skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Sublime Text one guy..?
I second this, although I am not finished with it, I can say it is a very interesting read. Thanks for the link to the author's site which has lecture notes, I didn't know this existed. The lecture notes are easy going an have a good sense of humor, such as the following:

"It's a shame that, after proving his Completeness Theorem, Gödel never really did anything else of note. [Pause for comic effect] "

Cheers.
I just appreciate that i learned something from someone named Poindexter.
Traditionally, there was no uppercase and lowercase. These were actually just stylistic variations of the same letters. First, there were majuscules (uppercase only), then came minuscules (lower case). Following another trend of highlighting certain letters, e.g., the first in a sentence, for example in red ink, eventually majuscules were used for this purpose. Thus, uppercase and lowercase.

Edit: "u" was another stylistic variation of "v" in minuscule alphabets. So the use of both of them side by side is rather an anachronism as it combines forms of two separate eras.

Edit: Regarding the long form of "s", this is also an important part of the ligature "ß". There's still an ongoing discussion, whether it is for "ſs" (ss) or "ſʒ" (sz), and, if "ß" should be split into "SS" or "SZ" in German uppercase writing. (While entity escaping suggests "szlig", some sources and old typographic forms indicate that it may have been "ſs" originally.)
They don't say that the drives are all destroyed by the external parties. And even if they are, I could imagine that proper recycling is easier if you have the full drives and not a shredded mixture of all the materials in it.
*whose (i'm so sorry (for being off-topic))
Ask HN: How do you feel about news citing HN comments in stories?
Recently it has been noticed that more and more HN comments and threads have been cited within news publications.
Does this trend change the way that you comment within HN?
Does the anonymous nature of some members of the community affect the viability of HN as a news source?
Just 'wealth' take into account the value of the commons? Or just private resources?
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Looking at the Namecheap TOS[1], it says they can terminate you at any time.

[1]https://www.namecheap.com/legal/domains/registration-agreeme...
Is it true that having one set of usernames and passwords makes it easier to crack a set from another website?

Does every crack, or leak, of usernames and passwords make it slightly easier to crack all other databases?

because some people still use the same password for multiple accounts.
It also depends on how long you want the data to be safe. So if you are storing user data you probably don't want to release drives containing encrypted user data as you don't long they wanted that data to remain secret for.

Imagine that your user was Coca-cola and they uploaded their recipe. They wouldn't be happy if in 100 years the encryption was cracked.

Far fetched, maybe slightly but a real consideration.
roaming providers will be able to apply a 'fair use policy' to prevent abusive use of roaming. This would include using roaming services for purposes other than periodic travel

So very much a partial solution. In particular, it's no good for someone who moves long-term or, say, someone studying in another country. Simply changing phone numbers with a bunch of services is a serious pain in the ass even if they all consider the new number acceptable.

As an American currently living in Germany, I've run in to this kind of problem myself. My mobile banking app, for example wants to send an SMS for verification because it thinks connecting from an non-US IP address is suspicious, but I can't give it a non-US phone number to do that with. Providing a different option for 2FA would be a big help.
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In the context of America, you are certainly correct. Anglican is a good example!
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In some sense, yes. ArkyBeagle and my implied argument is that the distinction between capital and land is a useful one. (And that always talking about capital+land is confusing matters.)

You can of course express the original observation in Marxist terms as well: it's not just any capital owners that are getting a bigger slice of the pie, but especially land owners.

Thanks to the existence of market prices, we can even abstract away from the specific owners and say that the factors of production themselves get different slices of the pie.

That works because even when some piece of capital is bought and sold, the new owner gets roughly the same amount of return on them as the old one. (If it wasn't so, we would classify whatever the new owner is doing differently as having input their own labour into the process.)
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"A phone number is nothing you can just keep."

In the US, you certainly can keep a phone number. You can take it from one telecom service provider to another. But you do indeed have to keep paying your bill to maintain this ability.
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There is a great podcast you might like on the subject: The History of English Podcast

https://history-podcasts.com/history-of-english-language-pod...
It's the returns to land, not capital in general. See eg http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/02/inequali... and others you can find when looking for "Picketty land".
Physicists have been taking jobs as software engineers since the 90s. Career-wise, physics is the comparative literature of the exact sciences.
I believe so, the PSReadLine module has been included in PS since v3 IIRC
That didn't work very well for Cell.
I really like Introduction To Statistical Learning with Applications in R, by Daniela Witten, Gareth James, Robert Tibshirani, and Trevor Hastie.

It's the easiest book I've found to get into machine learning without any formal statistics training.
- Taxes are largely avoidable by those with sufficient wealth.

