skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pivotal Tracker is so incredibly good, it's a shame it's kind of niche (compared to Jira).

When Jira gives you the mightiest of tools to postpone and reconsider everything into oblivion by discussing and custom-workflowing it in epic Cinemascope, Pivotal Tracker will give you just that little amount of space for collecting what you need, and then get things shipped.

It may be weird, but a company using Pivotal Tracker has a big +100 from my side when looking for a job.
Hardware level configuration is beneficial if you switch between computers, (especially which you don't have control over) on a regular basis.
That's the first thing I tried but it didn't work. Maybe it would've worked before I booted Steam in the first place, but you'd think Steam would've coded around that obvious circumvention.
Which is good news if you live in a locality where recovering traceable stolen cars is a law enforcement priority.
>... because no one who interprets laws does so with any regard to their purpose and therefore all laws which govern speech will be enforced arbitrarily

No one does not necessarily beget the other. But I would say that "power corrupts" is very true. If you give somebody power over who can talk, that's very tempting to misuse. So why give anyone that power? It's too powerful to be used with restraint in the long run IMO.

>I can definitely see that not happening, or at least not succeeding when it's attempted, because it could happen now with hate speech laws

Honestly if it did actually happen, what would you do about it? Would you complain in the newspaper? Online? What if your complaint was classified as "terrorist" content? I mean does it really actually HAVE to happen IRL for you to see that this type of power should not be held by politicians?
Isn't pretty much any historical text also historical evidence?

No. People make up stories. Obviously. Harry potter isn't historical evidence of the magical abilities of past humans.
It's much harder to climb the corporate ladder if you are one of the only remote employees in a company.
I'll tell you what there isn't any evidence for either
While I don't want to be too presumptuous and say this is going to fail, it is definitely not going to defeat Fastenal or McMaster-Carr. Really, it comes down whether it's a generic part, or specifically engineered for a larger assembly. If it's the former, it's going to be significantly easier to use a website like McMaster-Carr where every item is completely organized into a hierarchy. You can quickly drill down and find the exact part you need. Amazon's Industrial & Scientific is a joke in comparison. A iPhone picture is going to have a lot of error in regards to material, coating, grade, threadpitch, etc.

And if it's a bespoke part, you are much better getting the part number from an exploded diagram. Again, this is super fast and accurate (assuming you actually have the diagrams, and that parts are still available). Engineers put a huge amount of work into designing fasteners, and modern vehicles will have thousands of different kinds. For example, Toyota transfer case has two different bolts holding the housing together, one is 27 mm long, the other is 29 mm. A single picture is definitely not going to tell the length.

Maybe someday every single part will have an rfid tag on it. Don't bother putting a barcode on each part, years of grease, corrosion, and wear (the very things that cause you do need a new part) will obliterate it.
With how Microsoft has ruined Windows and having awful experiences with several Windows based laptops this year (XPS 15, Surface Book 2, ThinkPad X1 Carbon) I decided to switch to a MacBook Pro two months ago when the 2018 models came out.

I haven't been this happy using a computer in a long, long time. Yes this MBP cost me about £800 more than an equivalent Dell or Lenovo but damnit it just works so well. There is no frustrating corner cutting like I found on so-called 'premium' laptops from Dell, Lenovo and Microsoft such as panels with backlight bleed, poor audio, wifi issues, etc.

It has been so good that today I did something I haven't done in over a decade. I pre-ordered an iPhone Xs Max. I don't have any real functionality issues with Android but I am happy to be getting away from Google.

Now I just need to find a reliable alternative to G Suite and I can be Google free!
Developer tools: Twilio, Heroku
Consumer software: TurboTax

I know that TurboTax is a controversial choice because they are incentivized to fight to keep tax law complicated, but if we ignore the political context, their software works beautifully well. It never does anything I don't expect, when I need more time on a section it's easy to drop out and revisit later, and I always feel confident at the end that I've filled out my taxes correctly.
Split keyboards are primarily designed for touch typist who consistently hit keys with their fingers. Replicating middle keys would result in extra bulk.
The fact that everything is done with a single compose file is the reason I set it up like this (mostly because it was a good learning opportunity).
I'm still trying to find a way around the necessity to expose the docker socket to configure the proxy though.
Agree completely. I usually use YAML just so I can document my work using comments. If they added "heredoc" and comments, I think that I would be happy with JSON forever.
It's less of a big tick, and more of a big question mark, where the question is "how, or when, are they going to exploit this massive untapped resource they're sitting on?"
I was about to complain that my PyOhio video about dot matrix printers was missing, but it is in the 2-month Python section.

