skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the equation is very different if you major in STEM rather than humanities or social sciences. An internship at Surfer would probably help you if you're an English major hoping to break into publishing or magazines, and I don't think a year off really harms your writing or reading skills the same way your math skills can atrophy if left unused. My only basis for this assertion is that I was a double math and English major, and I'd definitely say this is the case in my life, but I don't have any study to back it up.

A gap year between high school AP calculus and the much faster science and engineering track "Calc through Differential Equations" sequence at a rigorous university, on the other hand, could be very risky. Especially in schools like the UC system where many popular STEM majors are "impacted" and you may get bounced from the major if your grades are low (I consider this loathsome, failing out kids who might be bright but struggle a bit in their first year, but it's a reality).

I did read that the "eliteness" of your college doesn't really matter if you study STEM, but it makes a big difference if you major in humanities. That may also account for some of the class difference we see in this gap year issue. People who attend expensive, private schools, especially elite ones, and who major in humanities are probably not harmed by a gap year at all. Lower income people who attend state schools and major in STEM probably don't benefit much, and may watch their math get rusty just before they enter a challenging program with minimum GPA cutoffs.
The only weird thing about this product is that it is so expensive. There has been numerous examples of products identical to this one, almost a decade ago I was drooling for one so bad.

I'm blaming apple. The iPad killed eink just as it was about to take off. Who would want a slow black-and-white display when you can have a fancy glossy color display?
Nevermind that you can't read properly on an glossy screen and that the battery life is measured in hours rather than days/weeks.

We lost out on so much potential for the gimmick that is the tablet.
Purely by inference based on ML/MV interactions with various bits of teh Googz, it will depend very much who is asking these questions - the closer you get to the tensor processing unit and its enclosing code, the more you're going to have to really know your stuff - further away in some of the ex-moon shots struggling to survive, I'd personally be surprised if the staff runs a reliable enough A* alg in their own heads to actually get to the room you're seated in - in short, googz is big - closer you get to the core the more hard core I would expect it to be, conversely as you move to the fringes, well that might be what you get :-)
The alternative being what? I think this might be trues simply becase we work for the economy and not the other way around.

To me, we've been sold (though many of us don't believe) this notion that the economy is some kind of natural system that we simply have to accept. I'm not advocating communism necessarily but yes, the economy as designed and implemented may not create a stable middle class world for us to live in naturally, but does that have to mean there cannot be one? I think those who are accumulating the vast majority of the wealth would be happy to see it as natural selection but I think the system is much more artificial than that.

The economy has been tweaked and tuned to favor the wealthy even if it also naturally would do the same thing. Tweaking the system to maintain or increase the standard of living for the society is much easier than convincing said society that it should be done for some reason I have yet to figure out.
Things were better "back then". Wages for bottom 90% have not risen, in real terms, since the 1970s. Income for the top 10% has gone up a lot, by contrast.

Union jobs raised wages for everyone: even though only a third of private-sector jobs were unionized, the threat of unionization pushed most employers to pay well.

In the 1960s, one person could get a blue-collar job and keep a family going in a suburban house, with a car. This was all due to unions.

We have been subjected to thirty years of propaganda about how unions kill jobs, how regulation is bad for jobs, how you should have "freedom to invest your money" (ie a 401-k rather than a company pension). This propaganda is now taken as gospel, and we don't realize it's just a ploy by those with inherited wealth to get a bigger share of the wealth.

BTW, that's how we ended up with Trump. Yes, he's a narcissistic windbag, but people who voted for him had real grievances.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077029
Ask HN: Two factor authentication survey
Last week, I posted on the "Ask HN: What are you working on?" thread about a product I am developing to improve the user experience of two factor authentication for end users [1].

The product will be compatible with any existing site/service that supports software token based 2FA (e.g. AWS, GitHub, Slak, etc) and will greatly simplify the user experience. Users will receive a push notification on their phone and only be required to click a single "allow" button instead of manually entering the 2FA code into their browser.

I created a survey to gather some market research today and tomorrow and would really appreciate if you would take less than 1 minute to fill it out if you currently use a 2FA mobile app: https://goo.gl/forms/aBu23r4D4hGagLn32

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14037459
I just want an external eink display for Mac/windows. I know of only one on a crowdfunding site right now.
Plus if the e-Ink is backlit, it's no longer as easy on the eyes, eliminating it's biggest feature.
How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do with Just Vim
Eight simple but powerful habits that will make you more successful
SGML and XML were invented as a meta-language for encoding semistructured text such as HTML with plain text editor programs, and excels in that use case like nothing else. That XML is abused as config language, payload meta-syntax for web services, for encoding component models, and even as meta-syntax for programming languages is hardly SGML/XML's fault.
> It's funny how multiple people mentioned topology. But the simple response is that you just went in a loop on a plane, because you don't know how to navigate properly.

