skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of https://www.softether.org which is purported to be a faster and just as secure Alternative to openVPN and looks pretty straightforward to setup. I did post another thread in this but I'm not sure if it's inappropriate to post here too....wondering if anyone has had experience with it

Also shoutout to Dr Duh who gave a nice run down of setting up vpn on a VPS

https://github.com/drduh/Debian-Privacy-Server-Guide/blob/ma...

Edit: Just realized that others have already noted and commented about SoftEther. Sorry guys!
I am grateful to work with a few of the asterisk developers and they strive hard for quality. A project that long running and feature-rich is not easy to keep up to date, stable and well architected. If you want to see a project with professional commit messages, it is a solid example (the past several years at least).

https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commits/master
What's a really well written OSS Verilog example? Trying to switch from embedded to RTL design here.
> Is that kind of empirical principle just out of reach for the standard human?

What if it's out of reach even for the best among us? To me it looks like many of our core beliefs cannot be shaped through reason, and are not the product of reason in the first place. Our convictions have simply been copied from our environment through osmosis.

I'm sure you can't help but notice the amount of groupthink that takes place in any community, whether in real life or right here. How does this groupthink come to be? People don't really change their minds in long discussion threads like these; it certainly doesn't feel like they do. And yet minds get changed or there wouldn't be groupthink. By reading, responding, and reading some more, we slowly change over time; like water carves its way through rock. We shape HN by our responses and in turn HN shapes us: the relation is symbiotic.

We can, sometimes, if we try really hard, and then only for a moment, apply real reason. I see no evidence that this has a big impact on what people believe and how they act, though. People who are good at formal reasoning are good at arriving at the correct answer in reasoning puzzles, but there is no matching improvement when it comes to the decisions they make in their life. It's pretty clear that even really smart people can't reason themselves out of their problems. This is a big problem for the view that convictions are the product of reason.

In contrast, the friends you keep and the media you consume does make a tremendous impact on what you believe and how you act. Change who your friends are and, through repeated exposure, your convictions will change subliminally.
Yes which is exactly what was said.
Trump White House Withholds Cyber-Security Executive Order
> I don't see it as unreasonable to ask for equal treatment to be given.

If the service was equal, I doubt you'd need to ask - those discouragements likely only exist because PayPal is a more risky and/or costly payment method for the seller.
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Invitation is different than just being aware of ones existence.
Britain wakes up to the end of home ownership
Now its just waiting for the foreigners to try pronounce them.
I don't quite get why LaTeX is special here. You could have done the same in Inkscape, Word or whatever other text stuff related program.
(hum)

It just work except when the System 7.5.3 was out and powerPC & 68K were coexisting.

The 'it just work' notably required to go in some arcane control to unfragment memory (yes RAM), and to do ctrl+ apple? + esc to kill unresponsive .... Adobe photoshop or illustrator on the PPC 7500 I used to maintain. THE application one needed.

The colometry profile for scanners and printers where not top notch, and well, real mac users (the one with a job) had to play with the devil switches and terminators on SCSI devices to put their work on external media...

We talk about graphist in the 90's here, not hardcore geeks.

The "it just works" was a lie. It was way more an expensive status tool.

The only stuff that differentiated mac users from PC users, was how much software they were cracking and sharing without any concerns or moral questions.

I sometimes feel the predominance of mac users among "top geeks" is a bad sign.
ABCD here, wish I could work for ISRO. Would gladly move to a country where I don't even speak the language and get 10% salary.
> you must necessarily provide justification so that another audience, which would want to make sure that you're not selling snake oil, could verify your why

Much of the audience that has the expertise to effectively verify the wisdom of the advice in such a document will have already encountered the views it contains and will be familiar with the reasoning behind those views already. None of the guidance in the article is likely to be something they're hearing for the first time. Even if they disagree with something in the article in whole or in part, they already know why the people who compiled the article likely believe it.

It is good for there to be more detailed explanations for interested non-experts, and there have been a number of more detailed explanations of many of these items elsewhere on the internet. But for most people it's more important to know that, for example, a recent iPhone is their best choice for a secure phone than it is to know the details of why experts on the topic have come to that conclusion, just like it's more important for most people to take a flu vaccine each year than it is for them to understand the process by which that vaccines was formulated.
To be fair I'm still pretty convinced Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris are responsible for Trump's entire campaign.
This can't be understated.

My wife is a mid-tier firm attorney in (a field). Any contract generally has a low-level associate take a pass at the material, which she then scrutinizes, polishes, etc. and then shares with her supervising attorney, who also scrutinizes and polishes. This is then shared with the client, who has their own staff to scrutinize, who are relevant executives, content experts, and often in-house attorneys of their own.

