skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems wonderful. Please be wonderful and spread all over the world.
I think viewing Xiaomi purely based on its smartphone sales is a bit shortsighted. I don't own a Xiaomi phone but I do have 3 Xiaomi air filters, several smart plugs, wifi router, digital thermometer, digital scale, etc. When I buy a new TV, it'll certainly be a Xiaomi TV along with a Xiaomi router which allows me access to the Xiaomi streaming service. The stuff they're doing with smart home devices is probably what's going to drive their valuation in the future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9631810
Same here, I would like have IoT than a media center.
I would even argue that more of Zeros will have a wifi or ethernet adapter than a HDMI connected.
Open edX, the stack powering edX.org, is a very interesting (and useful!) project to contribute to. The community and the reviewers are very friendly. There are byte-sized tasks available to get started, and you will get guidance on the tickets and PRs. It's a large Django code base, and changes you make impact millions of students within a week - as real and concrete as it gets. : )

https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...

http://bit.ly/edxbugs

http://open.edx.org/

http://github.com/edx/edx-platform/
Sorry boss, the name is Wheeliz. Looking forward for even more competition in this wacky race of Uber-like services.
From a farm labourer to an IT millionairess,  all odds to emerge a winner
ITER is one of the most ambitious energy projects
More like, people who misunderstand what ISO 9001 certification means in a nutshell.

ISO-9001 is not meant to certify quality, but to certify that your quality management meets certain criteria, so that relevant information is recorded and made available for people to judge if if meets their requirements.
The article doesn't dig into some important possible reasons why the growth may be slowing down. When a company is shipping at a large scale (~80 million devices a year), macro factors must be playing a role -- may be the # of phones shipped in the Chinese market is lower this year than expected?, or slowdown in consumer spending? or some other macro factor. The reason I say this is because the thesis presented in the article ("No Loyalty") isn't well substantiated. There are way too many counter anecdotes available where super loyal 'mi-fans' (thats what the loyal fans of this company are called) have stood in line for hours to purchase the latest phones (a la Apple).

Their growth has been quite phenomenal -- infact, they are probably the fastest company to reach $1B in revenue ever -- which isn't a small feat. But as size grows, doesn't growth inevitably slow down (for almost every company)?

Also, as another commenter has pointed out, they really are a internet of things company, more than a smartphone company. Seeing them just as a smartphone is missing the big picture.
I cant say this without bias, but being a welcoming project has been one of my main focuses with http://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb
Watch out for cheap USB chargers. They can be a safety risk. Google "cheap usb charger teardown". For example http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap...
It just as webview running on native desktop application.
I disagree sempai.
Holding a CEO to a different standard than a common employee is a recipe for elitism.

I will reiterate that a person's beliefs have no bearing on their ability.
If this is the case, I think Go people should remove IRC and add Slack from this page: https://golang.org/help/
Sicilian is a single language that extends even in some part of near regions like Calabria and Puglia (the south parts), it predates Italian a lot, and was one of the main literature schools in ancient times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_School. So from one part to the other of Sicily there are a few different words and accents and there is a division by "groups", but it's pretty much the same thing.
Minor nitpick: There is no such thing like fetching a cache line from another core, at least in Intel x64 architecture. All the synchronizing between the cores happen at L3 cache layer and QPI, because caches are inclusive and L3 is common to all cores. When a core writes to L3, it invalidates the same cache line in L1 and L2 caches of other cores. Therefore if your cores write to the same cache line, you have a big problem regardless of the chosen memory order model.
There's still the issue of the people receiving the content freely when they should have payed (even though it's not their fault).
I love this idea of tiny houses and 1-person vehicles!

I'm currently living in an apartment and using public transportation, which of course is what many environmentalists are recommending. However, this is not a good solution because of the noise from neighbors. I'm currently tempted to move to a house and get a car, but of course, that is not good for the environment.

The tiny house and tiny car idea solves this!
Two Random Apps
Empty promises given by a morally bereft company.

These types of companies are the ones we should crucify and condemn.
Almost definitely, yes I would.

1970 medicine, at 1970 prices, available to all, would do far more than all medical gains since.

The main concern I see is that AIDS would be subject to only epidemiological treatment. No antiretrovirals.
2 Broke Girls (And the Maybe Baby) Summary and Review
Udemy isn't producing the pirated content themselves. Their only responsibility is to quickly respond to valid DMCA complaints in those cases. I think they handled Hunt's case appropriately. While there is certainly some lost revenue in terms of opportunity cost, there isn't really any more you can expect them to do.

