skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?
Everyone around me seems to have a tablet these days. I have never used one and I don't see the need to.

I've been thinking about getting one lately, maybe for note taking or web navigation when I don't really need to code.

Do you use one? Why? Why not? And if so what model do you recommend?
too bad I guess. /shrug
I'm sure the underlying story is true, and the author's core point of freedoms of speech and the poor handling of the situation are true... but this sounds like it was written at the time of the incidents, by the same teenager, and not by an adult reflecting back on it.
Yep, definitely 1995-1996 was the tipping point for internet awareness in the U.S. At universities, and perhaps some well-connected high schools, a couple years earlier. I was a college freshman in 1993, and already knew about 'the internet' (long before most people because I was a nerd, finding public access dial-up gopher leading to public access unix systems, all over a 14kbps modem connection), but hadn't heard of the web before -- I distinctly recall someone showing me Mozilla in 1993 in a computer lab, a website for a museum of some kind, and I was like "Woah, you can do THAT on the internet now?!? This is going to be big." In 1995 I was hired by the college IT department as a student worker, to make an experimental prototype college website, the first website the college had. The rest is history. :)

(One thing I remember is that my website had a campus map easily accessible from the home page. Once the Communications department took over website responsibility from IT a year later, that disappeared not to return for many years, heh. https://xkcd.com/773/ )
And then someone prevents you from running said oven until you pay them a ransom.

(Or just starts turning on peoples irons at random, if it can turn them on as well)

I personally think the security implications outweigh the potential benefits for most IoT devices. It's too bad, because the potential benefits are generally nice.

(And the other side is: I have no desire to "buy" a device that can have features remotely removed. It's why I ditched Windows, it's why I won't ever buy a Tesla or an iPhone, it's why I don't have any recent game consoles. And most IoT devices fall into this category. Among other reasons, it creates a perverse incentive for a company to break (intentionally or unintentionally) older models (or allow them to fall into disrepair) so that people will upgrade to this year's model.)
I donated and got the Pro version. But upon removing and reinstalling it, it seems to have forgotten that I have the Pro version. It's back to the free version now.

How do I put in my email address so that I can reactivate Pro features?
Think about it, this is a country of 1.3 billion people. How often does this actually happen?

In the Slate Plus special feature section, the author of the article shared statistics on how frequently traffic accidents result in death in China, compared with the United States. In 2013 in the US there were 32,719 deaths, compared to over two million injuries in traffic accidents. That means that, in the United States, there are 70 injuries per every traffic death. According to China's Xinhua News Agency, the ratio of traffic injuries to deaths in China is four to one.
There's apparently an even worse usermode-triggerable denial of service in the Pi related to breakpoints, one that allows usermode code to completely hang it: http://hackaday.com/2015/08/25/raspberry-pi-halt-and-catch-w...
Let's collect the most interesting new ventures and theories in machine learning
What the hell is this guy doing as a coder - he should be running a media empire by now!

Everything he reported doing in high school is fantastic grassroots marketing and PR, and the content he created was great even back then. The teacher review is one of the best ideas, ever. He got everything down - content, distribution - even on slips of paper - the works.

This is exactly what you read in a media billionaire's bio: expelled from a prestigious high school for running an underground school newspaper, which printed students' uncensored teacher reviews. Oh yes.

More recently - even our HN title is clickbait! Yet his write-up is fantastic, 100% true and a great read! This guy knows how to press people's buttons.

And remember, he got free hosting because some guy thought his writing was so hilarious.

OP, get into media, stat.

Oh, and OP? You are hilarious. No rose-tinted glasses about it.
It's possible to cheat on the leaderboard. Go through the game once, figure out the word, play it again, guess the same word, first guess. Oops. ;)
StringBean – The Featherweight Mobile-First Framework
I became a cyborg at IFA
I made a similar demo too with the HTML canvas http://yangcanvas.com/randomtrees
Because it's a statically typed language it's all in the IDE. Almost everyone who uses C# doesn't need to check the documentation for that kind of information, it comes up when you're typing, or it's an ctrl-space away if your caret is on a method, or you can right-click go to definition.

You can pretty much right click on anything and go to definition, which will show you all the method signatures and return types of everything.

My only beef with the documentation is that they show examples of the code in use, but annoyingly never the output. So, for example, it's never clear even from the examples in the documentation whether a directory path or a URL includes a trailing slash or not. And because there's no REPL, you have to either build/compile/run or use an external program (I used to use some LINQ tester program that was basically a REPL, but it's contextually almost as expensive as simply trying it in an existing program).
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Hi jlemberg. That's one nice demo and we seem to share algorithm at its root. <- yeah.
One thing I read once was that one of the most important factor for where to seek asylum is where there already is a significant community from the home country. According to that article there are also some nationalities that just pass through Germany because there are no established community of those nationalities.

