skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three Coursera MOOCs I particularly enjoyed:

* Discrete Optimization: almost entirely problem-driven, very challenging and entertaining prof; https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization

* Crypto I: very deep, thorough and crystal clear explanations; https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto

* Computer Networks: excellent overall course covering a wide variety of topics; https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~517478, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfgkuLYEOvGMWvHRgFAcj...
The long, incredibly tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
The gap between SAT/ACT is really important. In my state, SAT scores are actually really high - but it's only because almost everyone takes the ACT and the SAT is only taken by elite people.
How come someone that's been here less than 2 months and who has two 'Ask HN's to his name one of which is flagged feels they get to dicate what should and should not be on the site?

The Tesla story is interesting to 'good hackers' because it is a company that does exactly the kind of thing that 'good hackers' love to read about: disrupt a bunch of incumbents. The fact that Elon Musk started out as a nobody that came to the United States in order to chase his dreams and is actually doing just that coupled with the fact that I suspect that a large number of HN readers either has a position in Tesla and/or drives a Tesla (or covets one) means there is a pretty good chance that substantial articles about Tesla will get upvoted.

If you can't deal with that rather than telling the people here to go elsewhere maybe you should go elsewhere or at least attempt to add to the discussion in some constructive way.
Good reminder to not look at my portfolio this year...
Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
Quoth WP: "Modern ASICs often include entire microprocessors, memory blocks including ROM, RAM, EEPROM, flash memory and other large building blocks. Such an ASIC is often termed a SoC (system-on-chip). "

The ARM core on the SoC is part of the asic. As is the VideoCore part.
What is MI?..
The app auto downloads and plays video and such and eats a ton of bandwidth, the mobile site lets me pick and choose what to download and see.
Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera! I took this too! Fantastic! Delightful to learn something (anything!) from someone who so thoroughly and completely knows just what he has to say to teach a topic he's expert at.
> If anything, there's been an Enlightenment Age of Surveillance over the past two decades.

For me, a watershed moment was the suppression of the Green Revolution in Iran. Organizing on social media got the world to notice, but it also provided the Iranian government with an indelible audit trail leading back to the dissidents.
Your video makes my point very nicely.

From 12:00 onward, though, humans are used for many tasks, including multiple assembly steps and especially final assembly. These are things that Tesla wishes to fully automate and which industry experts think they're crazy for trying. And honestly, looking at that video (especially the wire harness installation at 17:00), it sure looks like an incredibly hard problem to solve and the industry experts certainly have a good point.
Our wedding had close friends and family.

All total, we had 23 people, counting the caterer.
I think it comes with changes in personality. I used to get into a new game every 3 months or so (and I still buy steam games on sale like that) but I find my way back into two games for months. I think it has to do with side work and hobbies. I definitely don't binge netflix or gaming like I used to.
"Pulling the plug" is almost never a capability provided to a company security team.
There's (currently) a toggle under Beta preferences:

> View user profiles on desktop using legacy mode (by enabling this, you will view all user profiles in legacy mode)

Don't know how long it'll be there for, but it should save you a bit of time since there's no redirect that has to happen.
There's a very detailed Bundesbank report on popularity of means of payment in Germany that was recently updated: https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Topics/2018/2018_02_1... -- the full report (in German only, sorry) is at https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Veroeffentl...
Your friend didn't lose his wealth, he willingly replaced it with a different life style.
Oh that's good. I hope you ban yourself from using dictionaries to help.

Our main constraint is that it has to be a robot that my wife, a devout sci-fi sceptic, has heard of. Probably it would make more sense for her machines to be named after obscure British Jacobeans and mine to be robots but since I've paid for all of them, I get to choose.
Everyone tells you that to avoid responsibility for it being a cultural issue. I mean, do people seriously believe that there is little or no drug/alcohol abuse in urban areas because there's always stuff to do?

