skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through a similar situation myself and had a similar yet more positive experience.

> Why did we need to migrate accounts? Because you could only deposit cheques in the same department as your local branch.

Not true for all banks, national ones (like BNP) always allowed to deposit anywhere, and for most you could mail directly to the account branch (no need to go through a friend). Also, online banks solve this nicely.

> Why were we depositing cheques?! Because half of France (including my fiancées' employer at the time) still uses them for everything (which is also great fun if you're in a rush in Super-U and the person in front decides to pay with one).

"Half" is overemphatic, even for 2013. This is not the case anymore, huge majority now pays via chip and pin cards and waiting in line is not so much of a problem with self-checkout machines.
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I think in this case "intelligent" is used as a shorthand for "capable of creating a technological civilization capable of colonizing the stars." Smart birds which can't build spaceships are intelligent the way we normally consider the word, but not "intelligent" for the purposes of the Fermi Paradox.
It does quite a lot. I suspect it basically breaks Maven, since Maven jars aren't valid for Jigsaw. It also breaks code that does things like poke private member variables in other people's classes.

I think the breakage will be significant. I also think it'll be worth it.
Yeah I do really like OSX. There is no other commercially supported Unix system :/
Ah cool, I didn't realize it was client-side only. Neat!
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well color me surprised. It's almost as if we are biologically attuned to attractiveness since it's a marker of fitness or something.
It's worthwhile to note that not a single once of the thousands of "ICO" things that have been launched in the last year have actually done anything of value. They all generate hype, raise money, and then give up and go to work on other things. It happens over and over again with no memory of the past failures, apparently.

That said I wouldn't fault you for believing that a lot of the $xM raised in x ICO just turned out to be largely the creator seeding the pot and a minority of other people buying into something "big". You could even take out a loan, there's nearly zero risk other than the operator of the ICO running with the scratch.
>That's not an old/young argument.

Oh I wasn't saying it was -- just providing examples for when the hand-waving/dismissive attitude by senior developers isn't really backed by anything. I'm pretty skeptical of 'because I said so' answers nowadays (by both young and old devs).

>then have the key/value schema for anything oddball

Agreed, as long as 'oddball' means 'dynamic/customer-specific' and not 'we're too lazy to design a schema for this' ;)
Bring it back home baby.
> Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme

Why do you say this? I am certainly not a cryptocurrency expert, but it seems to me that BTC provides real value, in that it is an accepted currency and also in that it distributes the means of control over a far greater area than traditional government-backed currency.

Pyramid scheme reward members for recruiting new members without providing any value. Like all commodities and currencies, BTC increases in value the more people think it is valuable, but if that is how you define a pyramid scheme then gold futures, stocks, and the US dollar are pyramid scheme as well.
In other words, we are torturing our computers and every time they inch close to consciousness, it hurts so bad they commit suicide. SIGSEGV. bam.
I think you're still missing the point. No, just time isn't a magic ingredient. That time has to be well spent. But it still takes time.

And it's not just about having several projects under your belt. This is making the fundamental mistake that software development is a pretty intellectual pursuit, when in reality the social aspect is far more important.

There is living through the cyclical zeitgeist. There is the experience that only comes from having been through things when there were new, and having done this several times. There is no way for a young person to know what it was like to start writing JavaScript when it was first invented, or to have made one of the earliest AJAX apps when XmlHTTPRequest was first invented. That's not an argument that the old ways are better than the new, it's an argument that we know deep down why the new ways are better than the old (and what lessons the new ones could learn, too).

There is the super powers that come from having spent a long time in two or more completely different fields. There is domain knowledge that does not come cheaply, and to gain such expensive knowledge in more than one field is so rare.

I don't think the author is at all arguing that all 40+ developers are great. He's arguing to stop universally dismissing older programmers.
> The allure for people starting a company is that you can raise millions and give 0% of your company away. Some people will scam, it's true maybe a lot will, but some will undoubtedly start something big and will want to do more than just scam.

A system which enables scamming like that is a horribly broken system, and the occasional success story does nothing to change that fact.

Contrast this to an IPO, where you have to more or less lay all your cards on the table before you can sell your stuff to the public.
No. My dad still calls them "bitcorns." He heard about them on NPR.

It's anecdotal, but cryptocurrencies practically don't exist in my non tech-related social circles.
I went to an engineering school in France. In France it takes 5 years to get a master degree.

Each year we must do an internship that varies in length between 1 month in first year to 6 months in the final year.

While I was in school, one of my friend and me, created a small game server hosting company (Minecraft, counter strike, ...). We started with 0€ and ended up with ~2k/month each, more than the minimal salary, while being students. We were working on that after school and during the week ends. It was technically challenging and we both learned a lot quickly (Rails, how to manage and promote a company, how to handle customer service, ...) .I remember we even used the first versions of Docker to create game server containers.

Thanks to that, I got an internship in Switzerland during my 2nd year.

That school requires that during your 3rd year of study you have to do a 3 months minimum internship (up to 9 months using your 4th year) in an english speaking coutry.

