skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks very nice. I signed up to evaluate it better since I am using Kapow now.

I think it is a bit too complex though for the simple case scenarios. I had to set projects and clients and tasks and billing and billable hours and so on. I had to visit so many pages just to set up for a test of one client and one project and in the end I couldn't create an invoice with a price on it.

Whilst the project/client/task/person working/billing per hour tuple provides a very nice model, I think in real life it won't be used as much so no need to enforce it.
Oh give me a break, "we all" are not moving away from Apple. People are pissed off, and rightly so. But no one is running out and ditching all their hardware. We're all sitting around to see what 2017 brings for changes, and if there isn't any significant, we're still going to be buying the new whatever there is. We're after the OS, that's not going to change.
Well, I thought the same about Microsoft. Back in the days, Microsoft had a good track record. And you bought the product, they were the biggest software company, etc.

But late Steve Palmer and especially Nadella changed Microsoft completely. Nowadays, the user is the product, Windows 10 spies on you and send keystrokes, audio, install apps and what not to various IP adresses, you cannot deactivate it, ads in startmenu, pre-installed adware apps, etc. And Snowden revaled that Microsoft was the first company to hand over data (Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com). So the trust in Microsoft is gone.

I hope Apple keeps it good track record.
Yep! Check out this link: http://www.analytics.gatech.edu/curriculum/business-analytic...
I'm not sure pure numbers will be the issue. Whether GT grants 25 or 2500 MS degrees in Analytics is irrelevant; the quality of the graduates with that degree is what matters.

Provided they do not relax their standards, I don't see there being an issue. An MS appeals to professionals who are unlikely to relocate for a program. I'm in a suburb of NYC; if I wanted an MS, I'd have to consider commuting to Princeton or Yale, at an hour and a half to two hours each way, to the much closer NYU or Columbia but with similar travel times once the intersection of mass transit schedules and class times are considered, or to the state school 15 minutes away with a much less prestigious program.

Meanwhile, GT has a prestigious program at a cost comparable to or better than the state school, with no commuting issues. It's the program I'd go into, and I live close to a surfeit of prestigious CS programs! There are plenty of qualified applicants across the country that don't have the option of "drive to your favorite of the 3 nearby Ivies".

If they keep the admissions process and curriculum/evaluation equivalent between online and in-person, then going online greatly expands their applicant pool but doesn't necessarily dilute it. If the program decides to relax their standards to get even more money, then they'll have problems, but that strikes me as being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
The problem with CNN is that they were actually right about the numbers and wrong about how to interpret them.

Almost all of the mainstream polls were about national popular vote, and predicted that Clinton would win it (she did) and within their margin of error (about 2 points lower than they predicted).

The problem is that they construed winning the national popular vote as winning the election, and while they're correlated, one doesn't entail the other.

So while their prediction about popular vote turned out to be correct, their misestimation was localized mostly in a few key regions, which narrowly flipped to Trump.

And thus we find ourselves in the case where CNN pollsters were right and CNN analysts were bad at explaining it (and made lots of untrue inferences).
Or maybe you're just remembering his successful articles and forgetting his lower quality ones?
Where do I find beta testers / early adopters for our software tool?
We've launched our tool www.customerlabs.co what can we do to get early adopters?
While this type of translation is heinously understudied, the opposite problem of controlling the politeness forms of translation is actually an important area of research. For instance Controlling Politeness in Neural Machine Translation via Side Constraints (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/abmayne/publications/sennrich2...) is something that OpenNMT can support.
Please don't get stuck on semantics. When you decide to take a longer route because you think there will be less traffic, you "make a bet". You "make a bet" by deciding to go to college instead of straight into the working world. Anywhere there is a decision to be made with uncertain outcomes, you "make a bet". It doesn't have to be about money, although it often is.
Unattended wires will be sold as scrap.
Yes, I have an OGIO backpack and recently bough a second one for my partner. They are durable (looks like new after 4 years of cycling commute under British weather!), practical and they look nice enough.

It feels like they will last a lifetime.
The defaults he has chosen hints at a distro that ships GPG v1 / classic, which has stranger defaults than GPG v2. IIRC the default ciphers are CAST5, (very slow) compression is on by default, hashes are RIPEMD I believe and so on
Loved the insight, but I don't agree with the conclusions. Maybe Newton was just genius all along, and we have yet to discover the "hugeness" of alchemy and theology.
Worked fine for me, likely something external to the browser is the cause.
I for one am curious how large the image classification neural net is (in MB). I've come across some image classifier (vgg16) in some ML course that was a 500MB file, although the format may have been very inefficient.

If it's a 100MB file, you'd basically have to ship it with the operating system.
>There are countless people who spend their life perusing projects that do not produce anything valuable.

It can't be understated how painful that has to be from their perspective.

