skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are large swathes of the population who have no idea what technology is. They see "box that you plug in to your TV to watch free movies" as a technological improvement, as in, some kind of breakthrough enabled the free delivery of movies. They're not likely to think about the economics of it unless it's pointed out to them. There's probably a decent number of people who bought this and had no idea it was illegal.
Announcing Amazon Inspire, a Free Service for Digital Educational Resources
> I think secretaries were replaced by computers.

Specifically, I think they were replaced by good asynchronous communication mediums. That medium used to be paper, which is slow; the fast alternative was synchronous phone calls. (Interestingly, telegraphs were generally asynchronous.) Then the fax and answering machines came and made it a little better. Then computers came, and now I don't need a secretary to call someone else's secretary to make an appointment, I just send a request in Outlook after finding a clear spot on their calendar.
Would there ever be a legitimate reason for answering yes to those questions?

The closest thing that I can think of is if you were a member of a political party that had associations with a terrorist group (or that had been labelled as terrorists). So for example Sinn Fein in Ireland where they had links to the IRA.
This is great! Outside of the obvious use case for flourishes and light animations, are there other uses you're envisioning this for?

All of your other work is fantastic too, tres magnifique!
I visited my parents last weekend. My dad says his laptop automatically updated to Windows 10 a month ago and since then he was unable to use the internet (so basically the machine). He was PO'ed. He was tricked into installing it because Microsoft changed the behavior of the upgrade prompt. You can choose "Upgrade now" or "Not now, upgrade later". "Not now, upgrade later" use to behave like and mean "Ask me again later" Microsoft changed it to mean and behave like "Yes. Upgrade me, just not now... force it later". My mother was and has been able to avoid the forced upgrade by always clicking the "X" to close the prompt window and avoiding the dark pattern behavior.
Classifying the Emotions of Facebook Posts Using Reactions Data
Naw, its not really a hobby level thing. It is relatively straightforward to take a glassblowing class and make some hobby level glassware... This is a much different level of commitment and skill.
Totally awesome work! It would be great to get some comparison tables (size, compatibility, speed) for the common animation libraries (velocity, tweenmax/lite, etc)

Also digging your personal site!
Show HN: Country Parrots – one party parrot for each country
No, it counts as the paste event as well. But pasting to another text field in the application (or just the address bar), selecting and dragging the password to the field works, as it just counts as a "change" event, which would be very hard to disable without causing issues.
> You'll be asked a few routine questions about where you visited, the purpose of your travel, etc.

The agents are usually polite and friendly. But they aren't always, and that can be intimidating and infuriating if you're a US citizen who's simply returning home from a trip.
Very little paid acquisition at the moment. We do some retargeting, and some boosted posts on facebook. Are there any paid acquisition channels that you have seen to be effective for subscription box growth?
Plenty of people own businesses and travel as tourists. The real issue would be travel to Iran, as Iran has been built up through propaganda to be a very different place than it actually is in the minds of many Americans.
A closed source compiler is a non-starter for anyone looking to use a language for any purpose beyond tinkering / play.

I wouldn't call it undeservedly obscure.
Do you have any quick notes on how this compares and contrasts with GSAP[1] other than the licensing? Is there any clear case for "Use Anime.js for XYZ"?

[1] http://greensock.com/gsap
Paper? I think you are missing the threat model. Eve does not have physical or network access to machine.
Haha! "Several years ago it was all the rage to forecast when each computer maker was going to graduate from an 8-bit cpu to a 16-bit cpu. However, it turned out that consumers didn't need 16-bits and computer makers were really quite content to stay with 8-bit machines".

https://ia601604.us.archive.org/3/items/creativecomputing-19...
This is the attitude which caught the remain campaign flat-footed - the sense that what we traditionally believed about the UK can't change. We want to snuggle up in our blankets and think nothing can go wrong. But this referendum had legal force and won by a large margin, which is how things do change.

