skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Windows 95 was really well thought out and mostly consistent. I think MS went off the rails when Office started introducing its own UI concepts like the ribbon that were not available anywhere else. Then Win 8 had that weird split between Metro UI and regular Windows.

I still find it hard to believe that they couldn't produce a consistent control panel for Win 10. I never know where to find certain settings. They could be hidden in the new UI or the old. Who knows?

I also don't like the look of the UWP apps. Their rendering doesn't look very polished to me.
Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the Kitchen
I don't think this is true.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8586721
What software would that be, if you don’t mind my asking? I was under the impression that Win2K support had been dropped from most software several years ago.
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I like both Rust and Elixir, and I'm not sure I would use Rust for everything.

Case in point: I'm working on a fairly simple app - it runs continuously in the background, every minute downloads one file, and every second downloads a different file. These files are JSON, are parsed into domain structs, analyzed a bit, and occasionally persist to a DB.

I wrote this app in rust first, as a side project to better understand rust. The time I was seeing to parse a 50KB JSON file, turn parts of it into a map of structs, compare that map to the previously downloaded map, and log certain differences, was maybe 3-5ms, (compiled with --release).

I recently re-wrote that app in Elixir and the time it took to do that was... 3-5ms. If I were doing crazy calculations I'm sure rust would be faster, but I was actually surprised that in this real-world workload they were comparable in speed. And that's without dealing with a DB. Once you pull a DB in, the negligible processing time could be dwarfed by that anyway.

On top of that, the whole idea of starting up several processes to download each of the different JSON files on their own loop, and having it monitored in the supervision tree was a big win in Elixir, compared to spawning a couple threads and hoping they don't panic.
Perhaps you haven't noticed the "past" link that's underneath each original post?
What is an influential science book with wide reaching influence
Hello everyone. I need the name of a real nonfiction book from realm of engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, health sciences, or economics that is especially influential in other domains. I don't want it to be an old or classic text (i.e. The Heavenly Spheres, The Origin of the Species, The Elements, The principia, The Nature of Things)... but a book similar to one of those in its influence and importance that has been around for the last 20-50 years. I especially think something related to computer science might work best in this case, though I'm hard pressed to think of a book that every comp sci person would read or identify as having a long lasting influence. Then again. If you can think of anything... please let me know. Thank you in advance
I thought these current policies are a reaction to the armed terrorist attacks that happened in the past few years? Like the one at the train station that hurt hundreds of people?
Me too. I would prefer that.
Yes, exactly, and that shouldn't be a factor in the argument that wages are decreasing because the rich are capturing all economic gains. Looking at household income can (very roughly) remove that from factoring into the data.
I wouldn’t characterize stack overflow as a delivery mechanism for ads in the same way that, say, YouTube is. Content creators on stack overflow aren’t there to make money by driving page views. (Rather, the mechanism driving page views is more utility than sensation)
That's ridiculous to offer Gigabit/second Internet with 1 TB data cap.

I.e. using that bandwidth, you can consume it in 2.22 hours. So you that's how long they expect you to use Internet in a month? Comcast are smoking something very unhealthy.
They are "totally liquid" after 6 months which isn't totally liquid. And those 6 months are subject to the stock market so they inherently carry more risk than base (and higher potential rewards).

You seem rather... aggressive with how much you want to downplay the differences and your entire contribution to this thread has been attacking "Netflix apologists" and defending any argument for cash-based salaries. It's fine if you don't like their culture/comp structure, but you sure seem to have an agenda here.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18263508
"Simplicity" was a typo. I blame my phone. :(

I meant "simplification of concerns." Basically, if you simplify what concerns the content author can have, it is easier to encode them. In the case of markdown, you are very limited in what you can define.

And I am not at all against the ideas. I'm very partial to org-mode. For example, I wrote http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html using an org-mode buffer. And I've been very happy with the markup it supports. However, there is a lot of markup around some things it can do. And, I've found that the constant churn as folks improve it has been tiring. I think it has stabilized recently, which is good.
"About the same as "employee says controversial thing in personal life""

No way. Two people falling in love is not in the same category as someone saying public things.
It does, sort of. As another commenter pointed out, -> chains the operands at the beginning, but also ‘loop’ form requires list of bindings.

It is totally possible to write custom -> macro that works correctly as used in my example.
No, they don't take 13 months to clear. The idea is to protect the payer (the one losing money) from either their human error, or an unlawful debit.

See https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-direc... .
Use Nginx auth_request and Lasso to protect private sites with Google Auth
Sure it was. I ran NT 3.51, NT 4, and Windows 2000 at home. Avoided all the horrors of the DOS-based versions of Windows.

