skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't found the command-line-fu yet(and haven't spent much time looking) to scan, save, and auto-connect to various wifi networks, and to handle my Verizon LTE 4g card. I did hunt down the scan command once but I didn't use it enough to remember what it was. something to do with ilwifi iirc.

Haven't tried DD as an ISO to CD burner...will give it a shot.
This. I've been a passionate side project software developer yet the job I've had for the past few years that paid the bills well and let me work remotely has been a mix of apps engineer / sales / marketing. Instead of working retail I'd look into b2b software companies and hardware (e.g. Micro-controller/fpga/dsp) companies
The "Year of the Linux Desktop" has been a running joke for a long time, but perhaps it's no longer a joke. Not wanting to lose control as far as updates and privacy is concerned, I switched to Linux when Windows 10 came out.

Running Debian Testing with Gnome has been a joy. In my opinion the user experience is easier and better than that of Windows 7 or 8. Office staff could quite easily be trained to click on the Start key or the drop-down Activities menu or move the mouse to the top-left corner to start a program. Office software is quite good. Program-switching keyboard combinations are excellent. The Evolution mail client is very good. Browser software is the same as on Windows or a Mac. Problems with bad fonts, poorly designed UI, lacking drivers etc. are things of the past (with the notable exception of very new hardware).

This may not be possible due to the necessity of using specific proprietary programs that run only on Windows, for example. On the other hand, the level of tech support required is perhaps not significantly greater than what is necessary for installing and maintaining Windows on a bunch of machines.

On the plus side, everything is very fast, tasks like backing up files or systems are simple with GUI or terminal interface, and if you want to learn iptables and set up that router/firewall you can do that too. Everything you learn is an investment instead of an annoyance. Nobody is going through your company or personal files to serve you ads.

There's no reason any more, besides defaults and inertia, why Linux should have 2% desktop market share instead of 10% of somewhat technical people or even 20 or 30% of the general population.
I'm worried that behavioral science will be like advertising in that as people become more exposed to it the effectiveness will decrease. It could end up being one more thing to filter around.

Maybe it would be better if we collectively decided not to manipulate each other, even if we think that we know best.
> I wanted to try day trading myself but they changed the law in 2001 so you had to have $25,000 to trade on margin, so only the wealthy could get twice the gains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_day_trader

This is how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The rich can trade on margin, pay less tax (capital gain tax is lower than even income tax), and have many more other opportunities. The middle class is shrinking for a reason.
In the sentence 我长得不漂亮 "I am not pretty", 得 is de(toneless), the result marker, not 得 dé, the verb meaning "obtain". 不 really is the negative particle (that is to say, it is being glossed appropriately), but before a syllable in fourth tone it is pronounced bú, not bù.

I actually agree that word-by-word glossing like that is helpful, but this tool is doing a questionable job. Words that are more syntactic than semantic will be nearly impossible to fit into a word-by-word-gloss system -- for example, the ABC dictionary's gloss of "result 得" from the sentence above is "subordinating particle used to link a verb [or adjective] and the manner clause that follows it". This is difficult to condense into something that it would make sense for your app to render.

In the sentence 我的狗去世了 "my dog has died", 了 is the change-of-state particle, appropriate because my dog (presumably) used to be alive, but it's dead now. It's definitely not a verb; the verb is, depending on your perspective, 去世 "die" or just 去 "go".

If you're interested in my advice, I think the highest-value thing you can do to get good glosses is get Pleco for your smartphone and purchase the ABC Dictionary and Tuttle Learner's Dictionary addons. It'll be less convenient than your app, but much higher quality. (Detection of word boundaries is imperfect; google translate may actually be better at that particular task.)
This reminds me of toons koppelaars talking about 'thickdb' and moving business logic into the database on Oracle actually drastically reduced CPU usage.
DD is good for USB but I wouldn't use on optical disks because it doesn't support burnfree aka if the buffer empties it will toast the disl
I have seen some Google Reader alternatives. Plenty of people were upset when they got rid of it. Google also got rid of a text messaging feature in one of their apps, and people were upset about that, so taking some of these things into consideration, and rebuilding them into your own apps would certainly have that appeal.
It means that if you're creating a product that has a low level of awareness (common for startup products), then you need to emphasize benefits ("with product x, you'll get y result") rather than features ("product x is made with technology x,y,z").

Of course, it's a gross simplification to assume it's always the best and only way to communicate about a product (people who already know about the benefits will still want to know about the features), or that all products benefits from that approach (products that are mature are well understood, and talking about their benefits makes you sound like an idiot stating obvious things).

One place where the benefits vs. feature distinction is important is in coming up with new product ideas: if you think in terms of benefits (it gets you X) instead of features (it's like X, except we switched tech-stack-X with tech-stack-Y), it helps you understand why people will buy it and where the value really lies.