What explains the (sometimes heavy) alcohol consumption when fishing, hunting, working on cars, snowmobiling(!!!), off-road driving(!!!), etc.?
Depending on the city, buying a house is a big liability too, and just doesn't make any financial sense unless you're sure you're going to be there for at least 8 years. What if you get a new job on the other side of town? What if you want to move in with your significant other, and they work somewhere else? As a renter, it's not that hard for you to pack up and move to a more convenient location so your commute isn't so horrible (or to have a more equitable commute between you and your partner), but when you own a house, you're going to lose a huge amount of money just by selling it thanks to ridiculous closing costs.
the MIT Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python on edx is beginner-level, and I took it a few years ago, so it might not be best for the people who read HN---but it's really good. Best introductory-level MOOC in anything I've ever seen.
The magic has a lot of similarities to how nix packaging works. Using patchelf for example. Both nix and the conda communities have been at this for years, so there are large user bases with several years of production battle testing behind the techniques we use. For reference, we estimate a current 6M+ Anaconda and conda client users.
Does anyone have a recommended reading list to accompany this?
Will website name in certificate shared by server during handshake kill the DNS over https purpose?
Adobe brings more of its AI smarts to its video tools
It really depends on your position and level of user engagement. Users of Reddit and Craigslist know very well what they want and what to expect. They can navigate a wall of text really quickly because they've looked at it for countless hours. Strong design can be really critical to onboarding new users or leading down a path. Neither of which are priorities for Reddit or Craigslist.
What ever happened to mixminion and mixmaster?
- TLRD; article summary for each post

Who is going to write this?

- markdown support

Yes this would be nice as the current [0] approach is limiting

- image support

Please no, if I want to see the image I can click your link (or use a browser plugin to show it to me on hover)

- user profile page enhancements: avatars, pretty URLs, more links to user's other sites/profiles, etc.

Avatars no, but there rest is fine

- user karma listed next to username in comments

One of the nice things on HN is username/karma is not in your face, you read the comment BEFORE making a pre-judgement on the user, I quite like this. I like that I don't often notice a username like "tptacek" before I read the post so that I form my own opinion before agreeing (or disagreeing if the case may be) before I've read the comment. Also you can get Chrome plugins to show this for you, I have one that shows me on hover (along with the links in their profile and the ability to follow them [1])

- social logins (1 less password to manage)

Ehh, I think they used to allow for openid. Personally nowadays I prefer 1 username/password per site and let 1Password sort it all out for me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
There is a good chance it's still depression.
I think your original statement was confusing because you put 'no authentication' in parenthesis, implying that to be the definition of 0-day
I mean, they're kinda wrong.

You can care plenty about these issues but not see an actual way to have impact such that your concerns are addressed. If society isn't caring, then either society doesn't see why there's a concern, or society recognizes that atomically it does not have agency to address the issue, and the people who do have that agency are the ones that don't give a shit.
Whew. Looks like a dodged a bullet by finally leaving Reddit due to their increasing censorship last month. This new design looks terrible and it breaks reading the site without javascript enabled. Before reddit worked just fine and you could toggle JS on to vote/comment/submit.

I imagine they feel they can do this kind of thing since new users now overwhelming outnumber old users and they've pushed most of the original users off the site. Facebook 2: This time it's Reddit is coming along nicely.
Economics of Money and Banking, taught by Perry Mehrling on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking

It's just fantastic. He explains what money really is from the perspective of treating everyone as a bank. Also, lots of good history here including the history of central banking, the gold standard, and war finance.

Anyone who wants to understand money should take this course. It would be nice if more cryptocurrency enthusiasts learned this kind of monetary economics.
Nevermind- I see where you're coming from now wrt not being in academia and not having access to data at all. My point still stands though- I think that you're grouping metadata and data together when you refer to "data".
> Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera

This course gave me professor envy and made me up my game. So well done.
That's why you typically wait to be 'second best' when new tech hits the market. In the current climate 'early adopter' should actually be interpreted as 'beta tester'.
> You can always change DNS resolvers.

But you can't. First, it's technically hard for many or even most users. Some important platforms (mobile) may make this exceptionally hard even for savvy users.

Even if it's built in to the browser, the ISP can require you to use their proxy (some regimes already do this today) and then they can filter and/or alter DNS, even DNS-over-https.
Why are you using var in JS.
The url is a bit large, maybe shorten it to travalpaca.com or alpacamybags.com? I love it overall though.
That's why the smart kids on Tumblr have ten different blogs.
Is it normal to recycle flaky disks back into inventory? I've never run a big operation, but in my own hardware ops I write NFG on anything that might be bad and put it aside for emergency use only. Disks, power supplies, cables aren't so valuable that it's worth installing a suspect one.
> A longtime personal assistant who has your preferences really dialed in can probably come close

If they don't come close, they can safely filter out 90% ahead of time and present you a table of the remainder, saving you lots of time.

On the other hand, more likely that digital assistant was made by the booking company and is trying to upsell you with high margin items.
I understand what you are trying to say. But all the products you mentioned generates revenue through ads, both directly and indirectly. Google still makes more than 90% of their revenue from ads.

