skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work in sub-contract electronic engineering in the UK.

The company would send an invoice to the customer. Payment would be 30 days after the month end that they got the invoice.

They had a sort of Just in time system - all the orders for components would be placed in month one, for delivery on the first day of month two. Everything would be booked into stores, and then kitted out onto the shop floor. The product would be built, and delivered, before the end of month 2, which meant that payment would be received sometime in month 3.

Sometimes components would be late, or there'd be more to book into stores and to kit up for the shop floor, or the wrong item would be sent in. All of these push production back a few days, and since production was aiming for shipping on day 30 without delays it meant that there was always a crunch from day 25 to 30, every month.

What the company could have done is taken one or two people from inspection and put them onto goods in at week one of the month and inspection at weeks two, three, and four of the month.
Still thriving, to my knowledge. Scientific Linux is also out there as well.

My recollection is that Red Hat was actually working directly w/ CentOS on some things to streamline their build processes. Red Hat doesn't see CentOS as a threat (as it did OEL).
They may not want the code, but they do want evidence that you can actually code. Hackathons are meant to find developers, not salespeople. So picking a team that didn't actually build something real as the winner seems like a rather bad idea.
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Phaser is a good choice for TypeScript, as most game engines it has a rather big API and TypeScript makes working with it a charm.
Thanks to all who are trying this, and apologies to those who cannot connect - I've written the servers to deny new connections when the load average is too high.
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Who was that TopCoder guy who went to Sun's contest at JavaOne one year and cleaned house? Was his name JonMac? I think it's this guy:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/College-stud...
See also the very slick Minecraft-based Blockly game from Microsoft. It's similar and pretty good.

https://code.org/minecraft
In the Enterprise world, we typically don't want latest and greatest. We want stability for a long time. :)
> an arbitrary precision calculator language

Everybody use GNU Guile already :)
The world will need base load power for a long time. Yes, there is a lot of research into grid storage, but except for pumped hydro we are a long way away from that being a major component of the power system. (For example, Gates is investing in startups that are working on innovative nuclear plant designs and startups that are working on storage - maybe they all succeed, maybe none of them will.)

NASA has estimated that using nuclear power has saved an estimated 1.8 million lives that would have been lost if the power has been replaced by fossil fuels:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

We are going to need a predictable, reliable form of base load power for a long time. When you compare nuclear, coal and natural gas, one of these three ways of generating electricity has much fewer health consequences than the others. Lives depend on having reliable, affordable electricity and as we transition the vehicle fleet to electric, we will need more electricity, not less.
This is really awesome. What sparked this idea?

Not sure if you have this feature, but I think it would be really cool if you could open APIs to your own datasets. This could be really useful for enterprise applications that do a lot of flat file imports/exports to push/pull data.
> what does this mean for users who want a completely FOSS stack for their phone (let's ignore the baseband for now)?

And also ignore locked bootloaders, DRM code in ARM TrustZone, never updated BSP that make most devices use old kernels, userspace blobs for graphics and video playback, lack of proper hardware documentation and fact that most of out-of-tree drivers that are open source are simply horrible.

Google never wanted FOSS stack on your phone in first place. Same true for phone manufacturer's, hardware vendors, carriers, media companies and governments.

So there simple not much you can do other that support rare open hardware efforts and use extremely overpriced custom-built phones.
I think he means that they were not able to sell the idea to device vendors sufficiently. The 'market' he refers to are the device vendors, not the end users.

If you make a mobile operating system but you don't make devices, you need to be able to convince device vendors to sell the product for you to end users. They didn't succeed in that.
I'm in the same boat. I backed the original Ubuntu Edge indiegogo campaign, but it never happened. And I would check the site periodically to see if there was a phone that shipped/worked in the States (and there never was) or if it was running on anything newer than a Nexus 5.

FirefoxOS phones were pretty much the same story. Limited hardware that wasn't available in the US market.

With both, it may not have been a lack of global interest; but a lack of interest in the limited markets they chose to release in.
Better staffed and as healthy as ever. Also, Karanbir, the guy who runs CentOS and always has, seems a bit less stressed out. Notice how the release cadence and security updates in CentOS have increased in release speed massively.

It was probably the best thing to happen to CentOS provided RedHat will continue letting them be an independent distribution.
Red Hat is pretty good about back-porting features like this into the kernel and rest of the platform. It would surprise me if the issues you describe aren't on the roadmap to address.

We have no issues running RHEL7 under VMware.
Making front page of HN is probably enough motivation for a good portion of attackers.
Unity has often been criticized because it was a Canonical thing and didn't leverage Wayland, but it's another world compared to Gnome shell. I couldn't like gnome shell no matter what.

