skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The US (and to a greater extent, the West) never really grew out of mercantilism... the "capitalism" only shines through when it's convenient propaganda (spreading democracy and capitalism, one bomb at a time!) or when there's vast amounts of money to be made in ethically dubious circumstances (like doing business with Nazis) and some sort of justification is needed.
Thanks for your feedback! I took out the use of localStorage for now, because it didn't really have any benefit. I also tested using the '--disable-local-storage' option, and it seemed to be working fine. Let me know if it doesn't for you.
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The only broader purpose is "fun".
I have used console based email exclusively, and continuously, since 1993, with (al)pine.

It is tremendously efficient and works very well over low bandwidth links which, even in 2015, one encounters from time to time.

The key aspect of this setup, however, is that no mail is stored locally at all - I connect to a co-located server (you could also use a VPS) over SSH and run alpine on the remote system. Two very nice things are accomplished here:

1. No email on my local system - nothing to lose, nothing to be confiscated or intercepted or lost.

2. Many, many emails do not traverse the Internet at all. If I send email to an rsync.net coworker, that email is nothing but a local copy operation - it never travels across any network.

So I am excited and interested to see a console email client like this, especially since (al)pine is not really maintained and has fallen behind a bit in usability ... but I question the use-case of running it locally.
Quoth Yale's website:

"Yale does not require students to take out loans for their education. Instead, Yale meets 100% of demonstrated need for all admitted students with a financial aid package consisting of need-based scholarships, term-time employment, and a student income contribution."

http://admissions.yale.edu/financial-aid-prospective-student...

So...Yale does what Stanford does already...
Not software decentralization.
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That isn't really what that test is about. They don't think there's a 99% or even 80% chance that it's a bomb. They think there might be a 0.0001% chance that it's a bomb so they're going to test (along with hundreds, thousands and eventually millions of others that nobody thinks might be bomb) just to put off anybody thinking that this is an effective way to smuggle a bomb onto a plane.
in the school where I most recently taught, there was an explicit expectation that teachers could use district computers for personal business when on break. Being on facebook when they had kids in the room would be an entirely different matter.

The internet was also heavily monitored, with a proxy server that required a login to get to forbidden sites. Our IT guy had a pretty good idea of when teachers were getting on facebook etc.
How about americans stop being so freaking scared of everything..? huh?
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And then he cant get any jobs. Gets so frustrated he actually builds a bomb..and well..you get the point.

The amount of stupidity perpetuated by these administrators and the police is astounding. Never underestimate the poor taste of public authority. Most of their reasons tend to be 'We needed to lay down the law first to assert dominance. That's how we could then subvert the broader scope of his actions. Then we teach him about sacrifice, plea-bargaining. And like a good boy, he says sorry, gets his slap on the wrist, and everybody wins because he learns to respect authority, and be a good little automaton Johnnyboy!"
Maybe its just me, but it appears to be ios only? I can't seem to find a link to use it anywhere on the landing page.
I will try to give this advice in the gentlest way possible both because it isn't a big deal, and to avoid a thread-destroying argument: Might I suggest you adopt a different phrase (which I see you've used a few times just in this conversation) other than "thanks man"? I'm not offended by it, and most other people probably wouldn't be either, but it does strike me as making the unfortunate assumption that everyone on this forum is a man. (I know that many people who use the word "man" in this way don't really mean to be referring to literal males. I'm one of them, in fact. I have been known to call my wife 'man.' But the impression will remain, for some--especially among people who don't know you.)

I'm sure you don't mean to offend, and you're just trying to be friendly and appreciative--and I would not blame you for bristling a bit at an off-topic scolding by the PC police. But it would cost you nothing to just say "thanks," and it could save you some grief in the future.

Just a thought from a friend.

Edit - I should have said this first: the service seems really cool. I'll try it next time I travel.
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One takeaway from the film "The Street Stops Here" ( which is a documentary of an extreme outlier teacher/coach, so caveat caveat ) is that it takes a strong sense of dedication to make a difference in education.

The person in question - coach Bob Hurley, in a decaying New Jersey town - is a retired parole officer, and he's there to keep kids out of prison. So this is is his white whale.

I don't think you can buy that, but you might be able to buy furniture - support systems, assistance, the like - to keep it from being killed off. Instead, we get six-sigma metrification which may well make it worse. At least it Heisenbugs the curriculum and distracts from actual teaching.

Something must be done, this is something, this must be done...

Then again, the canonical teacher is Socrates, and he was forced to drink hemlock...

