skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actual conversations are fairly rare.

FWIW this is exactly my experience with pretty much every single IRC server and channel i've been the last 15 years or so. It used to be more... chatty before that, but over time people just join and idle.

I wonder if the ability to have IRCs running all the time actually harmed IRC since at the past (90s mainly and perhaps very early 2000s) if someone was in a channel, they'd be up for chatting too whereas now channels are full of "zombies".

Or it might just be a coincidence.
mostly off-topic but is water actually wet?
I think of kanban mainly as an analytical model for things represented in sticky notes or trello cards. The main things I think you'd find useful are a) making sure you represent your actual workflow, and b) setting WIP limits. You can see a (team) implementation of this using index cards here: http://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/
Ah thanks, I missed that. It usually all goes to HM Treasury but this is a joint operation between multiple EU supervisory authorities.

"ICO has been investigating this case as lead supervisory authority on behalf of other EU Member State data protection authorities. It has also liaised with other regulators. Under the GDPR ‘one stop shop’ provisions the data protection authorities in the EU whose residents have been affected will also have the chance to comment on the ICO’s findings."

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...
Similar to the Reber plan to get more land in SF by filling in the bay
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reber_Plan
Are Chatbots the Next Big Thing in Digital Learning?
From the article:

> Where does the money go?

> The penalty is divided up between the other European data authorities, while the money that comes to the ICO goes directly to the Treasury.

> It is up to individuals to claim money from BA, which provided no information on whether any compensation had been paid.

So you are right.

It would be nice if a portion of the money goes back to ICO, so they can grow and have a chance to focus on smaller fish as well.
A job interview is a deeply personal process. If you get someone who is disinterested, which you can easily tell if A. They read from a sheet and B. Don't listen when you answer, that says a lot about the company you are interviewing for.
What if the people work on FOSS but do not share the same ideals?
newton had his apple, but Gonzalez had his nutella
They are a problem if you have 4 of them.
PDP2011: A re-creation of the PDP-11 computer systems in VHDL
>Boris Johnson who has American citizenship, are just as much for PR purposes as enforcing the law.

He renounced his American citizenship, also mentioned by another commenter, over the matter you described i.e. US Tax ($50k+) for sale of his home in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/08/boris-johns...
You don't hear about it because it was a UK and Obama "the peace noble prize winner" led war and it happened after they already had experience with the dire consequences of the Iraq war. They can't even excuse themselves with 9/11 shock or not knowing how things are going to develop like Bush might have excused itself. I can guarantee you that if it was Trump doing it you would have heard about it non stop.
I think this was tried with GNOME Shell and turned out not to be such a good idea. It runs JavaScript in its Wayland compositor/window manager and that reportedly causes unreasonable problems with lag and unresponsiveness. The Purism people were advised to write their own compositor/shell instead for the GNOME/GTK-based Librem 5 phone.

Maybe that's a Wayland problem though, with the way it combines the windows manager with everything else into one process.
You can have that.

Don't turn DoH in FF on if you don't like it (or turn it off).

You're acting like mozilla is deciding this for you without giving you a say. They're not. They're offering you something you don't even have to accept - because they care about your privacy online and they're not happy about little governments dabbling in the censorship game either.

I'm pretty sure the TOR browser is using its own name resolution too - as a privacy feature. This isn't very different.
> This applies to everyone who has advertising or third party anything on their page, no?

Yes. Which is why you shouldn't run third-party advertising.
Well, that answers that question then eh...
IE.F says governments have responsibility to prevent cloud market monopoly
> (The Office comes to mind),

I wonder how many content providers see the popularity of old shows and think they can pull in the audience, without realising that a big part of the appeal is having all the shows in one place with one subscription?
I think parent is worried about centralisation becoming a single point of failure. If IRC becomes entirely synonymous with Freenode, as soon as Freenode dies then the whole IRC dies as well. It’s a bit like Google Reader kinda killed mainstream RSS usage by centralizing it and then collapsing.
How does that work? Can the checkout machine read the tags inside the bag? I'd prefer if my groceries didn't advertise themselves as I walk down the street.
This is one of the stupidest reasons I have ever read. Tabs versus spaces has been ongoing for decades--long before anyone ever gave a hoot about accesssability. But it comes from the minds at reddit and nothing more should be expected.
Probably not the way you are thinking.

