skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want LaTex, then take a look at this tool
@ LucidChart LaTex support- https://store.office.com/en-ca/app.aspx?assetid=WA104380118&... - Word (free & paid)
Lucidchart is an HTML5-based visual collaboration tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Easily create and insert flowcharts and other diagrams in Office documents. One of the supported “chart types” is LaTex equations.

I've only played with it a little and was really impressed.

I've been reading about Tableau, have not tried it
http://www.clearlyandsimply.com/clearly_and_simply/tableau/

How about Sway? It is still very much in development. And the last I heard it has one serious shortcoming. The sway files must stay on the internet,no downloading. (that may have been fixed ...?)

Office Sway is a presentation program and is part of the Microsoft Office family of products. Generally released by Microsoft in August 2015, Sway allows users who have a Microsoft account to combine text and media to create a presentable website. Users can pull content locally from the device in use, or from internet sources such as Bing, Facebook, OneDrive, and YouTube. More at "Wikipedia"

Take a look at Ellen Finkelsteins site. She does some amazing stuff with PowerPoint
http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/ - Ellen Finkelstein is a PowerPoint MVP

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/Hidden_pivots.html
Glad to hear that, i hope it get released publicly soon.
By that standard, when you use a bog standard Visa card you're not actually paying with dollars[1], you're paying with the artificial virtual currency your bank provides that is pegged to the dollar at 1:1, and merely funding your account with dollars.

[1] Substitute your local fiat currency here
Nope, it's not linear [1].

ADDENDUM: To which I should add, to avoid more discussions, that parallel methods on dense matrices exist that essentially use a prefix sum approach and double the work, but thereby decrease the absolute running time [2]. However, as that exploits parallelism and requires dense matrices, that does not apply to this discussion.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-1733-...

[2] http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawnspdf/lawn283.pdf
It could also be unintentionally full flash memory. I have an iPhone 4 that was unbearably slow, and eventually started claiming there was not enough room to sync music, despite supposedly having 2 - 3GB spare. (The 'other' section had somehow grown to 8GB, and after attempting a factory reset & resync, Other grew to 16GB instead of disappearing.)

I fixed it by deleted all the music, syncing, and then manually selecting the music I wanted again. That got me back my free space and cleared the 'other' space. The device is now remarkably zippy again.

[Obviously I have other phones, but I still use the iPhone 4 as an iPod & podcast device.]
Budapest, Hungary – First Impressions
You would need huge increases in transit capacity to do that, and it would probably also push car-accessible streets to the point of total uselessness, wrecking any bus service that doesn't have dedicated lanes. The buses and trains from San Francisco's low-rise districts to its downtown are already crush loaded and Muni doesn't seem to be capable of adding capacity.

Towers in/near the central business district have the distinct advantage of getting lots of people within walking distance of their offices. SOMA et al. also have low-rise commercial uses that can be converted to mixed uses. It's important to get as many units as we can out of this rare land, because tearing down existing housing is so destructive (and a total political non-starter). Our west, almost everything is already residential and is cheaper than whatever new construction would replace it (in the immediate term, which is all voters care about).
If you’ve ever heard of the ELO ranking system it was developed for ranking chess players, and predicting the outcome of matches.

The system has been tweaked over the years as there small statistical oddities.

But official ranks are determined after playing 10-25 games in “official” tournaments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
s/If you're on a phone,//

Reading PDFs on screen sucks.
D-Wave system used to detect particle signature of the Higgs boson
> Also, what about the other half of my points? ;)

Oh, sure, sorry about that. Did you edit the post I replied to? It looks like I only missed two points:

> But it gets better. While you can use anyone as a relay, you PREPAY them before they do any work for you. This is claimed to solve the problem of nonpayment, but nobody mentions the opposite problem: I take your money and do no work for you. The money cannot be taken back - I own it now. cool.

Relays are sitting there burning their CPU while they wait for a customer to show up. This is a continual cost, which makes Relay/Proxy operation unprofitable unless they receive a steady stream of transactions. If they "take the money and run" they only pocket the initial payment, maybe as much as a couple kilobytes of bandwidth in tokens. If they "take the money and stay" they get a stream of payments from the customer. Therefore it's economically irrational for them to run -- the PoW's cost makes them boundedly trustworthy if they are economically rational.

(I sort of covered this in the /dev/null attack you proposed, as it's the same case except /dev/null has the attacker also uploading a bit of useless traffic. I should have been more explicit.)

