skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For B, OneNote notebooks are just files, so isn't this as easy as hosting any other file yourself? Just save everything in a folder that you synchronize with Dropbox or rysnc or whatever you want.

And obviously OneNote itself isn't open source, but the file format is, so it's not like your notes are locked into the Microsoft ecosystem.
Trump: I'll make Apple 'start building their damn computers and things' in U.S
This is a gnarly run. Almost 7000 ft of climbing (he gives the value in m, but all my reference points are in feet). It appears he was not auto-pausing, but did stop quite a bit. The time spent moving was 5:49. His pace, excluding the time stopped, was 11:12 min/mi. With the elevation gain, this is most definitely running.
Assuming 80 possible characters (A-Z,a-z,0-9 + 18 punctuation symbols), log2(80^8) ~= 50. So a correct horse password would be about the same as a random 8 character alpha-numeric entropy wise.

The XKCD argument is that correct hose style is way easier to remember. It's possible Schneier thought Munroe was arguing that a correct horse was as much entropy as a 20 character random password, even though he isn't. This is the first I've heard of this argument though so I'm not even sure how much of a controversy it is.
Yet, the military boot camp analogy is still shockingly accurate, everyone gets a few weeks of first aid in basic training and that's honestly enough because the platoon has a LT floating around, a couple levels of management higher, to make more difficult decisions.

LTs are handy once in awhile, but you really don't need a platoon composed entirely of LTs.

A better analogy is backhoe operators and civil engineers. We'd probably save a measurable number of lives and capital loss if all backhoe operators were fully qualified civil engineers. However in practice unless you're biting off more than you can chew, having one CE float around and stamp blueprints and write orders is usually a perfectly adequate amount of engineering support. In an ideal world of massive underemployment or over production in the edu sector, I guess all backhoe operators would be extremely bored and frustrated civil engineers.
I had the same experience.
Whenever I use t-SNE with noisy data or data grouped densely around some point, they tend to have a very similar visual structure as the example given in this experiment: a circular shape with some points making small "clusters" but with rather no significant meaning.
True, but I didn't think that we should go to Ball's Pyramid and eat them up. I was thinking about mass production. Think about chicken: there are more chickens than humans on this planet [1].

These creatures have such a great name! Nobody wants to eat crickets or worms, but who could resist a tree lobster? It is such a great marketing name!

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/global-liv...

Edit: you are right that being a food source for humans doesn't guarantee survival. It only happens if the food source can be mass produced.
Some people are saying they don't want to use OneNote because they don't want to store their data in a binary, proprietary format that's not future-proof. I agree.

But I think we're not defining the problem well by focusing on the application: A failure of the tech community is that we never provided the equivalent of a plain text format for the multimedia age: An open, universal mixed-media file format.

With a standard format we'd have editors popping up that target it, the way we have such a great ecosystem of text editors. HTML does the job in a way, but it's not portable. One of the HTML archive formats might do the job, but none are widely supported (AFAIK).
Kudos to you! Would be great if you could add some video recorded workflow, now it is a bit tricky to understand what a tool does.

Also not mocking or anything, but how 'gthnk' should be pronounced?
ON can sync off of a regular old file share. I've been using it for years. A copy on our server and one on each of my computers (desktop, laptop, Mac) and they all happily sync up. Granted, the iPhone app works best with OneDrive. I'm not a fan of OneDrive and use DropBox instead for a smaller ON notebook that I share with my wife for things like handy pictures of our insurance cards, grocery lists, travel information, etc. Works great for us at work (documentation and pictures) and at home.
An article about this study received a bit of discussion a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10922166
>People already know that their phones are made using materials excavated in awful conditions, then built in awful conditions by minors in Asia and then sold at ludicrous prices around the world. The consensus seems to be (based on my observation) that no one really cares.

Yep.

When I benefit from child abuse, it isn't a big deal. When someone else benefits from child abuse, then it is a horrible travesty. All the focus on the horrors of child exploitation of certain forms by those who benefit from child exploitation of other forms leaves a lot to be thought about.
I've some of the self-driving systems are relying on remembered images of highways as much as lidar or radar. A memory of roads near your residence and workplace is useful.
Naive: what's wrong with xml? Way more self-describing than binary that's for sure.
I saw on TV last night a throw-away line from a teacher in a drama [1] about "survival of the fittest", and how only the strongest genes survive. I just cringed.

I realize that this is how people conventionally think about it, and on the surface it's only subtly different from the real explanation, but the result is that it makes you think about the evolutionary process in a fundamentally incorrect way.

I think this is a big part of why people fail to understand how emergent systems pop up all over the place. It leads to the mistaken idea that, for example, being able to design a new economy is just an engineering problem, and we can just paste together what seems to work with our own bright ideas, and get something functional out the other end.

