skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also for any user thinking of switching to or starting with Kdenlive, they should know that in addition to crashing often (as reported by many users) it also does not support a relatively common video editing feature as multiple timelines. In Kdenlive, in one project/file, you are only given a single timeline to do all your editing in. You cannot nest them, combine them, there are no timelines to combine, there is only one of them.

Since this will be a dealbreaker for many users, they should know this upfront.

All respect to open source software, but for many projects using Kdenlive is just not an option as of yet.
Wow, pears are horrible for making apple pie!

kdenlive is replacement for windows movie maker, not professional video editing.
New York hasn’t followed through on order to kick Charter out of state
>"3) Not a dumb question; while loss in fibre optic cable is very low, repeaters are installed at regular intervals along the cable. they are powered by high-voltage DC supplied through the cable armor. The ocean acts as the return path."

That's incorrect, amplification is done via Erbium doping, it is part of the core of the cable. There are no external repeaters.
There's definitely a shortage here as well. But that doesn't mean that a CEO has respect for the trade.

My thinking is if a CEO comes from a sales background then they will run their company in that mindset. Much like how some CEOs who are developers sometimes struggle to release products because they're focused on the technology rather than the product (gross exaggeration there - but I hope you understand the point I'm making)
> US has waged several wars recently

In 10 last years Russia waged wars in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria.

Not to mention their ongoing 'civil' war in Caucasus region which lasts for about a decade so far.
That's a very short term perspective, considering they were $20 a share just a couple of years ago and are $150 a share now. Any shareholders other than people that bought in the last 18 months or so are going to be very happy with them.
I tried to used Kdenlive to make some very simple videos (a couple of fade-in, fade-out, some overlays here and there). Even with the latest versions (and me being a very patient person) it suffered from stability problems: random crashes, file saving problems, file corruption, horrible preview mode.

I don't know on Linux, but for Windows I also had to search around and manually install some codecs because otherwise it wouldn't render to a given format (I believe it was mp4).

Then I've found OpenShot, that was enough for my requirements (https://www.openshot.org/). It has a Linux version. Source code here: https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt
OBS is stable, packed with options, reliable, has intuitive UI, usually sets up hardware quickly and painlessly definitely try it.
Richest man in history and already unknown to most of the world, along with many others on the list. Just goes to show that legacy is not measured on a balance sheet.
I'm on my third generation of DeWalt drill. Not because the old ones don't work (in fact, the second generation is rather preferable to the third generation of the same model), but because the batteries are $100+ each now.
One theory I'm seeing floating around is that this whole event was orchestrated to remove sales commissions from the sales staff. Which would reduce margins for sure, but piss off the work force. Work force is still pissed off, but maybe less so, because they aren't getting laid off. Still, this whole even seems very bad for sales morale.

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EDIT: "The looks like a duck / quacks like a duck" simple explanation is that leadership expected the retail store leases to be cut out from their expenses. But then those store locations were going to be forced to stay open.

http://fortune.com/2019/03/08/tesla-close-retail-stores-laws...

In combination with some pretty big loans (Deutsche Bank, China Gigafactory 3, Model Y Deposits), Tesla now has a bit more money than it was expecting, so they can pay their sales staff and such a bit longer than they initially thought.
1. Get the book 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications', read the causes of scaling problems, and some techniques to deal with them.

2. Take something you've built, and imagine that it faces a specific scaling problem. For example, let's say the most complex thing you've built is a to-do list app. Maybe you can imagine some things that could make it grind to a halt when running as a monolith on a single server. e.g. what if a single user has 10,000 or 100,000 TODOs? Fake that situation (just insert many many fake TODOs into the database). Now see if you've created a scaling problem. If not, try a larger number, or a different dimension (e.g. what if there are many many simultaneous requests?) until you create a problem.

3. Look in that book again and pick a couple of ways you could solve the problem (database sharding across multiple servers? caching? pagination in your API calls?) and implement one of them.

(If you have difficult at step 2, you could try running your app on a virtual machine with very little RAM and disk, but imagine that's the largest machine type available.)
I think most user's complaint is that their drivers aren't open source and until recently were a pain to install. My 1050ti has also worked pretty much flawlessly, but I wish they would open source their drivers and make it easier on the linux developers.
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Our World in Data (YC W19 Nonprofit) Is Hiring a Front End Developer, Oxford UK
Hi HN,

We're Our World in Data (https://OurWorldInData.org), a nonprofit in the YC W19 batch. We launched on HN a few weeks ago, and it was great to see so many people interested in the work that we do (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19247821).

