skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> simplify other people's hard work

I don't mean to pull the argument one way or another one. But, IMO simplifying other people's hard work is hard work too. At least I personally find it to be.

Depending on our experience we can understand OP as being respectful (or not). I would like to give her/him the benefit of the doubt.
> TBH I don't remember toughing out a full build without resorting to goma.

I have! Every time you guys bump a snapshot, my Gentoo boxes whirl away and heat my house, compiling a new version from scratch. On an octocore Skylake Xeon laptop, this takes 2 hours 48 minutes.
ew, if only we can turn around the bro + gossip culture and actually focus on important things for once in this industry
What you need to do immediately before informing an employee that you are letting them go is revoke their access to critical systems and/or disable their accounts. That way, you can allow them to go back to their desk and say their goodbyes to their coworkers without risking them doing silly stuff like delete data.
It is weird how Amazon works - 50% off from the publisher is within a dollar or two of the regular Kindle price. No DRM and multiple formats is a huge improvement, but if you have a lot of Kindle books already, being able to manage everything through the Kindle system is also a benefit.

(For fiction or single-read, I would still probably go with Amazon. For a tech book which I'd want to keep reading and potentially view on platforms which don't have Kindle and where defeating the DRM could be a challenge, publisher direct.)
I am involved with ebook production for an academic publisher. I sometimes joke that I am going to have "that doesn't work on the Kindle" engraved on my tombstone.
David Brin called it in Earth
How is Waterloo 30 minutes in the other direction...Also Mississauga has grown and with the transit and rail systems, Toronto to Mississauga is a breeze so you don't have to live in Sauga to work there.
Am I missing something? I translated a bunch of articles from the current Czech Google News page and didn't see anything remotely fascist.

It seems there is a trend of those on the left referring to anything on the right as fascist. IMO this is dangerous because it dilutes the actual meaning of fascism. I'm not saying fascist ideology isn't out there btw.

Can you point out an example?
And keep your antennas upright if you life on just one floor:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PWSFhaFqgzo/VPqpdyvHiUI/AAAAAAAAL...
It's the little things the author mentions, that impressed me. For example the prevalence of Malaria. A higher temperature can increase the lifecycle rate of the parasite by a factor of 10.

I was also unaware that higher temperatures increased sport fouls and criminal behaviour.
These links explain the extra files: https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/filenames.html https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/the-compiler-frontend-... https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/the-compiler-backend-b...

The cmx data could be converted to ELF note sections, but the whole thing has to work on Windows as well, so I guess they didn't want to depend on ELF.

In most projects, you can add this to your Makefile and forget about it:

.mli.cmi:
ocamlfind ocamlc $(OCAMLFLAGS) $(OCAMLPACKAGES) \
-c $< -o $@
.ml.cmo:
ocamlfind ocamlc $(OCAMLFLAGS) $(OCAMLPACKAGES) \
-c $< -o $@
.ml.cmx:
ocamlfind ocamlopt $(OCAMLFLAGS) $(OCAMLPACKAGES) \
-c $< -o $@

clean:
rm -f *.cmi *.cmo *.cmx *.cma *.cmxa
For technical books, I can't replicate the experience of writing notes in the margins (with a pencil of course) of a paper book versus anything ebook readers offer. Yes, I can't grep or query a paper book but the learning process seems more fluid as the book becomes my own reference source.
I thought SoundCloud was a US company?
For a company with $250B in cash sitting on its books this seems like a battle they can win versus any actors even most nation states :)
Show HN: Open Source Chrome Extension Replacing Facebook Ads with Art
Complete overview of Django with practical exercise
Listening is the Job
I'm not sure your beef is really with the manufacturer in this case although, in general, the manufacturer would prefer to sell you something new.

As you note, you were able to order the part online and there are a fair number of online providers of appliance parts. (Including Sears, while they're still around, although they centrally stock rather than at individual stores.)

