skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Be an interesting person, and your likelihood of getting into a given school increases dramatically

> [...]

> Feel free to ask more about what "interesting" means.

For reasons that are of no relevance here (for the simple reason that this would be rather off topic) I think I know what "interesting person" means here. Perhaps in the future I will be sitting in a panel and be obligated to apply these criteria. But deep inside I think these criteria are a really limited perspective on what an "interesting person" is (I actually often find the kind of person that is selected by these criteria as not too interesting, but I digress).

For example what about the kind of people who have rather interesting views on a topic, with which universities often prefer not to be associated with? Or do things that are rather illegal (in terms of law), but can morally be justified? An example: Aaron Swartz and his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto and https://archive.org/download/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goa...). Or Aaron Swartz' JSTOR action: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Swartz&oldi... and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_v._...

Or what about people who have a vocal opinion on a topic that is so far off the typical opinions that one will hear in society that they will polarize people a lot - even though their opinions are very interesting to those who can handle them?

Or what about people who tried ambitious things multiple times, but failed at them, stood up again, failed again, ... In other words: Were of the kind that did not fall under the survivor bias/bias for success stories that admission panels select for?

TLDR: There exist a lot more kinds of "interesting persons" than what admission panels consider as such.
Do you have any example projects or resources you used for getting everything working together nicely? I have tinkered with that setup a bit but haven't come up with something I love yet.
It was a bit of work but I would say that it was worth all the changes. I like Apple's preference to make breaking changes to make the language better.

Apple wrote a decent conversion tool for 2.x -> 3.x; yes it is far from perfect.

Btw, I documented most of my changes on my blog, in the hopes that the next person would be able to make their changes in half the time:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/my-ios-10-and-swift-...

Everyone using Swift will soon be on version 3.x. Compare this to languages like Python where there will need to be a major 2020 conversion to 3.x because many developers are dragging their feet.

The community needs to accept a little pain or pay for past language design mistakes for decades.
Isn't the Judicial Redress Act a law now? Why would an executive order override that?

https://www.scmagazine.com/president-obama-signs-judicial-re...
Out of curiosity what made you think 2 cofounders left?
For my application[0] I'm using fastspring.com. From there users can buy a license and when they do so I receive an email. I then run a small program to generate a license file which is then automatically emailed to them. The license is just a plain text file (that contains the user's personal details), which I sign with a private key. The application then verify that the license is correct based on an embedded public key.

To be honest I think I've tried to do something too complicated. If I was doing it again I'd go for something much simpler since, anyway, no matter how complex the protection is, the application can eventually be cracked.

So I'd suggest a very simple system where the user inputs a serial number (that fastspring.com can generate directly), then the app verifies if it is valid. If it is, save it to the Windows registry (or similar place) and check it again every time the application starts. That way, you don't need to bother with any manual process like I do and it won't add much complexity to your app.

[0] http://easyhanzi.com/
How could you design a system that works otherwise? Computer security is always about "this key says", not "this legal entity says".
How do you avoid this division between organiser and organised, at a large scale? (thousands, millions of people)
WoSign/StartCom got a bit of a smackdown about their stealth acquisition so there is some level of oversight.
If you cancel or your trial expires, Ship keeps working but it only works with your public repos. The intention is that Ship is always free for open source.
Loved this. Have you guys always known you wanted to start a company and be entrepreneurs? Like, even as kids? When did you know you wanted to come to America?
Use your eyes and Deep Learning to command your computer
One major use case I can think of is testing SEO in different regions.
As it turns out, Adderall is amphetamine.
If you have decoupled your application logic from the UI, you might wanna look into Qt/QML. Opens up support for a lot of platforms, and you can have a native-looking GUI for both Windows and Linux using the exact same codebase without "ifdeffing".
It basically Google scratching their own itch and their PR people having to polish this stuff by inserting expressions like "more secure" and "moving forward".

It's disgusting but pretty much corporate life 101.
Not again. I do wish the KDE project would stop getting distracted by quixotic hardware and/or mobile projects and concentrate on building a killer desktop. I hate to say it but parts of KDE today do feel worse than what we had ten years ago e.g. kmail2/akonadi which causes me pain on a daily basis.
Does this study actually provide strong evidence for performance enhancement?

Folks who took the drugs took longer to play their moves. They lost more games on time, but ignoring those games, their play was better and they consequently won more games.

But imagine an alternate study where players were given the instructions to take more time on their moves. In this study, they would have lost more games on time, but when they didn't lose on time, their play would have been stronger and they consequently would have won more games.

In such an alternate study, I wouldn't say their brains got better. They just made a different choice to play at a different point on their efficient time-quality frontier.

