skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IT can't screw up macOS as much as they did their Windows image

Oh trust me they can.
How about to hang while showing login screen because AD server doesn't respond? MacOS auto reboots in such occasion.

How about screw your keychain with their scripts completely when you change you password? I need to re-login into iCloud every single time I change my password because of that.

How about hang before even getting to login screen because AD doesn't respond?
Broken file permissions and groups because of AD thing?

Unexpected CPU spike to 100% because some IT thing does something in background?

Constant notifications even OVER LOGIN SCREEN about "Your sleep time is too long" and so on.

I'm now just afraid to install updates because it'll involve reboot and next reboot IT scripts will screw up something else and I'll need to spend half a day fixing it.
I wonder if it has a Conway's Life glider like Penrose tiles.
I thought this was odd, from the about page

> We can help you find and incorporate data sets into your first models. From cleaning data to extracting the most important features, our team can help you get your production models to market.

While realizing the hardest part of a startup is everything but the tech, it seems odd they're telling AI companies they'll help with the hardest parts of the technical side, the ones that need to be done right well before anyone can tell if your tech has any merit.

I'd hate to be a first-pass reviewer for all the pitches they're gonna get. "I have this amazing idea, I just need someone else to build the AI behind it!"
Because the confrontation, and the perception of strength, is essential to the regime's legitimacy.
I don't disagree that there are pros to hand writing notes. However There are other ways to build those connections in your mind.

I spent my first year and a half of college at a community college. They arent exactly known for their academic rigor. However first semester I took World History 1. There were only like 3 tests and 5 Quizzes that made up our grade. The tests were not multiple choice or fill in the blank like some professors might do. They were several short essay questions and a long form essay. You would have a choice of like 6 short essay questions which you had to pick 3 to answer. and then had a choice of 3 long essay topics from which we had to pick one.

The Professor about 2 weeks prior to the exams gave us a handout of 12 short essay questions and 6 long essay questions. He randomized the questions that were on the test so that while we knew what questions were possibly going to be on the test we did not know which ones would. He also expected us to know both the facts such as people, places, dates and events. but also the concepts. If you only got the concepts but did not know the factual material you were in trouble and vice versa.

I took all my notes in that class on a laptop using OneNote 2003 (It came out right at the start of my first semester in college.)

As the semester went on I got into the habit of skimming over my previous notes for that class and adding annotations about connections to other concepts and facts in the class. I also would review my notes at the end of the day while it was still fresh in my mind, but had taken some time to digest the material to add things that I missed or make my notes more clear.

When it came time to start preparing for the tests the first thing I did was take my notes, create a new section in my notebook just for that test. I took all my notes for that test and instead of organizing them by lecture, i condensed them into a more concise and coherent form that linked all the different concepts and facts together. I also outlined my strategy for each question. Then I printed it out and put it in a ring binder, as I refined my notes, I printed out new copies for the binder. I probably printed about 200 pages for each test.

Maybe Writing them out would have been more effective for memorization in most cases. But to me there was simply too much information to memorize in one pass. and Wrot memorization was not going to cut in this class. I also think the fact that I was constantly working with those notes and synthesizing new material from them, replaced alot of the feedback loop of writing it all out by hand.

I learned a lot of history in that class. But more importantly I learned how to interpret requirements, sift through large amounts of information, making connections between that information and developing strategies to accomplish a goal.
The Motorola G5 4 GB / 64 GB for $180 appealed -- until I saw that it comes with Amazon's ad-ware at the lock screen (and wherever else, I guess...).

Thought about searching to find out how hackable the Amazon version is... Then decided I have better things to do.
Finland does not have compulsory union membership for teachers, they just happen to have a large and fairly reasonable teacher's union which serves most teachers well under threat of competition.