Legal aspects aside, this referendum was also a shot across the bow to foreigners. To have such a large majority expressing such a strong disdain should give pause to anyone considering immigration, because it is unpleasant and even dangerous to have neighbors who think of you like this. Seeing as Trump has made his campaign a referendum on immigration, it will be the same in the US if Trump is elected with a similar majority.
Meanwhile, Microsoft wins $10,000,000,000 profit by forcing users to upgrade to Windows 10.
Frankly, I'm kind of interested in the prospect of specialized hardware coming back.

The trend since the mid-1980s, when the Intel 80386 was introduced, has been for specialized chips to be replaced due to commodity chips beating them comprehensively in single-core speed; problems which once required specialized hardware and core designs were either solved or obviated by massive improvements in scalar hardware.

Now that this brute force method is starting to peter out, we might see a rise of new, specialized designs once again, to solve specific problems which gain substantial speedups from very specific kinds of parallelism. Systolic arrays are one example. We're already doing something like this by pressing GPUs into service as computational hardware, but it can go farther.
The leave campaign did just that, campaigned. It is up to the people in charge to have a plan on what to do in the event of a leave or remain.
> does typescript support some kind of template-string validation for angular2

No, and that's the reason I mention jsx as a missing feature from Angular 2. There is no compile time or refactoring support for templates, whereas with TypeScript and jsx you get that.
Yes because we all want to relive the glory days of being a poor student.
Will the tradeoff include a divorce and place to stay for the kids?
I think the point was, it's not even clear if the UK will leave the EU.

The referendum result was 52-48, with some people regretting their decision since they only meant it as a protest against the current government. Others are furious that the things they thought they voted for (money for healthcare, much reduced immigration) have already been backtraced upon by politicians.

We live in interesting times.

(I'm British and live in Denmark, so I have a clear bias in this.)
Will robot rule the world??
It's a "Good Thing" when it's done using open source software, not necessarily when it's done by a closed-source company with different priorities than your own.
Shouldn't we hope that something does? By all accounts, the house price situation in London has become bad enough that it's wiping out the middle class, which is very bad news; the rise of the middle class was a key factor in enabling the transition from feudal society to modern civilization.

But while I'm here, I'll throw in a shameless plug: Dublin is still in the EU, and is an English-speaking capital city with modern infrastructure, a skilled workforce, a pleasant climate and low corporate taxes.
Peace absolutely was their primary motivation because it's impossible to have any sort of prosperity when neighboring states are waging a brutal war every generation. The rivalry of France and Germany has existed since long before German unification and was long considered to be unavoidable. Which is why the primary goal of the ECSC to prevent either nation from independently producing weapons of war.
> Think of all of the wasted effort and money because microsoft didn't force people off of IE6 quick enough.

You can't tell the difference between upgrading a single app and and an entire OS ?
Inside Japan's Booming Rent-A-Friend Industry
Artistic glass blowing (lampworking) absolutely overlaps with scientific glass blowing. What you are thinking of is hot glass using a kiln.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampworking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassblowing
The banking sector would certainly move to Frankfurt and not Berlin.
This is why the Windows 10 installer does a compatibility check before performing the upgrade. My friend was trying to upgrade to Windows 10 last week but it kept denying him saying his "display is not compatible". I logged into his machine and saw he had an old GoToMyPC monitor driver installed that was causing him grief, uninstalled it and away the upgrade went.

It's not perfect by any means, and "compatibility" checks often never will be, but I think it does a good enough job to prevent breaking a working system that isn't ready for the upgrade yet.
> we don't want another "XP situation" with Windows 7

If Microsoft had really wanted to avoid that, they'd have made Windows 10 actually attractive to the end user and the tech people that would recommend it to the end user. Instead they jammed it chock-full of spyware and malware-tier garbage that nobody wants, and treat the installbase as a testbed for forced updates that could easily (and have) render machines inoperable.

