skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What motivates you to send emails 24/7?

Unless you're actively involved in incident response, I find it hard to imagine a scenario that necessitates sending regular email at 3 in the morning.
I think your grasp of art history is a little off, but I'm also assuming that was sarcasm for the sake of it.

Verlaine? Not exactly a good example.
Zero. Nothing works anyway.
Well, a job or education are obviously the best way to do this. University is amazing for this. Sports work well, e.g. finding an amateur football (soccer) league. Most people hang around before and after.

I've had great success in hackspaces. They're a great place to meet geeky, like-minded people. They can be a bit dead in smaller cities though.

Chat to somebody at a language school and see if they meet up and they'd be interested in speaking to a native speaker. This seems counter-intuitive, but it's about growing your friend circle, and ultimately will probably relapse into the country's tongue. Plus, they're way more sympathetic to your situation.
I'm sure there are some wonderful technical solutions involving statistical analysis, measuring velocity (user connects from country A, then 10 minutes later connects from country B; flag the IP address), and so on.

But there's a much simpler solution with no chance of a false positive [0]: Netflix spends a few dollars signing up for each advertised VPN service, then they instantly block any IP address that the VPN service attempts to route them through.

[0] As long as legitimate Netflix customers aren't sharing their connection with the VPN provider.
ad networks won't work, but 'internal' networks will thrive. FB exchange, Google Exchange even Twitter, they make a lot of money since they control the entire RTB stack.
He has said himself -- he says whatever pops into his head, and he's "clearly joking" about anything that is offensive or ridiculous.
Some are, some aren't :-)

Some are just lost if autocomplete in the IDE doesn't enter stuff for them, and the more verbosely the IDE spews, the better, cuz it looks like "work".
i'll take the subtle over the overt any day
The parent didn't mention anything about backwards compatibility. They're saying 2.0 with such a change would be inconsistent with itself. And they're right.
Also http://gregmankiw.blogspot.ca/2016/09/trumponomics.html by Mankiw, a former chair of CEA under Bush.
You don't know anything about the dataset they give you so this wouldn't really work. Its not like they tell you which stocks each row in the dataset correspond to. On top of this you know nothing about the features.
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It's why I always coded in a custom 4GL I used to have that was essentially BASIC with macros, a RAD tool for quick iteration, and synthesis to fast C or C++. Idea being I kept throwing away stuff plus didnt want to do extra work making C reliable. Tool combined with a Cleanroom-style of composition let me rapidy produce or change stuff with production code in popular language as a side effect.

No longer have it but such tools definitely influenced my belief languages must make code easy to iterate, change, and throw away. LISP with types, Design-by-Contract, and incremental compilation is still the champ. Think, type, result in 0.2 seconds, test, rethink, retype, etc. Just keep flowing.

The mainstream stuff needs support for these things.
If you believe the ADA is a net negative, it's good thing that you have no opportunity to ever become disabled then.

> the majority of people who don't have disabilities

Almost 19% of the US' population is disabled in one way or another. That's a lot of folks to discriminate against. But you're right, they're the minority, so what rights should they have to get access to publicly available services? Rip out those ramps, get rid of the parking spaces, close up the isles, and shut down those elevators.

> Netflix doesn't have to caption

Netflix won that appeal, and lost the next. Rather than take it further, they made a deal and added closed captioning. So, yes, if you offer public content, it should be available for everybody. Cost of doing business.

While this content may be nominally free, it's an advertisement for MIT and Harvard classes. As much money as these universities spend on their regular marketing materials, they can afford a few TAs to add captions to their video courses.
I think there is a problem with this notation - it is not self aligning. Meaning that if you hand wrote these you could then easily mis-read the values. It would probably be okay in printed form or if you were using lined paper, using the ruled line as a centre point.
Unfortunately, in the modern Alt-right view, "freedom of speech" means "freedom of everyone agreeing with me and not talking back"
Then, on what grounds was Netflix sued?
As a matter of fact I would like you to reread it and agree with my reading. Thanks.

No.
Just wanted to say that I use indieshuffle a lot, and I love it. I have it open when I'm at work, and I have the app when I'm driving.

I wish the Chrome app was better, or if it had a standalone client wrapped in Electron or something.
It's not an anti-accessibility sentiment, it's anger that the only reasonable thing for these organizations to do is stop giving it away for free.

It's like if an organization is giving away food and then gets sued for not providing a gluten or nut-free option.

Its the sentiment that if some people can't have it, no one should.
C2 is Ward Cunningham's original wiki. Federated wiki is Ward Cunningham's project. There's no "getting taken in" happening here.

