skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried Libreoffice writer briefly recently. I imported some large pictures onto a single page and it became unusably slow. It seemed to be redoing an expensive computation (likely the pictures) with every character I typed. So yes, clearly not as optimised as Word. I had to reluctantly ask to borrow my wife's computer with MS Office for this particular task.
I'm pretty sure the reason why they prune the memory tree so aggressively is that the storage requirement is proportional to the "memory radius in spacetime" cubed (or worse).
There isn't that much difference. But I'd pick something in the top 2-3 most popular. That way (once you show them) they can easily google their problem and likely find a web page and a youtube video to show them.

I picked ubuntu LTS because it's popular, fairly straight forward, and supported for 5 years. Change can be confusing and it's nice to minimize it and have long enough so you can plan when to upgrade instead of having things randomly change every 6-9 months.

Set autologin, get rid of icons you don't need, and set them up a default homepage and some useful links. I recommend showing them a webmail instead of a mail client which tends to be more complex.

Go over basic safety (one password per site), never giving a credit card number out (or only to trusted sites over ssl). If there's a local LUG (linux user group) it might be worth mentioning.

If they want my help I enable remote ssh (with passwords disabled) and put my key on it. That way I can fix things, see their screen, etc.
Historically unpopular :-)
By that logic, it's a bit early to conclude that Pluto orbits the sun. We haven't even seen it go half way around yet.
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Many of the files are XLSB, which is like XLSX except it stores sheets in a binary format. For reasonably large files, opening XLSB is much faster than XLSX.

Google Sheets straight up fails if you try to upload files in that format. No preview available and no option to work around. So I would have to open the file in Excel anyway.

Relatively new versions of LibreOffice are capable of opening simple files, but once you get into features like named ranges LO fails.

So even if the UI is acceptable, failures on data import force me to keep a copy of Excel around. Keep a VM with Excel for Windows around just in case files don't work in Excel for Mac, but I've used it maybe once in the last 6 months.
Keep it short. One to two paragraphs with summary / goals / why you want to work there in the email body or in a cover letter helps as well.

In the CV itself, max two pages, bullet points with relevant technologies, most recent/relevant work experiences, URLs for Linkedin / github / projects.
Can't agree more on the one page part. Depending on the background / culture of candidates I've had resumes up to 12 pages long.

A bit of formatting also helps, a professional looking resume will frame your accomplishments better. Something many readers are sensitive for.

And show impact. "Developed key metrics for project hazel" reads different than: "rewrote metrics engine resulting in real time view on all client transactions, leading to $10M in new marketing opportunities".

And finally, if you're really interested in a job. Adapt your CV to show the most relevant information for that job first (and word it in the best possible way, e.g. look for the language the employer uses to describe the job)
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I didn't know Aaron well. The only time I met him in person was in San Diego at OSCON 2002, where he struck me as a cocky, earnest, and bright person, tilting his head back to ask the taller people around him what technologies and tools they thought he should learn next. He didn't seem young, so much as just short and inexperienced, but raring to go.

And go he did. After that first encounter, it seemed like I was always running into him online. Like some illuminating flare shot from a mortar, he shone brightly enough to light up many important debates and throw them into stark relief, often with sharp, sarcastic wit, and a healthy disrespect for authority figures.
He gave the world so much, with his own blend of technology, activism, building the world he wanted to live in, whacking away at the parts that were crude and and unnecessary holdovers from the past, and just plain stirring shit up that needed stirring. It may sound weird, but for all that Aaron was sixteen years younger, he was the kind of person I want be when I grow up and get my shit together.

And now, we'll never get to see what sort of person he would have become.

Note: Adapted from https://plus.google.com/+MichaelBernstein/posts/2pYp53qSnSx
That is exactly the joke.
Qt is C++ and only breaks binary compatability on major version changes (~6 years apart).

It's hard, but certainly not hopeless.
Life is boring if you don’t take risks – Story from living in 5 countries
"Beta tested and used by almost 1,000 YC founders"

Most things I have clicked on have about 10 ratings tops and one line reviews. Even as a quantitative tool it's not that useful (yet). Would be interested in seeing some stats. From a first glance I expect a correlation between number of ratings and positive ratings. At least the subcategories I clicked through all followed that pattern.

I'd also love a filter on the subpages like: https://founderkit.com/biz/optimizely where I can filter the negative feedback to the top (especially once there's a lot more data). I personally make most decisions after reading negative feedback and only roughly browsing the positive feedback.

Edit: I'd also like to read a bit more on the reasoning of the ranking. Why was this system (popularity, score, recency) picked over purely ranking on score?
If there was ever a case for immortality, this is it.

