skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be possible to 'hackport' DirectX 12 to Windows 7?
Amazon.ca rewards Visa card from Chase: https://www.chase.com/online/canada/amazon-ca-home.htm

I was wrong, it's 1% per cash advance with a minimum of $5. I've never taken more than $500 in cash out at a time so that's how I remembered it. Also, the above calculations assume you overpay the card beforehand so you don't incur interest charges.
I also have flexibility issues (I'm tall), and I used to strain my lower back on heavy squats until I widened my stance and pointed my toes a bit more outwards, to prevent my lower back from rounding. You could ask someone to check if your lower back arches towards of the downwards movement.
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A better analogy would need a self-sustaining stage, to reflect a profitable business model with reduced need for external investment.
If GitHub folks are technical in nature, couldn't they simply have a secondary mirror of their own that they host on their own servers / clouds and then reference both primary and secondary? Perhaps redirect the secondary to the primary if it is reachable to avoid bandwidth issues?
Ah, but it's only a thoughtcrime if you don't say it, and people call you an idiot for just thinking that.
> I never understood why people hate CCTV cameras - they are in public places.

If the police found out about a meeting to discuss police corruption, the police could look up the CCTV camera data, combine with face recognition, etc, and find out who was at the meeting.

There is a long history of harassment of activists and whistleblowers.
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Nope, I'm just a fan of the Beatles.

I don't know about assigned addresses, but for a long time Apple has used an imaginary John Appleseed.
If we're being generous - your argument is weak. Most governments heavily subsidize core scientific research through public funds. It is decidedly NOT a free market. The free market has always been horrible at anything to do with public good.

>Its a lazy view that 'everything we need should be free' that ignores basic facts about invention and innovation

Nobody said that.
So don't be even a little bit paranoid.

If you'd be even a little bit racist, you wouldn't be OK with miscegenation. Only someone starting from the premise that miscegenation is bad would conclude that this statement means that everyone should be at least a little bit racist.
Informative and brilliant.
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This is a http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php ODroid XU4 if you are wondering, I have one of their ODroid C boards and find it quite useful.
A bit harsh. You might want to check your perception. According to U.S. News and World Report its graduate school ranks #20.

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
anecdotal advise: don't squat so heavy.
The original HN post that started it all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6059481
That is what I suspected was the case, but I'm curious if young people who are familiar with LeBron James but aren't familiar with Michael Jordan.

Also one has to point out, this is an article on the WSJ, whose majority of readership would likely know who Michael Jordan was.
If the police found out about a meeting to discuss a bank robbery, the police could look up the CCTV camera data, combine with face recognition, etc, and find out who was at the meeting.

There is a long history of arresting bank robbers.
SD card is fine if you load your junk into memory and run out of ram. Few seconds of boot, but totally doable. Just need to go off box for mostly everything from logs to whatnot...
I like that approach, but there’s no abundance of such cross-platform stacks either. And then you have to convert parts of the model to fit the views, and sometimes you want to use non-view technologies only available on a certain platform (Keychain, …). While it makes sense and the results are very good, it’s still a very non-trivial work, especially compared to a simple native app.
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As far as I can remember, yes.

I started out with AdBlock Plus, switched to AdBlock, and now I'm using uBlock.

I guess that rules out browser-based exploits doesn't it? Since the browser is one of the few ways where attackers can automatically detect your system and deliver an OS-specific virus.
No expectations that you'd be filmed. But an expectation that you'd be seen. And in small towns that would destroy anonymity much worse than CCTV.

Why should anything you do in public ever be private?
Your point A confuses me a great deal. In my experience with international flights, there's no border crossing as you leave, you just go through security as usual, sit around in an airport terminal that's usually shared with people taking domestic flights, then get on your plane. With the exception of a few airports with special arrangements, you hit customs after you land.

Does LAX have something weird here, or was he literally just sitting in an airport lounge along with people flying to Chicago or Houston or Kansas City and they seized his stuff "at the border" just because he was going to board an international flight? That seems completely mad.
Linear decoding is too slow. The talk is about efficient parallel decoding, which requires having decoders at every potential alignment and discarding the improperly aligned outputs after-the-fact.
I'd venture to say that more downtime occurs via local issues (Internet, hardware, virus) than Github.
Would it beat a pair of $5 VMs from digital ocean though?
Sure. A significant amount of people like having their entire inbox locally downloaded (and seemingly more common in the tech industry) but there's also a lot of people that keep it all in the cloud.
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I'd imagine that using an adblock decreases your chances of being exposed to a virus by an order of magnitude. (That being said, I have never seen an OSX virus in the wild)
I consider it a big positive that you can't.
It doesn't seem rational, but it's a real effect. The theory is that people don't want to back a loser, and perhaps that they are psychologically purchasing the product at the point they make a pledge.
Demand mostly. Also the way ARM does I/O is a bit different, that said, a memory mapped "smart" disk controller is pretty straight forward, the trick is getting access to the memory bus crossbar switch inside the chip. Bolting one on, all of your peripherals go through one memory bus.

