skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VBA: LibreOffice can run Python macros. Granted, the rewrite from VBA to Python is necessary, but the possibility is there and in the long term, Python is much nicer to work with than VBA.

AD: Have a look into FreeIPA. It is Active Directory equivalent for Linux and Unix systems (but not Group Policy). Centralized updates are done using Spacewalk/Satellite.

Old stuff: that's the thing with old stuff. Going forward, these things are undergoing a change to web and snmp interfaces. I'm currently looking into thermometers and moisture meters, and this is the standard.

3rd party support contracts: you don't have to accept the stock contract, ask for changes that you need. The providers are not going to say you no, it's just not there because most companies are not asking for it, so they won't be proactive in providing that.
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I had to find a readable writeup: http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/warrior...
I'm using a Retina MacBook. The readability problem with Computer Modern is intrinsic to its design, and even a 200 dpi screen just isn't enough to make it look good (IMHO). But it's definitely much worse still on Windows.

My question is: why use this particular 1980s font developed to showcase a dead-end stroke rendering technology, when there are much better alternatives around?
Obviously no one has a crystal ball, but do you think it would be completely out of character?

Personally, I don't think history repeats itself like that, I rather believe he is the second coming of Berlusconi - someone who is rich from the beginning and wants to corrupt the country, intimidate or buy out the media and have coke parties with underage hookers, while filling his coffers.

But I wouldn't be surprised if he started a war with eg. China just to rally the country behind him. And something like that can get out of hand quick.
What's funny is that the price difference between both countries is almost anecdotal in the case of milk. You would probably have a heart attack if you saw the price of cheese, and not only imported cheese, domestic 'artisanal' cheese too. The prices are just borderline grotesque, they are so extreme that they basically sell cheese pre-cut, in tiny tiny quantities. Most consumers ignore the fact that different kinds of cheeses should be cut a certain way for actual reasons and not out of sheer snobbism, consequently they sell them the pointe and the talon at the same price, lol!

Can't resist: the other day we made a 3 cheese fondue for four and it costed us close to a benjamin just in cheese at WF!
Porto - European best destination 2017 (https://vimeo.com/203346600).

Not very expensive with lots of things to visit (nature, culture, nightlife, food, etc).

Porto airport has a Ryanair hub with flights to many cities in europe if you're into it.
Somewhere out there do exist these ideal C developers that write perfect safe code.

Sadly in more than 30 years of career I never met one. Not even the BSD and Linux kernel devs, given the amount of entries on the CVE database.

Even Dennis complained about this, regarding the genesis of lint.

So I wonder where do they exist.
Is this feature not built into current version of chrome on linux?

On windows, you can go to any URL and in the "Customize and Control Chrome (the 3 vertical dots) and select "Add to desktop" select "open in new window" option. Chrome will then select the icon from the URL's favorite icon, and open the URL in menuless window.

This has been a feature I believe since 2012.
The second article in fact references the prior article and makes an argument that the writer is being over optimistic.
The second article in fact references the prior article and makes an argument that the writer is being over optimistic.

Personally, I think it's refreshing to see that kind of dialog in one publication, especially on an issue as complicated as this.
Well, the author is a movie producer and the US president always represents the world in the movies, so ...

(I believe this is called "cultural hegemony")
Maruti was founded in 1981 and it was the beginning of the end for the Ambassador. Premier was a much bigger player than Sipani.
>You live there because that's where employers who will pay high wages are

People choose to live in specific cities for reasons other than their current job.

>you decide to live there instead of working remotely

Not everyone gets to work remotely.

>or living somewhere with a lower cost of living

Not everyone can do a shitty commute for years on end without becoming depressed.
> If you have carpeted floors, you can use those little teflon disks that you insert under your furniture legs. Once you have all the legs on the teflon disks, its quite easy to push them around.

Well... you're bound to running (or bumping) into problems when you have... physical activity on the couch. You'd need some way of anchoring e.g. a couch so that it doesn't move around when not desired.
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A weird trend became apparent to me, just now, as I started to read this article.

The blog posts posted on HN are generally higher quality than the "news"/"media" posts: less sensational, more informed. I don't feel like this particular articular is uninformed but it definitely feels like it's been sensationalized to try to make me feel one way about the subject.

