skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "In truth, the portrait wobbles at a second glance and crashes at a third. The sitter has a sparkle of personality but utterly lacks the personhood—the being-ness—that never eluded Rembrandt. He is an actor, acting."
Interesting, if maybe questionable. The author assumes that all of the non-Chinese trade through the South China Sea could take routes around it - is this the case? Even if it is, if we were to allow even partial blockage, wouldn't that also encourage China and any other regional actors to block anything else they felt like blocking? And if it isn't, what's the economic effect of halting that trade entirely? Particularly on smaller nations in the area whose economies may be more heavily based on sea trade.
Sounds similar to other content-targeting ad networks. There's even one (or a few) that will inject links into the body of text with ads. How will you beat these established players?
You shouldn't trust Mathematica either. It has had bugs in the past [0].

Also it didn't have a proper "undo" feature until a year or so ago, which is pretty embarrassing.

[0] http://www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1249.pdf
Nothing. It's the feigned ignorance and offhand dismissal of other peoples passions.
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David Bowie did this with his catalog about 20 years ago. They were called Bowie Bonds: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35280945
You seem to believe that everybody somehow knows the consequences of "opting in". Does everyone have a CS degree in your universe?

> we all know what the terms of this kind of convenience are

Most people have no idea whatsoever what those terms are. Even among technical crowds I still find people assuming that humans are required for various tasks that have been automated for a long time. I seriously don't understand why you think people understand the "terms" of what big data and machine learning are doing to their data. Even simple things like the fact that cell phones give away your location can be a new concept for people that have only considered them telephones.

And why should most people have a realistic understanding of this stuff? The computer industry has been over-promising and dressing up their products since the transistor was invented. We have decades of services that dissemble as their business model, convincing people that their data is "private".

> 'smart' (read data gathering) devices

Why should anybody think that their TV is surveilling them. It wasn't long ago that saying your TV was spying on you could lead to a schizophrenia diagnosis. Nobody reads the legalese and manual for a TV before they bought it, understood it, and choose to trade their data. They bought a TV that advertised voice activation or some other feature. There is no reason for most people to think surveillance would be involved.

> stop opting in

While some people have started to realized how this stuff really works, the common response is to feel trapped without options. It will take time - decades - to properly educate the general public.

> The ignorance card is utter bullshit at this point.

Look at how many people here on HN that still think "anonymized" data cannot be correlated back to real their real identity. If people that understand terms like "hashing" and "INNER JOIN" are still figuring this out, the general public doesn't have a chance.
you should check reddit.com/r/beermoney
It could be useful for data and advertising
He means animations on that page are slow as hell.
> If Facebook and Oracle are "horrifically evil", I'm at a loss for what you'd call atrocities of war.

Horrifically evil along a different axis?
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Yep, luck.

I'm the child of a single mom of 4 who made $7000 / year, and I'm the first of my extended family to graduate college and the first millionaire (my younger brother got to middle class). Luck is the way that I succeeded.

1st, being born with a high IQ helped. But, that clearly wasn't enough since I had the lowest IQ of my family. And, 40% of my gifted class didn't even graduate high school.

2nd, being born with a personable and friendly demeanor helped a lot, probably more than my intelligence. However, by having intelligence, I was better able to make good choices of friends.

3rd, being born with height potential was huge. It's been clear to me that people in powerful positions are much taller than average.

4th, being born with symmetric features and attractiveness was important. Again, this attribute helps in making and keeping relationships. And, when people think of someone, they often think of me first.

5th, being cautious and risk adverse was hugely important. I was involved with the gangs and criminal activity like many of my peers, but I was extremely careful about what things that I would do. Also, many of my peers ended up having kids in their teens, which was very devastating. Many became addicted to drugs and died. Many died of accidents and suicide. Of my friends, over 15 died before I was 25 (I lost count).

6th, having a mentor was good for me in making good life choices. A retired, highly educated engineer took me under her wing and mentored me in my late teens. Before I met her, I had not even considered going to college. I looked forward to being a manager at a retail store. Even though I was in the honors and gifted program and ranked #11 out of my class, I never once received any college guidance from my school. So, her help was amazingly helpful.

7th, (sorry, this is getting long), living at a time when college was affordable and accessible was critical. I went to college in the 90s when tuition was under $2500 a semester, and I was accepted with many marks on my academic record. Even though I wasted time in college, I was able to graduate with only $40k in debt.

8th, picking the right major was extremely important. I floundered around for a couple years at college and almost dropped out. Then, I had a roommate who turned me on to computers (I never had one, since they were very expensive). I took a couple programming classes and found it to be a creative outlet. And, at the time, graduates were making $30-45k, which seemed great to me.

