skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope so but that has been a long standing promise. For me no amount of voice to text beats typing. I do not know why but things like Dragon basically give me gibberish. And that is with natural language. With natural language, code and math it is just vomit. I have no clue how they will solve that soon and then mix.it with translation as well. Hope there is though.
The visa waiver program does not cover all EU countries.
You've clearly never applied for an American visa. Filling a "silly form and paying a bit of cash" is way more convenient than having to make a consular appointment, pay $$$ for that appointment, go there early in the morning on a workday to avoid long lines, still wait an hour, get grilled by a consular officer, pay more $$$ for your approved visa, and have to wait days for them to mail your passport back.
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Shuttle booster rockets were already reusable.
Why does one want to take notes in a university lecture? Usually it is because you are expecting to go to the lecture and have the professor pour knowledge into your head. Only, that's impossible because the material is difficult and large. So you go to the lecture and record what the professor is saying and study it later.

What if you did the opposite? What if you found out what the professor was going to lecture on and studied it (using text books) before the lecture? That way you could spend the lecture time listening to the professor and devising questions for the things you don't understand.

Yeah... I only figured that out in my last year ;-) We really should teach students how to study.
I'm EU citizen and I need to fill in a request before going to US. They can either approve or reject it. If it's rejected, I may go to embassy for another try. Both of these are paid. Not refunded if negative.

Defacto, it's far from "no visa required".
If that happens, I'd expect that in France or Italy the heads would roll by dozens.

Personally I am a libertarian. I am concerned by the death of privacy and the increasing overreach of governments. I don't really see this drive toward transparency and bullying of countries offering financial secrecy as a good thing.

I have seen or heard of many people who have gone through WW2 and have hidden money in Switzerland. Not to hide money from the taxman. But because they have seen how the governments can easily turn against their citizens and decided they needed a plan B. This concept of "nowhere to hide" is a bit concerning.
What do you mean by "Bulgaria is controlling its own border"? There is no phisical border between Bulgaria and Greece. A terrorist Canadian can enter Bulgaria from south.
>hiring manager is using a boilerplate exploding offer
>that's 100% you being a passive-aggressive dick.

The exploding offer is a psychological manipulation designed to give the company leverage in negotiations, how is that not passive-aggressive?
Yeah an actual US tourist visa costs $160 (plus any reciprocity fees), $14 is peanuts by comparison.
Or all EU citizens of the eligible countries:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158
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Yes that's true, but this is also about Canada & the USs silly form on EU citizens whereas there is nothing the other way.

Bulgaria, Romania & Poland have high overstay rates (above 2%) despite having a high visa refusal rate. If they were part of the Visa Waiver Program it would make them the worst offenders.
When did self-sufficiency lose its luster as a virtue?
I have US Visa and I prefer it. I had to spent a few hours but I'm done for 10 years. I don't have to fill out forms every time.
What made you want to post this? Something in the news or current events reminded you? Interesting. Didn't know this existed.
I think you meant Boris Berezovsky instead of Calvi.

There is also Mikhail Lesin in the US.

And these are the ones we know about...
You could do an encouragement design to try and get at a causal effect here. Randomly assign some classes to be encouraged to take notes, not take notes, or do nothing. It'd take a lot more work to get your statistical power, but if you see that over a large aggregate the kids who don't take notes tend to perform better over the long run (you'd definitely want to look at performance in subsequent classes that aren't actively being experimentally manipulated when measuring outcomes), that'd certainly be indicative.

An encouragement design might be more appropriate to the question, anyway. The policy decision from an institution's perspective isn't really, "Should students take notes or not?" It's, "Should we be advising students to take notes or not?"
Both standards have many of the same problems.
As much as I'd personally be all for giving Turkey EU membership eventually, with Turkey's current trajectory they are decades away from getting it, and Erdogan seems intent on reducing their chances.

Even if Merkel tried to push for Turkish membership, it'd take years of negotiations and further years of reforms before anything could happen.

EDIT: Note that what the article actually says is that she has offered to help accelerate the membership discussions. But even if Germany pushes to ensure talks with Turkey are fast-tracked, the ultimate thing that prevents Turkish EU membership is that Turkey needs to carry out extensive reforms - both political and economical - as well as convincing several EU member states not to veto membership before there's any way they will be allowed entry. Even if the negotiations concluded tomorrow, it'd take years - probably a decade or more - for Turkey to complete the required reforms (and that assumes the government would even want to carry out these reforms, which Erdogan seems totally uninterested in). I think it's more likely membership will take on the order of 15-20 years.
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EU needs to thread more careful here and solve this problem rather than accuse Canada for arrogance.