- Write the WPF view code in any .NET language and expose the classes to COM as COM Callable Wrapper (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/interop/co...)

- Similar way, but using Windows HWND messages instead, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/advanc...

- Or if using Windows 10, given that UWP is COM vNext, and Microsoft is merging both worlds, use XAML Islands, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modern...
I opened my bank account 11 years ago (2008), and never had any issues doing anything I needed to do (including cheques) at another branches over 100 miles away.
A glossary as an annex sounds like a way to address this... Big-R and monoid would definitely warrant an entry.
I totally agree, as a dyslexic big pieces of text look like a garbled mess. I need > 2 spaces to be able to navigate a file with code with any speed.

Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment looks to me like the best of both worlds.
The Czech Republic (the fastest growing EU economy) wouldn't be as successful had it accepted Euro.
> My stress and anxiety level is generally pretty high

Yep. Amazon is not subtle and demands its ROI on you to be HIGH.
Why not use the UI designer? It was made exactly for this reason.
Gtk3 is awful and broke backwards compatibility with Gtk2 so you need to have at least those two in your system to run applications (since many still need Gtk2). Gtk2 does not get any meaningful updates anymore. Gtk4 will soon be released and repeat the cycle.

Same with Qt5, anything that needs Qt4 or less is now broken unless you use Slackware which tries to keep everything it ever had (it even has Gtk1). Qt5 is made by a company whose income doesn't come from desktop apps anymore and certainly not from being a stable API for a desktop environment. Though even if they wanted, C++ lacking a stable ABI doesn't help much.

The only alternative would be Motif but that hasn't got any meaningful update since the 90s and is only limping in life thanks to a company whose income seem to come from consulting about converting your Motif app to Qt.

Other toolkits either rely on one of the above, have largely been ignored and/or are even less stable than Gtk.

And the majority of all toolkits are way too bloated, not just in terms of resource use but also in terms of how easy they are for a developer to master them.
It has on Windows, initially via COM and now UWP, which is a revamped COM.
That’s fun. CSE formulas have always felt like forbidden magic due to the unintuitive implementation and ease with which an unfamiliarity user can break them.

These look like a way more intuitive way to interact with arrays in excel.

Took me a while to realize xlwings was a separate thing which was disappointing
Yeah, FBAR is about $10k. FATCA/8938 threshold is $50k last I checked.

As an American living abroad, it's kind of annoying. Filing the FBAR only takes a couple minutes though. You basically enter basic account info (bank, country, etc) and the max balance that it had during the year. It's like half a page. If you are over the $50k threshold and need to file an 8938, you probably have income abroad as well and are already having to pay a tax attorney/accountant to handle your taxes for you. Again, annoying but workable. Honestly, the simple fact that as a US citizen, I always have to file taxes in the US no matter where I live or get my income, is the bigger pain. FBAR/FATCA stuff is like 5% of the total bureaucratic BS that expats have to deal with. The more annoying part of FATCA is that because the banks also have to report back to the IRS, many non-US banks just refuse to allow US citizens to open accounts. That has more of an impact because it limits where you can bank and will affect things like buying property.
There is no debate... every rational person knows tabs are better.
There was a nice talk about this a few years ago at the CCC congress.

https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-4060-en-attacking_mobile_phones

http://www.ngolde.de/sms/smsodeath_mulliner_golde_cansecwest...
This was fascinating, thanks. Made me think about why I used 99 as my max -- I think it's because back in the SNES days, all the RPGs used 99 as a limit.
There is no logical coherence to this statement. Just because there have been proponents of both sides of a debate for many years doesn't mean that a new argument is invalid.
Types of Managers: The Micromanager
> There's massive cultural, ethnic, and economic diversity. The continent spans countries which are middle income to the lowest in the world. Unity and cohesiveness are difficult regionally, less across the entire continent.