- Taxes reduce economic development by those who control capital.

- Taxes reduce charitable giving, especially by those in the upper middle class.

- Charity doesn't require the implication of violence for noncompliance.

- Charity encourages more direct management and oversight by those who give.

I would also argue that "No democratic control" is not true for charity, but rather that control is biased in favor of those who control capital.

> I welcome everyone to add to both lists. From my comment history it should be pretty clear that I'm not a fan of hoping that those with money are in a charitable mood, but I know there's a strong faction with an opposing view of the world, which could help balancing such a list.

Note that my suggestions are not accusatory, but in the spirit of this statement.
This presupposes that modification of a copy of a copyrighted work that one lawfully owns is, in itself (even without subsequent distribution), an act restricted by copyright. I contest this assertion.

Even if it were the case, the permissions granted by the AGPL are not mutually exclusive with any other set of permissions. Dual licencing, for example, is a common practice. Thus, I'd argue one can take advantage of provisions of the AGPL permitting modification, but not rely on it, but instead on the provisions of copyright law itself, to actually execute the software. The AGPL is not a contract, it is a copyright licence; as such, the set of actions you can take for an AGPL-licenced piece of software is by definition a strict superset of the set of actions you can take for "all rights reserved" software.
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>Is that really a benefit or Enron-ing yourself?

I read it as sarcasm. ;)
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Creole languages have a very simplified grammar compared to their parent languages.

It all points to the case that English is actually a creole language.
And it's free online http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20First%20Printing.p...
You don't own the work, the copyright holder does.
I don't understand the decap network: why not go something more classical 10n, 0.1u and 4.7u, i.e. just a cap for each frequency range?
Added as a reply to my earlier comment :)
interesting how much ȝ resembles the arabic "ghayn" غ, which is the same sound.
Ask HN: Where can a beginner learn c# in a mooc/videos?
I'm interested in learning c# in a series of videos but I am having difficulty finding a reputable source for this type of material.

I'm hoping experienced developers here can point me in the appropriate direction and if you've time share some insights about the viability of c# in industry (is it a valuable pursuit?).
SSD isn't quite ready for backup use cases (and certainly wasn't when Glacier was built a few years ago).

However, is 2017, so we can say for sure that the extrapolation to 2016 in the linked article from 2010 was pretty good. It is too optimistic by a factor of ~2 in density, and ~10x in cost, but is spot-on even compared to most predictions from a year or two ago.

Since any whacko can claim they made a prediction in 2010, I double checked:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100322200343/http://www.storage...

Thanks for sharing the link!
I am really disappointed by my Masters program online courses because of the quality of the low cost online courses available on the web. I pay 3000 dollars a course for a professor reading slides and forced discussion. On the other side I have paid 27$ for 70 hours of very high quality content.

Professors in universities are not primarily educators. Many are contract or research focused. Teaching is their secondary job. Online courses have instructors who are designing courses and highly invested in the course quality. I think we need some pure educators in universities, otherwise they're going to get burnt when the online courses figure out accreditation.
The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau. Not CS, more SW dev, but it is fairly new and I thought it was very good: https://henrikwarne.com/2017/01/15/book-review-the-effective...
Yeah, the title (and contents) of the story are total clickbait, but they did helpfully attach the full contents of the FOIA dump. As you point out, there is ambiguity (which is why I used a lot of qualifiers :), but seeing the internal communications around the issue is interesting.
This book is highly overrated. Algorithms by Sedgewick (http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/) is a much better book for learning and understanding algorithms. Skienas book is a simple collection of (sometimes very exotic) algorithms. It won't teach you anything, it will only tell you what exists.
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Please note, this is for a Square Kilometer Array pathfinder (the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, ASKAP), not the Square Kilometer Array. Construction hasn't even begun on the latter, AFAIK.
Totally agreed, I learned Ian's secure knot 10 or so years ago, and not only do my shoes never come undone, but I've also taught a whole pile of people it as well!
I didn't participate in any gambling or do business with somebody whose business includes gambling to my knowledge. I barely used the account at all after initially setting it up when building something for a client (an entirely non-shady company that you've probably heard of) that used their API.

They said this:

Unfortunately a manual review has determined that you are ineligible to use the Coinbase platform to purchase Bitcoin. We’re sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

And when asked why, they said this:

Sadly, I don’t have any information before me to answer as to why such a decision was taken, but this decision is final.