Or at least, this seems true for the ones that I read. Does this seem true to anyone else? (Or does the opposite seem true?) Does this apply outside HN? (I rarely venture out into other news sources these days)
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Global warming is about much more than sea levels. Arguably, that's not even the most important concern. Food/water shortages, war over resources, refugee crisis that makes this one feel tiny in comparison etc.
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It's too coarse grained and has annoying and inflexible semantics regarding umask and the setgid bit. And you can only have a single group granted read or write access. What about granting an additional group read-only access? For situations where one group has responsibility for maintaining a dataset, but others need access to the data but are not permitted to modify it. You could use the other permissions, but not if you still need it private for everyone else.

umask: A user with a umask of 0220 can write to the shared directory but no other group members will be able to read
setgid: A user creating a directory with the setgid bit dropped will end up losing the shared group ownership and use their default group instead, again making it impossible for other group members to read and write data

ACLs such as NFSv4 ACLs include inherited ACEs for files and directories, so that the permissions set on newly created files and directories are controlled. Since these extended permissions are outside the scope of the standard group, setgid and umask settings, you have a system which is transparent to all users--once they are set up, no end user needs to care about them.
Reset the phone to factory default?
In regard to safety you could use Basic and Pascal compilers, while Rust doesn't arrive.

https://www.mikroe.com
" One of the reasons I stayed at JPL for twelve years was that I was appalled at what the software industry had become. The management world has tried to develop software engineering processes that allow people to be plugged into them like interchangeable components. The "interface specification" for these "components" usually involves a list of tools in which an engineer has received "training." (I really detest the use of the word "training" in relation to professional activities. Training is what you do to dogs. What you should be doing with people is educating them, not training them. There is a big, big difference.)

To my mind, the hallmark of the interchangeable component model of software engineers is Java. Without going into too many details, I'll just say that having programmed in Lisp the shortcomings of Java are glaringly obvious, and programming in Java means a life of continual and unremitting pain. So I vowed I would never be a Java programmer, which pretty much shut me out of 90% of all software engineering jobs in the late 90's."

Word, this needs to be seen for what it has turned into if we're ever going to get out. I've tried every kind of paid software dev setup, it's all abusive business bullshit these days.
Sigh.

> Comments are not being deleted on r/bitcoin for expressing views, discussing ideas or debating proposals.

Yes they are.

> Comments that promote the use of alternative clients that attempt to alter the bitcoin protocol rules prior to building consensus around the proposal, however, are.

Comments promoting non-core clients are. Segwit is a disruptive change to the protocol and yet is has been allowed since day one. And also: how are you supposed to building consensus if it's censored? The cognitive dissonance is amazing.

> An hardfork protocol change that does not have significant support from the community is basically an altcoin that starts from the current UTXO set, and so is considered off-topic for r/bitcoin.

A hardfork doesn't an altcoin make. "Significant support from the community" is a misnomer. Bitcoin is built around nakomoto consensus, not some flimsy community definition.

> Would you say that the r/bitcoin moderators removing posts about ethereum as being off-topic also engage in "censorship"?

When negative posts are allowed then yes it's obvious.
I'm sure these hyphenations exist in every part of the World. It's these hyphenations that make a Nation stronger IMHO. In India, we have Luso-Indians (or Portuguese Indians), Dano-Norwegian Indians, German-Indians, French-Indians, Chinese-Indians, Parsis (Persian-Indians) etc. who made India their home. We don't force them to call themselves only "Indian". Why would you want someone to sever their past and their rich cultural heritage just to prove their Patriotism? Isn't that against the very notion of a "Free country" / "Republic"? As long as the citizen is not involved in any anti-National activities (terrorism, hate speech, espionage, disdain/disrespect for the Country's laws etc.) there is no need to bring that citizen's loyalty under suspicion.

There is no measure with which one can "feel more sympathy" for their ancestral-country than the country for which they have accepted citizenship. "Feel more sympathy" for what? Would an adopted child "feel more sympathy" for it's biological parents than the parents that nurtured it?
Any statue establishing those could also establish that those are proper cause for immediate deportation, no need for fancy forms and logic-gymnastics.
This article is total crap. It's super long and at half it's length it hasn't yet told me how this flipping tomb has upended what we thought we knew about western civilisation.

Jo Marchant is an awful writer and should probably be doing something else for a living.
>intends to abolish democracy

He don't even know what that is. He has already demonstrated that he was surprised that he can't rule the government as a CEO-king. Bannon believes in big war that cleansing the system, so maybe he does. Attorney General Sessions has shown clear contempt against civil rights.

>or commit genocide?

Of course not. Fascism is not equal to genocide. He want's to kill families of those who he opposes. So he is probably with some mass murders, but I don't think it's on the top of his mind.

Compare two fascist states in Europe, Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini. They took two different paths. In Germany fascism developed without restraints into self destructive expansion. In Italy fascism turned into normal authoritarian rule and dictatorship under Mussolini.

If the assumption is that comparisons to fascists and Hitler all suggest some kind of holocaust, they are meaningless.
> There is no other country in the world where you can just get a loan that leverages you up 10:1.

That's a big claim, and possibly I've misunderstood it. I live in England and I had no trouble at all getting a mortgage with a 10% deposit.
Previously discussed 12 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13530846
Sure, that's Everett's (wild, unsubstantiable, absurd) claim: that the Piraha, a human people, speak a nonhuman language.