Yes, plausible explanation, which partly explains how beliefs like this can persist. Ironically, an increase in mathematical and geometric sophistication can produce more convincing alternative models -- for those who want to defend the alternatives.
Web Development in Go
Same here, in addition to long form in Asciidoc FX.

(It is searchable and taggable so I'll use it like

"""#LP12345 #oil +2dl km234567"""

where LP12345 is my license plate number.

That way I can for example always go back and find how much oil my car uses.
Thanks for sharing your experience. People are getting caught up in Ruby v Java v whatever and not seeing the forest for the trees - you have a valuable perspective and an effective way of communicating it. Appreciate it!

May I ask you about your first 'biggest learning': how do you eschew cofounder responsibilities in an early company? Someone who genuinely cares and/or is really interested in the core business (pretty common among first hires of startups) may have a hard time turning work away or willfully not participating in major discussions/planning when they believe their contributions could be valuable. In other words, situations when you know you can contribute but the company will get the 'better end of the deal' as you take on more responsibility without taking on more compensation.

It sounds difficult to ride that out - were you able to do that successfully or are you saying "This happened to me, don't let it happen to you?"
Something like that could potentially be useful for me to see if the scientific software I write/use on Linux is likely to compile/work on various Mac OS X devices (right now I just count on others to complain when things don't work).

And there are plenty of use cases:

* an iOS development offering (as long as iOS development is restricted to Mac OS X)

* security research

* integration with software not available on Linux (e.g. something Photoshoppy)

* hardcore fanboys who can't stomach using anything not ordained by Apple
Generally being in top 10-5% in the 1600's is worse than being top 50-10% now which has little to do with individual merit. So, IMO the focus should be how good your children are off on the absolute scale not just relative to their peers. Because being 'poor' in the star trek universe may be much better than being 'rich' now.

Now, which tends to help society more when it's run by intelligent and well educated or peoples who's grand parents where intelligent and well educated? I would much rather have a CEO that's competent vs. one whose parents knew how to hack Harvard's admissions process. Continuing this line of thinking having a better public education system makes it harder for your child to reach the top X%, but on an absolute scale your child is better off in a well educated society.

Thus, all things being equal, the better influence you have on your child's success the worse off they will likely be.
Is there anything wrong with stock Kobo firmware? My paperwhite is pretty dated and I was thinking of jumping ship.
Well, a good way to use decision trees for that is random forests, and you're right back to something that's not really easily explainable.
No, the most common use of nginx is to put it in front of rails/play/jee/whatever framework that doesn't ship with a full featured web server.
Don't keep encrypted secrets in your git repositories, if for no other reason than that it makes access revocation deceptively difficult --- but also because it encourages you to have a development team in which ordinary devs have a full complement of secrets on their laptops at all times.

Instead, keep secrets "out of band" and supply them to applications as part of your deployment process.
Legalities and contracts aside, I don't see why an airline would allow someone to board, and then remove them. That just can't end well.
Anybody here will to confess they have pushed flat earth, while believing/knowing the earth is round?

I am willing to confess I have pushed sharks are smooth: https://twitter.com/bransonreese/status/848746940179382272
Create a positive atmosphere and stay focused while working
That was the original way (at least the most common way) to do CGI. Nginx as a reverse proxy / load balancer / SSL terminator / static file server pointing to a backend running apache for mod_cgi or mod_fastcgi. And a lot of people would have both web servers running on the same server. You already have a web server, why do you need two?! Just pick one!
There's lots of cool stuff you could automate if you could provision OS X on demand. For example, you could offer an "iMessage proxy service" that proxies text messages it receives through your iMessage account by calling the iMessage app as a black box in the OS X instance. If you want to do this yourself, you can do it of course but your OS X will need to be running 24/7.

Fwiw the same is true if you could virtualize iOS.
there are cloud offerings of OS X. Whether you consider them decent is another matter, but it is legal and is available.
I read that too. Lenovo the top spot? Aaaand we are done here. I am not going to trust any "review"/"ranking" system that doesn't put Lenovo dead last. They were caught 2 times preloading spyware/malware on their machines.
"I'm doing my part, no kids, and I won't be having any. Unfortunately human nature isn't going to change, and we're not going to get out of this one with our civilization intact; we're probably cooked."

Utter nonsense (other than you not having kids, that's your choice).

Market forces will in fact solve the "problem" (to the extent it is one) of excess CO2 output. If it is finally determined that CO2 based warming is problematic, the solution will be advanced technology, including high-intensity energy sources like nuclear power. In the absolute worst case, orbital sunshades or other mitigations will be used to decrease insolation.

