skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, fair enough. The only real routine I have is "make coffee, kiss wife, watch rerun of the evening news". And that's about it.

So yes, I have no productivity-helping routines.

Some of the ones I tried in a lot of different ways are time management (pomodoro, toggl, ..), activity logging (toggl, todoist, paper book, ..), waking up and going to bed on fixed hours, remembering thinks (google keep, evernote, paper book,..) and all of them fade away after less than 5 days.
On the one hand, I doubt the author was out to stir up criticism on HN.

On the other, that definition is skirting quite close to defining everything in the known universe as typed - I suspect there is a hair splitting argument about whether the fundamentals of physics can be defined as a 'symbol' in an 'expression'.

With that sort of starting point, it is no longer clear what the value of things being typed is. If everything has a type, what use is it to point out that a thing is typed? The results become too trivial to be worth discussing. A little further down this rabbit hole and we'll have discovered that mathematics encapsulates universal laws!
Congratulations, you seem to be experiencing http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html. I'm not sure why, though.
Somebody brought up also Swiftype. Their brochure site is good to sell the product. It seems to have a bunch of good features.

I usually test a few alternative and see how they work and pick one base on some criteria. The main reason I did not did that this time is that I could not see anything that seem going a lot further than the usual ES.

I am curious to hear from somebody that had the same problem and found a satisfactory solution. It would also be interesting to hear from those that tried with modest results and hear what they end up setting on.
Yes, because of legitimate calls that are, indeed, important. Doctors and specialists and hospitals for starters. Your elderly spouse slip and fall while at the grocery store yet has a card with your phone number on it calls you. A friend who has had a landline gets a cell phone as well and calls. A hairdresser or other such place confirming an appointment.

The list of these scenarios goes on. They are greatly outnumbered by the scam calls, but aren't few enough not to be an issue - especially the ones with doctor's and so on.
Real source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/poland-saved-europe-ac...
It doesn't use the recycle bin on Linux either.
Welp, since the batter didn't move, and parts of the ball are exploding out in all directions, the nearest thing to the incoming ball-cloud would be a piece of the batter. So I'd say he's right. Hit by ball.
Instructions themselves often encode a conventional interpretation of the bits...
Not sure why, but you need to remove the Ad-Blocker to see our CTO (Julien)'s answer /o\
The problem there is data is fungible. Did it come from a hospital, a doctor, an IT contractor, which of several of those, etc? It could be impossible to tell.
This is also yet another reason as to why ditching the headphone jack on phones is so brain-dead.

Bluetooth seems to be quite hard to secure (or am I mistaken?), is there any decent (simpler) alternative available or on the horizon that could become ubiquitius?
You can download very interesting self play games from the open source clone: https://zero.sjeng.org/
He isn't.
Usually I expect software to perform better on newer hardware than it does on old. Are you suggesting the probles you're experiencing have to do with a retina display.

I have periodically had firefox problems in performance on all platforms including the new Mac air I bought my wife, her old Mac Pro and various Ubuntu and Windows installations. As a general rule it is because I've kept it open for several days with lots of tabs with media in them running. I mean it's irritating but not an ongoing catastrophe that means I can't use. As I said in some other thread recently I have over the past 10 years I think had two occasions where FF performance was so bad I had to leave the platform for a some time until it was fixed.

I see a lot of people in this thread claiming problems, and I see a lot of people claiming no problems, and some like me in between. So I don't know what the statistical breakdown of performance complaints about FF in comparison to all other issues (and if those complaints are actually likely to be related), but maybe it is not as great as you think it is?
Same. The biggest issue I've had with linux on laptops is hidpi scaling problems. I always run into problems where some apps scale properly and others don't, or weird issues like the mouse cursor changing sizes depending on what window I'm hovering over.

Trackpads are pretty hit-or-miss too, but some machines like the XPS 9370 feel ok.

I recently switched to virtualbox on a macOS host and I've been much happier with how the linux desktop experience feels.
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> The access the manufacturer has is a different level

totally agreed, that is exactly how NSA works with Cisco.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
There's no need for high-speed, long-distance, expensive commuter rail in today's era of high-quality, reliable, free, socially acceptable, and highly available videoconferencing solutions. Business travel is in decline for a reason!
Though we can find a lot of obvious overengineering cases, Tonsky should have known better that reference-style website a la Wiki and feature rich application like Airbnb impose very different trade offs between initial/overall loading times and functionality.