I do not agree that people buy things because it makes them better. They buy things because they perceive them as having higher utility (i.e. they satisfy their desires more than the alternatives). Being "better" is only one of many desires.
This is not news, therefore it doesn't have to be written in the style you linked.

If it was, people would read the first paragraph, move on, and then complain that they wasted their money in buying whatever newspaper/magazine they're reading.
It's a pretty broken configuration system that makes it needlessly difficult to do things the correct way.
You don't need bitcoin payment to be infected.
No, I didn't, but in that case the problem wasn't the horrible writing I complain about above. "The Martian" has much better writing than the general run of self-published novels.
Don't you need to be paired with the phone to give distance (or are you using some pedometer function?)

I've used Polar HR watches a lot in the past and after usually 15 jogs/bike rides I could estimate my HR pretty darn close (and I would get worse at estimates after a few months and put it back on for a ride or two).
Does no-one see the irony in patenting an anti-piracy standard? If it is remotely effective, it will, itself, be pirated. If it is not effective, it will only make the lives worse of people who choose not to circumvent it.

Additionally, I just do not see how this passes subject-matter standards post Alice.[1] Seriously disappointing to see vague algorithms of this type receive patent protection.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...
Exactly. It's a total waste of resources. Put these phds on curing cancer instead of playing a gambling game that adds no real GDP to the economy.
Why are they so unwilling to fix the problem though ? This sounds like a problem, and obviously it's not legal.

So let's simply introduce a law:

"Any legal entity that fires any woman within 2 years of her having a child for any reason has to pay out 10 years of pay to her on the spot. If there is so much of a suspicion of her getting fired because of having a child, same. If there is a suspicion of a woman not getting hired for getting a kid, same"

Problem solved.
This looks dangerously close to survivor bias for examples. In particular, it is easy to give a reason for something having succeeded. At least, it is easier than giving the reason that something will succeed.
As of now, the best that the researchers have achieved is 25% desalination

25% is quite far from "just fine". Has there been any progress on the method in last 4 years?
++, I'm in the middle of a project that was supposed to be a quick 2-3 weekend deal. It's now taken much longer than I originally hoped, and I'm constantly tempted to give up/set it down for another few months but I know I just need to reformulate a plan and finish it instead of starting other things and having 2-3 half assed projects.
The entire basis of Erlang (well, it's VM, BEAM) are to be built from asynchronous primitives. From what I know, Phoenix works well with it.

So yes, Phoenix does "automatically parallelizes portions of an _individual_ request across multiple threads/cores using some special asynchronous dataflow-paradigm primitives or something."

Edit: quoting you is not meant to be condescending... I'm not sure if it comes off that way or not.

Edit 2: Not an expert and it may not be parallelized, but portions of the requess can be doled out to other threads, and when there's any down time from IO, other requests can use the thread...
The likeliness for ending up in a tenure-track research position is much much lower than it is to land a good job working at wall street.
Well... I hired a producer, wrote 10 songs, hired a director, filmed 3 music videos and worked harder than I had at any software startup in my life (platform/devops) trying to make it work. Serious long shot, but it's been a ton of fun!

Edit: my last video won "Music Video of the Year" at the Oxford International Film Festival. So here's hoping!
Thanks,but you don't have to prove anything to me... my trading account is my proof that I don't have to compete with the flash boys to make money, so I don't care about tick data...
Did you work part-time while going back?
> Microsoft tries to scare you into not using it because it doesn't support the Windows store or Edge or have telemetry or any of that fun stuff.

Scare me? It sounds like those awesome stripped down versions of XP that pirates removed all the cruft from back in the day.
> For all it's many faults their policy of long descriptive headlines followed by bullet point summaries is a model I wish all news sites followed!

Thanks to this ML can use it as a summarization dataset.
Sure, but does high volume low value transactions necessitate CC processors?

If I want to use CC transactions is there a 'manual' way? Can I collect the numbers and 'process' them myself?
What’s missing in the president’s H-1B overhaul order
Can confirm this. In a lot of design schools (I went into architecture school) students are taught to iterate, iterate, iterate to improve and refine on their design. It's very rare to see great designs 100% complete on the first try, and often you see early models and prototypes tossed to the side after the final product is due.

From the short-term, economic perspective, watching someone hammer away at something when "tried-and-true" solutions exist (with some 'creative' twists ofc) can even seem irrational and wasteful. One famous Modernist architect, Phillip Johnson, even quipped that,"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

People who can't handle the waste in design probably would never shell out for proper R&D or scientific developments either. Hardly anyone gets it right on their first try, even in research.

