skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to see not enough mentions of Emacs's Orgmode which clearly dominates Vim when it comes to note-taking with or without Latex. Not to start another Vim vs Emacs war, I've been using both of them for quite some years now for each of their specialties. But when it comes to Notetaking, Orgmode is hands-down far superior with it's rich plugin ecosystem & minor modes within. Some plugins I use to do Latexy stuffs on Emacs is (ofc) Auctex, latex-preview-pane, PDFTools. Finally, OxHugo to export my Latexy org as a blog post to my Hugo blog.
I’ve done Shanghai to Urumqi before in a hard sleeper. I don’t think I really saw much outside (no observation car, monotonous farming fields), but the people on the train were really interesting (eg Pakistani traders using the train to get back home).
It started like a decade ago, I think? It's gotten a lot worse, though.

It's like they really really want you to only watch shows on Bluray or streaming.
Good time to be a landlord in Amsterdam. This looks like it’s designed to penalize poor/young/foreign people, who will not be able to benefit from a decrease in new housing prices, but will be hit by the rent increase once new supply of rentals dries out. Most benefit will accrue to current owners (the market will be segmented into places you can rent out — current stock — and places you can’t, with current stock being more expensive).
That is not what is happening here. People are rightly skeptical of the claims. As Theranos showed, you can't "fake it till you make it" when people's lives are involved.
Guess Nokia devices are only the tip of iceberg. Apple works better: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/7/17832106/apple-utility-app...

Personally for me Google is an opposite of privacy.
Maybe you mean not any more? If I remember correctly, Ireland housing got absolutely hammered in a way that was at least as bad as the worst areas of the US (Miami, Las Vegas) back in 2008.
My sentiments exactly.

From promising startup to out of money in 2.5 months? As an executive, did you not have insight into these things?
In the last 6 years I've twice done circuits of Europe by train - sleepers (mostly) in 2013 when we hit 28 countries in 18 days, and an anniversary reprise of sorts last summer which took in a mere 16 countries in 10 days. As much as I love to fly (and I do), long distance rail travel for no particular reason is wonderful. I hope one day to hit up a long Amtrak route or two in the US, maybe the Ghan in Australia, and others.
BriskBard 1.7.0 released with customizable visual styles
Parasite in cat poop linked to higher likelihood of entrepreneurial behavior
Military “style” only. I can’t find where they make that distinction.
As a contract developer who provides estimates on my work I always include a section for ADA compliance, WCAG compliance, Accessibility, and a few others. I provide time estimates and explain to my clients that I consider these extremely important things to do. My company has the ability, knowledge, and experience making websites that are accessible.

Our clients often don't want to spend the money required for this task.

This seems to assume that the developer is at fault for making the choice to not make websites accessible and not management or clients who don't want people to spend time on "useless" things like aria attributes.

I preach about accessibility to every manager and client I meet. Most don't care because it "costs them money for such a small percentage of users".
Blockchain industry . . . firing employees . . . few customers.

I wouldn't bother, you're going to lose your money. If the company pulls through, or finds a buyer for their product, it's highly likely they will play games and essentially extinguish your shares.
I get really frustrated with politics surrounding fossil fuels vs. renewables. I feel like renewables are the future, will add a valuable skillset, and are very achievable.

But then it feels like we have a significant number of politicians who won't push for renewables because they are holding onto this "climate change is a myth" narrative, and are getting money from fossil fuels.

This is why we can't have nice things.
'buyback' seems to be the commonly accepted term - Australia had one in 1996 after a mass shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_buyback_program#Australia
Yeah, now tell that to the adults that have had to pay fines and their license revoked because of drinking.
You typically keep lobster alive until cooking, I don't see refrigeration changing much.
Mount Everest: Melting glaciers expose dead bodies
UK estimates that the amount of nuclear wast we'll have (both high and low-level) will be smaller than the volume of one of the UK's national sports stadiums

https://nda.blog.gov.uk/2017/04/03/how-much-radioactive-wast...
If you want to take a long shot bet on something I'd just take the 13.5K and place some ridiculous march madness bets. I'm damn near convinced given the info here that you can get similar odds / price with however you wanted to structure those bets, and you can find out within a few days/weeks what happened as opposed to having that money locked up for who knows how long.

