skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting how the British told the French and Belgians to fight on

The French only fought because the British (who were not in command) told them to?

> They even forced the French at gunpoint who wanted to defend Dunkirk to destroy their weapons.

You just said the British told the French to fight on. Now you're saying they forced the French "at gunpoint" (?) to destroy their weapons?

> French who wanted to embark were shot at by the BEF [...] The BEF got away and the French fighting were captured.

Of the people rescued by British ships and taken to Britain, 123,000 were French and 198,000 were British.

As for the BEF "getting away", a second BEF was assembled by Britain to defend France after Dunkirk - again under the command of the French - despite France's defeat being inevitable at that point.

> All RAF fighter squadrons were moved to the UK ahead of the evacuation.

The RAF moved to the UK due to European bases being overrun by the Germans. Nevertheless, despite certain and imminent French defeat and despite requiring aircraft for its own survival, Britain did send squadrons to France after Dunkirk. The RAF in fact sacrificed around 1000 aircraft, and even more in personnel, in defence of France.
Well, well, well, how the turn tables

But seriously I would start looking for a new job. Next thing you know you will be accused of rape.
>The VC industry is highly competitive

VC 'industry?' Please Fred, VC's don't produce anything. It's very charitable to call the class of people with access to money and the desire to lend it out under very favorable terms to company founders an industry.
They use Whisper Systems specs:

* https://whispersystems.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/

* https://whispersystems.org/docs/specifications/doubleratchet...
For a subset of math. Not for any of the rest of the document.
Instead of risking my vision on some goofy glasses from an unknown supplier, I'm banking on recreating a small camera obscura setup that I did in elementary school. [1]

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/make-pinhole-projector.h...
Nice, but Microsoft restarting the .NET numbering scheme is going to confuse many, even if they added the word "Core" to it.

I guess this is equivalent to ASP.NET 7?
He's there to make the business work. It's not a charity.
I wouldn't be described as a conservative, but I've subscribed to both the NYT and the WSJ. At one point, I subscribed to both.

The NYT has one redeeming factor: it publishes high quality articles occasionally across the centre page (I remember the one where the US soldiers reported incidents of cruelty and violence against the local population in Afghanistan). The prose in the reviews section is also very entertaining. As for the rest, it's a pretty rubbish newspaper.

For the WSJ, I stay away from Opinion pieces except in the Business section. Those can be hopeless. But the rest is exemplary. And they have equivalent work as well (the fate of the Cossacks, how one US company was stuck on a road due to insurgents with clever use of US RoE).

I've noticed that lots of people defend the NYT and when I first subscribed I thought that was because people knew it was a good newspaper. It turns out it's cultural identification. You're supposed to support the NYT if you're a Democrat. Few actually subscribe.

I gave it a shot despite the Judith Miller fiasco but it's really a rubbish newspaper. I subscribed for eight months to the NYT and ten to the WSJ, with one month overlapping.
Strongest possible recommendation: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History episode - "Wrath of the Khans"

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-wrath-of-t...

It's sobering to think how utterly helpless Europe was against the Mongols. It really was dumb luck that prevented the Khans from driving all the way to the Western shores of Spain.
Why Kota Kills – The Indian Parents' Obsession for IIT
I remain unconvinced that .NET Core is not some high ranking Microsoft executive idea of a practical joke.
I'm somewhat interested in spec writing and legal matters. It seem to me, that this rfc is overly verbose given the change it proposes. And (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) rfc:s are generally supposed to be as short as possible.

For example, "IANA should also typographically distinguish “Unassigned” and “Reserved” in the registry descriptions, to prevent confusion." seem like a good idea but is an unrelated matter.
Warning: it has this channel https://www.bitchute.com/channel/whitepower/ which is full of anti-semitic nazi stuff. It's visible on the front page listed above. You may or may not want to visit that link.

Channels aren't open to everyone, so it looks like they have manually allowed that?
It's great to have this all in one place - the change in notation across papers can be quite confusing!

I just wish there was something like this with code examples. It's so frustrating when papers say things like 'we omit biases' and so on because it makes it difficult to reproduce their implementation arghghg.
You said it yourself, the majority as in, not everybody
Ask HN: What are the most useful AI/ML courses I can do online?
So I'm a geography and computing graduate working in mapping and spatial analysis for about the last 7 years. It's a fun field that explores society and technology at a natural intersection.
I'd like to do an online course that is AI/ML related, it seems to be the buzz in my field and would like to explore it more. If nothing else it will help with promotion and going up the pay ladder. I also like it and found the basics of it interesting while in university, although I've forgot a lot of it.
I've noticed a myriad of courses online but haven't had any recommendations about which are high quality interesting courses.
I'll happily pay so not restricted to free courses. I feel if I can at least explore the field I'll get a handle on if it's something i'd like to spend more time on.
If you've selected the 'Noise: Random' option, it should, yes.
Instead of trying to unsubscribe to unsolicited marketing emails, I simply mark them as Junk mail. I can do this with a single keystroke in my email reader (I'm using the Mail app on a Mac). All subsequent email from the same address goes into my Junk folder automatically.
Op-Ed: I Was in Tech. These Were Not My People
You have to opt in as far as I know because the full name is stickerless comingled. It has its benefits but the sellers I know refuse to touch the stuff because of the potential issues.
care to explain why ? this whole project had me interested again in the .net platform ( although i ended up not jumping ship because i thought the platform wasn't mature enough)
> from driving all the way to the Western shores of Spain.

