skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made the switch from mac and windows to linux desktop in 1998 when you could blow your video card with an install. Now linux desktop is more stable and effective than ever. For those apps that only run on windows for me I am able to use wine. Ubuntu studio comes with all the tools I need for various digital media production for $0. Now with the coming raspberry pi pro the cost of moving to linux desktop is going to drop even further.
Donut?

Is the open source a hard requirement? Could you elaborate on why? (I’m working on a product in this space)
Some specialty items should only be purchased on Ebay. You get the same products built in the same Chinese factories, without the markup for marketing and salaries required to involve USA middlemen. Inexpensive manufactured items of more general interest can be found lots of places: AMZN, WLMT, Harbor Freight, etc. Ebay is filling a niche for the less common stuff, though.
I think this "chat is asynchronous" point gets abused to the point of being rather meaningless.

People often, and I would say usually, want to have a synchronous -ish connection when they engage in chat. They want a person-to-person session. It's like synchronous with a generous timeout, or to stretch it, maybe it's like asynchronous -ish but with a very limited thread pool.

But the point is it is mostly used to discuss as you would on the phone, except slightly slower so you can take advantage of other abilities, like the pasting of a code snippet or a log output or a screenshot, and so you can maintain the connection while you are doing some light multi-tasking or virtual pairing at the same time, or even just so you can avoid whatever minor social anxiety you might have.

But if you're in a work conversation with someone on chat, and then they disappear for twenty minutes with no explanation or transition, that's usually not the etiquette and it's usually annoying. More common is they'll say "brb" or "ok, gotta do this other thing" or whatever.

And even if you do have a question, it usually doesn't work to just drop the question in their chat, and then blithely expect an answer "whenever". They might have a followup question or a clarification when you aren't available, and then this simple exchange can stretch on for hours or days.

So it's not like this totally asynchronous thing where people drop singular notes into each other's mailboxes and then go on about their days. It's more often a very efficient and low-friction alternative to scheduling fifteen-minute one-on-one meetings with someone or going and interrupting them at their desk.
Closer political union has been on the cards for a long time. Churchill post-WW2 (1948) said "Mutual aid in the economic field and joint military defence must inevitably be accompanied step by step with a parallel policy of closer political unity", and referred to a United States of Europe ("I was anxious at first lest the United States of America should view with hostility the idea of a United States of Europe"), with it being presented as a force for peace ("the German problem is to restore the economic life of Germany and revive the ancient fame of the German race without thereby exposing their neighbours and ourselves to any rebuilding or reassertion of their military power of which we still bear the scars. United Europe provides the only solution to this two-sided problem"). It's pre-EU, but clearly the ideas come from a similar place.

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/WSCHague.html
"innocent" of what? i'm sure prosecutors will have ten thousand pages of varied charges. the us wants to make an example of him very loudly and very publicly.
I got pretty spooked when I opened my credit karma account and it asked me to verify if I had opened a store card a couple years ago, if I took out a loan, and a couple other questions about me.

None of them were true, because when I was first opening my credit karma account was when I first got a credit card; up to that point I had no credit history at all. When it asked me these questions, and I believe it implied one of the questions was true, I assumed my identity was stolen and got a report from transunion and equifax.

Turns out my identity was never stolen and credit karma was just being obtuse.
You can either have something ugly now. Or something well designed and beautiful never.

Which one do you want?
You're welcome to disagree, but so far there's no hard evidence to support your viewpoint. Just a lot of hype.

Past rates of progress are not indicative of the future. The easy problems have already been solved. Now progress is already slowing down.

In particular the notion that computer vision can reliably track and categorize every object is just laughable. The state of computer vision research is nowhere close to that capability. Errors are frequent, especially under adverse conditions.
It sounds like you’re being let go from a lot of jobs. What feedback are you getting about why?
> In short, the bar is set rather high and C is already awesome.

Haha. no, just no.

I can't speak for other embedded developers, but I hate C, it's just usually the only option for small devices.

