skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just downloaded the app. Do you know if it can OCR pdfs? I miss that from Evernote.
The same reason every mid-sized company gets bought: to obtain the users. Evernote was there first, and has an established market through nothing more than inertia. Their product is terrible. Someone will buy them, absorb the userbase, and get rid of the existing product.
I never claimed as such. You may wish to read my comment, the Constitution, then my comment again.
Seems like a good time for people to backup any documents that are only stored on Evernote.
As I allowed in my comment, it may be acceptable as part of a military operation.

However, the Constitution does not grant Congress or the Courts to spy, or to hire spies, or direct spies, or have anything to do with spies.
Zoom is good for all of the above. But very confusing UX for maintaining the friends graph and chatting arguably.
I've had two non-Tesla EVs: the Fiat 500e and the BMW i3.

The Fiat 500e had two recalls while I owned it. Both were for a possible propulsion system fault that could result in the vehicle stalling while driving. They sent a flatbed tow truck instead of letting me drive it in.

The BMW i3 had a recall for a safety issue, unrelated to the electronic nature of the car. Although it's probably fair to relate it to the "let's make an all-new car design from the ground up" impulse behind it.

BTW, I just went back to a more traditional plug-in hybrid over weekend. Five years as an EV driver (not in a Tesla) was a long time to be feeling range anxiety.

I look forward to watching Mercedes and Porsche stick the landing.
Well I think I have a retention/engagement problem that I don't know how to troubleshoot. Most of the users who sign up for the free trial stick around and pay. So it's not like I am not seeing any sign ups.
Presumably the commenter got tricked into giving up their credentials to a fake Skype phishing page served via a hacked/insecure/malicious WAP.
Your comments in this thread have been breaking the site guidelines. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?

That means not calling names in arguments, not using the site for ideological battle (regardless of your ideology), and not attacking your fellow users (regardless of how wrong they are or you think they are).
> That's a bit harsh, don't you think?

No.

Given the chance, these people would turn all the computers we use and love into locked-down content consumption machines. I think it is safe to assume this agenda is against the interests of everyone on hacker news. In fact, if copyright holders got their way, it would be impossible to be a hacker.

The only way to stop copyright infringement is to destroy computing as we know it. That is their end game. They want to take control of the user's computer and actively prevent them from doing things they don't like. This battle for copyright is similar to the battle against encryption: corporations and governments don't want you to have any control because it allows you to subvert them.

> Just because something is easy to copy doesn't mean it doesn't have value.

I didn't say it had no value. I said it wasn't scarce.

> Creators should be paid for their work no matter how simple is to copy.
> If they are the first one who created it and someone else benefits, then they deserve to be compensated.

Then, for all our sakes, I hope they can figure out how to get paid regardless of how many copies are out there.
I would actually suggest buying the Hays translation of Meditations instead of reading the free versions. The language in every other version is overly verbose and archaic.
One huge problem is that there’s a lot of competition that provides most of the same core features for free—like Apple Notes, for example. It’s also easy to repurpose apps like MS Word and Google Docs to achieve the same functionality. Obviously they’re very different apps designed for a different purpose, but many of my friends don’t seem to mind. They just want a reasonably functional way to take notes for free.
This is a great thread! From my perspective, if a job sucks, it's usually because the projects are managed poorly. Here are some things I ask to try and gauge how projects are run:

1. Do you subscribe to a particular development methodology?

This is basically a warm up question. 99% of the time the answer is agile. If it's a startup, they might say "we're moving towards agile." That's a good answer bc it means that you might have an opportunity to help them make agile not suck so much.

2. How long are your sprints

Two weeks is a good answer in my personal opinion.

3. What kinds of meetings do your dev teams have on a regular basis and how often do you have them?

The bare minimum for agile would be something like daily stand-ups (i.e. "scrum") and sprint planning once before each new sprint. Some shops do retrospectives, which are a complete waste of time in my opinion. There's also grooming, kickoffs, and all kinds of other crap.

4. How long are your stand-ups typically?

I'm looking for 15 minutes. If the answer is an hour they can go fuck themselves.

5. Do PMs write separate stories for front-end and back-end?

This is a biggie. Unless you're all full-stack devs, one story for front-end AND back-end is a pile of shit, especially for the front-end devs. You're going to waste so much time explaining the status of such and such story and who is blocked on what BC there is no way in Jira to say that the front-end part of story FUK-123 is blocked story is blocked by itself.by the back-end part of FUK-123.

6. DO YOU HAVE AN OFFSHORE DEV TEAM?

This is another biggie. I don't think I need to explain the pitfalls here, but if the answer is yes, you're going to want to ask a lot of follow up questions.
Interesting. I wonder if they're just using browser extensions though to get the same functionality? Since if you have any browser plug-ins installed (e.g. AdBlock), you've got the same potential issue.
Here are some official links on the issue:

- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

- https://twitter.com/AzureSupport

- https://twitter.com/Office365Status

- https://status.office.com
Ultimately either a ton of value will be created for consumers or shareholders will be wrecked.