And of course when you already fleet a long distance why wouldn't you cross one more border if it likely improves your situation even if the other country already provides decent support? Nowhere do small differences matter that much as at the lower end of society.
I heard that British tanks in WW2 came with a kettle for making tea. It might be just a story but having British relatives it makes sense.
Did you ever find out how they targeted you at the first place?
What Happens to Former ISIS Fighters?
"Boiling vessels" have been a key component of most UK armoured vehicles since late in WW2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_vessel
I wanted more :) So here's my blatant clone sourcing words from the internet:

https://jsfiddle.net/fsc5v4v0/9/embedded/result/

And here's the code: https://jsfiddle.net/fsc5v4v0/89/

I hope it's bug free. jQuery is really a pain to reason about, so much implicit state all over the place. I thought React might've been a bit too much, but halfway through it I started reconsidering my choice :P
I'm a native living in China. After glancing over the article, I don't bother reading it in details. The title sounds ridiculous, but certainly marketable.

I see people here are generally sensible but also emotional. I don't have country level statistics related to these extreme behaviors. But people around me are all very kind and I know many having very high standard of morality. We're constantly chasing for the positive and good.
Gabriel misspelt "juvenilia", but it's an odd criticism anyway, since Alexander seems to have got progressively more cranky and messianic as he got older. He is a complete outsider in the architecture world, which is actually quite tolerant of small-scale, community-based building (see Walter Segal)
Don't forget the Pi (generally) uses flash. So seek speeds are irrelevant.

If you're writing the following in 1ms:

Apr 4 22:50:59 heating kernel: [14572.940927] Unhandled prefetch abort: breakpoint debug exception (0x002) at 0x00008438

By my count that's ~1 kilobit.

That means that you're writing to flash at ~1 Mb/s. (~125KB/s) That's slow, to put it mildly. (~5% of what it should be, according to http://ozzmaker.com/2012/12/27/how-to-test-the-sd-card-speed... ) I could see that kind of speed if it was causing a disk seek every write (although if it was doing that you're probably using the wrong file system), but again, the Pi uses flash.

So what gives? Is there braindead sync behavior that's causing it? Is it hitting a pathological case in the flash controller? Or what?

(For that matter: is there a file system that is optimized for log files?)
Arguably, at least NATO countries should shoulder some of those consequences as well. ISIS didn't just spring out of the ground.
What's "politically incorrect" about saying that they have to provide additional services in the Australian market? And I don't buy that a 2-year warranty costs Adobe $1800 per user. How many hours of phone support is that?
ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network
"I lost the final in Cincinnati to Federer 6-4 in the third, a match I easily could have won."

Probably something thought by the countless people who have lost to Federer time and time again.
Its mentioned already on Leaderboard:
Select to reveal answer word:

3rd visible line on links:
http://simbase.org/gmw/guess.cgi?by=joon&result=leaderboard
http://simbase.org/simbase/leagues/simbasev3/gmw/guess.cgi?b...
One could go for the middle ground with a 3072 bit key.
"NIST says a 2048 bit RSA key has a strength of 112 bits: i.e., there are theoretically 2^112 possibilities to brute force the private key."

This is incorrect. The number of 2048-bit RSA keys is much more than 2^112, bruteforcing is out of question. 2^112 is an approximate number of operations to compute the private key using techniques more efficient than brute force (e.g. number field sieve described later in the article).
Migration Flows Across the World
I provided the context and now you argue about the context instead of the main point: Merkel was sending positive messages to mobs of people who were trespassing borders of multiple EU and non-EU countries causing chaos. Refugees or immigrants, illegal immigration is still ILLEGAL. Merkel and her government directly and/or indirectly encouraged illegalities against other countries instead of discouraging them by guiding the real refugees to the legal channels of asylum request. I don't like your way of debating. I stop here. Have a nice day.
Tangentially related: What is the smallest self-hosted interpreter? What about the most efficient one?

This isn't it (among other things, it isn't self-hosted).
>Source: anecdotal data

trashing those who you don't agree with isn't a fair justification to downvote.

My point is proven in the _first_ and _third_ steps of the program, In the admission that you have a problem, and that you are helpless to solve the problem yourself, respectively. [0][1]

What about your point? Your personal opinion of it? It is the admission that you are _helpless_ to your disease, and it is that very reason you don't have the self efficacy to overcome your issues yourself.

An ego death involves, in albeit, sometimes flawed Jungian psychology a loss of identity, and A transformation of ones psyche in such a way that the Self is not perceived the same way after such transformation.[2]

MY argument is that AA involves such ego death in that your admission over having a lack of self-efficacy in solving your own alcoholism is transformative, and you can't do it without the group or other external help, a la Step 3.

I am a different person than you. I find my inability to solve problems for myself _weakness_.

