skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Webapps desktop integration
You do know you can turn off the redesign in your reddit settings, right?
> [...] but fault tolerance seems to be a part of OTP.

Yes, mostly, but the thing is that OTP was possible at all because of how
the portions provided by the language and the runtime play together. You
cannot replicate the OTP as it is in Go because Go's runtime is lacking and
its communication model doesn't match.
To give you an idea, I didn't study computer science in college, graduated and got a job in a non programming role, worked for a year before deciding to teach myself mobile app development, did that for a year, and got a job at a very large US based corporation (not a tech giant though) as a junior app developer making $90k a year, not including full health and dental coverage provided by my company.

I work in a reasonably high cost of living area on the east coast.
Working in Iceland gave me a weird close-up perspective of unions in a somewhat different context. Icelanders and other Europeans are free to choose whether or not to be in a union (at least in my industry, which is very broadly labelled "office workers"). However, non-European foreigners are required to get the "opinion" of a union on the work visa form, and of course the union won't provide an opinion unless you're a member, thus you're forced to join (and stay on good terms with, if you want your work visa re-application approved) a union.

Despite this blatant extortion, I really have nothing else against the union. Their cut is quite small and they provide services and subsidies you can get your money back through (not that I've ever taken advantage of because everything's in Icelandic, but still...)

But on the other hand, I was almost forced to stop working and subsist on the peanuts the union pays because of a strike that had nothing at all to do with my own working conditions or even those of my co-workers or even people in the same industry (one of the side effects of unionizing in such a small population is the union sphere of influence is quite broad).

So from my experience, I think you've hit it on the nose.
Making the transition from consultant to product engineer
Tried three times, got 0 lines. This seems pretty pointless, I'm afraid.
Sounds similar to the idea of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit_emulation
CVE-2018-11235 Git Remote Code Execution
The “new” Microsoft stack is incredibly productive.

For $0 and less than 15 minutes I can spin up an ASP.NET Core app with Angular 6 with a free private git repo in VSTS. CI/CD fully setup to deploy to a free Azure App Service, for a few extra bucks per month I get deployment slots to separate out my dev/test/prod deployments. LetsEncrypt for SSL. Another $5 a month I get a fully managed SQL database that connects with my built in ASP.NET Core Identity to manage user logins, forgot passwords, etc. Auto-Healing, SSL, Backups, Geo-replication, AutoScale, DNS, CI/CD, cross platform IDEs, and feature/bug tracking are all included. So if my app gets hot I just pay more money to allow it to scale up and nothing else on my stack has to change.

All this in 15-30 minutes from my MacBook without fooling around with docker files, virtual machines, or Kubernetes.
My cat has food laid out for it all day. It has no "mealtimes" to get anxious over. Not sure what conclusions you can draw from the fact that your cats did indeed build up an appetite between meals.
That's awesome, I didn't realise it was that easy with Go.

Of course, I would say keeping the source on the VPS is just as easy.
> “In some circles, this will get you immediately hired.”

Is this true though? I mean Google famously didn’t give a shit about hiring Max Howell (creator of homebrew) because of hazing-style pointless whiteboard trivia [0].

I’d guess the number of circles where a thoughtful side project that digs into deep computer science fundamentals as well as difficult implementation specifics would even get you the slightest attention for an interview is close enough to zero as to render it meaningless.

If you think about a lot of possible different self-study options, ranging from cramming and shallow memorization of leetcode garbage or Cracking the Coding Interview, all the way to patiently applying craftsmanship and self-learning to a side project that exercises and demonstrates core fundamentals in a pragmatic way, the shallow memorization garbage will earn you money, while the side project will earn you an email with a hyperlink to HackerRank.

It is one of the worst aspects of our industry, and a major reason why I would advise younger people to treat the idea that there are direct, stable, good-paying jobs with job security in the tech industry with a lot of skepticism. It’s an industry constantly trying to invent new ways to shift the demographics more and more into the least experienced and least expensive quantiles of candidates, and to arrange businesses where actual software labor productivity doesn’t have a strong tie to the company’s bottom line, except maybe for a tiny population of experts.

[0]: < https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin... >
While the Bitcoin network does consume a lot of power, the Bitcoin Cash network is highly efficient and can process a lot of transactions with the same energy requirements.

You would need to pay a fees of around a cent to send each message. You need not pay anything to receive a message. We believe that as the Bitcoin Cash network becomes stronger, transaction fees would get even cheaper.
This is exactly the problem.

The US has a single currency that serves vastly different economies. The dollar prevents poor economies in Alabama and Mississippi from devaluing their currencies just like Italy and Greece can't devalue their currencies.

But the US also has fiscal tools like taxation and direct transfers that subsidize Alabama and Mississippi.

Fiscal policy requires political union to force wealthy economies to transfer their wealth to poor economies.

