skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talked to some embedded C programmers and they said thad basically everything besides C is too slow for their use-cases.

I would be interested if they're wrong, hehe
Yes.

At least N times the work for N platforms.

Fewer developers, harder to recruit.

Cross-platform options like Qt are not modern/pretty enough and sometimes aren't that much thinner than Electron (depending on how well written the app is). Java/Swing/SWT is also quite bloated and looks terrible.

Development is much slower in languages like C++. Other languages are not cross-platform or have immature/buggy cross platform support. How's ObjC on Windows? C# on Mac? They exist, but nobody uses them.

I really think we're in a UI dark age. Native UI development has gone backwards compared to the ease of WYSIWYG GUI design 10-20 years ago. Go back and use the VB.NET GUI builder from 2004 and be in awe at the incredible productivity you could achieve. Platforms are more fragmented today too. There is even fragmentation on the same platform! Do I use Qt or GTK or (insert one of a dozen others) on Linux? WPF or Windows Forms on Windows? Cocoa or UIKit on Mac? Which one will MS or Apple kill tomorrow? ... or I could just say fXXk it and use Electron and be done with it.

This is 100% the fault of vendors. If you hate the bloat blame Microsoft, Apple, and Linux developers, not people who use Electron.

Edit: mobile UI development is less fragmented but it's not really that great either. You get no choice in dev tools and the code is absolutely unportable. I see higher-level web or web-ish views/libraries/frameworks taking over there too. It's already happening.
The practice goes back much further than that. Consider two popular magazines from 1931:

https://archive.org/stream/PopularMechanics1931#page/n9

https://archive.org/details/TheLadiesHomeJournalV48N12193112

The ads are not the same due to marketing segmentation.
At least part of the problem is that digital, e.g. Kindle, format books are produced/formatted for the least-common-denominator like a basic epaper Kindle. That's fine for basically text. Sucks for graphically rich content which would be a lot more effort to produce in any case.

The alternative is to produce content aimed at 10" iPad/Android and above and leave out other users.
Not seeing it in the Viveport store myself...
27% of IC packaging (turning the raw die into something that can be soldered to a PCB) happens in China with most of the remainder in other south-east Asian countries.

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/china-no-1-i...
Wanna bet that's because those stats are talking about different things. First, it's kidney transplants. Significant numbers are voluntary donors.

Second those stats are about people being kept alive a significant amount of time before the doctors considered them as donors.

Amount of organs (with the donor dying as a result, so kidney ... not a great example) with the donor being kept alive for some amount of hours before the donation ? 100%.
Hrm, we accept payments globally in over 135 currencies and have special enterprise plans, like high volume pricing—but I'd love to hear more on what we should be doing better. Feel free to email me at edwin@stripe.com
(from another thread very similar to this)

I really don't see how the companies placing the ads, aren't going to get hammered for it.

But Facebook is doing nothing illegal, unless the ads, were placed for jobs with Facebook.

Just as newspaper/radio/tv aren't required not to post job adverts that violate the EEOC's rules.

For clarity, According to the EEOC (https://www1.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/index.cfm?renderforprin...)

Recruitment

It is also illegal for an employer to recruit new employees in a way that discriminates against them because of their race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

For example, an employer's reliance on word-of-mouth recruitment by its mostly Hispanic work force may violate the law if the result is that almost all new hires are Hispanic.
Will electron apps finally stop canceling OS X shutdown / restart (before quitting themselves)? Atom, Slack, and others each prevent shutdown one at a time.
You're 100% right, but a business exists first and foremost to make money. No business in their right mind whose customer base is 90% male is going to run an equal amount of ads on TLC as on ESPN. Why should jobs be different?

If I really want to be advertised products marketed to women, what do I do? Turn on TLC, or complain that ESPN isn't showing enough female-oriented ads?

