skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it probably makes it more acceptable to the "everyone needs to go to college" crowd. Trade schools have been around for a while, but for some reason people think you need a "university degree" to get anywhere. I assume they are trying to bridge that mental gap by using similar language to that of traditional colleges / universities.

Also "trade schools" and / or specialty schools rarely have the same social aspects of a traditional school, which (even if you personally don't value that) is a big selling point for traditional schools. Maybe they are trying to capture some of that and mix it with the specialization of a trade school.

All speculation of course, but seems reasonable I think.
This is interesting. I really do like Ruby and have used Rails as my go-to on a lot of projects because of simplicity and the general support of the ecosystem so if Ruby could maintain its great experience while getting way better under the hood it could mean great things for the language.
If all you go by is media reports, then sure, it sounds awful. But let me tell you something about the media: in general they look for the stories that inspire outrage and that are extraordinary. They do not reflect the normal life.
Unfortunately not an option in that case as the issue was tickets not gotten closed full stop due to a long process to complete them after my input.
I'm not complaining.
How is disabling cameras and audio recorders only a slap on the wrist? Something is deeply wrong with policing in this country.
Americas biggest problem in the inner cities. They are literally ghettos were gangs and violence run rampant. The schools are pure shit. The kids have no future. The cops crack down hard (half because they have to in order to maintain any semblance of peace, half because they become jaded).

But that part of America is shockingly isolated from the rest of us. Chicago is a great example. There are blocks where on side of an intersection it's gang territory and the other is totally safe.

There are huge swaths of Chicago that are rich, peaceful, and probably the best city living in America. There are also huge swaths of pure poverty and gang warfare.

If you are born on the right side of the tracks, it's a great place. If you aren't, well, good luck.
Probably for "Also, not to attack the GP", followed by "the GP sounds like one of these people" who "do dick moves with their bikes, cause accidents, never obey any traffic law, scream at pedestrians, have unbelievable senses of entitlements, kick/punch cars, and constantly pretend to be innocent and are often incredibly confrontational when criticized."
The only point of a modern day university is that they are (a) exclusive, and (b) "guarantee" that students "know" what they are "taught". That's at least what people who hire think.

I remember someone saying "It wouldn't matter if MIT only taught basket weaving as long as they still had such a thorough selection process". This holds true here. People only care about the pedigree of your degree, it's substance comes second in my experience.
The difference is basic income is for everyone.
Okay, thanks!
What is the fastest man made object?
I did wonder at the discrepancy at the time, so I re-listened to the audio several times carefully when I was writing the transcript above. To me, he is clearly saying gee rather than vee (could be an artifact of the recording though).

I'm sure Hillis knows more physics than I do (though I knew the equations of motion pretty well at one time), but he could easily have just mis-spoke. I didn't pursue this line of thought, but considered it might have been something to do with him deriving an expression for the vertical position in a gravitational field, perhaps in terms of horizontal motion or something.
Not so great an option if the closest thing to a "local security team" is the sysadmin asking the question ;)
Agreed. I've been a big fan of billiards for 20 years and I think a part of the reason is that playing well basically requires very short bursts of absolute focus, something that I'm good at. Pool is hands down the only game I can play for 14 hours straight and not get bored/tired of playing at all.
Works for me on firefox 34.0 linux. Are you sure you aren't encountering a MITM from a corporate proxy?
Data Scientists are at the very top of the 25 best jobs in America
Open-Source and .NET – It's Not Picking Up
Actually, ensuring that states provide equal protection of the laws to all persons, that states do not deprive persons of life, liberty, or property without due process, and that states do not abridge the privileges and immunities of US citizens is an enumerated power of Congress; see the Fourteenth Amendment, particularly sections 1 and 5.
It doesn't sound like he's being fired because he has the data.
Always been puzzled as to why the ISO release is provided by HTTP and not HTTPS; possible it doesn't make a difference, but if so, it's not clear why.
Why You Should Use Refunds to Prevent Chargebacks
What if consequences based on the presumption of guilt where limited to immediate termination and being placed on a list barring the accused from working as a police officer in the future? Is presumption of guilt allowed if there are no criminal penalties?
GPORCA, a Modular Query Optimizer, Is Now Open-Source
I've shunned mechanisms like this for fear I would become dependent on them, and then really in trouble if I were to lose the notebook, which, unless it was permanently attached to my body, would be quite likely.