> Oh, and if you thought this will provide INTERNET access, you are mistaken. Apparently HTTP w/ DNS only. As per whitepaper, exit nodes can filter based on domain. I am not even going to mention that running an exit node without a whitelist is idiotic (one user downloads CP, you go to jail). So everyone must have a whitelist? And just how big do you figure a typical "whitelist" of safe domains is? 100GB, 1000GB? Good thing you need to send it as a reply to Get Offers request.

Lol, yeah. Whitelists are dumb, but (as we seem to agree) not having them is dumber. I agree with your analysis. If they do become 100GB, etc we'll add queries to mitigate the size issue ("hey, do you support xyz.com?"), or any of the other relatively well studied solutions here (have I finally found a use for bloom filters? Unlikely.)

More broadly on the whitelist issue, my hope is that paying Proxies will result in actual "Orchid Proxy ISPs" springing up, which will have empty whitelists, actual legal protection as ISPs, etc. That's the beauty of real money being involved. Whitelists are there as a stop-gap while the market is being built.
Nope you could easily train a CNN to distinguish photos of real dogs from drawings of dogs.
<rant>

The "why concatenative programming matters" example is a strawman to begin with. The correct solution in standard Forth is "DUP >R DUP * SWAP * + R> ABS -" not the rot3 garbage they exhibit (yes, I ignored the useless z parameter because it's beyond the idiocy I can deal with).

Same goes for the (ab+cd) example, that simply writes "* >R * R> +".

Two stacks, problem solved. Forth lets you use the return stack for a reason. If you're a chicken, just provide a second user stack and hide the return stack. Problem solved.

But I guess that introducing and writing about the powerful (this word, really, should be treated as an intellectual smell) ";" operator is more fun. The only problem is that this operator actually doesn't work on stacks but arrays. Oops.

But, hey, can have infix notation!

</rant>
I have used the app variant. It's kind of fun to see progress by planting bigger and bigger trees in a forest.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.forestapp
> Communicating one word at a time, one picture at a time or one sound at a time is slow and has significant overhead.

We don't. We have massive parallelism in how we communicate. The aphorism "a picture is worth a thousand words" is based on that.

All in all, AIs beat humans on very specific problems, but they're worthless for most tasks - and an AI that's specialised to one task is very rarely suitable for another. You can get a human to do quite complex tasks and use initiative with only the simplest of instructions. Don't even need to be at expert-level. Where is the AI that can wash, dry, and fold the clothes, change the baby, make lunch and dinner, fix the leaky sink, and bring the dog in at night? Yet that's a very humdrum day for a human.
I've seen dozens of people online complaining about it, so there is probably a bug that effects some percentage of users. I personally didn't notice any slowdown.
Non techie here. Mind sharing what the hosts file is and how you use it?
I've been hesitant to use 3rd party extensions/tools that block websites. I just assume if they are free they must sell my data.
Also, controlling something on local machine could be cool. I'd experiment with adding/removing sites on random timeframes, to see if that could help me (one weird trick to help you overcome your social media addiction!)
Memory inside Linux containers (2014)
Instead of breaking them up or enforcing arbitrary separations (say between OS and apps), regulators could force them to provide APIs for competitors to use.

For instance, Google has ~90% market share in Europe and many websites restrict access to Googlebot, which makes it impossible to compete with them on a level playing field.

Regulators could require them to offer a search API for a reasonable price, similar to the FRAND obligations put on essential patents.
> What other things might be possible? Could we make people move in a certain way, do or say certain things?

At least to some extent it's possible, with hypnotism.
Beware that figure numbers in the HTML version are incorrect. :(
Chrome for Android is the most popular browser in the world, so it's certainly worth bothering, even if it's not a desirable thing for them to be doing.
“Sophia, the first robot to be granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia, has more rights than the human women there. Strike anyone else as odd?” - odd indeed!
I'm not sure if that was a real optical illusion rather than a massive amount of miscommunication. I.e. some people taking about the colours of the actual pixels in the image and some people taking about the likely colour of the dress given the cameras respond to the living conditions. There different of course but everyone just said "the colour of the dress is..." resulting in pointless arguments about different things.
In the same vein: is this a pipe?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

I think all the other fail-safes human brains have would be a pretty good protection against OP's scenario. When I'm not seeing clear I automatically take a second look, try a different angle, realize that something isn't quite right and evaluate the whole situation accordingly. All things that today's neural networks don't and can't do.
Yeah, good questions, the post leaves some to be desired. And meta-flakiness tooling actually sounds like it could be really useful!
Julia can beat data.table at group-by, sometimes
Are there any safety issues with this? Air traffic control? What if balloon bursts and payload falls to earth.

