skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Org-mode has a similar feel to Markdown, exports to LaTeX, and allows you to embed LaTeX snippets so that you can keep using the Org file as your source of truth, rather than eventually having to do a full switch and edit the LaTeX document full-time.

Another very neat feature is Org-Babel, which allows you to write code in (almost) any language that is then replaced with its output, which is great for example code. It can even pipe stuff through PlantUML, allowing you to embed your diagrams into the source code rather than having to manage them separately.

As an example of what it looks like at scale(-ish), I used this to write my thesis paper[1], and all the other related documentation[2].

[1]: https://gitlab.com/PicoNodes/PicoNodes/blob/master/docs/Repo...

[2]: https://gitlab.com/PicoNodes/PicoNodes/blob/master/docs/Pico...
AMD at CES 2019 Live Stream
I told my selling realtor about the problem before they house was ever shown to anyone, and agreed to fix it before moving out. It would have been wrong of me to have just left a problem like that.
DoorDash could make money and insure their drivers at a per delivery level. That they scale how much they pay the driver based on how much a particular customer tips is what is questionable.
Shameless plug: Being a lecturer, I wrote something similar years ago: https://github.com/munen/p_slides

p_slides doesn’t have any dependency that doesn’t run in the browser and its files can be checked into SCM which makes collaboration easy.
I used Cloudflare with Ghost pre-2.0 but switched to Let's Encrypt for 2.0 [1]. I found this easier than using Cloudflare with 2.0 which handles auto renewing the cert as well.

[1]: https://docs.ghost.org/integrations/lets-encrypt/
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Then investors will buy the new apartments/properties and leave them vacant. It happens in cities all over the US and Canada.
And while I can write LaTex, my python programs can also write LaTex. I can dump data directly into tables, for example. Neat!
Where do the teachers live in these ridiculously priced districts?
Read the Docs 2018 Stats
Maybe we can start rumors and this will end up second only to emacs vs vim as the primary debate in tech circles. (Or third if you count rails vs django)
> How well does git perform for usual text (not code)? I only use git for code and as far as I know it compare only whole lines, which is not very useful in a text where a paragraph has no line brakes and is about half a page long.

As long as you limit your lines' lengths git is just as good for text as it is for code. Of course you're correct that using it for paragraphs without line breaks wouldn't be that great, but my question would be why would you ever do that?
I guess if you trust DropBox and Overleaf with sensitive data but not Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365, that works. (If Overleaf is self-hosted, please disregard that part.)

I also find offline word processors frustrating to collaborate on, but I am worried that OP is rationalizing their personal preferences post-hoc, rather than looking for the best option for everyone.

Thanks for the pointer to Overleaf, I will definitely check it out.

Edit: sorry, I thought you were the OP at first.
I would say from what I have seen in articles surfacing now and then that the NBA has some of the best data analysis and breakdown of players and such. You might look into the companies or efforts doing this for an analog.

These guys (SportsVU) popped up last time I read about 5 years ago (looks like they did some of the recent WC as well?):

https://www.stats.com/2018-world-cup/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportVU
Nope. For every post with substance there's a dozen without. But hey, as is evidenced by adjacent comments here, it's ok because FB is bad. Not possible for the valueless deluge of upvoted "news" to also be bad.
What about when the FEC says that Google's PAC donated to particular Republican politicians?
Using Faktory with Python
Shoshana Suboff's the Age of Surveillance Capitalism Published
Shoshana Zuboff's book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, has been published by Hachette and will be available on Amazon and elsewhere on January 15. Shoshana's analysis of the changes surveillance capitalism is making to our way of life, our economic system, our technology, and our politics is significant and insightful. Surveillance capitalism defines how history will frame the early 21st century.
Hello,

One thought for you, do you actually plainly spell that out anywhere? I just visited the page and I could not find anything about a privacy policy.

