skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Windows 10 license literally only for gaming and they still manage to make that a horrible experience, between first party xbone controllers regularly disconnecting, forced updates happening in the middle of a game (because the clock can’t remmeber my time zone reliably), and random issues like broken Ethernet drivers (on my skylake-era motherboard) after an update, or ads for some office 365 ripping me out of a full screen game. Every time it happens I just think how much I paid for this experience.

If steam on Linux supported 1/10rd of triple A titles instead of 1/100th I would switch and never look back.
You don't have to go home, Terry, but you can't stay here.
Ask HN: How to get Google/android's attention to resolve a specific bug(s)?
Hi HN,

I wanted to ask HN folks here on how we can get google/Android to resolve a specific bug related to wifi/networking area quickly. I (and couple of other folks) have already logged similar or same issue and google has just responded saying we have passed on the issue.

#1. What is the general timeline for bug resolution?
#2. Is it patched or I need to wait for new Android release?
#3. Is there a way to get in contact with someone in Android to expedite fixes?
#4. What is the probability that the fix done by google lands up with Samsung, LG and other big OEM handset operators? (I hope all the Nexus/Pixel devices will get fixed automatically)
#5. Any other suggestions?
How RealtimeCRM uses Clearbit to do data entry for you
Great login screen animations
GPU pass-through support should be as good as any other distro on Linux 4.14. You'd need two GPU's still though. If you're talking just general GPU performance in a VM, that's still not 100%, though Qubes is not involved in that work as far as I know.
Check this out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911467

Mind you, I did a quick search in the Chicago area for developer jobs, found a bunch of them have written n+ years of experience required. But give it a shot, and read the comment threads too. At the very least, hope it's a bit of inspiration. Good luck.
Thunderbolt is not even part of the base spec, it just piggy backs on the generic alternate mode that can just as well carry Displayport vidoe (or anything, really).

Most of it is not even with the cables, but the chips and software at either end.
I disagree with a few things in your post, but foremost among them is the word "stable". Just some anecdata, but the number of times I've had to reinstall because the OS was misbehaving and I couldn't figure out how to fix it:

Linux: 0
MacOS X: 1
Windows: Lost count a long time ago. Had to do it twice with Windows 10 in the last year.

Have you ever noticed how in most orgs, every IT guy's first response to a weird-looking Windows problem is to suggest a reinstall? And that's not even irrational. Troubleshooting Windows takes too long to be worthwhile, because there are too many places to look for where things might be going wrong. Its complexity has become unfathomable to mere mortals, and it shows in maintaining the OS.
Send an email to: tapitest123@gmail.com

I think I have some contacts you can try out. Small companies, especially ones with minimal public interaction should be good targets.
I do have a small portfolio website (can't show it here because it'll give away my name and the harassment will start) and it was mentioned in a few interviews, but it's not really good enough to show off for independent consulting.
Nobody has ever accused the man of consistency.
That's definitely true, and I think this may be one of the least bad. But when it becomes that the actual "perceived leaders" of the world subscribe to it, the ideology is no longer silly on the macro scale and we all end up trying to scam each other for money in ways that arent _inherently_ wrong, just _practically_ destroying the world.
Not to mention the smaller chunks of code to be reviewed, which has it's own set of benefits.
I'm not even sure that mining being expensive is a great defense against a 51% attack.

If things do end up being an oligopoly, then any one of the members of that oligopoly will only have a relatively small sprint between their current position and a 51% attack. And quite a few options for how to attempt such a sprint.
Linux (various OS's on that kernal) have been objectively more stable and easier to use than windows since windows 8 came out. I plugged an Ubuntu machine into my work network and could print to any printer without installing any extra drivers! Updates ONLY when I want them. Also, no bloatware or unnecessary personal assistant tied to every search feature. Microsoft should've just polished windows 7.
seriously though, don't use soap. Just get a nylon scrubber or stiff bristled nylon(or whatever) brush and use salt. Soap is going to remove the seasoning and probably leave a soapy flavor behind
I left Windows years ago, when they released Vista. Vista was so bad that, suddenly, I could no longer see a credible upgrade path.

