skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... Drone delivery may work in countryside, where people live in personal homes not apartments, perhaps with a bit of green flat area suitable for landing and leave a small package.

It's essentially unfeasible in cities where nearly anyone live in apartments, with dense roads, no clearly identifiable landing site, no place to fly without being on to of many people's head etc.

I dream a society in which we are few enough to live all in large are and we can easily travel with personal STOL small planes and goods can travel longer paths on waterway/railway to be delivered by truck or planes only for the last small trip. But that's a dream really hard to realize especially these days.

It's the same for electric cars: I'd love them if they have small rechargeable batteries like water bottle basket that I can simply change by hand and their charge last long as traditional car range or better. I'd love to have small "generators" on board like Star Trek reactors, but that's a dream. And I do live in reality, at least last time I checked...
A 1,000-year-old road lost to time
I look forward to yet another Microsoft browser that does not work correctly with SharePoint.
This isnt good for the users, because Firefox respects the user.
Firefox is build for the users, and all features are made with the idea that the user has control.
Many privacy features are started at Firefox.
Chrome isnt a bad browser, but isnt made for the user, it is made for commercial websites/webapps.

An example is that Firefox has a good tracking protection system.
I'm not sure it is so simple. As a point of counter anec-data I was always kind of concerned about this, and I even developed a slightly unhealthy habit with my phone when I sank into depression. In any case, we decided an iPad for our son might be helpful for education and we bought one for him/us when he was 1. He used it quite a lot and he learnt maths really early. As he has grown up - now 3, he only occasionally uses his iPad. To be honest, I find it quite strange that it hasn't turned out how we all would expect it to. I've been conscious to not put crappy advertising games on there, or anything with psychological hooks. But I honestly don't think it is the device that is the root of the problem.
There was also oral tradition of reciting the films. Typically one lucky kid who've seen the movie would be the playground hero reciting it to others over and over again: often with some added cool detail that wasn't there.

I got familiar with The Fly and Terminator that way years before watching them firsthand.
Even if iOS users had a real choice I suspect a lot of them wouldn’t bother changing the default browser.
Or like He-Man, where the entire premise was to create a cartoon they could sell action figures from. Rewatching it, the plot wasn’t all that coherent. But that didn’t matter, because Battle Cat was cool and Skeletor’s castle had a microphone and speaker built in.
I started using Emacs a few months ago and I love it.

I think I'd struggle day to day now without Org Mode. I love how easily I can switch from something in Org Mode to something like a Clojure REPL, then to a Powershell window and to a text editor.

If I can just get it doing C# editing / compiling I'd be very happy.
ctrl-s is usually for pausing the terminal (where ctrl-q resumes it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_flow_control
Is it only for US persons or does it just require a US bank account?

Because then you can get one from transferwise.
Screenshoteer – Command-line website screenshots and mobile emulations
How is that different from e.g. Tensorflow? You can compose any function you want that has differentiable components, and (re)define the derivatives of elementary or composed functions.
Dependency Graph Information Extraction (DGIE)
Eric Schmidt listed the '3 big failures' he sees in tech startups today
I've been known as John Smith, born 1/1/1970 for decades now
Looks like the server is down.
That's lame, but there is to always remember that information leaks are happening in almost every company out there. The way we build and run systems is no adequate, unless very large efforts (like in the case of Google) are made in order to try to limit the attack exposure, but this is not for everybody cost-wise IMHO. Makes more sense for companies to limit the amount of data they ingest. In this regard it's very bad that Quora or Linked-In force you to login just to see content. As a user, if you want to live under correct expectations, assume that your real name and profile picture, and possibly an hashed password, are always automatically leaked.
NULL in 'relational' databases in particular is a disaster. Or at least according to the notorious Fabian Pascal.

http://www.dbdebunk.com/2017/04/null-value-is-contradiction-...

Codd never proposed it in his original relational model. For good reason.
Medium themselves did that to svbtle iirc, so they would have zero ground for complaining about someone else being a dick.
The harder you work, the more we punish you.
Introduce your kid to Andrew Camarata https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUujfNBK9uv3cIW-P5PX7vA/vid...

Clean language, strong work ethics. Works with heavy equipment, builds a Castle out of Shipping Containers, fixes trucks/boats/bikes/excavators etc.

Mustie1 is another clean educational YTber with similar content: https://www.youtube.com/user/mustie1/videos
To be fair it does take much more than $20 worth of effort to migrate all your stuff from gmail.
How much more I don't know since I've yet to do it, even though I've been paying for another email service for more than a year.
I recognize that I am my best self. Even at the worst parts of my life.