I think people get embarrassed by being discarded by the sorting-machine and resent the system, even when it's their kids in it. We don't really value education for its own sake - it must be shown to be in service of other societal goals - mainly economic goals. That can get out of control quickly.
Similarly, OS X Yosemite came out quite a while after iOS 7.
This is why I have an issue with Project Zero. You will NEVER patch all the 0days. There are only a few bugs that I've seen that were so impactful (Heartbleed for example) that it made a massive impact to release and patch it. And as you implied, patching an 0day often publicizes a new vulnerable attack surface with new bugs to follow.

The real way to fix security issues isn't to find new exploits and expose them. It's to architect new ways to prevent whole families of exploits from being possible. I've only really seen Project Zero do one sort of recommendation in this way. Outside of that, I don't feel that them finding 0days and releasing them is actually a significant improvement on security because they aren't even close to plugging all of the holes (or even enough to really make a difference).
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> What's more disgusting is the US has no law regarding paid parental leave[1]. Nearly every other country in the world does. If your company is giving you paid parental leave in the US, it's actually a nice benefit!

This is somewhat true, and somewhat misleading: the US national government has a more limited role than many other national governments, with much that would be done by national governments in other nations being done by state governments in the US. Several US States -- perhaps most relevant to HN, given the tech industry focus, California is among them -- do have paid parental leave requirements (whether its directly employer paid or paid through disability insurance.)
No one I know has ever freaked out about paying taxes for education. They are, however, skeptical that the local school system which receives those taxes is wisely using those funds to provide education.

They have good reason. Much of the money poured into public schooling in the U.S. goes to administration and overhead rather than the direct costs of teaching and student evaluation.

Many parents in this country are desperate to get their children the best education they can, within a certainly dysfunctional, and possibly also corrupt, system.

Part of the problem is that the funding is largely dissociated from effectiveness. The people spending the money have no vested interest in seeing that it is spent appropriately, for the benefit of the children--and the community they will be a part of when they eventually cease to be students.

I am not proposing any fixes. I am simply agreeing with my parent post. Every parent knows that raising local taxes to throw more money at their local schools will not solve anything. Richer neighborhoods will have to subsidize the schools in poorer neighborhoods in order to provide equal access to educational resources to all children.

If you want your kids to have extra opportunities, you can voluntarily give your own money to the PTA for the school they attend. Clearly, having to pay to remove the dents in the school-owned band instruments is a problem of a completely different order of magnitude from students in the classroom not having textbooks, or paper and pencils. Equally clearly, it is a disservice for Louisiana students to get pseudoreligious instruction in science class, as Massachusetts students learn without political interference.

I'm not a socialist, but it is blindingly obvious to me that if the state is to provide public education in any form, it needs to provide equal resources to everyone. It cannot select winners and losers by giving more money to schools where the children of richer people attend, and less money to schools where the children of poorer people attend.

As PP stated, attaching an equal dollar amount to each student, for the sole purpose of paying educational expenses, is one way to improve upon the existing system. It is not necessarily the best way, but better is a good first step on the voyage to good.
Grunt work gets more expensive when people aren't desperate for work, and that seems fair.
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CUSIP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia
Can you give sources for your stats? For instance, when I looked at the BLS for the unemployment rate for people with four year degrees this morning, it did not appear to be U6 (which was listed as a separate metric) and furthermore only accounted for people who were at least 25 years old.

I think that it's reasonable to assume that the average college grad is < 25, so that statistic doesn't necessarily reflect the experience of the recently graduated.

If you take people with high school or higher education who are > 25, there are 5.5 million unemployed. I'd be curious to know what that number changes to if you lower the age to 22 or so.

See http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm
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“they looked like scrap metal to anybody but me”

What nonsense, I hope he was misquoted.. Like the linked video says, he bought them in Chicago from Joell Hays, another vinyl junkie (and all-around nice guy) that held on to them for a decade, but couldn't get the funds together to restore them all.

I can't understand why every story about vinyl's resurgence needs to make the story into some sort of mythic "rediscovery". My label's been putting out vinyl for years, the only difference is that now there's a 6-month waiting list at the plant. :)
Well, we can imagine another world where we still have superpowers with nukes pointed at each other but without big civil collaborative science projects going on between them.

