skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SILE indeed looks great, promising to come on par with the typesetting quality we have come to expect since TeX: Knuth-Plass line breaking, Unicode and OpenType font features support, complete with contextual shaping, Cassowary constraint solver, parallel text, multiple apparati, foot and marginal notes, vertical typesetting… This is a typographer’s dream!

But, like TeX and friends (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc.), creating stylesheets and document templates still looks like a pain with SILE and alike. At least from the perspective of designers who have come to expect a strict separation of concerns between document structure/semantics and its styling, and who are used to work with a declarative stylesheet-based language like the prevalent CSS, as opposed to the macros of TeX, and its document model which conflates semantical markup with inline styling instructions.

Similar initiatives like SILE, which attempt to port TeX to newer languages while untangling macro spaghetti, like Cló¹ and Rinohtype², didn’t consider CSS-based stylesheets either. Which is a pity, especially with highly developed W3C Working Draft open standard specifications³ for paged media being out quite some time now.

That’s exactly what makes PDF formatters like Prince⁴, which accepts standard html and css as its input, so immensely attractive: users can continue to use the (Web) technologies they already know (html, javascript, css) and enjoy a strict separation of concerns between document contents, templates and make-up. Unfortunately, there exist no FLOSS alternatives.

Once in a while, people are coming up with the question whether there are TeX flavors which do support `.css` as an input.⁵ Peculiar too that no project exists to create a compiler to convert and map css style rules, selectors and properties to something which TeX does understand. (Except may this⁶ one.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=824yVKUPFjU
[2] https://github.com/brechtm/rinohtype
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/
[4] http://www.princexml.com/
[5] e.g. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/139067/i-have-a-dream...
[6] https://github.com/yannisl/phd/blob/master/phd.dtx
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You are a terrible programmer if you can't implement a linked list. It's so basic that not being able to cope with it means you don't understand indirection, which is the fundamental of all programming. Is it a good interview question? Depends on the language: its perfectly valid to ask for a C programming position, but makes little sense for a JavaScript role (as in there are more meaningful problems for assessing their knowledge).
With respect, I'd have to disagree with your portrayal of Harper as an honest toiler, betrayed by revanchist public servants at every turn, and forced by circumstances to take harsh but fair measures.

Harperites didn't like the facts, and did their absolute best to hide them. The woolly headed policy making was conducted in defiance of the facts. When the objective facts were highlighted by public servant, in full concordance with the espoused values of their organisations, the conservatives got nasty.

Harper didn't like ridicule, and he proved what a small man he is when he had his satirist sacked. A remote wildlife ecologist public servant writing funny rhymes! What a coward to manufacture a dismissal.

As to Trump: he might think it a mutiny, others would characterise it as obeying the law and understanding the Constitution.
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I've tried that a couple times (and my saving are growing, I'm at 30-50% of early retirement goal already). I just find it super-hard to hold on a boring job for longer than 6-12 months, and I convince myself that I should quit and do something else (my CV is pretty spotty because of that).

If I had a guy that comes and whacks me in the head every time I think about quitting a job, I'd probably already be retired.
I agree with everybody who's pointing out the time, effort, and cost of suing. In this case, I think consulting a lawyer to negotiate a severance agreement might have worked well, but that would have essentially negated her ability to write this blow post. I'm glad she chose to write the post as a service to the tech community rather than seek a big payout.
+1 for Macbook Air 13" 2010 (dedicated GPU).

Best laptop I ever owned, hands down.
on a related topic, what is the highest resolution image of ceres that we have?
Yeah, once you figure out that pulling the closing button down combined with a flick opens it, it's basically an assisted-opening-but-not-illegal knife. I always thought that the ban on assisted openers was stupid anyway, since a fixed blade is faster still and 100% legal.
Firefox will complain about processor-expensive scripts and offer the option to halt them. But they have to run a while first.
Quite the LOL at the chatter between the the British Airways pilots filming this saying I expect they love the opportunity to do this. Any excuse and the other one yeah.
You might have missed this part:

> I made sure to cite it along with his frequent trips to our area where, when she wasn't there, would pick up her photo of her and her boyfriend and just stare at it along with his fraudulent billing of clients
Well, nobody knows enough about the subject of the article to comment substantively on that, so...
The key to understanding is drilling the backpropagation algorithm and being able to visualize the application of the multivariate chain rule as a computational graph.

EDIT: You won't understand until you do this yourself using pen and paper. It's a pain.