In the U.S. and here in Canada, you are (in most places) under compulsion to pay and participate in a specific union.
Sorry to hijack this but I have a question about your comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14441748

How did you get Copyfish to play nice with Zhongwen/Perapera? I've tried it with Chrome and Firefox and nothing seems to get them to pick up on the OCR text.
Once you learn digital design, you learn how tools like this works:

http://opencircuitdesign.com/qflow/

Start with a simple CPU and memories you can hand-check sent to a 0.35-0.5 micron fab that's visually inspectible. Then, after verifying random sample of those, you use the others in boards that make the rest of your hardware and software. You can even try to use them in peripherals like your keyboard or networking. Make a whole cluster of crappy, CPU boards running verified hardware each handling part of the job since it will take a while. You can use untrusted storage if the source and transport CPU's are trusted since you can just use crypto approaches to ensuring data wasn't tampered with in untrusted RAM or storage. Designs exist in CompSci for both.

So, you'll eventually be running synthesis and testing with open-source software, verification with ACL2 a la Jared Davis's work (maybe Milawa modified), visual inspection of final chips, and Beowulf-style clusters to deal with how slow they are. And then use that for each iteration of better tooling. I also considered using image recognition on the pics of the visual trained by all the people reviewing them across the world. More as an aid than replacing people. Would be helpful when transistor count went up, though.

Other links:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/publications/acl2-pape...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jared/milawa/Web/

http://www.vlsitechnology.org/html/libraries.html
Microsoft Courts Rural America, and Politicians, with High-Speed Internet
There's a fundamental misunderstanding of reality in legal profession. It is somewhat akin to 18th and 19th century conflicts - two armies line up against each other and both sides shoot. Strangely even though the last man standing won the decorum mattered. That is until someone had a brilliant idea to shoot from the laying down position. Or from the bushes. Or without wearing uniforms.
Don't worry, it has Nashorn ;)
As TFA said, now it's American influence they're worried about, by way of unification of the peninsula (formally or more loosely) under ROK control.
Well, I say "gem-quality" because the article did, but it also points out that the diamonds were a greenish color, and incredibly consistent in size and quality.

When DeBeers finally got a 20-minute tour of the Siberian mine, far less earth had been excavated than they expected for the number of diamonds that the USSR sold.

There are many additional circumstantial details in the article.
Because some groups have a vested interest (no pun intended) in building and protecting the notion that professors, scientists, and researchers* are angels without financial conflicts, personal biases, or even emotions. If people realize that they're all humans with flaws just like the rest of us, people might stop and think instead of blindly accepting their conclusions as Truth.

* Except for the professors, scientists, and researchers funded by those other guys, they're malicious, biased liars trying to destroy the world.
The Firebase part?

I'm afraid not, but mostly because it's both simple, and fairly reliant on architecture.

Basically the process is:

Firebase authentication -> Content editable editor -> Firebase database update -> GitLab CI -> Pandoc & bash to update static site to latest Firebase -> Deploy to website
'Panic' as Apple works 'feverishly' to fix iPhone 8 bugs ahead of launch
Maybe, but I'm skeptical. The data often point in both directions, and the literature often fails to look at obvious alternative explanations (prejudice is the null hypothesis). Besides, the field of sociology is politically homogeneous; I don't know how much their political ideologues contribute to confirmation bias, but I suspect the literature would look different if this weren't the case.
what's wrong with the traditional .net ? software projects are pretty much all network related these days. or use the new gTLD .network which is pretty cheap to buy.
Ask HN: What is wrong with jquery and server side rendering web pages?
I have been programming for the web over 3 years now mostly in asp.net, as a "full stack" but I honestly care way more about the database and the back-end that I do about the front-end

I think razor + jquery is usually good enough to make even complex pages. If I have to take care of a lot of variables maybe I use knockout.js. But that's it. Lately I was reading about react/vue and the SPAs where the routing and everything that I do so easy and well with the back-end is now in the front? and they are supposed to completely replace razor? what is the improvement for me as a dev to replace razor or use an SPA approach?
That line doesn't support ECC though, so it's a pretty poor choice for a production workstation. And the LGA2066 platform has power delivery and thermal issues [1], likely due to the launch getting pushed up and mainboard vendors not having enough time to get things right. Gaming customers can tolerate a bit of flakiness from their systems, but Intel's enterprise (i.e., Xeon) customers will scream bloody murder if Skylake-SP launches in anywhere near as bad a state as Skylake-X did.

