skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say two things at this point in time:
1) All-time high, it's pre-fork time, Bitcoin is still a long position, so people who have a lot of cryptocoins are trying to expand their portfolio BTC %. And all new investors are coming to BTC. ETH, like every other altcoin right now, is being traded in favor of BTC, so no way value will go up pre-B2X.
2) ICO banning, regulations, and general uncertainty at new coins make Ethereum & ETH, as far as price speculation goes, a less favorable proposition, since its speculative driver (ETH for ICO) lost momentum. IMHO it's remarkable the ETH/USD price is still stable, hovering at US$300.
How did sleeping in a tent help you get healthier?

Did you have access to an electric grid? I love camping, and could see doing it for long periods if I had a solution for powering my laptop/cellphone and a solid connection to the internet.
I think... its real, go to their blog page and they describe how to put nio into a rpi.

https://niolabs.com/blog/baking-nio-into-a-raspberry-pi/
Listened to it last week -- The gist is that they've found a new home with the CNCF & The Linux Foundation, which bought the IP so that they could continue working on it publicly. Besides the database (which was always open source) this is especially important for parts of RethinkDB that were meant for "enterprise-only", which the company was working on internally before they shutdown. All and all the community support sounds strong, and after listening I decided to take another look at Rethink for my next project :)
It's also pretty popular in Romania. I have two close- and non-techie friends who have used its services.
(OP here) To be fair to them, they mandate 2FA set up. If you've not done it before, it can be a complex and time consuming process.
What is the primary use case for rethinkdb (vs other databases) ?
Indeed, plenty of famous art pieces have been 'fixed' and if you really wanted to revert a statue back to it's original form removing the number plate would be an easy job and do wouldn't take away from the real artistic parts of it. As they were placed on the flat base of the pedestal, not touching the primary artwork which is the statue itself.

Sure they could find far better solutions, and very likely would today. But I don't think this is a particularly big deal that it was done in the past.
This is the "Return of the Jedi" Episode where the Young Jedi finally able to bring Darth Vader back to the Light Side of the Force.

George Lucas predicted this in 1983.
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We're hiring for a number of engineering roles including:
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I've noticed a lot of learners (eg in YouTube videos) crash because they grab at the handlebars, grabbing the throttle and inadvertently accelerating.

Is there a reason the throttle can't be reversed so that grabbing would reduce throttle and slow the bike?

(FWIW, I'm a fully licensed motorcyclist, don't currently ride.)
As far as I understood it generates dynamically (a user did that in the comments).

Are you aware of other tools that generates the diagram dynamically?
Cause ETH requires all the servers to process a single transaction to validate it. The tech makes no sense.
That's generally what we aim for. I'm co-founder of Baby Manager, it's free a baby tracker app. You can track all things you mentioned. Our plan is to make use of this data in a way that parents can understand their baby better. They can already see patterns on Timeline view or charts but definitely there plenty of ways to get much better insights out of it.
Oh an essay about videos, or wait....
Thats a lot of text...

Also https://xkcd.com/927/
TBH, that's what I do. Most of the time the bug is insignificant enough that it doesn't really matter. Every once in a while I am freaking out trying to get an update through the app store at 1:00 am. For me, it's worth the tradeoff.
An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress
My favorites as an outsider:

· Vagrant for WordPress dev | https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV

· https://versionpress.net version control plugin beta | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11439173

It was that discussion that mentioned https://roots.io/ as relevant to "modern" Wordpress dev practices.

Any additional resources people are willing to share would be appreciated!
The best managers are the ones who know they don't know how to do your job so they get out of your way. The worst are those who don't know how to do your job and get in the way. Those who know how to do your job at least don't get in the way when they help.
What is your basis for that (chargin more)? Customer needs? (trying to understand your valuation)
It's not a parody it's a genre. There are many others out there.

