skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, don't take it personally. Most of what I wrote there was just pent-up generalized frustration with a lot of published material out there. I regret not sufficiently framing my post within that context.

The authors I really want to hit with this kind of critique are the ones who aren't embracing what you describe here:

> Ultimately, doing some writing over the past few months has taught me that I shouldn't necessarily underestimate people's ability to understand scientific concepts if only I take the time to explain them properly.

There's a troublingly large contingent out there that, as XKCD put it, [communicates badly and then acts smug when it's misunderstood][1], [confused about how communication works][2]. These are the ones I really take issue with: the ones who are pleased when the audience who can absorb their material is small, interpreting it as validation of their own abilities (thinking "I'm one of a few people who can understand this"), instead of a refutation of them.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/169/

[2]: https://xkcd.com/1028/ "Anyone who says that they're great at communicating but 'people are bad at listening' is confused about how communication works."

I particularly apologize for the part about it being pretentious to mention the Cartesian Theatre. While I would cut that in later drafts for being irrelevant (which, like all irrelevant material, confuses the subject), it really doesn't come across as anything more than that, and I was especially projecting my frustrations from other stuff I've read when I characterized it like that.
This is a great way to prevent people from hearing your music... nobody wants to trust your "Album" app to not contain a virus.
That isn't directed at Al-Jazeera though. If they wanted Al-Jazeera to sign up, they would not have started with a DMCA.

This is pure marketing. They go out of their way to explain what features their product has and why it is beneficial to sign up. If they get even just 2 new sign-ups with this article, it has already paid off. The "our service is great!" message is not there to remedy things with Al-Jazeera.
I gave up on inkjet printers a long time ago. Is there any justification for using inkjet over laser for black and white?
There is a twitter post above of the author promoting the AJ story.
Agreed. Having an open FTP server with read-only access is no more problematic than having an open HTTP server.
Welcome to the Dark Net, Where Invisible Wars Are Fought and Hackers Roam Free
I don't think measuring completion is a good metric. I don't see the value in a certificate, so I never buy them. I've taken a lot of courses that I haven't fully completed and still got a lot of value out of them. Sometimes I get bored or busy and don't complete them, sometimes I'm only interested in parts, sometimes I don't want to do a pile of homework on a topic that I'm just looking for a refresher on.

I think the Kahn academy model is a much better one where you complete things in much smaller units and can pick up where you left off, but it doesn't really get into more advanced material.

I see people say there's value in completing the course with others, but I value the flexibility.
They are 100% wrong and should not be encouraged.
There's also Xerox apparently, cousin got a B&W laser[1] with WiFi for 55€. Original toner is around that price, but third party toner with warranty is 20-30€.

[1] http://www.office.xerox.com/printers/laser-printers/phaser-3...
There are ~300,000 Pure-FTPd instances: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Apure-ftpd+port%...

Not sure how to fingerprint Paradise FTP (searching for "Welcome to Paradise" also returned some non-relevant results) but there aren't many that contain "paradise" in their welcome banner.

Shodan also fingerprints lots of other FTP software (check out the "Top Products" section):

https://www.shodan.io/report/WHJBsZqV

ProFTPD is by far the most popular choice at the moment.

Note: Doing a search that uses a filter (ex: "product") requires a free Shodan account. None of the above require paid access, you just need a free account.
CSS Tailor – Automatically Generate CSS from Classes on DOM Elements
Yup. I recall upgrading to an HTC Hero the next year and feeling relieved that I no longer needed to constantly have a usb to headphone dongle on hand.
>Obfuscation has to get better in HTML5

Why? I learned development by looking at the source for sites that interested me.
All nice and good, and where would those developers go, considering that both Google and Microsoft are following similar sandbox approaches?

Those developers can choose between stay in business or go broke, because I doubt GNU/Linux or *BSD users would pay for desktop software as their current Mac OS X customers.
Well, we've been doing this since 2007 at least, likely longer, and haven't detected a single instance of such a behavior. That is a data point.

