skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ? is a perfect example of Stroustrup's Rule: https://thefeedbackloop.xyz/stroustrups-rule-and-layering-ov...

> For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax.

> For established features, people want terse notation.

I was pretty against ? when it was proposed. I liked try!. I thought ? was hard to read. I thought try! was concise enough. After writing (and reading) lots of code with ?, I'm all in. Heck, ? still isn't extendable for user-defined types, and now I want that! We made ? work in main, and in tests.

It's now one of my favorite features of Rust. YMMV.
In one system, water is apportioned according to ability and willingness to spend, and the supply goes up as sellers arrive to take advantage of high prices. People also don't waste water they don't need (e.g. for washing) even if they have the money; they sell it.

In the other system, water is apportioned according to who can get to the store faster, and supply never goes up because nobody has a reason to restore it. People use drinking water for washing if they have it, because it's not like you can sell it anyway.

In both scenarios the is significant inequity (whether by money or ability to get to a store fast and fight/negotiate for water). But overall, many more people suffer in scenario 2. This is obvious given all the suboptimal water use in scenario 2.

It's hard for me to understand why you'd prefer a scenario where obviously more people suffer.
Choose any company that was shorted and nearly succeeded but didn't.

Are you questioning the mechanism by which it operates? If you raise borrowing costs for a company it hurts them and the ones already at the margin may fold.
These walking dead companies have been made possible by QE.
Looks like you're getting down voted but this whole endeavor seems far more tied to Trump's ego and rhetoric than good policy.
I have an Epson scanner and use their ScanSmart (I think this is what it is) to setup the flow that lets me push a button on the printer and the scanned PDF will show up in one of my notebooks. The OCR might actually be coming from the Epson software and not Evernote, maybe I'll look into it later.

The OCR results I have now is not terrible nor wonderful.
This is what happens when you divided by zero on a mechanical calculator [video]
$1M committed to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift
Java might be fast once it's had time to warm up, but its startup time is impressive only in how excruciatingly slow it is.

I wrote a small utility program in Java recently. It was getting slower and slower as it grew, so I profiled it. It turned out the slow parts were every part - the first time that part executes. E.g. parsing the command line arguments was slow the first time, but fast if I did it a second time. Same for reading configuration files, opening sockets, etc. I assume this has to do with a combination of lazy class loading (which is slow) and the JIT compiler not being warmed up.

Unfortunately for Java (and its users), you rarely need to parse your arguments a second time, so you never get to experience the case where Java is fast. It needs to be fast the first time, and it's not.
How about teaching the students to copyedit? Specifically, teach them to condense arbitrary assigned texts as much as possible to fit into a set maximum word-count while preserving meaning. The lower the word count (with meaning preserved), the more bonus points they get. Make it a competition.

Then, once they have that down, start them on composing their own prose—and then take those student compositions and assign them (each one to the entire class) as new texts to be condensed, again with a competitive spirit of "lowest word-count with meaning preserved, wins."

Then simply take the lowest condensed word-count, and treat it as the score for the original composition. Essentially, the student-as-writer will thus be graded on how much they manage to say. (Which is kind of cool insofar as it's explicitly not grading the student-as-writer on their editing abilities, rather judging the student-as-editor through completely separate work. It encourages the student-as-writer to care about "getting words down on paper" and forget about perfecting their prose in the draft stage—just like a professional writer should!)
5 Devs on each team, which should be more than enough if they're getting 200k a year would cost a total of 5 mil. A tiny amount for such a huge improvement for users.
Some people don't need a navigation system for a route they drive every day.
I use Turtl for this sort of thing: https://turtlapp.com/
Nah, the equivalent is "using the website with degraded experience", not "can't read the article, we'll redirect you to the home page instead".
I would think that some protection is better than none, but besides that, the wind is probably very uncomfortable at that speed.
I dabbled in Go for a while too, but found I much prefer Rust, Elixir, and Crystal (even though it is still a bit immature). I know a lot of people love Go, but these other three languages speak to my soul.
Trustless time stamping seems to be a good thing to have for notarising.
Well, that's a clickbaity title...and...it's about memory palaces, so, fair enough. Extremely short article though. (350 words)

I help people improve their memory because mine used to suck.

That illustrates a point re genius/talent/training - people often end up a champion at something because they were bad at it, not because of their natural skill.
What is interesting is that the publishers are some kind of old school obstacle, Amazon comes on a white horse with the promise of avoiding any obstacle, then they corner the market and become the obstacle themselves. Somehow there is no way out, there is always some kind of Lord deciding for the plebeians, they always come as the new meritocracy, and they always end up creating a caste system.
I'm not sure how the SanDisk one works, but other verification checkers in China have 'this code has been viewed X times' on the result page.

