skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i tried getting into it when alpha accounts went free to play. if all you have is about 1-2 unscheduled hours a week you could not find a worse game to play.
As long as you can easily unbutton your shirt:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2430654/iPhon...
Then again, we're still waiting for the year of the Linux Desktop.
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Personally used to the "slowness" of PyCharm, still think it's fast enough and doesn't get in my way too much. If I'm on a system that can't handle a full blown IDE something like Emacs w/ Spacemacs or Sublime Text 3 works for me. I'm not totally married to my tools, though I do use JetBrains software as much as I can. PyCharm has debugging tools and other things which I find useful, though I do agree, it does seem a bit overwhelming at first.
> Last I checked I don't need to bring a credit report to get into a local pub and chat with people either.

But you see those people, with your own eyes, and thus know they exist. Maybe in 50 years we'll have robots indistinguishable from humans, and the question of proof will become relevant for in-pub interactions. For now, the question is relevant only for long-distance communications.

> How is trusting one centralized, not democratically controlled institution to take care of the problem even a solution? If you rely on them, you implicitly also give them the power to effectively declare real people non-existent.

True. But so is the case with a democratic government, and so is the case with any other organization or system. And the power to declare people non-existent is exercised frequently, often by mere bureaucratic accident. Ultimately, trust is a spectrum. No organization is worth 100% trust, but also no one is worth 0% trust. I don't e.g. particularly trust Facebook, but I trust the social web - if I have a friend who has a friend who has a friend who is a friend of the rural kid in Africa, I can with high confidence assume the rural kid in Africa exists[0].

So yeah, in my previous comment I mixed up a few different use cases. But I think in pretty much all of them you want to at least know the other person is a human being, and frequently you also want to know they are who they say they are.

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[0] - This effect is actually sabotaged by the pro-privacy efforts to hide as much information about people as possible, rendering users unable to follow the social web chains beyond their own direct connections. Privacy is important, but it's always a trade-off, sometimes trading off genuinely useful things.
Ask HN: How to choose the right university subjects for a career in IT
Hello. I interest myself in programming and I've been dabbling with many languages (Swift, Python, Haskell), reading books and doing little projects (mainly Code Wars-type, or small apps for iOS).

Soon I will have to decide on what university I go, and what exactly I'll study. But how do I choose? There's so many things that sound really interesting - systems programming, data science, bioinformatics... And no way to try them out beforehand! I need to plan some rough route at least, which I'll refine once I get my bachelor's degree (e.g. I can go general IT now, and choose AI for masters; or go bioinformatics now etc.).

I have nobody to ask, because nobody in my proximity understands this kind of stuff, not even teachers. What would you advice me to do?
Thank you very much for help.
Barcelona, Spain | Zeptolab | Backend Developer (Java) | ONSITE

We are looking for a Server-side Developer for our game projects.

Responsibilities:
- Development of high-load game backends.
- Support and optimization of current systems.
- Improvements in the development process and communication.

What we’d like you to have:
- A rather solid knowledge of Java;
- Experience with Netty and networking in general.

As a plus:
- Familiarity with Java 8;
-Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases. Cassandra in particular would be a plus;
-Experience in development of high-load backend systems;
-Testing skills will be a plus (unit testing, functional testing, performance, integration, etc.);
- Experience with Linux, Git, Maven;
- Skills in DevOps.

A burning desire for game development :)
If you would like to apply please send your CV to job@zeptolab.com
"One of the best things about arch is its documentation - specifically its wiki."

I don't know how it is now, it's been about a year since I needed the Arch wiki, but back then it was stuffed full of outdated articles, which were useless or even counterproductive in the context of current package versions.
Using the Monero prices I looked up right now it seems more like 21 days. Not that it really is meaningfully better.
the survey seems not to be anonymous and people lie if they know that their position as a ceo would be associated with their political views.
Happy to see this. Free market health care has failed, glad there is a critical mass of people willing to get something new.
It's an update issue, I'm talking to a fair few people who had the same issue on a GitHub issue. I have resolved it now.

This update appears to have broken a lot of plugins.
And go for which OS on mobile? On iOS, you fall into Apple's hands, Windows Mobile is dead, and other OSes are relatively non-existent.
But it was almost slow enough to not explode.
> If so it's just a whiney tax grab by the French and Germans who are used to getting their own way in the EU.

What? EU countries are not saying that repatriating profits is bad, what they say is that companies use strategies to avoid to pay taxes.

If USA government think Volkswagen pay so little taxes for revenue done in USA they are the ones that have the saying
Maybe, maybe not.

