skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loved every minute of it. The flow and humour seem spot of if you ask me. It's been a real enjoyable read while we wait for S3. The only thing I felt that was a little out of place was the reference to Google and middle management (p17), but I wondered if that should have been Hooli.

I love how in the interview on TC you say (in reference to AOL):

>> BR: I’m honestly amazed they’re still around.

You did realise that TC is owned by AOL when you said that right? No wonder the interview seemed to pass over that comment :)
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The scanned essay:

http://motherboard-images.vice.com/content-images/article/no...
The doubling of post systems as rural bankers in Europe has interested me for a while. Even today the basic bank services in Switzerland are done by the Swiss Post. It makes a fair amount of sense and there are some neat synergies. Even fairly small communities have a post office; postmen visit homes regularly and so can e.g. pay out cash pensions; sending out documents or valuable mail at a post office is intuitively similar to sending out money to pay bills; post has implicit identity systems to make sure mail gets to the right person.

It seems it wouldn't be very hard to adapt post systems to electronic age in most countries. It is basically accepted that electronic banking will verify identity by sending out mail (e.g. with login details) so the post is already involved to an extent.
For some context (relegated to the very end of this HTML version), this is Iverson's Turing Award Lecture article following his winning the 1979 ACM Turing Award. Here's the ACM's PDF photoscan of the original publication: http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1283935&type=pdf
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10184508.
The Death of the West, by Patrick J. Buchanan. Looking at the Western Europe I thought that it is the time for such books.
>best-in-class

Have you seen the latest trends of BMW? The way how they're going downhill and how Cadillac and their "sport-luxury" sedans are catching up makes me feel like the perception of BMW is an anachronism.
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Developers Who Are Experts on Microservices
I understand Lisp was pretty critical to ITA software's approach to solving hard technical problems
HN hug => https://archive.is/GBqGR

included video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HvWXQsBeHk
Ballantine’s ‘Space Whiskey Glass’ Seems Well Made for Astronauts
Software you compile with Cygwin's GCC becomes a native Cygwin executable, with its own concepts of paths, processes, symlinks and environment. All binaries compiled with Cygwin always inherit GPL virality. The Cygwin OS is coincidentally hosted on Windows and mostly plays nice with it.

Software you compile with Mingw(-w64)'s GCC becomes a native Windows executable.
As I'm a emacs person, I tried once wanderlust[1] and got hooked up to it. Wanderlust is mail client which supports a wide variety of protocols. For me the biggest advantages are the blazing fast IMAP support and the whole emacs thing (Keybindings, Help (C-h b for all keybindings in this buffer, priceless I have to say), the possibility to run it either in GUI or in a terminal, etc). Recently the devs uploaded it to melpa[2] which makes it even more easy to get started. I would definitly recommend it, to people who are already using emacs, its such a joy!

[1] https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust

[2] http://melpa.org/#/wanderlust
> Microsoft said federal officials would have to get an order from an Irish court, because the emails were stored on servers in Dublin.

The feds are being hoisted on their own petard somewhat here, having long argued that a foreign person's data held on a US server is subject to US jurisdiction. The logical corrollary to that argument is that data held on an Irish server is subject to Irish jurisdiction.

It is standard practise for companies in Europe (e.g. the bank I'm consulting for right now) to ensure that, when they subscribe to cloud services, their data is held stored and processed in datacentres within the EU, so that it is subject to EU legislation and, hence, the EU's data protection laws.
How Disney Replaced Me
That's what happens when the customers are more interested in iPhone connectivity and entertainment options instead of suspension and engine. Also, when the regulations will force you to put in bullshit like start-stop system or efficiency regulations force engine downsizing and use of turbos.

