skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the highest good I get out of playing with alternatives is that I hit a higher rate of "hits" on picking up on things previously invisible to me.

Playing with a different editor gives me ideas for different workflows and shortcuts which my main editor already supports. Playing with a different programming language shows me how powerful X is which I never touched in my main programming language.

The focus on learning and exploring an alternative is more powerful for me than mastering that alternative. I get the greatest benefit with a relatively smaller investment that way.

Maybe instead of learning more programming languages, just pick small bits of something to explore.

This might make for an interesting app (which won't make money.) Create a sort of "useless but interesting facts" type of app for programmers. Allow people to submit "cards" with something on it and then up/down vote on the card. The snippet could be a term, clever code, or anything bite size. The programming equivalent of "how to say ck in Klingon."
Even though my 2019 Subaru is covered in screens, it also has physical knobs and buttons for the volume, air conditioning, and changing between radio station presets. I usually find that I don't have to touch the touchscreen on an average car trip.
The safety is terrifying.
Wouldn't it be possible to mitigate some of the effect of these spoofers using on-board navigation system with an IMU?

Or it least allow for it's detection?
Are you under the impression that IT isn’t super disfunctional right now? Yes, the language thing is a symptom not the problem.
It’s a neat experiment, totally impractical, but neat. What this has to do with PHP or Perl I have no idea.
The point isn't that the deformed "cup" is the same as the original cup. It's that in the process of deformation the number of holes remains the same.
What´s the problem with this? I have enough space on my drive. Sure the app is bigger but it´s platform independent and works flawlessly. Native apps crash often, use big os dependent frameworks (you have to install sometimes) and only to have a smaller bundle? I don't get it.
Something something two birds with one stone.
AutoHotkey is amazing. It's a little gem of a Windows app. I only wish I discovered it earlier, when I was still using Windows as my main OS.

AHK can be used to trivially fix many usability warts you have with random software, and is powerful enough that someone implemented a clone of dwm tiling window manager in it (bug.n, [0], I used it for more than a year and can attest it works very well).

--

[0] - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
Word, especially the seemingly alien and/or ancient ones such as C, Forth, Lisp, Smalltalk, Haskell, APL etc.

And once you know enough different languages; design and build your own [0], even if no one will use them.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu
The Android Platform Security Model [pdf]
This is absolutely sneaky and would work. I believe S3 also has file access cost but it's minimal.

If you had a partitioned list of what you needed to move per node, so that coordination was minimal between them, this would be pretty viable.
I am continuously getting ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error
> Ecuadorian officials believe Bini may be part of a blackmail ring assembled to pressure President Lenin Moreno and his government to allow Assange to remain in the embassy, according to the Times of London.

Ouch. Don't miss with nation state officials.
The prescription costs $80-$100 a month but since I'm out of state and there are other costs like flights, shipping, etc it's more expensive. If you live near Maryland you have an advantage here. I am paying under $3000 a year.

Before I found my doctor I was being mercilessly ripped off by IV clinics. I've been to 3 different clinics around the country. My doctor agrees that IV clinics are spreading pseudoscience.

Any doctor can prescribe ketamine off label. It's one of the safest drugs out there and has a lower addiction potential than Adderall (according to DEA scheduling).
Sorry, I know I asked you this below. I'm just a new programmer trying to learn, how is that GUI development in Electron is faster?
Yeah, thanks for this comment. That's what makes this matter worse: they restrict private transport, but public transport just gets worse and more expensive every year.
More info here

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/83763/data-breach/fbi-a...

Which says it was pokemongo.icu who are mirroring? releasing? the data.

Seems legit but boring to me.

It's CSV's of uploads of members of the sites, pretty close to public data really.

I'd say public data if you put the effort in, they make it a little easier I guess. But there's no DOB's etc

iMIS ID,Last Name,First Name,Paid Through,Session,Email,Company,Full Address,Category,Work Phone,Home Phone,Role,District

[edit] It seems to me maybe some people put in personal addresses, this would be an issue
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm but if it isn’t it just proves the point. Your teammates must just love working with you. I’d love to see the look on their faces when you committed that code. “I just learned Erlang. Check out what I did without telling anyone. Suck it. Boom!”
Pipistrel is has some electric models, but they were heavily pushed back by Siemens and I am not sure if they have a new source of light electric engines.
As if it's all upside and no downsides which the philosopher kings didn't even bother to measure, such as the hugely increased inconvenience and decreased productivity and incomes. Morons.
What would a major API cleanup actually give except for major breakage?
> I'm going to assume the answer is "no, this does not currently have a million users".

You can spend all day asking irrelevant questions and answering them yourself, it won't get us anywhere.

