skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a lawyer in a civil-law system and I would not agree with this description. Maybe one can say that in theory civil law systems have more legislation and are less comfortable with "judge made law", leaving the filling of gaps to the legislative powers. But it would be impossible to write laws that cover all cases, therefore every civil law system relies on general principles.

For example, the whole German tort law is basically: "A person who, intentionally or negligently, unlawfully injures the life, body, health, freedom, property or another right of another person is liable to make compensation to the other party for the damage arising from this."

When is a behavior negligent? What falls under the "another right of another person" (your reputation, your privacy?)?
Does the owner of a highway-restaurant get damages if a negligent chemicals transport company does not secure its load properly, leading to dangerous chemicals spilled on the highway, leading to closure of the highway for a week = meaning no customers for a week? [damage to property???] These are all questions that are totally up for a judge to decide.

Classifying if a work is a scientific or a non-scientific publication - or at least if somebody might have classified it as scientific in good faith - is nothing that a civil law jurisdiction can't deal with. Other areas of law have much harder conceptual distinctions. (E.G. Are parent and subsidiary company having an "at arms length" relationship as required in transfer pricing tax law?)
Performance has essentially plateaued for the last decade in laptops - aside from sticking SSDs and more memory in them, there isn't a ton of difference in specs. I have a 2006 Windows laptop that runs better now on Win 10 than it did originally on Vista. Except for power consumption, it's the same as my two year old laptop.

Of course, with a Windows PC, you've got a variety of options, and can buy something that is actually upgradable, rather than being locked into what Apple deigns to give you.
And irl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wm-pZp_mi0
So, what part of this seems surprising, bad, unusual, etc from a western/USA perspective?

Sleeping in public, sleeping on a train, napping whenever?

The fact of time management that puts you into position that require such naps?

Or something else?

The article implies, but it's not clear for me on what.
How are you finding out the course names?
> $499 is a big investment for the majority of the population

I think labelling a $499 computer as "incredibly expensive" isn't accurate when you're talking about typical Western countries. That's a pretty normal cost for a computer.

> and assumes you have a monitor and an iOS device already.

Most platforms require you to have an instance of the platform available to you. Yes, people who want to develop for iOS should reasonably be expected to have an iOS device, just like people who want to develop for Android should reasonably be expected to have an Android device, and people who want to develop for BlackBerry should reasonably be expected to have a BlackBerry device. Apple are not unusual in this respect – you appear to be holding them to a different standard to other platforms here.

> Apple has also been known to obsolete hardware in as little as a year.

I can't think of a case where this has happened – can you give an example?

> The majority of developers making iOS apps do not make $100 and that's not assured income, its potential.

I'm trying to put the cost/benefit into perspective. The cost of iOS development is minuscule in context.

> If you happen to work for a professional shop with a team, chances are you want to do CI or automation. It's a pain. If your IT department manages your machines then they need someone dedicated to maintaining enterprise security policies on your Macs, it's a pain for the user and the admin.

Again, you seem to be holding Apple to different standards than other platforms. If you have employees using computers, then IT needs to manage them. Yes, of course – but this is true for Windows developers, Android developers, and all other developers as well.
The list of addresses was prepended to the email, but the addresses were added to the end of the list itself. Thus, every recipient saw their own address as the last item in the list.
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The reduction in incarceration and the elimination of many problems between young folks and the police.
Simply recalling days where there was a big bugaboo over the source of stem cells and how many were claiming that research would be forever stunted without full access to embryonic stem cells.

While it likely did impact several promising areas of study it did end resulting in good research being performed in the field with what they could easily and without controversy obtain.

Oddly while some outside the field attempted to limit the areas of research some inside were unintentionally limiting themselves as well
Oh damn, I linked wsj, which is paywalled. I didn't realize that, sorry.
Human did invent the things they believe in. It doesn't matter if the concept of "deity" has some truth or not.

Religions have a traceable history, which shows they were entirely man made. No need to prove or disprove that this or that person talked to "angels" since angels don't exist to begin with.Therefore there is no truthful prophet.
I don't buy that reasoning. If that were true, they'd cease doing anything for marketing purposes. In reality, a brand and a reputation of educational leadership is something that requires continuous investment.
Regarding piracy I think it would actually rise because of even more extensive geoblocking.
Unquestioning acceptance of science is definitely not a conclusion of this piece nor is it alluded to.

The main argument of this piece is how "an understanding of what real truth-seeking looks like" can allow you to reject claims when they are scientifically proven to be false. While he does not directly state that one should be skeptical of the scientific community he also never states that there should be unquestioning acceptance of it either. It is however made clear that skepticism is a key trait of being a scientist.

