skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did that once. I had asked for a raise and didn't get one. I let my boss know I'd be looking elsewhere. Still didn't get one. Found another job and accepted it and quit the old job which promptly resulted in an offer of a large raise on the old job - larger than the salary at the new place. The old job was right next door to me and the new one across town.

I went to the new place with a huge gift basket and apologized and explained that I wouldn't be starting after all because I got a counter offer I couldn't turn down. They looked stunned. I left. I worked at the old place another several years and ended up rising to Director of Operations before leaving to work on my own company. I still feel bad about it but it was the right decision overall.
Note that the Falcon 9 first stage is not travelling at orbital velocity, or even that near it really. At separation time -- when it starts to slow down to re-enter -- "[f]or a reusable Falcon 9, [speed] is around Mach 6, depending on the mission." (Quoting Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO, on Twitter.)
Yeah those are good points. Also I realized that we have a "subscription service" with indoor plumbing through paying for water. There's no reason something like this couldn't be paid for through a tax which would encourage wide scale adoption.
As the article notes, "there’s no legitimate way for the average Windows user to get it." These are people who are going out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot. Marketing has nothing to do with it, whatever misinformation they're getting is coming from third parties.
Someone who is familiar with the 70s and 80s will have to chime in, but I'm not sure how popular it was with assembly writers then (I don't think it was).
> just use unregulated and untested drugs! that will fix your problems and totally won't put you in deeper shit!

I'm so sick of seeing this "advice" everywhere on the internet. I've seen it on Twitter, on Reddit, and now here. Don't recommend drugs to people if you're not a doctor.
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It does? That attacker made off with 0 ETH. Admittedly they made off with some ETC.
There are hacks available to disable DWM and regain the classic theme. I do not know of a reputable source, however, so I cannot recommend one.
It's an area of active research: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
This was a very good read, thank you. To expand I'm an intern and some of the regular Software Engineers ask me for help, or I will show them how to do things. This helps me not get locked in my head that I'm just a "intern".
why?

If I experienced a major life changing event, I'd commit suicide. I refuse to live in pain every day, or lose my independence.

It's a completely rational decision, you don't know their life.
What is more worrying is that all the suggestions in this article are that either government needs to grow, or "just needs to change". More tax. And generally more.

More tax, of course, will worsen this problem as government spending on large companies only is exactly the problem.
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Okay, I don't recommend them. I'll rephrase the post to say what I've done to help me. Does that make you happy?
You mean humanity, not the world (earth). You could always walk away into the wilderness and just live amongst animals.
Immediately looked to see whether the substitution language is Turing complete. Luckily, it appears not.

Seems like you could do some very quirky animation using ligatures. For example-- imagine that the ligature for "Im" tilts the "I" toward the "m". Then the ligature for "Imm" tilts the "I" further, and so on, until I type the complete word "Immediately" and the "I" has drifted down below the "y" character.

Repeat this drift for each subsequent letter typed, slowly increasing the amount of displacement for the letters in the ligatures. Then, by the time I've finished typing this comment, all the letters would end up piled up in the corner of this textarea. :)
What's the URL for that? Not everyone uses Linux. In fact, almost nobody does.
Microsoft started by doing what every other OS maker was already doing by collecting telemetry (note: they weren't selling it). A minor community of users caused a massive uproar about the telemetry coming off the device despite the fact that you could always turn it down to basic level which was essentially crash dumps and the info we need to not push you a bad update. But MSFT listened and provided additional privacy controls AND they made it so that you have to go through them on upgrade and install.

If you continue to bash on a company even as it makes attempts to listen and respond to its users, then there is no reason for the company to continue to listen.
Well, it's also a matter of poor OS design decisions. People wouldn't be so desperate for a "streamlined" version of Windows if the default version wasn't so Godawful crufty.
This should be amended as (2014).
No, not really. The recommendation moves from explicit to implicit.

It's good that the drugs helped you, but it's not the same thing as saying "I went to a doctor and they put me on X and it helped." When you're talking about doing drugs outside of that paradigm, we don't know how many people have been hurt rather than helped. If 9 out of 10 people are harmed, you were just the lucky one.
Made it to the front page for a tiny bit, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14565062

Hoping a good conversation about it happens this time.
The cargo ship made a significant course change a few miles before the collision, which meant if the destroyer crew had plotted its course prior that change, they might have not realized they were suddenly on a collision course.

This "change" would have been in keeping with the local TSS [0]. It's like when you're driving and there is a bend in the road, you steer so as to keep the car in its proper lane.