It's funny because when creative endeavors finally pay off, they can pay off big and then they themselves become the "tried-and-true" trend that people follow.
This is excellent, particularly for reading with lynx :)
My webdev business has financed a side business in life coaching. Right now it's by referral only and I'm taking it slow, but it's been a nice source of extra income and variety, one where I know I'm making a very direct contribution to others' lives. I have had to pay for multiple certifications and the associated education, and this actually convinced me to pursue web development certification, ongoing education, and memberships in professional societies.
They are in child seats, the Yuba is a great bike that is rated for over 700 pounds and has lots of child friendly adapters.

You can see more examples of parents pushing their kids in cargo bikes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yy3kXIaKp8

Without electric it can be a real workout, but with electric assist its so much more fun. The kids cry these days if we tell them they need to go into the car.

You can buy a Yuba with Electric from the company, but its 5K which seemed way too much when you can do it yourself for 1/2 the price.
Any particular reason you say that? The Mundo is an extended-frame cargo bike that has really excellent accommodations for carrying two kids (or a week's worth of groceries, or a hundred kilos of other cargo).
Nope, this is tax avoidance, not tax evasion.

In practice, of course, the law across different countries effectively allows for different tax rates. This was decided and entered into law.

Of course all of these tax rates are agreed to be what the corporation "should" pay.

Corporations simply select the lowest of the choices available to them. Is that not what they "should" pay ? Not a problem: congress can vote laws that make these constructions impossible. They are not doing so.

Don't blame corporations here, they're simply responding to incentives congress put there for them. Instead, blame congress. They can change the tax rate, even for international profits and revenues (in fact the US is infamous for doing that in several ways already), and they make the rules about what can be tax deferred and what can't. They're not changing those rules, and you can bet they know what they're doing.

I think the bigger issue is that because states are paying for things that are unsustainable (ie. the welfare state, even in the US, is unsustainable) the tax level doesn't matter : it's too low. Changing the tax level simply changes the point in time where the system crashes, but fixing is not possible. We simply cannot put the current level of economic activity into elder care in the future.
FCC says it was hit by a DDoS attack, but refuses to show any evidence
I think ML could be used to flag certain content as potentially problematic (I'm hoping to experiment with this in the future), but yeah, it's definitely not going to be doing the final verdicts anytime soon.
It's really hard to generalize since state and local laws vary so much.

For example, in Massachusetts, eBikes are allowed on bike paths, but not off-road bike trails:

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Ch...

Motorized bicycles may be operated on bicycle lanes adjacent to the various ways, but shall be excluded from off-street recreational bicycle paths
Doesn't surprise me that sugar makes a kid feel better - they love the stuff.
alright, wtf is kotlin, why is it suddenly such a big deal, and how big of a deal is it?

edit: so i checked this out myself. i have no idea why this is a big deal. another app language? i thought reactnative was all the jazz?
We Recorded VCs’ Conversations, Analyzed Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
I'm afraid that genie is out of the bottle. As the article notes: Nudging is hardly new. “In Genesis, Satan nudged, and Eve did too,” writes Cass Sunstein of Harvard University. From the middle of the 20th century psychologists such as Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo showed how sensitive humans are to social pressure.

The best we can do is to be aware that it is taking place. From the article: As long as that choice is made in a transparent manner, and is subject to democratically elected politicians, nudging offers policymakers an alternative to both the nanny state and the unintelligent one; a middle way that he [Sunstein] describes as “libertarian paternalism”.
So in other words it didn't correct (actually it really didn't in the parts of the west coast (of the US) with 'real jobs')
>On an unrelated note, I wonder if people thought about doing a DDOS on the onion service ... ?

Wouldn't this, if successful, just prevent victims from paying to decrypt their files?

Sure, it would stop the attackers from getting any bitcoin, but the victims' data would still be encrypted.
> Given the substantial supply of donated human skin, tilapia skin is unlikely to arrive at American hospitals anytime soon.

I'm surprised that there's no shortage of donated skin in the USA. We're always hearing about the critical shortage of organs and appeals for blood. I wonder what makes skin different?
25 Terms for Deep Learning Beginners
Kotlin is already quite popular in the Android community. I would actually point out that it is the engineers at Square (like Jake Wharton) that gave Kotlin it's early legitimacy.

The Google announcement excites me for reasons beyond Android - I'm hoping that Google's huge investments in machine learning, play off along with the amount of investment it is going to do in Kotlin.

I would love to see a whole bunch of server side infrastructural components built out in Kotlin ... including things like Tensorflow, Spark, etc

More than Oracle, I think this is pretty much the death knell for Scala. When you have a far more pleasant language, with IDE integration that is mind blowing, and is supported by one of the largest companies in the world ... And probably is ALREADY MUCH MUCH more popular than Scala at this point
Yes, but in my area they are allowed on bike trails unless specifically signed otherwise (I've never seen such a sign).
How long have you been here? I would be very surprised if the weather was considerably worse than NY and especially London. Current 7 day forecast looks pretty comparable :)
That's covered by "factoring large integers", I do believe.
Huh, I guess it is a problem with Windows OS ISOs. I'll test this posted solution[1] when I have some time later this week.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=30645773&sid=6...
> none of the flight control computers crashed. The issue was caused by bad sensor data.

