skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Folding Paper in Half
Way cheaper. Amazon is a middleman for hardware. Even at smallest scales the cost of buying a server pays off within a year. In exchange you get convenience and the ability to scale up on demand without buying more hardware.
Thanks for having a look, Btw None of the links are broken.
> I am Chinese and I would respectfully disagree that cheating is some part of Chinese culture.

I'm not sure what it takes for something to be considered part of a culture, but academic cheating is very widespread in China to the point that there can be strong resistance to local or regional efforts to curb it on the grounds that this will put those who are prevented from cheating at an unfair disadvantage due to the widespread cheating by those outside their region [1].

There's also a plagiarism problem in China, and cultural factors are a major reason for this [2]. More on the scientific plagiarism and fraud problems in China: [3] [4] [5] [6]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/06/heres-the-q...

[2] http://www.npr.org/2011/08/03/138937778/plagiarism-plague-hi...

[3] http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-scientific-credibility-marred-...

[4] http://www.economist.com/news/china/21586845-flawed-system-j...

[5] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/copycat-papers-flag-c...

[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/world/asia/07fraud.html?pa...
What? Copy and pasting code is not correlated with wearing headphones. The music is there to keep me focused (and to help block out open plan office noise).

I curse, too - although more quietly now everyone can hear.
Even cheaper and easier is just to rent dedicated servers or VPSes.
Xbox One getting huge upgrade in 2017, slim model later this year
Where I live the modus operandi is amphetamines 48 hours before exam with aspirin. Study without sleeping. Take exam. Sleep. Forget everything. At least the kids don't do it for important professions - the ones I knew did it were mostly medical students and civil engineers /s.
Having also spent time at a Chinese university and seen rampant cheating of Chinese students in my home country I must respectfully disagree with you.

Currently there is a major lack of ethical behavior in mainland China. Hong Kong and Singapore are nothing like this.

I sincerely hope that China will become aware of the issue and be able to improve.
ugh, too late to edit. First sentence: 'are not'^
How I would've written it. Rust beginner, but 'been there, done that' in FP:

https://gist.github.com/danieldk/3bd3b84c1a7c8bc8c902314a488...

(Compiles and seems to work properly on a small document collection.)
It didn't. His racist rant was published by the National Enquirer three years after Gawker leaked his sex tape.
Python Implementation of Russell and Norvig's “AI – A Modern Approach”
So is it Alfresco One or is it Two? Thoughts on Alfrescos business model
It's far more reasonable to think there are other explanations than what effectively comes across as very negative intent from the beginning.

For example, they may have hoped or believed they could find a better business model over time, an alternative to the traditional ad models. Based on watching their various experiments since the day they got started, I can say for a fact they did try other things (two examples: Imgur as a service via paid API and Imgur Pro accounts).

Is it more likely the Imgur founder was naive or malevolent? The answer is extremely obvious.
I went to a privileged American school where cheating was not uncommon. I watched at least two students openly cheat their way into Ivy League colleges, whose rich parents ensured they were unscathed when they were caught. I watched students with inferior intellect, but superior connections, finesse their way into colleges beyond their pay grade. I sure as heck hope foreigners don't judge me based on their encounters with these sorts of Americans. As a side note, none of these students happened to be Chinese.

So let's try to avoid taking the most extreme headlines ever written about modern China and painting all Chinese with a single stroke. The 1900s are over.
The people who are trying to use it on servers are misguided. The people who are trying to use it on Linux are just crazy. Homebrew itself has never pretended to be anything other than an OS X package manager aimed at desktop users.

If you want to say "Homebrew is dangerous when used on a public-facing server", that's entirely fair. But that's not what you said. I'm glad that you do recognize this distinction though, and I hope you will think twice before claiming again that Homebrew is dangerous without qualification.
My guess is that imgur started out profitable but that ended when gifs became popular. /r/all is about 50% gifs nowadays. The low bandwidth of an image host makes it possible to allow hotlinking but that doesn't work with videos.
You're thinking of Melodyne, by Celemony Software. It's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u573PyXo-pY
And, parents are told that their kids need this paper. Test-prep businesses, like the one mentioned in the article, tell them that in order to drum up business.
It's even worse in the suburbs. Everything is incredibly sprawled out. Every major city I've been to has apartment towers. It's just a more economical way to use land. Given how much demand for housing there is, there are obviously regulations in place keeping anything very tall from being built. The bay area doesn't want to grow.
Ask HN: Can we make education free and accountable with Blockchain?
With rising debts on students and on me too its like education making me poor instead of making me qualified for employment.
So i am working on the use of blockchain to make it easier for students of the future high level and free education.
Have you tried wrist strengthening exercises? These exercises from gmb work well for me: https://gmb.io/wrists/
US Military Uses 8-Inch Floppy Disks to Coordinate Nuclear Force Operations
Coding without searching basically boils down to coding without docs, and that seems pretty self-defeating.