Also, if you don't want to sound too negative, maybe just leave out "from lack of commitment from the real core team". Your question makes sense without it, and that's what comprises much of the negativity in your comment.
What would you recommend for a wireless link 15 miles where 5.8 GHz is completely swamped with other users? Looking for the most affordable option.
Isn't the entire point of copyright to protect things that people put "out into the world"? Proprietary server-side software is already a trade secret, but creative works that must be published to have any use at all (like books, newspaper articles, and client-side software) is properly protected by copyright.
It's not an entirely new art form. The demoscene [0] has been going strong far longer than most of us have even been coding. So apparently some people _will_ execute interactive art.

Also, you can still listen to their music on soundcloud [1] if you don't want to review the code. It's open source after all, which can't be said for most demos...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene -- Check this video for a neat example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AUpZNq2vSQ

[1] https://soundcloud.com/nemesis-fixx/
compression and encryption often don't play nice with each other. See CRIME and BREACH, for example.
I don't see this as whether or not there is literally a new i created or not, but if you have access to i after the loops last bracket. Here's an example:

for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
do_something(i);
}

// i is still valid which might be
// unexpected and cause a bug

vs. something that would look like this

{
int i;
for (i=0; i<10; i++) {
do_something(i);
}
}

// usage of i at this point would be
// a compiler error

I'd have to come up with a convoluted case, where this would directly cause a bug, but it would be a case where you reuse the variable i, and forget to reinitialize it. Java does the second form, and forces you to declare the variable outside the loop if you want to use it in that context.
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Yeah, I think that if I were trying to learn a new skill, exercises/books are definitely better.

I'm usually listening to things while cleaning, driving, etc, for entertainment rather than maximizing learning. My experience has been that if someone introduces a really novel concept or historical fact in a talk, it will sink in and stick with me for a long time.

I've found a lot of fantastic material in this university's lectures-
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/

I'm working on a search engine to curate a wider range of these, although it's still very much a work in progress-

https://www.findlectures.com/
They would eventually need to do the same dance on Android, ChromeOS and Windows.
It perhaps Texas better than average? 30% seems too round to really be across all areas of the country.
Would you still avoid startups if the hours were not crazy and the salary was the same (or better) as at a non-startup?
How to build testable RDBMS backed Go application
This repo describes how I build testable RDBMS backed Go app. I really, really want to hear how other Gophers are doing!
Yes, HTML/CSS/JS is covered under copyright. Even though you can see the source.
What's with the flag?
London is more expensive than San Francisco for tech startups
You're arguing against a strawman. No one is saying Bluetooth headphones aren't good...there's no need to defend them.

The critique of Apple is that they're only offering Bluetooth headphones. Bluetooth headphones work great on iPhones that have a headphone jack. If Apple introduced these headphones and kept the traditional headphone jack, there'd be no criticism.
Just because code is transmitted to be executed by browsers doesn't mean it's free from copyright or other intellectual property rights.
They are upset that their code has been used in production without their consent. I'd say rightfully so.

Also note that the twitter post is from August 28 and the blog post that was written is from today (September 18)
So it seems that Al Jazeera was not that interested in resolving the issue.
Lesson #1 - It will be hilarious when they'll discover that Al-Jazeera is actually paying a license to them. Just under a different name. (Yes, big international companies have many legal names and subsidiaries and buying departments).

Lesson #2 - Seriously. Do NOT let 20 yo bro-grammers handle the business and marketing.

Noone could care less about your code + The DMCA notice is plain silly. This is exactly how you SHOULD NOT handle business leads and customers.
That's not all that's changed. Today he likely wouldn't even have had the opportunity as he would have been in prison already:

On September 4, 1942, Frank La Salle was indicted in Camden County Criminal Court for the statutory rape of five girls between the ages of 12 and 14. He wasn’t arrested until February 2, 1943, though, and pleaded not guilty to the charges in court the following week. A little over a month later, on March 22, La Salle changed his plea to “non vult,” or no contest, and received a sentence of two and a half to five years in Trenton State Prison. Fourteen months later, on June 18, 1944, La Salle was paroled.