(Using this definition of "getting taken in": http://www.yourdictionary.com/get-taken-in )
Some would claim that Obama is a neo-Nazi? I admit, that's a new one. Haven't heard that before.
I've listened to the podcast before, it's mostly about the projects in this github organization: https://github.com/pybee/

One of these projects is the "toga" toolkit, which maps to native toolkits on the platforms it runs on. On iOS, this is done through the FFI (because objective-c uses the same calling convention as C, apparently), on Android it's done by compiling the Python bytecode to JVM bytecode, and calling native Java-level methods on the existing GUI toolkit. (That's what the "voc" project does).

I haven't tried it. To me, it all sounds promising, but some of it might be in early-ish stage.
Well, the right wing stopped hating her for not baking cookies when she baked cookies. Then they started hating her for baking cookies.
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A carmaker sells cars and the buyer has to pay turnover tax/VAT/sales tax (depending on locale).

And the carmaker still has its profits taxed.

Again: Why should the financial industry be better off? The situation is exactly analoguous.
what does the google background and details about the job role there have anything to do with this?
I'm surprised the author didn't include Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right under the math section considering how fundamental linear algebra is to so many domains of computer science.
Adrian Banner's The Calculus Lifesaver is an excellent companion text as well. It's not really a textbook, but it's a great reference to help you alongside it that's written in a way meant to be accessible to introductory students.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8351.html
Do for-credit online courses not meet ADA reqs?
Would love not to have to maintain separate docker-compose config files for development and Kubernetes/Marathon/whatever for staging/production.
I think, a "Data Driven Development" approach would make a lot of implementations easier.

Something as described in this talk:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tb823aqgX_0
Could anyone weigh in on his assessment of Martin Fowler's Refactoring book? I'm considering picking it up - some seem to be of the opinion that its ideas are old news in 2016 and there's not much to learn from it, others say there's still lots of useful information.
created a thread asking just this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12718444
When a country is missing about 60,000,000 women [0], weird stuff comes about to control the ones that remain.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/20137281411...
Vote Green Party in November. That's what I'm doing. If you believe that voting Clinton will change any of this, you're very mistaken.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with GP here. Even if they're ads for MIT and Harvard, they're "good ads". We absolutely don't want to disincentivize them. Forcing these kind of regulations against them is a disservice to society, as it puts more knowledge away.

It'd be great if they were closed captioned, true. But it's already "good enough" that they're public. Giving them even a moment's doubt about the value of putting their knowledge in the public is a bad idea.
I'm in the process of rebuilding the Android and iPhone apps from scratch using React Native. It's coming along really quickly :)
JSX isn't templating. It's representing a virtual dom tree of function calls with a syntax more representative of the resulting markup.
Stumped. Not sure why that would be happening.
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Accepting what you said, there is still one pattern that's helpful - writing code that's easy to rip out later. It's covered in the article as well:

[...] The best quality of a Design today is how well it can be undesigned. [...]
Do I now?

Exactly what am I afraid of?
There are indeed proper solutions. Bridges need to withstand certain weather conditions, skyscrapers need to sway in a certain way, and software systems need to operate with certain requirements like transactions per second, latency limits, memory bounds, etc. Saying proper solutions don't exist is just an excuse for hackers to ship broken products.

If you consistently can't ship proper solutions then either your design process is broken or the problem is between the chair and the keyboard. There is no myth here.
The main reason is because no one wants to publish technical or "methods" type papers where they assess the technology. There is usually one or two initial big papers introducing the technology that makes a big splash. No one subsequently will want to assess it or improve much on it because it won't publish well and you likely will not get cited for it anyways.
Going forward I will upvote almost anything that you summarize that I see. Reading it and the responding comments will be a great time saver.
The lawyers just want the ADA fees from institutions with deep pockets. It's not about these universities deliberately refusing to accommodate the hearing impaired. I think they would, if a serious student needed that assistance.
I think almost every graduate student has dreamt at some point about doing academia start-up style. The question is a) can you get funding and b) can you get published if you do and you don't have super star scientists on board?
Just do a google search for the title, and you should be able to read the full article for free.
> It seems that the biggest trouble that people have using Caddy in production is that there aren't official packages for installing/updating Caddy.

Indeed. The closest thing is GetCaddy[1] which is far from ideal.

I think if nginx were to get similarly simple Let's Encrypt integration, the case for using Caddy would become very niche.

nginx is already easy to use and configure, and the only reason I recently switched to Caddy for my personal site, and a couple of smaller clients, was the time saved during server setup.

[1] https://getcaddy.com
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There've been some really good technical answers, I'm going to address the conceptual.

The Internet is a set of interconnected networks. These are "internetworked" together.

BGP is the protocol, border gateway protocol, which lets those individual networks know how to find one another.