That's why even Hyundai is catching up and the premium brands are standing still. For existing owner, there is no reason to switch from E46 or E90 to F30. The older ones are more fun.
"When looking for a device, we needed to look for what are termed ‘Industrial’ LCD displays. These tend to have better-quality metrics and guaranteed availability"

This explains the $60 price, which I personally find to be great value.
This has already been posted a few weeks ago. (I'm on smartphone, can't link to the post at this moment.)
Does that really crop the image, or just hide parts of it? I ask because cropping in Word can be undone by another recipient.
I would compare iPhone and Audi, not BMW. Both have exquisite design and attention to detail... but in both cases, "something" is lacking.

The difference between Audi and BMW is in the feel of driving (for BMW-heads at least ;) ). I feel the same with iPhone - it received immense attention by it's creators (just like Audi), but still, there is something missing. It has no "soul".
> In 2014 nearly half of American households said they could not cover an unexpected $400 expense without borrowing or selling something.

Wow!
The comment by Uber South Africa's spokesperson shows that Uber is sensitive of the perception that poor labour is being exploited by capital-rich wannabe taxi kingpins (which this article is aimed at):

Asked about the prospects of investing in Uber vehicles, Uber Communication Associate for Africa, Samantha Allenberg told Moneyweb that Uber is currently focusing on the empowerment of drivers to build their own small businesses. Uber is trying to secure a financing solutions for drivers to enable them to buy their own vehicles.

Until Uber actually does this, they'll just be entrenching the existing massive inequality in South Africa.
Microsoft, Amazon video to join Disney's cloud movie service
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I think a whole lot of people who are worried about environmental damage from this robot are not realising that even though it's advertised as autonomous it only operates for a few hours before needing a recharge and as such it can be turned off very easily if things aren't going right.

The ocean is massive. Even coral reefs are massive. A fleet of these robots (which they don't have yet) would take years to affect significant areas.

This is a totally different ballgame to humans previous experiments involving introducing an organism to do pest control in a new environment.
A Retina iPad display is cheaper, takes DisplayPort in, and is significantly higher resolution. I don't think anybody has reverse engineered the digitizer but I doubt that matters for a lot of applications.
I think the point the poster is making is the specific type of disposable address they've used. Addresses on mailinator.com can be read by anyone without a password (go see for yourself). Presumably anyone could just do a password reset and take over the account.

However, just because they used a disposable contact email in the whois record, it's not necessarily the case that they used the same for the registrar account or anything else (so taking over the domain isn't as easy as implied).

In any case, I don't see any issues with "disposable" email addresses such as a random alias on a private domain with a catch-all.
I agree, especially the newest 328i with its 4 cylinder engine that sounds like a motorboat :). Tbe previous generation is way better.
http://pastebin.com/zJkPW79C

I use bash-preexec [1] to hook on the even just before executing a command. I'm kind of nervous if my string quoting is safe though.

[1] https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec
Interesting. I used linear algebra with quantum mechanics where eigenvectors represent quantum state of the Hamiltonian which is how I initially understood them.

And as for TAing, have you ever TA'd? You definitely get a feeling but I can count numerous times when I've stood in front of the tutorial class and asked if there are any questions only to get no response back. I think it's a symptom of first years. I've TA'd calculus as well and I get similar responses. It's very frustrating sometimes.
> It is standard practise for companies in Europe (e.g. the bank I'm consulting for right now) to ensure that, when they subscribe to cloud services, their data is held stored and processed in datacentres within the EU, so that it is subject to EU legislation and, hence, the EU's data protection laws.

Absolutely. EU Data Protection Laws are so enshrined, I would argue that they are part of the culture. In the UK it's part of the educational syllabus to learn about the Data Protection Act.

If American companies cannot adhere to the act, companies will walk away from those services. I see a lucrative market opening up for "private clouds" whereby the requirement is, is the data "safe" is it vulnerable to American jurisdiction?

Is there a business opportunity here to brag about 100% none American? I don't see that being conducive to a free, open, global economy. Least of all between two of the largest economies.

