skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It shouldn't be normal to be a law abiding citizen who actively avoids any interaction with police because you might end up in jail or dead.

It's normal in many countries (some depending on ethnicity or local customs). A few 1st, many 2nd or every 3rd world country. Saud, China, India, Russia, Mexico, etc the list isn't short.
Mine starts with 'ab' and is ~7200 on the list
We do hire people who don't play League of Legends, though we are looking for people who are passionate about games LoL or others.
Founder of Class Central here. Our default sorting order is by start dates and Coursera courses now have new sessions starting monthly or bi-monthly here. We will be updating our algorithm soon to rank the courses based on our data.

You can see all the providers we aggregate here:
https://www.class-central.com/providers

And universities here:
https://www.class-central.com/universities
Johann Hari wrote an excellent book [1] about how the bad plants came to be demonized and persecuted. Yes, Cocaine and heroin cause problems for people, but does that justify turning addicts' supply chains over to organized crime? Would it not be better to make sure that people who've decided to use the bad plants at least get what they're paying for?

[1] http://www.chasingthescream.com/
> “The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”

Extreme sugar coating with MBA lingos of forced labor camp.

I am GLAD there's no such American plant.
Or, perhaps it's just been too long since I've used it actively? Sounds like parent did in fact have their email at least in the body somewhere, even if they didn't get one sent to them. Perhaps I'm the same.
Alcoholism did go down during prohibition.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...
> extremely non-competitive US corporate tax rate

I'm hearing actual tax rate in real life is not that high, because of all loopholes used by the corporations.
I ran it yesterday and I open my Google account today. It's not suspended.

It probably I ran it without signing in Google.
Some of the points are bogus, like the rare earths thing; they used to be mined in the USA just fine. But China was cheaper, especially since they didn't price in the negative externalities.
That still puts cash in Microsoft's pocket, unless each one go through the rigamarole of getting a refund.
In India, if the law specifically does not allow a particular activity, it may as well be banned. This is completely opposite to the sane behavior which would be that citizens are free to do anything but specifically forbidden things.
Are you talking specifically about Quebec here? This kind of thing varies a lot by jurisdiction, but in many jurisdictions the high costs for a plate are not paid to the government, but paid on a grey market to a prior owner, with the fee for registration being nominal except for the fact that no one gets to register any more. In many cities (including mine), people own plates as a retirement investment and are fighting deregulation because their investment will crater.

Not that this is any better, but people talk as if there's One Way taxi regulations work all over and there's quite a wide range on these things.

Also, the nominal reason for limiting plates is usually (as far as I've ever seen) to ensure a living wage for taxi drivers. I don't think it really works out that way, instead creating a class system where some people extract rent from other people.
21: An Open Source Library for the Machine-Payable Web
The fiction/non distinction is a red herring.

Non-fiction pop sci isn't funded in the same way as scientific research.

Authors are paid to write pop sci, and it's very hard to produce a good book without getting paid an advance which allows a significant amount of full-time research.

If you create a system that can't pay advances, you're limiting pop sci to amateur efforts and short Wikipedia articles.

It's true a lot of pop sci isn't all that great. But the best books are literally life changing, and it's really not the best idea in the world to make it impossible to fund them.

>But no one is ever going to claim a scientific paper is a work of fiction, and should be protected for 100+ years.

There should be no question that scientific papers should be public, because the public has already paid for them.

Private research can be protected by patents, so there's no reason not to share the research with the public as long as commercial implementations are protected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPNfLmcUO0&sns=fb
Why does everything you do have to go `toward actually improving your life`? Why can't we do stuff just for fun anymore?
I'll probably get shot down for being that typical negative HN comment, but do MOOCs like Coursera actually do much in the way of making education more accessible or society fairer? All the content offered on Coursera already exists on the internet. Really motivated people will aggressively look for study materials, and they generally don't have a problem finding it.

It seems to me that it's actually the internet that improves accessibility and fairness, through which curated collections of study materials are then delivered as MOOCs. Which is terrific, but then it's hardly shocking that they'd eventually have to monetize themselves. We've seen worse attempts to crack down on the internet.
I couldn't find any reports saying that NSA employees aren't allowed cellphones. Does anyone have a link for more information on that?
Duty to Die?
I just got a somewhat confusing email canceling my enrollment in the ever elusive Cryptography II course. I guess this is what that's about. If so, it's too bad, I had a great experience in the Crypto I but it wouldn't have been nearly as good without the quizzes and assignments.
Script to save course materials: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl

I haven't tried it yet. Just was asking around how to save course materials (videos, slides, notes, etc) of an old platform course I want to return to sometimes. Got this advice:

