skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry, no. If the FSF had a billion dollar budget, you’d still lose people immediately at the first instruction to open a terminal and become root. Your comment actually illustrates the exact point I’m making: the epsilon between us and them is widening, because the loudest voices want people to look at computing the same way our heroes of the ‘70s and ‘80s did and don’t realize this is unproductive. Freedom is too often equated with the way we have done things before.

You or I buy a phone and look for a terminal. They buy a phone and go straight to the App Store to install Facebook. And yes, people know what they want. They are on Facebook because that’s what they want. Look at pictures of my newborn, group of friends. Oh, all my friends are on Facebook and it lets me do that. What’s that, GNU Social? I need to figure out what? I need a server? Mail is decentralized. How many average people don’t use a central service like Gmail? People are choosing the things Free Software doesn’t like because for them it is better. Full stop.

Free Software has no competitive answer for anything the big names are doing for the average user. Not one thing. There’s enough people interested in it that competitive answers could be developed and find a market. The problem is unrealistic ideals (decentralization, often; how much of global SMTP traffic is spam, again?) placing unrealistic requirements upon a project and focusing all of its resources on things the average user doesn’t care about. What if I wrote a Facebook that cared about privacy and, somehow, miraculously got billion MAU traction? You’d be right back banging the same drum making you irrelevant about surveillance state apparatus because it’s centralized. Except the whole point of Facebook is network effect. So.

You’re deluding yourself if you think billions of people are clueless and Free Software has all the answers, if only there were a little more budget. Just look at the worldview evident in your comment. That sort of talk will make most anybody glaze over, and you immediately lose your chance to pull them to a better way of doing things. “Only use things to which you can read source code.” What’s source code? Nobody cares about the ideals. Adapt accordingly if you want to effect meaningful change. That’s my point.

There’s literally decades of proof based on what’s successful that we don’t have a firm grasp of how to adapt software freedom to Joe Random. You and I both know it’s better. Now figure out how to tell them and design systems that are palatable to the average user.

That’s my other point: I don’t think a customizable system with Free Software ideals in mind can sufficiently protect and be useful for the average user. I want to be proven wrong.
Apple has the best liability in the business.

Dell's three year failure rate is almost 20%. Apple's is 10.

fwiw, I use Dell XPS boxes.
Honestly, I think all the "anti-government" people I've come across (normal ones, not moneyed SV people) would be ok if they could legitimately see and hear about how their local, state, and federal tax dollars are at work in some easy way. The news doesn't cover it, and probably can't, well enough, but the data has to be there because it's public. And also, taxes are the number one thing people want to complain about.
Reminds me when Gawker went down and Tom Scocca wrote:
Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection.

If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money.

http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581
As noted, most PhD students don't pay out of pocket.

What this is meant to correct, as noted elsewhere, is that PhD students still have to be enrolled in classes while working on their dissertation, at least to some extent - and class enrollment means tuition. Full time student status is important for many, many things like health insurance and student loans.

These waivers are an acknowledgement that those classes aren't actually using space, instructor time, etc. so it would be silly to charge them tuition for it.

What's being proposed is essentially charging students for a book keeping adjustment.

Hilariously, I think it will be harder for the top privates. Many states have clauses to prevent tuition being spent using state money so that the state doesn't end up effectively paying itself, which may still work even if waivers themselves go away.

The privates would have to figure out how to define full enrollment but not paying tuition (and for some portion of a PhD students should be paying tuition, via some mechanism). And that can get tricky...
Having lived in a "remote" (read not actually remote but not served by any ISP) area nearly anything would have been better than dial-up.

Way back in the day (10-15 years ago) my friend with satellite Internet had 300+ ms pings everywhere and at the time a dial-up modem was still required. Good to know things have changed.
> You assuming that NK has an early warning system which consists of more than a guy with binoculars and circa 1960s radar which they don’t.

You don't think China has such a system and won't give a friendly call to North Korea? You'd be willing to bet the lives of South Koreans on that?

Also, as much as we like to think of North Korea as a joke nation, I'm sure there are some very smart people in the government. In fact, there may be more smarter people in government than in the United States. There are plenty of opportunities in the private sector here for a smart ambitious person. There's less private sector opportunity in North Korea, and statistically, 25 million people is bound to produce quite a few very smart people. As long as they can identify and capitalize on some of them, you can bet they are likely government resources.