But, looking back on it all, it was mostly luck. I wish I could say that I had some part in it, but really, I didn't.

The only very important (maybe most important) decisions that I made didn't happen until I was over 30. I moved to a wealthy area and I married up. Without doing those things, it would have been much much harder to gain access to connections and capital.
If you don't mind which courses did you pay for? Especially, which ones did you pay because they were so high quality?
Yes, it's something of a selection problem.

The assumption behind this belief set is that they were the select few who could do this. There is an alternative hypothesis that out of the large number of people with poor background who did this, they were the few somewhat randomly selected to succeed.

Certainly if you look at their biographies there seems to be a consistent element of right person in right place at right time - which suggests that there might be a lot more 'right people' than get lucky.
I got it from here: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Im...

Originally from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program#Adjusted_V...
'get' to a shorter url which has more of the params you want which POSTs, then passes through the img data back? might be more trouble than it's worth?
You're welcome. Have you considered visual note taking? http://www.amazon.com/The-Back-Napkin-Problems-Pictures/dp/1...

It's not dissimilar to mind maps, and it exercises your brain more because you are making the connections more than the software.

Don't worry about drawing skills, those info visualizations from TedX talks are usually from professionals. Like these - http://blog.ted.com/tag/sketchnotes/

Your notes won't ever be clear enough to use as a direct reference unless you write a literal book. Perhaps just use it as a prompt for what challenged you (at the time of writing the note). Also, look at memory palaces. I don't like the technique myself but it has uses for more complicated memorizations that defy rote memorization (e.g. irregular conjugations of verbs that diverge from the standard patterns).

In case you missed it, there was a recent HN post about using Anki for CS topics (not Math). The basic concept is that the Anki cards can be used to pose questions on topics or subtopics that may be on the verge of slipping from working memory. It is different from a vocabulary card where you know the answer right away. The Anki card solely exists as a random-access method to challenge your ability to solve a particular problem of a topic or subtopic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11408447
How does it work? Why would someone want it?
A follow up question to the OP's:

Which courses are worth taking?
I interviewed with Microsoft in university. After a half-day on-site interview I was taken into a room and a recruiter made me an offer. She expected an answer on the spot.

The recruiting staff had told me a week or two beforehand that this was their process. I didn't know the details of the offer until the day, though.
Did you ever sell your notes or audio files?
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I understand where instructors are coming from when they encourage just paying attention and not taking notes. That's because students often just copy down exactly what is being written on the blackboard verbatim without giving it much thought.

What enhances both information retention and understanding for myself personally is "active note-taking" - that is, not only writing down what the instructor is saying, but writing down my own thoughts along with it.
Altium does an amazing job with their integrated libraries. You create an integrated library, add a schematic library and a footprint library to it, and compile it like any other design project. You can also use supplier search to import part parameters from distributors.
neat! I love how you can visually see the current moving along the wires! That is something that I never got in spice in college days.
I always had imagined this convinient future to be about an intelligence that lived within my home and not a remote server farm. That way everyone had their own personal AI that grew with you and not connected to any others. There was no big brother since it wasnt centralized. Why cant a startup be formed to make this real?
That's a road train. Wait until Road Trains of Australia gets hold of this.
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Each truck in the platoon needs to be able to drive competently on its own, right? I don't think one driver can change lanes for an entire platoon, and each truck will have to adjust its speed to allow for other cars merging in and out.

If that's the case, why plan to have a driver at all? Just for navigational purposes?
Where did you see Talulah announce the divorce? All I've seen was comments from Elon that they split amicably.
> What solution, [...], can we adopt to meet the legitimate demands of law enforcement?

One big problem is how to distinguish "legitimate" from not. In ideal conditions you'd have a court order to do so. But what good is a court order in places where it is very hard to know the difference between a gangster and a police officer (e.g.: Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa, ...)? How do you protect the "solution" from the bad guys when you are not sure who the good guys and the bad guys are?
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Could you expand a bit on your ultra running experiences? I'm thinking about trying it out.
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LVT implicitly incentivizes density. Assessors can determine your $1mm single family home close to a very dense business & housing district could potentially represent 12 $250k condos, which is $3mm of value and tax you as such. LVT would also not be based on the actual structures on the land, so it all about what the potential value of the usage of the land would be.
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If I accept the premise that attempting to quantify "evil" is coherent, I'm willing to agree that there are different axes to do so. But I honestly can't see Facebook as an entity being very far along any of them.
Yeah, I meant it more along the axis of I'm a hot girl and I can get away with anything I want evil, than war crimes evil.
>an open protocol like email or