Several iterations of this cycle are the bare minimum. Because this process involves low-tier associates being taught by upper level attorneys, the "basic" stuff that top experts take for granted gets scrutinized and explained, as well, so even the parts you think of as "stock components" are being carefully looked over and considered at length.

There isn't a single word in those contracts that hasn't been reviewed by at least a half-dozen experts.
All one needed to do was ask the slaves whether they liked being slaves. Looks like some people did listen to the slaves and they found themselves on the right side of history. So you don't need to consult an Oracle. Listening helps.
Nomad List has a good collection of cities with filters. For example, places in North America that are warm in March with fast internet access [1].

[1]: https://nomadlist.com/#month=mar&temperature=warm&internet_s...
> Looks back wistfully at the glory days of a land and cultural elite that amassed and retained their wealth by owning other people.

Hmm...
The horror of blimps (2003)
TensorFlow.
Exactly. It doesn't save the user much time at all, if any, and it detracts from the simplicity of a clean design. It's a solution in search of a problem.
Show HN: I implemented Deferred Shading
Probably referencing the students that act like spoiled children b/c not everyone has the same opinions as them...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new...
They ordinarily don't. A normal contract - and most EULAs, even - include explicit definitions before a term is used repeatedly.

e.g. The party receiving payment ("seller") shall...

This one didn't.
I'm the author. The source code is
here: https://github.com/Erkaman/cute-deferred-shading

This is a cute little implementation of normal deferred shading. The focus of this implementation was readability and brevity, so that others can learn from the code. The entire renderer is only about 1400 lines of C++ code. Note that there are probably ways in which the implementation can be made faster, but such optimizations were not
performed to keep things brief, and readable.
Then change that name too! It's not like there is some divine mandate that decrees colleges to never change their names.
word-for-word blogspam of

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/02/mott
the past is mentioned in ways other than the names of buildings.
None of these.

I am an European who is sad that Vanguard doesn't exist there, and there is no comparable local equivalent.

And no, an European either cannot and/or should not buy American stock.

1) Some stocks are simply not available for trades by your local brokers

2) You cannot use some remote products/brokers because they require you to be an US citizen or resident

3) There are taxations and constraints that makes international stock worthless. For instance, American stocks are taxed by the USA (by USA law) then taxed again by your home EU country (local country law).

P.S. I am sure there are loopholes to get it done if you have more than 10M€ to invest but that's not the case of the majority of people.
In my case the expedited is already 2!!!! times slower. And it's still not over. The review process has not even started for the "expedited" request. Just a day earlier the normal request was already processed and approved. I really appreciate that Apple has worked hard on shortening the regular queue. Is it time for them to start optimizing the "expedited" process so it does happen quicker than the regular one?
What is obvious depends on your prior beliefs. To me, it's a lot more obvious that messing with your brain causes hallucinations, especially when we can program similar hallucinations in neural-inspired programs.
I fell in love with the Amiga ever since I saw an Amiga 1000 in the first issue of Amiga World.

Amigas were clearly light years ahead of virtually all other personal computers at the time -- with the arguable exception of the Atari ST, which had the reputation of being better for music. But the Amiga was better for games and had better graphics. As a hardcore gamer, I knew instantly that the Amiga was what I wanted. Somehow I convinced my parents to get me an Amiga 500, as my second computer (after the TI99/4A) and spent a lot of time collecting games and demos, and connecting to BBS'.

Somehow the rest of the world didn't really see the clear superiority of the Amiga, and stuck with their boring IBM PC's and Macintoshes. Commodore collapsed, and virtually every other personal computer became extinct, as most people just wanted to buy whatever they had used at work (IBM PC) or school (Apple). This was an early lesson for me that superior technology does not always win. In fact, it's often the inferior technologies that win, for a variety of reasons -- especially marketing.

I kept my Amiga for a long time, but eventually migrated to Unix (SunOS, Irix, Dec Alpha's OSF/1, and Solaris), and eventually to Linux on a PC. It had become increasingly clear that newer tech had left the Amiga in the dust. Some people still stuck with the Amiga long after I stopped using it, but I donated mine long ago. Sometimes I wish I'd kept it, so I could bring it out for nostalgia's sake every now and then, but it's a lot of equipment to lug around.

