skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may never know but I would say that most people were surprised that Trump won not because his policies are conservative but because he is a very crappy person and makes statements that no political leader should ever make in the 21st century, IMO. You can have lots of opposing views towards the common political ideas found in SF and not have to be someone like Trump. I think the fact that won was very shocking because of who he is and how he acts rather than the fact that the rest of the country would vote republican.
The tech industry has its own examples. I remember that Nvidia and/or AMD had graphics drivers that would actually detect when they were running certain benchmarks/games and "cheat" to get better results. This was proven by simply renaming the .exe, which adversely affected measurements.
Harrisburg/Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Not very many opportunities for software development unless you want to work for government and/or do contracting.
1. Missing a big one that affects many people, 365 day a year ALLERGIES!

2. I would add politics. Yes, the city is "blue" but too much evil is produced from the capitol to ignore. Living in a state where almost every law produced goes against what you believe to be logical really wears you down.

3. Bad public transportation that will never get fixed. It is too late now for light rail or more than one train line, people keep voting against it.
I think about this from time-to-time. My partner and I know we couldn't afford children now, though she's constantly ..."noticing the clock ticking".

I'd like children some day.

But what makes me snicker is it sounds exactly like the beginning of Idiocracy.
For cloud storage backups
This is a somewhat minor point, but it surprised me that the edit: Danish reserve requirement has been raised to 1%. In the US, it's at roughly 10% and has historically been between 8 and 12% for large banks. Does anyone more familiar with Danish banking know why their reserve requirement is so low compared to ours?
It was already top 8 in 2012, and had less than half of the headcount it has today, spending a third of what it spends today in salaries.
Some arbitration agreements make arbitration mandatory by default, according to their wording; others simply give either side the right to choose arbitration.

The de facto effect is the same except in the rare case where a court sees the wording of the
first kind of contract and dismisses the case on its own initiative, since otherwise the arbitration clause would only be enforced on the motion of a party, without which the right would be waived.

But it's not formalistically wrong to use the verb "force" to describe "exercising a contractual election" as opposed to merely "not waiving a default provision of the contract."
There's a (no longer updated) gallery using Processing at http://www.complexification.net/gallery/. It's quite old as well - ~10y at least
You can use rust https://github.com/KDE/rust-qt-binding-generator There are Go bindings floating around too
I don’t, but I’ve rarely needed to send files etc to other hacker news users.

I would LOVE it if I could use keybase to send a copy of my passport to companies (for example) which is nessesary for day to day life, and always done in a redicously insecure way. :(
Note the word stakeholders, not simply users. Stakeholders includes the team actually delivering, not just the end client/users.
I've been using it for encrypted communication for years, but I only provided an HN identity because I was essentially collecting stamps.
> Most of us dont have jobs that afford us competent healthcare.

Is this true? I hear people say things like this but "most"? Seems too high.
Yeah they were fined like $15B and had people arrested and criminally charged in multiple countries.

They had 'defeat devices' that detected test environments and changed how the car ran so that it would pass emissions testing.
That's exactly what Drupal maintainer in question was doing. People have worked with him for years and didn't have a tiniest idea about his personal life (as it should have properly been). Until somebody got a beef with him and decided to make his personal life a public issue. So no, "he should have kept his personal life out of his work" doesn't work. You also probably know this exactly argument had been used numerous time to persecute gay and trans-gender people if they revealed (or had been revealed) as such. So hearing it in this context is especially strange.
> Good luck getting your landlord to approve bolting large furniture to your ceiling, and what do you do when you move?

The article sounds like this is a feature of the apartment (to help make up for small unit sizes).
To be clear, I 100% support keybase, and if I thought there was a chance in hell of getting some other non-tech person to use it, I would put in the effort.

I just don’t see myself being able to convince some recruiter, or HR person or something to sign up and install keybase just to get a file from me
If you start a small business and then do those things, then you can no longer blame other people; You are the immoral person
Having grown up in Bradenton, which is even warmer than Tampa, I understand the heat. However, your statement about 100% humidity and 100 degrees is not possible. If it were everyone would be dead after being outside for even a short amount of time. Further 100 degree days are rare in that part of Florida, in fact I believe that TPA has never measured 100 or above. The key to happiness is that area of the country, IMO, is to enjoy the water and the wildlife.
Since Python 3 you can use exec() instead of exec_() (in Python 2 exec was a keyword).

> And the fact the label magically attaches to the app through some side effect is also confusing.

Are you referring to the first "label.show()" example?