The point is that "developer time is more expensive than hardware" is not a valid argument from the user's perspective. As you can see from the complaints here, people already find the color picker less attractive because it uses wasteful Electron. It's not a good product, regardless of how cheap it was for the developer to produce and will be less successful as a result.

You don't need justification for developing something that isn't good because of wrong or selfish priorities, but you'd better accept that success of your product and its environmental footprint depends on these priorities too.
Slack is hostile to users and panders to management. It's a sound business strategy. I can't trust the platform, I'll always be second class.

That is very vague. Sounds like you have an axe to grind with your management.

What about scheduled DnD for days off? Ability to /ignore annoying bots? Two basic features which should've been added long ago.

Good feature idea. Have you submitted them?

As for as DnD scheduling for PTO, they have custom which I use on my last day. Works perfectly for me.

As for /ignore for bots, sounds like the people controlling your Slack need a suggestion or two.
Hum... and then?
> What´s the problem with this?

The problem? When you start to have 5-6 apps running with Electron in the backend and start to take 10% of your CPU time and 2 Gigs of RAM, you will start to feel how it impacts your working environment, battery life and all.
> what the hell is this person trying to sell me

He's selling sign-ups to a course. It's linked towards the end. The name is "Write of Passage."
> conventional supply and demand economics fail to rationally explain the market

This is true for SF Bay Area as well.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a open-source non-profit Uber competitor?
I read the following NYTimes article about how Uber drivers don't make all that much money, and wondered if their lives could be improved even slightly if there existed a Uber competitor that charged minimal commissions by being non-profit and relying on open source development. If nothing else, it would put a little more pressure on Uber/Lyft to treat their drivers better.

Needless to say, there is no potential for riches. This would be a labor of love.

Would anyone be interested in working on this?

https://nyti.ms/2VKYROJ
As predicted. There's only a very small portion of NO that isn't sinking a little every year. Without the deposition of silt every year (because levees), it will continue to sink.
I was really excited until I saw Electron at the bottom.

A color picker is a tantamount example of an application that does not belong on the Electron platform.
"It’s far better than what the previous government had planned."

I disagree. Sure, a free market is better than a government monopoly, but marijuana isn't anywhere close to a free market. It's highly regulated and highly constrained. Only 25 stores were allowed to open province wide in one of the biggest giveaways to the private sector ever. Those licenses are probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars each and Ford just gave them away to lucky lottery winners. And of course he's going to protect them -- no city is going to allow the Mac's milk shop on every corner to start selling pot so those lottery winners are just going to print money for themselves, and lobby for their own interests, not ours.

Better a government monopoly with profits going to the taxpayer than a private sector oligopoly.
This article talks about the improvements Madrid made to its public transport system. Are you guys talking about in general or specifically in Madrid?
In the Balkans war, Russia was caught selling GPS spoofers to our adversaries, average price $20 to $30K. US military simply installed downward seeking GPS signal seekers on smart bombs, problem solved.
Then of course, adversaries installed GPS spoofers near hospitals, Chinese embassy, unethical targets, typical of rogue nations and despots.
I know how it works as I am looking to buy my own 2 seater for some years, I fly rented. I am familiar with the US versus European manufacturer pricing differences and I just paid over $1,000 for a new radio a few months ago, the kind of radio that would be $50 if it would not be "aviation".
You can either continue to innovate, or copy others.

This becomes a cultural difference, and the innovators continue to be number 1.
But they predominantly have data that should be public. With some home email and postal addresses mixed in.

The value of the data they're looking to leverage is that this information or even a close approximation of it simply isn't available.

They're going from 0 to 2. If public contact information was available, it'd be more of a 1 to 1.5-2 value.
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But I wouldn’t kick you out of your house, I would just be there chillin’.

Now seriously, you’re trying to justify theft using the old “we’re so little and innocent and they are so powerful and evil”. Just stop.
I would not mind if you copy my house internals and my way of life in a cheaper and more efficient manner. I would also not mind if you improve upon those designs(I would encourage you to do so). Find and Reverse Engineer my designs and improve them.

I would mind if you break into my house.
Ahh the developer who drops how young they were when they started programming. I love this one.
That person gets 1-2 jobs, makes 83k/yr for the rest of their life.

The person that took the time to learn it, will grow with their knowledge.
I think the supply bottle-neck is the reason. All the pot has to come from a few hand-picked suppliers. Also there are claimed Liberal ties to pot production. Some quick links (although I suggest taking this with a grain of salt given the source):

https://potfacts.ca/the-liberal-party-elite-is-heavily-inves...

https://ottawasun.com/2015/10/28/liberal-cfo-could-rake-in-m...