In any case, if you want to primarily protect against US government snooping, Kaspersky might be a better choice than a US anti-virus product. If you want to primarily protect against Russian government snooping, Kaspersky seems like a bad choice.

To me it seems perfectly reasonable to prohibit US government authorities from using Russian antivirus software that installs with highest privileges. I'm amazed they were allowed to do this in the first place.
I believe there's interesting gameplay in smaller groups, without all the screaming, but yeah, large conflicts are fun to read about and not necessarily fun to play.
Not sure why the one leader was banned trying to get real world information if one of the the selling point is about interacting outside of the game as well.

Why wouldn't it be perfectly valid to attempt to scare or convince this guy in real life to give back the loot. It feels like it should be part of the game. Bonus points for getting someone fired or sleeping with someone's sister.
Pricing killed Borland/Delphi. Unattainable to regular developers and small businesses.
Or cutting off a finger or hand?
"Yes, it's a rolling release, so you have to update your system now and then, but this is a good thing--install once and run an up-to-date system for years on end."

In my experience, this also lets the system collect all kinds of cruft over time, which can definitely impact stability and predictability when it comes to updates, unless you're extremely vigilant about housekeeping.
Yeah that was a part of the problem.

https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter/issues/444

It was still installed... but broken.
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Also, if the payment was higher than fractions of a cent, people would start "freezing" the site the moment it loaded - just as, back in the day, we disconnected our phone line modems as soon as the page we needed finished downloading, to avoid paying the phone company for time not spent transferring data.
Lots of easy handling of structures immutably. Which Python has a good bit of for sure, with comprehension especially. But I could use more. :)

I wish everything immutablejs gave me was built in to Python. :)
I've talked to people in arts/humanities who attest that its impossible to do anything original. Examples of earlier original things or, for example, current scientific discoveries of brand new phenomena, did not sway them.

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Annoying. I assume certain college courses are drumming this belief into them (Also a habit of terrible verbose / waffley writing)
Thanks for the kind words!

well, I got half of the stuff in this presentation from my masters in Interaction Design at Malmö, which includes the type of material you talk about (although somewhat surprising, most of it through good teachers passing on privileged information[0], not from reading all the influential books directly).

Anway, with that in mind it come as no surprise that I'm pretty much in favour of everything you're saying!

Some self-indulgent context: Malmö's IxD programme, at least when I was there as a student and later as a teacher, is quite different from the UX processes that most people associate with interaction design for apps. Not surprising, since it was founded by Jonas Löwgren of Thoughtful Interaction Design fame[1], and Sweden has a long tradition of using participatory design[2].

The program was more of a broad human-centered design program that happens to specialise in IxD. This was very much a response to the HCI funk of the late eighties/early nineties, where the latter field had painted itself into a corner by trying to do everything through quantitative methods (this is the simplified caricature version of the story of course, as someone with your background probably realises, and HCI has since improved a lot - I think IxD and HCI are kind of converging now).

Quantitative methods are fine for optimisation, and for verification of an idea, when the question is framed correctly. What it doesn't help with is exploring the idea space or that initial framing of the problem - it is an incomplete tool without qualitative methods.

We were thought to look at the various humanities and steal whatever is useful for us. To use things like ethnography and cultural probes, or bodystorming, or ideas from theatre, or any of the things you mentioned. From a high-level point of view, I believe the most important influence on the course was the work by Donald Schön. You might want to check out his writings - especially The Reflective Practitioner.

> a UX designer with a background in HCI, trapped in an uninspired and aging tech company trying to get them to think differently or die trying.

I think a lot of this is more political than anything else. I mean, changing this involves changing existing structures and power dynamics, and addressing fears of things changing itself. It's a pain if you're stuck in a system like that.

[0] nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/thoughtful-interaction-design

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design
I've been using DDG for about 2 years now and have rarely needed to resort to a google search in this time. A few of the cases for google were funnily were when I was trying to lookup someone and get their email address.

I do full-stack programming: java, Node.js react, angular, redux for my day job and dabble in a bit of C++ outside of work as well.
On the contrary, I find it quite pleasant despite (or because of) those facts. Multi-line lambdas I'm particularly glad to be rid of.
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I really need to learn to write more concisely...
They probably compile it with generic flags to support x86 or x64 for having more than a handful of package repositories for different architectures, as opposed to having hundreds / thousands of package repositories for every processor released out there. When a package is compiled down to your specific processor it is not guaranteed at all to run on another system. This is also done by people who use Gentoo as well as other source based distributions.
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Why don't you install macOS on XPS15? Works like charm if you have Broadcom WiFi...
Nope, it's just perfectly automatic.

