skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time sheets are important to businesses for reasons I neither know or care about, the problem is that they're obviously a management responsibility but management always delegates it to every employee. I don't have a clue what is and isn't capitilizable and I don't want to know, I just want to do my work with the minimum paper work possible.
probably referring to the theme api being broken multiple times during 3.x. I don't think it was ever an officially stable API though.
Great point.

I actually don't think the one has valuable experience until one spent 2+ years on the same project. All bigger projects get more chaotic and complicated over time and that needs specific set of skills to get managed in all directions. Until you experienced it first hand, you are really just a hello-world-on-steroids.
That's because you are not actually considering the electricity usage of fiat money at all.
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oooo ban me cuz I don't think mr digital is smart enough to make this forum any less fanboyish.
> That's an interesting mix. It sounds like you're pro-democracy and also pro-centralisation, would you say that's a fair statement?

I am pro-centralisation in the sense, that I see areas where the benefits are obvious: everything regarding unified market, freedom and access for people, military, foreign policy, environmental issues. I also see areas where you have to be careful: privacy, data protection, lack of transparency, lack of control.

What I do have is a mindset, of paying it forward a bit and not having to get instant compensation. I am for example generally okay with the EU building infrastructure in poorer countries. We will get that value back, but it will take its time and it will come in different, hard to be measured forms. That's why I think you should not be to pedantic when measuring your own benefit. It evens out, while the overall value steadily increases the more countries work together. It is not only about whether your piece of the cake is a tiny bit bigger, but also the overall size of the cake increases.

I do see, how such thoughts are harder to have, when you are living in one of the paying countries and personally feeling left behind.

> Are you implying that Asia is on the path to peace ahead of Europe?

No, not at all. I am just saying that Asia is on its way to the top and that the EU cannot count on the US staying world leader. Countries like Germany, France or Great Britain will have no say in world politics whatsoever, while the EU as a whole can be a stable local power big enough to be heard in the world and pursue its interest and have some influence.
Use a VPN to stop this happened again.
Such as Yoga VPN, Bestline VPN, Super VPN...
You're free to do what you find correct. I've experienced first hand what relatives with alcohol abuse means. It's not good, even when you're "functional". Sooner or later the liver gives up, or dementia sets in, usually before 50 - it's ugly and I wouldn't wish it for anyone.
Amazon has been profitable for the past eight quarters in a row.
I think that has more to do with our manufacturing costs. The first run can't be cheap, we just don't have the infra for that sort of thing.
>That's laying it on a bit thick. Linus is reportedly worth $40m+ — he's not living as a Stallman-like ascetic, refusing all compensation for his labors.

So? Who said he was ascetic (or should be)? What we said is that he gave the world his work for free.

And while he might be worth "$40m+" the Linux industry he helped create and spearheaded is worth tens of billions (if not hundreds). Heck, Git products alone should be close to a billion.

He could have easily gone for a slice of that pie early on, create branded proprietary lines of his software, etc, and it would have been a different landscape.
Yesterday's discussion for further context;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778685
How are Pipelines not first class in Jenkins? Pipelines are provided in the default installation and they are the first thing we talk about in the docs https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/tour/hello-world/

Disclosure: I work on Jenkins.
Barring natural disasters and other extreme events, your real estate risks losing (let's say) 50% of value if you made a good purchase

The intrinsic value of 1 BTC is ZERO
THIS! I have been working out for the past 13 years and I've had exactly the same problem.

I still leave my phone in the locker, take my iPod from 2007 for music and log my workouts on pen/paper.

Recently, I've been hitting some plateaus and I desperately wanted to see what my progress has been over the years as a motivator and that's what lead me to make Ewolo.

I'm starting to use it to log workouts directly in the gym but old habits die hard, haha.
Hmm, I guess you are right:

http://time.com/money/4213757/average-american-credit-card-d...

Strange, I never carry a balance, and I still get all the points common in the credit card system.
Finally! I was beginning to think nobody out there valued my skills
What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About Urban Change
"Anything longer, especially if there is a lot of long-term stasis on a resume (e.g. "tech lead on product X" for more than a year or two), is an indication to me of someone who either isn't capable of stretching himself or doesn't want to. "

Or someone who's found a technologically complex niche they like and feel they can grow in. For example, two years is a really _short_ time to achieve anything in my niche (CAD, more or less).
Was it necessary to mention React/Redux in the title? What value does it bring?
I think seanwilson is saying that the ads are easily ignorable.
NFC is better than QR codes in many many many ways. You don't have to line up the codes with the phones, paying is much faster, and the "1 payer at a time" limitation is actually the 99.9% use case for payments.
I read your arguments and unfortunately most don't hold water.

> 1. Miners currently use approximately only 0.0012% of the energy consumed by the world.

