skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think objectivity and salesmanship are mutually exclusive. I've seen teachers make learning material really interesting without having to sacrifice neutrality. They simply make me care about the material - good or bad.

OP seems to be encouraging teachers to "sell" the idea that the material they're teaching is important. If you don't make someone emotionally investing in learning the material, they'll forget 60% of it (on average). If you don't sell the material, it won't matter whether you were completely objective because students will forget most of what you taught them.

I agree that it's really important for teachers to encourage critical thinking. I just think that it's possible for teachers to encourage critical thinking while still selling the fact that you should care about the material.
Not enough info on the site to make it compelling.
> Don't you have to transfer the IP at something approaching fair market value to the tax haven corporation?

So here's the deal. "Transfer pricing" is a thing, and it's what you're supposedly allowed to sell stuff at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing

So if you sell something on the open market anywhere, you can't sell it to your foreign subsidiary or owner for too much more or less than the open market price. But things get dicey when you're talking IP: patents and trademarks don't trade on the open market but are absolutely vital for a subsidiary to be alive, right? Amazon isn't Amazon if it can't call itself "Amazon".

The other trick is to offer some kind of service that's difficult to precisely quantify like having an accounting or service center in one country that every foreign subsidiary is required to pay for. It might not be a reasonable price but the cost of auditing all the call center records to find out it's costing $3/minute (on average) for a particular US based company to outsource its support calls to somewhere instead of $0.10/minute is going to be very steep. Do this across a few different lines of corporate support and your profit hiding is accomplished.
It's still a fluid though, so applying a force doesn't necessarily compress it. Think about dropping an egg into water.

I wonder if you could convert all the deceleration into compression using water though.
Lovely. Would be swell if you could plug it straight into a Dropbox folder.
Hi, I used to take adderal for ADD when I was in my early 20s.

40 mg/day is a LOT... who put you on that dose? I was taking 10-20 mg/day and it usually left me feeling totally zonked. (I'm about 200 lbs) Taking 40 mg was a sure-fire way to spend the day grinding my teeth and babbling frantically.

I definitely experienced paranoia, and tended to fixate on things outside my sphere of influence, which lead to feelings of helplessness and despair. At the time I thought I was seeing things more clearly.

After a while I realized that while adderal was effective at improving performance in rote tasks, it messed pretty severely with abstract reasoning. I ditched it cold turkey one day and never went back. Surprisingly there were no withdrawal effects. After stopping its use, my grades in university level math and computer science improved dramatically.

I now believe that psychiatrists are wrong about prescribing adderal for ADD, and that adderal is not a safe or effective long-term treatment. Frankly, I think the whole field is either in denial, or corrupted by financial incentives.

Some people will tell you that you need someone to objectively evaluate your mental state, but I don't believe such an analysis is truly possible. Best-case, you'll get an educated guess and some good advice. Worst-case, someone will try to prescribe you even more drugs. So before you do that, quit taking speed, and exercise regularly. You might be surprised by how much better you feel.
Wow, love your bio: "These days I mostly travel and work on random stuff that I find interesting. I'm not really looking for employment, but I've always wanted to work at NASA and/or Google. So if you're NASA and/or Google HR, drop me a line ;]"

I wish I had that freedom.
Depends on the public art: globally, much of that is government propagandizing its subject population (subtly or not) in a way which is no better -- and potentially much worse -- than typical corporate advertising.
I interviewed with Theranos a year ago. It seems like one of their front-end teams is very Indian and was only looking to bring in Indians. I asked a very simple question like, "What is the product that your team is working on?" He gave me a curt answer, "We don't build products, we build labs."

Uh, okayyy...So, I guess he doesn't understand that labs are the company's products. To twist people's words like that is simply rude and it's not a great team to work with.
Hint for the coin puzzle (rot13): As mentioned in the article, gur fbyhgvba trarenyvmrf gb nal cbjre bs guerr, gubhtu gur ahzore bs jrvtuvatf jvyy bs pbhefr inel.