I don't think it was luck. It was probably the lack of cars ;)
Comparison of Brave New World and 1984, Shockingly Familiar – Imgur
Off topic: Designers and Developers. Please stop scroll-jacking.
Asciidoc is a viable alternative, I think.
Stop looking for the next billion dollar idea
that easy? "You should publish only in Elsevier journals!"
You do realise that Core is a complete rewrite of .net, which is platform independent? (Edit: Designed from the ground up to be 100% platform independent)

To start Core from 1.0 is (as such) entirely appropriate considering the scope of the project.
For once a bad sensor is good news.
Make it a link to the file in Word instead of embedding it. Then it auto-updates in the document as well.
It is not obvious to me that some sections of the community will not face discrimination, both in terms of recruitment and also in promotion once they have joined.
I use a pandoc to generate HTML presentations in a similar way. Throw the whole thing in git and you versioned all your presentations.

In theory I could also generate the same presentations in PDF, but I sprinkled some inline HTML where needed, which would have to be converted to inline latex.

Pandoc also has a plugin system which I use to automatically convert inline graphiz graphs to png.
Many developers are excited about .NET core and it being cross-platform. So if it's a joke, everyone is in on it but you.
Those academics would still have less-prestigious publications, which is a net-loss for both them and their university.

A solution might be dual publishing, but I believe some of the bigger journals require some form of exclusivity.
They must be careful. In Germany, tunnel construction just caused major train track damage: http://m.spiegel.de/reise/deutschland/a-1162727.html
Why's that? IMHO, its finally some good usable .net. Full fx was ok in 2005, but today Core is the proper framework. Sure, tooling is still half broken (only if you try to do some crazy thing), there's small API surface in Core 1.1, but I have few apps in prod already, and development is good and easy, no major issues or showstoppers.
You do realize Alzheimer is a family name? Stop trying the make the world a safe space.
LaTeX is only good for one thing, and one thing only: create same-looking two-column PDFs for research/scholarly publications. And it's barely good at that.

Things may have changed slightly since I last used it (cca 2008), but: combining several languages in one document (Turkish + Russian, anyone?), tables that properly span several pages, inline images, a different layout (that doesn't break languages, or tables, or images, or even works, or doesn't look like shit)? All that is nigh impossible unless you're willing to spend countless hours digging through obscure error messages and arcane setup rules.

I managed to produce this in the end: https://www.scribd.com/doc/31019289/Система-полуавтоматическ...

My verdict: LaTeX? Never again.
Protection against DDoS-traffic geofiltering on Juniper routers applying SCU
This is why I don't especially worry about fake influences, bogus ad clicks, etc. Any advertiser worth their salt should be able to see the results (or lack of results) very quickly. Sure there'll be dumb brands throwing money away on fake clicks/likes/re-tweets/etc and not measuring results.
And while that is regrettable & wouldn't happen in an ideal world it's their money to waste foolishly.
Congratulations to the team and contributors. My favourite news has to be all the internal perf improvements; can't wait to start using it in my own work, and discover what else is new.
> I would imagine a lot of pirated software is taken from versions stolen from creators

I can confirm this. One of the 'cracks' for one of my programs was a license code obtained by someone using a stolen credit card. No attempt to actually crack & keygen the software. And there's genuine theft there, as payment processors keep the transaction fee after the refund, and there's a $25 penalty fine for a chargeback. Plus the owner of the credit card temporarily gets their card locked until it's replaced, etc.

So if you've ever used warez from Team OXiDE, keep in mind that some of that software was obtained via actual fraud.

> Was also interested to read about the PLR

To save people a click: "Public Lending Right (PLR) is the right for authors to receive payment for the loans of their books by public libraries."

Australia has a similar Public Lending Right as well. In return for allowing their books to be available in libraries, authors receive a subscription payment from those libraries:

https://www.arts.gov.au/funding-and-support/lending-rights
I struggle now knowing what to google when I need to solve a problem! I (stupidly, probably) started the current app I'm working on with the RC and I've gotten totally muddled by the different versions. It doesn't help that things changed so rapidly in those early versions that you had to know exactly which version to search for or the info you found would be totally inapplicable.