This doesn't change the fact that you're using energy.
The second argument is basically the same, just extrapolating into the future.

> 3. Mining would be a waste if there was another more efficient way to implement a Bitcoin-like currency without proof-of-work.

This is a logical fallacy. Mining means wasting energy regardless if there are other ways of producing digital currencies or not.

Now, this one is actually interesting:

> 4. Bitcoin is already a net benefit to the economy. Venture capitalists invested more than $1 billion into at least 729 Bitcoin companies which created thousands of jobs. You may disregard the first three arguments, but the bottom line is that spending an estimated 150 megawatt in a system that so far created thousands of jobs is a valuable economic move, not a waste.

This example is a bit special because the jobs haven't been created by BCs themselves but by VCs spending their own money into BC-related companies.
I just hope most of these aren't BC mines, otherwise we'd have a vicious circle here...

>5. The energy cost per transaction is currently declining thanks to the transaction rate increasing faster than the network's energy consumption.

Again: this kind of argument is of "it's not as bad as it sounds" type, and does nothing to refute the claim that mining is wasteful.
Can you explain how that works? It looks just like a normal job search engine to me
Even the police is rife with racists, far right wingers, and even nazi sympathizers, and they'd somehow clear the security industry?
I think it was done by the telco, not on a national level. Turkcell did it (not that Turk Telekom wouldn't - they just didn't think of doing ito\) and Vodafone, being a huge multinational, can avoid licking government ass so they didn't have one (Similar situation on TV; the only major network that occasionally supports the opposition is Fox - yes, in Turkey, fucking Fox is left-wing - kinda)
This is not correct unless you factor in the hardware cost.

If you changed graphics cards to use 0.1% of their current power, then miners would not immediately buy 1000 times more graphics cards.
I've been reading and doing tutorials but I wanted to build something useful to really be able to compare it with angular/jQuery (where most of my experience has been).

I plan on writing a couple of blog posts on what I learnt as well plus the front-end is open-sourced on Github :)

I've been using Ewolo heavily myself and thought that it might be useful for others as well.
5 years here, focused mostly on the back and legs to ensure I don't get a permanent desk posture (and nothing makes me feel more powerful than a set of heavy deadlifts).
The first two years I used to go 3-5 times a week, but lately I've settled into 2-3 times a week to simply maintain.
No real goals, other than staying sufficiently fit.
Trying to eat clean; A mostly vegetarian diet with a free pass for tuna.
> - Downloading a song of youtube, adding meta data via beets and moving to my music lib

I don't want to be that guy, but a music collection made of probably repeatedly lossy encoded Youtube rips sounds as if it doesn't deserve the name. Not to mention the whole piracy angle - I'm not trying to claim moral authority, but music is DRM-free and reasonably priced these days. There are hardly any arguments for piracy left.
NFC payments quickly spread all over France in the past 12 months. It's nearly everywhere now, with no minimal payment amount.
>How do you know you or the whole of humanity isn't mentally "color-blind," so to speak, without empiricism? You can't.

How do you know colors aren't an illusion, and that empirical observation reflects the true nature of reality? Through accepting several rational arguments.
> Use after free should only be an issue if you're using raw pointers.

Which you are, because "this" is a raw pointer. The same applies to references and iterators, which are used everywhere. It's not feasible to use C++ without using those features.

Besides, you can get UAF without any references at all. Read/write races on a vector, for example.
Context, context, context: How push notifications convert (VB Live)
It's not about having unique aspects. The Plan 9 editor is unique -- and nobody cares for it.

It's about having useful aspects. And ST3 is the best example we have of a native, fast, modern, cross platform, plugin-able editor.
If it helps I used the treatment program outlined in the "sinclair method" which I found online and bought his book off Amazon. In the country I now live in, using Naltrexone in this way isn't exactly unheard of but it was definitely not the status quo treatment program.

The docs that I found to prescribe it for me really wanted me to subject myself to antabuse (Disulfiram) which is a profoundly sadistic strategy that creates a major sensitivity / negative reaction to even small amounts of alcohol that can be incredibly distressing and even life threatening.

Naltrexone on the other hand simply took away most of the euphoric experience I was getting from drinking and after a 4-6 weeks of using it every time I drank, I quit after a night of heavy drinking and morning of regret. After decades of quitting only to find myself drawn back to it, it was a profoundly liberating experience to actually be sober and not want a drink at all. It still is actually (though in a different sort of way).