The EU doesn't have political union, and they're actually headed in the opposite direction due to discord about migration leading to stronger nationalist/populist/authoritarian leaders.

So if political union is the solution and the EU is going the other way, then it's hard to see how the Euro and by extension the EU can survive.
Lighten Up, America It’s Not Your Fault
If Carmax offered you 2k then the car you were trading in was not something they were interested in, so they probably offered you what they could get at auction for it. There are certain things for which you don’t want to use carmax. Also, did you sell it private party for $7k or was that at another dealership?

I’ve bought and sold a decent number of cars over be years and carmax has routinely offered the best price I could get from any other dealership, but it depends on the specifics. I may trade in my heavily modified Jeep Wrangler next and that’s not something I would bother with carmax for. They don’t generally sell modified 4x4 rigs, so they’re likely to flip it at auction and therefore make a lowball offer. So I’m going to go to a dealership that specializes in what I’m selling.
You are providing added value over the regular HN experience?
I agree, thanks for the suggestion.
You don't need all of this. All what you need is to request your data from twitter (Your Tweet archive
> https://twitter.com/settings/account). Iterate through the csv file and use tweet_id to unlike, remove or do what you want through their Twitter API.

Source: I have done it before, and it took less time/work than what you have stated.
I always read German attitudes to the Eurozone with some disbelief. They always seem to insist the burden of changing policy to make the Euro work fall on other countries and not there own.
Oh, I certainly agree that if ones goal is to avoid boredom and maximize money then games may not be the way to go. However, there is certainly a decent living to be made. My main point however is that if you want to make games, it certainly is possible to do so if you are patient and focused and avoid those who would have you crunch incessantly.
That's fine, but now you need a way to cope with an outsized elderly population. Not just funding their benefits, but also providing them care, etc. Without population growth, this becomes an extremely expensive situation.
Except that services like Spotify or Pandora still rely on the labels as well. Sure, they want to get away from the labels, but that is going to take time.

https://www.recode.net/2018/4/3/17191390/spotify-plan-big-mu...
You will always be able to get more money on a private party sale than trading into a dealer. Did any other dealership offer you more than $6,500?
Are you sure that's a valid response if the GDPR police asks you?
Interesting read!

In the context of the recent rise of awareness for animal rights, environmental problems of dairy production and last but not least the discussion about health effects of Milk, I am not sure if the last sentence holds true :-)

"But one argument that seems to have been finally set to rest is that milk and butter are no longer just for barbarians."
I don't think you got my comment right. I was advocating for apple to expand swift to other platforms ( android, pc desktop, web, server, whatever), in order to compete with techs like flutter.

The reason cross platform tools weren't a good fit before and are now is both because hardware is now powerful enough, and because platforms have now reach a stable point.
You aren't reading much press in the UK then.

Openly anti-Brexit: the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Economist, Sky News, BBC News (e.g. their famous "despite brexit" spin on every good news story).

The UK is really the only country in Europe that has a press that's willing to attack the EU and (uselessly) try to hold it to account. I've always been surprised when reading German news how flimsy so much of their broadsheet press really is. Die Zeit's "interview" with Farage being a good example of the low quality that passes for highbrow media there.

Remember the Google.co.uk trending searches for the day after the referendum included 'what is the EU'

You're doing what so many EU fans do, you're repeating myths whilst believing you're above believing myths.

The Google graphs that people cited at that time didn't show any volume, but volume data was available via their ad planner tool. What that showed is that volume for that query is absolutely minimal, even a huge spike would still amount to virtually nobody typing in such a query. Almost certainly, given the wordy phrasing, those queries were coming from children via speech recognition.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2016/06/28/brexit...

But sure, you go on and tell yourself that most people were simply repeating things they read in the press.
Yeah, spoiler. But, IMHO without the spoiler most people wouldn't have the motivation to sit through the video at all.
I am extremely interested in veganism but currently I purchase free-range eggs and grass-fed beef from a neighbor. I have Celiac disease and I'm lactose intolerant so the only dairy I consume is butter.

I cook with butter/tallow/bacon fat but eat 6+lbs of grass-fed beef a week. I hunt deer/elk and fish salmon/bass, as well.

I use the whole animal (organs) and hunting/free-range/grass-fed is the most ethical way I can think of consuming animals while respecting the earth.

I absolutely hate modern agriculture and want to buy land where I don't touch a thing and allow ruminants to live as freely as they want, then hunt what I need.

What do you see wrong with my lifestyle?