It's great stuff though, I'm glad I went with it even if it's given me some headaches along the way!
Right now, people don't even have the interest to notice the good points he's making: these are dumb changes. The devs could have noticed that before making them. But instead, this guy took the trouble to write about it. Maybe he likes that more than asking a "fix" to be accepted when it's not even a bug fix, but a change they made for whatever reason.

And the stuff about the two natures of RSS feed doesn't belong in commit logs anyway, it belongs on a blog... but it seems the promise of communicating ideas with blog posts has not been realized, either. He made sensible criticism, it wasn't received sensibly. Saying "submit a patch instead" is just as valid as replying "write a blog post about it instead" when someone submits a patch. He doesn't like Hugo, for these reasons. Not terribly interesting, but fair enough, and nothing is too small to be addressed on its own actual merits.
A set of best practices for JavaScript projects [UPDATED]
Actually, ever since introduction of the Ribbon in Office 2007 I found the styles to be much more prominent than the presentational formatting. Not that it stops anyone who doesn't want to learn how to use Word properly to still use the latter, but simply by size and visual importance in the UI styles are far more into your face than the other formatting options.

And sure, it takes some discipline to use styles, but that goes for any other option as well (apart from things like Docbook maybe). You're supposed to use \em in LaTeX instead of \textit for the same reasons you're supposed to use an Emphasis style in Word instead of italic text. The only difference is that the mechanism is the same in LaTeX (type a few characters – which is pretty much why for any given macro you'd be hard-pressed to actually decide whether it's semantic or presentational), while in Word it's a separate feature.
Why can Linux do async network IO but not async file IO? Seems like they would be similar. What's so special about file IO?
If its called asp.net 7 people would think its backward compatible. And since almost everything was rebuild from scratch, WebForms doesn't exists, WCF also, most important namespace System.Web is gone, it wouldn't be fair to version it with 7. MVC API looks the same, but that's about it, everything else underneath is new. MS went long way to "emulate" old MVC and WebAPI, for easier porting of old apps.
Oh, yes. The problem is not rasearch, the problem is the Administration and its permanent quest for "objective" (whatever that means) rating criteria...
Banking and Investment Application
I agree with the list, but I'd say the sequence is backwards:

You're not solving anything if you're not executing. Start with execution based on some initial approach. When the discomfort reaches intolerable levels, find a better approach. You only develop insight (understanding) after a few cycles of modified approaches and changed executions. Understanding comes later.

Like "shahbaby" said, the toughest life problems to solve are the ones which require endurance of high amounts of discomfort.

Let's be tough as nails!
I'm shocked you consider a tiny little $0.8t company like Apple to be a "huge moneymaker". Last year alone, which "hasn't been kind", just the top 25 oil companies made $2.6t in revenue¹: so what you call 19 days of revenue they made every 36 hours; in the year they made enough to buy Apple at its current market cap with its staggeringly high P/E multiple of 17.91, in its entirety 3.2 times. Just because everyone talks about them doesn't make Apple a moneymaker. Get some perspective. /s

Seriously though, I think you're being totally unreasonable. :) $11 billion is huge revenue for movies. That's not chump change.

¹ https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2016/05/26/global...
Preparing your UA strategy with download and revenue data
We had to come up with a set of common practices for everyone to follow in our team. The result was a list of guidelines which looks random and is not perfect. But we try to stick to it and improve it by making it public. The reason for posting it here is to have it criticised by community. So please comment if you have better approaches or open an issue on github. Thanks
Well, you would have one document tying them all together.
So sad it has become this way.
I do the same thing. Unsubscribe if I remembered subscribing, otherwise spam.
Why Choose PSD to BootStrap Conversion Services for Businesses?
Yep; couple this with MS publishing how to roll out micro service builds based on Docket, you see Microsoft fully embracing the state of the art of programming. More importantly, they are making these techniques and patterns available and accessible to us developers.
Responding to “Nothing to hide, Nothing to fear” (2015)
That does not matter, still conveys the negative things the grandparent doesn't want to have conveyed.
Neither of those options are realistic for anybody who actually, y'know, works. The overhwelming majority of passengers will get much, much higher fares.

E.g. 7am MAN-EUS on 23/08: £112

And having to mess around with split fares like I had to reach Singapore, is appalling (is that even the same train? Do I really have to change train to get from the 2nd largest city to the capital? Is this Peru...?).
"having or relating to left-wing political views.", distinct to liberal or democrat.
No they are trusting Amazon.
You are the devil. It's worse than pizza with salty pineapple and peas. Keep going :D
If you just own a row of houses you are not part of the 0.01% who are in control of the money supply.
My app has an info infinitely renewable trial but many still use the cracked version.
You don't know what I'm advocating for, since you've yet to accurately portray the memo.
https://www.rjionline.org/reporthtml.html more about the study, including methods.
> t really was dumb luck that prevented the Khans from driving all the way to the Western shores of Spain.

