skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also Preboot[0] which is a "precursor to Bootstrap" and allows you to use just what you need.

Don't know how big it is but it's very small and it's based on LESS so you can pick and match what you really need.

Used it with pretty good success since I like to roll my own (sorry!) and Bootstrap and others was a little to much Batteries Included.

[0] http://getpreboot.com
How is this absurd? I've had problems debugging minified Javascript in production too. So from my point of view, this seems like an appropriate response.
"Error establishing a database connection"

This is also what I learnt as a programmer.
"Error establishing a database connection" The greatest knowledge by experience for all for us in devops.
Sounds good, but in my experience 3g also varies by an order of magnitude (5 KB/s - 50 KB/s).

When I have 20-50 KB/s stable 3g, browsing the web is a bit slow, but most sites work pretty good. Also messenger aren't a problem.

But working below 20 KB/s is a pain.
Unless one was creating a library or had an application that used an enormous amount of memory, 32-bit or 64-bit really didn't matter. IOW, for most desktop applications, it was a non-issue.
I'm confused by your parenthetical, as the definition that excludes Pluto (and Eris) was arrived at by the International Astronomical Union (https://www.iau.org/).
> In the first half of this year, California tossed out more than 300,000 megawatts

That doesn't sound right. According to [0] that is 2/3 of total electricity generated, from all sources, in the whole of US.

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=average+electricity+gen...
Always build scalable web presences.
I think I have enough understanding of the different types of Bitcoin between SegWit and Bitcoin Cash and what they do differently. However, I'm not very invested in the Bitcoin community. Could someone explain which of the significant parties (developers, users, miners, exchanges, etc.) are supporting which type of Bitcoin and why?
Very cool that these exists. I had no idea. But I'm just your typical stupid American.

However, it looks like they're about 3x the cost of a vented dryer.

And smaller capacity than vented ones.

> Ventless dryers also take longer to get your clothes dry. A vented dryer might finish a Normal load in about 45-50 minutes, but a condenser or heat pump dryer could run for an hour and a half. Want to dry a bulky blanket or comforter? You could be waiting more than three hours.

http://laundry.reviewed.com/features/everything-you-need-to-...
The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media
If it's anything like Australia, the high gas prices will cause electricity prices to skyrocket and then conservative politicians will blame it on renewable energy.
I think "assume allow" is perfectly reasonable. It's just implicit, not explicit.
Bitcoint itself is less monitored but to buy bitcoin (as opposed to mining or earning it) you have to use the money in your bank account. And if there are currency controls you won't be able to take your Venezuelan bank account and transfer the money to a US bitcoin holder in return for bitcoins. And I doubt many people in Venezuela who have bitcoins will want to trade them for Venezuelan currency.
Which is a "PR" move and nothing much, I want to point out. I think the metric everybody is watching for at the moment is the hashrate on the BCC fork. It'll show what portion of miners actually commit to the fork.

Spawning nodes is cheap and doesn't really mean much.
While Hacker News hugs the site to death: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
As a developer I'm more or less required to keep up with new hardware developments but I'm still fine with my 6S with 3D touch. The rest of the new hardware features work fine within a simulator. I'd rather buy an iPad Pro than a new phone this year.

But I didn't like the design of the iPhone 6 compared to the 4 and 5. It's good to see it change finally. The 4 and 5 looked like a piece of futuristic technology, like the Samsung Edge designs nowadays. From what I've seen the iPhone 8 will outdo Samsung for the first time in years in that department.
I've always found Fastmail's mobile app to be amazingly native-like even though it uses HTML5.
The US is a big place, which averages away the extremes. In San Francisco, population 868k, there are about 10-12k homeless folks (http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-homeless...), which puts it at over 1% homelessness. That's a tragic number for such a wealthy city.
It is real socialism but it's been done in an extremely resource-poor country with numerous other issues, not the least of which is massive amounts of systemic corruption and crime.