Representative example: https://unroll.me/team/
Yea as someone who has a 2+ hour commute each way, such a policy would doom me to unemployment unless I was willing to take a huge loan and live closer to where the employers are. Good intentions, but bad idea.
It is free (IEX).
Zombo.com V2.0. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxWwEPeUuAg for the famous zombo.com intro, without Flash)
Still plenty profitable to mine if you already have a rig. A 6 card RX470/480 setup will gross about $9/day.
Musk Says Biggest Model 3 Bottleneck Was Software
Why I Moved My Company from New York City to St. Louis
Select a set of people at random every week and ask them to do something nice for someone. The other person has to post the good deed publicly for everyone to see. If the selected person refuses to do it then publicly shame him/her in carefully targeted ads.
This is how a revolution begins.
Artificial Intelligence Maker Kits – used by teens – lmoroney
Swing covers almost every use case (JavaFX as well and has a more modern feel). While people like to complain about Java, it is easy to follow and gets the job done. Other languages are available on the JVM that could also leverage Swing/JavaFX, like Clojure.
You would need to be remarkably stupid and/or immature to use Twitter as your primary communication channel, as an elected leader of 320 million people.
If it's a joke, its really elaborate, as here's their linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9217038/. They list a Colorado address, not Silicon Valley too...
From 2016 to 2017 they increased the price of the latest generation of MacBook Pros by a couple hundred dollars. It wasn’t so noticeable because they also added some lower spec models to the lineup in 2017. For example, a base non-touchbar 8|256 mbp in 2016 was about $1300, but about $1450 in 2017. Yet you could still get a $1300 model in 2017, it just had half the storage of the 2016 $1300 model at 128GB.
Does nicehash have an effect on how alt coins are priced compared to bitcoin. It's a market where you mine altcoins for bitcoins. Not sure how large it is, but wondered if it was affecting the relation to prices.
Two use cases: 1) Smart contracts (currently the most used blockchain to run one); 2) New tokens/cryptocoin (most used blockchain to run ICOs).
Disagree with Ethereum value proposition/implementation all you want, but saying "there's no defined use case" is nonsense.
Well it's not just hackers we have to worry about though, but employees.
Calendar Added to Managify's Suite of Projects, Notes, Bookmarks, and Passwords
> Microsoft's ridiculous VM licensing scheme for Windows

Microsoft offers at least three different ways to license Windows to run on a VM in-house. Core count, instance count, or site. Are all three "ridiculous?"

None of Microsoft's license types require a certain Hyper-V capacity. In fact the whole "we were required to over-allocate Hyper-V so run Linux on the spare capacity" claim makes no sense.
Looks nice.

Search could be a little better. For example "getting started" did not return any results but the page with the same title exists.
A bunch of people talking about "what do they actually do?" that doesn't convert to sales would suggest their marketing isn't actually working.
Javascript's not the worst part of Electron (performance/size-wise). HTML+CSS is. See the imperfect, but much better, experience with React Native on mobile.
Yes it does. What are you talking about?
I don't think RethinkDB ever intended to unify and replace all existing databases.
How many of us clicked on the link expecting decked out airstreams? Great article showing the struggle of people dealing with insane housing prices.
You have options here. You can set aside a room as your quiet office, you can find a cafe or rent a coworking space to work in...it doesn't necessitate commuting 45 minutes into an office to solve.
Ask HN: Is there a need for a service that detects signatures / handwriting
Dear HNers,

Did you ever encounter a need for detecting images / pages in a collection of documents that contain signatures or handwriting?

Thank you!
For quick installation of the usable system I usually use Fedora + KDE environment. It is always updated and KDE is easy to use. On the computers where I do need maximum working performance I do customize awesome (or Xmonad lately) plus many-many terminal applications. But if you don't want to waste your time on heavy customizations - imho, Fedora (27 will be released in a couple days) is a good choice.
So as far as I understand, the answer to that is really "it depends". I'm not a doctor, I just find this stuff interesting. If you do it properly, I think you can supplement things like testosterone in a sustainable way, you'll have to cycle on and off the drugs to prevent long term damage to your body's ability to produce endogenous hormones, and then you'll take things that decrease side effects of the doping.

For example, a lot of fighters get caught taking drugs that decrease the estrogen production in the body, rather than actually getting caught taking steroids. Leagues ban steroids AND things that are used in coordination with steroids to increase the ability to enforce the steroid ban.

Now, I would argue that even if it does cause a long term dependency, it should be viewed, for the average person, the same way heart pressure medication is viewed. You have a medical condition, and this is a prescription you'll take for the rest of your life, but it will make you live a longer, healthier life.
Chromebooks are close but one should be able to keep their changes and reactivate the security screw so no further changes maybe made. Simply, manual switches to protect UEFI/BIOS and TPM changes are better move then none or all approach the Chromebooks take.
At sea, efficiency gets you back to land.
No the new design does nothing against such DoS attacks. Please see tor tickets #16052 and #16059 for some plausible ways forward. We would need more help from the community to design and develop solutions to handle the DoS threat.

I've tried to communicate with the hackerfactor person about this and figure out ways forward, but I received unproductive responses which did not make me want to proceed in discussion.

We need the community to help us understand how they best want to manage the DoS risks and build sustainable proposals to fight them.
That's a great point, and the nature of the firm is something worth thinking about especially in this context.

However, the "firm" structure creates lots of efficiencies. Individual contracts are costly to enforce and having one type of contract (the employee contract) allows hiring to scale a lot better. Employees (and usually not contractors) are exclusive to an employer which is also desirable for employers. Employees also get benefits, which a lot of people like.