And that affects the claim that recursion is the defining characterstic of human language -how, again?
This sounds somewhat close to the world depicted in the TV show "Incorporated".
Around when Microsoft gifted Facebook the @messenger twitter handle. Though I'm unsure if Microsoft also owned the messenger domain

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Gives-Messenger-Twi...
Could you please elaborate on why it makes you miss PHP?
i was also told that Markov-chains are not used for NN anymore, but i learn them because often they get combined with NNs and used for other aspects of the problem (if i remember right AlphaGo used them beside NNs).

the blog article was useful, thank you! A problem with most of the recommendations is that they are targeted at software engineers wanting to learn some ML. They mostly don't need to understand back propagation fully and don't have that complex of a problem. So the requirements are the absolut basics (what are vectors/matrices and how to multiply them). Also their math-background is either non-existent or a long time ago. I am a student and constantly learning math, so i am in a different position. I am also interested in really understanding NN, including recent papers. They vary, some being not very math-heavy (the dropout paper) and some being the opposite (bayes neural network, only skimmed some papers). Many paper introduce a new idea borrowed from other branches of math, so you can't specialise too much. A broad understanding is important. Also we still lack a unifying theory, so we definitely don't know what math will become really important in the future.
I think with Thrill, there are two different skill levels to be distinguished:

- Using it to implement things should be fairly easy and doesn't require advanced knowledge of C++. Basically you have to plug lambdas that do the processing into the provided operations, similar to Spark, but using C++ syntax. It might require some compiler error parsing skills, but altogether it shouldn't be too different from using Spark with Java/Scala

- Extending Thrill requires familiarity with modern C++, possibly including advanced template tricks.

Since there isn't a whole lot of advanced stuff available for Thrill (yet), that means that currently people with the latter skills would most likely be required at the moment. But in a world where the same libraries available for Spark are available for Thrill or a similar C++ framework, that wouldn't be the case. Note that Thrill is currently quite experimental.

I guess it's a trade-off, but dismissing the potential for 10x runtime gains "because C++" seems too one-sided. That isn't to say that the C++ frameworks don't have a long way to go before they can rival Spark etc in ease of use and tooling, they do! But at least they point out the inefficiencies and potential for improvement in these existing systems.
> for instant & nearly free txs via the Lightning Network

It's amazing we're putting all our hopes on a technology best labeled as vaporware. You make it out like it's readily available but the fundamental problem of decentralized routing hasn't been solved and it may even be unsolvable.

The simple fact is that blockstream is pushing segwit precisely for it being a necessity for lightning network, not because it's a good thing for bitcoin.

The correct solution would have been a blocksize increase long ago but the same people supporting segwit has been actively blocking all attempts at a blocksize increase previously. Why the sudden change? As another comment said, "Follow the money, it's not baffling at all."
also censored on https://zoom.earth/#-70.166939,87.824707,11z,sat
I am troubled by your expansive definition of the word "evil".
Jo Marchant is an awful writer and should probably be doing something else for a living.

There are many of people who enjoy long form articles and who read this sort of thing very happily. The author is writing for them, and not you.
This is very interesting! So if anonymitiy isn't correlated with abuse, then what is? I believe the answer is community standing. Anonymous and low-ranking users know they will suffer the consequences for foul language therefore they moderate themselves. Users with thousands of edits to their name, knows they will get away with it.

About ten years ago when I edited Wikipedia, there was one particularily nasty user who accused everyone who didn't agree with exactly everything he wrote. I belive this person was mentally ill, but he spent a lot of time on Wikipedia and wrote a lot of content.

Several people brought complaints about him and his toxic behaviour, but he always had the backing of Jimmy Wales (the leader of the project), who would make excuses for him. If the community intervened against this person by for example temporarily banning him, Wales would intervene and undo the ban.

So this person kept being nasty because there were no repercussion. Eventually I believe he got tired of the Wikipedia project and left on his own violiton.
The headline made me sad but this comment made me laugh. If only all life's problems could be handled with simple engineering. With all the machinery you'd have to stuff everywhere, there'd be a lot more problems.
A friend of mine has a magnet in one of his fingertips, he can feel vibration in the electric field. (he can tell whether a hard drive is running by hovering withhis finger over it). There are special nerves for vibration.

The brain interface is more distant in the future and more scary. I prefer going through a normal sense for simple values. You can ignore, rationalize and somewhat isolate a sensation, but not a thought.
Welcome to the real world of digital nomadism
The last US election can't be described without talking about the loosing candidate. A majority of voters on both side voted, not based on policy, but on emotional hatred towards the other candidate.