He begins by pointing out the seeming contradiction of being a scientist who is "supposed to have skepticism and imagination, but not too much" while "gathering facts and testing your predictions" before you "either affirm or reject the ideas at hand". Even then you still must "accept that nothing is ever completely settled, that all knowledge is just probable knowledge." Establishing early on that a scientist must be willing to accept that "a contradictory piece of evidence can always emerge" while still advancing our collective understanding.

"Knowledge has become too vast and complex for any one person [...] to convincingly master more than corners of it". You therefore must rely on the collective of scientific knowledge and those who practice it, the "scientific community". He points out the difference between this group and one of pseudoscientific thought is that the claims of the latter can be demonstrably rejected using the scientific method.

A scientist must remain skeptical, but in order to be productive you also need to rely on your community, no one person can verify all claims. Being skeptical is inherit in being a scientist, and therefore part of the scientific community. Relying on the scientific community is not akin to unquestioning acceptance. Questioning established beliefs while backing it with scientific evidence is the key difference between the scientific community and the pseudoscientific one.
"There were more those who were interested, but most of them decided not to participate when they found out that it was not about hacking Wi-Fi. Many people are afraid to take on something new and strange, and this keeps the Internet of Things secure."

I find this strange / interesting / amusing. I'm guessing the people who declined are the ones who would probably not get fare with hacking wifi either.
What I'm asking me myself everytime I see a post about data leak, could you sue a company for the leak?
so I seem to be alone in this.

although whiteboarding is not representative of Industry workflow, I feel that it can be used as a metric for communication. everybody knows that it's coming, and everybody knows how to practice it. if you perform poorly on whiteboarding that means you didn't practice it. it's a learned skill it's not a natural thing.

anybody I've met who complains about having trouble in whiteboarding has also never seriously practiced it.
I think, also, that Toyota still seems to understand the idea of a long-term investment. Other brands seem to be seeking the "short term fix" that will sell more cars this year, in search of immediate profits.

Hats off to Toyota. We're still driving our Prius 12 years after buying it, it's been a great car.
This reminded me exactly of Python's mutable default arguments:

http://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/correctn...
It's part of the course URL when you're enrolled at the course home, e.g:

https://class.coursera.org/algs4partI-010 -> algs4partI-010
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/welcome -> machine-learning

(see https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/wiki)
Because the actual point of most trade agreements nowadays is precisely to empower the investor class to override local standards regarding things like product composition (think of Europe and its cheeses), labor (what you said already), and environmental issues (think of how China and India dump garbage). It's not at all smart in the long-term if your goal is anything aside from class-struggle from the top, but that does in fact seem to be the goal.
>> The findings are expected to challenge theories on how the Khmer empire developed, dominated the region, and declined around the 15th century, and the role of climate change and water management in that process.

Wait, climate change in the 15th century? ;-)
I guess this refers to Reiser?
You are right. There are more than two. Just like Baptists, they are not all the same...
Why is the simulator not simply a VM loaded with iOS, like with Android, or Windows Phone, or most of the other targets that you can cross-compile and test for from Windows or Linux?
Google denies altering search suggestions for Hillary Clinton
Or, perhaps, they care enough to quarantine our corner of the universe. We are extremely destructive to ourselves, our co-inhabitants and our world. A.C. Clarke posited this as the probable reason we don't get visitors if they do exist & already have the means to travel the vast distances of space.

Excellent 50 minute forum with 3 of the greatest brains of the 20th century.

God, The Universe And Everything Else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQQAv5svkk
> With it’s different VIC-II chip generating a different master clock signal, the PAL C64 has a few more cycles available per frame than the it’s NTSC counterpart.

Just for additional clarification:
If I remember correctly the C64 had only a single quartz.
All clock signals were derived from that single quartz.
That meant that also the clocks driving the raster beam were derived from that single quartz.

As a consequence the main processor in NTSC and PAL versions ran at different frequencies. The PAL version was 0.98 MHz and if memory serves me correctly the NTSC version was slightly above 1 MHZ.

Even back then some people overclocked their machines, but it was different than today. You had a hardware switch for the frequency and when you were in fast mode no IO was possible. No video, but also no serial communication. To see the results of your calculation you had to switch back to slow mode.
Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ mission to Mars
Righty, I open sourced it. Want to play? https://github.com/fiftysevendegreesofrad/quantum/wiki/Quant...
Righty, I open sourced it. https://github.com/fiftysevendegreesofrad/quantum/wiki/Quant...
In CML/Hopac, async channels (buffers) are implemented in terms of sync channels - there is not async channel primitive built in. Synchronization is the essence of this model. When an operation is waiting on a matching communication through a channel, it is suspended, but no OS thread is blocked.