What would be really interesting is if ARM introduces a way to use a high speed serial bus (think PCIe) which would allow for the development of a 'south bridge' type IO chipset for ARM machines.
I recently hurt my back and got interested in the anatomy of the lumbar spine and ended up reading the textbook Low Back Disorders by Stuart McGill. McGill is a professor of kinesiology at the University of Waterloo and has spent his ~30 yr research career studying the lower back. It was an informative and surprisingly interesting read!

He made the point throughout the book that a lot of "common sense" clinical wisdom regarding the low back has little basis in the scientific literature. Among these was that there really is no "correct" sitting posture. All sitting postures are damaging to the low back over long periods of time. Instead he recommends varying the sitting posture at least every ~10 minutes or so, and standing up for a few minutes at least once an hour. Acceptable sitting postures could be anything from sitting up straight as in the illustration in the article, leaning back, sitting cross-legged in the chair, or putting your feet up on the desk. All are fine as long as you change it up every now and again.

There were a few other bits of wisdom in the book. A few I remember off the top of my head:

- Don't do sit-ups under any circumstances. They are among the worst exercises you can do for your back. The traditional back extension exercise (e.g., http://lifestyle.beiruting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/su...) also puts the lower back under a huge amount of stress.

- Muscle strength is not well correlated with having a healthy back. Muscle endurance is much better correlated with back health.

- Don't do anything to exert your back within an hour or two after waking up (including stretching the back to extreme flexion by, for instance, trying to touch your toes). The hydrostatic pressure in the discs after rising from bed is much greater, which increases the risk of herniation. (This is why one is ~1/2 an inch taller in the morning than in the evening.)

- If the spine is flexed for a long period of time (e.g., one is sitting slouched over for twenty minutes), the ligaments become lax and remain lax for some time afterwards. Only 50% of the intervertebral joint stiffness remains two minutes later, and even 30 minutes later some residual laxity remained. So if you've been sitting slouched over, don't immediately go and exert your back by lifting a heavy object. Stand up for a few minutes before exertion.

- Squatting is not necessarily better than stooping when picking up an object. It's most important to keep the spine in a neutral posture.

- When picking up a light object, it's best to use the golfer's lift if possible (e.g., https://liftingtechniques.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/golf.p...)
That chart looks like it's leveling off. They don't say anything about that, and I believe that is the most significant attribute of that chart. They are, of course, trying to suggest behind their techno-babble that the market will keep going up. No surprise they dragged this little gem out to counteract the fear created in the recent correction.

A much more interesting analysis could be had from speculating on why it's leveling off. What happens when there's no more debt to buy?
Quite honestly, this is the main attraction of the app store. That and trivial installs, though that's a tiny constant convenience.
what are you talking about? did you even read the article? it clearly says that anytime a stock goes UP OR DOWN 5 pct they halt trading on it for 5 minutes.
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As far as I know, this is an irregular verb, but I may be wrong.
You might need to customize the toolbar and drag in the RSS icon - I don't remember whether Firefox displays it by default.
US Pharmaceutical companies don't give a damn about their own compatriots, so why wouldn't they try to monopolize the world?

Back in 2010-2011, a few friends of mine showed me how an online pharmacy works, I couldn't believe it - vast majority of people ordering Indian generics are Americans. The reasons? - Costs. Theyve told me it sometimes takes multiple resends of medicines for them to get through the border. Don't know how well US clamped down on it in the past several years.
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Fix Windows 10: Say no to Microsoft and don't install it. Don't tell them this model is successful.
CircuitHub partners with Altium CircuitMaker for one click manufacturing
You can get arrested for hosting illegal web content. All public facing servers in China must be registered at the government, or they can get raided.
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I get where some of this is coming from, but I'm not sure that "fixing" Windows by disabling automatic security updates is actually a good idea.
Did Facebook intentionally block conservative content?
This is one reason why it's worth it to take the time to use Bitcoin to buy from the clearnet sellers: it is less risky both for you and them, and leaves less obvious traces. (Managing CC payments is the single biggest risk & difficulty for them. They hate it and all want to move to Bitcoin as fast as possible.)
Minneapolis is wonderful. Great public infrastructure (parks, trans, etc). Amazing public education (Minnetonka, Edina, Plymouth, Wayzata). Tons of jobs in tech / jobs in general (3.8%) http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laulrgma.htm. Food scene is incredible and housing is (relatively) affordable.
Have you checked out Nim? I've been using it in production for a couple small programs and I've had no issue. I've also been able to bind it to higher level languages using the FFI:

http://nim.community/answers/create_a_shared_library/

Although I haven't figured out the garbage collection bit for the shared object bit. It is a lovely language and it's reaching 1.0 sometime this year.
This sounds an awful lot like saying that food ought to taste bad so you don't eat too much of it.

