skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. If you read a tech article with MIT/Harvard/Stanford Alumni, you can be sure they'll mention it front and centre.

Meanwhile, whenever I notice something with a Canadian origin, I usually have to dig pretty deep before I figure out which university it's from.
Don't even bother visiting the US then. And no, even in VWP (Visa Waiver Program) and using a biometric passport, you still have to submit fingerprints and photo on the spot.
This further suggests to me your bank is storing your password in plaintext or reversibly encrypted, which is not secure at all.

The only alternative I can think of is that they'd also create and store a hash of every possible three-letter combination based on your password which does not seem likely.
Haha, to be honest, I was exaggerating. I've never kicked anyone out for less. I did kick someone out (for the day, not ban them) for a similar - arguably slightly worse - comment.
Pick up a language/framework, build a small project and put it on Github. Start approaching companies that are using the same technology and looking for freshers/interns. I have seen this work for few of my friends.
More like cat and mouse. The publishers are at an extreme technical disadvantage.
Only if the plugin blocks ads/trackers etc.

Otherwise users are not only seeing ads, getting spied on and running up their data but also paying for the privilege. So in effect then users will have another thing block or ignore.
Not a serious article. Google is investing billions yearly in r&d for far reaching, very risky innovations.

As for Microsoft and Apple ,we really don't know.

Could we have predicted the iPhone in 2005 ? Do we know what kind of car Apple is working on ? Do we know about Microsoft "special projects" group which recruited someone from Darpa ?

And than finally when we do know about innovative efforts , the author dismisses them out of hand: "Google’s Project Ara modular phone and Microsoft’s HoloLens AR headset, by contrast, are the tech equivalent of concept cars: supremely ambitious today, but years away from hitting the market in what will likely be a tamer, less revolutionary form."
Hacker News comments?
For specifics on which CSS properties affect layout, see csstriggers.com .
Norwegian farmed salmon are among the biggest sources of food-borne contaminants in a normal diet. It contains four times as much dioxin as the highest permissible limit for meat, eggs and milk.
Problem denial can take the form of claiming there's nothing wrong at all. But more common seems to be the attempt to jump straight to a 'solution', without any trial and error thinking in between. Which is OFC impossible. Either way I guess it takes a certain amount of imagination to perceive problems in the first place.
How technology teams are formed
This is really sad. Arment has made an impulsive, flakey decision that tarnishes his reputation as one of the leading independent iOS developers. Instead of removing Peace from the App Store, Arment could choose to improve and refine the app, satisfying his own objections and encouraging his customers to follow his lead.
Have you heard of green hosting?
It wasn't colonialism. Japan was occupied as the result of losing their own colonial war. The US was trying to prevent them from starting another one in the future.
Yes, it's nominally less secure but I trust the authors of major scripts (ex. the Facebook like button) to be able to keep their keys secure. If losing private keys is a major security concern, then TLS is also useless.
Dubstep was invented in South London in the late 1990s.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/an-oral-history-of-dubstep-vi...

It was only new recently in the sense that it became a mainstream pop genre.

The article kind of misses the point - pop is a packaging and marketing industry, not a music invention industry.

The invention happens in subcultures, mostly in the UK and US. Then it's discovered, reinvented, and popularised by the industry.

At least, that's how it used to work. With mass exposure to the same online influences everyone is listening to the same stuff and moving in the same directions. There's a lot less original experimentation happening, and that's a much bigger problem for pop than the fact that the industry is making product, because it means there's not much coming down to feed the production line.

I really enjoy finding undiscovered new music on SoundCloud. Amateur production values are incredibly high now - infinitely better than a cassette demo of 20 years ago.

But if anything a lot of the writing sounds professional and safe. It's slick, polished, beautiful/grungy/glitchy/ironic/whatever and good listening. But it's not often amazingly surprising, or fresh enough to kickstart a subculture into orbit.
U's cs101 was a game changer for me. Loved blazing through on demand.