I haven't heard any moral outrage arguments in the press or otherwise. Remember that this isn't only a youth issue or it wouldn't be used in a federal campaign promise. It is, by definition, widely supported. Recall that people well into their 60s and 70s came of age smoking pot.

IMHO there's much more moral outrage associated with the Conservative plan to reduce drinking restrictions. Ontario remains a pretty uptight place.
> A dev missed some feature of their usual OS and so wrote a cross platform version open source in their spare time.

So what matters is the "why" and the "what", and we can just forget about the "how"? Engineering is all about the how we do things, and HN tends to have more engineers than your typical online community. What's wrong with that?
Absolutely. But he doesn’t know how to use windows. That’s why he went to linux.
Definitely harder than it sounds if I’ve been told that as a kid and am still cultivating that as an adult
1/ I’m thinking about ways to have trustable 3-parties audit us. Open for more ideas. What do you think?

3/ yes, unroll.me made the wrong calls. But for Jumbo we can’t even access your data, everything happens client-side. You could say that at some point the client will upload all your to our cloud, but that’s really not going to happen. Again, here, how to trust us? First, audits. Second, my reputation. Third, independent researchers would reverse engineering our app, and look at the networks call made. Open for more feedback

Our business model is the one of Dropbox. Pay (you or your employer) for more features.
My suggestion is Objective-C. It's just so weird to anyone who's never coded in it, that it will force you out of your comfort zone into new ways of thinking. The NS framework is probably the most well designed stdlib of any language ever, and the whole thing is inspired directly from Smalltalk. Protocol Oriented Programming [0] was also a real revelation for me, and I still apply those concepts anywhere I can. It's also a great introduction to lower level concepts like pointers and memory management that is a lot more forgiving than C/C++.

[0] https://www.sicpers.info/2015/06/protocol-oriented-programmi...
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I see this thrown around all the time when we talk about monopolizing IP and having huge corporations put their lawyer boots on smaller company throats... but is it really true? Will making IP protection weaker actually stifle innovation? Was innovation in industrial era hugely stuffled by not protecting every single patent a huge multi-national conglomerates throw out?
You can copy smartly as well as innovate. That would be optimal to develop.

Always starting from scratch in your own bubble is inefficient.
That isn't the problem. The problem is the community, and the effect Electron is having on it.

Cross platform application development is considered a "solved problem" with Electron, and it's developed a cult that leads people to disparage native applications and native development as inferior in all cases, as if Electron were already the best possible solution rather than a hack around webdev that blew up because of the SV hype machine.

Because of this commoditization around a single language and a single framework (mostly by corporate interests, mind you,) curiosity and innovation are halted in favor of developer time efficiency and resume visibility. No one is even going to bother trying to create the next cross-platform application solution after Electron, because they would only be able to do so in Electron.

It's getting kind of ridiculous.
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Absolutely, I’ve designed the product so that my mom can use it. She can’t use a Chrome extension, but she can download an app like Jumbo.
In several places where I lived the public transport road service was subcontracted to the lowest-bidding private company of the region.

This in turn creates this shitty illusion of "public" service that nobody wants to use, because:

- it's unreliable (delays and strikes are common)
- short working hours
- poorly planned (or no) interconnections with other public services
- abusive service costs to recoup the costs

Even factoring all expenses of a car, several bus connections I was forced to take in the past where in the order of 5-6 times the total cost of car ownership. This doesn't even include the grave annoyances I listed above.

Sad :(
Yes, and that's why I take small doses infrequently. I took a few months off because I was doing that much better, but the intrusive thoughts came back. But overall. No, my brain is fucked and tells me to kill myself every day; I don't need that abuse. Those brain cells deserve to die. More serious take: my quality of life is improved by an order of magnitude. I didn't want to survive another decade in that condition, but now I do. That's worth the risk
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Nothing Fails Like Success
Conventional supply and demand economics perfectly explains both of these situations. SF has a massive under supply of housing, and restrictive zoning rules that prevent supply from increasing. China centrally funds huge amounts of developments, and many of those developments aren’t met with massive demand, so they end up with a lot of real estate that they struggle to give away in some situations.
We're talking about corporations, not humans. Do not mix the two - anthropomorphizing corporations only leads to laws that hurt society, since they are not capable of empathy.
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At this point I have almost 20 languages that I've used for at least two years, which is what I consider an decent bar for "knowing" a language.

The problem I now have is that I don't know if I'll ever be able to master any language anymore. Mmmmaybe C, since I've used that fairly consistently, albeit on-and-off for 25 years.

But whenever I get to an "if" or "for" or function declaration, I often have to look at an example real quick because I have too many fighting memories: is it "if () then {}" or "if then:" and is it "else if" or "elif"? Do I need parens around the clauses? Is it "&&" or "and"?