Having 'the cloud' has started to help me. It's something I know I can't lose, so I'm slowly allowing myself to become dependent on it (things like calendar, short notes, and keeping track of receipts). And by the cloud, I mean google drive, emails to self, etc..
You could read the actual article before commenting.
> then what you have is not a police force, but a criminal organization.

This is the only reasonable conclusion, and it's neither new nor particularly controversial. The real question is: what to do about it?
Yes, the protocol will be completely open source.
The brain is not wired with few enough interactions to actually isolate a network like that. The number of connecting synapses is massive, outnumbering neurons by 100-1000x. And more importantly, the connections are spread all over the place.

E.g., when I was in grad school for neuroscience, I attended a multimodal sensory symposium where I learned that huge numbers of neurons in primary sensory cortices (V1, A1, etc) responded to stimuli from other senses. E.g., 20% of your primary visual neurons fire when you get auditory stimuli.
I think just about everybody cheering already knows this stuff about the legal system, so the story illuminates nothing for us. The one new thing it shows is that the good guys are, for once, using the broken system to smack the bad guys around instead of vice versa.
Asian Nations Push Courtship of Israeli Tech Companies
>Well, if by "entire working life" you mean "every time they go in patrol or are on a call" then yes. Nobody is interested in their water cooler talks.

I may be off base here, but cops seem to be on patrol for almost their entire shift.
Agreed that last sentence wasn't helpful, but neither are the downvotes for him explaining exactly what the situation likely was.

Maybe the OP is a great cyclist. Maybe he's not. It's immaterial.

What is material is trying to provide some context into why that happened, if it did. Lets just say as a fellow Chicago resident I also immediately had the same suspicions that you were responding to.

I used to commute daily as a cyclist, until I moved here. I sold my bike, as I don't want to be associated with these people whatsoever. They are the most entitled, aggressive, and actively dangerous group of commuters I've witnessed. I've lived in Amsterdam. This is not how bikers should behave.

So to me, it was simply providing context to those who don't live here for stories that don't make any logical sense. Cyclists here get absolutely zero benefit of the doubt from me, and I imagine that attitude can get into a cop on a bad day as well. Certainly doesn't justify it, but it explains it.
fwiw, http://nats.io/ and https://github.com/nats-io
Ask around at any university. Some classes can be taken online. These are the classes the students throw on top of an already full schedule for free credits because they know they are complete bullshit and will take zero time and effort. If I had a M.S. from Georgia Tech and actually did a degree program with other students in a class and spoke with a professor many times a week and dedicated 1-2 years of full-time study and then my alma mater started giving out MY degree for people who sit in their pajamas and copy paste answers off the Internet I'd be pretty annoyed since the thing I worked so hard for/paid for would be devalued. I think being VERY skeptical of any online degree is quite wise and students should be required to say whether their degree was in person or online when, say, applying for a job, etc.

Online education might be a real thing one day but it's got miles and miles to go before anyone takes it seriously. Right now it's at the level of "there are pretty good lectures that you can listen to if you're curious about a topic".

As it turns out the reason most people don't do education and have a full-time job at the same time is that they are essentially incompatible. If you are dedicating enough resources to your job to not be fired, you are not taking your education seriously (unless your period of study far extends that of traditional students by many years). A serious degree program IS a full time job even if it's only a few hours of week of physical in-class time. Online is a way to cheat and pretend you can do both, when in reality you can't and one or both of them suffers a great deal.
Show HN: Visual Search using features extracted from Tensor Flow inception model
Right now, we are targeting a $400 price point.
I just noticed the same thing. It's possible that the WSJ has analyzed their logs and discovered that most of the traffic they're getting from Google is people searching for the exact text of article titles, in an attempt to circumvent their paywall.