Socialism clearly isn't working here, but I wouldn't say it's at fault for the current struggles.
We have "public baths". They are usually called "YMCA's" and they charge a fee. There are saunas and steam rooms and chlorinated swimming pools at most YMCA facilities.
Is that you can never predict a traffic spike.
A capitalist Venezuela faced similar economic problems in the 80's-90's, even had the same response to the unrest when they jailed Chavez. Socialism isn't the cause, it just wasn't the solution they hoped.
A few years ago the government banned civilian ownership of guns. Then, a few months ago they announced the arming of a half-million strong militia. Now they are rounding up political opposition at gunpoint. Yes, I do think it is easier to send your goons to round up enemies when only your goons have guns, and don't need to worry about getting their heads blown off. Now with they can proceed to round up whoever else they need to take care of.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4419630/Venezuel...
I have to assume that they meant megawatt-hours, a unit of energy, rather than megawatts, a unit of power.
This podcast from the BBC was really helpful to me in explaining it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p051zkj8
Latest price as Bitcoin falls amid fork
It's nice to see that they have a better than industry average score of supporting women co-founders but now you really have to wonder if that's tainted or not. McClure did himself and the companies they invested in no favors.
Even I first thought of this while reading about this plan. But may be this is more about cheap and long term storage of electricity. Lithium ion batteries are expensive and also Lithium is limited. But I would definitely like to know how this idea stacks up against the idea of pumping water to a high altitude place and then using it as a battery.
It's so easy for organisations like Octave to sell stuff to companies that it blows my mind why you don't.

Octave Pro would simply be a support license to email you 10 times a year. Or the right to create 10 bugs per year on a bug tracker.

So easy to get past accounting. A plushie would be hard.
And I think the quarterly reorting cycle helps exacerbate this problem.

I would love to have my views altered if someone can point to cases where r&d benefits from the current state where quarterly reports seem to make or break companies.
> Outsourcing foreign politics or issues of morality to a business is both harmful (because that's arguably not what a company's task is or ought to be)

Or in other words, corporations should at all costs be faceless?

Is it wrong, then, that Tim Cook uses his CEO creds to rally for LBGT rights? Should companies stop meddling with politics by pushing back against encryption backdoors? Should companies use every harmful additive that's not yet illegal to please shareholders?
IMO, the problem is that the kind of people that generally browse this site generally value functionality over looks. Unfortunately, we are a relatively small subset of the population and Reddit is looking to broaden their reach as far as possible. So they are going to make their site more like other social media sites where a big portion of the user base will like it, another portion won't care one way or the other, and a small portion will hate it. I think they know some people will hate the redesign and potentially stop using the site, it's just a small enough portion of the user base that they don't really care.

Luckily for me, I spend > 75% of my time on Reddit on my phone, so it won't really affect me for the most part.
Ask HN: Who is hiring?(August 2017)
Who is hiring?
I think this is because of the unpredictiveness of html/css. The css api is not intuitive and there is difference between browsers.
Good CS fundamentals are important

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/welcome-to-the-software-inte...

Yes, I can see the confusion. You see, we are looking for the very best Translators, and it has been proven by major companies that the people that are able to do the job best have a very solid foundation in the science translation is based in, such as Linguistics and Classics.
OK, I think you could paint the same kind of picture for both sides of the argument but, it helps to see where you are coming from.
Bitcoin Cash forks, Nodes Now Operational; Miners Await First Block
Yet to be learned - caching?
I always thought there should be a "Being an Adult" mandatory course in US grade school, and one section should be "defense against rhetoric."
If it is anything like the ether split, 8mb btc + SW BTC > old BTC

Logically SW BTC should go down (and it has) and 8MB BTC should have value cut out of it, but with ethereum and now it seems the sum of both parts is greater than the whole before the fork. BCC futures market up about $100 since this morning on more than double yesterday's volume. SW BTC down a couple hundred but added together they are at $3,168 at time of this comment.
From the article:

Last month, a number of women came forward to the New York Times, alleging misconduct by McClure and others in the venture community.

