skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the cane mentioned at the end of the piece, sounds similar to Harry Potter wand magic lore, i.e., unicorn hair core. Is hair core (and other elemental “magical” items) something unique to H.P., or is this something J.K. researched and borrowed from historical alchemy?

p.s. As a Mormon, I have never heard of the 1857 quote from Heber Kimball. It's one of those moments lost to contemporary Mormon dialogue, but certainly conveys the sense of magic espoused by early Mormonism.
This is a cool model. Though in principle it seems like the multiplier is unbounded on the top end, even if in practice we rarely find it > 10.
The upgrade experience could use some polish.

It seems like every time I fire vbox up locally it's prompting me to upgrade, which is a very clunky experience given the state of other software patching.
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Ask HN: Is Anyone Hiring Foreign Computer Engineers in Taiwan (or SE Asia)?
It's been a dream of mine to work in Taiwan for years now, and I have learning Mandarin for quite some time (but am not fluent).

Is it possible as a foreigner to get a job in Taiwan? Is it best to try and find multi-national companies with offices in Taiwan?

I've found that second method to be quite difficult so far as it seems large companies much prefer to hire local talent for roles that aren't "Senior Engineer" or similar.

I am comfortable with both hardware (embedded, cpu uarch, coherent interconnects, RTL + validation in verilog, etc) and software (embedded, OS/kernel impl, networking + web stack, bitcoin impl, and experienced with Java, Go, C, C++, Python, Perl, Javascript, several flavors of assembly, etc), but I am also willing and able to learn new things.
I sure ain't gonna argue with that. My time with a Surface mostly just made me wish Apple would deign to release something in that form factor so I could stick with a prettier OS.
I use gmane with my nntp reader everyday. Thanks larsmagne23 for the service.
As a data sample of one, roughly 2.5 years post graduation: I've found "quality of life" to be far higher in the professional world than it ever was as a student. Managers are generally more reasonable than stodgy tenure track professors and "group projects" have a lot more buy-in from group members when everyone is getting cut a paycheck at the end of the week.
Sadly it appears we will reach the point where media must be dishonest to generate enough clicks to keep the doors open.
The performance difference between CPU vs GPU is very substantial: the consumer-class Nvidia GTX 980 I use can deliver about 4612 GFLOPS [1] of raw performance, whereas the i7-6700k CPU I've got can only deliver about 113 GFLOPS. Whilst those numbers aren't really comparable (and hence the difference is not as large in practice) you still get a substantial speedup, maybe 10x-15x (this is only especially important during the training phase). The insight I've gained is that the kinds of APIs that Google/Microsoft/IBM give you are definitely not magic and they _can_ be replicated + tweaked to a reasonable degree, and actually I think the concentration of natural language understanding / visual recognition / machine learning and the datasets needed to make them work into the hands of a few very well-financed corporations is both a good thing (because it lets you get up and running quickly and the predictions are continuously updated) and a bit of a bad thing (since these types of applications are going to become a more essential part of computing, and for reasons of cost, performance and customisability). I've also written a bit about my experiences with Theano versus TensorFlow[3].

[1] http://techgage.com/article/intels-skylake-core-i7-6700k-a-p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_900_series

[3] https://medium.com/@sentimentron/faceoff-theano-vs-tensorflo...
I'd love to hear your story.
> Someone has to have root at some level right?

In Unix, yes, but there have been systems without a single ultimately-privileged user.

One could imagine a system in which ultimate authority belongs to a 51% share of stockholders, whose keys delegate authority to the board of directors, who delegate authority to the CEO or CTO, who delegates authority on down the line. Each certifying party could revoke (or allow to expire) authority prior to firing a delegee.

> If people know that doing things like this will equal jailtime, I would assume that would stop most people.

What I want to know is how people grow to physical adulthood without realising that this is wrong. One simply doesn't destroy others' property.
Big data to help K-12 personalize learning
Driving in my naked Jeep in a warm summer rain is a delight. Sadly, I doubt Bergen has a lot of warm summer rains.
GaGa is actually an incredibly talented singer and musician.

She just knows the value of heavy handed marketing (after her initial, more natural, career in NYC didn't take off she pivoted... and the rest is history)
Your gadget solution
Crime is anything that someone, with whom the powers of the day are unhappy with, does.
I submitted this article from Finland's national public service broadcaster. A side note:

Finland remains all in on prohibition. Ideas such as harm reduction and decriminalization are relatively slowly approaching a status where they can be discussed in serious political contexts.
That's one of the ideas behind transducers:

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

And they work! It's not stream fusion, but the composed functions being applied to whatever container or stream of values are applied per-value, so (map (comp xf1 xf2)) applied to [1 2 3] applies (xf2 (xf1 1)), (xf2 (xf1 2)), and so on, with similar allocation savings to stream fusion.
I have no quibble with the assertion that advanced degrees do not correlate with better performance, but no evidence there that unions 'created the "for profit" school debt problem'.
One of my clients, a well known fixture in American finance, has been hacked by employees or contractors several times over the past 10 years. These cases have been public and supposedly cost millions (it's so hard to know how accurate the assessed damages in these cases are).