I suspect the local stores just don't want to deal with consumers, many of whom may need more handholding than the store provides.
The important question is: how long does an incremental build take? The time to perform a full clean build is important but clean builds are rarely a part of my development flow. In my experience, efforts to reduce build time focus first on the incremental case, and rightly so.
> It was recently that Theresa May talked about removing human rights to fight terrorism (I can't remember after which attack it was, but one of the ones in the past few months) - but her bad track record goes back further than that.

This has been her reaction to every single terrorist attack going back years and years.

Note there's been talk about a "British Bill of Rights" along these lines for years, and there's still no proposal for how it would differ to the ECHR beyond removing jurisdiction of the ECtHR.
For all the hate Windows gets, UI lockup hasn't really been a pervasive issue for me in years, whereas on my Linux desktop that's just a typical day.
Question is why would Saddam and Gaddafi do such a foolish thing.
We rebuilt our app to sell paper planes and opened a store in Amsterdam
http://www.kanzlei-hasselbach.de/2014/kuendigung-und-kuendig...

Two weeks notice during probation period.
-
What's more relevant:

If they actually signed a legal contract they also need to provide him with a written and signed contract termination. As far as I understand a signed contract exists and no written notice has been delivered. The notice period is counted starting from the day of the delivery of that physical mail.

https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/die-kuendigung-vor-arbeits...
Good point! I guess I'm thinking in terms of dividing the market into 3 types of products: paper copy, locked-down DRM copy, DRM-free ebook. In 2/3 of those, Amazon and publishers don't compete. And on paper copies, publishers usually sell at list price with Amazon priced sometimes significantly less.

There's also a 4th type which is the used paper copy, where publishers kind of by definition don't compete.

Regardless, that's my admittedly naive rationale for why Amazon or other retailers shouldn't mind sharing review data with the publisher for use on its site.
Three years ago before doing a startup I would say it is more talent than lottery.

After three years I'm bound to believe in the lottery. Sometimes those calls do fall out of nowhere and dictate the survival or death of your company (so was our case).

Related to this, there is a Portuguese saying: "A sorte favorece os audazes", meaning: "Luck favors the bold ones". This was derived from the Roman empire, so for sure there has to be some reason to stick around for so long.
IMHO I think that there are some personality types of CEOs (visionary CEOs) who can see which way the future is heading and direct it. But most other people don't listen to or believe them
Kindle versions of most of the tech books would be $21-23 all the time (in the US), vs $39 for the DRM free format. You give up freedom for that $20 but also gain some convenience (frictionless buying process, library management). It is an interesting revealed preference when both are offered which sells at what price.

It would be a no brainer to check a box and get DRM-free vs DRM for the same price. I'd probably pay some premium once I get something (Calibre?) to manage other formats as well as I can manage kindle today, especially since stripping DRM from the latest Amazon format is more challenging than before. But as someone who reads 100+ books/year, it would be hard to justify paying 2x the price for the subset of books I only read once.
Out of interest, why don't you capitalize "American"?

Edit: I'm genuinely curious and not asking to annoy anyone; I might be misunderstanding grammar rules or rules of HN. I ask because I'm not sure this was a mistake; all over the web I see people who write with good grammar, but never capitalize "American". Is it considered rude to capitalize "American"?
I don't even mind the fact that he used one or the other, it's just that mixing units in a scientific article doesn't seem very....professional for me.

Especially since increase by 12 degrees Celsius != increase by 12 degrees Fahrenheit. So in that paragraph where he talks about 11-12 degrees increase being lethal, you don't have all information necessary.
There are entrepreneurs that have success numerous times, many times in wildly different fields. Creating a successful business isn't a coin flip/lottery, it's tens of thousands of decisions over years.
right... I mean "continuous" on a digital device is still going to have some sample rate... Apple Watch has a 10 minute sample rate most of the time and some higher sample rate when they are doing "continuous" monitoring during a workout. Fitbit must have a great way to store that data if they really are doing "continuous" monitoring all day.
You have to give attribution of some of the concepts behind the first iPhone to this project. I remember when the iPhone was unveiled, I immediately thought it was a better funded, better polished clone of Openmoko.