Microsoft finally got it right at Windows 7. It's been downhill since then, with Microsoft trying to make the desktop look like a phone.
"You think maybe employment at will is just waiting to be tested in the Supreme Court?"

It's in court right now.

And it always will be.
I’m not sure it has anything to do with whiteness, but it certainly is attached to class.
As far as used car values go, the Tacoma is significant outlier.

Drivetrains don't usually fail, anyway, it's all the little bits around the edge that nickle and dime you to death.
I wonder if narcissism is the brain's reaction to self doubt. I've definitely seen numerous cases of people who have a lot of self doubt over-compensating with adding confidence they shouldn't have.
I'm surprised that it's not mentioned in the article that one of the most interesting architectural aspects of git is that it's a blockchain system.
I work in adtech.

> you wouldn't have tech mega corps like Facebook and Google making billions of dollars

They made billions of dollars. Now at scale, anything is billions of dollars. That's again, razor thin margins.
That didn't stop people from playing it 28 days straight.
There is armed resistance, the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party

They're deemed a terrorist group by US and EU and have fought in Syria.
Stylus Chrome extension has alternative styles for loads of websites. Eg I make GitLab dark with light text using a downloaded style sheet that someone made, and my HN as well.
Employer says:

1 "don't be gay"

2 "don't fall in love"

1 is illegal obviously, 2 is legal?

Seriously?
The pointer description seems exactly right to me - I've also always done the context-bucket thing, and never had issues jumping right back in.

What's been happening to me feels like I have too many pointers. I can still jump straight back in without needing to rebuild the context, if I can find the right one, because it's still there. It might just take a bit to find the right one though.
That's a good point. You can't click "monetize" on your answers, but if you could you'd be right in that zone.
In some neighborhoods you can see where the street was raised but building weren't. There's a gap of a few feet between the sidewalk and the building where you can see down to the level of the original street and the former street level floor of the building now looks like a basement.

Off the top of my head you can see some buildings like this in the blocks North of Division between Ashland and the Kennedy.

Here's an example from that area: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9042461,-87.6638461,3a,75y,2...
Show HN: The Social Network for Mathematics
I hear this phrase frequently in programming. In order to get your program running, you first have to make it stand up.
We should take their genes responsible for that, put it in our future embryos.

Essentially turning "genetic lottery" into "genetic basic income".
I don’t think it’s Islam in general, but rather China is cracking down on Salafism.

Since there are over 20 million Muslims in China and most of them aren’t hassled by the government.
May I suggest The Double Helix by James D. Watson https://www.amazon.com/DOUBLE-HELIX-James-D-Watson/dp/B00A21...
The direct links to the stl files in github let you rotate it around and get some idea of how they actually work [1][2]. This is absolutely mind-blowing!

[1] https://github.com/Matsemann/impossible-objects/blob/master/...

[2] https://github.com/Matsemann/impossible-objects/blob/master/...
Most people I know have bluray players and streaming services, but almost always stream now.

I prefer Blu-ray for quality reasons, and also I find some comfort in owning a physical disc
It's just one factor in the barrel of nonsense that standardized IQ tests are.

Chimpanzees utterly destroy people in certain memory tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNV0rSndJ0 That makes them exceptionally intelligent by that narrow metric.

In others they're unable to keep up with some birds.
[Sorry for the repost, thought Show HN would be more appropriate.]

The plan is for 3 subsystems with some level of integration:
- Messaging / social networking.
- Mathematical proofs.
- Computer Algebra.
The first is working, work on the second is in progress & the third will be dealt with in the future.
The best horror show you’re not watching is based on creepypasta
New security flaw impacts most Linux and BSD distros
It's not like people had or have much of a choice, buying property ain't cheap in Germany, at least outside of completely underdeveloped and remote areas. Even reasonably wealthy people usually have to finance it through a extra credit.

Also ain't helping that over these past decades incomes have stagnated while job security got way worse, so people are less likely to commit to such long-term liabilities.
I don't disagree with you, but your personal anecdote is irrelevant and worthless. She's the most advanced. So the 95% of kids are doing worse than she is. Do you have data on how much screen time the other kids are getting, and how it is affecting them?

You can't go from complaining about lack of research and then using your single data point, incorrectly.

Anyway, the article may not say it but there is research in the field, and it concludes that screen time is harmful at young ages. I don't believe any research has followed kids for say 20 years (and i mean, we haven't had tiny addictive screens and apps that long anyway) to see if they "recover" or catch up or even surpass their peers when they get older.