Sure - If you just can't resist Stack Overflow's dubious charms, or find yourself updating your LinkedIn profile three times a day then cutting the hardline has some merit, but they aren't inherently programming issues.
Yes? Unless there was something newsworthy...
> I will be Chelsea’s first visitor since her sister in November.

> I bring up her recent appeal to reduce her sentence from 35 years to 10 years, and she seems worried that it didn’t receive enough coverage in the press. She hopes that the world hasn’t forgotten about her.

I am afraid world has already forgotten.

Google search for "site:news.ycombinator.com Chelsea Manning" for past month gives three results including this one. "Manning" gives more results, but only in reference to Snowden and Panama Papers, no prison.

And transgender rights activists are more busy with right gender pronouns then with him/her.
> (or don't goto any college)

I don't remember that being part of the conclusions.

Also, it's hard for me to take that study seriously. Good state schools can be as good as or better than Harvard. Basically I took the conclusion to be "there's a lot of greatness outside of the ivys"
In current times you can build vastly more powerful software than you could in "the day", but you can't possibly remember how to drive it all.

Constant reference to Google and StackOverflow is unavoidable unless you are building something within a very constrained technology.
London’s empty towers mark a very British form of corruption
related : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11700640

older : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7516914
What counts as "defending" personal property, and what's using violence to take other people's stuff depends on which property claims you consider legitimate. This in turn depends on how you justify the property claims. Leaving out the qualifier is a cop-out. If you leave out the qualifier, what is the justification? Why is your claim on it any better than mine, or your government's?

There are three possible answers to that:

* Desert: It's mine because I deserve it, having worked hard for it.

* Contractualism/Voluntarism/VoluntarYism or whatever you want to call it, the idea that the arrangement is fair because it was all voluntary from the involved parties.

* Tradition: It's mine because however I got it, now I have it, and you can't take it from me. I call this the "facts on the ground" argument. It's not really a moral argument, so if you take this approach you can't morally condemn people who challenge the status quo (want to take it from you). If you leave out a justification for property claims, you're really here by default.

These three answers are not compatible, for reasons explained at length.

It's not bullshit, because it's a clear argument that I can follow. Whether it applies to "real" libertarians is another matter - as far as I can see it does, though.
Here's how they word it on the informational page for Zing:

“Zing® is priced on a subscription basis per server (physical or virtual). With per-server pricing, you don’t need to worry about core counts, memory size, or number of instances deployed per server. The single license annual subscription price for Zing is $3500 USD per physical server, with significantly lower prices for higher volumes and longer-term subscriptions. Please contact us to learn about the special pricing available for start-ups and companies with $25 million or less in annual revenue, and for ISVs and manufacturers looking to embed/integrate Zing with their products.”

Seen here: https://www.azul.com/products/zing/
While I agree that more people in the STEM fields would be a good thing, it's with a caveat: those people should actually enjoy and do well in those fields.

I would like society to be a little more flexible about basic living so that overall greed can be less of a problem and following your passion, dreams, and doing new things can be explored options.
This ranking only counts San Francisco city/county. I think the OP was referring to the San Francisco Bay Area [1]. It is comprised of nine Bay Area counties and has quite a bit of open space, as well as federal, state, county, and city parks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
> Like it feels neglected, forgotten

I feel that way about most SourceForge projects, too. If you check out this project's history [1] the last commit was in 2013. Not that working software needs regular change, but as a rule of thumb it's nice to see recent commits.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/isse/code/ci/master/tree/
^ this is true. I was born and raised in south bay area and went to school in Berkeley. The Bay Area is an ecological treasure trove.

But over the years I've seen the hills dotted with houses, untouched swamp land (great for the local wildlife) turned into generic commercial offices, and roads developed deeper into the outskirts. Noise and air pollution is getting worse. Parking and congestion is a nightmare anywhere there are new offices or apartments in old neighborhoods (SF/PA/MV). Public transportation takes hours to get you anywhere (though I'm optimistic about Bart expansions).

I haven't heard anyone in favor of housing development talk about these problems, problems that are bound to get worse if more units are built unless equally aggressive solutions are implemented.