There is rule-of-law in the EU and warrants do get issued and executed. The rabid pursuit of this by the US can only be counter productive in my mind. For everyone.
I actually completely forgot that TC is owned by AOL during that interview, and you're the first person to bring it to my attention. Thanks for the laugh.
A beginner’s guide to deploying static sites using Flightplan
Poor people often have a smaller proportion of income available for their 401k too.
IoT Solutions and Services
Another Emacs person here. I'm using offlineimap+msmtp together with mu4e. I prefer not to do IMAP sync or mail delivery in Emacs itself.
Interesting. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors are one of the most fundamental applications of linear algebra. In physics, quantum mechanics is a giant eigenvalue-eigenvector problem.

One application I really like is in machine learning: the eigenface algorithm.
Going to be releasing our first app soon – what don't I know?
We're releasing our first iOS/ Android app in around two weeks and I'm fretting about all the stuff we may not yet know.

Any suggestions on the kinds of things we need to bear in mind that are NOT obvious? Things like app store submission gotchas, failing to add analytics until it's too late or claiming that Kashmir definitively belongs to Pakistan when shipping in India (http://www.cnet.com/news/how-eight-pixels-cost-microsoft-millions/)

I'd love to hear any stories you may have.
I do the same, except I use emacs build-in SMTP (smtpmail) directly. I'm quite happy with it :). What is the advantage of msmtp?
I can attest to that. When my sister was in med school (in Switzerland), I got to see just how much this is true.
Well, downsizing is a lot to blame I guess. Still though, I think it has (at best) a 3L turbo-charged engine, which is weaker than Cadillac's NA 3.6L engine (which isn't available in Europe though).
With a population of more than a billion I think India has enough bright minds available for all of them.

Also, with India trying to increase its influence and assertiveness in global affairs having bright people in foreign affairs seems a good thing to happen.
Are star fish that worthless? I used to hope that one day someone would find some miracle life altering property they have that would make them commercially lucrative, which would solve this problem overnight I bet.
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This exam is possibly one of the most difficult in the world. You need an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of history, geography, economics and everything in between and the ability to marshal all those facts to answer a question like :

"The internet is a manifestation of Max Weber's iron cage of rationality. Discuss"

In just 10-15 minutes.

Here's a question paper :
http://www.upsc.gov.in/questionpaper/2013/CSM%202013/GS%20I....

And

http://www.upsc.gov.in/questionpaper/2013/CSM%202013/GS%20I....

And this is just one of the subjects. You have papers on English, an Indian language and also a paper on your subject of specialization and more ..

Some people question the merits of choosing civil servants based on such an exam but getting through a pretty impressive feat. I'd compare it to being a polymath Jeopardy champion or something. I'm pretty sure Indian Civil Servants are among the sharpest in the world.

In terms of effectiveness however , our bureaucracy is amongst the worst. Quite the paradox.
This is disappointing. This screen is 7" at 800x480, so its sharpness is about 133 PPI (pixels per inch).

For comparison, my original Android G1 (several years ago) was 180 PPI, and it looked shit.

This is $60 plus taxes and shipping. I just found a 7-inch tablet for £28 ($43.10) on Amazon (plus a camera and RAM and stuff). Including taxes and shipping. Why is this so expensive?
Google maps introducing new features
At some point, I'm hoping to get enough of this to solve this problem: you've taken a picture of, say, the Mona Lisa in its rectangular frame, but because of crowds you weren't in line with dead center, instead you were 5 meters back, 1 meter high, and 2 meters to the side, and not even pointed at the center. Your photo now contains some quadrangle that is a projection of the rectangle. I'd like to tag the four corners and have an algorithm map the photo to its original rectangle - I intuit there's enough information in the photo and the four tagged points, given that the original is actually a rectangle.
Anyone know about using it with Windows 10 IoT?
The revenue comparison between the iPhone and the luxury car market is certainly impressive.