Typically that pattern is rare (~once per app for the main window). Regarding attachment to the app; QApplication is a process-wide singleton. All objects belong to the same app.
specifically to prove my identity? no.

i used the filestorage/filesharing earlier and was happy about the git repository support though.

there were however very few of us, and we all dropped it when they jumped on the crypto currency wagon.
Apple stores all of your iMessages in a nifty MySQL database hidden away deep in your applications folder. Since I got an iPhone ~4 years ago, it was about ~300 messages back and forth per day. (yes, I may have a texting problem!). I actually wanted to prank my friends by wrapping the model in a Twilio API, telling people I got a new phone number, and waiting to see how long it would take them to realize they weren't actually texting me.
Milkdrop 2 is substantially better, if you count that
What is Oracle's rationale for the new licensing terms ?
It seems counterproductive to me as it will push developers to use OpenJDK ,which is pretty good on its own and "unlink" Oracle from Java in our minds. To be honest, I have climbed through hoops to install Oracle's JDK on my Ubuntu just out of habit. Now I wont do that because any application I develop on this JDK cant be put into production.
Ya I picked up my first programming book when I was 12, then started with HyperCard and Visual Interactive Programming (VIP) on the Mac Plus with my friend (another guy named Zack):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

http://mstay.com/images/screens/vpc1.gif

So thought of code as a big flowchart where you fill in the boxes with business logic. Transitioned to C within a year or two and got incredibly deep into assembly language and low level code for blitters back in the 486 era when DOOM came out. Unfortunately moderately priced Macs were an order of magnitude too slow to play fullscreen scrolling games at 640x480x8 resolution until the 60 MHz PowerPC came out in the mid 90s. So never made any real money on Mac shareware games, but I digress.

The Mac had an informal programming environment (no console or office suite with standardized inter-application communication) and I hadn't seen MS Access or FileMaker yet, or spreadsheets. When I first encountered them for writing reports in college and it finally clicked for me that code didn't have to be run imperatively, it was devastating in a way. But I made a full recovery in the early 2000s when PHP/MySQL got popular and I was able to get back into rapid application development with ORMs. I feel like the world is about ready to make the jump from hands-on tools like Laravel to WYSIWYG tools like Wix. Most of the attempts I've tried are frankly terrible, but I'm optimistic.
I would summarize it more simply as a failure of business to manage their money. Ed Catmull calls it "Feeding the Beast." They tried to turn interactive narrative into a factory that cranked out new titles.

It's a shame. I haven't connected with stories in video games for a while. I still long for the emotional depth of Mass Effect and TWAU. Telltale was one of the good ones.
medical practices seem to classify hired physicians as contractors, not employees
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Go work at any retail or food service job for a well known company. You'll find constant theft and shrinkage from employees just not tracking loss of product. Many people on forums like this act like it's because that class of people are less trustworthy or incapable of delaying actions for future benefits.

That may well be true for some of the population, but I saw a large portion of employees whose viewpoint was, "Why wouldn't I do this? The company doesn't even pay me enough to live". I saw many times where it only took one bad week where someone went hungry for a few meals before they started stealing food or medicine. It won't take much for that viewpoint to spread as more and more people get pushed into the "have nots" group instead of the "haves"
Signal connection behaviour seems to be different in PySide2 regarding non-slot receivers.

E.g. this works in PyQt:

def f(): pass

signal.connect(f)
signal.disconnect(f)

But the disconnect fails in PySide2 (RuntimError: not connected). Seems like you have to store the connection object, which is a bit of a PITA because signal.connect() does not return that.
Common weed killer linked to bee deaths
Flattr's model seems really well suited for conveniently contribution back to open source. Does Flattr not work for software anymore? I'm trying to figure out why it's not more popular as a way to contribute to open source software.
I see where you’re going but that’s just not practicable, isn’t it?
Indeed i will, but now you move the goalpost to the definition of "blame". Even if both of us are deterministic zombies who just care for our self-preservation, i would create a mental note ("blame") for me to find ways to discourage your behavior. Somewhere along those lines the concept of blame is born, but one could claim that it is a deterministic mental variable. Indeed i would blame anything that hits me as if it had agency, if i can't see it. Like xerxes lashing the waves, i could be angry at a rock for falling on my face (and indeed anger follows pain), it's just that i know that fighting back at the rock is no benefit to me.
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Statistically though, married people have more money.

"married women can pay as much as $1 million less than their single counterparts over a lifetime"

"married men between 28 and 30 years old earn around $15,900 more a year in individual income compared to their single counterparts, while married men between 44 and 46 years old make $18,800 more than single men of the same ages"

+ other benefits

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-being-married-makes-you-...
I use it solely for hacker cred.
Type12: Interview Developers in a real production environment
AA isn't so much a recovery program as a submarine Christian conversion program; it's seldom better than nothing, and often worse. Very consistently and well-marketed, though.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...