Or, it's possible that it's just a temporary misconfiguration. Only time will tell whether it's a temporary or permanent change.
So in even the most extreme, overly generous estimation of plausible "errors" a person could make, we're talking about a police force that is around 40% corrupt?
Bad news: big companies, governments, hospitals, etc., etc. are sharing your PII with 'data scientists' every day.
Get an employment lawyer involved so you don't get sued for the termination or the exposure of PII. Answer is longer than appropriate to post here.
This would go great with a lightweight ClojureScript-based DSL to replace all those 'something, something -> something' "method" strings.
FWIW I don't think ‘enormity’ means what you think it does!

‘Enormity’ refers to severe moral transgression, like you could say, “It wasn't until after the war had ended that the German people became aware of the enormity of Hitler's concentration camps…” That's closer to what the word means.
Interesting. I believe that with Ranked-Choice Voting Williams would be the winner because only the top 2 with #1 ranking would be considered and then the #2 ranking from the 15% group would be split between them, giving Williams the win with 60% votes. With FPTP, Williams would also be the winner.

With approval voting, assuming they all pick only 2 (as picking 3 would mean everyone gets 100%, and this post already assumes some "perfect voting" anyway), Jones would also be the winner (just like in that post) with points from 100% of the voters. Williams would be voted by 60% of the voters and Smith would be voted by 40% of the voters.
Show HN: Think Academy – Learn to code by cloning real life startups
By this reasoning, you should put a list of the universities you were admitted to on your resume, not the university that you actually attended. Under these terms, what's the difference between going to Harvard for a couple of semesters and dropping out, and getting admitted to Harvard but deciding to attend Dartmouth instead?
her main focus was getting more minorities into the program. that is racism and sexism, and i'll be damned if i sit back and let some spic bitch ruin academia through prejudice.
Getting started with DevOps automation: 4 steps to help you prioritize
I use AdBlock Plus because of the Element Hiding Helper addon, which lets me easily and perpetually hide whatever DOM element I decide is annoying me or taking up unnecessary space. To my knowledge there is no similar addon for uBlock Origin.
If you can find someone who "support[s] all public sector unions 100% of the time", have a great time.

I'm sure there's someone out there, but I've never met them.
Honestly, I wish there were major respected trade schools that taught CS/Software Engineering/IT/IS. The university environment, in my opinion, is adverse to the development of good CS knowledge.

Most of us on here, I'd say, have learned through trying and experimentation and that is why we are fairly good at what we proclaim to do.

University doesn't foster that kind of understanding.

I also hate that currently I need to take 5 physics classes, an accounting class, a social sciences class, and 3 "study" classes to get my major.
DevOps, IT Ops in 2016: 5 key predictions
Anything is possible.
Fraternal Order of Police Data Dump
Please read 'linear' in place of the last word 'exponential' in my reply. Oops.
It seems almost unbelievable how such a stern, concrete warning can be ignored. Of course, we look at this memo with perfect 20/20 hindsight, knowing that the O-ring issue caused a disaster.

I am genuinely curious why the warning was ignored. I am hesistant to believe it was through malice or sheer incompetence. Does upper managment get two overblown warnings per week by engineering, so that this critical warning was "drowned by the noise"? Or were there good (at the time!) reasons to focus on other issues first?
Recursive Neural Networks Can Learn Logical Semantics
I agree to a small extent with your co-founder. One of the problems we are trying to solve is that a lot of new entrepreneurs aren't even aware of so many tools that can make them work more efficiently. This is why Analyzo is also very carefully curated.
Sounds quite a bit like a more radical version of Olin College of Engineering not too far from MIT.

