skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without legal protection, it's likely that buying a car would remain a confrontational experience.

We negotiate over cars because the price is sufficiently high that it's worth it to pay an employee who's sole job is to wiggle that extra 5% out of you.

Other examples of items we negotiate the purchase of include pianos, heavy industrial equipment, home repair and maintenance, and myriad commercial products and services. Hardly any of these are "protected" in a similar fashion to car dealers.

Further evidence in support of this theory is the trend in poorer countries to increase the number of items with negotiated prices: As the wages of decent negotiators fall, it makes more sense for a business to hire them and thus improve margins.
In .NET, extension methods are functions defined on the classes you don't own, like string or System.Net.WebRequest. In Go, you cannot define functions on builtin types and exported types from packages other than your own package. So Go way of defining functions on types is not exactly extension methods.
http://www.livingshalom.com/2012/11/cheapest-carrots-for-jui...

65c. Not so different.

And carrots+beans+rice are less vomit-inducing than McDonalds burgers in bulk.
hello sanxiyn! (fyi all, sanxiyn is one of the rust compiler developers, unless i'm mixing up names :) )
No-haggle dealerships are a rip off if you're a good negotiator though.
I gotta admit I never seen the problem that way, now I can clearly see I am wrong. Probably I need to limit number of goroutines spawned with a configurable default value. Thanks for pointing out Ryan!
The Evernote Mac client feels like I'm ssh'ed into a remote machine. I type and half a second late the text appears.

Seriously sloppy stuff. They need to improve or I need to find something better.
You confuse negotiation with compromise. They're not the same thing.
Nice job but sorry, that is some hideous syntax require to make LINQ Go ;-)

Was expecting the concision and elegance of LINQ-to-SQL.
Yup, that + what happens when it crashes? I wonder, if a network packet is sent somewhere.
Not sure about OS kernels, but their intent was to attract C++ programmers, although, they ended up mostly attracting python programmers.
Here is part of what Apple is buying (snappyLabs has disappeared from the web, so thank goodness for wayback):

https://web.archive.org/web/20131010012005/http://www.snappy...

"At the core of SnappyCam is a capture and image signal processing engine with innovations that took over 12 months of research and development. With it, we can also beat competing iOS camera apps by 400% on full-sensor shooting performance with the same iOS device and hardware.

Once photos are captured and buffered in real-time, our multi-threaded JPEG compression engine takes over. It compresses shots in software at speeds that exceed that of the hardware encoder normally dedicated to the task.

We had to reinvent JPEG to do it. First we studied the fast discrete cosine transform (DCT) algorithms of the early 1990s, when JPEG was first introduced. We then extended some of that research to create a new algorithm that’s a good fit for the ARM NEON SIMD co-processor instruction set architecture. The final implementation comprises nearly 10,000 lines of hand-tuned assembly code, and over 20,000 lines of low-level C code. (In comparison, the SnappyCam app comprises almost 50,000 lines of Objective C code.)

At first we did try to leverage the iPhone graphics processing unit (GPU) for the DCT computation. It turned out to be a dead-end. Back then, iOS 4 limited the data transfer speed in and out of the GPU; but even with that limitation eliminated, with the introduction of OpenGL pixel buffers in iOS 5, it appeared that the GPU parallelism was limited to about two render units that ran at a slower clock-rate than the main CPU. Without support for OpenCL or multiple render targets, we were also forced to use a naive (slow) DCT algorithm that was essentially a full matrix multiplication.

The ARM NEON approach was optimal: the SIMD pipeline can perform up to 8 simultaneous arithmetic operations in parallel at the full clock rate of the device, without any data transfer overheads, and allowing us to use any DCT algorithm we could conceive. And when it comes to speed, it’s all about doing less for more. Less computation, more work done, faster.

We also optimized out pipeline bubbles using a cycle counter tool so that every clock tick was put to work.

JPEG compression comprises two parts: the DCT (above), and a lossless Huffman compression stage that forms a compact JPEG file. Having developed a blazing fast DCT implementation, Huffman then became a bottleneck. We innovated on that portion with tight hand-tuned assembly code that leverages special features of the ARM processor instruction set to make it as fast as possible.

Similar innovations were put into a custom JPEG decoder, powering the unique SnappyCam thumb-to-interact living photo viewer. When dealing with massive 8 Mpx (32 MByte BGRX uncompressed) images, decoder performance became critical to a great user experience."
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Please take a long look at the linked page. While i agree with the general sentiment of your post, it's quite obvious that that product page cost quite a bit of money.
Sure, call the advice bad if you want. But "please don't tell me what to do" is a rather strong misrepresentation.
Verizon appears to have some similar problem. I never even signed up for electronic billing. They just decided to stop sending paper, and I got bills via email for 2 or 3 months, then they stopped and I didn't notice until they called me to ask if I was going to pay my bill! Eventually, I just decided to have my computer remind me to pay the bill instead of relying on them to remind me. It's such nonsense.
A while ago we were discussing an interview with Evernote's CTO about security (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6881992). He basically argued that fundamental security measures (like properly encrypting passwords) are okay to do as an afterthought once the product is out the door.

