skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of Paul Wittgenstein (brother of philospher Ludwig)[1]. He was a concert pianist who lost his right arm in WWI and the commissioned a bunch of piano music playable with only the left hand, including works by still-famous names like Ravel and Prokofiev. My personal favorite is Korngold's [2].

More recently, there is Leon Flescher, who was a highly-renowned pianist until he lost the use of his right hand in the 60s. Amazingly, he got it back 40 years later and has enjoyed recent success again as a two-handed pianist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittgenstein
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGulyl8bzgQ
> And my immediate thought is, "For god's sake, don't SAY that shit around me, I'm someone who has a big say in your career prospects."

Did you tell her that? Why or why not? Seems like a really good opportunity for a teachable moment.
You expend labour; they build capital. The capital you build produces returns long into the future, but you don't own any of that future income stream. Sooner or later, your sharpness and skills will decline, and your labour will be relatively worthless. The capital you helped build will continue to be valuable (presuming you did a good job).

It's a poor deal if you're in a competitive market where there's another schmuck willing to do your job for just as cheap as you do it. But if you have pricing power, you'd be a complete fool not to either charge substantially more, or demand some ownership.
Wait for thinkpad x1 carbon 2018, should be presented at CES in 2 weeks ...
British middle class is... nuanced. The examples you have are certainly middle class, but then so is the primary school teacher on £25k a year. Private schooling only covers 8%ish of children, but about half the country consider themselves middle class.
yeah don't get me wrong, if that's what it's doing it's still a dark pattern. but maybe _slightly_ less insidious than the alternative.
They might not care that much. What difference has it made so far, after all? Maybe they settle for "stealthy enough for practical purposes".
And just as anecdotally, we've had all of our engineers upgrade to High Sierra and there haven't been any issues day to day.
-- all fiction except Tense Bees --

Born - jeff vandermeer

Dichronauts — Greg Egan

That's Why I'm a Journalist - Mark Bulgutch interviews

Mooncop - Tom Gauld

Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs - Michael Tye

Alif the Unseen - G. Willow Wilson

Junction True - Ray Fawkes, Vince Locke
Uber is (in my opinion) a scam, and (objectively) not ride sharing.

'Ride sharing' does not even begin to describe Uber. There is no sharing going on whatsoever. It's a taxi company that just ignores the law on principle to gain an advantage, while also spending VC money like crazy in a very illegally anticompetitive manner.
I switched to Dell Precision Develop Edition 15" at the start of the year. It comes preloaded with Ubuntu 16.04.

I have really enjoyed this machine and don't miss my MacBook Pro at all.

The machine worked great out of the box, I made a few minor changes to how I like to work.

The two major changes I made were:

* Install a libinput and get rid of synaptics driver
* Install the latest kernel

I run with a bunch of proprietary drivers (nvidia, intel, etc.) and don't have any problems

The only thing that I miss having is Sketch. But I just run a small Windows VM and use PS when I need it.

Majority of my time is spent in Chrome/Firefox, Terminal, gVim and Slack, so I don't miss anything Mac-specific.

If you're looking for help on how to get yours configured, there are plenty of guides if you search for: Dell XPS 15 Ubuntu or variants of that.
i agree with you, but its the way that private company valuations work in the valley. If you read an article that says company X raised a round at Y valuation, its always based on the preferred price.
That would be impressive. What do you think programmers do all day?
They are, HN is very liberal. That's why bitcoin catches so much hate around here.
So is healthcare or education. For a couple with two kids, not having to spend 30000$ per kid on their university tuition is quite a difference.
Nim in 2017: A short recap
That's the scary question. Legal opioids would flood the street with cheap, safe (comparatively speaking), legal morphine.

What's worse? Morphine flooding a our society as a recreational drug? Think how easily highschoolers can get beer and cigarettes, but with opioids...

But our current approach has lead to the widespread adoption of the cheapest, most concentrated, and most dangerous opioid imaginable: Fentanyl. This which has rapidly become the continent's foremost public health plague as it kills a terrifying number of people every year.

Would freely available morphine or heroin be better?
beautiful. strategic.

> Leah Fessler doesn’t seem to get that she is being forced to do this to serve the interests of capital. She is not doing this with a group of friends. A late night session in a dorm room rewards this kind of openness, but an exploitive economic system seeks this information to gain power over the workers.
Public key as Identities in real world
If you know private key that corresponds to a public key. Then you can sign messages using private key and publish it onto the network, but what you are basically doing is making statements on behalf of that public key.
This has been posted before, maybe even more than once. Can anyone find the link to the previous discussion?
Using Passwords and Config in Kubernetes Pods
What's your point? Synergy has real meaning as well. The problem is when concepts like leverage or synergy become goals in and of themselves. That might be something you'd expect from someone who's read a lot of management books, but you'd expect engineers to see these as means to an end.
Honestly if you don't know what to feel outraged about you need do some research of your own. There's far to much that needs to be explained to you and a forum isn't the ideal place for an economics lecture. In the future if you're this out of your element just refrain from commenting on economic issues.
Show HN: Derek – delegate fine-grained GitHub permissions to community
Reminds me a bit of the drummer for Def Leopard, learned to drum one handed after car crash left him.with amputated arm.
> Just because we're yelled and beaten down for every expression of vulnerability growing up doesn't mean we have to perpetuate it into adulthood. Stop the cycle.