The individual networks are known as "autonomous systems". This is a single uniform zone of autonomous control, under a single authority (more-or-less -- there are exceptions to everything). An Autonomous System (AS) is identified by an Autonomous System Number (ASN). It's comprised of a number of contiguous network blocks (go look up The CIDR Report if you want to see these). And it finds its neighbours and peers by way of BGP, as previously noted.

I'll second the recommendation for Halabi's book, which remains the definitive text.

Good question, and though this isn't something that turns up every day, it's what's underlying your use of the Net.
Disavowing Thiel for being gay would be the opposite of what I am asking for.

"Supporting bigotry" and "gay" are not interchangeable moral categories.
>If you believe the ADA is a net negative,

I originally didn't word that clear enough to avoid misinterpretation. The "net negative" was specifically about the free education videos and not about all ADA lawsuits in general. I added the "[about the free learning videos]" to make that reference clearer.

>Netflix won that appeal, and lost the next.

I see no cites that says Netflix lost another appeal to NAD after April 2015.
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It's a public political act. I'm asking Graham to do the same thing—publicly express an opinion.
Can you provide an example that could be misread?

I think its quite easy to judge whether a downwards accent starts at the top of the line or at the middle, similarly for the upwards accent if it starts at the middle or at the bottom.
It should be: foot dup shoot shoot
Reading this from the Forbes article: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3143273/Mass-Fing...

Relevant bits start at page 5 (III - LEGAL DISCUSSION).

Compelling a person to provide his or her fingerprint does not
implicate, let alone violate, the Fifth Amendment. "[B]oth
federal and state courts have usually held that [the Fifth
Amendment] offers no protection against compulsion to submit
to fingerprinting."

Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757, 764 (1966).

That is so because the Fifth Amenmendment privilege against self-
incrimination only prevents the use against an accused of
testimonial or communicative evidence obtained from him.

and yet here they are as a matter of fact seeking "communicative evidence".
It's still extremely relevant and useful. Once you've read it cover-to-cover, it remains useful as a reference. I would also recommend Michael Feathers "Working with Legacy Code".
Sure, why not? If you're able to connect the memory units (? don't know the technical term for this) together into the right topologies, you can do very fast parallel computations.
Happy to a see this trending on HN.
For fun, I have designed a font like that once. Each hex digit was 4x4 grid, and there were (visually distinct and symmetric if possible) patterns of 0-15 filled dots.

I also thought about an extension for having a symbol for each byte value in 16x16 grid. The lower half byte would determine a 4x4 pattern, which would be repeated over the 16x16 grid according to the pattern corresponding to the higher half byte.
Great project. How do you make sure the other blogs give people who've paid $1 feedback?
Would (a) not be

a. Cache files are added to when _something causes a request for_ IPFS content

The distinction being that "something" is not always a direct action from the user.

If content on IPFS (ie a web page?) can reference and load content from other addresses (assumption) then could someone end up in the situation where they are "hosting" (from the cache) something they would not expect to be? (until the garbage collection clears it).

If this seems far fetched, A submission to HN the other day seemed to surprise a few people[1] as it made a http request to a adult website to check if they had an active session (but did not display any content).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692389
How exactly are they perpetrating an unjust or prejudicial treatment of the differently abled on the basis of them being differently abled?
Honestly, the real problem with the "decentralized web" isn't data storage or bandwidth, it's developers. Getting users to "pay" for storage and bandwidth is fairly simple, as they're already used to owning devices and paying for internet connectivity.

The real problem is that developers who actually build the decentralized applications need to be paid somehow. How is that going to be organized? How does the money flow?
Simple, really: they earn the majority of that $1 for providing feedback :)

To build on that, for most of these blogs this is the first time they're earning any mentionable revenue from running their websites. Not only is it making their lives easier -- it's actually rewarding them for their passion yada yada.
I was being facetious about them calling you, but somebody has to make a start.

> they had the opportunity to do the right thing, and instead they did the easy thing, which was to take it away.

Nope, by providing it for free they definitely were adding. As you will see when they take it offline, it was completely additional.

EDIT: I see you were talking about UC Berkley, I though "they" referred to Harvard and M.I.T, my mistake. Yeah, they took it away, but lawsuits have that effect. I doubt the plaintiffs would have settled for "we'll crowdsource the captions" :)

> They should start with an inclusive perspective that eliminates the need for lawsuits

IDK. It's taken millennia to get to where we are. Improvement isn't an option? A campaign to crowdsource the close captions might have been far more effective and definitely less mean-spirited than a lawsuit.