I'm mostly kidding, but also not really -- I would seriously put some thought into whether any part of you thinks that this is really a unique investment opportunity, if you're really on some "inside edge" or discounted price given the admittedly subpar position of the company, and if this really differs in any marginal way from any other more liquid form of speculation or downright betting. I don't have the details but this screams "poor financial decision" from where I'm sitting.
If the designer was here I'd ask why select a beacon instead of connecting as a bluetooth LE peripheral to take advantage of connected mode's superior power budgeting?
Ditto in England, hence housing developers like Persimmon making ~£!b in profit (pre-tax, I believe) last year.
What's wrong with the long scale? It's pretty consistent. Each name is the last times 1000, each new prefix is 1 000 000 times the previous one, and each -iliard is 1000 times -ilion with same prefix.

milion = 10^6, miliard = 10^9
bilion = 10^12, biliard = 10^15
trylion = 10^18, tryliard = 10^21
kwadrylion = 10^24, kwadryliard = 10^27, ...

Compared to that American way is just insane (as always).

But I agree that writing 1.23 * 10^6 is preferable.
Regarding your "googled sources" for the hilarious claim: GDP isn't wealth. Reduced GDP isn't "cost to Britain".

If you "spent hours researching" the topic, you should at least try to question such claims instead of quoting shoddy journalism and publications by dubious lobbyist groups. That's what intellectual honesty is all about.

PS. I remember these predictions - do you? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37921036
This whole argument pivots on the idea that you don't need code in your data.

Sure, you should wrap up all the shell commands you plan to use into code fragments that you can reference. It's neater that way. Suddenly, you have 50 beautifully unit tested objects in your code, each encapsulating a different way you planned on using 'grep'.

And then you open-source your tool, and hundreds of people descend on it and yearn to use it in ways unimaginable to you. You then have to decide whether you're going to a) create a plugin system that allows nicely tested modules in whatever language the user is most familiar with, b) you wrap all the functions yourself (good luck!), c) Say "Sorry, my beautiful tool - with is 99% exactly what you need - is totally not for this. Fork it and be gone" - or d) let people embed scripting statements or shell commands in some way.

If you have the time for (a) and (b), and this is the issue on which you wish to sacrifice yourself, more power to you. If (c) makes more sense to you, then thank you for your input, sorry your project didn't quite take off like you planned.

But please, don't get upset if people choose (d) and get on with their lives. Yes, it _might_ cause pain further down the road, but it's their road to travel.
I think there’s so much that can be automated that isn’t, in every team I’ve worked in. Almost everything other than non repetitive / creative processes (design, coding, exploratory testing) should ideally be automated.

The reason it doesn’t happen most of the time is because other than automating tests, where the benefit is super obvious, there’s no role or job assigned for automating stuff specifically. It’s usually done as part of another job, such as someone responsible for SRE. Automation doesn’t mean it’s set and forget, it needs maintenance, updating, as processes change. People often automate once, realise the process has changed, deem the automation a failure or useless now, and because things need to work right away (to take care of other deli erivables understandably) they don’t update the automation program but rather continue doing things manually because of the instant success of achieving it manually.

Automation takes upfront investment but the idea is it pays off over the long term. If people think processes are going to keep changing and the automation system is not flexible to deal with that it won’t happen. It needs a dedicated person to do this and maintain this in larger teams.

You also need to figure out a way to demonstrate the value of you having taken the time to automate something, especially if your management/leadership isn’t clear on it. Shameless plug, I work on Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) for reporting test results, and even though the primary aim of it is not to demonstrate the value of automation it is definitely a byproduct/side-effect, customers have said this.

Personally I’d focused on the obvious first: tests, build processes such as getting code from repos for building, release artifact output. For mobile apps for example have ipa and apk files automatically available for download by manual testers. Then go onto less obvious things like automated sprint creation for upcoming sprints in JIRA etc with their API. If in marketing, perhaps social media automation for things their apis allow.
The win gap was at least 4%. (48 vs 52).

Further, the native population was far higher pro Brexit.

As for misinformation, I don't know any Brexiters who were voting based on Boris Johnson's obviously politically gamed claims from someone who is a Brexiter purely for political reasons (I don't think the population is as naive as you give them credit for, and presuming Brexiters to be stupid is BS fallacy), but on the basis that the EU is not properly democratically accountable and the Brit economic/business attitude and politics is not compatible with European ways (ie, high State control). We want to go back to a low paper-work, low-bureaucracy, liberally-inclined environment. Brexit is a start.