From what I've seen that sort of education is more accepted by industry than academia so its a good solution for me. Having an expansive portfolio to show is a very powerful thing.
Dealing with Employee Churn in Knowledge-Intensive Environments
> Maybe we should just attribute all quotes to Mark Twain and be done with it.

Much like how, when one is in doubt in math, one just calls it Euler's theorem.
GCHQ's Christmas card puzzle 'not yet solved'
This is a great point. And there is a very easy compromise here. Make the tapes legally sealed from the public unless a judge issues an order to unseal it.
> I was actually handed the project idea as an intern task.

"Hey Dave, that intern kid starts today. Shall just I send him to get coffee and donuts?"

"Nah, I was going just to ask him to make Ruby massively faster, something many super-smart people have been trying to do for years with no success."

"Ok, that should keep him out of our way at least."
Actually, the brain is designed to prune. You're born with way more neurons than you need, and you remove the ones that don't wire up properly as you grow. In fact, insufficient pruning probably leads to different diseases. (Was a neuroscientist, but not a neurologist, so I'm guessing epilepsy... and maybe some forms of autism?)
Interesting. Still any backward adjustment however small seems potentially dangerous. I googled a bit and it seems many ntp services can slow down the time until its in sync instead of adjusting it backwards. That seems safer.
What makes you think you'd have any different experience if your e-mail address did not contain "+" character?
If you haven't read Richard Feynman's appendix to the Rogers Commission report on the Challenger disaster, I really recommend it: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...

It's very readable and goes into a bunch of other issues at NASA at the time beyond the O-ring failure, which Feynman treats as a symptom of more general engineering and cultural problems.
If I was writing that to most bosses I've had, the first line would include the words 'death', 'critical', 'failure', 'negligent', etc. I would assume it would be skimmed otherwise. Even still, I would guess that a lot of the stuff in the middle would be skimmed and I'd have to reiterate my point in the last sentence.

Ya it's a bad situation.
moving to uBlock was at first waiting on it to be included in Debian, but then abandoned as the Adblock in Tails doesn't allow the accepted ads by default (ignoring the performance improvements):

https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9833
It works the same exact way. You can select a DOM element and blacklist it. Manually or by using the Eyedropper tool.

See: http://i.imgur.com/s2pVQ1V.png
Thanks for the feedback, you make a good point about when a "side project" becomes something to be taken more seriously. To clarify, this is not a raffle, contest, or lottery and we did extensive legal research. It's considered a sweepstakes since no purchase is necessary, and it is also void where prohibited. We have a set of official rules for the sweepstakes, and we're doing everything we can to ensure that we are abiding by the law and being transparent with all site visitors.
Because if we do that the police become more susceptible to bribery. We can't simply punish whole departments for individual conduct. What we have to do is catch individual cops breaking their cameras and then fire them.
Here is Richard Feynman talking about the issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpDg7MjHps

Seems not very different from how companies are managed 30 years later.
How does something being a meme excuse it.
On the other hand, retaining him long enough to implement a policy and start enforcing it - and enforcing it on him - might be a good idea.
It's unfortunate that this type of therapy is out of reach for the majority of kids. Not many parents have $50,000/yr of disposable income to send their child.

I know of a child right now that something positive like this may be the deciding factor between a productive life or a life behind bars, but the cost is at least 50% of his parents combined income, so he will not have that option.
I am using uBlock Origin 1.5.5, and it has a Block Element feature. Not sure how it differs from AdBlock Plus's implementation, though.
Revive your unlicensed eol Meraki bricks
You can now flash your Meraki paperweights with OpenWrt and bring them back to life. Woop. Huzza.

Us lot at Cucumber WiFi, have put together a precompiled version so you can carry on cloud-managing it.

Currently we support the MR12 and MR16. MR18 coming soon.

