skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"he targeted them and they believed him."

So memes, then.
At least for publicly funded research, there is no need for anyone to pay. Normally, the theory of copyright is that a creative person has to put food on the table, so they need to be paid. I acknowledge this is a tough problem in the case of actual full-time authors and musicians. But researchers are ALREADY paid by grants, certainly not (lol) by sales of their manuscripts. Want to know why academic publishing has high margins? Because they get their product for free, including even editing and reviewing services.

However, academics do sometimes sell books. It is actually much closer to theft to download an academic book than an article because the money does go to the author.
Interesting. Thanks for your insight.

My line of thinking was on working with "what is the user asking" vs. "what is the user looking for" in a way that could be applied regardless of the information being searched (by, for example, a non-profit with some existing insight - hence the Mozilla thought). But I know almost nil about the space so I suspect that is somewhat naive.
> elite universities primarily, which is going to select for a disproportionate amount of people who consider their high-iq important to their personalities

As someone who's been around this scene, the kids from these unis are surprisingly down to earth.
This won't work. The only way is the hiring committees don't judge the candidates' work on which journal published. But at as dire as the current job market nobody will have the time to go through this tedious task.
Spaces are becoming more prevalent because they cause the least confusion (I also think they look nicer/cleaner).
Welcome to the world of collective action problems, I am afraid. The easy part is knowing what needs to change.
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I wonder is not it bank's responsibility to refund the money that were stolen from customer's account? And don't they use SMS messages to confirm outgoing payments?

But this case shows also that Internet banking UI are too complicated for some people and they don't realise what they are doing when following scammers' instructions.
Why would it matter? If you're using it, you already don't care where you're getting the paper from, only that you're getting it.
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How Music Taste Evolved. Every top 5 song, from 1958 – 2016 explained visually
Why is Artificial Intelligence a market sector?. Seems as much useful as having a "PHP", "Java" or "<put technology name here>" market sector.
Introducing new scaled algorithms for improved outlier detection
>> But if you think about it - if the screens we have today would have been available back then, what do you think would the game designers have preferred?

The best example of design-to-the-CRT by far is the original Star Wars. For starters it's a vector game - electron beam is deflected in lines to directly draw the objects. Vector monitors start with a very distinct look. Then they went further. For the enemy bullets (snowflakes or whatever you call them) they overdrive the electron gun which causes the tube voltage to drop, which in turn defocuses the beam and creates a wide-soft vector for those objects. And finally when you lose a shield (get hit) they draw a very much oversized square so far off screen that the electrons scatter off the back of the tube and flood the entire screen with a haze or fog as you take the hit. Oh, and the death star explosion also has a bit of a unique look as it involves more vectors than the hardware can quite keep up with.

That game was designed for the medium and is the pinnacle of genera. There is no substitute.
Am I to understand that your argument is while India has a culture of corruption on the lower levels at the highest levels of government and business they do not?
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Context is important. For a general question-answering bot, you have to synthesize information and make a decision. The answer to a question posed by my uncle on Facebook isn't necessarily the same as the answer to that question posed by an audience member at a talk I'm giving at an academic conference. In the latter case, there's an enormous shared understanding that lets us skip the basic-agreed-upon facts and get right to the nuance. My uncle doesn't need nuance. He needs to know whether climate change is a Chinese conspiracy or vaccines cause autism.

Minority opinions are sometimes the thing that advances the species, but that's a job for a time and place that isn't "answering random questions for arbitrary users".

The answer to "do mermaids exist" is "no". It just is. That doesn't preclude a group of 200 experts devoting their research careers to investigating the question, and if they happen to prove otherwise, then we alter the textbooks and move on. Ideally, Google would then start answering "yes" instead. But if you want to be that world's dominant authority at answering questions, you can't just always say "well, it's complicated. People disagree. The world is a complex place and the definitions of terms and the facts are in flux", because you're no longer answering a question.
narcissism is currently an 'in' word. It's fashionable to name your exes and others as narcissists, and justifies why your actions/feelings against others.
My comment was actually sarcasm, but it's worth discussing. What you describe is one way that an ideal process can work, but actually make things worse when put into practice by people whose job it is to meetings. You want to batch them and optimize, but what I've seen managers do is take these principles and increase the amount of meetings. If there's time to spare because of less meetings, you might as well book a meeting to plan ahead.
The title as it appears on Hacker News isn't supposed to be "useful". It is supposed to be the same as the source page. Idiotic, I know.
I said "in general" for a reason.

I'm not talking about _this_ particular case. (I'm not sure that accessing a dubious website is in itself a crime; obviously the police accessed the site too).