I've looked into a plant-based diet but I still have a lot to learn though! I'm definitely open to it.
If I were to place a bet I'd bet that Speck in particular is fine. It's so damn simple there is just no place to put a lever. But... it would not be a very large bet. :)
Getting started with Elasticsearch in Python
That was my intuition, thanks. I'll definitely investigate. I'm also thinking a full stack dart platform, since dart also hs a very interesting server side story.
You don't need to know how to read or know math to shoot a basketball and the problem is well defined. Put ball through hoop.
I was NOT prepared to see someone reference Ethics as a rebuttal because that's precisely what I was preparing to do. You have to wade through quite a bit of setup, especially as Aristotle ponders questions of the origins of virtue in book two in order to appreciate the quote from GP.

Contextomy and Aristolean philosophy are like oil and water.
>> I got a different reading of the whole situation in 2015 from the book by Mr. Varoufakis himself, "Adults in the Room".

Well, he would say (all) that, wouldn't he?
History, including contemporary. The most unequal societies are the most troubled ones.
I wouldn't say it's a nessesity to unify into a new political structure for there to be peace.
One day I decided to write a simple lexer-parser. It's really not black magic as it's commonly made out to be. You read in one character at a time to build "tokens" (e.g. one-to-n character sequences meaning something like "assign", "equals", "add") and then you use recursive methods to return data structures built out of the tokens. Honestly, the hardest part is remembering mathematical precedence, which doesn't even have much to do with parsing per se.

Of course, a compiler backend is a much deeper concept, getting into things like register colouring and such. If you were to write a simple stack-based VM, it'd be much simpler. I've thought of doing exactly this for embedded systems projects where all I have is Assembly, or a very bad C compiler.
> This is a massive difference from Xamarin where cross-platform apps end up using the platform-native widgets which is known to result in non-trivial amounts of "if (Platform_Android) {...} else if (Platform_iOS) {...}"

Is your Xamarin experience using Xamarin.Forms? It sounds like Forms allows for more cross-platform gui code reuse. I'm doing a lot of investigation into Xamarin because I'm learning C# this summer for an internship and I love the language.
And those EVs will enter the second hand market in 3-5 years, and the 10% will buy a different EV.
A read marker is missing. Just show the title a bit opaque
In the long run, people with no children, on average, cost more than people who raise several taxpayers into adulthood. People are entitled to several times what they put in to the social security system. That money comes from somewhere. And, for the childless, that's other peoples' kids, mostly.
In which sense Democritus is a scientist? He never emprically observed atoms or used scientific method in any meaningful sense. He was a natural philosopher, and a very crucial figure in his school too. The basic idea is that natural philosophy was heavily challenged by Parmenides who made some really good points about how everything should be one and unitary and thus nothing exists in the sense we see and observe ("everything is an illusion"). Then later philosophers tried to circumvent Parmenides while maintaining some bit of realism and common sense. Democritus is one such philosopher, who tried to agree realism with Parmenides by suggesting that everything may be composed of a single type of objects called atoms and their composition gives us the illusion of "differences" such as color, taste etc and thus everything like feelings, colors, tastes are "by convention" when in reality it is atoms all the way down. This argument is more important in the context of post-Parmenidean Greek Natural Philosophy rather than scientific context.

EDIT Fun fact: Democritus -- also known as the founder of materialism -- is highly influential in modern enlightenment too. Most famously, Karl Marx was heavily influenced by his ideas so much so that his Doctoral thesis was on him. If you read Marx's writings chronologically, you'll see that he started his philosophical career as an idealist, and then (possibly with Democritus influence) turned 180 degrees and became a materialist and dedicated his life to argue against idealism.
Don't mistake having a way for someone to give you money as "making money." Classic mistake.
Maybe it's time someone invented a decentralised "currency" for cashless payments?
Facebook shareholders get their turn to grill Mark Zuckerberg
It's a branch of philosophy.
He gets among other things its power as a rhetorical force multiplier and how it will be used to end democracy and any form of large scale public discourse. Think "individualized con artistry at scale." One person or small group could effectively sit down with every human being on Earth at once and "work on them" one on one using social media and other profile data to change their mind.

It makes me think of the classical religious notion of how demons are constantly whispering to us. We may be on the verge of inventing Satan... to make people click ads. There is something depressingly idiocracy about that. The big evil dictators of the past at least had high minded master plans. This is definitely an example of the banality of evil.

In the future you will not be able to trust anything you haven't met face to face in the flesh. Even then you'd have to perhaps do physical in person key exchanges to communicate electronically. Anything not verified through "physical captcha" could be a demon.
Interesting, especially since the linguistic/cultural ancestors of the Greeks, the Proto-Indo-Europeans were pastorals who highly valued milk and milk-products. There are traces of this everywhere, from the 'dual meanings' of a number of words in Indo-European for "cows" and "wealth", e.g. German Vieh "cattle, livestock" which is cognate with English fee as well as Latin pecunia "money" alongside of Latin pecus "cattle" and the sacredness of cows in India.