I stop saying I "should" do this or I "should" do that, and just let life run its course.

Not sure if that helps you, but I've been there man. Email me if you want to talk.
Learn to code in 2019, get hired, and have fun along the way
> 2. It is better than the squat toilet in terms of the extreme stress on the knees"

Yeah, the first thing that worry me, when I read about squat toilets, is accessibility. Basically, if I were to get a house and install one of those, how much would 80 year old me (presuming I live that long, hah?) hate the 37 year old me every time they had to poop?

Apparently people often don't really consider that, say, building houses with stairs that are nice when you're 20, but become hard to navigate later on, and if you end up becoming a wheelchair user, may be impossible to retrofit with a lift.
Hum, I do something like that with my personal mail services: an alias (created by hand or random depending on where I use it) that I can keep as long as I want, dispose when I want, I can easy discover spam sources and easily filter messages simply using To: field etc...

It do more things, at the price of costing money (not much really), I mean I have free unlimited alias but I pay a fee for mail service as a whole.

Your project may help students and in general people who can't easy pay for personal mail so kudos for that :-)
Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography is a great primer on all things typographical.

https://practicaltypography.com
I am using duckduckgo extension and I am typing "!w Richard Feynman", or "Richard Feynman !w"
Chrome handles PDF and printing (with the preview) better than Firefox in my opinion. I probably like Chrome a bit more for dev work as well but as a user they're pretty similar with the exception of the PDFs that I mentioned.
It's hard to compete with a product that is being spread like crap ware bundled with other freeware or pushed through Android or the main search engine on the internet.

From my experience this is the ways most of the people I know came in contact with Chrome. Even those where I've installed FF end up with Chrome. When I ask them why they switched, they don't know. They don't even know where it came from...this is what you get from clicking "Next" without reading...
My FastMail account costs $50 / year or $130 / 3 years, thus with a monthly cost starting at 3.6 USD. That's less than the price of a Starbucks Grande Latte.

Google's G Suite, which is still better than free web mail since you no longer have the lock-in, plus a better privacy policy, is $5 per month, which is almost the price of a Starbucks Venti Latte. And this is actually an expensive offering in the business.

So no, it's not an expensive coffee, especially since we are talking about a highly skilled and highly paid demographic.

Also I'm from Romania where we have a lower cost of living and lower wages to go with it, so seeing my Silicon Valley brethren complaining about the price of paying for non-free email on your own domain is really awkward, given the importance of email.

I get it, I hate subscriptions for software too. But not when that service is essential for your profession, your security or your privacy and email is all of the above.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ctyptopat08
When you spin up an IE11 on Win 10 virtual machine to test something and windows decides to run updates. Ain't nobody got time for that man.
I'm smart enought to understand and read over it. It doesn't hurt me at all.

The only issue i have is, that apparently i'm unable to find a dictionary which writes it like this. 'Authorette' links to twitter accounts and blogs and twitch.
> However using google fonts in your web projects is always a good idea as their cdn's are lightning fast (and they are free).

No, it is not always a good idea. If you care about your user's privacy a single bit, you should self-host. Easily done thanks to https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts
As far as insight for how this looks for the US economy, one of the few people I respect when it comes to predictions is Ray Dalio, he says the US debt will start becoming an issue soon. Within 10 years the majority of the US federal budget will go to paying INTEREST on our debt

Why don't you do the math instead of listening to Ray Dalio spout nonsense?

A 1% rise in interest rates is equal to a ~$15 Billion rise in interest rate payments based on the amount of treasuries that actually roll over annually. Meanwhile, tax receipts are rising at ~$100 Billion annually.

So, how, exactly, will we be spending the majority of the US budget, which is almost $4.0 TRILLION, on interest payments within 10 years?
I appreciate your thoughtful response. Thanks!

I agree with your conclusion that "if senior folk get more thoughtful about their actions, it's likely to be net positive".

You also mentioned that "If how I act or communicate is misconstrued this could have far reaching consequences". I agree -- and this also cuts both ways.

The original point I was trying to (clumsily) make was: One could easily see the men in the original article as actively excluding women from positions of power. The 'far reaching consequences' in this case would be punishing women who have legitimate grievances for raising those grievances and emphasizing a power gap between genders.
Since 17someting:

Article VI

> All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution.

