skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that first course was very basic and open to all students, and I didn't know who he was. Just seemed like a typical lecturer way down the front of a big hall.

A couple of years later, he taught my class of ~20 his Calculus of Communicating Systems; I think it was the first time he tried it out on undergraduates. He was incredibly kind and patient; really interested to find out which parts of the explanation didn't work, and how he could get it across better.
As another comment said - the culprit might not be USB 3. It could possibly be your monitor? I had an old monitor (not CRT) that made strange noises when the whole screen refreshed, such as when scrolling. I could possibly see that causing interference as well.
I want to actively support keeping the quality of submissions high. Hiding junk like this would not be enough.
Loose threads from weavecoding
That passport has an owner. It could come from robbery... and identity theft is nothing nice...
In Poland, I've heard national ID numbers, names and addresses being transmitted over radio analog and unencrypted, on frequencies well within the receiving range of an amateur handheld. I've also heard that taxi drivers often transmit CC details over the radio (again, analog and unencrypted). Keep in mind that listening in to taxi and public service bands is one of the favourite pastimes of HAMs.
Autobots for transformation of distribution
Investing it is rapidly ceasing to be an option. For instance, you cannot realistically defend that the old risk profiles still work for balanced portfolios (bond-stock risk split) at this level of central bank intervention.

Btw: where do you get 3% APY ?
Free and Open Source Point of Sale (POS) Software
Sure it is. Just take your computer, put it in a furnace, turn it to ash and bury it couple of feet in the ground. Now its attack surface is 0.
Ask HN: Similarities between american car industry and current software industry
Is there any paper about similarities/differences/makes no sense to compare, between current software industry and the history of car industry in America?
I semi get the branding inspiration behind the genie. You tried to pick something that can offer you unlimited service. Which I guess in hand matches your product.

The problem isn't that you have a genie, the problem is that you have to tell people it's a genie.

A few things to mention about the brand is that a genie and the name companyhub don't really blend well. When ever I brand something I look at the name, the product and the vision. I ask myself what icons,letters,colors can I use or combine that tell what my product does with out having to say it.

Also the logo it's self is not really iconic and memorable. I'd say explore your options, if for some reason you want to stay with the genie theme maybe try a genie lamp instead.
You can even do little web servers in Pythonista and access it from the browser. I didn't think iPads allowed that sort of thing.
I'm personally inclined to support the climate change folks, being a scientist and stuff, but it's a bit crap to claim that it was a one word typo when the original text apparently read:

> For predictor selection, both proxy climate and instrumental data were linearly detrended over the 1921–1990 period to avoid inflating the correlation coefficient due to the presence of the global warming signal present in the observed temperature record. Only records that were significantly ([pre]p<0.05[/pre]) correlated with the detrended instrumental target over the 1921–1990 period were selected for analysis.

That isn't a typo, it is just being wrong. I'm glad they re-did the work to confirm it was still true, but it's hard to argue with folks who didn't think the claim was supported by the data.
It's a solid skill, and one where a lot of the talent in the industry is going to retire soon. Mainframe skills in general, and COBOL specifically, are still very entrenched in financial services (namely insurance). I don't know a lot of people under 35 who don't shit themselves writing JCL.
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Seconding Phabricator. After a previous job, Jira was giving me irrational corporate-PTSD flashbacks, and Phabricator did much to alleviate that. It's a decent balance of complexity and simplicity.
Found this out the hard way when I bought a little USB 3.0 hub off Amazon. You can plug it in and watch ping lose its lunch, then unplug it and the wifi returns to normal. (On a 2015 MBP).
care to explain why then?
So by "becoming Sales and everyone else", they actually got bad at sales. Ironic.
An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction
How Pokémon Go became so popular
#ThisFlag Is a Turning Point for Zimbabweans
An individual set of card details are worth too little to a fraudster to be worth taking the risk of tampering with phone lines or breaking into an exchange followed by ages of monitoring (tapping the wrong line? mine hasn't been used for phone conversations for weeks - before that it was broken for weeks before I noticed) - it's not cost effective, and so not much physical security is needed for an individual line, nor that much for an exchange.

If it can be obtained through automated exploits, the cost-benefit ratio changes drastically.
For my desktop workstations, I've always been a fan of building my own in a generic black box. I've been using the same i5 debian desktop since 2013 and its been fantastic so far. I've never been able to justify the expense for an Apple desktop over a traditional off the shelf parts build. Laptops are a different story, I had an XPS 15 with ubuntu in 2014 but it was the least reliable and flimsiest 'pro' device I've ever used, I promptly returned it and got a 15" pro and I've been happy since.
Uniformed, and some kind of clearly marked kiosk officially sanctioned by the airport, with incentive to go after anyone trying to be a fake valet.
Is there really a market for my COBOL knowledge still? It was one of my favorite languages and honestly it is what got me into SQL and other data analysis languages.
Your personal idea of a high quality submission is not the yardstick by which submissions are measured. You get that, right?
Backupify?
Ava promises to clone high-end wines without using any grapes
> "Technically speaking, we’re living during an ‘Ice Age’ today – in the sense that we have a world with glaciers. However, the present time is a relatively warm phase within a period of geological time when glaciers and ice sheets have typically been larger and more extensive than now."