There is an entirely optional "going to sleep now" toggle you can flick which will give a "time to sleep" measure and marker on the graph.
Less "downstream" patches to packages than most other distros. This is consequence and a prerequisite of rolling release.

Debian-based distros can have quite a lot of downstream modifications, the OpenSSL random bug being the most infamous. A lot of this is due to having long term releases which causes the need to have new software work with old dependency libraries and vice versa.
I think GP is talking about the case in which people kill off the mining script, so that it doesn't mine, after the side loads. I.e. ad-block for sneaky cryptocoin miners.
Is it too late to start playing EVE? Every time I hear about these great events it seems like it's the last and the game is over now.
Most of these are fine replacements, but some are not, and that's the reason I, and I imagine many more people, stay with google.
google maps is great. apple maps is much worse with searching, and shops etc, especially outside the US.
openstreetmap is very cool and I use it every now and then, and I wish it becomes the standard online map, but it needs more care or something, I don't know.
It's a system where you don't have a bunch of preinstalled bloatware you don't need, giving you a better idea of what is actually on your system, meaning also a better idea of how to tweak it or have an idea of what's going on if something unexpected happens.

The package manager is much simpler and more transparent than apt, i.e. it apt always felt like a more obfuscated package manager, it writes to files I don't know about on its own, processes various triggers etc. paceman can also do this, but it's PKGBUILD format is really straightforward text description on how to build and configure a package, giving you greater visibility as to what's going on.

Then there's the rolling release model, not having to reinstall is extremely nice.

Overall, it is just a very clean distort, where the tools are intuitive and transparent and you can administer the system as fast as you can type in just a few days.

Plus, the Arch Wiki is by far the best source on all things Linux.
Not really sure, I think the best Linux distort is whichever one you're the most comfortable and productive using. No need in forcing yourself to use a distro that gets in your way.
I didn't say they would truly close their doors to EU business. Very much the same way they operate in most of the world, that they should apply that to the EU. Google/Facebook don't have offices in over 100+ countries and yet they clearly serve those consumers from those countries just fine.

Take for example my country of Ecuador. I'd find it hard to believe that any tech company is paying taxes in Ecuador and yet their citizens reap vast uses and benefits from Google/Facebook. I'm guessing this applies to 99% of other countries as well.

I'm of a libertarian skew, so most taxes are essentially theft to keep the fat bureaucracy happy. In the case of the EU it's clear extortion.
LoRaWAN packet received at record distance of 702 km | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15201692 | (5 days ago, 178 points, 50 comments)

> animats: Wow. Both the receiving and transmitting antennas were omnidirectional

> vvanders: I regularly see APRS packets of 120mi+, although probably at a lot more power.

> superkuh: I run two ubiquiti nanostation M900 at home on a 10m pole and in my car through the sunroof for a mobile data link.

> aw3c2: From a balloon in almost 40km altitude.
Or maybe they simply alter the rate of some CPU-bound simulation components within the open world?
I guess <6 cents per day, let me know if that was right or not.
It is pretty unlikely that there are no such ties, hence you should choose your security products accordingly. It's kind of obvious that government employees of one country shouldn't use software from another, not very befriended country for handling sensitive data.
So it seems like an invalid number just sets the number guessed to the actual number, but carry's on executing as if you need to pick a lower number.

Why would it work like that!?
I would definitely block it, simply because the browser isn't the only application running on my computer.
Similarly, in the US, the Chinese sellers take advantage of the UPU shipping subsidies to artificially undercut sellers from other countries.

"the USPS actually charges China Post less to deliver a package from China into the U.S. than it charges a U.S. business or customer to deliver a similar size package within the 48 states"

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439532/us-postal-servi...
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Similar Mint fan. I used Arch for awhile, and enjoyed learning how FDE and other things work (because I had to), but it's nice not to have to.

My only concern with Mint is, what happens when Ubuntu goes away or becomes nonviable as a distro base?

Canonical seems intent on making Ubuntu cool in some area, and even more intent on monetizing Ubuntu, and there's a risk that their pivots, and forward and back steps, could cripple Ubuntu.
I figured - the way you described your process wouldn't fit the systematic brainstorming style :)

Anyway, I think get what you're saying with not writing things down: you're forcing yourself to start from the ground up, so the result matches the problem better. Having said that, I wonder if this isn't more dependent on how you note things down and organise your thoughts, because like others have mentioned here, I would have lost a lot of ideas if not for short scribbles.
It really does require you to be subscribed to the Arch news feed, in case any packages require special manual procedures to install correctly.

