skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are updating it, but keeping the original style as much as possible. The forked apps, like the file manager (caja), archive manager (engrampa), text editor (pluma) etc. still have menubars and so on, but, for example, it is using dconf/gsettings and MATE in Ubuntu MATE 16.10 is all GTK+3.

They've also integrated features for setting panel layouts, and there is one ("Mutiny") that mimics Unity. They're even working on a HUD-like feature.
They don't need to be pointed at each other. The antennas aren't very high gain which means they will still hit around the target. But yes it is difficult.

Gain, even though this isn't a correct analogy, is like the difference between a laser and a flash light. The laser is a very narrow beam, which is a high gain antenna, and the flash light is very low gain.

What I'd be worried about are waves and storms knocking out the network. I would assume that microwaves would go through a wave since they are so nigh energy but they are used by the navy for wave-detection (radar is basically microwave). Moving around isn't too bad because they only need to be on at about 50-60deg. Heavy waves would knock out the network like you are worried as well since I think microwaves would be able to punch through the ionosphere most of the time (UHF is usually used for sat-coms by the military).
IIRC it has to do with the anguish of quitting - if you went through the difficulty and pain of quitting cold turkey you probably don't want that to be for nothing
> The government has already set out how they want Brexit to work

the whole point is that the government does not get to decide. Even if, as it is likely, the parliament ends up voting for brexit, in the same bill it might constraint how the government is to conduct the negotiations.
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I think the hard part is the salt-water environment. Any bearing wants lubricant and putting anything that complicated in salt water sounds like a bad idea .
True. But it's the only one (+ Quincy Data, but it's the same company) ! All others are hard to even find on the web
Can you explain what you mean by "really enforceable"? Does it mean that they often don't get enforced, but are legally binding -- or does it mean they're illegal?

If they're legally binding then that's still bad.
I'd say this is more of a strategy than a plan. It's all pretty vague.

It was the tories who called the referendum, and the tories who are currently dealing with Brexit. It's not Labour's job to come up with a plan (which would not get used anyway). All Labour have been trying to do is get details of the Tory (currently non-existent) plan, in order to be able to start a discussion on it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-170-que...
Yeah, finance "innovated" itself into a recession.

Bitcoin is the exception, not the rule. And the machine learning in finance isn't very innovative at all. In fact, working in the industry I'd say they really don't know what they're doing! They just try stuff and see what works (at a glacial pace no less).
> There is nothing impossible about leaving the EU.

I never did say this. I did say keeping the promises of the Leave campaigners is impossible.

> the government itself that initiated this on its terms.

The terms were that this referendum is not binding.
No; that Portainer is for, in short, running `docker build` tasks remotely on a Mesos cluster. Unrelated work, same ecosystem.

Both projects just named themselves based on an extension of the shipping-container analogy - "things that help manage lots of containers".
Oh that sucks. I hope the maintainers read this thread.
Mostly I believe it from the usual time it takes for the hardware to fail. Also I am currently a contractor and will supposedly be taking on a employee role soon so it's my chance to get a computer at as a write off.
Ask HN: How much traffic does your tech blog get?
For those who have a personal blog related to tech, how much traffic does it receive per month?

If you have any stats related to your to the traffic patterns of your blog, feel free to share.

How much traffic does your blog receive when it makes the front page of HN?

How much traffic does your blog receive when it receives substantial attention on one the tech/programming related subreddits?

How many users as a percentage have adblockers enabled?

Would tech related blogging and including ads from google adsense make money considering tech/programming related content is a sort of niche and also presumably a lot of users have adblockers?

Disclaimer: I am planning to start blogging with ads.
They have a great extension ecosystem. Why not give writing the extensions a shot yourself?
Hadn't thought about it that way, what do you mean by that? Care to share some thoughts about that?
For 1: I think the best way to start is to simply schedule your important TODOs (C-c C-s), so that you see them on the weekly agenda view. This is how I started, and then I slowly started to incorporate things like tags when I realized I needed some more organization. (And make sure to add your org files to `org-agenda-files`.)
All this effort put into making low latency networks and what are they used for? Uselessly siphoning money and destabilizing markets.
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Yeah, that's true. But any standard implementation is going to use %...
Someone with no college education who's been working full time in a real world shop that follows good practices as a software developer for 2-3 years is about as qualified for an entry level job building CRUD applications in a scripting language as a brand spanking new CS grad - maybe more so.