the reason twitter beat rss is because
1) it was a directory of things to follow
2) it offered a public comment layer

for something like rss to overtake twitter, you need a technorati/yahoo/dmoz to index it, and you need an annotation layer like reddit comments or hypothesis
So it is pretty much the same as "regular" college courses?
Yes; his book "Literate Programming" is even dedicated to her.
I believe what the person you're replying to is trying to say is: there is no need to build a Dockerfile for Erlang when using releases. Create a release for the target OS and simply start it from ebin. It comes with a VM packaged and can be run with zero dependencies.

You can easily run it in a vanilla ubuntu image on k8s or mesos. No problem whatsoever running it directly on mesos without Docker overhead.
I kind of doubt it's even legally possible for a copyright license to only allow use if people also consume the ads linked with the content.

Might depend on your country (or state). But it doesn't really seem like a legally enforceable condition to me. Not to mention all the practical snags of such a demand.

For instance, these ads are generated real-time and are targeted towards the user. Would yielding to that be part of the same demand? If you block or shield against targeting, or even in a private tab, or clearing cookies on exit. You could make the same argument that, this too deprives publishers (part) of their income because tracking is less effective.

What if the ads contain tooling for realtime monitoring how long you are "active" on the page, which parts your mouse hovers on, etc? Are we morally obliged that we run that code and (truthfully) submit that data as well? (Rhetorical question obviously)
Who do I contact for enterprise sales?
> The NSA has tapped fiber backbones [...] If you think there is already no privacy, post [etc.]

I'm actually OK with the idea of sending my full name, address and a picture of myself in the shower to the NSA, CIA, SIS or similar, to be included in one of their databases. Because that's what we're talking about, privacy from law enforcement and intelligence agencies searching for criminals, spies, terrorists etc. To suggest that posting such information publicly is exactly the same as it existing in these agency databases is pretty disingenuous.
> I don't think you can argue the terms of ads on the web are upfront and clear.

When the site has a banner that says they want their ads displayed, then that's clear. I've made it obvious that I think it can be ambiguous otherwise, but it is not in that case.

> So you're saying that even though I paid for the magazine, I own the magazine and can do what I want with it, I don't have a right to use the paper it's made of as I please?

No, that's not what I said. Very specifically, we are talking about whether you own the magazine yet when you haven't fulfilled the transaction that would give you ownership, and if that is actually a transaction. I've written extensively in this thread about exactly this. Either you didn't bother to read the back-and-forth rwjwjuwjudf and I were having, or ignored my point.

> It'd be different if I borrowed the magazine, but since I own it I'd say it's fully within my right to cut out ads, chop it in half, fold it into planes, use it as toilet paper, what have you. That's my right as an owner of the magazine.

Sure, if you own it. Very simple, if a magazine that costs $9.99 starts selling for $1.99 but has some conditions (you need to view all the ads at least once), do you fully own it before you've fulfilled that condition?

Specifically, what you identify as different in the following scenarios will probably illuminate the actual difference in your point of view to mine:

- You pay full price for a magazine without ads, which is $9.99.

- You pay a subsidized price for a magazine with ads, which is $1.99.

- You pay nothing (fully subsidized) for a magazine with ads, and an explicit signed written contract that you will not alter the ads.

- You pay nothing (fully subsidized) for a magazine with ads, and there is a notice that this price is only for people that agree to no alter the ads.

- You pay nothing (fully subsidized) for a magazine with ads, and there is no notice about ads whatsoever.

In which cases would you feel fine altering (of having someone alter for you) the ads?
Url changed from http://billmoyers.com/story/the-blue-state-model/, which points to this.

This is a political story that has a chance of clearing the 'unusually interesting' bar so let's give it a try. Frank's model of the 'professional class' (a.k.a. top 10%) as the key socioeconomic faultline is an interesting one that deserves a good discussion. If the thread turns into partisan or ideological bickering, we'll demote it. Let's stay substantive.
You don't deserve the downvotes, this is quite interesting. Reminds me of "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theatre", in that its historical context in misinterpreted in light of modern sensibilities.
When landings are routine, SpaceX could apply for an on land license. Blue Origin already has that.
> LVT implicitly incentivizes density.

Not necessarily, although that is certainly how it works in many residential situations.

