skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
zim-wiki for me, absolutely. Text-based, offline, decent plugins, cross-platform, easy. What I love is that if zim is not available I can use Sublime Text to view and navigate as a near replacement as long as the SidebarEnhancements plugin is installed. I stand by the supremacy of zim-wiki although it does lack "pretty".
https://youtu.be/4WO5kJChg3w?t=745

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And we got him an earring. There are photographs on the Internet of Robert Morris with an earring.

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I could not find such photographs ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22robert+morris%22+viaweb+e...
> "But many businesses don’t try to make products for lots of people, just for very small, focused sets of customers."

I don't think this is proportionally less difficult. The advice that YC partners and other experienced founders will give you if you tell them you want to conquer the world is to start with a small, focused set of customers. It's a lot harder to get from 0 to this point than it is to go from a small enthusiastic user-base to a much larger user-base.

So even if you're content with a smaller market or a smaller share of a market than the typical VC-backed startup, it's still crazy hard to get any significant traction at all, and it still requires just about all your creativity and focus to get there.

> "But what if your goal is not to find product-market fit unless it also satisfies other constraints like sustainability or financially ethical behavior? What if, in the absence of those, your preference is to go out of business and shut down?"

The vast majority of founders do impose their own versions of those constraints on themselves. Everyone's ethics are different (as is everyone's definition of sustainability), but just about everyone has lines they won't cross and deals they won't make.

I think the point isn't that you should pursue profit above all else and forget higher values, just that regardless of the type of company you want to build, your first and most important challenge is building something a significant number of people want enough that they'll pay you money for it. Since this is so hard, all the early-stage advice is relentlessly focused on how to do it. And what's the best proxy for how well you're doing it? Revenue. Thus the outsize focus on getting it and growing it quickly early on.
Drew and Arash were both 24 when DropBox was founded. Drew already had a couple years of work experience at the time (notably with Bit9, which is a security company that basically reverse-engineers ALL the things - see the connection with DropBox's early success?), and had founded one previous company, an SAT test prep business.
Well. Apple will sell you a MacBook with 2TB SSD for $3700 or 4TB for $5700....
Yes. E.g : sqlalchemy admin.
Maybe I'm the only one here, but it seem absurd to me to count on Google, an advertising company, not advertise on Chromebooks.

Not yet ... perhaps. Perhaps. Not ? No way.
That's fundamentally because they're both just linear algebra. You'd have an even easier time if you thoroughly mastered linear algebra and then "merely" applied your knowledge to whatever you'd like to learn in CS and physics that requires it.
I was trying to read up on what this was, it said it was a site focused on pixel perfect design? What does that mean exactly, lots of images, spacers, and pixel fonts?
This may be an opinionated article, but the facts it cites are real and credible. I wonder why its flagged?
more backstory https://medium.com/@iandustinscofield/lost-in-the-mountains-...
Should we turn around?
What irritates you about shopping online listed out loud
Forget about Clean Code
I mean, if you want to compare the current state of Tesla to the state of Apple in 1996, I think that more or less solidifies my point?

Tesla cannot be compared to the 2000-era Apple company. There are simply too many differences.
My "signature edition" Surface Book 2 running Windows 10 Professional came with a bunch of crap on the start menu such as Candy Crush Saga, Twitter, some travel app, Minecraft, and advert for Office 365 and some other crap I can't remember.

I had to right-click and uninstall them all manually but then a few days later a couple of them returned?! I ended up searching for a PowerShell script that actually removes them. Until a few months later when Microsoft rolled out the April 2018 update and they all magically reappeared again so I had to look up that fucking PowerShell script again.

I could kind of accept this on the Home version but on the PROFESSIONAL version?! No fucking way. Why on earth should my pro version come with Minecraft and Twitter?!

And this is a £2500 laptop made and sold by Microsoft! Not some £200 Acer from PC World.
YouTube audio isn't high quality though... I think it's 128k
If the product is DRM-ridden garbage music platforms, vendor lock-in and being forced to buy specific devices, then no, I don't want the product. I want clean MP3 or FLAC downloads, such that I own the product I bought and nobody can take it away from me. That is why I've spent hundreds of dollars (or more? I've lost count) on Bandcamp.com and will continue to do so.
The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’
“Modals that cannot be closed have the best conversion rate”
Seems pretty likely that YouTube will switch to EME at some point, doesn't it? Seems like record labels and the like would be demanding it.

