skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good chunk of my time at my first real "professional" job was like this. After a while, you kinda get used to the boredom and it becomes less boring. But what terrified me the most, was pissing away my hard-earned education and potential during the formative years of my career.
I was glad when I left, and did so at the first opportunity.

The thing is, on the outside, it looked like an excellent job to others. After all, it had great stability and benefits. But to me, it felt like I was wasting my life.
What's a, say, 200 USD app or OS that isn't pretty shitty? There aren't many. In fact, I can't mention one on the post.

I know of a few OSes and app that are decent (at least don't try to track you, show ads to your face, do weird stuff in the name of making profits for a company). These all cost 0 and are open-source. Weird uhm.
YES thanks for this! I've seen too many people justify something that could be considered immoral by invoking this "but it satisfies user needs" pseudo-argument.
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I've been using Arch for two years before going back to Slackware. It was a good run, Arch is fun and easy to use and everything works very, very well. On the same laptop is even faster than Slackware (I did not run any test, it was just my perception after a fresh install... maybe because Arch has way less packages...).

BUT Arch brokes often. Even when I look the news on the official website or search the forums for issues with recent updates, even when I check that everything is ok accordin to the (awesome, really awesome) docs, Arch brokes something.

I grew reluctant to run "pacman -Syu".
Now with Slackware I am 100% sure that my system will always work after every update, and if it doesn't work is because a simple new dependency that I can install in a couple of minutes if I want, or I simply keep the already installed package without any issues whatsoever.
If only the other UNIXes (commercial or free) valued the code correctness and safety as they do. :)
It's working for me now, here is a screenshot incase it breaks again:

http://i.imgur.com/OKf65Me.jpg
GPS signals are weak. You simply jam them.
> No, I'm pretty sure that the civilization I grew up in isn't predicated on taxi monopolies for existence.

I didn't imply that. We must have misunderstood each other. So which of the following you disagree with:

- trust between people and organizations forms the fabric of society

- fabric of society is sort of important to a functioning society

- breaking the law and getting away with it damages the trust in the rule of law

> Go ahead and name the victims of these externalities, without counting the previous rent-seeking oligopoly Uber is displacing.

A lot of drivers and small companies which don't go around breaking laws for profit. Because that taxi market was all just "rent-seeking oligopoly" is bullshit. Sure, there were a lot of entrenched interests, but there were also a lot of others, some with very similar model to Uber, app included. Also consumers who depended on some unprofitable features of taxi networks that were forced by law in exchange for partial monopoly.

And if you go above just pure profit motive, then it's about society. About the very idea that you're to follow law when conducting your business, or else you'll face punishment. That there are rules to the game and that the government will enforce them successfully. Also, seeing how Uber is such an inspiration for startup world, don't you think we can expect more companies trying to ignore other laws as well? And not every ignored law will be the one you'd be happier without.
>but Chrome, Firefox, and IE still don’t use this technology on their desktop versions

Actually, since version 11, IE supports HLS. [0]. When Apple streamed their last event, they mentioned on the video page that IE11 is supported. That's when I found out about it.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/01/29/simplified-ada...
And for those outside the US, bittorrent is all you need.

Seriously, I really don't understand - Hollywood is losing a ton by not allowing Hulu and Netflix to screen internationally. They end up pirated anyway - why the US-only restriction? I'm in India and would gladly pay Netflix the $10 fee - but I can't.
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1. It's not decent education.

2. It's the same here in the U.S. With all the nagging cost of education is not that high. I'm paying for my wife college.

3. You are attacking me for no reason. Once you called me dumb. But you know how the entry exam works, it is certainly not the best system for pickup up the most talented people. I'm not saying I'm talented or anything but your basis of judgment is wrong
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It seems like a simple case of Newton's third law. You can push a small economy around, but it would be naive to believe that you can push against a larger economy without experiencing a reaction.
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Fintech offspring of MIFID II research unbundling; Alphametry
> South America has a long tradition of interchangeable strongman governments, none of whom had any real interest in advancing the needs of citizens.

This statement is generally true. Areas that were setup as encomiendas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomienda ) right from the period of Pizzaro and Cortez have retained that exact flavour. Individual strong men rule because that's exactly what was setup. Any "citizen" (ie: indigenous person, slave, or otherwise disenfranchised individual) who tried to go against this system or even escape its clutches was punished severely. It is extremely hard to break that structure. If you wonder why that did not happen in North America, it was because the North was much more sparsely populated and so the colonizers had to setup systems that gave rights to everyone (except of course the sparse indigenous population that needed to be exterminated since it could not be "encomienda"-ed), just so that the companies that sponsored the colonization in North America (like the Virginia company) could turn a profit. It is noteworthy that the Virginia company for example, did actually plan to use the same encomienda approach but was startled to find that there weren't enough compliant indigenous people to enslave. They then switched to trying to strongarm the colonialist/settlers but this had disastrous results. It was only thereafter they gave rights, and privileges to "citizens". This all happened when they became desperate to get a return on their investment.