Windows 7 will become the next XP, and Microsoft has nobody to blame for it but themselves.
Definitely agree about the deep TypeScript integration with Angular 2 due to it being written in TypeScript. That is the core reason I prefer it, it is absolutely awesome in that regard. (And the same is true with RxJS).
http://geniepad.com is quite profitable. I work when I want to. At a minimum I need to put in about 1 hours of work a week total. I travel, enjoy life, read a shitload of books, etc. Total lifestyle business.
Announcing .NET Core 1.0
> they help abstract the database technology

If you are going to do anything even remotely complex you're going to need to know that database technology otherwise your ORM is going to spit out queries that are dead stupid and a performance nightmare (pages taking 1 full minute to load). Then you end up fighting with the ORM to do what you want.

That's my experience.

I guess there are projects that are so simple the database layer can be abstracted away but I've never worked on one.
What does "polyvalent" mean in this context?
Brexit and Tech Bubbles
I don't think that works for me.

Since the user input modifies this object, the user can put the object into an invalid state. In fact, when the object is first created it is in an invalid state. So I can't simply define my types so that invalid state is impossible.
"So startups are just an inefficiency imposed on wealth transfer from VCs to landlords. What if someone disrupted the industry and connected VCs directly to landlords?"

;)

(Source: https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-hi-id-like-to-add-you/)
Do you have control over the elites in Westminster? Be realistic, we can obviously not influence who gets to be the next head of state, nor who gets placed into the Tory/Labour safe seats by the inner parties, nor who gets chosen by those people to run the civil service and our lives.

Even if you think that you have influence over who your SNP MP is - he/she won't ever be in the UK government, they will never have a say on anything, resigned to jeer from the opposition backbenches. It is the epitome of disenfranchisement.
Global Internet Commission backs encryption as privacy fears rise
In the same vein, MAD #64 famously had a cover that was made to look like the cover of a composition book, so that you could read it in school.
Having made a few records myself... when mixing with noisy source tracks, I generally choose to use console automation to mute the spaces between the notes, rather than trying to remove noise from actual signal, or even gate out the noise in the quiet spots. But it's more important to simply prevent noise in the first place.

On the first record I ever produced, I was credited with playing "furnace". We were recording in subzero January weather in Minnesota, and the furnace in my basement was very noisy. I'd go and turn it off, and we'd track as quickly as possible before the house got unacceptably cold and the furnace needed turned on again.

As an interesting aside, something a lot of newbie/hopeful audio engineers obsess about is "mic bleed", where the mic for one instrument picks up sounds from another. I mostly ignore this. Bleed is swamped by signal, and disappears into the mix. Even if a punch or edit fixes an error in the "bleed" instrument, it usually drowns out any error that remains in the bleed itself. Then again, audio engineering is full of a lot of nerding about second and third and even fourth-order effects, while ignoring first-order effects like "Is the song actually good?", "Is the performance good?"
How often should I be invoicing? and Getting monthly payment gigs
A good powerful simulation tool you should look into should really be GEANT4. It really sets the standard by which all Nuclear Physics simulation try to adhere. It is not a 'toy' but more like a collection of tools you can use to simulate anything from x-ray radiation to a Photon's path inside a scintillator.
Release notes: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/1.0...
I would recommend a first-principles approach, if you're really interested in the field, building a career around it, and not just jumping on something because it's "hot".

To that end, start with Convex Optimization [1]. You'll develop an incredibly versatile - but not esoteric - mathematical background. You'll link the mathematics to solving real engineering problems fairly quickly. You'll tackle the basics of machine learning as well.

After this, you'll have a pretty strong background to get into more traditional machine learning and deep learning. Regarding the former, Andrew Ng's notes are pretty solid [2], and for DL, Karpathy's Stanford course is great [3].

Self-studying all this material could take up to a year (part time, assuming you do it while having a job), but I don't know of a better way to gain the skills and get into the field. This approach balances your learning of fundamentals, engineering applications, real software, numerical computing, and the more fun "new" stuff.