The 'maker' movement and it's relentless movement towards bigger and bigger ARM based systems has opened that up a little, thankfully; you can now find plenty of SBCs that offer 1GB+, and that means any language is an option (at least if it has a pausable gc).
"The law, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday, requires public companies whose principal executive offices are located in California to comply by the end of 2019. The minimum is two female directors if the company has five directors on its board, or three women if it has seven directors by the close of 2021." NPR, Oct 1, 2018 [1]

[1]https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/653318005/california-becomes-...
"click to advance"
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Running Drupal in Kubernetes with Docker in Production
> one of them went to Russia, the other didn't

i really don't understand how this can possibly be seen as some kind of knock-down argument by some. what gives? are people being intellectually dishonest?
"What it would take to falsify dark matter, given that you can invent it in whatever distribution you like to fit the data?"

What does it take to falsify any observation of any kind of matter? Isn't the chair you are sitting on just as unfalsifiable? In an effort to be consistent, you might concede that the belief your chair (or anything!) exists is not scientific, so then I ask if that's not a problem, why is dark matter a problem?
Or... you could say it’s nearly impossible to protect against dedicated nation states, particularly against all major US businesses. If Google can get hacked, then what hope does a vacuum cleaner maker have?
No, great developers are the result of ones hard work, long nights, dedication and passion, hence hiring part.

Mentoring is Uni's job, since you pay them money.
Honestly it taught me something too. Before I commented, there were a lot of comments, all practically unanimously expressing as you believe. So I'm as surprised as anyone that it's (currently) the top-rated comment. It's easy to forget that lurkers can believe quite differently than active commenters!
Yes, but now that I look it up it's apparently a feature restricted to X370 and X470 boards. Doesn't really make sense to me considering the PCIe comes off the CPU.
> Wouldn't hacking be a criminal matter that's would be directly prosecuted by the government? Did they want to go against the hackers both criminally and civilly?

The Justice System in the US is ultimately centered around the Jury. To prove criminality, you need to convince the Jury that a crime was committed. And they are much more likely to empathize and agree with the prosecutors if they have a large number of American companies agreeing with the prosecutors that the Chinese entities stole from them.
Matlab (somewhat) recently ditched jet as the default colourmap in favour of Parula.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2014/10/13/a-new-colormap-...

Since most folks (typically students) simply use the default this should help end the tyranny of jet.

I do still like jet for on screen visualisation, the extra contrast can be useful.
> Hypocrisy is not a crime and people should not end up in jail for it.

this seems like both a trivially true statement and also a strawman.
Microsoft's work with Chinese military university raises eyebrows
I kinda sorta almost agree and yet that's definitely not how the world works for all kinds of reasons that aren't the user's fault. Also, I find it supes weird that you responded to that part and not the part where it took two entire decades of "tables are evil" before we got the first CSS grid implementation that isn't even a standard yet.
"doing much better" in what sense? Who wants to live as a slave? Shouldn't the goal a country be maximal quality of life?
Its been nearly two months since I started emailing hn@ycombinator.com without a reply. I’ve changed email providers in case it was a spam issue, and still nothing. So, I’m trying this again. Please respond.
I close Slack and focus on coding. I take short breaks from coding every 1-2 hours, and check Slack.

Replying to someone 2 hours later has never been an issue.

If it's urgent, people drop by my desk.

Definitely don't have slack on my phone, and when Slack is closed, I don't get any kind of notifications.

Being able to focus is important. In the end it matters I deliver on the project, not that I reply to every question immediately.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32542140
I don't want to hijack the discussion from IPFS, but Swarm has good ideas with respect to dynamic content if you're interested how that might work in a decentralized setting, for example see Swarm Feeds presented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92PtA5vRMl8
> I absolutely hate the fake "how are you?"

Just interpret "how are you?" as "Hi" and reply "Hi" or "Hi. What's up?" back.
Cryptocurrency Movement Visualized over Time
Facebook will always do questionable things because the value they get from these practices is way higher than the penalty cost.
What is her country of citizenship? There are different rules on eligibility for non-US citizens living abroad based on your other citizenship.
>You sure you're not overreacting a little?

Hehe... no. I wrote the comment, took it out, then decided it didn't really express what I was trying to put across, so put it back in. So I was clearly on the fence anyway! A fine line between pithiness and rudeness sometimes, I regret when I fall over into the latter.
Armchair economist here. Is it correct to say that a country like Italy, with its low productivity, constantly needs to devalue its currency to keep its production competitive; and that while doing so would effectively lower the wealth of the country, it could still keep an apparent growth of the salaries, so that there would be an incentive to internal consumption? And that what happens in Italy instead is that the wages need to shrink, which causes (a state close to) deflation, which causes even more saving and depresses internal consumption?