So, I think it's much more likely that North Korea doesn't have early warning system technology because they've decided they don't need it, and they can focus their research elsewhere. If China gives it to you for free (for the reasons you outlined), then why waste those resources? I would be hesitant to assume any perceived shortcoming of North Korea's situation wasn't specifically sought by them. Not because they are geniuses and masters of strategy that have designed every aspect of their situation, but at least some aspect are, and complacency and underestimating your enemy have no place in war, much less a nuclear war.
They do that though. The past two years I've filed online with their free forms. I knew that I was taking more allowances and would owe. They said "hey, you actually owe us this". And then I sent them a check.
I will leave this here:
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...
Unlike the linked article, your comment actually IS explicitly against the site guidelines, so I maintain my view that you did NOT read them before posting, and are now just trying to come up with an argument retroactively.

> "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

Second, I think the argument you have come up with is laughable. No, I don't think historical details about the Weimar Republic are actually just talking points for current political fights. If you do, I think that says more about you than about the article.
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Hm... https://github.com/jsbeckr/darmstadtium
Why Visionaries and Operators Need Each Other
Two issues:

1. That would mean redefining enrollment. What if a PhD student takes a class that involves instruction time during their research period - as I did, and as some of my students will likely do?

2. The money used to pay the instructors for PhD-level classes, of which there are some, has to come from somewhere. And for many universities, there is $0 that is "irrelevant".
That is mostly true, unless it's malicious Certificate Authority which may, on behalf of a governments request, ignore the CAA record on purpose to generate a certificate.

This is where a TLSA record would help to prevent malicious certificates. At least, if the client (browser) validates TLSA records.
Is it really that crazy? I'm pretty sure you'd have the same problem with any other language (I.e. most of the popular ones) where if/else isn't an expression.
As a datacenter technician for Google, this makes me happy to see other people recognize this.
You’re describing Vagrant
There are a couple of curated widget sets that bundle up and sometimes extend jquery ui. Jquery easy ui is one I used in a project last year. There’s another I don’t recall the name at the moment.

I actually recommend using something like this as a learning experience. Using raw js and a lib like this is very basic, you’re exposed to a lot of issues modern framework solve for you.

Also note lack of releases isn’t necessarily bad thing for mature projects.

https://www.jeasyui.com
This version has new themes. I'm happy to see an end to the weird fuzzy mushy looking buttons. I don't really like the other theme that I could find pictures of (Dark Audacity), but making it themeable is a big win. I might even tackle making a theme myself, as I use Audacity pretty regularly for the final mastering pass of tracks I make in FL Studio or Renoise or REAPER. It's a great tool but the UI has always been sad.
Combustion heating probably has some loss in the delivery system and some heat goes out with the exhaust, so the heat pump may win, slightly.
This has nothing to do with addressing that problem. Literally zero.

It's an obscure bit of accounting for an administrative process, that's being used because many people (like you) will nod sagely about "Academia being out of control" without understanding what the mechanisms actually in place are.
"may" is even a bit soft: I would bet that >75% of biomed PhD students are funded by some sort of external source.

My impression is that the humanities are a bit different: grad students are funded by the university, but also expected to do more TAing (etc).
Colore: A powerful C# library for Razer Chroma's SDK
> I was thinking about touch sensitive surface that recognizes drawn glyphs.

I'd like a touch sensitive surface... on a keyboard.

Consider an expert keyboard user. With a nice keyboard. Adding downward-facing hand tracking, such as a head-mounted Leap Motion, adds value. Now you can gesture on the keyboard, and above it in 3D. Permitting a very rich input vocabulary. And, for example, using the entire keyboard as a touch surface. Except... while fingers are highly sensitive to tactile contact, neither traditional keyboards, nor current hand tracking, can provide good contact information. Finger-tip position tracking isn't quite good enough to infer contact existence and pressure. So while you can use say the J-key keycap surface as a trackpad, and even infer touch-untouch events from gross finger motion (better than requiring a keypress, but not by much), you still can't get light-touch events (eg "I was clearly pressing harder when I stroked down, but just skimming when I moved back up - I clearly felt the difference, so why didn't the keyboard?") So, I'd love a contact sensing mesh which could be laid over an existing nice keyboard, without compromising key feel. I can get position information elsewhere, and keypresses from the keyboard of course, but there's no existing source of multitouch contact, let alone pressure. Any ideas?
Yeah but you could kill a bear with the Dell power brick.

