skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this response - and sorry I didn't reply to anything last night, I'd just got home from a mad day getting my kids prepared for their mid-year concert and then watching all 4 hours of it (every ensemble has to show what they've learned!) so went to bed early - I didn't see this until today Melbourne time.

On the topic of support - one thing that's hard for FastMail is that with customers who are paying every month/year/whatever, we have a billing contact which gives us a way to get in touch when their account gets locked. Non-paying accounts are just as likely to have their credentials stolen and used for spam, but they are even _more_ costly to re-identify the owner.

Refusing to try to identify the owner and just leaving locked accounts locked would get us just as much bad press as this, and be much worse for the affected users - since there would be no warning period before losing the account.

The Member service was always intended to be the same as Guest, but allow commercial use and not have ads. We decided many years ago that the ads business was not for us (it's part of why we left Opera, they were focusing more on the advertising business, and we wanted no part of it.)

We didn't actually use the term "lifetime", we said "one-time payment". I know it sounds like weasel words - but we chose to shut both Guest and Member down at the same time because they are basically the same. That payment was supposed to offset advertising revenue - it certainly doesn't offset the cost of keeping things deliverable in today's world where email accounts have become a really important part of people's online identities. Email account theft has become the way to send spam, as domain reputation makes it much easier to send through stolen accounts than just blast SMTP directly.

So we appear to be pretty horrible to the people who don't value their service enough to pay US$3/month for it, but as you noted - it became a choice between having our paying customers keep subsidising the support costs of stopping spam through those stolen non-paying accounts, or shutting them down and making our sending addresses more trustworthy for those willing to pay.
Beautiful Soup is alright in most cases. JSON is handled much better than any XML library I've seen so far though.
Out of curiosity, what are the requirements for getting into a university there?

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-do-european-countries-aff...

"For all countries, with the exception of Finland, the US has a much higher percentage of students who have enrolled in post-high school education."
The N1 was groundbreaking for me.

I took this shot of my Nexus One next to the new S8 Plus, highlighting 7 years of advance in technology:

http://i.imgur.com/sXnfBt4.jpg
Something like that. They actually look like they might have coiled springs providing tension to the leaves on the phone side, and then contacts kind of laminated on ribbon cables in the back panel.

- contacts visible in back cover (the 4 yellow contacts for wireless charging are the easiest to see): https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-RWgjtEwQYQ/maxresdefault.jpg

- spring-loaded contacts in the phone (3 around the camera, 2 on the opposite top corner, 4 match up with the wireless charging points): http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7517/Nexus5-1552.jpg

In mine, the back cover flexes, and contact isn't always maintained for all the connections. I've cleaned them with contact cleaner, and alcohol, tried bending the leaves to provide more pressure, etc. I also replaced the back at one point. Like the original, it would be fine for a while, then need readjustment. The body of the phone has a few thin, brittle parts, which started cracking (the back really wasn't designed to be removed often). I feel like the wear+tear on the phone body and constant mechanical maintenance just wasn't worth it.

Prior to opening the sucker because of the wireless charging not working, there shouldn't've been any finger oils on the contacts (or, I'd hope).
A good trick for calculating powers of e is that e^3 ~ 20. So e^7 is roughly 400e, so about 1080, completely without pen and paper. This is only 1.5% off.

Your trick is cool too, by the way.

For your other challenge, I would use the enormously useful 2^10 = 1024 ~ 1000 (which the musical trick implicitly uses too, in the 40 notes is 10 times the frequency mnemonic). So 25000 is close to 5^2 * 2^10, and it's square root is 5 * 2^5 = 160 (we can always keep in mind that 2^10 ~ 1000 is an overestimate by 2.4%, so our 160 ~ sqrt(25000) is an overestimate by 1.2%, so an improved approximation of sqrt(25000) is 158). 158 is very close to the midpoint of 144 and 169, so its square root is not far from the midpoint of 12 and 13. So my approximation of 25000^(1/4) is 12.5. Finally I need to take a sqrt of that. I know the square of 3.2 is 10.24 (our old friend 2^10 = 1024), and that's about 20% too low. Ok, we need to bump our 3.2 up by 10%, that makes is 3.52, and that's our answer. It's only 0.7% off, but it's only by luck. For a more general problem, keeping a tab of your first estimate as an absolute number and your current correction as a percentage gives an error of less than 2%.
Most investors do, yes. But the investors aren't there to tell founders what to do at the initial incorporation phase, when vesting decisions initially get made. Of course those decisions can be modified when investors come on board, but until that time the founders are typically working with the original vesting structure chosen by the founders.
Not true. Look up "partial dependence plots".
Then why not expose this alleged violation of privacy policy and collect your massive settlement?
Yes that seems so.
Must be for cost reasons, I initially thought the new system was like the one they demoed in 2013 (http://lightfield-forum.com/light-field-camera-prototypes/nv...), much more like the Lytro light field camera in approatch. So yes as already said, same idea as Oculus.
I would completely agree if it weren't for the fact that OP came from The_Donald over on reddit. Sorry if I'm skeptical that his post was anything but a troll. I find it hard to believe someone that frequents that site is as uninformed about the subject as his post would lead one to believe.
Bubbles are caused by speculation, often by unsophisticated investors. Since an education is a non-transferrable asset it's difficult to conceive how it could be classified as a "bubble".

