skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this feel for the need to suppress certain comments worrisome. It opens the door to censorship, especially via questionable machine learning. I simply skip over trollish comments, almost subconsciously.
Well ./configure does not install dependencies either. Even worse: it fails at the first missing dependency instead of listing them. Making an automake project to compile is actually a long and manual process.

Just today I had to compile an older version of gimp, just a 2 years old one. Configure. Fails. Apt-get this. Configure. Fails. Apt-get that. Oh, no, configure doesn't want obscure-package4, it wants obscure-package2, that has been removed from your distribution's repos. Arrrrrr! Truth be told, I just rebooted on windows and dowloaded a binary from an archive.

With maven, I can just tell it which release I want and it just fetches it and all its dependencies, compiles them and installs them. Full auto. If I add a lib in my project, it adds it automatically and the intellisense works, the source navigation works.

Make is years behind.
Microsoft offered to aid employees affected by Trump’s DACA decision
People who do private things with their work email are idiots. Separate work and private life clearly, it'll save you tons of headaches. They could dump the entirety of my work email publicly and I couldn't care less.
Ok, we updated the title above in an attempt at accuracy.
It's telling that the author had to use Ethereum as an example. It's just really hard to find good ICO examples that make sense and have a real business.

Most ICOs have a hard time justifying their token. Some are obviously just speculative investments. I hope ICOs come to an end for the most part.

We're doing something similar to an ICO, except issuing shares. Shares are a known thing, and well established. Share price should grow based on the company's prospects, not pumping schemes. Cryptocurrency fundraising as a whole is still incredibly valuable. In our case, legal risk means we can't raise money from people we know (oh, how that'd be so much easier!). Even without the anonymity issues, I think a lot of companies are going to abandon ICOs after the token bubble pops and stick to traditional share-selling, using tokens as a ledger.
It is actually sad to see that you had to write this.

Funny how the most used / popular technology and a mismanagement from a single company can crush other competing tech.

It is frightening how much of what was invested in Solaris is now lost because of it.
I was wondering where the 10^5 solar masses were coming from–certainly it's not just a couple of stars merging and creating a black hole.
No worries. There is also other things as well, that's just one of the easiest ones to explain. For example, in 1.20 last week, we fixed a bug with include! in documentation tests behaving strangely; that's technically a change in behavior, and therefore, a breaking change. Two crates were the only users, apparently, and so they just wrote a patch and fixed it. Still technically breakage.

The guiding principle is "it should not be painful to update the compiler", and I think we do as good a job as we can making sure that that's true.
> It's a bit early for me to say which is better nowadays on Linux, ZFS or btrfs, but my company is certainly learning the answer by running the same production workload on both. I suspect we'll share findings in a later blog post.

I am eager to read this piece!

Even though I am afraid to see it confirm that btrfs still struggles to catch up…

The 2016 bcachefs benchmarks[0] are a mixed bag.

[0]: https://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/benchmark-full-results-2016-...
Not the op, but I have a fairly crap webhost and domain provider (different companies) who I've been with for about 8 and 19 years respectively and for me not changing is simply a balancing - does their crapness outweigh the bother I'd have to suffer to change over my sites and so many domains?

'Not yet', is my answer.
I'm sorry, there is probably a misunderstanding. What do you mean by "it"?

Do you mean "a third-party website, accessing a copyrighted work on e.g. Youtube, making a copy of it, and distributing that copy to a user who requests it?" Because I'd be curious to see why/where this is "explicitly" legal.

But note the distinction from "a user accessing a copyrighted work on e.g. Youtube, then making a copy of it on her own computer for personal use."
lol holy shit, causation does not equal correlation applies highly here
The per kWh cost of electricity does not correlate well with the actual amount of money paid, particularly for nuclear. The cost of building plants was and is immense, and was heavily subsidized for obvious reasons. There is a reason France is not building more nuclear plants- they are scaling their nuclear energy back 30% over the next 8 years.

Take Flamanville: it's basically the posterchild for expensive nuclear. It's French and huge so it should theoretically be one of the most affordable reactors in the world; the French are nuclear experts. Construction began in 1979 and has was planned to end in 1985.

Instead, it's been delayed until 2019 and the budget has inflated from 3.3 billion euro to 10.5 billion. In USD that's an overnight cost of $4,522 USD/kW not counting financing, and a 40 year construction period. You'd have to be insane to invest in that, and it's one of the cheapest nuclear projects. The overnight cost of advanced nuclear in the US is $6,000/kW[1].