So one special genetic characteristic of Proto-Indo-Europeans is their capacity to digest milk (cp. https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01667476/file/GarnierSagartSagot_mi... )
Motor skills and muscle memory both originate from the brain, just a different area than brain thinkings stuff. I would assume shooting a ball would require more brain activity than solving a math problem because more senses are involved.
> They're impossible to disentangle.

Well, it's made easier when you get people naming names of who the sovereignty is being ceded to. It's one thing to say "loss of sovereignty" and another to then go on to talk about who it's being ceded to. It's often not even correct.

> Mostly, massive immigration that overloaded public services.

Except it was per-capita underfunding that caused public services to be underfunded. Almost every study done on this found that EU migrants were on above-average wages and hence paying more tax. And if there weren't, there were measures that could have been implemented such as asking people under free movement rules to demonstrate their ability to support themselves and not be a burden to the state. Other EU states do this.

Most public services should decrease in cost per person as it scales up. If it's super-linear there's something seriously wrong with the way you deliver public services. So it was the underfunding per-capita of public services that was the problem. Instead of expanding public services, the coalition government cut them drastically whilst outsourcing everything they could.

> In response they were told, sorry, we can't do anything about that, France and Germany won't let us. It's out of the question, even trying to talk about it is pointless. Oh yeah, and you're probably a racist for even asking.

We heard a lot that it "was not racist to be concerned about immigration." And a good proportion of people who agreed with that were in fact racist. Let's be honest, a lot of people in this country are prejudiced against people based on their ethnicity, which is pretty much textbook racist. I've even heard on the doorstep that "it's alright to hate polish people because they're white." Attitudes like "they shouldn't be here" are quite common and seem to be more openly voiced after the referendum. It's certainly ignorant of history if you believe that immigration is a recent thing as many who espouse these attitudes seem to do. Go back a few of hundred years and you wouldn't have known if somebody was from the North or France. Both would be just as incomprehensible.

> Ultimately technological progress does allow us to satisfactorily decentralise power in new ways. Some people want society to go in the opposite direction and centralise it as much as possible. This is a bad idea, and the Eurozone predicament is an interesting example of why.

The Eurozone predicament is complicated. There are merits and demerits to centralisation. We should all be wary of extrapolating problems with one large system to all large systems.
It's too late for me to edit my comment, but here is the proper link:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3126905
Agreed that the extraterrestrial origin hypothesis doesn't actually explain anything. It just merely adds a factor to the Drake equation of how likely it is for life to get started.
J is readable
Great idea!
suggestion: A dead giveaway of robots is that they are able to answer even to messages that I sent just 2s before the end.
Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT
Exploitation of media (and thus public opinion) by the wealthy is going to be the major issue we in the West have to deal with in the next decade, I believe. (for-profit news, and social media, and the Piketty wealthy-desire-to-influence politics have led us to a unique and dangerous place in 2018.)
Aftersignature aggregation between different inputs is implemented (probably in a few years), it will make mixing more efficient than normal (online) tranzactions. Hopefully it will give enough people incentive to use it.
Show HN: Sensimark ⋅ get a sense of it
Because of global urbanization, that's a problem the whole world is going to have soon enough. Japan is leading the way and the US is slowly following. But, the trend is that in a hundred years the entire planet will be having sub-replacement birthrate. Yay. The population explosion crisis has accidentally been averted. Oops. Now we have the opposite crisis to deal with instead. Might as well start figuring it out early.
Probably depends on the domain. I really don't see it for carrying bricks, but I can totally see it for abstract math research.
Kilauea Volcano’s Lava Fields Offer Scientists a Portal to Mars
Why bitcoin cash and not bitcoin core or etherium?
"Here's a flat paved plaza. You cannot sit down. The cops will be by to kick you out at 11."

Sure, sounds like a lot of fun.
I’m going to jump through it.
Planes are huge and finding remnants of one such strike would still be significant.

However tiny the spacecraft's contamination is going to be right next to the sensors making false positives easy. Longer term they will likely all die out, but they could still contaminate samples taken over huge areas for the next decade.
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When elliptical curves get broken, Bitcoin is also broken. So we think this day is far off.
How Bradesco solves customer queries in just seconds with AI
> All that was left was to ask nature herself. In a series of sophisticated experiments, the answer has been established: Bell’s inequality is violated. The world is not local. No future innovation in physics can make it local again.

This is a Copernican revolution.
There was a huge pushback from banks a few years ago when transaction fees at German ATMs were capped to (AFAIK) € 1,90.

The argument from banks is that there are a lot of online-only banks that rely on the ATMs of banks with physical branches in a parasitic manner.
The "JavaScript for Automation" stuff is extremely incomplete, and to make matters worse, whatever dingus in XCode generates the documentation only knows about AppleScript, so sometimes you get object methods called properties and in any event the return type is wrong, etc.

Basically made it work well enough for a few things that ship on a default OS X install and stopped.