skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in fact somewhat of a real problem. Mathematics is kind of meant to be learned while interacting other humans, not in pure cold isolation. A lot of what you absorb with other humans is how to pronounce things. A simple example for example is learning to pronounce binomial coefficients as "5 choose 2" or knowing that ŷ is pronounced "y hat".

Something kind of similar happens in hackerdom, where you may learn to pronounce "/etc" as "slash etsy" or "!" as "bang".
Me. And you're you.

Article has an obvious slant, but as someone who's been to the area I'd agree that anyone who can't enjoy being there is too first world needy and/or lacks imagination.
Depends on the school.

At MIT, Course 6 is Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 6-3 is Computer Science and Engineering and corresponds to a classic CS degree. 6-1 is more of a classic EE degree.
Guess: Franchises have more flexibility in their revenue model. Somebody will be bidding billions for broadcast rights whether OTA, premium cable, or streaming. ESPN has a ton of inertia to overcome and an uncertain future if they can't rely on an ever-growing "bundled" subscriber base.
It doesn't really matter to ESPN if people watch all of Sportscenter or not.
There's an accurate description of black powder production in Cormac McCarthy's The Blood Meridian. Done during a trek through the desert, so they used urine instead of water. I wonder if the urea helps. Anyway, when I was a kid, I had an old recipe book. I used gum Arabic as a binder.
Excellent observation.
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It's definitely more than just Facebook. Every major network equipment vendor already provides SDNs, including Cisco, and HP, who has an entire site and app store dedicated to SDN.

2015: Cisco's SDN business is booming. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240240260/Cisco-software...

2016: Top 10 SDN market leaders: "market is set to top $12.5 billion by 2020" ... "SDN in the data center and enterprise LAN is going to go mainstream in late 2016, early 2017," ... "We're seeing significant customer deployment. Cisco's got over 1,000 deployed customers for their SDN solution. VMware is around the same number, even though revenue might be higher on the VMware side. NEC has over 250 scaled deployment customers."

http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/networking/300079644/top-10-s...

Just as an example, Cisco's been running Linux on its new gear for years. They can run multiple OSes in different planes on their custom gear and get crazy fast traffic flows while doing things like deep packet inspection. They wrote custom interfaces to do things like get super-low-latency traffic control.

You can make your own Python apps, and run them when triggered by an event, on the appliance or remotely, with several APIs. You can use Ansible, Puppet and Chef to manage the appliance configuration. You can also configure them with netconf, or XMPP. You can have your switches send you instant messages or post in your ops chatrooms. And you can deploy all your devices from a clean slate using kickstart scripts.

Automating with NX-OS https://www.slideshare.net/CiscoDevNet/automating-with-nxos-...
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> The lack of apps was a real issue though.

About apps: recently -- i.e. just during the past few weeks -- I've been seeing adaptations of top-tier designr board-games -- e.g. Terra Mystica and Galaxy Trucker -- showing up for Windows Phone, in addition to iOS/Android. Previously, adaptations like this were essentially unheard of.

I've been wondering what has changed to make this happen, if anyone has any ideas -- e.g. have Windows Phone tablets reached a critical mass that would make Windows Phone an increasingly attractive platform for these games?
ok , so DPRK is installing spyware on tablets that are sold in DPRK.

Reading this article, it occurs to me that it's not very different than the surveillance that the NSA is performing on US Citizens, except the NSA is smarter about it and taps the network access, at the network provider.
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"If you see any article that tries to blame ESPN’s economic struggles on the 'liberal' tilt of the network, use those to line your birdcage. First, it’s not true. Second, it seems to be a reaction to the fact that ESPN actually has a laudable commitment to diversity and putting women, black people, and people of color in a position to actually talk about sports. This sends the alt-right sewers of the Internet and their minions at publications like the National Review into fits of hysterics. It’s an unserious argument made by unserious people."

https://www.thenation.com/article/why-the-espn-layoffs-are-s...
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> We have enough CPU performance that we can be a wasteful

This argument can't apply to an entire system with all its layers of abstraction. For example, if web browser developers had this attitude, the modern web could never exist -- the platform just wouldn't be fast enough. Every performance gain to things like CPU architectures or programming languages means more opportunities to "waste" the gain at a higher level on things like nice UI or ease of development.
is losing viewers because of politicization of content

They're losing viewers because we're turning away from television. That much is obvious to all. There are many ways to view, every event has countless streams, we get our sports news in granular form on our mobile, etc.

However in the wake of that, some very sad people have decided to get on their soapbox and claim that they're really declining because they don't parrot whatever their personal position is. I've seen these people claim that ESPN is faltering because they have a problem with players who rape or beat women. Others -- the same ones who say that they don't want it to be "preachy" -- get up in arms if ESPN isn't preachily attacking the Colin Kaepernick's of the world. Etc.