Like others here have said, the Bay Area pressures career-oriented individuals to move here. Although I love the diversity of backgrounds, it is clear that the vast majority of my friends who moved here haven't developed the affinity or interest in non-career-related aspects of the culture/geography. They are not emotionally invested in everything else the bay area has to offer (I theorize that this is because their families and their childhood memories are elsewhere).

I'm not saying new housing shouldn't be built (affording housing for lower-income families/individuals need to be built ASAP). I can't afford rent here either and commit social suicide by choosing to live with my parents despite being in my mid 20s (fortunate enough to have this option). But I can't in good conscience support development in the Bay Area until it comes bundled with discussions on environmental protection, transportation expansion, tax changes (who is going to pay for the extra firefighters/police offers needed if population increases), infrastructure projects (pumping water into the bay, electricity, etc). As of right now, it is so singly-focused on lowering rent that these other issues don't seem to matter in comparison.

I appreciate sama's attempt to get us to call our representatives. As an active voter and lifelong bay area resident, I will do so too.
Please, please, please don't associate inlining everything with functional programming. Lambda-lift and name those functions. If you name them, you can ditch most of those comments, too (by moving that information into the names). Not too familiar with Rust syntax, but (to rewrite without changing semantics) something like:

let open_file = |fname| (fname.as_str(), fs::File::open(fname.as_str()) );

let check_err = |(fname, f)| {
f.and_then(|f| Ok((fname, f)))
.expect(&format!("input file {} could not be opened", fname)) };

let to_buff_reader = |(fname, f)| (fname, io::BufReader::new(f));

let line_to_words = |line| {
line.unwrap()
.split_whitespace()
.map(|w| w.to_string())
.collect::<Vec<_>>().into_iter() };

let get_file_words = |(f, file)| {
file.lines()
.flat_map(line_to_words)
.collect::<HashSet<_>>().into_iter() // prune duplicates
.map(move |word| (word, f)) }; // emit inverted index entry

let add_to_index = |mut idx, (word, f)| {
idx.entry(word).or_insert(Vec::new()).push(f);
idx };

let idx = args.iter()
.map( compose(to_buff_reader, check_err, open_file) ) //[1]
.flat_map(get_file_words)
.fold(HashMap::new(), add_to_index);

[1] Does Rust have a compose function? I hope so. If not, you may need 3 successive "map"s. And stream fusion.
Not American. Even in the glorious bastion of everything that is progressive, Scandinavia, this is taught. It is ridiculous, but I didn't know this to be a myth until in my 20s.
I assume your familiar with their operating costs somehow? I have direct experience at a different (older) host. It was simply not possible to serve the tremendous bandwidth needs without increasingly aggressive monetization. I have no idea what they're costs look like and bandwidth is much cheaper than it was 10 years ago, but I'd wager that there was no profitable business for them at any point without intrusive ads.
One of the earlier Imgur style hosts, ImageVenue, did this very successfully (they were extremely large in terms of traffic at their peak and for the time, until better options came along).

The founder, Vlad, used to rent out cheap dedicated boxes with about 500gb of bandwidth per box for $60 to $80 per month. He'd cycle upload machines - eg 123.imagevenue.com - and fill up the drives on them until no more space was available; when bandwidth was exhausted, that was that for the month. Typically image file downloads would decline on any given upload over time, so machine resources would free back up in terms of bandwidth and deleting images that weren't viewed after N amount of time.
Last I checked, PAQ only uses a shallow (two layer) neural network as a last step to weight the predictions from the multiple handmade next-bit prediction models it contains.
I said "those came back to China". Most undergrad went back to China eventually. Just compare the number of Chinese students given in the article and the number of H1-B visa issued every year. Do the math.
Well if you don't run a firewall, I use NetGuard, you could run adguard. The payed version will protect all your aps whereas the free one just protects a few browsers (which can be done easier with the browsers themselves).
If a lawyer explained such a choice to me I'd likely choose to take the insurer out of the picture too. Principles.
Since you cannot put the genie back in to the bottle, but you can 'get revenge' by ending the business, I can see how it would be both logical and in the clients best interest to point that out.

Which also happens to align with the overall interests of the lawyer's patron.
EDIT: Ignore this exchange. I misinterpreted the parent comment (see down below)

> So let's try to avoid taking the most extreme headlines ever written about modern China and painting all Chinese with a single stroke. The 1900s are over.

The article and headline seem balanced to me.

I find this accusation of racism common in response to articles critical of Chinese. Perhaps you misunderstand the text.

