skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't bullying a tiny competitor. McD's would have no problem with a company called "SuperBurger" instead of "SuperMacs". They want to protect their customers from potential confusion.
You're right, and I am surprised Amazon hasn't come up with something like that... or at least acquire a smaller company that does it already, if they can find one.
Been there. At my actual job (a small IT firm in Europe), my boss spent almost half a year searching for somebody to hire. All the times it was like "they are too old", or "don't know enough", or just for a different POV.

In the meantime, collegues are leaving the gig, making my level of stress go up.
You can't have GPL apps on iOS, you can't put them in the Store and you are not allowed to side load apps, this is one reason I dislike Apple, others include the fact you have to replace the battery, motherboard or some body part (I can't remember for sure) and the entire keyboard if one of your keys breaks. This is why personally dislike them and why I will not use their products but I understand that people value different things then me.
I second the thought that you're trying to optimize here and bring in your own personal brand of efficiency, but that's the trouble, it seems too 'personal' to use.
But he killed two other scumbags.
It's funny. I recently switched from Linux after 10 years back to Windows.

I ran Arch Linux for about 7 years. After systemd I spent years justifying why I used it even though it would constantly break and require a reformat more often than Win7 did. I went to Ubuntu, and it was marginally more stable. But even there, I was bitten too many times. Libicu upgrades breaking everything, updating packages breaks the package manager or ruins systemctl settings. Really, the whole problem that pushed me back to Windows is a combination of constant systemd nightmares and bad package maintenance.

I've... Kind of been loving Win10. Sure, it's marginally more evil than Linux, (but less so than Google and Apple products these days), but at least I don't have to constantly wipe my machine or keep it out of date to keep using it. Weird how the tables have turned.
We already have a good definition and framework for privacy, thanks Tim.

We don't need a watered-down definition that plays to your current business model and leaves out bits that don't.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Vagina scrapping isn't what we imagined,congs to MELB
This article reminds me of the histories of companies that go on to change the world. Apple's first iPod was merely another MP3 player that didn't even have a radio (or other things that everyone knew was necessary) and most of the industry downplayed it's significance. Google was conceived in a market flush with competitors and didn't seem to really bring anything new to the table; anyone can build a search engine. Or, even more recently, the taxi industry completely ignoring technology for decades and getting blind-sided by the ride-sharing movement.

Sure, Ford and Chevy and VW can build electric cars but historically they don't build very good ones. It's just like saying that Microsoft and Yahoo! don't need to worry about those other guys because they could spin up a new product and destroy the competition if they really wanted to.
It only took you 5 sentences to then go on an off-tangent about the "locked iDevices", ecology and buggy frameworks. Especially having in mind that everybody else is already doing 100% recycling and their frameworks are flawless! And of course, they all have unlocked bootloaders. Right?

You're basically just ranting.

Please stay on topic.
"There is no such thing as stupid questions". This however, is a stupid question.

Solely depends on your effort/motivation to pick up a new skill. As with anything...
And those who can neither do, nor teach, rebel.
As someone who's been using makefiles for about 30 of those years, I have to say make sucks. It's barely evolved at all. There is a reason there are so many alternatives to it, and it's not be because it's trendy. I mean, you can't even copy a file with it. That takes an external program.
Yes, that's what the article I linked is about. (Specifically, a letter which led to headlines like “Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists”.) I see that similar articles (thanks for your link) continue to be published in 2018, which I guess proves that no one took notice or heeded the advice.
I'm guessing here that ASA is 'American Statistical Association', rather than say, the UK's 'Advertising Standards Authority'?
Also excessive optimism. "I will finally start excercising next week, I swear!"
> I guess the ideal option here is to have an expert that can give you advice that you just go along with, so if you tell them "I just want to build a clicker" they can just tell you "Just learn javascript and html and css" or w/e

Exactly! Needn't be an expert person: I think it would be enough to have a respected source declare so in their blog, or in an article. Then, folks could point newbies towards these starting resources, much like they do with the classic blog posts.

In a more ideal world, people who search "what framework to use js" would encounter that post/article and see for themselves.
There are some states that allow medically-assisted suicide in cases of terminal illness, my state (Oregon) being one of them. There’s actually a great documentary about it called “How to Die in Oregon”.

Personally, I think that it’s cruel to force someone to stay alive who is so tired and in pain and just wants it to be over. I watched my grandfather deteriorate and eventually he just wanted to give up. Had we had those laws in place at that time he could have died calmly with family around. Instead, he was suffocated to death by cancer. You tell me which sounds worse.
"The Last Island of the Savages"
Should have named it Pypelines. But seriously though I am not sure what the benefits over multiprocessing are. It looks a little cryptic at first sight.
It depends on what you consider a "pharma company". If the major companies acquire drugs, then it could still be argued (and I'm sure people do) that the drug prices, being dependent on patent rights, are indirectly paying for R&D. Just because it's not the same company doesn't mean that the ecosystem doesn't depend on the patent rights to finance the research.

