skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have said something along those lines rather. Affiliate links are quite nice IF they are just a late addition and not the whole purpose of a site. This site seems genuine!
Fair enough. That makes sense. Thanks.
I'm interested in setting up a small non-profit school for poor, young adults in Indonesia to teach them German and other skills necessary for admission to Studienkolleg (the one-year preparatory course for foreign students wishing to apply to a German university).

The main goal is to get the student a good IT job in Germany within 5 or 6 years. In return, the student must commit to giving a percentage of his or her income back to the school, so the school can grow without requiring external donations.

What does HN think of this plan? Is it achievable? If not, what is the most likely cause of failure?

PS: If anyone knows a good lawyer in Indonesia for setting up a yayasan or obtaining KITAS please contact me - see profile.
I think this feature has been around since 2013: https://commerce.googleblog.com/2013/05/send-money-to-friend...
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I didn't finish high school either. I dropped out, enrolled in a top ranked university, and graduated at the top of my class. Since then I've since then done extensive work as an engineer, hold numerous patents, and am a respected writer. I've also taught both college and high school classes on the side. Often the best thing someone can do is drop out of high school. I don't recommend it for anyone other than the developmentally disabled who need extra time to learn basic skills.
Wired is a shell of what it once was. I've got issues going back to 1998 and it is sad. Today it's mostly fluffy pieces with maybe one longhorn, and 75% sponsored content or advertising.
Popehat's math is lengthy - suggesting the sushi chef would get 2 years instead of 67.

By a similar ratio Brown would have got less than the 5 years he got with a plea deal.

If so, why did he take a plea deal and lose his day in court ? Was it just bad advice ?

[edit]Was Brown prosecuted : because of the severity of his crime; because he was easier to catch; or because he was embarrassing the powerful ?[/edit]

[edited]Whatever one's opinion of Brown, he certainly is a journalist and the Intercept is right to draw attention to his censoring and investigate if it is politically motivated or simply the result of a miscommunication about the forms he was given.[/edit]
Someone needs an Apple ID. It doesn't necessarily have to be the student. In fact, most educational deployments probably have the device locked down to keep students from downloading apps.

Even then -- creating an Apple ID is quite a different matter from (potential) ongoing tracking of a user's online activity.
They also often have special purchasing deals. Though the savings are not great it's something.

Most colleges will have no preference for Mac, Windows, Linux but there may be some courses or majors where there is an advantage to one platform over the others.
I had noticed this trend, but interestingly came at it from the other direction: the only people we permit to speak the truth to us are comedians. The likes of Dave Chappelle & Louis CK for example. Can anybody else get away with talking honestly about race? If it's not a joke, we can't even handle it. Or in politics it's been Jon Stewart & Colbert. In that realm the cognitive dissonance is so high, you'd rather just shoot yourself. Unless it's a joke, then it's bearable. Humor is how we deal with traumatic contradictions. It's just sad that these areas (race & politics) are still about traumatic contradiction rather than solved problems we can move on from.
But where currencies fail (as in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Iraq, etc), gold never became a backup currency. No-one was trading gold coins for goods and services, and anyone trying to leave these countries carrying gold was at serious risk. Gold isn't going to help you here, at worst it'll put you in more danger.
Judging someone by github activity is pointless unless you're hiring for open source and take the effort to see how they interact with community.

I've seen lots of github profiles that look amazing on paper and then when you dig in they just went around to projects changing spelling/pronouns/punctuation in other projects.

It's much faster to phone screen people after a simple resume read rather than deriving signals that can be gamed like github.
I changed the description of the repository and removed the AI tag, thank you and don't be evil!
They're not telling you to run and eat HFC products. They're just saying that eating a whole fruit is healthier than just the juice. And that's something nutritionists have been saying for the last decade or more.
If this is true, why don't they just release their work on their own sites under a permissive license? It seems like such a simple problem to solve.
Touchscreen devices are popular in special ed / autism work.
> if you're using a keyboard (by the way, keyboard shortcuts on iPad were terrible) anyway, the mouse is actually a really good, productive peripheral - but Apple ideology doesn't believe in using mice with tablets.

I'm not going to try to make a argument for Android tablets in general (on my third, not buying a fourth), but they actually support all this.

Run up a chroot with Debian and X11 and you can even have yourself a semi-normal Linux desktop inside your Android. With a mouse and keyboard.

It's not great, but when cornered I've actually managed to pull through on a device like this.
Meh. I don't need LinkedIn to judge or validate my life achievements.
Good point. Today, it seems to be a gadget catalog.
How is it non-linear? Is it basically addition of combinational logic at feedback inputs?
Not necessarily. Most universities these days have plenty of computers on campus to use and are running the software required. I also know if I do end up requiring to install some software the school doesn't have already (which hasn't happened yet) they have virtualbox installed so I could go spin up a VM and do it through that. I've never felt like I had to own a personal computer. Granted I have never wanted to sit around on campus all day doing my assignments so I go to my apartment to work on them.

