skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no freedom in using Android. For the better part of a decade I've wanted to install phone software on a regular GNU/Linux distro and install it onto an ARM smartphone. A phone is a general-purpose computer and you ought to be able to use whatever distro you want on them. This project seems like the best shot of that happening.
The bitcoin whitepaper.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Are you able to add any further info to this? I assume you know about this courtesy of your position in the developer community, but do you know what's being upgraded, when it's expected to hit, or can you point us at a press release / etc?
First world problem if there is any.

It's a lot easier than from most of non-EU world: at least you can hop on the plane for a job interview without fussing with visas.

If one can't be arsed to move there's always an option to remain unemployed.
You confuse technological advances and safety techniques. These are very different things. Safety techniques are theoretical principles that are used to keep technology safe. Typical examples of safety techniques in systems design are: readback, diversity, majority voting, coding of information.

In the case of establishing the correct position of vehicles, whatever the technology used it will have an error of measurement. This error accumulates over time, especially if you are measuring displacement. You will need reference points to retain your positional uncertainty within an acceptable value. An autonomous vehicle uses a map containing features that can be used as reference points and triangulate its position based on that. A human brain does this constantly using its eyes, ears and memory. It is an example of diversity: you correlate the perceived displacement by your internal ear with what your eyes sees, using a reference learned in your brain about your surroundings and sensors' ability.

To reach 1E-9, we cannot rely on such self-learned things: we can agree that the probability for the landscape to change is quite higher than 1E-9. In the case of trains, driverless trains use coded beacons / loops or GPS diversity. Such techniques imply that the infrastructure around your vehicle collaborates to the safety of the system. Hence my statement.

This being said, the rail industry has been dreaming for long of a completely vehicle centric solution. There are high stakes for that: reduced costs, competitive advantage, etc. Last attempt here: http://www.alstom.com/products-services/product-catalogue/ra...
Yeah, the press loves to inflate things. Thanks for a mathematician's opinion on it.

I think it's pretty clever of them (the Babylonians), since I don't remember them having a decimal system. I guess by cherry-picking specific angles that resolve to rational numbers, it let them speed up some of their calculations.
By using a real GNU/Linux distribution like Debian you can have up-to-date software with all known vulnerabilities patched. On Android, all the apps bundle dependencies which house tons of unknown vulnerabilities and then the phone vendor stops updating your phone when it's no longer in their business interests. Any GNU/Linux can be more secure than that terrible baseline.
IRS Rehires Former Employees with Conduct Performance Issues [pdf]
I think this is less likely to hit major films or TV shows, but it will hit the audiobook and video game markets pretty hard.

I'm pretty excited about the video game side.
They said years ago that HL3 would not be a VR focused game but I suspect that has changed by this point. There are still issues with normal locomotion in VR and nausea so I suspect either there will be some new idea in that realm or HL3 will take on Portal technology to explain teleportation based movement.
> A device-free social event makes as much sense to me as having an equipment-free sporting event.

A bad analogy is like an equipment-free sporting event: it has no objectively measurable goals.
When a tree makes wood, it takes CO2 out of the atmosphere. When you burn the wood, you release exactly that carbon.

Similar for making ethanol.
I don't get it why Half-Life is so popular

I mean the story is mediocre at the best and the gameplay isn't the one of the brightest out there
That's not quite how he proposes it though: in order to avoid unfairly disadvantaging creditors, he'd have them given a cash payment of their share of the net difference of their total debt from the per-capita infusion. E.g., if the person has $2000 in bonds to be called, $1000 in credit card debt, and the total jubilee per capita is $4500, they'd receive $5500 ($4500 - $1000 + $2000). (If I understand his position correctly.)
Yep, I noticed that too. All the same, offering to pay for a review, especially for completing it before a specific deadline, seems rather dodgy. At a minimum it would require reviewers to disclose that they had received compensation for the review.
> It only starts occasionally dropping when I'm 25+ feet away and with a wall in between

The issue is water, not walls. I had a pair of bluetooth earbuds that I could set on a table and walk all around my apartment between rooms no problem, but using in a pocket in my cargo pants they'd cut out due to my body (what is it, 60% water?) covering the line of sight between the buds and my phone.

That said form follows function. If you've designed earbuds that fail to defy the laws of physics you shouldn't sell them.
The biggest problem I see is language recognition. Dialects where once a major problem and I can imagine having a heavy accent will be a problem here too. Another problem would be grammar. You are not just learning vocabulary you are also learning a new grammar and will make mistakes. Maybe this can be corrected by knowing what the original language of the learner is.