I'd rather have food that tastes good but is still something I'm able to eat in moderation. I get that food makers have no incentive whatsoever to get me to eat in moderation, but that looks like a different thing from the "bliss point."
Unfortunately, the ad under "Does this banner show ads based on your interests? If yes, you have been tracked" is a link to what I can only imagine is malware, given that it's an "Update Drivers Now" ad. As such, this site isn't really appropriate to send to the average non-technical user, as given my experience from working at an IT help desk years ago, people will end up clicking that ad and installing the malware...
"Playing the stock market is easy. Buy something at random and if it goes up, sell and take the credit. If it goes down, say its a long term investment and hide in the cupboard."
-- Milton Jones.
For my own thing I used neither Estrin's nor Horner's. I profiled a bunch of equivalent parse trees and then zeroed on one that was performing well on the target m/c. You may not need communication though. As lng as it decomposes into mutually independent subtrees the compiler can exploit that
to generate better code.
I look at this list and I think of my grandmother, who would never do this, never even think to do it.

"The windows" is her friend, and she's relatively tech savvy for a person of her generation.

Heck, people my mothers generation would not think to do this.

Heck, even my brother would not think to do this, or to look for this. If it's not a single place, if you have to open the command line (on windows) then the ability for a reasonable user to gain privacy is nonexistant.

the option might as well be a toggle switch in the middle of Tanzia, it will be noticed all the same.
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Seconding this. I use an ODROID XU3 (the earlier model) for testing Servo on multicore ARM and it's surprisingly fast, especially if your workload parallelizes. It's amazing how much CPU/GPU power you can get for $75, and since it's both parallel, cheap, and based on a mainstream consumer SoC I would love for it to be a harbinger of things to come :)

What holds it back is the I/O (though I haven't tried using eMMC, which is probably a huge improvement) and driver issues, especially around graphics (the never-ending problem with ARM SoCs).
Well, where I work at is 24/7/51.
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It is okay for CS classes, but not for chemistry...
For most, the cost of setting up and maintaining those systems than they lose when Github is down.
Doesn't the study control for this?

"The more the math-anxious parents tried to work with their children, the worse their children did in math, slipping more than a third of a grade level behind their peers."

The implication is that if the math-anxious parents did not work with their children as much, these children did better.
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> the whole added value of a personal trainer is that they know what they're doing, so you don't have to know.

there's also the external and financial accountability that a personal trainer brings. that's a huge factor for a lot of people including me. i've tried going to the gym at 6am without a person and a significant dollar figure attached to it - i can't do it.
they're pushing these things to windows 7 and 8 though.
ok let me rephrase - markets represent the economic winners
Interesting observations and notes. Glad to see a little bit of background / context regarding the mechanics. Regarding my perspectives, I have a background teaching and an advanced degree in education course design.

Regarding point 1, my understanding of Fair Use within an Education environment is that an instructor using protected material in the context of a lecture or assignment is, by default, an instance of Fair Use. A lot of the pivot relates to the scope of the use - as in, photocopying an entire chapter or short-story is okay, but photocopying the entire book is not. With images, I think you're well in the clear. I can understand where you're coming from with your concern, I just don't believe it to be material.

My university has a dedicated team who help out instructors with putting their material online and even they are often confused about how to edit this or upload that.

This scenario strikes me as counter-intuitive from a savings perspective, because now there's two layers involved: Instructors and IT Support. Actually, it sounds like a terrible waste of overhead and expense the University is laying out. Will Coursera reimburse your institution for the burden, or is it so small compared to the revenue brought in through Coursera that the expense is immaterial?

