skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been very impressed with Gimp lately - there was a time that it was clunky and crashy, Windows builds were difficult to find, and usually out of date, and I often felt like I was only persevering with it on principle. In recent years though, it's been wholly solid. Was there a change in project leadership, or something - maybe just a new development workflow? I've known plenty of seemingly-moribund projects spring to life just from someone spending a few days knocking up better build scripts...
And colliding with a tanker and being in the media for several days doesn't reveal your position?

I really get your point about stealth and would agree that it would make sense not to use radar. On the other hand, if you can't avoid collisions (for whatever reasons) your position will be known very quickly anyway.
Most providers understand the shit-show that is insurance, and will drastically adjust their behavior and prices based on who is paying.
Why, exactly, would that be a reasonable thing to do for a /payment processor/?
How long does it usually take for a small site to be generated using Simply Static? I tried it once before, and wasn't very impressed by the performance (I don't think it's a problem with the plugin, but maybe PHP itself).
>> Having to define a named function to use it as a callback is a pain in the ass.

Happy debugging!
Black man went undercover online as a white supremacist This is what he learned
Netflix certainly offers "digital adult content" in shows like Easy, movies like Below Her Mouth, but PayPal accepts their business. You can buy content on Amazon with PayPal, which sells a TON of out and out porn.

Is it maybe more fair to say that small sites that offer adult content are not allowed?
I don't mind buying something for a dollar and with the knowledge that it might not be that good. Gambling with a dollar is not exactly going to ruin me.
Golang 1.9 changelog wont be discussed in many places because it's a niche topic. Politics affects everyone, and therefore should be discussed everywhere.

Again these same types of arguments I've seen happen back home. People used to say stuff like "oh my god do we have to discuss politics here too??!" End result: the country slid down to authoritarianism and now everyone is fucked, even those who insisted on staying in their own little niche bubbles.
I curious as to who is using GIMP for serious work. I have tried it numerous time in the past but always end up going back to PS. As of late I been making a switch to Affinity Photo but have always been pulling for GIMP.
Given that freer markets are associated with massive reductions in poverty and increased standards of living around the world, what makes you think a freer economy would be "even worse"?
Could you post some links? Any idea when these therapies will hit human trials?
At work, your free speech rights are under the limitations of your employer. You should do some reading on the concept of positive vs negative rights.
Why Liechtenstein Works: Self-Determination and Market Governance
>US essentially defends the world, allowing other countries to spend money elsewhere.

You really think that? I mean come on
I had read about FreedomPop when it first launched...I'm surprised it has lasted 4+ years now.
I think that any financial institution that has FDIC insurance should not be allowed to turn away business unless it would force them to commit an illegal act.
Building any sort of standard organization around anything Uber-esque is inherently a short-term deal. Uber could be replaced tomorrow by a peer-to-peer app that needs no server farm, cutting Uber out of the loop completely. And the same holds true for any company that expects it is going to set itself up as a software-mediated middleman. Their only actual 'service' being provided is the servers, and servers are not necessary. (Some credit should be given to them for their marketing, though, as if a p2p app existed today it would face the problem of gaining widespread acknowledgement... although I imagine all the Uber drivers who would say 'hey, book through peerDrive next time and it'll take Ubers cut and let you keep half and let me keep the other half!' and that would unwind Ubers influence in a weekend.
Processors like these do not even run OpenCL or CUDA, they execute computational graphs devoid of conventional control flow.

The Adapteva Epiphany or the Rex Neo is probably closer to what you're looking for. However, once you ask for anything that handles control flow well, you pretty much end back up at the general purpose CPU, which is highly inefficient for a reason. For example, even your GPU today will become very inefficient with control flow due to branch divergence.
Importance of Managing Complexity
One of my faves, it's applied time and again to things. It's why Apple made the right move in removing DRM from their music and simply providing a better service- they knew they were up against a darknet that did not care about these rules (but also did not care about service quality/consistency). And he said this in 1993 (!) How prescient was THAT?