The problem is at least one other person claimed their course was up for a considerable amount of time, and took in substantial revenue (thousands of dollars). In those cases, Udemy should remove the material and transfer the money to the content holder once they prove that they own it and that it was infringing.
Taxation (or any other liability imposed on a population by a sovereign) is what drives the value of money. This is a good macroeconomic and historical overview http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=0zEbo8PIPSc also check out A Primer on Modern Money by Randall Wray and anything by Bill Mitchell (including his blog).
Ah, so they dont tackle the US at all? Why that? Surprising that I hear so much about them regardless.
People are buying the food. The "lottery ticket" you get is just a marketing gimmick, not an actual game of chance in exchange for money.
The Last-Access timestamp (2002)
I don't know what is typical in the rest of the English-speaking world... but note that in the USA now, it is law that all broadcast programming be closed-captioned in English (at least). There are two CC "channels" for every program; the second may be populated by captions for another language, e.g. Spanish.

A growing number of network shows also have live audio in Spanish via a selectable Separate Audio Program (SAP).

Even older programming broadcast in syndication is typically captioned. (Heck, I'm watching a series episode from 1964 on MeTV right now that has been captioned.)

Point being, if you are in the USA and are an English learner, turn on CC for any programming you watch. Most captions are placed such that they don't disrupt you viewing very much. (The exceptions are kind of comical... many Fox sports shows, for example, have the CC overlay the scoreboard block more often than not.) I generally leave mine on most of the time, since modern TV dramas often "drop" a critical phrase or two of dialog in background noise, to my ear.
What more do you want? They got the DMCA notice, they took the content down.
Exactly. Imagine I ripped a MPAA film DVD and distributed via free coupon codes to users of this service. Think any lawyers would have an issue or would they go 'oh, no money changed hands' and give it a pass?

Also, they used the boilerplate 'taking it seriously' twice, including the second sentence. Can corporate PR people please stop with this silliness? It seems like it is in every press release ever.
not allow pirated content in the first place?
I wrote the original Ticketmaster FANTM RS232 octart keypad display barcode reader network-working device firmware. It was installed at NHRA and I was on-hand at the first FANTM usage.

I have done RS232 serial drivers many times.

I wrote every line of code in TempleOS. You can ask God.

Dumb fuck nigger is going to try to lie to God? This ought to be fun. Watch some CIA nigger get killed lying to God.
I want them to commit to take their own lives.

But what I want is irrelevant.
By that reasoning you should stop paying your taxes, since everybody else can compensate by paying a tiny, imperceptible amount more.
Why do you think that?

My only quirk with Udemy is their pricing tactics... never buy a course for more da 15€ has become a rule of thumb for me on Udemy already...
You are probably correct that it would be cheaper to purchase nuclear power plants from others, rather than developing yourself. I'm thinking though - maybe many countries would be reluctant to rely on foreigners for something this essential.
New investment friendly app for indians
stockboo is investment related app working for educate users to learn and start equity investment to earn more returns on their savings.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stockboo
interesting.. so it allows R syntax.
I wonder why they didnt build it on top of Renjin [1]

[1] http://www.renjin.org/
Yeah, that's a joke.

What would a good article look like where the company claimed to be at fault handles the case well? (1) They give an overview of all the claims that are in public discussion and not just one that they finally handled, (2) then they show being actually sorry for having pissed off people so badly that it became a global discussion, and (3) then they show some points about what they will do to reduce the chance of this happening again.
Seriously, these comments aren't helpful or welcome on HN.
Uncle Bob Proposes an Oath to Programmers
See now this is my kind of acronym. Things like "gnu's not unix" are too arbitrary; you can replace the 'g' with anything and still get an acronym that works. XINU is nice, elegant, and unambiguous.
In a word: Fracing. Ever hear of it?

Peak oil isn't about running out of oil, it's about running out of cheap oil.

Oil production in the US had peaked around 1970, as Hubbard predicted.
Peak production in the US was November 1970 at 10,044,000 BPD. Note that this figure includes both crude oil and NGPL. Actual US crude oil production peaked at 9,637,000 BPD (averaged over the year) during 1970.

However, the successful application of massive hydraulic fracturing to 'tight' reservoirs has caused US production to rebound. The 10-month average for petroleum liquids field production in the US during 2015 is 12,596,000 BPD. Crude oil production has averaged 9,334,000 BPD during the same 10 months.

Source: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/mer.pdf

There is more than enough oil (from unconventional sources, such as oil sands) for capitalism to "deep-fry" the world with climate change.
As I told you, what I want is irrelevant.
Better energy storage would help, too. Hydro-electric power stations have been used to store energy for decades. But there is not always an uphill reservoir handy, and other ways of storing energy, such as lithium-ion batteries, are expensive. More promising, probably, is automatic demand reduction. Smart meters can turn down household freezers and air-conditioning units briefly when power is in short supply and then power them up again, thereby shifting demand. Sia Partners, a consultancy, estimates that European countries could cut peak demand by 9% with such methods.

This is what I'd bet on.