And just because you disagree, instead of positing an argument against my thoughts, you downvote my comment and claim you "read the book."

This was the same exact fashion of discourse that had me leave AA in the first place. I handled "alcoholism" differently. My life is a legal nightmare but alcohol isn't a personal issue.

In sum: People read things differently. But you don't see my flagging your comments because I disagree.

[0] a real source: http://www.alcoholic.org/research/aa-step-1/

[1] http://www.alcoholic.org/research/aa-step-3/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death

my source: sentenced to AA, went to a few meetings, found it damaging, and worked out an alternative treatment plan with court.
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even perhaps have a simple connection to the water line similar to how refrigerators usually do for their ice makers.
Similar story here, I still remember Mapleton.tk. I loved that the whole school was talking about it.

The killer feature was actually a forum where we could talk bad about teachers using pseudonyms. A lot of them deserved it too. Nothing made me happier than seeing how much everyone hated Mr. Peterson, the teacher somehow put in charge of the students who had skipped two years of math.
Are there good, researched algorithms for natural looking plant growth? I have hankered after creating a growing vine for years, but nothing looks natural (vs extending vectors)
Sure, significant and massively destructive "ocean acidification" would be really bad.
I remember when I was on the school newspaper my junior year (long time ago, before the internet) we all decided to put a fake ad on the back cover of the newspaper just for fun. It was a picture of a girl in a bikini with a headline about her boyfriend loves her because she knows Calculus (or something I forget exactly). Students of course thought it was hilarious, the school did not, and actually fired the journalism teacher (who was female). The next year we were basically locked down and could do nothing without prescreening. Thankfully my family moved a few weeks into the year and I didn't have to deal with it much.
I think its quite clear the call for immigrants is not 'bull shit' but a well known fact. The question is who it the Labyrinthine EU bureaucracy is responsible for this disastrous romantic policy?
I code C# for money not love. It's a mongrel language.
https://youtu.be/Gzwt56TPwkM

That is a link to a video with some game play, there are many others available as well
We have a lot of really solid evidence of significant
climate change going back at least
110 million years. There is also
evidence back 65 million years, 600,000 years,
and 500 years.

For the last 2000 years there is

Committee on Surface Temperature
Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years,
National Research Council, 'Surface
Temperature Reconstructions for the Last
2,000 Years', ISBN 0-309-66264-8, 196
pages, National Academies Press, 2006.

still available at

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11676.html
Try your hand at Game programming, its great to mix things up and the communities are great:

Unreal Engine 4: https://www.unrealengine.com

Maybe a mod for Unreal Tournament or Ark Survival: https://www.unrealtournament.com/blog/

http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/14/9153379/ark-survival-evolve...

Unity: http://unity3d.com/

Construct2: https://www.scirra.com/
Oh, I had an anonymous email account listed on the website so people could leave feedback or submit additional teacher reviews. So, they didn't know who I was but they could contact me.

I fucked up by outing myself to the teacher impersonating a student, but with a legal threat I guess it could have turned out even worse if I didn't out myself.

Huge drama at the time, my parents were pretty religious so they actually took the values of the school seriously and were so upset that they told me they wouldn't let me go to college.

That was a pretty easy fight to win though as there is no way they could have stopped me.
>This is just a train wreck of misinformation.

So are the markets.

>First of all, not a lot of people actually use academic economic theories

Maybe not, it you don't consider Black-Scholes and it's endless brood of offspring to be serious academic theories.

Not many people use nation-state Keynesian or other big macro policy theories to play the markets - which is a different point.

But it's a relevant different point, because it highlights the political reality of using macro as a hand-wavey excuse for policy which benefits market operators and the owners of the money behind them at the expense of the rest of the population.

>It is called "the random walk hypothesis" and is the foundation of a lot of assumptions.

Quite. Does it not worry you that this is true, or that even with this insight manic-depressive boom-bust behaviour is apparently still considered a feature, not a bug?

>So I urge you to actually build an informed opinion

I suspect my opinion is at least adequately informed. Perhaps you're mistaking being heterodox for being wrong?
As a parent, I'm using my old 8-bit machines to teach my kids computer science. It worked then, and it still works today - in fact, they're becoming more and more the locus of activity, the slow, cranky old 1mhz machines in the retrobattlestation, but they're still getting massive use - the value of them is: no Internet. You only get what you put into it. And my eldest 8-year old is having a blast learning how to make pixel-graphics, old school .. finally a use for his math!
What happened to the free market is that it isn't (a free market). It's illegal in many places to reverse-engineer the .psd file format - and there are many places where even if it's not illegal the potential lawyer costs are so prohibitive that it may as well be.
It seems to me a lot of people are turned off by it. I'd rather just say "hi" myself when I've got nothing, but I notice people stop responding at all (won't even say hi back) when I do that.

