skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live 12 miles from work. I live closer to work than 75% of my colleagues. Some live 30+ miles away.

The bars and hangouts my friends visit are all over town. And for the things nearby: Would I rather spend an hour walking 5 miles to a park or restaurant, or 12 minutes with good bike lanes?

In the south, you don't want to stay out long unless you're ready to sweat. 10 minutes at a casual biking pace is several miles, 10 minutes walking is a mile, maybe, and with less wind for the energy expended.

I hazard a guess that you're from a northern coastal area, or Europe.
The method is just to realize that the pain isn't due to any structural abnormality but rather due to suppressed emotions. I think the easiest way to learn more about it is to watch Dr. John Sarno's lecture on YouTube (its about 50 mins long and quite easy to grasp at 2X speeds)
Some other reviews:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8rnr8l...

http://codingsupply.com/ultimate-hacking-keyboard-review-wor...

http://brettterpstra.com/2018/08/17/i-wrote-a-review-of-the-...

Franky, the UHK has received extremely positive reviews with the exception of Jamie's.
Or there is healthy competition in the space.

I think OP means you should write your interfaces with SaaS such that changing to a different provider is relatively easy (just rewrite a little client code or something to fit the new provider to your abstractions).
A sub 3 mile commute at 5-10 MPH is not that bad. You don't need a shower or change of clothes etc.

So it's more about commute distance than a pure question of speed.
FCM is only the third in a row of push notification solutions for Android (preceded by C2DM and GCM), and it'll be replaced someday, too.
Why is that "the issue"? There are many other problems with excessive telemetry besides data being sold to third parties. Besides, both Google and Apple claim that they don't sell telemetry data to third parties, so how is that aspect of the issue even relevant here?
I wish people would just stop getting offended so easily.

If you want to consider yourself a "pet owner" -- that's fine with me. If you'd rather be a "pet parent" -- more power to you.

But to take offense at someone else choosing either one of those for themselves?

Fuck off! What the hell do you care? If it hurts your sensibilities then do it differently yourself, but leave other people alone!
Hands down, Rhino3d (https://www.rhino3d.com/)

It is an amazing piece of 3D modeling software. After having used it, other 3D modeling software seems software seems clunky in comparison.

Rhino3D is the best mixture of command line, auto complete, and a mouse based interface that I have ever seen. Lots of CAD software combined the two, but Rhino does an incredible job. The commands are also incredibly well named, to the point that you can often just guess what you want to do, and the command is right there.

If you mean well architected, the RTOS that ran on the Microsoft Band is some of the best code I'll probably ever have the pleasure of working with. The lead architect on it reviewed every single code submission to ensure consistency in quality and style. Imagine hundreds of thousands of LOC with all the variables being well named, the same conceptual layout of code in every source file, all written against an incredibly well designed run time. The abstractions in the RTOS were all pure and consistent, you didn't run into surprises.

In terms of UI, a lot of specialty software actually falls into this category, it just has a learning curve, but the software is all driven around a single purpose and once you have learned it, that shows. Photoshop is actually like this, once you have learned it, the UI is incredibly powerful and the different abstractions used are at the right level of complexity to get the job done. (No idea how that code base looks though... :) )

The WPF Framework in the .NET Micro-Framework is another bit of good code. I think I am one of a handful of people to ever use it, but wow, is it a nice graphics API to write against. (Super limited, but that is kinda the point, it kicks butt at its one job!)
I hate YAML with a passion - I understand the goals of the project but the whitespacing and awkward syntax is really just too frightfully painful on large configs.

JSON by itself is definitely lacking in human friendliness.

HJSON and JSON5 were both solutions I liked. TOML is good too, and HCL is ok - but they don't quite serve as that nice drop in replacement that HJSON offered.
You should post this on reddit, I'm sure you will get plenty of answers to your question.
The workers gained an additional job opportunity because of him, one that was likely better than all other options they had at the time (or else why would they accept?)

He also has made goods generally cheaper and much more easily accessible to the world.
Agreed. The kind of technocratic musings as the original post have been around since the industrial revolution.

And wouldn't you know it, the people who embrace this kind of rhetoric usually happen to be either Fascists, Corporate leaders in search of power masquerading as "charity", or even Racist Nationalists.

The OP doesnt talk about what it takes to avoid these sorts of "human hacking" - robust education including rhetoric and debate, but also in sniffing "sponsored content", advertising, and bulls%!t. It takes independent news sources not beholden exclusively to profit, but who can trust that quality, independent journalism will earn a living, and find a public that trusts such news.

It takes remembering our history - through the labor movement and World Wars, we dont teach the lessons we learned, and so we suffer.

Neglecting that solutions exist isn't even nihilism. Its depressive navel gazing. Yes, the solutions are hard. Having a civilization at all gets hard from time to time.
Maybe I am just not getting it, but I don't love the physical barrier in bike lanes. When there is some obstruction (trash, a pothole, etc) in the bike lane I can't get out of the way.