The general idea is removing the marginal disincentive for high-value _use_ of the land. Property taxes mean for every dollar you spend making something more awesome, you get taxed more. Instead, we should encourage awesomeness on the margin, and discourage people who use land that could be awesome in the least awesome ways.
I've stopped using my todo app and note-taking apps and instead write hand-written notes. I can visualize the page structure of what I've written as part of recall, and the emphasis on specific words, and the ability to spread sheets of paper out for a broader overview is also amazingly helpful.

Before I used to put everything on a private wiki, but I found it makes it hard to maintain an overview, and the information often gets stale and unmaintained very rapidly.

It's frustrating, because I'd like it all searchable etc., so I keep looking for a digital workflow that is good enough to replace how I work with the paper notes, but I keep going back to paper regularly.
Reach out to hello@booleans.io.
"This remarkable accuracy is normally expected of modern electronic timepieces, but the quartz watch on your wrist is probably only good enough to achieve a few seconds' accuracy a week. The Trinity clock with its various clever compensation systems is a remarkable testament to the importance of sound science and the longevity of good engineering."

The quartz watch wasn't supposed to be more accurate than a tower clock. It was supposed to be more durable with about an equal accuracy. You can make a wristwatch more accurate at the expense of battery life, but you can't really wear a tower clock on your wrist!
I paid* for and passed the cyber-security specialization from the University of Maryland. Overall I think it was worth it since I learned a lot and met some interesting people. Half of the courses were substantially less useful than the other half (Hardware Security / Usable Security were not as informative as Software Security / Cryptography). I added the specialization to my LinkedIn profile & Resume but I've never had anyone ask about it.

Coincidentally at my old job I was the cyber-security expert for my domain (HW), which only meant that I would be assigned to security relevant programs if we got any (we didn't), and they paid to send me to Defcon. They didn't even know I was taking the specialization, just that I like to talk about security.

*I say paid because I just got a refund since apparently there are some issues with migrating courses to a new format and not offering enough of them this year.
We will resist all intrusions of our users' privacy and/or booleans.
True - but the question stands. Why use it in the Mathematica way/syntax than by itself.

Remember I'm not qualifying the value of this project as a replacement to Mathematica. I'm asking who is the segment bthat would use this as opposed to going directly to symPy or R.
a tip on upvote button?
Dont forget NASA and Kosmos did this during the 1960s for more powerful rockets with kiloflop computers.
What was the result of your conversations with hotels/hotel chains?
No, you still need taxes. The fundamental reason the US dollar has value in the global economy is that hundreds of millions of very wealthy people are forced to pay taxes in that currency.
I think this is half true. Really, we are not measuring evil, we are measuring character. And evil as a metric of character is different from evil as a metric of war crimes. Doing things because you can instead of because it is the right thing to do. Highly subjective all around.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but if you broaden your definition of "evil" to include both of those extremes it becomes meaningless as an adjective.
The Atlantic almost used an euphemism for what the effects of a cashless society would be like. I guess they didn't want to use the term "Big Government". That might upset the "When I say Big Business, I mean bad" crowd.

The government is already using this to punish its enemies (political and otherwise). You'll be a slave if this ever comes to pass.

But the real problem is that you have 40% of Democrats (or more) identify as being socialists now. If you're a socialist then you just accept this, because Big Brother/Big Government is what you want. You want Bernie Sanders to bring in Big Government to punish.

The Republicans and Libertarians are spineless. They should be attacking people like Cass Sunstein on a daily basis. Everyday the collectivists like him should be called out and exposed for the totalitarian wannabes that they really are.
Good AI requires huge amounts of data, like you would find on a server farm.
Do the certs hold any value ? compared to a diploma or real work experience, the answer is no.

Can it be a plus on a CV the anwser is yes as it show you're willing to learn new techs/ skills continuously.

Coursera has great courses, no question, but clearly their certs offer very little value compared to official diplomas.
Ask HN: What is your favorite computer science related podcast?
I'm looking for great podcasts to listen during bus travelling in the morning? I'm a computer engineering student. What's your suggestions?
Pointless.
Who audited your code?
Where are the tests?
Is your rand number generator cryptographically secure?
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Coursera's assessment methodology started off bad, and when they moved to the new platform it became even worse. It's now basically impossible to write meaningful or good examinations using their platform.

Previously, you could do novel things like limit the number of times students could re-take exams and assign different point values to different questions. No longer!

All a Coursera completion tells me is that you were persistent enough to go back and re-take the (multiple choice) exams enough times to get a passing grade.
frictionless. if i had an extension that let me put an amount into it at the begining, and then let me divide up who i thought was worthy of my pledge at the end of the month... no need to find tip jars and make a bunch of payments