skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that what a guarantee is? They are giving you a guarantee which in this case is getting a job (or your money back).
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Read my post again. I was talking about the impression the name gave, not the reality.
Of course you can waive your right to appeal. It's a settlement. You waive lots of stuff in a plea, also your fourth amendment rights via allocution typically.
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You have a cleaner screen than I do :) there is no faint outline whatsoever I can make out, the outline only appeared when I finally managed to hover on it. I was just about to ask you where the icon was since I couldn't remember but clicking blindly finally worked before I gave up. Thanks.
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Google requires you to verify with a phone number if your IP address matches a Tor exit node.
Yeah. It is really saying "One of our partners will take you for something" without any real guarantee the results are in line with the expectation of the student.

Then again, Udacity is really trying to be a Software Dev Technical School so that is par for the course imo.
Ask HN: Building iOS apps with services like macincloud?
It is feasible to build iOS and/or OSX applications with services like macincloud.com or xcodeclub.com? Or it will be too slow?
I don't really see what's unique about founders here. Don't these challenges and recommendations apply to pretty much anyone trying to live a life of purpose, no matter how large or small?
No, not like NBC or anything else you mention.

One is backed by the government and runs propaganda. The other is more pro-US than you like, but can and will be very critical of government officials and practices.
If I use a ticket generator that always generates the ticket "1 2 3 4 5 6", I've excluded 292201337/292201338 of the probability space, so by your argument I'm lowering my chances from 1 in 292 million to approximately 1 in 85 quadrillion.

You argument applies to any particular ticket, and thus if right would show that the odds of any particular ticket winning are 1 in 85 quadrillion.
They didn't say it was a binary search tree. The term Tree can simply be a root value and subtrees of children with a parent node, represented as a set of linked nodes.
I dislike the word "hacked" as used here because it can mean anything and everything. I hope we get some real actionable information on what went down. There are no real details included other then they were able to access email accounts. Looks like maybe social engineering?
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I'm tired of the cult of perfection surrounding frankly middling proprietary operating systems.

- Every mac I've ever used has had Launchpad UI bugs requiring me to try several times to launch things.

- OS X has woeful graphics drivers, to the point where Mesa is doing better.

- My Air got erratically unusably laggy until I finally gave up on it.

- My MBP will occasionally forget that it has any integrated input devices, requiring me to either find a USB keyboard or reboot.

- Microsoft still hasn't resolved their graphics driver stability situation; blue screens are far from a relic of the past in my experience.

These are anecdotes, yes. Sure, some (rare) people might have a perfect experience with OS X or Windows. But the point is, free operating systems don't have a monopoly on driver and spitshine issues.
Yeah - not surprised the DNX stuff is wonky.

It seems like every time there's a new project format the first version is just really awful. I think they really only test it on small almost toy-level projects thoroughly but fully conjecture.

That's a very cool project though - what got you going on that? If I could convince my coworkers to not kill me for doing so, I would try to introduce using that at work :-) I've definitely gotten them on to the immutability by default train of thought tho - a lot of people very happy with that mindset considering how much of work has become parallel processing. It's amazing how much faster you can do things like build invoices of thousands of items when you can process the whole thing in parallel :-D

My pref has always been command line tbh - getting away from TFS was the best thing that ever happened for me.
> Also, for mental health in the UK you general require a referral which can take several months so the longer you delay going to the doctor the longer you have to live with the issue.

In England it's a bit complicated.

IAPT (Improved Access to Psychological Therapy) should provide easy access to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. People should be able to self-refer without using their GP. But it's different in different areas.

And while CBT is great for some people it doesn't work for everyone, and if you need a different therapy you're going to have to be referred. This will involve potentially very long waits - ideally at most 18 weeks from GP to start of treatment, but in practice people can wait for over a year.
Now, if someone could tell me how to use it within PHP...