I think you're confusing the Quantas flight with Air France 447. From the article on the Quantas flight, after the first dive:

"One of the aircraft's three flight control primary computers – which pilots refer to as PRIMs – is faulty. They begin to reset it by flicking the on-off switch."

And later:

"After QF72's second dive, the number three flight control primary computer faults again."
same here! almost; i had been previously avoiding CLOS for the same reasons as stated, but just two days ago i actually used it and understood it. CLOS is a beautiful thing.
Yes. Just get a Stripe account, and you can use a 3rd party tool / app to charge any credit card any amount of money.
I'm an experienced Rubyist who's done their fair share of horrible hacky things.

This is quite nice. It avoid some of the issues that other metaprograming techniques will land you, and the associated debugging hell.

Nicely written too.
So why not allow them on bike paths as long as they go the same speed as regular bicycles?

Typically if a bike path exists, it's because being on 2 wheels on the main road is extremely dangerous.

I'm interested in an e-bike, not to go faster, but because they "erase" the difference between hills and flat ground, and most of my routes are too steep to be pleasant on an unpowered bicycle.
> Flying the aircraft without any protections isn't particularly safe either.

The plane was flying straight and level when the flight control computer crash caused the automatic control to start doing obviously wrong things. Going to Direct Law at that point would have allowed the pilot to reestablish straight and level flight while they figured things out. That seems like it would have been safer than what happened. If they weren't trained to do that, maybe their training needs to be changed.
Perhaps a Leyden jar, or Aeolipyle. Novelties with great potential. Or perhaps, they're just a drinking bird kind of novelty - i don't think so, but maybe. QM is rock solid, but it doesn't tie together well with our other theories about the world. Maybe knowing more will make the error correction easier somehow.

I kinda think we're in the difference engine phase of quantum computing. Same problems as Babbage building a neat thing, but we're missing some details and our tools aren't really sharp enough to make a good one.
You get more accurate distance data if a phone is brought along, otherwise it uses an estimate which is pretty close.
Depends on the State.
> The other solution is to rebuild infrastructure on top of a different platform but that's prohibitively expensive.

I really don't have a lot of sympathy for companies that lock themselves in to a proprietary platform.
The author is not necessarily a 'he'.

> ...I was wearing a skirt...

> posted by Pam Mandel
Fermi's Paradox [audio]
The OpenBSD folks seem to be doing alright.
I similarly was a computer kid, but took a different path (English, Philosophy), and I did end up in the same place. After teaching English for a year in Korea, I spent a year pounding out the lightest CS degree I could. Now I have a healthy dev career, and I don't regret lib arts at all (except maybe wishing I did them at the same time, instead of serially).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 is a great example (spoiler alert: DropBox)
For a more musical deconstruction, check out Scott Freiman's video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTBB6iQbTsE
It's an interesting take on it, to see it as incorporated as part of yourself.

There's neurological evidence that when we use tools, we experience them as part of ourselves (or an extension of ourselves). Certainly, driving a car feels like you are driving (not talking about any social identity, the image of your car in the eyes of others, but the biomechanical act of driving itself).

A tool or "hired for a job" can make you feel more capable - that you are more capable. You have changed, you are different. There are situations where a person does change, such as increased physical strength, aerobic fitness, stamina, and increased mental skill and knowledge. But a tool is a shortcut.

For example, when google first came out, when you used it, you were better at search, you were faster, you were clearer in interpreting the results. In the early-adoption stages, perhaps there was also some hipster-like identity, from knowing about this new tool.
Your concern is valid. One easy way to avoid depending on a particular cloud's APIs is to either wrap them with your own, or just grab data from other neutral locations, such as github using !wget, requests, etc. There are pluses/minuses to each approach.
Stripe + 3rd Party Tool != Manual CC Payment Processing
It's not genius?
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Kim-ism wouldn't have been possible without Chinese help.
In order to increase the housing supply "significantly", you need to increase zoning limits in >10% of the relevant population-weighted land area. However balkanization makes it impossible to do this through a single political entity.

The solution IMO is a "trigger" law that will increase zoning heights in a suburb when the nearby suburbs pass similar laws. This prevents any one town from becoming gentrified if they raise their growth rate above the regional norm.
That's not a genocide, that's a deportation followed by forced cultural assimilation. It's bad, too, but it's not the same thing as exterminating a population.
It's not respected.
CBOE (the actual exchange) is about $500 per symbol for EOD + greeks for the entire last ~15 years.
It is quite fascinating to imagine inmates passing their handwritten Vigenère encrypted secrets using Diffie-Hellman key exchange.