That brand spanking new grad may need a lot more training on version control and the differences between academic projects and the real world. But I'd expect them to have an easier time picking up machine learning, designing a custom circuit board, or writing an algorithm to do groundbreaking new things.

I love hiring people who are self-taught because it demonstrates that they're motivated and know how to learn. Faced with a problem they don't yet know how to solve, they'll usually be able to find a solution. It's not that people with education can never do that. It's that being self-taught in itself demonstrates that you can.

Education, by contrast, sets you up with frameworks for understanding what makes certain hard problems hard, and a toolset for evaluating potential solutions to them.

I don't usually hire entry level anyway, and my teams are rarely solving hard computer science problems. For this kind of work, by the time you have 8 years or so of education-plus-experience under your belt (in any combination), the differences are often minimal. I've had great reports and awful reports with and without formal education. So I don't really care.

That said, you may have trouble getting your foot in the door early in your career without formal education simply due to the way many HR departments screen resumes. It may take a lot more effort to find a place that will hire you and train you up in formal engineering practices for those first few years of experience.
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The right-biased Either, and the partial unification support that it builds on, are a much needed and much appreciated improvement. Really looking forward to trying out this release.
The greater point is that 727 hours of staff time were spent on it.
Cassandra is designed to be eventually consistent; that means that if the node didn't yet get the update(s), a client will get stale data. This is basically the same issue as with DNS.

If I define that incomplete data equals to corrupt data, which I do, I am incapable of conceiving a scenario where corrupt data would be acceptable.

Why would one define it so? Because I'm convicted that computers should always deliver correct data, and in my conviction, data can never be correct unless it is also complete. Therefore, atomicity or bust; therefore, Cassandra = false, and in such a case, milion writes per second is of no consolation.
> it makes absolute sense for a B2B entity to be present at trade shows

It may make sense for some B2B entities to be present at trade shows but the article is talking about early-stage companies buying trade show sponsorships. Depending on how you interpret "early-stage", I'd argue that this article is wholly accurate -- there likely is a smarter way to spend that $5,000. However, at some point you cross a line where your product is ready for the next growth stage and that $5,000 is well spent at $X Conference. At that point, $X Conference is part of your larger marketing strategy, also pointed out in the article.
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Why would anyone possibly care that someone knows what the state of their lights are from far away? We care because of something that happens locally; burglary.

>I'm sure there are subtle and clever ways to abuse these devices that are still unknown.

The security of residences as fairly well understood at this point. The attacks have been occurring for centuries. My point is that we can't treat this as an IT problem. We have to take the old cultural knowledge into account as well.
Some context for the two photos of what seems to be a editorial office doing questionable things?
I don't get the meetings bulletpoint. There is no way a startup can compare to the meetings load of a "Big Boy" company. I have always marked the transition from "Start-up" to "Enterprise" by how much time the company spends in meetings. Smaller companies make more decisions by force of persona, and larger ones have endless meetings to make sure no one feels left out of a minute decision.

We have even codified it into a named activity in the software development process, bike shedding
What you're describing reminds me of survivor bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
But Brexit has never been defined (in terms of a government position on what it actually means in trade terms for example) , so saying Brexit means Brexit is pretty much nonsense!
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout

India has slightly higher turnout than the U.S.
Not if someone else forces you to listen to the music of their choosing. I hate open plan offices and startup kool-aid
There is a danger you might see something? What?
Who'd have thought it? People getting emotional about stuff.

When all software is designed to be consumed by other computers then we can ignore those emotional reactions, for as long as software is consumed by animals it is going to be a vitally important factor.
I believe the 20 percent improvement in perf and engagement alone justifies the effort. Otherwise, the choice of React in this instance is great because you can fail quickly (easy to learn + very easy to start integrating), therefore being able to stop blowouts before they arise.
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Yes - the Ontario Teachers Federation (the parent body that manages the different Ontario teachers' unions) was made aware of the outsourcing shortly after it was announced in July. They questioned Ron Mock (OTPP's CEO) shortly afterwards, and voted to have OTPP reverse the decision:

https://twitter.com/oectagovernor/status/768170531468095492

Sadly, this has resulted in no visible changes to the decision.

The OTPP fund is currently at $171.4 billion (all figures in Canadian dollars) as of December 2015, with $13.2 billion in surplus funding as of January 1, 2015. Makes you wonder why they'd go through this kind of cost cutting, doesn't it?
Licenses of office are pretty expensive and the software is extremely bloated. It is also proprietary and not on linix

Latex has bloat problems too but there must be some lightweight distribution i just didnt find

Same for libre office, extremel bloated, but i still work sometimes with it. Latex has also better support in a lot of communities and a ton of packages.
What's that saying? Emacs is a great OS it just needs a good text editor?
Found it: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/hidpi-su...
In the same topic, dunno if it applies to cassandra.

