skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't simultaneously talk about 50% of global Windows users and their struggles with UI and assume they have the foggiest idea how to set up a strong HOSTS file and a carefully secured Firefox installation. How about they just don't use a hostile OS? If you're defending yourself from your own operating system, you've chosen the wrong damn operating system.

Also, I don't want to hear the UI argument when KDE Plasma exists. I bet 90% or better of Windows users would be comfortable on Plasma.
> This semester though I’m forced to purchase a $200 textbook just so I can turn in my homework through some online system

Walled gardens encroaching on education.

Can you mention what system it is? There's a few thousand entrepreneurs on this site that might be interested in disrupting broken business models like that one.
I mean..even then..not really. That's still not a lot of money at all. I grew up with people who live mouth to paycheck.

A meaningful amount, like $400~$500 a month could make a much more considerable impact. $100/month means "Maybe we can take the kids to a movie one a month or have a nice dinner to help distract ourselves."

$500/month could mean, "We can get all those extra school supplies or put our kids in extra school programs."

Seeing if people would make those decisions would be an equally important study.

These current programs see more designed to encourage people to use free programs with a small monitary incentive. I probably says more about those programs than the impact of the money itself.
Yes you can, and that's kind of the point.

Slowly but surely, more and more companies are realising that their digital efforts are just as integral to their business as whatever else it is that they're doing. Every company needs to be a tech company now.

In Australia, Commbank realised this at a very early stage: there's actually very little differentiation between the financial products from bank to bank. Sure, interest rates change here and there but on the whole, everyone is the same. Commbank realised that they can make their internet banking and mobile apps just as much as their core product and their differentiator. People aren't going to stay with their bank because of a debit card, but they will stay the one with the better app with more features. They rolled out a bunch of firsts - peer to peer payments by bumping phones together in 2010, transferring money to others using just their phone number, or 'Cardless Cash' where overnight they updated their network of ATMs to allow withdrawals using their phone app.

Qantas is another example of a company that invests (for better or worse) heavily into their digital products all throughout the customer journey.

Every company needs to be apt at digital because, in one way or another, every company is a tech company. It's the successful ones that realise this and use it to their advantage.
> You get three choices

I dont agree the you should judge by these criteria.

- program size: Who cares? A somewhat decent laptop has 500GB+ SSD storage, I dont care if my editor is 5MB or 50.

- virtual efficiency (RAM usage, and again disk space??): Again who cares if it uses 5MB or 500 RAM? Dev machines have at least 8GB

I care a lot more about stuff like typing lag or autocomplete support.
Banning that stuff doesn't solve anything except the guilt of the middle-class.

People use payday loans because nobody else lends them money. If you want to help them, offer them loans with better conditions, and you'll see most of those payday shops go out of business.
Thanks! I'd love to better understand the bulk wallet use case. Do you have them stored in a database or CSV file somewhere?
Electronics, toys, clothes, food we wouldn't normally buy. Just stuff we wanted, even though the next month, a utility might get paid late. We didn't comprehend the concept of saving anything.
which is going to happen... never. unless that said antivirus wants to commit market suicide by pissing off every user.
To be fair, the post does start with

> [Epistemic status: very speculative, asserted with only ~30% confidence. On the other hand, even though psychiatrists don’t really talk about this it’s possible other groups know this all already]
There's a subreddit: /r/hands_on_complexity which is the absolute best source of real, actual information on lighting for plants that I've found.
It looks like Goldman has no tech people among their top executives. I would have expected at least a CTO or CIO. I don't see this working out for them.

http://www.goldmansachs.com/who-we-are/leadership/executive-...
Probably because a PHP "app" can be installed in the vast majority of hostings' super easily, while Golang and Elixir would take a lot more effort for the average user (even if technically savvy).
Gamers who bend over for the sake of their hobby are a pathetic bunch. Linux has many, many great games, and if that's not enough supplement it with a PS4 or something and you'll never be bored.

Most professionals would have no problem using Linux for their needs. What applications are you suggesting aren't up to snuff?
Don't complain to me, I didn't say it.
I sort of agree.

Vodafone in UK very rarely bothers deploying LTE2600 unless it is a super busy place like a train station. They rely mostly on LTE800, they've started doing LTE2100 as 800 is getting so congested. But they're not even bothering with the high frequency bandwidth they already have; so I really can't see them bothering with even higher and more expensive to deploy spectrum (again, unless it is super crowded places, but LTE2600 with micro/pico cells can handle this really well now).

I also noticed the same in the US when I was roaming, even in lower manhattan there was a load of LTE700 and only sporadic higher spectrum LTE1700/2100.

I think LTE with loads of carrier aggregation will work just fine, I can't see this being much of a step. Apart from maybe better handoff between networks; but it isn't suddenly going to enable a new load of applications/devices like it is being hyped up for.
> sometimes your ancestors

The sins of the father...