The only thing I can think of that I did that might have been suspicious was to access the service from outside the US and switch Authy to a non-US phone number after previously using a US phone number.
GitHub adds value. They have a few engineering issues to solve given the negative attention such a popular code versioning system attracts. Although there are some outages due to this condition, the value added to our organization far outweighs these minor inconveniences.
Reading GEB always makes me feel like such a philistine.
Is this at all checked out against any fair housing laws?
> Skienas book is a simple collection of (sometimes very exotic) algorithms

It has the same material as Sedgewick, doesn't it?
Wow. I can hardly believe what I'm looking at. We're so used to seeing one "bullet train" at a time, and even that is held as a lofty aspiration. Some day, maybe, my country might have one too.

That Chinese train yard picture is so serious. Once upon a time, the Dow Jones industrial average was a composite metric designed to roughly characterize the rail industry, including steel production, machining and manufacture, real estate, and use. The health of that industry was found to be predictive of the health of the entire country, and although the DJIA shifted from rail, it is still predictive of nationwide economic health.

China, in my eyes, just proved how far ahead they are - and my jaw is on the floor. Those trains represent so much. It's not merely that they exist - and all of the economic activity inherent in making them exist - but now that they exist, they are an engine of productivity. All the people who can move now...
Well, that setup offers a personal "cloud", not just mail. And the focus is more on "independent" than "secure".

I wouldn't worry too much about running many services. They all run as their own unprivileged users. (Of course chroots or even jails/containers would be better.)
I'm having a hard time understanding this comment. Are you saying that GDP growth of Victorian Britain == GDP growth of present China? If so, that is not the point I'm making at all. Income inequality is what I'm more concerned with: you can have spectacular economic growth and the gains can still be restricted to a small percentage of the population.
Um, yes. And?
I think that I too am going through this phase right now. I am just stepping into the professional world and feel the burden of responsibilities overwhelming my mind. I have to earn money, more than what I need so as to support my family. I am 21 right now, but time feels to be slipping away at an exceeding pace. The job that I will be starting is not what I wished for but is still fine. I want to look for another job but it's very difficult. I am from India and it's quite competitive here. Don't know what to do.
Also dough, duff, dog, and dick, are all the same word (when used in traditional British cooking)
Wearing multiple hats is for the partners/owners. Startups don't hire generalist to do anything. I worked at Zomato's NEXTABLE (reservation software on the iPad) as the iOS dev along with two interns. I used to do some Nodejs and messed around in Java in addition to having done marketing and financial modeling as a real estate developer. Still - I was hired to work on the app, not server-side, not marketing nor making phone calls.

Pick something you like and get awesome at it and iterate from there.
One thing I didn't see in the connector is ethernet. I've been playing with the idea of building a small cluster and having all machines neatly stacked in a backplane that could act as an ethernet switch (maybe a KVM for HDMI/USB) instead of screwed together with board spacers and cables running around the setup would be awesome.
Are you on a retina screen or what? Great catch.
In some sense it is a profit sharing strategy. The owners will still have strategic spending goals for profits (growth, R&D, acquisition etc). Also, depending on how long the company has been around, the owners may also have to pay down debts taken out to start/grow the company.

That must be balanced against ensuring employees are adequately compensated vs the local market expectations.
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Stuff in native code (for example, XOR'd keys) is also marginally more difficult to access. It won't protect you from someone actively attacking your app, but it makes you less likely to get hit by people running automated scraping on apps for keys.

At the end of the day it's all security by obscurity and the real answer is proxying calls or TVMs to limit what individual keys can do, but it doesn't hurt not to be the lowest hanging fruit either.
I always wonder if people who regard safety standards as a terrible imposition by "a small body of bureaucrats" have any experience of work environments that don't just consist of meetings and sitting in front of a computer?
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As far as I know the questions are in accordance with fair housing laws.
Currently in China and frequently using the train system here.

I really wish something like this could happen in a country as big as the US. What's stopping them? Politicians? Land rights? Lack of resources?
These people deserve a very, very special income tax.
You're missing out on the MiFit.
Ask HN: Which smart watch has the best metrics available?
I have an idea for a smart watch app that I'd like to develop but first want to capture biometrics from myself for testing the idea. I looked into some development APIs for some smart watches but was a little disappointed with some that they only capture or expose a very limited set of biometrics (ie. maybe only pulse).

Are there any suggestions on which smart watch is the best for developers that provides the best access to data?
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There should be a landlord prescreen tool for tenants. Then tenants can know whether or not the landlord in question has the proper building permits.
This is not really true. Not "once you reach a certain size", but once you move off the lowest-tier starter hardware, cloud quickly becomes much more expensive than owning hardware, and security solutions continue to depend on the individual administrators (most backups do too).