Presumably the police _can_ prove it, but the court simply refuses to even _see_ the evidence.
I have tried Hydrogen some time ago when I tried to build a linux audio workstation with Jack and Ardour.

As much as it pains me to say this, don't expect it to be even remotely as good as commercial software drum machines like EZDrummer, Superior Drummer or Studio Drummer in terms of sample quality or usability.

Generally, I found it prohibitively complicated to set up a well-working low-latency audio workstation, even though I had one of the few soundcards that had drivers for Linux (Edirol FA-101).

EDIT: That was like 5 years ago, maybe the audio landscape has changed until then. 2017, year of the Linux Audio Workstation!

2nd EDIT: Today I use Reaper on Windows. Reaper is amazing and the only reason I have Windows installed on my private computers. It is to audio editing and recording what Sublime Text is to text editing: slick, fast, inexpensive, easy to install, easy to use.
I think that taking traveler time instead of observer time when the discussion is scale of the universe isn't what people would expect. But I do agree that ignoring the relativity here is silly -- of course it makes the observer time close to the 2.5 million years you would expect given its distance.

And thanks for the site. Do you know whether it takes into account deceleration? Because getting to Andromeda at .99c isn't going to do much good unless you're heading somewhere else...
I am not the biggest fan of emacs but for what it is it is more on par with people saying "I dont move to Linux because it does not run Adobe products".

There is no alternative for emacs if gimp does not count as alternative for photoshop.
Here's more info:
https://blog.ycombinator.com/onlineclass/
I am tempted to start a project to wrap this to be usable in Python. Very nice lib.
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"Chapter One

Her country, parents, nativity, education, flight and travels in various parts of Spain."

In order to avoid sjw cancer.
The claim is that membership in high IQ societies, not high IQ itself, correlates with narcissism.
As a designer/hiring manager, I will be the first to say please do not use this infographic.

It lacks really basic information hierarchy and the type choices are really hard to read. Another thing is a lot of companies use software to pull out information from resumes and create a database, this makes it really hard to pull the info.

Resumes should be clear and concise. They should highlight your accomplishments and peak the interest of the recruiter or manager. This teeters on the line of, pass or instant fail.
As an American who reviews resumes to hire others, it looks pretty much standard with regards to content. How does the typical European CV differ?
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I would like to present my latest side project (https://hotlinkx.com/about.html). It is a marketplace for text ads. The idea is that if I want to advertise a product or a service I can find someone with a popular blog, twitter, facebook, reddit or other account and ask them to create a post for my product and pay them per-click. HotLinkx will keep track of the clicks and act as a middleman in the whole process.

The main drive behind it is my experience while trying to advertise my past side-projects. I observed that a mention on a relevant sub-Reddit by a popular user was giving me better results than hundreds of dollars in Reddit and Google ads.

Another objective is to allow social media users to earn their share of the advertising budget, something like Uber for advertising.

Some other advantages of using HotLinkx are: a) text only unobtrusive ads, which is great for end-users, b) complete control of what ads are displayed on one’s blog or webpage, c) similar control for advertisers; they know exactly where their ads will be displayed and when, d) word-of-mouth like effect on the advertised products/services.
Yeah, I have no idea why the strong stance. It seems to be so strongly rooted in a minimalist perspective. If you want to not have zebra striping on by default, I may be okay with that if you have it on during hover. In this paradigm I also want it both directions like a giant +.

Another thing not discussed is the problem with big tables. If you have to scroll at all, you lose the headers and "label" in column A. I like it when things scroll only the "data" part but leave these fixed and always visible. It would also be interesting to see a replication of the header as a footer and an additional column Z that duplicated column. This helps you not have to move your eyes back and forth as you look at the data and scroll around.
Of course it's worth noting that in a "remote-first"—a term I love and a principle I can get behind—environment, these people wouldn't have anything to do.
I'm Canadian but I can tell you it's common here to use CV and resume as synonyms when in fact a CV is not the same thing.
I think the crux of the issue is that real experts in any area, when presented with a question in their field, will answer "That depends" and then engage you in a conversation that ends with you being more knowledgeable about the specific question you should have asked, and why.

This is because most areas of human endeavor aren't solid sciences like physics, although for most day-to-day activity we treat them as if they were. I do not care about the nuances of Easter as long as I can get the flowers delivered to my grandma on the correct day.

But I do care about the nuances in a ton of other situations, and the dividing line isn't so clear. Simply BSing an answer that's good enough for most cases actually ends up hurting the rest of us more than it helps us. For lack of a better term, it's fake facts.
You would think this. But actually institutes can be quite selective about what grants they take. (Usually the individual researcher would take whatever they can get)

The biggest example has to do with the NIH "indirect rate". The system, incredibly, is set up so that the larger a proportion of an institute's funding comes from NIH, the more money per grant goes to the institution. "Indirect" refers to the fact that each grant comes with "direct costs" that go to the scientist and "indirect costs" that goes to the institute, and the "indirect rate" determines the amount, expressed as a percentage of grant direct costs, that goes to the institute. This dumb system results in institutes discouraging their own investigators from applying for non-NIH grants.