14 months in prison for the statutory rape of 5 12-14 year old girls by a 45-year old man. It's truly unbelievable how such an offence could be treated so lightly at the time.
Actual title: Twice the Bits, Twice the Trouble

Better title: Double the Bits, Double the Trouble

Might seem stupid, but something like that can play a big role in memorability. I don't think we'd all remember "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" by name if it didn't have such a delicious title.
Maybe talk about this among your peer group? That's probably the most up to date and accurate way to find out what you're worth.
I'm not of the opinion it's cheaper either, I just suspect that thinking was a driver behind the decision. I do think it has some merit in terms of anti terror measures though - it just doesn't work against terrorists who happily (in the most literal sense of that word) give their their life just to kill non believers. But these measures were taken against earlier forms of that, I think the gas attack in Tokyo metro was conducted using garbage bins.
I appreciate seeing the concrete examples of people's real resumes, and they're interesting glimpses into somebody else's life that I would have never have experienced, since I'm not a recruiter.

I'd advise plain or simply formatted resumes (unless you're a designer who can apply your specialty in a relevant way to a resume).

At Sun, one of the interns applying to the SunTools desktop user interface group made an interactive GUI version of their resume called ResumeTool!

But now days (at least for software development jobs) isn't it easier to just provide a link to your LinkedIn page and GitHub pages?

LinkedIn has a "View Profile As => Save as PDF" feature. A quick google [1] reveals there are a bunch of tools to convert your LinkedIn profile into a resume, even one from LinkedIn labs [2] (which seems to be offline now, but here's an quora question about it [3]).

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=linkedin+export+profile+as+r...

[2] http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/

[3] https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-useful-tool-for-converting-...
Most likely.
It is sometimes also used with forms as an easy way to detect bots: an extra input with a display:none is used to filter out bots submissions.
Microsoft is #1 on GitHub
Lots pf people have moaned about this problem, but this is a clean description of the situation, the forces that might be creating it, and a clear, simple possible solution.

No doubt the proposed solution has problems of its own, but it is certainly an interesting idea.
I live in the UK and have mixed feelings about the 'opposing benches' design of the British Parliament.

Government ministers and political leaders need to be interrogated regularly. I agree with the article that the 'opposing benches' design can facilitate this more easily than the 'classroom-style' design where leaders may appear out of reach for questioning.

However, the 'opposing benches' design can also encourage a combative, adversarial approach that doesn't always lead to substantive debate. For example, every week the Prime Minister takes questions from the opposition (Prime Minister's Questions or PMQs); because this is televised and often reported in the press and on TV, political leaders are judged by how clever their retorts or jabs are, not on whether they actually have anything substantive to say.

Here is a two-minute video clip of PMQs in session (from last week) to give you flavour of what it's like:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2016/sep/14/jeremy...
Is there a reason that Shutterfly or other similar services don't satisfy those needs? I try not to own things anymore unless I use them frequently (lessons learned after moving twice in Manhattan), and printing color photos definitely isn't a frequent need for me, or I suspect, for most people.
I have been trying to replace Xcode with Emacs, but the biggest problem I don't know how to solve, has been Cocoa/ObjC/clang autocomplete. If I could have that work like Xcode, I could probably switch tomorrow.
I don't think the first two make any revenue, except in terms of data collected.
Key steps to success in web development
I was thinking the same thing, but is SSD to GPU faster than RAM to GPU? In many (not all) cases you buy a tonne of RAM and load your entire dataset into memory once and then iterate over it as necessary.