If visa exemption is messed up with Canada (and even the US!) then Britain voting for exiting the EU becomes considerably more likely.

After all Britain (and other Western European states) still sees itself as closer tied to Canada, US, Australia than to Romania.
You've clearly never entered the EU as a US citizen where the whole process looks like that: 1) Turn up at the airport 2) Hand over your passport 3) Wait a few seconds 4) Receive back your passport. If you are unlucky you get to have a one-minute conversation with the border official.
Facebook is the 90s/00s Oracle of social media software. Horrifically evil, impossible to get rid of and only hipsters use the alternatives. Open source eventually got enough strength to rival the functionality and everyone who could jumped ship. If you continue the analogy, the only way to beat Facebook is for an open protocol like email or something else to gain traction among Facebook detractors. Because mobile is a walled garden, we are going through the IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, all-in-one is better phase. I am optimistic that there is some as-yet unindentified format for open communication that will win in a way that allows everyone to access it exactly how they want to (like email). Sure, the most fearful, slow moving among us might stick to the tried and true. But at least my parents and high school friends will have an account with the open protocol, allowing me and everyone else not to have to choose between social inclusion and using Facebook.
This may be so but the issue is more that the EU has no fees and no form for US or Canadian citizens which is absolutely nothing compared to peanuts.
I agree that this isn't a Moon-landing scale event, it could be more similar to the first Apollo launch, or maybe the first Space Shuttle launch. This isn't so impressive in itself as it is in what it enables for the future.

However, I would disagree that Mars is just more of the same as was the Moon landing. It would be not unlike saying that because Columbus went to America, later discoveries weren't so impressive.
Genuine question - what is the use of all these versus something like R or Pandas that is actually usable in production as well.

What is missing in R/Pandas that makes people choose other pieces of software that does something very similar? Commercial versions of software probably has an edge in support/performance/libraries...Or (as with Simulink ) provides a very specific piece of functionality or integration.

But what is the general use case? Even Mathworks has acknowledged the need to integrate with the huge R community out there - http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/05/22/why-would-a-mathematica-u...
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Hi HN,

I want to get a Linux VPS on a yearly plan, to use for experimenting with some small side projects on Linux. The projects may not make any or much money, at least to start with (more for learning).

So is it worth checking out cheaper options than Digital Ocean, which, last I heard, was 5 USD per month for the lowest plan?

Also, if anyone recommends any other VPS host, have you tried it, and is it fairly reliable in terms of uptime, resources (RAM, HDD< bandwidth) provided is what is advertised, etc?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/tips.

I'm not very experienced with handling VPS's, though I've used them a bit in the past. But have a fair amount of Linux experience on local machines at home and work. So a few tips on things to watch out for or take care of, regarding VPS vs. local Linux box, are very welcome too. Or if preferred, I can make that a separate Ask HN post.
I like your leadership attitude :-) From the other people commenting in this thread I figured that cooperation is not a realistic goal, so we will try to up our Asia game.

But we also need some people from the local eSports community to work with/for us.
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> Children are inherently low-skilled laborers, lacking even a minimal high-school education. And many high-school educations are minimal indeed, in the South or the Midwest. They are low-skilled laborers by any definition you choose

They are only low-skilled laborers until they're not. That's kind of the whole point of an apprenticeship.

> Someone who is learning to weld at age 14 will usually not accrue even a secondary education let alone college

So you're telling me they'll avoid throwing upwards of $100k on a worthless diploma for a bullshit humanities degree and actually start making good money right out of the gate? Damn, I wish I had done that.

> Families should not be forced to rely on child labor as income, full stop.

At what point did I ever suggest that families should be "forced to rely on child labor". You're tilting at windmills. Every single one of your responses to this thread have been chalk full of straw men.

Just try to step outside your basic-income socialist anti-capitalism bubble for a moment and hear me out. When I talk about apprenticeships, I'm not talking about the lowest achieving students being whisked out of the system to languish in a low income field. I mean apprenticeships at high tech companies, non-profits, etc; white-collar jobs where they are trained very specific skills that transfer to any company within that given industry.

I'm basing this on the reality that most of what people learn in terms of being productive members of society happens on the job, regardless of the field. Our liberal arts experiment has failed miserably and we're facing the next big financial crisis in the form of student loan debt because of it.
thanks. You could be completely correct. If this is the case then it's a legal technicality. (i.e. a single line added to the TOS or a clickthrough would change it.)