Solution (rot13): Fcyvg gur pbvaf vagb guerr tebhcf bs guerr. Chg gjb tebhcf ba gur gjb fvqrf bs gur fpnyr, yrnivat gur guveq bss. Vs gurl ner rdhny va jrvtug, gur snxr pbva vf va gur guveq tebhc. Bgurejvfr vg vf va gur yvtugre bs gur gjb.

Qvfpneq gur tebhcf gur snxr vfa'g va. Chg gjb bs gur erznvavat pbvaf ba gur gjb fvqrf bs gur fpnyr. Ntnva, vs gurl ner rdhny va jrvtug, gur snxr vf gur guveq; bgurejvfr vg vf gur yvtugre bs gur gjb.

Guvf vf n grkgobbx qvivqr-naq-pbadhre nytbevguz. Gur xrl vafvtug vf gung lbh pna qvivqr ol n snpgbe bs guerr, abg whfg gjb.
Or some nice svg templates that can be easily laser-cut...
Possibly, although if you were to think about the purpose of a CAPTCHA, wouldn't it run roughly like this:

To ensure that a given submission is the affirmative action of an individual human being.

And, if an individual human being stuck with a $100 parking ticket has asked Fixed to send an appeal on his behalf, and Fixed has a script that fulfills the CAPTCHA, and Fixed never does this without being hired and paid by a unique individual, then I don't think the purpose of the CAPTCHA is being violated at all.
Sure. And CPython isn't a language. It's the canonical Python implementation that is used 99% of the time.

When it comes to non-browser production code (e.g. servers), it's NodeJS or nothing.
really cool and I also learned a new way to check dependencies under bash:

command -v convert >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ImageMagick is a required dependency, aborting..." >&2; exit 1; }
This is an updated version of a paper Bernstein and his team wrote a year ago, known in the community as "BADA55".

Bernstein is talking about curve standards. The idea Bernstein is discussing is (his term) curve "rigidity". A rigid curve standard can generate only one or a very few curves. A non-rigid generation procedure might generate millions or billions of different curves. That's bad news, because it means that corrupt standards bodies can search those billions of curves for one with a weakness that only they know about.

The most popular curve standard is NIST's. NIST's curves aren't rigid at all: they start with a random seed. There are as many possible curves you can generate as there are seeds.

Now, we've known for a long time that we want rigid curve generation. The second-most-popular curve standard, the Brainpool curves, attempt rigidity. Bernstein doesn't like the Brainpool curves. BADA55 criticizes Brainpool and other standards for attempting but not fully achieving rigidity. Most rigidity attempts involve starting from some mathematical constant, like the digits or pi or stuff like that. The basic logic of BADA55 is that there are too many constants and variants on constants to meaningfully constrain curve generation. The good guys will say they're starting from pi, and the bad guys will just respond that they're using e, the square root of 2, and sin(2). As long as the bad guys can justify a couple million different combinations of constants, they will have enough search space to find weak curves.

Since Bernstein doesn't know any secret curve vulnerabilities (or isn't publishing them), he models curve vulnerabilities by searching for curves that begin with the bytes B:A:D:A:5:5. If you can make "badass", the logic goes, you can make any evil curve.

The historical context of this paper is worth knowing. There's an ongoing effort to standardize and deploy Curve25519, Bernstein's (very excellent) curve standard. Indeed, it is likely that within a year or two, Curve25519 will be the second-most widely deployed curve on the Internet, because browser vendors appear happy to adopt it (it's fast in software, NIST didn't produce it, and has many good implementations).

But when Curve25519 went to the IETF/IRTF, there was pushback: some people felt the Brainpool curves should be standardized, and Microsoft felt like what should be standardized first should be a "nothing up my sleeves" generation procedure that could produce lots of curves for IETF/IRTF. The debate on the CFRG list was pretty bitter, as was the dialog between Tanja Lange (a Curve25519-associated researcher) and Manfred Lochter (a Brainpool guy) at a recent NIST curve summit.

