skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Higher education is pretty cheap in France.

It is not like it was a vacation. In most cases, you still have to pay a rent, food, etc ...

And you commit several years of your life to it, that's the most precious resource you can give.

I can't believe I am discussing this to be honest, that's an insane argument.
BTC Trading volume over the last 24hrs is $6,795,970,000 (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets)

Tether trading volume over the last 24hrs is $803,868,000 (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/#markets)

At most tether can make up 11.8% of BTC's daily trading volume. If tether tanks, then it seems that worst-case BTC could suffer a 10% drop in demand, ceteris paribus.

Please tell me if there is a flaw in this logic. Seems like there is a valid critique about BTC being boosted by tether, but that doesn't come anywhere close to explaining the exponential growth of value in BTC.
I fail to see the connection. If Amazon began to analyze recordings to try and find real or even misconstrued abuse (presumably only after legislation required them to - I can't see a business case), they'd reasonably need to adjust what their algo flagged as a match. I'd be curious if Echo (or gHome, or Siri) do any sentiment analysis right now, they don't seem to (or cursing when they botch your command would at least produce more contrition).
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This comment was submitted under the name and address of someone we will call Jill, in Rochester, New York.

As it turns out, Jill’s father wasn’t very happy about that submission because the real Jill is only 13 years old and never submitted any comment.

We also saw a woman in Albany who supposedly submitted a comment in July of 2017. Sadly, her son reached out to us to say that was impossible because she had died in June.

Even right here in my office, my assistant press secretary had a phony comment submitted under her name using the address of her childhood home.

These are just a few of the thousands of comments that have been reported to my office.
Are we talking about net neutrality here? Because I don't think NN can be costly. Net Neutrality is the _natural_ state of computer networks, you don't have to do anything special.
Well, the UHD Blu-ray is slated to be released in January (presumably world-wide) so there is that. And Blu-ray will be the ultimate version in terms of picture quality, if you are into that.
Your advice basically tells them to get out of JS development because businesses continually hitch themselves to <JS framework of the year>.

This stuff comes up in interviews. Trying to avoid answering direct questions about a framework and answering with "Well I can learn it really quickly because I'm a good vanilla JS Dev" doesn't fly all the time. If you can't answer direct questions about a framework, they will pass on you if they get someone who can answer those questions.

It has nothing to do with marketing yourself.
False analogy. Westinghouse can either make their own power or buy it as a fungible commodity from anyone else who does. Comcast can't make Netflix packets.
Here’s How Everyone Is Attacking Big Tech
That's very unacceptable, and enough to make me consider leaving Fastmail - I've used them happily for over 7 years and have recommended them to many people, but their support having the ability to do that is giving me pause.
What do you think the Surface was running? After it got jailbroken people even compiled lots of different Win32 applications and ran it on it.
A trailer mashup between Infinity War and Overwatch [self-promotion][video]
What is the performance on the cross compiled apps? What about directx or opengl support? Benchmarks please for chrome or ie or Firefox.
Do the devices that it runs on make good linux machines?

I would love something as light as the Galaxy Tab S2 (Less then 400g!!) that I can use with Linux and a type cover.

I would be able to work everywhere I go. Because carrying around 400g with me all the time would be worth it.
What is so appealing about a delayed execution model? Why can't we just perform tensor math as in numpy, and let the library figure out the fastest way to do it behind the scenes? I think the whole "graph" approach is making things needlessly complicated.
It's a natural choice now that there are quite a lot of devices that support HLG.
thats because the code signing its invalid. you are signing the whole app? or only the binary. could be many reasons, one is the lack of the provisioning profile on your computer (for your key).
Given that Casablanca was filmed in 1942, one might argue that the actors' emotions in that scene are more timely than one might first guess.
Agreed. If you look at A11, a huge portion of the chip is cache. 8MB L2 IIRC. The belief is that they (Apple) take a hit on the CPU and make it up in the full device. Can't do that if you don't make the full device.

(Just my personal opinion)
Change + Time == Improvement
I tried to find the specific article that mentioned it but could only find ones that were vaguely similar [1] The gist of what I can remember is that the government (and entities like the CIA, FBI) would pay to push certain stories, sometimes submit editorials that would be printed regardless, etc... Usually to build support for foreign policy (push that the middle easy was bad, China evil, communist Russia bad), etc... mostly propaganda-ish content to slowly sway US citizens mindset. I wish I could find the article, I believe it was between 7-10 years ago...