I like the white posts for this reason. I can still get out, but cars will likely not get in (unless they're completely out of control in which case they'd probably hop a small curb as well).
I like it from the description, but I'm not sure about the fact that it's not ortholinear (i.e. keys are not in a grid).

How do people feel about the effect of ortholinearity on ergonomics?
Ask HN: Alternative to ffmpeg for PHP?
They gave up on mobile years ago. Both hw and sw.
artefact... I like that as a "label" for this. A bit like a glitch in the matrix.
For example, late fees on unreturned video cassettes.
Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)
it is true the difference in total weight is quite marginal (maybe 1%?) but that doesn't mean the impact is equal to 1%.

there is a perceptual quality that is often neglected when calculating the differences purely in terms of physical forces.

we agree a lighter bike will only be marginally faster in terms of speed on the ground but to say a rider doesn't notice a 1% difference in their speed requires an appeal to perception not to physics. those few seconds of a commute count.

i think that's why big granny gears that could roll a tank up a hill still don't solve the problem -- they just feel too slow
Their choices in hardware make it hard for me to switch.

Since the new hardware announcements this week I'm scrambling to find a new iPhone SE to switch to from Android. I want privacy, but I also want a small phone with a proper headphone jack.
Cydia Impactor can do this on-device, IIRC. But you still need to launch the app.
This kind of project will never get any kind of attention by laypeople, so it's good that they know that and aren't even trying. Less wasted energy :-)
Alcohol is #1.
Still? I thought they had spun off their mobile hardware division and were instead mostly focusing on mobile software. Would make some sense for them to try to do the same thing they did with PCs and IBM back in the day, since the OS is already open source (mostly).
I made it clear I agreed.

I should have added that it only becomes circular if you add the point at infinity. Otherwise it’s more similar to a plane. But yes, it’s not simply x,y numbers when you assume y^2=-1. The geometric interpretation of the complex numbers matters, and you have to do it correctly. Gets very hard to imagine quickly.
This is my choice too, i love everything about redis!
> Had way less of a learning curve than my ergodox.

The big difference to the keyboard you linked, the Ergodox is an ortholinear keyboard. It is to be expected that that comes with a learning curve if you've only typed on a staggered keyboard. I personally think ortholinear is worth the learning curve.
> If you pay Apple a hundred bucks a year for the privilege

You can do this with a free account, just with some restrictions on what types of API you can use.
What is the role of a designer?
With all the above, would you share how long on the average do you stay at one job?
I took a peek under the covers a while ago, and the bit that really stood out to me was the networking code. It's hard to do right.
Well, only iOS is, not all Apple products. It bothers me a bit that the high security/privacy of iOS is automatically applied to all Apple products in the article.

The notorious High Sierra proved more than enough that the macOS engineers develop __zero__ security in mind.
One of the earlier versions of iMovie. I had zero knowledge of movie editing when opening it for the first time, and managed to produce a reasonably well edited short movie in about two hours. Magic.
Theoretical/in-a-vacuum numbers like this always make me suspicious; it isn't as if workers would have $163m less at the end of a year any more than companies would have $163m less in accounts. That isn't how life works.

EVEN if it did - what if, as traffic were slowed and bike lanes and walking lanes were put in, commuter life improved? Society appreciated the new living space and they got healthier and spent less on fuel and cars? That new economies were enabled by new, healthier, cheaper forms of transport?
privacy, battery life and ram >>> gifs.
Constraints are a good thing ;)

You can fake it by having say, dot-delimited keys, but a lot of the complexity of config file formats come from the desire to support arbitrarily structured data when sometimes it's just as easy to fake it, not have it, or even use some templating.
Worse, it's forked from an old version of LineageOS that will be deprecated/unsupported once 16.0 is out.
how many people do you think spend enough money having other people walk their dogs for this to be a profitable venture to the extent of justifying this investment, especially given Silicon Valley startups' incredible propensity to burn money for nothing? This is such a California/New York/London bubble concept, it boggles the mind. It compares to Juicero because that's another service that no person with a normal income level would have used. At least the dog companies have the benefit of being necessary for all the single yuppies who feel bad leaving their dog locked in their $1m/yr closet apartment.

I can get behind gig economy companies like Uber because transport is a HUGE industry and the taxi experience was generally not very good, but dogwalking? If I wanted my dog (assuming I had a dog) walking, I'd just google "dog walker near me" and pick some local person off google's local business listings that would charge me a lot less than a startup that's going to charge me through the nose for a much less personal service.
> I suppose if anyone were designing new ISAs they'd design them with that assumption, to avoid baking-in temporary implementation details they'd regret later (see: branch delay slots).

