skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would evidently be useful to have a keyboard-event daemon for Linux, independent of X or Wayland.

It would run with root privilege, and enforce access rights, allowing user-level code access to events they deserve to see.
No. Perhaps the most important part of this is keeping the user informed.
Those are publicly available.

And if you want a sense as to what the REAL prices are, those rates are pretty damn close.
Generally you have to find the code to the lock, to open the cabinet, to get the key, to open another door ....

A sequence of puzzles which unlock the next step.

Puzzles like the code lock may be numeric, you may find a clue to the code as a sequence of colors, which you have to find the color key for (maybe it is split into parts and hidden around the room).

Sometimes it's as simple as finding a key. e.g. in the pocket of a coat hanging on the wall, or a note inserted into a book on a shelf. (Tearing the room apart to find objects is usually the best strategy!)

Some puzzles get a bit more clever than this but these are usually the foundation elements.
Cellphones have reached the state of performance surplus that desktops have reached years ago. There's simply no reason to upgrade. I'm still using the desktop I built in 2013 w i7-3770 & 32GB RAM for $600. There's been no reason to get a new one.

As phones are becoming commodities like computers, I wonder if Apple will meet the same fate in mobile as it did in computers: being marginalized as a niche player in the market it pioneered as most people flock to the mainstream choice (Windows for computer, Android for phone)
Sounds interesting. Can you explain Primer?
Killer marketing idea - an audio product with a feature that looks like it could conceivably improve audio quality in some way, but make absolutely zero claims about whether it does or not. Don't pay for any research, don't stretch the truth in the marketing copy, just let the audiophiles buy it and argue about whether it has any effect. Everybody wins!
Citation needed for that statement. Corporal punishment has been a part of human societies for thousands of years, so you need stronger evidence for such a statement.
This isn’t true in SoCal. Many teachers are making 100k per year. My wife was a teacher.
Good summary on Unicode not just for python
This app look really useful. Is it possible to try it out?
Why do you like ligatures?

What, on ${DEITY}’s Blue Earth, can ligatures possibly do for you as a programmer, that is in any way useful?!?
VR interferes with the social aspect of it. Wireless AR could be neat though.
My mother had the Freestyle Libre and liked it. Now using a Dexcom which works with her Apple Watch. I just bought her a Dario finger-stick glucose meter for her birthday which plugs into iPhone lightning port ($40!).

https://imgur.com/a/24FhAON

http://intro.mydario.com/DarioGlucoseMeter/about.php
Spektr-R: Russia's only space telescope 'not responding'
Ask HN: Site to maximize corp gift match programs?
Google matches up to $6,000 in donations for every employee. It's hardly used to it's full potential.

Many other companies have gift matching as well, and $4B-7B goes unused [1].

What do you think about a site/app that matches interested donors to employees who don't use their max donation?

Not sure if the tax deductible nature could be preserved, perhaps with donor advised funds, but it might depend on the gift matching program.

1: https://doublethedonation.com/tips/matching-grant-resources/matching-gift-statistics/
Now that I re-read the library I linked above, I think I got it backwards there.

rest-graphql is for the other direction: graphql to rest. I had previously investigated it in order to switch rest backend to graphql and provide a thin conversion layer so that several different clients could convert at their leisure.

These two things are not at all comparable
It's cheap and it's a big company. They are basically the Walmart of domain registration. Out of having to deal with something like 40 or 50 registrars and resellers over the years I give them a slightly above average rating. Really, for all the bashing this thread people are giving there are far worse. They aren't great, but things will probably work with them.

I'll talk about alternatives now. Yeah, I know Gandi is cool, but they want too much money so majority of people pass them by.

If you want a really horrid example: 1and1 is a company that sets the bar. They buy up superbowl and print ads to lure in old people with cheap domain registrations (like $1 or so). Once sucked in they use a careful reading of the ICANN regulations to maximize difficulty in doing anything.

Oh, you want a transfer? That's going to be a week. Most things either go over the phone or through a panel that's down or nonfunctional half of the time.

Want to change nameserver delegation to your own DNS servers? Fuck you then. They wipe the current DNS records and process the change in a couple days. Your site can take a vacation.

Now, I hear a lot of people saying Namecheap is a good choice. They are ok, we recommend them but their panel likes to shit the bed and it can take hours to push DNS updates when things aren't running great there. They finally got off being an ENOM reseller, which is great. ENOM are assholes. I had a client that hired an ENOM reseller some time ago to register their domain and host their site. The reseller's company's owner got arrested and/or deported and while we were able to save the client's files the domain expired with no way for us to renew it. The good news is you can gripe up the chain to ENOM which will require a 5 year domain registration for $200.