If all they are going to be using their computer for is note taking and essay writing a chromebook will be just fine. If a prof requires an assignment in the word format (which I've had one do sadly) you can still export a google doc in the word format or you can just go to one of the many computer labs and just copy paste into a word file. With a little bit of work you can even run Ubuntu on them. I've actually worked on a good number of my programming assignments from my chromebook.

If they're doing some kind of arts program then you are probably looking at getting a Mac as most prof seem to expect that's what you are using.

If you just want a safe pick go with something running Windows.
Wow. I still have one of these chips on a board somewhere I built from a Radio Shack kit. Good times.
It's a lot better change because people can make up their own minds. It's unrealistic to expect everything to be nice all the time, there ar vile things in the world and people who promote vile ideas, and the most effective response to that is to tag them as such. Oh sure, some whiners will complain about being tagged as nazis or whatever, but too bad, if lots of people think their statements align perfectly with the nazis well then the marketplace of ideas has spoken. Tagging content is a practical idea because advertisers and the like can then choose to avoid content associated with tags that they don't want to associate their brands with.

the tagging is a function of the popular will rather than the output of an algorithm or assignment by committee, and the the tags are associable with discrete media rather than individuals.
mfw already posted like two weeks ago
How Two Emulators Battled Sony
Russia is good at causing problems, because they cost relatively little. Russia has no military to fight a protracted war against a "real" country, and definitely they cannot project power thousands of miles away.

Now if they get invaded that's a different story, but other than China I don't see anyone else invading them. If China retakes Siberia, then get ready for nuclear winters.

As Napoleon said the army marches in its stomach, and Russia has a limited amount of money. Russia is behind Canada when it comes to GDP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... Granted they have a history of weapon production and can squeeze more out of a dollar, but if it looks like war is coming, you'll see everyone spending and catching up.
It is technically for added sugars. However, this individual is consuming an unusually high amount of fruit, IMO, and sugar is sugar, no matter its source. One can't reasonably claim, for example, that drinking a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice isn't a source of sugar even if no additional sugar was explicitly mixed in.

As I said, the blood tests will show whether or not there's actually a problem with his/her sugar intake.
New multistage docker builds
They tried to and gave up; the subsystem that runs Linux user mode programs originated from that work though.
I work in a school where we have a bunch of iPads that get passed around from classroom to classroom. They are terrible. I wish they'd purchased Chromebooks instead but iPads are more impressive on a list of school features.
We can read the indictment, stipulate that every claim in the indictment held up at trial, research his criminal history, and then match that up to the guidelines, which are easily Google-able. I don't know, and haven't done this analysis, but I doubt it's 10 years.

What I do know is that it's not 100 years, and that The Intercept isn't actually informing you of anything when they claim it is. You're no closer to understanding the severity of the charges he was facing after reading this article.

The parent comment was completely rewritten after I responded to it. I have no idea what the answer to whatever the current version of the question they're trying to ask is.
Did you know that Oracle forbids "unauthorized benchmarks" for any users of its database products? It's curious that a database with such amazing performance characteristics would not allow third party benchmarks against other products.
How to Read Mathematics
This sort of challenge comes up in CTFs quite often. Here's a writeup of one from PicoCTF 2017 (not mine): https://github.com/Caesurus/PicoCTF2017/tree/master/l3_noeye...
At snowdrift.coop we believe both freedom and openness are important values, neither of which encompasses the other. So, we use the acronym FLO, for free/libre/open, which has the nice side effect of sounding like the English word "flow".

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/free-libre-open

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The author misses the most important reason, in my opinion, why "free software" is also a bad term: people think they already know what it means, and thus don't really pay attention when you try to explain it. As such, I've stopped using it completely during my advocacy.

Instead, I use "FLO software", "software freedom", or "unrestricted software" - the latter being good for when I don't have time to explain fully but also don't want to give the wrong impression.
You can have a hybrid approach and it's one I've used for 4-5 years.

I bundle library.js (very slowly changing core libraries), bundle.js (common subset amongst the set of files passed) and then page/function-specific.js.

library.js very rarely changes, bundle.js changes less than I thought it would initially and page specific stuff is changed cheaply since the files are typically <2kb.

Since the code that gets worked on the most is page/function specific the entry points any bugs that do creep through are isolated to that page/function and everything else works fine (handy with JS where a bug in your entire site-bundle.js can break the whole application).

