skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scrolling down to the partnerships, you find things like:

> Institution: SUNY Empire State College (Saratoga Springs, New York)

> Non-traditional provider: The Flatiron School

> Quality assurance entity: American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

and

> Institution: Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts)

> Non-traditional provider: General Electric

> Quality assurance entity: American Council on Education (ACE)

The traditional education institutions are very respected. The non-traditional are also well respected already, just out of reach for the low income students (aside, Flatiron school was the only one to release an audited report of job placement earlier this year - http://www.ibtimes.com/code-boot-camps-fail-obama-unaudited-... ). And lastly, there's that quality assurance entity like ANSI which places like the university of phoenix and the fly by night boot camps would shy away from.
And Windows 8.1 was effectively SP1 there too, which added back the start button and other features.

If there's anything Microsoft is consistent about, it's inconsistency.
I mostly use [comments].
Using lynx (or elinks, in my case) to view HTML email in mutt is the historical solution. I think the desire here is for a reversible transformation. E.g. I can receive an HTML email, view it as Markdown, reply using Markdown, and then send an HTML email in reply.

Unfortunately, I think foreign email clients would mangle the HTML just enough to stop this from working. You'd have to start implementing a tag soup type parser to coax incoming mail into something intelligible.
^This.

I broke into my first mainframe in 1977 because I had to if I wanted to play Colossal Cave Adventure. :)

I learned to blue box because I had to if I wanted to talk to my friends around the world and couldn't afford the phone bill.

I tell people now that if you want to pen test, cool, grab some VMs and go nuts. You might even get a bug bounty or two...
Funnel+Cake+Hack
Yes and no, and it all depends on what the black market consists of, if the laws are actually in line with the will of the vast majority of folks' morals (including those that aren't part of the majority), and things like that.

Do you want to have to report that you gave that teenager down the street $20 to mow your lawn, for example? That can make you an accomplice in tax evasion if the teen doesn't report that $20, and might make you run afoul of labor laws (after all, they probably couldn't work for a landscaping company because of dangerous equipment). You are unwittingly taking part in a black market at that point.

Now, if the data is used to make laws that are actually followable and allows for normal things such as the above to take place (which would make for a great deal of changes, including drug laws), maybe it would be a good thing. It would also need to be open enough for citizens to also track government spending and other things - otherwise, it would just be totalitarian.
It's not anecdotal that support for Linux on some hardware is god awful compared to Windows. If you want a source, I followed this 20-page guide to installing Ubuntu on my SP3 and I still have issues. I had to buy a wired mouse because the Bluetooth drivers are terrible. The networking driver only initiates correctly 50% of the time. I understand that is also anecdotal, but the fact that this guide exists is not ->

http://blog.davidelner.com/dual-booting-ubuntu-14-10-on-the-...
That may be true. And perhaps the same argument could be made for Chinese characters?

Could you elaborate on why the alphabetic system is intrinsically more efficient than Chinese characters in terms of recovering messages from partial loss of texts?
Hopefully this pushes Signal developers to transition from a Chrome app to building a desktop-native client.
Still doesn't mean that there isn't an underlying issue. I'd say hardware if you did a clean install or drivers if you did an upgrade.

Grab something like WhoCrashed and you may be able to find the culprit
So I guess we've moved past the part of the conversatio where we ask if this tracking is ok?
Besides taking a shower, isn't this basically a day in the life of hobbits as described by Tolkien? I've basically done this for a while when I don't have a job, but it's really, really boring to me. I'm not sure what seems missing about it, but maybe it means something's wrong with me if I can't even relax a day.
Best+Cruising+Tips+From+Teenagers+For+Teenagers
I don't understand how your statements aren't a direct logical contradiction. One of two things is true:

1) we are able to predict the effect of external changes to earth's climate.

2) we are not.

In the first case, we can predict climate change and find an effect to change the climate to suit us. In the second case we can do neither. But the idea that we can predict climate change but are unable to predict the effect of deliberate changes doesn't fit in either situation.

So how can you hold this position ? It does not make sense ?

Furthermore, I seriously doubt preppers in Montana are a significant part of the climate change policy makers.
All of them are good enough. There's no best.
>The idea that digitally tampering with bank accounts would not be noticed or reacted to, but softer measures like inflation rate meddling, or stealth measures like doing a currency re-issuance and controlling how hard it is for people to exchange old money, is absurd.

Who said anything about "digitally tampering with bank accounts"? The situation today, where the bulk of transactions are done through large trusted third parties, which act as deputies for state regulatory organs, means that there is no expectation of privacy in most financial transactions, which increases the power of governments (meaning the political majority of countries) to enforce majority-supported laws that restrict voluntary exchange.