So as is often the case, the most partisan of all are the ones claiming that everything is some crazy partisan slant.
MyBatis is great for Java as well.
This is my favorite argument against economic sanctions. Ruining the economy of a country only pushes society into dependence of the political clique that controls the state. On the other hand, economic growth and an abundance of goods breeds individualism and that is one of the incubators of democracy.
This is one of the main reasons I've stopped taking lunch at my desk. I cheat a bit, eat my lunch right before my long break while I'm getting to a stopping point, then put on my headphones, leave my desk, and wander around our campus for an hour on foot.

The music relaxes me and doesn't let me focus on any surrounding snippets of conversation, and I just let my mind wander along with my feet as I traverse our campus with no particular destination. (Our "office building" was originally an old mall, so it's huge and spacious.) This is surprisingly refreshing, and I usually find that I arrive at my desk energized mentally by the end of the hour.
Netbooks are also much more serviceable than tablets. At $20 a pop screens can basically be thought of as a wear item if you've got a large enough fleet deployed.
If you haven't heard of Shai Simonson I suggest checking out his ArsDigita University[0] lectures[1] (from which I studied Theory of Computation[2] back in late 2011).

He's a superb lecturer, and I owe him a debt of gratitude for his recorded classes.

[0]: http://www.aduni.org/

[1]: https://adunivids.neocities.org/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6GBVIifZA
100k more, not 100k total.
As long as you make it perfectly clear to the user, this should be fine.

Not sure if anyone would be up for it though---I mean I certainly wouldn't. Sure it would remove the volatility but that volatility could give the user massive profits. Just look at the BTC price right now!
Its worse than just notational differences (which probably could be solved good-enough with crowdsourcing).

The bigger problem is that there is often not a simple English description for math terms, whose meaning might involve understanding concepts that take books to explain.

For example, consider the simple sentence "Let x be an arbitrary vector". What is a vector? There is no clear answer to this question. Formally speaking a vector is simply an element of the set V where V is the underlying set for some vector space. You could try to say that V is an ordered pair of n real numbers, which is true up to isomorphism for finite dimensional vector spaces over the real numbers. But, x could also be the function f(x)=x^2, or the matrix [3, 4; 7, 1+i]. In some contexts, the translator might be able to tell from context what vector space is being worked in. But if the source is a general statement about vector spaces (even if made in support of a more concrete point), there is no way to explain it without explaining the concept of a vector space. To explain vector spaces one would need to, at a minimum, explain fields.

There is also a question of which description to use. For example, suppose we needed to define complex numbers. In some contexts, it is most natural to think of them as points on the xy-plane, which is simple enough (although does not give intuition above what multiplication means, which is arguably an essential component of the "true" meaning of complex numbers). In other contexts, it is more natural to think of them as matrices of the form [a -b; b a]. Attempting to show all the (equivelent) meanings would likely overwhelm the intended user of the service.
The law is pedantic. Perhaps unnecessarily so, but an awful lot of law is there specifically to address issues that have come up due to prior ambiguities. That old saying comes to mind: "Don't tear down a fence until you know what's on the other side."

On that note, I think there is a real and significant difference between just doing the math and doing the math and then telling people about it, especially when you're telling people about it under the guise of your engineering expertise. Similarly, there's a difference between me reading this document, and me reading this document and then writing this comment, especially if I were claiming to have expertise in the law. (Though just to be clear, I am not a lawyer.)

You're right that there are separate offenses: asserting that he is an engineer, and practicing engineering. But the practicing engineering goes beyond simply doing the math. As section 8 of the document describes, it involves "Applying special knowledge of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to such professional services or creative work as consultation, investigation, testimony, evaluation, planning, design and services during construction, manufacture or fabrication for the purpose of ensuring compliance with specifications and design, in connection with any public or private utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works or projects."

So doing the math is not independent. The statute makes explicit that "special knowledge of the mathematical... sciences" must be "[applied] to such professional services or creative work as [examples]."

Again, I'll agree that the law may be more pedantic than it ought to be. But "doing math without a license" genuinely misdescribes the issue in a way that should be clear with a reading of that paragraph. I'd expect better from a news agency that tries to be reputable, rather than trying to simply draw clicks and generate outrage.
Yeah, as others have noted, the default for Rails is definitely not Mongo. SQLite is the default and thus ends up getting used a lot in development. Production is a relatively even split between Postgres and MySQL, although I think it tilts slightly towards Postgres in part because that's the default on Heroku. (I have no data to back this up, just my sense of things.)
It's amazing that someone would go through all that trouble and get that detail wrong. There is also the RIAA correction curve to take care of (that was my first encounter with that acronym). The sound played back is pretty eerie, probably some day some alien somewhere will replay our planet earth gold plated recording like that and wonder why our sound encoding sucks if at the same time we can make spacecraft.