[1] Freaks and Geeks
I was hired at a large software consulting company, that sends people all over the place. I established with them that I was a backend/lower level developer. But due to some family illness I requested to stay in the city I lived in. The only account they have in my city is one that does support, not development. That's one reason, at least. Why I was never reassigned I don't know. I assume that's where I got ignored/forgotten.
I use Google Keep. There's no supported mechanism for exporting, as far as I know, but it's actually pretty easy to do (for a techie!), since they include every single note taken in the HTML of the website as a JSON document.

It's actually one of the few Google applications (as opposed to data services, like Search and Maps) I use, since I've never found a mobile client like it, with just the features I need and nothing else.
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Do what you want privately but the value proposition changes when you publish your self-experimentation world-wide. More so when you promote it. And yet more still if and when you try to profit from it.

There are clear and common ethical standards here and the blog post comes in well under them.
Italian papers on genetically modified crops under investigation
My mother also worked in a mostly-male field (programming) from the '60s on forward. She rebuffed people too in the same way that you are talking about -- it was the only way to survive as a female programmer at her company (she worked at the same company for her entire career). She was strong and didn't take bullshit from guys.

But over time she told me that it really wore her down and made her feel negatively about work. Even if people were stronger historically, it didn't mean that the environment was ok, or that it didn't really bother them.
They have no better options because we aren't giving them better options.

They get paid $0.25 for a job that an adult would have demanded $1.00 for. Had we banned child labor, the adult would've had the job, the child wouldn't have needed the work as badly (as their parent now has a better job), and we would be paying slightly more over hear.

Let us not pretend that we are doing them some service by exploiting them. (If you really want to say we are helping them by exploiting them, then how about we consider ways these children can make more money with less risk of dismemberment and only needing a weak internet connection and a cheap phone with a camera...)
An extremely fast, light-weight, isomorphic component building framework
Alternate headline: 62 people own almost 1% of global wealth. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/upshot/why-we-cant-blame-a...
I'm interested in something like this, but for a different application.

I want to mix up stuff like beard oil or vape juice. Interested in delivering between 0.1ml and 10ml of solution (Eg: 0.1ml of 100mg/ml nicotine, 10ml or vegetable glycerine, or 0.5ml of an essential oil, 10ml of hemp seed oil.)

I never could find a reliable way to deliver small amounts of fluid repeatedly.

In this type of work its the same fluid going to each place so you don't have contamination. I would to produce an arbitrary mix from, say, 40 containers of different fluids.

Would love any suggestions.

I looked at peristaltic pumps and all that, never could find a cost effective solution--- closest I came was syringes attached to linear actuators, and maybe an optical system to observe the position of the syringe to ensure it was the correct distance. OR possibly a squeezing assembly with disposable plastic pipettes, but that seemed imprecise.

I put the idea on the back burner as a result.
I use Skype all the time. Occasionally it would work badly, which would cause to try something else (Hangouts, the apple facechat thing, facebook, some generic flavour of WebRTC). That something else would work much worse than skype under those network conditions.

I haven't experienced anything better, even if Skype obviously could be even better. With 300 mbit connections you would think we'd have somethin better.
Repeated exactly 74,207,281 times, to be precise...
The problem is integration; if you make offline edits in two places, you'd need to manually merge the files, which is a pain.
The Disease of Being Busy
Opening GOV.UK's Puppet repository
Also make sure you are on editing the config.js gh-pages branch as this is the branch Github uses for hosting. If you want to use the code you have on master, just merge master into gh-pages. If you have any more issues, feel free to email me.
Isn't the subtle difference only hanging on the 'survival' word? The best suited genes for the situation get expressed. The fact that other genes are lurking around waiting for their opportunity, doesn't deny the point of the dialog.
Great news! I wish they invested a bit more to the concepts though.
Not quite. That password would be "1qaz@WSX".

You see, you need a number and a special character, a lowercase letter and an uppercase character.
Sometimes stroke or similar, caused by incorrect hydration by just drinking lots of plain/plain-ish water which leave various useful things in your body too diluted to be useful. Sometimes an exacerbating factor in heat stroke, so not diagnosed as the heat stroke is seen as the only problem and other causes of heat stroke are assumed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
The counter example would be Apple when they introduced music players and music distribution. That was far away from their core business of PCs.
The smartphone was less of a stretch, because it was a potential extension of the iTouch comunications computer.
I went to Maker's Academy in London (£8,000 at the time, I paid for it with profits from a prior successful exit).

As someone else pointed out, this was run as a for profit college, no surprise given their VC backing, with a focus on the flavour of the week skills and buzzwords required to get their graduates a job afterwards ('agile' check,'MVP' check).