I get a macabre laugh out of learning Coursera actually kind of sucks at its main value proposition of being a technology platform for education, in that it's not user friendly for actual educators. Yeah it's a 'disruption' platform, sure. Just seems to me like throwing a Basball into an Olympic Swimming Pool.
I wish the steps were this straightforward for my android phone.
The interesting bit here is that modern viruses don't ever make themselves known. They aren't there to prank you or make your life more difficult, they are there to steal your login credentials for financial sites, to be proxy servers to mask people who are trying to avoid having their IP address revealed, to send spam or do reflective DDOS attacks on third party sites. You'll never know they are there, unless you're system is slow one day because its doing your work and the virus owner's work at the same time.
I don't think React really takes too much of an opinion on how we store our models -- it is, at it's core, a view layer -- a function that takes as input a model and spits out a UI. I've written model layers behind React UIs that use different paradigms for manipulating the model -- they've all worked, and in hindsight, I wouldn't use one particular paradigm for everything -- there probably isn't one "right" paradigm for organizing the model, which is one of the biggest strengths of React as a framework.

One (officially blessed) example of a different model layer is combining React with something like Immutable.js, which does use setters which return new objects for each modification, allowing shallow comparisons of everything.
Agreed, based on personal experience.

For a typical person without special circumstances deadlifting with proper posture is the most important exercise you need to be doing, IMO. Personally, I was amazed that my minor back aches were gone, my shoulders stayed back without effort, and I was more confident in my posture. Why didn't someone tell me to deadlift sooner in life?
Not the first attempt I've seen to summarise all the fixes for the privacy leaks. But given I've seen 2-3 articles on the HN homepage so far this week that MS still sends all kinds of crap and of course has the ability to patch these workarounds - consider me sceptical!

This is a game people are going to lose. If MS cared about privacy this wouldn't have happened in the first place. Just don't use Windows. Use your favourite Linux distribution.
Not a lawyer, but that seems pretty spot on.
The guide shows how to disable sending updates from your computer to other computers on your LAN or on the Internet. It doesn't suggest disabling updates anywhere...
It is maybe off-topic but few days ago I was lamenting to myself that I'd hoped Coursera would stop sending spam or do a proper setting where I can definitively opt-out from all their emails (and I'm not speaking about emails for an enrolled course). This is really bad I think, especially from an organization with such a noble cause.
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I think the "React.js way" through a Flux flow takes this idea even farther. Now, instead of an individual object being allowed to change itself, we go through an even greater indirection, firing an abstract action and letting a store figure out how to make changes to the appropriate data.

The real question is: if our data has real validation and invariants, who maintains them?

- Does every piece of code that might change one attribute have to worry about it?

- Do individual objects protect themselves through methods and take responsibility?

- Or does a whole managed context take responsibility, allowing it to guarantee invariants about groups of objects together?

Experience tells us the first option quickly becomes problematic. The second certainly works, but requires discipline in how you design objects (the origin of many of the DDD patterns). The third is less widely used, seems to work better, but has some overhead. But don't kid yourself that it's less indirection/metaprogramming. It's more.
Sounds like you haven't used Tcl since the early 1990's, you may want to check your facts. Tcl has had boolean, integer, floating point, list, dictionary, and other data types besides strings since 1997. The fact that Tcl will convert all of these values into strings when asked is immensely useful. Likewise, Tcl has had object oriented extensions since the early 1990's, and as of the last few years has OO built into the core, so you can easily build your data structures to suit.
To the downvoters of the above-post: Stop downvoting this guy. His critique fair and correct, he has a solid point. And he's helped me elaborate my point better. And somewhere in this thread you lot will see that we eventually agree on a lot of points. What's wrong with you? I want to think that the HN crowd is an educated one.
It costs too much to hold cash.
To address your first point, Edx.org is very similar to Coursera, but is a non-profit organization that releases all it's software as open source (https://open.edx.org/.)
For your second point, EdX Studio (https://studio.edx.org/) is focused on being accessible and easy to use for instructors - we hear good things from course staff about usability compared to Coursera.

(I work for EdX.org as a developer)
Again, if the guidance is so easy to misunderstood then perhaps it is the guidance's fault, not the fault of the people misunderstanding it.

Apparently there's some underlying meaning to "Don’t eat anything your great-great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food." that I'm not understanding. I'm not understanding it because my concept of what my great^3 grandmother would recognize as food, and the understanding of the person who wrote it, are extremely different. Yet the person who wrote it does not explain what he meant by it, and somehow this is my fault?

The past is not a region known for great nutrition. Taking food guidance from it doesn't seem very wise to me. I gather that this phrase is more along the lines of, "think of the idyllic, utopian, imaginary past that certain people believe is what it was actually like, and eat what they would have eaten," but that's not real helpful!
Splunk is an amazing tool.

The amount of data I can jam into logs can give massive, real time insight into everything. When engineers start logging performance information as well as conversion info, you can see the impact that an underperforming system has on user behavior. If you can prove that performance matters, or that your missing a critical threshold with it, the arguments between fixes and features tend to solve themselves.