I'm not completely confident of the necessity of patent rights as they are, but it seems logical enough on the surface. I can't assume that entities which engage in transactions together are independent.
> Netflix hasn't adopted the Stories feature

Boy have I got bad news for you... https://gfycat.com/FrighteningMassiveHart
What he did was simple geometry, and in a way he was the right man in the right place. He heard that the sun was in zenith during the summer solstice ina certain town. He had a good runner measure the distance between Alexandria and that town and then measured the angle of the sun during the solistice in Alexandria (for simplicity, say it was 6 degrees). To get the full circle, just multiple by 60.

6th graders maths.
> Chrome follows 10s possibly even 100s of standards that Safari is dropping the ball on.

I went almost full Apple 14 months ago and I am yet to find a single website that I need that's not working at all or even well enough in Safari, desktop or mobile.

The only argument I've seen so far is "but standard X is new, we need it!" without ever saying why do you need it.

Care to elaborate?
No, but the zillion little fixes sap a limited amount of energy

I wouldn't be satisfied unless I compiled an optimized kernel with almost no module left, etc. This takes more time than I can allot
I guess it is mostly the subjective comfortableness of python (and the capacity of throwing prototypes for a team who has only python skills).

In my experience all these frameworks end up lacking at some point and becoming leaky abstractions sooner than later. I wish they would work because all the front end technologies require lots of training and skill in order to produce a production ready UI.
Having to pay to use software commercially makes it unusable?
Fullstack dev here, I'm still happy with jquery.
> Watching Netflix can be beneficial.

No one disputes that.

The reason why people consider it harmful is that frequent watching, which is the platform's #1 priority, creates addiction.
I doubt there as a clear line between ad and non-ad so it makes sense that for some sample you get these numbers.
Yeah, my guess is that if you're not logged in, or have history disabled, they still generate recommendations by IP or something... or they just give you generic recommendations that go to everybody that doesn't have a history to use.

I don't mind, since I like the recommendations in general. But I think they dramatically overweight recent videos when they generate the recommendations, and sometimes I'll watch a video that's outside my normal habits, and I suddenly start getting all these weird recommendations. That's the only reason I ever bothered learning about the "remove this from my history" feature. :-)
I really liked a couple of the ideas here.

What wasn't too clear to me, was the distinction between a component, and it's many instances... I suspect this is a deliberate and actually quite good design decision.... many instances of the same component are merely clones of the base component....

I think a massive need exists for more simplicity, patterns and much more lightweight mini frameworks. See for example the moon js framework as a much lighter weight alternative to vue and react

https://kbrsh.github.io/moon/

I would also suggest that you ignore the haters, and keep working at improving your documentation and how you communicate your ideas.

I quite liked the minimalism of your docs too, and I understand most of what you said, simply because I have also written my own mini frameworks a few times.

But people who have not written their own GUI or component frameworks may not be able to make out head or tail of what your docs are talking about or why you have made many of the unconventional design decisions.

Most of the major frameworks like vue and react contain massive design flaws and beat you over the head with loads of incidental complexity.
Just received the same e-mail. I don't know whether it is a legitimate one or not, but it sounds VERY suspicious. Mine includes a direct link to change my WPML account password (pointing to a domain other than WPML's). This is utterly suspicious and technically wrong. Why do not simply say " go to your WPML account and change your pass" and include a direct link, instead? Furthermore, it's Sunday. So WPML's staff is arguably on holiday and is not replying to the messages which are now popping out on their support forum. My humble suggestion: do not click on that link!
Think I know what you mean. Sitting at a computer is more appealing when a bit sick, but more likely to want to get out and about if feeling well.
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Many of the newer or at least better lacing systems for snowboard boots use separate controls for foot & leg or liner & shell.

Tongue shims on your liners might help. A replacement heat molded liner is another option.
Firefox plus NoScript (with JavaScript off by default) means I had absolutely no CPU problem reading that article. It's my default browsing configuration.
I still fall asleep and it will go on for 3-4 episodes. It solves nothing other than to annoy me from time to time.
Acorn 6.3 Postmortem
Which doesn't entirely rule out a deep learning based compressor, just makes it much harder :)
If you don't want to spend $1400 on a clock, but still want to read time in words, there's another option. You can build it yourself for about a 20th of the cost:

https://bitbucket.org/vdham/wordclock

That one's in Dutch, but it's pretty easy to get a stencil in English and adjust the code.
Which I pay them for. If it costs too much, then they need to charge me more.
Life expectancy generally goes down these days either in war-torn places, or other extreme - people overeating on tons of junk food, and generally not compensating their eating habits with adequate physical activity. We are very far from times when medicine and science can properly fix bodies destroyed by such a lifestyle.

