skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of people in college who are doing as little as possible to get the degree. They shouldn't be surprised that they find it hard to get a job on graduation.

The value of a college degree is largely up to the student. Chart a course to it that takes the hard courses and masters them, takes advantage of the research and other opportunities there, and the resulting degree will be worth something.
> A side benefit would mean that every browser, and every system, in the world would have TeX installed!

TeX doesn't have dynamic reflow, is defined by a macro system that involves essentially monkey patching the parser as it goes, lacks anything resembling a DOM, wasn't designed with Unicode or internationalization in mind, is completely unparallelizable, doesn't interoperate with CSS, has its own concept of block and inline layout that doesn't allow for text wrapping around floats without hacks, requires multiple passes to compute various things like tables of contents, and wasn't designed for interactive-level performance. Something syntactically like TeX may well be the solution, but jamming TeX itself into the Web platform wouldn't end well.
I think Netflix intentionally provides bad suggestions. The last week I've tried several times to use Netflix. In each instance, I spend 10+ minutes trying to find something, fail, and give up. Netflix "recommends" stuff that it rates at 1 star. Terrible junk.

And they don't even have the decency to make it easy to see 3rd party ratings or trailers. And if you start something that sucks, it's hard to tell it to stop showing it to you. They also removed the easy way to mark "Not Interested". It's become a much worse experience, perhaps bounded by their limited catalog.

They must know this. They must see the stats on how long people spend browsing vs cancellation rates.
The article has nothing to do with the "actual" future of things like energy. He's being cheeky that, due to general silliness on several levels of media companies, he cannot get content he wants as easily as he used to despite streaming being "the future" where every content ever should be instantly available for purchase and view, and all parties should be happy about that.
I've never seen it work on a site with an m subdomain. But Netflix serves both sites from www.

Edit: I take it back. Somehow it works right on my own site, Kongregate. I wonder what the trick is?

Edit: The trick seems to be a session variable that remembers the browser used to say it was mobile. Then a request to 'm' with desktop headers should redirect to 'www'.
Privacy? Democracy in USA? Democracy makes sense, until you notice that the sheer power provided by data and the speed it pivots gave citizen too little time to upgrade their democratic process. I'll even throw the hypothesis that the Snowden files would have happened, no matter how solid were the democratic traditions, culture, institutions.
Pretty sad that this is top comment. Obviously increased consumption and decreased physical activity is the direct cause but everyone here knows this already. It's not the key problem. The key problem is that for most people this is hard. And doing it for the rest of your life is almost impossible (for a significant majority).

The fact that willpower/compliance is the core problem is also sufficiently well-known that I read this kind of assessment and think "and world peace too: we just have to get along with each other".
Not so much. https://bitquabit.com/post/separate-support-serve/
I'm sure everyone involved in this OpenPOWER game is aware of the "attack of the killer micros". So the question is, why try again with the same recipe that already failed?

Getting something out there which is bang-for-buck competitive with Xeons is really the key here. But without massive volume, it's probably very hard to do. And the Intel division that makes Xeons apparently runs at 50% gross margins, so if they feel threatened the are certainly able to dump prices to make life for any competitor even more difficult.
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One serious advantage to WLS over a VM, is you don't have yet another layer of NAT at play... That's the biggest one to come to mind... you also don't have a fully linux system spun up to work on a few tasks in a bash prompt.

Don't get me wrong, I've been fine using a "remote" VM machine locally for linux, and a lot of my work the past few years has been that way (CIFS in the VM, to run a gui editor on the desktop), but to be able to run closer to native is a good thing imho... hopefully it stays well supported.
A cool thing does not poison computers.
Curious -- Are Apply HN threads only meant for existing HN users to comment/upvote? I'd be more interested in this if it were condoned and encouraged to have my startup's existing userbase upvote and post comments about why they love the product. My typical user is not a HN user. I know it can be done anyway, but if it's viewed as "gaming" the system I wouldn't want to do that.
I've been doing that for a while, I setup Samba in the VM, and map a drive in the windows host... Works pretty well.
So, if I understand correctly, one can now run Docker containers "natively" on Windows?
Intercom raises $50m
So much lacking details that it could be a total fake…
If anything it's going to make it worse. When you type python in a command prompt which version is going to run, the windows version or the Ubuntu version? Even worse when you pip install a package what pip are you running, windows or Ubuntu?