[0] https://cdn-business.discourse.org/uploads/gcaptain_maritime...
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In theory not impossible to serve a request with this, but the performance would be poor in terms of TTFB. More likely useful in bulk transfers.
Why Is “Trumps Lies” a Hacker News Headline?
I'm looking for Hacker News, not political nonsense.
Why is this here? Is there a way to throw off the submitters of this stuff?
To "lead" engineers you need to be an engineer because you have to make technical decisions.

To "manage" people (including engineers), it's totally fine to be a non-tech person. It's actually even better if you're not tied to any project as a manager. Because you can focus on career growth and conflicts, which is what I'd expect from a manager.
To "lead" engineers you need to be an engineer because you have to make decisions at a technical level.

To "manage" people (including engineers), it's totally fine to be a non-tech manager. It's actually even better if you're not tied to any project as a manager. So you can focus on career growth and problems.
Terark (YC W17) is a profitable database compression company based in Beijing
I would like to paste this comment everywhere the causality of depression is discussed.
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It could be argued that most assets, over time, tend to exhibit bubble tendencies. Although I am not a crypto-currency expert, I invest in alt coins because of the media attention they are receiving and because of the investments pouring in from countries with unstable financial systems. My concerns are about the the robustness of the networks in light of heavy trading loads as well as flash crashes (like the one on the ethereum network 6/23) that could wipe billions of the table and lead to paranoid selling. Furthermore, big block traders (banks, governments, professional miners) might be able to manipulate the system by heavy volume dumping to later pick up coins at a lower price, in essence replicating what institutional investors do on wall street. It is my opinion that if one has a sum to invest that they are willing to lose altogether, the potential upside in some of the top cryptos might warrant taking the risk as this bubble could continue growing.
That's not a lot of data
Naive architecture question: where is the microcode stored? Is it in some on-chip ROM?
Second Measure (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineers and Scientists in San Mateo
An Oxymoron.
This is exactly what I've been looking for for years. A fast easy calculator that's as convenient as a physical school calculator but with familiar programming style input since computers don't have scientific calculator keys. I can do sqrt(2) much easier than Windows' calculator and it doesn't have the ridiculous attempt to copy a physical calculator's quirks like pressing equals twice to re-apply the previous operation or having an "inverse"/"2nd function" button.

Units is a bonus but really just the calculator is less frustrating than anything else I've ever seen. Google search is too unpredictable - morphing into a typical confusing 1970's style keypad design after your first calculation. I tried a couple of desktop applications and they were no better either. Come one calculator app designers - stop trying to copy a physical calculator. Those already have a terrible design and computers don't have the same constraints or freedoms as them.

Even better, it can act like a desktop Windows app simply by saving the page in Chrome! Beat that for latency, Google!
> add it on your annual tax return

That's not doing nothing. That requires filling in a Self Assessment which most people aren't doing
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. For interesting subjects, which always have global reach, the virtual conversations are conducted in English. There is also a place for vernacular -- it is part of people's cultural identity -- but not in a formal knowledge setting. English is a bit like Latin used to be: the language of knowledge, technology, and business. If the subject has global reach, you will miss out on the interesting bits of knowledge, simply because you are trying to do it in vernacular. Doing anything in vernacular, will just lock you up in a small and uninteresting national silo. Nothing of any interest is national. But yes, I use vernacular. I also speak it with my kids, but I don't read it -- unless it is poetry or literature -- and I don't use it in software or in business.
> despite the fact that you could always turn it down to basic level which was essentially crash dumps

Crash dumps contain memory dumps, right?

Memory dumps can contain passwords and other sensitive data, right?

Whom are you trying to fool?
I'm directing my post to someone who is at least forty years old. I think they can make up their own mind.
There aren't reports of Kalanick himself harassing women.
Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one
Yeah, Xero is online too. It was just the only one that appeared to check all the boxes I need. (Most were missing one of payroll, inventory management, or multi-currency support.)
Sorry, I know the article is kind of sensational but it also has some good information and we're here to discuss the real substance in the thread.

Terark built a new storage engine for Database and Data Systems based on the Succinct Nested Trie data structure. Our technology enables direct search on highly compressed data without decompressing it. Thanks to that we obtain >200X faster performance and more than 15X storage savings (better than Google's LevelDB or Facebook's RocksDB).
We are a Y Combinator company (W17).
Same here, not going to invest the time and create an account unless I have a good idea that the result is going to be worth it.
Public symbols, which aren't nearly as useful as private symbols.
Detroit revival being led by startups
You always have to spend time and money to get performance and consistency at scale.
> The number of people I've met that are happy about new Windows 10 features outnumber the ones that would rather stick with win7 + security updates (without the privacy invading stuff).