For comparison, the overnight cost of natural gas is $700/kW and wind is $1900/kW (with capacity factor >30%). Nuclear can't compete on price even before the cost of fuel, security and staff are factored in.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...
China is screwed here, because you don't need any special tech to do and ICO. You can just buy a single Bitcoin, and declare each Satoshi in that Bitcoin to be one of your newly minted "KemendoCoins", redeemable at a 1 BTC/1 KemendoCoin rate in your store and all participating stores.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Colored_Coins

That cat is out of the bag.

The only way to block it is by making unlocked computers illegal, and requiring people to buy all software through controlled app stores.
As a video editer the fuctionally of ExFat compared to Fat32 isn't even close to what I need them for. Fat32 can't store files larger then 4GB which is basically 99% percent of 4K videos that I deal with.
Minutes for multi TB restores? Only if both your main and your backup are on SSD, which is still not common for multi TB databases, I think.

1TiB=1,000GiB; if your drives do 300MB/sec, that's still one hour.
I have never seen this happen. We use ticket databases instead, so we don't have to go into someone's mailbox.
Interesting, I missed the follow up, and had only read https://www.thurrott.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Bloat-Gr...
Elon Musk's email rule
The entire premise of this is bullshit. You're allowed to take a vacation, and it's nobody's business where you go.
Rebuilding the container shouldn't be expensive, that's what layers are for.
I started my business with less than $1000. I worked a full-time job and built my first video game product (http://store.steampowered.com/app/386900/The_Cat_Machine/) by waking up earlier in the morning to get an hour or two in before my 'real' job, and working Saturdays, and doing that for a year. I found customers by putting an enormous about of effort into marketing, and finding only some of it paid off (but what did, really worked). Obviously, having a comfortable day job and not having familial responsibilities lowers many of the risks of starting a business, I'm not sure how I would have approached it had I a family or less secure employment.

The biggest expenses were commissioning a composer friend of mine to produce an excellent soundtrack, and licensing a couple of pieces of development software, but that was <$1000. That product has funded my current product, so it's still early days for my business, I'm only a few years into this.

I feel like product one taught me so, so much, and product number two has been a similar learning experience. I'll probably know what I'm doing by my sixth or seventh game!
The player gets to decide, specific motivation not required; the journey is the motivation.

But you still need gameplay mechanics to support the user's activities.

If the user is motivated by quests, you need good quests.

If the user is motivated by conflict, then you need good fighting mechanics, etc.

If the user is motivated by building/construction, you need strong mechanics to support that.

Unfortunately, I suspect you'll find very few user's who are motivated over the long term by just wandering around seeing cool stuff.
I think there could be a fairly wide range of things that caused such a jump without a major problem. Someone 50+ might semi retire and open a bar on the beach.

What happens if someone inherits 5+ million and wants a less stressful occupation that's not simply traveling around the world? Well they probably do something well outside of the norm.
Says a lot about the general state of things when people on HN who speaks out against nazis now get downvoted into oblivion... sad world we live in.
1) I think the blog article is really worthwhile reading, and a bullet-point only list is at the end of the article. Please keep it that way!

2) Yes, this ENTIRE SITE IS 100 % survivor bias - it shares the success stories of startups, nothing else! :)
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Libertarianism doesn't provide a good methodology for prioritizing the well-being of disinenfranchized person's, so If your ethics tell you that preserving property relations are less important than elevating the condition of all humans, then perhaps it is time to evaluate alternative economic stances that prioritize property less than people.
The news generally reports the maximum sustained winds as such, in addition to the maximum gusts. Naturally, the maximum sustained wind speed is not the same throughout the storm - it's mostly in the eyewall. The category rating is based on the max sustained wind speed.
Thank you very much for pointing this out, TIL. To save others the time to look up which model the US National Weather Service (NWS) chose, they selected the [1] Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (GFDL) FV-3, which the author of the linked blog article above was opposed to. The US has a "weather modeling gap", which is surprising to me, because of the economic (many futures contracts move on forecasts, though many of the forecasting used by financial firms is increasingly from private sources), public policy, and military applications.

[1] http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-national-weather-s...
Those professions also likely to view all arguments from both side of issue all the time.

Probably more likely to reach an agreement when their own disagreement is on the line.

If a client is paying you $400/hour to disagree with the other side, then why not....
> likely to suffer wire fraud charges

One reason we require anyone raising money to disclose their names on e.g. a Form D is to enable efficient enforcement. With most ICOs, it is anyone's guess surrounding who it behind it. Investors are intentionally walking into difficult-to-enforce cases. Prosecutors will be selective; fraudsters know this.
Aside: is this website messing up the scroll for anyone else?
> Occasionally my wife will send me an email to my work address, because she thinks I may see it quicker. Does this use of company resources mean that the contents of the email can be used by the company, or is there an expectation that it is still private?