That's it in a nutshell. They are a large company which has a service that mostly works for a cheaper price than arguably better options like Gandi.

Shout out to other terrible registrars like Yahoo Small Business (ugh)
I am on mobile so pasting an earlier answer.

I am working on Primer. Basically a bot that makes it much easier to learn "difficult things" on your own. Here is a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/E5Kw54P
The screenshot has changed a lot by now though.

I have been working on this, alone, for last almost two year. I have iterated more than 15 times. One time, I was trying to do non-linear twine[0] based interface. Was pretty complicated. Right now, this is the version I am most satisfied and excited for. Also, it took some while to create a CMS from scratch for this one.

Here is why it is cool.

0. Primer teaches you in a conversational way. I understand video based MOOCs are new norms, but conversational way makes user better focused towards learning. It also makes it easier to revise, recall and resume from where you last left.

1. Primer will provide you notes in form of Tufte-Latex Books[1]. The way it works is that there is already a template for each course and when the user completes the course, his/her response accounts generates tex Code along with the previous templates and results in personalized books. The books authors name is the username.

2. Primer enforces spaced repetition. Not only it teaches you something, it also reminds you to revise after certain intervals. Although Anki export is a desirable feature, I did not have the energy to look into it now, but it is definitely in the roadmap. Primer takes responsibility of your learning.

3. Primer tracks time spent on your courses. Good tool for homeschoolers.

4. Primer courses are versioned. Primer courses improve based on feedback. If you get stuck at a course, it is improved so that, next time it feels easier to understand. And often times, we will screw up, so it is there for that too. But importantly, courses should have pretty iteration times. This is a major advantage of text based courses.

5. Primer based courses take a fraction of time to complete than Video-based courses.

6. Last, my favorite. It makes difficult things easier to learn. Although, achieving this feature to a practical extent will take another year or so, but still feels good to have the potential. Suppose, you want to learn how to build a spaceship. There is a ton of things you need to learn before you can even begin to learn about spaceships and rockets. Primer ensures that you have understood the prerequisites before you start doing something. All these courses are present on Primer itself.

I am not good with deadlines. But I can assure that I am pretty close to completion.

These are the initial courses to be offered by Mid 2019.

Tentative Tracks: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Fantastic ML Papers and how to implement them, Teach yourself Computer Science, Fantastic CS Papers and how to understand them, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

To follow updates: https://tinyletter.com/primerlabs/

[0]: http://twinery.org/ [1]: https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex
Rabbits in the wild don't generally live long enough to die of parasite infections.
That reminds me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
As a kid, living in a time and State where that was permitted, I found the idea so basically wrong that I made it perfectly clear that day would be my last day if required, as in no holds barred, do what it takes.

Looked that guy right in the eye, ready... told him it was not gonna happen.

It didn't, and I was the only one that it did not happen to.

Let's just say the events that followed after I made that statement were not pretty. But, I also must say I have not experienced that clarity and strength of resolve since.

7th grade. I was scared by it. What the whole scenario triggered. What I was capable of in that moment.

That person transferred to another school system shortly after.

We met again 20 some years later at a wedding reception. Of course we immediately got drinks and caught up. Both of us eager to revisit that time as different, and better people.

I was that serious problem kid, he remarked at how ill equipped the staff were at that time. Was a real mess.

Some laughs and a handshake later, both of us got some much needed closure.

I think when it comes down to basic physical means we have failed as people. It can work. Does sometimes. But there are costs, scars. Not physical ones so much.

But, when it does not work? I really do fear the state of mind I arrived at that day. Unnecessary too. What of others, their states of mind? What happens when they can't process it, or it builds up over repeated events?

Our talk healed both our scars amazingly well. I consider both of us lucky in that respect.

Edit: I had it super rough as a kid. Turned out fine after middle school though. Was a mess like I said. I did gain something high value. I can often reach troubled kids. I have been in very dark, scary places. And I, at times, had little to no meaningful help.

It was another person reached me. That is what does the real work, and it does not require beatings to accomplish.

It does require understanding. That is harder than a beating, but far more potent.
A better reason would be, so as not to say hurtful things.

I think all people should feel free to use whatever words they want to use as long as they are speaking truth.
A python framework to run backtest on stocks using your own combination of algorithmic strategies and technical indicators.
There are probably a hundred phones out there with a headphone jack. I definitely don't need nor want one, and neither do most people.

Why is it that people keep complaining a sedan can't transport their piano? Yes sir, every product made by everyone should fit your exact use case.
Creating a rudimentary private certificate authority using OpenSSL
Public schools sure don't hit kids. Private schools might. I know Catholic schools were infamous for smacking the crap out of kids, but I don't know how much they've mellowed on that since my Dad and uncles went through Catholic school in the 70s. I think parents would be pretty irate if a public school administrator hit their kids, even if they themselves hit their kids.

