skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote one thesis in LaTeX and one in Word. There were some challenges each way, but all in all, doing it in Word was easier. WYSIWYG helped a lot, Word had good documentation, and LaTeX was hard to customize to meet the university's formatting rules.

I will admit, however, that LaTeX run on default settings looks good. Whoever designed that bit had taste.
> People keep bringing this up.

I think the idea that a new technology takes work to provide demonstrable value shouldn't be so surprising. That had to happen with RAMAC and may or may not happen here (or with Blockchain, etc.)
Recall the difference between marginal tax rate and tax rate. 90% marginal income tax rate is not the same as 90% income tax rate.

It seems that the failure to recognize the difference creates lots of unnecessary confusion in the social media comments. Especially among the first comments.
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What journal/conference are you submitting to? I haven't come across any in CS/Math/EE that even have a Word template to submit with. Every last one has a latex template.
I get frustrated at times, but still never go on any twitter/social rants. I hate to break it to you, but the platform is merely allowing every individual to behave as they please. There are plenty of folks who never have their worst brought out.
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You are right. It is something that has been known in criminal law for a long time. However, the possibilities to enforce have always been submitted to the rules of legal assistance that most of the time provides the limits of another national law.

We might end up in a situation where US authorities could accept to apply GDPR, but with fees limited to what US law allows, for example.
In my experience the worst part about Word is collaboration. Have you ever seen the track changes interface? It's a sea of incomprehensible, badly segmented, changes where every switch from bold to italics is counted as a separate change mixed in with actual substantive changes and has some little red line among thousands of indistinguishable little red lines pointing to some unclear place in the document. It's a totally unusable interface, and yet some highly collaborative industries (ahem, law) are stuck with it. It's horrifying.

I have seriously considered offering to pay people with whom I'm forced to exchange documents (especially academic law review articles which tend to have thousands of edits) to learn markdown and git just so I don't have to eyestrain my way through that track changes screen
While I didn't have microsoft apps on my S9, if you install netguard (firewall) [1] you'll see that most samsung apps are constantly trying to get a connection with facebook servers and Samsung HQ.

Apps that have no reason to have internet connectivity, like the dialer, clock app, the finder (search functionality within the stock launcher) are phoning home [!] Unfortunately Samsung phones have locked bootloaders, so there's no easy way to 'take control'.

[1] https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

side note: I recommend installing this on all [un-rooted] android devices. It's an easy way to block most "telemetry" apps & devices collect, from the Amazon Firestick to apps running on any given device, including Google apps.
Ok there are no doubt people who value those things. There are an equal or greater number of consumers who value the opposite position:

1) "My time is more important to me than haggling over a price with a shopkeeper." Or, "I don't find the process of bargaining interesting, and I'd rather save that time and energy for other creative or human-connection type activities."

2) "Avoiding the time/inconvenience overhead of dealing with cash and change holds more utility to me than the promise of anonymity, and the credit card rewards are a plus."
We have down time built into our schedule: 3 30 minute breaks scattered throughout the day. I often use that time to read and improve. We do promiscuous pairing which helps all of us improve at an impressive rate. We actually create learning content for IT professionals so we already have at our fingertips a lot of info that we are encouraged to watch, in fact we have to watch a course (5-30 hours of content) every quarter, usually whatever we want to watch.
Paul Krugman is just so tiresome - he’s as partisan an ideologue as they come planting a patent falsehood every third sentence
But I don't want to ride regular, licenced taxis. They're still a cartel. They charge a premium for having to learn all the streets of London by heart, but that's not a premium I'm willing to pay (or that I consider valuable) in the modern day'n'age of Google Maps and the likes.
Try to do a thesis in LaTeX + Sweave then, as I did. Reading books, browsing internet and building the thing from zero like a ram, just because I can (lol). In Emacs, of course (Learning to swim directly in the white waters, why not?) Fun times.

It was worth it all the trouble? oh yes! :-)
Why don't you use Markdown?
1999 and it doesn't seem like, from other answers.

The thing is that time invested in learning superior alternatives is already spent, and there's no point taking the risks just to try for no reason.

Just like I will not create another website in FrontPage.
I do agree this is a real problem.

Related to lag and sensor responsiveness.

This is way more important than the external look of the device.
Some people don't have root access.
it's a mainstream design choice on most of programming languages for several reasons, like security or heavy optimizations. If the language is so focused on constrained environments that might make no sense since the developer will be anyway counting bytes in their minds.
Well websites definitely don't list the trackers anywhere at all, let alone before you reach them.
On the other hand where do you ultimately end up if you only add 40% delta V ?
I tried to teach Gmail to mark emails from FB as spam but without luck. It seems though that deleting the FB account did help.
Another person who wrote about this stuff, was Richard Feynman. His first wife, Arlene, had non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He has a fairly long section of "Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" on this. He talks about what they went through, the antics, and so forth. And he talks about the whole end of life process, as her cancer wasn't one that many people survived in the 1940's. His world view of making every second count, and not sweating the little things was fantastic.