I wonder - how much did these drugs push the frontier outward, rather than just trading off to move along it?

Nonetheless, it's interesting that this study tried to answer why/how these nootropics work (maybe they make you more reflective) and also understand in what circumstances such drugs won't help (in situations where you're under time pressure).
That's a different issue, and doesn't address what I wrote.
How We’re Fighting Unconscious Bias
Keep in mind, this is being done in a seed release to developers. I don't have any inside information, but I'd expect it to be a while (i.e. iOS 11 and/or macOS 10.13 at the earliest) before APFS becomes the default format. My guess is that they're trying to get some broader experience with APFS from a group that's relatively small (compared to the deployed base) and relatively used to dealing with and reporting bugs. In short: it's a beta test.
Cool, working on a similar project, but having a different stack

1. Z-wave switches/outlets/locks - all lamps, receptacles and locks controlled by Vera Edge;
2. DSC alarm system - door/flood sensors, integrated with Vera;
3. Nest cameras - not integrated;
4. Nest thermostat - integrated with Vera and Alexa;

Currently trying to integrate Vera and Alexa to have fully voice- controlled home.
>When I type, I'm able to render my thoughts directly into text, whereas when I write with a pen I have to think about the physical process of writing. I imagine I'm not the only one here who feels this way.

I struggle with this personally because while I know that typing is a faster way to get things down, I really really like the "analog" method of physically writing something down. It offers me some amount of tangible pleasure, but like you said, by the time I get the idea down much of that initial mental spark is fading so it becomes a race against the pen.

Perhaps there's some combination I could practice. Anyhow, this app looks quite neat and I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the link.
It feels like a new age of internet when we have stuff like Googles private .goog gtld with domains signed by Googles private Root CA. It's not strictly bad (and I'm not complaining), but it feels bit silly/weird/scary/... .
Public chat archive for your Slack community
This saying is probably equivalent to the efficient market hypothesis ;) I prescribe to the point of view that while on average there are no free lunches you can still get a free lunch here and there.
> But the trend is generally downward, not a bunch of sharp decreases that would indicate being caused by a specific short-term event.

Many of these are not short term events. You have a several years-long war, with a rise in conflict before it and a gradual repair and rebuild afterwards.

There are enough of them that I wouldn't be surprised if the overall graph was smooth.

> Also many of these wars were pretty localized, so we should see the drops and inequality in the immediate area and a reduced effect elsewhere.

In the modern world, few things are truly localized.
Brew support?
Ask HN: I don't think I can finish college
I've been in and out of college several times over the past ten years, flunking or dropping out each time. I readily admit this is due to my own character flaws: lack of discipline and motivation, anxiety, depression, isolation. I've had a few successes during this time. I was a software development intern at a geoengineering company, I worked full time at a hospital as a surgical tech, I did some software consulting for a couple of local companies, and I won a few scholarships. Last year, I thought I was getting things under control. I sought out a therapist and went back to school full time, receiving A's and B's in my summer and fall classes, though I still struggled with discipline and motivation.

Then, over Christmas break, I had something like a panic attack that caused some health problems. I tried to stay focused on school, but my health issue consumed my thoughts for weeks. I'm slowly getting over it, but now I'm far behind in all my classes, and I'm not optimistic about my ability to get back on track, because I've been in this situation before and haven't fared well.

I think its obvious now that the only way I'm going to survive even the next 5 years is if I somehow change into a completely different person with a completely different personality, and I'm not sure that I'm be able to.

I apologize if this isn't the appropriate forum to post this, but, in the past, I've noticed some commenters have mentioned they've been at similar low points (or worse). I was hoping one of them might share how they lifted themselves out.
ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core
The average user knows (barely) how to use a browser and Microsoft Word. ffmpeg absolutely is too complicated for that user.
Trump removes privacy rights of criminals during the commission of a felony crime.

FTFY
One of the most surprising findings in this report for me was:

"There is moderate evidence of no statistical association between cannabis use and:
•	Incidence of lung cancer (cannabis smoking)"

I thought it was pretty well established that inhaling any burning plant matter increased the chance of lung cancer. But I guess not.

Not surprising was:

"There is moderate evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:
•	The impairment in the cognitive domains of learning, memory, and attention (acute cannabis use)"

and most worrisome was:

"There is substantial evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:
•	The development of schizophrenia or other psychoses, with the highest risk among the most frequent users"
We have two versions of our device - one that's fully automated (the one requiring a 510k), and another where results are manually confirmed post computer vision in-house before being tabulated (this is classified as a "manual count" or hemacytometer). To start off distributing, we're shipping with the Class 1 version to beta users and early locations. Once the FDA clears our algorithms to be fully automated (under class 2), that won't be needed anymore. Let me know if that makes sense
The source of the VPN servers is vpngate.net - an academic research that started 2013, at Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. From their about [0] page:

- You can get through the government's firewall to browse restricted web sites (e.g. YouTube).
- You can disguise your IP address to hide your identity while surfing the Internet.
- You can protect yourself by utilizing its strong encryption while using public Wi-Fi.