Now, maybe that bear needed killin. Who am I to judge? But maybe there are better tools for the job.
I was interested in this website's content and was about to sign up.

Then it pointed me to a google appengine sign up page, which says "Google is not affiliated with the contents of the application or its owners. If you sign in, Google will share your email address with the application but not your password or any other personal information."

That scared me, I thought I was phished.

I checked thinkwithgoogle.com 's whois, it does appear to be a domain owned by google.

then the above message is unnecessary. plus this domain does look like a phishing site.

you should use something like google.com/thinkwithgoogle or thinkwith.google.com
"Cubase has kept an interface very similar to its original Atari 2600 (I think?) version"

Cubase on a 2600 would be something to see. Cubase was introduced for the Atari ST in the late 80s. The UI has changed quite a bit, but the basic UI principles of early MIDI sequencers have carried over into modern DAWs.

Edit: A screenshot: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OlspnqVcJho/maxresdefault.jpg
>Stalin had a saying, I paraphrase:

> One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

I don't think there is ever a record of him saying this.
Unfortunately not, but it's one of the premises of HashGraph (https://hashgraph.com).
I want to hear exactly zero people who vote for this complain about the STEM shortage, America losing ground, etc.

But that won't happen at all.
Again, it seems you're assuming that just because someone is "white" and not rich/poor they're the same as other "white", not rich/poor people. That's offensive and naive.
Because James Comey asserted that she didn't intend to break the law by committing those crimes.
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I'm the inverse of you I guess. I'm not a huge fan of macOS or iOS (iOS's notification story is an absolute nightmare), but their hardware is always among the best, if not the best. Apple might not appear to be the best if you're just comparing line items on a spec sheet, but the whole package always seems more solid than their competition.

I'll never buy a non-Apple laptop anymore after dealing with flaky PC laptops for years, and the only reason I haven't bailed on Android is because of how bought into the ecosystem I am... but I'd buy an iPhone in a heartbeat if I could reliably run Android on it.
Absolutely. The servers in their production racks are nearly 100% custom down to the silicon and involve serious amounts of engineering to make happen.
A company absolutely has a zero-sum 'focus' just like a person. You dismiss the idea that resources are the limiting factor, but that is absolutely what the limiting factor is.

You really think that with unlimited money they couldn't have better software? They could, but they don't because it does not have enough of a return on investment. They 'focus' their resources on areas that will return them profit.
I'm glad you asked! Diversity in musical tastes, religious and political ideology and affiliation, food preference (because new cuisine is always great to discover), experiences as a result of living in a primarily rural vs urban setting, occupational diversity, etc etc. I could go on.
You care about diversity in things that don't really matter. When I walk into a room full of people I don't really care about their income, or the color of their skin. I care about them as people, their interests, their unique life stories.
You should stop obsessing so much about race and economic status. This is a free to use internet forum. No one is barred from joining based on their race or wealth.
Yeah, I anticipate that Android emulation will be something the community jumps on rather than being a built-in feature for v1.0.
It's worth pointing out that their technique requires access to the internals of the network:

First, we compute the gradient of the outputs of the neurons in both the output and hidden layers with the input value as a variable and the weight parameter as a constant.

A well designed production system would not support this.
Neugram – Scripting in Go
US government climate report: Climate change is real and our fault
One of the ideas behind UNUM is that we're using extra bits to guard against the possibility that we see catastrophic cancellation (the mass loss of significant figures between two nearly-equal values), and using intervals would allow us to only use those extra bits when necessary (as it's a variable-width format). The argument is that unums instead of floats would allow for better packing of memory, and by counting the energy cost per value of memory, it's an overall win.

That argument is rather mendacious, though. Yes, it does cost energy to maintain large register files, caches, and DIMMs, but hardware already aggressively turns that stuff off when not in use. Thus the lowest-power solution is generally the one that maximizes the use of everything. Furthermore, the cache and RAM is generally a fixed cost anyways: you're not going to say "oh, I only need 12GB of RAM instead of 16GB because I can store on average 3 bytes/value instead of 4". Thus the only component you can really claim counts as part of the enum power usage is the register file, and this paper appears to be going with a fixed-width format for doing the hardware computations anyways, so the win there isn't going to happen.
Is there that much of a difference? If the graduate students need to pay the tax, then new grad students will take that into account when comparing stipends.
The irony of calling people working underground "airmen" is strong...
I'd be comfortable betting by the time they hit their dissertation, which is where this will really be a problem, that number is >90%.
heads up the <title> isn't getting set, it just shows the URL.
Nice! I've recently tried to get into React seriously and I found myself getting stuck pretty quickly. I tried Vue.js which seem to be popular as well and I had a blast. I found the templates more intuitive, the documentation easier to read and the concepts just fun to use. I ended up spending the entire week just playing with Vue.js and making an app with it.