There's also efficiencies gained by people working in the same room. Any type of creative work for example can benefit greatly from a quick in-person chat, or just bouncing a quick idea off of your colleagues. This is even true for some developers (myself included). Some types of work truly rely on communication between colleagues, and that would be really hindered by latency issues due to low frequency async communication. Coordination is also very important and much harder to do with async communication.

Tribalism is an interesting lens, and maybe it started out that way, but the firm is certainly valuable.
Blue Apron loses customers, but the loyal ones are spending more
From Zero to CTO
Guess this is why my college is forcing me to take technical communication.
This looks like Edward, but for PyTorch. Does anyone know the differences?
> Uprocket - We help startups solve the problem of people not knowing what they do by adding an email signature which tells people what they do

You could probably get a cool half million in seed money for this.
The vast majority of time spent by office employees is socializing and non-productive ritual work.

Since the purpose of going to the office is not to do actual work being able to work from home has not removed the need for the office.
Well, no rule is written in stone. What you talk about could be a consequence of the fact that men and women are more or less built the same way after all. Kind of like why men have nipples, even if they are useless to them.

My point remains anyway : even if there was a perfect symmetry in gender roles, parenting instinct would be what makes parents desire to have at least one offspring and keep it alive at all cost, but what would drive them to have more than two would be sexual impulse.
Same here, it's great. Integrates with OpenKeychain as well for the best PGP/GPG workflow on a phone.
Dislclaimer: I run a product in Ed Tech space.

Depends on the domain and market. If you are looking to create and sell yet another "Learn how to code" course, you are going to have a hard time even though you can still get a piece of the pie.

However, if you create quality online courses in domains that are still doing paper or in person but students are hungry to consume more online content, there are plenty of opportunities but it depends on your knowledge and experience in those domains.
Ghost Mera Dost – Cuckoo's Nest| Episode 14 – Animated Series for Kids
Maybe you'd want to migrate away from Gmail too if you're happy without Play Services? I've been happy with Fastmail, and their import from Gmail worked without hiccups.
I agree. Uncertainty and lack of prioritization and focus is independent of location.
This surely is comparing apples and oranges.

When communist death tolls are discussed the meaning are those who are killed when communism is implemented or re-enforced (e.g. The Great Leap). When capitalism is implemented there is no need to shoot communists.

Death tolls from capitalism are due to other factors which may also exist in one form or another in a communist regime (e.g. war).
They allow you to have native RDMA[1] for your VMs, something neither amazon or google will give you. As an oldhat Linux/Unix guy, it is somewhat amusing to think of Microsoft's cloud offering as the high perf one, but the facts don't lie. If you have true HPC style workloads such as bioinformatics, oil/natgas exploration, finance, etc, the extra node to node communication bits are necessary. The QDR fabric they have has a native speed of 40 Gbps. It is a shame they don't have FDR (56G) or EDR (100G), but still is quite impressive depending on your app. This also could be a game changer for large MPI jobs.

In short, there are reasons, they likely aren't ones that matter to you, but they exist (as I type this from my RHEL7 work desktop!)

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/wind...
HIV has actually gotten much better at co-existing with its human hosts over the last few decades.
That reminds me of some horrible datbase designs I've seen, where people too enamored with FSMs/petri nets etc. tried to put the "code" into tables…
Thank you, my reading comprehension skills were failing me big time today.
Double irony on the careers page: "Speaking of our team members, instead of touting buzzwords and industry jargon about ping-pong tables or "rockstars" we went straight to the source." Then they call the team members "innovators". I don't think it's a joke though; if it is they put a lot of work into it.

Edit: The individual product pages are a lot more informative. Looks like they specialize in visual code editors and a platform for distributed apps.
I feel like people use the current ok state of humanity and the phrase "it's been worse!" to block out a completely unrelated statement, "it might get worse".
wonder if the company can sue Google for damages in Canadian court?
> nio is built to enhance human ingenuity, not limit it. Our products empower developers, system architects, designers, and hackers to build anything from rapid prototypes to smart cities and anything in-between.nio provides the technology to unleash your imagination.

I wonder why they themselves have not made all those smart cities from their wonderful technology. It sounds like an omnipotent force!
I'm also seeing a validation error for cross account access.
Huh?

"Behind several years of research and development by the niolabs team, the nio platform was created to seamlessly enable innovation across the world’s biggest issues. As “things” become smarter, the opportunity for technology to provide transformational value becomes both real and increasingly complex. With no agenda or bias other than to provide a tool to deliver hyperconnectivity and intelligence on the user’s terms, nio simplifies the process of digital transformation."

http://nio.applytojob.com/apply/AGIOE2/Data-Architect
While it is true that S was originally a macro layer around FORTRAN code R has always been primarily written in C. Very little of R core is in FORTRAN, and essentially none of it is C++.