Yes, they are trying to diversify for some time now, maybe they will succeed. but they are not there yet. Most of their current brainshare works on products that make money from ads both directly and indirectly.
This simple hack will dramatically boost your Facebook page reach
Yes. Also, the name auto was chosen for a very specific reason: it was already a keyword, albeit one that was rarely used. It was deemed better to re-purpose the existing keyword that introduce a new one. New non-contextual keywords are a big deal.
Gilbert Strang's linear algebra lectures on MIT OCW

Donald Kagan's introduction to ancient greek history on open Yale courses
Brad is amazing. He has contributed so much back to the OSS and written excellent code. A true hero, also the youngest of the lot in the book.
Yes. There is a huge portion of people who will take one look at something that is mostly text, declare that it appears jumbled and/or confusing, and have any interest in doing anything with it immediately killed.

This large group of people, probably the majority, does not want to give such platforms a chance, and they do not want to get under the covers and figure it out. They simply do not want anything to do with something that is tightly-packed or primarily text-based. Many of the people I tried to recruit to reddit in the early days (either reddit.com or sites running the reddit software) had this reaction.

This can be a feature when you're trying to target specific types of people (cf. HN). But if you're trying to sell ads, it's a bug, because ad sales are all about getting as many human eyeballs on your platform as possible. Perceived ugliness is a real barrier to mass adoption.
Josh Bloch left Google several years ago.
That's what many people do but not necessarily unique_ptrs ALL the time (too may heap allocations make the CPU a sad panda)
Jeff is priceless.
There are a lot of factors — that math only works out if you're not planning on moving much and owning is cheaper than renting, which it often isn't. Plus we're at a pretty high point in the real estate cycle right now.

This is a classic:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
Dell XPS 15 is getting Intel’s new chip and a 1050 Ti GPU – The Verge
diamonds? Is that what they call avocados in Montana?
No, I get it. I just think that, in general, people who spend a big chunk of most of their work days using Excel kind of consider anything other than Windows MS Office Excel a non-starter.
NYC L Train Shutdown Could Create Nation’s Busiest Bus Route
I'd love a per-user flag for this. "Don't show me shares from Bob" in the drop-down on posts. I've got friends whose lives I enjoy hearing about - kids, families, photos, etc. - but whose multiple times daily political memes I find toxic.
Spectrum goes Open Source
So, make city living even more expensive?
People that have a Mac already payed for the compiler.

500 € PC + Visual Studio vs 1000 € Mac.
It is for silly purposes such as puns I guarantee it.
There’s already quite a bit of legislation about how CCTV can be used in the UK.

Our democracies have lots of problems, but they basically work, and on issues like this, the main issue is apathy.

I’m a firm believer that if people are informed and they care legislation like the above could be enacted.
Status is how most people find meaning in their lives. Without the ability to keep up with your peers, life becomes meaningless. Frustrated status accounts for far more deaths in this country than we want to admit.

Even if you're sanguine enough to accept a loss in status, having your spouse leave you and your kids hate you make it that much more difficult. Even if you don't actually commit suicide, you'll stop maintaining your health and before you know it, you're in an early grave.

Fixing this would mean telling Americans to stop caring about status, I don't see that happening for at least another hundred years.
That sounds like a good endorsement. Those of use who are competent and honest have been pretty tired of the FUD and downright lies around the benefits of single-user encryption.

Specifically, if admin master keys are so dangerous, why does Google, Microsoft, and every other tech company have one into the employee's hard drives?
On his LinkedIn page it says he has CISSP[0] and has had four security jobs (Panerabread being his fourth) so far between 2000 and now.

He also might have spoke at Akamai Edge 2015 as a security expert (some internal page comes up if you Google his name called 'speaker details' and in the URL the ID of the event leads to Akamai Edge 2015).

[0] - I've no idea if it's good for anything but according to Wikipedia DoD, NSA and ANSI approve of it and it makes the salaries of its holders higher.
کتاب مرجع و مشخصات فنی طراحی داخلی
“Trans-Theoretical Model of behavior change” is key to smart technologies
It was really challenging for me when i wanted to learn Javascript. The articles and blogs which i came across online are written in many different versions, and the syntax.
You're conflating a recommendation/suggestion system, which uses data from an inference engine, with systems that replace explicit user intent with the results of an inference engine.

