skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, right? I've been running a entrepreneurial business for nearly ten years, and lost my payment processor (still owes me for two months of sales) because they went out of business. I'm trying to get a Patreon to bring me in $800 a month and failing, even though I'm now giving away the products for free to try and scare up quantities of people who can spare a dollar a month.

I consider myself pre-homeless at this point.
I used to leave a file called README on my public ftp directory, which contained only:

cat: README: No such file or directory

I'd occasionally get email from frustrated people who had trouble trying to read the README file, so I'd tell them to simply run "emacs README", and emacs would solve all of their problems. I don't know if my passive aggressive emacs evangelism ever worked, because I never heard back from them.
Intuition can be tuned by the tools of rationality.

Professional poker players infrequently calculate odds consciously, but they have a very strong intuitive sense of probability and game theory. Study and practice allows them to instinctively recognise the expected value of a scenario. Physicists and engineers develop an intuitive understanding of some very complex and counter-intuitive phenomena.
That wording is no less syntactically ambiguous.
A lot of things can be done, actually! First, figure out if you really want to take the course. Why are you taking it? Does taking the course align with the goals most important to your life right now? If not, then this resistance is just your minds' way of telling you not to waste energy on something not that important to you.

If it is something that will help you achieve one of your most precious goals, then think about why you have that goal. Then when it's time to watch the next video, or do the next piece of homework, think of that reason. If you're mildly bored and don't have a compelling reason to keep going, you'll lose focus quickly. If you have that "why," you have a reason to keep making progress even if you're bored or tired.

A support group or even just an individual can also help. Get someone to take the course along with you, and there will be tons of benefits. You'll see that it's possible, you won't want to fall behind on conversations with your friend, and you will enjoy it more. Failing that, at the very least have an accountability partner who can help remind you of why you have this goal, and check up on you. Having someone call you up and ask "did you finish lesson 3 this week like you said you would?" can be a great motivator.

Those are all short-term tips. If you want information on how to increase your willpower overall, I recommend reading Kelly McGonigal's The Willpower Instinct, a very action-oriented scientific look at willpower.
Find one or more people who will take the course along with you and commit to meeting regularly to discuss the class materials. By introducing deadlines and social pressure, it helps to get past the motivation issues.

I wonder when MOOC providers will start providing "study halls" using WebRTC video...
…which really puts the damper on an otherwise thriving slave labor demographic.
It's basically the same as brand vs. no-name products, albeit with larger absolute values. I can buy an Android smartphone that's largely equivalent to an iPhone for half the price, and I can buy most processed food from no-name brands at half the price (or less) than brands. To add insult to injury, at least here in Germany, no-name products are usually produced by the same companies making the brand product, so it's not even a quality compromise (usually they only add some extra flavor to the brand product).
https://mobile.twitter.com/Hiddemhigh/status/769636034749558...
it appears the journalist works for both de volkskrant and al-jazeera. scrollytelling is mad that they haven't got paid twice.
I don't work for the AP so I will continue to capitalize it.
One of the stupidest articles ever written.

Do you know how to read 3 financial statements because this is a well run business that not only is printing money but it has created so much economic value around the world via jobs it has created in other industries.
I'm not sure how much I can help because I didn't setup the RMQ cluster so I don't know the configuration details but I know it is fairly powerful (its also partly why I can't entirely be critical of Auth0 because ZMQ is probably far less expensive infrastructure wise).

I do know we use multiple queues and even exchanges (and I did not know about the one core to queue).

A simple googling shows though folks have achieved far greater throughput[1] than 100k (and by the way this wasn't sustained.. it was spikes).

[1]: https://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal/products/rabbitmq-hits-one-m...
The BOINC client is (afaik) pre-installed on many IBM machines; it's been on both laptops I've been issued. I suspect that IBM is one of the biggest supporters of BOINC.

Disclaimer: IBMer, simply sharing an observation, not talking on behalf of organization, etc.
Reverse engineering is a must in this case. I cannot be accepted that you got an HP printer and now you cannot use generic ink.

I never liked HP but now, no way I will consider to buy HP products at all.
Since they mention airlines: Norwegian (the airline) started it's own bank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Norwegian
Debian GNU/Linux
> you seem to imply that early-stage technologies are only suitable for science projects

Not at all.