Speculators buy assets that they aren't going to use themselves purely to sell it to someone else. If speculators are selling to mostly to other speculators and transactions between speculators starts taking up the bulk of the active market and it starts driving prices up... that's a bubble. What happens is that at some point speculators will panic when other speculators stop buying the asset, and they race to cash out of the asset before everyone else does, except there's mostly other speculators who are also trying to dump the asset on the market...

Those Dutch tulips or 2000-era dot-com stocks are examples of this type of asset. These are assets that didn't have much value except to speculators. (Cf. you can live in or rent out a house, or collect dividends from other categories of stock, or melt down gold, etc.) As soon as there's a price drop... every speculator is terrified of being the last one holding the bag and sees every other speculator thinking the same thing and accurately see speculators as controlling the price and they all race like hell to dump the asset as quickly as possible. The price drops to near zero.

With an education it's difficult to imagine how this sort of thing could happen. In short, it's an exceedingly difficult asset to transfer. You can't sell your education. There doesn't seem to be a conceivable way that everyone would "sell" their education all at once. Also the process of buying an education takes many years to carry out and so doesn't seem so compatible with overnight frenzies. And the value of previously acquired educations doesn't drop if people buy fewer or cheaper ones; it might actually go up instead.

If people collectively decide Ivy league educations aren't worth buying anymore... it will probably be a trend that occurs over a matter of decades.

Just because something feels dumbfoundingly "expensive" doesn't mean that it's a "bubble".
Easy way I've found that works for me:

- Backup files are encrypted with gpg.

- Pull from local backup server with a backup account that only has read-only access to the directories you need to backup.

- Push to remote backup server with versioning (I'm using rclone with s3, if you need to backup large amounts this could potentially get too expensive).

You can restrict the s3 credentials so that the user pushing from your server isn't able to permanently delete any files.

There are plenty of other options out there, the key takeaway is a staging server for offsite backups and the principal of least privilege.
To answer you, and the other responder: I hear the point that you feel there isn't a separate legal category.

I'm not convinced.

I see an argument to be made, to the effect that there's plenty of statutory ink on paper detailing rules for how various investment vehicle transactions may be handled. It seems clear to me that perhaps they do have a special space carved out in the legal system, at least in the US.

I do still feel like I need to emphasize - I'm not condoning any situation where a company offers lifetime service, and then goes back on their word. I do think a lot of companies try to extract value from the margin between a broken contract and the pain of enforcing that break.
Abstract thought really.
The biggest problem with XML is how easy it is to make a very bad schema, and how hard those can be to parse
I was being needlessly trolly but glad there's some dialog happening. And I'm sure this will get worked out.
This kind of packaging is very common in Brazil. People here certainly don't spend 80 years learning that. Instead, some days watching someone doing it is probably ok.
It's a little bit of a different situation but when I was in rotc in 2008 we were literally told to take underwater basket weaving if it was an option because all you needed was a high gpa and any degree. The business school was like this as well, you needed something like a 3.8 to get in, so everyone applied in their first or second semester. After that you could stay in the school with a <2.0 gpa for the rest of your time there.

The only person who ever told me to consider what sort of job I'd get was the advisor for the law school who said I shouldn't go into law if I ever wanted to make money. At the time I didn't trust her because every other adult in school and my personal life was giving me the opposite advice
It took you 4 messages to respond to my key point. Bravo.
The housing bubble was sophisticated investors thinking they swindled unsophisticated investors to some degree.

Private student loans operate similarly and have similar risks. Similarly, you can't _sell_ an education except with a job so if there is even the slightest panic a bunch of people can't pay their loans and the holder of the note can't sell the underlying "education".
The best starting point is for people to agree that student loans are way past stupid at this point and a solution is needed and other countries seem to be doing well with gov run education. If everyone thought like that, things would probably follow. Politics are reactive, not proactive.
Or just get onboard and start smashing stuff until the boat stops. It would be pretty hard to prevent a grapple hook from working (one could imagine automatic water cannons though). Best idea I've got is flexible rods sticking out from the perimeter of the ship to block the hook. The hook gets caught in the rods and when you pull it slides off the end.