I think that any expectation of privacy when using work resources to communicate is unreasonable — IOW, I believe it's illogical to expect that the company will not be aware of the fact that one has communicated.

The question of whether the company may use the contents of such messages for its own purposes is a bit trickier, and I can see arguments in either direction. The best course of action is don't use an employer's resources for private purposes; then one cannot go astray.
It seems if there's a tech investing bubble it definitely has not started bursting yet - investors are breathlessly funding vapor-ware.
The deception aside, people have different expectations of mobile games..
I can recommend this great video from PyCon 2017 which demystifies a lot of Python's packaging process: [1]

But it's still a mess only Rube Goldberg could love.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOH-h-EKKac
It's not just the size of the population, but also how young financial markets are in China. For the vast majority of Chinese citizens, any kind of financial product is new or at most a generation old.

They don't have 1930s collapses or Madoff or Enron or 2007 collapse in their cultural DNA to build immunity against scammy speculators.

As a result of this, China's markets are overwhelmingly populated by retail investors who are more vulnerable to kind of ICO schemes we're tired of seeing in HN.

https://www.ft.com/content/e5af8da0-1fc7-11e5-aa5a-398b2169c...
That is a fallacy though, a cardiologist has extensively studied to treat heart attacks and made it his professional calling to tell you how to recover. Most rich people honestly have little to no idea about poverty at all; no real observations or professional/scientific data. They extrapolate based on what they do, rather than what is out there, and assume since they did it, it's a universal law that applies to everyone.
This data disproves an urban legend that university professors are most likely to get a divorce. Reasoning for that being that their job involves a lot of contact with young and attractive people :)
India is a good example of a government inclined to incompetently regulate nascent industries to death.
Is that normal?
>what the other party is bringing to the table

People like to forget that the perceived value of these pros/cons brought to the table varies from person to person.
Changes are hard even if both agree with them originally. Also, people change with their environment, so there might be subsequent chages in partners behavior.
> it's still trivial to do a curl/yum/rpm install when some component is missing.

Oh yeah? Which one? curl, yum, rpm, apt-get? All of them? Which revisions are you targeting? Which package names? And that only covers windows. A lot of apps need to be deployable under windows and OSX too.

If you start being even slightly cross-platform, you soon have your own build system.
I grew up in a county with two coal burning power plants in it. The air quality and asthma rates and improvement in my asthma when I moved away alone were enough for me, my wife had horrible asthma until she moved outside a 10 mile radius of one. I don't need a study to tell me they're not good for air quality.
I learned programming from programming books; the only actual computers I got to use were demonstration units in computer stores, where I'd hang out on lunch breaks until the staff threw us out. I'd memorize a fragment of syntax, then try it until I got it right in the store.

Later, at home, I'd make up my own language / CPU hybrids from lists of instructions in notebooks. Whole pages for memory / registers. The intensity of my desire to understand computing is hard to comprehend to me now. I'd spend hours thinking about how to combine what I'd learned to do new things.

When I eventually got a (second-hand) Amstrad CPC464 for home use, the tape drive didn't work reliably. I'd lose every program I wrote when the machine restarted - and certainly, without a tape drive, I couldn't be tempted by games. It was just me and the BASIC prompt, fresh, every day.

If people are genuinely motivated, and they have access to information, there isn't much need for a lot of sophisticated electronics to learn. I'd even write programs on those little toy computers that had two lines of LCD digits, where you'd never see more than two lines of your program at a time.
pyenv also has pyenv-virtualenv...
The SEC has a limited budget. It is probably most frauds will require defrauded investors to fund their own investigations.
Good for you! Now please don't mistaken your string of success as the norm for everyone else. You never know if someone started out with "couple months of float" and then circumstances (like a spouse getting cancer) wiped that out. Don't look down on someone without fully understand the circumstances surrounding their situation.
What even Erik is talking about? Why is it wrong? Can someone explain if you have a view?
This! Time is so much more valueable than $1k.
'While Evans handed over the CEO title to former Coca-Cola exec Jeff Dunn late last year, the company told TechCrunch “Evans is Juicero’s full time Founder and Chairman of the Board and very active within the company.'

So the entire story is based on some PR speak. Because "Founder and Chairman and very active" is PR speak for "resting and vesting."
That's still true depending on your field of computer science.
No, that is not their fear. Governments barely care about scams in general - Madoff got off pretty lightly. The fear is losing control of monetary policy. But IMO governments won't outright ban these but come to some sort of middle ground where they get some sort of cut.
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I'd love to see the %divorced per level of education normalised for age at marriage.