Taken from: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Teaching+resources/Key+St...

There are other sources, but this is one example that makes it clear we have been in a warming phase the last few thousand years.
I'm willing to learn. I don't understand why you term it as "ridiculous", when the official documentation points to an external package.

Is the documentation wrong ? If there's another way...why does it not get mention there?

From my perspective, this is weird.
Without taking anything away from their generous announcement, it's very much in their interest for .lep files to become a standard so that they do not have to transcode to jpeg when users are viewing files on DropBox. I'm happy they released it.
Thriving in Uncertainty
They're still doing Windows 10 for smartphones and there are other hardware suppliers besides Microsoft. The OS is free, after all.

Whether the Surface phone will make any difference is open to doubt, but it might ;-)

As an Android user, I'd be prepared to have a serious look at one.
Why Generation Z Wants Nothing but Perfect Customer Service
Jupyter Notebooks are more for statistical, iterative coding, not running an application.
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Jupyter released a cool computational environment(basically an IDE like Rstudio Web) - https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterlab

There is already discussion about Jupyter lab here on the front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12098180
As opposed to alias in bashrc for the commands you use most often?

This and the other one that was on HN a short while back, I just don't get the point. Learn the command line, already. Yes, some are hard to remember, but that's why history exists. And if you rarely use one, keep it in a simple, greppable text file.
Well, what you expect from people who happen to turn around in their
(unverifiable) models 180 degrees (Amazon jungle net produces oxygen! No, it's
a net consumer!) and who routinely produce models that use some
physical value (heat capacity in greenhosue effect), but fail to account for
major substances influencing the value (water concentration in atmosphere)?
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I don't know about the trend, but one advantage of hiring a freelancer is knowing exactly who will be performing the work and the relationships are more likely to be personal. With an outsourcing company, that's less likely and the relationship is much more likely to involve pointing to contractual clauses and arguing over whether or not those clauses were met.

To me, competing on price is a sub-optimal approach to projects where the quality of results creates a lot of variation in the value of the work product. My experience is that relationships matter more over the long term, particularly for the kind of clients a service company or freelancer wants.

Good luck.
For every Blizzard there's a Netflix, who never has any problems with a big release nowadays.
Raspberry Pi 3 Compute Module coming this year
It is most definitely open source it is just not unconditional, maybe that will change now.

https://github.com/c9/core
Was wondering exactly this. I wonder if avian vision benefits from the greater frequency resolution this pattern provides.
Is his house on a Military base? Otherwise, how can he have such sensitive material in his home? That is a much bigger security risk to me it seems ...
But those are just apps, not the OS and there are any number of replacement dialler, messaging and email apps for Android - are you suggesting that NONE of them are as good as the Windows Phone default apps?
Yes, I automated setup here for Chromebooks running crouton (Ubuntu ~14.04) as an example -

https://github.com/benlowry/chromeos-dev-setup/blob/master/s...
Flix: Combining functional programming with logic programming
Hilarious and excellent references. I couldn't agree more. I kind of read it with the left eye shut.
Here's another user who considered some MS phone at least the two last times I switched but ended up on Xperia and later S7 because water resistance. (This felt important because of field work and kids at home.)
It won't be "fixed" soon, this isn't the first Niantic game that does this.

People were talking about this even in 2012 when playing Ingress: https://reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/13vjcw/the_real_nianti...
Yup, it's inherent to the kernel architecture. Windows is simply incapable of real-time scheduling. Audio engineers who use Windows are forced to disable networking drivers to prevent dropouts.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
It is essentially already that if you are careful with the variables.

Currently, you can easily control which things are saved and which aren't. So it is the best of both worlds.
This looks cool... I wish there were a macOS/OSX version, don't have an ipad, have a couple macbooks (and hackintosh) though.
Let's give it a minute.
I nearly did the same. It's a frustrating trend in web design.
> If Microsoft ever tried to pull the rug from under them, you can be pretty sure that would be the end for them.

It is necessary though. Microsoft seems to be preparing for a post-Windows eventuality as well. Doesn't mean they have to write their own operating system.

