skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite.

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365155890/

"S32 Ep6: Secret State of North Korea"

There are some really funny parts where citizens who are doing illegal things berate the officers who are trying to enforce the laws. It seems rather unlike a state with a firm grip on its populace.

High rates of growth are impressive but also not hard given how much of a backwater NK was. We'll see if it continues. China succeeded because they liberalized and have a massive populace. NK simply doesn't have that and is isolated from the world community. How long can that growth continue and if it stops, will the locals accept it?

Oh, and PBS has lots of good online video content. They're worth supporting.
Yeah that's actually something I'm surprised never happened come to think of it.
I would be interested in that. Do any of these solutions include source protection or v8 snapshots? I think I saw that the overhead of using snapshots is negligible with a recent update of v8 (at least according to the author of nwjs).
I feel this post could be edited to as "Learn a pinch of Latex in 30 minutes"....for some people title could be ambiguous...frankly we can't learn anything in 30 minutes...we just get a feel of any skills or concept....the concept of really learning is when we could put something to practical...if we couldn't put anything to practical its not learning but just skimming through the concepts.
I think that's already understood about Wikipedia without the need to block the service entirely.

Clearly Turkey's President is sensitive of anything written negatively about him or his admin and is closing access to anything that contains that, just like China, Iran, etc.
Just follow the link I gave and go to the Chromebook category. Or type in the product name in the search bar. Dustinhome.se is my go to shop mostly because of fair pricing and nice support.
This era of digital media and unprecedented discoverability amplifies our differences and similarities. Counter-culture and subcultures find, share, fork, and reinforce ideas faster than ever before. The blandness of mainstream media is a red herring, that content was always designed for mass appeal and it's now appealing to a far wider audience than ever before...
Government can not be "alternative" to private business, for the simple reason they are fundamentally unequal. Government can use coercion to achieve its goals, private business can not (unless, of course, they capture a part of government, thus producing the worst of both worlds). Government can force people to consume certain products and avoid consuming others. Government can use coercion to extract money to cover economically deficient strategies. Government is largely immune from the consequences of their mistakes, even disastrous ones - if a private business does a mistake that harms people, they can be fined, or even put out of business, but if a government agency does it, it usually ends up with somebody getting early retirement with full benefits, and that's it. There can be no fair competition if one of the competitors vastly overpowers the others and can destroy any of them on a whim. That's why government's activity is called "interfering", not "providing alternative" - because of fundamental inequality of positions and capabilities.
HumBee: India's First Political Social Network
Nah we use the word "Chinese food" in China too when we need to distinguish from other cuisines. We also use "western food" a lot when we talk about any European or American food.
To answer your example question:

\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}

Then you can simply use:

\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item The first item
\item The second item
\item The third etc
\end{enumerate}

Other label types are very intuitive this way.

I could have pulled this from an old document I made, no memorizing neccesary. It is also very easy to find using a search engine, as I did in this case: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208696/using-enumera...
I agree that there are many reasons why someone can "fail" a technical interview (I wrote about some of them here[0]). It's just as important "how" you solve the problem and that you come off as someone people will want to work with.

[0] http://reginaldlong.com/i-failed-my-tech-interview-and-i-don...
> no way, no how were they going to deploy any software without that kind of parachute based on economic leverage.

Making software work at scale without that economic leverage could never work in theory. It only works in practice.
Already did it for the latinamerican market, but haven't launched it and probably never will. Banking is not hard, it's just too regulated for the mere mortal.

http://fonpago.com
Turkey is big and important enough (NATO + bridge with that area) not to care what others think.

Erdogan hates a FB posting or Wikipedia article? Ban them! Of course they aren't going to remove everything that displease an up and coming dictator. I think Turkey was saved until now by military coups.
MIT Mathematician spins up 220,000-core Google Compute cluster
I never said he wasn't :)
Deformable Convolutional Networks
> I haven't seen that figure anywhere

Where "anywhere" includes the NPR article under discussion, conveniently linked to in the discussion title?
Week 17 in Information Security, 2017
True enough. But I agree with OP in that being "good" with LaTeX is essentially just memorizing lots of commands. I've never written a document without having to constantly search for specific commands.
This little robot provides a way to keep your pets off the table or counter
I know nothing about ML, but I'm willing to read manuals, write scripts, and deal with tedious technical stuff; is it feasible to use[1] this without really understanding how it works?

[1] "Use" being defined as having short spoken phrases[2] trigger my scripts.
[2] I'm willing to accept significant restrictions on the nature of these phrases, such as intentionally making them sound very different.
Besides Googling for tricks, another way of learning LaTeX is to download the source code for nice-looking papers that you find on the arXiv.