You could replace Africa with India / EU / China / US the same properties exist.

Who created the borders of African countries ?

Most African if asked the question.

"Are you African ?" would answer yes.

So please give African some credit ?

> Manufacturing, traditionally the ladder that countries climb to prosperity is being automated at an unprecedented rate.

Hold your smartphone right there. Most of this narrative is driven by media in the West to placate their population, so that they dont form labour union.

Travel anywhere in the world with the labour part of the supply chain. Most manufacturing still requires 100s of million of workers. You just cant see it in the West due to ships bringing it to them.

Humans are cheap - much more than robots. You can keep humans alive in the developing world for 100 dollars / months (its not starving wage for them ). For 100 dollars / month you are getting the most advanced robot any company can build.

Total factor productivity has been declining for a while, regardless of how much automation you bring to the table you cannot solve for human entropy ( death catches up with everyone eventually, even the most advanced human roboticist dies eventually or has to retire ).
THe book is mainly about Russia, not the EU. The guy is a major figure in US policy.

"and whose job responsibilities dealt a lot with said Soviet Union?"

That says is kindly. This guy was a major part of the collapse of the soviet union.
http://transmissionsmedia.com/zbigniew-brzezinski-how-jimmy-...
Build a culture of fixing the alerts and pages. Having the people who write the software answer the pages builds in a closed feedback loop, incentivizing reducing the operational burden.

If an external Ops group takes the burden of responding to pages, there is no feedback loop nor incentive for those writing the software to reduce the burden!
Wow I've read about adversarial images before but didn't think attacks would be this practical. It's weird to think that the added smudges have any relevance on the result when there is so much contrast. It appears easy to us because we're constantly training, cross-checking, and adjusting to conditions without much conscious interference.

At some point, not now, we will accept what the machine says. Machines will be better (faster and more accurate) at number recognition than us. But this paper shows how far behind they are still. In the context of cars I think the machines will just refuse to drive like we do. They (really their builders) will demand much better controlled conditions to operate safely.
I used to be a “tab person” when I started using python in 2001 - after all, it makes more logical sense and it saves bytes, what’s not to like?

And then the world duly standardized on 4-spaces-per-indent.

So I’ve long given up and just gone with the flow. Unless big projects switch to tabs in a coordinated manner, to make a big statement, this matter is unlikely to ever be reevaluated.
Yes. Just the biggest country in the world, connecting two major blocks - China and EU and possible India. Feel free to ignore.

I am not Russian by the way.
The statement shows that the ICO investigated this data breach on behalf of other data protection regulators of other EU states. As an Irish citizen, I wish our Data Protection Commission was as serious about protecting the personal data of EU citizens.
Can anyone confirm that older iOS devices are affected as well or was this introduced at a later point?
Not every new argument, decades later, is valid either and this is a dim witted one. As made up on the spot as they come.
Fractional Cartesian Products
That's a very good argument, but I have another one, also often dismissed: if you navigate using your keyboard's arrow keys (which can be more productive than mouse/trackpad) then jumping over tabs to reach text is just way faster. Spaces kind of force you to use your mouse more.
But you still haven't said what's dim witted about it.
> With all respect for the hard work done on this client, but is it just me or is the TUI getting too much attention recently??