Lastly, if you literally only allow her to use the screen once/week for a couple of hours, you are not near the realm where they are finding screens to be harmful. I'm sure you've been out at literally any restaurant and half the toddlers are glued to the screen, as a first resort.
Also greatly worth reading: “Git from the Bottom Up”:

* HTML version: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

* PDF version: http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf (via http://newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up/)

The great thing is that after reading and understanding these, one's mental model matches the reality of the Git program, so one can both try bolder things, and get unstuck from any mess.
SICP is literally a textbook for programming 101 class. It's whole purpose is to teach programming to people who might have never programmed before.
To add onto this, I bought a Corolla in high school, drove it for 2 years, and sold it for more than I paid for it.
Subversion wasn't a distributed VCS. Anything looking to displace git would have to make that kind of generational leap for the existing userbase to be remotely interested.
I have 6 kids, some got spanked others not at all. But when you have a 3 yr old who isn't listening and may put themselves in danger with their actions, sometimes a quick attention getting spank can save a life or at least a hospital visit.

Trying to place a black/white filter on something like this is intellectually vacuous.
I am less concerned about spam management than I am of phishing sites and the like. Email from bogus tlds is of little concern because it will hit the spam bucket just like everything else, but if you do a DNS lookup on one of these joke tlds you can expect a high probability of having the request filtered.
For me this is stress related. The more things on my mind, the worse my memory and focus get.

It’s like my brain is saying ”Dude wtf how can you focus on this mundane task when there is a friggin dragon standing right behind you!!!??”

Meditative practice helps. Writing things down so they’re not on my mind. Morning pages, five minute journals, running, things like that.

When I cannot focus for shit I’m usually stressing out about something or tired. Sometimes both.
Video: React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React
GIMP comes to mind...
> Non-networked binary distribution of yore was also (mostly) aligned with the interests of its users.

It's much more related to who is paying the bills. Technical concerns do make some difference, but are eclipsed by the money question.

Our current problem is that people mostly don't pay for software anymore. So we are left with FOSS and anti-user software.
On Firefox you can use Dark Background and Light Text.
Also works on Firefox Mobile, good results with a led screen.
> If however you had already been experiencing systems like UNIX that ran on everything from mainframes to PDP-11/70's you would not have been quite so surprised.

Back then (R) there wasn't one UNIX, rather everyone had their flavour of it for their kind of machine. I don't think source compatibility became mainstream until the late 80s to 90s, before that it was all ports.
I’ve used Netflix alongside a Plex setup for years now, and if Netflix is employing any dark patterns they certainly aren’t effective on me. My usage of Netflix is just as random and deliberate as my Plex usage, and once I’m done watching an episode or binging on a series for the day I don’t find myself looking for more.

YouTube used to be a lot more dangerous with their sidebar recommendations years ago but they changed the algorithm at some point and ever since it’s become very rare that I click on anything there.
> First, NPD in women can be confused with Asperger syndrome.

Can you expand on this or provide some more reading for me?
I believe my mother has NPD and have, on occasion, sworn she was on the spectrum as well.
Worrying Windows 10 wrecking-ball weapon weirdly wanders wildly on worldwide web
What Happened to Bubba the Love Sponge?
>Old people might say it's just part of getting old.

This is true to an extent. Motor and cognitive skills may diminish slowly with age but memory impairment diseases like Alzheimer’s and Dementia are /never/ a normal part of aging.
> So what if she knows how to use an iPad.

She'll be way, way ahead of all those kids whose parents decided to not let them use iPads and screens, that's for sure. That's regardless of what she chooses to pursue in life, but especially if she wants to go into technology.
Interesting, what am I reading?
What I have done is to take you at your word that even valid html does not need <body></body> and combined your examples of "valid html5" and "style=none" but it then failed to apply my own style to <body>.

I am kind of surprised that the styling does work in your minimalist html (style=none) example because there the <body> is missing too and yet the style is applied to it.

You might wish to take this pitfall into account in your exposition, probably by putting <head> and <body> sections into your "valid html5" example nonetheless.

Though I acknowledge that, strictly speaking, you had done nothing wrong in your individual examples.
The singularity is not some supercomputer - it's the consciousness that emerges when we are all tethered at the level of the neuron to each other. There's no hiding then ...
What a fantastic reply. Much love, Marc.
Complete Guide to Save Battery on Android (2018)
For uptime montioring: https://uptimerobot.com

For backend and frontend monitoring: https://atatus.com
We could debate this ad nauseam; it depends on where you fall on the ingredient/structure matrix for a poutine.

Here's the equivalent matrix for sandwiches:

https://i0.wp.com/flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05...
A mobile, goes-with-you screen is the bad screen.

