skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A credit union!

2FA could be better (also SMS), but being a small outfit they put me in touch with the PM responsible and I’ve got better options on his roadmap.

Not to mention no ATM fees, no aggressive upsells/marketing, and all of the other good things that generally come with Credit Unions.
If there's a port, there has to be sufficient bandwidth available, regardless if anything is connected and what that might be. USB 3.1 Gen 2 supports 10Gbps, so 4 ports means 40Gbps. If it's a MacBook Pro, it has to support Thunderbolt 3 on all ports. That's 160Gbps for 4 ports, or 16 PCIe lanes. That happens to be exactly the number of PCIe lanes the Intel i7-7920HQ CPU has.
That… doesn't even make sense as a question.

All one can say about it is that it was promoted to Stage 1 18 days ago, that the spec is not currently written, and that it has two dozen issues opened against it.
In the case of research, data-science and -- generally speaking -- "scientific computing", mathematical problems pretty much do exist in isolation.

This is the niche that Julia wants to occupy.
Dark net has some lucrative opportunities for best hackers. Note: I do not endorse or recommend it.
Ask HN: Should non-technical founder of an AI-based photo startup learn AI?
It's been 6 years of trying to build an touch-based (AI) photo sharing network. Within this period, 5 engineers have joined, contributed codes and left; with each succeeding engineer building on top of their predecessor's code base. Today, I felt I should've been gradually learning technical skills that supports my startup; probably, I could be contributing code to my project today without over-relying on others.
Is it too late for me consider transitioning gradually to technical role or should I stick to my natural role (UI/UX & project management)? Given we've achieved good results so far?
Nonsense. I don't know maybe rich people. The backstage thing was with a guy working for a concert promotor who made much less than any SW developer. The boat was with a guy who made as much as I do and had bought a boat which he worked on all the time. The car was a Lotus Super Seven which is cheaper than most SUVs.

You can do a lot of cool stuff without much money if you are willing to put in some effort and have some imagination.

If you have a friend in another country you can have a great vacation for cheap there. For example I know a diving instructor who lives on the Maledives. Find a cheap flight and you have a great trip that sounds expensive but isn't.
I don't see how lag could be caused by a cable or hub. It's not like a remote desktop or VNC connection, where what flows over the cable is commands to change a stored image; there is no stored image -- every pixel is re-sent for every frame. Any lag must therefore be internal to the laptop. If you have an image on the monitor, and it isn't scrambled and the colors are right, the cable and hub are working.
Apple is almost entirely a hardware company, revenue-wise. Microsoft is almost entirely a software company. Amazon is a retail (revenue-wise) and IaaS (profit-wise) company. Facebook and Google are advertising companies.
> but lack of actual parallelism is a pretty big limitation - often a deal breaker for...

Well, in my experience, it has been a deal breaker in a select few, rare cases. But often?

Do you routinely come across problems that could NOT be solved using a multiprocess approach (in Node) or webworkers on the client side? Could you share some of these scenarios?
The dorados and (some of the dolphins) were in machine rooms, not offices, as the ECL machines ran so hot. There were not a lot of dorados so you could connect to an available machine. One reason I used work at night was that a dorado would usually be available for me to connect to from my office.
There are lots of books about horse behavior. It's been studied pretty throughly. Most horses are willing to socialize with humans. They're not submissive in the way that dogs are, though. Once you understand some horse body language (see "Talking with Horses", by Henry Blake) they're much more willing to socialize. Horses are flight animals, herbivores, and herd animals, and their behavior comes from that. Dogs are pack animals and carnivores. Different mindset.

(My current horse is possessive of me. I recently turned him out in an arena with another horse he likes, and the two played around a bit. Then the other horse came up to visit me. My horse ran over, ears pinned back and teeth bared, to chase the other horse away. But he wasn't "defending" me; the other horse wasn't a threat and my horse knew that. He was just showing the other horse that I was his human.)
The only gray area is people buying the cheapest possible cable they can find...

That's 90% of people though.
pickle/unpickle is a way of serializing/deserializing in Python land.
I prefer the chart of Japan's GDP. Didn't you hear? They conquered the world, their influence was undeniable. Their competence was feared across the globe.

By 1988 Japan had surpassed the US in GDP per capita. The US is now ~53% ahead. That's no discredit to Japan, they're a very advanced industrial nation. The US simply happens to be the greatest economic train in history, one that has rarely stopped expanding in the last two centuries.

Maybe China will manage a century of mostly unbroken growth. We'll see what they do now that the easy growth - filling in their vast economic slack and correcting particularly extreme inefficiencies - has long since ended (which is why they took on tens of trillions in debt post 2007).
> ... a relatively fast functional language that replaces most of the brackets with indentation.