I, for one, cannot get enough of this. Faced with the choice of a performant and full-featured GUI and a slightly slower and worse TUI, I get to chose the text interface 100% of the time. It is so much more convenient!
[redacting]
They also have interlaced two seasons of some shows together (noticed this on a couple kids shows for my daughter). So it would go season 2 ep 1, season 3 ep 1, 2-2, 3-2, etc. In general it wouldn't matter for a kids show that doesn't have a continual storyline, but when you only pay for season 2, it then stops at the end of each episode instead of continuing on automatically, and you have to go back to the UI and skip one.
Top ecommerce payment gateways and how to integrate them on Magento?
I kind of feel that source code needs to take a tip from HTML and apply a style-sheet. Have editors parse the code and display according to the user's preferences.
They will come at you, and you will help them or go to prison. That is the be-all end-all of running a VPN. If that bothers you, don't run one.
> what about fights with sticks?

As an anecdote, I went to a school with a decided lack of sticks. Fights were had by throwing building blocks instead. Kids will do stupid things, and sticks aren't inherently more dangerous than building blocks.
I moved away from my hometown longer ago than that and had no problem depositing cheques in branches other than the one with which I was registered. It may depend on the bank you are using, or possibly even the method of deposit and the branch's ability to provide the resources for it.
Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island
Looks like the biggest soft target in the world and destroying the dam would make it possible to wipe out millions upon millions of lives in a single action.
Reddit is very useful for niche results that are normally functionally impossible to find any information on at all. If that is not the case, it's not really the shilling that's the biggest trouble, it is that people on Reddit have just become a cross-slice of regular society now. That means that when they answer questions about anything that even remotely requires domain knowledge, you can be entirely certain that they will be wrong in ways that you do not expect.
A story about phones that look like onions and garlic
So why does this not apply to everything?

If "this could go way deeper" is your answer to a super unpopular rubygem getting hijacked, why isn't that just the default assumption then?

Do you only use thoroughly audited software projects? How do you manage that?
Would you happen to know if you can send stuff using Signal to someone whose phone is offline? You do seem to be able to do it using Wire but I would rather avoid it as the device verification seems broken.
I tend to use ctrl+left or right to skip to the next non-whitespace character (depending on your editor).
Nope - just last week the president of South Africa was talking at a conference in Johannesburg dedicated to "Industry 4.0".

A massive existing concern is job-losses due to automation. In Africa, right now.
Generally the flip side of service cutting is aggressive monetization
>one of them uses tab-width 1 because he uses such a gigantic font-size

But if they use a "giganting font-size" to see the letters, spaces would still be proportionally gigantic. Why would they need to have custom indent size, since everything will play along with their font-size choice?

That is, why someone might want to use gigantic fonts but constraint that gigantic-ness to the actual letters, and not the indents too? Isn't it equally important to see indentation clearly?
Most decent editors can operate with tabs or spaces functioning identically, so this is mostly a moot point. With that in mind, spaces are easier to display in tools that don't handle tabs well, so using spaces is still the right approach in my estimation.
Support for EU is very high there. There are some voices, usually with nationalistic tendencies crying about te loss of sovereignty to the "new evil union", but they are mostly ignored.
Eyes don't get worse from use.

If you strain your eyes because of the lighting conditons, your eyes get fatigued but it has no detrimental long time effects.
Apple: iCloud Website Sign-In with Touch/Face ID iOS 13, iPadOS, and macOS Betas
You're observing something else: software people are the only ones obsessed enough with improving their tools to continuously debate and re-invent them.

Sadly this obsessive search for the ultimate workflow becomes a goal unto itself, leading to a life-long unsuccessful and unsatisfying search that is doomed to fail.

Meanwhile, in the real world GUIs have long superseded any text-based UIs, speciality tasks aside. E-mail is not a special task...
The article headline doesn't match the article, which is a fairly poor essay that the "Senior developer role is dying".

I suspect people are upvoting this based on the headline alone because it's not a well written essay and doesn't back up its assertions.
That is a pretty good point. As a rubyist, I always use and advocate two spaces - but if I ever find myself on a team with visual impairments, I'll be sure to ask whether tabs would be useful to the team. I'm a big believer that Team-level consistency is far more important than Universe-level consistency, and silver bullets kill.