So the updates in this paper include consideration of the Microsoft NUMS procedure, in addition to Brainpool and ANSSI.
One of the most cheerful people I met was a guy on the commuter train about ten years ago poring over a greenbar fanfold[1] listing of COBOL code used in a gas station point-of-sale backend. I asked him about it, and he enthusiastically told me about what he was working on and how a problem had developed over night that he was going in to work on. It made me realize that software development doesn't have to be bleeding-edge to be interesting. Indeed, I thought the stability of an established COBOL ecosystem might be refreshing.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery
Reminds me of this account of ditching during a ferry flight to Hawaii:

http://www.equipped.org/1199ditch.htm
I almost did something like that. In the end, though, the other company offered just too much money.
The "moments" tab on web and iOS is really engaging and pretty easy to peruse trending/relevant news by category. I like that this was released as part of the existing Twitter app and not a standalone product.
> One of the most common compounds on the planet earth

If the price of water coming in the one pipe that leads to your hose would be hiked by 100x, you would proably be upset. It's both very difficult to provide a functioning market because of infrastructure, and people would pay almost infinitely for clean water.
The Nobel Prize Goes to Angus Deaton
Seconded - great example of how a game mechanic can be used to highlight how real world incentives play out.
Oh, I do agree Lisp is the simplest. No contest there. Hm, I guess it may be because building a new language (with some interesting properties) was my master thesis and it was really unpleasant. I guess I am reluctant to realize how much easier it would have been with a lisp.
Just bought a used paperback version from Amazon, thanks!
FYI: STM is available for Common Lisp, including in the JVM

https://github.com/cosmos72/stmx
My wife and I quit our SF Bay Area jobs and traveled for a little over 2 years. We backpacked abroad, restored a VW Bus and drove it around the US, and explored the Bahamas on our sailboat.

One of my biggest takeaways from our trip - which I think is extremely relevant to the message here - is that my goal will never be to NOT work. Not ever - even in retirement. The consensus strategy of spending 40+ hours of every week of your life saving up so you can enjoy retirement is, to me, a broken model. We met so many people who followed that model only to realize they didn't have the health or energy to enjoy all that they had worked a lifetime for. It's heartbreaking.

Work is a GOOD thing. The preferred solution - and I realize this is a high bar that we're beyond fortunate to even consider(more on that at the end) - is to find something you're passionate about and you wake up every day wanting to do. Obviously that's the old cliche of just doing what you love, but it turns out I'm one of those dullards who has to learn some of the cliche life-pro-tips through experience to truly understand them.

I'm a solo founder on a business that's just entering private beta, so I know first-hand that there's an entirely different discussion about delayed gratification and working at an unsustainable pace in the short term to build something meaningful in the long term... and that gets complicated. There's no rule of thumb that I know of.

I could write a book about this discussion, but in sum: I LOVE codingdave's comment, because he used two words that my wife and I ALWAYS use when discussing this: "conscious" and "choices". These words came up in every discussion we had on our travels when the topic came up. The people we met out there didn't get there by accident. They get there because they made choices. They lived below their means. They saved. They learned new skills. They took leaps of faith. VERY few of them were wealthy.

When we talk about this, I usually start to say that everything in life is a choice; that we ALWAYS have choices, but the sad reality is that isn't true for most people. I won't turn this into a political discussion, but will simply say that it would be amazing to live in a world where even the poorest of the poor have palatable choices that they can realistically make. In our current world, those of us who ARE fortunate enough to have some palatable choices can work towards making that a reality. For those that would call that a pipe-dream, there are easily identifiable challenges like affordable childcare that are super-realistic and would go a long way in the right direction. There are amazing organizations already doing great work in that sphere.

My business is somewhat tied to this topic. It's mentioned in my comment history.

PS: A grandfathered unlimited 4g plan and a cradlepoint is GOLD on the road. :)
ArangoDB 2.7 released
It wiped my database clean?? WHY?? WHY??
See also Schrödinger's discovery of his eponymous equation.
> People in these jobs already include a large number of people who don't have a CS degree, which means that the jobs do not require a CS degree but can include related degrees. (Eg, electrical engineering.)

