skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking for something too. GetCanvas (now defunct but released as open source) was wonderful, but seems abandoned.

stackedit.io has been the closest that I could find.
The world is not android ;) Permissions and proxies exist.

Notion is a web app to AFAIK
There are man pages though, but still I suppose that might be useful to you.

Anyways, the only options for tar that I commonly use are "c", "x", and "t"; I will use other programs for decompression, and for extracting into a directory, will use cd.
Basic Lessons from a Miserable Software Business Failure
My wife and both of our therapists are on board with the idea of it. I'm just a little more hesitant. I've always had a job/gig/clients (except 2 months in 2008).

I'm a product development consultant (well I was, before my current role of ASP.Net code monkey), so getting new clients TODAY is difficult -- why I'm a code monkey.

We've always used my income to pay for our extravagances (multiple European vacations per year, a healthy retirement account, never having to look at the bank before we buy something, etc), so this will be different. Which has caused me to be a little hesitant.
There's a subtle point here that I want to emphasize, as it's counter to their "Lesson #2: Focus on page quality and CTR when doing paid tests."

The best way I found to qualify leads was, for things I was charging money for, to put in the price. That way people didn't click if they were looking for free. This actually worked pretty well.

The problem was that this means my ads were showing and not getting clicked. This reduced my quality score (although, in my mind, it provided a better experience for the user because they weren't wasting time going to a site that they did not want).

So Google's Quality Score is "quality" as measured from their point of view (high click/view), not yours nor necessarily your customers.
The Royal Navy did try using a freighter as a ferry aircraft carrier during the Falklands war:

https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2012/04/the-atlantic-conveyor...

That didn't involve fitting it with any defences, so the Argentinian navy sank it.

Some RN pilots were clearly keen on the idea though:

https://www.forces.net/news/tri-service/day-royal-navy-pilot...
> Iunno why you'd want Google Shopping links to work.

I don't know why you'd want links that you intentionally click to be broken. ;)
The US Navy was tasked by the civilian government.
I'm trying to create an account via desktop web interface, FWIW.
Qualcomm presumably.

But the FTC might view the mobile market as separate from the desktop market and block a merger between Intel and AMD.
Closing Down
> [...] since none of what I do matters anyway [...]

What makes you say that?

Is what you’re doing now worth doing only if people remember it after you die?
I had this same problem with Xfinity and just switched to using my own modem & router. Switching to your own hardware should save you $10/month anyway unless you're on some kind of building-wide plan.

For me it was worth it to spend the money and have full control over my hardware.
It's honestly the most polite nagware I've ever used.
On-prem enterprise software does make money. You still charge money for it either way. A few examples: Github Enterpise, JIRA, etc.

And notion doesn't need to see their users data to charge money for a service. They could engineer it to be E2E encrypted for the group and not have the ability to see their customers data even with a subpoena.
There is such focus on being tolerant regardless of sexual orientation, but many more people face much greater discrimination on a wider variety of issues, such as being handicapped, unattractive, mentally challenged, etc. I wonder why these groups don't get anywhere as much focus as the small number of gender non-conformist? Seems from a utilitarian perspective a much greater reduction of human suffering would be achieved by learning to appreciate the groups I mentioned, than the current mega focus on gender non-conformists. I think it is because gender-nonconformists can still be highly intelligent and attractive, thus are still useful from our society's image and performance driven perspective.
Migrate Bitbucket repositories over to GitHub
"But I'll tell you what, let me give you my uncle's number. He's always eager for a challenge." ;)
Ask HN: What's the history of benefits/perks in the modern tech workplace?
I posed the question on Twitter. One person suggested the Pentagon as an early example of the "workplace you never have to leave" model. Another pointed out that Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was an exceptionally generous environment.

I'm a bit more interested in specific stories of how they came to be. For example:

* When and how did Facebook (or Google or Zynga or...) decide that food would be plentiful and free? How did Microsoft decide on a model where employees still pay?

* Why does Intel have sabbaticals? Is it because semiconductors have a particularly deep history in academia and tenured professors receive sabbaticals?

* How does a company decide that "onsite clinic with on-staff GP" is a benefit they want to provide? I know Facebook has it. But I used to work at the Discovery Channel and they had it too.
Get a passport without a social security number
Not that I know of, and probably an area that Notion won't catch up in for a long time, if ever.
It is worth noting that investment banks don't just buy shares "below what they were worth", the shares are underwritten, which is priced in.
> And the capacitive button doesn't trigger the listening hardware.