I was using Gnome shell on a old eeepc. The interface is dumbed down and you have to install a bunch of extensions to make it as functional as Unity.

What was worse is that the launcher automatically triggered the search function, and that slowed down the pc to a crawl.
I'm using KDE on it now and, even though less stable, it has a decent interface and it is surprisingly snappy.
Me either, but I'm curious to see where this goes.

Ads suck but they are the defacto revenue model for the contemporary internet. Micropayments struggle partially because of the network effect... websites don't integrate because there aren't enough customers, and there aren't enough customers because most websites don't offer micropayments!

ABP could help establish a sustainable micropayment model for the broader internet, and ultimately help increase privacy by addressing that root cause (revenue). Their customer base is significant and the value proposition of "micropayments vs nothing" is much more compelling than "micropayments vs ads". Imagine if Google adopted the same standard with Google Wallet, Youtube, and native Chrome/Android support...

That said, I will continue using uBlock Origin in the mean time. Much faster than ABP :)
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Unity 8!!!
Algorithms for Big Data
Is there an overview that explains what the non-moving floaty glowy bits are that appear when a bullet punches through a ship?
Cortana collects data that is considered "functional" by the TechNet document, which also links to the Cortana Privacy FAQ [1]. What you consider "Start Menu" I would presume likely refers to a cross-over of Windows Store and app reliability telemetry, which is all listed.

It might not be listed in name/order of the "subsystems" you expect to see, but that does not mean those "subsystems" aren't covered in the list.

[1] https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-10-cortana-and-p...
Evolution strategy method is used in reinforcement learning models. How are you planning to use it for supervised learning?
I usually use csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.1/index.html). There are commands to list the columns, filter, browse the data in a somewhat formatted way with less. Typing the commands is a huge pain though, and I would be very interested in a tool that could instantly pop open and let me peruse. Excel can take minutes to load and eagerly does a lot of unhelpful formatting on things like dates and decimals.

That being said I would never want to (and often legally cannot) etl my data to some third party. That would be terribly slow. But I would happily pay for a nice desktop tool to do it for me; command line or GUI.
expertsexchange.com was (is?) the most (in)famous of these.
The problem with dependency hell was more that RedHat back then didn't have such a thing as a "rolling release" or "testing" in Debian speak. So while "RedHat 6" worked fine, trying to upgrade (say) OpenOffice would require that you download the rpm from OO's website, which would require that you upgrade Gnome, which would require that you upgrade X, which would require that you upgrade glibc, and down the rathole. Considering that most people then were still on dialup, it was horribly annoying.

Also, RedHat didn't ship with (relatively) much software (install everything was an option). Now you've got to configure; make; make install. Now you've got two parallel installations of libraries and software.

Oh. And the RPM database would die periodically (rpm anything would hang), requiring a reinstallation.

Since moving to Debian over a decade ago, I think I had to configure; make; make install something only once (it was an old and unmaintained Java library on SF.net). Almost everything (open source) is in the Repos.
I like your site design. Very clean and readable.
Agreed. If you haven't been following adblocking news in the last few years, Adblock Plus has been charging advertisers to get on a whitelist, as well as a few other less-than-ideal moves from a privacy perspective. There has also been issues with performance impact, which uBlock Origin seems to pretty consistently beat Adblock Plus on.

uBlock Origin is my recommendation as well.

Links:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/
> The fact that the same liquid can be perceived in two such different ways is a great example of the "crazy nonsense and beauty of marketing", says Andrew Welch.

The third way is to recognize that it is essentially milk, and milk has been consumed both before bed and upon waking millennia before modern marketing.
So if you openly complain about sexual harassment or employers treating their employees in an unethical way, no one wants you?
Does anyone know why the default scale is 0 (meaning division rounds down by default)?
I wrote and article that got to the front page, once (https://foorious.com/articles/life-without-a-cell-phone/).

I got about 50,000 visits within 4 days: 30,000 on day 1, 10,000 the second day, and then 5,000 on day 3 and 4.

Also interesting that the "story" got picked up by a lot of other magazines—which I guess follow HN to hunt for news—and they even talked about it on podcasts and radio shows.

If it was some kind of service, I guess I would've gotten something out of it.

As for your question, mine was (and is) a regular WordPress site, although on a dedicated VPS. At its peak of 300 people at the same time browsing the site, I didn't notice any difference from a performance point of view/server usage. Of course, it all depends on the service. An untested app getting thousands of users might have problems, WordPress is pretty battle-tested.
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Same here. I'm very happy with it. I picked it because of the price and good Linux users reviews.

I do most of my work remotely on my powerful desktop anyway (ssh + tmux + vim).

