skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only semi-funny. Not sure why people feel the need to continuously post it here.
Only in EC2-Classic, which is only supported by legacy AWS accounts that signed up before December 2013. Anyone who signed up for AWS in the past 2 years can not use IPv6.
So as usually kill the little guy and make big corporations even richer. The same big corporations who then complain that there is "too much regulation" on CNBC.
Apologies accepted :)
Agreed. But I think they should still be regulated. (I'm not certain they should be regulated the same as cigarettes, though.)
Ticketmaster gets paid when the tickets sell. Ticketmaster has absolutely zero interest in stopping scalpers, because scalpers make sure TM makes money.

They have to pretend to care to keep the public from rioting, but they clearly do not.
It's very interesting that he asked the media to send coins to one of Satoshi's Bitcoin addresses, and that he would return them. All of Satoshi's original coins are Pay-to-Public-Key, whereas the BBC's money was sent Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH). This means that Craig would have to present a signature along with a public key that just has the same hash as the Satoshi public key, not a signature for Satoshi's public key itself. I think he is banking on finding another key with the same hash, as a final desperate attempt to forge his identity.
I'm mostly trying to refer to the unprofitable parts of the remaining rail network: the "rollover country" and lost connections, the towns built for rail that rail long since abandoned. I'm also explicitly not talking about long distances, but all the many medium distances where train travel makes the most sense on a continent and has almost entirely disappeared in America with rare exceptions on the coasts.

For an example, used to be you could take a train from Louisville, KY to Chicago in about five hours. It takes six to eight to drive there in today's traffic. The last time Amtrak tried to run that route it took eight to ten hours between the slow down in the tracks being in such disarray and the outright antipathy from the cargo companies to passenger travel and disincentive by the cargo companies to speed up their own rails because that route between Chicago and Louisville at this point is much more "roll through" than "drop off" these days from the cargo perspective.

(Sure, you can fly Louisville to Chicago in an hour and half, two hours, but a five hour train ride would still be competitive even/especially for business travel. An eight/ten hour train ride clearly was not.)

That's just the example off the top of my head. Louisville is a major US city with zero (!) current passenger routes. When Louisville deals with the city's rail infrastructure from a community safety standpoint (much less any other potential need), the involved companies such as CSX whine and complain that they are broke and can't possibly invest in the rail infrastructure they supposedly "own".

We refer to the founders of the American Rail system as Robber Barons for many reasons, but they certainly did a good job of robbing from the system's own future as well.
More variant pricing will better distribute usage. The unfortunate effects on the poor can be negated by a sales tax paid back to all citizens equally as a lump sum.
maybe they don't directly employee the H1b holder instead going through a consulting shop.
It's not like I'm a fan of Apple, but this is bold bold move.

See you all on the bright side of the Internet.
This actually was super useful, and yes, HCI is my biggest interest, but I'm having a tough time integrating it other than trying my best to be a UX expert where I work - though to be honest HCI seems to encompass a bit more than UX and it's hard to integrate the more academic aspects of HCI into simple web development.
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The benefit is this will allow people who previously had to reveal their origin IP (that is non business class users) in order to support websockets will now be able to hide origin behind cloudflare.

Cloudflare can't protect you from DOS attacks if the attacker knows the IP address of your origin.
I have a company that makes a system that runs on the plant floor of food processing companies to track production data.
I don't think that QBasic is so bad as procedural language.

All the primitives are there and I've never written any code with much GOTOs in them. Just did not feel the need even when I was 10 years old.

What this article clearly lacks is

SCREEN 13

Seriously, unsurpassed easiness of programmable graphics. Even by javascript, which is otherwise better for teaching.
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I think this is actually terrific:

https://twitter.com/RealCraigWright/status/72824283201683865...

I must find out who the real Real Craig Wright is at once. This is hilarious.
It's called a tariff. They're an incredibly blunt tool and they're generally not a good way to make anything "fair".

Also the rarity of a skill does not necessarily correlate to its economic output. So you would reduce the supply of workers for an arbitrary number of industries where wages are not higher than that number you just pulled out of a hat.
[Seriously, what makes high speed internet so special that rural areas should not have it?]

I can see both sides of the "argument".

On one side, the internet is becoming a basic requirement for everyday life in this day and age (not yet though; there are still many people who do perfectly fine without it). I predict that it will eventually be considered as necessary as electricity itself. Depriving people in rural areas of that can be seen as somewhat inhumane and unfair.

On the other side, it seems kind of selfish to expect a company/government/whatever to spend billions of dollars to deploy infrastructure into areas where they will have one customer every 10 miles. This would eventually lead to increased costs for everyone, including those who have made the "sacrifice" of living in more densely populated areas.