Because they now fear employees and contractors more than external threats it takes 30 tickets to different groups to set up a server. You can't chown a file in a directory you own without a ticket. You can use one of two old text editors. No new IDE's or modern text editors. You can't upgrade language runtimes without corp. approval. It's nuts. Ironically it leads to more attack vectors and it's ground their software dev to a halt.
I'd love to hear a coherent explanation of how homosexuals are trying to "destroy their culture" and "flood them with Muslims."

The vast majority of homosexuals I know have no interest in anything besides being accepted as gay. They don't want to change your culture, they don't even want to force you to embrace them.

And the link with Muslims is especially surprising. Some of the most anti-Muslim people I know are gay precisely because of that religion's draconian and regressive stances on it.

Of course, if your goal is to persuade people that there is a vast conspiracy of everyone else (leftists, gays, minorities) to invade you then the rhetoric makes a lot more sense. Naturally, it's straight out of the fascist playbook.
> Make it open source, and the community will probably maintain it

… or fill the issue tracker with troubleshooting requests, demands that someone else code something they think needs to exist, long rants about whether something should or should not be included, etc. Open source maintenance is far from free.
What does IAMNYL mean? I googled it but I didn't come up with anything
I've been using Windows tablets for 3 years and they've been extremely nice the entire time. Among my collection, I have the original Surface Pro and a Dell Venue 8 Pro which are pretty old.

They're both easily more useful to me than any Apple product I've ever owned. But Apple products are nice if you like walled gardens and option-less, featureless software.

I usually recommend Apple products to home users who have simple needs. That shit would never fly in a business though.
With only 56 somewhat complex rules, you can pronounce things correctly 85% of the time!

http://zompist.com/spell.html
I think their end goal is to make money. And they're not going to do that if people don't like their products.
Not that unusual. It's extremely common for vendors to wine and dine clients/prospectives. And even in contracts you often have quarterly reviews, etc which are at least half as much about getting together for dinner/entertainment as they are about the actual review. It's basic relationship building stuff
I've been happy with Greenwheels as well. They're available at most Dutch railway stations so you can easily travel the last miles to a destination that is hard to reach by public transit. It's also handy that you can tie your Greenwheels subscription to your OV-chipkaart (the national public transport card) so you don't need to carry an extra card to unlock the car.

Btw, Car2go is only available within Amsterdam.
It's more like lack of experience. The wonderful thing about engineering is that most people literally can't imagine how hard it is, and how complicated the systems they rely on are.

All they see is a lightswitch that works and a phone that runs apps and makes calls.

They don't know anything about distributing power across a national power grid while minimising losses and keeping phases synchronised, metallurgy, ceramics, plastics and organic chemistry, industrial injection moulding and machining, data compression and coding, compiler design, radio frequency and microwave circuit design, microprocessor manufacture, automated assembly, adaptive digital signal processing, optoelectronics and display technologies, networking protocols - and so on.

For them it all just works, even if the software is often a bit crap.

99% of the complexity is invisible, so they have no clue it's there - and you can't value something you don't know about.
Cloud Delivered on a USB
> I instantly want to post a link to Guantanamo as a counter argument.

That's not a counter argument, it's the same kind of argument against a different country
Also, the Fremont factory is actually an old GM-Toyota factory.
TIL a grey background (despite the entire content area being white) is a dark theme.
Literal: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

https://www.google.com/search?q=you+keep+using+that+word
> I need univalence for this argument to hold water.

No, you don't. Univalence is the axiom that transporting operations across such equivalences _always_ works. If you're doing equational reasoning directly it doesn't arise.

Furthermore, all you need to do is to establish that the _type operations_ regarding one type respect the equivalence to the other type as an additional step.

As you say "a monoid is a type plus two operations" -- so fine, we can treat the monoid And as the type bool and the dictionary of operations on it, and all this still works out.
Why is there a reference and link to a wikipedia article about a sci-fi novel in the second to last paragraph? Did I miss something? Is this an inside joke?
Yes. This is becoming ever-more-salient as large portions of the programming that airs on multi-national news organizations comprises original content posted to social media and owned by the user that originally authored it. Just in the last month we have Nice, Dallas, and Turkey, where it felt like all the news orgs were doing was reading tweets and playing back 60-second clips that people were posting online.

On the one hand, news orgs probably have a reasonable fair use case there, but on the other, they are profiting off content that the OP owns, and OP is rightly entitled to a portion of that evening's advertising proceeds if their content comprises a substantial part of the programming.

