skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the sentiment, but everything about the service, apart from the app is metered as well (i.e. keeping the server)

Selling an app is fine, but never sell the promise of something (a service) forever.

If the service is continuous make sure there's a recurrent charge. This is not about nickel-and-diming, this is about keeping your service profitable (or at least covering its costs)
It's the only end goal that supports human life after the death of the earth.
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Exactly what I was thinking. "Credits" feel like a huge ripoff.
My credit union used to have a similar, although not as bad, password policy. I believe password length had to be between 8 and 10 alphanumeric characters, and then there were other crazy rules that reduced the entropy of passwords further. I think there had to be at least 3 numbers in the password and it couldn't start with a number.

It took them years before they finally listened to reason and allowed you to have a stronger password
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And a small number of tools for composing JSON.
I just recently bought a couple of Dell U2515H monitors (and will probably buy another), and, given you can buy three of them for the cost of one of Apple's Thunderbolt displays, they really are a great deal - same resolution, higher PPI, more adjustable and rotatable, and they're matte.

My Apple Thunderbolt display has from day one had some light leakage in the lower right corner, and the ethernet port stopped working six months ago, but I'd always convinced myself it was worth the extra money over a Dell or equivalent. I'm now pretty sure it never really was apart from a brief period when they were about the only 2560x1440 displays you could get.
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Someone needs to port PowerShell to Unix :-)

I'm confused about the response to his tweet though - ls has a lot of switches, but I can't really see any that don't do something with listing files.

And then the response is "Unfortunately, the lineage is _not_ Unix -> Linux. It is Unix -> Plan 9. Linux doesn't follow Unix philosophy :-("... Except Unix's ls eventually had 19 options, and the ls used by Linux is a port Gnu's coreutils.

Nevertheless, I tend to agree. ls does a lot of formatting that could be moved to ancillary utilities. I guess what I like about PowerShell is the way it allows for redirecting into objects - that really is an innovation that Unix shells don't have (at least as far as I'm aware...).
it's surprising to hear colleagues talk about how important it is to separate content from presentation regarding, say, TeX

This debate never ends because, like the static vs dynamic types debate, it ignores the main tradeoff in favour of a one-size-fits-all solution. In both debates (separation and types) the tradeoff can be expressed most generally as an up-front vs deferred time investment. Static types require more up-front time investment with the advantage that they save time later. The same goes for having separated content from presentation.

Now, in light of the tradeoffs above what is the appropriate choice to make? That depends on how much time you're going to spend writing the script/document/whatever and how much time you're going to spend running/maintaining it later. For scripts, it makes no sense to have a heavyweight type system if you're only going to run the thing once and throw it away. Likewise, for documents it makes no sense to put in the extra time planning all the styles if you're only going to make a document (say, a shopping list) and then throw it away. For a long-term document such as a book or a thesis it makes a ton of sense to use something like TeX.
This is the correct answer. You can't blame Apple for not supporting a feature they never claimed to support. I don't think there's malicious intent here, rather a lack of demand or awareness.
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Admittedly, none of the code I work with on a regular basis is older than ~4 years, but some of that has changed hands several times (hot potato project nobody wants to own), and actually still runs on Java 1.4.

I suppose I'm willing to accept that I've been lucky though, and god help anyone whose code has the sorts of problems I wrote off as being unacceptable.
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Some additions:

3's multiples' digits always add up to a multiple of three. So 69 is 6+9 which is 18, a multiple of three.

9's multiples' digits always add up to a multiple of nine. So 108 is 1+0+8 which is 9, a multiple of 9.

6's multiples' digits are always even and add up to a multiple of three.
On master.. There are 300 stops, so you'll need at least that many commits. There's different branches for different lines.
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Is consciousness a real thing or an illusory experience of continuity of self in what is actually the deterministic mechanizations of brain activity.
Because Nim is not dependently typed. You can't get sh*t done without dependent types.
I'm not a huge fan of Apple, but I have to agree with you. Windows doesn't (yet[1]) have a built-in SSH client or server, even though OS X and Linux do. Should I sue Microsoft because it doesn't do one specific thing in software, even though the hardware allows it if I install another OS?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/micros...
Show HN: Picnic 4.0 launched. What do you think?
I was taught that Monday was the first day of the week in preschool here in the US. Looking back maybe it was some rogue teacher, but it always stuck.