Edit: it is mostly for azure anyway... I think Microsoft might as well ride Windows as long as it can and give it up.
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J.P. Morgan’s Jamie Dimon: Fintech’s Got Nothing on Us
The hindsight-prescriptive comments here focus on backing up, and that's a sensible practice.

But there was another kind of damage done here, to the man's identity, location and voice. His blog and his email address were his public persona. He used his blog and his address as identity, and as his channel of communication with followers, other artists, and I assume most of his general online communication.

That persona no longer exists. He's been all but disappeared, and it's going to take a long time for him to reconnect.

The technical lesson that should be learned here, beyond backups, is to have your own domain. You can still use services with your own domain. I've used many ISPs and email services, and I've had the same domain since about 2000. I used to use gmail (with me@mydomain.com). I use fastmail now. I've never since 2000 had to tell anyone to change my email address, because it's never changed, even though providers changed. The subject of this article would have a much easier time of reconnecting, had he used his own domain.

(Added to that, in the "backup" theme, download all your email as it happens. I use thunderbird, and it does that for me. I once resolved a dispute with a former employer because I had email that they had no incentive to find.)

Using your own domain is not absolute protection, because you don't really own your domain, you rent it. Your registrar can decide to sell your domain to someone else, and if your consumer rights were violated it's going to be difficult to reclaim your domain. In the future I think we're going to need meta-domains that can't be transferred, that are our identity, but I don't know how that would be implemented.

I said this person has been disappeared, which was a provocative use of the word (this isn't Argentina or Chile in the seventies). But thinking more broadly, consider that as our lives are lived more and more online, any government could compel a provider to remove you. Even if it was unjust removal, it could be so expensive to restore your presence that you just can't do it. Harder to fight a government than it is to fight Google, if the government decides it won't be moved. We have a no-fly list now that has no associated due process. I can imagine a no-communicate list.

Which is all to say, try to be as self-sufficient as is practical, and as is warranted by the importance of your communication.
https://xkcd.com/1200/ nothing else to say.
There is a huge difference in learning metric in school, using it for specific jobs, and actually having any realistic grasp on the metric system in daily life. Using it in STEM feilds narrows the use to very specific uses - I can measure something in any system giving me numbers, and memorize the system making it faster. It isn't hard to switch to metric mechanics tools. Every day life is a completely different ballpark.

I used 'standard' for some time, and now live in a metric-only country. I have little practical knowledge of the weather forecast, for example. I know 9C is colder than 12C, but it is rather difficult to assess what clothes I need to wear for that temperature change. I have no real notion for how far 350km is compared to miles or travel time.

A 2kg bag of flour isn't so different from a 5lb bag of flour, and 2 liter cartons of milk look to be about half a gallon. But measuring recipies in deciliters? How big an apartment is in square meters? How big is a cm compared to my thumb? How can I estimate lengths shorter than a meter (which is approximately a yard)? How do I know if I have a fever? What is normal comfortable room temperature?

Some of these questions folks in STEM professions will have some awareness of, but it is definitely not something that makes us fluent enough. And I think the only way to do this is to switch completely.
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They should offer a pick-up option to prevent any tampering in transit to make it seem more worthwhile.

I mean if someone is required to be that concerned about security I'm certain they will justify the costs to go pick-up a device versus risking having it compromised.
I'm saying it wasn't offensive, the issue was unrelated to that.
Amazon eyeing up London restaurant delivery launch
First of all, why can't you use an external package?

If all you want is URLs which look like "/api/people/morgante/comments/3000/" it's easy enough to construct those simply as standard viewsets. They're totally normal.
I don't think it's that simple. A lot of bugs are the result of disparate pieces of code -- each of which is fairly easy to verify by reading it -- interacting in an unforeseen way.
Eat, Pay, Love
Related Trivia: The 8th largest conglomerate in South Korea, the "Lotte Group," is named after a character in Goethe's _The Sorrows of Young Werther_ [1]

If you ever stay at the Lotte hotel in Seoul, instead of finding a Gideons Bible in your nightstand you will find a copy of Goethe's novel. There is also a museum in the lobby which explains the whole story behind the name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_(conglomerate)
I wonder if Slate has an arrangement with Quora... and if I posted an answer that they wanted to republish, could I insist on just rewriting it into a different piece so it was more like I was published on Slate? Why wouldn't they do that with all of these Quora "articles?"
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I actually like this, since it stops me from procrastinating, as does working in a team.
Complete Guide to Accelerate the Learning Curve: How Barack Obama Beats Fatigue
5 reasons Not to choose Atlassian JIRA in custom software development
It is a lot more difficult than folks think, that's for sure. I've only been living in a metric country for 3 years, and I am only beginning to get a feel for these things. Congratualations, me, you can no longer describe some bits of life and the world in relatable terms.
Get a mobile power bank.
Don't forget that Windows is also used as servers, compared to MacOS used primary on desktops.
That's a plaster over a wound. It would be better not to have sustained the injury in the first place - and the reader didn't create the pop-up.