Just make every moment count with them, regardless of the prognosis.
In the description on the app store, it says, "You will learn to code like an expert.".

I'm finding that hard to believe. In fact, I find it extremely hard to believe that you can do any decent coding using your mobile keyboard, not to mention at an expert level.

Further, the way that the actual application works is so cleverly hidden behind marketing jargon that I almost want to applaud you for the effort to make it so.

I could be wrong... right? I'll be damned if this is not an attempt to make some quick cash with false promises.
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Samsung devices are the worst. When I had an S8, I ran a toolkit that would constantly remove (and re-remove when it appeared again) almost all of the Samsung crapware, but even that is subpar since you need some of it like their Health product for basic phone features to work.

Samsung is by far the worst at it. I won't buy their phones anymore.
I'd call it an axiomatic system rather than a religion. Austrians distinguish between theory and history (pretty bad name). Theory is basically the action axiom and what you can derive from it and history is the application of this theory to the analysis of the empirical world. Explaining the great depression through the lense of the theoretical framework would be an example of history for example.
As far as I know there's nothing wrong with trying to predict the future through this theoretical framework but you might be wrong. This is basically Austrian entrepreneurship (sort of forward oriented history).

The way I see it from a science theoretical POV is that the action axiom and what you derive is basically the "hard core" of the research program (at least Lakatos makes the most sense for me with regards to science theory).
I probably have an “unusual reaction” to alcohol, since I don’t find it great. I’ve only gotten drunk twice in my life and it felt horrible, even kind of traumatizing. Not just the hangover, even the feeling of being drunk is very unpleasant to me.
It can happen. In my early career I was in the non-profit/NGO space, primarily working with people but then transitioned to a tech role in a couple very large companies. Very recently I have felt the draw back toward a less tech focused, more people focused role. Working on that transition at present.
I also thought the same, until I visited NYC last month. People from all walks of life and age were using AirPods and I didn't find it to be sneered as dorky.
Yep, we set a bond, and you can pay 10% to the court to bail yourself out. If you skip, the sheriff is the one who will come for you. Though in practice most people are released on their own recognizance, no bond is set except for serious cases.

Also, Oregon doesn't just outlaw bounty hunters as part of our own process, we outlaw them altogether. Bounty hunting is classified as kidnapping.

While there are many things Oregon could do better, there are a whole bunch of things, like this, which I think we are absolutely right on.
There's little of substance in this article. It supposes the idea of fully describing Steve Jobs through the perspectives of the women in his life but doesn't really offer any meat or meaningful insights. A waste of a read.
I think free shipping is the reason Amazon was successful. Nobody wants to pay for it. That and cheaper prices.
It depends on your and your employer.

Some employers will spend lavishly on this kind of thing, others want to squeeze every penny for the short term.

My take is that conventional conferences are a racket; they charge a lot of money, you spend a lot on airfare, and I think many people don't get so much out of it. On the other hand there are other gatherings that you can attend on the cheap which have great learning opportunities too.
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What the hell are you talking about? Look for the ones captioned "Irvin Reynolds, top left, leads weekly D&D sessions for kids at Uncle's Games." and "RPG Research Vice President John Welker leads Dungeons & Dragons sessions for kids twice a month at Spark Central in Kendall Yards."
If you're deeply involved in open source, then odds are it's in part because you find the process enjoyable. It can take a lot of time to have built up a project. It takes a large amount of dedication to encourage community members and try to help others have an organized effort. In the end it's easy to put a lot of value in having everything working well.

If you get a crowd that over the years is harshly negative towards you as an individual, situations where there are many forks which attacks your ability to help the community by fracturing it, or other toxic behavior, then it saps the fun out of things. If there are enough people that drain the fun from your profession or hobby then that can indeed "ruin your life" if it's core enough to you as a person.