U shot itself in the foot with bad PR when it publicized stats that showed lots of folks starting but not finishing classes. Haters jumped on that. .. But honestly i never saw the big deal. They're like textbooks... you get something out of it but seldom read every page. So what... you're learning!

I read this PR piece as U having learned from that horrible move a few years ago.
0.3% of Lebanese Own 50% of Lebanon
The the logic I can draw from your statement is that Norway is a very humble place :)
Apparently this warning has been lifted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/norway-farmed-sal...
> Could we have predicted the iPhone in 2005 ?

depends on what you mean by predict. It was pretty obvious that phone/data would be added to PDAs soon. It might not have been obvious that Apple would do it so well and take PDAs from a geek/niche thing to the mainstream.
A maven plugin to export dependencies for BUCK
Let's extend your program to make it even more interesting:

#include <math.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
float x = NAN;
float y = NAN;

printf("x == y is %d\n", (x == y) ? 1 : 0);
printf("memcmp(&x, &y, ...) is %d\n",
memcmp(&x, &y, sizeof x));
return 0;
}

Output:

x == y is 0
memcmp(&x, &y, ...) is 0

memcmp says they are the same bit pattern.

In fact, even x == x will fail. Direct violation of "A is A".

> NAN is similar concept to NULL in databases

But not similar in concept to NULL in C, where NULL == NULL.
I don't think OP is talking about products which consist entirely of front-end code, but rather analytics or tracking services which rely on front-end JS to collect user data, which is then used by the main product.

For cases like MixPanel, I don't see why the traffic wouldn't be proxied through the original domain. Unless MixPanel needs to (i) ensure that the property is not faking their stats/events, or (ii) track visitors across sites, the fact that the JS etc. is served from MixPanel directly is more of a convenience than a necessity.

The same would not apply if MixPanel were providing a verification service to third parties, who were advertising on or wanting to buy MixPanel's customer's site.
A common liberal blind spot is the genetic basis of intelligence and other aptitudes, and the extent to which that determines life outcomes.
To be specific, there's a range. Medium chain triglycerides are the best and can aid with weightless. Coconut oil and, low and behold, butter has good amounts of this. You can also buy it in pure form from amazon. Transfats: you might aswell just eat high carb if you're consuming these.

Interesting, MCTs are saturated fats.

Also, beware of cooking with oils that have a low smoke point - smoking oil means free radicals, which are no good.
The last paragraph is very wrong, or I don't remember high school biology. So please correct me if I'm wrong.

Humans aren't evolving in response to their environment: they change the environment to suit them.

And anyway, selection doesn't really work in a few generation, and definitely not if what you are trying to select out doesn't change how many kids you might have.

By the time you die from heart disease, you've probably had all the kids you were going to.
Moody's downgrades France
Both of these did not allow other browser when they were released, today both work fine on FF.

Details on why Inbox wasn't available at first are available in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8606879
If the layout isn't "dirty" from a change, then it doesn't need to reflow.
What did Udacity say that is comparable to "sure fire way to make you a rockstar"?
What is your EU citizenship? Which EU country do you want to move to?

"Can he find any job in EU" Maybe, it depends on what he can do.

I'm pretty sure you won't be able to get him a visa before getting married.
I think the distinction here is between "cost to provide education" and "direct costs to students." You can, through government subsidy, have an expensive-to-provide education delivered at a low cost to students.

Most public universities around the globe that are cheap to students are cheap because of these subsidies. Udacity, if you believe is providing a comparable good, is going the cheap-to-provide route. Admirable if it works, because we can educate the masses without spending a lot as a society.

As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in academia (masters, first half of phd), I see areas where Udacity is a good substitute, and areas where it is not. If you're an undergrad sitting in the back row of a lecture hall, why not Udacity? If you're a grad student doing research, obviously not. If you're a grad student doing advanced coursework... maybe?
Ancient manuscript pieced together after Cairo Museum find
Why Are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks?
On the other hand, the commitment to a MOOC's schedule can help people stay focused on the course and see it through even if they lose interest at points.