EDIT2: This nuts and bolts tutorial will help

http://briandolhansky.com/blog/2013/9/27/artificial-neural-n...
Not to mention that they're the easiest things ever to wash. Just put it under a tap and air dry.
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Russia is more interested in military rivals than in economic ones. If you talk to Russians about geopolitics, you'll notice that right away: the countries that are listed as the primary opponents are US and China, and the reasons given are always military: US leads NATO, and China has an eye on the Russian Far East. You'll never hear anyone so much as mention India, Brazil etc as competitors.

And while you're correct about your overall assessment of Russia, that is precisely why it has to resort to measures like these. It cannot compete militarily, and it cannot compete economically, so it is left to resort to Machiavellian devices to fight for (what it believes to be) its rightful place, if not on the top of the pile, then at least on the top tier of it. That's what really grates so many people in Russia, both elites and commoners - that it was a superpower, but it isn't anymore. A lot of people really, really want it to be one again. And for them, the definition of superpower is, "they fear us".
Thats interesting. I guess there is no general pattern here.

My personal experience when I was jobbing as a waiter during my university time was different. Larger tips (more than a round up) were rather the rule than the exception.

Due to the fact that all tips are usually shared with everyone working in the restaurant I usually even tip if I was not that happy with the service because I liked the food or also the other way around.
Traktor Z1 and X1 controllers. There's been a lot of different options for DJ controllers lately, but these two have been a perfect fit for my style and the music I play. They're certainly bad for a hip-hop turntablist, but for a steady BPM 4/4 house/techno set they're just perfect. They're very small, which is perfect for a crowded DJ booth in a bar. They're very easy and fast to setup, with built-in audio interface - which means that there's less gear to haul. They only have the necessary functions - which means that instead of wasting my time on what the sync button can do automatically, I can spend more effort on the human touch. And most importantly, they're modular - which means I'll be buying another pair to control 2 more decks pretty soon.
Does someone have an ELI5 for frequentist vs. bayesian?
Stokke/Variable rocking kneeling chair.

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After all the pricey Aeron crap that is actually _bad_ for my back, this works.
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There are plenty of troubling links with Russia There are at least 5 individuals (Manafort, Cohen, Sater, Page, Flynn, Tillerson, Stone) whom were directly working with the Russian government and have received effusive praise from them. Combined with a very narrow focus on removing sanctions (without any talk about the violations of sovereignty of Crimea/Ukraine) and a nearly tireless praising of Putin and the Russian government, there are plenty of troubling links.
I also need help; can someone point me to the latest results with NLP?

I want to build an AI powered note-taker.
Ask HN: Resources to Learn Fundamental of MVC, OOP and Functional?
I want to learn the theory (CS theory) behind the paradigm of MVC, OOP and Functional independently from any particular programming language (Although it is ok, if language is used as example but not as a main stream topic).
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The epitome of Jet Age style. I don't much care for John Travolta as an actor or a celebrity, but I have no other choice than to admit the man has a refined taste in aircraft.

(I'd probably go for one of the larger Gulfstreams, myself, in a world line where choosing which jet aircraft to buy myself were a problem I had - I have just enough hands-on flying experience to really, really want to know how something that size, with that powerplant, would handle. But if I expected a need to carry more than a half dozen or so passengers, I'd go for a 707, too.)
Mission Workshop Transit and their other stuff is also great https://missionworkshop.com/collections/shoulder-duffle-bags...
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Echoing what others have said. For transactional emails my go to is Sendgrid, for newsletters Mailchimp.

With Sendgrid you get one month of up to 40,000 for free. After that the (forever free plan) is up to 100 emails a month I believe.
I recognize those yellow jackets! I travelled with the same company (Quark Expeditions) on an expedition to Antarctica that same year. Incredible memories :-)
1. Noodler's fountain pens.

These are 'Hacker-friendly' pens. With most pens the nib and feed are glued in, but in the Noodlers pens they are push fit, so can be adjusted. You can adjust the amount of flex and flow independently.

You can also take out the entire filling mechanism, and use the whole pen body as a reservoir. Neat.

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/209380-noodler...

2. Vim

It was a bold design concept to use 'modes', but it makes it so much more productive.
If she's lying, it's pretty hard to imagine a scenario where Uber lets her settle this without recanting.
I didn't intend it to be offensive, just to illustrate her persona non grata status after suing for discrimination. My dictionary says the offensive racial use is historical, not current.
No, Russia did the whole hacking thing so that Americans would question the legitimacy of their election. It's kind of something Russia does to nearly every European country also.