My present interpretation of pop-ups is that the author or their publisher holds their advertisers or their subscriber list as more important than their content: in these circumstances it's reasonable to assume the content isn't worth reading. There are exceptions.
When I did hot-desking everybody had their own keyboard and mouse that they either brought home with them or locked in a locker every night.
Pokémon GO D1 retention is 70%, an unprecedented rate for mobile games
Ask HN: What do guys feel about Microsoft Data Science degree
https://academy.microsoft.com/en-US/professional-degree/data-science/

I started doing it because I am excited about the topic.
As recently mentioned by a CloudFlare employee in this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11439582):

> We cache as much as possible, for as long as possible. The more requested a file, the more likely it is to be in the cache even if you're on the Free plan. Lots of logic is applied to this, more than could fit in this reply. But importantly; there's no difference in how much you can cache between the plans. Wherever it is possible, we make the Free plan have as much capability as the other plans.

This does not confirm the exact statement but at least points in this direction.
1. Many successful computer games are this. Did you ever play a MMORPG?

2. Sure, many players will play less as time goes on, but with the kinds of numbers they're seeing now they'll be massively popular for a long time.
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I think software is going to the direction of emulation anyway.

At this point you have platforms like Electron, which run in a browser environment. Java software which runs inside JVM. Now there's even linux sub-system inside windows, etc.

I think there is a way to do it the other way around. MS put effort in creating something similar to WINE and make a special "Windows POSIX", which let's say for the next decade is released along with the classic Windows ( Same as NT before ). Where they try to emulate / rewrite the software piece by piece until the stability is reached to switch.

I don't see this as an impossible idea to me. Actually if they did something like this I will be so happy to switch back.
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Since that puts you in a small minority, I rather doubt that whatever they come up with will be well suited to your needs.
More significantly, the underlying technology beneath Linux on Windows, especially if it can be made a generally available, documented target for development, is a great thing. Not even a compromise, I think it's potentially better than making Windows into yet-another-POSIX kernel.
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No it was not. I wish I could provide an official link of her work but I can't seem to google anything. She isn't famous by any means and is exceedingly humble (hence the difficulty on finding details indirectly).

Interestingly though she absolutely loves all things sci-fi. She records almost everything the SyFy channel produces and loves Babylon 5, Dr. Who, etc...

She is exceedingly good at board games. Even ones she has never played before she often wins. I remember brining Chinese checkers once to her with my wife. She had never played before but she absolutely trashed my wife and me in multiple games.

She grew up in Germany and I have often wondered if that had any affect on her non-traditional-gender hobbies and likes. Or maybe it is just her personality (as I love board games and SciFi as well).
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I started deleting my emails and I feel really better that this big stack of crap is erased forever. The whole concept of archiving mail is disgusting. Everybody is concerned by climate change, but seriously, storing all these data is crazy and dirty, a datacenter is everything but clean.

No backups to deal with and no procrastination-until-the-end-of-your-life. Save the planet and get away from your past.
And it only costs $10-15/yr for your own domain + email. I don't understand why people consider that a great expense.
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The calculus has to be how much it would cost to temporarily bring in, run, maintain e.g. AWS boxes versus how much revenue is left on the table by the slow store. I presume Blizzard has run those numbers and decided it wasn't worth it.
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What an atrocious answer. Does this guy think "the 90%" are just poor and irresponsible?

All of these answers assume the 90% is ignorant, short-sighted, and bad with both money and math.

Newsflash: The 90% includes the entire middle class, and not everyone who is poor is such because they are bad with money.
Yep, it's 'jupyter nbconvert --to python'. Docs here: http://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/

It actually has a lot of customisability if you're willing to get into Jinja templates.
Ask HN: Military to tech jobs
I am interested in transferring from military (8+ years) to operations job in the tech industry.

What does the tech industry feel when hiring a veteran?
Well, I'd say that was a ridiculous position.
"Those people who got a 'great deal' on Ikea furniture or faux leather couches will be buying another one sooner than the person who bought quality goods"

But what will you sit on while you save?
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The only reason is reason #1. Generations of adults and kids have been watching and playing pokemon all their lives.
It is definitely a marketing gimmick on some level. They claimed an entirely open source laptop which is a complete and total lie. They are making good progress in one way, but still destroying trust in another.
not to click on link bait?
FWIW I'm in the US and I get the laggy/soft locking up experience you mentioned all the time. I think they just didn't write the app to be very reselient to and RPC failures.