For example: Coursera's NAND2Tetris class imposed a schedule that kept me on track, even when I 'didn't want' to work on it.

The same thing's happening again with their MOS transistor class [1]. I never had a completely firm grasp on semiconductor basics in undergrad, and now I've got the motivation to go back and read through old notes, correct misunderstandings, and so on.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/mosfet
> the club is aiming to purchase a Concorde currently stationed near Orly Airport in Paris

Here it is on Street View:
https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.715764,2.3727748,3a,75y,274.5...

and here's a picture I took of it a year ago:
http://imgur.com/UtD294i

It doesn't appear to be in great shape.
You could see this as the free market in the US responding and allowing viable competition for the product of higher education. The commercial MOOC providers can't compete in Europe against government subsidized education.
Well, yes, that's half of it. The other half is that social status is more implicit here.
With each one of these products it's clear that they weren't produced by the "figureheads". the iPhone is not a Tim Cook/Steve Jobs product but an Apple product. This isn't the case with music.
> It seems it's mostly the US having an issue in education costs.

Are the prices in the US not relative to the GDP per capita? $3k-$4k USD might be cheap in the US but that money means a lot more in different economies.
Well said.

Maybe some of these individuals forget that many of us were on the Internet well before it became as "commercial" as it is now. The bulk of the content came from users that didn't expect or receive any payment for their writing...much like many of the biggest sites today: Reddit, etc. What wasn't around was shitty, click-bait junk written for no reason other than to drive ad impressions.

If 70% of what's on the web died due to lack of ad revenue, I don't think society would suffer some huge loss. Stating that ads are required to support content is begging the question; if people don't want to pay for it, the content isn't worth anything to begin with.
I write a lot of posts on HN about technology, but if you search on hn.algolia.com for "Rahim Nathwani technology" (without the quotes) you won't see many results, as I don't use the word 'technology' in each comment.

Have you tried reducing the number of terms in your search? Or perhaps only search for "Keith Rollin" but within specific groups?
I think the difference is that the actors in movies aren't trying to give the impression that they wrote the script, whereas musicians talk about "their" songs like they conceived them in a process of true artistic expression. Revealing that they are actually manufactured in a formulaic manner by the same people who wrote all the other hit songs can leave a sour taste in the mouth of a fan who is perhaps emotionally invested in a song or artist...
Yes ,i meant the iPhone as something Apple built.
Go for wild catched cod (for example) from the Atlantic or Pacific instead, the food given to the Salmon contains large quantities of fish caught in the Baltic sea which is more or less unfit for human consumption.
Thanks for correcting me. I am wondering if IOS could add a new feature to detect bad apps.

For example IOS could give an operation history summary for each App. The list could be something like this:

APP1:

Photo ---- read ? times write ? times

Contact ---- ...

sms ---- ...

device ID ---- ...

APP2:

Photo ---- read ? times write ? times

Contact ---- ...

sms ---- ...

device ID ---- ...

customer can turn on/off this feature.

I believe if IOS have this feature, it will be much easier for IOS user to find out the bad APP.
Is that it, though? I was under the impression that the rich flew private for time savings not because they actually enjoy the flight that much. Put me in a cattle car for an hour over a private jet for seven hours any day.
> productor

You're probably looking for the English work 'producer'.
Is this a widespread problem? Is it mainly ISP's DNS servers which don't respect TTLs? Does anyone gain (e.g. by saving bandwidth) by caching DNS entries for longer?
Which popular/mainstream Android apps were taken down from Google Play due to malware?

I'll grant you third party Android app stores and side loading is more dangerous than iOS - but in the case of Google Play vs iTunes it seems like Google Play is safer.
I agree that some fans might have a negative reaction to realizing that the performers don't write their own music, but it's hardly a secret. Songwriting credits exist for a reason.