Both worlds could end up in an all-out nuclear war, but which one do you think is more likely?
Of course the difference here is Woz both fully intended mischief, knew he could get in trouble, but in general had the expectation that he would get away with it in the long term.
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After checking RAM usage, I'd say both.
dumb stuff

My wife was on the advisory committee for a local middle school that's struggling. One winner is that they bought SmartBoards for a bunch of classrooms but didn't get stands for them, so they just mothballed them for a year until they could buy stands with the next year's budget.
"The average American currently eats 126 grams of sugar a day—though most don't realize it. Much of that amount comes from the refined sugars added to our foods during manufacturing."

"foods during manufacturing" -- that's the problem -- foods manufactured, not grown.
Database and file updates can be treated as a part of page's output.
Yale does have a comparable program.

http://admissions.yale.edu/financial-aid

Families don't have to pay if they make less than 65k.

Stanford's program is similar. Their 125k threshold is for not paying tuition, but a family making 125k is expected to pay for room and board.
This post is a living embodiment of this CGP Grey video[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Because I travel a lot and use local SIM cards.
Racism is currently fashionable in the press and it plays to a core progressive narrative. The people doing so mean well, but unfortunately don't realize the price of this intellectual laziness is to completely alienate anybody else. People mostly care about problems that apply to themselves, so framing a problem as happening to "others" is actually extremely counter productive.

PS: read for understanding instead of just trying to stoke your fauxrage.
Race data in the US typically groups Middle Eastern people into the white box. And I think people are specifically calling out perceived anti Muslim bias. Even though almost all domestic terror attacks are done by white men
> That couldn't be tested before today

Why not? Apple must have internal tools to test this.
By this argument we should just accept that "communism" involves the widespread murder of political enemies, as that has always happened in "communist" countries.
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I wonder if anybody even so much as plugged a typical computer used into a Kill A Watt and compared with/without SETI running.
Read this http://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Dont-about-Capitalism/dp/0...

Discusses how all free-markets are somehow government regulated.
A better reference, given the endowment is capital rather than annual output, would be national wealth.

Per capita wealth in Ethiopia is close to $500, with 94 million people. They have around $45-$50 billion in wealth.
I only recently started sharing mine. I decided there was no real reason not to, and possibly some advantages in doing so. For one, it lets anyone looking at my GitHub profile know what kinds of things I'm into, beyond my "primary" projects. And it opens up the possibility of collaborating with friends and acquaintances (or, as far as that goes, total strangers) on some interesting stuff. I also find it motivational, especially when I work on increasing length of my "streak" of activity on GitHub.
I feel for your father, and mother. I hope they weather the storm.

I was going to mention, that if they are proactive; they might be able to keep their health care expenditures reasonable if they apply to Minnesota's department of health and human services. They will need to spend down assets, but they can usually keep their house, and car. (I know in California, the quality of medical care has gotten much better with the funds from the health care act--much better.)

I just noticed that Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's (R) recent executive order intended to stop the implementation of federal health care reform in Minnesota? I just don't get his thinking? He's refusing millions in free money?

Again, I hope your father doesn't loose his job. I went to Sonoma State university, and all the business graduates went straight HP to fill out job applications. The company's corporate office was within throwing distance. After I graduated, the number one question was, "When are you going to apply to HP?" I hated anything related to tech back then, but the people who got jobs seemed pretty happy. Back then it was a pretty secure job.

I still cringe whenever I hear Carlie Fiorina brag about her tenure at HP. You don't brag when you pretty much ruin a company?

I had an difficult relationship with my father too.
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The case seems a little reminiscent of what happened to Aaron Swartz, large bureaucracy is unable to understand what someone is doing and so it attacks them.
Fortunately it appears that the outcome will not be tragic.
This is really important work, hopefully it is completed as soon as possible.

It basically allows multiple reputable people to independently build the code and sign a statement that a given source code hash produces a given binary hash (and that the source code hash is the correct one for a given package), and have the presence of at least a certain amount of these signatures be verified on package installation.

This means that it will no longer be possible to backdoor Debian without changing source code by compromising the main build infrastructure.
> 'I'm not sure where you got this from either.'

The police officer was quoted as saying he was "passive aggressive" when questioned about the device.
> Update at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday: At a press conference this morning, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing "a hoax bomb" to school -- and not a clock, as Mohamed said he repeatedly told his teachers.

> But, Boyd said, "we are confident it's not an explosive device" intended to cause "alarm." Rather, he said, officers determined it was "a hoax bomb" and a "naive accident."

> As a result, he said, no charges will be filed against Ahmed, and "the case is considered closed." He also said "the reaction would have been the same regardless" of the student's skin color.
What are these disturbing lines of thought?
This question is not intended at all to be snarky. Seriously.