I had been dabbling with linux, so I switched to Ubuntu for a few years. But then Ubuntu also lost its mind, so I switched to Arch for a a year. I learned a lot during my time with Arch, but the most important lesson is "wow, a full blown OS, with an integrated DE, network management, and a dozen other systems does so much more for me than I ever knew."

Then I switched to OSX for a time. I suffered greatly. Folks think Apple's software quality issues are a recent thing, but they aren't. Apple has always been extremely bad at making reliable software. I wasn't doing anything fancy, but experience data loss issues due to file system errors, iTunes wiping out years of song metadata, and on and on. And OSX is incredibly slow - not because of the software, but because of the CPU, RAM, and heat limits imposed by apple form factors. Even now, my work laptop is a fancy MBP, and it is just dog slow when doing any kind of meaningful work. The only nice thing about OSX is being able to pull of a terminal with familiar tools.

I decided to try out windows 10 on my home desktop. I built this rig for much less than the cost of a mac, with all top-end parts. With 8 logical CPUs and 64gb RAM, it flies and I almost never experiences a slowdown of any kind. It doesn't matter how many dozens of browser tabs, terminals, or apps I have open. Running Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux is very pleasant and gives me access to proper command line tools. I haven't experienced the issues you mention (drivers all work like magic, haven't seen any ads, no tablet mode issues).

I have some issues with Windows still. They've really outdone themselves in making the system settings windows almost totally unusable and confusing. And I wish a bash shell was the default terminal, along with more pre-packaged open source tools. Probably the single worst part is Windows Update - it is a fucking abomination, impossible to predict (will restarting or shutting down actually cause a 20 minute update cycle?) and disrupting work at all the wrong times. And bitlocker's refusal to just encrypt a hard drive without a TPM module present is stupid, especially since it wont let me save the encryption key to dropbox (saving to the same drive being encrypted is not allowed).

But none of the downsides are deal breakers for me. My system is super stable, is always fast, and let's me get work done. I love it.
Automated testing is great, but you can apply the core idea to code without automated tests. The difference is that you have to be even more mechanical and cautious.

In addition to the principles about refactoring, reading a few of the examples helped to drive in how methodical it was.
Simple Testing Library for React
Hah. Good point. Yes, too many devices want to put big giant blue LED's on their product.... even ones that are specifically targeted for the bedroom and specifically designed for sleeping...
Those two aren't mutually exclusive - if your aim would be to target that company specifically, changing the federal corporate tax rate would be a poor way of achieving it.

What is more pertinent is how much tax they pay on overseas income and how much they repatriate.
Kill the Hamburger Button (2014)
This is not politeness but it's a cynical play with words. They should just say "We have decided to replace Terry Myerson".
(Diehard vim keybinding user, but editor/IDE nomad)
For an expert, I'm not sure that there is anything that st3 has that cannot be achieved by the other two with a combination of plugins and customization.

The biggest difference I have seen is reasonable defaults for a new user. I have lots of friends and coworkers who use Sublime because dropping into vim/emacs is like entering an alternate dimension. They expect to click around and edit text similar like any other program on the computer (which vim lacks) and have a sensible menu system (which emacs lacks). Sublime uses standard system keybindings, so that e.g on a mac Cmd-S saves the current file like you would expect. This is possible to do on both vim/emacs, but not the default. It is really difficult to convince a brand new user that the first step they need to take is opening some random hidden file and customizing their entire editor in a custom configuration language just to get the system default behavior.
I think that was Breaking Bad.
If you like Dan Carlin, I would also recommend The British History Podcast[0], an epic more-or-less chronological take on the history of the British Isles. The host can really spin a yarn, and it is taken from primary sources.

