skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm halfway through the OMSCS in the machine learning specialization. It has been a great experience so far and definitely worth it for me.

A couple of things to consider: As you mentioned, it is more focused on Computer Science than Software Engineering/Development. There are a couple of Software Engineering/Architecture/Testing courses but I haven't taken them so I can't comment on how relevant I think they are to my day job.

It's an incredible bargain... 7-8K for an MS (not an online MS) from a top 10 school in CS. That on it's own makes it worth it for me.

It's not easy and it's not like a typical Coursera/Udacity course. Depending on which courses you take it can be quite challenging (which is a good thing). You typically don't have much interaction with the Professors but there are a lot of TAs and other students to help you along the way.

Here's a reddit in case you haven't come across it that answers many questions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/

And here's an awesome course review site that a student built:

https://omscentral.com/reviews
No that's about par for the course for the rich ruling generation's kids.

Honestly though it's more likely he's apolitical and doesn't actually care or know... I'd say like 80% of young Chinese I've met are mostly apolitical or at least won't let on at all what they think (both in China and in the US).
oh wow. someone manages the on and off of this app?
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Sorry to hear it didn't work well for you on mobile! We do test on mobile / iOS but seems like we didn't do a good job on this side - we'd love to learn more about what wasn't working well so we can work on that.
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My country didn't have extreme right party in government since after USSR. The most right party is a run-of-a-mill conservative party which in most cases would agree to US Democrats of 5 or 10 years ago. Anything right of that is marginalised forever and didn't even have a seat for over a decade. Yet several Western Euro countries had their extreme-ish right in government coalitions or nearly winning presidential elections.
I posted it a couple times since I have no idea if you saw it. If you responded (as you did) I would not post it again. HN is not like Facebook, no one gets notified of follow-up comments, so I don't know if someone actually saw my comment in response to theirs.

I totally agree that the community should protect itself from being defrauded. I actually support the measures you are taking on that front. I just wanted to bring to your attention, as a pretty active and interested user of HN, that it has changed and the system pushes people to do this kind of stuff. It's fostering competition to do it, because that's what it takes to get to the front page. I suspect that this happens in most cases. Look, I could be wrong - you have way more data than me - but using just what's available to me suggests that "asking friends to give you a couple upvotes in the crucial first few minutes" happens a lot. Heck, I did it in the past once or twice and it worked. The problem is that this mentality causes the element to become necessary. That, or clickbait.

We don't want this in the community, I agree, but it's like punishing X in individual cases while the system almost requires X to get to the front page in the first place. It is not about a "right" to get anything noticed on HN. It's about the incentive structure that develops over time as the system grows and changes.

Bitcoin started out to be decentralized and now is in the hands of several miners, and fees have gone up. Saying that there is "no right to have a transaction be recorded in the ledger" doesn't mean there isn't an incentive problem with a root. The root of that problem is the escalating proof-of-work arms race.

Authorities in the drug war thought if only they got low level dealers to rat out their suppliers there would be no more drugs on the street, but the incentive structure of money to be made on drugs caused a problem. The root of that problem is an escalating arms race between the feds and the cartels caused the drug gangs become more ruthless and publicly execute the families of those who ratted people out, greatly increasing violence.

The root of this problem is an escalating arms race to get noticed as HN has grown. But perhaps there is no problem. If there is, however, this is NOT OFF-TOPIC. The topic is gaming the system. And I am saying this as someone who wants to see less of it, but recognizes that the system now encourages it more than in the past.
His Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has strong ties to white supremacy, and back in 1986 was considered by both sides of the political aisle to be too racist to be a federal judge. Sessions has a record doing such wonderful things as suing voting rights activists for trying to register black voters[1], and joking that the worst thing about the KKK is their marijuana-smoking members.

So tell me: what kind of President would select a guy like this as his Attorney General?

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/magazine/the-voter-fraud-...
Maybe you should have linked your resume or at least included some means of contacting you. A general geographic region would be helpful too. Without any of that info this post turns into more of a piece of performance art.

In case you don't know, the 'email' portion of the HN profile is not shown to other users.

Check out this newly-formed community of 1100+ 'CS Career Hackers' willing to help each other get a (better) job: https://discord.gg/rGwhXJv
Just add another $5/mo for free popcorn and drink.
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As someone whose family the nazi's took great pains to eradicate ... I'd like to come out strongly in favor of not suppressing their speech. If for no other reason, than idiots tend to self-identify, and I really don't want to have to start searching for whom the next group of idiots are that I need to worry about wanting to off me and my family.

This is a little hyperbolic. Though the rest is not.