Bezos is spending their money until then :)
Which you are going to use how? Don't you have to cast it to something to be able to use it?
Time Management by Randy Pausch [video]
I dunno. When a Skype voice call on my iPhone ends, I look at the screen, and press the sole red button at the bottom-right of the screen.

It's a heart, and it attempts and fails to "like" the voice call.

Then I press in the middle of the screen and the sole red button becomes a "disconnect call" button.

How does that get through A/B testing? How does that get through, "hey Aunt Linda, try to make a call." testing?
Let it be known that Twitter is not immune to getting the boot either.
Hewlett and Packard fit this pattern. Arguably Robert Noyce also.

You can't really do stats on outliers without binning stuff into a histogram. The 5 sigma entrepreneurs were probably young just out of survivor bias. The guy who cofounds Fairchild semiconductor and gives it his name (Sherman Fairchild) doesn't count as the world's greatest semiconductor entrepreneur because he died significantly before his cofounders did.
Where do you track the progress of this MS-OSM project?

And that sounds like a good idea. If I don't do it soon, feel free to implement it as an extension and I'll link to it from the AgentMaps repo!
Go's Memory Allocator – Overview
I just want to be able to resize the computer app to a non-phone sized window (and not all the way to full screen).
Amazing! This article was very interesting. Thanks!
Would be nice if they could consolidate Skype, Skype Desktop and Skype for Business (comes with office) that were all installed on my Fathers PC for some reason.
I applaud your foresight.
Well, sort of. Both my parents are from 45 minutes outside Pitt, so lots of influence I’m sure, but I grew up elsewhere.

I’m not a yinz-er, but all my cousins are. ;)
They keep insisting they're not asking for backdoors. Here's what the explanatory bill says:

The type of assistance that may be requested or required under the above powers include (amongst other
things):

* Removing a form of electronic protection applied by the provider, if the provider has an existing
capability to remove this protection.

* Providing technical information like the design specifications of a device or the characteristics of a
service.

* Installing, maintaining, testing or using software or equipment given to a provider by an agency.

* Formatting information obtained under a warrant.

* Facilitating access to devices or services.

* Helping agencies test or develop their own systems and capabilities.

* Notifying agencies of major changes to their systems, productions or services that are relevant to the
effective execution of a warrant or authorisation.

* Modifying or substituting a target service.

* Concealing the fact that agencies have undertaken a covert operation
Great stuff!

This is actually a powerful design pattern in golang. Write first without worrying about bottlenecks. Make sure all tests are ok. And typically concurrent GC is performant enough for average loads.

Then later at our leisure we can optimize with pprof and custom load generator. With bonus points for go-fuzz and throwing in some chaos ;)

But for ARP style table lookups, do you even need to allocate for the response? Are we actually doing any request processing? Can't we just output the cache entry to the net io.Writer, log the event, and continue?
> ASICs aren't necessarily task specific, you can do whatever you want in an ASIC.

I mean, it's stands for "application specific" so it's really just a matter of semantics.

> Your unit cost analysis isn't quite right either

Yeah I realize now my unit cost analysis is confusing. `++` means "best unit cost" aka "least expensive". I forgot to go into the scale issue more, which is where FPGAs can really come into the equation as a good middle ground between unit cost at scale and development cost.
This is a good suggestion thanks
But Elon Musk is CEO of his own companies, and therefore his public behavior and positions are relevant to the missions and success of his companies.
Charlie Munger quotes--

“There’s a lot wrong [with American universities]. I’d remove 3/4 of the faculty — everything but the hard sciences. But nobody’s going to do that, so we’ll have to live with the defects. It’s amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don’t see the big picture.”

“I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues — they may know a lot of French [however].”

"Teaching people formulas that don’t really work in real life is a disaster for the world.”
I used them for years as a paying customer, and though the apps were also a bit slow and buggy I thought they were worthwhile.

I only cancelled when they changed their terms to allow engineers to read your notes to improve their ad targeting. Though they eventually walked that back it soured me enough, now I get by with google docs instead.
The City of Santa Cruz has banned sleeping in public, and actively enforced it when I was last regularly there a few years ago. Enforcement has gotten much more agressive over the last decade, as Santa Cruz became more affluent.
You can reach the "serviceable by transit" population density with that requirement for "2 parking spaces per dwelling and detached single-family homes".

Let's allow for a road that is legally 50 feet wide. Each house's share of that is half, so 25 feet. (it is 12.5 feet pavement and 12.5 feet curb/swale/sidewalk/etc.)