[0] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com
A lot of cameras are sticking at 24MP because that's where a lot of lenses start to reach a weak point. Also, file size to utility becomes a consideration because most people expect cloud/sharing. I feel like 100+MP is going to be an enthusiast thing for a long time. It seems a lot like car speeds. Every car sold today can go over 100 miles per hour. Some people still care about how fast their car can go, but most don't really think about it or even know their car's top speed.
Actually Windows has one of the easiest ways to switch between Audio outputs, right from the taskbar. I have no idea what you are talking about.
I'd be interested to see more at-home test kits for these sorts of biomarkers.
One of the Wikipedia sources quotes the Chinese expert as saying he thinks the motif came from Central Asia, East to China, and represent peace and tranquility.

> Guan Youhui, a retired researcher from the Dunhuang Academy, spent fifty years studying the decorative patterns in the Mogao Caves. He believes the three-hares image came to Dunhuang indirectly from the West (Central Asia) by way of central China...

Since those instances were created at around 300-500 and later, seems like the very earliest instances of the motif came from the center of the known instances, which would be the eastern Mediterranean area. That also predates Islam and Buddhism.
Um, this is definitely not an objective source.
The woman who tortured animals for sport.
And what I liked about the desktop did not translate to a Phone-ified desktop, either.
I've had good luck with this one: http://a.co/86ahf5e though I'm concerned about the recent reports of bricking devices using 3rd-party adapters...
You can't tell me that you windows drives you nuts, and keeps tweaking and tweaking making it worse. Still it is (your opinion) better as linux GUIs or Apple's one.

This is Emacs vs vi/vim vs GUI editors (Scintilla-based, Sublime, Electron-based, whatever).

You can feel that Emacs is the best thing ever, but still hate Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Meta combinations. You can love vi and still sometimes get annoyed about switching modes.

Seems to me that part of what he's feeling is that MacOS has become the unwanted outsider, and frankly most people have better things to do / aren't OCD enough to want to spend a bunch of time trying different windowing systems.
You presume I want a specific answer -- I don't. I want to know how they think about a system. In your case, you laser-focused in on 'HTTP'. OK, that tells me a bit about how you think. If you were to say the question was too vague, that also would tell me how you think. If you were to ask for more clarification, that might be a really good first response. There is no right or wrong answer. Interviewers don't always seek specific answers. I'd argue that the best interviewers never seek specific answers, they ask questions that help us learn who you are.
> The supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies really can't have anything to do with dark matter or any possible alternatives.

What makes you so sure? I think limiting our thinking too much into the confines of regular gravitation is a mistake. Maybe SMB are the source of these theoretical heavy neutrino's we have yet to detect that are the #1 candidate for dark matter/WIMPS. Or maybe the gravitational disturbance of a singularity is far more complex that we imagine?

Take a look at the video on the Galaxy Rotation Curve video in this wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve#Descript...

I stare at it and cant help but wonder is something about that central singularity is unique. We still have no idea what truly happens at the center.
Blame in technology, and the aardvark case
He knew he'd be targeted (and he was), legal or not. It's probably why whoever wrote Bitcoin used a nom de chiffere.

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/timeline/
The Hasselblad sensor shift is amazing for photographing art or still life (i.e. cars etc) - I'm sure you can imagine how excellent this is for commercial photography.
When this article came up last year I thought about grooving a metal spatula with the Dremel, although I've not gotten around to it partly because I have never seen a bristle come off my brush and I always oil the grill with a paper towel and olive oil right before cooking. It's a good idea to quickly make one like this product from scrap wood. Maybe this season.
Organize for growth. Windows will continue to be a big fountain of money for decades to come, I'm sure, but the desktop market isn't growing. Mobile and Cloud are growing, the MSFT lost the war for Mobile. It has to go all in on Cloud, and it cannot allow Windows turf protection to prevent it from winning the biggest possible slice of that pie.
I think you are in hard place because of the the current culture. It seems that in the present climate, a business would hire someone that actually killed people while driving drunk before someone who flashed someone while drunk.
Nope. In reality, the tax office comes along, demands to see the seller’s records, and if they haven’t kept comprehensive records of all transactions and the fair market value of the coins at transaction time in local currency, then they get fined, or if they’ve been actively evading tax, jailed. Plus, even if they’ve kept records perfectly, they need to get local currency at tax time in order to pay their tax bill.