Even if they do find that out, the music is still enjoyable. I'm literally listening to mass-produced music as I write this comment, fully aware that it's produced but still enjoying it.
They just like to make copious amounts of money and stay quiet.
I don't know why we're calling the USSR socialist; is it because they said they were socialist? There are plenty of dictatorial regimes that call themselves democratic republics, too. The USSR was structured like one massive corporation: Everything was owned by the government and the government bureaucracy functioned much like a corporate bureaucracy.

Libertarian socialists sometimes call states like the USSR state capitalist, because economic activity is still dictated by a top-down hierarchy allocating capital and exploiting workers.

Optimal is not the word you want to use, by the way. Not even free markets are optimal, that's why economists talk about 'market failures'.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States” (Asimov, 1980) [pdf]
One of thing to watch out for when using RFs is when your test set doesn't have identical factor levels as your training data. Often can actually lead to a significant bias in the prediction. Can't find a great paper on this but some discussion here:http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/29446/random-forest...
Atomo – Clojure's Atom Implementation in JavaScript
I do think that smoked salmon makes better sushi than raw.
Volkswagen ordered to recall 500,000 cars after software masks emissions
I would. Just looking at CS, for example, on OCW you can get the any course needed for a degree (or even some graduate degrees). In contrast, on edX the vast majority of the courses are either introductory, sub-introductory (e.g. Computing: Art, Magic and Science) or an intro to <random MS tech>. Even when filtering down to "advanced" the top result is a freshman level course—Data Structures.

Furthermore OCW is rigorous. It includes actual homework assignments given and final exams from previous classes of MIT students. Coursera and edX are extremely focused on videos, which IMO are not the most time-efficient or thorough way to learn. The one area in which Coursera and edX shine is their automated program graders.

On the whole, I would say that if you want to learn math, CS or any hard science and you hope to actually pass a subject GRE, apply to grad school or build a truly strong foundation, then OCW wins hands down. If you want to pick up a new programming language or tool, especially one from Microsoft, then use edX (or Coursera).
Doesn't go's GC work as well as it does because it's a 'stop the world' single-threaded implementation?
Tuna's much harder to farm (the fry have a tendency to kill themselves in inventive ways), but they've figured it out in recent years.
Your idea that bitcoin is either legally currency or legally some other thing ignores reality: different laws can have different definitions of the same terms, and categories in the same law can be overlapping rather than exclusive.

The idea that, for all legal purposes, bitcoin must either be "currency" and nothing else, out some other single thing and not "currency" is simply wrong as a matter of law.

Particularly, as regards the CFTC action, note that currencies in general are commodities as that term related to CFTC authority, and that forex trading is already regulated by the CFTC.

If you want to argue that some of the actions of executive bodies are inconsistent with the definitions in the statutes which give them regulatory authority, feel free to cite the statutes and do so.
I don't think the coordination is the problem, frankly, it seems like an ideological red herring (specifically, I don't think it really matters whether you have oligopolistic or free market prices). "Socialist" countries had a kind of "internal market", although it tended to be very regulated. In particular, price mechanism was present, so the information was available to decision makers. I think there were two other causes:

1. The power structure, on the state level and "business" level, not accountable enough to the people it should serve - no democracy, no consumer choice. The latter was somewhat reduced in the businesses that exported (usually to the third world).

2. Tendency of the regulators to "cut down" the expenses and designating single company to produce certain thing as a means to save resources. This caused huge delays in production as the individual delays accumulated, and in fact caused waste. (I think it's actually redundancy, not efficiency per se, of free markets that is one of the causes of their resulting efficiency.)

Democracy and being able to start independent business (which is not the same as free market or capitalism!) seem to be the two main advantages of the West compared to the East. But you can also see that both problems plague large enterprises in the West, yet despite that they are workhorses of the economy. You can also see that many very successful countries have oligopolies, state-owned enterprises, strong unions, and lots of regulation in general.