If someone snippeted CNN and played it repeatedly on their own channel as fair use, they'd get pursued hard, be unable to fund the legal battle, and be forced to do whatever CNN said lest a long and ruinous legal battle occur with spotty if any representation for the little guy. It'd a big multi-national law firm that bills at $1k/hr v. an innocent little person who probably doesn't know any legal terms at all and would be lucky to have $10k in savings.

Meanwhile, CNN and other large companies will openly trounce anyone and everyone they can because they understand that only a tiny fraction will actually be in a position to hurt them for it, and they'll try to leave that tiny fraction alone if they can help it. You'll try to sue them for an injustice and for the $20k they owe you and it'll explode into an 8-year, multi-million legal battle. The little guy still gets completely screwed over. Since big companies know this, they take full advantage and effectively, operate under a different set of laws from the rest of us.

The easy way to mitigate this specific problem wrt copyrights is to reform copyright law so that we no longer divert a grossly disproportionate amount of money into content companies and so that they don't file lawsuits that there is no hope of winning, but it doesn't really solve the larger issue, which is that the legal system is only really available and functional for those with the capacity to spend $10 million on lawyers at any given time. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that we're going to resolve that during the lifetime of anyone currently living.
2016: Here’s What’s Next for VCs and Startups
Murray was a legend before meme culture was a thing. Before all of those you listed.

Your youth is showing.
Selective enforcement. This is another tool for going after dissidents and blow-hard foreigners.
His grammar and writing style are bad for a person with such level of access.
Because, I am sure we could have found a mortgage expert in 2007 to assure us that there was no mortgage crisis.

In addition, the concept of federal government offering loans with no independent verification (which we could easily do) as to the value of what they are giving the loan for seems like a good way to create a bubble (see Fannie Mae).

I agree with the author that student loans are good in that it enables people who would otherwise have not been able to afford college to be able to get a degree. However, student loans are an issue that a major constituency in the United States think is an issue (see Bernie Sander's campaign). To dismiss that concern as just due to media scare tactics does not seem reasonable.
You should let it out someday and share it with the community!
You realize people died from bacterial infections before antibiotics, right? Bacterial resistance to antibiotics doesn't make the bacteria more likely to kill us than before.
I guess that's why the saying goes "you need money to make money" and similar ones like "money attracts money".

It seems that at some point after becoming very wealthy your money can produce more money than you can actually spend.

And yea, I agree that being able to make that amount of money in a "single operation" is staggering.

Just the interest/return on investment of that amount in one year would make anyone a millionaire.
That should only be temporary. Assuming there's competition (and it seems that there is - no university has a monopoly), the influx of money allows the industry to grow. The prices should level out over time.
I wonder what's in my bag. I get that little TSA love letter pretty much every time I fly.

The only odd thing I can think of is I have a tiny pair of pliers in one pocket due to an iffy zipper. I also typically put a laptop in there instead of carrying it. Maybe that combo sets something off.
I write here just to be counted. I love Gmane. This is sad news. Thanks Lars for all these years of work.
Oh but surely the images were optimised for computer display in a non-trivial process!
i should have specified "modulo bottom" because i somehow didn't cotton i was talking to someone more interested in pedantry than actual discussion.

that said, constructing an inhabitant of false a _different_ way (when we can already write "someFalse = someFalse") is not particularly interesting, and again doesn't speak to parametricity in any direct way.
So tell me, why is it bad for the industry? Why wasn't it bad when V8 came out and enabled node?

Why is there a different standard you apply to Microsoft's open source efforts? Please, tell me.
I don't think this constitutes bribery. The credit card fees would have to be paid by either the author's company or the vendor. They reached a deal where the vendor would "refund" a portion of the credit card fees based on revenue milestones in the form of dinner.

The author's company's product is social media education. To get their product out, the author's company used vendors to sell the product. The credit card purchase would come from the customer as a transaction to the vendor. Since the vendor was the seller, they would normally be responsible for the credit card fees.

The vendor didn't want to pay the credit card fees, but the author's company didn't either. That's where the impasse came in.
Sorry about that, we haven't officially announced it but it is available when you start the sign up process.

https://start.1password.com

It is $2.99/mo when billed annual ($3.99/mo month to month), includes all of the applications as part of the subscription price.

It is otherwise based on the same technology as Family and Teams options. It's basically Families with only 1 user.
That is one pissed off IT guy.
Portugal late 70's, early 80's in a small town village.

Average salary would be around 300 euros when converted for today's currency

We had just gotten out of a dictatorship.
Sounds like that company is crippled by fear and is slowly dying.
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I think if no-one remembers her dad it's hard to say he's far far more famous.

In fact the OJ case would be his brief flirt with fame. He is rich and powerful but his fame is two note: OJ and his family.
Drug War Fuels Global Lack of Access to Essential Medicines
"I can't imagine how to solve that without a total change of copyright laws"

What?