One privacy policy I stumbled upon recently was this one:
https://www.roguefitness.com/privacy-policy

They plainly spelled out what data they use, how they gather it, plainly said they do not sell the data and a very easy way to opt-out. That made me feel much better about doing business with them and creating an account with them versus a very legalize and obscure way of spelling it out.

I have a feeling you get people who complain is because the assumption is that the software tracks everything and it gets sold to anyone.
Facebook, Twitter Turn to Right-Leaning Groups to Help Referee Political Speech
> Because there's a fairly concrete distinction between acts in stage plays, and that's how plays using the structure are tradition broken up (act divisions in film and novels are often more metaphor than concrete, so, yeah, without the stage precedent, it would make more sense to name it for the four parts, two of which are jammed together in the three-act model.)

I don't know, lots of classical works were written with more than 3 acts, for instance lots of works from Molière, Corneille or Shakespeare consist in 5 acts. The legend says back then acts were as long as the candles lighting the scene lasted, but I don't know if it's true. If it is, it's the old equivalent of five act structure in tv series, mandated by commercials' breaks: the number of acts is determined by external reasons, not narrative ones.

> Not really; it's got a lot of genre and form specific but, though it's certainly not entirely useless outside of that focus. The Writer's Journey is better for describing the shape of Hollywood successes (Save the Cat does so even more precisely for recent ones, providing very close to a minute-by-minute breakdown.)

Yeah, I forgot about those 2 (I wrote my comment in a hurry). They are way better examples, for sure.
> there is scant documentation out there about what they do to secure it

We have private operations documentation and have had private security reviews of our infrastructure. We are actively moving away from self-hosted infrastructure this year.
The moment you say "everybody does that" (which is often very debatable), you are implicitly being an apologist for the subject of that specific criticism.
Hypothesis: Some significant fraction of the wealthy/poor disparity is because the poor now smoke significantly more than the rich.
Some say they’re pests, but opossums can be helpful
I saw that too! They can label the team names but cannot name the other objects "Players" and "Football"?
One more broken link:
#37 Self-Awareness for Introverts [pdf]

Correct link seems to be http://cliffc.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018_AWarO...
At least one shot is NSFW.
I think there's a distinction to be made with respect to "needing" a user's data in order to be able to provide service at all (for example, a user's age as you cannot permit them to use your application if they're under 13) vs. user data that makes it easier to provide the service, or in your example, advertise your service, to users. If your users are telling you they don't want to give you that data perhaps you should consider listening to them.
Because that would mean all my customers have to find and install Python 3. Most of them won't allow EPEL packages to be installed because they're not supported, and even if they did there's a huge barrier to asking people to add an extra repository.
Nope, I don't know any equivalent for stage, sorry...
It was posted an hour ago. Things take time!
There is more to the local election. Much less do anything to help select which person their party actually runs. Even of those that do, who is a great speaker or looks the best is often a more important consideration than what policy they support/oppose.
Joey Hess[0] does this and writes about his experiences on his blog. Fridge 0.2[1] was popular on here a couple of weeks ago.

[0]: https://joeyh.name
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18770213
I'm curious why latex is weak at that? Considering most authors probably just use a notepad equivalent, the idea is if you are finding yourself having to put a ton of markup into the document, you are probably relying too much on items other than the prose to make your points.

That is to say, yes, there is a workflow. It is basically to build the prose out separately from the layout. Latex is used to typeset the document you want to do. Not to author it. By the time you get to it, you probably should be at the point where the markup is what you care about.

That make sense?

Yes, there will be times where you care about how the document looks. That is likely an iterative process and many of us find value in separating the quibbles over the look from the authoring of the content. Both are valuable. Doing them both at the same time is ridiculously hard.
Except both of those are wrong.