People need to realize that risk is itself a market. If everyone avoids risk (such as banks avoiding doing business with any remotely-risky business, such as legal marijuana sales), the first person (or entity) who doesn't shy away from risk stands to gain a lot more than if people were generally less fearful of risk. So cryptocurrencies, being completely fearless, will always fill the financial spaces that have been left vacant by more fearful living entities. ;)

Perhaps there is even an entity that has realized this and is working to instill fear in the hearts of everyone in order to reap greater rewards from their own risk-taking. But I'm off into tinfoil-hat territory, there.
They're allowed to set their own Terms of Use.
So are we made at China for continuing to use both barrels on the environment? Trump, for being in office a few months? Or is this existential hate we all have for ourselves?
I'm not the most advanced Photoshop user but after 12 years I've made the switch to Gimp for all of my personal and professional use. Unfortunately most designers are still on Adobe so I am stuck with Photoshop and Illustrator when working with others.
I wouldn't be offended at all. If the person decided to announce to the world that my home smelt like cat piss, though, it'd be a different story.
As a casual user on a Mac, I've long since abandoned GIMP for Pixelmator + Imagemagick.

Has GIMP improved in usability in the past few years?
We did it during the moon landing so I agree with you. The opinion that we must bring in foreign workers to survive is just silly. It's not that I think we shouldn't import them, but we should have very high restrictions on the company to prove that there is not a single US worker who can do the same job.
Mednet is hiring product oriented full stack engineer to improve cancer care
Fraud Forces WannaCry Hero's Legal Fund to Refund All Donations
Not a lawyer, eligibility is based upon being born in a country with low immigration to the US. I neither Canada nor Mexico qualify although I can't find the exact list right now.
> if you have a multiline function it should be named and unit-tested instead of just stuffed anonymously into some pyramid of doom

It's like saying all data should be declared as variable, in the functional programming paradigm, functions are data. That's why closures are useful. And it has absolutely nothing to do with unit-testing, that's beside the point. Javascript is not harder to unit test because it has fully featured anonymous functions.
I think the freedom of association is preferable as well, as long as you deal with the possibility of monopolies the right way.
Then why shift such responsibilities to the private sector in the first place? If they must be regulated as stringently as the public sector (especially in terms of things like free speech) then they should be public goods.

I think it's much more viable to translate some of these privately owned aspects of the internet to publicly owned institutions. Then you obtain the free-speech allowances you desire without burdening a private company with further regulation and restrictions.

This isn't the only solution of course though. But just claiming that these goods are so important doesn't necessarily mean they should be treated like government entities. They're not - that's not how the laws here work.
Tech Workers: Friends or Foes?
Obviously, but that doesn't really mean anything other than reiterating the OP's point.
You are way off base here. The issue here that group 2 by it's very nature, being passionate, is way more vocal and outspoken about the issue than your group 1 people. It's not a problem that group 2 people want to work with other group 2 people so far in that it doesn't affect group 1 people but that's not how it works. Your group 1 people generally don't care who they work with so long as they can do the job. The problem is that by being far more vocal they affect things like hiring, and who gets promoted which does negatively affect group 1 people. Regardless of the size of the two groups you have described if one is making it harder to advance for the others while not being provably better you're going to have a problem. And that is why you see a lot of people arguing against this mindset, because it IS toxic, and creates a situation wherein only people who have demonstrable interest in programming outside of work can succeed and advance.

Also This mindset eventually can backfire on even your group 2 people because life happens and just because you have the free time, energy and motivation today to work on projects outside of work doesn't mean you will later when you have a family or health issues or any of the myriad other things that can come up.
I am still learning to like Javascrip and its ecosystem. I do not think I would be able to invest time in transpile-to-js language (looking at you TypeScript).
I really hate the evolving ecosystem, hyped libs / frameworks and tons spaghetti new paradigms.
That's my personal favourite for apps, but it's impossible to tell from a glance whether the "in-app purchases" label means you just buy it once (like Super Mario Run) or it'll be a constant push to spend more and more (nearly every other app).

That's a tough one, especially for small developers.
Thats a totally nice tool bro. List me under impressed.

That said, please don't steal my logo (lol)
That's funny. Everyone I know in academia, from CS to Philosophy to Biology, is complaining there is a glut of "academics". They had PhDs but they can't positions in labs or get assistant professors to get on track for tenure because there are so many PhDs in academia.

Maybe a brain drain is something the US needs. An oversupply of "brains" isn't a good thing. We need a balance.
Parochial or primitive societies are not fun places to live in. Stereotypes, superstitions, myths, homophobia, chauvinism and oppression of women, oppression by the church, tribal wars, are all attributes.
Common, but not as common anymore since it doesn't make as much sense.

> Treating local businesses preferentially does not mean abolishing international trade. Just look at China, or US agricultural subsidies, or tariffs, or countless other examples.

Yes, this is true, they can both exist together.