> It’s not random

But people cannot choose where, when, or to whom they are born.
This article on most professional athletes going broke

https://www.si.com/vault/2009/03/23/105789480/how-and-why-at...

was on HN recently. Seems to give some credence to the claim that those of us who are dealing with poverty, are conditioned to stay that way. As a child of someone from a poor family of 9, it always seemed like there were so many traps to overcome.

It has to be a massive societal commitment.
Also just signed up with the Lite plan to play around with it. I'm in that scary spot where I have about 1200 transactions in the last year (small value bot trading) where I would gladly pay $150 for the tax report but $1000 dollars is pushing it.

Also I'm sure this is just a function of high traffic from posting, but I am getting a significant amount of application errors for almost all actions taken on the site. Refreshing seems to work sporadically. I'll check back in a day or two.
You want "multi-codepoint graphemes" probably. Or really "things involving combining characters". There isn't really a term for this.
Or users could, you know, use an extension to block all of them. For their own security and peace of mind.
2 follow-up questions:

On #1 - Have you done any work on which segment needs this the most? (just curious, what "talking to users" revealed).

On #4 - What are the future possibilities of this product (future vision of CoinTracker)? (again, just curious to learn)

Thanks.
And? Would you care to tell us more? It's not very helpful to just say "you're wrong" without providing any sort of correction.
Everything jetbrains. Resharper at work, pycharm and idea at home.
You're right — if you move coins to a non-tracked wallet we treat this as if you used those coins to buy something because we really don't know. If you connect the wallet/exchange that the outgoing transfer went to, we will automatically pair them up and the gains will be calculated correctly. Does that make sense?
You do realise what would happen if you used this rule - our data on GDP would cease to be accurate (not that it is too accurate now).

The basic problem is the politicians work for the owners and the poor are not owners of anything.
I'm currently learning ASL, which along with other sign languages would greatly benefit from a spaced repetition platform like this. Maybe an expert signer can weigh in here.

The interesting differences between, say duolingo and what a sign student would want to see:

* Flashcards are okay for some signs but plenty of signs are much better seen animated

* some signs are complicated and you need to see the whole signer from waist up; others are simple enough a simple image would do

* Short youtube embedded clips are okay except loading times are aggravating

* clips should be high res; some finger actions are small and detail can be hard to see

* there are variations between different sign languages, eg BSL and ASL

* source material is hard to get but there are a few sign teachers working on their own, one video at a time. They might be interested in partnering.
> Students should feel absolutely no guilt in pirating textbooks.

Textbook publishers aren't really hurt by this as much as the legitimate textbook purchasers (your fellow students).

The solution isn't to pirate/steal the content. It's to vote with your feet before you go to a post-secondary that chooses expensive copyrighted books when there are free or very affordable alternatives.
Why? Hell I watch less CableTV than I watch Netflix. I consequently value Netflix despite paying less.
It's getting harder to tell bloomberg articles from youtube comments.
8GB seems like a lot until you try to run Eclipse and chrome with 3 tabs open.
True. But it could make for a pretty funny April Fools' joke (-in disguise).
"Capital is very limited" is such a corporatist excuse for not treating employees humanely. Corporations of course want perfect worker bee cogs that never take time off, or have families at all ideally. It is on workers to band together and push back on these unreasonable expectations, since we can't do it successfully individually.
How do you plan on monetizing? Even if you're not looking for a profit, how do you plan to offset development and infrastructure costs?

I've setup an account already, and this looks absolutely useful and helpful, but I'm somewhat wary of anything that's free if I don't know how you're planning on keeping the lights on?
It's the best OS for me because I containerize as much as I can (I use a separate docker-compose file for every client, for example). I've tried Docker on Mac, Windows and Linux, and it _just works_ on linux. The others were a major pain.

The added benefit of doing it this way is that I'm not really tied to a machine - all I need to do is clone my repos onto a new machine and I'm basically good to go.
Thanks for flagging on both fronts. Shoot us an email at feedback@cointracker.io re: point #1.

We'll look into the instability for point #2
TBH LTE800/LTE700 covers the range and penetration quite well. A rural macrocell can cover 20-30km. 5G isn't going to solve the underlying physics here.

There's also LTE450 which could do absolutely ridiculous distances (used in Russia and Scandinavia I believe).
I think you're mischaracterizing. No one chooses poverty; poverty is an aggregate result of other choices.
Nice, soon 500 word articles like this one be able to have 30.2MB of Javascript frameworks and ads instead of just 2.2MB and load in the same amount of time!
Science and technology. Has been the only thing that has gotten the world out of the default historical state of 99% poverty.
>especially if you’re in poverty then you can get some really good Obamacare for free

Unless you're in one of the many states that didn't expand medicaid coverage. Then you need to make above the poverty line to qualify for subsidies.