It's certainly true that physical cash does not protect against inflation, but the idea this is the only major method by which governments redistribute wealth is false. Taxation is the main way in which governments raise revenues, and destroying privacy increases the ability of governments to tax.

>"In terms of protecting rights, this is one of the worst, least effective ways to do so."

It is the absolute most effective way to protect rights. Furthering financial privacy increases the protection that the politically disenfranchised have against those with political power more than anything else. Money is power, and having privacy in your usage of money means your power is protected.
I found the reddit thread. They gave you a lot of good feedback. I think its ridiculous to dismiss it as "very typically for reddit" when the reasons it went so poorly are extremely relevant to your business...

When you are 2-3x more expensive than a very similar competitor, all the fancy marketing and URL won't sell (much of) your product. The community also gave you marketing advice and suggested you removed phrases that would get you in legal trouble with the FDA. The community also informed you that your closest competitors already have significant partnerships with manufacturers.
> Community college students are not very smart on average, so it's very difficult to teach proper computer science.

Economic standing and intelligence have jack shit to do with each other. Now education is impacted by wealth, but not raw intelligence or capability. I'd wager the majority of CC students are there because they don't have the funds to go to a 4-year school.

Now I'm generally against the government intervention like this, but if they are going to do something, I'd much rather they do it like this rather than dish out money with zero oversight. It's got a fixed cost (facilities + teacher's salaries), can be tailored to the local community, and within months of a student completing a class you'll get feedback on whether it's working.

> And community college professors are generally older and not very fad driven so it's unlikely they will effectively teach the Rails-Mongo-Heroku stack (complete with unsanitized inputs).

I've taught in the past and genuinely enjoy it. If there was a local forum for me to do so I'd be game to do it part time. Throw in a decent amount of $$$ and I'm sure you'll find others as well.
NT 4.0 was gold, I wish they would release a version of W10 (Windows NT 9.0?) which has all the goodies and none of the dreck. That way I could test websites in their two entire web browsers without being marketed Office 365.
Neymar's 14 seconds goal. Fastest Goal of Olympic History
> C3 and C4 refer to different methods of photosynthesis. C4 confers advantages in sub optimal conditions - the most obvious form is growing in conditions of water stress.

It's been a while so I don't have a reference of the top of my head but [0] this is not correct. C4 plants will have better yield in any conditions where C3 plants reach light saturation - which applies to a lot of agricultural regions of central latitude.

[0] edit: Photosynthesis vs Irradiance graph from google images illustrating this: http://aciar.gov.au/files/mn-158/img/Figure_02.2.png
And watch your neighbor do Tai Chi
We can, we're just unwilling to. Moving populations is a political problem, not a physical one. Correctly damming with proper overflow regions is a well-understood problem, and a few countries have dealt with it effectively. Most have simply refused to make the necessary investments.
I get what you're saying, but the human ear has it's limits. Blind A:B testing with CDs vs the higher-resolution SACDs has had mixed results - there are a very few people who can consistently tell the difference, but everyone else might as well be coin-flipping.
I'm guessing you're using Intel graphics for the host system? (please write that article). I can help test to some extent as I have two VT-d capable systems.
Plugging in Kindle opens Calibre in my Ubuntu install.
> my favorite has always been 火雞 (fire chicken) for turkey.

Turkeys are not native to Asia so it had to be added late to the language, which is why it doesn't make much sense.

The problem with Chinese is that when you have a new thing like turkeys you have to either create a new character, which then people have to memorize forever, or you have to string together sort-of related ideas into a compound word that has only some tangential relation to its parts. When you have thousands of words that are only somewhat related to their parts, the parts lose their meaning and become not much more than a really large and complicated alphabet.

Chinese was over-engineered to work great for maybe a few thousand words, but the world keeps getting bigger and bigger and every new thing makes the Chinese language worse.
>So you would claim that these companies do not hold these lists?

Why put words in my mouth, particularly when those words have nothing to do with what I actually wrote?

To address the meat of your conspiracy theory, Facebook and Google and indeed the vast majority of companies in similar positions with similar data collection activities all have very specific, highly defined privacy statements which explicitly rule out selling direct access to personally identifiable information, and all of them promise to give you notice ahead of time should anything change that would materially affect those agreements. I absolutely trust Google and Facebook never to sell my personal information to an advertiser and I am extremely confident that if they ever decided to do such a thing I'd have ample time to opt out.

None of which, by the way, has anything to do with the manner in which the general public misunderstands advertising. The general consensus is that their personal information is currently being sold to the highest bidder, and that's simply factually inaccurate.
Acadia Parish man killed following crash on I-10
The name CNN is quite unfortunate, as it is most often used for convolutional neural networks.
I know the hashicorp stack fairly well as we run packer and terraform to provision our production environment and we've considered rolling out consul.