I like the idea. But this is a hard problem and I doubt there exists a functioning version of this.
Detection of Simple Plagiarism in Computer Science Papers [pdf]
Reuters is British and was bought by Thomson, legally a Canadian company, in 2008. Its headquarters remain in London.
App Development Costs: The Ultimate Guide to App Budget by App Type
The narrative in my mind was that this single developer didn't want to split his profits by hiring more developers. I think it is pretty arrogant for a developer to assume they can maintain a multi-platform application the size of Sublime Text by their self. Constantly changing your mind and continually stalling a project is not a mature strategy. It takes discipline to project the correct goals and stick to them.
I think you are deeply misjudging the complexity of the human experience and being particularly blind to or biased against our collective history. If you spend any amount of time talking to people or even just reading the personal writings left to us by the ages you quickly realize that everyone who has ever lived is no different from yourself, we simply made different choices based on the information available to us, for good or evil. Anyone, given the right conditions, is capable of being a monster or a saint.
Vanguard might be a good role model? I'm not sure exactly how they are organized, but I think they are owned formally owned by their customers _and_ seem to be doing a good job at providing customer surplus.

Of course, in the end it's competition that's keeping businesses customer focused. (Or rather competition provides for the survivorship bias so that mostly customer focused businesses survive.)
Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science [pdf]
> There are limits on monthly usage (500 megabytes in the U.S.) and caps on calling and texting (three hours and 500 messages).

I think I'm paying something like CAD$40/month for this level of service in Canada.
Who knows if this link is accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol

But it says:

SSH File Transfer Protocol

The SSH file transfer protocol (chronologically the second of the two protocols abbreviated SFTP) transfers files and has a similar command set for users, but uses the Secure Shell protocol (SSH) to transfer files. Unlike FTP, it encrypts both commands and data, preventing passwords and sensitive information from being transmitted openly over the network. It cannot interoperate with FTP software.

This suggestion this term chronologically the second of the two protocols abbreviated SFTP is duplicitous.
sorry but the ruby community now has something called Elixir.
Useful, thanks!

Noticed that it doesn't report correctly for subdomains - one of the sites I built is at foo.megacorp.com, but the extension reports the results for megacorp.com which is a separate property.
I'm looking for a new icon library. From this list[0], I've choosen fontawesome, but it's a whole 936kb! I'm curious if there's any serious efforts at tree-shaking in icon sets. A folder of SVG files sound like it'll tree shake better than a font file. In my short peruse clarity appeared to be for angular 2+, but I didn't see any details on easily building only with the icons you need, but at least you can pick from smaller icon sub-sets.

[0] https://tagliala.github.io/vectoriconsroundup/
The slatestarcodex.com community might be interesting for you.
Looks similar to stackshare
Well like coding, the only way to learn how to run a business is to do it and pour all your time and energy into it for years and years.
Pretty straight-forward submarine here.

The article is overloaded with gonna and might and could be and by end of x date. And then of course the not subtle money revs. Whatever PR firm put together this submarine, made them sound desperate:

"The Los Angeles company says its emergence over the last six years has led" ... "a near-acqusition for as much as $450 million"

"The company is reviewing a previously undisclosed acquisition offer, but discussions are continuing about potentially going public next year."

"A near-bankrupt FreedomPop was hours away from selling to Sprint in 2015 when a new $30-million investment came in from venture capitalists. Stokols isn’t in a cash crunch this time around."

"Investors are equivocal about when to sell, saying that they’ll weigh any offers, like the one on the table now, but that they generally want to see the company remain independent for some time."

"If they hold out, investors could turn into potential acquirers." (har har, nice fake spin by the PR firm on trying to project power)

So what you're really saying is: you want to sell (soon!), you're going to hit a money crunch because the business has no margin and it's very expensive to compete (but we could IPO any minute now, so you better buy us first), your investors are worried (we like putting more money into a red ink machine that nearly went under before), you're fake-touting strength when you're actually not in that position at all (we might buy the entire telecom industry!), and everything you might accomplish is forecast to x date into the future (when you hope to have already sold, so the cash burning 'business' is a problem for someone else).

Want to know what this really is? History rhymes. It's PeoplePC from the dotcom bubble.
Comprehensive Case Study on Managing Remote Teams
Is the Sprint/FreedomPop network compatible with AT&T and T-Mobile phones?
Boredom is the state of not being satisfied with any of the sources of reward currently available in your environment.
What public sentiment? Most of the commentary has been against this witch hunt.
Why does this need to be a browser extension? No, thanks.
I'll believe that when I see it. Half-Life 2: Episode 3 was also in the works.
Again- similar "economys" have been seen in war torn areas of the planet.
> events following those described in my previous letter (referred to herewith as Epistle 2).

If 'Epistle 3' does not mean 'Episode 3', then 'Gertie Fremont' does not refer to 'Gordon Freeman'. That's what the author called it, whatever the internet at large thinks at any point in time is less relevant IMO.
The problem is that for a company to justify giving H1B visa the candidate must be really good.