I have to say that drinking while taking Naltrexone was a pretty weird experience because many of the signals I'd grown accustomed to for gauging my intoxication were muted... so I "felt" kinda sober but at the same time clearly was not. I think if there is a major risk in this it's possibility of deciding to drive because of "feeling sober". So that's the thing I think people need to be really cautious about.
Looks like a lot of HNers hate the concept of advertizing itself. Yet, everyday we have a few articles titled "Show HN" doing exactly the same (they can similarly brainwash you, no?)
Porn websites must prove users are 18 or risk being banned in UK
If we can just remove emotion for a little bit, and coldly apply law and the terms of the license to fact, the picture is really not so dire.

- As stated in the standard BSD 3 clause, you're more or less licensed to do whatever you want with the software.

- The above doesn't give you a patent grant (at least not an explicit one), so Facebook also grants you a license to use any patents they have associated with the software.

- The ONLY possible way you can lose the above patent grant is if YOU sue Facebook for patent infringement.

Even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that everyone working at Facebook is a child of Satan, the only thing your company has to do to not lose the patent grant is NOT SUE Facebook for patent infringement. Seems pretty simple, no?

If your company is one that plans to, as part of its business plan, make money by suing companies like Facebook for patent infringement (which I have nothing against by the way), probably don't use react . Everyone else, what is there to lose?

Is the BSD-3 + PATENTS as nice as the Apache 2? No. Is it anything to get hysterical over? I can't see why.
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I dislike the idea of a crypto-currency that is biased towards specific configurations of silicon because it dis-proportionately assigns value and encourages cabals to form to amplify that distortion of value.

These cards also signify the use of electric generation towards 'mining' for virtual currency instead of more productive uses for society: even including entertainment. The mining raises the overall cost of electricity for everyone.
What about people that job hop because of that left behind technical debt? Often it's the long term employees that don't realize how much technical debt and other craziness they have, it's a kind of stockholm syndrome. The can also be woefully out of date on the industry and have likely reinvented many wheels out of ignorance.
Banks aren't setting themselves on fire in the course of operation:

http://gizmodo.com/a-huge-fire-took-out-a-bitcoin-mining-ope...

Because banks aren't setting themselves up in places based on the electricty cost. And shoving rackmount servers in close proximity and underventilating them. Even huge fintech operations aren't chasing cheap power at the exclusion of other concerns. Banks do not use the kind of electricity that cryptocurrency uses, when you control for the volume of usage of each.
They already exist.
Systems like you described, they know when and, in what order, expose you to new ideas so you will came to desired conclusion.
Okay so OpenVMS wasn't just FileSystem clustering.

It was physical PC clustering. So I group of networked computers appeared like 1 physical computer. While a MESO or DCOS can do this today, they don't offer durability.

On OpenVMS clusters if the machine running a job physically explodes you don't lose data. RAM and process state is network synchronized.

This allows for rolling upgrades. Your cluster can update and reboot 1 box at a time, but your apps never actually stop, TCP connections are never dropped ETC. For large corporations who've gotten used to these features they're awesome to hold onto.
As a European (I have absolutely never ever received one of these calls), is this really so bad? How many calls a month do you receive? What do they offer? Isn't there any kind of regulation?

If I remember correctly the law here says it's ok for you to call people to offer services or sell things, but there has to be a human talking, which is quite the deterrent.
> ... mining as one of the worst inventions for consuming energy possible?

It depends on what you're "mining." I've been mining Gridcoin[1] for a while, which basically pays crypto-currency for working on BOINC projects. I feel like I am at least contributing to something worthwhile, rather than simply wasting energy.

[1] https://www.gridcoin.us/
Worldwide.. and that table is out of date, both catagories have increased in the new table. I can only speak to the statistics in the U.S. where ~36,000 people died according to NHTSA's FARS database. Of those, 6,000 were pedestrians. Whereas ~33,000 people died from falls or related causes according to the CDC. So, my ratio was wrong.. but I don't think it diminishes my point too significantly.

Falls disproportionately affect the elderly.. as do traffic accidents, but the opportunities for risk are typically fewer as many elderly stop driving at some point, most die as passengers when they're involved in traffic accidents.
Upvote for the view! I think most people don't realize how important it is to have something to look at.
It is ominous. You are being farmed. If you are not aware what the service is costing you, you are being exploited.

Are there some more benign terms to use to spin this? Or are the correct terms negatively loaded for a reason?

This is particularly important if you believe minors should not be able to enter contracts. By using 'free' services, they are selling something unknowingly, maybe something they can't get back. "additional terms or product requirements (including age requirements) may apply" is there for a reason; an attempt to avoid liability.
You would be wrong. Seattle is grouped in with "Northwest" in a distant 9th.

I'm not sure what would lead you to believe that Seattle would be ahead of New York.
I wonder if its software will still be supported two years from now.
I automated my dehumidifier.

I wrote about it here: https://red.to/blog/2016/9/15/automatically-controlling-a-de...

and OS'd the Rails app: https://github.com/reddavis/Nest-Dehumidifier
The Times is also reporting that "Porn sites will take card details to protect children".