More impressive perhaps is that Apple's $50 billion in profit the last four quarters, is nearly equal to the combined profit of: GM, Ford, Daimler, BMW, Toyota, and Volkswagen.
Tech Talk: How Google Backs Up the Internet
Smile Telecoms Raises $365M to Expand Its Broadband Coverage in 4 African States
Thanks, and apologies to everyone for my mangling of the link when i posted it.
Nope! I forward mail from various other email addresses to my email address where I care.
Ha. Having conquered the paywall:

Ridiculous. COBOL. AppleScript. Lego Mindstorms.
Also:

Is it difficult to develop a programming language which is closely related to human language? (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/267489/is-it-...)

Or, in one of the clearest and most succinct pieces Dijkstra ever wrote:

On the foolishness of "natural language programming".

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
Yes, or at least some of them. India, pop. 1.25 billion, has around nine hundred (900) diplomats total in its foreign service (that is, diplomats overseas and in the country combined), and it's in a bad neighborhood with two nuclear-armed neighbors who are either not particularly friendly (China) or downright hostile (Pakistan).

Compare with Singapore, pop. 5 million, which also has about 900 diplomats!
Smart strap instead of smart watch
Could you please elaborate a bit more on how a class "padding:10" is better than just adding an inline style "padding:10px"?
The direct injection makes the petrol engine sound like a clunky diesel. It's pretty crummy.
Combined with the wooden electric power steering and they're really boring cars to drive. Not to mention the gripless run-flat tyres. I used to own one - never again, all they've got going for them is the admittedly lovely styling.
Are there cyript like alternative for Android?
We had a financial crisis recently resulting from banks breaking laws and rigging the markets.

This isn't the first time economies have gone to complete shit due to the extreme greed of banks playing fast and loose.

They're destructive entities.
Vote of confidence here from a longtime Pimoroni customer. Really great company to do business with. Keep up the good work!
You Don't Get to 2000 Open Data Sets Without Making a Few Friends
I do actually say use brass rather than copper in my OP for this exact reason.
Sector-defining?

The medium sporting saloon was fairly well established in Europe by the time the E21 arrived. Alfa Romeo, Lancia and Triumph were well established in the mainstream and there were plenty of smaller specialists too.

BMW came along with a well-screwed-together package and struck marketing gold with that famous tag-line even though other cars may have been technically superior. That iPhone analogy is looking pretty accurate.

Anyway the 3-series today has little heritage with That original vision. The E36 Compact ( which actually used parts of the E30 chassis ) was probably the last of that lineage until the recent 1-series.
looks at downvotes Wow, I didn't realize HN had such a massive stick up their ass with what was OBVIOUSLY A FUCKING JOKE.
Hey, at least GM & Ford are making a profit now.
This exact application appears in the Coding the Matrix class on Coursera.

http://codingthematrix.com/
Top tips to implement Scrum in your company
"I read my mail with less."

How? Sounds like you just grep your way through the mailbox?
The article pitch: "Apple makes a staggering, gargantuan, and ever-increasing amount of money from the iPhone. How can we make that sound like a bad thing?"

It's a nice touch that both graphs show the iPhone's share of revenue and units sold, rather than totals, thus obscuring the incredible growth in both numbers.
“We learnt that we were building the same thing over and over, and realised that the more interesting thing to do was to cut out the wasted effort and cost, and work out how to automate 90 per cent of writing code.”

I view that as a failure of abstraction and composition, not as a failure of automation. If it's tedious to hook up window controls to underlying data, or to handle properly a form validation loop in a controller for the millionth time, we should be asking why the abstraction layer we are using requires that tedium instead of being more succinct?

Often the abstraction is complex because of the degrees of freedom it has. Automation on the other hand reduces the degrees of freedom. This is great if you are the one who is reducing and making the choices, but if you are letting someone else make all the choices about what is possible... It's like the difference between driving and being chauffeured.