I'm not so sure that those 13% unemployed are really good.
People don't need to eat animals at all. You can live perfectly healthy as a vegetarian or vegan. The more I read about what goes on in industrial farming the happier I am to have changed my diet.
Reducing costs has a large effect on profits. If your profit margin is 5% then reducing costs by 10% triples your margin.
I think the difference is not that public school systems are being dismantled but that a higher percentage of private school parents value education and are engaged in their childrens' learning.
Thanks for the clarifications. Indeed this is what I meant. Undefined behavior in particular isn't unavoidable, though the existence of meaningless statements often is.

Python's philosophy of giving well-defined behavior to meaningless code seems wasteful. If your code is unintentionally executing sqrt(-1) (or unintentionally indexing out of bounds, etc) then something is wrong with your program. You don't necessarily need the behavior to be defined if there is a bug in your program. In the case that you want something predictable to happen, better to just abort(). Catching ValueError/IndexError in those cases is futile, how can one trust a buggy program to handle itself?

Python using exceptions to signal both runtime errors and programmer errors is a design smell. The former should always be caught and handled, the latter should never be caught and should probably only reasonably abort().
"the data sciences"

Not just data science but "the data sciences" now! Where will it end?
Countries in Europe with voter ID also generally have mandatory IDs for all citizens and residents. But the United States does not have a mandatory ID.

As a result, voter ID laws often turn on which form of ID you are permitted to provide. Many states with voter ID laws also have conveniently defined their set of acceptable IDs to be those which Republican voters are much more likely to have than Democrat voters, due to income and cultural disparities. Additionally some of these states offer some kind of universal ID for purposes of voting, but it will not be free or will be unusually difficult to obtain.

This bias towards Republican voters is not by accident: multiple Republican-controlled legislatures have been quite open about their intent. It is one of several strategies being employed by Republicans to counter Democrat-leaning trends in voter demographics.
Neat, but still some kinks. I'm not seeing Angular for https://fonts.google.com/, but can quickly find the tell-tale ng- attributes in the HTML.

BuiltWith has been around for a while and has it's own chrome extension [0]. It correctly identified fonts.google.com as using Angular.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/builtwith-technolo...
Religions allow you to force a rule-set on your neighbors and limit your descendants behavior, long after they reached adolescence.
I would guess for a middle-aged person, in constant silent fear of loosing it all with one mighty divorce - or drug accident of son/daughter - this sounds attractive.
The problem is that we don't live in the 1800s, we live in a global market, and consumers want the best products available. Additionally, these are people, why would we limit the movements of people?

Immigrants help Countries they move to, they build the economy and workforce, and are the only reason why the US does not have an aging population as bad as Canada, Japan, and many other nations. Opposition to immigration is xenophobia.

Historically, many things have been bad, and/or wrong. Mental Health treatment, treatment of the aboriginal people, food safety, environmental policy and protection. How is history any sort of an argument?
This is an issue for anyone looking to change a career, not specifically boot camp grads.
>Perhaps uniquely among STEM subjects. No one expects a chemical engineer to have done anything

Computer programming as a self-motivated hobby is not unique in this. Many electrical engineers started playing with electronics as kids (e.g. disassembling radios, wiring up homemade amps, etc). Many mathematicians "play" with math as kids before they go to college and get a teaching/research position. (E.g. Andrew Wiles was 10 when he was captivated by Fermat's Last Theorem.) Many biologists and zoologists when they were kids had a keen interest in nature and animals (beyond the typical children's "dinosaurs are cool" stage). Same for astronomy.
Maybe you are correct but I think that bootcamps are created for attracting people to spend their money on a premise that they will get payed very good as programmers.
A few days ago I had to manually clean out some registry keys to fix a Steam "frozen download" issue that has been open since 2006. Not 2016, 2006.
Maybe your customer mistook their SFTP server for an FTPS server? I'm afraid I don't have a Windows machine to test your software on, but if you're curious I encourage you to set up an SSH server like OpenSSH (which provides SFTP as well) and try with that. I'd be really surprised if your FTPS implementation managed to work with it (unless OpenSSH's SFTP implements an FTPS fallback).
The US has no national ID and states have no universal mandatory ID; there are existing biases in practical access to ID, and those have been unaddressed or exacerbated in schemes requiring ID for voting.

A dramatic example would be Alabama adopting a voter ID requirement and then shortly after it became effective, closing the driver's license offices (where IDs are issued; driver's licenses are the main form of state ID and alternative non-driver IDs are generally issued by the same offices sice they use infrastructure originally built for driver's licenses) in 8 of 10 black-majority counties,
including all those where that majority was 75%+ and including the five that voted most strongly Democratic in the preceding Presidential election.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/alabama_sends_me...
I can recommend Slate Star Codex [1]. There is no voting system, but the level of discussion is above 99% of what you find on the Internet, plus the commenters come from a very wide range of the political spectrum.