I've seen this up close and personal, in business, in personal life. I regularly dealt with, had to work with such assholes in SV startups, VCs. I was taught by such assholes in primary/secondary school, undergrad and grad school, smiling as they spewed their vile invectives. I see comments on otherwise respectable news and information sites pop up with well worn and well known calumnies and blood libels, not to mention tired stereotypes which have no bearing on reality.

These are the things that the nazis (won't capitalize those bastards) say out loud, whilst the asswipes who may still think them keep close to their vest. If the nazis are gone, I have to worry about whom else harbors these particularly stupid views.

I want to know who I need to warn my offspring about. Telling sh!t-for-brains to keep their yaps shut because they are idiots, complicates my search algorithms.

So, no. Please don't have them shut up. Assholes tend to self-identify by opening their mouths. I want to know exactly who they are.
Richard Schneeman (an engineer at Heroku) wrote a great blog post on this very topic; worth the read: https://schneems.com/2017/07/26/omscs-omg-is-an-online-maste...
The article covers it:

"Gates created the Giving Pledge in 2010 with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and the pair have been joined by 168 others who’ve promised to give the majority of their wealth to charity."
There has been no claim that I have seen that Damore was dog whistling. Scott said that he was motivated to write this linked post by others who feared his previous post might be interpreted by others as a dog whistle to the alt-right.
Difference is, "any theater in the U.S. that accepts debit cards". If you're unfortunate enough to only have a Vue around, your Cineworld pass won't do much.
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This is exactly what I am looking for in feedback.. would love to get your feedback on what the teams think about it and do they use it religiously?
Great to know about them.

But their web site says $7.50/minute for subtitling, $1 for transcriptions.

Still may be quite reasonable to extend video reach that much.
We have the dictum of the dollar rather than the dictum of the party, but that's not a meaningful enough difference IMO.

I have to disagree on this point. The dollar leads to objectivism. The party leads to collectivism.

It depends on your definition of morality. Do you value the individual or the society? Would you see the outliers, both good & bad, purged or preserved?
That's racist? How is pointing out an ongoing bloodbath in Chicago, where most victims are not well-to-do fellow "white supremists", racist? To be fair you have to admit Trump has a lot more on his mind than just one white supremacist rally and he's been trying to get involved in Chicago's violence since before the election.
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You'd be hard pressed to attribute any aggression to me.
Seems like a pretty vast generalization. I love going to the movies, especially for the audio.

That said, experience is a big deal, and some places are improving it. The Metreon in SF has theaters with recliners now that are super pleasant to watch a movie in.
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It was probably one of the more obvious examples for a simple non-relational database, neglecting that those early implementations tended to not have any advantages over a card file, and often made things less usable.
White supremacists feel winked at, isn't that enough?

http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-spencer-says-trump-di...

Also, if you are not familiar with "white nationalism" or Richard Spencer, this interview should help: https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/a-frank-conversation-wit...
Hitler wasn't elected with 97%. The NSDAP's election results looked like this:

May 1924: 6.6%
December 1924: 3.0%
May 1928: 2.6%
September 1930: 18.3% (second largest party)
July 1932: 37.4%
November 1932: 33.1%
March 1933: 43.9% (last free election)
November 1933: 92.1%
March 1936: 98.8%
April 1938: 99.1%

Sure, the NSDAP won 90% of the vote after all other parties were dissolved in June 1933 but all elections before that were "democratic". The NSDAP didn't even get into power with a direct majority. They formed a coalition government with another party, the KSWR/DNVP (who got 8% of the vote).

Also note that by that point the government had been destabilized since the 1920s, ruling only with an absolute minority of the votes.

In 1930 the left-wing parties (KPD and SPD) actually campaigned against ever having another war with very successful demonstrations.

The NSDAP campaign in 1930 was the first campaign organised by Goebbels. It was based on conspiracy theories like the economical crisis being an international conspiracy against Germany, appeals to national identity, scaremongering against communism and capitalism. They actually toned down the anti-semitism on Goebbels' orders.

This was a "small government" democracy in action. An unstable one, yes, but the elections were democratic. The Nazis exploited the instability of the government and the economy and they used scaremongering and demagoguery to get the relative majority, but they won democratic elections and they had a significant share of the votes before being in a position to force the outcome.
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They are probably referring to the fact that in the Linux world, in-tree modules get a lot of maintenance for free when the kernel refactors the pieces beneath.

If you have ever written a kernel module out of tree then tried to upgrade the kernel version you know this pain.
Carnival Cinemas in India have a similar scheme called Moviecard. All you can watch, Monday through Thursday. It costs around the same as one movie ticket for the entire month. This seems similar.