Russia & former soviet union countries are a bit special but within same category - their alcoholism contributes heavily to their lower life expectancy.

To me it looks like a perfect storm - people living more stressful lives getting their impulses more from cell phone than real world out there, eating worse and more of it, exercising less. I don't believe most of this is directly related to wealth, although many would like to connect these. More like some mental fortitude and strength to keep up some sane regime of healthy eating & exercising (really, you just need running shoes in most of the world, cheap yearly gym pass can easily cover 100% of your needs).
Eh ... What?! This thing isn't functioning at all! How did they think what they have now with Apply maps could ever replace what they had before in terms of functionality?! What were they thinking? Just to mention a few issues I hit on the first attempt of using it:

- I cannot search?! I can only search on DuckDuckGo, THEN click on the map tab and see a SINGLE location, no similar locations or whatever. And then I cannot in the map tab search? How ridiculous is that? Now I need to do a completely new DuckDuckGo search, hope that it will magically find the street or whatever I search, even if there are multiple ones in the same city.
- I cannot look for directions from A to B?! When I click the "Directions" button I get redirected to bing.com, which is currently blocked to a 100%. I don't want to go to bing, I want to get DIRECTIONS, on the DuckDuckGo map tab and not on another website.
- I cannot even ZOOM, wtf? I keep using the mouse wheel and nothing happens! This thing is so broken.

And this is only the first visit of the map tab. How they f'ed that up, omg.
YAML is a terrible choice.
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I find that pops up less these days like it used to.
Macs seemed quite cool at the time, but I never looked at the price. Considering Amigas and Acorn Archimedes were available for a lot less, I now just can't see what made people buy Macs then. The SE/30 was over US$4,000.00!
Ha! That sounds like such a neat idea that I'm now skeptical that it is indeed just an idea! Do you have a write up somewhere? That sounds really cool.
Nah, I remember being able to do all of that with Windows commercial editors like SlickEdit.

So those Atom "innovations" are only relevant on a market where developers refuse to buy their tools.
I don't think it's about control as it is about conceit. I don't think human conceit can be underestimated. This really became clear to me from reading The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Humans want to believe everything is created for them, the universe was created for them, it's at the basis of a lot of the beliefs people hold. Then they want to cling to this belief of superiority. And because they came there through emotion, it's harder to reason them out of it.

"You can't reason somebody out of a stance they weren't reasoned into in the first place. If you can't address the emotional pains and the emotional tumult and the emotionality that brought people to where they are and some of our worst ugliest moments, rationality isn't going to get them into a different spot than that." - Robert Sapolsky (https://youtu.be/61tChpN3lhY?t=2756)
Identifying Unmaintained GitHub Projects
I agree. But those threads just look like they've been nuked from orbit. I think that's what you have to do to keep the quality high. Any sub that isn't willing to delete everyone's comments is going to be dragged down.
Yawn! Really this discussion all over again?
Just use the right tool for the right job. I wonder whether carpenters also discuss their hammers and screwdrivers like that. </rant>
I always felt that it was a positive. I'm giving people hours of joy, allowing them to escape from whatever it is they are escaping from. I never even considered it a problem.

I was glad that I didn't work somewhere where the consumer was the product, and that we didn't really have to exploit anyone to deliver our product. Of all of the FAANG companies to work for, Netflix seems to be the one with the least things to complain about.
Carl Sagan was a Master at detecting malicious manure. Should be read with maximum attention. Specially the juicy chapter: "the art of detecting baloney" or something like this.
I'm using restic with a Backblaze backend and I couldn't be happier.
Hardware encoder are very good if you are not doing difficult bitrate like 1-2 Mbps for 1080P, and 2-4Mbps for 4K. And if you are doing high bitrate I strongly suggest using x264.

Of coz that is if you care about quality and retaining film grain that sort of things. Otherwise Hardware encoder from Nvidia is pretty good ( No idea about Radeon, but it seems Intel still doesn't care about encoding quality, they only care about speed. )
You clearly missed out on the magical fill. Search for Sumit gulwani excel. Another collaboration with MSR
I think for some this might be the case but there are some photos people hold dear. Wedding photos, children growing up and other major life events. Each to their own.
If I switch to Grid for layout, don’t I still need Bootstrap for other things, eg toolbars, buttons....? Or is there a more lightweight choice for those?
I feel that's an externally enforced dichotomy though. Somebody said during a board meeting "let's force people to make this choice and we know they will choose convenience and cheap over privacy".