But yes, going from async to sync requires blocking, which is why CML/Hopac takes the approach of making sync the core primitive.
I don't think that would be legal. Coursera ToS definitely prohibits something like this.

I can see a case for a torrent with the courses mysteriously appearing on some torrent site and someone linking it here, though. Man, those cheeky pirates! They can't leave anything alone.

(I don't personally have bandwidth for something like that, sadly. Of course I'm also not a pirate.)
Combining the best of Go, D and Rust?
They would have to remove the driver. Check the famous Red Bull concept car from 2010, only simulated, not built. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_X2010
500 km/h and 8 g lateral acceleration with the final design. I don't think you can drive a car like that for long.

The Williams car with active suspensions was the last technical improvement that was not a rules loophole up to maybe the Mercedes f-duct and wing stalling. F1 has become a spec formula with the only goal to keep lap times more or less constant and some common ground with production cars (the current hybrids, Le Mans too.)
I have been feeling more and more disappointed with their step-by-step implementation of paywalling learners, and a general decline in community engagement. This decision to cut access to the old material is very short-sighted, and it would do more harm than good to their "business".

The old content would have been perceived as having a historical value, as being among the first courses published in the first actual MOOC platform, not to mention the tremendous value those courses contributed by successfully reaching wide audiences around the world, changing many lives. Now they are making a bad image out of themselves.

Coursera has been getting progressively worse. There is no community engagement. I cannot be surprised or engaged by non-discussion going on, which is also the case with edX, by the way. I have done mentorship in one of the paid courses at Coursera and all I could do was to mechanically answer technical questions. Nobody cared about the critical aspects, nobody cared about generating interesting and thought-provoking discussions, even when some mentors have encouraged it. As mentors, what we were doing was just free technical support for the course providers.

Further, the recent content is at best feels like "best seller" stuff for whatever trending industry anyway. Even the UI has been getting slower.

This example provides the meaning of backing up (and further sharing) data stored in the cloud. Mostly we do not think it would be necessary to backup since the data is going to stay there "forever", right?

As a final note, I was surprised that nobody mentioned FutureLearn (https://www.futurelearn.com). It is a new MOOC platform with somewhat "European" feeling to it. I have surprisingly had the best community experience with quality discussions in one of the courses provided there. The overall content is very diverse and interesting. And yes, the UI is faster!
"There are many reasons alien races would interact with primitives."

hehe, you forgot humanity's favorites:

enslavement

resource plundering

empire building
I open sourced it, so porting might happen now.
No, that would require building the car to spec. The savings here is that the car is already built, and you see the blue car with the extra so-and-so, and they then chip it to what you paid for.

Having a blue car with extra so-and-so in every horse power engine would mean they'd have to stock that much more.
Here's my thing: how many apps do you actually need? My phone is first and foremost, a telephone, then an SMS device, then a GPS, and finally, if I really am in a pinch and can't get to a real computer, a web browser. That's all I do with it.

If I could get rid of the crapware bundled on my phone without rooting it, I'd have maybe a half dozen apps installed.
Yes, but, like their co-religionists, they seem to hive out and make this same objection! :-)
Is there an existing “Stack” for getting into robotics?
I've tinkered with arduinos and stepper motors/stepper controllers. I built a CNC mill. But I'm hoping there are components that I can plug together and just focus on the software side using existing hardware modules.
Thanks. I don't know why I misread that.
Quantum Marble Maze
I've had my scion for 11 years. Maintenance cost other than tires and oil - virtually zero. They use chains instead of belts too so I didn't even need to change the timing belt.
Biodiesel exists, we can probably figure out similar processes for other fuel types.
I love the Japanese culture and I've lived there for a while.

Personally, what most shocked me is how accepted and common this is.

To the point that when I friend came to study to Spain she asked me: "Why is no one sleeping in the library?"

On the other side, I believe it's also dangerous. I visited Malaysia with my gf, and she would fall asleep in every train and taxi because it's just what they do.
Some people are saying the emails were in the message body, not CC field.

What's the limit for numbers of addresses in a CC field? Because this is several thousand addresses.
The Coursera TOS prohibit this. Specificaly, "You may download content from our Services only for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you obtain Coursera's written permission to otherwise use the content."[0]

[0] - https://www.coursera.org/about/terms
I'm not arguing that. HE appears to be though.
vt(1) [1] is a terminal emulator installed on Plan 9 which can emulate a vt100 for any program which needs it. So you have something which can give you curses if you want it.