For example, for "Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent" arXiv:1606.04474 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474), if you click on Download->Other formats, you get the latex source code and in this case also the Omnigraffle files for the diagrams.
What terrible career advice do you see repeated here over and over again?
My friend pointed out today that he can't see my comments on HN. I think we're both hellbanned, just letting you know.
I'm neither wealthy nor a New Yorker and I subscribe... . I care about democracy and freedom too.
We're not running up against those topological constraints yet. Consider Capitol Hill, rent is sky rocketing near Pike/Pine/Cal Anderson... yet there are blocks and blocks of single-family 2 story homes.
I believe this works fine with credit/debit cards. I thought all debit cards were credit/debit these days.
I really enjoyed the elegant combination of Theano/Lasagne [1] and Wyrm [2].

[1] https://github.com/Lasagne/Lasagne
[2] https://github.com/bbci/wyrm
There are tens of thousands of teslas out there already with automatic doors.
Those things are not mutually exclusive.
I'm too young to have a wide enough frame of reference, and I'm sure a lot of this can be marked up to the type of stories that sell clicks.
But I can't help but to think that lately the news reads like a history textbook explaining the political situations that led up to a world war.
Not the case of Turkey, but for the rest of the world, this is the response of the people to the "if you don't like globalism, deal with it" attitude from our leaders.
Probably, to some extent. There is no way to sell Coca-Cola rather than by extreme level of salesmanship because nobody really needs it. At the same time you won't see any advertisement for tap water.
That's already built into our understanding of what "$44b" is. If not, then all values should be inflated by 10x, which would keep the $44b at the same ratio of the total pie - which is to say nothing.
Can you point me to any evidence that Erdogan is acting in good faith at all?
> The whole article reads like parody tbh

The "I've now changed my mind" bit seems suspicious, like he planned it out from the very first article. I suspect he'll publish a third piece in a few weeks saying neither term sounds OK, then suggest his own new term that "just occurred to him". Of course all 3 articles will have been a marketing strategy for the new term from the very beginning.

I personally like "open software" (without the "source") because it sounds like it includes the important ideas from both "free (libre)" and "open source", but without suggesting anything about a free price. It also suggests an "open process" of development, something lacking in many free(libre) and open source projects.
WYGIWLTWBFY

What You Get Is What LaTeX Thought Was Best For You. So, images spreading to the margins of the page, a block of whitespace on the next page, lots of weird characters instead of your local characters and lots of more obscure stuff.
I haven't tried it. I just use SSH on Cygwin nowadays... Will probably just use SSH directly on ubuntu if I get windows 10 some day.
Brain-to-text
I am dumbstruck :|.
When a noted hacker dies, the community usually mourns them. We all talk about how they impacted our life -- as we should.

When some political ruckus erupts, either we all gang together in our pre-defined groups and throw monkey poo at one another -- or we ignore it. HN has been better than most places at trying to ignore politics.

But every so often there's a story like Turkey -- it's politics, it non-nerd-related, and it's tragic.

We are watching a modern country go down the toilet, one little bit at a time. It's a slow motion train wreck where it's not just one person we'll mourn: it's an entire country.

My heart goes out to my friends living in Turkey and the rest of those folks who have to live through this. This is the rare story that I think folks all over can agree is an extremely sad one.

I'd love to Monday-morning quarterback this thing, talk about how NATO membership needs to be withdrawn and so forth -- but it's just too tragic right now. It's too much.
Artificial Intelligence: Chess match of the century
If you are generating the HTML using data from a JSON schema (like JSON Resume) then HTML is a good enough way since the data is easy to handle. Raw HTML would be a very big pain once you want to generate tailored resumes based on some input criteria.

LaTeX and JSON schema based resumes both offer modularization and help with generation of tailored resumes. I don't find any other advantages IMO.
A LOT of spam originates from EC2, to the point that many major email providers have blocked all of EC2.
A good example would be how in the last decade several cities in California were allowed to "fail". IIRC there was an NPR segment on it or something. Anyways it was disastrous, over 50% of all local officials including policemen, fire fighters, teachers, park officials, garbage men, etc., were laid off. And this was in the middle of a functional state. One can only imagine what will happen in Turkey when combined with the refugee problem, sectarian violence in neighboring countries, terrorist organizations in neighboring countries, etc.
I can write a method that is valid C++, but it gets called by something that isn't valid C++. If I don't check for null references, then my method will crash. My method is valid C++, and yet it gets a null reference. So clearly, references in valid C++ can be null, and must be checked for.
I think this is a good example of a 'well, actually.'
https://www.recurse.com/manual#sec-environment
I guess it depends. We are migrating away from Oracle towards Postgresql. For Oracle you quickly need enterprise edition or flaky third-party software for basic features lile replication. We could hire several dedicated DBAs on Postgresql for that money.
And the licensing is just too idiotic, with no list price anywhere. Usually takes a month to get a quote for us. Not to mention the client libraries and how cumbersome they are to deal with.
Good riddance.
Neither has pulp, and the various sugars are free-floating. With no fiber to slow its absorption or to make you feel full. If you extracted the sugar it'd be white too.