Monday is the first day.
That cursive is exactly what I was taught in school in Australia.
I would say it is less ornate than Spencerian, even less ornate that its successor Palmerian.
But they're all quite similar to the more modern eye.
My teacher at the time, (history and French) could write perfect Copperplate on the chalkboard.
It's purely lack of demand. You can use dual monitors by either (a) using both MiniDP ports, (b) using one HDMI/MiniDP, (c) using USB/MiniDP. But the OP wants none of those.
Looks good!

What does the face indicate under error %?
As a robot enthusiast, I found it strangely captivating watching these slow, mostly bumbling robots complete and try to complete the tasks. It seems like it would be boring but I had the main commentary stream going pretty much all day in the background while I worked on software for my own bipedal robot. Whenever something important was happening, the audience would cheer or the commentator would point it out so you didn't have to fully pay attention the whole time.

The key thing to take from this is that there is a huge gulf between the best robot competitors and the worst. The best robots seemed like, with more hardening, they could be deployed in certain disaster areas even today. The worst robots seemed to struggle just walking on two legs on anything but perfectly smooth terrain. Laugh while you still can at the numerous fail videos that will emerge but the KAIST team's robot will make you a believer. That robot was very clever as were most of the other robots from the top teams.

A slight correction to the linked article: the IHMC robot did not just promptly fall after climbing the stairs and celebrating; instead, its arm got caught on the rails of a platform that the stairs led to. It had already completed all tasks of the course.
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Your four responses on the stackexchange question and here really convinced me. There is just no way that Apple would ever limit the customer's choice by doing (or not doing) something! Apple's intentions are always pure and I know this because... reasons.

It's kind of like the App Store (on iOS) - they are not intentionally limiting you to one app store, they just didn't add support for other company's app stores.
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I wouldn't hold Wikipedia as a good counterexample. They frequently run ads, annoying ones too, only nobody thinks of them that way because they are usually begging for donations. Additionally, Wikipedia is not in any way "long tail". How many websites do you think can survive on a donation model?

Also book authors: Their main business is not the website. In fact the website is a giant advertisement for their actual main business, which is books. This discussion is clearly about websites whose main business is producing online content.

How many online content sites do you know that run on alternative monetization methods like donations? Now how many sites do you know that run on ads? You'll find numbers will not support your view.
If you've got a lot of files in a directory and you only want information about a subset of them then you're better off using a command like find:

find . -maxdepth 1 -perm /g=w -exec ls -ald {} \;

This finds all group-writeable files in the current directory and lists them using ls.
Great idea (as a concept)!

But I guess finding connections and directions is a bit complicated (because after all the commits form a directed graph, as opposed to a subway map)
Yeah, it either spits out random text or random bible passages.
How about standardising around second factor authentication with cell phones?

Simple and easy. There are issues with losing the phone, but as long as there are ways to lock an account, or alternate second factors.

The FIDO standards suggest second factor auth (U2F, iirc) but with a 'device' (like a USB dongle). I tend to think phones are a pretty ubiquitous approach. And the more this technique is used the more likely there will be OS extensions that automate the process, for mobile browsing.

Are there known defeaters I'm not aware of for this?
Either that, or the renovation that covered the boards up took place in December (a theory supported by the calendar drawn on one of the boards), and that just happened to be what was on the boards at the time.
The govt does not hire or promote on merit. This is why this occurred and why the obamacare site and other govt software had/have so many problems.
Apple is not limiting customer choice. They ship the MBP with 2 x mini DP so you can use dual monitors.

And nothing is stopping anyone running their own App Store on OSX. Mac Update has a sort of one already.
The Denial of Death by Becker. (The discussions of homosexuality are outdated but the rest is amazing).

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Watts helped center my adolescence.
Uh don't take me for an Apple apologist ... I am well aware and often advocate of how their business model leads to unfortunately limiting everyone's freedoms. But this one is not one of those, I think.

You shouldn't have bought a Mac in the first place, of course but that cause is seemingly lost. People are not listening to Cory Doctorow so why would they listen to me?
> which has a dome-like configuration and an interior surface that receives the human head

I love that it has an interior surface that will receive my human head.
1.0 is rewarding use and 2.0 is addig friction to use. For this app to demonstrate value you should be able to freely use. The "buy credits" to do this niche action feels like is not worth.

I will risk to say that there is a Cognitive Load inbalance. Fremium induces people to track the economics behind the usage of the freemium app. If the problem it solves is less painful than the Cognitive Load of tracking its fremiumnality, then why bother?