Hope it works out well for someone else.

[1] - http://stanford.edu/class/ee364a/ Great video lectures available too.

[2] - http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.html Also has great video lectures on Youtube.

[3] - http://cs231n.stanford.edu/index.html Ditto on the lecture vids.
You're talking about knife-making, I'm talking about knife-using. While it may be the case that a knife-maker works with high temperatures and toxic substances, it is not the case for a knife-user. Users of laboratory glassware, on the other hand, are constantly risking exposure to this stuff. They depend on high quality glassware to keep them safe.

The consequences for using a poorly-made Erlenmeyer flask are potentially devastating on a far larger scale than for a poorly-made knife.
They decided for me that my updated iphone 4s should never be able to be restored to factory condition and I would be forced to suffer terrible performance and battery life.

They decided for me that all my apps should auto-update. This incentivizes application developers putting their users on a constant upgrade treadmill (similar to apple). I guess there is so much amazing "Innovation" happening in every update that they decided that users absolutely must want every single update. This has caused developers to never consider a software feature-set as released or finished and free of bugs. They have taken this horrible mindset that only existed on the web and brought it to native apps.

Then there is the heavy handed approach of forcing you to update your entire OS just to run a developer IDE. Something previously _unheard_ of and frankly embarrassing from an engineering point of view.

Well folks, that's all the time we have for this segment today, tune in tomorrow for more.. :)
This is effectively a lossy capture though, since the HDMI->IP converter is re-encoding the video to MJPG before transmitting it.

Hard to beat for the price, though
The Ghost (Writer) in the Machine
It's not as evolved yet - but funcs pull in arguments via :x and can instead use :$x (I used ^ earlier, but switched to $) which will pull in that AST node (argument) without evaluating it first at the call site.

So it's a kind of quoting. I haven't pushed these things further yet, and frankly I am not that heavily into macros unless they are really needed. But obviously AST manipulation is easy in Spry.
Neurosurgery (as we know it today) first came about in the early 1900's.[1] CMS, the gov't institution that funds residencies, was created in the 1930's (well, it predecessor was).

And if we look outside of neurosurgery to general medical practice, we'll find that it was humming along quite nicely without any gov't support.

[1]http://neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/index.php/about_us_history.html
The thing is, we don't know how or even if Soros bet on Brexit. The article doesn't say. We know he was long the pound, but we don't know what the rest of his portfolio looked like. (If he was short European stocks or long gold, he might have done really well.)

It makes sense that people were curious about his pound position, given his history. But we haven't got the knowledge needed to compare his massive public outright pound bet to his pre-Brexit referendum positioning.
> even if you could transmit anything usefull at 900 bits per hour.

Well, that works out to 7 AES-128 keys per hours. That could be pretty useful.
More generally, this is why there's (still) a mild obsession with "conjugate" prior/likelihood distribution pairs - i.e. combinations of prior and likelihood that give analytically tractable posteriors[1] - despite the ability to get easily get results with MCMC.

[1] Yes, everyone wants a nice posterior. You're very clever.
A sourceforge repository: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sisal/
Plazas for the People: A Geospatial Analysis of the NYC Plaza Program
Where is the down vote article link? There is nothing of substance here...
When it comes to IE is there much difference?IE versions are tied directly to OS versions.
I tried to update my wife's lil' tabletish Acer netbooky thing, because while I don't like the pushiness I did like Windows 10. And it's been pestering us with little popups for weeks at that point. I go to update it, and it says, Sorry, Windows is 64-bit only.

This is when I discover the machine that I purchased only about 2 years ago now was actually 32-bit. Didn't even know they were still making them at that time.

IIRC it bailed out in the first phase before downloading everything, but, still, couldn't the little popup check something as basic as bittedness?