I suppose a similar story is where they do produce something of value, but it's incremental in nature. Incremental advancements usually don't receive much recognition.
You're missing that for a very large collection of new insureds, premiums did go down, from Inf to hundreds of dollars. "The ACA" doesn't charge premiums; insurers do. They increase premiums when actuarial values change. The ACA did two big things to change those values:

* It introduced tens of millions of formerly uninsured people to the system; if you were previously uninsured, you're also more likely to be costly to insure (there's a correlation between being stably employed and being healthy, for instance, and the stably employed have always tended to have insurance)

* It required insurers to cover without caps or recission and for policies to have minimal actuarial value to customers, all of which were levers that insurers used to lower premiums in exchange for reduced service to customers.

To believe that ACA red tape was a primary driver for increased premiums, you have to ignore the ratio of money insurers spend on medical costs versus administrative overhead, which is reported annually. It's hard to see how anything in the ACA could have driven up the cost of an doctors visit or an MRI. And yet that's where the expense is growing: to wit, more people are getting more procedures now that they have coverage.
I think it's often useful to provide the mathematics first, then add history when / if it's interesting.

Same applies to physics, imho. There's a lot of interesting historical development behind most topics, but physics is complicated enough as it is, and understanding the current state first is important if you ever hope to understand how it developed historically.
Same degree != same experience. Just like the same course within the same institution can offer different experience depending on the instructor.
Telegram desktop [1] aka "tdesktop" is the official telegram desktop client, it's based on Qt and it's cross platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, OS X). What you have been using must be "Telegram for OS X" [2], a different application entirely, which supports only OS X obviously. IIRC tdesktop didn't support OS X initially.

[1]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
[2]: https://github.com/overtake/telegram
Amazon Apologises to Sushma Swaraj Over Indian Flag-Themed Doormats
I thought that was a camera lens.
This is why I am not leaving Evernote – Medium
>"It wasn't the first issue I ran into being on osx and everyone else using windows."

So Microsoft using outdated and insecure prototocols, as well as propriatery[0] ones is Apple's fault?

It's perfectly fine to say "I don't like Apple/the direction they are taking, so I'm moving to another platform." Use what works best for you. Just don't use petty excuses for it. Sorry, you are baring the brunt of the glut of "Why I'm switching" articles.

[0]Yes, I realise that Apple can also be a bad actor in this department too.
You can also explore the --s2k-* options to add a level of difficulty to hashing the password to protect against brute-forcing. E.g.

--s2k-mode 3
--s2k-digest-algo sha512
--s2k-count 1000000

Default is to use salt + one round of SHA1, which is relatively weak.
simply that there is no real chrome for IOS, or firefox for that matter.
They both are shells around webkit (i.e Safari).

Apple does not allow browsers in the app store if they don't use their own rendering engine.
Harvest and Asana play nice together. Are use Harvest to track my time in Asana. I know you said you tried it, but... it works great for me. The Chrome extension for Harvest works with just about everything.

https://asana.com/apps/harvest
Surely this can't be true?

It isn't because the minimum repayments are so low they never come close to the large interested accrued?
I use to use Plex and really liked it. If I ever got a TV again, that's what I was going to use, but I had no idea it had a 50 character filename search limitation. That's so weird!
So that you can watch your films on your tablet, laptop, whatever.
I was on the Machine Learning track. Already had a CS degree from a prestigious school. I took classes primarily in the ML concentration, although I had to take some courses in theoretical cs and they were similar.

I'd say my peers generally shared my opinion (classes not being very good). Many of them were trying to get into PhD programs so they were focusing on finding research opportunities and didn't care about the quality of classes much. Some struggled but blamed themselves for this rather than the class. (I'd say this was very common amongst the undergrads too).

Of the PhD students I knew, most were discouraged from taking classes altogether, since it took away time from research. This was true even in the first year of their program. The general attitude from that side was that classes were a waste of time.

Many higher-level classes were run as mini-research projects. You'd get some content, then the rest of the class would be forming teams, proposing project ideas, implementing, writing up results and having 'mini conferences'. I think faculty liked this since it was a good way to try out research ideas, recruit potential PhD students, and give their current students extra time to work on their research.

Nothing wrong with that format, of course, but the actual coverage of content was typically superficial. If you weren't already familiar with the area, you had to figure it out on your own as you went along. Also, this is not a class format that translates to online very well.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-tipatom2/x-tipat...

> 10 April 2007

> As feeds move beyond merely announcing new content on somebody's blog and into organizing data, you can easily find situations where you don't want your feed to include all of the available data. This tip shows you how to create an Atom feed that lets users page through it using "next" and "previous" links or button.

[..]

> Creating this functionality in PHP doesn't require any special skills or modules, just a methodical approach.