It would be interesting to do tests about models without "risking the 1.0s"
how can an apprentice programmer (c++, python) help?
I hate to say this, but the U2414H is a better monitor. Zero processing latency (not 1 frame, not half of a frame, but real world measured latency of less than 1 ms; virtually all of the gamer monitors out there are at least 1 frame and the only ones that get <half a frame are those Korean single input scaler-less IPSes), often sold for below $250 each, excellent color and contrast.

I have three on my desk.
If anybody wonders, this seems to be his account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TerryADavis

I have been following his coding for quite a while and I think it is really impressive.
No we don't use nginx. F5 big-ips in front of a large IIS cluster serving through WCF + ASP.Net MVC.
Until the next cool freemium app in that space comes out, then the customer just switches to that one.

The real problem is that we just don't need 80 gazillion apps. The "app" market is extremely competitive, that's really what people are complaining about, profits have been driven down to basically nothing. Normally you would expect some developers to drop out of the market, which would help the situation, but two things are stopping that from happening, in my opinion.

First, the platform companies (Apple and Google) have been incredibly successful at promoting app development as a gold mine. For every developer who gets sick of it and moves on to something else, two people become "app developers".

Second, there's a startup bubble and the wisdom out there says you need an app or your startup is nothing. This partly relates to the first point, the hype around "apps", even years after Apple launched the app store, is deafening.
Jesus. In Switzerlans i saw kids as young as 7 walk to school alone taking trams and walking.
This

Linux/Unix can't even get the concept of "one thing" right. Sometimes it's separated by spaces, sometimes by lines (and then you need the IFS gore to make it behave the way we want)

I mean, the shell is great, once you get around all those idiosyncrasies, but we can evolve.
Centering got really easy with flexbox.
I own three U2414Hs. This is clearly outlined in the manual and also on the quick start sheet that was in the top of the box when you opened it.

I've tested it, it works fine.
You've basically just described street organizations (gangs), which needed no app to be created. Maybe you can end their criminalization, end the war on drugs, or figure out a way to create gang unity with am app?
Cool tool, but it feels like there is a little bit of latency when I type. It's very subtle, but it throws me off a bit. Is it true? Maybe it's all in my head. But if it's there, it would be nice to lower it.
Interestingly enough, the government involved norwegian philosophers

It makes me wonder what it'd be like if, as a nation, our upper house of government were replaced with a long-standing group of politically independent philosophers and other "wise people" (here in the UK there is a little of this, as the House of Lords has 26 "Lords Spiritual" who are all Church of England bishops - something more secular but in a similar spirit would also be nice).
Details: http://sail.planetary.org/missioncontrol
I'm not sure why this hit the front page of HN this way.

Thunderbolt does not implement MST chaining (because it conflicts with Thunderbolt chaining; someone out there is going to try to chain a Thunderbolt device into a Displayport device and wonder why Thunderbolt functionality doesn't work but the display part does, essentially. Apple doesn't want to deal with this shit.)

However, the last device in a Thunderbolt chain can be a standard non-MST Displayport monitor, this IS supported afaik.
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It's 1920x1080, though, right? The U2515H is 2560x1440. That difference is far more important to me than a few milliseconds of latency (I don't play games).
Touche'. And this is followed by .... "The agency now plans to install two-step authentication across its network, Ms. Seymour said"

Although TFA is not always the solution, there is no reason that every org should not institute this.
Instead friends let friends write and maintain enormous amounts of boilerplate when they could have just used @Value?
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PowerShell cmdlets return (active) objects in the same process space as the hosting process (usually the shell). As such they can expose expensive-to-compute properties as late-evaluated properties that are only evaluated if and when they are invoked later.

Take for instance Get-Process:

$p = ps powershell

(ps is an alias for Get-Process). Now $p is the process information onject about the PowerShell process itself.

Type

$p

And PowerShell will respond with

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- -----------
359 24 57096 61972 611 2,20 9608 powershell

If you request the content of $p at some later point in time, you will notice how the CPU has increased, for instance. The point is that a lot of the properties are computed when read, and hence do not incur overhead in the pipeline.
Well, I do believe we treat people in poverty (or poor people) differently than we do others. Both in our personal interactions with them, and how we deal with them as a social-group or problem (see, I myself used the term "deal with them").