I've even split off heavy libraries into bundles that work with library.js so things like ckeditor and datatables can be included and just work without been bundled into the main library (lots of users will never use ckeditor, lots will never use datatables, pretty much only admin/managers will use both).

That way you get the benefits of an SPA (lots of interactivity, json stuff, passing data back and forth conventiently, reusable components, base 'classes' for viewmodels etc) without completely handing off everything to the client and it means you can do routing and such on the client still.

Since all the data that is passed back and forth is just JSON you can also bind the data on the initial page load and pass it down with the page on first load and then immediately bind it with subsequent updates coming in.

It's made it incredibly easy to refactor large applications as well since the backend is 'just' and API, communication is done over simple JSON structures and the end points can be re factored incrementally from one thing to another.

I'm not sure if the pattern has a specific name (I'm sure it does) and I'm certain I didn't originate it, it just seemed like a good fit for the problem domain I'm working in.

Back when I started doing this TypeScript wasn't really a thing and I both didn't trust myself (I wasn't a strong JS programmer) or JS (I didn't trust it for large projects).
How has Microsoft realised their Windows 8 mistake? Win10 and WinPhone10 are more of the same (Win8), just even more buggy. Guess how many control panel dialog styles has Win10, oh right more than 5, dating all the way back to Win95. In what universe asked consumers to be spied by Microsoft, the "telemetry features" that cannot be turned off (just Basic or Full) and forced automatic updates that basically reinstall the full Windows and reset many settings - must be a dystopian 1984 universe where consumers are mindless slaves. No Microsoft has NOT learned from their mistake. They make more and more as the go the wrong direction. Will they (be forced to) make to do a 180 degree U-turn?
Is it the one by Navathe and Elmasri or a different one?
Atomic at MICWIC 2017: Connecting with Our Peers
How following nutrition recomendations makes you fat?

> So now you are inclined to be skeptical of government recommendations, especially where the recommended actions benefit someone with a big lobbying apparatus.

In the case of vaccines, what big lobbying apparatus are we talking?
it was slightly more useful in 2010 and before.
This.

Free Software sounds cheap or trashy. It requires explanation. "Free as in beer, and Free as ..."

Open Source is a marketing term to avoid that stigma.
Today's culture is always disturbingly vapid unless you know where to look. I am in favor of much more and more blatant use of psychedelics though.
Still, better to have them than not. Of course you're not going to walk around with 3 kilo gold chains around or tell people how much gold you got.
MAME's implementation shows 5 contributors. Maybe you could ask them?
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/soun...
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/soun...
> Almonds have a glycemic index of zero

Do you have a reputable source for this? Almonds contain carbohydrate, so surely they have some effect of blood glucose?
That's mentioned in the write-up from five years ago of which this is an update.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14231552.
Yes, they should, but bureaucracies are inept.
> Even the network is software now.

Only at Facebook, probably one of the few companies in the world which can afford dedicated engineers for that stuff (and probably needs SDN because a server might shift totally in its roles and thus its networking dozens of times a day).

The rest of the world keeps using Cisco or HP gear, which works fine enough for everything I have seen (from SOHO equipment in small offices over 6-or-so-HE switches in a medium company to rack-sized switches at a municipal government). Also, the amount of HP or Cisco certified network engineers outweighs the amount of SDN by far.
This chip was for sale on BG Micro as recently as 2008 -- I wonder who ordered a production run? http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-12/complex-sound-gene...
Considering how much effort this took, I'm wondering if learning to be more patient might also be an option?
> Yes, when the code base is small, evolving it is much simpler.

There's obviously some truth to that. But I also think it leaves or an important angle: Often larger, more complicated, features are easier to add if you have a lot of infrastructure pieces.

Say, in a database, if you have no durability (journaling), resource management (errors, locks), error checking (deadlocks, days checksumming), it'll be a lot more work to add support for some new query language [feature]. Now databases are my thing, but the same it's true for a lot of areas.

Disregarding that is IMO one of the reasons ground up rewrites fail so often: You'll get bogged down with infrastructure for a long time, without proper non toy users of the facility.
The downvoting is because you can have tables with single jsonb columns without schemas - call them "collections" and pretty much end up with a faster mongo up to having to fiddle a bit more with replication/sharding.

No one is making you enforce schemas with PostgreSQL if you work this way.

As for enforcements - there are things that are _impossible_ to enforce at an application level for atomicity reasons - for example - if you have a `users` table and you can't have duplicate email addresses - you'd need the operation "check if a user with the said email exists, if it does - return it, if it doesn't create it and return it" - PostgreSQL can do this easily, which prevents duplicate entries - Mongo - not so easily (see the "two phase commit" docs for how to simulate transactions).
Communication skills have nothing to do with blowing your own horn.
An important thing, besides mobile payment, will be web payment. So start a viral campaign to show people how to put their email account on their web page and ask buyers to pay their shopping carts using this Google Pay app. Use your phone app, enter the email plus a cart id in the memo field and send the money. The seller will use the cart id to verify the purchase and deliver the goods.

