skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could be a curious nerd like me who bought coins on IRC at 3$ a pop trying to figure out what the hell this new thing is.

A problem for me now is what the hell to do with all these coins since I am fairly sure i would lose half in taxes (Capital gains, Ireland), and I doubt exchanges would accept "I bought them #bitcoin-otc back in the day" as a valid source of funds and not report me to authorities.

On bright side can go mad shopping on Amazon and holidaying via Expedia
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As someone who doesn't own a car I don't think you have that much insight into the mindset of people who own a car.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Better upgrade between LTS versions.

- DESCRIPTION:

I recently upgraded my Ubuntu server from 14.04 to 16.04. After the upgrade my file system was stuck in read only mode. I had to google around to find a fix.

I would be nice to have all these types of issues organized under an upgrade area to make problems like this less painful.
> It seems to now be more of a pointer referencing a basket of distributed processing technologies that run on YARN/HDFS

You reference the MapR distribution for their training material, and its interesting that their version of HDFS is a reimplentation in C++ (MapR-FS). Its part of the reason I settled on MapR to use tools like Apache Drill, because the filesystem becomes usable to non-Hadoop tools via NFS (i.e. Awk).

Given a shift in some categories away from map-reduce to other approaches, could Hadoop eventually just become a collection of distributed filesystems and job schedulers?
Vynd raises an Angel round from the former Minister of ICT
Vynd, a Tunisian startup, has raised $50k from the former Minister of ICT in Tunisia, Noomane Fehri, aslo called "The Startup Minister", Khaled Ben Jilani and Raouf Masmoudi.
Vynd is a new Yelp for foreigners planning to visit the world's first Arab democracy, on its way to reach 100,000 users in the next weeks.
You can find it here : www.vynd.com or download the app on Play Store. iOS and web versions are to be launched soon.
The difference is you can choose when you wear your ID Badge / ring outside of work hours.
The potential to have your location outside of work hours (by having readers secreted in places) is an invasion of privacy. Most likely requires cooperation from the 'other venues' and I'm not sure what their value proposition would be, but my lack of imagination doesn't rule out the possibility of nefarious uses.
The trading strategy aside.

The interesting part is that Bitcoin (or crypto in general) represents a limited supply commodity that will (eventually) start to decrease in available supply because it's also used as an active currency.

The users of it as an active currency (as opposed to the users of it as an investment) are price insensitive and don't care what they pay to borrow bitcoin for a few seconds. As long as volatility isn't crazy those few seconds, they are in and out of it as a store of value immediately.

That activity further limits supply. That's the thesis. Limited and dwindling supply along with having an active use that's price insensitive.

Hence his claim that apart from short-term volatility, as long as it increases it's use as a currency, it's long-term value must rise.
The first thing I did when I ditched mac was to get a pc motherboard/ram/cpu/psu and bolt it out of the way under my desk. More room on my desk is an upgrade. Nobody really makes enclosures designed to be out of the way.
> It's annoying, but not that annoying.

I dunno, I've done all kinds of stuff to my windows 10 machine to keep Candy Crush Soda from reinstalling itself. Yet every few weeks/months that King garbage ends up on my start menu.

I use windows 10 because I'm a .NET developer and a gamer. If I could use OSX on my desktop instead, and have access to the same steam games - I can't think of a reason I would stay.

> Less cluttering--I can uninstall apps on windows

On OSX you typically don't need to 'uninstall' just drag to the trash. Yeah, some apps leave some garbage behind - but the same happens on windows when you 'uninstall'

> Native package manager-- I guess Windows has Chocolatey and I use npm for dev work.

I think the biggest detriment on this point for windows is that the command line interface on windows is not friendly. I recently worked on a project where half the team didn't know powershell, and the other half really loved powershell. We also used some stuff from the node ecosystem. We had scripts that would only run in cmd.exe, powershell scripts, and scripts that only worked in bash. In the end http://cmder.net/ saved my butt, since I could have all three shells open.
You are wrong. Think about it. Tell me what distinguishes Amazon Cash from a private currency.
A study of security vulnerabilities on Docker Hub
But why is it that the PowerShell terminal emulator is (graphically) even worse than a tty ? I've worked on ttys more agreeable on the eyes than Windows terminal emulators.

Windows is supposed to have better font support than Linux.