- Economic homogeneity across an entire nation state can only reasonably expected with small countries

Well, that is not true and probably not an issue. Every country has automatic mechanisms of wealth redistribution across its regions: California feeds most of the central US states. But the EU is a monetary unit without a proper redistribution mechanism between its regions: it's hard to convince the Germans that their tax money should subsidize Italy because it's part of a national unity.
Where does the money go as tax? Isn’t most of it paid out to private businesses that supply the government? Maybe payroll is a bigger expense?
Not being a US citizen doesn't seem relevant, and, what he is charged with is not within the “umbrella of protections afforded to journalists” (which mostly doesn't exist: the US protects the right to publish, but does not generally have special status-based or for journalists, though “freedom of the press” is sometimes misunderstood that way.)
I installed spacemacs a couple of weeks ago. I’m enjoying it but I have to keep switching back to sublime to get things done quickly then switching back when I can afford to take time doing things.
Delta cuts back how far you can recline your seat
I don't think taking the time to talk to investors as a hedge is necessary or adds much to business strategy. If you want to build a bootstrapped business and may be open to VC at some unknown point in the future VCs will likely only care about business metrics. If they speak for themselves than most VCs will gladly meet, and it will likely be relatively 'easy' to fundraise. If you aren't looking for early stage capital, don't waste your time talking to investors when you could be building a business...

Now, talking to potential acquirers at any point in the lifecycle of the business is a great use of time, in my opinion. If you are open to the idea of eventually selling your company get close to the companies that might be interested in buying your company and stay close. Partnerships, shared customers, deep understanding of their technology and so forth
Isn’t the whole point that the contrast is factually incorrect? It looks pretty but is a lie.
Wait what? Could you expand on that?

That seems to be very stupid "mistake" from some very important economists.
I think the idea is to try to prevent further changes in the same direction.
Given the downvote, I guess my intention wasn't clear. I was agreeing that

> if you can think of it, there is most probably an emacs plugin for it.

Anything Ive looked for has been out there, excepting some truly specialized things (fontification for custom file formats)
Cold weather operations might differ. It's not uncommon to heat a fuel powered engine in the winter, whereas with battery it might be mandatory.

Also, cabin heat affect on range will need to be well understood and incorporated in performance and endurance charts for flight planning purposes.

For pressurized airplanes, the power cost of pressurizing and cooling. I'm not sure what that cost to endurance would be, but it would need to be accounted for.
Because I don't need a 100% compatible environment. WSL has better host integration and better performance in my experience, and it runs my development stack fine.
I setup the VS Emacs bindings and then always bind C-X C-E to open current file/line in Emacs from VS. With that I get along pretty well combining VS and Emacs.
What about the image of my face I left behind on the subway, or on the field during an ultimate frisbee game? Sure you can keep my image on your camera, or photo print, but you may not profit from it, because it isn't your property.
It's a shame that so many P2P advocates - or at least the ones using the stuff built with P2P tech - are very loud alt-right types.

I popped on notabug.io just now, and the chat is full of swastikas, racial slurs, and the most up-voted posts are primarily anti-gay misinformation.

I see you wrote GUN, which I'm sure was no small feat, and it looks like an impressive piece of technology. How do you feel about your tech being primarily used in this way?
It's possible to have structured conversations by always using threads.

I've convinced everyone at two companies so far (50 and 20 people) to never reply directly in a channel, and always use threads:

https://medium.com/@martinkonicek/how-to-slack-6f5bf9be71ba
Any examples of the optimizations?
What are these settings you keep referring to?

The readme is very vague about what Pengwin's features and differences actually are, and gives me no solid reasons to switch from Ubuntu, which already seems well-suited to WSL. Am I correct that trying Pengwin requires paying and installing through the Microsoft Store, even though it's open source?
I've heard this too, looking for reputable source....
Pfah. This is not, and should not be about personality. It's about what should be considered lawful and what should be protected.
I wouldn't think they tie names to sample. You can't do that with DNA samples in a hospital, and I would hope 23 and me's policies mirrors HIPAA (would be aggressively irresponsible and a legal time bomb if not). You certainly don't need names to do analysis.
Sketch files also open in Figma which is free, browser based, and OS agnostic.
Sorry about side-tracking your post a little bit, but do you mind sharing what you did to attract enterprise clients? Trying to get paid enterprise clients without connections from a past life or connected investors while you're starting out seems like a very difficult task for me. They seem to expect either a reputable investor (doesn't exist if boostrapping) or proven track record on the product from other customers (doesn't exist if you're starting out). Thanks for any help.
It does the same thing on Windows. This just appears to be how Emacs behaves.
A quick google suggests the maximum sentence for the crime Assange is accused of is 5 years. He has already spent nearly 7 years in an embassy, kind of under "house arrest" type conditions.
2x growth on whatever timeframe your hockey stick slide is using.
Central Park and Union Square have plenty of seating. So does Washington Square Park.