The list of servers (on the main url) gives throughput and others stats and you can support them by creating a node [1].

They use SoftEther for VPN server - does someone have any experience with it?

[0] http://www.vpngate.net/en/about_overview.aspx
[1] http://www.vpngate.net/en/join.aspx
The resources and energy invested in creating the building are lost forever. The value of the building was never intrinsic to the arrangement of its bricks, but to the desires of its tenants.

If all of them died when the building was destroyed, most of the value of the building is indeed lost. The crater still inherits the unrealized potential value of an expansion or remodel of the old building, from those people who were not tenants of the original building, who possibly might have wanted to occupy building space in the place where it stood, yet were somehow unable to do so. Perhaps the old building was full, or didn't have enough contiguous floor space left, or the space available was too expensive, or installing network fiber was not economical.

Otherwise, if all the tenants survived and continue to have a desire to occupy building space, the value attributable to them is likely to pass mostly to other buildings in the area, as they seek to relocate. They can also impart potential value to the crater, if they wouldn't mind occupying a new building in the same spot where their old one blew up.

Once the potential value of rebuilding in the crater is estimated to exceed the market value of the construction inputs, someone will make the necessary investment and capture the difference by constructing a new building.

Value is only limited by the bounds of human desires. The economy only produces a finite quantity of resources and energy per unit of time, though. Whatever is spent on rebuilding in a crater cannot also be spent on new building in a fresh development site, or on building a luxury yacht, or on programming a machine to make a different kind of "ping" noise, or on making all new Taco Bell menu items from the same old ingredients.

The value per thing ratio is continuously recalculated, and market prices eventually follow. So when you blow up a building, and don't kill all the people who gave it its value (or at least diminish their desire to consume in relation to their willingness to produce), that excess unmet desire redistributes to everything else in the economy. You're making most things imperceptibly more expensive, and a few things noticeably more expensive, such as the cost of occupying the nearby vacant building space.

Flows of resources are easy to calculate, but change in value is nearly impossible to predict.
Microbiome Science Could Bring a Revolution in Medical Care
nicotine through pill, not smoking a cigarette?
Content addressing of data is one of my favorite ideas in the field.
This is a impressive amount of work to keep things fast and to avoid hammering GitHub with redundant requests, which can get you rate limited[1] pretty quickly.

Couple questions:

* I'm assuming you are using the actual end user's token for auth, so at least you have the 5000 requests per user per hour?

* It sounds like the Ship server has a lot of (potentially private) user data sitting around to keep things fast. What sort of security do you have in place to prevent data leaks or malicious access?

[1] - https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting
The About page is pretty clear, it is funded by them.
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But what happens when you need to cache the actual page not just static resources? That's what the content-addressed resources trick doesn't address.
There's some really useful stuff going on there - nice write-up.

Anyone getting into this field should take a look at Peter Scargill's Tech Blog - he has published details and code for a home control system centered around a Pi using MQTT with a range of modules (mostly ESP8266). The most interesting recent stuff is on control, monitoring and dashboard design for phone and Web apps - his work on the dials and gauges is very good.

Pete also takes a regular look at other non-Pi platforms from an IoT control perspective.

http://tech.scargill.net/
Also this thing feels like a cheap knockoff. Whats with the shitty website (looks like a mobile only site on my desktop) and the low quality graphics/photos?
Also isnt this supposed to be a Linux machine? Why does it have a Windows key then? http://kde.slimbook.es/images/galeria/resizedimages/4_machin... Sorry, but the whole thing feels fake.
"I wonder if a lot of the "Trump is against science" stuff is premature."

I think the assessments of most presidencies is premature even after their successors have left, let alone in the first week of office. An objective assessment of the Bush (43) and Obama administrations is decades away, IMO.

Nixon, for instance, created the EPA. And while this was public knowledge, it was decades before the furor around his administration had died down to the point where he would be lauded for it.
The certificates have their own, independent problems (who thinks x509 is a good format?)
Meteor in 2017
Just a guess from someone who doesn't have an XPS but has experienced similar symptoms. Maybe there's some kind of debris or perhaps liquid in between the switch contacts for those keys. In my case, two plastic sheets comprised the contact surfaces and getting them separated and cleaning them with a damp cloth and drying them did the trick.
In a few years, I suspect we'll look back at the goofy headsets from today and laugh.
Spot on with our ability to preserve the past being the cause of this.