You might like sweet expressions coupled with a common lisp, a scheme or racket:

http://readable.sourceforge.net/

http://docs.racket-lang.org/sweet/index.html

... Or perhaps have a look at Julia:

https://julialang.org/

"Julia - to Lisp or not to Lisp":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3zRXhrFZY

[ed: and as mentioned below, there's also wisp:

http://www.draketo.de/english/wisp

]
Yeeesh, that sounds like a maintenance nightmare...
See my other comment. Have some imagination and put your money into interesting things instead of shiny iPhones, restaurants, hotels or a new car every year. Most people here make much more than the average citizen.
I honestly thought that was a joke but it's not [0].

[0] https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageI...
I don't have access to the code anymore, unfortunately. But it kept track of a list of people waiting on the lock and then notified the first caller off the list when the lock was released. It was only beautifully simple with respect to what it would have been in a non single-threaded evnironment.

I needed it in order to use a library that had some annoying global state in it.
Pay the Devil in Bitcoin: The Story of the Collapse of Mt. Gox
Several commenters on semantics in this thread (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473604 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473705 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473402 ) seem to be missing the key empirical fact: that the Earth's crust comes in two distinct types: oceanic crust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_crust) and continental crust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_crust). More specifically, the distribution of crust density (and other properties) is bimodal due to being caused by distinct formation processes. The presence/lack of ocean water on top of a location on Earth is a consequence, not cause, of the crust type. This is why the continents are clearly visible on the Earth's topographical map without water. Otherwise, you'd expect the visible shape of the continental land masses to be highly dependent on the exact waterline, which is mostly not the case.

So sure, popular media is often framed around silly terminology changes, but this does not mean that calling Zealandia a continent fails to have real empirical meaning, or detract from the fact that Zealandia is unusual in being continental crust largely covered by water. Likewise, removing Pluto from the list of planets reflected the empirical fact that Pluto is qualitatively different than the other planets, and qualitatively similar to the other dwarf planets.
I thought the 90s were great for metal.
Bands like Enslaved, Ulver, Opeth, In Flames, Ensiferum, Children of Bodom producing amazing records, that still inspire new acts and whose material stand as pillars of many new genres.
I haven't run into any issues yet, but I may have just been lucky on my hub/cable selections. What type of video connection?
Not always. If the windows only software needs access to a hardware device (e.g. GPU) then there's still a significant barrier to setting that up. Hardware support is kind if there but some vendors dont allow it with consumer cards and you'll need two of them if you want both desktops at once. Along with that it's not uncommon for even new hardware to get details about doing this wrong. Currently amds threadripper and corresponding motherboards don't work with it due to a bug with power management.
Basically we do not have political influence on foreign economies and governments, that's why. If they want to become a territory or protectorate, then, sure, we can share.

As it stands, we have vast amounts of our own poor we underserve, but it's less sexy to say you support our own poor, functionally illiterate than say you support some people in a country where people made different political and economic decisions.
This is probably a horses-for-courses thing. Typical OOP patterns are a poor fit for the lower-level aspects of a real-time game engine, where you really need to know what's happening on the critical path. Things like GC and constructors/destructors/finalizers can become an imposition rather than a convenience if they're not kept out of the main loop, and that can put you at odds with the usual idioms in an object-oriented setting.

I think the biggest benefits attributed to OOP are really from splitting up the namespace into more manageable pieces. This can and usually should be done in larger C and C++ projects even if you're not using an OOP approach. The defaults in this regard are a little unfortunate, but both languages provide tools to do it (internal/"static" linkage in C, namespaces and using declarations in C++).
I use VimFX on FF, i3-wm as my window manager and vim for writing code.

It's mouse free nirvana.
It takes attention off the corruption and non-democracy we see in the US.
“I am completely an elitist in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work or a good carpenter chopping dovetails. I don't think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones. I would rather watch a great tennis player than a mediocre one, unless the latter is a friend or a relative. Consequently, most of the human race doesn't matter much to me, outside the normal and necessary frame of courtesy and the obligation to respect human rights. I see no reason to squirm around apologizing for this. I am, after all, a cultural critic, and my main job is to distinguish the good from the second-rate, pretentious, sentimental, and boring stuff that saturates culture today, more (perhaps) than it ever has.”

- Robert Hughes.
Fast, unlimited and cheap cloud storage with “duck” (WebDAV)
UX clusterfuck? How?

So it's the same UI it's had for years. Just because it isn't modern and pretty doesn't mean it's a clusterfuck. I personally find Gimp easier to get started with than Photoshop, for one...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15469889
freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
I haven’t claimed that Linux has a better kernel.

Basing your claim that NT kernel is better than Linux on the employment of a single developer seems pretty pointless. Smart people work on both kernels. Not so much of a feature that is better in one or the other.
> But where does consciousness arise? Is the ability to reason about things independent of this concept?