What are the rules on launches?
As an avid reader of Neal Stephenson, I was surprised not to find the phrase "Magic Eye" in this thread yet.

There are many known ways to create optic illusions that trick humans this quickly and thoroughly. Efficiency is the real question if you are concerned about deception and human brains.
I'm subscribed to lots of RSS feeds, but an import rule is: only feeds which publish at most one article per day. That excludes all news. Mostly it is personal blogs which publish weekly or monthly.

This is the killer feature of RSS feeds. It checks rarely updated websites for updates.
This is much more interesting, thanks!
The problem is that some people are engaging in needlessly risky activities, they then put the people that rescue them at risk. For example, in the UK we regularly have people rescued from mountains who are woefully ill equipped, like this guy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-41306122

Yet properly equipped mountaineers can get unlucky and die anyway. The difference between death by hypothermia because you climbed a mountain in only your underpants and being well equipped but getting hit by an avalanche?
In the first case the coroner has a verdict of "death by misadventure" because you took unnecessary risks.
I think the discontinuity in the first derivative is smoothed or interpolated somehow, and that this also happens in existing nn approaches where a gradient must be computed...

I could be wrong though
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Kredīts uzņēmumam apgrozāmo līdzekļu palielināšanai
There are a few manually curated ones if that is what you are looking for.

Example: http://www.hackernewsletter.com
Fat binaries don’t solve the same problems as Docker does (there is some overlap though!).

The author is right about k8s. And what do you need to run stuff in k8s? Containers. And what is a pretty good container format? Oh yeah, Docker.

Although other containers exist, let’s be honest, people running k8s are almost always running Docker containers in them. And it all works amazingly well.

How do I run fat binaries in k8s? In a production ready and battle tested way please.
Some would say the orchestration layer is quite important
Some of Leo Bodnar's balloons have circumnavigated the Earth multiple times. The small foil balloons don't expand like a latex balloon does, so they can hold a stable altitude without bursting.

http://www.leobodnar.com/balloons/
Many apps are actively listening for ultrasonic beacons embedded in many a TV & radio broadcast. Technically, they aren't recording your speech, but are still listening all the time, finger printing your media consumption. This information is from a friend, an ad industry insider.

Next time you grant an app a "record audio" permission on Android, think twice
The trick is to tackle the issue, not try and sidestep it. When you quit smoking, removing stuff like lighters from view and access is a good thing to do, but it's not the hiding that makes you stop craving. You have to be hellbent on cracking down on the behaviour, take some perspective and discover why you're indulging in this, without pretence. It's a fight, sure, but it's also a journey at knowing yourself better.
iOS11 has been bad enough that I've moved over to a Galaxy S8. The difference in stability and smoothness is night-and-day.
The Case for Editing Tweets
> I believe this has been debunked.

It might be true that it tobacco reduces the overall health care burden because it causes people to die earlier, but it's not relevant. Setting your car on fire might also have the side-effect of lowering the operating cost of that car.
You hit the nail on the head: the use of rational discourse and the use of logical arguments to plead a case, demanding those arguments follow the ideas of logic. That idea BY ITSELF is one of the core ideas that very much are "Western Civilization" and were hard-fought ideas even inside the West (even in ancient Greece, just read the circle arguments in ancient Greece). Even the idea of a university itself is very much a Western tradition that is not exactly common.

But this rational discourse is quite a unique property of Western Christian civilization, and it's Greek philosophy heritage.

So when those students say that Plato, rational argument itself (and frankly the existence of the university concept itself in the first place) are against their religion/ideology ... they're probably right.

But let's also move one piece of total shite out of this world : there has never been any large scale human society that was egalitarian, and frankly most societies were FAR worse than the West has ever been. Especially islamic civilization is bad in that regard.
Facebook’s head of AI wants us to stop using the Terminator to talk about AI
Sorry I should have word it more carefully, Not that I think it is worry for Apple, but and overall general Economy.

The only reason why Apple is earning 85-95% of profits of smartphone industry per year is because all other manufacturer are posting loses. When everyone decide not to make a dime like Amazon, ( or they cant ), the ones who do will obviously emerge as winner from a Profits POV.

What I find worrying is

1. Apple is obviously working in diseconomy of scale, i,e they aren't paying less per component unit with their massive scale, they are likely paying more then everyone else.

2. It is very clear there is an inflation in component ( Or everything else in Asset ) happening. From NAND, Wireless, Memory, Fabs, Screen, everything is getting more expensive, which we wont quite used to because we expect the same Screen, memory or CPU with similar characteristic or performance will cost less 3 - 4 years down the road, but this has not happen.

