skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Run away from OneNote quickly. Microsoft are not shipping OneNote desktop any more, preferring the horrid UWP app.

Another vote for paper or neutral formats here. They persist longer than vendor whims!

Case in point I wrote a lot of my work up on TechWriter on an Acorn RiscPC. Where are we now with that. Hmm...
TL;DR: Unix inode indirection permits clean file replacement without overwriting existing copies or disrupting running processes. Windows' file system architecture lacks this concept. In-place upgrades aren't a realistic option for Windows without some serious contortions and caveats.
It absolutely is Boolean logic, if you know how to write it down:

Definition 1 = Belief(not god)
Definition 2 = not Belief(god)
Measuring Active Listeners, Connection Observers, and Legitimate Monitors
I wonder if traditional memory techniques (e.g. method of loci [1]) would have long-term benefits over taking notes by hand?

According to this highly interesting HN thread, Alan Kay apparently doesn't take (much) notes [2]. I also found Warren Buffett's tip to focus on information that "doesn't expire or expires very slowly" an excellent rule of thumb for daily life. Obviously, with decades of books under their belts both of them are outstanding systems thinkers, so it must be true that they just don't need to take notes that much.

I'm a 30-something, but I like to trust my brain's tendency to forget more and more. Most of the stuff I don't remember probably wasn't relevant for my current mental models. If it's important, it sticks in one way or another. (I try to reinforce this by using the aformentioned method of loci, but I'm not as confident with this as I would like to be. It involves creating "sticky" images for the brain, and thus it always requires at least several seconds for me to "store" something that way.)

One probably won't be an A-level student with this approach, though -- but in trying to live a meaningful life, letting things (information) go often helps a lot. It's a great bullshit filter for everything.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809285

3: https://fs.blog/2019/02/compounding-knowledge/
Harvard scientists uncover how poor sleep leads to cardiovascular disease
Nerds need a new web because "their space" was taken over and they feel left out. That's basically the gist of all this talk about decentralization.

Even the difficulty of getting rid of certain videos like the mosque shooting shows that censorship isn't as easy as it's being portrayed.

Big decentralized networks would be /b/ and /thedonald, 8chan, Alex Jones and other shitholes of the internet, but on steroids, without anyone being able to at least make it more difficult for these people to get an audience.
Report it with relevant authorities.

This is anti-competitive behaviour.

Especially clear since, as GP points out mail gets through if it is a direct reponse, meaning they knew very well it was a legitimate address.

This is abuse of bulk mail filter to squeeze out local competitors.
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I often wonder if those studies about "copying the entire lecture by taking notes" are an example of the Simpson Paradox. Breaking them down to sub-groups of students and their experience would surely reveal another picture. At least some students can't benefit from this, as my experience mirrors yours. Courses that required me to write everything down were those where I couldn't remember anything at the end. I just can't write and listen / comprehend at the same time.
While I think this petition will fall on deaf ears, you can't definitively say "half the country wants to leave and half wants to stay", because not all of the country voted in the referendum. Likewise, you could say:

voting population of UK - 17.6m leave votes = people who didn't vote for Brexit

Which is a huge majority and by that measure we shouldn't leave. I don't agree with that standpoint either, but both your viewpoint and that are misrepresentations.
I think the petition will need more than 17m (genuine) signatures before it'll have the effect it's aiming for.

Not saying the signatures so far aren't genuine, just that to have the desired effect it'll need to be reasonably free from doubt
I do the same thing (markdown and mathjax) but I use TeXMe (https://github.com/susam/texme). I like TeXMe a lot because it turns any Markdown and LaTeX notes into a self-rendering file. Just open your Markdown+LaTeX notes in any browser and it renders itself beautifully, almost looks like a paper.

It is not wysiwyg though. But for me the convenience of distributing my Markdown+LaTeX source itself that can render in any browser without a separate compilation/processing step is a huge win!

See https://github.com/susam/texme#get-started if you are curious how it works.
Sorry for the long delay, I just saw your reply. I agree with you more than I disagree. That is -- facing truths is important. Suicide should not be a crime. A dignified death is often about knowing when to go, and that choice is the final sentence of the long book that is a life.

I don't want to drag doctors into "futile quarrels." I just think that the occasion of death is special, and deserves to be communicated face to face, not with robots (oh sorry, with iRobots).
I'm very fond of double width and height, but the DEC terminals implemented double width by halving the pixel clock rather than a proper font. Minitel did it right.
8chan, jodel (local anonymous based message board popular in some parts of europe, similar to yikyak) to say few. I’m not trying to claim the others don’t exist.
Lenovo: Trashing the brand, one change at a time..
Now look at the 10,000 other scams going on. Wait why are they still ... going on. 1 down 9,999 more to go right ? Let's get them frauds!