The underlying theme that is quite pervasive in the media and through social programs: "If you are poor, you can not help yourself out of it, you need to be helped". I think that basic tone/message is a large contributing factor to perpetuating poverty, and conditioning them into not attempting to enact positive change in their own behavior.
They said healthier, not healthy. Most "healthier alternatives" are still "sugared water" they are just lower in sugar and higher in artificial flavorants than the typical sodas (Dr. P, Coca Cola, Pepsi, etc).

Honestly I really want to see a push to lower acidity in drinks. They seriously should start putting that on the bottle and talking about it. Acid drinks are a major health crisis that nobody talks about.
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Each object specifies how to format itself by default.

So ls, by default, gives Mode,LastWriteTime,Length,and Name.

But if I check all of the properties I get PSPath, PSParentPath, PSChildName, PSDrive, PSProvider, PSIsContainer, BaseName, Mode, Name, Parent, Exists, Root, FullName, Extension, CreationTime, CreationTimeUtc, LastAccessTime, LastAccessTimeUtc, LastWriteTime, LastWriteTimeUtc, Attributes
Yes, and we all know its bullshit. Especially if they were warned 4+ months in advance.
His argument against calling it "engineering" is because we don't properly estimate our time?

To me, engineering is a way of thinking, it's all about problem solving.
This seems like a rather unusual use-case. If I'm leaving my laptop on for a long time, it will either be plugged in or I'll be working on it. In the former case it won't run out of battery, and in the latter case I know how much power is remaining.

I suppose this would be useful for those who need to have their laptop on for long periods of time, but are not actually using it...?
I'm paranoid and it makes me sick the fact that there's no push platform that supports encryption. I don't want service providers to know what I push.
I have no idea what "reactive framework" might mean, but by most definitions of "reactive" that I know... React actually isn't even close. It's not "not reactive", just tangential entirely.
> Chinese use 星期一 / "weekday one" for Monday.

Well... it's true that Chinese generally consider Monday the beginning of the week, but that's not evidence. The days of the week are 一 (1)、二 (2)、三 (3)、四 (4)、五 (5)、六 (6) and 天 or 日 (day). Does day come before 1 or after 6 when you count?

edit: the map lower down in the thread ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_... ) shows China as beginning its week on Sunday. That does not agree with my experience, or with the Chinese people I've asked this question of.
I think this is a key thing that is usually overlooked. When someone gets the app for free, they haven't self-qualified by paying and as a result they have zero personal investment. They don't want to "get their money's worth" or "look forward to the next version." Instead they get annoyed, leave a comment, and quickly forget about your app.

I think you should always charge something - even $0.99 - just to filter most of the casual users and get a more qualified (and invested) customer.
Most of the companies in this book:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3438149

You can pick up a used copy for a penny plus shipping. A couple examples: Pet food delivery (pets.com), same-day grocery delivery (webvan.com), local event listing/registration (eRegister.com). All thing we now have, but which failed despite massive VC funding in the '90s.
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The link you referred is about Functional Reactive Programming. Reactive programming by itself is more of a pattern than paradigm. I would call React a reactive framework. How reactive a framework/library is varies from framework to framework. Every framework has its own flavour of Reactivity. Mostly it's some kind of implementation of Observer pattern.

Two famous Reactive approaches are FRP and Meteor's reactive computations.
I don't have a problem with that. Never said I did.

The OP said html+css+javascript, which I assume means html primitives like div and span with css and javascript sprinkled all over it. Canvas and svg exist a little bit outside of that ecosystem and I assumed the OP wasn't referring to that, because sure... with WebGL you can literally program anything into the browser. If someone used webGL as an example it would sort of render his question pointless.
This is possibly the silliest post I've ever read. Apparently you don't know the definition of engineering and, most astonishing, claim building projects are always perfectly estimated. I doubt ANY building project ever finished on time or under budget. If everything were tidy and well understood, it wouldn't be engineering. Stick to software, Ian.
However, after a few years of using both, my conclusion is that PowerShell isn't a better shell. It is programatically superior (for scripting) but inferior as a CLI language. And your examples are one of the reasons why.

"Do one thing and do it well" is about the goal of the tool, not about its features. With all its options, `ls` is still just about listing directory contents.

And that motto is still just a guideline, not an absolute rule. What makes the *nix shell great is that it follows that motto enough to be sensible and structured, but not enough that it becomes a burden. Just like a human language does.
Have been using the Js version for around 2 years to display tweets that we fetched from twitter api. If you have a similar use case, definately look into these.