One of the benefits of living in rural areas is that you're away from people. One of the downsides of living in rural areas is that you're away from people.

NOTE: I'm mainly thinking in the context of the USA's midwest, where you can have areas where there is one house every XX miles.

When it comes down to it, I am more of a supporter of the former side of the argument. Maybe not to the extent of forcing a company/government to cover the entire country in high speed internet, but something more along the lines of "all areas with a reasonable population density". This is how things work with waste water sewage where I live. If you live in the middle of no where, you don't have access to running water and sewage; you need a well and a septic tank. But if the area has X amount of people per Sq mile, then the utility is forced to install it.

My reasoning is mainly because the exclusion of non-profitable areas in terms of internet coverage extends well beyond rural areas.

There are even areas within densely populated cities that don't have access to real high speed internet (mainly low income areas). That's not right to me.
From the Article

"[2] True, Gore won the popular vote. But politicians know the electoral vote decides the election, so that's what they campaign for. If Bush had been campaigning for the popular vote he would presumably have got more of it. (Thanks to judgmentalist for this point.)"
This has been discussed ad infinitum

eg:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11224910
That's not a distinction the parent commenter made.
I think the research is of such dubious quality in both experimental design, and unfounded underlying assumptions, that I wouldn't trust its results further than I could spit.

The next step is not to replicate this with a better sample, but to seriously question the underlying assumptions that lead the research team to even attempt a study of this kind in the first place.

I can think of better ways to "validate" your own in-group preferred belief system, language, politics, and whatever other kinds of tribal identifiers they want. The most dubious part of this exercise is not that its possible for people to do line-fitting on the bullshit sentences. Its that the research team has such a poor understanding of language and communication that they would think their experiment was anything more than an exercise in tribal piss-marking.
[Premise One] I'm a fan of John Dewey. One of his insights into education is that there is no such thing as starting from square one when we are thinking pragmatically. Each person starts learning from where that person is and it is unique for each individual.

[Premise Two] Nobody can know everything about mathematics.

[Premise Three] No problem requires knowing everything about mathematics.

Thus my random advice from the internet:

1. Start following the bits of mathematics that interest you. It can be a mix of formal study such as university level classes [free or paid] and just reading wikipedia or blogs.

2. I think Peter Norvig's abstraction is sound: Be patient. http://norvig.com/21-days.html Remember The Art of Computer Programming [relevant mathematics clearly presented] wasn't written in a day, a year, or five decades.

3. Accept that mathematics knowledge has a power law distribution: No matter how much you know, to the right there are a lot of people with at least twice your knowledge. That to the right there are even more with half never changes this.

Good luck
"Kennedy was the same way. He couldn't bear to be alone."

But Reagan and Obama are both famously introverted, while still considered very charismatic.
Surely the point of an experiment is to run it. Observe the results. Then change things in the next run.
Ok, you win. As the evening progressed, I got increasingly annoyed with the way that he gave every outward appearance of acting like a dishonest troll, despite the fact that he is actually as pure as the driven snow and never had anything but the best interests of YC at heart. Happy?
/etc/hosts ?
Here's how you can convince yourself that web developers are still valuable in the face of automation, all the while learning a new skill:

1. Get yourself set up with a machine learning framework e.g Torch or something like that

2. Read a few articles to get familiar with how recurrent neural networks work - I recommend http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

3. Train your RNN on Ruby / Python / Javascript code samples.

4. Look at the garbage output despite the working input.

Web developers will be needed for a long time. I'd say we are looking at 20+ years before any automatic development algorithm could replace the coding chops, not to even mention the architectural and operational (security, hosting, etc) skills, needed for modern web development. People rag on webdev all the time as though it's somehow below AI / AR / VR (personally I think AR/VR is the next hype bubble, as no one has found a decent use for it besides games), but even if its just CRUD it takes skill, thought, and competence to make it worthwhile for you and your clients.

Additionally, you could jump ahead of the game by creating a utility or framework that makes web development even easier and then monetize that.
Whoa....slightly off-topic. I mis-understood "Shield" as being a reference to "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D", in which Patton Oswalt has starred...whose wife recently passed.

Went too far down the rabbit hole there.
The fact that using Tor puts you on some kind of list makes it essential that you do in fact use it for innocuous purposes occasionally.