Oh ... wait it doesn't work that way right. We just spent all our energy on one, who has time to go after all of them. Let's watch the new movie! It has Jennifer Lawrence in it. Let's all feel good about ourselves! My startup is a fraud too but but I wouldn't lie like that. Note to self: If a major product doesn't workout and is a major fuckup, have a fire accident and say valuable I.P was destroyed in the fire and people have died. The tragedy! The tragedy!

Honestly she either goes into oblivion or she has a second run. I hope she has a second run and makes it big because the sequel might as well be called - Vampire of Silicon Valley.
2013 Snowden leaks under MS's MAPP programme.
>yet a few search-enginescompared to clients

Bittorrent doesn't have a search engine, so of course they are not decentralized.

> yet a few trackers compared to clients

Well, not if you count the DHT (the decentralized tracker).
Agreed. Either lecture or tell me to read a chapter. I can't multi-task that well with learning something that detailed.
It's a sign from above that you should respect the valid vote for "leave".
Required trivia: In Samoa, Stevenson eventually donated his birthday to someone with better use for it:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/i-have-now-no-further-u...
> >Write your notes up at the end of the day with reference material at hand and no compromises. You can structure, extrapolate and transform things into your own understandable language then.

> As if the average modern day student is going to do this.

Why wouldn't modern day students do this? It's one of the best way to study that I ever used.
Your tweet had the best pictures, hope you don’t mind!

I noted 3,350 per minute about 20 minutes ago!
It means that what you are doing now, posting a comment using a throwaway, will be impossible.

As no public platform will take this risk and users don't want to pay the extra money the platform needs to build or buy the impossible content filters it would need.
Here's an alternative which is being actively maintained: https://github.com/frontarm/navi
We've used Windows Defender for Linux systems for quite some time (simply by allowing access to the remote filesystems) and we have been positively surprised that threats for Unix/Linux-only systems are caught just as fast, even though there is no official support outside of Windows thus far.

However at the time almost all of the malware definitions are from other anti-virus companies and Microsoft happens to ship them via Windows Update. But this could have been changed by now.

If Microsoft is serious about the 'user-centric' approach, which it seems more and more the case as opposed to just a cheap PR stunt, it might me a good move to opensource the whole Defender base and include some Linux users while their at it.
Article 13 is bad enough without needing to make up absurd interpretations of it. EU law is enforced on the basis of proportionality, and the wording of the proposed directive already covers that.

There's never going to be some legal obligation to remove something like the quote you just posted.

Furthermore, since it's a directive each member state will need to implement it in a way that's compatible with both the directive and its own laws. The countries in the EU all have some sort of concept that's analogous to "fair use", even if that's not what they call it.
As a 30-year latex user and a 10-year newbie to vim, I am impressed by the author's skills, and will likely copy some of his macros. However, as someone who has taught mathematically-inclined material for those three decades, I cannot recommend using a computer to take notes in class, for I have simply never seen a student who found that effective.

Although some students try to take notes on a computer during the first day of my classes, I have never seen one who tried to do that after the second or third lecture. The paper method (or, equivalently, using a stylus to hand-write on a screen) is simply better suited to the dynamic of a class. An effective class is not a linear presentation of material, a sort of recitation of a book by a professor. And effective notes are not transcriptions of the class material. An effective class weaves around through a topic, building on interactions with the students. This often involves departures from a simple path that, transcribed in real-time, would be footnotes within footnotes within footnotes, "Inception" style. And of course mathematical material tends to involve a lot of diagrams. Hand-written notes, with lots of arrows between ideas and boxes with sketches, are not just a good way of making a record of a class, but they are a great way of understanding what's going on in real time.

The only place I could see this detailed note-taking method working would be in a class where the teacher essentially reproduced a book in class. But is that the kind of class that justifies the cost of tuition?

I have two anecdotes I'd like to share.

1. A student came to me to ask a question about something that came up in class. I asked to see her notes, to get a clearer idea of what was confusing her. The notes were amazingly insightful and clear. I asked how she took those notes, which contained some things I had said and others I had not said. She replied "I don't write down what you say, I write down what I think you mean." This student will likely be a professor in a few years, and I envy the students who will take her classes.

2. Last term, I recommended that my students try the Cornell note-taking method. (See http://lsc.cornell.edu/notes.html for an example, although there are many treatments of the method online, including videos.) The students who tried it seemed to enjoy it, and it may be no accident that the class leader was one of them.
I don't see any decentralized services making a dent until the residential internet infrastructure improves by an order of magnitude. There is such a huge disparity between upload and download bandwidth that I fail to see any immediate future for decentralized or p2p replacements for things.
If someone does not vote, when there was ample opportunity to do so, then they implicitly are accepting the outcome - whichever way it goes.