[1]: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/-intel-skylake-x-overclo...
Correct, but it's still possible for the parent page to overlay invisible textboxes and buttons in order to capture input.
Crimea isn't really Ukrainian, either, it is historically and ethnically Russian (and Tatar), it was an accident of Soviet history that it ended up in the country of Ukraine.
The value to me (other than OTP + friends) is not what Elixir gives you, but what it takes away. Not being able to monkey patch things and change mutable state is really freeing. You can do it if you're diligent, of course (I code Java with as many static methods and final, immutable fields as I can and what I know about Ruby, it has things like freeze), but it's hard to never reach for a tool "just this once" if you're in a time crunch.
Yea, the DOS AOL client looked like Windows 3.1 but it ran so much faster on my 386/16
Walmart has old Macbooks for sale cheap at their website
They are of course just 10.7 max, old Intel Core 2 Duo Macbooks. They are good enough for someone just starting out who can't afford a modern Macbook. You can buy 10.6 Snow Leopard from Apple to run 10.6 on it and use Rosetta to run PowerMac apps. 10.7 removed Rosetta.

I'm sure it can dual boot Linux or Windows as well using Bootcamp. A good student starter laptop with the Apple logo on it for as cheap as $99.

I don't work for Walmart but I was browsing Netbooks and Laptops there for my son who is going to college soon.

https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=notebook&sort=price_low&cat_id=3944_3951_1089430_1230091_132960&facet=brand:Apple
Ask HN: Interesting startup companies
I'm researching startup companies to model factors that drive success.
Do you know any interesting companies I could include?

I'm looking for between 100 to 300 companies - startups, established or failed.
It will take me a while, but I'd like to share the results with HN along the way for discussion.

Any help you can give me would be really appreciated, thanks.
Thank you for the feedback and run instructions.

I don't know how to make Graphviz reorganize the nodes in a more vertical ratio. If you set the "ratio" parameter to, say, 0.5, or 1, it will output a very vertical graph, but at the expense of really small letters. I have to dig more into http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/dotguide.pdf
You can optionally use a newer version of Docker CE that supports multistage builds.
I've read the patent. But what part of CloudFlare services it claims to cover?

Also, the patent applies the same way to almost any proxy server (ICAP and similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Content_Adaptation_Pr...)
I was very clear that the story doesn't depend on this. Why are you confused?
How Zika Conquered the Americas
A "literal" in this case is a constant value defined in a module. Those live in a separate space in the VM and are referenced directly because they are immutable and can be shared. If you sent such a literal before OTP20, it would be copied into the heap of the target process. Not anymore.

But it doesn't help with cases where you are constructing a term (dynamically) in a process and sending that term. There is more meat in the blog post of mine: https://medium.com/@jlouis666/an-erlang-otp-20-0-optimizatio...
Elixir is just alternative (Ruby-ish) syntax for Erlang, as much as people have hyped it up - Erlang code can call Elixir code and vice versa with essentially no abstraction cost. In fact, the most popular web framework for Elixir is heavily built on Erlang code.
I think that totally misses the point. Yes, there have been other electric cars. There have been no other electric cars that have integrated such great functionality in such a desirable body. Musk proved electric cars could be cool. Same thing goes for private spaceflight. There are other private spaceflight companies, but no others are doing as much to advance the reduction of launch costs.