Sort of similar to this as well [2] (very hard to search for 'government pays NY Times, Post WSJ' or 'Pentagon articles in newspaper' etc.... So many results that are not related in whatever search bubble google has me in

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaga...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html
because anyone can start running hashing computations to generate blocks with PoW (See DMMS)

Proof of Stake requires that you buy the currency in order to create blocks.
Play store pro apk
freelance stuff?
Google pulls YouTube access from Amazon products
Likewise. Social engineering is a big concern. I understand the risks of getting locked out of my account, but would much prefer a stricter system -- along with published guidelines on Fastmail's process for handling these cases.

Being able to persuade a customer service rep to provide access to an account (even if indirectly by changing a recovery email) should never be possible.
Thank you for responding.

I think those numbers point to their study attempting to be open about their findings, despite being commissioned by ISPs. However concerning is they found quite a few faked email addresses with foreign domains --people who even if real should have little to say how we govern our telecoms.

Nonetheless my question remains concerning the virtual triumvirate controlling what is acceptable and non acceptable public opinion, given they are the new voice of the hoi polloi. We have to find a way to ensure people's right to voice an opinion isn't virtually infringed by having a de facto triumvirate establishing what is and isn't accepted as public discourse, given they have very specific corporate agenda which could run counter to public opinion.
Joke’s on you. Actually you only have to remove it from the socket and turn it back in!
Seriously as others have pointed out thats NOTHING. Anyone can do this to pretty much any device, I did that to my ISP's router even and don't feel its any less secure because of it. Its an interesting hack but its not proof of any insecurity of Alexa.

I don't think its such a good idea to over-dramatize these things for personal gain (like the author) because it hurts the security researcher community as a whole. I've already lost ANY trust of any security guys talking about the end of the world vulnerability they found, 99% of the time its bullshit like this. But I can read their disclosure and quickly discern whats irrelevant, I can imagine most non-IT people not able to do this and thus becoming MUCH more desensitized to ACTUAL vulnerabilities. Yet another boy who cried wolf security guy, they should've published this as "how to root your alexa" that would've been actually cool, this is just garbage.
You have a power envelope and area on a wafer, and you can then pretty much divide that up for whats important to you. Qualcomm could make a SoC that outperforms Apple's CPU but then they might not be able to fit their LTE modem, which on Apple phones is a physically separate chip.

Qualcomms primary business is in the LTE modem, not making another ARM, so they'd rather fit their chips than more L2 cache or other quick & easy but area and power intensive performance boosts.
I dunno, the vague "2020's" timeline is depressing. If we directed even a fraction of the SLS budget into this it could probably launch in late 2018 or 2019.
My main pain point with deployment is with servers that are not directly accessible from the Internet. For example, an EC2 instance that sits in a private section of an AWS VPC. Accessing the server is done through a Bastion server/Jumpbox. AWS CodeDeploy is the only solution I've found in this environment and it sucks. Can the new system ssh proxy through a Bastion server?
I tend to lean libertarian, so that's my bias. I'll be upfront with that. That said, I'd be okay eliminating student loans both in government and even in private markets. Like private personal loans take over. I think it would work out over time.

I can't speak for the overall society, but I know personally I noticed locally amongst friends and family that when student loans became more widespread under Obama local private companies stopped paying for their employers to get nursing degrees, or other degrees. My sister got her RN and Masters degree through a program at the hospital she worked at, starting as a receptionist when 16. I knew someone who was a dishwasher at a michelin star restaurant and they paid for his culinary degree and worked to develop him. He's running his own joint now. It seems now not many employers are willing to pay the bill for education as the government is there to do that for them. I can't say this is perfect.. it seems any way you cut it people are going to get thrown under the bus.

Personally I paid upfront for college after years of working various jobs, I cherished every class a whole lot more I feel. Sure it's history and political science that I majored in, degrees many would view as useless. I think said studies are more vaulable when you're older, after you start building a life/career as they can certainly add compliment to one's understanding of reality. That said, I'm not advocating people not go into said fields at a younger age, it's a tricky issue. I know I would have hated studying STEM related stuff when younger and even when I went to college at an older age. Now I'm working on aquaculture stuff.. go figure.
the linux foundation is not a 501(c)(3), it's a 501(c)(6). contributions to it are not deductible, so probably not eligible for your employer's matching program.
OP here: Please checkout the GitHub repository of the Neural Network in JS too [0].

Would love to see some exciting discussions around machine learning in JS. I am exploring the topic heavily at the moment and I am keen to apply/write/educate/learn more about it.

- [0] https://github.com/javascript-machine-learning/color-accessi...
This is a follow up to the article I wrote last year ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925467 ). Overall, I had a drop in active weekly users but averaged £210 a month in sales.
The thing that everyone hates the most about schools is the administration. The most expensive part of schools is the administration.