Even if this system were like the mathematician: "show me all possible worlds satisfying X" it would require either a huge search space to pick the desired answer or present only a handful of preselected choices. Search refinement is more interesting, sounds like a great deal of complexity to avoid (less?) complexity of actually doing the work-- especially in meanial cases-- i.e. I don't want to sift through 1000 variations of form validation to "find" the magic one that completely meets my business needs.
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One letter was surprisingly honest about the need to drink wine. But I totally get why most students can't specify those expenses in detail.
Yes the landlord installed it wrong.

However in what scenario does a landlord install a £100 smoke alarm when s/he can install a £10 one though? No landlord I've ever had would have done this -- given that over here bills are paid by the tenant a thermostat is usually not provided.

Homeowners can at least move them when they realise they have installed them wrong.
I have TA'ed. Asking for questions in public doesn't help much. Students rarely like to admit they don't know something.

I was thinking more of when you look at their assignments. There are often multiple ways to approach a problem, and the route chosen can reveal something about one's level of comfort.

It doesn't help that university TAs get almost no training in how to be a TA. At least, I didn't.
This seems so common with prototype parts. I'm not sure what the difficulty is building a sheild which you can just drop on a commodity component.

Mass producing a PCB is 'fairly' simple these days assuming the quantity is sufficient.

Anyone have any insights into the cost?
So, basically this is just meant to feel better about using the `class` attr instead of using the `style` attr. Oh, and spaces instead of semicolons?
Usually, desktop environments come with a lot of software, like a graphical file browser, games, something to display the content of a directory on the wallpaper (the "Desktop" itself), etc. that I don't need, so I prefer to install only what I need (and concerning graphical software, that is only openbox, xfce4-panel, emacs, rxvt-unicode, inkscape, gimp, and iceweasel).

But in a sens you are right, it's like I composed my own minimal desktop environment :).
My CO alarm sounds pretty loudly. You notice it the moment you open the door again smart it does not need to be.

How would you get your pet out in time if your CO alarm or smoke alarm went off when you were at work?
I think you mean "The Machine Stops". I just did a search for The Machine Sleeps and I got a bunch of white noise generators and a book about sleep apnea :-)
Definitely doable - see the various scanner apps in your app store of choice. They work really well.
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OK so you find it easier to find your phone open the app and then press that button. I find it easier to press the button on the unit. I also find it easier to touch a £10 device with food covered/wet fingers whilst cooking than to get out a £300 smart phone and touch that with food covered or wet fingers.
It's expensive because the economies of building electronics are weird. As they said in their announcement, a big challenge is getting a display which is guaranteed to be available for a long period of time. That means not buying the bleeding edge, but something designed for lower volume markets. If you want something that's available for a long time, the likelihood is that it's already been available for a while. If you want the bleeding edge, it means they'll stop making it and start making the new bleeding edge in 18 months (with subtly different connectors, sizes, drivers etc)

The vast majority of the cost of this display is driven by factors unrelated to the technology level. Labour to build it, logistical costs, EMC qualification etc. That's the case for almost all cheap consumer electronics.
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As a vehicle for entertainment, sure. As a professional sport, yes. Grandparent meant it more as "what's the point of owning a car if you have 5 vacation days per year and never leave the city and all your commute each day is home->work->the store->home".
Yeah, I am also curious about this.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/636/...
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Kirtsaeng solved this for copyright, but first sale in copyright is different from exhaustion in patents.

I'd ordinarily assume the courts would follow the path of Kirtsaeng, and find for the refiller.

However, if the court's asking for briefs on Kirtsaeng's applicability... that's a worrying question. Kirtsaeng is not binding as a matter of law in this domain, even though it's the better solution. The court wouldn't ask for briefs on applicability if that wasn't potentially decisive. So maybe the Court is prepping to find for Lexmark, and will force SCOTUS to explicitly extend Kirtsaeng-reasoning to patents.