>Health insurance is generally affordable despite what the GOP says

Now that the GOP has revoked the individual mandate, the prices are going to keep going up for people on the exchange.

My Brother and his wife get coverage from the exchange and their cheapest plan went up 50%. Average out of pocket (after subsidy) insurance rates went up around the country this year, and they are expected to go up again next year.
You'll need an RSS reader, such as newsblur.com
I agree except I might swap macOS with Linux, because there's a lot of helpful macOS-only software, a good selection of proprietary software, and I think macOS is generally easier to deal with.

I recently moved to a job where my development laptop is Windows-based, after having a Macbook Pro at the last gig (I'm told we're working on getting Macs for developers). Windows 10 is still pretty bad in a lot of ways, large and small. Not having homebrew, apt, or yum to manage packages is a pain. I'm using elementaryOS running in VMware Workstation as my primary dev environment for the time being...
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16383942.
Not every startup is that way, as this post highlights, and there are plenty of big companies that will pressure fathers to be back at work the next week too. "Be selective about where you work" seems like better advice.
The difficulty here lies in actually doing a reasonable compare/contrast that looks at the entire system. You wouldn't compare the salary of a PhD principal software architect to a registered nurse at a pediatrics office. Just like you wouldn't compare the salary of a cardiac surgeon to a junior programmer.

There are many professional and specialist roles in the medical field that go beyond "nursing" but don't require going to med school for full MD training. You have occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, physicians assistants, nurse practitioners, behavioral therapists, and probably many others I don't know about. Last I checked, all of the fields I mentioned are majority women. The salary ranges clear $100k though there's a generally higher education requirement for a given pay range. Although I think that is more an issue that tech has a uniquely low bar for formal education and a higher bar for informal education and experience.
Plasma is basically windows 10 UI, and Cinnamon is windows 7 UI.
Almost all developers I personally know use a Mac. I know a few that use Linux on occasion. I personally know of no developers that actively use Windows for writing code. However, I'd argue that using the OS you use for development is less important than understanding what is happening when you run software on any platform.

Ultimately you'll need to deploy software somewhere, and you will need to understand what is happening when the software has a problem. You often won't have a choice about the operating system on which your software is deployed, and you will still be expected to understand the OS well enough to work with it.

I say focus on understanding what is happening to the extent that you can. Always be curious. Always learn. Always strive to learn what question you should be asking to get the answers you seek. And when the trusted advisors & Google fail to answer your questions, that's where the real adventures begin. And, if you'd like to make money, don't forget make find a way to get paid.
Awesome. Thanks for that! I was initialy put off the by the several year old posts, but it looks like SAG has been updating them throughout the years. https://www.reddit.com/r/HandsOnComplexity/
I'm running "Pro" and I'm not seeing this.
now we need fnl-mode to enjoy lisp-lua repl and paredit in emacs :)
I can't find the link right now but IIRC there was a study that counterintuitively showed the yearly payments program to Alaska residents (from petroleum extraction taxes) increased the likelihood of poorer people taking on more work.
How smart IoT will change regulatory compliance enforcement
And also supports jade/pug syntax.
I have never used the windows app store but I might for this, which is probably the point.
Hmm... when I read that, I got excited thinking it would be like Common Lisp's, where the idea is to incrementally compile in changes to a running program, to the effect of being able to see the effects without having to restart it. This just sounds like what Makefiles do, but at a sub-file/AST level.
Chicago man tweets: “I need 10 people to help shovel snow” gets amazing results
You called women catty. That’s straight up misogyny. I don’t know what else you want me to say.
I would rephrase you last sentence as spending other people's money to give someone else free stuff.
> Buffet says a law that says no standing politician is eligible for re-election in a year when minimum true GDP year-over-year growth for the last 2 years has been below 3% would work. He is right.

There is no way Buffet isn't aware of Goodhart's Law. He is smart. Are you sure you didn't misunderstand him somehow?
Maybe, but my line of thinking is that it could be easier and better to teach tax law specialists a little bit of Java, than the other way around
> since our bookstore sold at retail price (or about 80% for a used copy) and _generously offered_ to buy the books back at the end of the semester for 3-10% of list price. College bookstores are a racket

There are already business models that have started to chip away at this type of racket. Chegg and Amazon rentals are decent examples.

Sadly I'm unimpressed with the progress it has made. I'm convinced replacing expensive formally published textbooks with cheaper or freeware digital books is superior. The problem is with department deans and professors that hawk their own books in their courses.
So what? Do you really think it's going to relieve traffic?
Everyone who thinks a long-term unsolved problem is simple:

https://xkcd.com/1831/

...except in this case, poverty has been around for 1000s of years unsolved.
Yes, a MySQL database.
Yes: https://www.aeroweed.info/
"The problem" I am discussing was the problem causing this program to not work as desired.

