skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because it's done all over the place already is no excuse for you to do it better.
What jumped out at me about this data was many of these businesses have robust contribution value per customer. (Not just relative to acquisition cost, like in low-end B2B but successfully adapting the model to go after bigger fish)
I haven’t followed the vim / neovim competition storyline for a couple years.

What’s the news on that front?
I struggled through graduate analysis and measure theory as prereqs just to get to measure theoretic probability.

But I didn't retain much since it wasn't good for building intuition (informal proofs were better for that) and a lot of the corner cases it fixed didn't matter for the real world.

The language of measure theory makes a lot of proofs much shorter and easier to remember though. For example, markov's inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%27s_inequality#In_the_l...
Commuting time is not necessarily wasted, at some point it was the only guaranteed private time I had as a father of 2. Sitting in the train, reading or just staring out the window, thinking.
Regulations Make Monopolies
I'm a newbie vim user, but my friends and colleagues that have been using it for years have been professing for years that floating windows are a distraction. That part of vim's appeal is the raw and undisturbed viewport. Not now though. These floating windows are like the second coming.
You don't need much to start out with. Check and see if there's a makerspace nearby- they generally have A) space and B) people willing to teach and demonstrate how things are done.
More of an embedded/firmware engineer who happens to also be a web developer, I had a rule that I wouldn't make anything that directly killed people. I had many friends go work at various defense companies designing missile control systems. That said, their stories about the challenges and what sort of places they went were fascinating. I'm glad someone did it. I'm just glad it wasn't me.
Would CTRL+X + CTRL+p/l/f be something akin to this? I use these frequently and have been quite content with their ability to provide in context completion.
Very cool. Some questions - How many games (?) in a row did you win and how much money was this? How many episodes did you appear on? How does this compare to other top players? Thanks.
It always trips me up how ij is one letter in Dutch since I learned Dutch spelling with ij and not the y version. The y version was the normal Greek one.

For non-Dutchies: y = y and y = ij, they both have different sounds.
I believe its popcorntime.sh. That's the one listed on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time
Ask HN: Why do you choose iPhone over Android?
A bit of a context - I have been an iPhone fan for last ~6 years. Just last week, my mom got a $150 Samsung Phone. I helped her with few initial configurations and frankly I was blown away. That phone had every single feature nicely implemented that my $1500 phone has (iPhone X cost in my currency Apr 2018) and more. On top of that you get unlimited call history, auto call recordings, tons of app. Now, I wonder what is the reason people go for iPhone when Android is giving a tough competition at 1/10th price?
Google is already offering higher quality TTS: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/

Additionally, if you poke around the web a bit there are many free TTS websites that produce higher quality audio than Mozilla TTS without requiring you sign up for anything.
Yes, AI Can Make Company Websites Accessible to All
SO is the way it is because it is worse than useless to have a beginner friendly Q&A site. Many questions are so basic that they can be figured out with a minimum of effort or a quick look at documentation. A site full of low effort questions, quite possibly from CS majors looking for homework help, isn't doing anybody any favors.

If you can't be bothered to answer a couple of questions in the name of getting involved in the community, the community is probably better off without your input.
My first thought was "more than 2 consecutive *'s" which has something of a resonance with the higher oxidation states the author mentions being wary of.
I’ve got them!

Did a stint on Sketch as well. It’s now gone subscription, but it think it’s the more acceptable “still works but you stops getting updates” type subscription like jetbrains.

What I really want is an Affinity photo library manager like Lightroom. I’ve looked at some currently available options and not been impressed, but there were tweets to the effect that Affinity was thinking about it.
Not my experience. The people that blame the city for enforcing existing zoning are the same that would get the vapors if you suggested the city raise taxes to run more buses and build subways.
I use YouTube as well, but before it... I used this service called "radio".

The compression was terrible. The ads were unstoppable. I love music, but for decades before we all fell in love with music despite the poor medium we listened it to. YouTube isn't any different.
And yet...

A --> D | E
B --> D | E
C --> D | E
D --> C | E
E --> D | C

QED
By mass or volume?
Your perpetual license is for the oldest version available during your subscription period, not the newest.

Old model: Pay $X.XX and get one year of updates.

New model: Pay $X.XX (spread over 12 months) and you can use all new versions UNTIL the subscription ends. At which point, unless you renew, you have to DOWNGRADE to the one year old version.

Let's face it, downgrading such an import tool is not something developers will be comfortable with (especially since JB products occasionally have show-stopping bugs).

Having said that, I'll admit to liking their products (and support). But the model is not as generous as everyone seems to think.
How is a poster supposed to go back to the 5 year old thread starting comment and change it to note that the post is out of date?