Python on Windows is painful mostly because of the amount of binary packages that have to be compiled since distributing binary packages hasn't been in vogue until only recently with Python. You can save a ton of trouble using something like Anaconda, or honestly just run a Linux VM. If you're compiling numpy you're doing something wrong IMHO--use a prebuilt version that's optimized for your processor (ideally using Intel's commercial compiler with full SSE, etc. optimizations).
So 2016 is _finally_ the year of Linux on the Desktop?
Hmm... How many users do you manage this way? If we had a "free up to 10 users" sort of thing, would that work?
Create Your Own “Neural Paintings” Using Deep Learning
Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor
Maybe it's because I haven't been following this very closely but I'm confused. Does this mean I can do things like compile Haskell or OCaml from terminal as easily as I do on my Linux install? Can I use apt-get?
Coming from a previous build which was pretty good to do my daily job, I have high expectations from this one.
Can I use Docker?
"Knives are quite open-source but we still buy €200 knives from time to time."

The exact metallurgical details (chemical composition, manufacturing process) of high-end knives are closely guarded trade secrets. Making greats knives requires a lot of research, knowledge and experience, it's not something every joe schmoe with 100k can start a business in.

'Open source' is just not a competitive advantage. I have a drawer full of junk whose main selling point was 'it's open source!' to prove it. Starting from an open source project gets you 90% of the functionality; the other 90%, you have to do yourself. In the mean time, the 'community' (read: the 5 guys on your mailing list/forum who shout the loudest) demand that the 'company' 'gives back' (by sponsoring, blog posts on every minute detail, hand-holding everybody with a 5-line patch, ...) because now you're making money off 'other peoples' work'. But the moment you commit any code you wrote, there are a dozen Chinese (and non-Chinese) vendors who will take what you made and put it into their own product; which is usually just one of dozens; they are smart and diversify. In the mean time, you are left fighting the marketing game where you essentially have to convince every single customer to pay a 20, 30, 100% markup for - what really? Being the one who 'wrote it first'? Good luck. The Kickstarter graveyard is full of dreams like this.
Install git (the real git from https://git-scm.com/, not a fancy GUI) and use the git bash shell today. It runs msys and has a full set of Linux utilities like ls, etc.
This is not the case. Depending on your definition of native you could run Docker containers on Windows even before this.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...
I guess those sales numbers are for the USA.
> "MongoDB with joins and auto-sharding"

It still is that. And (now) more.

I don't think it was ever supposed to be a history-saving data structure -- that log-structured stuff is (I haven't watched the video, I'm assuming) about talking nice to SSD's. It was at one point, after that video, a single-machine memcache-compatible persistent key/value store, before the pivot to being clustered and having its own query API.
Yes, that's the plan. This is a syscall translation layer. In theory everything should run -- or most. I would not expect wireshark to run for example but I have very high hopes for autossh for example because Scott Hanselman have shown Redis running so higher level networking is there.

You might need http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ for GUI.
I guess you prefer experiment, excite, extinguish, by Google.
Now we just need someone to make a nice laptop that can compete with the MBP...
> ...I'd have done == for assignment...

It makes much more sense if you consider it from a logic perspective. '=' is material implication (→), and '==' is material biconditional (↔) - which is logically equivalent to (a → b) ∧ (b → a)... so two equal signs (the logical conjunction is redundant so you drop it). Computer science favors logic, so I'd be pretty surprised if it was simply personal preference.
I am hoping there is going to be CentOS/RedHat available like this too. It would be pretty awesome.
yay! \o/

can you check what happens after you wake from sleep/hibernation? are those apps still fully functioning?
I would be shocked. As I mentioned above, I wouldn't expect wireshark to run either. From what we gathered so far, this is a syscall translation layer and

> No new system calls are added for cgroups - all support for querying and modifying cgroups is via this cgroup file system.

Per https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/cgroups.t...
Linux docker? I doubt it--there's a lot of low level kernel stuff docker needs like creating a chroot. That said MS has been working on a docker version for Windows. I dunno if they ever released many details on what exactly it is though, it's been a while since I've much from them on it.
If the story holds, I think it is interesting to know more details about why Tesla has chosen Ubuntu server as the underlying OS and nothing else?

I can see that ubuntu server has proven itself in a lot of real-world environments, but wouldn't they have to run their own fork of Ubuntu at some point? Or is the distro management toolchain in the Ubuntu world more advanced than for example some bsd or centos?

Edit: I am talking about the output on this screenshot: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e08E6tXwQvc/VwSTUbXgFDI/AAAAAAAAA...
well, digital sales only (which are still less than CD and I think streaming/radio + public performance make much more now than by then) are currently worth more than total music sales in the seventies, which I don't think were a particularly bad time for music creativity. (http://publicradio2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2014/02/un...)
- Does ls -li (show/emulate inode number ? I don't know whether NTFS has inode number or not)

- Find with exec , xargs is supported?
This is very cool. For those who didn't get it, here's how it works.