The problems that lead to poverty are another story. They are indeed complex. And any discussion of it is made harder by the fact that people superimpose their morality+politics on top of the discussion.

I don't even want to begin to tackle that...
I think it shows how little value Windows is to Microsoft anymore. Office 365 and Azure are where the money is at for the company now.

I use Win 10 Enterprise at work so I don't have to worry about any of the Candy Crush or FB malware trash on my PC but no way would I buy a consumer Windows based laptop anymore.
But isn't Lightning and segwit supposed to make btc faster and cheaper?
FCC’s Inspector General investigating whether Ajit Pai acted inappropriately
Viscosity looks nice, has advanced features and can be scripted with AppleScript.
I think GP is making the point that Kary Mullis isn't really a notable psychedelic explorer - just some scientist that took a large dose LSD. If you read into some of the notable figures of the psychedelic movement you will learn that many of them dove very, very deep.
A lot of people care resource usage of software. It is good though that you get a loaded machine for your work.
We have a paid tax service: www.cointracker.io/tax/package
It's not just HP it's just about everything that comes out an retail store without an apple logo on it(unless you count itunes/facetime as unwanted software in which case it's just about everything).

If you buy high end laptops from a business partner or directly from the vendor and make sure you get a pro(paid) version of windows things are better but the razor thin margins of the consumer market make it hard to avoid strange and badly designed attempts at price differentiation and/or payola schemes.
> I'll repeat this here

Please don't do that. It makes merging threads a real pain because then we have to worry about duplicate comments and who replied to which. For example, I've moved the replies to this one to the other one.

Also, HN is not a place for copy-pasting. On a site dedicated to intellectual curiosity, repetition is the enemy.
Anaconda provides more than Python libraries (C/C++ libraries, R packages).

The conda package manager can create isolated 'environments' (like virtualenv but not only for Python) that are very space efficient due to using hardlinks.

The conda-forge community has sprung up to develop recipes and provide packages. The Anaconda Distribution recipes are now actually built from github forks of these conda-forge recipes (we hope to achieve binary compatibility with them sometime soon).
Because the XBOX and PS and Switch are totally safe, open source products that respect personal information.

Linux has more gaming than it did 5-10 years ago, but if someone wants to play a game at top performance on PC, you typically need to choose Windows.
I wonder if it'd be more successful if that overhead were dropped to say 10-20% (via automation and simplification of qualifications)
>The problem is that all the spaces I listed seem (to me) to be controlled by the same social forces that conservatives are concerned about with respect to free speech and actual dialogue.

Whenever I hear conservatives talk about free speech and dialog I think about Fox News and Breibart and think that I'll pass on whatever amounts to the conservative version of free speech and dialogue.

>That's largely fair, but I'll point out that Trump didn't get a majority of the Republican primary vote.

True, but he got enough to get the nomination. It also shows a lot about conservatives that more than not thought he was the best option and also how bad the other options had to be to get to this point.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially not flamebait. Turning a thread about astrophotography into a garden-variety political flamewar, as you do here and downthread, is vandalism on this site.

We ban accounts that break the site guidelines, and have already had to warn you again recently, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and abide more scrupulously by the rules from now on?
You care a lot. A smaller program has a clearer model, contains less bugs, and can be more flexibly evolved in different directions.
Funny, I go the other way, somewhat. Last time I was interviewing for jobs, one line I heard from a whole lot of financial companies was, "We like to think of ourselves as more of a tech company than a bank."

It's an instant turn-off for me when I hear something like that. These are companies that should be thinking of tech as a means to an end, and not an end in an of itself. Even when I worked at a major software vendor, the tech was still just a means to an end.
DACs on one end and ADCs on the other, yeah. I guess though, it may be possible to hook analog inputs directly to it in some way, such as a camera or mic.
When I teach others, I usually rely on a lot of metaphors/analogies.

For example if I had to describe gradient descent to someone, I wouldn't start with a definition from calculus. I would instead describe it as climbing down a hill.

But that assumes prior knowledge of what a hill is (it has gradients) and what climbing is (you wanna go to the lowest point) and what the physics is like (go towards steepest direction with some momentum). This isn't something that I expect a blank-slate AI to be able to produce.

In short, explaining things intuitively to another human requires knowing about common human experiences and mode of thought. It's the "transfer learning" for humans. This seems like the realm of AGI and not something I expect to see solved well anytime soon. I hope I am wrong!

(Note: even in this example I assumed you understand the experience of trying to explain gradient descent in order to explain my point)
The broader question is, I think, how can any textual sequence cause a crash. Text should be regarded very skeptically by the text renderer. What could this be doing that it invokes a crash? Where else is this team not being careful? It reeks of process problems.
Uses less power to do less useful work (binary weights)…
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