> app which can help you download all the
> materials at one go.
> https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl
> Doesn't work all the time, but for old
> courses should work.
I try to do this for every service I give an email address to.
Pastorsprayers app
I think the particular quote I'm remembering was in the context of graph algorithms, where exhaustive search is more appropriate a term. :-)
Or you can use where a.id = b.id and you cover 90% of joins (inner join). I only once needed an outer join in the last 10 years all other cases and here inner joins. And I prefer the where syntax, it's cleaner for me than the join one.
I've heard people complain about the Dodge Caravans before, but myself and my family had Mopar vans, something like 7 or 8 total across everyone for the last 20 years and have had the least issues of any vehicle I've ever owned. My '99 plymouth has had zero major issues. Bought it new, it has ~250k miles plus - we drive it every day. I'm genuinely curious if the people who have trouble don't do normal maintenance or something.

I'd also like to see a breakdown by engine, because I almost feel like the 4 cyl which the majority of them have been is vastly more reliable.
Think about this. Why developer accept the heavy cost of learn something like C++ or even python, yet in the case of a language of SQL suddenly they think: No, is toooo hard!

Is worst when they refuse to use a relational engine, yet, use a NOSQL and re-implement, badly, what a relational engine give.

Like the well know quote about lisp:

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp.

Is possible to say:

Any sufficiently complicated data manipulation program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a relational engine.

-------

Is clear that SQL is not very good, but use a database engine and know enough to do it well is WAY EASIER than learn C++, python or Javascript. Like a lot!
Your right to privacy is essentially a right to determine what private moments get shared and which do not. It is not a decision you make once (at the time you become a public figure, or when you first post a private picture publicly.) It is a decision you are allowed to make with every private moment.

So this:

"Just like in Gawker's case, decisions have consequences. Don't claim your sex life is private and no-one's business (and I have zero interest) whilst posting pictures of yourself on gay cruises."

...is not saying that decisions have consequences. It is saying that people who make decisions you don't agree with have no right to privacy. You are arguing that a perceived moment of hypocrisy should somehow revoke a person's ability to make decisions.
> How long will these regions require our charity? When will people recognize that the charity is what’s holding them back? Just my opinion.

The invisible hand will save us all as long as we just get out of its way, surely... (cringe)
> Apparently, there were documented problems with WiFi radios being operated outside of their licensed parameters and interfering with safety critical airport radar systems.

I've never seen a report listing more than about 45 instances of WiFi interfering with TDWR, and that's counting repeat offenders. I also haven't seen a clear statement of how many of those instances resulted in impaired operation of the airport's systems, or how many of them could have been prevented with the FCCs preferred solution. Meanwhile, the FCC has shown considerable ignorance of and disregard for the consequences of imposing such strict regulations on WiFi.

It shouldn't have been hard for the FCC to make a clear and compelling case for this, with a similarly clear call to action for chipset vendors to produce products that could meet the need for secure regulatory enforcement while remaining open to all the tweaking that is outside the FCC's purview.
As someone has taken a lot of MOOCs, I have no idea if Coursera makes education more accessible but they certainly make certain teachers and professors more accessible and those professors have a lot of knowledge to offer. A lot of universities don't have open courseware and even if they do the recordings are beyond terrible.
In neither case was the NAACP's involvement concealed so I assume you're switching to the question of whether this goes more than one level deep to include the membership lists. That's a good question – it would be interesting to see how a modern court would rule on something like setting minimum thresholds, or how many more options a state-level attacker has now to build that kind of list without permission.
An economic policy based on punishing businesses is not going to work well in the long term.
I can not see how Arab Spring made the society fairer. Internet helped the Arab Spring develop, but the Arab Spring is not such a good thing, because look what it left to middle east.
Assuming you're in the US - 1990's GM cars are dirt cheap to work on. Between RockAuto.com and your local pick and pull you'll be spending pennies on the dollar vs traditional dealer maintanance.

I hate so many things about how they are designed but for your criteria (diy, easy, cheap, documented) they are hard to beat.
I should have clarified, I am reliably getting over 100MPG, but the motorcycle lists, I think, 50 or 60 MPG (still not bad). I generally use the bike only to ride up north and back and shortly after buying it I bumped the info button and noticed it had a MPG display. It was stuck at 99, which is the max it can display. I assumed it was broken but after several trips I realized they're a little over 100 miles each way and I was filling up the 4 gallon tank about once every two round trips, so I did a one way after putting a gallon in at a half tank and sure enough, I arrived with the needle a little higher than it was at (not perfect accuracy, but confirmation enough for me). I'm a pretty simple rider, no need to goose the engine (well, ok, occasionally). It's an all highway drive most of it rural highway (no passing lane) at 55 MPH, too, so it's basically the most ideal circumstances for fuel economy, too.