Nuff said?

edit: why downvote? It'd be trivial for most site to make ALL past items available, without having to offer one huge feed with all those items in it, and any reader would be free to read all those items when subscribing to a feed. There, done.
You think they would've done something after the Volkswagon disaster... this is either extreme ignorance (we don't really know what our code does) or malicious intent (let's hope we don't get caught like them).
I have a feeling this is just the first in a long line of violations that are going to surface due to the VW scandal.
I travel between Sunnyvale (company HQ) and Austin (home) fairly often. It all depends on your priorities of course - but the quality of life in the Bay Area doesn't hold a candle to Austin.
Funnily enough, textbooks are the one kind of book I really don't like to read in a digital format. I find that I'm constantly flipping back and forth to reference different concepts or check a chart. eBooks are painful for that kind of use case.
> accidental window closures

Really? Not just tabs. The danger is you have 5 tabs open, you only want one of them but you accidentally close all of them, now you've lost the window with the tab you wanted.
If your goal is to transfer securely from person to person, 'scp' generally means there's a common server you're accessing - not that you're 'scp'ing directly to the other user's machine. Keeping it secure when "at rest" on the remote server would ensure it's securely transferred between the two end points.
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OT, but you can keep your high-end speakers and get the Sonos CONNECT:AMP. I have it and like it very much.
That's been in chrome for a quite a long time now I believe.
To bad he wasn't just a King

/s
also, i have the impression that alchemy's bad reputation is a bit undeserved. IIRC some alchemists believed matter was made of fundamental components and followed the scientific method well. so, that bet may be less risky than we perceive it now. this only makes pg's point stronger: it'd be the most interesting for a biography of Newton to talk about alchemy.
What? I almost always get 1080p on my laptop when watching Netflix in a browser.
Asymmetric cryptography transforms key distribution problems into key management problems.

Which is just a different problem, not necessarily an easier one, like you say.
Assuming there's movement away from Apple, how much of that movement, if any, can be attributed to more polished macOS-like linux options that are available? Not that Mint, Elementary OS, Ubuntu, etc. are exactly new...
> Secrets that are widely known don't stay secret for long.

From the Carnivore and the big NSA installations in the late 90's to Snowden there were more than 10 years. That may not be "long" on your definition, but isn't something to dismiss.

> We're not in a nightmare phase, we're in the same phase we've always been in.

The current situation is clearly different from those you point. We never had universal surveillance in history, as it only became possible very recently. It's not a "nightmare phase", but it is unprecedentedly and nobody knows where it will lead.

The solution isn't just to use encryption (although yes, using encryption is part of the solution), there's some deep political transformation going on, and any solution will only arrive by mixing technological and social factors.
This seems unlikely to happen for the foreseeable future - if ever. As pixel counts grow the port standards are evolving quickly (both HDMI and DisplayPort).

A machine where the display interface is on the motherboard will have a hard time keeping up with these developments, whereas keeping the interface on the GPU will allow the user to add support for new standards over time (see: HDR, 8K, etc).
Silicon Valley hiring manager here.

From my perspective, unfortunately, Georgia Tech has really diluted the value of their masters in cs degree. They have become a sort of immigration visa-mill with very many India undergrad -> Georgia Tech Masters of very questionable skill level.

Just my experience.
That's exactly what it is. I only hear about this nonsense on HackerNews and related sites. In The Real World, I haven't seen an increase in people abandoning MacOS for Linux or Windows, just the usual dev that claims "I've switched to Linux as my main OS and it's been great", then two weeks later you learn that dev has switched back to Mac.

As far as mobile goes, I've actually seen an increase in people moving back to iOS from Android.
> In adopting the Bernstein algorithm suite and its implementation, implementers
have rejected both the highly brittle and failure-prone current algorithms and
mechanisms and their equally brittle and failure-prone implementations.

Right for the throat.
Command shift T will bring back a window that has been closed (at least of Mac, I'm sure there's some macro on Windows).
But none of that has to do with Newton. Was alchemy or physics the long route? Only Newton knows and he's dead.

Not trying to be dense here, I just don't see the insight. How is what you are saying any different than "you don't know what's going to happen" without Newton attached to it?
That was a very interesting video. Why was the AuviQ withdrawn?
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I'm ready to leave Apple (at least on the laptop side). Almost all my work these days is on some Windows terminal over RDP. But where am I going to go? After years of seeing PC manufacturers churn out crap, I simply don't trust them.

Dell has a nifty XPS 15 update that actually increases the size of the battery by 15%.[1] But my last Dell had annoying coil whine, shoddy construction, and plastic palm rest portions that (unlike aluminum) showed wear spots over time. Do I want to roll that dice again?