So, this universe.
This seems ok for really simple invoices, maybe with just one or two line items. But anything more complex than that and it would seem foolish not to use a spreadsheet, I think. I'd get annoyed having to do the math myself.
except dark souls. dark souls rip your soul apart, tear down your reflexes and abolishes your mind. it's fun thoug.
The point is that reading an article on Salon does not make anyone an authority.
Prusinkiewicz did some good work in the 1990s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemysław_Prusinkiewicz
http://algorithmicbotany.org/
Building computers from DNA
Flexport is hiring a Senior Writer to cover the automation of logistics
Or you could just look at the json file where the anwsers are stored :)
Yeah (author here) I'd like to do a followup with ECC. There's a few cloud providers who only take RSA keys but ECC is otherwise fairly well supported these days.

I'll also amend the openssl / certreq commands CertSimple generate to provide an ECC option.
His own words:

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
Even in 2015 I expect to be able to read text centric articles without javascript, on slow internet connections and or with low spec hardware. I don't have js disabled on my laptop, but i find it extremely annoying, that a large part of the “first world” internet is practically unusable if you don't own a current generation high end smart phone just because of unnecessary javascript shenanigans. I'm not referring to this site in particular, it works well after loading.
I'm confused why you list only two options.
Author here. That's correct, thanks for spotting the error: indeed, it means using a field sieve as mentioned in the article body, which is certainly not brute force. I've fixed the quote and credited you accordingly.
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Same here, it's what I do. Plus, in my experience, people receiving your invoice or timesheet appreciate a spreadsheet.
For simple ones this is fine and all, but I'd sooner write the same thing in markdown then convert it directly to pdf via mm2pdf or whatever. Saves the trouble of vim options, browser, etc.
Using a good tool for the wrong problem makes it the wrong tool.
Unfortunately, since people are dumb[1], we're stuck with C#. So they might as well improve it as much as possible. This feature could be layered on top of the BCL as extra metadata. Sorta like TypeScript allows you to add type annotations to third-party libraries, C# could take that approach with null. (Yes, this is sorta ugly.)

With tuples, C# can take F#'s approach and special-case common patterns (like TryParse that use out parameters). There's probably only a few patterns where this matters and you'd get most of the benefit. (And I suppose you could always provide annotations to note how to match certain non-tuple-returning functions.)

1: There's really no reason to use C# when we have F#, unless the app is some crap LOB app where programming style/syntax would be the highest barrier to entry. Even then I am suspicious. Anyways there's a lot of untalented developers that apparently cannot cope with FP, or much of anything really, and managers that are scared of different languages.
Did this friend happen to be called Leopold Stotch?
By the time time people switch to ECDSA, they should switch to Ed25519 or Ed448, maybe with ECDSA fallback (with web server and TLS library support for multiple keys for same domain, depending on ClientHello).
A common misconception.

There is no universal compression algorithm, by the pigeonhole principle.

And your compression scheme won't work by the simple fact that the offset of where in Pi your data lies will, on average, take the same number of bits to store as the data itself. Ditto, with pi to the power of lots of random numbers, the offset and the power will, on average, take the same number of bits to store as the data itself.
My guess is that they only include the types of the parameters to disambiguate between overloads. Since you can't overload based on the return type they don't include it.

C# is fantastic compared to Java and seems to avoid a lot of the crap. But F# trumps C# in just about every aspect, apart from having lots of funds for tooling.
You can also have a nice LaTeX template ready and then programmatically complete it with the required information, for instance the template is set to read a \input{clientinfo.tex} somewhere that you create with a command like echo Mike > clientinfo.tex etc. Then you issue the compile order and you have a nice PDF that can then be emailed or archived or whatever. At least that's how we make repetitive reports in our lab!
Yep, and battery life too. I'll do a followup at some point with latency figures from remote devtools on an android device.
It is clear who tou meant when you said they, but I can see why you want to backtrack. And despite popular confusion it will be voted on so Europeans will have only their own government to blame if it passes.
Not would be, is. It's happening now.

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/11/disaster-weve-wrought-wor...
This is awesome! The next CSound or ChucK or SuperCollider could be built on this...
This is awesome, had the same idea not too long ago. Was about to start a kickstarter campaign based on it, until life got in the way. Here's the prototype we built if anyone wants to mess around with it:
https://github.com/SCastaneda/swipe-prototype
Related, a little better covered: who are the people trying to enter? According to some estimates there are 12 million (!) people who had to flee from the places where they lived just in Syria. More than half of all the people in the country!

Probably out of 4 asylum seekers 2 are from Syria, 1 from Afghanistan and 1 from other areas, often Africa.

Also note that most of the original inhabitants of Syria are very young, as around 25 years ago there were twice as less people there:

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

The demographics of Afghanistan is comparable.