It's possible to make doors that are extremely hard to cut through... but they can always just cut through the wall instead.
Which is why you frequent The_Donald and breitbart...

I understood, I've seen it many times. Feigned ignorance in an attempt to troll. In any case, I'm a conservative leaning independent, so please do lean that direction. Just be a real conservative who cares about our constitution and having our president act... presidential.
Two million line scala codebase -> 2 hour clean and rebuild with a top of the line workstation. IDE support has improved, compile times not so much.
DataWrangler [0] (now productionized as Trifacta Wrangler [1]) does pretty much that. It gives you suggested lists of transformations such as "Cut from position 18-25 as the Year column", that you can chain together as your data cleaning pipeline.

[0]: http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/

[1]: https://www.trifacta.com/products/wrangler/
You sure you don't want more politics mingled in?
Isn't just because we've already been trained on that since learning the alphabet? Imagine giving a human the same question, but sort "aa" before "bb" but after "cc".
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/52403.wss

The public access machine is available through a beta invitation request program - https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/account/beta-acc...

(disclosure: I work for IBM Systems, not related to Q though)
I don't think it makes to learn the language before the API has stabilized. But that's just me - I'm not saying it doesn't in general make sense and I could come up with reasons why it does.

JVM's jit is indeed fast enough for my tastes but Java is grotesque. kotlin might be nice (been meaning to play around with it for a while).
and smalltalk is perhaps the ultimate example
France offers admission to most normal universities without any exam or grade evaluating and a 300€ tuition per year.
Kotlin 1.1 supports coroutines what IHMO makes concurrency in a GUI much nicer. For example, it has C# like async/await methods; but more flexible...
Because I just discovered that there was, at least once, a specification that actually defined JSON that way, where previously I had thought it had only been ambiguously described, and I thought that was interesting.
The biggest news is: Yegge is blogging again! Glad to see it!
A broadcast-ledger type currency requires every node to agree on the outcome of running transaction scripts. This is very impossible if running scripts is undecidable.
My N build (stock Android on Pixel) has night mode.
People are right that you would end up being seen as dead weight on the cap table. Not automatically disqualifying to a VC. But not a good thing.

One option we've used in these types of situations: You can enter into an agreement with the company whereby the company is given the option to repurchase your shares (or some portion thereof) in connection with a VC funding round. You can mutually agree on a valuation method (specified fraction of funding round price, 409A price, have a valuation done by an independent accountant). This allows the company to minimize the dead weight on the cap table, while allowing you to obtain some compensation for giving up your shares.

I would not recommend just offering to give up vested shares. What was the point of the vesting schedule you had agreed upon? I assume you've been working without a salary for 16 months, right? What compensation do they think you should get for that?

Happy to provide further advice off this thread, if you have further questions.
Heavy moderation is key, whether by the mods or community. Having a whole political channel to moderate isn't worth the resources for YC.

It's an opportunity a startup. Think of what Quora did to Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers. A startup that can deliver a higher-level of discussion but for politics and current events.
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"When I studied you had to pass an exam. Certain subjects had a very high bar. For example civil engineering. Can't get it without top grades and top results in the exam."

That would be the other side of the coin: if you do poorly on the exam or have poor grades, your choices are limited, no?

The upside of the American system is that anyone can get higher education. The downside is that many of the schools are tuition mills.
This basically tells me that Google have a new generation of TPUs that have arrived and they are giving us (researchers) the last generation. Not that I have nothing against this. 3-4 years ago, AWS made huge inroads in mind-share by giving us researchers tens of thousands of dollars in education grants for writing a half-page proposal. Google have learnt from them.
> As an adult who knows this is happening and allows it to continue, you are complicit.

Do you use consumer electronics? Do you know the conditions at Foxconn, or any factory in China? More to the point, do you know how polluted China is right now, and how much manufacturing destroys the country?

So therefore, by your logic, you are complicit.
Guess Who’s Back (Wannacry)
In the meantime, tuition outpaces inflation 3x, administrator costs escalate, construction projects continue apace on every "higher-education" campus in the country, and financially shielded, tenured professors who have guaranteed retirement plans and have never started so much as a lemonade stand prepare our youth for the future. I mean,non-Ivy USC tuition is only 72k a year. Why not go for the fun and profit of the uni. Thanks, baby boomers. At least you have your guaranteed pensions. The world you made sucks for your kids, though. Bubble, meet pin.
Same with avocado pears, which is why you see the same tiny little Haas avocados in supermarkets all over the world.
There's a huge opportunity in making excel better..
Command+~ as well as Command+1-9 solves this I believe.
This would be more convincing if McKinsey and GS were genuinely considered to be producing something of value.