I am mankind a wild ass assumption that people marry less while in school, hence this could be due to late marriage as much as education per se.
Excellent advice.
I'm a big proponent of UBI, but I have to admit, many new jobs got created, despite the call that automation would make us all obsolete.

I think the problem isn't that automation kills jobs, it's that nobody cares about people who worked in these jobs for >10 years and don't know anything other.

I'm not saying we should allow everyone to become a pilot or medical doctor after working 30 years as a trucker, but I think we should at least try to work in this direction.
>>And if you want energy, catch up on sleep, eat healthy, and plan a night out with friends — not a week.

This is dangerous. I know SV is obsessed with the idea of the workaholic CEO who hacks for 72 hours straight to keep the lights on, and in some cases its necessary, but it should absolutely not be the metric by which success is judged.

If you can't take a week off without things grinding to a halt you have not prepared adequately, and that's the whole story. Stop perpetuating the myth of the sleepless-startup-hero. Nobody should, or want to, aspire to working unhealthy numbers of hours.
If the spouse is a civilian then no. Civilians are not subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Which is one of reasons why being stay at home wife is shitty situation. Regardless of whether this expectation comes from her, the partner or both.
I think the compelling part of pokemon go is not the game its self, but the social interactions it created.
* It doesn't matter if it's a feature or a bug, most people prefer their money increase in purchasing power, not decrease. I also don't buy the argument itself.

* Yes, fiat is still dominant, I fully agree. But it is slowly changing. It will take a few decades.

* If you want reversible transactions, there are escrows. I recently made a bank transfer to what turned out to be a fraudster who just didn't send the product I paid for. It was even to the same bank. I have the police report. I gave all the information to the bank - they don't give a shit, they say it's my fault. The police says it will take them up to 2 years to investigate. I have zero hopes that transaction will get reversed.

* What are these magical "non-credit card" transactions that you do five times a day that have zero fees? Are you talking about cash?
this is such amazing work! how expensive are these radiators before and after scaling production? ignoring the pumps, how long should they last without repair?
perhaps the type of person that would agree to an arranged marriage is also the type not to object or try and break such a public contract/agreement.
I have noticed a higher presence of tech people in the polyamory community. The two previous poly relationships I was in ended in friendship and a clean part. Just my two cents of experience.
lol move on.. :)
Core/Community team that helped design the survey here.

We actually did ask about this, but unfortunately it's quite time consuming to process through all the free text entry like this one. Some of the popular things people want from nightly are Clippy, impl traits, RLS, SIMD, and compiler plugins, which isn't surprising. It'll take some time to dig through the rest of the comments to see if there is anything unexpected.

I'm hoping to do follow on posts as we go, but no promises :)
Testing ASP.NET Core Applications – The Cross Platform Developer Experience
Interesting. Thanks.

A lot of things have changed in China. You now can have ISO-certified factories and you can order quality control also. But I admit that if I were to do something like that I would probably end up spending a few weeks in Shenzhen to bootstrap it.
Yes, I'm aware. That's exactly why Bitcoin Cash was created.
I don't believe this was the case here. Maybe the stupidity was underestimating the reaction of people who would be disappointed, but that's different.
It would be interesting to see the stats for litigators versus other types of lawyers. If I had to guess patent lawyers would probably have a lower chance of divorce than litigators.
On the flip side, removing safety from MS Office devs has led to a pretty significant quality and security decline. Pretty much every Office version we upgrade to is tested to hell and back and we usually delay adoption for three years. By then its barely functional after three years of service packs and hotfixes. We just migrated 100 people to 2013 and are still finding issues. Worse, this mentality spread to updates, which we have to delay by 2 weeks or more due to breaking things, ironically usually Outlook.

Would I trade a slower start time and less perky performance for security and stability? Absolutely. Maybe those old timers knew what they were doing. Maybe the care vs quick equation makes more sense to lean on care than quick for many types of software, especially in our connected world. Maybe the trade-off didn't make too much sense during the age of Pentium II, but in the age of i5's and i7's on every desktop with 8+gb of ram? I doubt it would be as noticeable.

I think we're dangerously experimenting with a "do it quick, ship, and maybe fix it later" mentality that might make sense with startups hurting for dollars and a MVP, but for dinosaurs like Microsoft, its a liability. I wonder how many "previous employees didnt know what they were doing so we fixed everything" anecdotes end up with unhappy customers in the end? Perhaps most.