"Who cares?" and "yes".
More than one in 30 users is using Linux on the desktop. That does NOT include ChromeOS (which you may or may not classify as running a Linux desktop - I do not).

That's a "thing", much more so than e.g. Windows Phone market share, or the Baha'i religion.

[0] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/09/01/1639250/linux-desk...
Your story clearly indicates this has nothing to do with it being a wolf. It happened to have a body that was capable of killing, yes. But the owner picked it up and slammed it whenever it misbehaved, and the owner actively encouraged it to kill things.

If your parents did that, you would do the same thing.

You see this kind of prejudice against pitbulls too. They're some of the sweetest dogs.
Not that easily solved.

Costly cables are usually better but you don't have any warranty.

You can use bensong leung tests to find a good one but need to hope that they have not silently changed the cables since his test.

When you buy a new device, you have no idea of the capabilities of the cable that comes with it.

So you need to remember whether it uses PC or QC or just always use it's provided cable.

All in all we are still far from "let's take any usb-c cable and connect it to an usb-c device".

It is too bad, it is a very nice dream.
I've just given boostnote a quick tour, as a Quiver user I'm not so sure boostnotes is quite there yet, at least on feature parity.

There seems to be some UI slowdown on my machine too, whereas Quiver doesn't seem to suffer from that at all, and I have like 200+ note files in my Quiver repository!
How old have your Golden’s typically lived? I’ve got a almost 11 year old (got her at 6 weeks) that doesn’t show any signs of giving up yet. My only complaint with her is that she has been food aggressive and she’s not a big fan of small children. We’ve never had her bite anyone but she shows her teeth sometimes. I never thought a Golden could exhibit wolf like expressions... all that said I love this dog more than just about anything in this world and I hate to think I will probably only have her for a few more years at most.
> I suppose experienced developers do as little as possible in callbacks (basically store the event away and make a note that there was something, at a central place). Then try to do everything else in easy to understand main control flow, some time later.

This is why there's a trend toward frameworks that are a giant pub-sub, like React/Redux. The pattern is essentially to forward UI events (mouse clicks, etc) to the pub-sub, and that way you can keep all code together in the main control flow, in a somewhat "functional" style.
This piece does a great job explaining the follies of trying to categorize things: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...
Feel free to fly over Richmond B.C., an entire massive city built on sandy soil that will sink in the next big earthquake before you get too high on that horse.
(author) thanks so much for the comments. i vaguely knew about this but i serendipitously didn't run into it. how does lack of vram access manifest? do vram writes silently fail?

this is precisely the sort of quirk i wanted to cover in this template so i appreciate hearing about it.
Preparing for interviews
> I can only imagine that the Chinese middle-class feel the same way towards the USA.

Well, there's plenty of middle class in the US who think the Republican party and Trump is evil, so that sounds plausible.

> I never understood the idea that democracy was a superior form of government.

Winston Churchill quotes might be cliche, but still warranted. Democracy is superior in the sense that it provides a release valve for replacing incompetent or malicious government less catastrophic than peasant uprisings or Coup d'états.

Fortunately, it's still an open question whether repressive regimes can become superior. Or whether repressive regimes will continue their repression as the population thrives.

> I think I want to move to China.

Voting with your feet -- What a very democratic idea!
I wrote up the fun that is USB C at https://superuser.com/a/1200112/41259 .

How big a mess USB C is? Check this note from Plugable: "We have had several confirmed cases where lowering the Power Output of the internal Wi-Fi adapter to 75% in Dell XPS models has helped with USB-C disconnect behavior."

Also, while you can get a small USB C to dual DisplayPort MST hub http://a.co/hyXGdBA and also you can get a small USB C to DisplayPort adapter with USB C power passthrough http://a.co/1KE2imb you can't get an USB C MST hub with power passthrough in a single, small, relatively cheap device. You need an expensive, quite huge device like the ThinkPad USB C dock to get this functionality. It seems as if every USB C accessory maker took a blood oath on hardwiring a HDMI converter to the second port of their MST hub. (Yes, taking a USB C to DP converter and an ordinary MST hub is a cheap solution, of course, but it's not elegant at all especially because both insist on using cords, creating a mess.)