I've seen some databases work in "append only" mode. They write new data to the end of the file. They never erase existing data.

It's generally a very efficient write patterns (even on good old spinning drives) and it allows to always write in batch.

On the opposite, read are expensive, they require to "find" stuff from various places and read it and verify it and [if configured] repeat on multi nodes to compare the values.
How do you know they are safer? My understanding was that many ingredients, particularly for flavored formulas are proprietary and unknown.
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Sometimes there are no good (efficient) alternatives to eventual consistency. I guess it all depends on the level of complexity that a developer or architect is willing to accept.
I enjoyed the link thanks. The patterns concerned there develop out of unstable states (random or patterned) by ~preferences of the interconnecting medium. I notice two dimensional mediums were only examined and 3d may provide scope for more complex phenomenon.
The apparent patterning which Hoff mentions is entirely coincidental and uncoordinated by any medium/connection between random variates. Collections of random variates are able to present seemingly unlikely relationships or artefacts which can amount to meaningful or stable forms in other contexts - as monkeys at a keyboard chancing on a few pearls of wisdom.

I have spent a while scrutinising the appearance of patterns in test plots for my random number library: http://strainer.github.io/Fdrandom.js/ and learned that they can be expected to occur to some degree.
There surely must be some theoretical and philosophical investigations of chaos capacity to chance on order.
>There used to be more women employed as computer programmers than men //

Can you cite a good source for this.

I'm concerned it might be confusing the job called "programmer" with the role we now call programmer. AIUI in the early days of computers a "programmer" was a sort of typist that took a written program and punched the cards that allowed the program to be entered in to a computer, the technical tasks of algorithm design, program construction and such were generally not done by these same people.

That aside, I'm not sure it matters: why aren't there more female top chefs? It's certainly not because women don't like to cook. I posit that it's because in general they care less about being competitive and prefer to avoid high-stress situations.

Do you consider that testosterone is inert? It's mood and mind altering and men have lots of it. Denying the basic biological differences between the sexes is a dangerous axiom on which to attempt to create a stable and fair society.

Men, as an example, undergo hormonal changes when they become parents. These changes lead to greater tendencies towards nurturing behaviours, tendencies that female ordinarily possess by default and which make men and women naturally suitable for different societal and occupational roles. It makes a lot of sense for humans to be hormonally perturbed towards preference and ability at different roles -- why we are fighting against that rather than embracing it is well beyond my ken.
All though not a direct replacement I use use a program called CherryTree which is amazing, it does all the usual stuff (hierarchical notes) etc, what I really like is you can do everything from the keyboard and it allows you to embed code and stuff as well.

Don't be put off by the website the product is much better than the site would imply.

http://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

One of the things I like is that you can store notes in an SQLite DB and that makes syncing easy via Dropbox, if you pass it the path to the storage file on the CLI it will open that as well so I have it bound to a hotkey combination which lets me quickly open it, edit and close so it stays out the way when I don't need it and is there when I do.
They actually did and a lot was intercepted one way or the other. It required a lot of middle men to work.
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That's not fiber, that's Openreach VDSL (BT Infinitniy) over coper which only supports 70-80MB down and about 20-30MB down.

London and some other parts of the UK have FTTH now, and it's cheap I am paying 30GBP for a 1 gig symetric connection via hyperoptic.

Fiber to the curb is not fiber, anything below 300MBit should not even be considered broadband at this day and age tbh.
I was actually very surprised when my wife told me she reviews permissions of app store apps on Android.

I thought for sure the average would be to just completely ignore them.
Keep in mind, if you live in the US, that the Jolla is an EU phone, and doesn't support US 3G or 4G frequencies. I was stuck with a Jolla on 2G for a while. Recently I got a OnePlus X and installed Sailfish OS on that, and the experience has been much better.
Does anyone have sample sizes on Jar file size reduction, or clean compile time from the new backend? I haven't been deep in Scala for a few months, and it sounds interesting that Java8 allowed some improvements on the back end...
Most of Microsoft's income comes from businesses. They already use a subscription service called Software Assurance. That's the income they will need to replace.
> Litigating what the correct meaning of "startup" is on HN is not productive

I disagree. It's really really really hard to build a business and make it grow. Any logical tools we can use to cut down on the space of strategies and goals worth pursuing is worth its weight in gold. Coming to more restrictive definitions of "startup" does exactly that.