I just decided to recheck the thread because I thought that parent asked something yet different, namely, how could innovation happen in collectivist system (whatever that is). I assure you there was plenty of innovation going on in the "socialist" countries; the problem was getting things approved, tested, and produced by the people who decided about resources. Similar challenges are faced by innovators at the bottom in a large corporation.
Adobe threatens GHacks
Depends on your tastes. The farmed stuff has a higher fat content, which tends to be more palatable in sushi.
Why sitting is killing us
I'm not sure I entirely agree.

Steve Jobs was definitely portrayed as an iPhone figurehead. His personal image was highly tied to the Apple products. Likewise, movies put leading actors/directors forward as figureheads for the production.

However, I do agree that there is more widespread misunderstanding of how music is made. What I don't agree with is that this misunderstanding is essential to the popularity or enjoyment of music.

I'm fully aware that music is produced and I still enjoy listening to it.

Or take the example of K-pop/J-pop, which is more overtly produced than American music. In some cases, fans literally vote on who gets to be included in the band. Despite the "production" process being in full view, fans still love the music and artists.
I lived there for two years and clearly remember it being labelled as 鮭 (while painstakingly learning the words and characters too for different common foods as well). Granted, this was about 10 years ago, so maybe it has changed?
I have Becz and Endless Summer, they find their way into the mix now and then as well :)
A bigger-picture "unreasonable effectiveness" article would be "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Weighted Majority Votes in Machine Learning."

This Monday I'm publishing a post on [1] that gives some rigorous explanation for this, which essentially covers the results of this paper [2] whose main theorem is a claim about majority voting schemes.

[1]: http://jeremykun.com/

[2]: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~yfreund/papers/BoostingtheMargin.pdf
Trying it on Firefox, I couldn't get anything to happen. Under Chrome, I did see some text come up, but nothing played. I suspect in the latter case it's waiting on Wikipedia resources, but it was hard to tell. I love the idea; perhaps a "please wait" or "buffering" or some similar thing would help?

I also agree that the timelines were backwards from what I expected. If you look at existing timelines, almost everything has earlier dates to the left:

https://www.google.com/search?q=timeline&hs=ijL&channel=fs&s...
Time to spend some karma.

Literature like this makes me happy, because it is further evidence that the alarmists have very little material left. Mercifully we may have hit the high-water mark of this generation of misanthropic environmentalist nonsense and can now enjoy several decades of joking about it. The "Recursive Fury" paper[0] was probably the actual high-water mark, and this looks like pretty much the same tactic.

The fact remains that current proxy studies are thoroughly insufficient as p̶r̶o̶o̶f̶ evidence of any long-term trend we can expect to continue in a non-linear system as complex as the global climate.

I guess these folks think I must be unhappy about the "necessary solution" (oh hey, it turns out to be reorganizing society according to their political beliefs!) but that amounts to an elaborate and silly ad hominem, nothing more. I think I'll write more about the "psychology journal ad-hominem" because it has become annoyingly common in recent years.

The science of climate is not settled, and will not be settled in your lifetime. Get used to it.

[0]http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00...
Unhashed passwords means a SQL injection hole goes from "I can read some interesting transaction histories and balances" to "I can log in and make bank transfers in everyone's account". There's a reason bcrypt one-way hashing is the recommended standard for any web app.
I think there's certainly room for Vespa-like scooters in the transportation ecosystem.
TIL learning new skills can be considered worst career move ever.
Python Humour: Braces in Python
Racists
Maybe. It's partly just perception I'm sure, but I was late-teens/early-20s during Slashdot's heyday, and generally got the impression most of the commenters were older than me. I am thirtysomething now and have the impression most of the commenters are younger. So I don't know if it's literally the same audience -- obviously some of it is, as I'm here, but overall how many of the HN posters were also Slashdot posters in 1999 or 2000?