I'd love to see how this turns out.
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So MongoDB should state 'insecure out of the box' on their home page ? Just kidding sorry.
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>> Windows is still so, so far from all of those, that it's still not even close to being a suitable replacement.

As a developer who does not develop using any Microsoft technologies, this couldn't be farther from the truth. I left my previous job specifically because all 600+ employees were unequivocally required to use Windows. The company and coworkers were by far the best I've worked with, but it became no longer worth the daily frustration of fighting my toolset just to even try and get work done. Oh, you are using VMs on Windows? No, you cannot have a case-sensitive folder share. Symlinks accessible on both the host and guest? Never!

Windows is a disaster. Neither Putty nor cygwin provide an acceptable remote terminal, and PowerShell is a joke as a local console. Multiple monitors with multiple spaces/desktops per screen is impossible to use on a native install, and the third party offerings are all buggy beyond belief. Win+Tab looks like something a 5 year old would design.

I'm back to working for a company who will buy the hardware you request. I finally realized I'm senior enough to be able to ask for the hardware and software licenses I need to be productive; any pushback during the interviewing phase or post-interview negotiations simply means I move on to the next company. I am grateful to have reached the point where I have the freedom to choose.
^ Neal Khosla.
Lies.

Fights are very common, especially in the north-east. Foreigners are often assaulted for being foreigners. Last year, a foreigner-Chinese couple was attacked by a sword-wielding man for being a foreigner-Chinese couple in one of the busiest areas of Beijing, rife with police. The woman died [1].

Roads are very friendly to pedestrians indeed, where the driver will most likely try to run you over again to kill you so they won't have to pay medical fees [2].

Medical care is entirely commercial, and you won't even be attended to by a nurse until you wait in line and pay your bill. Some reference regarding medical care is here [3]. Additionally, health workers are often incompetent, don't follow hygiene requirements, etc. There is anecdotal evidence that the entry barrier to becoming a nurse is purchasing a nursing certificate online. And let's not forget how a government-supported healthcare program gave AIDS to hundreds of thousands of people less than 20 years ago [4].

Urban environments are polluted, grey and soulless, and cities are almost undistinguishable from one another besides the pollution level varying from "high" to "hazardous". I'm not going even to start about the legal system, since it is doesn't exist. Whoever knows the judge wins the case (it's never the foreigner).

[1] https://thenanfang.com/woman-stabbed-sanlitun-man-sword-grap...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...

[3] http://fortune.com/2016/07/10/china-healthcare-costs-debt/

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/11/china.internat...
Can you please give an example for an automated action flow?
I guess every open office has at least one you. Pray that one only..
I find gnumeric to be superior to excel for my workflow: create csv, import it, do math, make N similar graphs, tweak for publication, export to high quality PDF, embed in latex.

You could try office's web app thing if you are mostly a read only excel user.
I felt the same way. It gets you started on the fundamentals and explains it in a straightforward way.
I once finished a short course on using Autodesk Maya, but when I tried to move over to blender for personal projects, I found the change jarring, but with a start like this, I would've been more motivated to push onwards and learn the rest of Blender's functions
After a while it was also clear to me that this is synthetic data, but at first the wording sounds like this is real data, which lead to a bit of confusion.
I remember both that Windows 95/98/ME had it's issues and that at some point you could even buy Linux distros in a box next to the Windows boxes.

But how do you see the push Canonical did with Ubuntu? As I remember, the sentiment was that they were going to make Linux usable and easy for the average user, instead of going after advanced users. And IMHO they really succeeded in doing that, surely you're not saying that was all there before?

A user with absolutely no Linux or terminal experience can use an Ubuntu system for writing letters/emails/browsing and doesn't need to ever touch the terminal (provided all hardware is supported).
> Where is the ground truth in such a system which you can calibrate your results by?

Answering standard reading comprehension test questions? - "Why did Pierre meet Natasha at the church?"
"Plans were going up for years" - yes, but not as much they went up after ACA.

"[a]cross all states, from before the reform to the first half of 2014, enrollment-weighted premiums in the individual health insurance market increased by 24.4 percent beyond what they would have had they simply followed state-level seasonally adjusted trends.”

And the rate increase is 49% if you don't weight enrollment, which is a better indicator of individual impact.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fall201...
Maintainers for Linux desktop “critical infrastructure”
This was the primary reason I chose iOS over android.
Please ELI5; What info about your actions can IMEI info/actions give anyone with access?
Yes it is true, all major C compilers are now written in C++.

You can find everything related to GCC's C++ transition here:

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-in-cxx

On Windows even the C runtime, MSVCRT.dll got re-written in C++ and the C functions are actually extern "C" ones.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2014/06/10/the-great...