My company created an open-source HTML-diffing PHP package[0] that could be considerably improved by replacing the old Tidy with the HTML5 Tidy (if I only knew how!)

[0] https://github.com/gathercontent/htmldiff
It's not the funding. It's the editorial independence that matters. Should we have believed NBC prior to 2013 on national security issues, because they were owned by General Electric, a defense contractor that would make handsome profits in the case of war?

Good luck in finding any media outlet that doesn't have financial ties to the subjects of their coverage.

You shouldn't dismiss Al Jazeera out of hand. The (sad) fact is, that Al Jazeera is pretty much the least biased on most straight forward of all the media outlets in the Middle East. They actually report dissenting views. No, they're not perfect, but are in a completely different league compared to their regional rivals.
I like the response[1] to that issue by Kenton Varda on the sandstorm team. I think it's a well thought out piece.

[1] https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-09-24-is-curl-bash-insecure-p...

He addresses code signing and mitm and connection interruptions.

Edit: The gist of it is no, it's not more insecure than other software distribution methods.
I see Chakra has caught to up Dec 30, 2015 with the nodejs tree. Which branch are you basing the fork against?
It sounds like you're just more tolerate to their brand of bias.
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It's not that simple, even for the doctor. I've had about five doctors tell me that I have ADHD which always led to amphetamine based prescriptions. That generally helped with the attention issues, which was my biggest concern.

The problem is that the mood issues were always just... "me". It just seemed like an aspect of mild depression that was always manageable. The daily internal dialogue would go: "My mood is absolutely awful right now. I have zero energy and feel depressed. But, this is just a fleeting feeling that should go away in an hour. I'll just deal with it. Coffee should help a bit for now, at least." In other words, I would swing between moods similar to bipolar II.

Turns out that's the wrong way to look at it. Some major life events caused me to re-evaluate many things, so I took a major vacation by myself without contact to the world to gain a lot more self insight. Eventually that led to me asking my psychiatrist about bipolar/schizophrenia as a possible cause of my problems. (Some article on hacker news on mental health actually led to bringing up the specific questions.)

When I brought it up, he even looked at me like I was trying to completely self-diagnose and initially shrugged it off. Technically, yes it's self-diagnosis, but it led to a more-correct diagnosis, but only after sending me to a research program that gave me a full psych evaluation. One of the doctors even mentioned multiple times "you're the perfect candidate for this study..." Go figure..

Mild aside - Similar doubt happens when I ask about lead poisoning as a possible attention/mood root. I used to shoot rifles competitively for years without taking care of washing my hands and such, so it's not a completely awful theory. Every doctor I brought it up to looked at me like an idiot and would just send me to get a blood test as if that's even a valid test. Still no answer there.

(edit - editing)
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I never knew that. Most Americans won't even get that close. You're trying to use logic to argue a problem of emotion and personal bias. That never works.
That's what I was curious about too. I'd imagine AJ+ will be closing with them no?
This is very cool. The code is very readable. I honestly expected a bit of mess. It's easy to follow and managed to learn a bit about awk. Nice job!
I'm really fond of Holberton's tuition scheme, where you pay 25% of your salary for two years after graduation. In this scheme, everyone is incentivized to help the student get a high paying job, so the school simply can't become a degree factory.
that is crazy awesome awk
Winners are required to declare their identity to the lottery commission to claim the prize--but they do not have to agree to have their identity publicized in most states.

Many winners choose not to be publicly identify. As I recall, one of the winners of last years bigger jackpots chose to remain anonymous.
Also, every single day public defenders waive the right to a speedy trial on behalf of their clients before those people even know what is happening or what is being done.

https://www.google.com/search?q=public+defenders+waive+right...

You know, that pesky sixth amendment that was so important.
Your anecdotal experience runs so completely contrary to mine that I don't even know what to say.

My MacBook works. It just works. No tinkering, compiling, fidgeting, anything -- and this is precisely why I like it and will continue to use it. I don't want my hardware getting in the way.