What makes it special in the American case is the way in which Hillary Clinton lost the election. She lost big enough to unambiguously have lost (unlike Gore in Bush v. Gore), but did not lose with a large enough margin to produce an easily identifiable single reason for losing. Thus, every single explanation for the loss seems somewhat valid.

So, like anybody who is faced with choosing between "this my own fault" and "someone else screwed me", Democrats are choosing option B. What makes it hilariously ironic is that being angry the election was "stolen by Russia" is exactly what Russia wants. So if they care about not playing into Russia's hands, they would have to stop complaining about "Russia hacking the election." But they can't do that because they're not ready or able to say "we lost this election because what we're offering isn't sufficiently appealing to more than half the country for reasons X,Y,Z" (whatever those are).
IBM peaked in 2012 and has had declining profits since then. Death throes is perhaps an exaggeration, but even IBM uses the term "turn around" when talking to investors.
Or is it just - V2 is not good enough for consumer product - let's go to V3?
Yep, I thought of it as "find out more here" kind of collection.
It's unfortunate to see 'deep state' talk coming up in the US. I associate it mostly with Erdogan in Turkey and his attempts to change from elected leader to dictator for life. The deep state and Gulenist labels are used to attack and arrest or fire anyone who opposes that. I hope it doesn't go that way in the US.
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Yeah, the original amarok was great. Nevertheless I think nowadays we would need something else (e.g. the library would require optional steaming provider integration).
Good god... I just Google'd the IWW. Their website looks, at a glance, like a militant extreme left group. From the hard white-and-red on black colour scheme through to a photo of two people in fatigues carrying AK-style weapons next to an advert for a highly politically charged event.

If they want more members, they might want to tone down the "militant" imagery. I'm uncomfortable being associated with that.
That's what the top-level commenter was doing.
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> I just wish I wrote more code

I once read that reading code is a lot more important to learn coding.
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Eh, I think that's a little too reductive. She's getting berated for pattern-matching to the "feminist" outgroup, which is a favorite bogieman for a lot of men in the industry. And given Uber's previous flirtations with "digging up dirt on hostile journalists", I wouldn't put some malicious extralegal bullshit past them either.

But I do want to distinguish that from the crucifixion she'd receive if she were making it up. There's a difference between people being shitty online, and your professional reputation being destroyed. The former will happen regardless. The latter is less likely if she's telling the truth.

But fair point that even if she's being truthful, she's put herself at a lot of risk.
That's interesting. Other people I know have said the same as you but I've had two F91s fail and let water in with light swimming. I bought a W59 which is almost exactly the same (I'm not entirely sure what the difference is) and not had any problems since.
That's a very interesting point of view, thanks, it certainly makes sense. Though I don't really understand, why bother with all those encryptions, if you can just add some metadata to the video container. Something like "printing is forbidden" flag in PDF.
It would need 2 buttons, 3 at most. Auto and gentle, and you could argue that a button for a hot thorough cycle is needed as well, but with auto sensing I don't see the need.
Who is being excluded? If anything the complaint I keep reading is that too many people are being added who have no business being there (e.g. Steve Bannon).
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On top of that Uber appears to be a huge addition to her relatively short (public)work history. Now she's at Stripe. Hard to fault the logic of sticking things out if they weren't getting too crazy.

People are always having to weigh risk and adversity against reward. This is why the power dynamic between superiors and subordinates is such a huge factor in company HR policies and it's taken so seriously; from corporate US to the military. The situations that can arise can be quite complicated and messy.
My father has a very similar problem. He's using a CAD software which cost a couple thousand bucks decades ago (I don't know how old exactly it is, but I think mid 80s). It's using a LPT-dongle. LPT ports are hard to find nowadays, but all of the USB to LPT adapters I tested didn't work with this dongle. For his PC I settled with a PCIe LPT extension card, but now he got himself a Laptop and I'm back to field one.
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We sure did. But for that same reason I often prefer using a commercial product with a limited functionality subset vs an open source equivalent which supports literally every feature imaginable. Convenience. It just works for what I need it to do.
Many Japanese cars from the 90s-early 2000s fit the bill. Civic, Skyline, Supras, MR2, RX7, S2000, Subaru WRX, Lancer Evos, many many more. If you like this sort of thing, check out this hilarious and informative youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mightycarmods
Thank you for a good analysis. I was going to answer along the same lines, but you've beat me to it.
This is all totally true.