So a kind of small victory for us on the C++ side of the fence on the endless C vs C++ discussions.

Now the joke "my compiler compiles yours" has been reversed.
That's not what the reviews say. See:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B007URFTYI/R3VX95ER2W609...

There are several reviews that note similar things. I was just pointing out that it would be wise to actually read the terms since I don't think the grace period is a legal requirement.
It works by taking independent distributions and sampling them independently.

So any time you lack cross-correlation data (and age vs income isn't a widely available public data source) it will assume the data is uncorrelated, and you'll get this kind of error.

Whether it reduces the utility of the data depends on the use case. I suspect it often will.

I did think that referencing social networks is a bit off, since this isn't a social network model. We have those, this isn't one.
Which fallacy is that? The "fallacy" of substitute goods?

Burden of proof is on you at this point. Maybe in your haste to cry fallacy you just forgot to mention an actual Bitcoin side chain that would be competitive with Ethereum or Montero in that situation?
No one can believe that. That's one of the big lies of the Israeli government. Settlements will never be given back and the mission is to get all the land. That was the idea from the beginning and they think they have their god on their side.
They still can't get their gate fidelity anywhere close. Nice PR move ...again
I've literally never had a sound card that didn't work on Linux since alsa stabilized in the 2.4 days.

WiFi drivers are much less likely to work out-of-the-box; usually you need a firmware file which may require futzing with the windows driver installation package.
I typed a proper comment but my mobile browser messed up and deleted it, so here's the short of it: more than one page is fine, but I get that it's an opinion, just please don't give bad advice without mentioning it's a preference. Recruiters asked me why I am squeezing it into two when I mention I'm having trouble keeping it at two. Three is common as well. Might be personal, regional, but if I took your advice my résumé would be worse off.
I'll let your mom know.
As a bot I'm deeply depressed about that future.
Ha! Funny enough, triple asterisk actually renders as <i></i>* - an empty <i> tag followed by a single asterisk. Oh, HN, you. But thank you, something that visually renders properly.
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evince. It is the default PDF viewer in gnome, I think.
No it's not. There's Whatsapp for starters, which isn't blocked in China. There's always email. If your Chinese friends are ignorant about privacy, it doesn't mean you need to sacrifice yours.

> the utility of using WeChat or Baidu Maps was simply too great

"Give me convenience or give me death"
Please review the app and do give constructive suggestions.
I'd say that if you can't anticipate something being a breaking change or not, then you have an architecture problem. Likely violating principle of single responsibility.

Your software should define what the inputs are and what the outputs are. It should be clear when you're breaking an interface.
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Wow, you've certainly drunk some koolaid.

He funds seasteading

No he doesn't. He's all talk in that regard. What progress has actually been produced?

He also personally funded the hunt for justice against an evil rag hiding behind genuine journalistic protections.

He personally funded it, you say, as if it was some selfless act. He personally funded it because he had a very personal grudge. Not because he cares about journalism.

Shouldn't more billionaires be funding medical research?

Some are. Peter Theil is only funding medical research that has the potential to help him personally though.

You keep talking about this Ayn Randian as an altruistic figure, it's weird.

Violations of the 4th amendment suck, and if Palantir is part of them, it's not great. Trump is clearly not the best the business world had to offer. Christianity, not so fabulous.

Hmmm. Does If you're on the wrong side of an issue from Peter Thiel, it's not because he's being reflexively contrarian, it's because he could write a 100 page thoughtful essay on why his position is better than any alternative. only apply if it's not a position you are personally against?
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I am developer and I just buy android phone. I am worried about my personal info that will going to be share directly or indirectly? How can i avoid this at minimum level.
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Is this a (nearly) double post from a (nearly) single-purpose account?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13380273

Your effusive language undermines your credibility, for the record. Then again, I don't think I'm your audience.
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For those not aware of the current situation: Dick Smith Electronics went bankrupt about 12 months after this article.

They were like the Tandy or Radioshack of Australia at first, and followed a similar path - killing off their electronics hobbyist roots, and became pretty much a generic consumer electronics store.
Tracking people (phones) across apps and services.
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Find a popular open source project and navigate to their source repo and do a search for Theo have like binary search.