Also, if someone here has an answer: Why in the design of Windows aren't programs installed or symlinked in the PATH by default? I guess that was a design choice somewhere along the history of Windows/DOS. Is there a reason?
Yes, I missed C#. C#/Java were largely developed in-house. So they would need huge teams and infrastructure. Rust/Go have huge community momentum so not all development is done by people paid by Google or Mozilla.
:( Why is it not the default? Is there a technical reason? I cannot think of any possible downside that the shortcuts would bring.
That was my poor choice of words. I can no longer edit but I hope everyone understands we're creating a second community for startup school participates that won't get access to the private slack group of the accepted candidates. I'm sure there will be a few gems among our community as well!
Why? You find homeless people scary?
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Poor people might take "the robocab from hell", but just as I don't order "the humancab from hell" now, but order from the slightly more upscale "clean, air-conditioned high end sedan with blacked out windows and wifi" for just a slightly higher fee, people who earn more will still have alternatives, yet will still benefit from the cost reductions.

The difference being that poor people will have the "robocab from hell" alternative rather than have nothing they can afford, and that more people will afford said high end sedan when it's self-driving, and will be able to justify it more often, and more people will afford to trade up to even more luxurious services.

There is already a marked class difference in commuting in London: Low paid people take the bus four two hours+ for commutes that'd take less than half that if they could afford the train from the outer fare zones (bus-rides cost the same within the entire London fares area), so transport is already today segregated by income. A lot of the longer bus lines makes no apparent sense until you realise that low paid people often can't afford the train, or a car.
Like Apple? lol
Every company comes out with dud products once in a while. Remember the G4 cube? Apple's had a bad run when it comes to desktop machines, but you've put your finger on exactly what they need to do next: pre-cylinder Mac Pro revamp. They've done exactly that before, I don't see why they wouldn't again. Of course, if the 2018 Mac Pro turns out not to fit this particular vision, I'd guess it's pretty much game over for all but the most niche of their pro desktop customers.
I know several folks on the team to varying degrees and they are a pretty cool group. Apply if you want great colleagues
Yes, Archie[1]. Wonderful resource until it was superseded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine
Law is a big outlier in general. There the degree doesn't matter at all, only the prestige. But I still wouldn't recommend paying 200k to go to Yale if Northwestern offered you a full ride. There is one SCOTUS job every 4-5 years.

For law, I'd say get a scholarship or aid at a great school or don't go at all.

In many ways grad school is an outlier in general. It's often just not worth it to get a PhD from a less respected institution. The difference is that most PhD programs pay you, not nice versa.
How to Use Redux to Make Your React Project Easier
The GPL does not taint anything.

What do you prefer to call what it does to anything it is compiled with?
Quite misleading. This is just an explanation of how he assembled a word list to memorize - the top 1000 unique words used in two TV shows. Making word lists is not even close to the hardest thing about learning a language quickly, and 1000 words is not really a working vocabulary.

Additionally, this does not handle most of the things you'll find annoying about assembling word lists. Imagine doing the same thing with English - you'll probably find "eat", "eating", "ate", "eaten", "buy", "bought", "buying", "buys" all in the top N "words", but that's hugely redundant information.

Another issue I've encountered when doing this sort of thing is that often you get words that have multiple meanings, and without actually understanding the context, you don't know which one is the common meaning, and most common words are hugely overloaded - you can't get a proper gestalt understanding of the concepts represented by a word just from reading the (often complicated) dictionary entry.

I'm very sympathetic to this kind of thing, since I've done similar things many, many times, but I think the author way over-sells what's happening here, and is likely to run into many problems with this in the future.
On my most recent trip my biggest gripe was poor wifi. Half the room had connectivity and the other half didn't!
Well, it really depends on where you are moving from, doesn't it?
How do they choose the winners? Also I guess how CEO's get credit for the doing of a company, TBL gets credit for the Internet?
This piece made me want to... have to... hear the podcast. Far from discouraging.
The current Mac Pro, as we’ve said a few times, was constrained thermally and it restricted our ability to upgrade it.

So, when creating the 2013 Mac Pro, they knew they had to make a choice: either an upgradable system or a thermally constrained one that might look cool on the desk.