But it doesn't have to be this way. We need new players in the market that aren't that sleazy.
Assuming we are talking about software, error between measurements is a direct function of the device you use to measure, which is itself close to perfect

Even if we go to the example you give, the measurement should be done n times, each reporting the exact result found like 51.0 51.9 51.95 etc. Even if the decimals are outside the smallest interval of your ruler: take enough of them and you can get closer to the actual length which may be 51.55345 and that you would never have been able to measure anyway without a caliper

The best thing is you can even do that by resampling old measurements (a process called bootstrapping)

So yes, if you remove the tenth of millimeters, you lose information.

What's wrong is not the number, but that custom makes people think 51.0 means 51.0 +- 0.01 or anything else while it was never said like this.
Decidim: Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
SlickEdit does all of that while being native, fast and handling big data sets.
Would you submit to torture to prove your point?

You might consider volunteering at a hospice.
I'm no economist, but I strongly feel perfect price discrimination would be a rather terrible thing. You seem to be implying that it would be "sufficient".

Imagine if the water you drink was priced at the maximum amount you would be willing to pay not to die of thirst. This would palpably be a terrible thing. All of us go around every day buying things that we think are worth substantially more to us than the money we pay. It seems to me like this is the whole value proposition of capitalism for human beings.

I have always thought that free markets are useful, but I think that is only the case if they tend to drive producer surplus to zero and consumer surplus to the maximum. If there were no consumer surplus, as with perfect discrimination, then I don't see the point of economic activity.

I sort of thought (because I read it somewhere) that orthodox economic theory implied that perfect free markets should drive economic profits of businesses to zero. And profits should be roughly equivalent to producer surplus. So we shouldn't be balancing consumer and producer surplus, let alone allocating the surplus all to producers.
https://github.com/decidim/decidim

https://try.decidim.org/
The old saying is designed to make those who cant teach feel good and superior on expense of those who actually spend time to do something useful.

Teaching is a skill. Criticism can help people to learn how to do it better, devaluing everyone who even tries leads to culture where people won't put effort into it even if they could be good. All that because someone needed to feel superior for doing nothing.
I actually found it easier to read in Firefox, as there was only one axis to read from. The correlation was clearer.
Once MS was forced to deal with their monopoly IE issues Firefox and then Chrome took off.

God no. MS abandoning their browser for a decade is the reason for why alternatives became dominant.
Fair point. It would be great if Backblaze supported Linux with a desktop client.

So I guess the options would be desktop backup on the various computers that feed the current NAS solution.
For me it’s the aspect ratio. 3:2 is ideal, so kudos to Google and MS, but 16:10 on the MacBooks is still significantly better than the mass of 16:9ers out there.

Recently got a 14” Zenbook for my daughter. Lovely machine honestly, but the screen ratio is annoying.
Not sure why you're downvoted. I'd jump with joy if the next iOS / Win10 / Linux / BSD / Android version allows you to completely stop an app from using a network connection, Wi-Fi or otherwise.

Disallowing 3G/4G to apps is not enough.

But of course nobody is gonna do it since ads are served in hundreds of thousands of Bejeweled clones and Apple/Google wouldn't want displeased app developers letting that ad revenue dry up. :(
Yeah, a contributing guide would be nice. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm curious on why Make runs twice faster to you, since in most cases the difference should be negligible (i.e. the Task overhead should be insignificant compared to the time it takes to run the command).

Maybe you're running really lightweight, like `cp`? Otherwise I'd consider it a bug. Could you open an issue, then?
I think the saying you are referring to is:

"Those who can, do; Those who can't, teach."
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> Not even close. (Go read some Scientology literature, or the Book of Mormon.)

Color me intrigued. Which statements in the book of Mormon do you believe are significantly more readily deniable than "the earth is flat" in some sense different that doesn't also apply to the statements in, say, the bible.

Same question for Scientology.
> Along those standards, Linux or BSD also haven't committed to data control.

Well yes, they haven't. Not in a convenient way anyway. I've had a sysadmin friend explaining me the lenghts you have to go to to achieve such results. To him it was easy. I just said "feck that".

The fact that every single app isn't sandboxed is also pretty disappointing.
I once came across a variant:

"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, CONSULT."
Netflix user here. Honestly, people are going to watch TV no matter what. No amount of wishful thinking will make people do something more productive. Better Netflix than competitors, no?
You would not learn nearly as much from that. This is analogous to '17 year old builds car' and then going 'wouldn't it be easier to just buy a Toyota?'. Sure it would be easier, but this was never about ease.
Precisely. The Linux community was/is a movement of people who do not want one size fits all. People who do not want a dictated experience.

People who trumpet a unified Linux experience expect the river to somehow flow backwards.
For me it’s age and hand size. The SE is great, both my daughters have one and love them, but I find them hard to read text on these days and too fiddly for my fingers (though my hands aren’t exactly huge).

I had a 6+ for a while and got on with it fine but it’s a bit big. My 6s is just right. It is a little big for reaching on screen controls sometimes, but I’d hate to lose the readability so it’s a trade off.