Discussions are mostly about the articles that Scott Alexander posts, but there are open threads twice a week (just click on "OPEN THREAD" in the top menu bar to go to the most recent one).

[1] slatestarcodex.com
The ethics of artificial intelligence and Moore’s Law
A lunar space elevator is feasible with today's materials (just a whole lot of them, way too much for current technology to transport to the moon). Here's a nice talk by Markus Landgraf, a mission planner at ESA, at 33c3: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8407-an_elevator_to_the_moon_and...
/r/changemyview is well moderated and has interesting topics from time to time
I have implemented MACsec on Juniper devices for many clients. It's great to see it finally supported in Linux. It would be great to see more vendors supporting it.

In my efforts to be as vendor agnostic and possible, and as open minded towards solutions for my clients, it's always great to see multiple ways to deploy something this complex.

For your further consumption, here is the Juniper documentation:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/con...

AND because the lions share of networks are Cisco:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/ios-nx-os-...

This is really great stuff.
Discussions of this topic on HN tend to get flagged quickly because the discussion goes strongly against the witch-hunters.
For those wondering what a submarine is: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The Google Lunar X-Prize wasn’t extended, it was ended
I have one site that checks all these boxes and I love it.

And I'd never post the link to a HN thread. A good culture and community is a fragile thing.
There's a weak post at the top, I'd start with a few of the 'Top Posts': https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
FreedomPop is operating on a scamming shady level by not being honest about what they are selling.

They don't give you a real phone number, just some app you need to use to call.

Avoid them.

Edit: Is it how hacker news community is?
downvoting because I tell the truth how their service is?
I had the experience of getting charged for months without warning.
They use your credit card, instead of direct debit in the UK so even more annoying for cancelling.
And no requiring customer to read every details of your contract is not fair. Fair is an important part of any contract, finding you are getting a VoIP number is not normal.
Fair enough, I didn't have the backstory.
Making sure frameworks and custom elements can be BFFs
or https://stackshare.io/
That's my main gripe with these boot camps. If you're an experienced programmer with all the fundamentals in place, you could certainly learn a lot about a new language/framework in 12 weeks.

But, that's not who these things are aimed at. New programmers need time to absorb the fundamentals of programming. Getting pushed through some fast-paced program is the worst way to absorb anything.

I do like the idea of hopping right into writing applications vs the more traditional route, but it needs to be over years, not weeks.
As I said in another thread, trusting a buggy program to debug itself is futile. Effectively handling unintentional ValueError (or IndexError, TypeError) is not practically possible. For one, there's a good chance the program's persistent shared state is in an inconsistent state when those unintentional exceptions happen. Better to just abort().
> Can anyone of you report any long term benefits from these kind of courses?

None. It's like all self help books or "learning to read" books or etc. The only thing it does is make you feel like you are accomplishing something and actually "learning". But you are just wasting time.

The title is even self-defeating. "Learning how to learn". How can you learn to learn without already knowing how to learn in the first place.

In order for the class to be useful to you, you would have to already known how to learn to learn the material.

Ultimately, those truly motivated would have gone on to learn what they wanted regardless of this course. And those unmotivated will not go on to learn regardless of this course.
You're the one bringing up incompetence. It's hard to get a driver's license or state ID when you have no car, work a full time job or two, the legislature closed your "local" DMV and the closest one is an hour away by bus.
> The US states requiring ID would be much less worrying if they would accept something that everyone has.

Sure, but a key purpose of voter IDs laws, as proponents will sometimes admit in public (or in remarks that aren't intended to become public but do) is to tip the partisan scales in elections.
Not copy – symbolic link. Then there’s just the one source file.

Not that I would want this in my project. But as a hack, it’s even better than it first sounds.
Exactly. Not only will we never see HL3, we SHOULD never see HL3. It's so ubiquitous as some sort of second coming of Gaming Christ that no option existed except to have it be disappointing. It would have been Duke Nukem all over again.
thanks for your worthwhile contribution to this thread!
> [...] it seems a bit racist assuming that young black youth who want to vote are too incompetent to get an ID.

No need to assume, you can just check the statistics.
Tracking news site HTTPS adoption
> Essentially you pick what fields in complex (maybe even nested) data structures to sort by, in what order, and the system makes a sort.

Wait, is that it? What makes this novel?
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 First Impression: Do Bigger Things – SuratNow
? I have their SIM card installed in a smartphone. It works like any other phone.
None of these were shut down by the government.
Religion is not to blame, for most include proper environmental stewardship. Unfortunately that theme is being ignored in the developed world. How about simply making the argument that it is morally wrong to destroy God's creation?