[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/vt
Note to self: keep using HTTP, and provide HTTPS for important website content (like shop payment) and use a SSL/TLS Cert that lasts 1 year.
If they're in the UK you can report them to the regulator - the Information Commissioner.

They tend to take a warn then fine approach.
How much (in terms of money and carbon footprint) is required to build a modern power plant?

Your comparison is disingenuous.
Holy smokes, what a detailed and informative write-up. Genuinely learned some high and low-level concepts, approaches, and reflections on the event. Glad I got to see this and appreciate the posting here.
Interesting.
Slightly embarrassing.
Not a huge deal.
Handled well.
Short Term Rentals Ruin Neighborhoods
Is there a usable version of plan9 we can install?
> It is a standout in none of them.

Except perhaps the Prius? It is a jalopy for sure, but did the hybrid very well, when most hybrids were done very poorly.
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I also noticed that and came to HN looking for comments. Interestingly, here in Cambodia there are so many Lexus SUVs you wouldn't believe it. Phnom Penh has surprisingly expensive cars all over (usually I see a few Ferraris or Bentleys every week), but Lexus is king. I wonder if this is part of Lexus's business strategy? Do they advertise their cheap maintenance cost, or are Lexus drivers generally aware of it?
Sure, Uber demonstrates that regulation is generally harmful and typically rips off consumers, but doesn't that still allow a few worthy regulations. Say, drivers cannot have a recent conviction for a violent offence?
While a program is being loaded from tape on the C64, the screen remains blank, to avoid memory reads issued by the video chip blocking the time-sensitive code on the CPU.
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Can you refer me to more info regarding the issue w/Qualcomm's modem?
The new regulations mandate 100 kg of fuel per race, so they had to improve efficiency. I think none of us really cares about that extra mile per gallon or km per liter when chosing a car. I mean, beetween 20 or 21 km per liter maybe how the car looks is the selling factor. In racing winning is everything.
What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? Evidence from new study
This was one of the most pleasant things about living in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In addition to those "colectivos", they had busses, micros, and trufis that covered the entire city. Though regulated (by syndicates as much as anything), individual drivers and vehicle owners made money based on how many people they picked up. It was a for profit system that worked quite well and was cheap even by local standards, if not always fast, though I can't say it was much slower than the public transport in many Western cities.

In Cochabamba you could also flag a taxi and either trust them to charge you the normal rate, or negotiate a fare. Stressful to do at first, but once you got the hang of it no big deal.

Quick story: We never needed a car while living there, but rented one once to take a road trip. Just outside the city a cholita (Quechua speaking indigenous woman) with a huge bag flagged us down along the main road, got into the back seat without a word, then asked to "bajar" a dozen km later. On the way out she handed us a peso (~15 cents), again without a word.
congratulations to the team.

Kotlin is a breath of fresh air in the JVM/Android world.

I just hope that Google will finally take notice and plan a post Java future for Android, Kotlin, Dart, Swift, there are many contenders..
> keep using HTTP, and provide HTTPS for important website content (like shop payment)

What if someone MITM's your site, injects some code so that when the user clicks on the checkout link/button they get sent to a malicious site?
Having some experience dealing with the "purchasing" side of the house at large companies, I can guess part of what might have gone wrong.

Contract Beast's customers were likely exclusively these "purchasing" people, and thus, that's where the feature requests and feedback were coming from.

But, in the end, the success of the product within a customer company is often more driven by the "non purchasing" users...the actual departments that are trying to buy (or sell) something. It's not unusual for the wants/needs of these people to be completely different than the purchasing department.

I watched several attempts for contract management software fail because of this. In the end, what won out was narrowing the solution down to the biggest pain point...implementing just e-signatures. That got rid of all the manual print / sign / scan-or-fax cycle, which everyone could agree on.
The great filter could well be going from single to multi planetary, on a single planet our survival (quite) long term is zero.
> If they actually wanted to do right by their customers it stands to reason that they should work with developers to come up with a more precise set of rules that still keeps their reputation intact and their customers happy so that customers have access to more varied kinds of apps. I'm an iOS customer (and not an app develop

Apple's general MO around restrictions against abuse is to make them too strong, see what kind of useful apps get developed in other app stores that would be against Apple's rules, and then change the rules to allow for just those examples. So if there's an overly strict Apple rule, but no other good apps come out elsewhere, then the rule will stay.
You can sue almost anyone for almost anything. Could you win? IANAL, but I think you'd have to prove damages.
A serious question remains: How did they pitch it without PowerPoint slides?
The new combustion engines are limited to 15,000 rpm. They usually stay well below the limit because of limitations on fuel amount (100 kg per race). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_engines