Also IIRC it didn't stop bothering us until I went and did some registry hack or something to make it shut up, as it was just taunting us at that point. But I'm less confident about this aspect of my memory.
What this boils down to is that they weren't really pitching anything in the traditional sense. There was no salesmanship going on, no grandiose statements or numbers tossed around about market potential or "even if we can manage to just get 1% of the market..."

Instead, they had something to show, and touch, and feel. They actually had a product. That is the key to a good pitch.
Yes, there's usually enough flexibility to move things around a bit. Robert Farquhar, the man who planned the trajectory of ISEE-3 (the craft re-contacted by amateurs during an Earth flyby two years ago) enjoyed arranging his missions so that important milestones happened on the birthdays or anniversaries of friends and family.
> Have we?

Yes. We need to National Crime Survey to be certain, but police forces are already reporting an increase in reported incidents, and affected groups are reporting an increase in incidents.
I did not claim that anything (including me and the article) was biased or unbiased.

To spell it out: I said they present something as if it was surprising, when it isn't, independently of anyone's stance on the matter.
Correct, I never, ever, ever said it was appropriate, it is decidedly not. If you look up a couple posts I highlighted the problems with using it on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985794). I don't expect that it would be in written word to often either. Point is its common enough that I've heard it several times over many years from several different people. Perhaps you don't talk to too many casually racist people or it is regional.
The Sun, after the vote, explains what Brexit will mean, and readers are upset
This isn't too much negativity (2 or 3 top-level comments that aren't even purely negative, but just questioning his heroism) and they were downvoted into the ground.

Rest assured, HN is clearly pro-Snowden and doesn't question it.

I'm not impressed by Snowden because I've seen worse than NSA surveillance (communist Romania, my grandfather was beaten to death in jail for having an anti-government journal) and I don't think the US can fall down such a slippery slope that we need to worry about it at the cost of security and massive irony. The formula that makes oppressive countries oppressive through surveillance just doesn't exist here. Not even close. Even by modern standards, we're not even in the same league as Russia and China in terms of oppression via surveillance. We should probably stop it at some point but it's not at the top of my priority list right now, and I'm not worried we're going to fall off some metaphorical cliff anytime soon.

Anyway, to see Snowden in such a positive light requires thinking that stopping NSA surveillance is a top priority that should be done at any cost.
If I understand correctly the "Proposed Changes" section, the proposed change will only affect Visa Waiver travellers (ESTA/I-94W forms). If you regularly visit Iran, it's likely that you're already excluded from the Visa Waiver Program due to the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015.
Simple: change the climate of the area so that you get winter. Might chase away the haughty rich people too.
Official Ubuntu images and trademarks
Ugh... I missed my opportunity. I upgraded the OS on my iPhone 3G and the thing ran soooo slow after that. It was so slow that it was almost impossible to use it. I should have sued Apple!!!
I follow you until here:

> Unfortunately that might just grow UKIPs electoral base as they'll feel legitimized to keep blaming the EU for any UK issues.

How would the UKIP be blaming the EU once the UK is out? Whatever the deal the EU offers, good or bad, it's a deal which will be accepted by the UK, a sovereign state. It will not be imposed. Hard to see how they can blame the EU for defending their interests, since I assume the UK will be doing the same.

The only possible explanation here is that the EU is able to force the UK to accept a "bad deal". But that directly contradicts the UKIP narrative, that "the UK is a strong nation, and all regions around the world will be ready to sign deals with it".
Shouldn't this case be a class-action suit? How come there isn't one already?
I love the smell of sweeping generalizations in the morning.

In the future we should expect growing concerns about Linux monoculture — though much less serious than it used to be with desktop Windows monoculture.
If only we could divorce the security updates from the "new shiny" stuff.

There was a time when I'd look forward to OS upgrades with excitement to see what improvements there are - now I dread them because there's a real chance I'll lose functionality and be forced into some computer illiterate focus group's views on how I need to use my machine...