Pay with your phone all your web purchases. Killer.
And by that I assume you mean macOS 10.12.
oh "cyberpunk" ! so long time I didnt' hear this term. How many lost illusions. Amazon and Facebook is what we have instead, and billions of consumers..

do it
That idea sounds fantastic! I would definitely be interested. I'm sure I would end up spending a significant amount of time on the site.
Thank God this finally happened.

About 8 or 10 years ago, my older daughters insisted that OpenOffice wasn't a "real" word processor, since it didn't look like MS Office on XP, and we were then running Ubuntu at home (since switched to OSX, but whatever...). Then one year, the school got "Vistafied", and the whole UI they were used to got scrambled. At that point, their eyes were opened, and they stopped complaining about the system at home being "different", as well as having to pay attention to using a compatible format, since MS graciously made them painfully aware of all that, anyway.

They are now pretty used to doing stuff on the net/cloud, with whatever disposable device/UI is around that year.
That's not true at all. You are simplifying the argument to the point of incoherency.
You're too optimistic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14108223 (17 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14076918 (20 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071188 (21 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14054289 (23 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051671 (24 days)

None have any comments, very few upvotes, so maybe it's worth another chance. Personally, I found it unreadable. I'm sure others will find it fascinating and be able to get past the IN YOUR FACE style and flashing graphics.

Oh, and FWIW, I didn't downvote you.
Having worked with both Oracle and Postgres, there have been a few features in Postgres that I wish were built out more completely, but nothing insurmountable, and they have been improving those (e.g. partitioning). Postgres is incredibly reliable - I worked on a couple data warehouses in Oracle and found a bunch of defects, and so far none in similar systems in Postgres.
Why don't you just figure out how much it's gonna cost you to implement, publish that, and ask for the money? I am 100% on your side but I'm not interested in a bunch of organizational doublespeak, just say you can't afford it and you need $600k or whatever to do this because (budget breakdown). Life's too short to waste time parsing business emo messaging.

How much money do you need? Publish your revenue model and stuff so people can help you with it .
this is amazing ... how is this even possible?
To convince the, guide would also need more words from the enterprise world like OLAP and OLTP, XML, SOAP, etc
I don't know that I'd call it corrupt. I may be in the minority here.. I feel politicians ought to seek expert advice, and that's naturally going to come from lobbyists.

"Lobbying" is a bad word these days. I don't know why. Our vote will kick lobbyists' butts any day. Barney Frank says so and I believe him,

"If the voters have a position, the votes will kick money's rear end any time. I've never met a politician-- I've been in the legislative bodies for 40 years now-- who, choosing between a significant opinion in his or her district and a number of campaign contributors, doesn't go with the district." [1]

Without the vote, politicians are out of their favorite job.

This was posted on HN awhile back, Frank's advice on how to deal with the Trump admin [2]. I think it bears repeating, particularly in the face of this net neutrality debate.

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...

[2] https://mic.com/articles/167878/barney-frank-heres-how-to-no...
If we're in the kind of crisis where all fiat money is useless, gold will be useless too. The only kind of thing that will have value are things that help you survive. A crate full of gauze pads and bandaids would be better than a whole stack of gold bullion in that situation.
Ars Technica then? That said, Cyberpunk to me would be more deep dives on brain-computer interfaces, signs of the robot apocalypse or not (probably mostly not), and weird but not quite fringe science like DIY Life Extension.

But like another posted said, just go do it and see if it attracts an audience IMO.
And my youngest has been using Chromebooks at his school the last 2 or 3 years.
Be mindful that a lot of carbonated water can damage the enamel of her teeth.
> full-text search of 20MM PDFs at our traffic levels is expensive to operate

Why not do a free full-text search on the abstract or first couple of pages (or few hundred words)?

This might make the premium search upgrade more subtle but I wonder if it could help the majority (?) of legitimate searches get the hit they expected/hoped for.

... Perhaps this would appease the haters?
That sounds great. Why don't you make the financials public so people can see what it costs to run a site like this and organize around that problem?
You can use other languages besides Node.js with Lambda - you can also use Python, Java, and C#. Just an FYI
> True, but you can still organise out less sensitive components to serverless, and there are plenty of payment and payroll gateways to outsource the compliance problems.

Good luck building all the firewalling and other logic required for a sane system.

And everytime I see "outsource" in reference to the core parts of a company (which payments and payroll definitely are), I cringe. That's a desaster waiting to happen.