Initially, when figcaption text is short, it behaves something like this:

| <figcaption> |

| <figcaption > |

|<figcaption >|

The text inside the figcaption element is always aligned left but the element itself is centered. When the text is longer, figcaption grows to a 100% width while the text is still aligned left.
I would like to be able to anwser you, but I want to ask ...
Can I use LXC/LXD ?
Compared to other low-level languages, C is a difficult language to optimise because of the aliasing rules and the incredibly vague/flexible machine model that allows it to be implemented for nearly any CPU and allows the programmer to break many assumptions that compiler writers would like to make.

All the undefined behaviour in the C spec enables optimisations, yes, but it would be so much better if those optimisations didn't require a lot of mental labour by both compiler writers and programmers.
It’s instructive to see how different MathML is from other math markup languages. Here’s the quadratic formula:

In troff,
x = {-b +- sqrt { b sup 2 - 4ac}} over 2a

In TeX,
x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}} \over {2a}

In plain Unicode,
𝑥 = (−𝑏 ± √(𝑏² − 4𝑎𝑐))⁄2𝑎

In MathML,
<mrow><mi>x</mi><mi>=</mi><mfrac><mrow><mi>−</mi><mi>b</mi><mi>±</mi><msqrt><mrow><msup><mi>b</mi><mi>2</mi></msup><mi>−</mi><mi>4ac</mi></mrow></msqrt></mrow><mi>2a</mi></mfrac></mrow>

MathML is simply unreasonable to write by hand. Most of the time it’s only ever used as an interchange format, automatically generated by tools.

Indeed, the only time I ever use it is with mandoc(1), the default manpage formatter on BSD, Illumos, and some Linuxes, which converts equations to MathML when converting manpages to HTML.
I've been using Docker for my dev environment (Python, Django, Postgres, etc). I expose a folder with my code to the Docker container so I can keep editing the code on Windows using Sublime. One thing that has been annoying me is the fact that I can't get Python code completion on sublime because Python and the packages are in the container.
Does anyone know if it's possible to point Sublime to the Linux subsystem and get code completion? Also, has anyone tried installing Tensorflow yet?
The weird thing about the law that we ended up with is that if you receive the digital bits via a plastic circle you can do whatever you want with them including make money off of them without giving any of it to the copyright owner. But if you receive the bits via the internet the copyright holder can get you thrown in jail if you try to hand the bits off to anybody else. It makes no sense but Hollywood outmaneuvered everybody on the lobbying in the 90s and it seems this is what we're stuck with going forward as they get their rules codified into international trade agreements that will last decades.
Command prompt should run the windows version and bash should run the linux version. Why would there be an issue here?
> ...and No One Knows How to Stop it

Well, actually, we do. Just stop eating sugar like it's food. (Yes, I know it's addictive, that's part of the problem.)
a) Useless article

b) Previously on HN [1]: 12 and 16 [2] hours ago, the first one has some (mostly: 'The article is light on details') discussions.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441113

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440612
Yet our ancestors, with far fewer resources than we have, managed it just fine.

Unlike world peace, this is also an individual problem with an individual solution. If I renounce gluttony I can avoid obesity. If I renounce violence that makes me more vulnerable to murderous thugs.
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The commit to fix this appears to be "validate Version full_name":

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/commit/1067ab7e0871...

Cause: a "full name" is a dash-seperated join of its components, yet those components may themselves contain dashes :(
No, that doesn't suit my definition of native. ;)

Too bad, that would really be a game changer for me. Running bash itself though... yeah, ok, whatever. But maybe I'm not the target audience.
Exactly. The Linux file system will have Windows mounted into it but I think Windows won't be able to see the Linux filesystem. We will see.
I did not try GUI stuff, but when my tablet went to sleep while executing a long-running command, when I returned to the bash shell, the command failed with a message stating "interrupted syscall" or the like. Not sure if this is the common/intended behaviour.
While measurement, methodology, and focus were different (my goal was seeking intelligent discussion online), the results may be of interest.

I ran Google searches across multiple domains representing major social media networks, publications, and a few other classes of sites including academic institutions, government, and various foreign TLDs.

Search terms were names from the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers list (selected as representative of more intellectual dicussion), the arbitrarily selected text string "Kim Kardashian" as negative indicator, and a search for the word "this" (a common English word) to get a proxy for total English-language content on a given site or domain.

Facebook dominated by total count, though s/n as represented by the FP:KK index (see link) was highest at Metafilter, with Reddit doing admirably. Blogs though had very nearly as much content as FB and generally far more length and relevance.

My read is that there's an untapped market for meaningful discussion on blogs from whoever manages to solve the problems of discoverability, discussion, relevance, reputation, and spam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
Tesla heavily disappoints me here. This looks like pure PR:

- It is a blog with only 1 entry.