At my institute if you take a non-NIH grant you have to actually "pay back the difference" in lost funding for the institute that is caused by non-NIH grants lowering the institute's indirect rate.
Well, for example, "According to The Vaccine Research Institution..."

Now I just made up that organization. But how can an algorithm tell if it's a legitimate medical institute that develops vaccines or anti-vaxxer propaganda?

If the algorithm actually had a way to distinguish the two, it could blacklist bullshit just as easily as it could disclose it.
For those of us who knew about the incident but not the nitty-gritty details -- "What is Ragel?"

> Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages. Ragel targets C, C++ and ASM. Ragel state machines can not only recognize byte sequences as regular expression machines do, but can also execute code at arbitrary points in the recognition of a regular language.

> What kind of task is Ragel good for?

> Writing robust protocol implementations.
Automate all the things. The more you have automated, the more you can focus on the actual problems and tasks. You may not get any more total work done (by an hours perspective), but your total labor will be much more effective.

Record all the tasks you need to do, prioritize and track them. Once they're out of your head, like with automation, you're doing more with less. Your mind can focus on the present and not the future, or the past by second-guessing (did I finish X?). I find that being more "present" (in this sense) keeps my motivation going.

Regarding sleepiness, I found that eliminating sodas (as a source of caffeine, still have caffeine but in a twice-a-day cup of espresso and yerba mate) greatly reduced my afternoon sleepiness. Along with general improvements to fitness (running, soccer, BJJ, bodyweight strength/conditioning classes, in my case). Being fitter (less excess fat on my body, able to run for an hour or more without exhaustion) has led to better wakefulness throughout the day (this is a process, initially I was much more tired for the first month or so).
I seem to recall (from my thermo fluids course) that its the thermal efficiency of the materials that determines that ticker walls triple glazing etc.

And not all house can be built with an ideal orientation
The downside is that Okta pricing (https://www.okta.com/pricing/) appears to be per User, instead of usage based (per API call) the way Stormpath is. This will make a migration much tougher. Auth0 appears to have better pricing imho (https://auth0.com/pricing).
The Wire is a perfect (if fictional) illustration of this fact.
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Yes - we had a power cut recently and when I went outside you could see it was affecting every third house, i.e. just a single phase had gone. Reported it and it was fixed promptly.
What would a smashing success look like to Facebook?

Tinfoil hat on: a smashing success for them is controlling everyones online life.

See: the Whatsapp acquisition - burning a double digit number of billions on a profitable platform just to remove their one source of income and USP so as to get even more juicy metadata and eyeballs.

(Yes, I was a huge fan of Whatsapp. Yes, so much that I expected them to manage to stay true to their ideals after the acquisition.

Yes, I tried to believe Facebook actually just wanted a part in what Whatsapp was about to become.

Fool me once something something )
Again i suspect it depends on when and where one look around (never mind that every Mac has that "WITNESS ME!" spotlight on the lid).

There are certain industries etc that is very heavy Mac users, media production in particular. They crop up in the weirdest of ads because the production staff use them for example. But for the rest of the nation it is Windows all the way.

The only people i know personally that own a Mac musicians or in the ads/marketing/graphics business. And i think the latter, as much as the _nix internals, that has made Mac a web dev fixture.
If a Border Agent Asks You to Unlock Your Phone
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there"

I would suggest write your thoughts down. Don't aim to write down your ideas, write to generate ideas. Just whatever comes to your mind. Unfiltered. Do not worry about it being crazy. Will help with decluttering your mind and maybe even generate some good ideas along the way.
IBM's PR in AI and now this is nauseating. They are discrediting the tech industry by repeatedly promising more than they can deliver. I wonder if their PR team even speaks with their engineers, who must be cringing.
Didn't the majority of voters _not_ vote for Trump?

The massive voter base is still the minority and it's easier to blame meme magic than to re-evaluate a dysfunctional system of democracy.
In the bitcoin "niche" there is something like this but i think you pay per day or hour. Anyway i think this is a great idea which i would love to use but probably hard to get started. I registered and hope you send out emails if things get started :)
Check out LMMS (Let's Make Music). It's like Ableton for Linux and already has VST's like Hydrogen, etc. built into the software itself: https://lmms.io/
Spanning problem space
Disclosure is not currently an option
Apple has also been aiming heavily towards students, to the point of setting up mini-stores in university libraries (never mind offering discounts).
I've experienced that directly more than once. Trying to use a credit card online to purchase from a merchant that the banks --- all of them! --- refused to process my payment. This was for legal products from an established seller.