Seems pretty obvious to me which part of schools needs slimming down.
Unless the public were given the means to more directly assert control over its public universities.
great! garbage on smallest of platforms...
Taxes are fundamentally different from other expenses. I'm not opting to purchase a service (or not, just saving the money) when paying taxes, I'm facing the implication of a gun to my head (the ultimate enforcement of government power). No other expense comes directly from simply how much I earn, and is not compulsory based thereon. If there's going to be deductions at all, the first should be taxes paid to other levels of gov't.
But how is Conduit better than the combined products? Doing two things poorly is worse than doing one thing well. (I'm not suggesting that Conduit does anything poorly, but it's not clear how it's superior in any way to any competing implementation.)
There’s a typo in the HN title: it’s 'La Marseillaise', not 'Le Marseillaise'.
CES keynotes have long been a snoozefest in need of a wake-up call
This fiasco is mostly on the government. The unlimited supply of student loan $ has enabled universities to not have to control costs like they would have had to if these $ were not as freely available.
> I was a very happy FastMail customer until a hacker asked them to reset my password. After _incorrectly_ answering a handful of questions asked by the FastMail support, the recovery email address was changed and a password reset link sent. From there, the hacker attempted password resets on other services.

When did this happen?
Many of us carry around an internet-connected mic and GPS tracking device in our pockets all day, and seem to be ok with that. What's the additional problem with a standalone in-home device that does the same thing?

At the end of the day I'm trusting that Google/Sony won't start listening to everything that happens near my phone all the time. I'm trusting that when I leave my phone on my desk to charge, my co-workers won't tamper with it.

With something like an Echo, I'm similarly trusting Amazon not to listen in all the time. And to compromise it, you'd need to be in my home, physically messing with it for at minimum several minutes without my knowledge.

Humans are really bad at risk assessment.
What happened to rule of law? Can someone older than me confirm my belief that the events of this century demonstrate an unprecedented level of contempt from the US government towards the rights of citizens?
> Why cant we just pull that script out into a command line tool and then devs can use it to their liking, pipe its output to a folder, cat that file to soemthing else, call another tool to minify the results, move all the contents to the dist folder.

I guess because everyone needs to do those steps, so why not have a single command that does it for you. Sure, you could write your own and have everyone maintain thousands of different random shell scripts all eventually doing the same thing, but why?
Thanks. I probably knew that at some point, but the x299 chipset was so crazy it just pushed that knowledge right out of my head.
We have never used RoundCube in the project's history. You must be thinking of someone else.
I would always try to itemize my deductions, but every time the standard deduction always ended up being more.
> we trust those businesses to keep proper records, instead of putting them on a public blockchain that doesn't require us to trust anyone

Nothing really changes. You still have to trust that those private businesses will correctly use the record keeping technology. In a world with practical blockchain record keeping they would simply fail to use it or use it incorrectly.
That's awful and I'm sorry to hear it. You can report the fake comment to my office at https://ag.ny.gov/fakecomments.
What is gut if not an accumulation of experiences? If an engineering-manager-with-10-years-experience's gut produces the same accuracy as a fresh grad's, then it's not of much use, and there's a good chance that the manager would generate a bad estimate even following (A). That's not to say that people shouldn't analyze. Just saying that gut is not random guesswork.
You're not presenting your opinion on the subject of vaccines though, you're presenting your opinion on the subject of having opinions about vaccines. Give me your nuanced thoughts on vaccines if you want to have a productive discussion with someone.

I think we're seeing a completely different trend, spurred on by social media and the ability for people to broadcast their own messages/opinions about a topic, and that is, everyone has a loud, and often spurious, opinion about everything. This is something that's always been true, social media is just amplifying this aspect of human nature.
689 packages is enormous surface area for a leftpad-like (or worse) failure. Given that nobody is auditing those packages and many of the people who maintain them aren't adhering to best security practices[1], I don't think taking nearly 700 dependencies that you are going to treat like a black box is a safe or responsible choice.

Xcode and the Android SDK each come from a single vendor who provides an integrated development stack and presumably vets the contents. Does anybody do that with these npm packages?

It seems like every time I run the du command in my node_modules folder, I find some crap that shouldn't be there. Earlier this year, I submitted a PR that reduced the size of the babel react preset install footprint by about a third, just by removing a totally unused dependency that nobody noticed. I don't think the contents of npm packages get nearly enough scrutiny and it scares the hell out of me.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/52-percent-of...
There are tests to distinguish gold from silicon. And so there will be for however your machine works. I cannot say now what those test will be, any more than you can make such a machine.

Something not being the thing it is simulating entails there will be tests to distinguish it.