(Fun fact: when it started, it wasn't anonymous -- except one of the founders kept showing up drunk in public, and they realized this itself was pretty quickly debunking their success claims!)
A: We are all for inclusion and being welcoming and professional! That's what the CoC is about and only that!

B: But the behavior of some most active CoC proponents is not exactly welcoming and professional, are you sure that's what you are about?

A: GTFO, maybe there are some spy agencies that agree to take a deplorable like you. We certainly don't want your kind here.

B: Sigh.
Now all we need to cure addiction is the nam-shub of Enki.
ES6 in Qt 5.12
I'd say it's good enough. The average speed on a town road is like 30 to 35kph (or 18mph), much "safer" than an ebike/bike which is the primary peer traffic in these kind of places. On faster roads, these guys drive "on the shoulder" so to speak, due to their speed they cannot stay in the main road.
STEM Careers and Technological Change
I am evaluating Runbox and Migadu right now; My only nitpick with Runbox is their pricing page, they need to clean it up and simplify it. Its information overload. I can always ask/click for more details but present me with the most basic info up front and centre.
> People can always find new jobs.

If that was the case, we would not need unions.
That's a good idea. Kegs are about $160/170 if you get the good stuff.
Color me skeptical of the idea that humans can really go against the grain of their evolved instincts. What seems much more likely is:

1) A large subset of people possess instincts that were successful for reproduction in the ancestral environment, but are no longer so. See also plummeting birth rates despite being at the historical peak in terms of access to resources for the average person (in the developed world, at least).

2) Some people's evolved instincts are to play a long game based on building reputation and then leveraging that reputation over the long term, rather than pursuing immediate wants and desires. Such an instinct will produce a lot of behavior that seems out of line with a naive interpretation of how we "should" be evolved to behave.
nah, inspecting meat is a one-off deal. What is being suggested is that the meat inspector has to certify your fridge/freezer is holding right temperature and is liable if the system fails and spoils the meat. With tv's you're looking at a one-off purchase with a long-tail support contract for years to certify and patch against any/all liabilities. The only way that would be profitable was if every smart tv required a service contract to support such demands, otherwise the model is flawed.
In places where medallion or similar systems were in place, most of the protesters tended to be medallion owners. Who may or may not themselves be drivers, but even if they were were probably still deriving significant income from non-owner drivers renting their cars and medallions.

They're more like landlords than employees.
In Europe smaller "cars" (they are not actually cars) do exist, they are limited in speed/power (they can be electric or gasoline or diesel) to be compliant to the Law and they can be driven (it depends I believe in which states) either without license or with a "simplified" driving license that you can get as early as 14 years (or 16 years for the more performing types).

BUT they tend to be very expensive (when compared to what they offer) and - basically - are mainly "toys" for rich kids or in some cases, used by people that for one reason or the other cannot have a "full" driving license.

Only as an example/reference:

https://www.aixam.com/en/
Getting on the front page of PH is not easy.
I started noticing this very abruptly - that Google no longer redirects me from congested roadways to low-traffic parallel roads. Now, as soon as I take the exit to a less congested road, my estimated drive time might drop by 5-10 minutes, so clearly Google knows that it isn't sending me down the optimal route. I don't think this used to be the case.
Is it not a de-facto default when the first thing many people do on the internet is hit Google.com and get prompted to download it?
It is absolutely useless to Wikimedia, since it already rakes in around $90M a year, and only manages to spend $70M of it, most of it on useless projects that don't make any difference to actual day to day operations of Wikipedia, which is done 95% by unpaid volunteers (the remaining 5% is paying for servers and network, and maintaining software, which costs much, much less than $70M).

Wikimedia clearly doesn't need as much money, but since it gets it, it grows to spend as much of it as it can. If they scaled back to their spending in 2012 (when they already were high up in the top 10 most visited websites), and did fundraising for only extra 2 or 3 years, they would have enough endowment to fund their operations in perpetuity, and not need to run sad Jimbo face on Wikipedia ever again. Alas, the foundation will expand to fill the available space, wasting millions in the process.
I found that I'm addicted to weed, but not harmful drugs.

Alcohol ruins your day.

I can be productive on weed and/or caffeine. Both of them get work done.

I believe I'm addicted to the productivity, when I take them outside of a work environment, I want to work.

At what point is this positive reinforced habits?
Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy
Game theory will do, where the willy is to free.
PyQt5 is GPL; PySide2 is LGPL.

Do note that the PyQt5 authors (Riverbank Computing) have made it explicit that their view of GPL linking (a matter of debate in some circles) is that you can use PyQt5 from MIT/BSD/... applications.
You should be getting a 301 redirect from the former to the latter.
It's not entirely by choice. Getting married can have a significant impact on the benefits you are eligible to receive. Anecdotally, I knew a woman who lived with her boyfriend and children in section 8 housing through benefits she received for being low income. The boyfriend worked, but his income was not counted as household income because they weren't married. They eventually got married, and between his income and hers, their income was high enough to disqualify they for the section 8 benefits.