To compare it with 1920 Germany, would we have to frame it around the emotional state of both sides. Did the Weimar Republic focused their politics on their hatred for Hitler and his voters? In contrast to the US election, not only did that not happen but when Hitler got elected as Chancellor he did so as part of a minority coalition (41%) where the Nazi party held a meekly three out of eleven seats in the Papen-Nationalist-Hitler coalition. Voter focus seems (as far as historians seems to imply) to be on the treaty and difference between the four political parties.
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FYI http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-quietly-dumps-oracle-mys...
> If the assumption is that comparisons to fascists and Hitler all suggest some kind of holocaust, they are meaningless.

They are meaningless.

The Holocaust is the reason everyone still talks about Hitler 70 years later, the reason people still compare politicians they don't like to Hitler.

If you merely wish to discuss "normal authoritarian rule" there are hundreds of other leaders to whom you could make less emotionally charged comparisons.

But I'm curious, now that you've said Trump doesn't know what democracy is and offered a comparison with "normal authoritarian rule and dictatorship under Mussolini" ...

Do you think we'll still hold elections 4 years and 8 years from now and Trump will resign peacefully when his term ends?
This is mostly wrong.

It's true they probably won't allow a generic Beehive user. But they will allow individual users to setup their own app accounts which will get access to public posts.

This seems to meet the above usecase exactly.
This is so buggy on mobile. When I reload the site, the "publish" button is missing. On publish it loads forever...
As someone who recently returned to C++ after a few years away, start with C++11 which feels like a modern language and dare I say very Pythonic. I'd say you need to grasp the following concepts to get you up and running the quickest:

1. Fundamentals of C++ mainly virtual polymorphism and STL. Make sure you understand the mechanisms (vpointers and vtables) as I'd bet my house almost every C++ interview will cover these.
2. C++ 11 style including memory management.
3. The famous "50 ways" book for good practice such as const and explicit class declaration etc.

Lastly, probably the best Youtube resource I found for learning is the following bitesize 20 min lectures which explain key concepts, though some may be a bit outdated. Watch one over lunch and practice in your IDE at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/user/BoQianTheProgrammer/playlists
Show HN: Minimalist stock price alert for Android
I use the --app flag in chrome, to create shortcuts for homerolled webinterfaces for this and that.
(on Ubuntu 16.04)
The problem with ash is due to how jet engines work: they push air through them, which is heated up significantly. The ash melts and becomes glass which can damage the engine.

The machine they flew in is a Piper PA-28-181 (Archer II), which looks like this: http://iowaflighttraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Arc...

Ash still isn't a great medium to fly in, but at least they won't fly through (a high density of) glass particles.
I was going to ask that. 20k sales per year in a country with 1b people seems really low.
Somewhat. I just dug through Laravel's source code and the comments helped.

Having an annotated guide for each software would be difficult but all of us have to start somewhere.
It sounds like a good idea, until you trip over the rearranged furniture in the dark, in some apartment you thought you knew..

sudo apt-get instyell toe-holding-curses
>Please refrain from eating shark, puffin or whales. The only reason why we are still killing endangered species is solely tourism. The local population does not eat them. Please try lamb soup instead. Or one of the amazing Iceland hotdogs.

I feel compelled to point out that none of the species are endangered[1][2][3] and that the hot dogs are honestly not that amazing[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minke_whale
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_puffin
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
[4] Citation needed
Did you click because you actually wanted a Northern Lights holiday, or because it was novel? If the latter, then your traffic was pointless - if you weren't thinking of buying, then they won't be interested in your visit.
Oh wow, I had no idea that write buffers needed to be on the order of a megabyte on modern systems.
I would assume that since a caldera is usually shaped like a cup, there is some flow towards the center where it's deeper. I.e. like with water flowing into a lake, the glacier has a catchment area.
wreak -> reek

sulphur reeks

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Neither did I! And in fact it took almost 2 days to question/overcome my assumptions.

"It's not what you don't know that kills you. It is what you know for sure that ain't true" -- Mark Twain
I'd imagine it's safer if your plane isn't going 900km/h with turbofans.
There was no "transformation" - Google clearly signalled its intention from the get-go in the mission statement.
I am hoping that Contessa also comes back.
So is this any different on Linux? Why is OSX in the title?

Are syscalls more expensive on OSX?
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The entire point of the article is that this way of thinking is outdated. Yes, we have long considered homes as primary investments and as the best way to grow wealth, and yes, we have had falling home prices bite us in the ass before. But these things are not set in stone, and a world where houses are just one of many goods we own and consume would work out just fine too, and perhaps it would work even better.

We can change the tax code, and home prices don't have to drop suddenly like they did in 2008 and put people underwater. They could simply plateau.
The graph could use an X axis label. I'm assuming it's "Buffer size in kB". It would also be nice to include the datapoint you started with (250MB/s from a 512byte buffer).