We need a 20x20 space for a normal cheap (no elevator) double garage. We want this home legitimately "detached", so let's allow enough room for scaffolding to stay within the property on both sides and the rear. That makes the lot 28 feet wide, and adding room for a staircase takes it to 32 feet wide. Including the half-street, the lot is 49 feet deep. That means 1568 square feet for the house.

At this size, there are 17780 homes per square mile. For comparison, we can fit 841953 homes in San Francisco. We can't just have homes of course, but on the other hand there will be more than 1 person per home. It happens that San Francisco contains almost exactly that many people, 884363 as of 2017. San Francisco also happens to be the second most densely populated large US city, behind only New York.

It thus works fine, or at least as well as the second most dense large city in the USA.
Alcohol, to my knowledge, is not self medication for a legitimate issue. What deadly condition do they have that requires "booze and drugs"?
I really like Amplitude
So.... no examples.
This type of thing can be done by setting up key bindings in System Preferences, either per app or as a global default.

And the macOS version isn’t limited (e.g. I globally rebind Minimize because I got tired of hitting the wrong key and seeing a window disappear).
The problem you describe is not specific to Go. You should always test all error paths in production code. Using mocks or error injection can help with triggering otherwise “impossible” cases.
You can opt in personal accounts to APP can't you? Or are you just saying it's not easy to enforce?
I use Tiddlywiki and Resilio Sync: https://philosopher.life/
I believe that was Anatole's point.
How to Use the Large Hadron Collider to Search for Dark Matter
The OP specifically asked for non-fiction.
He wasn't.

Also, in my state at least, bicycles are completely legal to ride on the shoulder of the interstate and similar divided highways with the exception of about 20 miles of urban highway. Very few cyclists do so since it is still a dangerous and unpleasant experience. Personally, I have done so once when I made a couple of wrong turns on unfamiliar backroads. A 2 mile ride along the highway got me back to a spot I knew rather than risk getting even more lost farther from home.
> I am 100% certain that a large number of the homeless would refuse to live in a homeless shelter if it meant giving up booze and drugs

Ok, but keep in mind that many of them probably turned to these as an escape from the reality of their condition and are now addicted. Perhaps a better thing to do would be to help rehabilitate them instead of vilifying them as addicts?
I'm aware. When I asked "Transmission? Do you mean the reduction gear?" the service manager was confused and started stammering when I asked why all of them need off schedule service.
Cryptotards – So, I was bored
"If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank."
And I'm not sure how to communicate with someone who dismisses racism as 'silly tweets'.

Our points of view simply do not intersect.

But when you say this isn't a left-wing issue, I think you fail to consider the number of people in the left wing who've argued that "racism against white people is impossible" and the support for Sarah Jeong in the left wing media.
That's an excellent translation!
The message is to entrepreneurs: don't build companies - build protocols.
Mixpanel works great on apps as well..
What (non-abstract) client would want you to do this in their own project? Sure, he'll want the people who spent (wasted?) their own time doing this but would categorize you as a non-professional time waster if you do this out of their own pocket and would probably fire you after too many strolls in the 'abstract' realm
Ask HN: How do i fix my language ADD
A majority of my work is glueing things together (aka 'data science') with the occasional big application or number cruncher thrown in there. For an unexplainable reason, I don't like python. However, it's exceedingly difficult to justify anything other than python these days.
On balance, I agree. But some do quote selectively, to justify all sorts of horror.
How the clownfish earned its stripes
I Facebook went out of business, people would instead message more on other messaging platforms, text people more, read news in other news platforms and so on.

There are plenty of opportunities for all of those options.

Consider, for example, the Cola soda market. There are countries in which Coca-Cola holds 95% or more of the market share for Colas, or even for sodas.

Does that make it a monopoly? No. Because Colas are just one type of soda drinks, and soda drinks are just one type of drink.

If Coca-Cola disappeared and there was no other Cola drink available, Cola drinkers would drink a lemon-flavored drink, or fruit juice, or just plain water.

So your definition doesn't work, exactly because you didn't define the market.

And hey, this isn't just my opinion, it is how monopoly is defined in economics. Particularly regarding something that we haven't talked about yet, which is monopoly pricing. There is no monopoly pricing in any market that Facebook operates. Quite the opposite, actually, ad prices have been going down continuously.

It is always interesting to see people in HN trying to recreate economics from first principles.
>Orange is the New Black is far more representative of your typical incarceration facility.

Ugh, maybe for a Federal facility.