Or not so related degrees: I work in a "computing professions" job (in fact, a programming job), and the only degree I have is in Political Science. While that's perhaps further afield than most, I've known lots of people with degrees that weren't particularly computing related working in computing related fields. This seems especially common with people whose degrees are in the field to which computing is being applied rather than a computing-related field, but sometimes there is no relationship at all.
A relative owns some property in northern lower Michigan that had a phone since there were party lines but only got decent cell coverage sometime after 2000. So I'm not sure a landline is less likely than cellular in rural areas.

I think DSL still isn't an option, so LTE is probably the best choice there at this point (it isn't super isolated, there just aren't enough people on the road to bother putting in a close enough box).
The first part of your experience sounds very similar :). Thanks for sharing it.
Seconding what ac29 said – this obviously only makes sense if you have a power source which doesn't generate new carbon. Solar in particular could make a ton of sense if you had a viable process which could happen out in relatively cheap desert spaces, but I have no idea whether that could work with the water requirements that the article described.
If you just want a position that gives the people around them those two benefits—without assuming where the position would sit on the org chart—then you will notice there exist a lot of other, similar jobs, that do not also possess the assumption of "supervising" and "being responsible for" the output of the people around them.

For example, what you're describing fits closely to the idea of a shared administrative assistant. Or a talent agent. Or a sports coach (or "team manager", which is a misnomer.) Or a diplomatic envoy.

None of these people are the boss of the people they work with; they assist the people they work with in getting things done. They do not hire or fire the people they work with; they are not blamed for the incompetence of the people they work with; and they have no incentive to play politics with the lives of the people they work with for the sake of a promotion. Their job is purely to help their team work, and to deflect things that prevent work.

Personally, I think we could use way more of these types of "pure interfacer" people in companies; and, in so having them, the need for "managers" would decline sharply. There'd still be some managers—people whose job is to take ultimate responsibility for the output of a group, and who are thus incentivized to direct and reorganize that group. But, with the jobs of keeping the team protected and glued-together taken care of, the active role of "manager" would be reduced enough that they could either be scaled across greater numbers of people, or could be a "manager" for their own group as an accessory role to their regular job.
It doesn't have to be a room/house/building. If you're better with the abstract, maybe imagine a map of a city you know well.
Given that it's a static site, why the JS requirement? Most browsers already intelligently handle keeping the "right" number of assets in memory, do you believe your JavaScript handles it better?

Also, it's not at all responsive to different viewport sizes; this might be a good thing to address.

EDIT: Oof, that's a kick in the karma. Aah, well.
Awesome AWS – A curated list
Pretty cool. On a side note the Pinewood Derby was really exciting for me in Scouts until I showed up with my dinky handmade car and saw basically everyone else's car was built by their parents. What a disappointment.
If you look at the United States as a collection of State governments, it makes perfect sense. I'm surprised you are confounded by that logic.

It was actually the most controversial issue during the Constitutional Convention (See "The Great Compromise"). And read up on the Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist debates.

One of the main points is to not give all federal power to the top 9-10 states. Otherwise you end up with the situation where a few large cities are deciding things at the national level and there is no representation for rural areas.

As an extremely over-simplified example, imagine urban voters voting to outlaw tractors because "Tractors emit huge amounts pollution and nobody I know even uses a tractor! Those dirty farmers that I hear use them are dirtying up our air!"
Results from Nigeria’s Business Plan Competition
We all know that ten lawyers at the bottom of
We all know that ten lawyers at the bottom of the sea is "a good start" but joking aside- what are some things that lawyers have done that have: 1) impressed you and made you more likely to use their services; and 2) annoyed you and made you less likely to use their services?
So I just copy/pasted the book recommendation into search, and the first result was a pdf of the entire book hosted on an edu server. Forgive my ignorance, but would this be a pirated copy or something? This often happens when I'm searching for book recommendations like this and I just assumed older versions were pushed out into the public domain or something.
You seem to be playing the role of an obscurer. I'm going to suggest that if you want people to actually engage you that you engage them. Playing this sort of pseudo-socratic inquiry isn't going to get your point across. If you can't make it in less than a paragraph then don't attempt to make the point.
In general I don't think the best time and place to make a tribute to your dad's dead wife is at his new wife's wedding.