So yes, your statement is absolutely true. Long tradition indeed. Since 1492 in fact.
Every startup tycoon should be able to afford one or two.
Maybe it is, but given that the original commentor did not describe what the problems were, we have no idea as to their severity.
I'm not related in any form to the website. I just shared a link because I found the story funny/interesting.

PS: The story is displayed just fine on Firefox with uBlock
AFAIK, the earliest fragment known of the NT dates from ~110 AD, which is only about 20 years after the last book of the NT (Revelation) was written. Considering that the oldest manuscript we have of Caesars "De Bello Gallicum" is 900 years older than the original, that's pretty good...
Pushing the weeds below the surface is probably less disruptive to the surrounding crops than tearing out the roots. And since you have to run the machine constantly anyway to prevent new weeds from establishing themselves, just poking them down repeatedly will eventually starve them of sunlight and kill them, or at least prevent them from ever growing large enough to cause a problem.
Can't stress on how true this point is. In Bangalore, India, just a few years back we had maybe 3-4 video rentals in the vicinity (2 - 3 km radius), but now there are none. Unlike the US there aren't any streaming options either. So where are all those users going?
Extraordinary claims generally require excellent citations.
> Is six months really unreasonable for a big bloated bureaucracy like United Airlines?

It's unreasonable for anyone, no matter how big and bureaucratic they are. The fact that they're bloated and incompetent doesn't excuse their incompetence.
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> I don't think posting your homework/work project and hoping someone on the internet will complete it for you is the intended use of Stack Overflow.

It's not. If the question is just 'do my assignment', then it should just be closed.

> If you can't make sense out of the question, or it's simply a dump of an assignment with no context or additional detail, or an indecipherable mess vote to close it or flag it as "Not a Real Question".

http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/147100/162027
Ah, gotcha. I didn't notice the download button on your website at first. (You might want to remove the faded style from it -- it looks disabled to me and I think that's why I glossed over it.)

Thank you!
I'm sure you can find an equally great excuse for the reasons the CIA taught Pinochet's cronies how to torture people by putting one electrode to their gums and attaching another electrode to their genitals and passing several amperes through their bodies.

Or maybe you have a great justification for why they taught others how to hook up metal spring beds to the electric grid with the aim of getting sincere confessions and apologies out of people.

I'm equally sure the tens of thousands people that were "disappeared" by the regimes your glorious and righteous CIA sponsored really look forward to your justifications.
Somewhere in another comment is a link to the relevant issue in their Github. Might not be a problem for long.
It's good to see facebook being used well. When I first clicked on the link, I half expected to see this as the result of facebook's internet.org initiative.
How much horsepower does a Top Fuel dragster actually make?
people of color and women are naturally inclined to be hackers

She lost me there too, my ethnicity is NOTHING to do with my hackerness.
Well the standard blocking software is open source, simple and controversial. Controversial open source software gets checked by lots of people and because it is simple issues would get flagged.
Holy cow India is the world's largest beef exporter – Aug. 5, 2015
Couldn't take the article seriously anymore after reading this quote.
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If you liked this article, you'll like this one too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087935 ("forgotten employee, something awful forums")
We're stuck with his articulation, but I can see how that would seem to be the case. Personally, I see lack of productivity as a symptom of depression, but it's not for no reason that there's a saying, "the devil makes work for idle hands."
This is not fraud. Please wind down the libellous hyperbolic language.
> We demonstrate that these embeddings can disambiguate both contrastive senses such as nominal and verbal senses as well as nuanced senses such as sarcasm.

If this is true, that's astonishing. Also, this might allow us to build assistive technologies for people who are unable to perceive sarcasm.
Shoreditch spies: why does GCHQ want to hire hipsters?
> corporations and business models. They're just driven by demand. It's not some shady nebulous force at work trying to screw everything and everyone.

Oh it's not shady in the sense that it has agency and decides to screw everything up. But it's very powerful and increasingly misaligned with the interest of humans. Being driven by demand does not map well to the shared wishes and morals of humanity, only if because of coordination problems.

I agree with your other points. And I didn't mean to point out that if Internet stayed non-profit, we'd have a perfect communication platform by now. For instance I think that if it became powerful, it'd still have problems with power and influence being a similar incentive to money. I only wanted to highlight the source of the problems we now have, which are those demand-satisfying, profit-driven actions. And that to make the Internet a better place, we would need to refuse doing things that seem optimal from business point of view but are detrimental to the Internet itself.

