skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sort of in the opposite direction, but I like Paint.NET as a free Photoshop replacement.

It's not nearly as featureful (as far as I know), but it's much faster, crashes less, and is vastly easier to use.
Unless the project is teaching students python.

EDIT: More seriously py2's print handles parens in unpredictable ways if you have open questions about types, which has been a nightmare for me on multiple occasions.

I trust you that you never encountered them, but I did.

The whole point of my original post was begging for people to realize their personal experiences aren't universal. The py3 changes solve something for us, help us read code and avoid bugs, it's not just a novelty fetish, I promise. Unfortunately you only have our word for it...
well, to be fair, they generally buy implementations from third party vendors. Those vendors throw things in for competitive advantage because some other vendor footed the bill for implementation and "why maintain multiple builds or a kconfig file". It's a bit of a crap spiral. If the implementations were open source with a strong consulting component for integration you'd probably see less non-removable bloat.
You forgot the local SSD in the x1e.xlarge.
> If they're uninformed, as soon as I explain that Comcast will essentially be able to do the same thing as cell data providers, charge for overages, and mention how this might affect Netflix. They are quickly for Net Neutrality.

Except its all a lot more complicated than that. Because its impossible to pass actual legislation anymore, ISPs were apparently re-classified under Title II of the telecommunications act. An archaic, byzantine, 1930s era law, the text of which can be found here: https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf.

I have no idea what most of the stuff in that document means, and I have no idea what the ramifications of any changes to it would be.

I don't want a company like Comcast blocking my ability to visit certain sites or use certain apps.

But I'm also concerned about the Government attempting to stifle free expression. Historically we've had all kinds of rules governing the radio and television (what you can and can't say on TV, the fairness doctrine, etc) so I don't think those concerns are entirely unfounded...

But those are just ideas and I'm not sure the debate we're having on these questions has anything to do with the decisions actually being made.

The laws in this country are designed to be unintelligible because (1) it allows politicians to make absurd, empty promises, because its impossible to know what was actually passed and (2) it gives bureaucrats total discretion in how laws are enforced so that (3) they can leverage laws for political favors and to punish their enemies.

And that's what I'm against: a bazillion banana republic laws which no one can possibly follow.
is that it frees up engineers to work on the right problems - current and future needs

...you mean the problems that they themselves introduced by, for example, trying to create this ridiculous complexity of UEFI? That sounds like a make-work situation to me.

What reason is there for legacy support in the hardware and OS when we have all sorts of emulation options already?

"emulation" is never 100%.
People spend more money when they spend time wandering around the rest of the store.
Yes, reward them for their skills and work - not what they can capture of someone else’s hard work. It is an article of faith in some quarters that someone who manages to put themselves in a position where they can skim the labor from employees or renters somehow means they are a wealth creator. Usually though, these “wealth creators” are just capturing wealth generated by someone else.
> There is no easy way of doing that with IRC, which kills it for me.

Yes, there is! This is exactly what Quassel is made for.

Just run the core anywhere (we’re looking into offering it hosted, too), connect with the web ui, the desktop client (Linux, Mac, Windows - uses Qt5, and is only a few megabytes, uses almost no RAM at all. A true native client), or the Android client.

As many devices as you want under one account, a smooth transition from one to any other, shared history (just scroll up - all devices remember where the others left off, and you always see exactly the same on all of them).

With some minor extra effort, you even get nice and fast fulltext search – this video is recorded on a 2$ OVH VPS, searching through 3 years and 6GB of logs in 65ms: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/quassel-rest-search.mp4

All of this under GPL.
So people either spend their money, or they don’t?
Subs control their depth by flooding internal tanks with water (more water = sub goes deeper). They can surface very quickly (seconds to a few minutes, depending on the depth) by blowing all the water out of those tanks with compressed air.

That's assuming something hasn't gone wrong that has caused the sub to take on water somewhere other than those ballast tanks. If a portion of the sub fills with water, the empty ballast tanks may not provide enough buoyant force to lift the sub.
Many startup founders go through months, and years of living on beans, struggling to pay bills and making do on a shoestring budget. Why should they not enjoy the benefits of their spoils if they do make it?

I recall a chapter that struck me from Bob Taylor's book (of Taylor Guitars). The first half of the book was all about him building guitars in a shed, then loading them in a car and visiting guitar shops one by one, trying to convince them to buy his guitars and display them next to the Martins and Gibsons etc. that had a lion's share of the market.

Many years later, when he became one of the most successful guitar companies in the US, he built himself a nice house, and he used to invite his staff around for an annual BBQ to show his appreciation of them.

Then one day, at the BBQ, he overheard some senior management pointing at his new pool rockery and saying "So THAT's where my bonus went this year...". He stopped inviting staff to his house after that incident.