You can say the same with Japan.

Mongols never invaded it cause of bad weather.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Japan
Headphone Palace
which guides are best for buying a headphone?
I've found two-column papers quite awful to read on screen without the ability to reflow. Once per page you have to scroll up again to the start of the page before continuing to the next page. It's easier with a large display where you can just fit the whole page, but on a small laptop screen it wasn't a pleasant experience.
A Beach Getaway in Tanzania – Exploring Motherland Africa
> Allowing hate groups "above ground" normalizes their behavior.

It doesn't gain them support. Putting their views in the spotlight demonstrates what sort of people they are, and helps combat them.

For example, the far-right British National Party had two seats in the European parliament from 2009-2014, but it didn't do them any good.
This is like trying to replicate the positive experience of a baseball fan by removing baseball from the equation and having people watch hopscotch in giant stadiums. The religious experience is a lot more than ethics, morals, and general life guidelines.
> a woman not being hired because of gender bias - which exists right now

Proof/citations please. And with "concrete numbers" - if you are going to correct for bias, you need to know its magnitude.
> And even if you are on a network where you randomly host content you never looked at encryption can provide you some peace of mind ... If neither you nor others can know what flows through or is stored on your node it would be difficult to mount pressure against anyone to disconnect.

I think you misunderstand the objection. Yes, encryption can mean you cannot be persecuted for "hosting"/"transmitting" some objectionable stuff, since you can prove that you had no idea (at least that's the theory).

However some want to be able to "vote with their wallets" (well "vote with their bandwidth"). They don't want to assist in the transmission of some content, they want that content to be hard to find, and slow and unreliable. They have the right to freedom of association and don't want to associate with those groups. Encryption cannot guaranatee that I won't help transmit $CONTENT.
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Can't read the post without creating a LinkedIn account. Anyone have alternate source?

Edit: Turns out LinkedIn doesn't like my VPN.
You never know. Some people used to think 4 billion slots would be more than enough for addressing every host in the world, and so they allocated the addresses haphazardly. Now look at the sorry state of IPv6 adoption 20 years after it's been designed.

Some people used to think 65536 code points would be more than enough to encode every character in every language. Later it turned out not to be the case. Expanding that space necessitated the creation of hacks of various degrees of awfulness like UTF-16, CESU-8, WTF-8; today nearly every Unicode-aware environment has to be prepared to deal with unpaired surrogates somehow.

Expanding a fixed-size namespace is a pain. Who knows if HTTP status codes won't become scarce some day. They better not be wasted on frivolities.
If I'm reading a paper in Nature I can assume that the editors and reviewers did first checks on content (BS can still get through, but it is rare). Self-published, unknown journal gives me none of that. Thus when making hiring decisions it does help to overweight established journals. And most tenure tracks in academia make mistakes costly.

I do not like the current system, but established, well curated journals do provide some benefits in academia hiring. They do damage, too, but to a different group. My 2c.
I've got some extras that I'm willing to share. E-mail me your address and I'll mail you a pair. I'm in SoCal so they should arrive in SF in time for the eclipse.

I got mine directly from one of the NASA-approved suppliers, precisely because I don't trust Amazon anymore. Had to order a small batch, even though I only needed a few: I figured not going blind is worth ~$30.
Jewelry Shop: Ultimate Destination of Your Beloved Happiness
The goal is to make a subset of ASP.NET run on third party platforms. It's actually a very good solution for web application development.
I don't use LaTeX any more.

I used it for my undergrad dissertation. It was great.

I used it for my PhD thesis. It was great.

In between the two, I used it for a research paper. I ended up bringing a couple of extra coauthors onto the paper. They weren't familiar with LaTeX. Guess who ended up doing their editing for them?

I stick to Word these days for anything there's a chance I will have to collaborate on with others. Awkwardness working with people who can't use LaTeX is a risk I'm not going to take. Plus, Word (and associated referencing tools like Zotero) have come on a lot since I first used LaTeX 16 years ago.
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This is the ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC Framework that will run on the .NET Core 2.0 runtime. This is not the .NET Core 2.0 runtime.

The .NET Core 2.0 runtime is still in preview for the next month or so. Microsoft released the library specification for .NET Core 2.0, called .NET Standard 2.0 and published all of the GA 2.0 versions of their libraries, such as this one, on Friday August 11. Library maintainers have the next month or so to publish updates to get ready for the .NET Core 2.0 GA release.
Software patents shouldn't exist, unless the sourcecode that the patent is protecting is released under a permissive license or equivalent. Having both copyright and patent protections at the same time is insane. Patents have a reasonable duration. With copyright the duration is basically infnite for everyone even though only a minority of companies actually care about it.