Also, there have been laptop chargers with 65W or 90W on the laptop side and one or perhaps even two USB charging ports, if you are real lucky then 2.4A each. Now that both your laptop and phone charges via USB C you'd think you could get an AC adapter with two USB C ports and perhaps a few USB A thrown in for good measure. Dream on. The highest wattage adapter I found with two USB C ports is 55W, it doesn't even charge a single laptop, it's all 5V. There's a well known ;) brand called LVSun which sells a 80W charger which can do a non USB C laptop + USB C phone (or a USB C laptop + a non USB C phone) plus it has a few USB A ports as well. Still, it's not two USB C ports.
I would also pull in

Ulver - Bergtatt

In Flames - The Jester Race

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

The 90s hold so many good and interesting directions for metal!
For sure, but I also enjoy to live socially, especially climbing the social ladder.
And the bus... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473481

Good luck patching THAT hole.
"orthogonal" in this case is too strong for GP comment on OP.
I agree with you that HN is often getting distracted by the endless cycle of "debate about nothing" in which people debate things in abstract terms pushing in abstract directions. And I see now, that my post has generated more debate about nothing and very little usefull discussion.

So to the point. I don't think that international credibility is a metric that means much to China. They have never sought it. They have had a quality problem for a very long time and done nothing to improve their image in manufacturing. However, all would agree that they have become a manufacturing powerhouse. This is because it matters more that they can deliver a good to the hands of consumers than what the consumers think of the manufacturer. If they invent a way to instantaneously communicate over long distances [1] or to make meta-materials with surprising properties [2] , they can exploit these results. Whether "the West" beleives those results or not is probably not of much interest to them. Indeed, it might be in China's interest that we don't beleive in Chinese science. Perhaps, China will become a magician to us, a box which produces goods which we do not understand. An alien civlization. Would that not be in their interest? They already do medical research which the west does not have the stomach to discuss. Genetic research on live subjects and fetuses. We don't even have a framework for replicating that research and medical students in "the West" do not learn from the results. But someday rich people will fly to China and beg for their magical cures. "Oh yes. Mr. Jobs, we have nanobots that can cure your cancer. Just give us a stake in Apple." And we won't even understand the medicine, we won't consider it to be real science. We'll call it "Eastern medicine". But it will work. And people will pay their life savings for it.

I think that the NYT is writing to an audience what the audience wants to hear. Their headline is tabloidesque, which is odd for The Times which prides itself with measured professionality. And their reasons for publishing this article seem to have more to do with my overall claim than actual newsworthiness.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/teleportation-china-earth-orb...
[2] https://phys.org/news/2009-10-chinese-scientists-metamateria...
Thank you. I am often disappointed in links posted here only to find the top comment thread goes off on some related point leaving actual discussions about the link somewhere out of scroll range.

I feel like I'm contributing to this problem right now.
it doesn't mean anything.

and even if it did mean anything, it wouldn't mean anything to most US residents -- except an opportunity to join the world's largest military machine.
Sadly, looking at some of Benson Leung's results, e.g. https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/TkAnhK84TT7 -- looks like bad cables and chargers cost the same as good ones and can be from name brands, and that's just on the power front. Looking through some of his suggested cable/charger spreadsheets shows things generally being a roll of the dice.
Is this a team that I want to spend more awake time with than my family?

Do I have any moral objections to the way they conduct business?

Will I be doing something that's interesting?

Would I want to tell others about what I do?
Having just been through the job hunting process, it’s gotta be the speed at which I can apply.

If it takes me more than 2 minutes to apply for your position, I’m going to skip the whole thing

If you make me retype everything that’s on my resume, I’m going to pass

My ideal application is attach resume, put basic info like Email and name if not automatically scraped and submit
That's sufficient: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
And to be sure, the same thing happens in the US: try running for prosecutor without a police union endorsement. It's not codified like it is in China, but it has the same effect.
Show HN: Try your.dev.whatever.localhost.dog:8000
I think the West has more credibility than it deserves when 90% of published science articles aren't reproducible.

https://www.jove.com/blog/2012/05/03/studies-show-only-10-of...
It's a problem, but given their pop, they can sustain more corruption and fraud than anyone else. They can sustain 4x our fraud and be even, given their production.

I think the NYT and others keep clawing at China simply because China has an agenda which diverges from the globalist vision of the NYT. They care for themselves and will do it by themselves by their own philosophy which happens to be less introspective. This means that while it can bring great value to Chinese, they may not feel like redistributing their largesse in any way with the rest of the world.
Yes, it's unique even worldwide, and every city planning student learns about it.
There are few minor exceptions, but basically everybody can do what he wants and neighbors are fighting each other without the help of city officials. And you wouldn't trust those officials anyway.
My kids were watching Tinkerbell movies on Netflix. Then I saw the credits.

Check out the Animation Department:

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3120408/fullcredits/animation_depa...
"There’s usually no way to tell whether a given USB-C device requires Thunderbolt, either — you just need to plug it in and see if it works."

Or how about something called google? Who are these people plugging random devices into their computers that they know nothing about?
In China the government will toss you in jail if you complain about pollution. There us no freedom of religion. State sponsored organ legging was widespread until recently. Who cares about an extra few thousand compared to freedom?