Here's the guide:

http://docs.cucumberwifi.io/article/213-installing-cucumber-on-cisco-meraki

Let me know how you get on!
I wouldn't say that the substance of e.g. a M.D. degree comes "second". Maybe you're focusing too much on IT?
Presumably it would just be an app on AppleTV. So why would you care if it was available or not?
Same. I was home sick and, as usual for a launch, went out to see it. Saw the split smoke plumes and knew it was wrong, having seen enough launches.
Wercker's container-centric development automation CLI is now open source
tbh i had more than one (young) application who mentioned the universities that "were their options" in job interviews
Look at the comments from the union rep. at the end of the story. Why is there no call from the public to:

Outlaw public employee unions?
If you have not joined the university you are not part of the "in" group. There is a perception among people that if you attend a "prestigious" university that you are smarter than someone who attends a community college.

I find that crazy. Both teach basically the same thing. If they are both accredited, then it is almost indistinguishable.

Who would you think is smarter off the cuff, a Harvard graduate, or someone who attended an accredited community college and followed it with a masters from an accredited online school?

I'm sad to say that I've been programmed to assume that the Harvard graduate is smarter. It is just a bias that we are all taught as we are young.
At the start, /dev/xvda2 mounted as /, with Debian installed on it. The goal was to wipe it and install arch on it, all remotely over ssh, since I didn't have access to the console.
Putting something non-sterile like olive oil into your inner ear seems like it's asking for trouble...
Yup. I wrote about this here: http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future...
That is built in uBlock Origin.

Click the eyedropper tool "enter element picker mode" https://www.dropbox.com/s/niy881lyaca4zmx/Screenshot%202016-...
You just found out your company screwed up big, and it turned into people dying and a bunch of geopolitical egg on your country's face, but if everybody keeps quiet, then maybe you'll get lucky and nobody will figure out it was your fault.

But one guy tells the world exactly how you screwed up. Now you're in fear of your reputation and job -- but if he'd just kept his mouth shut, then you might be okay.
I guess that depends on what you call "good CS knowledge". It's true in my experience that universities are not particularly good at teaching the actual engineering part of software engineering. But I that that is because the major is called "Computer Science", not Software Engineering. In my opinion, universities' main focus should be on educating potential scientists, not churn out workers for the industry. That implies a heavy focus on theory, with the practical parts being mostly self-taught when necessary.
When I signed up for Comcast in my current house about eight years ago, it was no trouble to get a multi-stream CableCARD for a TiVo HD.

When it died a few weeks ago, I replaced it with another TiVo. Same card worked fine for the non-premium channels that I get. I discovered that I can even watch on-demand shows now after pairing the card over the phone.

I had no idea that set-top box rental fees are so high. Makes the $600 I paid for a Roamio Pro with lifetime service seem quite reasonable.

One thing I'm annoyed about is that Comcast now encrypts even local broadcast channels, so the tuner in the television itself is useless.
We don't need smaller frameworks, we need more modular frameworks. If the framework is modular you can take what you need, and replace the parts you don't like.

I'm using mercury [0] in my current frontend project for this purpose. Most of the features of React, none of the commitment. Every single component is interchangeable; the core repository is simply an index.js requiring other modules, which can be depended on individually if you're not looking for a kitchen sink solution.

[0] https://github.com/Raynos/mercury
Inspired by the Pinterest paper at KDD on implementing Visual Search, I have created this barebones but functional implementation of a Visual Search server using ~450,000 Female Fashion images crawled from an image aggregation website. The code uses Pool 3 layer features extracted from the Google's latest Inception model using Tensor Flow. The extracted vectors are then indexed using an Approximate Nearest Neighbor implementation from Nearpy. The AMI provided contains both images and pre-computed vectors.

In future I plan to add more images ~2 Million in the same domain. Test various combination of nearest neighbor indexes and multiple vectors per images using some form of a multibox style detector. I will also add a script to launch spot GPU instances via Cloudformation to economically index images using S3 and SQS. I am building a companion iOS swift app however, since Tensor Flow hasn't been ported to iOS yet, its still in development.

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/building-scalable-mac...