And reliability is certainly not a myth. In my days I've supported all three platforms and by far it was MPB that gave me the least grief. This is doubly true with hardware. Linux is close behind Mac but I think most engineers brave enough to venture it would competent to deal with problems on their own.

When a MPB has a problem: take it to a Mac store and get a replacement. When a Lenovo had a problem? Ship it to Virginia on your dime and wait 6 weeks.

I seriously suggest you take your MPB to a mac store and speak to them about your problem.
It's a sad commentary on the state of America's appetite for intelligent analysis when millions of people watch "The Daily Show" or "The Colbert Report" and think they are watching intelligent analysis. While both shows might have some intelligent content, both are primarily entertainment shows.

I don't watch any cable news channels myself. I have little appetite for them, and especially for the commercials.
Is There a Working Xpango Credit Generator?
I was wondering if anyone knows of a Xpango credit generator or a bot program that generates points for the website Xpango.com if you know of one could you please alert me as to where I might find it. Or even who I might contact to get one.
What do you mean, "in all possible games"? The assumptions that hold for this game don't hold for the Prisoner's Dilemma.

Like someone else said, you seem to be speaking in jargon. "Superrationality", "updateless decision theory", none of this matters in order to understand the Pirate Game. The rules of the game are very simple, maybe the pirates thing is throwing you off? That's just a theme for the puzzle (people aren't rational like this, and of course pirates aren't, and the whole situation is extremely artificial and unrealistic). The non-intuitive solution is derived from the rules as stated without any need for additional theory.
I tried Citibike when it came out, but there were no bikes in either direction of my commute way too frequently. I have read that they have improved it, but I haven't tried it recently.
Netflix already has local boxes on ISP networks that act as a local cache for customers on that network to ease the load on the ISP's peering connections. A similar architecture could handle that fanout for live content as well.
It would be a lot different, but in that same universe, the entire population of the Earth was killed by a virus spread by unicorn poop, so be glad it didn't happen.
(I think!!!) it is a problem of scale.

In 3rd world locations, you can be walking 3km every 2nd day to fill a jerrycan of water.

If that's the case then you aren't going to use that to flush.

And even if you do (using grey water after cleaning etc.), then you won't have the toilet inside the house.
> How would one even try to organize this chaos?

> You want to know how I think the Germans would do it? An annual conference first, and then incorporate an organization to handle the coordination: you’ll be surprised how much focus and teamwork pulling off a large annual conference will build. An annual event gives groups a deadline to work toward, and I don’t need to tell you how important that is. And an annual conference gets people physically together and having fun, and that absolutely shouldn’t be underrated.

What about Maker Faire, HOPE, DEF CON, etc.? I haven't been to those (or to a CCC Congress), so I don't know if there's a difference or what that difference is. Maybe someone who has can comment?
Go 1.5.3 released to address security vulnerability
It makes me sad to see this comment here. This is precisely how pseudoscience sells and proliferates: subjective attribution of all success to the hyped bunk.

Quirk diets work because adherents accidentally get the calorie balance in the right direction by limiting/changing dietary habits. It's not the quirk, which might maybe contribute a tiny effect if it's not entirely bogus in principle. Yet people hail, "The diet works! The guru was right! All hail the Guru!"

Ask and you'll hear the exact same refrain for homeopathy, acupuncture, rhino horn powder, shark fin soup, albino body parts, ...
bookmarked, in case of future UI failure. Thanks.
My knowledge of grammar isn't great, but isn't bike(-ride) working as a noun here? I can use it as a verb and say "I biked here this morning" or "it's faster if you bike across the bridge". But I've never heard "I'm going for a bike", or going for a "20 mile bike". Bike ride is what sounds natural in those sentences.

And yet you can "go for a run/jog/walk/swim". English is weird. I guess it's because bike as a noun already means the bicycle itself, while there is no object named "run/jog/swim".
The higher income demo would rather gamble on Wall St, where the odds are much better.