Re-flow batteries are cost effective for many application and available now, and combined with companies like Tesla pushing the cost of lithium-ion and other technologies down it is pretty clear it will only get cheaper.

Batteries and smart meters also de-centralize power generation. This is important because it cuts the costs associated with transmission.
If you were cynical you could also say that's a pretty good way to give yourself the image of a good guy Robin Hood, for when the justice eventually catches up to you.
Lucky woman won lottery four times, Stanford University statistics PhD (2011)
So what's the benefit to using SystemML on top of Spark (or another scheduler) vs. using Spark's own MLlib? From the links below, it seems MLlib supports a superset of SystemML's algorithms (with the small exception of survival analysis). Are there any plans for the projects to use insights from each other, or to merge in some way? Because it seems quite silly for Apache to sponsor two competing machine learning libraries with exactly the same goals.

https://sparktc.github.io/systemml/algorithms-reference.html

https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-guide.html
http://warisboring.com/articles/super-glue-built-planes-nuke...

Also, they delay life saving medicines for decades.
Five ways work will change in the future
We need a service for getting uber-like services off the ground.
How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing
I'm sure that's technically true, but I don't think all members of staff know all the rules like this. More likely is that they've been taught "customers get a piece when they buy something".
Capitalism's Mysterious Triumph (1997)
> "It's very difficult to get around when you are in a wheelchair, because public transportation is not accessible,"

I'm from Holland and I know we have an easier time with my county being called the 'Low Lands' but in the Netherlands we try to make streets and public transport as accessible as possible for wheelchair (and blind) citizens. I visit Paris often and feel there is a lot of room for improvement. It's like they don't care about disabled people at all...
At bare minimum, not allow the same content to be repeatedly uploaded?

I understand they are somewhat restricted by what they can do because of the DMCA, but afaik it's kosher to, once material is DMCAd, fingerprint it and never publish it again. In the article that seems to have kicked this PR stuff off, it references @jeffrey_way claiming his stuff has been repeatedly uploaded.

https://medium.com/@robconery/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-pi...

viz

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/649933605305774081
I found flights to Ibiza on flychecker at € 154
If seeking pleasure is dull and boring, then it must be a rather difficult task to sustain daily pleasure over a lifetime.

Enlightenment, in comparison, has the notion of finishing built into it, and finishing at philosophy is a rather troublesome idea too.

I personally believe that it is the practice, not the narrative, that makes a philosophy work. A very modest idea can allow a lifetime of ponderings.
http://eternal-september.org works fine in my browser.
What about my post are you saying "not necessarily" to?
This is just a question of what you take pleasure in. Boredom does not count as pleasant.

I would expect that if you take aesthetic pleasure in highly complex art or science or mysticism, that is perfectly fine with Epicurus.

It doesn't make sense to try to reduce 'pleasure' to something you consider unpleasant.
Same with WINE - Wine Is Not an Emulator
Been in Norway 30 years now and all three children grew up here from the late 80s. Children's television has always been either dubbed or home grown.
Looking for the Right Dry Cleaners in Alta Loma
A whirlwind tour of Go’s runtime environment variables
This services is very reliable and this is done by best way. It is recommended by professional and business supports. So it is the best dry cleaners in Alta Loma.
The Programmer's Paradox
I think he was referring to this episode of South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicar
DMCA certainly does not restrict the ability of service providers to proactively screen and remove content (see: YouTube's content ID).

Udemy can hire one full time employee to quickly Google the name of all new uploaded courses, and this will catch the vast majority of plagiarism.
Here is another angle to consider. How many of the viewers of Troy's 'free' plagiarized courses saw them and were impressed enough to convert to paying customers? Difficult to measure but Udemy will have a pretty good idea.

For Udemy to say that no money changed hands is a bit myopic, but perhaps this is unintentional. Money likely did change hands, but it was abstracted from the original transaction and only Udemy knows that figure.
Coding is boring, unless…
> "...welcome any person who has a question, comment or issue to be discussed reach out to support@udemy.com."
Well, it would be much better to have a comment thread below the blog post itself so we could learn what everyone has to say?
I use winamp every day. I have yet to find something better.
Cloud Storage and Collaboration Security
I don't see the difference..?
I am happy to see other models being tried. I agree that 8-12 week courses is not enough to become competent. However I am not sure the part-time mentors rather than full-time teachers thing will work. Time will tell of course.
Counting positive observations vs. total observations is a formality rather than intuition? The formality is the axioms of probability. The intuition is that you make a theory and measure how many predictions it gets right.
Some of these (most) are not to bet on 2016.
if DoS was the only problem we had to worry about, we would have won.
My understanding, as provided by counsel, is that proactively looking for material and missing it could expose the company to liability that would not be present if we did not actively look. Fingerprinting and permanent banning of DMCAd material did not. Yes this is a weird set of incentives but I didn't write the law.
(Re Fourier classifiers: Uh, yeah, that ended up being a couple-few months worth of weekends. Hoping to spin it into a paper in the next month or so; feel free to shoot me an email, though, as it would be fun to bounce ideas off someone. This username at google's usual public mail domain.)
A drop-in replacement for Twitter’s deactivated unofficial share count API
IIRC, Viacom v. YouTube revealed that the question of whether or not a given reproduction of a work covered by copyright is authorized is a very difficult thing to determine. [0]

Not even the rightsholder was able to keep track of which of the reproductions of its works posted to YouTube were authorized and which were not.