An interesting case when someone who is firmly saying "BS" three times in every paragraph is BS too.
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Because it’s easier on the eyes. For people spending unhealthy amounts of time being bombarded by monitors right in the retinas, it’s a necessity.
Hackernews has 7KB of css - 2KB with compression. The html for this document is 200kb - 30kb with compression.
Many commercial solutions for Bitcoin payments seem to focus on e-commerce, which I believe is addressing the wrong market. The most common medium for companies in developing countries actually needing Bitcoin are paper (or .pdf) invoices.

That being said, due to Bitcoin being rough around the edges, a workable paper invoice needs the following components:-

- The invoice amount in source currency.

- The trigger & window when payment is expected. (e.g. T+1 day after bill of lading presented)

- The seller Bitcoin address, both in text and in QR-code form.

- The reference exchange rate index; e.g. xe.com for VND:USD and Tradeblock XBX for USD:BTC

- Reminder to provide TxID after payment.

- No. of confirmations for finality.

A scenario I usually share is the export of frozen chickens to Iran. While food is supposedly exempted from US sanctions, banking friction make this trade a nightmare. I'm hoping some entrepreneurs are willing to use Bitcoins as a workaround and share their expirience.
I wanted to build something like this for a long time, but I never figured out the best tech & architecture to make it. I'm looking forward for a technical post :)
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Mozilla has a political stance that I do not support, and they openly use Firefox to push it. This doesn't get brought up enough on places that lean liberal such as HN, but it is a reason why I, and several other people I know, cannot use it in good faith.

It's also a fair bit slower than Chrome, which doesn't help.
Ah, that's interesting! Would the X-Ray cloud be sufficient to completely blow the batter out of the box before any part of him is hit by the ball-cloud nanoseconds later? I expect some piece of batter is going to be hit by some matter that originated in the ball, within the batter's box.
How well did the bash script handle exceptions?
how did Assange put it? it's not about the revealed secrets, but about making the private communication between those in power more expensive, making it harder to conspire.

(i don't like Assange in general, but really like this thought)
How is Airbnb a "feature rich application" compared to Wikipedia? They're both Search+CRUD sites as far as I can see.
Computer chess is a huge part of modern professional chess, someone like Magnus Carlsen would probably pay for access to the best chess engine available.
Ask HN: Upgrade path from Trello?
My team and I have happily and successfully used Trello to manage software development project backlogs/sprints at my custom software house for about 5 years.

The business has now grown in size and we have outgrown Trello. Specifically, Trello's strength in its flexibility has now become a weakness. We need a tool that helps us to better enforce process throughout the software development life cycle.

We're currently considering ZenHub, Jira and Azure Dev Ops.

I wondered if any of you who had used Trello and migrated for similar reasons found the perfect replacement?

Thanks!
The VPN server offers frivolous features like session tracking, and certificate revocation. Things k8s continues to punt down the road or outright ignore.
Or it’s evidence that they exploited a population that doesn’t have private health insurance.
Yeah, O2 kept saying that calls and texts were not affected, but that was utter nonsense. I couldn't place a call most of the day, and texts would go out, but my phone would insist that sending failed. And then there was just no signal at all most of the afternoon.
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Nah. Mathematics is kinda like "brain gymnastics": you'll have a hard time starting but it'll become easier as you go through it.

My advice is to find a place/community where you can ask "stupid" questions without being judged too much. For this kind of questions, every once in a while, I like to ask on usenet, on the sci.math newsgroup.
In the comparison of the two companies, Apple is crushing Google in any context. In the US, it's the same if you include other players. Worldwide is a different story.
gj using plain old js+html, very nice))
Technically I don't see any difference. Whether you're signing a timestamp or certificate, it's the same.
Well you could have an initial stage in the bootstrapping that is pure machine code, but is short and simple enough that it can be read and understood. Then that could implement a very simple assembler. You'd write a complex assembler in the simple assembly language. Then write a few steps of increasingly complicated compilers.

Still need to trust the hardware though.
This might seem like “just another thing” after all these example, but have you looked into bullet journalling? It can be taken less as a fixed-in-stone method and more as a continual improvement at shaping your rituals.

Also, these rituals should either come to you naturally or be grown into with multiple attempts, so you shouldn't brush everything off at once.
Thanks, I think? Haha :)

I didn’t finish reading the article. One, because it’s long (normally not a problem for me) but two: because it pisses me off how churches are taking advantage of this.

I had anger problems after leaving my family. I never sought counseling, but I probably should have. I did break down during work one day (in the military no less!) and yeah...

Point is, when kids grow up in families like this, it’s a real shitty situation. The fact that people can’t, or won’t, try to seek real help for their loved ones when they “act out”, and the fact that religion preys and even profits from this, just really grinds my gears.