Sometimes they fund startups and hunt for unicorns.
Right, but if you take the union of sources you see more new stories total.
For $20/month you can get ESPN & ESPN2 and about 20 other channels (Food Network, HGTV, Cartoon Network, Discovery, History Channel are a few of the main ones I use) streamed via Sling TV. For another $5 you can add a few more Sports channels.
Large shoe is actually more advantageous to card counting, and mechanical shuffling doesn't make a difference (but the frequency of shuffling does).

It's perceived the smaller shoes are better since they are easier to county, but with a smaller shoes the count can't swing as far one way or another, so with a large shoes there is a high probability of getting better odds.

The main thing they do is not play through the whole shoe, i.e. they shuffle before they get all the way through. This prevents the count from being allowed to swing as far as possible.
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In my experience, health insurance with affordable premiums has high enough deductibles that this sort of thing as the only ailment would be all out of pocket. I'm not saying your advice is wrong, just that for people struggling with financial stress, it is unfortunate that the advice is to spend a lot more money, whether it be in premiums or for services.
They haven't claimed it publicly at all, until now.
Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman have done excellent comparative research demonstrating exactly that in great detail. For example by comparing coverage of events by the U.S. and its allies to similar events by enemies, finding consistent and strong bias in the mainstream media.

They also develop a theory, more of an explanation, that this is essentially because mainstream media is funded through advertising which then naturally biases it towards the interests of the business elite. That is how we get thought control in a democratic society.

See Manufacturing Consent and Necessary Illusions for numerous cases. Wonderful books. See also Alex Carey's work on corporate propaganda, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy.
Read through the wikipedia link. Even if I disagree with someone's views, I should be able to respect the way they express them.
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Hi, our roadmap includes hooking into CI where your CI can ask our API
Is the current project state vulnerable?
yes) Here are a list of dependencies you need to update, run your test again
no) Good, proceed with deploy

This is a little further down the roadmap, but is definitely something we want to do.
It's only a complication for the last mile, and I think it can cope. For the backbone, they can just do poor man's multicast with their appliances for ISPs. Just one stream to each ISP/appliance, which is then repeated to each client.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/
I wrote a ruby gem that wraps the HTML tidy executable for local HTML validation. Disclaimer: It is vetted with the HTML 5 compatible tidy version, but I haven't tried it out with this new version yet. Pull requests welcome.

https://github.com/ericbeland/html_validation
I had an uncle retire from Ford Motor Credit and a cousin still working there as an engineer on the F150. I have faith that company will transition well into the autonomous car and electric car future. They adopted MS Sync pretty early on compared to competitors.

On Bill Ford, I don't know the whole story on him, but I could see how he was a bad CEO and a decent advocate and visionary for these technologies. For a wealthy man who probably doesn't have to do anything, he sounds commendable to be trying so hard to contribute.

It's a bit of a shame in a way that the government bailed out GM and Chrysler because Ford deserved to gain more advantage out of that due to their good decision making.
I hope that moving ahead they reap more rewards than they have in the past for their forward looking moves.

I'm still preordering a Tesla Model 3 in March, but I'll definitely keep my eye on what Ford has to offer soon.
Sounds good, so long as they don't pull what some bootcamps do, which is hire former students
Ask HN: Feedback for App
On top of the HTML5 canvas element, we have developed a website builder that lets designers create web content visually without having to worry about tedious things like the DOM or CSS styling. Through stencils, designers can integrate structured API data into their designs by re-using templates they only have to build or edit once. Our main goal is to give web designers a tool that allows them to create websites that work and perform as well as websites created by professional developers.

We are gonna launch a campaign in Indiegogo soon, and we would love it if you checked it out. Any feedback would be awesome and extremely appreciated. If you have any questions about the app, don’t hesitate to ask! :)

Home Page http://moebius.io

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Demo Video Link https://vimeo.com/moebiusio/demo
That makes sense for a full-time in-person school that costs a lot of money.