"Tall poppy syndrome" exists in all industries and cultures. Personally, I don't see why people who have sacrificed a lot in order to make money in the early days cannot enjoy it later when they _do_ make it. As long as they maintained a high standard of ethics and principles doing so, of course.
This certainly exposes a moral hazard for their investors who have an incentive to maximise output for as long as an exit takes. After that, I doubt they care that much aside from having a "successful serial entrepreneur" with a reputation to further exploit.
My usual suggestions are those two:

https://reasons.to (both the London and especially the Brighton event)

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/duesseldorf-2018
This post makes me so glad to have been forced into vi all those years ago.

Its everywhere, its quick, and unless you've done some pretty nutty stuff in your configs, basic usage is the same between a heavily customized vi and the vi you find bundled with every is bundled windows and gentoo. (Not to disparage any preference for emacs; it just seems a bit much to have to fall back to an entirely different editor seems a bit much)
Floppies from the 1980s/1990s are already magnetically degraded to the point of unusable, in most cases. (Source: Recent 2017 attempt to archive remnant data from period storage media before donating hardware to a museum)
U.S. CERT issues report on remote hacking tool used by North Korea
But I had no idea this was an issue, really.
Creating a browser engine from scratch is no easy task. Knowing this, why not use a quality browser such as Chromium as a base and build on it? Their goal and priority are to change the advertising and monetization of the web, not build another engine that would take years and millions of dollars to make.
Cable has been a free for all, only broadcast TV has had legal decency standards.

Advertisers prevented basic cable from swearin'.
Yep, all the time. It's perfect for quick, easy edits and available everywhere. I love the simplicity:

CTRL-X [y/n/c];
ALT-A and CTRL-K
CTRL-W and CTRL-R

...pretty much covers 99.9% of the commands I ever use in it.
As an Indian who had a very high paying job but lost out to the lottery and had to return to India, I welcome this bill. As someone else in this thread mentioned, this bill only gets half the way, they should remove the lottery and pick from the pool sorted by salary. The current combination of limited retraining of unemployed American labor pool and exploited workers by Indian consulting firms is exacerbating the populism and rightly so. I’m not against my fellow countrymen, I’m against the companies and the management that have failed to balance their own activities and abused the system. Indian government doesn’t want this to happen of course, as they’ll have a pool of unemployed population within the country. This would’ve been fine if this pool would’ve been uneducated, but an educated pool that can’t find jobs in the market will focus its sights on the government and demand changes. All in all, much needed change that unfortunately had to be delivered as a shock to the system and at the hands of a mostly incompetent president.
It's a simple text editor that's available out of the box in most Unix-like distros these days. So kinda like vi, except I know how to use it (and if I ever forget, it lists all shortcuts on the bottom of the screen anyway).
On the bright side from all the proprietary locked in sell-your-data platforms that were mentioned as IRC successors, Gitter and Matrix are popular and open, and the later is federated. I'm not aware of any major feature IRC has the Matrix protocol doesn't provide, and it has all the niceties of Discord without being the proprietary product of a for profit company.
Wall Street Wants to Kill the Agency Protecting Americans from Financial Scams
Eating enough food for your physical needs is not normally a problem. You can get your 2000 calories, bit of protein and all the vitamins you require for $3/day anywhere in the USA and there aren't many startup founders who literally starve.

Mental health and happiness is a real issue, though. I'd be miserable eating the bland meal every day and that does cause some people to underperform their potential. On the other hand, it motivates other people to work harder to escape their situation.
Many in the anti-gun-rights crowd actually honestly don't really care the Constitution...for them they aren't actually being dishonest. ;)

Also, most of the anti-gun-rights crowd is well aware that they don't have near the amount of support to be able to successfully amend The Constitution (which is much more difficult than a >%50 vote in Congress), which might explain why they don't bother suggesting amending The Constitution, but rather try to contort its meaning.
You are just naming a bunch of things and then assigning arbitrary numbers which you could possibly spend on those things, if you really loved spending money. I am your exact demographic target audience, and I and my partner spend on the order of 4k/month each, while being healthy, happy, and so on, and it's not because we try super hard.
Surely though, a month of training is enough to learn to test a socket to see if it is properly grounded, and thus is enough to install a 5.1 surround sound system.
Lichess is all of the above, with flying colors: very well-designed user experience, pleasing aesthetics, responsive, coded well, FOSS.
echo "export EDITOR=nano" >> ~/.bashrc
The problem with C# for me is the fragmented ecosystem that's hard to navigate, coupled with dense and hard to find documentation that seems to be spread out over 14 different msdn domains and GitHub projects.

CoreFX? CoreCLR? No idea what these are or what they're for.

And don't get me started on the dumpster fire that is roslyn. I've tried no less than 10 times over the last few months to get "intellisense" working in emacs via roslyn and it has never worked.