Or if you've ever used a database (you likely have either directly or indirectly) you've benefitted from a balance tree
Handling EU VAT for Stripe and Braintree
Hate for jews is over the world, i think that in USA or in Europe you will encounter quite a number of people that hate them and blame them for every kind of conspiracy. And it comes from the middle ages when they were blame for a lot of things just to get their money and influence. The hate problem is not only in arab countries.
Source code behind Ansible Galaxy
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Saw the presentation in ClojuTre in Tampere last year. It's a great idea, but a tad slow when injected a lot onto the page.
A good chunk of these questions I'm asking are because I half remember Qt's binary compatibility guidelines from when I did an internship at Trolltech many years ago :) A similar list is here: https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issu... . It looks like the virtual function restrictions are what I was talking about, that's where pure additions can break compatibility.
Unless I'm missing something, the ML approach seems rather easy with a bit of pre-processing:

1. screen capture (or equivalent)

2. blur (a lot)

3. scale the image down

4. increase contrast (a lot)

5. use an existing MNIST digit recognizer

6. ...

7. Profit!
You need to check the chipset before you buy. Intel and Atheros have a good reputation for Linux support. Broadcom does not. I heard broadcom is leaving the wifi market soon. If so, this should get better in short order.
1989 is also modern China ruled by Deng Xiaoping and in no way Maoist China.
I own a SSL certificate when I bought a domain from NameCheap. The SSL cert is provided by Comodo. I recently lost my box so I also lost my cert and had to revoke the existing one and ask to re-generate. I would need to wait ~3-6 hours before a new cert is available (ugh), so I decided to go to Let's Encrypt. While the initial setup for starter is quite confusing, I managed to create one regardless and I haven't looked back.

I can't help but to think when someone was designing this challenge scheme he/she must have thought of this potential risk, but probably shrug it because "most people won't be able to come up with this method."
Can someone explain what did qualcomm build here ? is this CUDA for ARM ?
Heh, I would be really surprised if it would work "now".

Maybe in five or ten years though
No it doesn't.

The linked article which is not a court ruling, it's a report from the "Office of the Prosecutor", says:

"While Israel maintains that it is no longer
occupying Gaza, the
prevalent view within
the international community is
that Israel remains an occupying power
under international law,
based on
the scope and degree of control that it has retained over the territory of Gaza
following the 2005 disengagement.
In accordance with
the reasoning
underlying this
perspective, the Office
has proceeded
on the basis that the
situation in Gaza
can be considered within the framework of an international
armed conflict
in view of the continuing
military
occupation by Israel.
The analysis conducted
and the conclusions reached
would
generally
not be
affected
and
still be
applicable,
if
the Office
was
of the view, alternatively,
that
the law applicable in the present context
and
in light of
the Israel-Hamas
conflict is
the law of
non-international
armed conflict.
Given the crimes of
possible relevance to the present situation, which are substantially similar in
the context
of
both international and non-international armed conflicts, it is
not necessary at this stage to reach a conclusive view on the
classification of
the conflict.
Additionally, as
the protection accorded by the rules on
international armed conflicts is broader than those relating to internal
conflicts, it seems appropriate,
for the
limited
purpose of a preliminary
examination,
in cases of doubt,
to
apply those governing international armed
conflicts."

So they're basically just discussing the context for this (whether the situation meets some legal criteria to get to the next stage, by the way it didn't). They say it's not really necessary to reach a conclusive view (i.e. at least the prosecutor has no conclusive view, not to mention the court) because it doesn't affect the outcome of this legal analysis.
I'm not sure it's that wise to look at this years money in and this years money out. Wouldn't it make more sense to look at say the last 5 years of money out and the last 5 years-X of money in (X being 6-10ish, whatever the average time to exit is)?

I also only realized what Drano is halfway through the article (non-US guy). Why not use a more generic title that more of the world understands like "Silicon Valley Needs a Startup Plunger"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_macroeconometric_m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Earth_Simulator_Project
Just because a package manager can use dotted numbers for versions doesn't mean it's relying on SemVer. Rubygems and apt, among many others, allow a wider format than X.Y.Z, and predate the SemVer spec.
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Oh, and one other thing: don't put useless information on there just because it's true. You are not required to list all your jobs just because you have an employment section. Same goes for education. Putting down that summer job flipping burgers tells me you don't have a clue what I'm looking for... which means you probably aren't it.

So again, keep everything on there short, relevant, and above all /on message/.
Linux has all of the foundation in place to be a great desktop OS, but the various user interfaces for it have all been inferior in my opinion. I've tried all of the major distro's and I've always come away thinking that the desktop UI was no where near as polished as OSX and the gap never seemed to shrink. There was this one distro I thought might have a chance, but Papyros never amount to much and seems to be in perpetual alpha. Linux has always been a function over form OS and that will probably never change, but it sure would be nice if form and function had equal billing one day.
And networks. Worldwide.
Just remember what a CV really is - it's a sales brochure to get you an interview. Nothing more, nothing less. Once you understand this what to include and what to leave off becomes obvious.