This is like shaking your fist at gravity.

Everyone's in competition all the time whether they like it or not, that's the universe we live in. Given a choice, you're going to advance the person who's glad they got into computer science, all things being equal.

Even worse than regretting her degree in computer science is the poor judgment she displayed by saying that in front of a manager. The statement is clearly not in her own best interest, it's fairly obvious, and she completely failed to recognize that.

It's not a huge deal by any means, but objectively, it's a negative indication. Why should managers ignore that? Those are relevant data points she just revealed.
> purely on cost.

Proximity to resources is priced in to 'cost', no?
If you can't read this article but you have a Facebook account then you can create this as a bookmarklet:

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);

Then go to the WSJ.com page and click the bookmarklet, it takes you to Facebook, which then offers to take you to WSJ.com, and then you can read the article.
I have been thinking about getting a XPS 13 and getting Linux on it too. Currently, I repurposed a very old laptop (heavy and poor battery life) by installing CentOS Linux on it, and it runs great and I can do productive dev work on it (just can't carry it anywhere since it's too heavy). Curious, are the issues you had with the XPS bad enough that you'd recommend getting a different line (like Precision) over it? I remember the XPS is lighter and had better battery life, but I might be wrong.

Also, I know most workstation Linux users prefer Ubuntu over other flavors, but I personally usually stick with the Redhat family (like CentOS) since I just know its commands and names better. Is there anything (features) I'm missing concretely, by not using Ubuntu?
Legalization eliminates the gangs and cartels. The problem is that it makes abuse and misuse into a public health crisis. There are no more gangs of liquor runners - instead we have InBev. People don't go blind from bad bathtub brews anymore, but they kill themselves with overconsumption or even kill others with driving drunk.

So legal opioids would presumably mean the same: more abuse, more misuse, but safer and without the cartels.
Football is pretty much chess with guided missiles. The basic rule is easy enough to remember (4 tries to go 10 yards or the other team gets the ball), and I've never met a football fan who minded filling in the gaps of the current discussion.

It's the same with kids. I have no trouble finding things to talk about with my friend who's raising a kid at a similar age. It often starts with talking about how we were raised. Maybe it's worth rethinking your approach to these kinds of discussions.
It was an in-person talk at CARTO from their Spatial Data Science conference. I remember seeing that the talks woulds be uploaded, but I don't know where.
Webpacker is not about React, but about using a modern asset bundler (Webpack) and ease modern JS development for Rails users (Babel, …). There is a generator to easily setup React, Vue and some major JS frameworks, but those are very basic and optional.
No, that would be just fine. The sole purpose of password based key derivation functions is to maintain robustness in the presence of weak(er) passwords.

For that matter, if your passwords really have 238 bits of entropy, you don't even need a salt.
Not sure if you're being funny, but I disagree that we should hide our doubts or insecurities. I know it sounds contrary to what you want to do in that moment, though.

However, don't exaggerate or emphasize them too much either, but rather get in the mindset of wanting to become better at the skill/subject, and display that mindset.

I'd think much higher of a person who did that than someone who pretends everything is fine when they are struggling. Also, if you display this mindset, people will offer to help you, too!
Mystery is the epitome of weasel words. A weasel word obscures rather than clarifying. Something obscure is a mysterious. See also my edit.

Another offense to scientific writing is the antropomorphism. It's actually the scientists who actively suggest the story and they surely wouldn't go for quite as bold a statement.

In terms of storytelling we can assume that there's a lot of importance in what isn't said, and that's often achieved by exaggeration of known wrongs, as in sarcasm. Nothing particularly wrong about that, but not terribly scientific. Take away the whole fluff and you have a report about an experimental result with low p-value and the plan to improve it via added reaction mass which is not further explained. That's hardly the mystery, it's a key to the puzzle, maybe.

Edit: to elaborate further on the weaselisms. Solutio to mystery kinda annihilates, just like antiparticles and counterparts, so the headline corrected for all would be: Scientists suggest Neutrinos prove Universes Existence. Welp, color me slightly unimpressed. Though I'm complaining on a high level, this is actually super cool just not new to me.
New Cryptocurrency-Mining Bot / Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger
Their business model isn't just the cost of booking, because they aren't a booking company. They're a taxi company. The cost of doing business involves running taxis. And that is not profitable for them.
Well, sure, if all users were guaranteed to use a strong password that wasn't reused for any other site, we wouldn't need a lot of password safety rules. Heck, you could just store them in plaintext.