I'm so glad you're killing a product. My complaint has always been that hashicorp was doing so many different products it was unable to actually deliver any of them at high quality.

Packer is a reliable and trusty piece of tech for us, but terraform (which has so much potential) is also so rough around the edges we've wrapped it in a mess of our own tooling to make it somewhat usable.

I hope you can find a way to focus on one or two things and do them well.
Algorithm Visualizer – Knight's tour problem
We've been using consul as well, it's just fantastic. Comparatively, zookeeper was a pain and didn't do all the things we wanted.
So what you're saying is, "we need a bigger rocket!"

I agree. It's high time we started on near light speed space travel.
I am afraid I am not in the flight for “aerial navigation”. I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the aëronautical Society.

What precisely is Stross talking about other than the engineering and economic realities of our time? No physical law prohibits interstellar travel.

When did I say faster-than-light travel?
Do you mean something interesting related to technology? Or just that your expectation is that HN is for "something interesting" inherently, regardless of subject?

If the criticism here is that this blog post does not directly address the subject of technology, it still has value to me as a software engineer. Mouse is an engineer whose work I look up to because it models a way of having a life that is passionate about technology and passionate about other things too.

I love programming language and software design. I love discovering the way things work. I love thinking about how things can work better. I love working towards and achieving technical elegance. And I love following the community conversations about this stuff. In short, I love everything that Hacker News is typically about. That's why I visit the site on a daily basis.

I follow Mouse's work because she connects those kinds of passions, passions in the domain of software engineering, to other areas of passion. Her work gives me hope about what my life can be like. To me this article says, software engineers can take a day off and indulge something they love, and don't have to worry about falling behind as programmers. This isn't what Mouse is saying explicitly. It's what I conclude from or project onto her blog post. But I don't think it's implausible that her writing would have the same meaning to other HN readers.
Interesting concept, like how code will turn into GPL after a few years. Glad though that MariaDB is and could not be BSL.
Many people try to switch to Mutt thinking it will be like using gmail but in the terminal. It is not.

Mutt is a productivity tool, like vim and emacs, but for email instead of code. You need to invest a lot of time into learning it, refining your configuration, and getting comfortable with its interface. It will originally be as frustrating as giving emacs to a notepad user, but eventually pays off the learning cost in productivity.

Some examples of commands I use all the time:

* shift+D deletes an entire thread. Very useful to delete entire github discussions in one command.

* `t` flags a message, then `;+s` moves the entire flag to another folder

* custom macros. For example, I use `short+C` to move the message under the cursor to folder `foo`. I have 5/6 similar macros for the folders I use most.

GnuPG integration is also a big help (I use it constantly). I'm use many other MUA offer similar shortcuts and configurability, but Mutt is the fastest and most flexible by far. The one thing that I haven't found a good solution for is full text search across multiple folders. I still rely on gmail for that.
Holy cow that's exciting to think about!
Feel free to place a limit order for the price you want instead of taking the liquidity from the HFT.
While we are talking about b2c Stores, why are there no good b2b stores?

I've tried licensing a song for our Promo YouTube Ads, and its frustrating as hell because in most cases even with small Artists your only Option is the contact Page of their Label, which then doesnt reply for days or weeks at a time... Until then i've cut 3 Videos with royalty free music. Why isnt there some aggregator where i could find an estimation for my usecase and start the process from there?
I'm going to throw one thing in here about terraform over boto / etc, it's actually really nice to have a way to put together your own modules. I think they could do a better job with some common libs to make it easier, but overall it's super powerful.
We need cheap matter-energy conversion. Nothing less will provide enough energy for interstellar travel, and cheap matter-energy conversion may not be possible ever. Whether the engine is here or there, the amount of energy needed to launch a properly-radiation-shielded craft is simply obscene.
I've found that PRs against terraform tend to languish for months at a time with no feedback from hashicorp.
I'm a brain damaged user. I switched from Vim to Emacs a few years ago but kept Mutt. But I also tend to (ab)use Emacs like it's Vim. No emacsclient but I still pop in and out of it quickly. .emacs has a lot of lazy loading to keep startup snappy.
Ah thanks, that makes sense now.
Having buildings is definitely not a prerequisite for mapping addresses (when I go mapping I will typically and them before too, but again that is only a minor amount of time compared to actually gathering the data).

Mass mapping buildings is a rather recent phenomenon in OpenStreetMap and you can have a high quality, fully functional map with not a single building outline (as google shows too). Not to mention that we have had a country with full address coverage since ages that only has a small number of buildings mapped (DK).