See also:

http://irene.lbl.gov/

There was also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

They were about to go mainstream when the CD happened.
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Those are hardware issues with devices from that era, and have little to do with the OS. The iPhone 1 was far more powerful than the CE devices.
Um, can you explain it like I am 5, why this is a Holy Shit thing?
No, we don't "have that as well". If you can't see the difference between censorship in China and US then i don't know what to say.
> I'm not trying to make implicit assumptions, that question was rhetorical and answered in the next sentence.

Ok, so I'll guess you are assuming it is easy to detect and punish irregular mining then.

I agree and understand your point as how the increased propensity for illegal mining can be combated.

I think it was not exactly cynical, and that's coming from someone who supports El Salvador's action. We need clarification of all possible issues to understand how to act on them, but I guess at this point it's a difference on how each one of us took the statement.

That was a good discussion though.
Yet most employers would prefer to see the college degree
Ask HN: How do you name your side projects?
Any particular name scheme you adopt? Some way of generating project names?

Question inspired by mpj [1], who has some amusing ways of thinking of names for projects in his videos.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/mpjmevideos
The performance is not the relevant part. If it's fast enough, it's enough. Then other things matter. For me, that "then" is already reached.
Oh, that's what you were getting at. I suppose so, but it feels like that scene was played up for laughs because of how fake Anne felt the conversation, which completely went over Sheldon's head.
When you say "creating a high throughput brain machine interface" are you referring to general AI? That's the one silver bullet that solves all other problems.
> That's now 2 things I can't use; loopsofzen.co.uk and behindthesofa. I really hope this doesn't get more common else I'll essentially get locked out of the Internet.

I could reach both https://ct.filippo.io/ and https://loopsofzen.uk/ over Teredo, so that can be an option even if your ISP or router don't have working IPv6.
Seriously? Looks like a quick way to get rejected, or at least be regarded negatively.
Here's a link to the talk from 33c3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAtWwadP6CY
That translates fairly well into Python, with its set type and list/set/dict comprehensions.

def setrange(first, next, last):
return set(range(first, last+1, next-first))

fizz = setrange(3, 6, 100)
buzz = setrange(5, 10, 100)
fizzbuzz = fizz & buzz
fizz -= fizzbuzz
buzz -= fizzbuzz
num = setrange(1, 2, 100) - fizz - buzz - fizzbuzz
line_map = dict({n: "Fizz" for n in fizz}.items() +
{n: "Buzz" for n in buzz}.items() +
{n: "FizzBuzz" for n in fizzbuzz}.items() +
{n: n for n in num}.items())
for i in range(1, 100+1):
print(line_map[i])

Some SETL features Python lacks:

• No ellipsis notation for ranges; must use the "range" function and add one to the maximum value, or define a custom "setrange" function

• Can't concatenate dictionaries; must concatenate their "items" lists and convert back to a dictionary

• No consistent map-lookup notation; collections are indexed with brackets, but functions are called with parentheses
It's awesome to see there is still development! I am a long time rockbox user.

If I may ask, what can I do to help, and what DAPs would you recommend?
I'd be careful about being so infatuated by school name - for example, I went to a state school in undergrad that most not from NY probably heard of. My peers in my majors went on to finish PhDs in math, physics, economics, and attend prestigious programs at schools like MIT. In addition, one of the smartest people in my PhD program in math at UIUC graduated from Cal State Long Beach - he was smarter than just about everyone else in the PhD program. I also have another smart friend who is a college dropout - he currently is a standout at Google.

Don't use any metric other than performance to judge people. You will find many surprises in the world, and smart people who have many unique stories to tell.
ESPN is paid by cable subscriber, regardless of whether they watch sports.

Most people (>50% iirc) don't watch sports, but because of the arrangement described above most cable subscribers end up subsidizing it.

As a result: Selling sports directly to people who watch it dramatically undercuts their business model.
> How's Microsoft's "Surface" thing doing?

Recent iterations of Microsoft's Surface tablets seem to be doing well [0]:

In those early days, the Surface was looking less like an Xbox-style home run for Microsoft, and more a Zune -like fiasco.