I often wonder how the personal computer landscape would have changed had the Amiga won. Back then, it seemed like Microsoft, the IBM PC, and Apple have kept us back 10 or 20 years with their dominance.
I think the point is that even GPUs are suboptimal for neural network computation and we need something more specialized.
It depends. There is some debate as to how one measures resolution. With nanosats one has the option of taking many low-rez images and combining them into a higher rez. So does it depend on what is taken by the sat or what is delivered to the customer? Or what if the customer is the one combining the images?
You've really nailed Wikipedia. That describes my experiences exactly, and it's a big part of why I left.
That's a bit dramatic to call a lie!
(PowerPoint slide presentation)
It was way more an expensive status tool.

The stability of modern operating systems indeed makes it easy to forget how often we dealt with system crashes (remember the bomb?), especially with resource intensive applications, and even more so when switching between them.

Yet a lot of work indeed got done. The number of newspaper design departments and graphic artists who relied on Macs is hard to underestimate. It was much more than just an expensive status tool. Back in the day, the Mac was a tool that a lot of people relied on, in spite of its flaws.
I can't comment on the selection quality, but the Priority Pass which comes with the CSR is good for yourself and one guest. I've used is several times with my partner and no fees were charged.
There's a lot of room between the "purest of the pure" and a pro-slavery segregationist.
Those particular RGB colors map well into the CMYK gamut and will be readily printed by any competent printer using a 4-color process.

https://support.dma.ucla.edu/help/tutorials/print_color_guid... has more information on the two color spaces' overlap.

The front side design is very tolerant of inherent printing tolerances, but the backside design is poor (in that it will highlight, rather than hide, the inherent tolerances in cutting). The human eye can readily see the difference in thickness of the white border. A far more tolerant design would take the green fill all the way to the edge. It's not the end of the world to have the backside of your business card have slightly uneven margins, but if you're equally happy with a full fill (and you bleed it beyond the cut lines), you'll never end up with a visibly bad cut.
Some just never learn. Oracle is a massive troll.
North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee on escape and the secretive state
It's ridiculous to compare Trump to Hitler. It's a childish emotional response from people who have spent a lot of their adult life in left leaning echo chambers.

If you have a policy you want to criticize, by all means do. Don't shut your brain off and try to imply the president is the same as a man responsible for genocide. It puts you in the same camp as the people claiming Obama is a closet Muslim terrorist.

>Now it's of course downvoted to oblivion

Don't talk about downvotes, it makes for boring conversation.
There's always InDesign, but given its time to proficiency, I think the bast case for similar purposes might still be something creating LaTeX/DocBooks source that ports well to InDesign.
Anything written by djb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein): qmail, djbdns, ucspi-tcp, daemontools, etc.
Can you really learn from just reading source code? It seems like you need an annotated guide to understand why this was done along with the how.
I lost my respect for the Guardian a while back. They were reporting on hostilities in Israel.

They had a side-bar for "Related Articles", which were one after the other - critical of Israel as being an unprovoked aggressor. Fine, if that's the truth, except:

Every article I opened had a long lead-in about Israeli aggression, its consequences, etc. Every article had buried in the last paragraph, practically mumbling under its breath, "The IDF moved in because they were repeatedly being attacked by RPGs &tc." Nothing was provided to suggest the IDF was lying or incorrect about being provoked - so why was one headline after the other all about characterizing unprovoked unilateral aggression?

I was done. It's fine to be critical of Israeli policies and military posturing; it's another to essentially lie through your teeth and then cover your ass in postscript.
I think that's only part of it. A larger part is that Apple is a hardware company. The profits come from the hardware. To sell the OS separately at a price that would justify the loss in profit from hardware wouldn't be feasible, particularly given its market share. Compare with Microsoft, which was able to profit largely because of its dominance.
I was happy to find the Wikipedia article for ["Homeopathic" Flu Medicine] Oscillococcinum[1] frank and accurate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum
No this is strictly amateur hour and most of my ideas are probably not even wrong. If I went into any more detail I'd feel like a crank, though :)
Material can turn sunlight, heat, and movement into electricity
Oxford University's Mindgrowing Gardens, Libraries and Museums
Sorry, it was reported that the job losses at Oracle were from the Solaris team. I read the memo from Oracle on Solaris 12 and was (and am) completely unconvinced by it, but maybe I am just cynical. I am still moving away from it as fast as I can convince the board to back me. Good luck on the Solaris team, some good things could come out of it (with some open source licensing). Oracle could do themselves some serious reputational favours by staying out of court.
That one of the most outspoken defenders of slavery would not approve of a 21st century American university that, among other things, admits black students and employs black faculty.
Hackrf 2017.2 release
Real pikachu
The new sweep spectrum analyzer is now more awesome than the one in my Tektronix scope that Tektronix charges $5K for!
> AWS and probably for not much cost since he is in Uni

What? S/He said s/he's in secondary school.