The banks were happy to charge a big fee to send a bank wire or cashiers check. Just wouldn't deal with a credit card.

It's obviously because the bank ends up on the hook for liability in the case of disputed or reversed charges. They judged that market to be too likely to result in their losses so they simply refused to let me do business with the seller I wanted to use.
Are you really seeing all that loading on the site? Where are you located? The only tracking code being included by us is Google Analytics. There are 4 youtube embeds on the page too that could be loading in some other code.
A great case study in "The Web is hard."

I stumbled on this earlier this week: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/838504217731948544 and found it amusing but confusing in two ways:

1) The prompt is pointing to the "Secure" icon; I thought it was asking me if I wanted to downgrade my protocol to HTTP.

2) The domain "google" made me and several others wonder if there was a hosts file entry for "google", which turns out there isn't.

No, of course, the real problem is much more complicated; a strange twist of omnibar meets DNS meets HSTS. This is definitely an edge case, but might be a glimpse into the complicated future of gTLDs and the emergence of ever-more web standards...
I think the way you fix a situation like this is to create new, informal institutions. Young people have to feel empowered and have pride in building small communities, and by extension, small businesses. There will always be pressure from others to stop screwing around in the dirt, but you have to preserve and have the desire to want to be living with uncertainty. Over decades I think you can chip away at the fossilized foundations of old institutions (big government, big business, the schools that feed into it and the cultural lockdown they have on young people)
Probably rather what is called "street smart"?

I'm actually currently reading a good book on that topic, "Narconomics: How to run a drug cartel"[1]. One chapter is about "the people problems of a cartel", because they have huge HR issues. The problem is that you can't officially hire good people, like regular business can do. So they have to refrain to personal connections. Training is another problem. The main training facility are prisons.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Wainwright-Narconomics-Cartel-Har...
most wanted:
* generics
* better package management
* gui libraries
* better documents
csg.js is a computational solid geometry 3D library for Javascript.

https://github.com/williame/csg.js is a fork where I made some performance improvements when I used it in a Ludum Dare game; dev vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zjz-hpm8No
Except we know that we're only getting closer to the original sound. We're making a lot of guesses based on surviving instruments (in some case only known from paintings or woodcuts in books though) and surviving texts about how to play music, or diary notes, or notations on scores which were used by people teaching or learning. We don't actually know how any of it really sounded.

Which is, really, the same problem we've got with Shakespeare. Without really good footage of several performances, we can't really know how Shakespeare plays were really performed, we can just get as close as we can from the surviving evidence.

If I ever got a lift with the Doctor I would ask to go back to the 16th century and record as much music as possible.
As our local swimming pool built in the shape of a pyramid found out - they had to get so much custom one off stuff made it increased the cost a lot.
Don't go poacher hunting yourself, arm and pay some locals to do it - help the community and all that, discourage the kind of desperation that leads to poaching in the first place.
> I've never killed anyone, although I can think of one instance where I considered it and would certainly have gotten away with it. It would have been a big hassle, though, and honestly who wants that on their conscience?

HN is not your shrink. I would avoid making these kinds of admissions on a public forum.
> They're not a nonprofit.

For-profit & permissive licensing aren't mutually exclusive. For-profits can release their material with permissible licenses too.

I think the parent's criticisms are valid. Consider YC's corporate mission [1]:

> Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter

It would stand to reason that many more people around the world could benefit from free course materials (as in freedom, not beer). The choice to make materials nonfree will significantly limit their distribution and derivative works, thereby reducing the amount of innovation enabled, and contradicting their own "enable maximum innovation" mission statement.

EDIT: And now sandslash has confirmed that Creative Commons is the ultimate intent. Clearly YC intends to remain consistent with it's core principles. I applaud them!
1. Brush

2. Meditate for 20 min.

3. Weight train.

4. Have a smoothie.

5. Read for half an hour.

6. Journal

7. Do anything "creative" for two hours
Not in practice. To completely simulate the CRT refresh, you'd need to flash each pixel separately along the electron gun path. If your LCD has 1,000,000 pixels, you'd need 1,000,000 times faster refresh rate to do that.
There are also services that let you run arbitrary Python code in the browser, e.g. [1].

[1] https://trinket.io/
"you'd get complete silence most of the time"

This is caller software. They figured it was too wasteful to have operators waiting for the phone for you to answer, so a machine dials you and when you answer its supposed to patch you into an operator. Obviously if they're are more calls then operators, you wait, or just hang up....