A pessimist in me says: this isn't likely to happen, because coordination is hard. So tragedy of commons here, no way to make a bottom-up group opposition there; we're screwed by coordination problems.
Coinbase CEO here, I can sympathize that this was probably frustrating but I think it stems from a misunderstanding about the service that Coinbase provides. In a purely bitcoin to bitcoin world, this sort of transaction would not be an issue and you wouldn't have a risk of an account being closed. But you're not trying to do a purely bitcoin transaction here - you are trying to exchange bitcoin into your local currency and put the funds in your bank account (this is what we offer with our merchant tools).

To offer this service, we (Coinbase) work with those bank rules and that is why you are seeing our service act much like the traditional financial world. You might not like this, but we didn't make those rules, and it is the only way I know of that works if you want to exchange bitcoin in the traditional financial world. (John's answer from the support thread you linked also explains this).

Accepting purely bitcoin-to-bitcoin payments would be one solution that might work for this if that is what you want (there are plenty of other solutions other than Coinbase for this). I should mention that we are probably at fault for marketing it more as a bitcoin wallet vs an exchange which has different implications to people (I think this is part of the reason for the confusion).

Finally, I believe you may be mistaken that you can't access the $5k in funds. Are you sure? This page describes our policy on that topic: https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/190568...
I've seen a heck of a lot more people justify things by claiming to have objective moral knowledge. Throughout history, the most atrocious acts imaginable have been justified this way. I am much less worried about invoking the satisfaction of people's needs.
It's not the exact same thing as the movie rights industry, but check out this series of posts about fiction book publishing: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...
(particularly http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-4-t...)
So there is no authentication on the API endpoint? I have my PS4 connected directly to the Internet to avoid NAT issues, and I wonder whether the API would be available openly as well.
Currently linked to the "Field Operations and Fees" page. I assume the link should be http://sfpatrolspecpolice.com/qualifications.html
technology company that's doesn't understand technology

I love this, though. Coming up with something technical that makes sense to these people is a hugely beneficial skill.
Does this not grant you the perfect opportunity for personal improvement?

Work on some pet projects to keep your skill set fresh, and in an ideal world, come up with something that makes you money and you can eventually turn into your full-time job.
This could be interesting. I created fallout4map.com, and if it could automagically track a player's pipboy locations, that would be awesome.

I tried decoding the binary data for the pipboy app, but didn't have much success. Perhaps someone smarter than me will be able to crack it.
Hey, the grass is always greener...
I still buy DVDs online for many movies I cannot find anywhere on the net using any method. It's the only reason I still have a DVD player, unfortunately.
You can't convince people to go kill and die for you by saying they're just satisfying your needs. So you have to invent something people will actually buy, and this tends to be something about morality, religion or politics.
Like a lot of work in NLP at the moment, this is a reasonably straight-forward mash-up of existing techniques. This particular idea is pretty obvious. What wasn't obvious was whether it would work well, which was why nobody else got around to trying it yet. The experiments are nicely conducted, with strong baselines across multiple evaluations. The authors also include experiments with variations of the idea, to further validate the approach.

To understand the technique, first understand word2vec:

http://rare-technologies.com/word2vec-tutorial/

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representation...

Now understand part-of-speech tagging:

http://spacy.io/blog/part-of-speech-POS-tagger-in-python/

By default word2vec gives you clusters for each word, this paper is giving you clusters for word_POS, e.g. The_DT apple_NNP employee_NN is_VBZ eating_VBG an_DT apple_NN. The same trick is done with named entity labels as well.

The following papers explain how the new word vectors are used in a dependency parser:

Collobert and Weston (2011): http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.0398.pdf

Wang and Manning (2014): http://cs.stanford.edu/~danqi/papers/emnlp2014.pdf

Yoav Goldberg (2015): http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~yogo/nnlp.pdf Survey/review, aimed at grad students
Well, it _is_ wikipedia. You could add it.
I absolutely loved my local video store and owe a large part of my viewing tastes to it.

Had it not been for that store I wouldn't have the appreciation that I do for foreign films, trash cinema, exploitation films and direct-to-video.

I outgrew my local rental's small collection quickly and was an early adopter when it came to torrenting and streaming. I still miss the store - the process of discovering a movie was at least half the experience.

The best I can do to get close to it is browse the IMDB release list every 6 months and then get every movie that sparks my interest. Binge watching 40-50 movies is cool, but not the same.
Dell ships laptops with a rogue root CA
Try Harvard's Program on Negotiation. The materials are golden and excellent and gilded excellent. pon.harvard.edu
Storing information forever in drops of water [video]
The site has a paywall. Click the "web" link under the title here on HN
Wox also supports plugins. Plugins can be written in python and C#.
Yes, that's it. With federated networks, you still rely on another party — the server you connect to. With decentralized networks, you are a part of the thing everyone else relies on.
This huffpost explains the discrepancy (and how western media organisations choose to ignore the reasons in their self-absorbed vilification and chest-thumping) :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anhvinh-doanvo/europes-crisis-...