Most of the students go to the UK or Australia, because they are cheap options, but thanks to my job in Switzerland I had tons of money and I wanted to go to New York so I sent hundreds of resume to companies in New York. I finally got contacted for an internship offer but in San Diego. I had no better option so I accepted. I didn't even know where was San Diego.

I worked during 9 months and I loved this city. I went back to France to get my degree and instead of doing my final internship in France, like everyone does to get a job, I sent a couple of resume to companies in San Diego.

It was way more easy this time due to my first experience and I was able to get an offer from one of the best company in San Diego.

I worked well and after I got my degree the company wanted to switch me full time, so they applied for an H1B. I did not get it the first year but got it the second time. I had to work remotely for ~9 months because my intern visa (J1) expired but I finally went back to San Diego. Now I'm waiting on my green card (EB2).
I enjoyed deadwood, and I thought the story arc with The Comstock and George Hearst as a robber baron was going to have a huge payoff, but instead the series was cut short which is a huge shame.

There is just enough foolery to make it easily tier 2 for me: Francis Wolcott's story arc, Olyphant's acting, Seth Bullock's attempt at morale highground.

If folks aren't turned off by violence, profanity, and prostitution, it's definitely must watch tv.
The answer is a little unfortunate, even though things are said to be worth $xxxxM market cap, but the depth of the market is so shallow that the true value is near zero.
Should be easy to prove me wrong if it's as easy as you say, I don't see why you're so annoyed by it

> “CPU optimizations change over time and an open-source project doesn't have a team of experts tracking microbenchmarks to decide when to switch”

Yes, that's what's happening, but the problem comes from the P6 architecture (though Netburst doesn't have those problems), this problem has been known for around 20 years
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I wonder what percentage of ICO investors actually read through the corresponding whitepaper to try and discern the real claim of value... I truly do.
I was, um, inspired to make this one: https://imgur.com/a/cKC4f
It's also the default when paying for a car or other big expenses that would overflow card limits.

Some doctors are also hell-bent on not taking carte vitale and "tiers payant", nor credit card. In such cases checks are practical.
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Grats to them. Really curious what the configuration of the cars to be delivered on the 28th are. Also will be very interesting over the next year with two 200+ "affordable" EVs on the market and another pair to be announced in September if those early adopters on this end of the market will think of their purchases a few months down the road
This is great. Thanks for creating it. I'm trying to think of a better way to pick the animals and colors (color picker?) to make it a bit more convenient, but that's just a small detail.
I'm surprised that no one here actually mentioned HN's "Who is Hiring" thread. I'm my personal option this one is most valuable place and good staring point if you are looking for a job.

Also it's happening right now go and check it
-> Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14688684
Do you mean Dynamics CRM?

Or Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (formerly Dynamics AX)?

Or one of the other Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics SL, Dynamics C5?

They are all under this umbrella brand, but quite different software products.
Cash is still more anonymous than cryptocurrencies.
NHS isn't exactly in a position where they could easily fire anyone right now, as it seems.
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I find that to be one of the less troubling solutions to the Fermi paradox, to be honest. Try pondering the ones where one stealthy galactic superpredator has already taken over the galaxy, and is just waiting until we reach a certain level of technological advancement to exterminate us because it's currently not worth the trouble.
Uhm. I bought "Using SQLite" from Google Play a couple of days ago and the PDF that was available is a Google digitization and not a real O'Reilly PDF, so no index and a slightly worse visual quality. Not an acceptable option for me.
The open market in crypto is very, very open. As others have pointed out there are centralized and decentralized solutions for trading a lot of these things.
I look at two things. First, my customers seem to be in general pretty happy with the work I'm doing for them. Second, I read the threads on here about people trying to hire and interview and the problems that they run into or provide to prospective employees that cause problems. Since most of what I'm reading seems either obvious or at least has an obvious starting point and approach I feel like I must be doing something right.

I also freely admit that I don't know everything or even most things, so I don't worry about that. If I need to learn about something I know that that's something I can do.
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It does not take 20 years to gain the experience the author is discussing. It can be done in significantly less time than that. That is my point.
I have a great sympathy for any developer that must work with/on/for Dynamics. I've been Dynamics-adjacent enough to see some of the pain secondhand and lucky enough not to experience it firsthand.

The very well maintained MSDN documentation pages for X++ are some of my favorite pages to send to developer friends as the developer equivalent of "ghost stories" when you sit around fireside chatting about the Daily WTF or MUMPS.
They just scroll it. And do you know who they are? The Chinese. The Chinese are the ones fueling the ICO craze. How do I know? I'm hanging out in a Slack channel full of them. I asked them how did you get into crypto? Verbatim response was that "friend said it easy money". Then he said "China full of money." Full of money indeed.

In fact the majority of ICOs are not even open to Americans.
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> So, is this the new revolution in fund raising or another pyramid that is soon to explode?

Everything is a pyramid. The question is just for how long it lasts. I mean there was a pyramid called monarchy that ruled the planet for a few centuries. There's capitalism which will be replaced by something else, maybe 20 years, maybe 500 years from now. Instead of worrying about the pyramid-ness of something it's much smarter to decide whether or not it is currently under- or overvalued and what the trend will be.