Life isn't fair. Nothing is equal that isn't equal. We can do our best on an individual level but it's unreasonable to expect businesses to do anything more than treat applicants and employees of all demographics equally (which is an ongoing effort). Everything else is a statistic, and businesses will readily graze up against as many rules as possible. The checks and balances of this system is that when a business is caught blatantly discriminating, it turns into national news and they are punished financially.

The upside to this is that ethics and financial interests often align; businesses that are ethical have better public perception, and also attract better employees. Macrocosm and microcosm aligned.

If I wanted to go to nursing school as a male, I'm going to start researching, not wait for facebook to show me an ad.
I don't understand the problem. The flipside would be they're letting Job Advertisers only target women.

I wonder what those numbers look like: What percentage of job advertisers only target women?

If I'm spending ad dollars, why would I not choose the most effective form of advertising for me?

That's not to say they're not hiring women. In which case it'd be more dubious.

Last week in the Bay Area I heard a TSA radio advertisement, in which they said, 'women and people of color strongly encouraged to apply.' Imagine the outrage if they had said 'white men strongly encouraged to apply'?

All the qualification based on immutable characteristics, versus actual ability to do the job, makes me feel very uneasy.
I'm not sure. Things on eg. 4-chan sometimes spill out into the real world from time to time. Sometimes it's awesome, sometimes terrifying. (Think chaotic neutral)
Judge: FCC can’t hide records that may explain net neutrality comment fraud
The cache part is only one aspect of it: I regularly encounter AMP-based sites that are not served from Googles caches.
Gaussian Processes and 'Non-Parametric' Bayes
As a data analyst who is pushing towards data science, do you have any resources or advice on how to steer away from these "Lovecraftian concoctions" you're speaking of?
Can you elaborate? Just stating that the grandparent is wrong isn't great discussion.
And those people may continue to do so. But their efforts are clearly insufficient.
I updated to iOS 12(on an iPhone SE) yesterday and my WiFi calling feature went to hell. Needed two/three reboots and toggling WiFi calling for it to work again. Still seems flaky and I'm heavily dependent on it to work as my apt gets 0 reception. Apart from this frustrating issue, I love the integration for password managers they have now. It's made my life so much easier.
Bike from her previous record (which looks similar to the one in the article):

https://www.knfilters.com/images/press/Mueller-Bike.jpg
If you remove from index... sure. But for that URL that I posted, do you think there is even a single false positive in there?
I switched from onenote to evernote a very long time ago to get away from microsoft office. After evernote went to shit, though, I didn't have any real alternatives so I went back to onenote. I wonder if the newest free version runs in wine.
Pretty sure it does already :)
>Ruining goodwill and relationships (and of course trade) with YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ALLIES

That's not how this works. A trade tariff dispute doesn't mean anything about the relationships in other matters unless they are brought up as part of the negotiations. Each country isn't a single person being directed by their feelings being hurt.

So we can certainly negotiate with Canada to get them to lift dairy tariffs or whatever and still count on them not to allow Russia to setup air force bases there.
The KHS bike she rode was a dragster in its own right. The low-slung, chopper-style bicycle is more than seven feet long and outfitted with 17-inch motorbike wheels for stability at insane speeds. It also demands a two-wheel drivetrain to propel the absurdly tall gear.

“The drive ratio is 62:12, twice,” said John Howard, Mueller-Korenek’s coach, who once held the motor-paced record himself at 152 mph back in 1985. “That’s roughly 488 inches, or approximately 128 feet per revolution. She’s traveling nearly 130 feet every time she turns those cranks. It’s pretty mind-boggling.”

It's pretty crazy. 128 ft per revolution!!!!
Ok, so ignore #1, and #2. What else?
I actually don't see much at all on the list that is applicable in reverse.

I guess you could reverse the last two, and ignore the rest, but then it seems the whole point of parent comment is lost.
No? How does that follow?
You can segment product advertising, but not housing or jobs or any other categories where there are 'protected classes' (US)
The justification of maximizing people's access to job listings is very evident in what I wrote.
> Looking at Graduation rates Arizona is well behind New York.