We're looking for a JavaScript engineer with good frontend skills to join our team of programmers and researchers at the University of Oxford. It's a really generalist position with a lot of room to influence the direction of our work.

Our mission is to make research about important global issues accessible and get it to the people who need it to shape change. The United Nations and governments around the world use our work to help tackle problems like poverty, inequality, and preventable disease. A million people visit OurWorldinData.org each month, mainly though organic search traffic.

Here is the job listing on the University of Oxford website, where people can apply: https://bit.ly/2J6dwCb.

If you, or anyone you know is interested in doing high-impact, non-profit, open-source work in Europe, we'd love to hear from you!
Intel Set to Reclaim Semiconductor Supplier Crown in 2019: Report – HotHardware
Testers look into security of car alarms
A similarly interesting fact is that Starboard Value, the activist fund had tried to get Mellanox join with Marvell another company in its portfolio. But Marvell was rebuffed.

Later Marvell went on to acquire Cavium for 6 billion dollars with aim to build an infrastructure company. Though from the company's latest earnings release it seems that the deal isn't really a good one.
States elect the president. The people vote on the electors who represent their state in the electoral college.
The title needs to have NSFW appended to it. I just realized I clicked on a URL (from my work computer) with a word that is probably on IT's blacklist somewhere.
GNU Coreutils 8.31 Released W New Basenc Command, Stat Prints File Creation Time
> Yeah, Tenochtitlan had a meritocratic system of governance, universal primary education, ...

So did various places in the Old World. Were those systems you mention for Tenochtitlan universal in the New World?

> History doesn't work according to a Civilization-style tech tree. A lot of the technological development is driven by the needs of the immediate area. Maize, the staple crop of the Mesoamerica, is actually a superior crop to rice in terms of caloric yield per acre (and the genetic engineering it took to turn teosinthe into maize is amazing--far more involved than the domestication of wheat or rice). Tenochtitlan didn't use wheeled vehicles because it was built on a large lake bed and you could use flat boats to move a large amount of goods.

Yes, and I even mentioned that there were various factors involved in the whole thing. Still, at the end of the day, if I have 100 coins and you only have 20, you're poorer than I am. Some things we can measure objectively, and civilizations are rated on a scale. Otherwise the Stone Age would be considered as developed as the Bronze Age and the Bronze Age would be as developed as the Iron Age and... Yet things don't work like that.

> The New World was probably more populated in 1492 than you think it was, and newer archaeological evidence is starting to show that what we thought were "empty" lands of people were actually fairly densely populated--say, the Amazon rainforest. Pre-Columbian Americas are usually now figured at about 100 million people, which would be more than contemporaneous Europe and North Africa in population.

Yes, but the Old World was much bigger in sheer size plus the main population centers were China and India, which you conveniently skip over :)
I'm on my third generation DeWalt, but I also switched over to the 20V Max line a few years back when my second-to-last 18V battery croaked and the replacement was $100. Was more economical to ditch the old drill.
That's why you gotta switch to using a long.
I wasn't saying I don't enjoy programming in my free time. I enjoy it, but I'm not building products.
Uber and Travis Kalanick Are in Business Again. This Time, as Competitors
The usual: to increase their worth to Google Analytics and friends.
> It befuddles me to see people relating this to external motivations, not a genuine concern for safety.

It doesn't befuddle me. China has a bit of a history of using safety regulations as a pretext for political and trade retaliation. China and the US are currently in a tariff war, and Boeing airplanes happen to be one of the US's biggest exports to China. While the FAA might not be perfectly independent, I'm pretty sure it's more politically independent than most Chinese government institutions. I'm actually surprised they didn't take an action like this sooner.

Here's a recent article that outlines some other examples of China using safety regulations to retaliate:

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/03/06/world/asia/ap-as...

> China said Wednesday that it is blocking some imports of the agricultural product canola from Canada because of fears of insect infestation.

> The move, which comes amid heightened tensions over Canada's arrest of a Chinese tech executive, is seen by some as a new tactic to seek leverage over Ottawa....

> [The foreign ministry spokesman] cited "harmful organisms" that he did not identify further, and said China's government "needs to protect the health and safety of its own people."...

> Canadian Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said in a statement that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency conducted investigations after China issued notices of non-compliance on canola seed imports, including nine since January. She said the agency had not identified any pests or bacteria of concern....

> China, whose rapid growth has made it an important market for many countries, has a history of using commercial retaliation against those at odds with Beijing.

> The most recent high-profile target was South Korean retailer Lotte, which sold land to the Seoul government for a U.S. anti-missile system opposed by Beijing. Authorities closed most of the company's 99 supermarkets and other outlets — often alleging safety violations — and a theme park project.