But that's all ancient history -- call it the Ballmerzoic Era. The 2014 Surface Pro 3 became what Microsoft always hoped it would be: the flagship device for touch computing on Windows, the go-to alternative for those who wanted both a tablet and a laptop without feeling shortchanged on either front. The Surface Pro 4 refines the hardware formula even further, and with Windows 10 on board rather than Windows 8, the platform's final big compromise evaporates too. Now, the Surface line is the design leader: Apple's upcoming iPad Pro and Google's Pixel C tablets are the ones aping Microsoft's design, adding snap-on keyboards and ramping up the multitasking chops of their touch-first operating systems.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/uk/products/microsoft-surface-pro-4/rev...
if this is the extent of your difficulties when reading mathematics, I don't think this article is for you...
Careful with this if you want to use it for partitioning data (it was atleast true till 9.6 in my experiments). You will never hit the exclusion parameter and consequently end up scanning all the child tables in vain.

Hopefully the partitioning thing is soon fixed 'properly'.
Yes, there are resource controls in MS SQL server as well.
There is a big difference. A compromised device would mean that _everything_ you do is being open to surveillance. Passive taps limits the eavesdropper to rely on either the transport being unencrypted or vulnerabilities in related software. In other words, passive network surveillance will only reliably provide a limited subset of information, such as meta-data, rather then content of the payload which may or may not be available to the organisation undertaking the surveillance.

WhatsApp can't defend against screenshots on your device.
The article states -

It runs in the background and takes a screenshot every time the user opens an app.
Hah! super cool I didn't catch the chip ID in the title right away but then I read your comment and I immediately knew what chip it was. I built the same reference circuit, and remember scrounging pots and switches from many tv's and radios hauled home from the garbage.
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The NSA isn't attempting to control what you do on your devices in any way.
Sports franchise values are increasing, in general, because they're artificially limited in number (there are only 32 NFL teams) and specifically because of (a) increased rights fees,
(b) rising value of local broadcast deals, especially in large markets like LA and NY and (c) taxpayer-subsidized stadiums. At the same time, there's more competition than ever for the national broadcast deals which is why ESPN had to overpay for its NFL and NBA deals. And those broadcasting rights keep decreasing in value as each league gets to sell its product multiple times (for the NFL there are games on broadcast networks, ESPN, streaming-only games, NFL network games, Sunday Ticket, and RedZone). ESPN is in a bad spot since they have to have NFL games, because even though their Sunday Night Football deal only lets them air one (usually terrible) game a week, it means they get to fill their network the rest of the time with NFL highlight / analysis shows.
That's the issue. All the people I interacted with are generally afraid of putting their money in bitcoin because of the volatility. Sure, people with interests in bitcoin trading would definitely not like that, but for normal people it would be a no-brainer since they can get out the same amount of money they put in, as they do with banks.
I find the Django docs a bit more digestible then PG docs, personally.

It's because of the Django docs that I've learned about a few of those awesome fields types.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/postgres/...
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> MIT is an institution of higher learning.

MIT Technology Review is not an institution of higher learning. It's a magazine supposedly focused on reporting about science and technology.

> When the president says that climate change is a hoax

The tweet I mentioned had nothing to do with climate change...not sure where you got that from.

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/858577857110528000
Serious Advice: Remove the graduation date from your resume. Most companies at an institutional level don't care when you got your degree so long as you have one. Specific people might care if it comes up but not enough to make a point of it. They're generally perfectly happy to hire you based on your interview performance.

Source: Have been involved in hiring at giant software corp
> I would imagine more people would go and buy just that instead of getting a cable package. They can also start charging a reasonable amount based on what it costs to produce the content.

ESPN probably expected that as well. In the US, you would expect almost any sports channel to have enough fans to make a profit. If people are going to drop channels they don't want, you would expect sports channels to be immune.

Apparently it hasn't turned out that way.

I can say that the last three times I went shopping for cable TV, the sports bundle was extra. Personally, I like hockey, but not much else. I would be happy to pay $7 a month for hockey games, but I wasn't given that option. I needed to pay much more, for a much larger bundle, and I chose to live without it.
I've found that it's better to have queries be pretty simple and do any necessary complex aggregations or analysis in the app tier since it's better to let the database's CPU think about doing I/O and cache management rather than business logic. It's also easier to scale out the app tier as you can bring app tier instances up and down easily via AWS vs having to copy a lot of data around to bring up a database replica.
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Even before the Weimar Republic Germany already had many democratic elements. There were political parties, a constitution, checks and balances for governing officers and a somewhat free press. The Kaiser could not rule despotically and had to take public opinion into account.
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Yes, he is probably talking about Smalltalk-style OO:

https://medium.com/@richardeng/domo-arigato-mr-smalltalk-aa8...

He's also the subject of this article: https://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-p..., which made the front page of HN a while back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642947)