If Evernote takes the same "features first" approach to reliability, redundancy etcetera, that would explain a lot.
That sounds like you're fantasizing about a power trip.
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I think this area is ride and wide open. Personally speaking, I think evernote has done a terrible job at making technical progress. I hope they get their act together soon -- they have such potential and significant traction.
The Notational Velocity platform is pretty sweet! You might be thinking of nvpy - https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy . I haven't tried it. Instead, I use nvAlt on Mac, Simplenote on my iPhone, and ResophNotes on Windows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hackhackhack

This account is a shill.
Corn is subsidized.

It's not that "eating healthy" is "more expensive" necessarily in real terms.

A big factor is the fact that our government uses the threat of violence to extract money from people, and then uses it to pay people to make less healthy food cheaper.
"I am sure everyone of these people will object to a routine daily search of their house"

It's a good analogy because the usual argument for mass surveillance applies here too. By massively searching houses, we may find a few dangerous criminals and lives would be saved!
I recommend Bitcoin.
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Cops are going to shoot these people.
If you want to know where they stole the basic idea from, my friend Yutai Liao created http://www.streetwars.net/ years and years ago.
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Just wondering. A simple git frontend could do that pretty well - just strip it down to message-free one file commits.

That enables you to display the history of a file by handling the output of <git log $file> without confusing the user too much (it's linear, just like his changes), you get full reverts, syncing (push if you have internet), multi-device-support (clone). You'd even be independent from the actual repository host with the app itself, since git doesn't care about it's remote location.

It sounds like a pretty good idea just from thinking about it for a minute.
> I gave up and got a new laptop.

Hopefully for free. Most states have a lemon law.
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I use nvALT (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/). It's a Notational Velocity fork that syncs with SimpleNote. Since it saves the notes in text files, I have put them in a Dropbox folder. The notes directory is itself a git repo which is committed every hour with a cron job on my laptop. It's actually working out pretty well. I have double backup (Dropbox and Simplenote) with infinite versions through Git. If any one of these services loses my notes, I still have them on my laptop. I could also push it go Github, but I haven't gone that far yet.

However, this setup doesn't do pictures and audio notes, but I don't really need them very much.
I would store application state in a atomic reference, and have "time" be updated every second by a timer. I would add a watch to the application state, so that every time application state changes, the UI is re-drawn. At least that's how I do most UI-apps in ClojureScript (re-draw auto magically when state changes).

You'd do the same in Clojure-for-iOS. Of course, since you rely on Apples SDK for UI, you would use interop to subclass whatever needs subclassing, but the principle remains the same.
Oh, yes, Toshiba's support sucks, especially if you live outside US and EU. My Qosmio laptop was constantly overheating in summers, power adapter got broken twice (and on one of those occasions literally started burning, smoking and all melted down), volume control got broken after about 6 months and started randomly changing the sound volume to max (very scary thing since I often leave my laptop playing music when I go to sleep)... and each time I would have to wait for 2-3 weeks for them to "repair" it. And it wasn't cheap at all, I could easily get Apple MBP for that money (which I eventually did)
That's not remotely what I'm saying. I'm saying that getting a lie on record is valuable because it makes it more likely that desirable consequences will occur.
My dad used it for a month (at my recommendation), taking notes from courses he was doing while in the process of looking for a job.

Through absolutely no fault of his own, ended up losing an important part of his notes one day. They were completely gone due to a failed sync with no way to get them back from our end. I tried contacting support, but it wouldn't let me cuz he wasn't a paying member.

Never used it since out of principle.
I like Evernote.

But I had trouble logging into the Mac client using my email address (prior to 2 factor author being implemented) and it didn't work. I raised a support request and got this reply

Unfortunately this feature has been disabled and you must sign in with your username instead of the email.

That seems weird and annoying to me.
> I'm saying that getting a lie on record

But you are certain that it would be a lie? Then it is implicit in this that the "no" is not credible. You're not being very clear.
Why I’m ditching Evernote for Simplenote (and Notational Velocity)
I'm fully aware that it's a figure of speech. I'm calling out the hyperbole because it doesn't enlighten, and lacks self-reflection.

A much more useful comment would have been to describe how crucial $concept is to his programming practice, and how he tried working without $concept but found it a dreadful experience because of $x, $y and $z.
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I guess it depends on the game. Starcraft 1 "Broodwars" is pretty cheap, but only super-serious gamers play it.
Plenty cost less.