If a tech - at any stage - meets business goals, then go for it. Having said that, its fair to say that early stage tech has risks (project being abandoned, etc) that do need to be considered.
I watch standalone lectures, because there's no commitment to keep going. You trade a wider variety of content with less depth in one area.
Is there any legitimate reason to be buying an inkjet versus a laser? I would personally never buy an inkjet again in my life regardless of the brand.
Well put :)
The hardware labs at uni had a couple of ancient (to us -- probably 80s hardware being used in the mid-2000s?) HP logic analyzers with Z80 bus probes.

They turned out to be much more reliable and easier to use than the modern USB pod things also provided which plugged into a Windows box to display the analysis traces.
I tend to simply not have duplicate variable names (with the exception of `err`, which is always treated with special care anyways) so this shadowing behavior doesn't really trip me up any more.
Later models most likely cost less because the technology became more commoditized.
RSUs are taxed as soon as they vest. This means that employees with RSU grants are continuously accumulating illiquid but taxable income based on the company’s current fair market value. This can prove disastrous for employees who have already paid taxes on RSUs whose values have declined precipitously.

I wonder if you could introduce a kind of "Franked RSU" where the company pays the tax obligation at vesting (for certain agreed taxation jurisdictions)?
Mozilla will fix the cross-platform RCE flaw that threatened Tor anonymity
Why would de Volkskrant have the legal ability to grant them permission to redistribute somebody else's code?
This isn't even remotely surprising. in early 2000's work had 5 heavy duty color laser printers from HP to print B&W letters on. All carts stopped working after a certain page count. Even if the color wasn't used it would decrement the counter. We threw out THOUSANDS of full color toner cartridges.
I would love to hear the AJ response to this. I hope they are allowed to make it public.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=aljazeera.com
That is because they have a religious belief in the tenets of capitalism and cannot doubt the proposition that there's a correlation between work and compensation.

When you see that 'wage theft' (nonpayment of earned wages) is well in excess of all criminal theft combined, when you see a class of people compensated in millions or billions for doing nothing, when you try to get entrepreneurial and find it's basically a lottery for trying to attract the money of (a) money, or (b) an underclass of people who simply don't have money to spend on your goods or services, that's when you lose faith in not only the Western implementation of capitalism but even the concept itself.

Which is a shame as it's a darn fine pachinko machine for distributing resources without much human oversight. It's not a social system, but it's a handy mechanism in its place.

Just remember 'the poor choose to be poor' is essentially a religious tenet.
I love ash trees. They are also a "bailout" tree up where people still burn wood in stoves for warmth, as they can pretty much be burnt the day they're cut, they're so dry. I spent at least one winter burning quite a bit of ash because I did not plan ahead.

That said, as a stoic, this line in the article causes me to chuckle a little to myself: "So, if we want the landscape to look the same in the future, we need to value our trees more."

As though valuing something provides a promise that the future will never change. I don't mean to be cruel, but this is the same sort of misunderstanding of the Earth and Universe as we know it that will only ever end in pain and suffering.

Do what you can to stop the emerald bore beetle. My town has managed to keep Dutch elm disease's progress very slow in our town, and now some of our trees are being used to grow disease resistant trees to replant elsewhere. If you are pragmatic and unemotional about things, you can help preserve the things you love for some time, but nothing lasts forever. We would all do well to remember that.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

"""
In an economy, the consumption of Veblen goods is a function of the Veblen effect (goods desired for being over-priced) that is named after the American economist Thorstein Veblen, who first identified conspicuous consumption as a mode of status-seeking in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
"""
9 months, started interfering with day job, quit, worked out the notice month. That was 5 years ago :-)
How many are there with write access?

And how do they protect against spam?
“Ember Is Overwhelming” Excerpt from EmberCamp 2016 Keynote [video]
I'll second that. I was homeless about twenty years ago. It doesn't help you be an effective person in any sense.
Copying front-end code is hardly "stealing".

At best you can call them out for not properly attributing merit where merit is due.
Al Jazeera always had one !
This must be the fault of some tech intern.
Using Google Cloud Vision to anonymise faces on Twitter preserving emotion
I took this about 2 years ago too, and remember a little about the major topics and some random facts about the instructor.

Its hard to guage how it might help with motivation to get started with MOOCS, but I'd say it's more valuable than all the content just to remember for any topic: "don't believe you know it (or waste time passively studying it) unless you test yourself on it" and "use spaced repitition or you will forget it, but think you still know it."
The press release itself reads "Amazon will purchase about 90% of the power generated by the wind farm." so I assume the primary purpose is their data centers.
All the data is searchable for free on https://www.shodan.io
Yes, if you convince a judge that whatever is it you're looking for these people for, has a minimum amount of merit. You don't even need a company. If you're looking to sue someone, you can ask a judge to compel a third party to turn over any information they have that's material to whatever you're suing for. Like names or other identifying information, or other evidence.
So, the music is locked into a dedicated player which could potentially also spread viruses while at it?