Oranges contain glucose, fructose and sucrose.

The ratios of fructose and glucose are pretty much the same in both fruit and table sugar. Most fruits are 40 to 55 percent fructose (there’s some variation: 65 percent in apples and pears; 20 percent in cranberries), and table sugar (aka sucrose) is 50/50. [1] Your Coke is 42-55% fructose. [2]

Are there differences in vitamins and minerals? Yep. Fiber? Nope. Sugar? Nope. And the latter two are the biggest deal IMO.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/fruit-sugar-versus-...

[2] https://examine.com/nutrition/is-hfcs-high-fructose-corn-syr...
Stormwater systems are superior. On-site mitigation supports mosquitoes and lets automotive fluids seep into the soil. On-site is only preferred due to cost, particularly because of who is paying.
Ethereum has gone up $30 within 30 days
Agreed, chromebooks make the most sense after a certain age.

The youngest kids still should get tablets though (if anything.)

Just pointing out that it's still a matter of what's appropriate for a particular classroom, never one size fits all.
No money transfers for me. My account is now considered for "business" regardless of me considering my personal account as "personal":

"Wallet can't be used: This could be because Google Wallet isn't supported in your country or because you're using a business account. To see your purchases from Google Play and other products, go to the payments center."

I've unintentionally "poisoned" my personal Gmail account by adding Android Developer capabilities to it. An unexpected negative side-effect.

Google has under-designed its Account concept asserting an account is entirely for business if it's merely associated with an Android Marketplace capability.

Google should really support multiple roles for an account. At the least, caution users when adding Android Developer Marketplace capabilities to Gmail accounts about the new limitations this choice will impose.
Nothing I can think of except for some typographic sugar that almost no one (except for other latex users or typography people) would notice. It really is not worth the frustration today.
>>[...] but PuTTY is still dominant on Windows, from what I have seen.

I think that's because the Bitvise SSH client wasn't freely available until last year[1], whereas PuTTY has been freely available since the dot-com days[2]. Absolutely nothing wrong with this, but the 15+ year lead as a freely available client is probably the main contributing factor for PuTTY's dominance on Windows. Habits are hard to change sometimes.

[1] https://www.bitvise.com/ssh-client-version-history-6

[2] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht...
Do you have a source for this? I'd love to listen to this but I couldn't find the segment you were talking about.
> lots of weird characters instead of your local characters

Is that really an issue with xetex, though?
If you want to distinguish food from within China from food from outside China, then the term "Chinese food" is of course perfectly fine -- no disagreement about that. But I never hear my Chinese friends in the US or Europe say "I had Chinese food the other day". They are always more specific unless they are talking to non-Chinese people who are not familiar with Chinese cuisines (which lends further support to the idea that it's mainly a western concept). Compared to that it's not strange at all to hear a person from Bulgaria say "I had Bulgarian food the other day". Why? Because Bulgaria is a small country and "Bulgarian food" is reasonably specific whereas "Chinese food" tends not to be.
Demise of BeOS
For a second there I thought: purges -> executes
> The idea is that a law can't be applied if it's invalid

And you would give that power to judges, who are specifically not supposed to obtain their position by popular vote. What you are proposing is the exact reason why we have appointed judges, and not elected ones.

It seems you do not understand the separation of powers of the three branches of US government. I'd suggest reading about that, particularly the judiciary.

> [conservatives are] already the ones writing these laws

Nonsense. Republicans have control of the white house and congress, that's true, but it won't be true forever. And, currently, they can't do anything they please without being concerned that democrats won't do the same in the future when they have a majority.

> Almost all the gains of civil rights and against corrupt companies have started in the courts in past decade or so.

That's true and has been done in accordance with standard procedure. We don't have judges deciding what laws are in the interests of the people. We have judges interpreting the US constitution and laws made thereafter by elected legislators.

What you are suggesting, that judges have been a party to activism, is exactly what conservatives are saying. Nice trolling.
F.C.C. Invokes Internet Freedom While Trying to Kill It
"For example, I would stumble on simple questions like generating all permutations of a set by writing a recursive program that wouldn’t even terminate (even though it was something you would learn how to code by the second intro to CS class)."