That to me sounds like not really too bad but instead about f'n time.
Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)
> we're actually totally fine with it happening again.

Sadly, it is reality. It is happening all the time all over the world - Democratic Republic of Congo makes American press maybe once a year but has been awful for 2+ decades.
Pattern Variations
How do you feel about the banning of toy weapons - including water pistols, plastic swords, bows & arrows, rubber knives?

(Personally I think it's a fine idea, but many of my thoughts are easily taken out of context.)
As predicted by Randall Munroe some years ago: https://xkcd.com/504/
Years of harassing the foreigners who had been maintaining the oil machinery out of the country and not reinvesting any of the oil profits in maintaining the machinery. Then oil prices crash.
The last video i saw of german police "attacking" left wingers was literally police officers gently lifting them up and away from a slowly moving car.

I'm a socialist myself, but if you want to do anything good for the left, make sure you get your stories very straight.
If one or either of them drops below the value of BTC pre-split, then no. No one knows what will happen, and assuming they'd not drop by the difference of pre-split is definitely not guaranteed, especially if you consider the pre-split price highly inflated.

Note I follow CC a little bit more than casually, no expert and I'm not sure what the GP means exactly by this statement.
Killing the Blue Whale Challenge
> approach to crypto might put you off

It doesn't, anymore than whatsapp. Whatsapp says they have end-end encryption. Has anyone verified it independently? They say they use Signal's tech. Has anybody verified that the app doesn't just take screenshots of the screen and send them to facebook for data mining? When your app is closed source, all claims about security and encryption are meaningless, unless some solid auditing is done.
This is so disingenuous. We don't blame capitalism when an industry struggles in Europe or the US. And when the financial crisis hit in 2007-2008, capitalism didn't get the blame it deserved.
Poor man. It's almost a fraction as bad as the stress people face working for him!
Scholarships and accessibility at GitHub Universe
Ah, the no-true-socialist fallacy.

You can't just say their political system wasn't responsible for this, especially when it's how these types of governments always end up.
"apps"
As someone who has lived in Alicante for a period of time I have seen Erasmus in all it's glory thank you. It's not something I am going to miss paying towards.
In terms of litter, the Dominican Republic is far worse than the USA. Major DR roads are lined with unbroken mounds of trash.
Pascal is still my favourite language (being the 3rd I ever learned), and its syntax similarities with BASIC are why I prefer programming in VB.NET rather than C#. Curiosity's been piqued though, might just have a look at Delphi...
I still think there is a very real possibility that Brexit will never go through.
As funny and hilarious as this whole "Here hold my beer" moment had been, it won't last forever and hopefully, in the end, cooler heads will prevail.
Hahah, that was my thought too. The wisdom is to always do load testing.
Oh I agree completely. I just take issue with the fact that it somehow is a "youth problem", as is being pointed out by the parent comment. It's a business problem, not a lazy millennial/education problem.

Stop hiring shitty coders and you'll stop getting shitty interviewees. Less shitty interviewees means less need for these types of "beat the coding interview" services/blogs.

Honestly a lot of times the comments in these threads amount to "I was a geek and it wasn't cool, I know CS from the ground up, and nobody deserves to have an easy path to being a coder". It's an exhausted form of gatekeeping and doesn't make anything better for anyone.
>Is there a platform out there that has no X server?

XQuartz on Mac OS X sucks (maybe it's just Inkscape though) and I'm not sure if there's decent Windows support.

Qt might work, though.
“You can’t change the system from within, it will only corrupt you.”
There are reports that the new AWS nodes aren't playing nicely with existing nodes. It may be an attack.
> You chose the wrong word when you said "socialism". Socialism is a spectrum.

Gun control is also a spectrum, but you can call it gun control for every step on the scale, not just when every gun is banned for everyone.