This actually should read "Brexit - The will of the 17m + 50m who are okay with this"

This would have read the same if the result had gone the other way: "Remain - The will of the Xm + 50m who are okay with this"

At the end of the day, there was a vote and more people wanted Brexit, than Remain. A democratic process and result.
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> It (barely, but) understands. It can find sentences that use different structure but meaning is similar.

Can't say I see meaningful difference between DDG and Google on this anymore.

DDG keeps getting better and Google has been on a downward spiral for some time.

> It can find result using synonyms instead of the original words.

DDG does this as well. And unlike Google they aren't driving me crazy by ignoring my double quotes and verbatim searches.
Thanks for the tip. OneNote is one of a handful of things Microsoft has done that I like. Is it really not on Windows10? I haven't upgraded from 7 yet.
Finding that crash root cause without server logs, great fun.
Yup. Which probably explains why it just fell over again.

Also no worries for posting :)
From the original post:

> There, I ex­plained my work­flow of tak­ing lec­ture notes in LaTeX using Vim and how I draw fig­ures in Inkscape.

Looks like the author was using Inkscape earlier but may have switched to something else recently. You can draw impressively beautiful diagrams in LaTeX with TikZ although it can be a lot of work to do so with TikZ which would make it difficult for live note taking.
Ask HN: What types of business data are crucial for you while choosing a vendor?
>While I think this petition will fall on deaf ears, you can't definitively say "half the country wants to leave and half wants to stay", because not all of the country voted in the referendum.

Those that didn't vote either way, don't count, and shouldn't count.

Percentages in elections are of active voters.

Unless they were prevented from voting some way, their post-facto protests are meaningless.

You can't have your cake (not give a toss about votes and not participate) and eat it (still have your opinion matter on voted topics) too
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Gotcha. Thanks for the additional thoughts!
Yes I agree, if you don't vote (having voted in every election the last 30y and would never not vote) you're ok with the result and can't complain, but from a Remainer standpoint the framing would be "50M didn't vote for Brexit" - then I'd think their arguing would be easier.

Having watched many Commons discussions, it basically always ends with "but the 17M".
More than half the people who cared enough to go and vote want to leave.
Have you heard about the paradox of tolerance? I think it's important in this kind of discussion.
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That's probably very true but this isn't about the dealer as much as the manufacturer. When one says they have 4 crumple zones to absorb the energy of an impact and you later find out that the passengers were those crumple zones, someone goes to prison. When Tesla claims that their system is fully self driving at a level safer than a human driver they're doing the same. Because they know very well that system is just a glorified driver assist that can do any kind of driving only in the most narrow and perfect of conditions. Take it out of that narrow Autopilot "comfort zone" and you have plain old driver assist.
How do you know that's one of the developers?
Has any vote ever been won by a majority of the entire population, eligible to vote or not? If that’s the standard you’re after nothing would ever pass and no government would ever be formed. Seems an unreasonable bar to set, to me.
It does ship with windows 10 but it's a UWP app and it's rubbish. It's missing on Office 2019. See: https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/onenote-2016-is-mis...

This one totally caught me by surprise for ref when I upgraded, perhaps foolishly. I installed OneNote 2016 and am sticking my fingers in my ears until I have some time to deal with it.
Agreed, sometimes just copying the formula takes very long and you don't want to be making mistakes. Also, sometimes wording for explanation takes me long enough that I miss a few sentences from my lecturer.

The best I think is still to come prepared for class by having read the required readings before hand.
Yes, this immediately reminded me of this book. To add an example (from the book): after implementing turn-on-red in a few places, a study was conducted to check if it increased the rate of accidents. The study found no statistically significant effect, so turn-on-red was rolled out statewide. Unfortunately, the study failed to detect an effect not because there was no effect, but because the sample was too small to confirm that the effect was statistically significant. Now that we have more data, it turns out that turn-on-red does increase the rate of accidents.

Read it in full here: https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/power.html#the-wrong-tur...
A few points:

- The basis of a p-value is very much aligned with the scientific process in that you arent trying to prove something 'is true' rather you're trying to prove something false. Rejection of p-values / hypothesis testing is a bit like rejecting the scientific method. I am lucky enough to be friends with one of the physicists that worked on finding the Higgs Boson and he hammered it into my head that their work was to go out of their way to prove the Higgs Boson was a fluke - a statistical anomaly - sheer randomness. This is a very different mentality to trying to prove your new wunder-drug is effective - especially when those pesky confidence intervals get in your way of a promotion or a new grant. Its much easier to say p-values are at fault.

- Underpinning p-values are the underlying distributional assumption that makes up your p-value needs to match that of whatever process you're trying to test else the p-values become less meaningful.