" The UNHCR counts refugees by noting only those "persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 UN Convention/1967 Protocol, the 1969 OAU Convention, in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted a complementary form of protection and those granted temporary protection." Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE are not parties to any of the UN protocols on refugees, and so through this technicality, they, along with most of their refugees, are excluded from many refugee counting mechanisms."

"With Saudi Arabia's non-signatory status, the Syrians residing in Saudi Arabia are classified as "Arab brothers and sisters in distress" instead of refugees covered by UN treaties"

"The government itself of Saudi Arabia has stated that it has, over the past five years since the start of the conflict hosted 2.5 million refugees."
For me using a 5.5" phone, text that should be easily legible with a different colour choice is completely unreadable.
It is great fun, when any previous authority is replaced by the logic of the market. What thrives, they say, deserves to thrive, what fails, deserves to fail.
Their argument is, if people really wanted a better world, they would have it already.
Which is of course foolish, the market doesn't care about good or evil.
Down :(

edit hrm. Tis back now.

HN hug-of-death, maybe?
They don't care, because there's little marginal gain from improving on the results they already have. Even better, having holes in their wall helps relieve pressure. It's just like the old Sun Tzu adage about the line of retreat - you should leave one for enemy soldiers because if you encircle them completely, they'll realize they have nothing to lose and fight fiercely until they die.
Theorically, knowing your ip, people would be able to connect to your fallout 4.
I think living a stress free life can turn out to be a bad thing. You need physical stress i.e exercise makes you healthy + happy. I wouldn't be surprised if purely mental stress had similar effects on Humans.

Obviously there's a threshold after which it starts affecting people negatively.

Also, just because a job seems like a dream doesn't mean that the day to day grind is for you. I know a lot of pilots who, after a few years of flying commercial airlines, can't stop bitching about the tedium of the job.
why not telnet to it? <yourip>:28000
Also look at Untappd. Instead of "checking in" at a location a la foursquare, you check in what kind of beer you are drinking (optionally with a picture and a location). In denser areas I can occasionally find new beer without having to walk past a bunch of pubs and squinting at their taps from the windows.
Dr. Knuth did a Q&A session at UBC earlier this year, which was open to the public for free, on a first-come first-serve basis. I was able to score a seat.

He was a wonderful and thoughtful speaker, and did his best to answer questions about a huge variety of topics. He spoke with energy and enthusiasm. I felt quite lucky for getting the chance to see him in the flesh.

I know there is video of the session, but I'm not sure if UBC ever published it.
Awaken the Force Within
The problem with Apple HLS is that it uses MPEG TS container, which is not supported natively by the browsers (except Safari). So, any implementation of HLS in Chrome/Firefox should do the job of extracting video/audio from container using JavaScript (or Flash, like FlashHLS player does).

A more standard-friendly solution is MPEG DASH, which is similar to HLS, but can use MP4 container supported natively by the browsers (as a part of HTML5 video standard)
This is a wonderful idea!
For Star Wars fans, old and new
It seems like there would be some sort of hipster twist you could add to a video store to keep it going. Maybe the video store component becomes sort of a background prop, but it would be something that few other places could duplicate.

My most memorable moment in a video store was walking half through the swinging doors of a section which immediately electrified the senses of a 11 year old boy. Video boxes floor to ceiling covering 4 walls showing mostly naked people. I got a split second view before I got a tug on my collar followed by a reverse warp out of this fascinating world.
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Something in the second "chapter" jumped out at me: apparently Knuth was reading at age 2 and a half. I have two sons, aged two and three, and the thought that they would read seems completely unthinkable to me. However, this is the second time I've read this about someone this week (there was a story about a boy genius who was admitted to MIT at age 15 on HN recently). In both cases, the parents taught their kids reading at an extremely early age.

So I wonder: Am I just underestimating the mental capacity of a 2 year old? Should I teach my kids more challenging things than playing with dough?

Or is there already such an incredible variance at age two, that there are children who can learn to read at a time when my kids are just getting the hang of basic grammar?
Because other idiots are exposing their PS4 to the internet
As a non-American I'm really frustrated that what you don't get is translations. Disney movies for the kids have been translated into 100 or so languages, yet buying one on iTunes gets you English and -maybe- Spanish.

And then when you get to Europe, they suddenly have English-French languages on the same page.

It'd be really nice if when I bought a movie that they're selling the translated version for would be accessible everywhere.

Same problem on Amazon, Google play, iTunes, even Netflix.