And don't wait too long between updates, because apparently some newer versions of packages don't know how to properly upgrade from older versions.
Indeed I did not understand it in that way, It took so long for adblock to be a thing that I think it is a non issue for now.
Wow... when this project began over a year ago, it seemed almost impossible. It's almost surreal to see the results finally all put together. (And it really goes to show how a few amazing and dedicated people working together can make incredible things.)
>including one officer who pulled down $442,000, a new report shows.

Is that considered a lot for a senior wage for a skilled worker in the US? Sounds pretty tight, even with dramatically lower taxes than most European countries.
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... and in cases where DDG fails, you can fall back to https://www.startpage.com/ which shows Googles results but strips Googles tracking.
I will !
Is it possible to register new file formats in ripgrep though (say for example slim files so that I could do rg -tslim PATTERN)? Last time I checked it was somehow possible but way too complicated for so common a task.
I'm really not sure what point you are trying to make.

My point is that the iPhone took the iPods market from it. Apple had to release a phone to do this, or someone else would have eventually done it.

They did not do it to 'up sell' people, ie the thought process was never, 'lets sell the iPod for 5 years then hit those suckers with the iPhone and up sell them' it was 'lets make the best music player' then 'soon every ones music will be on their phones, we better make a phone, actually the phones we currently use are terrible, we have this interesting touch screen tech from a tablet we're developing, oh shit we can make an awesome phone...'

I'm not saying Apple are brave, I'm saying they are logical, they will release a product that will take sales from another of their product lines, as if they don't someone else will, and any sale is better than no sale. I think they would do this even if the product that was doing the cannibalization was cheaper, eg the iPad is definitely eating some of the Macs potential sales, and I think Apple are very happy about this.
The article was about giving tax creation power to Brussels and removing that power from the EU countries. This would not result in a fairer tax, but a tax that you have voice in changing. Brussel bureaucrats are not voted into office by the people and can therefore also not be removed from office by the people.

I agree that governments should strife for a fairer tax and a good start would be a simpler tax. There I agree that unnecessary complexity have created loopholes. I however do think that the European Union should set the example and start paying taxes like normal citizens in their respective countries. The European Patent Offices in Europe do not pay any taxes in the countries they are situated. They have their own internal low tax system. Talk about writing your own rules for avoiding taxes.

Just to touch on the issue of USA companies not repatriating money back to the USA. This is a problem with the USA tax code. The Netherlands for example do not have this issue, since they have double tax treaties with various countries and when they do not have a treaty the participation exemptions kicks in. The participation exemption says that you will not be taxed again in the Netherlands if you own >= 5% of a foreign company when a dividend is payed from the daughter company to parent companies. The logic of the dutch is that foreign dividends have been taxes and is therefore exempt.
> With the condition that you abide by the rules.

The rules are generally in place to protect the community from sociopaths and serve as the communities immune system.
There are lots of parts of human life that is not so much fun to live through, but lots of fun to read about or watch.

If it's fun for you, then awesome. But I bet there are other things you enjoy occasionally reading about or hearing about that are still not worth the time investment to actually live through.
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Started as a Mac only RDB in the '80s. Now runs on Mac and Win, as a single user, from a server, or can be compiled as a standalone app. Rich development environment, includes web server, PHP, SQL and a lot more. There is a small but vibrant community of developers but is accessible to anyone with some technical experience.
That's an interesting point re volume. But it still smells too much like 'Disney dollars' or similar - and I mean particularly in the instance of kik where they are looking to create an economy within their app developers. It's the same horse wearing different colours and it's not the sort of thing I would be rushing to get into (and I say this as a BTC participant at the 3c mark)
> Decentralized social networks aren't working for now because they reinvent their own protocol each time

nope...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus
The article leads with "Google trackers" but there's no mention of how to block Google's tracking services... I get it's somewhat outside the scope of the article but seems relevant.
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Agreed. They finally have an "express" version but even that was $199. I'm sorry but I'm not going to pay that much money for something that I may never even use, especially for a stripped down version of it.
> If a program eats too much memory, the swap can get filled with the rest of the memory and when you go back to normal, everything is slow. Just restart the swap partition to fix it: sudo swapoff -a; sudo swapon -a

Is this true? Not impossible, but I am surprised. If true, what is this fixing? In my naive view (never studied swap management), if at the current time a page is swapped out (and by now we have more memory -- we can kill swap completely and do fine), it should get swapped in when needed next time. As there is more memory now it should not, in general, be swapped out again.

If true we are exchanging a number of short delays later for a longer delay now, which to me hardly looks like a win.
My ghast is totally flabbered!
It is a competition on who has the sovereign power to levy tax. Brussels or the individual country.
Purism's Librem 5 [1] looks like a very nice mobile phone alternative. It's highly privacy minded, at least.

[1] - https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/