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They should mention the excellent Orgzly (org mobile app) on the install page. I don't even use org files but it was the best touch GUI for plaintext lists I could find for android.

I used this one for years: https://skins.webamp.org/skin/83447bc283821369d0887e3ee38c19...

I still think it's an incredible piece of art/design.

I use vim bindings with everything and am a full convert to modal editing.

But...

Vim bindings also feel like they have accumulated 40 years of cruft and evolved into some severely localized maxima. I'd be really interested in other attempts to do modal editing. Are there other attempts out there?

(Disclaimer: I use vim and vim bindings a lot but I am not really a vim power user.)

I've used DroidCam with mostly good results. (I think the last time I tried it out wouldn't work but previously it had worked well)

The technical discussion was a ways over my head but maybe you'll indulge a more basic question: I'd like hook my linux machine up to a (music) keyboard with minimal latency. What do I need to know/understand/possess for a good experience? Can I just install AVLinux, plug in a midi-USB cable, and fire up Ardour?

<rant>I've been trying out orgzly as a note dump replacement for Trello on mobile. It works ok but I tried setting up actual emacs the other day in order to convert the Trello json output to .org, and the experience was horrible. I couldn't install plugins because I needed to install a plug-in manager, and I couldn't install that because I needed to install another plugin or change some obscure GPG setting. On top of this you have to learn not only a whole new set of overly complicated commands but new vocabulary as well. I finally did get it working but oof. I'll stick with vim.

It works in Firefox for Android.

SingleFile is a really great extension, but I wanted something a bit more pared down that I could easily use on both mobile and desktop and sync between them using Syncthing. So I'm trying to copy some of SingleFile's UI and graft it on to Markdown-Clipper.[1] And also add the ability to save the images that get picked up by Readability (which Markdown-Clipper uses).

[1] https://github.com/enrico-kaack/markdown-clipper

It's too bad browsers don't have an easy way to print to browser-page-sized PDF. Standard 8.5x11/A4 paper sized PDFs of webpages tend to look pretty terrible.

I used to use the Scrapbook plugin for Firefox but I realized for the most part just plaintext might be best. So I'm in the process of setting up a workflow that will save article in markdown in one click and sync between my phone and my computer.

I've been learning the web extensions API and trying to make some improvements to an existing extension that exports a webpage directly to a markdown file (markdown-clipper). I haven't touched JavaScript in a while so it's been great getting back into that, and somehow extensions feel more like 'real software' than SPAs or python scripts, so that's kind of exciting also.

Lots of good Zsh tips, thanks for this writeup!

> the offline reading list

I've wanted a feature like this for years but I had no idea it already existed! Thank you for this info. And yes, please don't break it, Mozilla.

The article is an interview with a worker at a warehouse. I found it quite informative.

Also, Jacobin is quite upfront about its politics and is not making any pretentions toward "news".

Due to limitations in Firefox's add-on API you have to set up web server to actually browse your saved pages, which is a big step backwards in functionality. Although I haven't tried it recently; maybe it's gotten easier to set up.

It's gotten to the point where I assume that the top comment on every story about privacy by a news outlet will be about their hypocrisy. It's pretty disappointing. (Almost like tech workers feel defensive and want to change the subject, or that maybe these upvotes aren't in good faith? If the HN audience actually got organized around this kind of thing certain organizations stand to lose quite a bit.)

(FYI: Get 7+TaskbarTweaker if you want to change the volume by scrolling anywhere on the taskbar.)

You are missing the key pay of the question: reduce costs for whom? Since railroads are effectively a (regulated) monopoly reducing costs for Norfolk Southern or CSX can mean Wall Street profits combined with worse service for customers at the same price.

Old-fashioned? Union busting has never gone out of style.

Obligatory note that the word "meritocracy" was coined by a sociologist in mid-century England as a distopian ideal, distopian because it was used as a bad excuse for privilege and the withholding of social services. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy

Isn't a big difference that all of this is running your code on the front end? (Or am I misunderstanding how these work?)

A year or two ago I tried basically all of the free video editing software available on Linux and Kdenlive was definitely the best (factoring that I couldn't be bothered to learn Blender in the time I had). Others were buggy or clunky or didn't have basic features. This may have changed recently but I was really thankful for kdenlive at the time.

Yeah it seems ridiculous in hindsight. I think what enabled the mergers though was less someone with a brilliant idea that they could just recombine, and more the drastic change in the government's conception and enforcement of antcompetitiveness laws. That is, they wouldn't have tried to merge back together if the they didn't think the government might let them. The government can and does does block mergers, still, and it makes sense that that they wouldn't just want to ban a specific company from a specific market share for all eternity.

The legislation mentioned in the article probably would help, but the real untold sorry here is that the blame for the recent increase in robocalls lies with Paj's FCC (and thus Trump). Previous FCC rulings kept robocalls from getting out of hand, but the ruling was overturned on a small technicality. The FCC could easily replace it with a similar ruling but they haven't done anything. (My source here is the recent Reply All episode on robocalls)

I ended up booking two flights recently because Kayak sent me a "booking failed" email after I tried once, it failed, then tried again, and it worked. Then an hour later I got an email from Kayak saying my flight booking had failed. So of course I booked another flight. They would NOT admit the slightest wrongdoing. Never using them again.

"...because the Charity-status ( 501(c)(3) ) of Colleges in America depends on more-than-half of their students being unable to afford the education (read: “receiving financial aid”)"

I wasn't aware of this at all. Do you have a source? Non-profits don't generally need to give away their money.

Thicket is a platform for rigorous thinking about policy.

What should you think about a what that politician is saying? On Thicket you can browse argument maps that others have created--and backed up with direct links to research papers. Thicket puts your beliefs about policy in context, connecting them to relevant academic research and to opposing arguments. Thicket is aimed at students, researchers, journalists, and everyone interested in politics and public policy.

I recommend starting with the video introduction since there aren't really any sites quite like it: https://thicket.io/about#intro-video

Examples of Thicket in action:

https://thicket.io/List/11426361746953 - Public vs Private Currencies

https://thicket.io/List/11425711571394 - Immigration

https://thicket.io/List/11425711242115 - Universal Basic Income

There are, however, plenty of sites doing similar things:

https://sequiturs.com/

http://en.arguman.org/

http://www.truthmapping.com

http://debategraph.org

http://metacademy.com

https://learn-anything.xyz/

...but nobody else combines published research with an argument builder.

Tech stack: vue + D3js; node + express; ArangoDB

Weatherspark.

It's still around but a mere shadow of its former (flash-based) glory. Using every other weather site is agony.

This is a cool idea. I'm not convinced that having all the comments in a sidebar with size constraints is going to be that useful, though. It might work better with traditional chained comments but having the radial diagram floating to one side.

Also it's easy to imagine posts starting out too small to click on and getting lost in the noise. (Not that this doesn't happen in other formats.)

I just finished this book, I learned a lot but overall it was disappointing. It felt really disjointed, skipping around a lot and not tying things together at all.

Weird. I'm using Zsh and I swear I've tried that before with nothing happening, but it does actually work. Thanks!