Per Google's own site: "Long press to trigger the Google Assistant."
How much of this stuff is taken care of out of the box by Hapi.js? I'm an Express user but was taking a look at Hapi.js the other day and it seems like it handles at least of a few of these concerns.
I found this site very useful in planning a couple of multi-city trips in Europe (flying from the US) a few years ago. (A useful tip I learned from this site: in Norway, for a long trip, buy the first-class ticket; it's about $12 extra but that paid for itself in free hot cocoa.) It's also useful for getting a quick overview of the train system in a country and therefore figuring out which multi-city trips are feasible.

My only complaint is that for most of Europe there's a lot of "how to get there from London", which is fine if you're coming from London or elsewhere in the UK, but I'm flying in from the USA. But this complaint is a bit American-centric.

I wish you hadn't posted it, though, I'm not going to get any work done this afternoon.
Hopefully the dismal failure of that scheme the first time around will discourage them from trying it again.
I've tried Notion (I've tried most PIMs since 2003) but it didn't fit my brain / what I wanted to do with it. Not enough structure yet too constraining.

The closest I've found is Workflowy, but it's just that bit too basic.

I store all web clippings in Evernote and hope to find what I want one day.

I bookmark heavily into an online service, and wish my tag vocabulary was better constrained (but full text search helps).

And finally I mind map on paper; none of the digital ones have quite cut it.

One day there will be a PIM to rule them all. One day.
One of the big problems is the people making the priority software decisions sometimes forget that a software problem that often requires manual intervention at 2AM will do a lot of damage to a team if left to sit.
I'm surprised that arc didn't win that battle. Has the old application system ever been open sourced?

If arc can't win at YC where can it win? What hope does it have? If one of you leaves, HN will be rewritten on rails or something, no?
Goes hand in hand with mental illness (depression, anxiety, etc), which often leads to weight gain through food and alcohol/drug abuse. I'd like to see if bias has dropped for that.
The link on this is showing up as "https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com" for me...
> wanting to share this with my wife is four times as expensive as just using it myself, with limited to no appreciable improvement.

I would hardly say "no appreciable improvement". IMHO it's appropriate to price products based on the value derived, not the effort to implement each incremental "feature". And the ability to share is the most human feature. We are social creatures. To share and collaborate and be relational is to be human :)

So the price jump feels fair to me. We can get near full-knowledge of the product at a reduced price point, but to be human with the tool, we get hit with the real cost :)

EDIT: I also don't like the actual pricing structure, but that's only because I would rather participate in co-operative systems, and dislike capitalist ones. The above comment is my putting myself in their shoes :)
The "guy at Google" 1) didn't have any honors stripped, and 2) said far more than simply "men, in general, have better STEM skills than women". Surely to a degree far more than you posited in your original statement.

How is this a free speech issue? Watson continues to have his full free speech rights, yes? How is he being censored?

This looks much more like it's a right of free association issue. Cold Spring Harbor Labs has broad rights to associate - or disassociate - with whomever they wish.

Since so many people want to place free speech on some sort of pedestal, and claim that it's of overriding importance, I'll quote John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty", chapter IV, "Of the Limits to the Authority of Society Over the Individual", which seems appropriate here:

> We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavourable opinion of any one, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. We are not bound, for example, to seek his society; we have a right to avoid it (though not to parade the avoidance), for we have a right to choose the society most acceptable to us. We have a right, and it may be our duty, to caution others against him, if we think his example or conversation likely to have a pernicious effect on those with whom he associates. We may give others a preference over him in optional good offices, except those which tend to his improvement. In these various modes a person may suffer very severe penalties at the hands of others, for faults which directly concern only himself; but he suffers these penalties only in so far as they are the natural, and, as it were, the spontaneous consequences of the faults themselves, not because they are purposely inflicted on him for the sake of punishment.

The people of CSHL are exercising their liberty by choosing the society most acceptable to them.

I don't understand the relevancy of your point 2. All research points out that Watson is in the wrong.

I also caution that "non-inflammatory speech" is tricky. Who gets to decide? In general, those in power are those who want to maintain status quo and are also those who get to decide what 'inflammatory' means. On topic, we see that 100 years ago CSHL was one of many organizations in the American Eugenics movement, which tended to favor the "Nordic, Germanic and Anglo-Saxon peoples". Somehow their calls for sterilization and even eradicatation of large numbers of the poor and powerless wasn't seen as inflammatory, while the speech of black people who called for equal treatment was seen as inflammatory, and could even be grounds for lynching.
Sounds like a great opportunity. Just keep this in mind:

http://time.com/4425061/unemployment-divorce-men-women/

Looks like it causes a lot of couples relationship stress to have the wife be the primary breadwinner and the husband stay at home.