It's the 2011 Honda NT700V and I love the thing. It's a sport/touring (nothing like a crotch rocket or a monster touring bike), very comfortable to ride, quiet and since purchase it has had zero problems and I have been able to do all of the routine maintenance myself due to it being easy to take apart. Granted, I live in Michigan so I don't get to ride it 5-6 months out of the year and I've got under 10,000 miles on it so I'd expect it to still be running well. The only downside is the oil filter is a smaller version of a very common filter, requiring me to buy it online and it use 10-W30 oil which is really hard to find retail (Motorcycles use different oil -- wet clutch -- who knew?) -- online it's twice the price I can get it retail when enough of it is in stock (O'Reilly carries a high-end synthetic for it that I purchase a quart at a time when I'm there for other reasons -- they've never had 3 in stock at a time).
Even worse, his comment assumes you can't improve your enjoyment of life just by learning about things you like.
Yet. Using cross training on the assembly line basically teach everyone all the positions on the assembly line can cut down on costs and improve quality. Use robots for the hard stuff, use people for the sensitive stuff that needs human hands.
I have an 06 Tacoma and I prefer its handling to every other vehicle I've driven, including the F-150, Tundra, Outback (though the Outback is the most similar), Mercedes-Benz crossover (don't know the exact model.) I've also driven a Viper and a Corvette, but I'm not including those in my comparison for obvious reasons. I think it's just preference. Then again, trucks have different suspension than cars. My mom used to have a Camry, and I never liked driving it. It might just be a truck thing.
You are not so good with the reading. In that paragraph, he does not claim that he is a master. He claims that he has watched master programmers.
How sleazy is Uber? This federal judge wants to know
That's good to know. The job ads imply otherwise (I posted a quote elsewhere in these comments, and this is the new language, I remember it was saying effectively "must be an LoL player" few years ago). Not sure if you care, but I am not the only one who gets this impression and excludes Riot from the job search.
Damm, look like someone else already state the rule about databases:

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreencoddsTenthRuleOfProgramming
Founder of https://www.CourseBuffet.com here. I would say it is a mixed bag. There are without a doubt people getting real value out of MOOCs who otherwise would not be able to take these courses.
This being said I talk to a lot of people about MOOCs and I am still surprised how many people don't know about them. Actually one of the first questions I am often asked is why do they offer free courses!

Edit: to add to my comment and agree with others in this thread "MOOC" confuses people. Sometimes I have to remind myself and say free online courses (even though some are not free).
In settings go to App Store, tap your account, then tap subscriptions.
Does that mean any malicious website can shut down any web user's Google account?
Coursera and Udacity have both been going downhill almost from their inception with every single change.

I've used coursera-dl to archive courses I've taken part in for some time now.

I was considering deleting my archive recently but now I'm really glad I didn't.

However, it doesn't download the quizzes or exams though. You still have to make a local copy of the html pages (easy, but time consuming in firefox for example) or take screenshots.
I find the locking down of wireless access points to be one of the most politically terrifying movements in play in the USA today.

Mesh networking is one of the most radical ideas to which I've ever been exposed, and I think that the auspice of spectrum regulation will make a convenient way to nip it in the bud if we don't act fast to develop and deploy it.
I'm mostly concerned about waking up 8000 workers middle of the night, and making them work the following 12 hours, because of screw up by someone above them.

And the fact that the American Apple executive admires it with the terms of flexibility and such.
You certainly can (in most cases). But the examples I spoke of are what I would consider extreme neglect (even though every one pretty much treats their vehicle that way).

Is your life that busy that you can't even find time once every three years to change the fluids yourself (or pay a shop to do it)?
You mean M, not m. (it's in ASCII order). Also giving out the number of addresses you see will allow someone after yours to connect your username with your email address if you weren't aware.
To save people like me a trip to google, MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. Today I learned!
Firewall is a component to a layered defense. One of the points about Ubuntu was starting the service immediately after install, was it not?
Were you expecting nuanced geopolitical analysis from a chicken farmer?
Copper – Password-free signup for your product
Slower by a tiny amount, and still faster than other C implementations. It's within the error box.

Also iirc there are improvements to those benchmarks in the pipeline, idk what happened to them (Veedrac and llogiq had something in mind).

Sure, you could hand-translate C in many cases (not regex), but that would be far from idiomatic. Most of the rust solutions try to still look Rust-y.

