skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you're interested in academia, research, or a big-corp position that filters by education, I don't believe MSc will unlock anything for you. Your experience should be good enough on its own after 5+ years.

If you want to learn any specific tech, you can read papers and play with the code on your own. If you want something more structured, you can pick up the course resources. I understand this may not apply to you because of learning style preferences, but I wouldn't recommend doing an MSc if you're interested in just the tech skills. (I've got a masters deg.)

Escaping the micromanagement he'll send a bit orthogonal to technologies. You could look for smaller, or more reasonable places to do that. You don't need to change your skillset.
Just curious, is there advertising in the YouTube Kids app?
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The Why of Cooking (2017)
It's hilarious how many weird outbursts I've seen from people who probably consider themselves middle class talking about how they barely have any money at all after they pay their rent in Manhattan, send their kids to private school and max out their 401ks, and make payments on their investment properties. It's like alright buddy lol
Honestly, I can't understand how people can sympathize with college students going into crippling debt any more than a proverbial Chinese teen who sold his kidney to purchase an iPhone (this news story from a couple of years ago probably was fake anyway). Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
However, you're not supposed to be able to protect that knowledge with a patent.

In general, IP laws are a recognition of the phenomenon that making something for the first time is difficult and/or expensive, but once it exists it is cheap to reproduce. This differs from tangible goods in that much of the value has gone into the sourcing and manipulation of physical materials.

Once again I find it bemusing that a startup-oriented community doesn't get this. The system is far from perfect in execution, I'll admit, but it's all that means that a small company can innovate without immediately being crushed by an entrenched firm with superior manufacturing and distribution capabilities.

Ultimately most anti-IP arguments boil down to "I want to be paid for what I create but I want what everyone else creates for free". That's not sustainable.

Also speaking of croissants and IP law you might find this amusing http://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2014/03/bakery-hit-...
I had, so again please tell me how we switch to communism without the dictatorship of the proletariat or any mechanism through which we can evolve through it and I’ll concede my argument.

By Marks himself the dictatorship is a critical phase in the process.
”…at a university…”

High schools were less likely to have access.

Even if they had, the average prospective Gaphing Calculator user wouldn’t be likely to have internet access there, wouldn’t have known the archives existed, and wouldn’t know how to use Kermit and BinHex to get the software on his Mac.
The two statements are equivalent, and not circular.

The type-checker 'proves' a statement of the form 'this program will never give values of one type to a statement expecting an incompatible type'.

The fact that a Java program can pass typechecking, and then throw a type error at run time, is proof that Java's type system is unsound.

https://dev.to/rosstate/java-is-unsound-the-industry-perspec...
I recently wondered the same thing to replace my 15" 2014 Macbook Pro Retina. I went with the 2018 Lenovo Carbon X1 (16GB, WQHD, i7) and ... it's awful. Linux doesn't work due to a bug in the trackpad drivers, for which there is no reliable fix yet. And, I personally just can't stand Windows (that's a whole different rant). Hardware wise: the sound quality is so horrendous that even watching youtube is a no-go (think dollar store earbuds). That's on low volume, on medium-high volume, in addition to the audio quality, the whole case resonates making it very uncomfortable to even type. And, even though the battery life is rated at "15 hours", with just normal browsing and text edit I get 4 tops. Also it gets really really hot, for no reason (CPU < 10% utilization) which makes using it on my lap a no go. Some of this might be forgiven if it was actually faster, but it isn't. In day to day use it feels /slower/ than my 2014 machine, by quite a big margin (opening files/apps, input latency, jittery animations, even things like running an IO intensive task locks the whole machine, etc) ... that's probably just Windows though. I'm too late to return it, and if I were to sell it on craigslist or something I would probably not recover the costs reasonably. So for me the answer is "no". Nevermind the atrocious support Lenovo gives here in Europe. I ordered it end of February, I got it 30th of March. I ordered the extended warranty, but they want you to register the serial number within 30 days. Which was impossible since I didn't have the machine, the phone number was unresponsive, and the email replies took several days and got back with broken English and non-solutions to the problem. So that was 300 euro for extended warranty down the drain right off the bat. Mind you this was ordered from their official website (which also, incidentally, doesn't work in Firefox with uBlock Origin and uses the /worst/ payment gateway I've ever seen).

I'm probably going to try to get the latest 2016 (I think?) Retina model if my 2014 machine breaks, and see how long that lasts.