Remember, literacy was a rare and elite thing throughout the Western world as well, until the 19th century started seeing the first attempts at universal education. Widespread literacy is a 20th century thing. And China lagged behind the West, having spent the first half of the 20th century throwing off colonial oppression rather than developing a sophisticated, modern education system. So until recently, it cost China nothing to use pictograms rather than romanization. So no, not "deliberately hard".

Since then, China built a modern education system, and has literacy rates on par with western nations. So it's not preventing China from teaching children to read. Therefore, your claim that "teaching it to children has been shown to slow their learning" constitutes an extraordinary claim, and requires some extraordinary evidence.

Occam's Razor suggests that you think it's hard because it's unfamiliar, not because it's hard.
> not cooking shouldn't be a barrier to healthy eating, nor should it be considered mutually inclusive with eating junk.

Nobody suggested healthy eating requires one to cook. There's a myriad of places everywhere that serve healthy food, so if you're foregoing veggies, it's your choice. s/cheeseburger/salad/g; done.
The 64GB versions are mostly dual-sim, and only some 30 EUR more expensive than the 32GB versions. I wouldn't call it massive price increase.
The carrier needs to know which cell you're talking to do route calls to your phone, and after that it's just a matter of triangulation to narrow it down. But even without triangulation the company knows what neighborhood you're in, by design.
Introducing Square In-App Payments SDK for iOS, Android and Flutter
This is what I want to know; If you get a brand new device and it has FB app installed - but if you never open it or use FB, does that app still monitor things like browsing activity and report anything back to FB?
>Proverbially, no-one wishes they'd spent more time at the office.

Plenty of people who lost their jobs and opportunities because they shirked on work wish that. I've personally wished I'd spent more time at the office, so it is definitely not "no-one" who wishes that.

The broader point here is not to confuse what we want to be -- either the stories we tell ourselves or chew-on from emotionally inspiring stories -- with what we actually are as animals trying to survive in this crazy world. It's not conventional wisdom that what you think now matters more than on your deathbed, but one shouldn't be a slave to conventional wisdom so severely that they can't conceive of non-conventional wisdom as true.

You also don't need to worship someone's word just because they were famous. If Keynes wanted to contribute to my happiness, he needs to do more than produce trite quotes. Perhaps champagne would have lead to that, but it is doubtful. In any case, real people aren't playing a statistical game; whether or not I am likely to regret something is analogous to whether or not I am likely to live with a German Shepherd. Statistics say "no", but the truth doesn't need to confirm or support that, because the statistics are based on missing information that I actually possess. The information you possess about your own life is a tool you should leverage to ignore such silly quotes.
That goes for a lot of videos, TBH. Lots of introductions, jokes, uhms, ahs and other junk, and you can't even search them to look for, say, a thing you're interested in.
This is an excellent point, and is the Primary reason why we have this housing crisis.

Things like zoning and regulation can theoretically be fixed, if voters wisen up. But the longer this goes on, the more middle class residents will leave the bay area for good. Once the entire middle class is gone, we'll have no hope of ever building cost effective housing (other than automation) because there won't be anymore cost effective labor left to build it with. We're already seeing pretty large inflation on a local level for services: like eating out and plumbing, etc.
> where you pay twice as much for half the quality (in their house brand anyway)

Their oil filters are similar if not the same as Wix.
I am dealing with this right now at my job.

The company has entered a growth stage, and sales is killing it. Every update is about this quota exceeded, that deal closed, or that person bringing in another stellar contract. Overall, it is a nice place to be.

However, the dev team is having some negative feelings. On the one hand, people tend to be more humble and not prone to self-promotion or auto-marketing. On the other, the word in the hallway is that developers no longer feel appreciated.

I don't know what the solution is. Right now, I am taking the approach of encouraging people out of their comfort zone and owning what they contribute. It is a lot more difficult to make a developer's achievement understood and properly appreciated company-wide, but it is a challenge that I am taking on myself. My goal is to help each dev team member come up with one achievement per week, and we will spend a little bit of time making it presentable and easy to understand.