So, you need to make sure you're doing something to contribute financially (or equivalently via some other fruits of your labour) to the family, beyond just the standard work around the house. You don't have to earn more than your wife, but you must do your best to avoid any possible interpretation that you're doing nothing all day, or else you run an elevated risk of relationship issues.
Thanks for sharing this -- I happened upon this HN thread at just after midnight, and decided to read the story before going to bed. It's amazing, giving when it was written, and finding it like this reminded me about how I used to find things on the internet (having just read through the Ask HN comments[1] on what t'internet used to be like :) )

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897109
Get feedback from someone, anyone.

Family, friend, partner, coworker, even random stranger at the bar or a meetup.

Showing what you've made to someone is so much different than trying it yourself.

* The strange UI choices you made will be pointed out

* You will feel embarrassed about the slow loading of something

* You will get questions that you never thought about, and questions you thought about but perhaps thought nobody else would care about.

In my case, I'll always get motivated to do something with a project after I show someone else.
But what if someone develops a little faster? By the time they're 19, it might be too late!
> I do not want a monopoly in x86.

Strictly speaking, x86-64 patents must be about to expire anyway - the first Intel EM64T implementation (which can be assumed to be fully compatible even with modern-day software--IIRC the original AMD64 ISA had some unfortunate quirks which make this less likely) is from 2004. So, it's only a matter of time until we see compatible x86-64 CPUs from other vendors.
In the x86 market? That seems like a bit of a stretch for them.
I've been looking for a Personal Knowledge Manager for a while (and been thinking about creating one). Feel free to message me if you're considering open sourcing or releasing it.
This article makes a lot of good points about the acquisition of LinkedIn. Such as, the ultimate play of LinkedIn user integration into the Microsoft suite as the billion dollar idea for Micrsoft. However, near the end, the author points our a painfully obvious contradiction of his knowledge on Linkedin by saying, "there is no transparency as to how LinkedIn's revenue has grown..." While I understand the Facebook comparison, I believe it to be a little off base. LinkedIn has two distinct business lines, advertising (like Facebook) and a B2B recruiting software platform.

On the advertising front, I could not agree more with the article. Working in the B2B marketing space for a while, we completely cut LinkedIn ads due to poor reach of our defined target audience. Working in the fintech space, we targeted the appropriate persona, yet came away with hundreds of likes from irrelevant professions. Coupled with the price, we left almost immediately.

However, I believe that LinkedIn is expanding on a B2B play. Selling recruiting solutions. LinkedIn is calling them "Talent Solutions." In October, LinkedIn purchased Glint, based out of the bay area [1]. Glint focuses primarily on B2B HR solutions, using surveys and AI to comprehend employee engagement and satisfaction. With LinkedIn's talent solution + Glint's HR solution, LinkedIn, and Microsoft, is making a horizontal play onto the HR landscape.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/linkedin-acquires-employee...
> In fact it's only a closed system with a single gatekeeper that can avoid this problem at scale, because it's the only way to maintain clear lines of responsibility.

PC hardware is available from arbitrarily many vendors and you can install stock Windows or Linux on pretty much all of it. Many of the OEMs preinstall their various spyware, but you don't have to buy from them to begin with, and even then they can't stop you from removing it.

The primary difference in the phone market is the lack of open source drivers, so you can't install stock Android on your arbitrary phone because it needs the specific weird kernel it came with. But basically everybody hates that -- even the OEMs, because they neither want to be blamed for not providing updates nor want to have to actually provide them themselves. So it's slowly changing.

And even now, as a customer, there are unlocked devices available that will run stock Android, all you have to do is buy one of them.
Bigger risk, bigger reward, I'd think. I'd expect a pretty large offer would be needed for such a jump, but that kind of thing does happen.
>As for the inherent sexism, how many women would prefer their research to be called "seminal" instead of "influential"?

You seem to imply that you know the answer.

So how many?
Enterprise is the key word here. Much more companies care about having control over their infrastructure. As for Notion, I guess even on Hacker News only a small share of users would care enough.
> It's often said that Kodak fell because they didn't invest in the technology early enough and were too late by the time they started to do so in the 90s.

I think this is often used as an example of the "innovators dilemma" i.e. Kodak's cash cow was film sales. Every digital camera sold would potentially eliminate a film customer forever. So internally there was just an unwillingness to admit that the future was digital. So many people thinking things like "serious/pro photographers will never abandon film" or "digital will never have the quality of film" and for a little while they were right. By the time they realized they were wrong it was too late.