Does that mean second course, or second class? Because second class would be pretty intense. Although second course is pretty intense too.
Yes, it's definitely the case for a large amount of stories. Paul Graham has written on the phenomenon and how taking advantage of it helped ViaWeb. [0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
With gold, you will be the gang.
How to point GDB to your sources
This didn't really answer "Why Learn Latex?". It mentioned some of the benefits of Latex as a format but what reason do I have for not using some sort of Latex generator?
I found that, for someone with programming experience, the core LaTeX is quite easy to teach. I use it for all my school projects, and ShareLaTeX just works. I also managed to use it(Nothing Fancy) collaboratively with a friend of mine, with only ~5min introduction (Although I was sat next to him, so not quite the same as learning it alone).
This is not the case. As per section 9 of the GPLv3:

>You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.

GPLv3 does require a patent grant if you convey the software, but as GP states, you wouldn't have the right to do that otherwise anyway.

EDIT: And as per the FAQ[0]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoDistributionR...

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoDistributionR...
> Microsoft and mobile has been a disaster every time they've tried.

Not true. Windows CE was a solid offering.
I have a number of reasons to dislike it strongly [0].

But we are not supposed to argue over such things here.

I'm just asking that Mac people respect that I and others way prefer other OS-es like Linux, BSD or even Windows.

[0]: like 1.) not having consistent shortcuts for moving using the keyboard 2.) With two monitors the menu bar will be very far away when you work on the other monitor 3.) One Chrome window would block the other, preventing me from finding the instructions on the wiki while having a file select box open in another.

Etc etc. This is before I start my rant about things more unrelated to their OS implementation like a) putting fn in the bottom left corner b) not giving me any chance to fix it c) the fact that many programs I want to use was either unavailable or looked horrible.
What is the back of the enveloper calculation of doing it by hand? Doesn't seem like it would take a few high school students that long to go through the 2000kg and come out with a very nicely sorted set of Lego bricks.
i am not interested in json or resumes so much . its more html vs latex
San Francisco and Seattle are both constructing very high density buildings near their city centers, but they struggle to build up outside those areas. Spreading the growth and investing in public transportation help keep costs down and spread success.
So grateful that someone picked up the ball on this when the original dmoz went down. It's great for finding resources on specialized computer topics, such as Artificial Life.
If you like this, you might want to check out Nikoli (http://www.nikoli.com/en/). They're a Japanese puzzle company and they put out new puzzles every single day, all designed by humans. The only real downside to their site is it uses Flash.

I have no affiliation with them, I've just been a happy subscriber for a long time.
Meh. The public, in general, has a hard time with Word, too.

Which isn't to say that word processors aren't nice. I actually held off on learning LaTeX years ago because I didn't see the point. The fact that I can still reliably open my documents is huge, though. And it only takes training to learn to use it. For transient things that just don't matter? Yeah, they work fine.

What irks a lot of us is how we typically are given yet another document sharing method for documents that have to be kept in sync with source.

Worse, a SharePoint or workdocs link that only works from one of my browsers correctly and has horrendous correspondence features. So bad that collaboration typically is, pick someone from the team and they will completely own this.
Leave. Its not easy (in fact I know its incredibly hard) but come to the US. Its not perfect, but even though we have an..argumentative democracy we (mostly) get along. Come and help us be better. Throw your voice and talent in. I have a Turkemen exchange student staying with us right now and they think of Turkey as being overwhelmingly better than Turkmenistan-come to the US which is the same but with Turkey and the Turkmenistan reversed :-)
Great read, thanks! Followup question: what's the distribution of transistors per instruction?

Taking your number that there are ~2k instructions in Haswell, and given that Haswell has ~1.4 billion transistors (http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-...), that means on average ~1 million transistors per instruction. My guess is the majority of transistors go to things like the cache, and then there is duplication across cores, so the number is clearly much lower than that, but do you have any sense of what it costs to add an instruction in terms of number of transistors?
Not to speak about versioning! I can easily git diff my LaTeX plain text files, but doing so with Word files...
While these are cool for complete code snippets, they are distracting during coding. For example, the colon contextual alignment flickers as the context is typed, and that distraction alone outweighs any convenience of a merged symbol.
I know two people that didn't finish their degrees (not even in CS!) and had offers from Google, FB, Airbnb, Square... all from being really good at technical interviews. It happens.
It's a lot more complicated than that, especially when you consider that companies like Comcast also produce content via their subsidiaries (NBC and by proxy Hulu). Vertically integrated companies like Comcast can quickly turn into monopolies, eliminating healthy competition and hurting the consumer in the long run via rent-seeking behavior (which we already see today to some extent). Net Neutrality prevents these vertically integrated companies from favoring content which would benefit their businesses.