Depends on your definition of "serious".
I doubt this idea was ever "stolen". It's such a simple game that I'm sure there have been hundreds of variants ever since the start of the computer revolution.
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I still don't understand why one would choose evernote over OneNote. It's a dream to use.
Well, that is a different kind of designer/developer hybrid.

I gave it this title to make it clear that I was not entering into this discussion: it is for people who design websites in Photoshop, whether by choice or because it is the industry standard tool.
"For example, producing skinless chicken and leaner meats requires more work at the processing plant."

So buying healthier pre-prepared food is more expensive than buying less healthy pre-prepared food. I wonder if they compare with food prepared healthily at home, or produced healthily at home.

Reminds me, it's time to plant a handful of beans.
And yet, you missed his point:

If you heard a gunshot behind you, and you were carrying concealed, how would you react?

The tragedy isn't a shooting spree. The tragedy is a phone game causing someone's accidental death.
I don't think py3 devs "over-represent" themselves at all. If anything, it's very fashionable to proudly announce that py3 is a waste of time and you're never going to use it.
It's a good start, but I'd honestly feel cheated if given such a course. I agree that the C tide may need to change, but using a language pre-stabilization AND that has literally no job opportunities is a real drag. So, the same goes for Go as well. And the fact that python or any other such language was even an option scared me just a little.
I believe in Rust, and hope it succeeds, but don't feel this was a good avenue for it at this time.
Except that it only supports viewing one persons view and doesn't support changes in content on both sides.

And certainly not any recording.
Also note that the study is comparing the price per 200 cals. As a result, this means it only provides evidence that it costs more to eat healthier at a fixed bodyweight.

As the study itself says:

Healthier diets deﬁned based on ﬁbre or fat content will, by deﬁnition, have fewer calories, so they will naturally cost more per calorie. Yet, such diets will not necessarily cost more per serving or per meal. In the setting of a global obesity pandemic, assessing price differences per calorie may make little sense when a healthier diet also leads to reductions in total calorie consumption.

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/12/e004277.full.pdf#page=1&...
If that is the case, then your country Norway is good man.
Can't say I'm a fan of the syntax, but nice work nonetheless.
Re: > https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/1992?source=c

> IMHO, volumes should behave this way: when declaring a volume, if the volume is empty on the host, the content of the directory (in the container) will be copied to the volume (on the host) before binding the volume to the container.

> This means that you could make any directory a volume without breaking the container behavior.

I guess obviously that didn't make it into this release, since there is nothing on that issue saying so or in the changelog. The first part about "Update ADD to use the image cache, based on a hash of the added content" doesn't affect issues related to the above, does it?

I am wondering specifically in relation to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20856385/how-can-i-make-a...
Rather mail to Toshiba and raise grievance. I see these days company responds better if you tweet against them. Just try it.
Myself as well. I feel that if they have to hire specialists to work alongside me, I'm not good enough as a generalist.
Couldn't agree more. I've been making a website pretty much just for personal use, that is kind of a timeline/personal journal. I write lots of random posts and thoughts and for every day, I write down a summary as well as record some basic statistics.

The data aspect of it, and being able to look back at these things later is great, but the best part for me is that it forces me to actually sit down and write everyday
Time with your friends, family and loved ones are more important. It may not feel so clear right now but in hindsight it will. Unfortunately, in some threads that feels blasphemous on HN.

Do you really need to spend 9 hours a day on it? That's a lot of time for something that's just a hobby.

Can you but that down to like 1 or 2 hours a day?
> Hire this guy for love

Why 3rd person if you self-submitted this, cleverbaker?
Notice the use of the word 'caught', as if we can judge dolphins by human standards. Naughty dolphins.
What would you like me to clarify?

If the no is true, then there isn't actually an issue. The point of such a request is to have someone give a public statement committing themselves to a position. Is this really so challenging to grasp?
> if you’re not the best at something, you’re replaceable