Edit: I looked at a map and the states that don't forbid hitting kids in school are all the South: https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/533438e769beddc92a184...

That's a pretty big cultural disparity, so while I can't imagine hitting kids to fly in a million years in any state that I've lived in, I suppose my account could be biased. There can be a pretty big divide between southern states and northern ones sometimes.
I don't know if that's all that much better. As soon as you get the notification you're not going to be able to think of much else until you check.
I can imagine a search engine that heavily penalized popovers and other user hostile patterns to have the effect of giving great content since the authors of such sites respect their users more.

As Google results have gotten progressively worse for common search terms (try searching anything health related), this sort of filter could bring back the web we see to where it used to be.

I'd love to see a nonGoogle search engine like this.
can you contact me via an email? thanks!
I was really fascinated by the industry, so I got into it and eventually built my own as a side project (http://StartupEscape.com)

It can be a good business if you have a few rooms. There's two types of people who get into it: passionate people, and people who buy designs online for a decent revenue. The latter makes more money, but there's some amazing escape rooms that are Disney-parks-level.

Unfortunately, escape rooms work way better in non-cities. Rent is too expensive in big cities, so the rooms suffer. Many of the best rooms are in really random places, since financially it works out better. It's a really interesting space, and I'm starting to see a few big companies form around it. I am curious to see if big companies (with decent but generic games) overtake the smaller passion project ones.

(Money aside, designing and building an escape room is one of the most fun things I've ever done. There was a solid mix of cool tech, puzzle design, prop design, showmanship and more. If you're interested, I can help get started! My email is in my profile)
Just to clarify a bit here, when it reads "all those chinese has a village in their passport marked", you are probably talking about the Hukou system. Well, everyone in the world has his place of birth in his passport, but, ok, the Hukou system is more then that, but is at risk of being misunderstood here, It's primary reason of existence has nothing to do with punishments, note that physical punishment at schools is currently forbidden, hated and smashed and scorched by social media and news and by the majority of parents in China. The very Hukou system itself has it's Demise "announced" by the Chinese lawmakers for years now, they are handling the update of a huge Legacy society organization and citizen identification System update and this system has already suffered many minor cuts and shut-downs of collateral ancient, obsolete regulations. To add some anedacta: I was a guest of a certain facility for a couple months in China. Any kind of physical punishment by the enforcement or the crew or the guests themselves was impossible. dozen cameras 24 h a day, no milimeter out of the Written Law. And the law doesn't predict physical punishment there, besides of the Death Penalty, that is exactly the top of the scale of Ancient physical punishment, off course. :edit adding some bit to the anedacta, I was the only non-chinese there, among hundreds.
Those absolute bastards!
It's honestly a smart thing for shared hosting providers to offer. Some years ago my co took over a bunch of legacy sites from another developer that were not tightly maintained Wordpress. We hosted the sites at the time at Rackspace Cloud Sites. The main reason we chose their antiquated hosting tier was that Rackspace support would handle infection cleanup when it happened.

It would take us time to assess everything and do up contracts for bring-up with these sites. Everything from old revslider and timthumb to more exotic infections. Once you got a file injection or reverse shell on a host, it would spread fast to everything on the server. Only way reliably back was catching when it came in and rolling it back to before then upgrading the vulnerable components.
My elementary school did have a process for corporal punishment. It was only done with the approval of the parents and in practice I can't imagine that there was more than a handful of parents that filled that form out. I know that in the administration office they had a couple of those forms printed out and I can't imagine that those would be printed and ready just sitting out if they hadn't ever filled any out in years though...

This was in Florida around 2000.
Not totally. The share / guide and even the Ibm os was open source up to a point you can still run Ibm mainframe on pc for those 1970 era.

No one care about software. It is bill gate who start the commericalism and the availability of cheap pc that start it all.

What stallman did was to point to the importance of licensing scheme for the cooperation to work. Linus chose the license to avoid unix and minix issue.
What people did before there were fire code ? How did they get out ?
I remembered coming across Hugo (https://gohugo.io), after playing around with it, I think this is what I'm looking for! :) Isn't exactly the answer of what I described as the question, but Hugo seems to fit my needs.

I just need to use other people's Hugo theme or have a front-end guy creates and designs HTML once, convert it into Hugo template, and focus on creating content instead of fiddling around with HTML/CSS!
It's not unheard of. Some platforms offer New Relic RUM integration which breaks shit (like XML sitemaps).