Sounds more like they are in flagrant violation of existing copyright laws, and deserve to get their head handed to them in court.
VirtualBox and VMWare do very different things than lxc/Docker.

VirtualBox and VMWare, for example, allow you to run Windows on a Mac, or FreeBSD on Linux, or Linux on Windows. lxc/Docker does none of this, it's simply a different technology with a different purpose.
Sure but the bags next to his bag have none of that. Why waste time/energy on his?
_Anathem_ is great. Very slow build up. The interwoven theme of race, religion, time and space makes it well worth the slow construction of the world. Here's a video of him speaking at Google for the book tour http://youtu.be/lnq-2BJwatE
It's not bribery if it's in the contract.
Two things - 1Password has a smoother experience on iOS, and I prefer the one time purchase model vs LastPass is only available as a subscription.

(Without a paid subscription, bookmarklets on mobile still work for free of course. But I found that login flow so cumbersome.)
I expected this to be a way to end constant changing of the contract: the last party to modify a contract treats the other party to a steak dinner immediately after closing.
Pretty sure that was a joke.
It is. It should be nearly gone in 20 years, for other reasons as well.
This happens to me too but I thought I was going crazy!

It's good to know I'm not alone in this. Also, since I don't remember the exact version I'm currently using it feels like I'm always using an old installation and that I ended up opening the wrong version... well that's some therapist money saved right there, thanks!
It might not matter if users like their products, so long as OEMs and corporate / school IT managers like them.
I would also guess they have seen a flight of any talent to jobs at other companies.
Couple of things I found amusing:

First, the article says "The 2016 Top Programming Languages" (emphasis mine), and yet HTML is on the list -- which is not a programming language, but a markup language.

Second, if you decide to ignore this, and see how HTML ranks, and turn off everything but the "Web" types, HTML ranks #8 (behind Java, Python, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, and Go).

OK, I know, I'm easily amused :-D
You could also say that Signal is good because they realized the shortcomings of federation and want to sign their binaries themselves.
The Kindle edition is 99 cents.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=88...
Brainstorming Is Dumb
This news is interesting because with NetSuite's acquisition, it leaves no significant SMB SaaS player for SAP or MSFT to acquire immediately. All eyes are on their next announcement.

Anybody got a few hundred million sitting around and wants to build another SaaS ERP/SCM solution? :)
I got as far as the research. This is not an issue of "library secretary", either. These are state and county offices.

To run for a county office, such as Sheriff, Coroner, Treasurer, Commissioner/Constable, or School Board, as an independent, I would need 5000 verified signatures. To list a party affiliation, I would need about 36000. Based on the experience of the Libertarian Party in 2015, I might face a 60% rejection rate for signatures, meaning I would need to collect 12500, costing roughly $25000.

To keep my party listed as a "qualified party" for the next election, it would need 20% (!) of the votes cast in a statewide race.

The major parties do not need to collect that many signatures, which gives an innate funding advantage for campaigning.

And you might expect that the other major party might not run an opposition candidate for Sheriff in a county where the incumbents are heavily favored every election, but how about allowing the candidate for U.S. Senate to run unopposed? [0] What about three of the seven districts for House of Representatives? [1]

I don't tilt at windmills.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_... : "An independent candidate would have been able to challenge Sessions if at least 44,828 signatures had been submitted by June 3, 2014."

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representativ... : Districts 4 and 7 were completely unopposed; district 5 had only an independent challenger.
I Am Not Your Lawyer. Probably in this case the person is saying while I am a lawyer... I'm not YOUR lawyer. :P
buuut really, what is the cost to record the best roman history lecture in the world and put it on youtube. OR pay an editor to edit together all the best courses into a metacourse/documentary.

what percent of college education is either lecture or textbooks? if curriculum includes video lectures, and can serve millions instead of hundreds per year, the cost should be drastically reduced. lecture portions can be reused from year to year.

now college costs should just be discussion/lab/feedback/etc

by clinging to live lectures, they can limit supply and control price. no matter how you spin it, college is overpriced, compared to how it could be if there were incentive to serve everyone and distribute all the information. its an exclusive club people pay to enter.
I Am Not Your Lawyer, I assume. Thank goodness, since they're providing terrible legal advice.
We use this except with IRC: https://github.com/racker/standupbot

The concept is pretty similar. Not everyone uses it, but I like having it to keep track of my work.
Quantum Computers as Bayesian Networks
Why I'm going to Rio
It could happen, but we already have 30% of people with MRSA colonized in their noses. If we develop a new antibiotic that saves thousands or millions of lives, but the MRSA colonization number climbs to, say, 60%, will that be a net gain? I think so, since in general having MRSA colonized is not problematic, and that number is climbing anyway.