Good forum software makes it less of a sin, but that's pretty rare on the Internet. This isn't the Usenet where people's clients could be fully featured on every topic.
This comes back to having shared goals; presumably the environmentalist and the nuclear engineer have the shared goal of human/environmental safety, so evaluation within that context is possible, but because the Harry Potter fan and the Bach scholar don't have shared ideas about what makes good art, each standard of what makes good art is just as good as another. The Bach scholar doesn't seem to have any reasoning behind the assertion that Bach's use of high techniques and synthesis of ideas means that his art is more valuable. On the other hand, because the nuclear engineer and the environmentalist agree on some desired state of the world, the environmentalist, lest he remain ignorant as to what is best for human/environmental safety, should listen.

In short: the Harry Potter fan and the Bach scholar don't have a shared idea about the best way to judge art. The environmentalist and the nuclear engineer do have a shared idea of maximizing human/environmental safety. The environmentalist has no reason to listen to the nuclear engineer if the engineer's reason for nuclear power is something like "I like to see the number of reactions go up on the computer screen", because looking at numbers on a screen isn't a shared goal between the two parties.
One of the books I read that helped me finally beat my severe chronic depression has an entire section on engaging work and why it's good for your brain. It's called The Depression Cure by Steve Ilardi and basically the engaging work and any "meaningful activity" can stop your from ruminating and help you feel accomplished.

Gardening, fixing things around the house and walking the dog have become part of my "daily treatment" and that among other things has been a game changer.

Agree it's like coding flow- the satisfying feeling of inputs and outputs and then being able to look over everything when you're complete and know you left it all on the field.
The related linked article at https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2005/12/17/ho... is also well worth reading.
> Anybody who claims they've got amazing new data- or media= compression technology and wants funding for it.

Anyone whose business plan names an existing famous company — “Uber for aircraft”, “Facebook for political activists”, that sort of thing.
Thanks for being open with your experiences. I can't disagree with any of your points. Tough love in parenting is essential part of bringing up kids, and that definitely allow a family to function in a sane manner, and not dictated by wishes of the child.

Our kids are on the Autistism Spectrum, and my wife has a genetic disease. She stresses about herself and our kid's future. I stresses about those two items and my work. However, I can switch my work stresses off when I leave the office. She does not have that option at all.
During fracking, the industry standard is a loss of about 3% that leaks into the atmosphere. 3% might not sound much but at 28 times the effect of C02 it has a measurable effect on global warming.

I don't think I have seen any climate change research that say we can reach the goals and increase methane emission. If anything most seems to say that we need to reduce both CO2 and methane. Call me very skeptical to the claim that we could increase out methane emission by anything near 100% and still manage, but I am open to see sources.
> Reminds me of how things start off as entertainment many times, and eventually make a way into an industrial application.

I was just thinking about this phenomenon, in terms of how it runs counter to the criticism of "solutions in search of problems" and projects derided as "toys".

This is a good response to those condemnations: often great ideas work in entertainment first, then industry. The canonical example from antiquity is Heron of Alexandria's automata.

Nowadays, roller coasters seem like a technology that future historians will puzzle over non-utilization beyond entertainment. (The cause of course is zoning, which halted housing and transportation innovation a hundred years ago.)
I think we need to work with people to encourage more of the critical thinking skills to create their own jobs. The average American is considerably less creative than their forefathers were in being able to "figure out" sources of opportunity in a tight labor market (NYC circa 1890's).

Part of a passion project I've been working on...
https://highestpayinggigs.com/
I'm really curious - why do people want a graphical git client? The command line exposes everything, and the model is simple and intuitive.

I work in a very large monorepo, so it's not like I'm working in a git tree that isn't complicated.
> most health professional will still include things like "exercise and yoga" in their treatment plans because that's what is required.

Wow, that is not my experience at all. Neither do I think it is irresponsible to suggest that yoga, meditation, exercise and diet change can substitute for "serious" mental health treatment -- Anyone who can maintain wellness activities (exercise, sleep, diet) is in a much better state of wellness than a person who is seeing a psychiatrist -- by definition. While it may be that psychiatry could help patients exercise, I have not seen any studies on the efficacy of psychiatrists in motivating patients to maintain a regular exercise routine. I'd imagine your average yoga instructor would do better.
I'm a contractor working on many projects. Using Eclipse, I can keep my entire universe of all projects I have deployed (about 30 of them), as well as their dependent libraries, as well as every open source project I use and contribute to, open at all times.

I almost never close a project and I never open a project. It's just all there. If I need to use or modify a piece of code, written by me or someone else, it's all accessible to me at all times with a single keystroke.

No project switching. Close to no context switching. IntelliJ doesn't even come close to this kind of power.
EHRs don't imply internet access.
I would love that!