At the time our class was twice the normal size, their "teaching staff" had trouble coping, and the marketing was thrown at us daily, with promises of jobs for all.

I had no intention of becoming a developer, and was able to put some of what I learnt to good use in a new e-commerce business.

Some struggled to get any value out of the course, being told to wait for the learning curve to kick in, some were judged by Maker's Academy to be somehow deficient in their attitude or character. There were dropouts as well, who realised that coding, and the intense, corporate cult atmosphere was not for them. They were given the ultimatum of come back and try again or forfeit your fees.

The people who got the most out of it had already coded in the long term prior to attending, were good at it, and needed the employability that the course gave.

It was a case of marketing style over educational substance that was taking people in for near the cost of a year at university.
Microsoft Acquires MinecraftEdu, Tailored for Schools
Strongloop and sl-blip
Last year I started importing my firefox bookmarks into OneNote with OneNote Clipper. In theory this awesome:

+ Ability to organize bookmarks with searchable content.

+ No more dead bookmarks.

+ Boomark into a quick notes section and organize later.

Some drawbacks:

- Clipper does not work in article mode on some websites (github and reddit for example...)

- Syncing sometimes does not work and theres no way to see why. For example pages with lots of images.

- Clipper cannot create new sections.

I'm quite happy with the solution, but still sceptical, because if stuff does not work, I'm on my own.
To a decent runner that is nearly walking though. A record road race marathon pace is ~4:45 min miles. A slightly above average runner can do say 8 min miles over 26.2 miles on flats, which is only a titch under the 50k of this race.

Trail races are slower, and 7000 feet is a decent amount of climbing.. but he was in no danger of setting any land speed record. 15 min miles is not that much faster than walking.

So this proves you can speed-walk an ultra in a fasted state. Which is cool and shows how strong our bodies are. scott jurek is amazing at ultras, and a vegan - but he definately eats and runs off sugar.
A mark of intelligence is the ability to be objective about what you do and don't know. If I don't understand something, I don't jump down someone's throat based on the limited information I have and try to extrapolate from there. I try to learn more about the issue, listen to experts, evaluate the merits of their argument to the best of my ability, and form an opinion.
I just started training for my first marathon, and am trying to do some reading on the subject. Hal Higdon's position is I guess what you might call "traditional": your muscles use glycogen as the preferred energy source. Around mile 20 is when most people deplete their glycogen and start burning fat as the primary source of energy, but this is much less efficient, resulting in a performance drop. If this is indeed true, then I guess it means that if your goal is top performance, then carbs are your friend. If your goal is fat loss, then low-carb diet plus long endurance exercise is for you. Does that seem right?
> Dereferencing null is undefined behavior in a C program - which is another way of saying it is considered an error, and there are no guarantees about what will happen as a result of it.

Indeed. It is undefined within C. It is an abstraction that C builds on top of. Dereferencing 0 on the vast majority of embedded systems (or kernel-level code) is very well defined.

This is just one of the areas where C has a "leaky abstraction".
Use your domain and your SSL certificate in Bluemix
"Your 32 completely random characters doesn't contain enough special symbols, and is thus insecure."
Groundbreaking? How so?
That's actually kind of cute. He was trying to act all secretive, a 'job' for you. :)
The police building their headquarters as a '323 metre solid gold pyramid that harks to the Tower of Babel' seems pretty on-the-nose. https://vimeo.com/151955927
Business Logic in the Database. Yes or No? It Depends
Sococo had a product that worked much better than Skype! It was favored by enterprise organizations, so not a lot of coverage here.
Am I the only one getting a distinctly dystopian (/cyberpunk) vibe from the video on that page?

I don't mean the text/content – just the general vibe of the clip.
EU Commission initiated general software liability law, incl. for free services
Virtual, yet real
When a data scientist starts drawing after a decade off: Two years in 17 images
Anshul Srivastava Reveals Her Perspective as a Female Developer
We switched from using Riemann to Prometheus, and we're very happy with the decision. Prometheus has been much easier to work with.
There's a debate amongst economists about whether the value of college comes in the form of human capital versus signaling. What you're describing is sort of the signaling theory, i.e. colleges mostly function as a sieve to help employers identify students who are driven and have passed a battery of tests that have no relation to job-relevant skills except that they're hard.

The human capital theory is that education gives students new skills and knowledge that makes them more valuable. In other words, all other things equal a student that learns, say, calculus is more valuable than a student that does not.