The reality is - more nuanced. Certainly there are many who consider both GS and McKinsey to be very bad things indeed, and not in any way a professional niche that high quality graduates should aspire to.

Perhaps there may be more to "intrinsic quality" than an obsessive work ethic and social connections?

My experience has been the opposite to yours. People who don't have technical degrees but have been trained to consider themselves experts in business management generally overestimate their own skills, and vastly underestimate the skills and insights of those (nominally) "under" them.
You can still declare bankruptcy when you don't have the collateral for your car/house loan anymore, though. For example, if your car was totaled, or your house burned down.
Huge J.S. Bach fan. Curious why you posted this of all things.
Why so negative?

I'm also against "cloud everything" but here they seem to provide an actually useful service.
It's not just the sun. Because commercial tomatoes are largely grown hydroponically, they seem to be little more than water.
As I remember, they said that tgey want to stabilize API before adding support for new languages
We love you guys. Metabase helps us to build a better product and understand our business. Thanks for making it greater with every release.
Europe has 750 million people and fewer universities.
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I am Mexican. I had domestic servants too. While their conditions were slightly better (they could visit their families every few months, they had a pittance of a salary), they still live in almost slavery. I too feel guilty for having participated in that and not done enough to stop it. I know what it's like to be perpetuating a class system and not do anything about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/10/mexico-city-d...
I work at a major state university that is claimed to be one of the most efficient in the US. On the administrative side it is a disorganized cluster bomb, full of frivolous spending, wasteful processes, and is years behind in technology and software. The things I've seen people manually doing on a computer all day... Throw on top the spending on social justice initiatives and you have your self a fat burden to pass on to students.
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why is there ever more then one or anything?

it's competition, and that's always a good thing​,
I will agree with you that steam or turbine power plants require continuous maintenance. I've got experience, too. :-)

But, read the article. The ship they're talking about is a short-haul transport with battery-electric propulsion. Perfect scenario to pioneer this concept. If it works, I'm betting that it would be possible to create a propulsion plant that will survive longer hauls without a crew.
I've never heard of the story where the AdSense team rescued the Dart team. Do you have a citation for this?
It's theoretically possible for a neural net to do this; the network just needs to have the explanation as an output. I agree that decision trees would be more reliable and easier to train, but I'm not sure if hardcoding every feature is scalable.
It depends what you're doing. It shines on low level features like authentication and image cropping, where I need ways to do these things, and I can use them across the board.

It breaks down when you have a lot of views and urls that are trying to stay close to their related models, but are too interconnected to have any real kind of separation of concerns.

I find myself using all of the above. There's nothing wrong with building a small site in a single app, or nesting apps to provide a little more structure for how they're connected or separated.
I don't think that's true. Can anyone become a doctor? Where I studied as long as you passed the entrance bar, you can. In big cities there are usually several public universities, some more prestigious perhaps, with a low score you can probably get into the less prestigious ones but you can be a doctor at close to 0 cost. I don't think you can become a doctor in the US without incurring serious debt for example?
You can use Keras and use tensorflow as the runner for Keras.
Clojure startup times are brutal, and simply not workable in the mobile environment where Android lives.
tl;dr: Highlights of Kotlin the language, form simplest to most advanced.
Which is why learning algorithms that produce decision trees are far smarter in the long run. Neural nets might eke out other benefits but there's a lot to be said about justifiable/accountable decisions.
Universities are betting on government picking up the whole tab. They already practically got the golden goose handed to them when the government put the brakes on many private founding sources for loans.

the next step is simply make it so onerous that politicians step in and relive the debt or pick up more of the tab under some kind of student bill of rights. of course we won't get more and better students but instead even richer colleges. the number of private and state colleges with billion dollar plus endowments is astounding and the costs we spend per student is rarely if ever equal to the education they receive.

this is marketing at its finest, or more dastardly.
You could fly a helicopter out to any ship that isn't crossing the pacific or atlantic, but that would be $100,000-$300,000 per incident and it would very quickly not be worth it. There isn't much in-between for reducing crew since a couple people alone on a boat together will probably be homicidal in short order.

I'm curious, what breaks on a ship? I have no experience with anything over a few dozen feet. I imagine hydraulic systems could break and lead to Consequences, but I can't imagine there are many big systems that can be fixed at sea, even with a crane onboard. What kind of things get fixed at sea?
Uh, extended graduated loan repayment with Libor variable rate, sir.
And it is python, not java! Color me surprised coming from an Apache project. Nice!
The most prestigious schools in the most difficult degrees might be difficult if you are a crappy student. That's probably for the best. If the US can you study in one of those "tuition mill" schools and become a doctor or an aviation engineer and work in your field?