Regarding sse, if you care about performance and sse use a nightly compiler. That option exists. Rust nightly is still Rust.
Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I've found no place other than Coursera/EdX offering high quality quizzes and assignments, with feedback, even if just automated. Texts and videos explaining all kinds of topics are abundant, but the most valuable learning experience comes from practice, and that is rare.
Do they change the cam?
0-9, A-Z were sent out and part of 'a'
Close, the prius drivetrain is two brushless 3 phase motors nested in one another. This allows regenerative braking and charging while still providing power to the final drive. Fun fact the ICE in the prius is an (1) Atkinson cycle which operates at a specific efficiency instead of a powerband. The engine revs up to a low or high range but doesn't have a traditional linear powerband.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_cycle
TrackMeBot turns 10 years old this summer: http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
Hahahahahaha, I wish it wasn't but it's so true. It's not the politicians though,it's the beaurocracy. They want to be as much trouble as they can.
Number theory has always had practical use. It used to just be called "Arithmetic", and it didn't become something else until that something else had demonstrated practicality.
Oh yes, very much so.

Depending on the company, you want to be in their car. I noticed the Ford plant on Mound has a large sign "Ford Only Lot". My dad does business with all of them (and a few of the foreign plants down south, too). I don't know what the politics behind it are -- my Dad sells to all of them and a few of the southern foreign car plants -- he drives a Cadillac. I'll have to ask him if he gets crap for that when visiting Ford/Chrysler (which are large contracts for him).

The funny thing is, even they've changed a bit. My mom is in a Lexus hybrid, which shocked me. Their friends and neighbors passed away and owned the thing for three years with a few thousand miles on it. The family was willing to sell it to her at such a low price she couldn't pass it up. And it's a really nice car. Family circumstances also resulted in my dad getting an Audi TT convertible sports-toy which he stores up north (shh, don't tell anyone).
Don't Use the Unix Environment Directly
Yes, sorry, "M". And if this comment[1] is true, then that number won't reveal much. Their mailer is probably distributed across several nodes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881953
The actual rate is lower because corporations keep so much capital off shore because the nominal rate is so high.
If anyone else is wondering, MOOC is Massive Open Online Courses.

It really gets on my nerves when people don't expand their acronyms when introducing a topic. Of course there are exceptions, but is MOOC really that common an acronym?! I just find it a bit inconsiderate.</rant>
> Really motivated people will [...]

I'm not a big fan of this argument, which I see here too often. Really, truly motivated people don't need the Internet either. For any obstacle to learning, you can always say that it's not a problem because somebody, somewhere makes through.

I took exactly one Coursera course, Odersky's Scala course. But it was a great experience. Going through the material on a schedule with a bunch of other people got me to work harder than I would have on my own. I learned way more than I would have without the structure. Does that mean I wasn't "really motivated"? Sure, I guess. But the point of having educational institutions, rather than just giving everybody library cards and turning them loose, is to make it easy for a large number of people to learn.

So if it's suddenly harder for people to learn, even if they aren't judged truly worthy, I'm willing to call that a bad thing.
Even when warrants involved - mentioned today on radio - 2/3 Oakland drug related warrants are based on false info.
I don't want to drown in minutiae, but at the end of that article, the author is supporting the drug war, so he is using statistics supporting his case. I did a little research and there are of course conflicting views on the effectiveness of Prohibition.

"John D. Rockefeller, a teetotaler, observed in 1932, 'drinking has generally increased, the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has been recruited and financed on a colossal scale.'"

To avoid a long drawn out argument about which statistics are more likely to be accurate, I'm willing to admit that both conclusions are possible and the actual answer lies somewhere in-between. The first guy estimated 30%, Rockefeller surmised that it increased, so lets go with 15% decrease in drug use because of the drug war. That's even hard to say because the drug war has lasted a lot longer than prohibition.

Unfortunately I couldn't quickly find any information about the repeal of prohibition which is more relevant to the topic since we are currently in a prohibition.

Anyway, I guess the country needs to decide if 15% increase in drug use is worth the cost of the drug war, so for every 20 current drug users, we'd get 3 more. In exchange, we'd get a lot of money in the treasury, respect for the law, return of our freedoms (maybe), much smaller incarceration rate, greatly weakened gangs and cartels, much less justification for surveillance, and an overall less hellishly scary police state.

Unfortunately, the US doesn't debate it rationally in those terms.
Really? Do you have a reference for that?
And Mao Zedong killed maybe 70 million people.

Significance is not an objective universal measure. Those deaths in Syria are insignificant. There are 8 Billion + people on this planet. Maybe they'd be significant if they were pandas or tigers or something. And that's a workable perspective.
Pretty much this. Like Uber's unique problem is master-master replication?
That's pre-1.0. Rust has changed a lot.

Also, given how prone microbenchmarks are to depending on hand-optimization over the compiler quality, benchmarks should have been contributed to by the community -- I don't think anyone in rust has heard about this one.

Oh also, Rust is as fast as C/C++ there. It's just not faster than C++Cached, _which is a different algorithm_. That's the problem with microbenchmarks, you end up measuring differences in the algorithm used.
This will only get the videos and the slides. No assignments, quizzes or helpful Forum Discussions.