I always thought the idea was to fill empty theatres with people over weekdays, and of course make money off of refreshments. I mean, they will only fill up seats that are unsold anyway, but with the pass they will at least have shot at selling food.
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> proper anonymized data

Until it's not.
A Chinese national cannot leave China without permission. When you leave, before going through security you go through emigration control. Maybe that's what GP is referring to.

Right in practice this doesn't matter so much.... As long as you're not a dissident of course :/
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We have an interesting offer in Portugal. If your cable+internet+phone+mobile company is www.nos.pt you get a card that offers you 2 for 1 tickets at their cinemas. If you go alone, you pay full ticket, but you get a popcorn and drink menu for free. Max 1 per day, 8 per month, 52 per year. Each ticket is around 7USD.
No, they admit people without a BS in CS but I think they want to make sure you'll be able to succeed in the program. So it helps to have professional software engineering experience or some other coursework.
All social media in China, Russia, etc. were copied from Western companies to begin with, so what's wrong with the comparison?
My best standup meeting was so good I still remember it. It lasted precisely 1 minute 12 seconds. Make it snappy! Or better yet make it async, in Slack, using an automated tool.
Electric recliners?! America never ceases to surprise me.
Trump did disavow the white supremacists.

Not fast enough for them?
Im sorry to say it but vim/omnisharp is nowhere close to usable in a professional setting (based on my attempts about 8 months back). Its like eclim. Compared to an out-of-box installation of visual studio (even without resharper) I'm spending way more time fighting with my tools than I can afford. I fear this vim-omnisharp effort on a fundamental level will never be worthwhile except for the most trivial of .NET projects.

EDIT: vs-code is a FOSS project, For .NET I think this is a much better direction.
I bet you're underestimating what you spend on Uber. That's only about a dozen small trips.

12 trips a month makes the calculus easy: don't buy a car.
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Left wing violence? Such as?

Reminds me of the time someone cited the Rodney King riots as examples of left-wing hate speech.

Or when the protestors at the WTO summit had to physically prevent some testosterone filled teenage agitators from Oregon, self-described "anarchists", from breaking crap because the police wouldn't act.

(Almost as if allowing some violence to make the evening news served their purpose. Hmmmm.)
Yup, Pathe Unlimited Card, named after the chain that operates most (or so it seems to me) cinemas in the Netherlands.

A catch is that when you cancel, you can't join again for a long time (or pay a large fine or something). Also, you pay extra for each 3D ticket (I don't really like '3D' but sometimes that's the only version available).

You need to go (on average) more than 2 times a month to break even, continuously. Which I find difficult, but that probably says more about me than about the product.

Once in a while, there's a deal with 'Postbank Rentepunten' that gives you a card for 3 months for like $40. That works a bit better for me (especially when I time it with the winter holidays, when a lot of new movies come out).
So...I'm not sure how this will stop the fraud.

All someone has to do is payoff a data entry clerk to generate the false backstory and data that is encrypted in the blockchain. In fact, once this illegitimate data is preserved in the blockchain it will be given equal weight (or at least it should) as other legitimately generated data unless you have a way to dispute the data stored in the blockchain -- which then means you now have a more authoritative source so why do we need the blockchain
One nice thing about the movie theatre is that you're paying a large amount of money (~$5/hr) to be there, so you're more likely to pay attention. I find with netflix, people take shows less seriously and spend time on their phone whilst not paying attention because "its just netflix."

I think if theatres had an "all you can watch" model, people would take it less seriously, and the quality of the experience would degrade.
I think there's two incompatible arguements going on here:

1. Is ext4 a decent general purpose file system?

2. Is ext4 a decent alternative or comparable to ZFS?

My answers to those questions would be:

1. It's an "acceptable" general purpose file system but it's really starting to fall behind the competition. When I see comments like how people don't need features like snapshots et al I'm reminded about just how popular Windows Shadow Copy is. Ok that is a service rather than a file system feature but it shows that there is a demand for desktops to have this feature. Checksuming is another example - it's practically free service these days as CPUs have hardware extensions for popular checksum hashes. So the argument is akin to saying "why do we need file system journaling"; sure you don't need them but you're massively grateful when you do have them and your consumer hardware throws it's inevitable hissyfit.

In my opinion Linux really does need to up its game. Ext4 feels almost stuck in time when compares to the likes of XFS which is years older than ext and yet they're working on snapshotting. Then you have really forward thinking file systems like what DragonflyBSD have been working on. They understand the need for better resilience of our data on desktops due to ever expanding storage capacities and HAMMERFS looks extremely exciting as a result.