A recommendation/suggestion system should offer its opinions and the user is free to follow them or not. Replacing explicit user intent with inferred intent is over-ruling the user, saying that the system's decision-making is more important than the user's.
You're discounting the non-zero chance that nuclear weapons will end the world as we know it. You can't say that about clicking ads.
Unicode makes this wayyyyyy trickier. There’s at least one width-12 composed character sequence for instance. Fonts may render things at fractions of a cell width unless special work is done to make them fall on integer boundaries. And that’s before you even get into how the number of bytes that will generate a particular final cell rendering could be practically anything.

Ah, the good old days of just 1x or 2x text. :)
No, not having money to begin with is hazardous to your health.
In the absence of hard evidence, by avoiding variety, you're probably more likely to miss consuming an essential or beneficial food than you are to eat something that is bad for you in large amounts.

Variety in moderation seems to be the only effective proxy to smooth over the constant "used to be good for you - nope, not any more - wait we were wrong it is good" oscillations.

I mean a variety of plant and animal sources, and a variety of macronutrients - to cover all the bases. With the exception of trans fats, and possibly red meat, nearly every food seems to be safe in moderate doses, so there's no reason to avoid or load up on anything in particular.

And when they find out that something like, for example, oily fish, is beneficial - you can look back and say hey, I ate a bit of that too.

I agree that not all forms of variation are good, but variation within what mainstream nutrition science recommends at this point probably mostly is.

tl;dr - no one really knows anything, so play the odds.
I can almost guarantee you Floyd Mayweather does not know what an ICO is. Nor does he likely understand what Cryptocurrency is on anything other than a supremely basic level. Mayweather cares about one thing: money. This company probably payed him a metric shit-ton of it to promote their ICO in a tweet, that is all.

Floyd Mayweather can barely read. I''m not exaggerating, it's actually kind of sad. But, on the other hand Floyd Mayweather doesn't have to read. He spends his life training and making more money in one night than many of us probably will in 20 years.
> Why not just give me more control? Why can't I say (soon literally) "Dear Zuck - show me news" or "Dear Zuck - show me cat photos"?

That's Google.
I don't get the point of this and can't seem to dig up any more info.
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I'm disappointed to see Hacker News turning into Slashdot - immediate negative reaction to anything new, lack of empathy with the insanely difficult task the reddit management team is undertaking, and a general selfish bias of "as a power user I like obscure feature x, therefore without x they're doomed".
Don’t you find it a little small at only 150%? What size/model?
The Buck Stops – And Starts – Here for GPU Compute
It’s the transaction fees, Germans are “thrifty”.
Came here to post this, part 1 is an absolutely amazing overview of computer organization. Part 2 is decidedly more difficult, but very good as well.
1Password X: Better, Smarter, Faster, and Japanese
Telegram doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default. It's marketed as a secure messenger, but it's comparable to Facebook Messenger or Google Allo.
The invisibility of Sheryl Sandberg
> The root server would just see your NS lookup for .com, ...

That's not how DNS works today so you're asking for a major re-architecture.
is water wet though? or are only the things it comes into contact with wet?
Building a Url-Shortener with Lambda – JUST Lambda
MesaLink: A memory-safe and OpenSSL-compatible TLS library
Divorce surely accounts for some of those.
"Without getting into a fight about why urban schools are dysfunctional, they are, and that will drive families to suburbs."

It's interesting if that is the case in the US: it was also true in the UK in the 1980s and 90s with Central London having a reputation for poor schools.

However, today the UK situation is completely reversed and the narrative is more about why schools in the regions don't perform as well as schools in the capital.

One eye-opening statistic I read recently is that a disadvantaged/poor kid growing up in Hackney, East London (which is about as 'urban' as it gets here) is 3X more likely to go to university than a similarly disadvantaged kid growing up in the North of England.
People like good weather, and people like being around those who are competing at the highest levels, perhaps hoping they will also strike it big.
Microsoft teases original Xbox backward compatibility news for April 10
Also, people in ill health are more likely to retire early or scale down their career, causing wealth decrease.

When there are obvious mechanisms for reverse causation, while the mechanism for the claimed causation is speculative, be skeptical.
Intro to finance - Gautam Kaul
I am not sure if they still offer this course for free. I took it in 2011 and I really like it’s homework assignments. Gautam is also hilarious in his teaching style.
Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/CVX101/Win...
Momentum for Bioinspired GPU Computing at the Edge
If you haven’t sacrificed anything for your principles, then they are just words.

I think the deeper problem is that we no longer even pretend to value people of character.
Equifax didn't fall victim to a backdoor but to an outdated Apache Struts that no one noticed.