Arizona is at 79.5%, vs. 80.5% in New York. I'd hardly call it "well behind". Moreover, the poor students have higher graduation rates in Arizona than in New York. And, moreover, the graduation rates don't mean much, as shown by recent DC graduation rate scandal.

> Looking at ACT and SAT scores by state Arizona is well behind when you adjust for participation and graduation rates.

What's the source of this data? Does it adjust for private vs. public school?

> New York is doing very well economically specifically because they are spending on education. Resulting in vastly fewer poor families.

New York does very well economically because of New York City, which didn't become the global economic powerhouse because of its high education spending. New York City public schools, with a handful exceptions, are well known to be quite bad, by the way.

> Now, you can argue New York is not getting value for money, but they are getting better educated kids.

I see no reason to believe that New York public school children are any better educated than Arizona.
I imagine they make up a fair proportion of the customer base.
Men buy lingerie.
jwdunne nailed it with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18017791
If you click the three dots on the top right of an ad in the newsfeed, you should be able to press 'Why am I seeing this' to see an explanation of the targeting for an ad. I can see one on my newsfeed that says:

> One reason you're seeing this ad is that Castore Sportswear wants to reach people who have visited their website or used one of their apps. This is based on customer information provided by Castore Sportswear.

> There may be other reasons you're seeing this ad, including that Castore Sportswear wants to reach people ages 18 and older who live in the United Kingdom. This is information based on your Facebook profile and where you've connected to the internet.
This concept of law enforcement is a really slippery slope, trying to force companies to stop people from breaking the law, is a serious shift in the concept of freedom.

prohibit acts are allowed, and they are dealt with by punishing the wrong doers.

Turning a company's automated system into a judge of legal and illegal action just seems like a bad idea in the long run.

Though, it is seemingly a growing trend, I don't feel it will result in a improved world in the end.
I meant religous fast versus an occidental fast...
Just as an aside, the population density of England (not the uk) is greater than the Netherlands.
A trend I've been noticing (especially as ML/AI tooling becomes more accessible) is that people believe the quality of data science code and workflows is proportionate to its complexity/LOC (since complex problems require complex code, right?).

It's a toxic perspective that ignores recent and pragmatic innovations in the field.
You need to allow Javascript
I don't think you're going to be able to attribute that to Bay Area compensation. Urbanization in general: yes. Bay Area? No.
In general, if Rust is significantly slower than equivalent C, it's a bug. We do care about bugs, and if you try some stuff and find them, please file them. (We track them via this tag: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/I-slow)

Embedded can be tricky at times; we've had a working group pushing on making stuff great all year. There's still a lot of work to be done. Sometimes you need to opt into nightly-only features. We'll get there!

(One major example is platform support: since we're built off of LLVM, we may not have a backend for more obscure architectures. ARM stuff works really well, generally. AVR is down to some codegen bugs...)
The hiring ads are not external ads. HN is 100% a marketing and PR tool to generate good will amongst developers, and startup founders.

If it ever starts to not benefit ycombinator, then the aite goes away.
I just use the web version of onenote. It works well enough.
It depends on who you ask. If you ask teachers, they'll tell you that they work 16 hours work days all year long, but try scheduling a teacher-parent meeting after work hours.
https://oeis.org/ It's easy to accidentally spend an hour browsing sequences. One of my favorite things on the internet.

If you're ever dealing with a sequence of numbers and wondering if there's an underlying structure, this is a great place to start.
For what it's worth, these observations track closely with my own experience. I like that Cantrill emphasizes values rather than simply technical decisions. The Rust community, I believe, tries to get things right.