And then you'll hire them?

Gets complicated fast, dunnit?
My thinking is when you require a day of someone, or anything above 2 hours, you pay them. That is whether or not you hire them.
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It's sad how (in the US) right-wing people have managed to completely overshadow the long and rich history of Libertarianism, both in Europe and in the US - though to be fair, liberals had already done to the same to them :)
This is the logical result of "if you see something, say something."

And, I can assure you that almost any science fair project found in a bathroom or under a car would look suspicious. So would a backpack or cardboard box.
In my very similar case, I was suspended and subsequently offered to be sued or to quit school by the school board in my Mississippi hometown (100-200k pop). It was in 11th grade in 2002-2003. My mother was not even involved. I quit, because we were a poor family raking in $600/mo. Sue was an unfathomable word. Things worked out for me, but that's dumb luck.

My criminal case? I ran the ping -t from a windows cmd prompt to see if an IRC server (I administrated) had rebooted. Screenshot evidence of my hardship on their servers and the 'attack' on my own server could not be argued.

My earlier suspension (1064 pop town in MS) was for bringing a flute made from cane to school. It was a project item for art where we had to make a musical instrument. The cane was considered a physical assault device. I was suspended, had to walk home, and faced 3 months of Saturday school. My art teacher was the one who claimed it was a weapon.

My wife was driven home by the school principal (alone at 14) in the first town because she 'appeared drugged', and no parents were there and she was left on the porch. She was given a Benadryl for allergies. She was suspended afterwards.
Yale -- like a lot of elite private schools -- has very comprehensive need-based financial aid that often covers full costs. Despite the higher nominal tuition, its usually practically cheaper for a low- to moderate-income student who can get into such a school to pay less out of their own/parent funds (including both out-of-pocket and loans) than they would if they went to a nominally cheaper public university. This has been true of elite universities in general for decades.
Wrong decade...
You don't need more than a year's buffer in a checking account, and target inflation is insignificant at the timescale of a year. It only discourages long-term uninvested money.
Yale already does that. Tuition at top universities is essentially a steeply progressive tax. If you're a Rockefeller you pay the sticker price. Everybody else gets a discount.
sorry I meant not understandable as a blanket policy especially since this is at a school.

I would expect the school (being a place with lots of teachers) to understand that you get the parent to sign the document - with legally enforceable terms that the parent is responsible for whatever the kid does.

That's what a kindergarden - grade 8 elementary school field trip permission form looks like!

I'm sure they've made and processed hundreds of thousands of these forms before. It's just not understandable why they wouldn't do something similar with this open house.
Do people really equate Google and GM because of the amount of 'mental space' they take? I would imagine people look at market cap or revenue or pretax earnings etc.
Apparently un-pairing and pairing again fixes the issue, so will give this a try.
Looks like he's been invited to the White House:

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656
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14yr old arrested for a clock, Dad ran for president in Sudan (finished 4th)
We could end child abuse in this country (indoors anyway) if we just require 24/7 monitoring of every room in every building.
Deflation would evaporate the money supply in months. It won't be allowed to happen as it is "game over".
No he didn't. He argued that we need inflation to stop hoarding of money and make people spend their money and create activity in the economy. This is important because in the economy as a whole TotalSpending == TotalIncome
And as usual, the whole reason that this "liability law" existed in the first place was because Merkel was in bed with some green guy named Benjamin. And what's funny is the repeal is only happening because of monetary interests as well. I guess the movie/music industry isn't paying as much as the other guys offered! Sad to know that Merkel has made Germany into a mushroom tied to a string.
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Trying to keep the baby alive, candy subscribers supplied with sweets and when I have a free market ment, writing a subscription box ebook.
Thanks for the reply.

A demo with sample data would be best if possible... It would let me explore what Zenit does while you can work to convince me how awesome it is and how much it will help me.
Any freelance data scientists here?
I would think some enterprising employment lawyer would smell blood and there would then be a wrongful termination suit.
I like them. Reminds me of old times (lands of lore) and makes it possible to play this on my phone.
I would bet that my newsreader uses booth less RAM and less disk space. This is what feeds were invented for. Why should I install that much bloat just for reading HN?
Well, if the payment is specified in gold, it will be a very long time before that medium is not available.
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In PostgreSQL, you can set the SERIALIZABLE isolation level for the whole database, put a retry loop around all database transactions and completely stop worrying about concurrency issues.

I think all database applications should be written like this at least until performance starts being an issue.