I'm researching materials for a project I'm working on so I've been reading a lot of chemistry articles on Wikipedia. I've noticed that there appears to be a set of known building blocks that chemists use to build solutions. Something like:

- "Molecule bits" (rings, chains, functional groups, esters, etc.) that have known properties

- Common processes for modifying/changing those bits (alkylation, calcination, ether cleavage, etc.)

- A set of standard chemicals (alcohols, acids, solvents, emulsifiers, etc.)

For example I often read things like:

"In order to give a polymer higher temperature tolerance, chemists often add a benzine ring by calcinating the molecule using acetone."[1]

While I'm sure that a professional chemist needs to be able to handle lots of edge cases, it seems to me that a lay person could get a lot of milage out of learning these standard building blocks. I'm going to have to look and see if I can find a good resource that explains them.

[1] Note: All of this sentence is completely made up, I just intend it as an example.
I think I imagine me buying a device like that, but not sure if I actually would. In some way the cards are attractive, but also would be a considerable nuisance in conception when thinking of the device so that I would forebear at the final point of purchase.

I am more learning towards something like an Ocean server https://getocean.now.sh/ but I would like there to be some tool to easily associate it with a wireless monitor and keyboard. By easily I mean no more cumbersome than it is to plug in a wired device, which seems unlikely to be the case.
Are you talking about OfflineTV?
Cynical? Yes. Is that the state of the world? Yes.

Browsers are platforms that are as complex as OSes these days. And any bugs or changes in how they work will affect you app if your app is PWA.

- It could be Chrome breaking audio: https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay/

- It could be Chrome breaking LocalStorage: this discussion

- It could be Chrome removing support for a web standard that was implemented and shipped: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4642138092470272

I'm linking Chrome issues here because Chrome is the most visible of all browsers with the largest marketshare, but other browsers have their issues, too.
That's my experience also. It's like their model almost incentivizes them to introduce regressions.
You haven't explained why "this would be terrible UX", and it would be fairly trivial to add a special "theory" tag or something more general (maybe restricted to high-rep users or mods) to avoid the problem of unwanted decay.
Because I’ve already spent a fortune on these damn adaptors.
Question from my kids: what's an "album"?
Have you read anything by Cal Newport about the benefits of daily walks? I loved some of his books and he is always talking about using his walks as a time to reflect and solve problems: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/03/17/deep-habits-think...
> I wonder what "Things I wont work with" would be for tech

Computer tech is nowhere near as spectacular as chemistry, in an immediate, palpable sense. Almost nothing is. Maybe some narrow areas of physics or real-world engineering. But chemistry is pretty much unique that way.

Chemistry is a great hobby to pick up when you're a teen. Well, assuming you survive the whole thing.
The OP said:

> you get a perpetual license for the latest version of the product when you initially subscribed

Which is correct, and is the same thing you described.
What's MFA spam?
They're all amazing. Here are past issues: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/?s=things+I+won%27t+wo...
Um, this isn't a general math problem; We're not solving for all possible sets. We're solving this problem in particular:

A --> B | C
B --> C | D
C --> D | E
D --> E | A
E --> A | B
I’ve already got the job. I moved to Germany about 16 months ago. I’m just not allowed to apply for a blue card until after I stop being an EU citizen. Everything will probably work out for me, partly because I have been making a few levels of backup plans beyond what I expect to need, even before the referendum.
I'd say, more specifically, it has to be a lot more modular.
Brominated veg oil is the thing that gives mountain dew the unique mouth feel, and sometimes light oil slick appearance once stale.
Don't put yourself down. I (and I'm sure many others) have thought the same at first. But maybe we're all stupid?
> How do we "reasonably discuss any issues" unless someone presents examples of the "issues"?

How most people discuss things: by relating their experiences and impressions, and listening to those of others with an open mind.

Here's mine: it can be very obnoxious to extract a good answer out of the SO community for a challenging question. Often all you get are answers to different easier questions or a useless "don't do that." It takes a lot of annoying policing and preemptive anticipations of SO's typical bad answers to keep things on track. I've also personally come across many closed questions that were helpful and exactly what I wanted. I've also found myself having to pre-emptively address the closers because they're too trigger happy.

What I've just said is true, but the few examples I have would link you to my SO account, and honestly, you don't seem like the kind of person who I'd feel comfortable sharing that with.

> I suspect most of these "issues" don't exist.

I suspect you have a perspective that makes you blind to them. I would suggest listening more and holding off on the aggressive challenges rather than opening with them.

> The lack of such delinquent SO examples here is telling.

It only tells that people might be reluctant to jump through the precise hoops you've laid out for them.
Illegality depends on country, I think in Europe (or parts of it) you can download for your personal use, but you can't distribute (e.g. you can only leech, you can't seed).
NPR too.

https://text.npr.org/
I think as a society we are waking up to the fact that we don't like how the market shapes many, many industries.