There's a learning curve, but with much experience, I find myself naturally thinking and writing in Rust code. I can get in the flow, and it feels just as high level and productive as languages prized for those qualities. I'm happy to see other very talented programmers have similar experiences.
Are there theoretical boundaries that prevent Rust from ever reaching C performance or is this just a practical question of compiler optimization?
They’re all Turing complete inc SQL with case and recursion.
I meant density, 1 line of a code, a SQL window function with a filter clause would probably take a page of Java to achieve the same result.
Then there should be a field "Science studies" that combines both unscientific worlds.
When Art Created by Artificial Intelligence Sells, Who Gets Paid?
Some even have engineer in their titles with no degree at all.
I think they also shot themselves in the foot many years ago when they had a lot of heat... they were too expensive. If they were cheaper and converted more passionate users into paying customers back then, those people wouldn't have looked for alternatives, of which there are many.
It's kind of weird to say m:n threading is terrible when it seems to work okay in Go.

It wasn't the right choice for Rust, but that doesn't mean Go's choice was wrong.
You can in Onenote, with the bonus of not giving Google even more of your data. The online client seems to work really well, although I prefer the native one.
Can you elaborate more on the "algorithms in JS" bit? What libraries/tools are they using? Why JS versus Python or JVM languages?
It's interesting to think about. If I'm looking for someone to ride on a garbage truck, there's probably a 95% chance the future employee will be male, but acting on this expectation, by advertising to men instead of women - getting more employees per dollar spent, is sexist. Likewise, if I needed to hire an au pair I'd have to advertise to men and women equally?
Thanks for the link. After studying it more, it seems that Uber plan requires battery technology that does not exist yet.

> battery cell specific energy of 400 Wh/kg

Tesla (=Panasonic) has 207 Wh/kg
Well, there are many gender specific products there, for example female hygiene products. Doesn't mean the opposite sex will straightly not buy them (Yes, they do, https://mashable.com/2018/01/28/amazon-go-tampons-pads-tech-...), but it is safe to assume that they are probably not interested (Look at the previous link and there is actually an outrage because of it.).
It seems wrong to allow companies to escape legal rules by choosing to advertise in ways that have badly-fitting payment model.

The multiple ads question is interesting though, and might very well be a valid defense, since they then are advertising to both.
well guess what... the overwhelming majority of uber drivers ARE men - why would you want to waste your ad spend on a non-productive demo?
Paypal also isn't a bank.
If the data scientists know more about CI, unit testing, profiling, and caching than the engineers then they are better engineers and I'd wonder a bit about their math/stats chops and whether their role was just re-branded "data scientist" to keep up with trends.
Show HN: Kudoo timesheet and Invoicing software
Hey everyone,

Kudoo has just started accepting new users. We built a Project, timesheet and invoicing software available at https://app.kudoo.io

It's built using a pretty modern stack and I think it's pretty cool. It will always be free for people who contribute to Open Source and we're really looking to see if it can be useful to the community.

Currently we have a Dashboard. The ability to Invoice based on Timesheets. Or to create Billing rules based on Fixed price services you provide.

It also has multi language support. So if you create a company in the UK it will display "VAT", whereas in the "US", it will display "Sales Tax".

Have a look and I hope you find it useful.
Even if it wasn't collapsed that would still be a pretty lame looking bridge. Why would you put piles in the river for such a short span? Why is the design so ugly?
Had a quick search and didn't see anyone talking about it.

If your interested by this article you might enjoy the book 'happy city'. It's a bit one sided but looks at how cars have changed cities, and how changes can be made to make them happier.
I have Evernote but never found it easy enough to use to depend on it. And it just seems scarily buggy. I'm a paid user too!

I just tried to use it for a new project and when creating a shared note it kept telling me my email address wasn't validated. Well there's no way to validate one unless you go to the web site, delete your address and add it again! It also offered to set up 2FA...only I'd used 2FA to log in! So I got a new set of replacement keys. This was frightening enough that I exported all my data.

But what tool shares phone/laptop and permits formatted text, attachments, and offline use? Apple notes almost gets there, but doesn't.
In my (relatively short) life, I've always been far more happy in my periods of unemployment than when I was "gainfully employed." Don't expect a single person on HN to share this view, but there it is.
No one mention Quip[1] yet? I was a heavy Evernote user until Quip came along. If you haven't given it a spin, you should.