And what about Windows 8.1 (with classic shell, not Metro)?
The article mentions the water table as a problem.
Isn't "Everything"[0] a better Windows search replacement overall?

[0] http://www.voidtools.com/
Do most people really think that?

I think Paul Graham uses the term "scalable". But I have seen talking points from lots of big VCs and other figures in business who seem to think it's more about age, profitability, and management structure that define a startup.

To focus on the scalability point, I tend to agree that many only think of scalable businesses as startups, but I think the predicted numbers don't have to be in the billions to be considered a scalable growth business.

If you are a one man shop building an innovative product and you raised seed money from friends and family and hire 2 employees and expect to start making $1m a year as a 3 man shop in a few years, I think most people would call that a startup.

On the other hand, if you raise funds and build just another restaurant on the corner but with no innovation in either product or scale, then I think you are a small business.
If they stumble the pressure on the board in 12-18 months will be intense to bring him back.

1000 Uber employees have already signed a petition pleading with the board to let him return.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-emp...

The press always loves to build someone up, then knock them down. Then later tell the story of their triumphant return.
Way too many instructions to get to play the game.

I had to click like 100 times to just get through the mandatory tutorial, and I had to enter a User Name and Display Name and come on -- simplify this stuff. Not fun.

If your user interface isn't simple enough to use without instructions, then you are building your user interface wrong.
'Official efforts to encourage women to have more children have had only modest results, and there is little public support for large-scale immigration — something that has helped to stabilize populations in other wealthy countries with low birthrates. ... “A lot of the things we’re used to in Japan are really products of an era of population growth, like single-breadwinner families and mandatory retirement ages,” said Takaaki Tahara, research director at the Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training. “The mind-set will have to change.”'

If "the things we're used to" are products of an era of population growth and impossible without it (even with a steady-state population size), then we're basically admitting those aspects were dependent on a ponzi scheme. Might as well let developed countries populations level off, for a number of reasons.
I don't buy into everything in this ZeroHedge post, but there's some interesting data regarding birthrate trends in the United States and elsewhere, and its impact on the economy:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-24/why-next-recession-...
In Australia when it's flat, there were still collisions. Trains are very very heavy. The collision report recommendations had been to keep a long distance between trains. For trains ahead, the coming train would slow down and would come to a stop, if it's probably one train length ahead.

I'm not sure how long the distance is though. 40 seconds is really really hard to estimate with very very heavy trains and no weight sensors. Even AI/ML cannot predict this (re: no weight sensors).
That is addressed right before `sudo pip install`.

FTA:
"Install using pyenv, pipenv or virtualenv.

If you are feeling brave, install with pip:"
What about the other elephant in the room ? We appear to be in a second demographic transition. This time instead of going from high birthrates to low, we're going from replacement birthrates to shrinking population.

This then results in the need for increased scale, increased productivity, and indeed, the need for innovation disappearing altogether.
> Microsoft started by doing what every other OS maker was already doing by collecting telemetry

Unrelated to my sibling comment, but the parent was talking about tracking and nagware during the Windows 10 TRANSITION, which you conveniently ignored. You're talking about Windows 10 itself.

Windows 10 was forcefully shoved down so many people's throats who were desperately trying to avoid it, with misleading "confirmation" triggers to install Windows 10. Don't try to pretend Microsoft was innocent.
Sounds like he was just a technical manager
I have used overleaf with less technical co-authors. I'm not affiliated with them, but I really like their product. I can just send people a link and they can edit the text and see the PDF change. I also get version control.

But, with Mendeley and mathtype, I don't hate Word as much. It's a trade-off between version control and Word's track changes feature.
> DLL injection API

DLL "injection"? What API is that?
They're not shooting themselves in the foot, they're being shot at by Microsoft and are desperate for that to stop, they make mistakes and trip in the process.

I have two PCs: My main workstation is Arch Linux, my gaming PC is Windows 10. The difference is radical, W10 is absolute garbage for gaming. Every time I turn it on, it takes a solid 10+ minutes (sometimes way longer) updating itself. When I launch a game, sometimes out of nowhere it's going to start using all my bandwidth to download updates and I have no way to stop it other than kill the process using the task manager (it does come back a few minutes later though).