From personal experience, I feel that I don't want to step out and praise myself. It feels like it won't be a net win. However, if someone else praises me in a balanced fashion, it does feel good. Kind of like getting a bouquet of flowers. I would never think that a bunch of flowers would make me feel good. However, on the rare occasion I did get one, it felt strangely fantastic.

I guess it's important to evaluate how you think you will feel when you get praise vs. how it actually feels when it is delivered tactfully and honestly. Sometimes, we do a poor job predicting how we will feel. I suggest stepping outside of your comfort zone and being a bit vocal about your contribution.
try start with this: https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3
there are others. google it.
to perfect physics you must understand the real math of
physics, but it probably won't fit in a game. game physics libraries are subsets of real physics.
I’ve held on to half my RSUs and immediately sold the second half over the past 8 years. In my situation, I already have a diversified portfolio. Keeping those RSUs falls within my risk threshold.

That’s incredibly ignorant that without knowing people’s situation, you brush it off as reckless behavior.
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (R/ggplot)
It’s not reckless to count on RSUs when you want to make the purchase.

But if then the stock goes down, you simply decide to not buy a house at that price.

I definitely don’t sell my ESPP shares when I get them, mostly for tax reasons.
Show HN: Unfettered access to my web browser, broadcast to everyone
Mi A1 is Android One phone, i.e. no MIUI, but pure Google experience.
I’m not attending a meeting right now that I should probably be at but am not required to be at.

Does that count as living by my own rules?
Hi all, I’m the submitter.

Since google and facebook already have an insane amount of information on me, I figured I’d just open-source it in real-time: garth.tv. Anytime I’m browsing the internet on my laptop, all of my tabs are public and you can go through them. I’m taking a break from client work to investigate some personal projects, so I don’t have to hide any client data.

You can poke through my windows and tabs and ask me questions about them as I work.

Twitch is on the page because I don’t want to build a screenshare/chat app, notification system, etc.

#Why?
- It’s a social experiment. From a charitable perspective, I’m trying to see if there are benefits to radical browser transparency (e.g. meeting people who look at similar stuff on the internet). From a more dystopian perspective, I’m trying to see if I can make the pervasive surveillance of the internet fun by opening it up to regular people instead of just corporations.
- My browser tabs are pretty much the current state of my brain. If you’d like to look directly into someone’s mind and poke around, feel free.
- If you’re interested in browser UX, I’m a big too-many-tabs person. There will definitely be unfiltered data about how I’m using the browser.

#What do I do, generally?
I run a small, mostly-web-development-focused consultancy with another person. We’re aiming to build and release some products during this break. I’ve been obsessed with programming language design and theory since at least 2010 when I was in college distracting myself from work on my non-CS major (economics, unfinished because code). I’ve also been interested in information management for as long as I can remember. My default state is information overload.

#When and what will I be doing?
I’m open to suggestions, but to start out:
- from 11-6 I usually browse mostly tech-related stuff.
- after 7ish I’ll usually just fool around on the internet.
- starting with mostly programming language & interpreter/compiler-related research in the beginning
- actual projects in the next week or two
> Most of us live the default life

No we don't, and, moreover, there is no such thing.
I added a link above just after posting. There was a HN discussion too, from before they found the kid:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18823286

If you google 'germany data leak' or similar you will easily find more.
The data they're selling is coming from signal triangulation, it's not coming from software implanted on your phone.
Isn’t samsung in a similar situation? The article also mentions car purchases are down.
You're the only one who mentioned "hate the brand", and the experience wasn't that bad. (Although she did skip one of her destinations.)
> There are a real reasons academics and quasi-academics (aka me) use LaTeX instead of something like libreoffice.

I can attest to that from first-hand experience. Having done a thesis in LibreOffice once, I wouldn't want to repeat the experience.