- The Whois entry is "WhoisGuard Protected" in Panama: http://who.is/whois/www.su-tesla.space . Very bad timing with the #panamapapers. The non-technical depth and the naive writing let me imagine that a junior social media employee could have done it. And I'm disappointed if Tesla hired such people / let an intern write a PR article.

- There is no mention about the previous testimonial of the guy who tried to hack his Tesla, received a disabling upgrade and a phone call from Tesla. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11255160

- He pretends to have done "2 months of research". What could be researched? There is no public documentation and the hackerspace is still empty. At the very least he would have mentioned that he managed to overcome the item above.

In the best case this is an organized leak from Tesla: Let's hope they'll use this channel to unofficially explain how to hack the Tesla.
Yeah. I think that's inevitable with an XML syntax. XML is good at some things, but representing math expressions clearly is not one of them.
Totally understand your pain. Did you try https://huu.la? It never messes up with the user's page DOMs and you don't even need to write code to use it.
> Yet our ancestors, with far fewer resources than we have, managed it just fine.

Wait, how does having fewer resources make it harder to consume fewer resources?

I find it easier to not eat ice cream if I don't have any ice cream.

Are you KenM trolling us?
Is there any reference to where this technique originated?
I think it is much more elegant than the traditional point-in-poly ray-cast rasterization technique.
No, Linux on the Desktop has just died. I expect both the KDE and Gnome projects dead within a (very few) years, probably X.org close behind.

All hail Winux though. (That's the name for this mix I came up with.)

Before you downvote this without thinking ... consider, for example, KDE is severely understaffed and this will deplete them further. Who will bother with X.org bugs and drivers now? What's the point? Who is your target audience? You need to drink a real big dose of Stallman kool-aid to continue with Linux if this thing on Windows works as promised.

I have been using Linux solely on my laptop since 2004. I am sick of the constant driver problems. Yes, yes, you can connect to your home router or the router in the cafe. Now go and try and connect to an enterprise network. Perhaps with VPN.
France wants Tesla to transform its old nuclear plant into a car factory
I love their solution.

They turned it off, then on again
What about Peerflix (https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix)? This has been around for a while. You can actually play your videos/other stuff in the media player of your likings, like VLC, which is a mature and stable video player. Why build an entire video player so you can stream..
This is really helpful - thanks!
Google’s Parent Company (Probably) Wants to Build a City from Scratch
While you are right that gender is a very strong predictor, you are wrong about race, according to CNN[1].

> white people ... committed some 64% of the shootings ... Black people committed close to 16% ... Asians were responsible for around 9% ... Latinos are almost nowhere to be seen

> whites and blacks are pretty proportionate to their population

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/27/us/mass-shootings/index.ht...
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OMG Ponies (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail) (2009)
from previous posts it looks like the linux image is just a folder in your AppData somewhere, so it should be trivial.
The problem is that there isn't a significant differential in price between the institutions that it's really worthwhile to have a degree from, and the ones a couple tiers down the influence ladder.

The options I considered were:

1.) Ivy League

2.) Smaller, 2nd tier private college, with incentives for in-state students.

3.) Private military academy, where my Dad went

4.) My main state university.

Since my parents were kind of lower-middle class, #1 was mostly covered by financial aid, so the real differences in cost between that and the state university were only a couple thousand a year. The doors that having that name on the top of my piece of paper opens are well worth it.

Options that would have been suicidal, financially:

A.) 2nd or 3rd tier, out-of-state non-Ivy private school - most are still in that 40-50k price tag range, without the endowments to offer the same financial aid packages.

B.) Out-of-state tuition at another state university - again, price tag in the 30-50k range, no subsidy, reduced prestige
Flying cars are a horrible idea. Flying requires a 20x higher energy output than driving. It's extremely weather sensitive. It requires space for landing, unless you go VLTO, then your energy usage skyrockets even more. There are huge privacy concerns, last mile and noise issues. Not to mention it would be a further move from mass transit to (much less efficient) private transportation.
This brings many of the parts that make up Ubuntu to Windows, but the Linux kernel isn't one of them.

That being said, I'm typing this comment my workstation running Linux and I for one am getting very tired of this year of the Linux desktop joke.

What OS you run is an individual choice, stop trying to declare a single winner.
Considering people can live on $30k a year...which is what some jobs pay.

>> 75k really is about 6 months of expenses and costs.

What kind of expenses and costs are you talking about?
Very interesting how people can all subscribe to an orthodoxy for so long, ignoring evidence to the contrary.

Max Planck: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
If you make less than 6 figures overseas, then you likely don't have to pay anything to the IRS
Hm, ok, but that's "just" syscalls, right? Anyway, that would REALLY be cool. Hope they make it.