So if the counterfeit product has copied a real code, you might see 'this code has been viewed 33000 times' instead of 0.
B does not follow from A. Isn't it more realistic that US citizens pay for this trade war with more expensive goods in the short term, while supply chains move to other countries that aren't China but are still cheaper than the US?
> I for one suggest "production assurance security forces" instead of "paramilitary death squads".

This is along the lines of my favorite essay, Orwell's Politics and the English Language

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
Copyleft is cancer.

The license are the best:

- Free Public License 1.0
- Zero-clause BSD
Is the ad illegal or is the practice of hiring only men or only women illegal? What if there were separate men-oriented and women-oriented ad creatives that they wanted target to each group?
"They literally can't change, because that would involve having to actually change".

They only want change that doesn't involve money, effort or change, or what?
I will probably get downvoted for this, but: I think there is a recurring pattern here. Like discovering that absolute anonymity on the internet enabled bad behavior, and pseudonymity allowed foreign governments (or just trolls) to engage in duplicitous or offensive behavior more easily, it turns out that many of the traditional "limitations" of government-regulated currencies, are features and not bugs. I'm not saying there's no place for cryptocurrencies, but they are clearly not for the average, non-technical, mom-and-pop operation to use. They do not protect you from being abused by powerful institutions; they make you more vulnerable to being abused by powerful institutions (although perhaps different ones). If you are a technically savvy user or a large organization, there could be valid reasons for using them, but in general they are not a replacement for ordinary non-crypto currencies, and that's not in spite of their freedom from government control, but rather precisely because of it.
I had better tools, but definitely used the cheater bar on the caliper bolts. I'm not a pro like sokoloff. ATF, acetone and a torch? Brrr
The Shortcuts app looks to be a lot more powerful than I thought.

Some examples:

-The ability to use variables, loops, conditionals

-Multiple ways to launch shortcuts such as icons on the homescreen or inside apps using the share sheet

-Consume web APIs
Is having 1-3 Mac guys and 1-3 Windows guys (which is realistically all the vast majority of apps would need) really that much more expensive? To me it seems the real attraction is being able to hire from a giant pool of cheap, generic, interchangeable, fully replaceable developers.
Is there a web endpoint?

I’m looking for something exactly like polar. IPad support is a must for me though. Browser based access could work. Meanwhile stuck with mendeley...
In Python 0.1 + 0.2 is not equal to 0.3 because the result is 0.30000000000000004.

In R 0.1 + 0.2 is equal to 0.3.
My AT&T WiFi didn't work immediately after the update, but I didn't reboot and within a few hours it was working again. I did turn WiFi Calling off and on again, once, in Settings---not sure if that was necessary as it didn't immediately fix it.
What exactly is a "neural image processing chip"?

A cursory search didn't turn up anything simple to understand.

My uninformed guess is that it's a chip that does neural network stuff to offload image processing for antialiasing, scaling and such.

But I would guess they do a lot more.

Could you elaborate a bit?

Seems pretty interesting that my phone might be already using "AI" algos for taking better pictures!
> we import more from them than we export.

What that means is a trade war is going to cause prices in the US to rise more than prices in China. Which means either the prices of what the US does export will go up or the USA's standard of living will go down.

In the short term a carefully crafted trade barrier can have positive effects. For example, if the government decides a country should have natural advantage in industry X, but establishing industry X is impossible because of foreign competition than a trade barrier is a reasonable option. In effect the rest of the population is subsidising the initial higher prices and poor quality from industry X until experience and effects of scale kick in.

The danger is a trade barrier can be damned hard to get rid of because inevitably doing so will kill jobs. So hard that killing them it usually requires some sort of crisis. That's what happened in both Australia and NZ a few decades ago, with one Australia treasurer famously saying "if we don't do something we will become a banana republic". The barriers came down, there was an enormous amount of pain (interest rates hitting 20%), and he got voted out. But the country hasn't had a recession since.

If Trump's little war disappears with Trump I doubt it will have much effect on anything. If I was a US citizen, the most worrying line in that article is some democrats support it, so they could stay.
Joplin looks promising. Can even import from Evernote. I'm going to give it a try.

https://joplin.cozic.net/
https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf#license
At first I thought this would replace Sourcegraph, but looks like it's just an experiment with NLP... Thank goodness we have Sourcegraph for searching GH but especially for searching GHEnterprise in an SOA environment where it's impossible to have every repo cloned locally for ripgrep.

P.S. I'm not affiliated, we just use Sourcegraph at a company I work for.
This is a total non issue with Qt Quick, but I think complete UI look control is a waste of time and effort. It’s wheel reinvention where light brand accents would suffice.
I tend to use Google maps anytime I drive in Seattle - they've added information about accidents and closures that I'd otherwise miss. When I did drive to work it'd routinely save me time when there was a wreck on i-5 by telling me that and giving me another route.
They were all open via Shodan years ago.
Ranch Nation
> You can do a lot just by engaging those parents

But what if those parents don't want to be engaged with. A lot of children who would be "left behind" in the old school would have been from a worse social-economic background which would mean the parents just won't have time for the school events. Or they might just not care about the kids.
OneNote killed it. Apple Notes killed it.