And why are these people having issues? Probably because of their family, or medical condition. Although I’m convinced most of it stems from families that are super-religious, fanatics, or radicals.

My family is self-proclaimed as “radical “ Christians. Everything , literally everything is not from god and is demonic.

I mean, shit. And people wonder why I’m agnostic.
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That has severe hurdles everywhere. You'd be better off with a good hot plate instead of the microwave.

A microwave is not a substitute for a stove. Have you had microwave meats? Tried to brown vegetables in the microwave? These two things alone mean that you have the initial problem of changing people's food. In addition, most folks would need to buy new utensils and cooking vessels for that microwave and hope there is a bakery nearby that they could afford to buy bread from.

There is also an education cost that is much, much greater than moving from a fire/charcoal to the stove. Your cooking methods are very similar when moving to the stove and most of the education lies in operating your new device. Traditional cooking doesn't transfer well to the microwave, so someone is going to have to teach folks.

I much prefer a more traditional stove setup with a solar installation, even if it is a hot plate or something similar. But I realize that having a pellet stove is going to spread more quickly simply because of costs, portability, ease of distribution, and lack of failure due to weather.
I think this kind of resource is in a chicken-and-egg situation: for people to bother to contribute to it, it needs to be seen by others as an authoritative reference, and vice versa.

I agree that it's badly needed. There were other projects like this, that seem abandoned: http://rodrigob.github.io/are_we_there_yet/build/classificat...

This probably belongs on Wikipedia.
Not a fan of Turbolinks really. Usually one of the things I remove in a default Rails install.

Just means JavaScript stuff needs to be re-init every page load etc and means extra messing about to get stuff to work
An important realisation is that you already have a routine, it might not be the optimal but you do have one. Even if you routine is "going to bed every night a different hour", it is a routine. Not going to gym in the mornings, it is a routine. Just have a look to your repeated behaviours, even if they are variable, if the variability repeats then it is a pattern.

In other words it is useful to demystify the routine, and realise that you already have one, you just need to adjust to make it more optimal.

In response to:

m1dnigh7: > I truly envy people with routines or rituals...

andrewflnr: > I hate that this might actually be true...
just because it's tailored to the browser or whatever Metadata it spills, doesn't mean it's tracking on a personal level.

maybe all Firefox incognito windows machines in Finland get specific results. no tracking needed for that.
@pierre from Kill Bill here.

First, regarding maintaining plugins in general, the project is over 7 years old now. We have everything from very small to very big companies using us (some of them have their logo displayed at http://killbill.io/), each with their own requirements. Over the years, we have created about 60 plugins to fulfill these, and the matrix to maintain has become huge (company X is using feature F of vendor/plugin Y with Kill Bill version Z).

It's getting impossible for us (core developers) to maintain all of these for each combination of {F,Y,Z}, while also continuing to maintain and improve the core codebase. This is why we are asking more and more for the community to help us (read: submit PR) and we are more than willing to provide support and guidance (if you want to fix something specific, feel free to reach out on the mailing-list).

I also agree that Kill Bill can be difficult to grasp initially. We've been working hard over the past year to improve our manuals (http://docs.killbill.io/) and API docs (https://killbill.github.io/slate/). There is always more we could do, so happy to iterate if you have specific feedback. That being said, subscription billing and payment is really hard, and after reviewing requirements for dozens of companies over the years, none are alike, hence the complexity of Kill Bill (it's a generic system with lots of knobs to tweak to fulfill most requirements).
The population isn't a relevant part of the argument, Mexico has 130 million people and has a smaller economy than Australia. After the top 6 or 7 economies, the next 6 or 7 are all comparable in size.

But more importantly, because of the high GDP per capita and low income inequality, Australians are wealthy with lots of disposable income. And so most international marketplaces see disproportionately high amounts of Australian spending when considering population size.

For instance, where I work, the top 5 spending countries are the US, Canada, Australia, UK, China in that order.
I really feel like learning Go and Rust made be better Java developer.
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Enforcement of the Do-Not-Call list seems rather sparse.

"To date, the Commission has brought 134 enforcement actions against companies and telemarketers for Do Not Call, abandoned call, robocall and Registry violations. To date, 121 of these FTC enforcement actions have been resolved, and in those cases the agency has recovered over $50 million in civil penalties and $71 million in redress or disgorgement."

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/do-not-call-...
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Aha you think the American people has the facts and experience enough to be able to make good judgements in foreign policy and even that YOU actually now what their voice is and can represent them completely?