> China suspended a trade deal with Norway and restricted imports of Norwegian salmon after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo in 2010. It stopped buying fruit from the Philippines during a dispute over territory in the South China Sea. Britain and other countries also faced retaliation over meetings with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, considered a dangerous separatist by Beijing.
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Yep, they do. Within their own brand. Just means when they switch from 18V to 20V, and then to whatever the next big thing is, you have to switch all of your tools to the new standard.
> We need to stop plastic polluttion now, or im afraid the earths ecosystem will collapse sooner or later.

I'm afraid that if we hurry into it, there will be all sorts of unintended consequences. I also suspect that it's harder than we realize to keep track of what building houses the nuclear reactor and which one is the bike shed.

Going from plastic soda bottles back to glass ones, for example, would probably be an environmental disaster. It takes so very much energy to manufacture glass, and it takes so very much fuel to truck it around. I think, rather than micro-focusing on one specific bogeyman, what I'd really like to see is an attack on packaging-related waste and pollution in general.
Reaper is also available on Linux now! It's my go to. Not free, but has an unlimited trial. If you decide to buy it, the $60 license is practically a steal.
I think it is more about the attitudes than the numbers - there is a neophillia and xenophilia that is pro-diversity.

They don't seem to particularly care about the resulting demographics and occasionally get caught with insensitive assumptions like algorithms that fail to detect dark skinned people due to bad assumptions about how light reflects but they don't like the close-mindedness of xenophobes and homophobes.
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Because they don't have a choice.

Scenario: I need to buy some water or milk. I go to the market... what are my options? My grocer does not provide water in plastic or metal bottles, and no longer provides cardboard milk cartons.

Scenario: I need a quart of oil for my car. Packaging options are: 32oz PET bottle.

Scenario: I need a laptop computer. I order it online. There is no way for me to tell what packaging is used. I open the box and the laptop is protected by polystyrene and accessories are in taped plastic bags.

As a diligent consumer, wtf am I supposed to do?
Wow. Great post. Thanks for sharing.

The heavy personal touch at first reminds me of PG’s quote: “Do things that don’t scale”

I’ve recently launched a product, https://bugbucket.io that solves a problem I have but I’m struggling to find that first customer.

The whole lightweight approach makes sense but now the problem is identifying whether the experiment is a failure or just needs to get in front of more folks...
If you watch Grammarly's advertising, the core market seems to not be English language learners but college graduates that are having a hard time deciding between the usage of "were" and "we're".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak-Y56SfkS0

Snark aside, there are plenty of English grammar resources that can be consumed in book form or online without attending an American high school or compromising your privacy. A solid one is the Chicago Manual of Style:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
Pushing everyone towards programming isn't what we should be doing. Sure, I get a ton of satisfaction from building software, regardless if anyone uses it. But people have different goals and drives in life, and there's no problem pursuing that.
The people using this meme are worthless, a bunch of 'has beens' who refuse to innovate or change to improve their situation in any way and actively mock those that do. Pay them no mind.
Yes, a monorepo for all software with a single soviet to oversee it with a good five-year plan for rollout. We have plenty of historic examples of such centralized control.
Touch typing is somewhat overrated. I never learn to touch type and never had any regret over it, don't get me wrong, I do t peck for keys either but the speed of properly touch typing is no need for me, I'm not a professional typist. I on the other hand am great at remembering shortcuts and I think that's way more important to my work than touch typing, I feel that using the mouse to open a menu and click debug as a complete waste of resources and mental focus.
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If it's meaningless, maybe try a different industry?
I develop healthcare software and consider that quite meaningful. Before that I've worked on OA repositories, another thing I find useful.

I'm not sure if I'd feel the same if I was work for a bank or something though.
Elon Musk’s late-night announcement to raise prices and reopen some stores
Very true and another advantage for shotcut. Layering and multiple timelines is the defining feature between "oh look it's Windows Movie Maker, except worse" and a quality non linear editor.

I've definitely grown cynical but I will try out kdenlive and see if it has matured. Shotcut has been my Linux go-to for several years now.
Paying us for our data won't nearly compensate us for the loss of our democracy. Quite the opposite: it puts an exact price on how cheap that comes about.
>Currently (...)

Way to start with a false premise. The meme died out by now[1].

> The phrase “Learn to Code” was initially posted on Twitter after the layoffs at BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post.

Way to continue with a false premise.

The phrase was used literally [2], and the subject was referenced [3] by numerous newspapers and other media outlets back when the economy was tanking, as a helpful suggestion to laid off workers - miners, autoworkers, and so on. "Those jobs aren't coming back" and all that. The only concern back then was of practicality, and nobody in their right mind considered it to be a put down of the workes, or of programmers.