Pornography websites will be required to install age-verification
software to help to prevent children from being exposed to hardcore
images, ministers will announce today.

Users will have to enter their credit card details to prove they are
over 18, in an attempt to tackle the issue.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/porn-sites-will-take... (paywall)

I've absolutely no idea how this will be enforceable?
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/12/the-free-...
The wisdom I [like to] hear is that as long as you're above 0x, you're golden.
She.

A programmer is someone who can program a computer, and chooses to call themselves a programmer. If absolutely nobody is willing to pay them to do so then maybe they're lying when they call themselves one.

If you ask me what I do, I'm not gonna say "I program computers", I'm gonna say "I draw comics and stuff". Because that's what I spend my work life doing. And occasionally I need to do some tedious task, and find a way to automate it, because I spent enough time in my youth fooling around with programming that I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty now and then.
Non military example: IKEA.
Why credit cards and not debit cards?
NYC Subway & DC metro are state run...
As far as payment terminals go, there is no effective difference between credit or debit cards, and in the USA they accept both :)
> you'd be surprised how different

Tell me more
It doesn't matter how American's treat credit cards.

Traditionally China is known as a nation where people save, and debt was not seen favorably at all.

This is a cultural thing, which has likely been wearing out since the 1990s.
Is Basho finally dead?
> 2) Because a permission-less censorship-resistant decentralized financial system has the potential to truly improve society, hence worth spending energy on it.

The other side of the coin: a permission-less censorship-resistant decentralized financial system also re-introduces a substantial set of significant problems that societies have already long solved for themselves.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14774794
Uber Releases Open Source Project for Differential Privacy
I hadn't heard of this, it looks nice! Would I be far off if I'd say that Concourse is an open source clone of Travis CI and CircleCI? Any strong pluses of the SaaS offerings over Concourse I should know about?
Sure. The Prime Minister and the President are almost indistinguishable right now.
Absolutely understood there is a major cultural difference - in this case, I was more hoping to shed light that with regards to the US, most people aren't aware of the difference most of the time since the difference tends to be more relevant to the vendor rather than the customer. There is a subset of people who use credit cards extensively, but my experience is that most are unaware that there is even a difference most of the time.
Living in the Bay Area, California: Our landline gets between 3 and 7 robocalls/day. My cell, maybe 3-4 a week. It's infuriating.
The original 1960s film "True Grit" (the John Wayne / Kim Darby / Glen Campbell classic) has several occurrences of the word "'coon" (short for raccoon), using it only in the context of the small game animals.

When the cable channel "Movies!" shows it, they edit out the term with asterisks in their closed captioning.
> selection bias possible here. In general, folks who switch jobs every two years are the folks who are not getting offered big raises by their current companies.

The article is saying that those who stay don't get offered big raises. The article says that if you stay you get 3% or less. There's even a pretty chart to make this point.

Employees aren't paid what they are worth, they are paid as little as the company can get away with. The delta is profit to the company, which is the whole purpose of the company's existence. Employees who stay are demonstrating they can put up with flatter wage development, and they are being taken advantage of by the employers.
> we have democracy in politics

The last events in the US election system have cast a long shadow of doubt on this statement.
Need radio communication expert
Need a radio communication expert who can put together an R/F system, using off-the-shelf components, that is capable of transmitting 200 kbps of digital data at range of about 100 meters (~330 ft). Experience in working with embedded linux system would be useful.
Alan Kay – millions of people had already seen what Xerox PARC showed Steve Job
This is completely unrelated to credit cards, but if you told me that 10 years ago, I would have agreed. Today is much different, I have plenty of friends who are $500k in debt on housing investments.

Of course, China's rapid rise in personal as well as private and public sector debt is evidence of a changing society.
Is this a "pure" language like Haskell? Or it's more like OCaml?

And, even if it's not pure, is there any syntactic sugar for monads?

Anyway, this looks awesome, especially with easy C++ interfacing that seems to be there: a system where you can have machine learning (anything from bayesian to deep nns) code in C++ and business logic in something Haskell-like is the stuff of wet dreams...
It's very simple API with very basic functionality and this guy probably already did some GUI applications, so he just put few images, buttons, forms and lists together.

Reverse engineering HTTP API is not hard either, open developer console, inspect API requests, responses, etc. You need to have some web development experience, I guess.

Just read any introductory book for OS X programming and you'll be able to build this app yourself.
I don't want an emergency call failing due to a DNS timeout, for one
If you look at the date on the video you will see that it was posted eight quarters ago.
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> I think most people pay their balance off every month in the USA

You would be surprised to learn that this is far from the truth.

www.gallup.com/poll/22879/Credit-Card-Owners-Average-Balance-More-Than-3000.aspx