As a maintainer of a moderately successful project, I will say that a small number of toxic community members can have a noteworthy negative impact on your general happyness when heavily involved in a project.
this guy is always writing "everything is a bubble" articles. Ignore him. It's clear that SF real estate is affected by tech stock fortunes, but it's also clear that on average it appreciates roughly on par with stock market. So, if you work and live in bay area, buy a house because you want to live in it, not because you are speculating on real estate. Incidentally, unlike in many other parts of the country, over a long period of time, it is likely to prove a decent investment.
Humans are social animals. We are wired to care about the good opinions of the people around us. Being constantly berated is psychologically damaging; it wears on you. And "growing a thicker skin," as people commonly advise, involves forcefully suppressing the part of you that cares about others' opinions, which can make you more callous and less empathetic in everyday life. It's a bad situation.
The frustration at the misuse of the name will only drive further attempts at building the actual thing. Except it too will likely have an exaggerated name when it comes along.
Think of this as the ultimate, final form of the clear plastic binder from Calvin and Hobbes

Brilliant. Almost everyone in economics presents using LaTeX (Beamer) for exactly this reason. The outcome is that almost everyone's slides are composed primarily of tiny writing, and are therefore awful.
I have the 5 and the photos are awful with the stock app...
>where all the risk is taken out of face to face interactions with other people

All of the risk is not in taxi fare negotiation, nor is that the source of all face-to-face interactions with other people. Seems like you're trying to argue a mountain out of a mole hill.
I do feel there is bit of Latex worship going on. Now I think, markdown/asciidoc that boils down to DocBook is better that latex for most use cases. Markdown more clearly seperates logical formatting, from the rendering dependent physical formatting for different kinds of output. Moreover latex tables are a pain.

Maybe I this is my misunderstanding, is something the wrong with 'composability' of constructs in the LaTeX language? A concrete examples eludes me presently, it is like the latex functions/forms cannot be nested arbitrarily like normal programming language blocks/constructs.
You can censor a physical library too, so this isn't super relevant to the library's lean towards physical or digital media. As someone who uses the LoC catalog, it's amazing how slow it is, I buy an eBook dated 2016, and LoC maybe has a stub record for the book as something it hasn't received yet.

There's huge value in electronic submission and electronic availability of resources which could really make the LoC useful to the modern everyday American. The LoC will surely always get physical copies of content of significant note, but plenty of trivial media entries with little historical value, a.k.a. "how to use this recent JavaScript framework" are likely better handled and retained digitally.
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It's so frustrating to read Cory on economics. It's like:

market reasoning, market reasoning, market reasoning, pitch an idea and then forget about market reasoning.
Thinking Functionally was an OK book. We use Haskell and I’ve found Haskell from First Principles and Learn You a Haskell both to be very good for learning not only the language but functional programming in general.
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"But a slew of massive IPOs are being hyped for 2019 – Uber, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, and the like – before the Nasdaq craters, thereby shutting the IPO window. "

Why do we expect Nasdaq to crater?
That's the DMCA for you unfortunately! Most platforms like YT have a 3-strikes-your-out policy as a result of the DMCA's "repeat infringers" requirement.

If you send a DMCA counter notification in response to a takedown, the strike will be removed (possibly allowing some delay for the counterparty to show intent to file a lawsuit).
If the pre-installed Facebook app is just a stub, why is it needed in the first place? To keep the data around for a reinstall?
I don't think it's anything new. Usenet had plenty of terrible. So did the early web. At best, it's a problem with computer-mediated communication in general, which has a broken feedback loop between saying something and seeing its impact. And, frequently, it allows for anonymity, which removes the social consequences of malicious actions.

But that's not really new either. Consider the historic concept of the poison pen letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_pen_letter

I'd certainly be interested in your proposed systemic fixes. But I don't think the problem is our communications system. I think it's much broader.
Gas station ATMs, mostly. And anybody who uses them.
He _does_ mention Markdown, and specifically how it was designed to be human readable. But he lumps Latex with XML and HTML in that they are rubbish to write in. He mentions also how he hates himself for writing in even his simplified version of HTML when writing long posts.

His argument is restricted to those looking to use Latex for questionable benefits that they do not fully understand.
While I like using FB, this is type of behavior by Android OEMs that largely drove me to the iPhone. The main reason I rooted my phone prior was to get rid of crappy apps I don't use from being on my screen.

Around 4-5 years ago, Android phone manufacturers started locking down their phones more while not letting them be rooted. They didn't solve the problem of having undeleteable apps waste my time & space with clear advertising plays.

After my experience with the Galaxy S5, I quickly jumped to the iPhone 6 when it came out, and haven't looked back. I've used Android for a period of time in parallel with a second phone, but it only confirmed my reasoning for bailing for the iPhone - the Android experience is just way behind.
I'm seriously considering it. I have several formula installed with options and I really don't want to have to go through every formula I currently have installed and see if they decided to "bless" the options I need/want.
This is not an article but a bunch of glued together tweets (you might have known, I did not) nor does it fulfill the title.

Rather it poses the question: "[...] what would a history of Jobs, drawing only on sources written by women, look like?"