The plazas at Herald Square and Times Square also have limited seating, but there the main limit is space.
The PCR probably took 2 hours out of that.
Think of torrents that you can update: You have the magnet link for the one version you are downloading, but also you have available the magnet link for the current version so the uploader can update at anytime and you would receive the update. And if both versions share some pieces, then people can share them across both torrents, and any other torrent that happens to have a piece with the same hash.
Nope, I think corruption is more of an easy scapegoat. The corrupts are always the entrpreneurs and the politicians, which means the rich and powerful, which means someone else different from the people. Of course corruption is nothing positive and doesn't help, but it doesn't explain the huge amount of missing wealth.
I don't think everyone immigrating to the U.S. does so for 'jobs/money'. Plenty of people immigrate for family and relationship reasons, many from first-world countries.
> As a developer, I want to work with people who are at least as knowledgeable as me, and preferably much more so.

If they embraced the same sentiment, people who you prefer to work with (eg, those who are much more knowledgable) would prefer to not work with you.
> “Hi. You there?”

Just reply "Hi" or "Here" or even "Not here" (if your manager understands jokes and you are ready to leave).

You do not need to wait for the answer after that. Especially if it is not your work day.

Please understand, that your manager is trying to solve a problem, and getting your help -- is not the only option for your manager. That is why he may not want to spend his time explaining the problem to you if you are not available anyway.
That seems improbable, although the reverse is happening. When Flatpak support is complete, it'll be possible to have desktop application packages that just work on both Windows and Linux.
Do you have a mentor at your new job? If not, what would you consider his continued mentorship worth?
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Here’s a little reminiscence. In 2000, I was working for a fiberoptic startup in Silicon Valley. We were trying to develop a “polarization-maintaining fiberoptic coupler.” We didn’t know shit what we were doing. So the lead engineer, a young native Chinese PhD, simply called a guy he knew at another startup. Put two and two together.
Losing tax exempt status and being barred from mentioning a mission statement sound like legal, not social consequences. My impression was that the parent believed Mozilla was breaking some actual law regarding truth in advertising or something by claiming their mission was to "keep the internet open and accessible to all" while also curating plugins.
I think that design tools are slowly but surely zeroing in on this. The updated versions of Sketch, Figma, and InVision can support responsive layouts, and all of them are moving from being able to create static designs, to interactive prototypes. There are several plugins and workflows out there that will convert your designs to useable code, and it is only a matter of time before this software is doing that natively and representing the full stack.
In some cases I think the executives don't want be involved in an investigation out of fear that the Chinese got kompromat on them. You know, guy on a business trip, making new friends among certain enthusiastic locals...
People are very lazy.
My Dad did this exactly and it ended up turning into a 2hr call with the credit card company when he inevitably forgot his bullshit answers.
Totally disagree, and it seems nobody understood my comment.

I pointed out in that I'm fully aware where the probabilities are, and the fact the 'keys are close to one another' - that's my whole point, it's a statistical suppression.

The 'short view' is to just show 'mice' - but there are problems with that:

1) 'over correction' is far worse error that 'insufficient correction'

2) There are tons of 'Mousr' products out there, i.e. products that overlap closely to more common things.

The likelihood of some random error being a product is low - and since 'Mousr' is an actual product, it makes sense to show it.

In this case, the rational product choice would be to show 'Mousr' first, and to not assume over-correction.

To take a more extreme example i.e. going with the 'highest probability case' ... it might make sense by that logic to show only the most commonly purchases products purchase, almost whatever is typed.
Best line: "I’m not saying that Mark Zuckerberg is Sauron, just that the business model of Mordor isn’t entirely unknown in Silicon Valley."
If you already spend time typing your question - why not send it as well?