It's lists, kanban boards, images and a lot of other stuff at one place. Any TODOs I use Quip these days.

[1]https://quip.com
I have just under 15K notes and have been a Premium customer since 2008, however, these days I find myself barely touching Evernote at all, and have switched to primarily using Notion.so, with Pocket and Zotero for snapshotting/handling research, and a bit of Dropbox Paper (I had a soft spot for Hackpad).

From my perspective, Evernote has gotten consistently worse over the past few years (some of this is due to the core product not scaling as people put more notes in - the search craps out and the organization sucks):

* No way to easily exclude say web clippings from search; in general the search results are inadequate (and doesn't factor in recency or frequency appropriately) of cache things intelligently - this effectively makes Evernote a PITA for anything but write-only usage

* Rather than helping people categorize things, they've made it progressively harder by making Notebook organization clunkier. I never got into using tags because it didn't make very good suggestions, and there's no hierarchy. With dysfunctional search, in the end it's all just a "pile."

* The original appeal of Evernote was seamless syncing across all platforms, but I'm almost entirely on Linux these days and there's no official client or good alternative, and the web interface is awful. That pretty much killed my usage for good, but every time I launch the iOS app, it seems to launch slower. There's way too much friction for creating notes.

I'll probably be exporting and cleaning house sometime soon. While the web clipper is great, I can probably find a better alternative (or just switch to Zotero for everything, as it does fine page snapshotting and the collections/subcollections largely work like you'd want). The OCR is probably the nicest thing I'd miss, but besides occasionally scanning some receipts or other papers, I'm not sure there's anything else I use it for. Also, their security/privacy updates from last year also made me hold my nose.

There are some neat open source projects that have started up recently, but I'm also starting to think about my notes and research in a more long term view (keeping and syncing, but also publishing).
Looks interesting, but the Apple-only makes it a non-starter for me.
I would argue that the failure modes of a bank transfer are much better understood than any cryptocurrency.

Or was the parity wallet multi-sig attack something that most lay-people knew about as a risk before it happened?
It doesn't now, but it could.
Why So Many Airports Lately? Bristol Airport Targeted by Ransomware Attack
> It's a text book case of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. All the Devs working on this project should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

I think that anyone who works at Google has an obligation to speak up. The company is on a path to destroy the open WWW. The primary reasons for pushing AMP are clearly not about fast web pages. Open governance isn't going to fix it.

The AMP project should be shut down replaced with an open discussion about how to make the Web less bloated using existing standards. Serving from CDNs in restricted formats should not be a requirement for publishing on the Web. The source of the problem is JavaScript, not HTML.
The big difference between the two is that: Dropbox is the simplest version of any cloud storage concept that nearly every level of computer user can understand. Evernote is not simple.
Not qualified to answer, but I did notice recently that Rust appears to generate more compiler code than equivalent C, but I don't think this realistically has a negative performance impact. You can check this out on godbolt (https://godbolt.org/)
Evernote is good for pasting in arbitrary formatting, but horrible for editing formatting, and thus simple notes just get lost in a see of Dreamweaver-esque WYSIWYG nightmare formatting.
>people trying to sell you a thing are unlikely to give you extra time past the "I need to buy this" impulse to decide not to buy it

In the EU, the consumer has the right to cancel any order or return any purchase, for any reason, within 14 days.

So in the EU, you already have that extra time in law.

Given that, from a retailers perspective, having a timer could actually make commercial sense, as the cost from lost sales could be balanced out by a reduction in cancelled orders and returns.

It may make commercial sense anyway, out of customers liking the feature and that translating into goodwill over time, but that would be much harder to put a figure on.
That's a bad example. There are many jobs where men clean female locker rooms/restrooms and visa versa. But I agree with others (and I think you) that it isn't Facebook's responsibility legally to ensure it isn't possible for companies to break the law. Might be able to make a moral argument, but that's a different argument.