No more, no less.
I’d like to recommend checking out Numenera, from Monte Cook Games. It’s kind of a sci-if/fantasy mashup. It takes place on Earth one billion years in the future. Eight great civilizations have appeared and disappeared in that time, leaving the world full of ruins and starnge technology, all of which is inscrutable to the people who live there now. The game materials have high production values, on the same level as the D&D books, and about the same level of complexity of game mechanics. The thing I particularly like about Numenera is its emphasis on exploration and discovery rather than killing things. There is still fighting, if you want there to be, but the focus of the game is on going out into the strange world and uncovering it’s weirdness.
Cue the guy assumingg weak performance in China is solely due to macroeconomic and trade issues, and not, say, due to Apple making an uncompetitive value offer with its products in a major market, where some (not all) competitors do fine or thrive with better price/quality offers.
The built-in Equation Editor in Word used to be awful until about Word 2007-2010 when it started interpreting LaTeX-like keywords (it doesn't really support full LaTeX, only a pseudo-LaTeX-like subset) and fixed some aesthetic issues. I would say the latest Equation Editor is pretty decent and suffices for most scientific papers.

Even so, it does stumble on more complicated equations (the kind of equations that pure mathematicians write -- the symbol set in LaTeX is just much bigger, and being a typesetting language, it gives the user much more control over element positioning). Equation Editor also doesn't support more esoteric math objects like say Feynman diagrams, but in LaTeX there's usually a package for it. Also, aesthetically, Equation Editor output, though functional, looks a bit off compared to true typeset math. LaTeX-heads are sensitive to aesthetics that way.

In my time, those who outgrew Equation Editor moved to third-party software like MathType, which is much closer to LaTeX in functionality. I'm not sure if people still do that.
As the author of at least one HTTP server library ( https://github.com/andreaferretti/rosencrantz ) do you find anything missing in its documentation?
That was Vodaphone selling modified Samsung phones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451265
shhhh

I mean there's nothing but gross trees, ugly bluffs, and big dumb cows here.

/nothing to see here. move along people
> after successfully completing the task ZERO times

There's a Knuth quote about how the aim of TeX was to allow anyone to create properly typeset documents. I can't find the exact source, but https://www.tug.org/whatis.html should give you some idea.

This individual wasn't able to. Last time I looked at TeX it (or metafont specifically) often seemed to default to bitmap fonts. That's a poor default - a bug by today's standards - but Knuth has a different definition of 'bug' than you and I do. Maybe you should spend less time judging users and more time working on improving the software you're advocating for?
A lower down is good when the market is appreciating fast and you can either refinance or get PMI removed.
hah, i am making the same experience with smalltalk. but i haven't let it destroy me. instead i use it to help me focus on learning languages that actually are different (like haskell).

meanwhile i accept that the languages i use daily like javascript aren't special because of their features but because of their position in the programming ecosystem. knowing smalltalk and common lisp also helps me appreciate the few rare cases where a language is showing a feature that is uncommon in most other languages. javascripts prototype based objects for example.
The article is very, very misinformed. Word processors are good for text..?! Pure text markup formats are bad? Oh, really-really?

I suspect the author never really wrote anything reasonably complicated.

How about:

1) can't have proper a version control with those binary documents word processors generate.

2) no easy way to split huge papers/thesis/book into manageble pieces

3) conversion between formats is a nightmare, with formatting falling apart all the time.

4) typing formulas in Word (and Libre/OpenOffice) is a torture.

5) diffs

6) ...

that's just off the top of my head.
Thanks for this, if anything it's these paywall'd links that shouldn't be welcome.
WeWork ;)
How do you know this much about the market?
More and more new languages are coming out these days.

Language is not just about a compiler and a better syntax, it is a huge ecosystem too, which either means a successful community(e.g. Python) or backed up by big guys(Google, Facebook,etc)

Life is short, for product development I am stuck with C, Python, Java, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, that's about it and they're already more than I need and more than I can handle. Other than these obvious ones I may learn a little rust and dart in 2019, rust in particular seems interesting as a great fit to write standalone utilities.
They explain what a molecular signaling pathway is, but what is a "conserved molecular pathway", i.e., what is "conserved" about it?
Would love to get a source on that 99% figure!
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I say keep it coming until the message gets across to everyone.

I'm fatigued by Facebook's existence.
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i often try to explain programming to a layperson with a cooking analogy. Programming is like cooking with a recipe. You've got your ingredients at the top (input data, variables etc). Then you've got the processing (slicing, cooking, stirring etc). Eventually you pull all the ingredients together for some final output (a dish).

INGREDIENTS
onion, whole tomato, whole jalapeno

GOAL: make salsa

prepped_onion = chop(onion)
prepped_tomato = roast(whole_tomato)
prepped_jalapeno = roast(whole_jalapeno)

salsa = blend(prepped_onion, prepped_tomato, prepped_jalapeno)