When and if that happens, I hope PeerTube and other video hosts can take off in the fediverse.
This isn't true at all. The ENTIRE industry had to re-invent itself MANY times - and MANY companies failed and have long since shutdown. Microsoft on the other hand has survived - and not only maintained backwards compatibility but embraced new technologies - and is doing so at a breakneck pace today.

Microsoft research is a top notch research company. Microsoft is also a large, if not the largest, contributor to Linux & Open source.

Horror stories aren't unique to Microsoft... The industry of the 80s/90s and early 2000s was something i'd never want to go back to - but its also something i suffered through and that suffering didn't matter what OS you ran. If you chose Irix it sucked paying 600 bucks for MEDIA to update your OS, if you ran HPUX it sucked having to buy a support contract to update your OS, if you ran Solaris, you were proud of solaris - but it wasn't until sun embraced open source that it really took off because we didn't have to buy a compiler that cost hundreds of dollars if not thousands to license.

Meanwhile, Windows has TurboC, TurboPascal and tons of stuff - and open source gnu started taking off and linux came around and the world started getting better for everyone- opportunity opened up - we crossed the chasim from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit and 64bit and Windows has maintained a level of compatibility second to none to support all that legacy.

They're working hard to compete - Windows "S" mode is windows without the ability to stall win32 - its "Store mode" - it could go a LONG way into making it "suck less" from legacy cruft but by and large the market and developers are refusing to support it - which is odd considering they NEED to support the store model for official chromebooks, android apps or ios marketplaces.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
If I was to start a company at this point, it would probably be focused on this problem. I'm not sure what though, because I worry that anything which would be profitable wouldn't be really incrementally solving the problem.

Maybe a MOOC which taught courses like:

- How to arrange an outing with friends: logistics and communication

- How to follow up after you've just met someone

- How to loop a new person into a conversation among folks who know each other

- How to continue a conversation after someone said something awkward about the ever-present march of time and our bodies' unstoppable march toward death

- How to help a friend talk through a problem which is emotionally distressing for them

- How to introduce a friend to someone you think they might be romantically compatible with

- How to tell exceedingly dorky jokes with excellent timing so as to put someone at ease

Or other things.
> There are parallel implementations of strassens algorithm out there

Do you have one off the top of your head you could link the code too? Doesn't have to be your implementation specifically. I just want to read the code for a parallel implementation.
I'm just impressed to see the name Niklas Luhmann in HN. Well played.
This is a budget ThinkPad model, design for small businesses, where 4k display would be an overkill. I actually find FHD to be a better option for a development machine, because of the lower energy consumption and extended battery life.
The business model relies upon the scarcity of copies and that the copyright owner is the only person able to make copies. That was reasonable many years ago, but today copies can be made and published by anybody with a computer in milliseconds. The business model was overtaken by technology a long time ago, but instead of shifting to a different model, they rely upon the law enforcing a kind of Ludditism where we all pretend that this amazing copying and publishing technology doesn't exist for anybody but the copyright holders.

There are alternative business models – you mention live shows and concerts, but there's also things like the street performer protocol. But as long as the law artificially props up the old-fashioned way of doing things, there's no impetus to try other things. They aren't intrinsically entitled to this specific business model and it makes less and less sense to keep up this weird fiction for this reason.
A minor nitpick, but the dynamic import proposal [0] is actually in stage 3 of the TC39 process [1].

Although you are correct that the WHATWG HTML spec requires implementing the import() proposal if JavaScript is supported.

[0] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-dynamic-import

[1] https://tc39.github.io/process-document/
How are you currently viewing/editing your wiki on mobile?

I sync to a server with vim and vimwiki installed and on my phone I just mosh[0] in. I don't generally do extensive editing on the go, though. Did the solution you have in mind include a specialized editor for touchscreens?

[0]: https://mosh.org/
> Adam now knows that at least three K9 teams came to about 100 yards of the camp.

:(
Innovation takes many forms, sometimes in selling a product, sometimes in securing a product's exclusivity - such as DRM.

Look only as far as YouTube to see what content creators do when the money well dries up - a lot have turned to selling products/advertising themselves with direct deals (dollar shave club, Nord VPN, etc). Another method is through "merch", something Disney for example has been doing for years.

Besides, many Countries simply don't respect media copyright full-stop, it wouldn't harm creators to learn to hustle for other (potentially wider) markets.
Everybody can learn anything, there are no stupid kids or students, there are students with misunderstoods and those may be clarified.

A very odd statement:

* Everybody can learn anything, - no we cannot, for obvious reasons

* there are no stupid kids or students, - fair enough, I agree

* there are students with misunderstoods - assuming a speling mistak, "misunderstandings" doesn't work here either

* and those may be clarified. - Not sure how you clarify a misunderstanding: it is already a misunderstanding, unless you are actually referring to butter for some reason.
I don't think you follow the right people/channels. I see a wow effect every week.