What kind of market research suggested that Mac Pro customers wanted the latter? Or were they expecting to capture some new kind of pro customer base that only buys sleek desktop cylinders?
One still owns a home when buying with a mortgage. The lender places a charge on the property while a balance is outstanding, therefore in addition to owning the property you also own the debt secured against it.
Doesn't necessarily mean Apple is working on VR, he could simply be referring to people making VR content (like video games) on a Mac where the current Mac Pro isn't up to the task.
I've tried to do work on windows 10 Pro on a brand new 8 core Ryzen machine with 16 GB of RAM, SSD storage, and an RX480, and working in windows at the command line is 100x (no exaggeration) slower than Linux.
Nonsense. It is an adjective that correctly describes the behaviour. If you want a non-viral GPL, then use the MPL2. It is exactly like the GPL, except it has a file-level firewall so that other files that it interacts with don't need to have the same licence, something the GPL is intolerant of. In every other sense the MPL2 provides all the protections the GPL does, it just doesn't consume the rest of the project you integrate it with.
My Mac Mini's RAM says otherwise. Pretty sure that, for the vast majority of its history, the same goes for the iMac. And, obviously, the Mac Pro, even in its current iteration. What other product lines are you thinking of, aside from laptops?
Yep, great news indeed! For me, not regarding the Mac Pro especially, but that Apple is concerned about pro users, and that they are willing to talk about future plans.

Deciding on using Macs for your work is not only about the devices themselves -- you're buying into the whole Apple ecosystem. That's not something that's easy to change in a heartbeat according to which vendor currently has the best offering. And the more concerned you are about the future of Apples products for professionals, the more tempting it is to look long and hard at Windows or Linux, even if Apples current devices fill your requirements just fine.
Wow, this looks even more amazing!
It's sort of sad how much we have infantilized ourselves in this generation. We're almost to the point where somebody who is turning 30 is less mature and capable than someone 100 years ago was at sixteen.
How many times has that thrice-removed GPL dependency affected one of your projects? In those cases, did you give up? Did you remove the dependency? If so, how long did that take?
Show HN: Gravity anomaly toolkit for Unity3D projects
Something I've seen often:

GPL is evil, it's a virus.

We are so much better, we use BSD.

All we care is that people use good code, our code is good, we make it BSD so everybody can use it.

X Million servers out there are using our code, only 12 people give us any money, the world is a horrible place.
I made that mistake as well. Did what people were telling me to do and it got me nowhere. Got a useless university degree in something I liked because I thought having a degree would help, and was told by everyone that I was too "gifted" not to get one. Found out it just makes you super pretentious at retail jobs while you struggle to pay off the debt.

I managed to pay that debt off, and 5 years ago I figured out what I should actually do, went back to school yet again, and again I've spent the last 3 years again paying off the exact average amount of student loan debt in a job that seems to pay about $100k less than what the valley pays.

Just payed off the last of my student debt in one big lump sum on Sunday. I was super aggressive paying off my loans and I'm so very thankful they are done. Now in my mid 30's, used to living like a pauper but entirely debt free, and I can finally start putting my money towards things that matter. I really wish I'd gotten good advice about where I should probably head a decade and a half ago, when I still had savings and a larger support network. I would have only had to go through this once, though I know I'm one of the lucky ones in that I've been able to pay it off at all.

I'm not against student debt in general, schools unfortunately cost money, I just wish the guidance counselors talked about the ROI of particular degrees and pushed the trades and technical colleges harder. My ability to talk about the socioeconomic results of the black plague doesn't enhance my employability. Thankfully I figured out that SQL, Python, and C# does on my own.
Do the easy things first
It's possible that I missed something, but what does this post have to do with host gator?
Fair criticism, but PowerShell is just under the hood, most devs on Windows use cmder or similar.
Firstly, empirical evidence suggests otherwise. Political instability and inequality, both consequences of austerity, significantly hamper long-term growth and innovation. No country ever went from poor to rich by neglecting to invest in its people and infrastructure. Lots of countries have gone from rich to poor that way though.

Secondly, even if this were true what does it matter? Many people don't care about how fast the economy is growing overall if their personal fortunes are dwindling. That's just robbing Peter to pay Paul, except in this case Paul is already filthy rich.
> You're assuming a proper amount of intelligence/decisiveness at ~18 years old.

18 year olds don't lack intelligence, they (in general) lack impulse control and the practical ability to effectively weigh consequences of concrete decisions (evaluating them in the abstract is not a problem.) This ability generally isn't fully fenced until the mid-20s.
This looks really great, and I've got an immediate use for something like this. I've been using ag-grid for presentation of grid-based data, but this looks ideal for more-interactive views. I look forward to putting it through its paces.

Somewhat off-topic, but for those working in React, have you built large systems using Redux? I'm fairly early in what is likely to ultimately be a large-ish application, and while I've got Redux working, I feel working with it is definitely adding cognitive load to each feature I implement. Just wondering whether it's worth the effort and would appreciate feedback from those who may have more experience weighing the pros and cons of using Redux with their application.
> Wow, what a torrent of negativity on this thread, I didn't see a single positive comment reading through the top level.