I know the barrier to entry is enormous, and there are fundamental problems with doing it better than Dell etc (patents), but a hardware startup that builds better laptops would be great. It feels so silly, but it's a solid reminder for me that consumer hardware progress has definitely stalled; a 2014 machine performs equally, if not better, than a 2018 one in the same price range.
Even if we are to take that for granted, which I don't think we should with software patents because many companies and developers could invent the same feature in parallel independent of each other

Everyone says this but I don't think it's true. I could probably have come up with Bresenham's algorithm myself, but no way could I have conceived of Duff's Device - that's sheer voodoo.
And of course, you don't want the harness to detach easily under tension either (that sort of defeats the purpose). Tricky tradeoff; and it really looks like this company cared about their revenue much more than safety, and was not in a position to navigate that tradeoff well.
Mark Zuckerberg Can Still Fix This Mess
Highly contextually dependent: most of the early-detection neurons are exactly what you describe: edge-detectors, color similarity detectors, etc. They become a thing right from the birth of a child and would never develop if the child could never see at all (they have a very rigid structure, so the random development is out of the equation).

So you’re clearly touching upon the definition of what is it to “have the vision” and what is it to “obtain the vision” as it’s not binary anymore: there are many levels to “vision”, most of which overlap as well.
> What computer[...]

I'll take you literally there ;-)

I know laptops are becoming more and more capable, but if you don't really work on the go (it's not clear from the post): I've had great experience using a refurbished quality laptop for non-demanding stuff (e.g. ssh and off-time surfing, reading,...); and a capable desktop computer to do the heavy lifting at home (at the office I use the workstation that's supplied by my employer).

My Sandybridge system is out-dated, so no use of giving specs, but Ryzen 1800X, and i7-8700k should all be well in your price range (plus a nice monitor or two; assuming you don't need an expensive GPU for your work). Maybe even Threadripper 1920X or the next iteration of the i7-7820X.

All of these should easily beat anything that's the size of a MBP (my CPU cooler alone weighs over 500g = 25% of a 2015 2000$ MBP).
Very interesting, thank you!

Unfortunately I don't quite know what to make of the recurring phrase "mismatch between clinical deficit and infarct". Could anyone enlighten me, please?
The monolith really works as a Visial metaphor for the Cinema screen. Just as the movie starts as we are staring at the monolith ready to go on a literal space Odyssey.

It's a shame so many re-releases "fixed" the faux screen jump when Bowman nearly touched the edge, and instead shattered the glass. It really is brilliant, a movie within a movie.

All through the film there are so many rotating monoliths it's incredible that we never get the hint that the upright position of the monolith as it is presented is incorrect.

Even the actual end leaves us starting at the monolith, with the profound music.

If you dig for interviews you'll see that Kubrick always said that the simple surface story is the simple alien device that transforms man.
It's not the leaders that need travel, it's the people who obey orders to harm people that are just like themselves.
From an engineering perspective how much harder would be to do a cross Atlantic high speed rail: Norway <-> Canada ?

Politically, it would probably be possible due to cost and risks.
Companies ignore it.

speaking from experience with patents I created during my phd tenure and the univeristy's inabiity to licence them (even as the FANG companies build products around it and reference the patents in their own patents)
Uniregistry.
My older sibling and I both grew up in a single-parent household. Since we were tight on money, my sister decided to go to community college after high school in part to look after me while our parent worked. After two years, my sibling transferred with a full ride to a good university.

Looking to my sibling's experience, I decided to leave high school when I turned 16 to attend community college and accrue transfer credits. 2.5 years later, I transferred to a good university and graduated earlier than my high school peers, saving tens of thousands of dollars. I had a blast during this time, as it really helped shape my most formative years of development, especially being exposed to so many diverse groups (as you would expect at a community college).

Now my other younger family members are looking to my experiences and deciding for themselves if the last two years of high school or first two years of university education are important to them. Now they are taking the community college route to save money, and they seem to understand that they can still derive meaningful experiences and relationships.
If you spend enough time looking for it, a problem will find you.
Yes, I think in its own little way it promoted learning html to younger people. (I personally got my start on my Neopets page)
Sorry, FAAMG SWEs?
There is a TON of detailed and interesting information in the article I linked to. It is substantive, in contrast to the yes/no study described on the Wiki page.