I'm not sure what the current economic consensus is, but an interesting thought experiment to test these theories is: the human capital theory implies that you accrue value as you accrue skills/knowledge in school, so if you drop out halfway through college you should still have earned half of your human capital and economically your wages should be higher than someone who didn't go to school at all but lower than someone who graduated. The signaling theory is more discrete, if you drop out halfway you don't get any of the value of signaling because you can't say you're a graduate. The wages of college dropouts should be the same as the wages of someone who never went to college at all if the signaling theory holds true.

I'm not sure what the data says but I suspect it would be muddied by different industries and degrees. My guess would be that software engineering education follows the human capital theory -- engineering hiring managers don't seem to care where you went to school or if you went to school at all. Other industries, typically those with less hard skills like management consulting, might rely more on signaling. That's just my theory though, haven't tried to look up any data to support it.
Does scheme give you access to the compiler's internal data structures? Can you for example write an extension that scans through the compiled code looking for, say, for loops and replacing them with something else?
Something I've been wondering for a while: are you considering opening up physical bootcamps as well?
Due to the family illness I mentioned in another comment, I have come into some money. I am actually going back to school, and don't have much desire to work. Maybe at a coffee shop, just so weekends don't lose their meaning.
Good, thanks for the clarifications. Pretty admirable performance.
In the "Download" section of your README, one "downside" is the use of plain-text HTTP.

I'd probably throw in some checks for the return code given by curl.

Also, while I can't speak for the other applications, Ansible has this feature built-in.
I'll say it is legit to be hosted on gitlab.videolan.org (edit typo)
$5/student/year with volume discounts available, according to the NYT piece.
Some stats for the numbers folks :

8 sketchbooks. Every page filled front and back, cover to cover.

Broke 5 bic mechanical pencils

Went through 35 pencil lead refills, which is about 420 pencil leads.

Wore down 2 nubs on my tablet pen.

Went through about 30 red color pencils, and about 5 green ones.

Went through a box of Blackwing 602 pencils.

Bought a vintage 1970s Panasonic Point-o-matic pencil sharpener that feels like it runs on diesel.

Got 15 copic markers and 2 refills bought so far.

Upgraded from a wacom intuous 2 to a Huion 19inch display tablet.
See the clarifications from pneumatics. It looks like he ran it, just stopped a lot.
No, the number 5 is prime, yet in binary it is 101. The new prime number could have many zeroes interspersed with ones, so you don't know how many 1 digits it has.

EDIT: I have realized my mistake in the representation of 2's complement. However, I will leave this here for posterity.
I used to work for Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond's record label, back when they were dominating the UK and European pop charts as The KLF (1).

One thing that the media have a tough time dealing with is the fact that Bill and Jimmy are experimental artists who took over the pop charts ... and then proceeded to do what experimental artists are wont to do in such a situation. They gave a huge middle finger to the industry, by barnstorming the big UK music industry award ceremony (playing a death metal version of one of their dance hits and "... firing blanks from an automatic weapon over the heads of the crowd. Later in the evening the band dumped a dead sheep outside one of the after-parties") (2), deleting their entire back catalogue and then burning a million quid (3). They proceeded to do lots of other experimental stuff, ranging from writing some excellent books to activities such as the model village.

What does the media remember them for? More often than not, it's the one-off act of Burning a Million Quid. Their ground-breaking music, the books, the anti-establishment statements and art ... it's seldom taken seriously or given much respect these days. I am glad to see Jimmy's exhibition is getting some coverage, but I hate to see the same old background factoid trotted out. It's as if reporters writing about John Lennon always referenced "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus" quote to define him.

If the hook is going to be the money bonfire, at least give it the proper context.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF

2. http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/a-look-back-on-...

3. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/08/time-k-found...
Yeah, we did science for thousands of years, but medical science has had (and still has) to contend with pseudo science and snake oil continuously (for a modern take, see homeopathy).

An anecdote about a personal experience in relation to an exercise and diet regime doesn't make a person smart, and asking questions about the experience doesn't denigrate the author of the anecdote.

Weight loss and nutrition are the bogey man of the health industry, and anyone claiming a new, better way of doing things is inviting harsh criticism - as long as the idea is under attack and not the person, there is no harm done.
Turns out run-length encoding it is more or less what you get if you store it as 2^74,207,281 - 1. I imagine this probably is how they store it actually; note that 2^n == 1<<n so you can just store the exponent and complement (74 207 281, 1) and then do normal two's complement math.
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There is also travel expenses in the U.S. that I don't think occur as frequently in Europe. For example. I have grandparents in Ohio and California. Parents in South Dakota and live in Arizona -- and my employer is in North Carolina. If I want to visit relatives for a holiday I am talking about blowing a grand minimum on airfare or gas, hotels, kenneling for the dogs, food, etc.
This is basically the plot of Umberto Eco's book "Foucault's Pendulum".