However, I think most HN contributors would not agree with you that "if there were, then yes, you'd be breaking an agreement" - I would think most HN contributors would argue that the agreement would not really be binding legally or at least morally/ethically.

I'm okay with the position you take today, as long as it's clear this is a legal technicality as opposed to some moral imperative and right to view the content on servers, that applies regardless of any agreement in place, even explicit.
The UK isn't in Schengen so it's not part of this. They're not putting visas up (or don't intend to) for Canadians or Americans. There's a bit of a bromance going on for the anglophone countries.
Meanwhile the overstay rate for my passport is lower than many visa waiver countries, but we're not even considered for visa waiver because we're not part of Europe. It's about politics, not logic.
> It's political posturing and probably nothing would come out of it if everyone did say no.

I thought the same thing. Apparently it's not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/4e0tzm/european_uni...
Or consider the Queens' College sundial:

http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/life-at-queens/about-the-college...
My own observations have led me to believe that this is true; I'm glad that there are now studies being done on this subject.

I've had the frustrating experience of trying to influence the way classes were being taught in my daughter's lower school (grades Pre-kinder through 8th). I tried to prevent the early introduction of tablet/laptops into the school, but the whole industry built up around selling teaching systems to schools has been very successful in convincing teachers and school administrators that more money spent on technology will produce better educational results.
So how can one patent something one can't actually build. I would call that a concept patent.
Thanks for your blunt advice, much appreciated. It really shocked me because we don't have any significant cash flows at the moment, so they must be buying into our vision (which is a good thing).

Let's hope we can keep the pace and don't waste our potential. Best of luck to you as well, will ping you when I ever put foot to Beijing again.
Good to know - the fee are paid to DHS - and not the State Department, which actually issues the visa.
I mean coming from Canada, both countries require a visa.

It's the same the other way around, but the EU is pressuring Canada apparently to offer visa free travel to them both. Why wouldn't such a thing be worked out between the individual countries involved.
It is the clearest milestone of a new era - in a way the moon landings and shuttle turned out not to be - space travel where the main expense is fuel.
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Nope, article is garbage
Only sorta barely https://www.quora.com/Space-Shuttle-How-much-money-was-saved...
How does what your are saying (high overstay rates) go with the current fact that thousands of people are crossing the Mexican border into the US and apparently the US is ok with that?

I'm not against that, but I find it highly hypocritical for the US on one hand to require visas from RO/BG people (and maybe others) on overstaying concerns, while on another hand allowing free flow into US from the Mexican side.
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When UMeng cloned Flurry, I could be wrong but I don't believe we did anything, and I'm pretty sure that was the right call. Any lengthy legal dispute will distract you from other important things; legal disputes that are likely to go nowhere are likely to distract you for no benefit whatsoever.

I empathize - I was a bit annoyed by the first version of UMeng, which was a pretty close copy of Flurry's web design and feature set. But if your situation is anything like ours was, you'll see the companies evolve away from each other over time as you each adapt to your respective markets - and you probably didn't have the staff and cultural knowledge to support the Chinese market anyway.
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Interestingly the Unaoil scandal wasn't even reported by the BBC (except a brief mention on their World Service). I'm interested to know exactly why this scandal on the other hand is being covered so heavily by them and other outlets.
Because the EU member states decided to lift this issue to the EU level via Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001. The EU is about harmonizing legislation after all and regulating external borders is a very important part of what the EU does.
NPR suggests people in the director's position have a more legitimate need to cover their webcams "... It's certainly not unreasonable to worry about webcams, especially for someone as high-profile as Comey"

And teenagers?

There is no mention in the article of the "Lower Merion School District" case where school officials were spying on teenagers through their webcams in their rooms.

Call me old fashioned, but I think that's an important case for the general public to know about when discussing webcam privacy...
I think it depends heavily on the audience. If you are talking to potential investors then discussing the long term vision of targeting the entire industry is a good thing. However in the short term, targeting a very specific segment of the market and communicating that on the website is wiser in my opinion. It makes the tech and sales a lot easier in the beginning.
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This has nothing to do with the Schengen treaty.

Schengen == "there are no passport controls at border crossings"

Visa Waiver Program == "you do not need to apply for a visa in the destination country's embassy"
Here's some information about the drone ships themselves:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/06/spacex-augments-upgr...