The implied word in the headline is some, not all,

"How an industry helps [some] Chinese students cheat their way into and through U.S. colleges"

Does that make it more clear? If not, then how, in your view, could this headline be rewritten to not be racist?
Ansible 2.1 Released, with Network Automation, Containers
And that's not even mentioning the privacy problems caused by all these 'smart' devices. Too many of them rely entirely on company servers and send too much data that can be useful for groups like the NSA to spy on people. The 'internet of things' is an Orwellian nightmare.
The Hydraulic Press Channel (crushing things in a hydraulic press)
That's a reason for a pattern, not a dark pattern, though.
> Sure - If you just can't resist Stack Overflow's dubious charms

I rarely find useful material on StackOverflow when the problem isn't learn to do X with technology Y quickly (although there are a few very nice canonical-answers which I have book-marked for reference). I don't think a lot engineering time is spent in that though..
> The proteins were traditionally thought to be garbage that accumulates in the brain with age.

OK, but now:

> Not everyone who has had a brain infection develops Alzheimer’s, though. Why would some be more vulnerable than others? According to the new theory, it probably has to do with the brain’s ability to clear out the balls of beta amyloid after they have killed microbes, Dr. Tanzi said. For example, it is known that people with a gene called ApoE2 have brains that are good at sweeping out plaque, and have a low risk of Alzheimer’s in old age. Those with a different version, ApoE4, are inefficient in removing plaque and have a high risk of Alzheimer’s.

"Clearing out" seems a lot like getting rid of garbage ;)
Unikernels and Modularity
Do you realize that the person you're responding to used to run Reddit's servers?
Well if you're going under 5mph then it's not really 'emergency braking' any more.
I think you're forgetting that we live in a world of capitalism. Nobody promised no one nothing. Owners and share holders decide a business model and it's up to you, the consumer, to decide whether you go with it or not. There's always alternatives, if a service seems bad to you, choose a different one, but don't blame the owners for not choosing a business model that would suit you personally.
>"This is a town for freaks and weirdos"

Because you say so? Because that's how you were taught when you grew up? I don't live in SF but that seems like a flimsy case to be made.
Just keep doing what you're doing. Sounds like you're pretty motivated, so learning a few Romance languages simultaneously will be a much better use of your time. Highly recommend reading Wikipedia articles to give perspective about how the languages developed from Latin.
That is possibly the worst analogy I've ever read on HN.
So you're saying that tech has been a major political player with respect to housing laws? If anything, restrictions on housing supply hurt tech companies who wish to import workers to their area. Restrictions on housing supply hurts everyone who isn't a landowner.

If you're saying that a few tech elites are players in politics, fine, but that has nothing to do with the rest of the world who aren't elites. It's almost not worth mentioning that elites everywhere are players in politics. The rest of the tech world are not creating organized vehicles to channel money or votes (unlike teachers or firemen, who do organize). They're just people participating in the housing market. And whatever tech elites are doing, they don't look like they're winning the battle to up supply on housing so they can import more employees.

What's the reason that money from employees of one industry are displacing workers from another industry? Because workers in that other industry lack the leverage to demand more wages that keep up with other industries, because housing supply is limited, and because population is growing.
You seem to be asserting that anything is okay as long as it makes money.

Nobody has to make a website. If the only way you can think of to make money is bait-and-switch, then you can choose to do that, or you can choose to go back to the drawing board and come up with a less unpleasant business plan. If you choose the former, don't expect me to cheer because you found a way to make money, and you think that's the only thing that matters.
The analysis neglects one major point: a lot of people got degrees in the humanities and arts: dual majors in English literature and history, or sociology and psychology... what are you going to engineer with that? Engineering requires physics, mathematics, molecular biology, chemistry, material science, higher logic and cognitive capacity... English literature won't help too much with finding a new tensile strength alloy, and sociology can be only marginally used at best when trying to design a small form factor pump which must reliably pump inordinate amounts of gas or fluid, or when attempting to craft a VHDL or Verilog program to reprogram the FPGA, in order to test a new chip design, or when studying protein folding while trying to isolate the cause of cancer...

Just going to college and getting a degree in something like sociology or English literature, because it's the easy way out, isn't enough to end poverty; no wonder it does not work! Ironically, those very same history majors did not learn from history: most humanities and arts majors (poets, writers) were poor.

It has to be a university degree for the professions in demand, and the graduate must be ambitious, pay attention to detail, and want to deliver high quality work, not take shortcuts at every turn and opportunity "because math is hard".
For image-heavy use I found its just cheaper to build your own box and cohost instead of renting.
DisplayLink-based USB3 graphics support for Fedora
A lot of sites/services start for a laugh, and/or because the people who start it assume/hope there'll be some way of making money from it when it gets popular. For a few, this is true. Some go dark, some give up, some sell up. It's up to them I guess.