I was wondering what was HN's opinion on the framework. And knowing js, if I was just once more learning a soon-to-be-dead framework and I should just insist with React.
Ditto for AutoCAD -- I loved seeing how the equivalent CLI command appeared in the log as I was using the GUI to draw.
Indeed. But the political problem is that you can only make this argument retrospectively. When you say this is how it will turn out, you’re advocating for redundancy and everyone learned in Comp Sci 101 or Smashing Magazine or whatever that redundancy is bad. It takes longer to understand why dependencies are bad, in fact, worse as TFA says.
How can they efficiently do that? Will they send a request to Google/Mozilla/Firefox and asks if cert ABC logged?

I see two issues with that:

1) the browser vendors know each site and subdomain I visit. This seems to be a privacy issue.

2) every new visits adds a lot of latency because they need to check the certificate every time I request a site (now it becomes: dns, ssl handshake, cert check, http transfer).

3) when the cert check server is down, what is supposed to happen? Fail every ssl request? This adds a new point of failure. Just allow it? An attacked could black-hole the dns or block the IP address.
>so some enterprising developer can build a nice alerting service

I launched https://ctadvisor.lolware.net/ some time ago.
My first use of CSS grid. I really enjoyed it!
Wow never knew that. I always thought the person receiving the gift had to pay taxes on any amount above the gift tax rate per year if the tax wasn't paid by the giver i.e. 14k currently.

Basically then any money you receive or earn is taxable except loans and gifts up to the gift tax limit, all other money movement is taxed.

Of course winnings are still taxed at normal rates because that is income not gifted per se, I guess I was conflating the two. Example: If you win a car you owe taxes on the whole thing.

So essentially it is the same limit as the estate tax, so I wonder if that also doubles and also goes away in the tax bill.
Sure! I like people. People make work fun. People that disagree with you (or that you disagree with) make life fun. Most of us spend the majority of our working hours working, and that work makes it easy to spark conversations with others that would otherwise not be had. Not having that for 8+ hours would make me feel incredibly lonely after a while.

(I love working at the cafe and shared work spaces, but that isn’t the same.)
> In broad terms, the bill would eliminate or consolidate a number of tax deductions meant to offset the costs of higher education for individuals and companies, including the Lifetime Learning Credit, which provides a tax deduction of up to $2,000 for tuition, a credit for student-loan interest, and a $5,250 corporate deduction for education-assistance plans.

Sounds like a subsidy to me.
Really please supply proof of this statement. And again, why hasn't the justice department opened an investigation into this? Both heads of JD and FBI are trump appointees is it not?
Yeah their product engineering is just off the charts. That PCB layout alone is insane.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613090
Well, duh. It's a prototype. We had to build the MVP first. As soon as we fill our Unicorn Hunter position, we'll be all set...
It’s just sad that we’ll never see any of that openly available, or described.
The waivers aren't a subsidy.
I used it semi-professionally (I was a paid DJ, but not as my primary source of income) for a couple years. It's solid. 2.0 brings it very comfortably into competition with the best proprietary software, IMHO. That's when it got timecoded vinyl support, good pitch shifting, and better beat-matching.

Pros are probably still mostly using Serato or Traktor, but I don't think it's necessary. I used Traktor for a while but like Mixxx better. It's very good software. It had a lot of shortcomings in the 1.x releases, including stability issues, but I would definitely trust it for pro work today.
I personally would not want to have wireless charging only for this device. Given the number of different places in which I want to charge my phone over the course of a week, and how few of them have wireless charging stations, that would be a big problem.
iOS is a toy OS. The notifications alone make it useless for office productivity. The limitations on background processing break, say, Plex or Netflix sync. You can't watch a YouTube video while doing something else. Apps like FB Messenger can't display useful overlays on the screen. You can't even do basic things like set a system-wide default browser.

Android O is light years ahead of iOS.
Being curious is the essence of human intelligence.

Either demonstrate hard-AI or tone down that title a bit.