> Don't they compete for the same jobs, driving down wages? Vote and take advantage of common resources (drinking water, arable land, existing infrastructure, etc.), reducing the political and economic capital of the locals? Encourage policies for more immigration, instead of policies that would encourage parenthood? Won't immigrants look out for their own interests more than for those of the local population?

Why are you making this about us vs them? What is your purpose? Once they immigrate, they are the local population. Everyone takes advantage of those resources, tough. Parenthood doesn't need to be encouraged through policies.

> is racism real?

Yes, it's absolutely insane to me that you are even asking that. You must have lived a sheltered life to think it doesn't exist.

> And instead of improving itself, it makes up the shortfall with immigration

It won't sustain it's own population, this is on us, as a society, and due to changes in the job and technology markets, populations are shrinking dramatically. We aren't and can't force people to have 10 children anymore, that just won't happen.

Other countries don't manage without, what are you saying? They allow immigration, and the population is still shrinking.

What do you have against immigrants, against immigration?
It seems more and more possible that we will soon discover substances that affect the gut microbiome to control/change people's behavior, for good or worse.
Most of HN readers are heavily impacted by US politics in our technical interests and sometimes our daily jobs - even if we don't realize it.
The article is from April 2017. The title has been editorialized, which breaks the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). On HN, submitters don't have special rights over articles and don't get to frame them for everyone else. Doing the latter, as this thread amply illustrates, amounts to controlling the discussion.

Worse, the detail that was cherry-picked (presumably because censorship issues are a hot topic) refers to something which the article makes clear happened years ago. Making it sound like it happened today ("Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal for Refusing to Censor Users") was egregiously misleading. We take story submission privileges away from users who do this kind of thing, so please don't do it. I've added 2008 to the title above as a fire extinguisher.

Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, you're welcome to do so by posting a comment to the thread. Then your view is on a level field with everyone else's.
That is why I will NOT do ancestry.com's DNA testing kit. I fear WHO will get that information and WHAT they will do with it in the future. Maybe when I get older an insurance company will deny me health coverage because I showed a genetic marker for cancer or heart disease or ...

Let alone what government agencies may have access to this stuff.

I want to find out where I am from but not at the expense of privacy.

This stuff freaks me out and people are just like "la dee dah here is my DNA". blink
Look whether "top in app purchase" is "unlock full game" or "buy gameXYZ coins" etc
Nokia 6 has sells out completely in under a minute in India
We can't learn from our own mistakes now.

What makes you think, 2,000 years from now, our ancestors will look back and a) remember what happened accurately, and b) learn from it?

I can imagine someone in the future saying "No man, that wasn't humanity's fault... the earth just goes through natural cycles. Or maybe it was just the sun."

In short: I think you're denying our contemporary and historical reality if you think that, in the future, we'll do any differently.

Edit: As an aside, I want you to reflect, for a moment, on our ability to understand human society even just 500 years back. Even at a time with decent written records, there's still entire disciplines focused on trying to understand how those people worked and lived, and enormous amounts of disagreement on the same.

Now imagine we fast forward, say, 2,000 years after we've destroyed modern society and started to rebuild in earnest. An enormous amount of information about who we are is now locked up in optical, magnetic, and solid state storage, and the technology to read that information will be destroyed right along with the rest of us. Much of the rest is stored on paper that doesn't have the long-term archival properties of something like vellum.

Why do you think our ancestors will understand us any better than we understand people in the middle ages?
Yes, it looks like that's "Import Symbol Completion" - https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_completion...
Habits 101: Research on Creating and Breaking Habits
I'm happy to to unlock features that was developed after I bought it.

On the other hand I really don’t want to pay USD10 a month for access to premium features that run on my phone.

Oh. And yes. I prefer as much as realistically possible to run on my phone.

And I'm fairly sure I have sometimes paid for apps I really like even if I'm not sure I'll use them - just to reward the developer and incentivice them to develop more good apps.
In addition to the prestige and career boost, you get a a really swell awesome feeling and get to be a permanent part of the encylopedia of knowledge. You're in libraries now!
Symfony PHP: Processing custom events in kernel.terminate
US spends more on military than every Euro country combined. If they are attacked we have to defend them and they know it. They would contribute a relatively insignificant amount if we were ever attacked.
Hi Peter, Thanks for fielding these questions! Do you think Trump will revoke the H4 EAD rule? If he does, how long would it take ?

Thanks,
Srini
LOL. Anyone attempting to build a compiler by next thursday is in for a rude awakening.