Again, it's similar to the argument some people make that the iPod was just another MP3 player, or the iPhone was just another phone.
Amazing to me is the causal influence this star has on the Earth from 9 billion light years away. Physically the influence is zero, but the meaning humans are able to give it, makes it huge.
lol sorry for the typos! Wrote that from my mobile phone at night.
To save elephants, Mali employs Dutch dogs
For shipping an image yes, but that's not what you'll be doing.

For example, if you've used CircleCI 1.0 before, those builds run in LXC which is Docker's underlying technology. My suggestion is more down that path rather than 2.0's bring your own Dockerfile approach.

The base image you choose just means you don't need to install that specific language/toolset manually, which saves part of the build time and work writing the config.
Or when Disney animated Doc Hollywood and called it Cars
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FYI: "species" is both singular and plural. "Specie" is a word that describes money.
lindybee,

I am a blind developer and may be able to help. Email is in my profile.
GeoWorks was pretty cool on the 386 but GEOS on the Commodore 64 was just unreal -- it was slow and required some tedious disk swapping but even the idea of selectable, proportional fonts at different font sizes among its many other features was amazing on a 1MHz CPU, 64k RAM system.
Digitally Imported has a very wide range of, well, digital music.

They have some free ad supported streams but the annual cost of ad-free $70 is totally worth it in my opinion.

My current favorite channels are Chillstep, Liquid DnB, Nu Disco, Chill & Tropical House. Various levels of repetitive bass to keep your leg and fingers twitching, and differing tempos to either raise or lower your heart rate, depending on what you need in the moment.

Web Browser Flash or mobile apps. http://www.di.fm
Could you share your configuration for link aggregation? I did it for a while but if I remember correctly, while plugging the cable into my laptop worked as expected I think that in order to get connected to wifi again after unplugging the cable, I had to manually

service restart netif lagg0

And sometimes also

service restart dhclient lagg0

But it might also be that I was to impatient and that it would have reconnected to wifi by itself if I gave it more time. How long does yours take to get back on wifi?
Yes, in the sense that it's called "computer science" with little scientific method involved.
Clinicians seem to think that everyone is out to get them, or at least want to project the image that they're so vulnerable to lawsuits. The truth is, there's no threat to them. Only the most open-and-shut malpractice cases can realistically be litigated, due to the $250k damages cap (in California). And because there's such limited upside for the attorneys, most victims can't even get representation.

But despite all that, as someone who lost a family member due to physicians' mistakes, all we wanted was for the doctors to acknowledge what went wrong and then find a way to learn from it so it doesn't happen again to someone else. Victims understand--doctors are people and people make mistakes. I'm not the type to pursue litigation, but if anything, this code-of-silence/denial/cover-up routine only serves to encourage litigation as a way of making sure the problem is openly discussed.
Are you joking? I know that China and USA do not have one, but there hasn't been a single conflict with any country that has a free trade agreement since WW2.

Also, understand that the US has the backing (and mutual defect agreements) of South Korea, Japan, and NATO, and India would possibly join in a conflict against China as well. China wouldn't want a US backed state on its doorstep, but it would not want war against the US significantly more.
Show HN: Acts_as_content_highlightable – Highlight HTML text (ruby gem)
Here is the url to the removed powerpoint:

www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/JGI9My6okOO6oB

Anyone can find cached version? :D
The deep discount on the Echo actually convinced me to research smart speakers, and then buy a Google Home instead. Chromecast integration was the clincher for me.
Is this from you?

It doesn't look it is. If it isn't, it doesn't meet the Show HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Mobile cash reduces hunger, boosts Kenya economy
You're confusing a reasonable standard of proof with complete impunity.
Correct me if i'm wrong here as I don't have a twitter, but can't you view anyone's public twitter by just logging out (or opening an incognito tab) and going to the url?
I took a two pass approach: hand written notes (I can write equations faster than I can LaTeX them) and then follow up by writing a LaTeX document for each lecture. I had a rule that I wasn't allowed to continue typing up until I understood how each step in the derivation was made. If it was non-obvious, I'd write textbook-style comments around things to explain how to get from line to the next.