It's nonsense. I have no control over what it's doing.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
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I see there's talks of pensions being an issue and the only solution as having more babies or importing more people.

Why aren't there any talks of social security reform?

We all know social security is a state-sanctioned Ponzi scheme; one that, like all Ponzi schemes, works fine as long as the newer investors are putting more money than the older ones. Now, in a stable or shrinking population that is going to be a lot harder to accomplish to put it mildly.

As far as I can see, it's the perfect time to stop perpetuating the problem given that their economy is still in good shape.
Unless they want to, you know, analyse the landing before they launch another rocket two days later :-) . But of course that doesn't require realtime, just the ability to download via satellite while drone ship is on the move.
For those who aren't aware: Papers, Please is a video game about paperwork. You play a border agent in a fictional eastern bloc country, checking passports, visas, and work permits. It's surprising and tense and incredibly good. It's currently on sale for $3.99 on Steam, I highly recommend it.
Perhaps this should be a more relevant link, or is JWZ intentionally redirecting it from https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2017/06/14.html

Either way, the hairy-ball-eggcup picture is inspired.
> unless it is poetry or literature

...So, art? Like games?
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Know that somewhere, probably close by, another person is struggling with you. The end waits patiently for us all my friend. Keep trudging.
National institutions have indeed begun their long slide into irrelevance. Ray Kurzweil, a big shot at Google, already wrote about that. Anything that existed before the widespread commercialization of the internet cannot remain the same, after. I am waiting for news of the inevitable to break loose. A group of disgruntled people setting up internet infrastructure to literally organize the decimation of state officials. They will end up dying like flies. As soon as the first guys do that, there will be no stopping it. The national state uses force to enforce its views, while they no longer have a credible monopoly on the use of force.
Your shitty speakers simply were not shitty enough :)
Fortunately that kind of abuse of power has been around for thousands of years. People have interpreted it as damage and routed around it. Sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, but perpetually. Some of the most established organizations today started as grassroots responses to power imbalances.
An economy depending on population growth is incompatible with physics. If we care about climate change we should want every country to have a population decline until we can live within our carbon means.
I would recommend against one's own XML format and doubly against CSV/some homegrown delimited format. Instead, consider something like Excel 2003 XML (one of the easier ones), OpenDocument (also pretty easy in many languages), or Office OpenXML (easy in .NET, a bit harder elsewhere) to store your translation data.

Potfiles are another option, but the tooling is pretty clunky and, in games in particular, people don't seem particularly attuned to their use. And they're not great for editing, though they might be for storage--when dealing with tabular stuff, it just makes a lot of sense to use tools that present a tabular interface. It makes life a lot easier.
Could this end up being a blessing in disguise? I know traditional theory says that more people => more productivity => bigger economy. But with no people to produce anything, Japan might be forced to lead the world in AI adoption simply because there is no other way. While US or China might be leading in AI technology, they will face severe pushback because of displacement of jobs. Japan on the other hand might actually require general purpose AI to do daily chores. It could be the first big market for general purpose human-level intelligence robots and all the problems it brings.
Ask HN: Do people “Add to Home Screen” enough for PWAs to be worth it?
(Progressive Web Apps).

Especially in comparison to building a native app (I'm deciding between a React PWA and React Native).
Yes, whitespace as multiplication between number and unit or variable will be expected as multiplication but you can consider warning users about whitespace between two number literals because that could be just a typo.
Seems like a completely valid social trajectory. I don't get why it is considered so grim.

> "The government has taken steps to keep older workers in their jobs longer, and to encourage companies to invest in automation."

> "Individual Japanese will not necessarily be poorer just because the economy is smaller."

Sure there will be shrinking pains, but it doesn't seem like a catastrophe. Seems like it will ease more responsible use of our space and environment.
"We all know"

Social security is about as far from a Ponzi scheme as you can get. That don't mean state pensions never have problems, but in principle you can always balance expenditures with revenue.
Not the person you asked, but I personally don't care for conda.

I'd rather use standard Python packaging and virtual environments. Conda had a few "funnies", like adding lines to .bashrc interfering with system Python when I tried to use it later (easily fixed and not really a big deal, I just didn't care for it).

A client had some scripts that used it, and from that perspective I guess it saved a little time installing everything but not much. Not enough to have another Python version floating around in my opinion. Easy enough to just use regular Python.
The universe is a big place. Moving to other planets isn't only reasonable, people are planning for it. Sustained growth is possible.
To those of us not from the Bay Area, Mountain View and San Jose might as well be the same place.