Both are free. Both do about 90% of what Evernote Basic does.
You're making this decision even harder! I used Go a bit in the course I'm teaching this semester, so maybe next semester I'll teach with Rust :)
This whole story is so familiar, yet so devastating.

Great specific product that solves one, or a few, problems very well, maintained by a passionate group.

Into

'Ok' broad product that tries to solve 50 problems in an 'ok' way, maintained by a group that doesn't care all that much.

Not all products are destined for mega million profit. Trying to make them into that very often ruins the kernel of truth. It's really disappointing.
Bitcoin Hash Rate Doubles in Three Months, Mining Now Costlier Than Buying 1 BTC
I cannot wait until some enterprising man decides to apply to be a VS angel. It would be so glorious.
Rust seems to follow Stroustrup's Rule very well as a community. Might explain why I like it so much.
My house has a vintage-1959 galley kitchen, which is Taylorist along the same lines as the OP, and I have to say: it is a really efficient work space. You don't have to waste steps walking around. I (personally) prefer the galley layout to the square layout (vintage 1920) that I previously had.
What about people that literally can't afford to spend? In disaster areas with price gouging the people that pay the premiums are the rich and more well-off. The poor and those often most affected by hurricanes not only can't afford the gouging, but they also suffer the most by price gouging.

If a poor family only has $500 to their name and has to spend $100 to buy water just to survive, they've blown 20% of their total networth just to survive. A middle-class family spending $100 of 15,000 is far more likely to not be affected.

It's hard for me to understand how many people on HN can't fathom that price gouging affects the people most hurt by disasters. I don't care if price gouging means you'd gather up more supplies and head to a disaster zone because you're still taking drastic advantage of the poor for personal profit. Countries like Japan don't pull this same shit, so it's too bad that we rationalize our greed as being 'for the greater good'.
> They are not legally required to hire you on the basis of any demographic you fall into (no equality of outcome).

Huh?

> But pretending that the businesses doing outreach are 100% accountable for "SOLVING" every demographic composition is simply not vested in reality

Uhh....

You're arguing against things none of the ancestors have argued.

You use an example (geographic location of a university), however that is not a protected class under US labor law.

> Presuming bigotry can be in itself a form of intolerance

There certainly are bigots running companies, and in hiring committees. Even in Enlightened Silicon Valley! Ignoring that fact is one of the reasons Facebook now faces a federal lawsuit with substantial merit.
YouTube Gaming app retiring/folding back into YouTube in March 2019
If the outcome of widespread machine translation is a whole new generation of poets, I'm all for it.
The point of "correlation is not causation" is that doesn't need to be a reason for every correlation. Things can be correlated without there being a clear reason. It's like how a reduction in piracy is correlated with global warming.

see: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-f...
> If we do it right, we can make simple systems built from the ground up on fundamentally secure principals.

What would be an example?

From my own experience it seems easy until you actually get into the details.

Pgp is an ingredient, it’s not the recipe. You can build a lot of great things out of it, but I’m not sure why you’re attacking letting notaries use it if they want to. It’s a perfectly adequate system that requires attention to detail, just like any alternative.
Yeah, but that's the thing about jokes. They tell the truth, but in a deniable way.
And if it turns out to work, they will encourage others to follow, hurting an already neglected great technology.
> Every president has declared the ICJ irrelevant. The Pentagon would send tanks to the White House if a President so much as hinted at accepting ICJ jurisdiction.

Uhm...as far as 'even hinting' goes President Clinton did sign on to The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court without any tanks being rolled out.
We could go from stagnant to losing ground.
The OEIS is an incredible tool for math research. I'm happy it exists.
> its unequivocally, the best note taking app out there

LOL. You haven't used Org-mode.
I think the point of the article was that it used to be more common back in the 60’s and 70’s for programmers to work on data problems. From basic stuff like census tabulation or designing file systems, to creating trigonometry or t-statistic tables, to AI.

There was less specialisation, less of a divorce between programmers and users.

There also seemed to be a conflation of computing and AI back then. Lisp was considered AI. And the early computing pioneers and theorists were strongly interested in AI, logic, and mathematics.
SUV perhaps wasn't the best example, because SUVs often can't get to places that need water - if they could, SUVs would be bringing water to that place.

At a $100 water bottle price though, I can literally afford to use a helicopter to bring in water. At $20 per water bottle, I'm not sure I could afford to use a helicopter to bring water in, especially if I have to use hours of fuel in each direction.