The good screen is the one at a desk that you sit at to do work with conscious intention.
Gentrification is not destroying the local culture, it's simply changing it. Cultures always change. Berlin is a living example of that. There is still plenty of room for artists, creatives, intellectuals, etc. in Berlin. Many of them are actually part of the growth. But yes, everybody is competing for space.
I don't know how useful an epicycle in your model this is. Content creators on Facebook aren't there to make money by driving page views either, and yet I assume you wouldn't say that Facebook is "good", by the standard were discussing.
I keep wondering about GeckoView vs Fennec. Surely Fennec already contains something much like GeckoView, so what will the difference be and when will (Nightly) Fennec switch?
JavaScript Playing Cards Part 1: Ranks and Values
Tesla Faces Criminal Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures
Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2017) [video]
WoW had an absurdly high recurring fee that it tried to make you renew again and again and again. Because there was no micropayment infrastructure, it didn't use "pay to throw dice", it used "pay to retain your investment". By contrast, many of the modern games don't do that and are perfectly happy with their high turnover rates.
The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar
I spend at least as much time on HN as Facebook these days. (My relationship with HN is fine but my relationship with my phone is not as healthy as I feel it should be.) I think the problem is related to the fleeting mental rewards of surprising information, not any particular application. Perhaps the product of all available applications.
These days I don't see many bugs. I hit a crash this week, but it was fixed within a day.
>> at the hands of a former VAX software architect

Dave Cutler. I think he is still a Senior Technical Fellow at MS and a lead developer on Azure.
Effective and Efficient Cross-App Mobile Ad-Blocking [pdf]
More anecdata: we're all here, right?
I'm reminded of this book: "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" by Nir Eyal (BTW I'm not endorsing this book).

4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon after 1,100 reviews.

From the description:

"... by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging."

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/d...

We build 'addictive' products by design. Our children should be protected. I'm in the process of saying 'No' to my kids requests for phones and access to online services.
I'd love to see a 'where are they now' type feature on all of the Sierra Games folks. A lot of the original Origin people pop up from time to time (Star Citizen, Garriot, etc), but the Sierra people seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth!
So ... how long until Windows becomes just a Linux distribution similar to Android? 8 years? Sooner, later?
I mean, it is a 'how-to'.

You just don't want to follow the instructions. ;)
It’s a Good Time to Be a Blockchain Developer
>> My rights should not be curtailed because the market needs of a single company

> That’s at the root of the problem. Many customers want to have access to spare parts, but is it their right?

That's not what I was saying. If counterfeit items are blocked, I don't care. The law specifically makes an allowance for organizations to block copies of products at the border. But legitimate Apple products that are used (i.e. have been sold and refurbished by Apple) are blocked, as was clearly noted in the original comment, preventing those at the border if they are being sold by (and maybe bought by?) a U.S. citizen, that seems to clearly infringe on their rights.

> I think car manufacturers are required to provide spare parts for a reasonable time, but I’m not aware of laws or regulations requiring that for other products.

It's not about the right to get or buy something, it's about people's rights to resell things.

> Even if they exist, I don’t know enough about the examples involving Apple to know whether they are in breach of any regulations.

I don't know a huge amount either, but they are noted in the news as "refurbished".

That said, the agreement Apple has, if it functions as described in this thread, clearly seems to infringe on people's right to resell Apple products if they happen to pass through customs.
Install ClassicShell, it provides a start menu that feels exactly like Windows 7
What's to answer about what you asked? You're making an unjustified assumption about what the ex-wife knows or thinks about his extramarital relationships -- that because the email was in her lawsuit, that it insinuates the relationship is morally wrong (besides being adultery), i.e. "akin to slavery". We simply do not have the info or context to know otherwise.
I know the former CEO of one of the big U.S. health insurers. He has mentioned that on one side, as a doctor, he wanted to do good for patients long term, but, with shareholders on the other side, it can be very difficult to align incentives for long term health when most plan members will only be plan members for an average of 5-10 years.
You're beating a strawman here. I didn't say you can't make any moral judgements. Yeah, read it again.

I'm saying you can't expect people to have a "value system". It's just not a thing that someone other than a specialist would be able to enumerate.

> It is simply venal, wholly convenient for your own self-enrichment, damn the consequences - it's pretty much evil personified.

Well I hope that satisfies you to write. You, of course, had no skin in that game.
> The article doesn't say there has been any peer-reviewed research to show a little screen time is harmful.

This is a valid complaint about the article, but not a good reason to declare that screens are perfectly healthy.

And thank you for your anecdotal data; we let our kid watch some screen time too, and anecdotally have noticed some negative correlations - after watching more than an hour of TV, she gets more cranky, less patient, a lot more demanding and in general behaves worse.
It was written before “blockchain” was a well known term.
Don't forget:

- toss them outside and task them with entertaining themselves until dinner is done

You can't do that anymore with other parents calling the cops if they see a child outside unattended for longer than 30 seconds but it was effective