Someone born in 1940 didn't grow up watching their favorite children's movies over and over and over on VHS, you know? You missed something then, it was often just gone. Maybe there'd be a picture or two of the event (or stills from the film) in a book somewhere in the library. (granted, yes, now they can go back and see that stuff, probably, but they couldn't in, say, the 60s or 70s, for the most part)

It's been trending this way since the camera and phonograph were invented, but things really took off right around the 80s—walkman, home camcorders becoming more affordable and the media cheaper, VCR, cassette tape, and so on.

It's only going to get worse. Kids born today will very likely be able to walk around entire recorded 3D environments from their youth. Grandma's house at Christmastime when you were 9 years old? Done. Maybe we'll even be able to reconstruct semi-interactive versions of the people who were there. Your junior year high school dance? Don't see pictures and video of it, live it again. We'll see what effects that has on culture when it comes, I guess.
Actually it does address your point about trust; CT severely limits the amount of trust we need to place to any single participating CA, including now Google.
The Columbia undergraduate student government was also basically just party planners, in addition to being a feeble roadblock to university policies. The truly powerful group was the student-run Activities Board, which distributes student life fees to a hundred or so student clubs and groups. (Of course, all student governments and groups are subject to administrative oversight and override.)
> People opposed to embryonic stem cell research based upon religious beliefs aren't going to suddenly ignore what they believe to be instructions from their particular God

OK. It may not go over well, but I'll make an appeal for tolerance and better characterization of the issues here.

Hypocrites and monsters aside, people don't just make up the god they want to have, at least not consciously. It's not like people say, "Hey, this guy has a cool beard and I like embryos, too! How do I get baptized? Now I win all my stem cell arguments, right?" That is, religious people don't go shopping for their God any more than LGBTQ people go shopping for their orientations.

Thinking that people take their prejudices and work backwards from there is, at a minimum, misunderstanding another philosophy and culture. I think it's rational to understand other ways of thinking, even if I disagree.
I use it for Ruby at this point. Python and Node install and play well enough on Windows that I generally use them directly in Windows. Ruby on the other hand I primarily use for GitHub Pages/Jekyll work, and it is much easier to install and work with from the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows shell than directly in Windows.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is a much nicer alternative to a full VM and working directly from a folder from an NTFS drive is nearly seamless working with the same files in VS Code (in Bash cd to a /mnt/c/users/... or /mnt/d/repos/... folder), with the exception that watch support (such as jekyll serve --watch) isn't great but is improving.

(A welcome surprise to me is how fast my jekyll builds have been in this configuration, especially comparing to the native Windows installs I used to try to use.)
this looks amazing!
I think that's unnecessarily negative, this is a useful site funded by NationBuilder. The About page is clear, they aren't trying to hide it.
Maybe it's time for browsers to go beyond the cache concept and implement a common standard package manager. Download once, stay forever. True immutable.

As developers, we try everyday to squeeze till the last byte and optimize things. We all know how performance is important.

So why download for every website the same asset: React, jQuery, libraries, CSS utils, you-name-it? What a waste!
Comcast mobile phone service coming in 2017 with wireless/cable bundles
every business will keep at least 1-2 employees per location,
mostly to handle extreme edge cases like flooding, cars being
driven into the building, or hostage situations.

I wonder how many McDonalds has experienced a flood, a car being driven into the building, or a hostage situation, in the last 10 years. I dare say it's an insignificant proportion - not enough to warrant 1-2 employees per place.

I dare that you are right - every business will still need a few employees for each location - but rather than hostage situations or floods, the cases will be rather more humdrum. Whether it's computers crashing, ovens needing oiling, cleaning, supplies that need refilling - there will be plenty of routine tasks that need a human to carry out.
It sounds like you will not be able to go full time after your graduate due to them not having enough hours. I doubt they would want to pay you a non-internship rate and once you grad, they'll replace you with another intern. Another red flag to me is them asking you to not look for another job. Sounds like they are more concerned with themselves than with your well being. As others have said, just say thanks for letting me know, etc.

Apply elsewhere. Sounds like a fishy environment to work in to me.
> If you really want pristinely formatted commit messages that badly then yes.

Mate, I already have pristinely formatted commit messages, because I format them as I desire.

You are the person telling me I shouldn't be formatting my messages and a nebulous "software" ought do that, the burden's on you to give them the tools which yield the same pristinely formatted output I already achieve without a formatted input.