Yep. See RISC-V's decision making process.
I agree, but it's not "overnight" either.
I used avconv, but its a ffmpeg fork.
Any reason you're looking for an alternative, is there something specific you are needing?
I think he claims he owns the copyright; if that's true, the license doesn't apply to him.
Nothing substantial. The article named a Wag contractor who openly admitted to using the platform to source clients for his personal business.
One thing I wonder about ratings is, are you measuring a user's individual interests, or whether they think the content is good / bad / shareable?

And what do the users think they are ranking?

Personally, I'd rather be ranking for what interests me, so that I get more of that; but I feel most networks are trying to extract a different signal, and that this produces crappy recommendations and useless rankings.
Dog walking is a good example of how over-regulated Canada is.

To walk a dog for money in Vancouver, you are required to have a $2 million insurance policy.

https://i.imgur.com/ZEVBBuD.png

Saner cities covered this liability with the $10 dog muzzle.
US official: Canadian marijuana users, workers, investors risk life border ban
Pain on Chest in Women
Ableton Live.

The way the UI design packs tons of control into a simple, flat interface. The way everything happens in realtime. The way everything can be routed and automated and chained.

Even though I'm a shitty musician, I love this program so much.
That is frequently what happens with the house cleaning middleman apps.

They can't keep the good housecleaners because they quickly arrange better side deals. Eventually my ex did the same to get a consistent cleaner.
Apple is a business like any other, all it will take is for the right financial incentives for them to engage in data sharing if they don't already.
Robinhood Onboarding
While we're at it, let's follow the jubilee calendar as well!

EDIT: downvotes?
/\ This thread is great for illustrating the article in real time.

Some people want to be able to put things in purely economic terms to be able to relate the current situation to the past, some want language to reflect the current crisis of natural resources, and then the conversation gets side-tracked by semantics.

The semantics are important, but lens-crafting makes conversations difficult, especially when meta-comments like this one further detract from the goal.

Important note: insulting myself, not any of the posters above.
Well, the question I always ask is who has more to gain (financially) from selling user telemetry: Apple or Google?
"wars and ISIL" are a big deal for the < 1% (0.4) of Americans serving in the military, and for the people living in these countries dealing with armed insurgencies, but 2008 had an impact on hundreds of millions of Americans beyond taking off their shoes at airports.
But that's not the survey they used. A search on Mintel reveals surveys on pet ownership that seem targeted for consumer research and pet industry (eg: https://store.mintel.com/americas-pet-owners-us-august-2018 and https://store.mintel.com/us-americas-pet-owners-market-repor...).

Their methodology as outlined on their web site (https://store.mintel.com/mintel-methodology) and details the quotas they utilize to get what they feel is a statistically relevant cross section of data.

Anytime sampling is used, of course it's not going to be exact. But a 2000 person survey is, given equal statistical rigor, going to be better than a 500 person online survey and might be enough of a population to justify more detail.

(Unfortunately, the Mintel survey results cost $4300, so other than their methodology page it's going to be difficult for me to infer much more. But the methodology page seems to suggest they aim for +/-2 or 3% confidence level.)
VueJs - from 0 to a basic working application literally in 2 minutes. Same with older versions of AngularJS, but not sure whatsup with the new Angular JS though (simply called as Angular) it is not easy to get up and started.
Sort of. They're in the process of exiting the market.

No new phones being manufactured as of about a year ago, and support is ending at the end of next year.
Got new remote job at cool startup using this
Paint shop pro version 5.0 (by Jasc). I don't know when it was made but it still sits on my desktop till today and is more useful and handy than any image editing software I've used.

It can handle almost all image formats, loads up in less than 1s and everything is so fast and breezy. The Ui is super intuitive that I've never had to once search for help.
Pocket Casts
It is referring to local multiplayer, where multiple people are in the same room, playing with one another, as opposed to playing across the internet.
I don't see why this means that it's ok to pay someone to care for your child during the day, but not ok to pay someone to take care for your dog during the day.
Well, ok but Apple also

- does not use that data to sell stuff to you.

- don't have a reason to profile you and store those profiles constantly updated.

- don't have a reason to "follow" you across the web everywhere you go to update that profile.

Just having that profile on you makes a company a liability. C you trust a company that makes money solely based on the information they collect about you to make decisions that benefit you? or your privacy and security?
The main thing I wonder about this is whether it's misleading to say the soap bubble is 'solving' a problem of high computational complexity.

If we were to form a description of its state evolving, framed as a computation, then that computation would be in such and such a complexity class—sure. But if you want to go ahead and say that soap bubble is literally computing in the same sense, you're making a number of implicit philosophical commitments that I have yet to see a justification for when this subject is brought up.