Apple even stole some of the visual design elements. The speaker grill was almost identical: http://gizmodo.com/229243/openmoko-smartphone-did-they-have-...

Openmoko was also promoting the "app store" concept much earlier than Apple, which tried to prevent third party native apps the first year of the iPhone.

From a 2006 linuxfordevices.com article about openmoko (remember this was before the iPhone was unveiled):

"The Neo1973 is based on a Samsung S3C2410 SoC (system-on-chip) application processor, powered by an ARM9 core. It will have 128MB of RAM, and 64MB of flash, along with an upgradable 64MB MicroSD card.
Typical of Chinese phone designs, the Neo1973 sports a touchscreen, rather than a keypad -- in this case, an ultra-high resolution 2.8-inch VGA (640 x 480) touchscreen. "Maps look stunning on this screen," Moss-Pultz said.
The phone features an A-GPS (assisted GPS) receiver module connected to the application processor via a pair of UARTs. The commercial module has a closed design, but the API is apparently open.
Similarly, the phone's quad-band GSM/GPRS module, built by FIC, runs the proprietary Nucleus OS on a Texas Instruments baseband powered by an ARM7 core. It communicates with Linux over a serial port, using standard "AT" modem commands.
The Neo1973 will charge when connected to a PC via USB. It will also support USB network emulation, and will be capable of routing a connected PC to the Internet, via its GPRS data connection. [...] Moss-Pultz adds, "Applications are the ringtones of the future." [...] As for additional software components, Moss-Pultz admits, "Quite a lot is there, and quite a lot is not there. We're hoping to change this." In addition to a dialer, phonebook, media player, and application manager, the stack will likely include the Minimo browser [...] He adds, "Mobile phones are the PCs of the 21st century, in terms of processing power and broadband network access. "
Responsive E-Commerce js shopping cart
with regards to what specifically?
Realistically, what investor would even notice him at this point? How's he going to get in the door to pitch his idea?

What we should try to do is invest in opportunities that get them to the point when they can take a stab at building a startup around whatever they come up with.
I read that more as "Apple thanks you, at which point you realize you were smart enough to have made more money doing something else", not "therefore you should be happy".
> 1. Hardly any websites work without JavaScript these days.

Got to be that guy: that's a circular argument. Other websites are doing X, hence you should do X too.

It's as much an argument for docs-as-SPA as it's for having a large Outbrain ad with a picture of some skin disease in your docs.

(Disclaimer: I don't hate web apps that don't work without JS — I build them too. But a page of text shouldn't require JS. You can ship the JS-only version as a separate website, but don't force all users to use it)
I don't understand this. I am able to bookmark the page (http://host#fragment), and it serves me the right page, no?

Ex: https://githubdocs.markmoffat.com/#Erant-ventorum-aliter-ess...
There were many version controls systems before Git came along. He doesn't need to write it. But if he wants, he has the technical chops to do a damn good job of it.
Yes, dating co-workers is wrong. Yes, seriously.
People who just work at the same company, no.

Work isn't the same as school.

I think males tend to be oblivious to the downsides of asking a scrum-mate out on a date. After all, it's not awkward for them. I mean, who wouldn't be flattered to be asked out by me right! Even if she didn't accept this time, she's really going to enjoy pair programming with me in the future.

This is where the concept of consideration comes into play - a considerate person thinks about how their actions will will affect others, in this case the coworker you ask out or the rest of the team.
Immediately escorting fired employees out of the building is an extremely aggressive signal, and I don't know if it gets used much outside of USA.

It's possible to do layoffs in a completely different way, but it takes time and management patience. When Nokia fired thousands of employees back in 2011-13, they created a program called Bridge that offered former employees seed money to create startups, and even the possibility to negotiate for a spin-off license of IP assets created at Nokia:

https://www.google.fi/amp/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/i...