You can get certain AWS products for zero cost, for a year, but you need a .ac.uk or equivalent email address.
>Humans are healthier than ever.

Probably

>While nutrition will probably improve in the future, it's actually quite good right now.

If we get rid of fast food and excessive sugar and salt, there will be a vast improvement regardless of how much better 2017 is compared to earlier times. Therefore they would still shake their heads at 2017 food in the future.
Perhaps they should consider removing the "expedited" process altogether to avoid confusion. Or perhaps allow a single request to go in both queues at the same time to see which one wins. I know, it's just me who is having the problem. How do I explain it to my customers who are fleeing my product?
That's how I look at it!
While I think its very cool Google would reach out to host a copy, the canonical copy belongs in the Internet Archive.

EDIT: No snark intended.
I've always found the git source a pleasure to read.
Your loyalty should lie with the United States, not the nation of your ancestors. This sort of ancestral-country-patriotism is not good. Let me quote Theodore Roosevelt:

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American
Not surprising. I've only had this experience with DMT and am skeptical that it's perceptual rather than imaginary, but a) I couldn't think of a better way to describe it and b) it was really hard to ignore.

It's not something I've ever seen referred to in other people's reports, though I don't really keep up with research in this area. I have no hesitation in saying that DMT fundamentally altered my worldview though.
Run a Google search of HN, time-scoped for when the fake news stuff was popping up. I remember there being quite a lot of discussion about software to combat it.
I have done one, in CS.
There are several stats missing. Which country do you wanna do your MS in? Also I would suggest a cross vertical study if you do go on to do it.

I would say its another piece of paper that says you are credible.
I recommend figuring out data wise CS vs non CS
Figure out which geography
Finally you havent answered why you want to do your MAsters
I mean that a school that started for the express purpose of training Puritan Congregationalist ministers, and had mandatory Protestant chapel until 1926, now has coed dormitories, an LGBT club, and Atheists at the Divinity College.

Even for someone not particularly religious for the time(Calhoun eventually became a Unitarian), all that would be a little difficult for him to get his head around.

I mean, it could be worse. I imagine sometimes how Increase Mather would react to Harvard today, and I kinda understand where fundamentalist terrorists get their outrage from.
>Katla is Iceland's most dangerous volcano and is located underneath the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap.

Had to look this up:

>Katla is a large volcano in southern Iceland. It is very active; twenty eruptions have been documented between 930 and 1918, at intervals of 13–95 years. It has not erupted violently for 99 years, although there may have been small eruptions that did not break the ice cover, including ones in 1955, 1999, and 2011.

Small eruptions that did not break the ice cover?
Well it's more effective then griping on the internet. The spoiled child approach has done wonders for Trump and the Republicans.
People still use business cards?
Valentines day 2017 Happy life with wife
Wow! Thanks for that link. It matches with my experience over the years. I think choosing in-gamut colors to start is a good practice though. It saves frustration later on.

Otherwise agreed on all points. Nice post!
"But most importantly we're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility."

-Silicon Valley, Season 1, Episode 1
It was this very reason that I used the CMR webfont to typeset my Jekyll blog (https://sneak.berlin). It's sort of a nerd shibboleth.
holy hell, that is getting ridiculous
>I've only been there 13 months but I've found the quality of previous and new hires are ridiculously high.

Seek out the people that were there 6+ years ago and compare their quality with the average Googler. You'll likely notice a difference.

Google now has over 50,000 employees. It's not possible to get that big that quickly without a reduction in hiring rigor. There wasn't a sudden influx of geniuses to fill that demand.
(from memory, may be out of date)

The AOSP camera app does not support QR code reading, and neither does Google's camera app. Many Android phones will have one or both of these installed. Most phones also come with a manufacturer-specific camera app. I know new-ish Motorola phones will read QR codes, and I suspect that the "kitchen sink" vendors like Samsung would as well.
wikipedia is a reference, reference material isnt teaching material.
Discourse is a really solid codebase with some nice patterns (their auth/auth checking, for example); probably the best OSS Rails app I know. I routinely answer questions about how the product or API works with 30 seconds of examination of the code.
Not really, these provide much needed help.

It's like saying, I'm gonna stick to Notepad and not use a proper IDE because I'm not sure if they send the code I write back to themselves.
Great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_travel_disruption_after_th...
It's built in Windows Phone's camera app, but in Android phones I've tested, there's no QR code recognition.
>A natural image is formed when a collection of objects is illuminated by incoming light, and the resulting image is projected onto the retina. The human brain is not involved at all in this process

No, the retina is a complex processor, and so is the optic nerve. Brain scientists nowadays say the retina is an extension of the brain.