Edit: to clarify, what I'm getting at is whether we're using it to solve what is a problem for us, or whether it literally has to 'find a solution' in order to get into the state it gets into, so that principles of computational complexity etc. would be somehow applicable to what it's doing.
Depending on your Coding Culture, you order them based on "priority" (FATAL would have priority over all others, and therefore numbered as 1), or "importance" (FATAL would be most important, and therefore numbered 5.)

Alternatively, each is a flag in a number so that they can be combined, with FATAL being 1 or 16 depending on priority vs. importance.

I would argue that the names do indeed suffice to tell you their "level" - TRACE is the noisiest, least important, least priority level. DEBUG is next, followed by INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL.
Apologies, I misread :(

They're only starting in NY and Cali, which I estimated to be about 7 million dogs that needed walking. Additionally, Uber and Lyft combine to do $8 billion in revenue per year, operating at much larger scale with much larger demand and averagr sale price.

So I think $500M a year is optimistic. I would expect this type of startup to do more like $50M a year in revenue with a modest loss, and the users are then sold peripheral pet services.
Great article and good discussion going on in the comments. I personally am going through very interesting transition. My company has decided to let people work remote or from the office so I have 2 days work from office (T,W) and 3 days work from home (M,Th,F) schedule. Here is my observation for last 2 years (working in bay area)

Days I am working from home

- I have better energy in the morning and evening due to no commute.

- I work way more and focus on personal diet and health way less because of no set schedule.

Days I go to office

- I feel more energetic during morning and afternoon. This is mainly due to socializing with colleagues and working with humans face to face.

- I get out more, go for walk, have lunch with people outside.

- Evenings are dreadful with 1/2 hr commute.

- No energy at night.

My personality is such that I like to be around people and like to get out. Remote work sort of stops me from doing that however if I go to the office everyday then commute kills me.

Have not found the answer to this problem yet.
Any specific questions, feel free to ask me.
Any third party that would pay google enough for the data would probably be seen by Alphabet as a company ripe for disruption.
> one random act of vioilent human stupidity

There's a definition of terrorism i've never heard before, probably for good reason.
From what I understand they are now competing with Granger in the Industrial market.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-11/amazon-am...

And now they are getting into Fastenals market it seems, which is a billion dollar industry.

https://www.fastenal.com/

I was just recently trying to figure out where to get that little square clip that slides onto the gas cylinder on my Aeron chair to keep the rod from coming out.
That says low density than anything else.

At 25k people per km^2 you get 200 thousand people within 1 mile radius and 0.8 million people within 2 mile walking distance. That transforms most US population centers into tiny little walk-able islands.

Public transit can spread things out, but lower density is a real trade-off.
uMatrix also has this feature (works on both FF and Chrome), it can be setup globally and per site/domain.
You can just spin the base and have whatever slope you want
Upcoming Node.js Features Improve Experience for CLI App Authors
Gravity theory saved from death
I'll chime in. My first child is due in 3 months. I find it offensive when my friends compare the burden of pet ownership to that of raising a child because there is so much more work, preparation, and much higher stakes. I think that's the reason people react so strongly to sentiments like that.
That's not at all were all the claims come from. You can block all ads without jailbreaking on iOS and iOS collections an order of magnitude less tracking data[0] than Android. Apple has pioneered the differential privacy algorithm's on top of that. Apple has a ton of features pointed at user privacy especially in the latest version of Safari. Android is in no way strictly better for privacy and saying so is irresponsible IMO.

[0] https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...
SpaceX signs passenger to fly around the moon
Ambiguous question but off the top of my head: SendGrid, Stripe, Heroku, GitHub, Redis
Can Naples, the City of Pizza Reinvent Itself as a Tech Capital?
The smallest "Hello world!" I ever managed was 86 bytes: https://github.com/wybiral/tiny-elf

Edit: It's only possible by moving the string and some of the opcodes into the ELF header section.
I personally use a regular keyboard rather than a split ergonomic keyboard; I've never really had any discomfort even typing for long periods, so have never really felt the need, and I have a tenkeyless keyboard that I'm very happy with.

The main thing that I notice when I try out split keyboards is that the middle keys on the keyboard are forced to "choose a side". My typing style admits some degree of alternation; I may use my left hand to hit the 'h', especially when my right hand is doing punctuation work on the side of the keyboard.

So my question is why aren't these keys simply replicated. Just have t/y,g/h,v/b/n on both sides of the divide so that you don't have to make a choice; just like the spacebar is replicated.
I can't believe people in this thread are talking about denoting currency in complex numbers. I'm trying to imagine how I would explain this to my grandmother.
Sorry for the throwaway comment — but I have to say the lesswrong link above is the most interesting internet rabbit hole I’ve come across in a long time! Wow - thank you!!
Sure, but what do you think those incentives could probably be for a company that makes its living based not on data collection but selling physical products whose 'best product is now privacy' according to the post, and who are more profitable than anyone else?
Software companies actually do this? That is the least efficient way for the company and the candidate to go through the interview process...