City and county jails are dangerous shitholes in many (most?) places in the US.
Skype accounts are Microsoft accounts. That's why the sign in page says "email, phone, or skype." But Microsoft did a spam purge as well, that's why Skype is usable again. If your Skype account was compromised and being used to send spam, it's probably gone for good.
Exactly this. 80% churn means you don’t have an app (yet.) or, you have an app, but you are not positioning it correctly. You have the wrong customers basically.
For those that don't know about the FVEY, here is a good documentary about it:

https://ispydoc.com
Google didn't support U2F for Gmail in Firefox for a long time because Chrome was incorrectly implementing the spec [1] and relied on interoperability with their previous proprietary implementation [2] of U2F, and Gmail relied on that. Apple has been a better actor in this regard than Google has, since they are planning to implement the spec as written [3].

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409573

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436078

[3]: https://webkit.org/status/#feature-web-authentication
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines by going on about downvotes like this? It's off topic, and in the rules for good reason:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The strong will survive. On some level you have to make peace with the way evolution really works. Or, you know, wind up extinct.
When you stir up the beehive, you likely encounter a bee just crazy enough to sacrifice itself in order to sting you. Ajit Pai is, obviously, a traitor, and has pissed off a large portion of the citizens of the US. I'm surprised he hasn't had more direct action against him.
Compared to corporate skype is orders of magnitude better imo. Teams at least is on the right direction from a ux perspective.
Goodbye Redux
What self hosted email does U2F? Seems like a legit point in an article touting U2F email authentication.
> FPGA should be more flexible than processor

I disagree. Processors can be programmed in many sophisticated languages and have many built-in features that either don't come in similarly priced FPGA, or you'd have to program into the FPGA itself.

> processor should be more efficient than FPGA

It depends on the workload. Some things, processors might be more efficient at. But FPGAs have the upper hand at many things because they can use combinational logic.
Tire life probably had more to do with specific tire choice and driving style than EV vs. ICE.
I’ve got no sympathy whatsoever for anyone who bought a gas-guzzler over the past few years simply because fuel was cheap. You should’ve seen this coming.
If it were Steve Jobs doing the same things he'd been doing for months or years, it'd probably be treated just the same, because it doesn't qualify as content that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

To me, these stories about Musk fall in the same bucket as those described thus: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.".

There's nothing interesting or new here, and the repetitive discussions confirm that.
Most people on the street have either a medical issue or mental health issue. Some of the drugs used to treat mental health issues have terrible, terrible side effects. Some people with those conditions would rather drink or use street drugs because the side effects are less objectionable.

If your mental health issues have utterly ruined your life to the point where you are homeless, that fact can help make you suicidal. To the degree that mental health issues can lead to suicide, I think it is reasonable to suggest they can be deadly.

Alcohol also kills germs. I loathe alcohol. I had a nightcap pretty much daily for about a year while doctors acted like I was crazy and failed to figure out how to treat my condition. I began getting better. I stopped drinking alcohol when I found other treatments that worked better.

I'm convinced I would have died had I not consumed alcohol for a year.

I knew someone briefly with a mental health issue who lived in fear of winding up homeless. She also drank alcohol very heavily for a time and felt enormous guilt about it. But she had surgery for something at some point and when they opened her up, they discovered some badly infected organ. They removed it and marveled at the fact that she wasn't dead.

I think her heavy drinking saved her life. After that surgery, she was able to get clean and sober, in spite of her mental health diagnosis.
"I've yet to meet a homeless person whom wasen't self-medicating in some fashion."

I guess there are those that start drinking, and doing drugs; and then end up homeless. I'm 100% sure that's not the norm.
(I never say 100 percent, but couldn't pass up the irony.)

By the way, one of the original programmers of Wordstar died while being homeless a year ago. I knew him, and his story was he couldn't afford rent. Mother died. His skills were 10 years out at of date, and he just could make it.
There's a decent argument to be made that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was far better than most of civilized history, and we've only recently really dug ourselves out of that hole.
> That’s not how criminal law works. The defendant is never under any obligation to prove innocence. The prosecution always has to prove guilt. Having suspicion is not having proof.

Applying for a passport isn't a criminal proceeding, for one thing, but regardless of that, not having a passport stamp is strong evidence that you weren't here. It's like proof that your car was parked in your driveway all night when you claim you were at work -- when all other methods of travel are illegal. It's theoretically possible that you got there some other way, but now it's on you to show that. It's not about "proving your innocence" but rather rebutting the government's strong evidence that you're not.

> So you attribute that level of conciseness that Trump never stated. He never said that we want the good non socialist minority of Norwegians.

That's a fair point, only then it goes the other way. Trump doesn't want more people from Mexico because he actually knows they don't vote for him (it's a thing the media regularly talks about). Does he contemplate how immigrants from Norway would vote at all, or is he just arbitrarily choosing a country known to have a middle class?
would be interesting to see this assumption contrasted against the monuments of more modern nomadic peoples such as the mongols. Nomads still need gathering points to trade etc.