We know that the market isn't perfect from Economics 101. Public goods, free rider problem, and other basic issues show us that market forces and rational players alone will NOT provide the best outcome for society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_goods_game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem

We currently have three systems of distribution in our society - pure capitalism / globalism, regulated capitalism, and government run programs:

1. pure capitalism is where there is very little regulation or market intervention

2. regulated capitalism is where policies, penalties, or subsidies exist to shape behavior of companies in ways that market forces wouldn't

3. government run programs (or other similar programs) receive funding and try to deliver a service for free or heavily subsidized at cost

There are some markets / areas of consumption that are running well in our country (that we as a society are happy with the cost and quality of service provided). These include:

- Food, clothing, most consumables, physical goods, hobbies / activities, recreational media, etc.

Some markets that are not running well are:

- Housing, education, transportation, news media / information dissemination, health care, etc.

Now, there's 3 ways of affecting change:

1. Add in policies, penalties, or subsidies to an existing market to enforce specific behaviors

2. Reduce or modify policies to revert specific behaviors or combat inefficiency

3. Create a sustainable fund / program to allow the service be delivered without market forces attached

Unsurprisingly, these all require government intervention. It's why most people are so vested in the political situation of the present, because our government is the only power that can shape markets and solve these problems.

There is one other route - the public comes together does #3 - creates a fund / organization that is meant to provide the good and service without market forces attached. Now, unfortunately the public lacks a huge factor to sustainability - the ability to tax. So whereas funds from government can be sustaining because of taxes, funds from the public have to rely on a large endowment or other such thing in order to be self sustaining.

Local news, news reporting, and social media currently exist under system #1. But they need to move to #2 or even #3 if it turns out we really don't like giving the market what it values - our time on ads and our data for ads. Or even worse, giving the market the ability to shape our thoughts and public discourse.
NPR: https://text.npr.org/
Apple's new Mac Pro is not a very good cheese grater
"I'm more than ready and willing to pay for a text-only version of every news website like the ones provided by NPR and CNN."

How much is the author willing to pay? He is going to subscribe to "every news site"? That seems like it could get costly. Chances are, he can only afford to subscribe to a few newspapers. If he provides a list of those sites, maybe someone would help him get the "text-only" reading experience he wants.

"Text-only" is within the user's control, not the website's. It matters what software the user chooses to use to retrieve and view the text. If the software is financed indirectly or directly by ad revenue, then "text-only" is likely to be more difficult.

This is why the author is complaining. He is using a browser funded directly or indirectly by advertising. He is therefore at the mercy of the browser authors and the website operators.
Your keyboard, like the AK-47 rifle and the UN26 bottom bracket, is an interesting exception to the Vimes theory. Cheap, unsophisticated, but virtually indestructible.

I'm not sure if there's a common mechanism by which things like that come to be. Possibly that they are designed for customers who are buying in bulk for use by other people (cubicle drones, PBI, buyers of assembled bikes), and who have a vested interest in reliability.
It's definitely a thing in San Francisco.
> Real money always came from ads

This could still be the case, but it should work more like craigslist.
For those who care about text only news:

NPR has http://text.npr.org

CNN has http://lite.cnn.io

I've created http://noslite.nl for Dutch news
Because now there are cost-effective alternatives that didn’t exist back then.
All of which are orthogonal to the blog. The blog is about things the author won't work with out of fear of personal injury. Not writing software for a high interest loan's sake is far from the same.

Being true to one's own ethics is a very worthy virtue. But it just isn't in the same league as not wanting to melt one's face off or accidentally die in a paralysing seizure of excruciating pain.
Before a vim'er finishes typing yet another command to find that one specific text, a mouse user will have already clicked where needed :)
Actually, you're wrong.

There are indeed plenty of features that are specific to each IDE/Language that aren't in the IDEA-equivalent plugins.
It's pretty likely that the people writing an init system in Rust are not just gonna casually decide to write an advanced NLP library instead, since it requires a fairly distinct set of interests and skills.
> In late 2015, WeWork was completing an investment round led by Beijing-based Hony Capital Ltd. that pushed its valuation to $16 billion. Mr. Neumann invited its CEO, John Zhao, to a party at 110 Wall Street, where WeWork was about to open its first WeLive dormlike apartment building. Toward the end of the night, Mr. Neumann led others to the roof of the 27-story building. There, guests passed around tequila shots. Mr. Neumann picked up a fire extinguisher and set it off, spraying Mr. Zhao and others with white foam.

> The deal went through. Mr. Zhao joined WeWork’s board in July 2016.

Spraying potential investors with a fire extinguisher... now there's a fundraising technique I won't be trying.