It is also totally true that you are not squeaky clean in your employment (never been late once? Never missed a deadline?), and that your performance management targets are set by the people against whom you are protesting. You can be performance managed out of a position in months, even if your right to protest is protected and you are literally a Saint in the workplace.

I'm not saying it's right, just that it's true.
From the article: "Though American democracy is resilient enough to resist such clashes".

That remains to be seen.
What I don't like about Widevine/EME in Chrome: you don't when it is being used. It would be a big improvement if you knew and could ask the website why it is using EME on something. Of course it should also possible to know for what EME is being used.
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Plus, I would imagine, the interceptors are leaving the right side clear: should an additional aviation emergency develop, the plane is still safe to maneuver in 5 directions (the sixth being blocked by the interceptors).
Planning a terrorist act that will happen in the US?
Combining this article and Conway's law[1] makes for some very odd software being developed at Uber.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
You can still buy those. They are the cheapest ones in the supermarket. At least where I live.
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Don't forget Uber's response. They threw the CEO's competence under the bus to buy themselves some slack.
As much as I'd love to say iPhone or my MacBook Pro, I'd have to say the best-designed thing I've used is probably my Nikon D3x, their top-of-the-line professional SLR.

It does exactly what I want, and is so perfectly designed.
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You're assuming that that allegations are true.

You can read all of the comments about a story like this one with a caveat of "If the allegations are true...". I don't think it's necessary to make that explicit. It's obvious.
Ask HN: Why are trains not autonomous yet?
With all the advances in cars and drones it seems like trains should already be traveling without a person in the cockpit. To me it seems surprising that there is not even a discussion about this here in Germany where the was a train crash recently where a train dispatcher was playing a game on his phone and caused the crash because he was not paying attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Aibling_rail_accident

What are the main issues with a technology solutions? Are any startups working on this?
I've posted this previously, but it was well received then, so...

Those who (reasonably!) question the lack of actual evidence presented by the US intelligence community over the US hacks would do well to read the 2014 FireEye paper on APT28 (the group involved). It's pretty compelling, even if it doesn't address the specific allegations around the election(s). The TL;DR is that there is significant circumstantial evidence that this group is government backed, and also evidence against it being a false flag operation.
Note that the date of the report should provide some protection against allegations it is politically motivated.

See https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2014/10/apt28-a...
This is all totally true.

It is also totally true that you are not squeaky clean in your employment (never been late once? Never missed a deadline?), and that your performance management targets are set by the people against whom you are protesting. You can be performance managed out of a position in months, even if your right to protest is protected and you are literally a Saint in the workplace.

I'm not saying it's right, just that I've seen it done. There is always a way to remove "difficult" employees regardless of protection laws.
Also helpful to read some research papers

https://research.google.com/pubs/NaturalLanguageProcessing.h...
I've heard it said that this is bad for your knees, but I don't know one way or the other.
But if we produce general AI in the near future it will have taken us billions of years, a considerable fraction of all time in this universe.
1. I have products from Bang & Olufsen to be exceptionally well designed. Sure, they cost fives times more but IMHO its worth it.

2. Nokia 3310
> It makes mowing the lawn more exciting too, though they actually don't seem to care.

Not until you find yourself crossing the flight path on a hot sunny day... I've been known to veil up to do that one part of the garden. Being stung in the eye is not an experience I'd like to repeat!
The article says:
"[in Egypt], “the deep state is not official institutions rebelling,” he said, but rather “shadowy networks within those institutions, and within business, who are conspiring together and forming parallel state institutions.”"

I don't understand how the article can make this statement. The statement clearly outlines a Conspiracy Theory. As we all know, Conspiracy Theories are false - a priori.
How can it be legitimate to concoct Conspiracy Theories for other nations, when, simultaneously, the very notion of (a national scale) conspiracy is seen as being equally as impossible as perpetual motors or faster-than-light travel?
Double standards? What's going on?
No? Why would I argue that? It is a criticism. Just not of the content.
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I think both readings of the motivation of the Russian hacks are reasonable and both may well be true.

I think it is terrible that the Democratic party isn't facing up to the problems in their own party that led to that outcome. They have list the House, the Senate and the Presidency. Something is wrong and it isn't just Russian hacking.
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Nikon FE manual focus SLR. Every control a real photographer needs, nothing you don't, and the match needle exposure meter works better than anything else ever invented. Tough—mine is 35+ years old and works like it's brand new.
No, it applies to both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit#Multiple_bits
Yes, originally bought in the 80s, but like a lot of one-man-band hobbyist software, could well have had a "lifetime upgrades" option that at some point introduced the DRM.