More prosaically, if we don't do it ourselves, investors are just going to do it for us and leave us in the dark as to what their real criteria for funding is. We want them to be a part of the conversation because bootstrapping everything sucks. Being needlessly inclusive hurts everybody.
Hey, I prefer lesbian porn myself because not into watching dudes but come on... Most porn is naked woman and men having sex so not seeing dick would be kinda hard. What's wrong? The penis to titillating for you?
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I think the idea is that it's worth "overpaying" for a single exceptional employee in a given area, as opposed to underpaying for several.

(Which seems to be a definite truism in my observation of which businesses and teams succeed and fail).
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Meh. Some of this "content" doesn't really qualify as content, though. I suspect a lot of sites on the bubble of being eliminated by ad blocking are just derivative, reposting sites, and should probably be culled from the herd anyway. For example, how many "Apple news" sites do we really need, posting and reposting the same dubious rumor eleventy-seven times?
IMHO, don't put ads on your website until you build some traffic, something like > 500 pageviews/day. You will make a few cents per month until you have consistent traffic and there is no point in annoying your users with ads.

Most important thing is to put good content on your website. Blogging consistently, as in 2 - 3 articles per month, is another good tip.

Promote your articles on HN and Reddit, but don't spam these every day, just when you think you have something good to share.

To give you an example, for a technical blog with an average of about 2500 pageviews per day you get around $50/month from AdSense.

AFAIK, for technical blogs you can potentially get more money from affiliate links, like Amazon.
Please! Stop! It's like you're kicking me in the teeth!

I'm with an international corporation. This week alone, I'm averaging about 2 hours of meetings per day. I was expected to attend an "optional" networking event last week. Since it was "optional", I didn't go. If and when that negatively affects me, I'll know it's time to go job hunting. I can see from one end of this floor to the other, because open office floor plan is best office floor plan.
This is the version of Scala that breaks compatibility with Java 6 in the generated bytecode, by making use of Java 8's features, like invokedynamic, default interface methods and integration with SAM types.

This is great because the generated bytecode is smaller and more resistant to binary compatibility issues. Scala has had problems with binary compatibility because its features don't map that well on top of the JVM and traits have been very problematic, so thankfully now we have a more efficient encoding. Having SAM support is also good for both Java devs wanting to use Scala libraries and for Scala devs wanting to use Java libraries.

But this also means that Scala 2.11 should be a long-term support version, because even though Java 6 and 7 have reached end of life, the world is not ready to fully commit to Java 8, as sadly there are projects like Android that are holding us back.

Scala 2.12 is a big achievement, with many changes under the hood. I'm happy to finally see it released. Kudos to those involved.
Key distinction: that feed must have an algorithm controlling it's order so as to maximize the profit.
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As a matter of fact, yes... that's a "common" very advanced optimization.

I've mostly seen it for load balancers. Pin the network card interrupt on one core and the load balancer on another.
It's like Rancher but for Docker Swarm (or just a host with Docker). I really like it! We run our own container registry for our engineering group based on Artifactory. Could this be made to work with that (or even Quay)? [EDIT]Actually I just deployed this and saw that you can support other registries out of the box. Cool!
Is that a lot of time for a logo redesign? I've spent more time brushing my teeth than that.
The problem of undetected vote tampering at scale > individual voter being relatively easy -- this problem was pretty clear in the original article.
The Neo900 would have been excellent had it come out two years ago, as originally planned. However, the various delays keep pushing it back, although it still has the same hardware. It will end up quite underpowered like the N900 is now, combined with an older chipset that doesn't support things newer open phone OS's require (like Wayland).
I'm a fan of using org mode files on Github. Hopefully, Github continues to expand org support:

https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/blob/master/README.org

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/README...
I can use rsync, I'd rather it all integrated. I don't think this is a big request here, as every other editor has at least a functional plugin for this.
Great stuff but can you please scale up font contrast a bit?

Just removing this `body { color: #586E75 }` altogether makes your page readable.
Persona only required you to create an account if your email provider didn't support it (or your custom domain doesn't delegate it) or they didn't have special handling for your email provider. There was a bunch of confusion about this early on because a lot of potential early adopters were generally geeks like us who have our own email domains and didn't automatically fall into the special handling (which Persona supported Gmail and Yahoo, which remain the two largest email domains).