[1] The new XPS likely will be a downgrade from my 2013 rMBP. There's no option for a power-efficient high-DPI display. Your choices are 10+ hours with the 1080p, or 5-6 hours with the 4k. But at least it's a path forward.
Because those Thinkpads don't use a single stick of the low-profile RAM that Ultrabooks and MacBooks use. All Intel Ultrabooks have the same issue going on, there's no single low-powered low-profile 32GB RAM on the market. The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is the same way.

It's not an Apple excuse, don't pretend like it is.
That makes a ton of sense. I almost always forget that there is an audience -- and that the audience, because they aren't in participant mode might well be less in their chosen position. Thanks!

[ It still baffles me why people would take on a non-rational position on (say) power generation. It's just engineering and physics. Anyone can look up the math in any library - it doesn't really even change that often! ]
I did a resident MS CSE around the time they started the online program. While for the classes that were also available online they seemed equivalent (usually just recorded versions of the same class), there is one big caveat: most of the courses I took during my MS, or at least most of the most valuable courses I took, were not offered online.

My BS CS was also from GT (several years before), so much of the core course list available online were slightly more rigorous retreads of distributed algorithms, simulation architectures, etc. already covered late in undergrad. The most valuable courses in my MS were special topics courses that, at least at the time, weren't available online, many of which were in other departments as part of the computation + application domain interdisciplinary approach of the program.

That said, the core courses that were also offered online were generally quite good, and a few were exceptionally great. Rich Vuduc's HPC applications course comes to mind.
Also Popcorn Time is piracy...
Another explanation is that robots are replacing low-paid jobs that were marginal cost in a product. I'd expect automating fabrication in the far-east (where wages are low) would fit this description. So the cost savings, and thus productivity gains, are marginal.
> Also, there is no good email client for Linux

Can't comment on the state of graphical email clients. But there's still mutt ...
I didn't use an apple OS until OS X. So, I can't really think a reason why this would be useful. Can somebody throw some light?
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On the other hand, if the cost of a college is "flexible" as in a % of your income, doesn't it just end up in a situation in which higher-paid graduates subsidize the cost of college for lower-paid graduates?
The release doesn't actually state that they violated emissions standards. It just says that they failed to notify the EPA of the presence of software that can alter the vehicle's emissions profile.

Do trucks and SUVs in the US even have emissions standards? I know they're exempt from emissions tests in many states which is part of the reason for their popularity.
NSA Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications
The Dark Path, Or, What If I Don't Want to Quit My Job?
Actually, in that case you'd still see an increase in productivity (e.g. GDP / hours worked) as workforce participation declines while GDP remains static.
Someone asked something similar a while ago: http://blog.kevmod.com/2014/07/the-mill-cpu/

Ivan responded to the post but didn't address the questions about his bio at all, but perhaps he doesn't feel the need to.

For the curious, his name apparently was Mark Rain for some time in the 70s/80s [1] – there are a number of publications under that name.

[1] http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.arch/2012-...
Would be even better if you could have incognito tabs in there as well
If you are a designer, this is absolutely the best thing you can do to sky-rocket your market value over night:

Create a concept design from a popular product and put it on a slick landing page. It shows that you, as a designer, are proactive and think beyond designing standard stuff (like webpages or mobile apps).

Moreover, you are not limited by any client restrictions[1] which hurt your work (and portfolio), you learn 3D modelling if you haven't yet (it's not hard just time consuming), if you are lucky with social news sites you get so much free promo and finally, it's the eye-catcher on any CV.

[1] A classic and recommended post if we talk about clients restricting designers: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
Yes, I've heard all the excuses as to why apple can only offer 16gb. There are xeon laptops with 128gb, so whatever.
It definitely is interesting. I did most of a Master's in CS at a state school ~2013 that offered both thesis and non-thesis options. The non-thesis was newer and more popular for part-time.

Another thing one professor explained to me is that the standards for a Master's thesis are actively changing. You can either do a glorified undergrad senior project (but with you doing all of the work that a small team might do in undergrad) or intense publication-worthy research. The latter was mostly people going forward with a PhD to follow. I definitely went in to the degree with the impression that all Master's students were doing a thesis in the second category, but I think this is a case of the times are changing.
FYI, discussion 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11355742
UI?

Features built into the browser that, currently, you use Google services for, which you wouldn't have to go through them for any more if they're built in?

What if, for example, a browser came out with orders of magnitude better ad-blocking built in? That browser could run Blink, benefiting from Google's engine, but directly undercut their business.

In fact, isn't that exactly what Brave[1] is? A Blink based browser that blocks ads and trackers, and includes their own payments platform for micropayments. I see at least a couple conflicts with Google there.

Or, hell, even just a Blink based browser that defaults to Bing search.

[1]: https://brave.com
Feedly does this, it's what I have used after Reader was shut down.