It seems that the program was a success by any measure. Nokia is still around and doing better than in a long time, after shedding the mobile phone albatross to Steve Ballmer for an inflated price.
RSS feeds, I currently am subscribed to over 1200 feeds ranging from cooking, to hunting, to bikes (motor and pedal), to fashion, arts, humanites, economics, social science, world affairs, programming, finance, coupons, hockey, china, you name the subject you are interested in and you can find hundreds of fees for your preference.

Only sheep passively consume news as its fed to them.
It points to another repo[1] that says this:

"Added March 16, 2016: All branches of this repo now support the ant_sel module option for rtl8723be. In addition, patches to implement this feature have been submitted to the linux-wireless repo. If accepted, they should appear in kernel 4.7; however, they will be backported to kernels 4.0 and newer when they reach mainline."

It's the antenna selection that fixes the problem.

[1] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new
0patching the Quick Brown Fox of CVE-2017-0283
Where Reddit Travels: 2,582 Itineraries Visualized
How did it come to pass?
Looking through that graph like "you know what we need? More abstractions!"
What if you need to heat your house?
I don't know if this is your intention, but it is petty to blame someone, who is seeking legal employment, of conspiring to take away your jobs.

The decision to use labor arbitrage was taken by managements in developed economies. The workers didn't position themselves in a way that created the arbitrage.

It's silly, to say the least, when your reaction is "what did you expect would happen, when you decided to steal american/british/whatever jobs".

This is just the way the world is right now. The Indian IT labor market is only just catching up to the global reality.
HR people where I work usually write a generic good review after a bad one is posted.

What gets me is that these are always displayed first by the default "popular" sort even though they have no votes.
Two things:

1. We need to get windows support to cover the entirety of the standard library (when it's possible of course). This will also allow us to cross-compile the Crystal compiler onto Windows, which bootstraps the whole Windows port and makes it truly usable.

2. We then need to merge that windows support into the standard library. We have already identified the abstractions required to make sure we can isolate the platform-specific parts of the standard library and have started moving some platform specific code there (see [1]). It's early days but this work should continue and will allow us to slowly merge windows support as a series of small and reviewable PRs, instead of one massive unreviewable chunk.
The first part of windows support is already merged and in the latest release here [2].
[1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/tree/b3c8f87fbe43669...
[2] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/4491
Seconding the "History of English" podcast. It's a fascinating subject.
One company deserves a lot of praise for respecting the "right to repair" is Baratza[1], a coffee grinder manufacturer in Seattle.

Support for customers is one of their mission statements and they provide not only instructions but also all necessary parts and plenty of videos on You-Tube on how to fix their products. Sometimes they even provide upgrades on parts at no extra cost.

No, I am not associated with them in anyway other than being a customer.

[1] https://www.baratza.com/
Pretty unfortunate to see lot of comments with an undertone like Indian IT workers deserved this situation. It's not just a problem which can plague Indian workers alone. Lets focus on what can be done to mitigate this issue.

#1 Firing is an inevitable process but it should be a transparent process and employees should be treated with dignity. Firing an employee for cost cut shouldn't be any lesser than 30 days notice period.

#2 IT service industry costing method is flawed. Head count is inflated to increase project cost. Need to adopt a better costing model.

#3 Any form of automation which would result in job cut should be a board decision and not by the lower rung. The team which will get affected by the decision should be informed so they can be well prepared.

Jobs are getting fewer since we are optimizing and automating(don't forget AI) - all good but this shouldn't be at the cost of sustainability.
The 'six months of living expenses minimum' plus 'fridge+car+laundry machine' fund get touted around a lot, but they ignore the reality that, while living expenses have only been going up, pay has stagnated. Most families are barely scraping by with only ~€300 a month leeway. Assuming €3000 living expenses a month and a combined income of ~€3500 (removing ~€200 a month for random expenses that always pop up), saving €18.000 would take 5 years assuming absolutely nothing bad happens in the mean time. Add to that the fridge+car+laundry fund and some bad luck, and you're looking at 8-10 years of no-fun-expenses-allowed saving. As one would say: get real.
Elixir – Easy fun for busy developers by David Schmitz (2016)
I don't see that. What I do see is a recognition that only in specific cases with well defined product boundaries does outsourcing development work reasonably.