But Udacity's part-time remote program is $299 a month, https://www.udacity.com/nanodegrees/nd009 so charging by percentages is less worthwhile.
Having to recompile all applications and libraries to remove the potential crypto bug is a pretty scary bug :-/
Hi halite!

1. We've got agents listening to incoming feeds, and did the work to ingest all the historical vulnerability data we could find.

2. We're focusing on apt installed packages for our initial release.

3 & 4. We haven't built out plugin support for scanning repos and ingesting from other tools. We're looking to get as much info as we can about what data you have to feed into us :), so we can figure out what'll work best!

5. The only machine metadata we're currently using is: hostname (this can be changed by setting the FRIENDLY_NAME environment variable), Operating System, Operating System Version, the tracking UUID for a package. The package data is: package and package version. We're aiming to keep the minimal subset of information we need to provide notifications :).

5. We're using Digital Ocean for our hosting (those guys rock!). Hosts are currently only in SF.

6. Our larger machine package sets are around 200-300kb.

7. How much volume?
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Ask HN: Do I need to encrypt data before storing it on CloudKit Private DB
Access to Apple's CloudKit Private DB is limited only to the Account Holder. So, does it matter?
secure for you the opportunity to make money through Udacity’s global mentorship or freelancing programs.

They don't even promise a partner will take you for something. They just promise an "opportunity to make money".

"Oh, you don't want to make an Android app for $10, well we gave you the opportunity. We're sad to see you passed on it"
I spent almost 300k in that simulator and only won ~7k. I thought I'd hit big. I still put up 2 bucks for tonight though :(

Anyway, the cheeky FAQ on the PowerBall site is worth money down the drain http://www.powerball.com/pb_contact.asp#odds
That problem is easily avoided by wrapping the whole script in a function and then calling it on the last line.

It looks like Patchwork's script doesn't quite do that, but it does put _most_ of its functionality into functions, and AFAICT there is no particular place in the script where a connection loss could lead to anything bad happening. Admittedly this appears to be a lucky accident rather than following best practice.
In order to do critical thinking on a subject, you first need to know that it exists. Alternate sources can be helpful with being alerted to stuff.

Although with Russia Today, it takes a pretty large effort to filter out the information from between the propaganda. Al Jazeera on the other hand has a fairly high signal-to-noise ratio.
Checking the math:

P(7) = 31598138 / 292201338 ~= 0.108
P(~7) = 260603200 / 292201338 ~= 0.892
P(win|7) = 0
P(win|~7) = 1 / 260603200 ~= 3.84e-9

P(win) = P(win|7) * P(7) + P(win|~7) * P(~7)
= 0 + 260603200 / 292201338 * 1 / 260603200
= 1 / 292201338

You are correct, sir. I withdraw my incorrect statement.

Nevertheless, I presume that most of the surge players, who only buy tickets for very high jackpots, will not have favorite numbers, and thus you would only be avoiding splitting the pot with the regulars playing their usual numbers.

If someone plays his birthday every week, but bought an extra 10 tickets for the record jackpot, those extras are likely to be completely random draws. Judging by the increase in the pot from the last draw, there are a lot of people buying more than the usual amount of tickets.

So in the EV calculation, if the amount attributable to not splitting the pot is not greater than the actual value of your time in filling out the form to play specific numbers, you are better off taking the random draw.
Neat. Reminds me of the nappy bins.

However, the one in the video seems more geared at sustainability and reuse. They filter the water out of the pee. Dry out the poo for fertilisation.
Surprised they use WordPress to build this website. I thought they'd use Umbraco at the least.

It doesn't surprise me though. ASP.NET is a powerful platform which has seen some great improvements after MVC gained traction, but I wouldn't use it for anything simple where a static site generator or WordPress would get the job done.