I hope it wasn't passive aggressive.
There seem to be a handful of rural pockets in the US that have or are scheduled to install fiber.

Our network (Co-Mo Connect) publishes network rollout status and maps at http://usage.co-mo.coop:8080/signupstatus.php

Before here, we looked at WK&T (Kentucky/Tennessee) http://wktelecom.coop/ That looked promising as well.

It was some work to even find these two networks, then finding homes within the service area and trying to find out if they were eligible was the next challenge. Lots of Zillow searches. If the home is pre-wired, they'll probably advertise it as such in the listing. I think the sweet spot (in terms of value) is finding a property that is eligible but hasn't had an install yet. In our case that meant eye-balling the neighborhood maps at a house-by-house level.

To find similar networks in other parts of the US I would start with Zillow searches (for "fiber") or Google searches for state + fiber + rollout, state + co-op + fiber, or state + co-op + Calix. Calix is a popular FTTH equipment vendor. You could also check their (or other vendors) press releases, which they usually issue when they partner with a new co-op. See http://www.ftthcouncil.org/OurMembers

I wish there were a friendlier UX for this. Our search lasted about 2 months. If anyone is interested in my area, email me and I should be able to help by finding properties before they hit MLS, qualifying addresses with the contacts I've made at the service provider/installers, and of course just driving around. It would be fantastic to build a hacker community here.
Best Useless Websites
Wealth is relative to where you are.
Thanks. Yes, we built our own training set.

Catching all the different senses of the word is a hard problem. There's always something to improve.
See also: RMS and his willingness to avail himself of other people's cell phones and grocery store club cards even though such things are verboten surveillance instruments.
I'm not sure the commenter is engaging the question in good faith. I'm going to suggest disengaging with them until they demonstrate their thesis. It sucks to do that, but this has that troll feel to me.
Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed your photo-essays and I'm among those interested in how you present them.
Wow, this is excellent, congrats on the release. Are you planning on adding the ability for people to feed in suggestions/feedback or is that too prone to abuse? Great seeing more cool NLP technology out there!
Best Useless Websites is an aggregate of some of the most creative and unique websites on the web. Its simple homepage offers only one option: go explore. Users are thrown into one of more than a hundred websites to discover for themselves.
Is AWS the Most Important Enterprise Company?
I don't think there's a single word in what I've written here that says "We must disavow Feynman!"

But Feynman is still held up as an ideal here in our modern era, for very good reasons. As such, it is both just and necessary for us to point out to the next generation the handful of areas where emulating him is not a good idea.
Do you really think the poorest people in your city are better off than people making an equivalent dollar amount in poorer countries?
It's not very British :)

Apparently
"Pardon my intrusion but may I enquire as to your state of health."

Is neutral and should be replaced by

"Pardon my ingress but may I question as to your government sources of medical treatment."

Which I guess is also more in tune with American politics. Truly is has achieved singularity.
Show HN: Interactive Maps for IoT Search Engine Shodan
This is good to hear.

Gonna play hell with seo for my open source projects:

https://github.com/geuis/argon

https://github.com/geuis/helium-css
Cache is the new RAM (2014)
Stop bringing facts into the argument!

I thought the older planes were built so that the wing spar isn't detachable without major surgery. But I defer to your actual expertise.
The Challenges of Securing University Computer Networks
Depends on what you're running in production. As an admin, I'd say stick with the LTS releases. If you're not in production, or you can bundle your Node with your app (like in a container) then I'd vote for "go wild".
thank you for sharing. i like the design and will be checking this out.