On the other hand we see many companies recognizing that telecommuting and remote work, especially with things that have no end date (keep the servers running, fix the bugs, add these new features) have hidden costs. Those costs are often exasperated by time zone differences.

In areas where I have worked for the past decade, outsourcing is not looked fondly on because of the recognition that it means a loss of institutional knowledge and unending support costs.

There are many entry level positions open, just you need to be able to be in the chair.
Is everyone in this thread being sarcastic about developers morals? No one here really thinks that developers have as a whole are more moral than any random subset of people, right?
Kuiper belt, dwarf planets and what is beyond our solar system
Angular 2.0 vs. Polymer
Why not? First-time experience with VCS and git compared to first-time experience with git but multi-year experience with others VCS are both valid experiences that has to be considered.
Folate Market – Report on Development and Global Market 2022
I'd argue that it's anything but practical. Great documentation, but discoverability is severely lacking.
This was written in 2010.
Please add (2010) to the title.
DeepMind’s AI is teaching itself parkour
There are just a few major metro areas in the US where much of the rent-seeking for wealthy landlords is much of a problem starting with SF, LA, SD, Boston, NYC, DC. Not all cities bow to the wishes of wealthy landlords by making land scarce through artificial political means with the resulting huge financial windfall for wealthy landlords at cost to renters and millennials trying to buy a home.
> your init system should not dictate what a valid username is

systemd is a task manager (which happens to manage init along with everything else it can and often cannot). Referring to systemd as an init system is just muddying well-tread waters by people who are lazily misunderstanding the technical issues. The problem with usernames is that there is no standard so schemes are OS specific. It's not really a systemd problem at the core. The systemd problem (because it almost always is badly implemented) is that it uses it's own username validation scheme that defaults to permissive root when the systemd scheme is not matched for configured services. Running on top of heterogeneous environments, you get inconsistent behavior (even when you comply with the OS). This would be like apache spawning handler threads as root if it doesn't like the username it's configured to run as, regardless if the username is valid under OSX and invalid under Fedora. Too bad, username schemes are now dictated by systemd, is Poettering's position.
I am currently reading the last edition of Mike Covel "Trend Following"

Trend Following, 5th Edition: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear and Black Swan Markets

https://www.amazon.com/Trend-Following-5th-Fortune-Markets/d...
yup. 30ish for a full compile, less with ccache and other tricks. Rebuilds 2-3 minutes.
Poles have "Szczęście sprzyja lepszym" = "Luck favours the better ones" :)
And of course good old Worcestershire sauce, which can be a mouthful if English isn't your first language.

Where I'm from there are probably 3+ common and different ways to pronounce it.
Privacy International Files Lawsuit to Compel Disclosure of 1946 Agreement
> this piece did not begin by conveying that the original study's authors specifically state their goal "was to develop a temporary feeling of closeness, not an actual ongoing relationship".

The post does say this in the second paragraph:

Strangers... [report] a substantial amount of closeness in their relationship after a guided 45-minute conversation. But it's a far stretch to say that such an accomplishment truly creates reliably long-lasting relationships, regardless of the immense immediate effect.
> Bjarne's made the mistake of having C++ rely on C's linker model, so it meant no modules.

> Now we can see it as a big mistake, but on those days probably it was one of the reasons why C++'s adoption took off.

No mistake, just no choice - the original (1986 or so) C++ cfront compiled C++ to C which it fed to the C compiler and linker chain.
Deep Learning: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Finance
This should have a [2016] tag, also wondering why this pops up on HN all of a sudden?

It's been a long known issue with some WiFi cards (not just the RTL cards) that some manufacturers don't connect both antennae on some models of portables, so you should update your configuration accordingly (on Linux), or use the driver supplied by the machine manufacturer (with the correct config) rather than downloading the driver from the RTL website.
It's the same in France as well, you can be fired any time the first four months, no reason needed. Equally you can also leave any time you want if you don't like the job.
unlimited stock market API