Worked pretty well for most courses and meant I had explanations of everything come revise time. The only problem is it took about 4 years to really nail down the routine and by the time I had it perfect (I really wish I'd done it in first year), it was time to leave. Such is life.
Snap shares fall nearly 9% after downgrade by Morgan Stanley
> If you apply for a patent that is later invalidated, then those that licensed the patent should be made repaid.

I feel that this effectively says that nobody should be able to license their patent: they would need to hold all of their license fees in reserve against a lawsuit that could happen at any time between the patent grant and the end of the legal system.

That or buy insurance which will, no doubt be priced well above what a sole inventor could afford.

The net effect would be to accelerate the concentration of patent portfolios.
This article on IEEE Spectrum [1] has more details on JANUS.

[1] "NATO Unveils JANUS, First Standardized Acoustic Protocol for Undersea Systems" [ http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/nato-dev... ]
Maybe you should look into ME/CFS and see if you have any of the other symptoms.
This is a great point! What would you say is the best book to really learn OTP?
Wrong title for article.

"Does basic income solve anything? Grasp the arguments for and against"
If OP is the individual who asked the original question, this may be a case of closing the barn door after the horse has already run away, but it's probably unwise to post under a real name or a frequently-used pseudonym. I suspect people have been targeted for far less $$/btc than this.
Sincerest apologies for the delay in response. Are you looking for actual part-time work or more of an internship?

Send me your CV and I'll see what the team has to say - james.parker@hadean.com. Look forward to hearing from you!
Has Gmail shut down yet. Google photos is not going to shut down. Why? Because of data photos are data billions of megabytes of data that is being uploaded to Google every week. I don't think Google would want to miss out on it.
In fact, in Ontario apologizing is protected by law as inadmissible as evidence of wrongdoing: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/09a03
> Academic: of, relating to, or characteristic of a school, especially one of higher learning.

It appears as though this was a university project, the kind of project one completes for their masters even. Academic seems to be precisely the right term.
Business usually settle rather than fight patent trolls, but I wonder if fighting is worth it if it can deter others from suing them in the future? I guess it depends somewhat on the outcome of the case..
I know several folks who are actively working on the Pyra prototypes in hand
and who voiced the exact same concern.
India's highest court temporarily lifts a nationwide ban on cattle slaughter
A lot of times you see self-closing popunders, which are almost always just poor design, but you might break a lot of old websites if you block pop unders.
On the other hand, (at least in the I, Robot stories) the Three Laws actually seem to be fine as a realistic/workable solution; all the conflict revolves around robots being programmed to not obey them, whether due to added rules before Rule 1, elided rules, or reordering of rules.

Prime-Directive-related conflicts, meanwhile, seem to revolve around cases where the Directive itself is flawed (or at the very least not ideal for a given situation).
Couple pet peeves here:

1) This isn't the name of the article:

2) One example is Instagram, which had only 12 employees when it was sold to Facebook in 2012 for USD 1 billion.

Selling a company ≠ profits. I believe Instagram was barely making any money at the time. The sale was for it's potential.

The fact they lead with this is a red flag.
> have an additional .size method returning the number of bytes (I'm assuming that's what .length returns, if not it's even more confusing).

It's actually not the number of bytes, it's the number of...'codepoint pieces' is what it could be called I guess? Javascript's language level string implementation is something like UCS-2 with the addition of surrogate pairs being allowed, but counted as separate 'characters' for things like length and index access. It's some twisted middle ground between UCS-2 and UTF-16.
My name is Christopher Toth, and I work at Charter Communications as a developer specializing in accessibility. I also create software for blind people [0]
I am totally blind and would love to talk to your students. Email in profile.

0: https://GetAccessibleApps.com
The cases were stated for mass production a year ago already yet everything gets pushed bacl every now and then for tweaking. I would not bet on anythIng releasing in this year.