Yes, the phrase may seem insensitive from our, programmer's, POV. Nonetheless, there's a historical precedent to it, based off of much wider segment of society than just programmers.

I find it shameful that Twitter, in its infinite wisdom, decided to suppress the accompanying hashtag, and later on even went as far started penalizing the posters. It used to be understood as a good idea back then, it's still considered a good idea now-a-day. I think it was shot down only for the expediency of keeping the journalists a-buzz on Twitter.

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[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=...

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/should-...

[3] https://gigaom.com/2014/04/09/michael-bloomberg-you-cant-tea... and https://www.wired.com/2015/11/can-you-teach-a-coal-miner-to-...
Docker CE is officially supported (well, it's not supported because its CE, but it's packaged, repos, install guide) etc. but only EE is packaged for RHEL. RedHat also has their own docker package like many other distros, so you can still get it free easily, but you have to get it through them and wait on them for updates.
What OSS are they using? :o
Virtue signaling, much?
Are you sure you worked at an HFT firm? Front running has always been illegal as it is basically insider trading.

Being fast is not an easy way to make money. It's an incredibly hard and difficult way to make money. I don't know what kind of HFT you worked at, but I guess you just plugged in a laptop to a GBit/s network line and plugged away making "easy" money?

Also, the first dark pool was created in the 80s, so you're a little late on that development as well.
It's a fairly common task in my experience. Focus on converting one component at a time and it should go smoothly. Don't try to do a complete rewrite at once.
Reaper is amazing. Take your projects with on win/Mac/nix for $60
We upgraded a whole fleet of AWS / Digitalocean instances without floating IPs from Ubuntu Precise to Xenial based on this method back in the summer of 2017. While obviously not having to do crazy stuff like this would be better, it's nice to know that it is possible if you really need it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6o7i8p/dont_ru...

Recently we ran into another use-case for this in production actually, we needed to wipe a lot of servers in our datacenter remotely and we figured one of the options would be to install some OS in memory with the relevant wiping tools, pivot_root to that, unmount all disks and then perform the wipe. In the end we went a different route and opted for a custom PXE-boot image instead that the servers would boot into that scripted the whole thing.
We should be aware that the meme has origin on journalists themselves.

When blue collar workers faced job shortages due to environmental regulations (I am not arguing those were wrong of course, just putting it into perspective), journalists suggested those workers to "learn to code" in some very insensitive remarks.

Now, those words are being thrown back at journalists facing job shortages themselves.
Looks like fiber-plastic plantations from Hyperion is becoming a reality.
-You are right; I just looked it up. I guess (not that it makes much of a difference!) I picked this up from a book on earlier days of submarine cables.

Thanks!
I've tried using Ardour, but I've never been able to get it to work with my USB Snowball mic. It starts with audio out, but once I configure my mic, it's input only and I have to restart the program to hear anything I've done. No other program I've used has ever behaved like this. I'm sure it has terrific features, but it'd be great if they could nail the simple out-of-the-box configuration.
> The five most recent opinion polls taken in the North show similar results, with support for the North staying in the UK ranging from 45 per cent to 55 per cent, and averaging around the 50 per cent mark. [0]

Way closer than you think. (Using desire for a united Ireland as a proxy here)

[0] https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/polls-suggest-gradual-shi...
How to Legally Own Another Person (2016)
> their IT person quit upon discovered 2 drives dead on the raid 5 array and no backups.

Based on the rest of your story, he probably feared for his life...
Honestly, arguing over whether or not GMOs or nuclear plants are safe is a bit like asking whether or not powered flight is safe. You could be talking about anything from a fighter jet locked in a dogfight to a child's RC toy - or, less abstractly, anything from a contentious and ethical research group/engineering team to a corporation/government trapped in short term thinking, violently ignoring negative signs (I can't think of a good way to describe the corporate mentality of "sad words bad, happy words good" but it is out there), and pushing off every externality they can.
This developer is largely responsible for the Go ecosystem in Debian where they develop against HEAD. That's pretty hard and results in a lot of breakages. Go developers don't give a shit and push a lot of the externalities onto distro packages like Debian packagers (volunteers) or else Google developers (who get paid a huge amount to do bullshit engineering that nobody else cares about).

We're making a lot of progress with Debian Rust packages and have automated away 90% of the ordinary Debian crap - which is needed in the general case but not for Rust where the constraints are very well-defined by Cargo - you only have to maintain two files (d/changelog and d/copyright) for the vast majority of Debian Rust crates.