Bitcoin is useless for any legitimate business. The costs of using it vastly exceed any benefits.

A lot of dopes who think they’re smarter than the tax-man because they’ve been evading taxes by using bitcoin are going to have a ‘Martin Shkreli’ moment in the next few years.
Brain team goes after lung cancer, prostate cancer
> In technological terms, it is old.

No it's not. It took double entry accounting hundreds of years to spread around the world, why would you expect triple entry accounting to take over any faster? We already know it's going to succeed because it's objectively better by a very significant margin, but that doesn't mean it's not going to take decades to do so.
We have used Camtasia for our video edits. While it is super simple to use, it is pretty heavy in the size. The cost of $249 was something which we were not comfortable.

The other challenge that I have seen with Camtasia, it doesn't give me the flexibility to make the video interactive. If I want to add a bunch of questions to the Video, it looks like I can't do that with Camtasia.
One look at the content on the "Discovery" page and you instantly understand the platform's weakness. No one is making genuine, useful, compelling content. It's almost exclusively hyper-vapid garbage.
Yes, this should be simply illegal.
> For more background, the felony is from flashing someone (while drunk) who was just under 17 years old. This was the second offense (the other was years ago). They are inexcusable and disgusting offenses, but they are permanently on my background.

Just a side note, why are these felonies? Or even crimes to begin with? It’s not like you tried to force yourself on those underage girls or rape them. In Europe, there are many nude beaches where girls under 18 regularly go to with their families.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand that it’s harassment and unwanted on the part of the girls. But I am surprised that it is a felony and not a misdemeanor.
More likely, the dev team carefully conceal their eye-rolling, and agree enthusiastically to the plan.

If your normal job is working on the ancient Amazon website codebase and holding back the bile you feel as you add yet another "SIGN UP TO PRIME!!!!!!" banner, then a couple of years of being paid to build a green-fields project using the technology of your choice sounds pretty great.
Would you care to give us a scenario? The best source I could find places the minimum resistance of already damaged human skin at 500 ohms. With 9v of potential, that translates to .018 amps of current, which is just barely above the threshold for sensation, let alone death.
> What really is unnerving about this?

It reminds the middle-class strivers that "MAKE MONEY FA$T!" isn't that far from themselves, despite all their scrambling efforts.
> TCP was created in the mid 70's. The internet as we know it didn't offer the average user much value until the mid 90's and even then it was a very small amount of the population capable of using it / benefiting from it.

Using it directly.

I don't personally own any equipment that speaks ATM, but I benefit from the existence of networks that use that protocol all time.

Heck, I doubt I'll ever touch a Bloomberg terminal, and I'm not entirely sure if their existence really benefits me at all, directly or indirectly, but that doesn't mean financial companies can't easily find uses for them.
I think this error is caused by a mismatch between the monitors capacity to deliver power and your Macbooks desire for it. The HP Envy 27 is rated to deliver 65W, but MBPs want 85W. The MBP will negotiate down to 65W (although the battery may discharge under heavy usage).

I could be wrong though. I've got a similar setup and I've only seen the error once or twice.
I would love for them to fork Windows into consumer and commercial editions.

I used to uninstall the things I want gone, but I've given up. Contacts, maps, money, music, mail, news, weather, and the other bloatware just kept coming back. You can't uninstall stuff like Cortana at all, AFAIK.
Don't feed the trolls :)
Ok. It looks like the new feature allows library authors to express their intentions with simpler code, and thus error messages will also be simpler. Looks good, thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
The caption to one of the photos is priceless:

> Kevin Gallant, of Summerside, P.E.I., had part of his small intestine removed after he swallowed a bristle from a barbecue brush. He still uses a bristle brush, but inspects the barbecue thoroughly after using it.