That said, I'm intrigued - surely this must be a solved problem at this point? Anybody aware of any good text editors / editor plugins that allow you to modify the visual spacing of start-of-line spaces?
What stops a group of 20 people from robbing a normal store?
Reliable recurring revenue is better for long term stability of a business. Joe Average on subscription is better for their overall "health" than the ups and downs of "no-one's buying this month because something amazing is coming out next month".
You can reassign the button in settings - mine opens up whatsapp, but you can easily configure it to open the camera.
I do not have eye strain.

I have astigmatism - something that is heredity. I use tabs.

My spherical power is normal.

Are you saying anyone without perfect vision should quit coding ?
Liberalism and Confucianism both bind you together in a form of justice which takes on an enlightened understanding of the other, rather than a simple modus vivendi.
Who said it's a "strain"?

Difficulty to see (e.g. because of shortsightedness) != "strain further", especially if that implies that their vision would get worse because of that.
This is a decent argument but calling it "the real reason" takes away from it.
For email, designed like it's the 90s is a good thing, in my opinion. Thunderbird could do with a bit of polish, sure, but it has every option under the sun. I tried Geary once, it looked shiny, but the interface was far too basic.
I guess I am the only one who didn't understand a thing in this article.
I used to think that way until I tried to run 4K@60hz on my previously owned 2015 13" MBP.

Stuttering sucks. I went with the 15" with dGPU on my new MBP and the problem went away.
Childless women unable to perform the most basic tasks says to mother of two
Yes, it's pretty obvious that Tab is correct since it has semantic meaning (tab = indent), is one character and has configurable width.
I'm eager to implement this as a 3rd party service on the web. I know it will give me some headache with the fake email relay service, but i do welcome this for the web ecosystem.

It's not clear if this will work as seamlessly on NOT Apple's web logins.
> 'originals' that are beyond even the so-bad-it's-good category

Couldn't agree more. Besides a very few "tentpole" features, and a small number of standup comedy specials, that Netflix Originals logo up the top left may as well mean "do not watch". If I could exclude them at the UI level, I would. I pay to see top-range feature films and high quality productions, not an endless bargain bin of third-rate filler.

I suspect the "endgame" is that after all the studios have tried out their little walled garden plan and most have failed, they will band together and finally create some kind of unified system, same as the RIAA has done. It'll probably take a good few years, though.
Why does Perl warrant its own network?

Why not join freenode instead?
Same here, but for significantly longer
The degree of coupling in iOS has always puzzled me. In 2016 I was developing a WebGL program and I stumbled upon shaders which would cause iOS to reboot, on more than one occasion.
Schneier on Blockchain, and Trust
Are you joking? There was no stable political culture in (sub saharan) Africa to speak of - it was primarily tribal and ad-hoc. Colonialism had indeed some serious disadvantages, but it's also primarily the reason why modern cities with infrastructure and major industries exist in Africa.
"""
A senior dev whom I respect for his technical prowess called me this morning. He called to fret over the meagre 12% raise he got...

I gave him the best I could — by listening to him for 30 long minutes.

Then I realized it wasn’t the best thing I could do for him.
"""

What was the best thing the author could do for him?.. to write an article encouraging him to leave?
I wonder whether the lack of replies is due to lacking first-hand experience of the HN community or if it is due to the difficulty of making that jump.

Nevertheless, I also would be interested in any anecdata surrounding this.
It’s sort of weird to see this stuff on HN. There’s another top article atm on Japan machine orders. These articles are clickbait noise with zero informational value - or worse.
Octonion
I'm curious about the age of the person who wrote this article.
I think he refers to the fact that Nvidia's drivers provided excellent OpenGL support for multiple years compared to the absolute dumpsterfire that fglrx was. Before Valve decided to pay attention to Linux and thus prod AMD to improve their drivers, if you wanted anything approaching serious 3D performance on Linux, you had to use Nvidia. Anything else would be a waste of money.