- The 5% threshold is far too low. This means at least 5% of published papers are reporting nonsense and nothing but dumb luck (even if they got lucky with the distribution). If the distributional assumptions arent met then its even higher. Why are we choosing 5% threshold for a process/drug that can have serious side-effects?

- p-value hacking. So many sneaky ways to find significance here. Taleb goes into some detail into the problem of p-values here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrfSh07rT0 and in a similar vein here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6CxfBMUf1o.

Doing stats well is hard and open to wilful and naive abuse. The solution is not to misuse or throw away these tools but to understand them properly. If you're in research you should think of stats as being part of your education not just a tickbox that is used validate whatever experiment you're doing
I agree. But the statement "half the country wants to leave and half wants to stay" is still false.
In this case, it's not click bait that is winning.

> Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server

isn't click bait, but simply much more clear and to the point than

> Ask HN: HMD Global (Nokia) is acting shady Any recourse?
99.9999% is almost 5σ, right? Have we finally discovered New Physics?

Edit: The CERN[1] article says that it is in fact 5.3σ.

[1]: https://home.cern/news/press-release/physics/lhcb-sees-new-f...
Still 502, can't get the page to load.
Org-mode is awesome, but the points about snippets still apply. AFAIR yasnippet should support most, if not all, capabilities presented in this article.
The guy in my favorite wasabi documentary tries it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTncCmFabM
"Spacetime" is math, "Einstein equations" is math, so, basically, you tell us that merging black holes are making waves in math.
I've encountered services I can't even register to since I have my own domain name, so I had to register a gmail.
Is it me or does it look like the top layer has reaaaaally thick copper? Look at how it differs between areas with those squares contra area without. Looks like it's very very thick. Perhaps the solder mask.
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That sound like very wrong. I know personally of at least one, that it's listed, uses good technology, is hiring(Elixir) and offers 28 days paid off. The only complaint about that position(that would be fair) is that is not paid like being in SF.
To be honest I think it works pretty well. It's the UK government that's broken.
"half the country wants to leave"

A slim majority of those who voted, several years ago, stirred up by masses of illegal propaganda, especially in the last days before the vote.
Now after getting some idea of the reality, the tides look to have significantly changed. Current opinion polls are showing significant majority for remain.(61% in the last YouGov poll)

(Also, it was 17 not 33)
It would be very exciting if the Standard Model can't explain this.
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If content providers in the online medium are to be the same to traditional providers like newspapers internet as we know it won't be any longer and we will have just that, online traditional newspapers.

Making money by breaking the law should not be allowed I agree. But currently these laws (copyright) are more due for a refactoring than the medium (internet) itself. As these laws are not well balanced between all parties involved, especially with all the possibilities in the current age.
Wouldn't it be meaningless, anyway, unless you compare it to the number of people who are opposed to the petition?
If it's a crash on the server, you should be logging it.

if it's a crash on the client, you should apologise to the user and ask if it's ok to send the crash dump to the supplier and give them an option to review the content and add additional information if they see fit.

CHOICE is not a forbidden word in 2019.
I have zero sympathy, or concern for the voices of those who chose not to exercise their right to vote.

The 50m (not that many - see Khol's reply) had their chance and blew it, and I say that as someone who voted remain and thinks this whole thing is a disaster, and leaving either with the May deal (bad) or the hard way (worse) would both be worse than staying. However, the people had their chance and they voted to leave. That's how democracy works. It's a serious business with real consequences.

If there is a new referendum it should be about the terms under which we will leave, and that's all. Yes the May deal is crap, but any deal we cut with the EU was going to be a horrible fudge. So much for 'cutting a deal with the EU will be the easiest in human history' because 'we hold all the cards'. I have nothing but sympathy for Theresa May. She's made mistakes, sure, but anyone else would have made their own mistakes.
Well, it's more like "The will of the 17.4M + 13M who were okay with it", with the other 21.5M unable to vote due to immigration status, age, failure to register, or other reasons.
"Well done everyone - the site crashed because calculating the trending count became too much of a load on the database but we're back now at around 180k per hour by my estimation."

https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108673644660699136
Described pretty accurately by this XKCD

https://xkcd.com/882/
Indeed, Article 50 is flawed in many areas.

One big flaw I raised with the EU authorita's in 2015 was that it has no provision for displaced nationals. I raised that several times, serveral MEP's from many countries, Tusk, you name it.

The response - nada, nothing, zilch and even too this day, not one single MEP or eurocrat has bothered to fix that glaring flaw that sees and allows innocent nationals to be used as negotiation pawns.

Even now, no attempts are being made or driven to fix this oversight in Article 50 and that kind of lack of priority and care is never going to win votes in the public's eye's. So it could all happen again, causing undue and unfair stress upon innocent people caught up in a situation that could of been totally avoided.