So now that I'm ashamed of my ego... there were several talks that were much better from that conference and it is a shame they didn't get more views. Mine was picked up by Hack-a-Day so it got a boost, but many of the other talks were better in all kinds of measures like amount of content, social relevancy, etc... It sucks that we still don't have a good system other than view count!

Great project, however, well done regardless.
It's also corroborated by the other Abrahamic texts from what I understand. Let's not just throw out historical sources because of a personal agenda. It's unscientific.
Probably, VLC media player. It does everything I need a media player to do.
I'm sorry, I was trying to better understand your argument which seemed to be focused on geographic distance as a form of whether it was acceptable or not to have armed conflict.
We don't claim to be objective. That would require arhat levels of self-knowledge. But we do try.

People with the opposite ideology to yours perceive HN as having the opposite bias. I was keeping a list of these for a while. Here's a sample:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17248326

This phenomenon has been studied. It's called the Hostile Media Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22....
I'm not really surprised by this. At a drone conference in 2016, I first saw presentations from them among many other interesting technology vendors. They had a "vision" that they carefully presented on stage of what they would do, but everyone else at the show was either demoing technology or taking orders. Airware had a "call us for pricing" kind of attitude.

Meanwhile, its been a year since Verizon acquired Skyward - which was a force in the drone industry pushing for better flight management tools, better collaboration with ATC, and an affordable product for small-time commercial operators that got most of their money as contractors/service providers.

At the enterprise level, Drones just didn't solve a lot of problems. At the small farmer, construction contractor, gravel pit, etc, drones solved a lot of problems, but drones were the anti-scale solution. They Reduced the work so drastically, and improved the result so much that there was no need to scale up software licenses. In many cases, it just did the work better, in a 10th of the time, at a much lower cost. But, there was not a giant amount of work in the queue for those companies. Just a steady flow of the same jobs that used to take longer.

Now, beyond visual line of sight (BVLS) flights might change that for the enterprise eventually, Power lines, rails, pipelines, and roads are all good candidates for remote, automated drone inspection. But, I suspect that it will be either DJI hardware, Custom Hardware, and some amount of custom software that really integrates drones into the enterprise process. Flight planning is only part of the picture. Maybe Airware had it all, but, if so, they were too early - they couldn't outlast the slow (and rational) pace of aviation regulatory change.
The article raises good points about the need for formal societal taboos against constant work. The ideal (often violated, though) in our modern society of the "40-hour week" as a reasonable amount is one of them. Having regular times for contemplation and separation from the bustle of the world is important.

The gig economy has dangers in it. There's a liberating aspect in that people "can choose their own hours," but then that means that they have to work more to keep up with someone else who is working a few extra hours to get ahead in their own lives. It seems like the world of labor has a tragedy of the commons aspect to it, where it's in everyone's immediate individual interest to work just a little bit longer, but the end result is that everyone has to work more for the same reward. A bit like the two-income trap: some benefits, some liberation, but there's also a cost.

I do wish, though, that the article fully grappled with the issue of the 'shabbos goy.' It praises the virtues of having everyone able to participate in a time of separation from work, but then there's this practice where the conveniences of life are still indulged in by having an outsider labor for you.
>... enabling the convenience of driving using only one's phone is a luxury which most people have yet to experience just how insanely convenient it can be.

Imagine the inconvenience of having to pull out the key like if it was the 20th century. This is idiotic as now you have the added problem that your car will be stolen for using "password" as a password.
What is your opinion on the Holocaust?
Static compilation has already been possible for several years, it's just not very user-friendly.
Could he not have just charged without using the superchargers?
Which makes it interesting for them to have an OS that won't lock particular software out in a play akin to what MS is trying to to to Valve by using their monopoly, a dogmatic Richard Stallman approach to this would ironically save them from that.
Kind of have this in Germany, where many businesses are prohibited from being open on Sunday. For example, grocery stores can't be open unless they're at a central train station or airport.

In practice, to me it just feels really annoying and limiting. Means I basically have to plan any larger shopping trips for Saturday, even if that doesn't work well for my schedule. I get that they want to make sure workers have enough time off, but you could mandate days off for each worker without banning Sunday for everyone.

Not to mention that it being Sunday very obviously favors Christianity over other religions that might have a different holy day. The integration of church and state here turned out to be more than expected.
This is one of the few I see with a trackpoint / trackpad as an option.

Having a separate mouse next to a programmers keyboard sort of defeats the purpose, because it makes you move your hand constantly. But a pointer device is often the most ergonomic option if one of your tools is a browser.
“BlissLauncher has original icons“

It looks like a very slight variation of iOS. Not particularly original at all.
I wonder how our concepts of work and rest have changed over time?