Edit: some examples...

http://taotajima.jp/
http://mathis-biabiany.fr/
http://robinmastromarino.com/
https://demos.littleworkshop.fr/track
If you read the terms and are unhappy enough with them that you would want to file your own lawsuit, then you should exclude yourself. If you accept the terms, then you're giving up the right to sue them separately.
I am pretty sold on the idea that failure of ambition = good, failure of sloth = bad. This post seems to be in line with that.
I get 10 messages free each month so I often use some of them. It's the "SOS" button I don't want to use ever.
I like learning! It’s fun!

That's the take away here.
Dumb question: are you arguing that renting a scooter is harder than buying a car? Or easier?
Demo: Accelerate Deep Learning Inference on Raspberry Pi
The PSTN.
It's my responsibility to organize things such that what I need to do matches up with what I know how to do. If I need to do something urgently on an alien OS and I don't immediately know how to do it, the failure doesn't lie with the OS. Why am I not using an OS that I know better? Why don't I have time to read the documentation and understand this alien OS?
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Chromebook and I would not recommend it mostly because you have to fully disassemble it to unlock the bios. I managed to do something wrong when I opened it and closed it so after a while one of the hinges just broke.

Look for a Chromebook that you can unlock by just removing the battery. Anything else is just torture.
It can pull the steering wheel, but I'm pretty sure the ratios are selected so that I can still overpower it. The steering wheel is still mechanically connected to the front wheels.

And it surely can't disable brakes. It can disable ABS or force it to cycle, turn off power assist, and apply electric parking brake, but brake pedal is still connected to the brakes through some old school hydraulics.
I believe that as the leader of the free world U.S has certain responsibilities that go beyond its borders. If it can do something good (i.e overthrow a dictator) and perhaps
serves its interests as well(make new friends) I don't see why it shouldn't do that. It's a win-win. See South and North Korea situation to understand what difference it makes a successful intervention.
Oh, man, I still miss mutt. I should see about getting it set up again. I bet someone has a good config online somewhere for using it as an IMAP client with Gmail...

The only thing that might throw people off is that it uses nano for creating your email... (from the video)

Actually, IIRC it uses the EDITOR environment variable, with some sane fallbacks. I happily wrote emails in vim for years. That said, defaulting to nano with a quick and well known way to swap your buffer to vim (and possibly back) might be a better solution overall. I love vim and use it as my IDE, but the cost/benefit ratio isn't in it's favor when your average time spent on a reply might be very short or when you're writing freeform. Especially if your default config is for wordwrap off because you use it as an IDE...

The other thing to make sure you get nailed down in Mutt is to set up links or elinks as your html view handler, so HTML-only emails can actually be read without extreme difficulty for those cases where a client sent an HTML email without a plain-text companion.

The thing to remember for any program that allows complex configuration like mutt is that you can often search for other people's configs[1] and copy them as your own, and once you get better, you can copy portions of them and tweak as needed to get your own specific customized behavior. I ran FVWM2 as my window manager for over a decade, and I remember every 5-6 months I would do some searching to find interesting new behavior people had implemented that I could tweak and steal (like here[2]). Every time some interesting new UI feature would come out somewhere someone would implement it in FVWM within a couple months.

1: https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/wikis/ConfigList

2: https://www.box-look.org/browse/cat/143/
This doesn't make any sense to me.

My impression is that listening to locally stored mp3 files is becoming less and less common in favor of streaming music services.
Those aren't even installed and you can turn off app recommendations

Settings->personalization->start-> make sure "Show suggestions occasionally in start" is off.

Minecraft is awesome BTW :)

My android phone came with a ton of crap, my amazon tablet had a bunch of amazon crap.. i don't really think showcasing the marketplace of the hardware you have selected is that evil - especially since its easy to customize if it really bothers you.
I strongly recommend watching Edward Kmett’s talk — Stop treading water: learning to learn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8KcCU-p8QA
EME can be cracked if it isn’t already.

Anything can be cracked. The only way to not get your content copied is to not give it to the user in the first place. If the user can see/hear the content then he can also copy it.
>I predict a wave of anecdotal evidence and broscience along the lines of: - “but it cured my depression”

How's that laughable?

If cannabis can indeed help with depression that might mean more for the quality of life for a person despite "making their brain age faster".

Besides this "faster brain aging" could still be at an insignificant amount.

As in anything, there are tradeoffs.