Some pictures of Marmac 303 : http://www.worldmarine.com/projects/barges
I received a US visa in the past. I had to fill in an online form, make an appointment which arbitrarily setup for me, visit the US embassy go through security etc, wait in the line for an hour, go through an interview, pay, and then wait for a 1-2 weeks. On the bright side they gave me 10 years visitor VISA so I visit whenever over that period without having to get a new one.
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Do you know how they're stored on my PC? Last time I checked they were all in a giant C source file, which sounds like a pretty bad idea to me since I can't imagine it'll scale well.
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>The UK isn't in Schengen so it's not part of this.

Romania and Bulgaria aren't in Schengen, either. This isn't a Schengen issue, this is a European Union issue.
The next one will be the first reusable flight with a booster.
I think a green card is not technicaly a visa. It's closer to citizenship than a visa.
It's a question of enforceability. If the requirement on Mexicans were tougher they would use the porous borders more.

The weather can't be dictated by a piece of paper and a pen.
Last time I was looking for a job I ended up with offers from both places I was interviewing at. I renegotiated and signed one of the offer letters.

When I called the other company, they asked me to sign with them even though I'd already signed a different offer. Because this is tech and people do it all the time.

It just felt dirty. I had already made my choice, and would not have changed my mind. But I've got an older mentality where it feels like I am burning bridges if I reneg after signing an offer.
While it doesn't have anything to do with Schengen directly, the UK and Ireland still got an opt-out of the regulation at hand as they do with most related issues. They are not effected by any of this.
Well R and Pandas cover data analysis for the most part, while is is a computer algebra system? Seems like apples to oranges, really more comparable to sage/mathematica.
Are you kidding? Entering the US as European requires filling out long forms (days in advance), weird questions, finger prints, eye scan etc.
I don't mind paying a nominal fee to enter the EU. Hopefully, this happens at the border. Mailing in my passport to a black box EU embassy and waiting an unspecified amount of time is what annoys me about visa processes.

I'm also not afraid of "Romanian and Bulgarian hordes" or whatever tired immigrant trope was used to not open the borders to those two countries.

Work it out peeps!
> this is not even close to setting foot on the the Moon.

You're right, this landing is a much bigger deal long-term. The Apollo program proved that one of the world superpowers, with a decades-long presidential mandate and a giant, massive bucket of funding, could do incredible things.[1] It was awesome, and it's clearly one of the defining moments in human history. However, the pace of space travel actually decreased after the Apollo program.[2] This probably had something to do with the fact that nobody wanted to spend untold billions of dollars to keep doing this stuff. The Moon landing was a big deal, but it was a one-off big deal. It didn't have world-changing impacts on the future, only on the moment.

The whole Mars objective of SpaceX probably isn't going to be their lasting contribution to humanity. All their technological achievements so far pale in comparison to how hard it will be to live on Mars. They may well fail. However, the reusability improvements they are making have significant potential to increase the rate of space flight for the rest of our existence. That's a gift-that-keeps-on-giving big deal, and enables all sorts of options that were prohibitively expensive before. We're all really hoping the graph in [2] starts spiking up soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Cost_of_Apollo_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_spaceflight#Orbita...
Agreed. I love Apple's hardware (much more than their user interface), but I dislike being in public with a giant glowing half eaten apple.
Romania and Bulgaria are legally obligated to enter Schengen in future so yes it is a Schengen issue.

The UK on the other hand has no intention to join and don't intend to put visas in. This issue is more a Schengen than an EU issue.
I see this in a slightly different way. I consider (mass)producing chips with billions of transistors, building 200 meter high skyscrapers and similar things as impressive achievements even though they are kind of routine at this point. But they are no longer doing something for the first time and I think doing something for the first time is an important part of what makes an impressive event a really outstanding one. And at least for me right now going to Mars seems not sufficiently different from going to the Moon to have the feel of a first but that is surly very subjective.
Maybe a very newbie question but I've always been wondering:

As query optimizer can't explore the whole possibility tree because of time constraint. Would it be possible theoretically (and if so, has any RDBMS implemented it) to do like for prepare statement "tell the optimizer to take its time to give the best optimized code it can" and even, let's be crazy crafting some JIT-ish code heavily optimized just for that one request.

I'm certainly missing a lot of things, but it would certainly make sense for webservices where you have very limited set of "critical" queries that you may want to tell your RDBMS to optimize the best it can regarding current set of data at service startup.
Hand writing increases engagement. I didn't record verbatim, but drafted my version of the material, as if writing a textbook.

Handwriting, being free-form, is far superior to typing for this, as it's easy and quick to insert things, add arrows to relate ideas, circles for grouping, emphasis in several different ways etc.

I agree the quality of this personal textbook does vary with your preparation, background knowledge, density of the material is, and your aptitude for this particular material.