> Many aspects of the US are socialist.

Yes, and those aspects are an immense burden on society, and often achieve the precise opposite of the stated goals. To the extent that these policies successfully achieve goals, it is unclear that these goals weren't already being met. The policies characteristic of the "war on poverty" are not correlated with any positive outcome for the rate of poverty.

> Scandinavia has implemented notably socialist policies.

To the extent that each Scandinavian country is socialist, it is having trouble funding the policies. Norway noticed this was happening in the early '80s and course corrected by slashing taxes and regulations. Sweden had a lot more runway, but they're starting to feel the weight of the promises their social programs made. Denmark could not be described as very socialist today. Sweden is both the most socialist, and the most troubled of the three Scandinavian nations despite having a lot of industrial momentum in engineering and energy.
That's a bit hard to figure out, since paypal doesn't track that. The total donated since the story came out is 3159.95 euros.
Are you able to run multiple nodes on a single machine, or does each node need a unique IPv4 address? If you can do IPv6 or multiple ports, a Potemkin village of even t2.nanos seems wasteful.
If the number of BTC suddenly doubled, you'd expect the value of each one to halve given rational expectations and perfect knowledge of BTC holders.

Of course a) the two BTC variants won't have equal worth and b) participants in the BTC economy have neither perfect knowledge nor total rationality (the level of rationality in the BTC ecosystem has been much debated over recent years as we all know) so the actual outcome may differ from the 'perfect' one, but the likelihood is that values will converge over time to the outcome that the value of BTC1+BTC2 post split is equal to the value of BTC pre-split, plus or minus any gains/losses along the way (which may include a reputational loss or gain based on how well the split goes).
A standard package format would be nice, but this looks like enough to let developers publish once and have their build tooling do most of the work of packaging for different targets.
"Identify exactly what you're weak at" and "learn quickly" are two of his notes so...
Imagine the amount of suffering these countries could be spare their people if they just legalized drugs of any kind (it's not like it not freely available anyway), and just swept the cartles income from under them.
Ah, the perennial apologetics of weaponized mediocrity.

Don't look now, but you just failed every interview I've ever conducted. Maybe consider a field where the skill you've just demonstrated would be useful -- politics, perhaps?
If I understand certificate transparency correctly, StartCom's actions will be fully and publicly auditable, in real time.

This means one vector of attack : Chinese government requesting google.com certificate from them, and MITMing it's citizen would not be possible. To any CT experts: is my assessment correct?
The times I have been over the safe driving limit in the UK, I have always climbed on the backseats to sleep, so that there could be no confusion about intent. I was once woken up by a policeman, told him I felt I was over the limit and decided to sleep in the car, and he told me "well done" and was on his way.

I think it is all about presentation (and how you speak to the police)
Who's "we"? I see plenty of people blaming capitalism, especially on left leaning hubs like Reddit. Pretty much anytime there's a major corporate scandal criticism of capitalism is towards the top.

Which is fine, at least under capitalism you're allowed to criticize it.
The meta around voting is complex and rarely discussed. Kind of like Fight Club.

Generally though, think of "contributing substantively to the discussion" (e.g. providing facts, ideally sourced [1], relevant personal experience, or interesting and neutrally worded questions) as a high good. And tossing around memes, ad hoc attacks, argumentative language without facts, and "contentless" comments as the lowest bad.

And as parent mentioned, the stronger the claim, the more it behooves you to cite a source.

In general, try and write the kind of comments you want to read & treat everyone with respect. :) And hopefully others will do the same!
The laundromat I used in grad school was owned by Korean immigrants. They opened up a little restaurant that became popular enough that when I went in to do laundry one day during the summer they told me they weren't running the laundromat during the summer.
Awesome bro ! Good job.
That's the point - something like Delphi stays, is reliable, is not deprecated, while relying on Microsoft tools ends up with tool and library turnover at a high rate. (Consider the past ten years of MS libraries...)
iPhone game that lets you make your own Tangrams
There are a million more embedded features in Slack than there are in IRC. Sure someone could spend a year trying to implement all of those plugins in their private IRC server and it be less functional and user friendly, but why would someone want to waste their time and money doing that?
German discussions about banning diesel cars from city cores aren't motivated by greenhouse gas emissions. Instead the focus is on particulate matter.