The mate screen is the sweet bonus, as it's hard to come by in the word full of glaring screens.
I'm one of the people who asked for less NIH in Ubuntu in the recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 but I didn't think they would take it this far. Jokes aside, it's sad that Unity won't be developed further.

I'm one of the ones who loves Unity 7, it's always been faster and less memory hungry than GNOME or KDE for me. I will just have to cling onto the LTS for as long as possible.

In the long-term I think this is good for Ubuntu and Linux users in general, less diversity can sometimes help an ecosystem form. I think many users just want a DE to stay out of the way and make life easier, so I hope some of the Ubuntu ease of use focus and community will get injected back into GNOME. I really hope a huge flood of users coming back forces them to look at their memory usage and get it under control.
To be honest, Arrival gives you little to think or talk about, other than the physics and metaphysics hollywood fucked up entirely by changing entire concepts the original story is based on. It creates a lot of structures with internal inconsistency that promote conversation only because some people will perceive them one way, some another, while in fact neither are understanding that it's just not consistent and both of them are wrong.
Yea, after further inspection it appears to be higher friction than it needs to be
It looks like it needs to be hard-coded for compatibility with every app, which makes it not so friendly. Wouldn't work with the unofficial Google Music Desktop Player (https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/), for instance, which I use heavily.

EDIT: Nevermind, this ticket looks like it might:
https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop...
Interesting and well written but I can only disagree with the author. A few months ago, I read the love letters my grand grandfather wrote to my grand grandmother when he was at war. I seriously doubt anyone will be able to read the emails I write in 70 years.
Besides most of intellectuals of the past centuries were prolific in sending letters to their relatives and we know a lot from them through these letters. I don't expect the same to happen with contemporary writers.
Maybe our grand children will be able to get a few pictures from us, that were printed and stored safely...
Oh I want to work somewhere with enough budget for nice animations and custom icons everywhere...
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So you have an opinion on a religious war and take issue with companies over-valuing Red Hat certifications? Oh my gosh they're literally the devil.
Agreed. I never saw it thanks to NoScript.
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And yet how many of us waiters, waitresses, bartenders, baristas, cashiers, valets, etc have paid the bills because of the gratitude of others. It can work, especially when combined with social pressure to do so.
I guess I didn't go in the details enough - the professor asked me to steer the research more towards what could be applied in hiring process. You can show solid pay and interesting projects in an interview, but interpersonal relations and culture take time to clarify. For example, when I started working in my current company, I couldn't stand another guy there. But over the next year I both came to recognise what he was doing as highly important for the company, and found a perfectly ordinary human being underneath the image left by the first impression. Today we are often working together on projects, and both benefitting from each others skill set. But I absolutely loathed the guy on the first day.
I won a hackathon at work once with a mostly faked out app. It was still a neat idea, we just ran out of time to do more.
What do the markings on a shipping container mean..?
You're describing a business model that (in theory) has a massive built-in cost advantage over Uber (whose model sounds bloated and inefficient compared to yours). The start-up costs are lower, the operating costs are lower, the maintenance and keep-up costs of a single Web site are lower.

Why hasn't anybody executed on that strategy (in practice)?

Forget the government affiliation, someone could be minting money either by competing with Uber on cost or just strategically choosing smaller markets that are not yet covered by Uber.

Why aren't they?
This is not a tech story
I have seen potatoes from Idaho advertised, Avocados from Mexico and Milk from California Cows. So Natural commodities are marketed this way.
AdBlock is utterly useless these days. It doesn't block much. Some of the most astonishingly stupid ads from Taboola are let through as part of their "trusted" program.
My solution to this problem, so far, has been ipython and pandas. (and maybe jupyter notebook for visualization and sharing).

What's the value-add here?
Criticizing someone else's choice of crypto is I guess par for the course on HN. But I think her story is still noteworthy.

It's unusual to be someone who specializes in writing about digital activists who need encryption.

It's unusual to be a nerd (your identity is online) and also be constantly hiding your tracks (your identity is constantly erased, by your own action).

It's unusual to be an emigrant in this age, where they expect you to surrender your voluntary self-surveillance at the border.

The thing is, what happens to nerds on the margins eventually happens to everybody.

Personally – there's some of her story that already applies to me. And, even if all of this is trivial in terms of technology, there aren't a lot of people who can bring such evocative writing to the topic.
I disagree... Price is dictated by supply and demand. Industries are paying nothing for these interns because they can get away with it, not because they consider them worthless.

You pay nothing to breathe oxygen. How valuable is it to you?
1. You say that Canonical's move from Gnome to Unity in 2010 caused a lot of strife.
2. Now they're undoing that step.