Is tending to your home, family, or garden considered work?
That's a bold claim when he was being paid a salary to work on it.
Yes that's why they said "2". (Google is in the spyware market, hence cannot be taken seriously).
and without the slashes one of many names of a particularly popular party drug
Getting a replacement car key made is a surprisingly slow/expensive process for most modern cars (not as easy as a replacement house key at Home Depot, for example)
Apple, along with Google and other companies, gives the government access to pretty much all of our data: https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-data-...
I ordered a couple of these a couple of years ago. Still waiting.

Hadn't internalized the lack of an ESC key, so they are probably going into a closet.

I'm really happy with my Kinesis Gaming keyboards. Half a dozen of my cow-orkers have bought them based on just a few minutes of using the one on my desk. They're the best keyboards I've used in the last 20 years, since Microsoft's Natural keyboards started to crater in design and build quality.
That has already been done by Synaptics and is used in the Xiaomi Mi 8 [1]. Seeing that Xiaomi copied most of the design from the iPhone X - notch and all, unfortunately - I guess Apple should get a pass when they copy the under-screen finger print sensor from Xiaomi.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/xiaomis-mi8-news/
SE is great for developers, since it sets a reasonable minimum bar for screen resolution.
Read the article...
> what our society would need to look like for the Sabbath to be possible.

Keeping sabbath is possible, though sometimes difficult.

Coming from a fairly conservative presbyterian background, the hardest part for me was on-call responsibilities. There are exemptions for emergencies (for doctors, police, fire fighters, etc), but in some software jobs "emergencies" happen nearly every day and it didn't seem like that was adhering to the spirit of the rule.

But outside of that it just means you need to be better about planning to make sure you get work done on Saturday, or early Monday morning.

Once you get in the habit of disconnecting its totally worth it though.
Elon Musk's Boring Company Project Brings Tunnel Travel to Your Garage
Why should there be expectation of precedent? Isn't he supposed to be a pioneer (like doing things such as trying to make humanity a space faring species)? Also, charity begins at home and Amazon is his home.
>this other measure of unemployment is much higher than the standard measure shows that the economy is not healthy

No it doesn't. Aside from it being a nonsensical measure of 'health', the overall 'employment rate' is well above pre-1990 rates (as women have continued to enter the workforce).[0]

>If you deny this, then you're forced to argue that somehow the number of "disabled, stay-at-home-parents, the leisure class, those enrolled in education, and anyone else who is not working but has no desire to do so" has increased within the same demographic (25-55 males, so generally post-school),

Of course it has. Being a stay-at-home-dad was unthinkable in 1950. Post-graduate education is increasingly common, as is mid-life career switching. I can think of many reasons why we shouldn't expect a 98% labor force participation rate from that demographic in this century.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LREM25TTUSM156S
> JSON by itself is definitely lacking in human friendliness.

I can't agree with that assertion. As i see it, JSON is practically flawless wrt human friendliness. It's a self-documenting human-readable data interchange language that's even trivial to parse. A lot of people have plenty of ideas about what nice-to-have features they'd like to see but that's just YAML talk that only leads to YAML nowhere.
Agreed. And job insecurity is still a thing so even those who aren't overtly required to do so put in more than the expected amount to help reduce the likelihood they'll be in the discard pile the next time cost cutting measures come around.
Research into the question, "which programming languages are more productive?" certainly suffers from looking at single causes in a massively polycausal system.

If you assume the effects of individual causes combine linearly, you can still look at one cause at a time. But programming languages interact with the problem domain, library availability, team preference and experience in non-linear ways.
Garmin 430/530. It's an in-panel GPS NAV/COM for small airplanes. The UI is focused on predictability to the cost of style and even intuitiveness. It also has a level of reliability that makes a joke of any web app.

http://www.kingschools.com/otherimages/430_530_panel.jpg
The Watch might be the SEs spiritual successor, or they let the small form factor (pocket watch) die to sell more wrist watches..
TSLA most certainly could have tracked it just using the GPS and woken the car (or even bricked it) remotely. Superchargers may have been used, but definitely weren't needed to track this vehicle.
Fancy perk for now, soon it will get old and tiresome to you. Enjoy it while you can :)
This is how to do it: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/junction-desig...

Requiring dismounting would be the way to discourage cycling.

Separation of levels can work, too, but is more expensive and takes more room. Examples at https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/tag/tunnel/ and https://vimeo.com/71511991
The Largest Animal War in History Is Happening Right Beneath Our Feet (2016)
Taut (fka BetterSlack) is live again
The company behind Rhino, Robert McNeel & Associates, has also managed to stay small (http://www.mcneel.com/contact) and user-focused (from http://blog.novedge.com/2007/03/an_interview_wi_3.html):

> In the last few months, there has been a lot of talk in the CAD community about proprietary file formats and how companies protect them. I would like to know how a CAD system like Rhino was able to succeed with a file format that is open, documented, and free (OpenNURBS).