I have lived a significant proportion of my life in Europe, and the UK is not meaningfully European. It should have never have been a member, and has been a problem to the EU ever since. It should have been consulted on joining the EU at the very least, and it was not. Now that it has had 20 years of the EU, a 52% vote against remaining is significant.
Same here. There's still times where a !g actually improves the results but usually duckduckgo's results are fine.
I hope people click through, because this contradicts rather than supports your point.
Except you do have the choice not to view the site. If hackernews said give consent or leave, you could just close the tab.
I'm in agreeance here. Using bitcoin takes away a lot of financial tools. The Federal Reserve has a purpose and a responsibility, using bitcoin would send us backwards not forwards.
I once built an interpreter that parsed YAML files as s-expressions, just to watch them scream. I called it YAMlisp, because it's better than a potato.
Per https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/asia/new-zealand-christchurch...:

> The gun reform proposal will be introduced to Parliament in the first week of April. For it to come into effect, lawmakers need to vote on amending the existing legislation, the Arms Act 1983.

> In the interim, New Zealand Governor General Patsy Reddy has signed an order to reclassify some semi-automatic weapons as "military-style".

> As a result, many people who legally owned certain firearms will no longer be able to possess them on their existing license conditions.

So, a bit of both. The Government can make some immediate changes; others require Parliament's involvement in the near future. (Presumably there's an agreement already largely worked out there.)
'Studying science'? Absolutely.
Oscoin Whitepaper [pdf]
I did Seattle to Chicago. Drank quite a few pina colada from a can while sitting in the observation car.

Some of the most beautiful scenery you will ever see, assuming you aren't in a hurry
"Cédric Champeau: Goodbye, Groovy!"

https://melix.github.io/blog/2019/03/goodbye-groovy.html
Layers and Abstractions
I once saw a large party of school children going on a trip on the Caltrain. Turned out they weren't going anywhere... it was just going on the train that was the activity. A commuter train running alongside a highway through urban sprawl. They were whooping when it pulled into the station.
But...they will be able to write DSLs in it. Just create functions with the same name as the head atom of the top level lists, then run the config file as a program. Or write macros matching the syntax of your format to generate code.

I mean, maybe there is something about your format that makes these specific approachs inconvenient. But once you give a Lisper a bunch of S-expressions, you just opened the door for them to unleash the full power of Lisp upon it.

So I think your plan to frustrate Lispers by making an S-expression based format popular, will just give them even more power.
Yes. I've tried implementing some of these on my wife's laptop after using them myself for some time and not having any problems. Then quickly learned that the sites she comes across while browsing are far far more likely to break with these tools than the sites that I (a computer geek) visit.

I've had to dial it back significantly. Disconnect is the only blocker that has passed the wife test. I originally discounted it because the UI for dealing with breakage is worse than Privacy Badger or Ghostery (The default UI doesn't list blocked conent, the graph is harder to see host names at a glance, and the button to temporarily disable all blocking is not as obvious). But the fact that it is more conservative in what it blocks to begin with makes up for it. I still wouldn't enable it for people I don't live with though.

I was also shocked at how frequently HTTPS Everywhere breaks things. I stopped using that myself (and I use uMatrix, with stricter than default base rules).

I'm testing out Decentraleyes right now. It claims to be 100% non-breaking, and so far that appears to be the case. The problem it is addressing (tracking browsing habits via JS libraries) isn't one of the biggest privacy concerns out there, but if it doesn't break anything, and decreases bandwidth to boot, why not!
It’s a special interest kind of article that gets written every once in awhile. Most articles of the same nature are typically written similarly.
San Francisco could ban Amazon's cashier-free stores
Oscoin March 2019 Update - Whitepaper release
Luxe Engine Update
There's a beer row in some vending machines on public streets in Japan. It seemed that the only enforcement on age limits was a sign that said not to buy beer if you were underage. I took it as an example of the enormous cultural differences between America and Japan.
"Rent-seeking" has a specific meaning in economics and has absolutely nothing to do with real estate.
It is so nice to come on HN and get some relief from the monotonous humorlessness that is life in USA today. For a moment, I imagine that I can laugh at funny statements no matter which way they point politically, rather than restricting my entertainment to grumbling in approved ways about whomever we're supposed to despise now.
That’s the same type of reporting I’ve seen everywhere. “New Zealand bans guns” — can a single PM even do that? Is there any debate in their parliament regarding the move? Do citizens have the same constitutional protections there as they do here w.r.t. gun ownership?

It’s almost like the headlines are written in such a way as to say “See? It’s just that easy!”
Background: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/explainer-how-...

It doesn't go into a lot of detail, but I think they already have a drugs-like classification system for firearms, with delegated authority to decide what goes in what category, so they're just moving all semi-auto to the "banned" category. By the sound of it, it really is that easy.

UK/Australia comparative review: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/firearms-act-t...
The whitepaper is available at http://oscoin.io/oscoin.pdf.