This particular area of law is a goddamn twisty maze built on top of a minefield.

[0] This is not to say that this was the first time that this was made plain to anyone, but it is one of the more notable ones in recent memory.
I have been using it exclusively for a year or so now after using Lightroom and it is great. The only thing missing was the printing, but that has been in the development branch for a few months and so far it seems solid.

The library management is based on tags like gmail and for me it has been working with about 6000 photos. It takes some time getting used to though.

Another great feature is that it stores the .xmp files in the same folder as the raws so I can edit photos and my wife will see the changes on her computer (the photos are stored on a nas).
> ought to be denied various legal rights

I think you have to be a little more specific. If merely removing a former legal right is evil, who were the bad guys when a Maryland referendum removed the right to own slaves[0]? Yes, I went there, but hear me out. I think you need to talk about moral rights, not legal rights, because some legal rights came about because of bad laws or the court evolving the laws contrary to the voters' wishes. (By referring to the voters' wishes, I'm not endorsing "might makes right" per se but noting that voters essentially, if indirectly, define what is "legal" so you ought to appeal to morality instead.)

Also, if the correct position is that marriage in any shape is a legal right, are we going to crucify people who made polygamy illegal?[1] Or since they're dead now, can we hold it against any current official who does not actively support this kind of marriage equality? Is tolerating an unjust status quo less evil than changing it for the worse? Or, what argument can you make to prohibit polygamy that won't sound awfully like the arguments against gay marriage?

I'm maybe being crippled by idealism and naivety here, but I guess I'm bothered by people adopting fashionable causes as a reason to hate people who don't believe in them, when we're all hypocrites and there's injustice everywhere if you have an open mind.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/the-not-qui...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds%E2%80%93Tucker_Act
copyright is hard. If you just blindly accept DMCA takedown notices you become an avenue for trolls, overzealous lawyers and predatory companies. However, if you do nothing, people will pirate shit and sell it on your platform. "I steal music, but I don't resell it" is a shitty argument I saw someone make earlier.

I steal content all the time. It is wrong, but I do it anyway. If I create content that can be copied in a frictionless way, I know it will be stolen, I will expect it and I will be pissed.

What do the people who are criticizing udemy want them to do? Bias towards dropping all speculative content? That would make it very hard to onboard new users, lead to abuse, and lead to dead-links and ephemeral content.

Do what they are doing now? Trying to take content down that is known to be copied, especially when it is pointed out publcily. Obviously, it is good from a biz standpoint they want to make money, protect their reputation and not have to hire a ton of mechanical turk workers to prowl all social media.

so what do you want? The world could use an awesome answer to copywrite issues, but there is no easy answer, it is hard to automate, and that is just a reality that we will have to live with for a while into the future.
How do you do this?
> keep this Coraline Ada person away from any project

Personal attacks are not ok on Hacker News. You can disagree without stooping to that.
They are also late to the party. Google etc released theirs first.
That doesn't sound like the open source that I know.

https://opensource.org/
No, it is more like "The source code is available if you register but it is not Open Source and not Free Software".
I'm a regular user of Darktable for several years and I wouldn't call it a 'user-hostile' project, but the impossibly tiny controls for some functions is frustrating. Maybe they just need more UX experts to pitch in and help improve the product? This is certainly a common theme with FOSS.

Overall I get excellent results with the software, I like it and I'm pretty quick in my workflow, but those little triangles you have to right-click on (e.g. to adjust the exposure or black point) take me multiple tries. Every. Single. Time! My fine motor skill is great. And I'm using a good quality wired mouse because I like the precision.
So what's your recommendation here? What's your utopian vision for how Udemy should have handled this?
> Magnanimity in victory is a virtue for a democratic society.

The word for this used to be "tolerance".
> Denying legal rights to a group of people is not compatible with Mozilla's mission or spirit.

1. What about denying freedom of expression? (Is it OK if society is repressive if the laws are liberal?)

2. The case for special provision for heterosexual couples has never really been considered since it's generally shut down as hateful (or awkward... most people put a premium on seeming nice) before the conversation even starts.
It's also UNIX written in reverse.
GINX is not UNIX?