That's not an absolute negative against LibreOffice, though. I still use it often and like doing so. But a large document with many illustrations, many text-internal references, code and a non-trivial bibliography? Never again.
Even in the US which is hardly a bastion of consumer privacy that’s not true. If you as a hotel owner stick cameras in every shower you should expect a set of lawsuits, even though that’s your property and the people have knowingly bought a service from you.
Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
Two points:

1. Consumers that "didn't care" about new versions will end up caring very quickly in the case of bugs in the version that they are using, and now they will have to make fixes to adjust for a lot of breaking changes at once just to get a bugfix (or more likely they will fork the library to get just the fix they want and eventually you end up with 1 consumer because all the other consumers are using forks of old versions).

2. The number of consumers matters. If you have 2 or 3 consumers of the library versus 10s of consumers it makes a big difference for whether or not the extra degree of separation you are talking about make sense. 3 consumers of an internal library might be "a lot" at a small to medium sized company, while 10s of consumers wouldn't be unheard of at a large company.
Are you rocking an X1 Carbon then? How do you compare it to the XPS 13?

It's time I get a new laptop and can't decide between the X1 Carbon, XPS 13, or the HP Spectre x360 13T (the new diamond cut blue one).

I like the 2-in-1 but seems Dell really nerfs their XPS13 2-in-1... and the Yoga seems to not be as nice as the Spectre.
My dissertation made it on the list! Only #176 but that is more attention than I ever expected it to get :)
> leaving RSUs as company stock when they vest is no different than a non-employee buying shares of that stock at the vest price

Wrong - if an employee holds stock in the company they work for, they are doubly screwed when things turn for the worse at the company. They lose asset value, and they may lose their job. Its a lousy idea to hold more than a trivial amount of stock in the company that employs you.
Unlikely, they would be blocked at the first step: they couldn't get any radio frequencies to build on. Not only are all frequencies assigned, but all attempts to get them would be blocked by anti-monopoly laws.
> He believes that Dindim now interprets Proveta as his home, and imprinted on the 71-year-old, whom Dindim sees as a partner. For reasons like these, most professionals try to avoid this circumstance.
Governments tend to have quite a bit of money.
We sill need better ways to store energy like OP said.
Sorry, but 5-6 hours is a non-starter for me. I've never taken an exam that long in my life (the SAT is about 4 hours IIRC), and I'm so glad to be out of college and done with this type of BS. At least interviews let me talk to a person and learn something about them and their company - sometimes I get a story out of it.
Marines: Marines on Deck to Repel Boarders
To add to this, I find immense value in dealing with text files. In other words, treating them like I treat my code. It plays well with my choice of text editor, version control system, and distribution. Word just doesn't fit all these criteria. Being non-free and proprietary makes it a pretty awful choice for collaboration and distribution.

For the same reasons, I even switched to making all my presentations in latex even though I believe Google slides and Powerpoint are feature-wise unarguably superior.
I _believe_ the original post is here: https://uxplanet.org/2019-ui-and-ux-design-trends-92dfa83232...
Absolute numbers don't mean much in this context.
What makes you think that Apple has any interest in your privacy?
> Had problems in Windows with the Killer wifi drivers

That's odd... if I remember correctly, that was the entire point of the "Killer" brand network cards back then they were still sold separate for gaming systems.
They probably commute, just like the firefighters: http://fortune.com/2016/03/28/silicon-valley-housing-crisis-...
20 Leaders from Latin America Criticize Pope on Venezuela and Nicaragua
The compilable C++ snippet certainly looks interesting. It answers the question I always had, about why some languages added unicode identifiers.

It doesn't look all that bad.
A buildout of a nationwide cellular network is almost tailor-made for the amount of cash they have in the bank, and almost the entirety of their would-be competition is universally hated. Seems like a no-brainer to me, and unlike other things they could spend their money on, a cellular network could always be sold off if needed. Not true for investment in A.I./self-driving cars/marketing/failed products/etc.
So you automated your coworkers out of a job