The laughable thing about this article is the idea that any amount of spending by the Australian government to "take decisive action on climate change" would help. If Australia completely stopped producing CO2, it would have no measurable effect on water temperatures around the Great Barrier Reef, especially since the argument is that current CO2 levels are causing the problem. Then there's the fact that Australia is a minor contributor to global CO2 emissions...

What's needed on "climate change" is a lot more rational thought, and a lot less hysteria.
Kentucky Coal Museum installs solar panels to save on electricity bills
i wish i could do that. I seem to need 8-9 hours every freakin night and even then i still feel tired sometimes.
And this is really just being considered from the perspective of what Twitter being sold to users means for Twitter shareholders. What about what that means for Twitter's users? Will using Twitter require having to purchase a share of stock on a public exchange? I think it's a pretty bad idea all-around. Unless they're incredibly smart about this (not even sure it's possible to figure out), all of a sudden dilution of Twitter stock is linked with adoption, and voting rights are linked with number of Twitter accounts, and having a Twitter account is linked with ability to purchase stock which is not exactly an anonymous, private thing.
I don't think that is the argument the author is trying to make. Obviously, the 'aggregated' performance of the managers will match the index, minus the fees (assuming every stock is in the index, and there is no adverse selection).

So basically, the argument is that having an active fund manager is increasing your risk while also increasing your potential reward. The expected value is average, while the volatility is higher. While you might think this is an insignificant conclusion, I don't think this fact is obvious; most people aren't expecting that choosing an actively managed fund is increasing their risk.
Even if so, it reflects poorly on Lenovo.
Sounds like it wasn't the normal overbooking procedure - it was overfull because of united employees.
How real are real numbers? (2004)
Very little that airlines do appears logical, looking from the outside in. Especially United. I've never had so much as a mediocre experience flying with them - it's always been notably terrible.
Only in theory. Here in Florida, the traffic in undocumented firearms is huge. Websites for selling, flea markets, gun shows every month, etc. Most states are similar.

--NRA member
Ask HN: What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made
I'm reading comments [1] and wondering what's the most expensive mistake you've ever made?

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/64idzl/digitalocean_accidentally_deleted_production/
Are you serious? This isn't necessary or relevant.
Same here. Tablet screens hurt my brain, and I would love a product like this for annotating papers / articles / textbooks. There's reMarkable coming out later this year, targeted for a more general audience (https://getremarkable.com/) -- hopefully it lives up to the promise, or at least gets more people excited about such a product.

But I'm honestly kind of amazed that something like this isn't already widely available at a reasonable price... I don't feel like my needs are that atypical and it's just the dream product to me.
United airlines forcefully dragged a random doctor off from an overbooked flight
You are too young :). There was a time, when Sony was what Apple today is - the technology giant who puts out amazing new devices all the time. Their advertising slogan "Its not a trick, its a Sony" was justified back then (up to the late 80ies, perhaps early 90ies). But I am very happy to see, that some of that old Sony is coming back.
Due to regulation housing prices have jumped 80% is a big claim. Where is the mention what that regulation is? It just says "regulation". He says it's all due to Browns climate jihad, does he mean title 24? I have a hard time believing title 24 can cause such a housing price increase because it mostly applies to new construction and the extra initial costs of title 24 aren't that expensive. If not title 24 then what? He doesn't say.

They are claiming San Francisco is driving up oil prices significantly statewide and causing an unnecessary burden to the middle class. That's something that can be investigated and discussed, but on first blush it seems hard to believe.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bakersfield-oil-201602...

This article claims that the worldwide slump in oil prices has led to a loss of 50k jobs in kern alone. I'm not sure how San Francisco plays into this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_River_Oil_Field
Implies that field depletion is reducing output.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-say-farewell-kern-county-oil-fi...

Additionally I'm having a hard time understanding how San Francisco banning something, by not renewing a lease to Chevron of 800 acres that does not expire until 2020 is having such an impact. What is the status of that field anyway? Is it depleted or will it near depletion by 2020? All they say is that oil revenues from the field have been declining sharply.

They also say they are looking to lease it to a solar generation company. It sounds like they might be trying to replace the revenue now that the oil revenue is in decline. That doesn't sound that unreasonable. What was Chevrons offer for the lease renewal anyway? Perhaps it wasn't very good and they spun it to score green brownie points with their voters.