Both point relates to interest rate, the way those company were sustainable because they are making some profits in a likely stable or monopoly environment, and getting very cheap cash flow.

That is what i am worry about. I wish someone could tell me what happens when too much liquidity is injected into the system..... but it seems history hasn't written a page on this yet.
- on linux/osx its /etc/hosts

- on windows its c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

If you add a line in it like

0.0.0.0 reddit.com www.reddit.com

You tell the computer to use 0.0.0.0 (your own address) for those domains, and they subsequently won't load.
Nice post, but he loses sympathy with me for shaming that guy.
I can attest first hand that iOS11 slowed my iPhone to a crawl. We're talking multiple tens of seconds lag with basic operations like opening the camera, opening the keyboard, etc. The same is true for everyone I know personally who has used iOS11 (a head-count of about seven so far).

This really isn't progress. iOS11 introduced practically nothing in the way of improvements or new features, but instead has made a lot of devices practically unusable.
2 simple tricks work for me:

1. Only use HN to consume "tech news" - loads fast, has no ads, content averages @good+. Then turn on noproc.

2. Set time of day u close laptop+phone+(enter any other device, fridge is excluded). For me it's 18:00.
He's on HN. That's like asking your coke dealer how he got off drugs...
There are some issues with cjdns with pure DHT on small footprint devices with poor connectivity. The author is hence currently introducing experimental supernodes, which are stable fat nodes with large memory which can build routes quickly.
Resisting Reduction: Designing Our Complex Future with Machines
They also tend to implicitly make viewers aware that their sensory apparatus is doing something strange, because people aren't structured to only answer those single questions.
Have you looked at MS Mix?
https://mix.office.com/en-us/Home

Since you talk about teaching, are you aware of the MS Education offering? It includes subsites specific for teachers. That would be a good place to ask your question

OFFICE 365 EDUCATION / STUDENT ADVANTAGE - LEARN
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education
This is home site for ongoing contact/training/features of Office 365 Education for:
•	School leaders
•	Educators
•	Students
•	Products
•	Training & Events
•	Stories
•	How to Buy

https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-educatio... - Home Page / FAQ
Check if you can get Microsoft Office for free by trying out your valid school email address at the Office for Students page.
https://products.office.com/en-us/academic/office-365-educat... – Describes the Education plan and how to get it
https://products.office.com/en-us/academic/office-365-educat... - Home page
So a creator of a video should have no right to control in which sites it can be shown? Sounds like a recipe to screw creators even harder than YT already does.
Fiber on PHP
Try Zoho Show.
https://www.zoho.com/docs/show.html
Where do I sign up? (-:
> I don't think it is without reason that when American companies fire people, they are not allowed to be around and get all their stuff in a box to not sabotage the company.

Unfortunately, all it takes is one bad actor to ruin it for everyone, and the company then goes "have security escort him out" from then on.

> But seen from a holistic view, for society as a whole that must be a better approach than producing lots of homeless people, or people living off welfare.

Easier firing of less productive people leading to homelessness / welfare would require it to be impossible to get another job. That seems a stretch.

If the company accumulates enough unproductive people, it goes out of business and everyone gets dumped on the street.
jesus christ, BEWARE ITS LOUD
> I don’t like the conditioning of buying a new iPhone just because mine is 2 years old, and want out of the Apple marketing machine.

Amen. Stay strong.
iOS 11 has been such a disaster for my iPhone 7 that I'm moving away from Apple altogether. The phone is full of UI glitches, unreliable, has horrible battery life, Bluetooth connections fail constantly, and it's so generally slow it can't even reliably play a pre-downloaded podcast while opening an app without it stuttering badly. They've put out some bad software updates in the past, but this one is pretty inexcusable especially when you consider it took away as many useful features from the iPhone (3D Touch app switching, Notification Centre from Reachability) as it added.
I made up a “digital diet” where for the first week I completely gave up news and feeds. Then in week 2 I reintroduced news but strictly scheduled for few mins in the morning and evening. In third and the last week of the program feed time was added. It worked wonders. Huge noticeable difference in quality of life.

But like with any other diet I’m back to my old ways, being a slave to news and feeds.
For a counterpoint, iOS 11 has been completely smooth sailing for me, absolutely no problems or performance impact.

I know at least a dozen people with iPhones (of various generations) and none of them had a bad thing to say about the update.
Some more ideas:
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Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition)
I also own an iPhone 7 Plus and iOS 11 had no discernible impact on my battery life. I'm consistently between 30% and 50% at the end of the day depending how much I use it.