And for each album, the music player is duplicated?
Are you seeing any regulatory openings here? We (www.agfunder.com) think that indexing is a much better approach for individual investors looking to get some exposure to an asset class like venture.
I notice that you're simply asking a question. In your comment, you don't imply that one option is better than the other. And yet the two replies (so far) don't attempt to answer the question, but do attempt to argue with you...

Anyway, if anyone knows the answer, I'd like to know as well. And to be clear: I have no opinion about how things should be in this case, I just want to know how they are.
Maybe because the same guy who wrote the article works for both the De Volkskrant and Al-Jazeera?
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My experience is that I don't remember much if I don't commit to the course (and actually, even then I don't remember as much as I'd like!). It really pays off to do the assignments and to pace of the course.

In my opinion, the challenges of self-teaching are to be able to study regularly over a longer period of time, and not only read/watch things but do exercises. Those things are enforced at school, but can be difficult to reproduce in a less constrained setting. For that, the MOOC are quite useful. My only grief is that I usually don't like the videos. I'd be happier with a book.
In a GUI, you can right-click on the file icon and select "Open with another application" from the menu. What's your point?

You criticise point-and-click GUIs for poor composability and programmability. Those are valid criticisms; nobody seems to have figured out how to implement these qualities well in a pure point-and-click interface, and this will perhaps never happen. But these criticisms have nothing to do with directly reflecting the abstractions offered by the operating system. The GUI offers access to the same abstractions; it's manipulating them that is different.

And the Unix command line is not particularly well-designed either. I can already spot a potential bug in the sample you gave: what happens if your list-generating command outputs a file name containing a space? (Don't answer "don't use spaces, then"; it's as valid character as any other.) You probably know how to fix this mistake, but have you thought why you made it in the first place? It is a consequence of one of the poorer choices in the design of Unix: basing IPC on text streams that each program has to parse and serialise on its own.
There's nothing stopping companies from handing out bonuses hat match the tax obligation.
Yes, cartridges fall under the WEEE Directive.

What do you think is the best way to enforce the rules on HP and make this action illegal? Contact the Member State authorities? Feel this should be enforced by the EU instead of national... gah, directives.
They didn't just rip code though. They ripped the entire story...that's gotta go higher than some random intern.
Homer Simpson once consumed poisonous fugu fish. He thought he only had 22 hours left to live. (Fortunately for us, he survived): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Fish,_Two_Fish,_Blowfish,_...

One very well done bit is how quickly Homer progresses through the five stages of grief; it takes him about seven sentences: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701195/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_tr...
I have a fun story about open FTP servers.

When we were undergrad students, a friend and I wondered exactly that same question about FTP servers. So we wrote a script that tested random IPv4 for FTP servers using nmap and then attempted to connect.

To our surprise we found quite a few. Most of them were small or not writable, but at least one of them was writable, and it had hundreds of GB of free space. So we connected to it, and then saw that it had huge data files containing what seemed like random junk.

Then, we tried to ssh to the box, but no ssh server was listening. So we tried to telnet in. That worked but we were prompted:

Enter password:

Ah, too bad, we will never guess what the password is… Mh, let's try "123456" just in case… But then, instead of logging us in or telling us that we entered the wrong password, it simply said:

Re-enter password:

Mh? So we re-entered "123456".

The password has been set.

Haha! The owner must never have set this up. And then we were in. It was a very strange system with a few commands with standard names but non-standard behaviors, and a very minimalistic shell. By poking around and searching the web, we understood that we were actually connected to a surveillance camera and that the big files were probably parts of video.

Poking around more gave us access to other such cameras in the same network and more importantly to a web interface from which we could see the videos streaming live. We saw offices and people doing stuff like taking the garbage out (I don't know why but that is one of the more precise image I can recall ^^). The only distincive thing I remember was a big sign saying "Miami Fitness Club".

After that we never did anything about it as we had other things to do, but I kind of cherish this story as a nice souvenir of my first year at the ENS.
Reporting on the libreboot controversy, in tweets
Do you have some special knowledge to indicate that this was done with permission?