He still uses a bristle brush.
Trade (YC W17) is hiring software engineers for mobile-based commodity exchange
tl;dr
Wilson (wilson@tradeghana.co, CEO) and Anson (anson@tradeghana.co, CTO) will be in San Francisco April 3 - 7 and would love to meet with anyone there who might be interested in working with us.
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Trade’s mission is to allow anyone to easily buy or sell any physical good.

We are working in Africa because we believe the continent, globally, has the best mix of current challenge to exchanging physical goods and future growth opportunity if we get it right.

Africa has the fastest growing population in the world, is home to many of the fastest growing economies in the world, and has barely started with intracontinental trade.

Building something to allow anyone to easily buy and sell any physical good means playing a role in:

- Transport
- Storage
- Exchange of money

Building a dominant product in any of the categories above would have enormous impact.

We’ve started in Ghana specifically. Ghana is politically stable, geographically small (easier to figure out logistics), very agriculturally productive (#3 in Africa, in terms of dollar value of goods), and might be the fastest growing economy in the world this year (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/world/africa/ghana-worlds...).

We’ve started in commodity trade because it is central to commerce in Ghana. Over 40% of the workforce works in agriculture and industrial transport and storage are dominated by commodity use.

If we succeed in building a platform that allows anyone in Ghana to easily buy or sell any commodity—connecting buyers, sellers, storers, and transporters—we’ll be very close to a platform that allows anyone in Ghana to confidently buy or sell anything.

We started focused on maize, which is the largest cereal crop in Ghana. To date (18 months) we have traded over 8,000 tonnes (> $2.3M worth).

We have a network of warehouses where goods can be deposited in exchange for digital credit. Farmers can then sell these credits to buyers on our platform using their mobile phones.

We also have a network of Trade Centers, locations just for facilitating the movement of fiat: paying for goods or collecting payment for goods.

We run a transport network which moves goods between warehouses.

Trade was first funded under a research grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since then it has been funded by Y Combinator, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, and Reid Hoffman.

We are hiring software engineers. We use Clojure for the backend and React Native for mobile.

The team is based in Tamale, Ghana. It is the 3rd largest city in Ghana, the fastest growing city in West Africa, and is an hour flight from Accra. The opportunity is here, and so we want the team to be here, too.

We can offer generous equity and benefits, a close community among our team, and the chance to build something of historic importance.

Wilson (wilson@tradeghana.co, CEO) and Anson (anson@tradeghana.co, CTO) will be in San Francisco April 3 - 7 and would love to meet with anyone there who might be interested.
As long as they play within the rules, fair game. If Trump doesn't like the rules, don't single out a company, change the game.
I really like (and work in) Scala, and Scala native is an interesting project.

However, its use cases seem to be encroached on all fronts.

If you want native, performance and don't need the JVM ecosystem, Rust and go both take very different but good approaches to that problem. I would have a hard time recommending Scala Native over Rust.

If you want browsers, Javascript is rapidly evolving and becoming a better lanuage. Typescript adds an excellent type system given the constraints its working with. Webassembly opens the door to use your own favorite. I would have a hard time recommending Scala.js over Typescript.

If you want JVM, Java is adopting traditional Scala killer features at a glacial pace, lambda's in 8, pattern matching in 11+ [1], Data/Case classes in ? [2], but adopting them nonetheless. Kotlin has succesfully performed a Blitzkrieg maneuver on Scala's "better Java" territory and has full support from Google in Android. It's also much more approachable for Java devs. I have a hard time convincing JVM devs that Scala is a good choise over Kotlin. At the place I work in all new projects are Kotlin, and Scala is used for the projects that were started in it.

Python and R are mainstays in the data science world, with Spark serving as a sort of Scala bastion.

I like scala, and follow its developments and 3.0 (Dotty) version somewhat, but I am slowly seeing it dwindling into irrelevance.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305
[2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html