I agree that you have to keep order. People who think their life is at risk will get violent and reckelss, and we need to limit that. But if you hit a point where water is worth $100, you are probably already past the point of keeping order.
Yea, while I wish I a had magic pill, I have thought the exact same thoughts just earlier today. But anyways, shoot me a message if you find that pill by any chance ;)
I made a small startup while backpacking. It was called backpackbud. Contained list of hostels, tips, things to do etc

Maintinaing it was pain, backpackers are cheap and I didn’t make any money. It died.

Then I started bewolo.com with some friends. Those friends brought in their friends and I was the only technical guy. My shares were <10% and I had little social life while building it. It was around travel space. Think airbnb for things to do. I got burnt out. Working for a big company and building a startup at some time is really hard. I got burnt and left. Other founders couldn’t run it and it died eventually.

Startups are hard. We only hear about the successes and big IPOs and think I can do it too.

I’m probably going to do it again but this time, try to go full time for at-least an year.
Person-to-person payment apps are rising fast in popularity, but are they safe?
Yep. Getting towed to get enough speed still seems... something.
Is it that dangerous? I thought motorcyclists wearing protective gear were safe if they fell slid to a stop. The danger would be from crashing into other things, but most of this place looks flat?
Sure, self-play. Generate the data and search through the problem space for optimal decisions before they come up.
Ha, that's awesome. I think I know why Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars now.
Your old battery might be causing your slowness. Replace it for $30 in the store, too; you don’t have to be without it for more than an hour if they have the parts in stock. My iPhone 6a is super quick. Camera opens in under a second.
The Mac cocoa version of Telegram achieves most of the same features as slack without resorting to webviews and shares 99% of its code with the iOS app (meaning the Mac build adds practically no overhead).

Windows and Linux are another beast, and Telegram’s solution is to use Qt for those platforms. Again, slack like capabilities with no webviews.

The difficulty of native dev is not as high as it’s often represented.
Ia! Ia! Prototype into production! Research Quality code! RPy2 Fhtagn!
Woman Proves that Men Don't Have a Monopoly on Performing Insanely Dangerous Stunts for Dubious Status Symbols
The point of the parent is that it’s being asked to prevent/impede its customers from doing illegal things. That’s not a ridiculous thing to ask, but it’s very different from Facebook itself engaging in illegal activity.
Crazy.

But I'm not so sure about this claim that the coach makes:

My theory is that women are able to push that aging envelop a little further than men and are more capable of long-distance peak performance

At the top end, the strongest men are always stronger than the strongest women, and age impacts women more quickly than men, judging by rowing results: https://www.concept2.com/indoor-rowers/racing/records/world/...
Are they able to initiate outbound connections?
I might pick a more liberal license in the future but for now we're not a library and I think GPL is good. I'm actually more concerned about app bundlers stealing it and putting it on the App store or something and not contributing any changes back.
Why do you think it so automatically likely that China wins?
To everyone above wondering why people think self driving cars will help. This is why.

Eliminate the driver and taxis become way cheaper (probably cheaper than owning a car). That means people like alkonaut here will be far more interested in just not owning their own car that sits idle except when they are personally driving it. Which reduces the amount of space we are spending on car storage.
I made a hyperbolic statement to emphasis that it's not politically viable. No, I don't think there'd be a coup. But I also think acceptance of ICC jurisdiction in the near future is about as likely as there being a coup. The military institutionally--the people that embody the military at the Pentagon, in Congress, in the White House, and elsewhere--would never allow it even if a majority of Americans were okay with it.

ICJ (which I confused with the ICC earlier) is a little different because technically the U.S. has a veto as a member of the security council. Nonetheless, we only submit to ICJ jurisdiction on a case-by-case basis; which is to say, when we know we'll win or when we don't care one way or the other.
Usability is a key issue.

My employer requires that emails with certain types of content be sent with a GPG signature. I spent a few hours today figuring out the best way to do it. First, I used the CLI to < echo "..." | gpg --clear-sign > and paste that into Gmail (web), but the receiver didn't know how to verify the signature (Mac Mail with GPG Tools).

Eventually I settled on Thunderbird with an add-on. It took some googling because the add-on defaulted to "Junior" mode. Eventually, I was able to send emails both signed and encrypted.

So, the issue to me is that there needs to be a standard that can be easily integrated into commonly used communication tools, like Gmail, SMS, etc.

Private key portability is also a problem. I have a USB-C yubikey, and it works on my laptop and my phone. Once USB-C becomes common, maybe carrying your private keys around with you will be much easier.
It's a good alternative to Mendeley I think. No iPad support but maybe in the future when we get a web version working.

No Electron on iPad... :-/
Not really surprised. I pay for a lot of freemium apps, but never paid for Evernote. It's hard to create value for "Note Taking". Alternative is capturing notes in a free google doc or use paper and pen.
Seems rather binary.