I am guessing the hosting provider gets access to the information the client also gets, but that's just a guess without any evidence. It would just make sense in the absence of regulation.
That article really resonates with my thinking, thanks for the link. In the past, my planning used to be guided purely by what ideas I found exciting. Important, but unexciting tasks were deferred or left unattended. My system now allows me to work on tasks even on days when I don't particularly feel like working on them.
I like books too, but personal libraries have a way of getting too big. Should I really be keeping books on my shelf because maybe I'll read it some time in the next decade? Do you really need a extensive library of thousands of books? It sure makes moving more difficult. How many of those books will you be reading at any given time anyway?

I've started giving my books away after I finish them, unless I really loved the book and absolutely know I'm going to reread it.
We could just print different currency for essentials vs another currency for tradables.

Wool gathering. What would happen then?
They don't care if you're a citizen or not, they care about whether you're legally allowed to work on rockets. From an ITAR perspective, a green card holder is the same as a US citizen, and from a recruiting perspective there is no difference.
Apple is already in this position globally and has never been a majority even in the US. I think the difference is that the phone market is MUCH bigger, and combined with fragmentation issues across Android, that makes iPhone still a really attractive developer target.

But also remember that Apple has never cared about dominating market share. They think of themselves like BMW or similar, they don’t care that not everyone buys Apple, they just want to make the “best” devices and to have happy customers.
Still rocking an iPhone 6 here as well. I just can’t lose the jack... :P

My battery life isn’t what it used to be, but I can still make it a full day with slightly less usage (restricted to browser/text based mediums). Should have taken advantage of the battery upgrade. Meanwhile my sibling’s 6S(?) Plus drains charge like someone is bloodletting it.
Is this like the Feynman Technique or like..how you say..formalized education?
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Those don't exist. The workers displayed concussion like symptoms, but most of the MRIs reported conventional findings in the normal ranges.
Bingo. For me, it was different when parents handed out a beating. The school? Just no.

My own kids were through school before the portal and notification systems arrived in our schools.

In some ways, it is good to know problem areas early. There is time to make changes. As a parent, I would have appreciated that.

As a student? Ugh. Many parents are busy and I can see the whole thing suffering from the same "5 star" problem we see in rating systems all over the place.

It all gravitates to 5 stars being the constant expectation.

Maybe I am glad I didn't have to deal with that mess. Being involved in my kids education was work, maybe more than today.

Or maybe not. I wonder how many overcorrects happen due to a kid just having a bad day. Or the stress of just having a bad day amplified?
Yes, 'conspiracies' of more than one person are much harder to keep under wraps. That regulation was directly in response to the high-profile cases of rogue traders.
The subject is interesting but man this article is so long! It could have been a tenth of its current size and still give us more than enough information.
Which is not an Integer and the whole view crashes after the ConversionError.

You know it
There have been a few presenters, as you'll know, but Richard O'Brian is still the only person I can see doing the job.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18891700 and marked it off-topic.
So, how about the reverse — you try to sell us on using JavaScript or node instead of python.

Please make sure that you include an explanation of why it’s considered normal for a node application to have a thousand dependencies or more.
History and Evolution of Product Management (Part 3)
I honestly don't get why source code needs a fixed character grid.

> Alignment of blocks and assignments. It's that simple.

The benefits from the increased legibility and clarity can be quite tangible. Code that is the same looks the same, and it's easier to scan for anomalies.
It is still under works. This is a early subscription page.
As a software developer at startup I don’t have time to go on a trip. :-(
I was thinking on the idea as a possible business, but it seemed like the best way to make money would be to own the land and commercially zoned real-estate is very expensive
Have I been under a rock?

I keep reading about AMP on HN, but I have yet (professionally or personally) actually come across AMP in the wild unless I intentionally went looking for it -- or am I consuming AMP and not even realizing it?
While this seems pretty terrible in general. The GDPR is generally irrelevant. A large amount of websites will never need to even think about GDPR. If anything there is an over reaction complying to a law that will never be applicable.

GDPR matters to the EU. It doesn't apply elsewhere.
People often forget these leetcode interviews guard the top wages in industry. If you remove them any bootcamp cowboy or people who can't code will get in and make same wage increasing competition among workers and pushing down wage.

Those who don't get selected keep complaining because other leetcoders are making high salaries while they don't.

Many want to install their wife in these companies and are actively complaining for diversity and putting it against interviews, so that once these requirements are relaxed for women, their household will double the income.

People job hop every year, so it's impossible to tell who has been fired for bad performance/inability to code vs high performer who is simply job hopping for increased pay/interesting project when hiring for your company. Also you can't get the performance data from their previous employer, you can only verify they worked there, nothing more.

Even if you simply cannot code, it takes a year least in big companies to fire you.

It's easy to fake portfolio and talk the programmer lingo than to walk the talk by coding.
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