In practice though, users don't.
This highlights why many governments dislike ride hailing services.

As riding hailing becomes dominant (with their rise only being enabled by being able to skirt regulations) it creates a transportation system where one needs a mobile phone to participate. This excludes low income persons and persons with low technical literacy.

The way that ride hailing slices away only part of the population and ignores the rest is highly undesirable for governments which are required to provide transportation solutions for all persons.
Isn't that the role of governments in a healthy economy? To step in when markets fail?
good tip, thanks
one benefit is that you can effectively embed the concept directly into the type system, allowing for ergonomic expression of actor model code. i'm not sure to what extent pony does this, though i believe it's capability typing was designed with actors in mind.
/bin/false is not security (2005)
I'm a woman and I tend to be very open about a lot of things. I am generally being genuine/ authentic, but I had a very private life for a lot of years and I had to learn that communicating effectively with people who simply aren't going to be part of your inner circle just works fundamentally differently from communicating with those folks.

Understanding is very much contextual. There isn't enough time in the day for you to have a deep, meaningful, close relationship to every passing acquaintance.

I don't need to feel people are up to no good to decide that certain kinds of information are not appropriate in certain contexts. It is a waste of everyone's time and a poor communication practice to introduce personal elements that aren't pertinent.

Discretion is certainly an element of that. But I think of it more in terms of effective communication.

If someone has just met you and knows almost nothing about you, leading with talking about how scared you are is going to get interpreted very differently from saying that to people who know you well. If the entirety of their knowledge of you is "I'm scared I can't handle this job," well don't be surprised if the conclusion is that you are simply in over your head.
If you've never spent that much on a meal, you're not a foodie. That's OK: but there are people who do appreciate excellent food, and are willing to pay for it.

Personally, the most I've spent is about $700 on a tasting menu for two at a place in Washington DC. $130 on a meal for two including wine wouldn't be unusual - I have meals like that maybe 10 to 15 times a year.

Michelin starred restaurants are frequently destination restaurants - they will attract people from some distance. That's why Michelin thought up the idea - to encourage people to drive and wear out their tires!
A lot of things get posted multiple times. Best to just include the links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014047

Timing has a lot to do with upvotes.
Adding my own anecdote, there seems to be some kind of problem with high I/O loads on High Sierra.

One of my projects involves indexing thousands of URLs. During development I use a large (80GB+) local cache of a few million files. Running the cache code (~100 lines of simple Golang) totally brings my iMac (3.8GHz Core i5, 24GB) to its knees. CPU shows as mostly idle & memory pressure is low, yet the machine can't redraw windows properly after about 5GB of I/O to local SSD.

Completely frustrating. I moved the code over to an older (2010!) Mac running Ubuntu and it handles it without breaking a sweat.
Ehm, what do you mean?

If you want to work on streaming data (streaming logs), you can use Spark and others...
The same is true of nearly every "glamorous" profession. Actor, performing artist, doctor. In the abstract sense they look exciting, pay great money, but they take hard work to get there. There are far more people who say they want to be doctors, actors, or rock stars than there are people willing to dissect cadavers in medical school, endure endless auditions, or shop demos to record labels.
Bray in Berkshire (UK) has a population of less than 10,000 people, but contains two of the UK's 3 star restaurants.
Failure ? I remember taking Uber everywhere in Stockholm
Thanks for your explanation, I did not know that this was the case. I had until now assumed that words are a kind of medium for conveying the underlying thoughts which are abstract and exist separately. Observations like this make me wonder if actually there might be quite substantial differences from person to person when it comes to thinking and perception.
Maybe it was a javascript implementation?
Peter Norvig has lots of expository code that embodies lots of good design.

I find I like to learn the flavor of different kinds of code, but practical codebases have so much stuff going on that it's not easy to find the distinctive part. It would be great to see more people do expository versions of familiar software and libraries.
I am very interested about publishing ES6+ code.
https://philipwalton.com/articles/deploying-es2015-code-in-p... was very inspirational on this topic, but the fact that 99% of the libraries I use are publishing transpiled code (+ polyfill) is a big disappointment.

From what I understood, there is currently nothing to allow both ES5 and ES6 code to be published and let the bundler choose which one to include. Any ideas on how to change this?
Minimalistic GTK weather indicator written in GoLang
I don't understand. What purpose would gangs/cartels serve if drugs were brought into the general legal framework?
New features in Ruby 2.5.0
1% of the US labor force earns the minimum wage.

The US middle class has among the highest disposable income levels on the planet, far higher than France. The median full-time job in the US nearly pays $50,000 at this point, far higher than France.