Particulate matter is linked to a host of serious health issues, among them serious increases in lung cancer, leading the EU to pass limits on allowable particulate concentrations in the air. German cities struggle a lot to keep concentrations within the limits and see banning diesel engines (a big contributor even with particulate filters) as the simplest solution to their problem.
Startcom was a previously-independent and reputable company until it was acquired by WoSign, so I might be willing to give them another shot, assuming they can scrub themselves of any lingering effect of WoSign's scummy practices.
> Laundromat's are now how I explain "the cloud" to non-technical people.

That is quite brilliant analogy. I always used "printing something off at Staples/Fedex" - no need to own a printer, deal with buying reams of paper and ink cartridges if you do not print often, you use the cloud printer of the Fedex locale to get the single spot job done.
Why will declarative programming rule chatbots, AI and cognitive computing?
Greenhouse gas emissions aren't really the issue with diesels. It's kind of the everything else of emissions - particulates, nitrogen oxides, etc. - that diesels have some problems with.
A Farewell to Screensavers
same here.. lol
Depends on how many people did that and what their intentions are.

Also to sell 8mb bitcoins, a >1MB mined block will have to be accepted by the network which may not happen for hours or days. There is a schedule for difficulty changes but there's no telling how long it will be before they are actually tradable.
> (You know that if your ads are run through a Google service they're safe, but why risk using another service?)

From what I understand, the Ad Blocker will work on a per-site basis, rather than a per-ad basis, i.e. if you have bad ads on your site, all ads are blocked in Chrome, including Google Ads.
Some but I'm guessing it is minimal. The countries from Mexico to the south have had unstable regimes and violence for a long time (probably because the Spanish institutions were exploitative and exacerbated differences between the landholders/other and Europeans/natives).

There have been lots of violent and terrorist movements from the 70s onward and even prior to that. Guns didn't help but the US is far from the only suppliers or cause.
Even more interesting will be the effect on sites that can't get "good" ads due to adult content or sketchy legality like file sharing sites.
I've seen plenty of debates with nut-jobs like an anti-vaxxer or climate sceptic facing off against an MD or climatologist respectively on television, with a journalist as a moderator to make sure it's on a level that's understandable by the audience and to make sure it doesn't degrade to name calling.

Why can't the same thing be organized for politicians implementing policy? Let them face the concerns of the experts right in front of the public, the public has the right to be concerned if it's evident that politicians don't know what they're doing and aren't consulting people who do know.

Invite a computer engineer or something with any sort of experience in the field of network security to comment the Home Secretary's statements and ask her questions, maybe even through the journalist, and I'm happy.
Check the statistics about Venezuela's economic structure.

Chavez claimed he was a socialist because that has positive connotations over there and the US wanted to portray him as a socialist for the opposite reason.

But check

* percentage of workforce work in public sector

* government expenditure as % of GDP

* percentage of workforce that is part of a union

* taxes

* state enterprises

* the welfare and state provided benefits

Compare all of these to a country like Norway (richest or 2nd richest country in the world, also an oil state of sorts). You'll find that if Venezuela is socialist, than Norway must be a straight up reincarnation of the USSR.
It's not easy. Or if it is, would you do it for us? There's really no "us", it's just a bunch of people together on the internet. Except for write access to our website, you're as qualified and authorised to do the legwork as I am. Even receiving donations is complicated, which is why we're grateful that the FSF does it for us.

I've also heard mixed reports about whether this would help with a revenue stream or not. I remember hearing organisations that set up this fake-purchase process but didn't really get that much more money than just plain donations.