Besides, as with any study, including the "largest" ones, this should be taken with a grain of salt, until results are solidified and go from mere research to active recommendations and common medical practices.
You may be thinking of Spolsky:

‘As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.’

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/09/18/strategy-letter-vi...
Love the exchange at 9:50, in which Turturro asks a boy if he uses the World Wide Web, and the boy responds by saying his dad doesn't like computers because, "Facts are facts" https://youtu.be/M6xqxoTKWv0?t=9m50s
I mean frankly that's still kind of my attitude to Chromebooks. I've never seen someone using one and I can't see the point.
Additional caveat: chrome DRM will no longer be functional if you do this.
Monkey selfie copyright dispute
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

https://openstax.org/details/books/university-physics-volume...
It's true in any business where the primary risk is understanding what to build and not how to build it.

That's not all businesses - for things like medical devices, avionics, high-performance computing infrastructure, self-driving cars, etc. it's very clear what the product needs to do, and not all that clear how to do it. But those businesses usually require deep industry knowledge and advanced technical education (in a field other than software), and you're slotting into an existing market structure rather than creating a new one. That means the potential market sizes are smaller, the risks are better judged by people with advanced technical degrees, and the effectiveness of capital is less. All those make them a poor fit for YC.
>Your mileage will vary.

Which makes an one-size-fits-all research less relevant as an absolute rule.

>If you have ever complained about someone not believing in facts, not doing research, not trusting data, not trusting science

Then you've done fine, as:

1) science is not some holy gospel given from god but a man-made endeavor (and prone to corruption, politics, error, careerism, and so on),

2) data can be manipulated or misread,

3) research can be bought, manipulated for grants, follow the wrong methodology, be unreproducible, and so on

4) facts themselves have no value unless you've seen them with your own eyes (and even then, you could be delusional or mistaken). With the term "fact" we denote something collected and reported by somebody that might be mistaken, told BS (e.g. how people self-report lies in studies and polls), distorted the actual bare facts for political reasons or private interests, and so on.

Not even peer review is some kind of holy process for the truth. All kinds of crap (even auto-generated) have passed peer review, academics prop each other up in little cliques all the time, tons of peer reviewed studies were found wrong and unreproducible, few "reviewers" take the time to reproduce or verify a study (to the point that studies quote the same old study for decades, and base their recommendations on it, and then it's found to be unsubstantiated BS), and meta-studies are more often than not very shallow.

If you trust science, you're not scientific and empirical enough.

Verify the crap out of everything you here, even if it's sold as "science".
Right, that's why now we all use Cuil for searches and look up information about various subjects on Cpedia.
When I'm considering where to live and where to work, I won't consider a house more than ten minutes away or a workplace more than fifteen, and have rejected houses and jobs on that basis in the past. I'm not alone.

A cynic might say something like, "Fine. Enjoy Kowloon. Just don't make the rest of us endure it or pay for it," but I'll refrain on the grounds that it's more provocative and less respectful than I want to sound. But my counterargument would definitely be along those lines.

At the end of the day, rail scales in only one dimension, while roads scale in two. That's important, IMO. Cities should not dictate the movement of people and goods; it should be the other way around.
This comparison is flat out ridiculous. Jobs returned to Apple 10 years before the iPhone and launched a series of successful and profitable products: iMac, iPod, and iTunes leveraging an existing rabid fanbase, and putting them in prime position to design and launch a category changer like the iPhone. I'm not particularly impressed with Musk or Tesla, but you can't compare bootstrapping an automobile company to leveraging a decades-old vertically integrated consumer electronics behemoth to disrupt UX in a $1000 hand-held device. The financial crisis was probably the optimal time to launch such a product.
Isn't that only a serious risk if you are using it as cloud storage as opposed to cloud backup? If you're using it for backup, your only risk is that you won't have a backup for some period of time during/after a shut-down, until you have uploaded your local copy to a new provider.
I'm sure it sounds like a broken record at this point, but "correlation =/= causation". It is possible that many that abuse cannabis are also more likely to engage in other activities that could contribute to brain aging. Of course it does not mean there is not causation either, but nonetheless more research is needed to be able to say definitively that it contributes more to brain aging than alcohol. Also as others have pointed out, the researchers definition of "abuse" is not defined.

Edit: also would like to add that it is quite common for people with mental illness to self medicate with cannabis, there are enough variables here to make one want to pull their hair out
When I was very little my uncle had one of those ultrasound remotes, I'm pretty sure it literally had only one button (next channel). If you pressed it when the dog was in the room, she would go crazy.