The language statistics show a good deal of FORTRAN (%24.5) [0], however that is largely skewed by the included LAPACK code [1], which accounts for 221,921 / 259,773 lines of FORTRAN in R.

[0]: https://github.com/wch/r-source
[1]: https://github.com/wch/r-source/tree/trunk/src/modules/lapac...
It's a place to store data.

- The data can be structured

- It can also have relations

- The query language is JS, and allows both 'shape of data' and functional queries

- There's live change feeds (which means the DB, being the source of truth, takes the role of initiating change messages)

- RethinkDB has an excellent reputation for being able to get the data back after you save it.

Basically it's like Mongo but not (insert adjective).

We've been using it in production for 2 years at CertSimple and have been very happy. Previous experience is Mongo, GAE data store, and various ORMs pointed at SQL. The docs are great, the defaults are safe, and doing new things is easy.
Yep, this post is just an ad. Distasteful.
I don't think we should take it for granted that it's prohibitively expensive to live in cities. That may be the state of metro areas in North America right now (SF, NYC, Vancouver) but historically this isn't a constant.

Obviously enough economic incentive exists to convince people to spend the time and effort to commute, but if city centers were more affordable to live in, many fewer would choose to live so far away from work. Myself included.
Pyro: PyTorch-Based Deep Universal Probabilistic Programming
I'd give China more of a chance than Russia, actually. They have more resources. (But perhaps less willingness than Russia: China is doing very well with the status quo.)
Hi, Amorymeltzer, have you tried Baby Manager app? Seems like it has all features you mentioned. I'd love to get your feedback about it (btw, i'm co-founder of Baby Manager).
> Too bad just paying poor people not to use the bridge isn't politically correct.

Why does nobody ever try free public transportation? Paying the poor brings a lot of practical issues, but at a minimum you can make them not pay for taking the long route.
I bike 45 min to Wework as a free exercise. Then there is free craft beer to flush the exercise down.
This applies to websites of open source projects, too. I remember when I visited docker.com for the first time because someone told me it's the latest shit and I just wanted to know what it is about. I browsed their website for 10 minutes, and summarized the experience to a coworker like this: "As far as I can see, it's the best thing ever and I'd be stupid not to use it, but I still does not know what it actually does."

Since then, whenever I make a website (or a README.md) for my open-source projects, I always make sure that it starts with

1. a short description of what the project is/does in one or two sentences, and

2. a longer explanation of the how and why in one or two paragraphs.

Representative example: https://github.com/sapcc/limes/tree/master/README.md
That sentence was qualified by "in lecture format", i.e. with a teacher exposing words and images with a projector, like you do with PowerPoint.

Jupyter notebooks, like explorable explanations, require the audience to interact with the tools and not merely be passive watchers, which was the context for that sentence.
My apologies. I feel my response was a bit defensive. I guess I'm just used to people arguing that "it would hurt because of $short_term_economic_issue, so we shouldn't consider it at all!"
Yes indeed the naming issue is important and needs to be addressed. We are currently pretty busy with stuff so we haven't even started implementing the aforementioned proposal (or considered whether it's a good idea).

BTW check out this link for some survey results that point out that onion length might not matter so much since the legacy onions were already unrememberable:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-Septembe...

Cheers and thanks for keeping the discussion fruitful :)
Supply and demand.

There is no limit on the supply of ETH, whereas there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins in existence.

It doesn't make sense to speculate on the price of ETH, because it's never going to be scarce. Even the current price of ETH makes no sense, except you need it to buy into ICOs.
I have a practical question about organizing remote jobs. How do you deal with the security aspects of working remotely - especially if the work deals with sensitive data or code? In a regular office setting everyone is connected to a same network that sits behind a firewall (or in extreme cases it's just an intranet with no outside access) with tightly controlled permissions. How can it be translated to a remote environment? What about creating new accounts and credentials? Do I just email a password and tell them to change it after? Do I attach ssh keys in some other email? What to do if someone breaks in someone's remote work space in their home? How do I handle repairs?

I'm sure plenty of people already figured out the answer to the above questions. It's just not something that I've seen discussed often.
It's good for really easy changefeeds. Eg in a multiplayer game scenario you might have several people touching rows in a table. Any client can construct a query filtering on their particular subset and trivially just say .Changes() and then get a fast, reasonably-robust changefeed with an image-then-deltas type interface. It's not particularly low latency and the latency is quite variable - so if you're timing requirements are of the millisecond order, look elsewhere.
> even down to the dogs on the "Team" page.

They do get points for, "Gus - The Lead Software Barkitect"