C#'s a cool language that I want to like but it's just so much work to get started with.
If only the Americans would keep out of other nation's affairs the way you demand in this case. Socialist country? Well, maybe stop reading about it in the paper. Goes both ways, you know.
Make the change. I'm a career programmer and am happy with it. I had a friend who quit in his mid-20s to go to med school, that was a smart decision for him.

If you don't love what you're doing, change now. You have plenty of time at 22.
Are the models using logistic regression? I’ve seen logistic regression models end up in 60-70% accuracy band while deep neural network models end up in 80-90% with such data sets
Yeah I made some more tests with a full RGB color image and a youtube uploading and everything is fine now.

I'm pretty sure there was trouble some time ago though.... (It was with another computer. There's a lot of things that can introduce color shifts : video platform encoding, browser decoding, graphic card drivers / configuration etc.)

Thanks for the comment
> The difference is that it's a choice whether to use Google and Facebook.

This is normally used as the main argument. I disagree. That's like saying you have a choice on whether or not you use electricity, which is technically true. How much of the popular web could you really use if you didn't use anything that touched Facebook or Google?
Fear Leads to Anger: Primary and Secondary Emotions
Sneak peek at factors to RSA numbers
4TB of RAM is pretty impressive, especially if they are actually making money on this offering. It must be pretty expensive to have them sit idle at all.
Yes, except irc cloud is a 3rd party platform and requires payment as far as I'm aware.

"Something like irc cloud" should have been baked into the ircd/protocol so that there's a lower barrier to entry.
Yes, of course.

That's why everyone should be treated as equals regardless of race, gender, religion, etc.

This convoluted system of privilege is concerning. Consider a poor White born into an abusive family, in a rural area, with no inheritance. This qualifies as "privileged" under current dogma. They pretend like these kinds of people don't exist.

It's more of a class war being disguised as a race war.
TLDR; Ended up with old PBX's and set them up in her apartment.

Longer: Learning how to interact with these PBX's (and lots of purchases from Weird Stuff), it's helping her deal with depression.

*Edited for correct gender.
Our server library and framework software suite and Apps have been running cross-platform for several years and with the support of .NET Core 2.0 they now run fast and flawlessly on Linux which is a very popular deployment target for our Customers, in fact all our .NET Core Live Demos were developed on Windows and deployed to and running on Linux:

- https://github.com/NetCoreApps/LiveDemos
- https://github.com/NetCoreWebApps/LiveDemos

Each project can also be opened and developed on Linux or Mac with VS Code or Rider. Xamarin's solutions has been making C# a popular language for developing native high-performance iOS/Android Apps for several years and the stigma of C# server apps being confined to Windows should be eradicated with the advent of .NET Core.
I find it funny that an $8 million, 3,500 square foot house in downtown SF for a single person is “laying low.” I mean I get that they could have much more, but most wealthy people I know would actually prefer 3,500 sq feet over 30,000. I don’t think it’s all an image thing, it’s just knowing that adding n square feet to your home doesn’t do much for you.
Ah, I think I misread the original comment to be something like "drop the coins in the tip jar". Please disregard.
Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics – Andrej Bauer [video]
I hope they don't act on Assange's blue emoji. It's gloriously petulant (as is Twitter's refusal to verify the account, in fairness) and deserves to be preserved.
But what about that remaining 5%?

It reminds me of those that day that an iPad can do 99% of what you need to do. So to me, that says I still need a laptop for that last 1%.
One person in a group must wave around a Costco card for the entire group to enter.

I wonder if I would be allowed to grocery shop as I do now, with my adult daughter who doesn't have an Amazon account of her own.
There's interesting metagame theory here... It should get more aggressive whenever it's behind its goal rank in the tournament.

You can often trade variance for performance in competing strategies. The amount you're trading depends on your opponent's skill and strategy.

If an engine has a way to learn the skill of its opponent, that might be another way to determine the ideal level of aggressiveness too. Also if you're behind in a game, cranking variance is often your best shot.

Do any engines metagame yet? That could make things crazy.
Actually, the Debian install cd doesn't have vi but does have nano, and vim (and neovim) is larger than nano.
It would be nice if our culture taught people how to be happy with less expensive things, since it's kind of a waste from a utilitarian point of view if a multi-millionaire is spending all of their money on giant houses they live in one week a year and so on and only getting a small amount of utility. Better if they didn't have a taste for giant houses, and gave the money to someone who needed it, or invested in something doing more useful things.
Please provide a citation. To my knowledge, that is not true.

Debian's reproducible build project has not encountered any issue with optimizations as far as I know, so it seems like your claim would need significant evidence.
My MBA is still on 10.10 with no intention of upgrading. It has an almost full 64 GB SSD, so I hope that will stop an automatic update.
The whole point of the article was to point out that many of these unicorn companies may not have “made” it just yet and that modesty (if you can call a < $3mil gone modest) might be smarter for unicorn founders.
> pretty much confined to the windows ecosystem.