The tests cannot be "cognative" because there is no cognition going on.

A simulation of an animal does not live in the world, experience and understand it -- nor render the world intelligible to itself and others. A simulation of an animal is just a current flowing around a wire.

I would guess the tests will always, actually, be quite simple -- perhaps not expressible as a single conversation -- because somehow like a chess game it has every infinite sequence of conversations available to it.

Perhaps, in a novel social situation adapting to evolving minds as they respond to each other. Suppose this is recorded today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IitWYZ0aU#t=60s

and your machine is sat in the audience.

The question is then: "What does Kenneth think about the audience's laughter?"
I "only" watched it in HD. It's fairly low on "nature red in tooth and claw" which is quite welcome and very high on sheer wonder. Some of the colourscapes (that's the best word I can come up with) are simply amazing. You are often put within a few inches of fast moving fish, dolphins etc and can see muscles, scales, pincers, arms, fins all moving perfectly clearly. I have no idea how the heck they get cameras to work in amongst coral and hollows in rocks and follow swift action.

If my TV license fee goes towards turning out this sort of thing sometimes then I'm a very happy bunny.
Typically a mesh is a set of proxies that are colocated with each service you deploy. The proxies facilitate service discovery and secure communication with other services. They abstract this functionality such that each service doesn't have to individually (and poorly) reinvent that wheel.

Your service would connect to database:5432, but instead of going straight to the database it goes to a proxy and the proxy has all the smarts to find and connect to the database, even if it's in another data center. The proxy can also do it securely such that you can go over the public network if necessary.

There's a good chance you don't need this complexity, but if you are hosting 100's of small services across multiple cloud providers, regions, or data centers, this starts to become an attractive option.
So is this for helping with read, but not write latency?

I know little about CockroachDB, but I vaguely remember that it has consistent replication. If so, then writes would require some round trips before consensus is reached, killing any latency benefits from having the master follow the load (unless you move all your replicas around!).
Resurgence of UI Hierarchical State Machines: Statecharts in SproutCore (2011)
Now. For a period of time Amazon removed it though.
I've seen a lot of cases where people think they figured it out but are wrong. Traceroutes are hard to interpret. Did you know that most paths on the Internet are asymmetric, and traceroute doesn't tell you what the reverse path is?
Man, what an interesting discussion, and a lot of good points here. As someone involved in education in US (research faculty at major private school in the South), and more recently, in Germany, I've become increasingly concerned with the large number of students graduating these days with bachelor and graduate degrees with little hope of employment, holding huge debt they have scant chance of paying off in any short time frame. This hobbles them severely. More and more I start to wonder if we could not accomplish more by shifting much of burden of instruction in all fields (arts, sciences, language, etc.), back to high school, rather than impoverishing students and loading them with college debt so early in life. Student Loan program seems to mostly be a way to transfer wealth from taxpayer to universities and of course the banks, but not necessarily producing a broadly educated populace. Agree with above comment that running education as a "business" with students as consumers produces a terrible result.
I watch the PBS NewsHour on Youtube on the FireTV because it tends to be available sooner than on the PBS app. After the last round of updates, I've gotten a lot of video stuttering in YouTube, such that restarting the FireTV is the only way to fix it. That, and the UI of the FireTV got way harder / less-logical to use a few months back (along with the ads).

Beyond the recent junking up of the UI and Youtube hiccuping, I'm getting really, really tired of the Google / Apple / Amazon / content / platform / device wars.
Ask HN: Is national sovereignty and democracy compatible with an open internet?
As we've seen, it's very easy for a malicious actor like Russia to sow division in western nations through the internet. It would be harder for them to do so in China, where the internet and it's use by citizens is heavily regulated.

Is the Chinese model of the internet the inevitable path all nations will need to go down in order to survive?
with HOI you play in hours though, not in days. The number of rounds might not be so different I believe.
It's appalling. At least the existing intelligence services will push back, if for no other reason than protecting their turf.
Helping Insurers Adjust to the New Reality of the Sharing Economy
It's so easy to identify those fake comments by just looking at few. I figure this is one of the comments that seems fake. Why is it taking long to identify there are lot of fake comments in it?

'The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation. I urge the Federal Communications Commission to end the bureaucratic regulatory overreach of the internet known as Title II and restore the bipartisan light-touch regulatory consensus that enabled the internet to flourish for more than 20 years. The plan currently under consideration at the FCC to repeal Obama's Title II power grab is a positive step forward and will help to promote a truly free and open internet for everyone.'
Never seen that and when an economist says spendable income or some such he is not thinking about liquidity. Do you have a source for that?