The all-or-nothing approach isn't practical and will likely result in nothing.
Stupid racist white males!
I'd say http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Trafficking-in-human-bei... but they point to the local police department on their contact page http://www.interpol.int/Contact-INTERPOL
My ISP would certainly love if my whole local area (building/street/district/whatever) only fetched each unique piece of data once through their network and then distributed it locally via mesh networks. It's just that they can't make it happen by themselves. It needs to be supported by network protocols, which need support from content providers and content consumers as well, so it goes way beyond the reach of ISPs.
Except Chase now wants to charge me $12/Mo for a freaking checking account. Their nickel and diming of fees has gotten beyond ridiculous.
> a disservice to society

A disservice to society is treating some people who, through no fault of their own, as worth less than everyone else.

> Giving them even a moment's doubt about the value of putting their knowledge in the public is a bad idea.

So you'll allow them to hold their data hostage to get special favors and exceptions from federal law? Where do you draw the line then?

They already provide wheelchair ramps, braille (and low vision) compatible signs, ARIA tags on their websites, door openers, all for free for anybody who comes to their campus; what makes their videos exempt?

That they have gotten away this long is them not paying attention to the laws; these lawsuits are simply an attempt to get them to follow the laws in the country they live and work in.
On the other hand, look at the dating "markets" in China, which stemmed from the one child policy. It's certainly interesting to see how different countries handle the same problem (more men than women). In China women have gotten a lot more "negotiating power" in that women can be choosier and pick from the men with the most money/car/house.
Kompose [1] might be the answer for you.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kompose
tldr - novel encryption method allows for sharing of data sets and better machine learning models. Aggregation of models into a portfolio offered as a hedge fund.

Found this company interesting, read a bunch of blogs from them and tweetstormed: https://twitter.com/Royal_Arse/status/787725301908242432
I have no problem calling politician X or Y or Z an idiot but I'd never tell someone what political party they should vote for.

If you've ever volunteered at a polling station there are some people who are so, well, let's say sheltered they will actually ask the volunteers "Who am I supposed to vote for?".

Just vote.
That's quite an argument to engage in only a line. First, I say, except for logical truths every "truth" is subjective, and thus does not stand by itself but rather stands within context of the subject that holds it (i.e. bias). Second, personally I think this is so rare as to be almost always a non-issue. Everyone has an agenda, and one's argument can and should be evaluated accordingly.
It makes for an interesting story, isn't that enough?
I was assuming film geek is someone that likes unconventional, non-mainstream films rather than an videophile. I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but as a self-identified film geek audio/video quality is low on my list of priorities when watching a film (as long as it's at least DVD quality of course.)
FWIW, I read a lot and while I often find it difficult to "recall on demand" particular things I've read, I have often experienced that I'll recall what I read in a relevant situation. I first experienced this when I did engineering calculus in college which covered a lot of (for me) obscure parts of calculus. And frankly I couldn't recall much of it at all, but when I took electromagnetic field theory and needed it to answer a question, it would bubble up to the surface.

That experience lead me to keep reading interesting things even if I couldn't recall them a week later on the assumption that when the need arose, if it was relevant, my brain might somehow surface the information for me.
He can dry his tears with the $25 I pay for Pinboard.
Not a fan of solely using fingerprints for authentication. Good systems allow you to rotate keys. I only got 10 fingerprints.
But that's the point -- we know they have the capacity going into the houses, they just don't currently have the actual connection.

> Hooking up an 25A/380V plug shouldn't be a big deal.

For a forum that's obsessed with A/B testing the colour of eg the signup button it's odd to see people saying this. Of course it's not hard, but it is friction, and people avoid friction. If we want people to take up electric vehicles (and in the UK, particularly London, we really do to undo some of the catastrophic decisions around promoting diesel) we want to make electric vehicles easy to own.
To be honest, as someone who literally runs a chat room for people who self-identify as social justice warriors, so will I. Doesn't mean we can't improve. Though this is off-topic for the discussion at hand, so let's get back to it?
Okay. So your argument is if a service is provided for free and there is no commercial gain for the provider, it should be exempt from accessibility requirements. Furthermore, you argue free online courses satisfy these two tests and thus should be exempt from accessibility requirements.

There are several lines of attack on this argument. The first is against your contention that these institutions enjoy no commercial gain. There are clear PR gains from offering these courses, both through engendering goodwill and increasing prestige. I am not saying these courses are offered only for PR reasons, but it is difficult to deny their effect.

The second line of attack is against your belief that free goods & services should not be subject to accessibility requirements. You use the example of a soup kitchen. Here I will digress for a moment and say I believe analogies are an exceptionally poor form of argument in civil rights contexts, which operate on abstract principles such as the value of equality. Thus an emotional appeal to our intuition about what is mean-spirited is unlikely to be useful. Returning to the argument at hand, we can question what is special about a free good or service which enables its exemption from accessibility requirements while remaining consistent with our principles of equality. So, I pass the ball back to you - what is your answer for this question?