It requires a minimum of good faith, which you possibly lack. But it clearly implies that debt exists, and that it can be valid. The fact that valid debt is to be repaid is not clearly spelled out in the constitution, because the founding fathers did not believe there would ever be a time where idiot vandals trashed about requiring every minute detail to be proven from first principle.
Do people still use that? On any browser I use, I change the settings so when I restart it, it will open whatever tabs I had last opened. I almost never get to see the browser's homepage.
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stop smoking weed for more than 1 month, find other things to do than smoking weed.

i'm on the same spot, it's hard to focus. that are all side effects of the weed.

if you stop, your body wants it again and you can not focus. if you have it, its nice but you get lazy.
Show HN: The Flockport Mysql Container
Those darn stick-and-hoop games are ruining our Victorian kids.
From the article:

> In addition, Microsoft engineers were recently spotted committing code to the Chromium project to help get Google Chrome running on ARM.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding something, Chromium already runs on ARM SoCs. Raspbian even ships with it as the default browser.

Also, as to Edge and stability, I don't use Windows 10 for any serious work anymore in light of the recent update gaffes[1], but Edge has been consistently stable and fast in my experience. In fact it's one of the better things about Windows 10; it can correctly render certain websites that Firefox/Waterfox struggles with, and it's as fast as or faster than Chromium across the board.

[1] Even running Windows 10 Pro and deferring updates, I had stability issues with the OS from day one. I had relegated it to just gaming and went back to macOS and Linux for serious work at home, but lately I've decided to stop putting so much time into games and focus on learning and music again. Therefore, I no longer use Windows 10 at all apart from IT duties at my job.
Strongly agree with everything here, except perhaps the bit about notes.
To aid in concentration to get things done I woul d recommend the Pomodoro technique https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique
India, South East Asia and used books in Europe/US
Also Mindfulnesss, to calm the mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYLyuJZKno&list=PLyp5AYS-aS...
Yes, you can block channels! It is oh so satisfying!
Your Twitter feed in chronological order
i use chrome because firefox mobile is so slow on my iphone 5s and i like to sync tabs between mobile and desktop, so chrome on mobile means i have to use it on desktop too
> This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it's in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won't work with it, and starts using Chromium too.

It seems very unlikely:

- Mozilla has been in a far worse uderdog position before during the IE6 era, with way more incompatible sites and less funding.

- Mozilla is not for profit. Fighting for the open Web is one of their goal. It always has been. They are not perfect, but their track record is damn good compared to almost any player of their size and impact in the tech world.

- Mozilla strongly invested in their own tech, including rewritting the browser rendering engine and taking huge risks such as create a bloody hole new language, rust, in the process. To my knowledge, the "oxydation" project has been a success so far, and rust is proving everyday that it's a positive force in the world as well.

- Firefox is the only decent mobile browser. I can't navigate the web without the ublock extension. I just can't.

- Mozilla keeps innovating. Their last brillant idea, the tab container, is worth switching on it's own.

- Mozilla has the hardcore geeks on their side. Even during the V30 to v50 transition period where Firefox was, at the time, clearly an inferior product, we kept using it to support it for the sheer ideal of it. We hoped it would come back from it, and it happened: Firefox is now a fast, lean and fantastic browser again.

- Privacy concerns are (FINALLY !) being taken in consideration from the crowd. And Chrome is terrible at this, so moving to a chromium core, while technically not related at all because you can set it up the way you like, would carry the stigma.

All in all, I'm incredibly optimistic about Mozilla et Firefox's future despite the market share taking a serious hit.
They write up a 4,000+ word article on this product yet don't mention the exposure it got on US prime time with Shark Tank. I think that is where many people first saw this product.
Or exceptions.
Is Native Advertising Blocked by Ad Blockers?
That's because monetary tools are the wrong tool to generate growth and inflation. The correct tool is fiscal policy, but that's politically impossible at the moment in the USA and the Euro-area.
As it happens, I wrote a blog post about this not too long ago. Basic summary:

(1) Write things down as you go.

(2) Learn your tools (e.g. IDE or cscope).

(3) Learn the core data structures and RPC definitions first.

(4) Trace through important code flows.

(5) Experiment with small changes to see how they affect things.

The full post is here: http://obdurodon.silvrback.com/navigating-a-large-codebase

BTW, a lot of folks here need to stop talking about "the entry point" or "main". For many kinds of code, from kernel code to network and storage servers, main will not exist or will be intensely uninteresting. Finding the real entry points is part of the investigative process, not something to be assumed.
In C++ I practically never feel like I need a null for anything but a pointer. A null string or integer makes no sense to me.
By that same argument, using Chrome with CORS disabled is just as bad, if not worse. If you only test in Chrome with CORS disabled, how do you know that CORS works at all?
Using Vim as a tool for medical school lecture notes (2014)
My work laptop still runs Windows 7, so I have no experience with Edge; but Firefox feels a lot faster than Internet Explorer 11, even though it hogs memory like crazy.
The Medium Design blog is a great resource if you want to unpick their design. They talk in great detail about the various typefaces they have chosen over the years, and why. https://medium.design/

Butterick’s Practical Typography is the best beginner's guide to type on the web that I know about. If you want to know how to lay out pages with good typography, this takes you through everything in easily digestible chapters. https://practicaltypography.com/
Why does there have to be a CD? Music ≠ recorded music.

http://www.playbill.com/article/national-endowment-of-the-ar...

https://www.musicofremembrance.org/news/national-endowment-a...