Shouldn't you be happy rather than disappointed?
Sorry, just live debugging a crash on de0.tux.io...
Open it with a programming language like R, Julia or Python that supports the data frames. No reason to upload 60 gigs to the web or Excel.
Delicatessen is also plural in German if you use it to mean "delicacy", instead of an adjective ("chai tea"-style).
I think this is a myth, or at best relative, not all enterprises accept old for stability

Many enterprises want up to date and stable software, and since you are paying for stability, why shouldn't you get fairly recent and stable software

Most companies for example don't consider MS SQL 2016 as less stable than MS SQL 2008 or 2012, most users expect the same level of stability from the latest SQL Server than from earlier version, if not more because it's newer and more advanced, might as well be more stable

I didnt use RedHat in a while, so I dont know how bad the situation is , I hope it is not too bad
This is really cool. Are you going to be open source the code for this ?
Csvkit is great, and I use it a lot. The target users for CSV Explorer though are mostly non-engineers ie. people who don't use the command line or code.
Thanks dude.

While (like many here) I'm very privacy oriented, this is a situation where Occam's Razor applies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Yes, thank you! So much better when you have whole broadcast...
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Does this do stuff lnav can't?
Worked like a charm. This is really cool. I can see a lot of uses with large files. Especially filtering down "faceted" search items.
> $150 to have a nurse put a popsicle stick on my tongue and tell me that my throat infection would probably go away on its own.

Or you could see it this way :

$150 to have a nurse put a popsicle stick on your tongue and tell you that you are very lucky to have presented today because you have a suspicious growth - which on examination turns out to be a rare form of cancer that is easily cured if detected early, but most certainly fatal otherwise
A lot of these small LCDs interface with a zebra pad, hitting contacts on the LCD glass and some gold or carbon-coated conductors on the PCB. Gold conductors are easy, carbon-coated conductors are okay but can be annoying, but the pitch generally narrow for these, as you've mentioned.
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> I'm pretty sure they tried very hard indeed. They just didn't succeed.

I don't know about this. The last phone they released was the Meizu Pro 5, which had an Android variant (sold in stores) and an Ubuntu variant (sold online only, and you had to dig for it if you didn't get redirected from ubuntu.com). The hardware itself for the phone wasn't awful by any means, but buying one was hard enough because the manufacturer only sold out of Asia.

Further, the Meizu Pro 5 didn't work on most networks in Canada and the United States. Why would I buy a phone that doesn't support 3G/4G? I'd _love_ to support Canonical by purchasing an Ubuntu touch device, but you could hardly say that they tried. Their handsets were few and far between, and they locked out a large portion of the market because of the phone's baseband frequencies.

I think that they could have succeeded, at least in the small, had they actually released a device that power users could use comfortably.
This is still happening on some subreddits, /r/latestagecapitalism for example.
It feels weird that an ad blocking company is able to do aquisitions.

I really recommend checking out uBlock Origin. It's a superior technical solution while not doing any shady deals or anything of that sort.
It's like a Jupyter notebook for non-engineers, people who don't know what python is, eg. consultants.
Ask HN: What made WordPress so freaking popular?
Wondering about this: is it because at that time there was nothing else, or was it so good?
Looks like they saw that RH recently hit $2bn in subscription revenue and went...damn son :-)
Cool idea - Having to work with sensitive data, it'd be great to have this functionality without importing/uploading to the internet.
Quite honestly, I question the need to drink milk. I think it's another marketing gimmick that pushes parents to feed kids with milk. I'm yet to come across a toddler/kid who actually loves drinking milk. Most of them hate it and that's possibly for a reason.

When our daughter was born, we spoke to a lactation consultant who explained how infants wean away from breast milk naturally. She explained that it's not cow's milk that has a similar taste to breast milk, but it's bananas.

We also get bombarded with ads "If kids need to get sufficient calcium and Vitamin D, they need to drink cow's milk". I'm not sure how valid this argument this is.
C++ is a large language that can be used in many different ways. People adopt a subset that is sensible for them. If you are interviewing C++ programmers, you should be aware of it.
I have a strong memory of Harry being banished to his room and he only manages to get some stale bread and cheese. I can't remember which book it was, but thinking maybe Chamber of Secrets (or at least one of the first three). I remember at the time going and getting some stale bread and cheese. (it wasn't necessarily presented as a good thing in the book, but somehow I found it appealing).
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Check out uBlock Origin. Ablock Plus doesn't have a lot of integrity.
Thanks for the advice. Is there a sane setup guide here with sane defaults for the master-slave replication?

I would rather not discover afterwards that I was supposed to `ulimit` the postgres process to some CPU in order to be able to successfully kill queries that are jamming the box.
Give them concrete examples of your work. Why are you being turned down?

Definitely do not need a degree but you will have to change your job-seeking process to account for that fact.