You also lose the flexibility of doing any sort of data modification or augmentation. One domain where your data usually doesn't fit in RAM is image recognition, but often you want to do things like apply random flips, crops and change hues before training to make the neural net less sensitive to those changes, which you can't really do with this.
I've been an insider in a similar deal. A lot of times it's this, or let the company go through a messy, potentially headline grabbing, bankruptcy. A lot of times in this situation the acquiring company is doing the deal for the talent, and they need to be sure the talent stays around for a while, otherwise the deal would be worthless.
Following your logic books are free to copy too.

Even if you can read the details, the copyright still stands.
You do not need to compile/obfuscate your work in order to have it be protected by copyright.
Taxi's in Rome now accept Bitcoin as payment
haha! I remember when there were blogs who lifted entire Something Awful articles but forgot to change the image links, so SA replaced the files with a big image that just said "STOP STEALING OUR IMAGES!"

If these guys were seriously angry at Al-Jazeera I'm sure they'd have done the same.
They are always coming out with new ad betas.
What kind of bullshit is this?
If they actually legally purchased the software then why the fuck you think they removed all the copyright notices etc? Also why did the Al-Jazeera not respond to any of the allegations?
I have an HP Chromebook 13" that's been pretty good so far. That's an official collaboration with Google being the driving force behind the specs and HP being responsible for the manufacturing, though, so it isn't really comparable to their printer line.
I was saying the original story was a great story, not my little anecdote.
That would be amazing if Amazon released store brand printers with no nonsensical ink policies. They would wreak havoc on the entrenched players. Amazon could pull it off.
Could you try to contact some people on linkedin?
I live in Thailand (but not in a big city). Out here it's because if you find yourself without a home, you can go build one out of bamboo. If you have some friends to help you, it can be done in a week.
I looked into this couple weeks ago; how is the course compared to Mind for Numbers?
I'm eagerly waiting for your "Show HN". :)

By the way, the hardest part IMO would not be accounting for mergers/acquisitions etc., but accounting for the survivorship bias of just forgetting about the companies that were once big but which we don't even remember anymore.
Seems that in a single swipe Amazon would more than double the total USA’s wind generation capacity when this goes into production in 2017. A really fantastic achievement (or am I missing something in the data?).

Total US wind energy in 2015: 73,992 megawatts [1]

Amazon’s Scurry County Texas capacity: 1 million megawatts

[1] http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/7-Charts-That-Sh...

Edit..

From the replies it seems it would be at best ~0.3% of total wind generation capacity in USA.
I need to print out things every so often. Things like official notices to my tenants, concert tickets, forms to be mailed to various government agencies.

I don't own a printer though, I just use the own at work. I'm there five days a week anyway. I also do all my mailing from work, which is more convenient than trying to do it from home on the weekend.
I've had ADD and slow executive function all of my life, along with a few other problems.

I was in denial or at least unsure about it for years. I'd had docs diagnose me with ADD, one who tested me extensively who though ADD was overdiagnosed that said I didn't have it, and had tried natural remedies, attempted to self-treat with caffeine- probably 5-12 cans of soda a day or several cups of coffee- and had a few really bad experiences and reactions with the meds that I tried.

Then I finally went to a psychiatrist that had been recommended to me by my doc and an friend of a friend and took GeneSight tests for genetic markers that indicate problems with different types of medications. I found one for ADD that was recommended and was prescribed that. It was Vyvanse which is amphetamine-based. It is lisdexamfetamine which is basically like a time-released dextroamphetamine. It becomes dextroamphetamine when the body cleaves off the lysine.

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

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

I took Vyvanse and within an hour, I had a lot more energy and felt like I was "on". I didn't have any trouble focusing and it revved up my executive function so I was not thinking as slowly. I felt like it was going to solve all of my problems. However, even though I felt great and helped with some depression I was having also, I had some negative interactions at work. After getting "called into the office" after one of those, I knew I was going to have to do something else. Away from work, though, it was a great medication to be on, and since it was time-released, so I only had to take one in the morning. I still don't think it's a bad med.