I don't know how common of a situation that is, but it is very possible to impact your public benefits with marriage.
Works for me. I have Hacker News permanently zoomed-in with Firefox (nightly).
How much do nurses earn in US? Pretty sure they are low pay in EU in contrast to doctors.
CBS Killed a Fan Based Star Trek TNG Recreation in Unreal Engine
“Off the grid”... but only offering an app for the Google person-tracking platform (Android)...?
Maybe.

I've just been looking at the UK stats and the divorce rate for <35s has dropped like a stone.
It was fairly steady up until the early 90s then has plummeted to a quarter of that level.

In contrast, the rate for 35+ peaked in the early 90s then has dropped by a quarter.

This can't be explained by healthcare as marriage has very little effect on that in the UK. Could still be financial, of course, and could also be job security related though probably more related to housing than healthcare. But that's just speculation on my part.

Have to say, I don't think I've ever looked at the divorce stats before (never had a reason) but they're fascinating. For example, the number for men petitioning for divorces has remained pretty constant since the Divorce Reform Act in 1971. The number of women petitioning, though, ballooned through the 80s and 90s and has now dropped back to about the level in 1971. No idea why but interesting nonetheless.
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Yes this is correct at least for the US, teen pregnancy rates have been declining http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/29/why-is-the-t...
Show HN: Lambdaspeech
Dear friends,

Welcome in http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/

This is the latest version of the '{lambda way} project, called '{lambda speech} with an improved state of the wiki, '{lambda tank}, and the language, '{lambda talk}. Everything has been cleaned up, on the solid theoretical foundation of '{lambda calculus}, the clever Lisp-like prefixed syntax, the powerful set of tools coming with the web browsers. The {b require} special form looks good now, allowing to transparently share code distributed in several pages, maybe working as awaited, but still to be improved (I need help…). This is the end of a first exploring step, the beginning of a new consolidating one.

I hope you will like to walk along this way.
Your opinion is welcome.

Best regards
Alain Marty
QML is actually pretty awesome, I got into it through KDE/Plasma widget development. I think it should be possible to get newest JS working using Babel in your build pipeline. I think it makes a LOT of sense in cases where you develop a UI and can't effort to embed webkit/chrome.
Not necessarily. The AA model is then unforgiving. This can create tremendous pressure, with the consequences of non-compliance being infinitely greater.

When it works, it works the best. When it doesn’t work, it’s a cliff. E.g. “20 years out the window”.
Google Names New Privacy Chief, Offers Framework for Regulation
In that case, good luck getting your landlord out to fix the bed if it gets stuck in the ceiling! :)
The images are only cleaner if the pixel size is larger. But then fine detail reduces. There's no magical bigger-sensor-better rule.

For example the Canon 5DS full-frame has the same pixel size as the 7D2 cropper and very similar noise and ISO limits. The 5D4 full-frame has much lower noise but also 20MP less.
I agree, it feels like it's written by someone that has very little experience (professionally and in life in general). One thing experience gives you is perspective. And I actually like living and working in the SF Bay Area.
I'd be happy to pay a slight increase in a product's cost if it were clear to the buyer their use of labor was ethical. Companies used to put union stamps on these sort of products back in the day.
Don't miss this awesome PUBG Fails Compilation
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QTableView supports pretty much everything. Model proxies like QSortFilterProxyModel give sorting and filtering on models not supporting it natively (at a performance cost, i.e. keeping sorting columns in memory).

The model/view components scale to ~infty items, if the model is correctly implemented. They also support lazy loading.
Killing people on mass scale needs logistics. Software developer completing tickets fits in perfectly.

Example: Somebody did optimize train timetable so deaths camps have uninterrupted flow of victims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
Basic economics is why. Would you want to pay $125/hour for a janitor? Because that is what you get have brain surgeons cleaning toliets. While the jobs suck there are more people who can do them. It works perfectly well even if the job is less than desirable. It does tend to pay a bit more than non-sucky jobs of the same capabilities at least due to less people wanting to be sewage divers.
I see a simple electron app using 140MB total. Measured by running 'free -m' before and after starting the app and waiting a while for a gc to run.

Measuring memory use is difficult.
Creating new policies together
I don't see what your argument is, the more i read it the more i see it supports my argument that imposing such contstraints on smart tvs (just an easy example) would shoot their costs up.

mind you, I'm NOT Advocating for insecure devices, I'm just saying be prepared for monthly service fees or short product lifecycles if this is what is expected. All of which will drive up costs and potentially reduce utility.
They had to take down all their content but here is a sample of what it looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnQ-BS7Ui54