In any case you're probably right, given that I like math and (so far) prefer algebra to analysis or applied mathematics.
I have always advocated for Gimp but people esp designers want to stick to photoshop. Hope they understand the power of this open source
Didn't the Supreme Court already decide this? Something along the lines of "prioritize the law, not morals"?
I think this describes a different problem. Sure, people are trained to consume small chunks now - but much of that 1000-2000 word content is also information-light.
Too many forms to fill.
Please do make the extension open source, as it has access to all website data, mind the privacy, show us the code.
This thread is actually a prime example of why we can't have politics on HN.

Even in an otherwise smart, rational and measured community, in this thread we're seeing appeals to emotion, partisan "outrage" and downvoted being used as a tool of disagreement.
Hi, I received a full-time offer to work as a software engineer at a company in the Bay Area after my graduation in May 2018. They are willing to sponsor my H-1B, but I am also looking into other options in case I don't get it.

Now, I am an undergraduate student in the UK. I am also finalizing the contract with the same company for remote part-time work (20 hours/week) during my final academic year (around 9 months of work). I would be on the EU Payroll of the same company.

Could this remote part-time work count for a L-1 visa?

Thanks
App is written in php. organic code. no platform. My email is in my profile. I'd be interested in talking.
> everything America needs to succeed and grow can be found right here in America

This is clearly not true. If you look around you, much of what you own, use, etc. comes from other countries, including the ideas, science, and technology behind them. Just off the top of my head, in one industry: The web, Linux ... why would we think for a moment that Americans have superior ideas to everyone else?

Also, if the U.S. doesn't buy goods, services, labor, etc. from other countries, then they won't buy them from the U.S. The U.S. is only 5% of the world's population and maybe 20% of the world's market (due to the wealth of its citizens). A U.S. 'Brexit' from the world would be an economic disaster.
If the flash chip holding the boot firmware isn't really a flash chip, then indeed this could present an issue. However, since Titan interposes between flash and the PCH/BMC, it can observe the bytes actually being served.
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All very well said. I never said I was leaving Python for good, in fact, it needs to be pointed out it's still king for machine learning and I'll even integrate a Python-based solution as microservice to a Node.js project. Perhaps a clearer title would have been, "JavaScript is now my main language".

As for boredom, though, it's true, but every now and then something special emerges out of boredom, as was the case for Vue.js and most recently, Nuxt.js for me.

I hate the amount of JS frameworks and libraries available like everybody else and if anything, this article is also a short reference for myself in disguise on _how to get started_. I'll say though, knowing your way around a Node.js project can be painful, but with a little experience can become really reassuring. Code runs fast, it's easy to write (easy idioms to memorize like Python) and is generally very predictable.
Estonia wants to launch its own government-backed cryptocurrency called estcoin
> So with JavaScript you've got arrow functions, the method shorthand definition syntax, the spread operator, destructuring assignments, all functional Array methods and async functions.

In language that pythonistas would grok:

Arrow functions: multiline lambda definitions

method shorthand definition syntax: class defined with only classmethods, or in other words a namespace

the spread operator: *args in functions

destructuring assignments: tuple unpacking... But also for creation of instances

all functional Array methods and async functions: functools and async... Plus a bit more

While most of this is good to know, I'd still stick with python for readability and maintainability purposes.
There are no legal barriers for this but few companies hire outside US.
like mr bigwalter i live by gimp. but i am not a designer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_and_the_Ants

Is a good one too.
If you’re holding the dollars because you think they’ll appreciate then it is kind of an investment. Same with euros. Dollars are printed by the federal reserve but if you think about it they’re really securities like any other. It just so happens that this particular security is widely accepted to cover debts in the United States, hence its value. Holding dollars is a bet on the United States. If you thought the US was going to collapse you’d certainly try and hold less dollars.
Just curious if you read the linked article or not before commenting?
The Amiga 1000 "keyboard garage".

Hell, the Amiga.
Be a guy who can do within 2 hours of a request in a way that leaves everyone satisfied. That is hard: you have to be very good.
To be very good you spend 4-10 years of your life doing nothing but writing code, administering systems and understanding what makes things work. You learn to love it and live it.

But 'the system' is set against > 200K in compensation. You get taxed to the point of regret and even in the zone of 'getting better' you eventually realize you can't keep it up.
If you are a social butterfly and watch for opportunities maybe you can make it to 500K by killing your friends, but that is what it takes.
That happens if you publish in any indexed journals. Perhaps more people will see your name if you publish in a higher profile journal, but that is also not a certainly (though highly probable)..
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Silicon Valley challenge driving big changes in Detroit
Finally a decent alternative to make?