Cloud's biggest benefit is really convenience, because you don't need to go to the datacenter and put in another hard drive yourself when you need more space. That's absolutely not worth the price premium most of the time. Large companies could hire hardware jockeys in-house for a fraction of the cost and smaller companies can't afford such conveniences.
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For even half full inter-city trains I don't think there's any doubt about which is more energy efficient. Trains will tend to win by about an order of magnitude. Planes aren't any worse than cars containing a single person, though.

https://www.withouthotair.com/c20/page_128.shtml
> Taking away a domain is a costly, long and usually failing process.

source please, including your registrar's TOS
Physicists are one hell of science and engineering badasses.

I know many physicists who became hardware engineers and even software engineers when they needed it. I know no software/hardware engineer who became physicist.
the difference is 7% iirc, its kind of negligible which is why i dont even know exactly what it is. Because the hourly rates ratchet at higher increments than 7%. If you want more money you go release a side project, give a talk about it and poof 20% raise on next project.
This article seems to demonstrate that bots are clicking links though, any comments on that? I mean, if it's true, and those are costing you money, you better be able to design some pretty effective campaigns with that extra overhead.
They play a similar drinking game in ski bars in Austria - you each get 3 swings of the hammer, before passing the hammer on. Last nail left buys a round. Except you have to hit the nails in with the other end of the hammer, the part for pulling out the nails.

I'm not kidding, in the middle of bars they have a big ol' tree stump full of nails
Don't ignore them! That waves your right to contest the tickets!
Amazon Congito already provides it for both registered and unregistered users:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/using-the-amazon-cognito...

And they also provide a generic TVM (Token Vending Machine) implementation that you could adapt for other APIs
John Bogle is either clearly incorrect, or the quotation may be taken out of context and may be unrelated (I don't know); however, the price that the seller sells at is usually not the price that he originally bought at. This difference, specifically the change in dollar value for the same object being sold, is how capital enters and leaves that system. Note that this is specifically about money-capital, and not capital based on other resources -- so if Bogle was talking about some other kind of value, he could easily be correct; although from that quotation alone, it really looks like he's talking about stock-trading money, and even values the market at $24T, so... I'm guessing he just didn't think it all the way through.
It'd be nice to be able to see the exact wording of the questions prior to signing up, some kind of demo at least. That is a huge sticking point.
Identity theft is a perfectly reasonable analogy. If someone steals my identity and ruins my credit rating, the onus is on me to inform the credit reference agency. It'd be nice if Equifax could telepathically divine whether a credit transaction was legitimate or not, but it simply isn't possible. Google are similarly unable to distinguish between a blackhat SEO scheme and this sort of weird SEO DDoS.
> Yes you do. If the rail goes across any freehold, you'll have to negotiate and compensate for the owners loses. This process takes years if not decades. The only reason China is able to build so quickly is because the government tramples on people rights (does private ownership of real estate exist in China?) like there's no tomorrow.

How is this different from, say, oil pipelines in the United States? They are constantly trampling on the rights of (Usually indigenous) people living in the area - and you currently have a Congress, a Senate, and a President that have all made it very clear what side they are on in this battle.

The primary difference to me is that China seems to consider train transportation infrastructure to be critical to its economic development - whereas the United States considers that to be the case for private oil extraction.

At least high-speed train spills are far less likely to cause long-term ecosystem damage then bitumen.
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Let’s programming offline to gather quality and knowledge
I'm in the middle of "Effective Thinking Through Mathematics"[0]. I struggled with maths in high school, didn't really need it in college (music degree) and went back and tackled it on my own via self-study after college.

The focus of the course is not so much on the maths but the creative process of solving problems that just happen to fall in the domain of math. I've found these same techniques to be applicable to more traditional 'creative' pursuits as well (e.g. writing music).

It's also interesting in that you get to watch and deconstruct people's thought process for how they approach challenging problems.

[0]https://www.edx.org/course/effective-thinking-through-mathem...
Eth and thorn were interchangeable in Old English. The article is incorrect.
I feel it will go the way of Data8
All Dutch electric trains now running on 100-percent renewable energy
This is what security looks like when your threat model is well funded government agencies.
The ones with wings that didn't mimic died more.
He's not a Christian, so we should ignore what he says about computers? That's preposterous.
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No panacea but another important piece of the puzzle. The software part may be complex - but it is just software, and once done, we all benefit from 10x battery life. Eye tracking hardware is complex but Lots of ongoing R&D - the outcome of which will be sensor chips which can be added to HMDs.