What's also odd is that they had really great image sensor technology, used heavily in scientific and medical instruments, and somehow lost the lead there too.
> google search 'woo site:cnn.com', first hits doing the wooing or getting wooed are:

1) 'Bachelor' fans

2) a male peanut seller

3) Trump

4) Trump

5) Trump

> google search 'woo site:foxnews.com', first hits doing the wooing or getting wooed are:

1) John McCain

2) Doctors

3) Bernie Sanders

4) Retailers

5) SeaWorld

> google search 'woo site:news.bbc.co.uk', first hits doing the wooing or getting wooed are:

1) US

2) US

3) Hwang-Woo-suk

4) Clinton and Obama

5) Japanese hotels
As per usual, Matt Levine has interesting insights on the possibility of a Slack Direct Listing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-11/direct...
Having children really changes you as an individual, especially as you start your family. Your priorities become different and I think both of you are correct in mentioning the motivation for providing and creating a safe environment for the family unit really arises in the individual, almost innately.
Reminds me of what Bob Ross said on his show after his wife died:

> Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now.

I'm not a Christian, but between Bob Ross and Fred Rogers, PBS really exhibited the best face of Christianity as a life philosophy.
This appears to be aimed at the small / medium organization. I think individuals should probably just stick with Emacs / Workflowy depending on whether they're already using Emacs or not.

Personally I think individuals need to just accommodate to shifting every now and again to new tools as they become available.
Notion is great in features, but it is just so slow and I find the editor hard to work with. Text doesn't flow nicely and it is clumsy to navigate between blocks. Some blocks are editable, some are stuck, etc. It is pretty hard. The speed gets me the most though. Maybe the website is actually better than the electron app, I always use the electron app.
Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
If you'd happily pay for it without the popups, why didn't you pay for it the first time the popup appeared? Would've saved you a lot of annoyance, no?
Been a paid user for a while. I love all the UI elements, markdown support, cross-platform compatibility etc. I have used Evernote, Simple Note and Boostnote previously.

Some problems however:

Desktop app takes a while to load. I understand it's electron, but so are Slack and VSCode. I am ready to keep it open on Mac. But on pressing Cmd+W, it closes the app, though not quit. Re-opening from that state is still slow. No other electron apps do that.

Offline experience on mobile isn't good. When I am in subway and want to jot down something quickly, it searches for internet for a while before allowing me to do anything
"'Knowledge' of self, environment and the relationship between the two worlds has to be encoded in an active and dynamic fashion." I'd say that's overreaching, but those are incredibly ill-defined terms.

In the case of the Dinoflaggelates, such a action could be performed by an incredibly simple state machine, making the definitions of the above terms incredibly weak.

ETA: I'll add that you put a lot of calculating and work on the Dinoflaggelate that is likely performed by evolution. The "calculations" would just be done by the genetic equivalent of a look up table.
The navy has at times tried to relax these requirements, but so far it has not worked out.

It has been speculated that relaxed requirements or poor implementation of modifications was responsible for the sinking of the Kursk. Relaxing ammo handling procedures to achieve higher rate of fire scores in exercises may have helped to sink the HMS Hood.

There's an analogy in here somewhere concerning computer security.
Holy mackerel. D3 actually already has the graphic type I need. It is possible I may have a working prototype today.

You have helped me so much!
I am 100% with you here. The fact that I can't 1-click migrate keeps them from getting my money
I actually think we agree on more than we disagree.

Totally align with not giving in to screaming and yelling, and I'm consistent (or at least aware) about that, but when my youngest is sick and just went down for a nap, well...

Those are good points you make and I'll hope to recall those techniques with my just turned six year old. As you say, building valuable life skills.
I don't know, from this I can't really see the memory cost or GC impact. And the parallel statement doesn't tell me anything of the threading model. I know that I see a lot of intermediate states being created which is not so good. If this code were shown to compile to the imperative equivalent though, I'd definitely think about learning F#.
Just sent you an email
I worked for a state agency that hosted a data archive and real-time collection of hydrology data. It was not considered "mission critical", and as such there was no on-call.

It was pretty cool, since they practiced 8-hr work days. My only issue was that they were way more focused on ass-in-chair time than productive time, and weren't flexible. At that time, I commuted via bus, and it wasn't uncommon for the bus to be delayed by 15-30 minutes if there were traffic incidents along the route. I wasn't allowed to clock in early if my bus arrived early, and was penalized and documented if the bus was late. So there wasn't a chance in hell I was going to catch the earlier route and arrive 45 minutes before my shift, but they sure were pissy when that bus was late.
Do you have any customers yet?

I’d like to echo the comment from above: release now, and do billing manually. Once you start getting customers, you’ll be motivated to write a proper billing module.
Notion allows you to export your notes. Also, you can say that about any service, even one run by Google.
Some people make really bad decisions when thinking for themselves, though; I've met a few.

It might be worth trying to find advice from people who have actually faced real hardship rather than trying to wing it all on one's own.
Is point #1 necessarily true? (Asking upwards, not down)

I would imagine that most companies that are gearing up for IPO feel well-known to the tech community, but are mostly unknown to the outside world.

For example, with Slack, if I asked my non-tech friends, most would would have no idea what that is.