When reprinting it's common to include a 'with permission of' or 'originally published in' or especially 'translated from the original'. I might have missed it, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't there.
Do you suppose the journalist got paid once or twice?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

BTW I do actually enjoy the linked music (allthough I have to admit I'm listening on soundcloud)!
Lincoln Clean Energy owns and operates the wind farm. Amazon is in a long-term contract to purchase 90% of the energy produced. It's open what happens to the remaining 10%. I'd say Lincoln Clean Energy sells those and any energy Amazon doesn't need to the grid.
Yes, but only if distributed via the store, due to AOT compilation.

It wouldn't work for side loading unless doing it via Visual Studio.
As I'm entering the fourth decade of my life, I have actively started avoiding any company that 1) self identifies as a startup, 2) employs less than 50 people, 3) is VC funded in any capacity. It's not because I have anything against them in particular, it's just that my risk profile has been changing together with my age, and I'm not really willing to put in the same crazy hours as 5-10 years ago in return for the right to participate in a de facto lottery.

Many experienced engineers I know feel the same.
I don't think carelessness is the difference between 35 years in prison and a pardon.

Yes, she was less careful and less precise and made more mistakes. She was younger than Snowden, more scared than Snowden, not thinking as straight as Snowden, perhaps even not as smart as Snowden (who appears to really be a genius of some kind). Snowden also had the benefit of learning from and being inspired by her mistakes. But her motivation was the same and 'crime' was more or less the same. And she's stuck in prison being denied medical care she needs, while Snowden is living a more or less free (compared to military prison!) life in exile.

Manning needs a pardon or commutation, she did what she did for us, same as Snowden.
Maybe they didn't understand they didnt have that legal ability...theyre used to work in a particular medium (text) where I'm sure they usually buy exclusivity and re-publish rights.
The Zen of Passive Solar Heating Panel Design (2010)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12501668
The only problem of epson is it sounds like (from the reviews) that they have bad Wireless support which is kind of a must for some people like me who use their phone to print.
HP buys Samsung's $1bn printer business

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37337989

Looks like Samsung won't be making "very nice and cheap black & white laser printers" for much longer.
If you don't need their business, yeah quite appropriate.
There is still Brother. They make nice, inexpensive black and white laser printers.
EDIT: I understand the comparison to books and other creative works. However, many writers don't outright copy someone else's work word for word, they appropriate the tone, style, setting, etc.

The point I was trying to make is that front-end devs are like the creators of Stranger Things. We may not outright copy code character for character on the front-end, but we sure do give a lot of nods to the greatest hits. And the web is a better place for it
True although cost of printing photos on an inkjet is again much higher then getting them printed in a shop.
True, I did eventually get a similar one¹ for my Game Boy Color as well, but it took quite a while before that happened since I didn’t want to ask my parents to buy me something else when they already paid for the Game Boy Color and an AC adapter (which I now realize wasn’t included with the Game Boy Color; they actually had to buy it separately!) that I could use to power it instead. It’s definitely more convenient for kids (and parents!) when rechargeable batteries are already included.

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¹ — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000K4LC
I had that exact problem with a statistic course on udacity. What I ended up doing was committing to spending a certain amount of time (about 2/hr/week) on that course, then made a beeminder goal to charge my credit card if I failed.

It worked in that I stuck with it, but the amount of time I spend on the original course didn't divide by two hours so I did also spend a little bit of time on another course.

/at this point I should clarify I am an unpaid shill for beeminder, not a paid one.
Each Andorid app is obfuscated by ProGurd.

If I'm in the jury and I can easily cut/paste - than that is on you. Obfuscation has to get better in HTML5.
There are now some paid tools that obfuscate CSS and HTML5 variables, not just Base64, and inject that it can run on only one domain.

Did they do any of that?
Yeah that twitter conversation seems to lend credence to the idea that the Dutch paper or the writer redistributed the story and attempted to bring the presentation with it. I would be curious to see the license that scrollytelling uses, as redistribution is such a key functionality of the industry.
probably because the acquisition would not happen at all without the employee retention, and the investors had a mandate to exit for whatever reason.

or management simply hijacked the company.
Except that all the real desktop alternatives are adopting the same sandbox models.

So, just like any technology adoption that comes from above those developers would just shut up and follow along.

Or do you think they would earn any money selling to GNU/Linux users?
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It is more likely they payed to redistribute the story, just not to the presentation company but to the writer or paper.
Wouldn't it be the same difference? They either profit by offsetting costs (selling the energy) or they profit by reducing costs (using the energy). Energy is fungible, right?