So to get back to your question. Yes ext4 is acceptable for most people, but is acceptable really good enough? Maybe we should invest more time and energy into XFS?

2. Is ext4 a decent alternative or comparable to ZFS? Simply put, no.
Correct, and a toxicologist would be able to tell you which toxin specifically is being targeted by a treatment. A quack not so much.
The author should also mention the following modern techniques used in hype-driven software development:

- microservices architecture

- using document data stores despite your data being relational
go look up the percentages on ideological crimes in America. You'll find right wing > muslim > left wing
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It says other degrees will be looked at on a case by case basis.
Note that I was unable to submit the actual one-word gTLD URL to HN, so I used the .com...
>>assaults (by mainly people hiding their face, mind you)

Antifa also does some nasty things. However, it's worth noting that they hide their face because they don't want to be doxxed by groups such as The_Donald and /pol/.

Fortunately, the Nazis on this weekend's rally weren't so smart, so now quite a few of them have lost their jobs and faced other types of backlash from their friends and neighbors.
Shouldn't that read:

"" More specifically, the sum of all expected future premiums that all patients pay should be slightly more than the sum of all expected future claims for all patients ""

You can not reduce the calculations to a single patient. If an insurer finds out that you will develop a certain type of cancer for which median treatment cost is 1M USD and lifetime support costs will be 30K USD/year, they should not be allowed to increase your premium accordingly.
They're quite nice.

https://amc-theatres-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/v149572...

Electric so you can pick a specific level of recline, instead of just having a spring-loaded chair with only one option.
This is an interesting concept but I have to wonder how this is going to affect movie goers long term who do not have a MoviePass or even those with a MP when it comes to new releases. If MP goers can attend once a day then does it not stand to reason that new releases will be harder to get into as this will increase the number of attendees. I know there are a bunch of teens and college students in our area who go to the movies infrequently because of the price but would gladly buy a MP. Stands to reason that new releases that sell out for days will take infrequent movie attendees even longer to get into or deal with even longer lines (wait times). This could back fire a bit by making infrequent movie attendees even more likely to pass altogether and wait for DVD releases, etc.

Just do not see how they can sustain a $10 a month price point long term. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over time.
Not analogous,because attacks relying on coordinating large numbers of people (with a high rate of detection) simply doesn't scale. We should be worried about electronic attacks on voting infrastructure, political attacks on districts, political attacks on the registration process etc.
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MoviePass intends to hold an initial public offering by March. I think they're just dropping the price to show investors how fast they can "grow" before the IPO.
Very good post. Makes me realize how much time I've wasted reading 'news' that is designed to make you feel angry or frustrated.
Yes, that's a fair point, and they are paying the theatre the full price of the ticket. I wonder if their plan is to control the supply of visitors to the cinema at a loss, then negotiate a profitable way to continue when the cinemas fear losing the revenue.
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> How is this remotely profitable?

It's not. Article says they're planning on burning VC money and figure out some nebulous "sell data analytics" sort of monetization approach.
Sure, I was just surprised to see no one else having mentioned it here in the comments.
From my understanding an undergrad degree is required, the degree being in CS is "only" preferred.
Cf. Reverend Wright?
I understand the source of your question -- not all languages
provide arrays in the included-by-default namespace. Python for example requires you to import an array module. These are part of the standard library in both cases.

This makes it a little harder to get started but considering the kinds of things programmers put up with on a daily basis is extremely mild.
The rise of digital cinema has made second run theaters a real value. I worked at a second run theater in high school and the prints we got where often very worn and drew lots of complaints. Now they are just on hard drives.
Reminder to any who feel that is a great idea and are inspired to emulate it, but don't make so much money that they can afford to donate half of it, there's a different pledge for us little guys, the Giving What We Can Pledge:

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge/
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> the goal is to amass a large base of customers and collect data on viewing behaviors. That information could then be used to eventually target advertisements or other marketing materials to subscribers.

I assume that means more (or "better" ads) before the movie. I prefer to pay extra watch movies somewhere that doesn't show ads, but no doubt there's a cohort who would be happy to watch ads if it means a cheaper ticket price.
> Politico did a pretty big study on it a couple months back showing that virtually all large outlets are clustered around liberal metropolitan areas. Politico, of all places.

May I suggest that it's not causation?

Other large outlet headquarters:

Fox News: New York City

Breitbart: Los Angeles

Infowars: Austin

A slight change in your text:

> virtually all large [any type of corporation] are clustered around liberal metropolitan areas