I went back to the psychiatrist. She put me on Evekeo. It contains 50% levoamphetamine salts and 50% dextroamphetamine. On it, I can focus on what I'm doing like what I think a normal person does- or maybe better. I still will hear what others are saying and get distracted, but when I want to, and with help of music, I can really focus on my work. I can even focus more that I think that I could when I was younger and ADD wasn't affecting me as much. I still feel a little slower and am considering taking it and a smaller dose of dextroamphetamine. For me, it's a little like the real-world clear pill from Limitless.

I think eventually what I'd like to be on would be a combination of lisdexamfetamine and levoamphetamine (or a time-released version of it). It's possible that the L-lysine of lisdexamfetamine was also having some positive affects: https://www.drugs.com/npc/lysine.html
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Apple does not work in a vacuum: PCs still exist, Android still exists, and things like ChromeOS are competing in certain spaces. Apple is also different from most competitors because they also make money after the device purchase from purchases of app, music, video, ebook, etc.

If the question was just “iPhone or iPhone + MacBook?” there's no doubt they'd prefer the latter but if the question is instead “iPhone or iPhone + Windows PC” I have no doubt they'd throw the Mac under the proverbial bus if it would keep your money from going to a competitor.
My HP Compaq 8510w mobile workstation died two weeks ago. Had it since about 2009 and it has enjoyed at least 10,000 miles in a bicycle pannier. I had to replace a screen hinge a few years back and that's all.

As for their consumer-grade laptops over that same period - having had to repair so many, replace year-old batteries and AC adapters I wouldn't go near them with a barge pole.
It seems to me that the long term value of wind farms is locations with a lot of wind at night, to keep generating electricity when solar systems shuts down for the night. This helps solve the energy storage problem.
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Yes, important for this study.

But, my experience with the broader classification of brain drugs and medical professionals that prescribe them is that "unless it's broke don't ask to fix it, and even then put whatever we tell you into your body and let's see ehat happens."

There are some excellent studies showing modafinil to benefit all doctors when performing while sleep deprived. Modifinil is pretty much as safe and addictive as caffeine. Now, try going into a doctor's office with this info and asking for a script. My experience is that 9 out of 10 times you'll be seen to be displaying addictive behavior.

There are a bunch of drugs that, if properly taken, will do wonders for your mental life. Intunive, selegiline, methylphenidate, to name only a few. But, while it's legal to smoke, drink, watch tv, or eat yourself to death or into depression, acting on your own to take these drugs could land you in jail.

If the US is so gung-ho on personal responsibility, let us take responsibility for our actions then, and let doctors be partners, not parents. In an age where inhanced mental or physical condition make an enormous difference in ones quality of life, stop hamstringing us from taking action so we might better ourselves.
And I'd buy their products from their reputation. I can't imagine they'll redeem themselves from such a long period of reprehensible policies and shoddy products.
I'd like to see study communities built around topics and not specific courses. One of the best ways to stick with something is to have a groups of friends doing it as well (think of gym buddies). The problem with many MOOCs is that the community is only connected to the particular course (even a new version of the same course will have a separate forum), and if you fall behind a bit you end up being on your own (and then many people lose motivation and stop).
That's laser printers
Not sure about "world's first." Here's an album released on Raspberry-Pi Zero from a couple of months back:

"Musician Releases Album as a Live Coding Device on a Raspberry Pi Zero"
https://blog.hackster.io/musician-releases-album-as-a-live-c...
Can't believe after scrolling through that there's no link to the course in the article:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
The big data revolution: Will it help university students graduate?
I'm not surprised, morality changes. Go back in time far enough, and it might not even be considered rape.
We need custom ROMs for printers. Like we have OpenWRT for routers.
DraftKings paid millions to cover shortfalls last weekend