If you specifically want an example of a grant being awarded to a composer for the purposes of composing a new piece, see here:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwclassical/article/Chicago-P...

"The Chicago Philharmonic Society has been named the recipient of a $10,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The award will support a collaboration between The Chicago Philharmonic Society, composer Augusta Read Thomas, and Chicago-based percussion ensemble Third Coast Percussion for the creation and performance of a new work for percussion quartet and orchestra. The premiere will be presented in fall 2017 as part of the Chicago Philharmonic's 2017-2018 symphonic season."
> I have read comments in this thread suggesting that FF's performance is not that snappy but I cannot seem to notice any difference.

I tried to switch from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago but I had a terrible experience using Hangouts with a customer for two hours. The Firefox degraded until a point of no return and that sucks when you are talking with a customer. I initially blamed the network but there was no signal of network issues.
Aggregators and Jobs-to-be-Done
> Yak shaving, by definition

Depends whose definition you choose to use. The apparent primary source[0] doesn't have it as a dependency, the later jargon file does[1], and then there are seem to be an approximate equal split of others.

[0] https://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/g...

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html
It doesn't take that much more. Office 365's base plan is something like 35£/year, plus around 10£/year for a domain. They offer IMAP import so migrating from Gmail is seamless.
>Is it really this simple? And how come this isn't common knowledge?

It's totally common knowledge: you can print money as long as demand for your currency exceeds supply. It's the inflation doomers who don't understand it.

>and of course why the Iraq war was performed.

Conspiracy rubbish. People don't use the US dollar because we make them; they use it because it's valuable and widely accepted.
I think the biggest advantage of squat toilets is that the users end up developing strong legs and balance. They develop the ability to be able to sit in a squat comfortably. It's great to have a free in-built chair for when you need to take a break.
Heroin doesn't have any neurotoxicity profile to speak of. It's safer than almost another other drug for your brain (assuming you don't overdose and have oxygen-deprivation, of course)

Moreover, it only harms your veins if you shoot it.

It is addictive and tolerance forming, but that's about the only downside.

Let's take myself for example. I have a good salary and used to spend maybe 40k/year on heroin. That's a big cost for sure, that's why I quit. But because I could afford to do it, there weren't any other downsides. In fact, there were a lot of upsides.

I worked harder and longer than any of my coworkers could even dream of. I could pump out high quality code for 20 hours straight. No one knew I was addicted to anything. In fact, over the 2 years I was addicted I got promoted and got huge bonuses every year for being a quote "killer".

People think the common social effects of heroin (stealing, homelessness, etc) are inherent to the drug itself, but that simply isn't true. These negative effects have more to do with the laws and culture we have built up around the drug, not the drug itself.

Nitpick, but, heroin hasn't been ruining lives for "centuries." It wasn't even invented a hundred years ago.
No more WhatsApp? How the proposed encrypted message access laws will affect you
> You said "map" but are talking about "tree".

In essence yes, the maps I see being bandied about in clj tend to have tree structures.

Haven't seen much/any use of graphs in clj code. Deep nesting has become almost idiomatic at this point from my POV.

Could you provide example/pointer to clj code using a graph in lieu or in addition to a map?
You can run your own email server via Vultr or DO for $5/month or less. You have to do some work to maintain it so there's the cost of time invested, so maybe two coffees/month. You can also opt for Fastmail or ProtonMail, or similar privacy-respecting email services, and again you're getting it for less than $5/month. I use Fastmail for my main email account and I love it.

I use Tiger Technologies (https://tigertech.net) for hosting mine and my wife's personal sites and email, they are all I need for basic Wordpress/email hosting and they have a superb support team. If I decide I want to get my hands dirty with running a server, I use Vultr.
And, while I'm not a hard-core JS programmer, I've found Safari's dev tools to be just as good as Firefox's or Chrome's.
Teaching is actually very different than ability to self learn. I taught a class of 8-11 year old lower income but fairly motivated kids programming with Scratch over summer. Everyone did reasonably well but exactly 2 out of the 26 demonstrated the ability to push further and teach themselves more than what I taught in class by experimenting with the platform. This ability becomes much rarer the older you grow.