as much either.

The thing is that us humans aren't all wired the same way. Even things like insulin response can vary from human to human. I'm guessing there is a genetic component or something to it, but that is an uneducated guess.
Or importation of Islam. Plenty of that recently.
Thanks for this data point!
People still have personal websites, but they are rarely designed in any special way. Easier to use something that works.

And the distribution networks greatly penalize personal websites. Anything to stop your friends and followers from clicking away from The Platform. It's sad and I believe has killed many a promising blog.

Also this joke has a lot of truth to it: Which of the 2 possible websites are you currently designing?
https://twitter.com/jongold/status/694591217523363840?lang=e...
.NET integrates well with COM. You are using it all the time under the hood. COM was difficult because it was an OO framework that had to deal with:

- C++ ABIs that changed on every compiler update but still had to work.

-Support for C and Assembly which had no OO support at all.

-Liteweight enough to run on a computer with 8MB of RAM total.

Given these constraints it's unlikely you would do any better.
I seem to recall at least one instance where the prediction markets absolutely killed it on the US state elections, so yeah I'd say yes.
I went down a deep rabbit hole on this about a year ago. Nothing feels totally right but currently I use a mix of TiddlyWiki and Airtable. I haven't found a great solution for media outside of Dropbox but those two tools work well for text and data.

TiddlyWiki is rather inscrutable at first, but extremely customizable and very thoughtfully architected. What I like most is that it is doesn't rely on an internet connection, it's very customizable and non-linear. The basic idea of being able to interlink things and create new pages just by adding brackets around a word is something I miss anywhere I don't have it.

I use TiddlyWiki in an Electron wrapper made with Nativefier. With a bit of custom CSS the interface is very pleasant.
I believe Org-mode has that feature as well. I was and am very impressed by Workflowy but a) using plain text files b) better hyperlink handling have me migrating to Org-mode + Orgzly
HyperLearn: Faster, Leaner GPU Sklearn, Statsmodels Written in PyTorch
Actually, studies in mice don't always pan out to humans. There are flaws in mouse studies and sometimes the results in humans are wildly different. But mice are cheap, bread readily, and are a great starting point for laboratory tests.
I was simply providing context for the point. It's also worth pointing out that quite a few of the top 1M, 100k, 10k sites do not use Google Analytics or Facebook.
Russia moved over to constant DST with around 6 weeks notice a few years ago.

It was chaos.
No, the React docs are great, working it mostly as a tutorial works well.

Plus in hindsight I could have just looked through this: https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/commits?author=gaearo...
I am sure a non-trivial reason for this is every Middle School, High School, and College I have ever heard of in my area the emails are g-suite, and they all have unlimited google storage. Almost everyone I know uses Google Docs when it comes to sharing papers, and many it is their primary editor. I see why chomebooks are popular if everything else in your school is g-suite.
In the US if you are spotted wearing a speedo there are 3 possible reasons:

1. You are in a competitive swimming event

2. You are from another country

3. You are a college student trying to be funny
For iOS, the fairly new (~1 year old) Beorg is way better than other options I've tried, to the point of actually making Org viable for me, since I have such a dependence on mobile. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beorg/id1238649962
I know I am underestimating; I have a tendency to do that, so I appreciate the warning. May I ask how many people currently contribute to LibreOffice regularly?
I kind of agree with both sides of this argument but the one thing I often find lacking in man is context, which I know not really the point. But there is in the layout of the commands in this tool a better path to understanding the switches one might need to accomplish whatever task is at hand. Personally, I've spent far more time grep'ing my history than using man.

And true story, someone may have heard of at one point tcpdump or whatever but not know what man is. There's also people that transcend the platform multiverse that may spend hours, days or weeks building a bash script using linux tools that's used briefly or automated and will require familiarization if that process is ever reviewed/needed again. Tools like this and the regex visualization sites mentioned previously are great for that.
For "ebooks, papers, articles" I use calibre as the database - it manages all the relevant meta-data and converts between formats. I then sync the calibre folder in google drive for search and cross device access.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

For notes, I found the majority of my note-taking is research and reasoning to support decision making for either software or business projects. For that I built my own tool to capture rationale make it useful:

https://thorny.io
Aggregation is awkward. It is not that composable. Sub-queries are not a thing. Prolog conventions make things awkward. The ammount of datatypes seems to be limited.

If you encounter datalog in the wild it will be something pretty-custom, like datomic, pydatalog, or even differential dataflow (that feels more like map-reduce with fix-points?)
I use Personal Knowbase, a small Shareware era program. It has minor annoyances but does what it says on the tin. It's fast, minimal and allows narrowing down to related notes in a jiffy. The makers update it slowly though.

https://www.bitsmithsoft.com/
Yeah, I wonder to what extent this dovetails with things like sexualization being reduced in American media... but that said I don't think the reduction in sexualization should be dismissed as 'prudery'. For example, air hostesses used to be pretty sexualized in terms of their clothing, advertisements etc, but that's not necessarily a healthy work environment.
All It Takes to Create a Ghost Is a Good Story
Just buy some cheap windows box with roughly the same specs and install linux on it. Unfortunately requires paying the "microsoft tax" but c'est la vie.

Requires a bit of googling to ensure there's no driver issues but this is what I've done for nearly a couple decades now.
Some part of it (older people versus prudish younger people) was hilariously captured in Gym Wildlife:

https://youtu.be/n1GUQVo1Lps?t=235
Doesn't look so hot to me. From the world bank:

Japan GDP per Capita: $34,808 (2003) to $38,424 (2017)

US GDP per Capita: $39,677 (2003) to $59,531 (2017)

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2017...
Ask HN: Is My iPhone Hacked?
Firstly, I have “speak selection” enabled on my iPhone 8 (this is in Accessibility -> Speech). I use that to read articles aloud sometimes when I’m working.

I was reading (actually reading, not using “speak selection”) comments on a thread on the HN homepage about prediction markets when I copied something that somebody wrote in a comment, and when I went to paste it into a new tab to search, out of habit I quickly went to click “paste and search”, but despite this being a new tab (no URL), the “speak” button appeared next to the “paste and search” button and I clicked that instead by accident.

Siri proceeded to speak in Russian for no less than five seconds.

In trying to determine how much text Siri spoke, I went to google translator and produced some Russian text, and I determined that Siri must have spoken 20+ words.

I haven’t been to any Russian websites, or anything with Russian text, and my clipboard contained only a few ASCII characters. Safari didn’t have any history.

I don’t speak Russian, but I definitely can recognize Russian, or at least Eastern Slavic, so it could potentially have been Ukrainian or Belarusian, but I’m fairly sure it was Russian.

To summarize what action I accidentally took, I clicked the tab management button (overlapping squares) on the bottom right in Safari, clicked the + and in the new, blank tab, I held my finger in the URL bar for a second to ger the “paste and search” button to appear, which is when the “speak” button unexpectedly appeared and I clicked it.

I have not since been able to reproduce this situation.