The person at the median in the US middle class has their healthcare paid for by their employer. The US middle class has in fact seen significant compensation increases that are not accounted for, because their healthcare benefits from employers are not accounted for in salary comparisons.

Whether France has a decent labor code, or actually has a backwards labor code that has severely damaged their economy for decades, is clearly open to debate given the high persistent unemployment rate of France.

France's labor code has not resulted in high wages, the US has higher wages in every regard. It has not resulted in high employment, the US always has a lower unemployment rate. It has not resulted in faster growing wages, US wage growth averages three to four times faster over the last decade. It has not resulted in faster economic growth, US GDP growth is typically four or five times faster.

When US wages grow at only 2% or 2.5%, we wonder what's wrong. In France, wage growth has averaged about 0.4% the last three years; the 0.6% growth level it put in a few quarters ago, was a three year high. If the French labor code is so desirable, why is French wage growth so atrocious?

See: "Wage Growth in France averaged 0.53 percent from 1999 until 2017"

https://tradingeconomics.com/france/wage-growth

vs

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth

And that can be confirmed by simply Googling "french wage growth" and looking at dozens of recent news sources.

Your order of a magnitude claim is very obviously wrong.
I never fully realized it until now, but the US, with it's federated structure is putting itself at a competitive disadvantage to other countries.

It's the worst of both worlds, where states have a flaccid independence (they can legislate but not control their borders, thus cannot avoid the free-rider problem). Nation-wide standards that don't fall under the commerce clause have to be bribed into half-ass existence, and then only for a political season.

We're structurally incapable of benefiting from economies of scale or standardization in government.
This is the same guy that got shut down for being a dick 4 days ago, seems like he's really trying to "get back" at Uber.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16000550
https://hackerone.com/reports/293359
Many adults have an aversion to new words. Foods too! Over time, they grow accustomed.
I have yet to understand what information 'constexpr' conveys to the compiler that makes it necessary or useful.
Yep, agree 100%.

10.6.8 on the early unibody Macbook Pros was excellent.
At a Michelin starred restaurant, you'd typically want to select a menu, usually the full tasting menu, rather than individual plates. You get a lot more variety and experience a full range of the creativity and skill of the chef. Otherwise it's a bit like going to a variety show and only seeing one or two acts.
I'm not sure how you'd identify participants. Medical privacy rules would prevent you from taking the typical "this consumer product causes warts so we'll find everyone on record of having bought one" approach.
Typical vainglorious humblebrag from another dead startup offering a thing no-one wanted.
These people project that we'll be setting $105 billion on fire for digital ads by 2019. To put that in perspective, it's more than 10% of what we spend to provide health care to seniors and poor people via a mostly dysfunctional health care system: https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2017/budget-in-brief/cms/...
> So, being honest paid off for her?

The article describes how her openness almost cost her the job offer. In the author's opinion, she made a mistake by being open about her insecurities in a job interview.

I've worked with people who are probably too open about their insecurities. I think you can be open about what you don't know without saying things like "I don't know if I can do this job." Frankly, I don't really know how to respond to that kind of statement in a professional setting beyond resorting to platitudes.

I think there are better ways to talk about your insecurities, like saying "I have experience with X, but I haven't worked with Y, and I know I'll need to figure Y out for this role." That seems okay to me. Knowing what you don't know is really important.

> Most successful CEOs are very open about everything, and don't keep secrets. Secrets and opacity are what destroy companies and relationships, not the reverse.

Everyone has a private interior life. Everyone feels things and thinks things that they don't voice publicly.
Damn straight it is. It's my secondary hobby, after motorcycling.
A rare happy ending!
Roadmap to a healthier, fitter life
Which parts hurt the company?
Additionally taxis are regulated so as to create a reasonably universally publicly accessible transportation system. That is that you can call a cab and it will pick you up and you will have an understanding of the price you will pay.

In an Uber/Lyft ride hailing system cabs can only be hailed via an app, and will only accept the most profitable rides. Surge pricing may also make the ride only affordable to the relatively wealthy. In such a system, low income persons in relatively remote areas lose transportation options.

Part of the extra price of cabs is the price of creating a transportation system that is accessible to everyone, not just the most wealthy.
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My impression as a layman is that quantamagazine.org is leaking a lot of ... ambitious ... physics headlines into HN; I've kind of stopped clicking on them after the first few.

I find this to be a repeated pattern where some fault is immediately assumed by the submission without any explanations to support their case as to why HN audience should mistrust it.

> Physicists in the audience, is that an accurate assessment or should I go back to excitedly clicking through when I see them?

It doesn't instill much confidence to call something shit and then forcing the onus on somebody else with more expertise to support their jaundiced claim without any supporting arguments.

At least if you are going to call something as untrustworthy, back it up with examples and clear explanations as to why we should not trust it.