The CAD users need and want open high-fidelity data exchange.
Unfortunately, open file formats are not in the best interest of investors. Investors would rather bet on companies that have a protected proprietary market.
Unlike most CAD companies, we are not a public company nor are we venture capital funded with plans to be public. That means that our only customer (and source of income) is our users.

> Rhino users had to wait a few years between Rhino 3.0 and the new Rhino 4.0. In the mean time, they enjoyed a continuous stream of improvements and bug fixes delivered to their PCs by the Rhino automatic updating system. Based on how well this system has worked, are you considering moving from a release-based system to some sort of subscription-based system?

No. Again, those systems are usually in the best interest of the investors. Our users have the luxury of not having to buy upgrades until we provide something that is actually useful to them. In addition, all current users get to be involved in the development process are every stage, not just for a couple of months at the end. Since we don’t pay any attention to what other CAD companies are doing, we rely on the users to provide the direction for each new release.
But this is also starting to not be true. Gmail is very slowly adding features not in smtp/imap and one day they might just break away and have their closed email. This happened on multiple occasions with xmpp. At one point you could write from icq to hangouts to facebook messanger. After companies gathered critical mass of users they turned off federation. This is one of the main reasons people use facebook messanger (almost everyone has it) and this might happen to gmail quite easily. Almost everyone had gmail at some point so this idea is pretty possible. Many people would then keep gmail account just to comunicate with people who dont have email.
Hah,let's talk about why 'we' got rid of it to begin with.

Also, sabbath means "you can't work" not "you don't have to work if you don't want to"
What do you consider walkable range? I bike five miles to work. But I find walking more than about a quarter mile with two day's groceries to be very unpleasant in the heat.

Maybe taking a backpack would do the trick. But loading up my bike, or my bike plus a trailer, is far more pleasant for all but the shortest distances.

Maybe I've just not experienced it yet, but it's hard to fathom every hardware store, grocery store, bar, restaurant, workplace, school, city rec center, post office, etc that I would ever really want to visit could reasonably fit into a quarter mile square.
Out of curiosity, how much drawdown do the VCs typically deal with during these liquidations?

They get whatever's left based on their liquidation preference and preferred stockholder preference, leaving nothing for common stock holders including the founders themselves.

Whats a typical drawdown look like?
As a student in Cambridge MA in the late 70s, very few stores were open on a Sunday. I often played rugby matches on Saturday and I remember having to often find a few hours in the afternoon free of classes when I could do various shopping.

Just an anecdote but you don't have to go back to the truly distant past to find the vast majority of stores closed on Sunday.
No, quite a lot of them die because of stupid stuff like: texting while driving, drink driving, huge ego.
A bunch of reasons:

1) Because the iPhone SE was a new phone with flagship quality 6S guts, and I'm commenting on the apparent direction of Apple's new phone development.

2) The iPhone SE was price dropped to $350, so with the 7's new price drop it's $100 more expensive, not $50.

3) Everything I said about the XS applies to the 7 too, if not as strongly. It’s been a continuing trend.

4) I’m looking from the perspective of an existing SE customer, many of which will be looking to replace their phones this year or next. No current SE users are interested in replacing a 2.5 year old SE with a 2 year old 7 for $450.
Are you German?

If not, what do the Germans think of this?
Sounds very adventist ;)
> no multiline strings

I thought that the JSON way of implementing multiline strings was through an array of strings.
Walmart bikes are miserable to ride because of the horrible groupsets, not the frame material. Carbon fiber bikes are available now for much less than $10K, but if you're on a tight budget it's usually better to pick a bike with a cheaper metal frame so that you can get a more expensive groupset.
I will go far out of my way to avoid working with text in an editor without Vim keybinding options. Fortunately most editors (even Emacs) offer them.
> There is a financial incentive to NOT share data because there is a demand in the market for privacy

Where? I can't identify a single non-tech-oriented person in my life who makes phone purchasing decisions based off of vague notions like privacy.

In fact, I'd say that the market does not demand privacy, it is ambivalent to it. I don't agree with ambivalence, but I also don't see consumers making privacy-minded purchases, either.
I don't believe this author is advocating forcing religion. He is simply saying that there is less freedom in the current system which effectively forces/expects over work and extended hours. This is an attempt to pull the pendulum back a bit.. which we can all agree is helpful.
It's funny how a few years ago iOS developers griped about things when the iphone 6 plus suddenly came out. Of course back then, autolayout was still only 1-2 years old.
No, but after the first walk they are going to ditch the middleman and pay the walker directly