This is a thing many comments nowadays capitalise on. First, I'd rather read criticism than lodes, to see for myself if all the good in sth. is eliminated by criticism or not. Second, your statement is false, as there are as many positive comments as negative ones. If the negative ones are higher up, that means people upvote them, i.e. agree those negative comments, a right to which they're entitled.
Please don't quote with code blocks. Use italics or greater than symbols instead. Scrolling horizontally to read the quote on my phone is a PITA. Thanks.
Not sure I'm following you -- yes, the Queen knighted him. How does the multicultural part come in? (Women receive the same award but it's called a Damehood and their prefix is Dame.)
I agree, the cloud is not expensive. £30/month gets you a beast of a machine with OVH that's always online with masses of bandwidth. Connectivity issues from the client are the main consideration.
Thank you for posting this. A international comparison was what I was hoping to see when I clicked on this article.
The download link from swift.org doesn't seem to be DRM'd. I can open it just fine in my ePub reader. Maybe its an iBooks thing?

https://swift.org/documentation/TheSwiftProgrammingLanguage(...
Exactly, the GPL focuses on the rights of the user, not the rights of the developer.
Sounds like Gabriel Knight 3's cat-fur-mustache puzzle.

For those unfamiliar: You're trying to impersonate someone, so you use a convoluted trap to get some cat fur, which you use as a mustache. But the person you're impersonating doesn't have a mustache, so you draw one onto his ID with a marker.
The article isn't bickering, it's just stating the study's findings. What is wrong with that?
Going through the whoishiring.io job offers, Germany has a comparatively high number of job ads written in German (even for remote positions).

This is very interesting, as it may point to a less international work culture (although this is in the process of changing), which this translates to a "possibly yes" answer to your question.
Of course, whoishiring.io may not reflect accurately real world, still, I don't think it's random.

Answer of the type "N people work here in Germany without speaking german" are not correct answers, since they don't imply a comparison (the question is comparative).
I was ready to pay 6k+ for a max MacBook pro with external gpu and whatever other usb-c accessories they were going to sell. The lack of a ram upgrade caught me off guard, really no ram upgrade in like 6 years? Really its usb-c-only and they have no usb-c accessories? SMH
With the shift to SaaS, more companies are open sourcing their stuff then ever before.

AGPL is unpopular because the lawyers are afraid of it :(
Interesting to note in this map, the people generally more concerned about climate change are in several types of places:

1) Near coasts. The traditional boring stereotype about the coasts having higher levels of education overall.

The point to notice here is that a some people will see this map, see that obvious fact, and then stop thinking. For example one commenter here said:

>Areas of widespread (70-90%) concern are limited to the west and northeast coasts.

"Limited to." Quite a brushoff. But some of the other hotspots are interesting too:

2) Near mountains. The Rocky Mountains stand out in particular. Because of steep altitude changes, people who live there get exposed in their daily life to many different microclimates in the short span of a few miles as they travel around their locality -- if not by actually changing altitude as they move around, then at least by being able to see from a distance things like the changing leaf colors in the fall, having it essentially in their face what changes are happening and when, each year. Some of these areas have also seen an influx of new pests damaging tree populations in a highly noticable manner, which are suspected to be related to changing temperatures.

3) Near rivers. See the Mississippi for example. I take it the impact of changing water flow patterns raises awareness in nearby communities.

4) For different reasons, North and South Dakota. I would guess the opinions there are influenced by the fact that the states have heavy involvement in energy-related mining activities starting with coal but also with shale and fracking, as well as alternative energy activities like wind power.
> That is your loss.

There is no loss. Everything a smart phone can do, a laptop can do better. All a smart phone does is keep people bound to their online lives in an unhealthy way -- constantly beeping at you, notifying you of pointless shit, and spying on you. No thanks.

I don't own any phone, but if I did it would be a dumb phone with week-long battery life.
> These programmers, for consistency, should hate proprietary software even more, because it permits no mixing at all.

I think tainting is worse than not using at all. I don't have a problem using gpl software as a user, but if it is at all programmer oriented (library / API / etc) I avoid it like the plague. I license software I write for personal projects in BSD, but I don't start with restrictions. This was a known problem with GPL, and they the LGPL was supposed to address it. Pointing out obvious concerns of programmers considering GPL shouldn't give anyone the vapors.

I consider GPL to be better than proprietary, because at least you can still see the code. Although it is just a slight step above proprietary in terms of restrictiveness.
It is not only ugly but also slow. One of the pain points while using PowerShell. It seems that Microsoft didn't care much about the emulator until recently. Thankfully things are changing, it was improved a bit in the Windows 10 anniversary update and Microsoft promised to improve it further. I'm optimistic about it.