Bullshit. Maybe this is true for like, an insanely competitive NFL team with limited slots and deep pockets, but for a growing startup, this is simply illogical. I hardly believe there's any expectation for all employees to be the best in their field. Sure, everyone wants the best.. but at the end of the day, they'll settle for pretty good. Especially if they're already hired, on-boarded, well-liked and an integral part of the company (which it sounds like OP was).
The problem is more that this is a biased representation: if people on the Python development mailing list (which I can't imagine spends much time talking about Python 2 ;P), people who care enough about Python to still be on Usenet using comp.lang.python (although they seem to actually mean the official Python user mailing list, given the hyperlink...), and the programming hipster crowd from Hacker News (which is one of the few communities I am a part of that seems to remotely like Python 3) are at this low of a representation, the average developer base is going to be much lower ;P. Given this prior expected distribution, these results are thereby quite damning evidence against Python 3... (which matches the less intrinsically flawed, although still problematic in the other direction, data from a few days ago that less than 2% of downloads from the Python Package Index are from Python 3 (this is problematic as this is likely biased somewhat by production websites that are spawned and download packages over and over and over again; that said, that expectation itself is demonstration of the relative strength of Python 2, and could even be considered an ignorable bias if the question is not to measure users but instead to measure importance).
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interesting article, when I visit doctor I have similar feelings, same thing applies to law, finance and other specialized fields. But my energies permit me know only so much. So its essential we watch out for jargon abuse. Most of the times when someone is heavily using the technical bits, they are trying to hide their incompetence. If a person knows about something well and is explaining to a layman, they will do their best to explain it as plainly as possible. Gobbledegook signifies something festering underneath
I am more into D and Rust than Go nowadays, but I think Go can be used for writing an OS if one so desires.

The language is quite similar to Oberon in features. You just need to provide a syscall package for bare hardware.

If powerful single user graphical OSs were written in Oberon, why not Go?
I could see Instagram acquiring this as well.
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Yep. Considering the recent news etc, he is the proverbial laughing stock.
I've used to use Evernote for years, but now I still use it.

Then one day there was an Evernote glitch and all my precious notes, were safe right there in the backup I had taken, because always backup yourself too, no matter how much you trust any app.

Seriously, all apps have glitches. I've been using Evernote for 2+ years and haven't seen any spectacular failure. But even if there was one, I'd still have my backups and I could restore my notes in a couple of hours.
The Evernote app for BlackBerry 10 has never synced without producing an error. This wouldn't bother me so much if I wasn't a Premium member.

I'm open to switching to an Evernote alternative, provided this alternative has an Android app. Android apps are becoming as easy to install on BlackBerry 10 as native BlackBerry apps.

Curious, what are the Evernote alternatives?
You mean, if we assume that the word "systems" doesn't have a well defined meaning, that especially the Go team would know all too well when it used it?
That's not its only problem. I found Chrome would consistently make my laptop idle 8-10 degrees higher than it should have until I killed Evernote's web clipper.

Then I stopped using Evernote.
> The point of such a request is to have someone give a public statement committing themselves to a position.

That's clearer, thanks, though a "public statement committing themselves to a position" is not in itself useful unless it has consequences. It seems that you can only state the usefulness by enumerating the possible outcomes.

The link to "denial and lie on record" to positive consequences is a tenuous one. The consequences of "truthful denial on record" are that the status quo of widespread scepticism continues, i.e. no new consequences.

> Is this really so challenging to grasp?

it is not useful for you to get upset and offensive when you aren't being understood. It would be useful for you to be clearer.
Not sure if the comparison with finance is apt. Financial sophistry layered complexity on complexity without a robust understanding of principles (i.e., housing prices don't always go up, hiding debt and ownership in millions of small pieces spread around will create a mess), whereas computing grows intelligently (most of the time) from real world problems that need addressing.
I stopped using Evernote the day I was notified that web version is not supported on Chrome running on Linux. I use diigo for web clipping and text files for note taking.
This is all most large corporation will do, confirm you worked for the company. So is it a red flag that you worked for a large company?
>The difference is that when the puppetmasters are two political parties in competition to each other, they have adapt their positions to popular opinion or else their puppets loose power and become worthless.

Or you know, they can shape popular opinion to only care about secondary issues (which politician said what on TV, Obama's birth certificate, the debt ceiling, gay marriage, tax cuts, Hilary vs Palin, etc) which the parties pretend to fight out on, while agreeing on all important issues or slightly skewing from the same general direction on them...
Most of the real world uses C and C++, because of the vicious cycle he mentions on the post.

You don't need C's lack of safety everywhere for doing an OS. There were OS written in Mesa, Modula-2, Modula-3, Object Pascal, Oberon, Ada and many others.

C's strings and vectors are recipe for security exploits without any benefit for kernel programming. Or lack of type safety between compilation units.

It is a very good thing students learn C and C++ aren't the only way to write an OS. Sometimes the world seems to forget other languages have been used for the same purpose.
I have never used evernote, so I can't say anything about your use case, but wrt point 2, you should give http://workflowy.com a try.
>* You don't think that there are five cultural critics(whatever that includes) on par with Thompson or Mailer?*

No, I really don't. Not to mention others -- heck, Hemingway himself was a reporter and cultural commentator too.
Be really careful about handling payments properly - specifically, make sure you wait a while after the race day before transferring money to the organizers. Or only transfer money to them if you've actually met and verified them.

Otherwise you expose your company (make sure you are incorporated!) to significant financial risk. See the discussion here, which relates to why Paypal hates conference organizers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1491485