You don't have to cite chapter and verse, but if you just name the regulation we can look further into it to educate ourselves and then inform our representatives of our position and vote accordingly. Simply trying to continue making regulation into a boogeyman helps no one. Blowing things out of proportion also doesn't help.
on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079837
I mainly use Lechtum1917 dotted A6 notebook + Micron pen, but when i take less analogue notes, i choose Vim + markdown + dropbox and MarkdownX on smartphone
1. HN

2. Github

3. Reddit
Today must be a fun day to be on United's PR team.
It's quite hard to forge or spoof to anyone except:

* The world governments that control the TLDs and can thus override DNSSEC policy by fiat.

* Any attacker between the CA's resolver and the DNS server, since DNSSEC only protects transations between DNS servers, not between clients and servers.
If you're looking for a set of basic criteria for well-run open source software projects, please check out the CII Best Practices Badge:
https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/

Full disclosure: I lead the project.

Constructive comments very welcome!
No one should ever fly United. This isn't the first time they have been on the wrong end of a big story.
Cheap new laptops are in the sub-$200 range. Most educational content is text or simple videos, both of which can be consumed on a cheap laptop. The cheapest broadband plan from Xfinity in my area is $40/month.

That being said, most people participating in the gig economy need access to the Internet to even participate, so most likely already have both a company and internet access.

The people you should be worrying about are those that have no under-utilized assets to capitalize on such as a car or spare room.
This isn't a viable option for a 40 year old man with limited computer skills (and maybe not even a high school education) and is spending all their free time doing uber to feed and house a family. We can't simply dismiss people for "not working hard/smart enough" when the system is actively working against them to keep them in low-pay jobs
A major part of the 50s & 60s boom was the fact that most of the industrial nations had been turned into rubble in the 40s and the US hadn't. Once the 70s rolled around, the US manufacturers came to grips with serious competition. Some did better than others.

Further, housing for GIs in the 40s and 50s was subsidized, thus changing the entire housing equation, and, further, women had not entered the workforce in large numbers, and, further, we require many more safety features on cars.

These factors all are major portions of the story when comparing against your prototypical factory worker story, and mean that a simple narrative of Unions => Better Life doesn't work. Although unions do need to become much stronger in American life, they won't unspool us back to the prior era.

and, tacking a paragraph on in my edit: probably want to talk to some black people about how great those years were. It's entirely plausible that some of the White American prosperity was due to heavily underpaying the Black Americans and treating them very poorly.
> the Thinkpad line was not affected

Correct.

> wasn't it a external partner that planted the rootkit?

Nope. The first time it was 3rd party software, Superfish, but Lenovo installed it and installed a self-signing root certificate authority to MITM the traffic[0]. The second time it was Lenovo's own software, Lenovo Service Engine, which they also installed themselves[1].

[0]: http://www.zdnet.com/article/superfish-stop-using-your-lenov...

[1]: http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-soft...
And here I want an LCD without backlight or an eink external display. Overlaying one on top of the other might make some interesting things possible though.
Dell at 3rd and HP at 4th. Pretty sure whoever they surveyed doesn't use laptops.
I used to farm fish too, and they are simple enough that I am okay with eating them.

The level of intelligence I will eat, between chicken and fish, is totally arbitrary.

I think this is true for anyone who is not actually vegetarian.

The next level down is insects and oysters, I suppose.
Someone on a different message board put this situation very well: By the letter of the law, United was correct - morally, they were not. Their 'contract of carriage' allows them to IDB (Involuntary Deny Boarding) to passengers due to overselling, and bump people off at-will. Depending on how delayed the passenger would be to their final destination, they would owe compensation (up to a max of $1350) for the trouble.

Unfortunately, the way this played out was pretty terrible. My hope would be that events like this could move United (and other airlines) to having more transparent overbooking policies and compensating people fairly, but that's not likely.
I always imagined a minecraft currency would be block-chain for some reason
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To clarify my comment from last night: the following code[1]:

x:address:array:char <- new [abc]

would look like this in memory, assuming the allocator returned address 1000 as the value of x:

1000: 3
1001: 97 # a
1002: 98 # b
1003: 99 # c

That's it. There's no trailing null character. Address 1004 is not part of this allocation.

The length of the array cannot be modified, only read (using instruction length). If we need a larger array we must allocate new and copy over, just like in C.

The elements of an array can be read and written using instructions index and put-index, respectively. Here's a fragment of code to make the final character of x a backslash:

len:num <- length *x
last:num <- subtract len, 1
put-index *x, last, 92 # ascii code for backslash

[1] The verbose "address:array:char" (read as "address to an array of characters") is typically abbreviated as "text" in Mu programs. I've written out the full type to make things more explicit.
Webfaction has been doing it that way since roughly 2008, initially introduced as a way to speed up serving of static files.

https://blog.webfaction.com/2008/12/a-little-holiday-present...
Link to actual ratings: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings
Again framing:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/14/the-united-states-used-d...