FAQ at http://oscoin.io/faq.html.
For what it's worth, mostly private CAs are garbage. Bad at the crypto parts, bad at the identity problem, bad at their own security. Just pretty bad.

It doesn't really matter, because mostly bad guys don't see the CA as the weak point, if anything what is remarkable about the Web PKI is that we did a good enough job elsewhere that actual bad guys sometimes try to attack the Web PKI. Not often, but it happens at all.

It's like finding out you did a good enough job securing your home that an actual burglar picked your front door lock! Yes, the burglar still got in because of course no door look is effective against somebody who knows what they're doing and has plenty of time to try - but still, apparently you actually did a good enough job that they weren't able to just climb in through a side window or force open a patio door. Go you.

If STIR/SHAKEN turns out to have the CA function as its weak point then everybody involved should clap themselves on the back for an extraordinarily good job.
Of course, left to their own devices and granted the opportunity, kids will naturally do the thing they most want to do and it never appears to be anything of consequence until you look back on it many years from now.

I'm sure my Mum thought I was just wasting time on the computer at 8, but I'm where I am today because of it. But this is equivalent to me having reverse engineered and coded a commercial piece of software that I began in high school... that never happened, and I loved programming.
I think so. It definitely seems like a nice shortcut to link together adjacent concepts and queries. If a page talking about a particular topic (but in a different way or with different phrasing) than the original page it could help build out a kind of list of related topics.
> Helm 3 introducing lua

Oh, this is cool! I've actually been thinking for a while that things like Helm or CloudFormation templates or other infra-as-code things would be better served by something like Starlark, but Lua probably suits as well.
> Hey reader - stop reading these comments! They provide a cynical, unrepresentative viewpoint.

You could prefix this to every HN thread in existence.

React-Router is reasonably good, and has some issues - like most open source libraries.
This article is one of the best arguments I've read in favor of Lisp in a long time.

Code is data is code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_New_Zealand : apparently NZ has a UK-style uncodified constitution. I think the only country that defines weapon ownership as a right is the US?
I'm pro nuclear, but it's hard to be. The communication around the nuclear industry has been anything but honest.

Typical nuclear plant costs, when compared to wind power in France, do not include decommissing of the plant or the cost of cabling while it is for wind turbines.

Also accidents side effects are downplayed so much it's insulting. According to the french medias, the tchernobyl nuclear cloud never crossed the french border. Yet we know now that thyroid cancer near said border spiked during a decade, and it's impossible to sell nuclear energy to one of my best friend whose life has be shatered it.

So the first step to promote nuclear power would be to actually respect people.
Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy
Heh, not totally wrong. I'd also mention that there's an ideological connection to free software. Centralization on the Web means using closed and proprietary software. The decentralization crowd is fairly motivated by that. It's also motivated by searching for new business opportunities.
$2k is hardly an "absolute fortune". For the typical hackernews software developer this is something like a week's worth of work for one of the most unforgettable experiences of their lives.
Other part of the equation is how do we reduce consumption e.g. moving to LED based lighting, natural cooling etc.

The less energy we consume, the less energy we need to generate
> The cause of the crash is still unknown.

Right, and until that is known, anything written about it is just clickbait.
Yes, I have seen people refuse because they were underage. But on the other hand those were people who I could not ever imagine driving drunk.
Three dots indicates the end of a block, not a document. Look at Example 2.8 in your link.

If the user sends;

---
time: 20:03:20
player: Sammy Sosa
action: strike (miss)
...

.. you can't know if they actually meant to send ..

---
time: 20:03:20
player: Sammy Sosa
action: strike (miss)
...
---
time: 20:03:47
player: Sammy Sosa
action: grand slam
...

Also, in my experience, which is mostly limited to Ansible config because I prefer JSON, I've never seen three dots in the wild. I don't think devops people like them.
Having a strictly enforced schema is the ideal solution to this (and several other common problems with yaml).

One really really nice aspect of YAML is how incredibly terse it is. That's a massive and very underrated boon for readability but the lack of syntactic cruft also means that it's much more susceptible to various type errors if it's parsed without a schema.
Ask HN: How do you find Seed/A stage startups to work for?
I am in Montreal, but question applies to all locations for people looking for the same answer.
The closest to this is to use BigQuery over HTTPArchive, it's not the Google index but a pretty solid base though and requires no setup at all.

https://github.com/HTTPArchive/legacy.httparchive.org/blob/m...

You can search for anything in the source-code of pages, using any regex or grep you can imagine.