Mostly I've found that the difference between two languages isn't the difference between two cheeseburgers, but rather the difference between a cheeseburger and lasagna. There's absolutely personal preferences (I still despise Python's whitespace-as-scope, even though I love the language), but they all get your belly full.
You’re right. Like Dropbox has a free version, and a paid one. Right now we are launching the free version, and paid features will come later.
Nah dude this line of thinking got us here. We need to reach back to what the OG's in computing thought about. Small size, fast performance. Limit ourselves.

I read about this dude who purposely writes software on a shitheap laptop just so that "if it's fast here, it's fast on modern mobile phones."

Even my app written in Elixir and uses 160MB of RAM after letting it run for a week; I've been thinking: "Maybe I could bring it lower to what nzbget uses (around 59MB)". I've been exploring Nim for that.

We need a return to small-footprint as a feature.
You are the product. You paid by using it and by giving back on github or by getting your boss to buy support.

If you don't like that switch to a non-open source editor.
>In several places where I lived the public transport road service was subcontracted to the lowest-bidding private company of the region.

They are required to do so by law.
This is a bit like saying we left the safe open and nothing was stolen so its not that big of a security problem. The specifics of the exploit is besides the point as it could be anything.

This is an indictment of the designers of wild lands systems like ruby Gems and npm and a culture of pulling in hundreds of dependencies that simply cannot be verified by end users.

It's one thing if this was just for developers who made a conscious decision to use a gem or npm package, but the whole system is carried on to end users who are expected to have a build environment and pull in hundreds of unknown gems and packages which in turn pull in their own dependencies simply to deploy.

This is bad engineering and design, it not only dramatically increases the complexity of deployment and wastes millions of man hours in debugging, versioning and build issues but leaves end users exposed to security issues.
Sure, but when the people who call themselves communists have a more competitive real estate market, it's still pretty damning.
> What´s the problem with this?

It's 120 MB for literally a fucking color picker.
nice books
Show HN: Game of Thrones prediction game based on play-money prediction markets
I work in automotive telematics-

You can always store 'last known location', the rest is math. The military has/will have this.

However this is a non-issue at the moment for auto, and with 5G/autonomous coming out, GPS might be seeing its last useful days in my part.
I'd say it's way too early for Ontario reactions seeing as how no stores (or enough to count on one hand) are open.
All these bootlickers exercising their down votes without bothering to leave a comment and a putting their internet name and reputation on the line.

Public servants should be respected, but they also need to be visible and accountable. Anonymity precludes that.

I don't think that's an irrational position to hold.
"JavaScript it is!"

- The world, 2019
My thoughts on weird are APL, Smalltalk, Forth, Haskell, Prolog, and Lisp. They're all weird in a good way though.
This seems like the closest fit: https://usefyi.com/. (at least judging from the landing page - haven't actually used it myself)
Artificial intelligence singles out neurons faster than a human can
I'm this way with foreign languages: Spanish and french. I know french very well, and learning/speaking Spanish is significantly harder because I'm always using french words by mistake. sure it'll get better with practice, but interlingual dyslexia is real.
> 8.9% ? Is a significant difference?

Yes, but how much of it is due to improvements in newer combustion engines and new EU-wide emission norms?
Dotgrid is a distractionless vector tool
(Submitter) Hi all, my friend and I are researchers in game theory and computer science.

We wanted to make a site where people could have fun predicting Game of Thrones outcomes, without needing to know at first what a prediction market is.

I'm curious if this can be a good way to teach people about prediction markets. And most of all, we want people to have fun!

Any thoughts, suggestions, etc. appreciated!
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Then less people will use there new version. If they want to rely on this one datasource only be prepared to have it gamed or not reflect reality.
Fwiw ruby borrows heavily from perl, and can be coaxed into serving as a driver for other commands. See eg:

http://ibmsystemsmag.com/aix/tipstechniques/systemsmanagemen...

https://redpanthers.co/different-ways-to-run-shell-commands-...

Perl/awk like one-liner/filters in ruby:

http://reference.jumpingmonkey.org/programming_languages/rub...

https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-sed-awk/

Of note is that ruby allows "backtick execution":

filename = 'some_file.txt'
wordcount = `wc --words #{filename}`

I find that much of the strength of bash/shell comes from the surrounding utilities though. So simply jumping to ruby won't magically let your "shell script" work on both windows and Linux, just because you have ruby installed;there likely not be a similar set of building blocks like "wc" etc. You could of course replicate most via the ruby std lib - and it's arguably easier to write test driven ruby than bash.
I only know 5 or 6 but have the same problem. Dropping in semicolons into python. Forgetting brackets in JavaScript.
As a member of CCP, I don't know how free Mr Ma would be to critique something like 996. Is 996 a Party endorced idea?