And here starts my opinion: I think crypto coins are currently way overvalued. They exist for longer now than most people spend in university. And yet a real market value hasn't been established yet. The one possible true market value, micro transactions, seems to have been overcome by simple small step technological evolution. It was a huge thing around 2010 that nobody could do, but now it's common to pay sub-dollar prices on all kinds of things online.

Also opinion: The reason why people are willing to spend so much money on ICOs is that they hope the bitcoin dream will repeat itself. And as is often the case: if the dream is strong enough, it seems to get fulfilled, because so many people pour their money and energy into this hope. But I don't see what there is besides the hope.

Many people will be disappointed when they find out there wasn't much besides their own self-illusions.
>why cryptocurrencies are such a good thing

What if they aren't such a good thing?

How about the fact that paying with something like Bitcoin is (energy) inefficient, inconvenient and slow?
Can confirm. Regular people who are not interested in technology has no idea what they are, or even that they exist.
No, now the model is to sell subscriptions that you don't use, instead of shelf ware software.

The beauty of that is by underutilizing infrastructure, they get to enhance the services margins. The ugly is that you're always going to be in a vicious circle where you buy lots of bundled services that your service provider doesn't want you to use.
True, though it's probably best to go further:

Any money into any cyptocoin is pure gambling. Don't put any money in you can't afford to lose. If anyone is saying the word "investment" while talking about a cryptocoin, smile and nod while slowly receding in the other direction.

As a gambling vehicle, cryptocoins are one of the finest ever created. But people should at least admit to themselves that it's not investing.

That's a little bit of a No True Scotsman, but there's a grain of truth to it. Yes, abstractly cryptocoins are going to create a lot of value for the world. But that value is abstract, at least for now. It's different from the sort of value that a startup creates: at least a startup is trying to affect the world in a tangible way that can usually be explained in a couple of sentences.

EDIT: I think it's possible to invest in cryptocoin, but you have to be willing to put money in and then not touch the coins for years. What bugs me about ICOs is that it's pandering solely to a get-rich-quick mindset. That's nearly the definition of any "initial X offering."
No, you dummy - it's the year of Linux Desktop!
probably Enterprise Agreements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Enterprise_Agreement
Yeah, I remember the JavaOS for the NC (Network Computer) and the terminals sold by Sun and Oracle.

What I hate on the so called universal client is that we could have had a proper solution with XHTML and all the XML semantic derivatives, instead we get a document model pretending to be an UI framework.

WebComponents seem to still be WIP.
OK, I'll play. https://imgur.com/a/V0dMl
HN doesn't need to be a place where we can "teach the controversy" about stealing people's money. Imagine Amazon raised money by selling people BezoBucks, but promised "BezoBucks are totally safe because their value is tracked through an incorruptible distributed ledger". I think you would probably not be ok with this. I see no difference.
That's not true. It has a recursive purpose. Life has to exist in order to bring more life into existence. It's the struggle of order vs. entropy.
Don't confuse ICOs for cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency is great. ICOs are almost universally scams.
bitcoin is an open source C++ computer program that created a deflationary currency that somehow was able to be seen as intrinsic value to the market, its impressive the emotions it brings out of people like you. I believe from a software standpoint, it functions better than some other software projects I've seen, so it is fun to see where this is going to go in the future
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I am pretty sure it's not true that "no one" claims there was not a singularity at the beginning.

http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-beginning-of-time.html

I even saw that recently Stephen Hawking started theorizing that the "Big Bang" was like a black hole. And other physicists weigh in:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/BlackHoles/...

Look at this wikipedia article. Someone must be writing it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_singularity

In fact there are some contradictions between Quantum Mechanics and an actual big bang:

https://m.phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-univers...
How so?

Season 5 is the most underappreciated season, but I've really started to appreciate it.

McNulty has been a character who believes the ends justify the means. In Season 1, he falsifies that Sidner (iirc) was on the roof, thus allowing the police to admit phone tapped evidence.

In Season 5, it shows how taking that mentality of by any means necessary can quickly spiral out of control.
Yes - just like California gold mining went mainstream. I overheard one of my non-tech friends recommended investing in Etherium to another non-tech friend - it made me worry.

At least the recommender actually called it a crypto currency and the other, the recommendee, asked what made it useful.
Ethereum has the right play here though. They go to where the gold rush is and sell the shovels.
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Economist also lets you a few articles per week for free. If you find yourself bumping against their paywall with any regularity, perhaps you should actually pay for the content? Or, would you like to live on an internet where the only content that can pay for itself is clickbait?
You're one payment away from losing everything. Nobody is going to shutdown a government or large company -- but will happpily shrug and wipe out a SMB.
> But when you have two funding systems, where one is completely open, and the other requires certain guarantees (identity, legal responsibility), the first is always going to be full of scammers.

Exactly. It always cracks me up when people tout the completely deregulated nature of cryptocurrencies as a good thing.