What you now is the same as everyone else what’s being sold in the media (even social media). There are lots of hacks like Thomas Friedman being given lots of page space in papers such as NYT to even spread propaganda for powerful interests. In aggregation these hacks represents alignments of powers which even a president cannot surmount in the long term. Obama of course understood this but didn’t give up on what he thought was right, and now Trump does not care about was is right instead he simply surf the waves of narratives spewed by the conservative/alt-right to both winning the presidency and keeping his hold on power and enrich himself in the process, while he claims he’s being backstabbed by the deep state. But it’s clear his bet on the wrong horse is becoming a hazard as more Republicans in Senate are realizing this and changing course to avoid the risk of complete collapse of their party and American morals.

I guess another Vietnam has to happen so that the American people will again learn the real news, but given the assymetry in military power and outsourcing of it to allies like SA I’m not sure if they will learn this time.
> Using pyproject.toml just requires a recent version of pip. Which CI tools can't handle that?

The most used one in the world: https://github.com/travis-ci/dpl/issues/822

Also the last time I used tox, anything complex didn't work either.

> Even if you call those edge cases, do you think a PEP that turned edge cases into silent errors would be approved?

Well the current PEP decided to turn a packaging situation that was stable into one that was not, again, after 15 years of mess with many versions of things. So you tell me.

Check the usage stats I posted in an other comment to see the problem.

Besides, yes, we do make compromise on best practices to allow peaceful transition all the time in Python. `async/await` allowing to be a variable silently. Non utf8 defaut encoding argument in open() in windows. Then... we fix it later.

Because I think you conveniently skip a lot of things I wrote in my comments. I clearly state that we would and should consider setup.cfg as a version 1 of the format. Then we would increment on that. I gave a detailed procedure on one way to do that, and there are others.

The point is, all your concerned can be addressed with a progressive transition, starting from setup.cfg. Actually we could even end up with a toml format in setup.cfg, __on the long run__, that matches exactly the current one.

While you addressed non of ours concerns. Just reject them. No will to even recognize there is a problem. It's insulting, really.

We did that during the 2/3 transition. Didn't work so well, did it ?
Hansen does say in the document "My target is the level of a Chief Justice or a fossil fuel industry CEO", so I was thinking of fossil fuel industry CEO's (who probably have never experienced a level playing field). Voters need someone already persuaded to vote for; I think polls show the voters themselves weigh on the convinced side. Fiduciary duties are only part of what a CEO should be concerned about, but certainly major changes in what other industries are doing should be part of fiduciary duty. Like VW saying they are going to drop internal combustion engines in the near future, forest blight affecting logging, Apple and Google going solar, real estate trends in coastal areas, cities creating climate change plans, and more.
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You're wrong. I've participated in it, multiple times, due to a mandate from upper management, at a well known company.

I don't know how to get through to people who are absolutely convinced that people who claim it's happening are just being paranoid insecure sexists leading to biased assumptions, and I don't understand why their mind refuses to consider the possibility that these people are correct.

Is it even surprising? Of course it's going to happen. Everyone is getting sued over this, and there is activism and PR wars everywhere. How do you think companies are going to respond? Nobody wants to be next, so they have to increase representation. Executives cannot actually do anything to increase representation, other than set goals for their employees to carry out. That is how execs manage. By the time it gets down to the rank-and-file, how to do it doesn't matter. They know it needs to get done, and nobody wants to be the reason that an exec's goals are not met, so they will just make it happen. This happens with goals all the time, and number of women hired is in no way different. Remember when Microsoft told shareholders they were going to get 1 billion devices running Windows 10, and what they started doing to forcefully upgrade machines? If the rank and file resort to force installing Windows to meet that goal, how do you think a company like MS are going to handle meeting their diversity targets? Or Wells Fargo with their account opening scandal that was motivated by executive goals for numbers of new accounts?

This sucks for everybody, but most of all for the people it's supposed to help. Now, those who did meet the bar look just like those who didn't meet the bar but were hired as tokens. Looking the same would not be an issue were it not for identity politics.
“aims to have one flying early next year.”, and HN is skeptical about it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602771)
"The problem with both Montezuma’s Revenge and Pitfall! is that there are few reliable reward signals. Both titles involve typical scenarios: protagonists explore blockish worlds filled with deadly creatures and traps. But in each case, lots of behaviors that are necessary to advance within the game do not help increase the score until much later."

Opinion: Equally true in non incubator-assisted entrepreneurship... that is, real entrepreneurship...
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Very cool. I'll share that.
I think the argument the article was making wrt 80 is that editors can wrap the text to 80 characters without modifying the source, not that you shouldn't want your code to fit in 80 characters.

The counterargument is that they suck at it, you get a break (maybe word-aligned) with an arbitrarily indented next line.

As a purist I advocate for a future with smarter editor soft wrapping.