Seeking privacy should never be a crime.
echo "google.com 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts
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It reminds me of taxi medallions.
Try again. Law enforcement was just 9% of the Cupertino municipal budget in 2015.

http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?page=1222

What fraction of that do you want to bet has anything to do with protecting private property, as opposed to the large revenue generating activities like parking tickets?
The way to fix this and to make sure that the H1-B is used for its intended purpose (to bring in extraordinary talent that is not present in the US) and not just for cheap labor, is instead of a lottery, to give it based on salary. The position that offers the highest salary gets an H1-B visa, then the next highest and so on until the quota of H1-B visas is used up.

How much a company is willing to pay is probably the best indication of the supply and demand for the talent.
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How much RAM do GK104 chips have? Wikipedia seems to imply it's about 3GB, but that's even smaller than EC2 GPU instances' 4GB. Many modern models really need the maximum 12GB to train.
Same with their tutorials on angular.io .

Angular2 is a framework build for Typescript and Dart, barely for Javascript and certainly not for ES5.
True, though ClassicLink is an option. Launch ELB in EC2 classic and add instances in VPC over classlink.
> I think what we actually disagree about is just the exact definition of "fundamentals".

That may well be, but as I am the one who first used the word into this conversation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11630205), my definition (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11632368) is the one that applies here.
Could you expand on that? It seems to me that it's just them saying "we want people to start migrating," it doesn't actually push anyone off IPv4, and in most cases (assuming you're using DNS resolution instead of direct IP addresses), this is all under the hood changes that will "just work" for consumers of their SDK.
Also virtualpascal is good for this, better language than BASIC and the included IDE is very TurboPascal like.

After that there is Free Pascal and the excellent Lazarus IDE which allows much more modern programming for a beginner in a friendly low friction environment.
The attitude (or opinions) comes from the creator/operator.
The service itself appeals to me due to it's utter lack of attitude. What? A vanilla service that people pay for?

If the primary criteria is "quality of founder(s)" I have no idea why they passed. Except maybe seeing someone everyday who's been successful with antithetical values might have been too much to bear.
>switching to https

They don't even have a valid certificate for that domain.

BUT interestingly, on a US (DO NYC) server or my house (US/Comcast):

$ curl http://sci-hub.cc/donate
<p>Please donate to Bitcoin: 14ghuGKDAPdEcUQN4zuzGwBUrhQgACwAyA</p>%

however, on a French (OVH) server:

$ curl http://sci-hub.cc/donate
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
{cut for brevity, a fair amount of HTML here}
<p>Please send donations to bitcoin wallet: 1K4t2vSBSS2xFjZ6PofYnbgZewjeqbG1TM</p>
{more HTML}

DNS reports that the domain's IP is 31.184.194.81 from all tested locations. I get the HTML page with the 1K4t address over tor as well
Some observations...

The section "Signs of a Dysfunctional Software Development Lifecycle" ignores a very common reason for "Your team is always in crunch mode" mainly that the stakeholders insist on unreasonable goals even though the team says it's not realistic because individual team members are not empowered to make decisions.

And under "Post-Mortems and Retrospectives" something doesn't seem right. I'm not sure how I feel about focussing on individual team members failings that way. You can't change who a person is as quick as you can change policy. I feel it is better to have the policy gently nudge John in a direction that discourages destructive overconfidence.

Edit: the appendix also seems a bit dangerous in that I'm now envisioning a bunch of MBAs going to their chief architect... we have data scaling issues? Why don't you just encode that field as a 0 or 1 instead of male/female.
It's not quite that simple. If the police officer has probable cause to believe a crime is in progress, or the fire marshal believes a dangerous code violation might exist, woe to the dumbass who tries to escort them off the property.

Otherwise, yes, a police investigator needs permission, or a warrant, to go onto the Apple campus and ask questions or look around.
Compared to the number that drive their own car or the number that take commercial flights, there are a very, very small number of people who do that.
Wow! Just listened to an A/B test: http://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark

Pretty awful. I wonder why Spotify doesn't correct? Have been listening mostly to electronica on Premium account. So, this is the first I've heard.

UMG. Had suggested a mobile collaboration on iOS to UMG, a few years back. But, they were focused on Blackberry, back then.

[EDIT] Just tried the example song from the above link. And, yes, the watermark is still there. Wow!
Oh yeah, I remember that guy from the hearing. It's incredible he still has a job. His remarks were so sleazy and obviously corrupt.
Not all H1-B's are cheap labor, but the plurality are. We all know how to fix the system (auction the visas by salary), but the abusers block the political will, as does the fact that Congress believes in cheap labor as a principle.
Thanks! I think you are linked in my curated list of links of bookmark managers here:

https://www.curabase.com/a/b86eefdd-5f52-4455-9a1e-25ad0b0e9...
A phone book? How is Amazon's Kindle App O(log N)? ;-)
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>Microsoft's annual turnover went from $3.75bn in 1993 -- less than half Apple's -- to $32.19bn in 2003, which was 5x more than Apple.