That's interesting. Apparently I'm dreaming that I'm developing with C# on my macOS and deploying to Linux?
First, I wish the left-side flood of not-hacker-news-items would let up. Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is in full force here.

About the Russian Troll: I am glad they took part, if it helped tip the election. Hillary Clinton cheated Bernie, Trump didn't cheat the primaries. Clinton is totally compromised morally.

As for the loss to the Democratic party-- the DNC is now re-visiting the poisonous worship of Bill Clinton, (which occurred in spite of the group of women rightly accusing him.) Of course Hollywood is now also suffering from chickens coming home to roost. Once the Democrats (of which I am not) work through these issues and really align with the pro-diversity message they espouse, they will be stronger and better able to serve the American people. (As it was, it was just a bunch of hypocrisy.) America will be better off with a strong Democratic party. The GOP still needs it's reckoning.
To be fair two non working kids have a lot more costs than a frugal 20 something. Childcare alone in the bay area is probably in the 10s of thousands a year range.
This makes sense, thank you!
In October 2017, an estimated $486.6 billion in sales took place at retail stores in the U.S.

For e-commerce, the total for the entire three-month quarter was $115.3 billion.

[0] https://www.census.gov/retail/
I see lots of complaints about High Sierra being buggy and pain in the butt. But I've had no such issues. Infact I've found it to be really polished and breeze(as was too be expected). So much so that I upgraded my file system to apfs. And mind you, I'm running Hackintosh. And, I seemlesly upgraded it from Sierra.

P.S. I'm sure now that I've mentioned it, something's about to go horribly wrong.
They’re talking about buying a house like it’s some kind of baseline.

The baseline six-figure software engineer lifestyle is a room in a shared apartment in Oakland or the deep East Bay. Living in San Francisco, having your own place, and (gasp) buying a tiny condo are the various degrees of living an exorbitant lifestyle. Buying any sort of freestanding structure is approaching a pinnacle of decadence that’s an extreme stretch to even the most elite tech employees. But oh, they’re “lying low” because they’re buying houses where the qualifying income is $300k instead of $500k. Give me a break.
Pretty sure you mean "her".
There are many more names for things in C# than what you really need to be aware of as a C# developer. Want to write C# that targets Linux? Download the .NET Core SDK. Simple as. Everything else: .NET Standard, .NET Framework, are just names used by the .NET contributors to keep things straight in their head, but you honestly rarely deal with that stuff if you’re starting fresh with .NET Core.

If you’re trying to write C# in emacs you’re doing it wrong. C# has probably the best tooling in the world if you embrace it.
Preferring one group of people over another based on the color of their skin or where they came from is pretty much the definition of racism, regardless of whether a stereotype about a particular person is true.

I'm not saying my thought was controversial or even wrong (the thought being that predominately white Canadians fit in better with predominately white Americans), but I'll bet most HR people would deny that it has any influence on their hiring practice.
People do with their money what they want, but a _MASSIVE_ mansion won't add much value to their life. And owning too many properties can be a real hassle.

You can have a large house or mansion, somewhere isolated (if that's what you want), but unless you have a family with 4 kids running, it can get lonely pretty fast.
I think Discord only hits the gaming community. What I liked about IRC was the diversity. I loved talking #basketball on Efnet, and so on.
True. fwiw, Google's new mobile UI framework Flutter uses the React paradigm.
Seems like there’s new information since this article: “Argentina says signals detected, likely from missing submarine” - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-submarine/argen...
> It does not simply mean "this person is who they say they are" and never has.

I was under the same impression that OP was, so I looked up the verified account announcement from the Twitter in 2009[1]:

"To prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting (beta testing) with a 'Verified Account' feature. We're working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090615114316/http://twitter.co...
you can easily live on the peninsula with 6-figures (in a shared apartment). No need to go deep-east bay.
Agreed. I basically live in emacs, but for C#, I'm in VS 2017 community and it works great.
It was SOOOO Long ago I don't even remember my handle back then. That was a long time ago. What are you up to now?
A Conversation with John Knoll (1998)
Library author here, if anyone has any questions.
I'm not sure how much of it is tall poppy syndrome when it comes to employees vs bosses. Its might be uncomfortable to talk about, but every dollar the boss keeps _is_ a dollar that the employees don't get and the boss is the one deciding how much both sides get.

Tall poppy syndrome would be more applicable if it was peers being upset at the success of one of their own, not between subordinates and leaders
Also worth noting that verified accounts have access to exclusive features.
Just CS6 apps on my machine, and still going strong!
Yes, which is why forcing a downgrade from cars to bicycles without corresponding changes in zoning to promote a more compact environment is a terrible idea.
Some people feel like shit all day for succeeding. I choose to feel great. Cest la vie