Now there are certain high detail tasks for which having building outlines make sense: for example adding entrances with addresses, but that is fairly far along on the path of iteratively adding more detail to OSM.
How does civil forfeiture lead to higher insurance premiums? I don't think uniformed highway robbery is really an insurable event.
Tuition is now a useless concept in higher education
Win 7 made me switch permanently. I got tired of the ever slower boot process despite not installing anything.
7 Business Limits on That Million Dollar Invention
That ship would have to be megatonnes of shielding and habitat. Consider that the article describes the entire energy output of North America being used to launch a dinky little probe like New Horizons. We're talking about a dozen orders of magnitude in energy technology needs. This is beyond "cold fusion" and into "cheap matter-energy conversion" like a cheap way to synthesize antimatter or something.
natural disasters, riots, and home invasion are far more realistic and likely threats, funny nobody talks about these, because they happen all the damn time here in the US.
Whoa! I know that one -- it is "Shinagawa". I know this because my hotel was at that train station in Tokyo on a trip in the early 90's, long before signage in English was common in Japan..
Same! Actually I asked the question that led him to point me to this repo :)

We had a conversation later in the hotel lobby where he made a great analogy: running this stuff yourself is going to be like running your own mail server. Its really nice to know how to do it, but at the end of the day unless you are a very large organization, you're most likely going to use a hosted service.

Personally, I'm going to go through with setting up a test kubernetes cluster just so I know what it's made of. Then if I think it's great, maybe .. just maybe I'll give Google's hosted solution a try with a small project to start.
> but I've done more of a decade with C++

So have people at Mozilla (or people anywhere else) and there are still horrible bugs in Firefox or other similarly large projects.

> is too complicated for what you get

If you aren't convinced by arguments that safety is intrinsically valuable for yourself or your customers then another argument is that with safer languages you pay the price upfront (i.e. learning and programming with what seems a more complex language) instead of later spending weeks or months on catching a bug causing crashes.
The first and possibly only settlers will be AIs.

The scientific breakthroughs needed to make an interstellar spaceship are so far away that we must assume they'll be post-singularity tech.
Calibration of Ρ Values for Testing Precise Null Hypotheses (2001)
Yes please! This sounds intriguing. I send plain text only from mutt but including HTML from Markdown via Pandoc would be very cool.
If you don't believe in humanity, you can't believe in any system.

Communism is the purest form of ideals: it assumes people will recognize and do the right thing because it's in their best interest collectively.
Capitalism abstracts over the ideals by offering money and property as incentives. By the nature of abstraction, a lot of the original value is lost and people mistake the incentives for the ideals.
Statism goes further, and whether or not it incentivizes the ideals, it centrally enforces them. But it's so far detached from the original ideals that it's not even enforcing the right things anymore.

So again, in the end, if humanity is incapable of communism then no system will save us.
It is not a secret that Von Neumann's work on Game Theory at RAND corporation in the 50's was precisely commissioned by the US government to answer the first strike question.

Here is a quote from Wikipedia: "In 1950, the first mathematical discussion of the prisoner's dilemma appeared, and an experiment was undertaken by notable mathematicians Merrill M. Flood and Melvin Dresher, as part of the RAND Corporation's investigations into game theory. RAND pursued the studies because of possible applications to global nuclear strategy."

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

And another on RAND corp: "Its most visible contribution may be the doctrine of nuclear deterrence by mutually assured destruction (MAD), developed under the guidance of then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and based upon their work with game theory."

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

A great fun and entertaining book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-William-Poundstone/...
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Thank you for the linked comment. I have rarely seen moderators address users' concerns in more depth – especially if they think such worries are unfounded.
Imho the entropy laws are the real heartbreaker. They're the ones that explain how the universe doomed.
You're probably right about Einstein not suggesting there was a hard physical limit preventing nuclear energy. But I don't think that hard physical limits are a good argument anyway.

There are FTL proposals that do not violate known physics, such as distorting spacetime using some perhaps yet unknown mechanism.

Saying that there are hard limits in physics here, as you did, suggests that research in this direction is not worth our time.

I believe that is misleading.
Why is my curriculum white, male and straight and how do I fix it?
We know what will happen. They will work around it because the root cause of the problem isn't "cash helps drugs".

We should look into the root causes like the vast siphoning money issuance allows which in turn creates poverty which then leads to drugs.

Visa and American Express aren't going into bat for the common good. The latter in particular is a vile company.
Really like the live streaming of Google Analytics at the bottom. :) Now I have an idea how much traffic you receive when you reach the #1 spot on HN on the weekend.