OK, but remember that Microsoft's only significant "variable costs" (cost per unit sold) were the costs of stamping CDROMs and providing basic tech support, whereas Apple (and Dell) incurred all the variable costs involved in making whole computers, so Microsoft's "gross margins" (turnover minus cost of goods sold) was much higher than Apple's.

Supermarket chains have tremendous turnover, but their gross margins are around 1% in contrast to Microsoft's margins in excess of 30% in the 1990s -- and Apple's sky-high margins of recent years -- and IBM's sky-high margins before they lost their dominance during the rise of the personal computer in the 1980s.

My point (since we are talking about CEO performance) is that Microsoft was probably much more profitable than Apple already in 1993 although the ratio definitely increase in the late 1990s as you point out.
WOOOOOOOOW!

They seriously do that? This alone could get me to switch. Switching from the iPad 2 to the iPad Air 2 was painful because they removed the physical switch that could be used to lock orientation. I used to use it for this. Now I have to swipe up (sometimes twice depending on the app) toggle rotation and then swipe down. First world problems. I know. But it's really annoying. To just detect the situation with no interaction is absolutely amazing. It's the sort of subtle solution I would expect from Apple specifically in contrast to Microsoft.
Medical technology and available procedures have exploded in the last 50 years or more.

i would like to see a survey of the actual number of invasive medical procedures done per capita today compared with say 1950 and 1900.

That includes what are today routine things like being put under for wisdom teeth extraction, joint repair and replacement work, reconstructive surgeries, cosmetic surgeries, skin cancer removal, etc.
Looking forward to forced indentation + javascript.
Mandatory arbitration by design is intended to give companies an advantage because it also takes away the consumers right to sue. The arbitration firms are unfairly biased in favor of the companies because if they rule against them then the companies will simply stop using them. Anyone who pushes you into agreeing to mandatory arbitration should be viewed with great suspicion.
My favorite thing about this story is that Basic was meant to be used exactly this way, for getting new programmers off the ground. And like everyone, I've got fond memories. We had an IBM PS/2 80286, with a whole megabyte of memory, a 20 megabyte hard drive, and MS-DOS three point something. At some point, I discovered that it had Basic, but it didn't have a graphical editor. It had edlin, which was still enough to write programs that told their users how awesome I was. Forever, with gotos.

And for the record, I don't think using gotos as a child sabotaged my ability to write structured code later in life. "GOTO considered harmful" gets taken way out of context!
I almost bought a Pi for my son when he turned five, but then I decided to hold off (he didn't seem mature enough to be trusted with it yet). I want each of my kids to have a device that they can use how they please—whether it be playing Minecraft or tinkering with the hardware (including destroying it—I broke quite a few computers growing up...).

What software do you have running on the Pi for your 3.5-year-old?
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I don't think QBasic's mainstream popularity can be understated. Googling "gorillas.bas" gives you a predictable result. I suppose it can be argued that Gorillas and Nibbles are partly responsible for QBasic's popularity (is there a lesson in here somewhere?).

However, like many others, QBasic was not my first experience with a BASIC language. Prior to that was GW-BASIC on PC (it was part of our introductory course to Computers at high school), and before that was Sinclair BASIC, which I learned in part from a book called "Peek, Poke, Byte and RAM"

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000269

But my first encounter with a programming language was Logo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

I'm sure there was a BBC Kids show that featured Logo programming (yes, they drew shapes with the turtle), but I can't remember the name. What I liked about Logo was that, as a child, it seemed very intuitive, and I felt like that even without having touched a computer I knew what programming was about, which is a lot more than I can say for any other language I've worked with.
>The third.. umm.. WTF is "the nexus itself."

It is itself, the very Nexus of itselfness.
Really sad about what happened to blog author. This reminds me of the South Park episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumancentiPad manifesting in reality.
Which is a lot more efficient than running off direct-drive petrol engines. There are reasons why e.g. diesel-electric locomotives are a thing.
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problem is it only takes once..

i once accidentally enabled it on my phone and now, even though i have a reported 2300 songs on my phone.. as soon as i lose signal i have no music.. itunes wont even open up to a playlist in airplane mode.. made even better that it "syncs" my music when i plug in and reports the storage usage in GB.. its just not accessible...

apple's pushing of everyone into the cloud has me switching to Android in a couple of months when I move. I'm done with their shit.
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Sibling posts are accurate about hard coding /etc/hosts, although Sci Hub needs to move to IPFS [1].

[1] https://ipfs.io/
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