Yet you felt the need to create a throwaway account in order to complain about any and all discussion in the comments which doesn't hinge on the original link...
Generate music starter projects with machine learning
They consider email addresses composed of different (valid) characters to be equivalent.
No, R is objectively bad. There is nothing about linear algebra or statistics (which, btw, are not the only things R can do well) that mandates 1-based indices, or dynamic dispatch by appending class names to method names, or the various ways in which variables can be manipulated non-lexically for metaprogramming's sake. In particular, the the last feature is very powerful, but makes it impossible to prove anything about R scripts. Thank goodness trial and error in R produces less baffling results than in Python. At most you get the wrong value, noy “WTF is this nonsense? Why is this function mutating that remote object that it has no business touching?”.
IIRC, with Crashplan (RIP) you get a choice of whether to encrypt everything with a local key, in which case you're SOL if you lose it, or to encrypt with a key known to Crashplan, in which case you can reset your password and they can see your data. That seems like a reasonable trade-off to me, where different users will make different choices.
> Unlike the other posters, I'm not going to pretend I don't know what you're talking about.

And now something for those of us genuinely out of the loop?
I can only assume this was a joke. Either way, I laughed.
I dont have access to the paper, but wouldn't unicode normalization (and zero width deletion) effectively remove all watermarking?
I've thought about this as well. One idea I've has is releasing a data bamb, in a sense that a huge amount of information is injected along with your interaction. An example of this would be you open your browser and put in a search term for cat food, and a server you are running picks up your activity (opening a browser), then plugs in 100s of search terms for random, unrelated things while logged into your account. Or at minimum send get requests from your in address for you.This essentially adds noise, which one can be done in different ways.
I took a summer community college class in C back in the day. Great instructor, was well worth it.
So it’s Netflix but with ads and worse content?

We deleted YT on our devices the kids use. Google policy and practice changes so frequently, I don’t trust them as a long term solution. And like I said the content is low quality for the most part anyway.

Netflix has plenty of quality kids content for us.
Yeah it was only really noticeable when moving between the browser and my terminal (dark theme). I think they cheaped out a bit on the panel used in it, which is a shame as otherwise it's a cracking little laptop.
As long as the adnetworks start ignoring user, isn't that the point?
A modern version of these tools is Cheat Engine, which is brilliant: http://www.cheatengine.org
If you go to a four year university with no credits at all and you're not getting a full ride, you're doing it wrong.
I forgot to mention, <2000$ with 23% VAT :(
There are certainly propaganda machines on American TV, but mostly its just niche programming and reality tv. I think its more fair to see American TV as a waste of time.
From the footnotes: "Unlimited traffic: No additional costs due to traffic, you can use 100 Mbit/s without any bandwidth restrictions or throttling. (Only in case your server has a 1 Gbit/s uplink: If average traffic consumption continuously exceeds 100 Mbit/s over a timespan of at least 9 days the connection is switched to 100 Mbit/s)."

An average of 100 Mbit/s means ~32 TB/month.
Evolution of the English Alphabet
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Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google Software Engineers.
I think you need to read this article https://icoreview2018.com/ about currency data! I hope it will be useful for you!
Thanks. FWIW - I actually don't know if its related to elsagate I was hoping to get more information in this thread (though this seems to be going nowhere).

MkUltra as far as I understand is about conditioning emotional responses to specific events or triggers. In the case of elsagate the objective seems to be to condition children to think traumatic events are normal and part of every day life. Such as being tied up, being given a needle, being defected or urinated on, locked in a closet surrounded by bugs, etc.

Its an unpleasant topic to research but there is a lot of information out there that has been declassified. Based on what I have seen I would say yes there is a relationship between the two. It could be that the MKUltra techniques are being used to captivate their audience in order to make more money on monetized videos. Not necessarily anything more sinister, though that alone is pretty terrible if true. Those videos are sick.
MacBook Pros haven't changed much since 2012, at least not in ways that would affect your work, in particular. You might upgrade the storage, but unless (or until) Apple replaces the Intel processor with one of their own (rumored), you're golden.

Rumor has it Apple might switch to an internally-developed processor at some point, and that might mean a significant memory upgrade, but that's at least a year away, near as I can tell.

In short, unless you're looking to change platforms entirely, don't worry about it.

And remember, you can always boot camp. PC Magazine once claimed that the best machine to run Windows on was a Mac.
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> Well, Eve knows the account's password at the time she changes the account email, the article explicitly mentions this

Right, but read the rest of the sentence:

> I also have access to the account because I own james.hfisher@gmail.com, and so I can follow the password reset process for this account. I did so.

So at a minimum, Eve did not know the password at the time they would have (hypothetically) tried to change the email, as James says he had reset the password. And at least based on my interpretation of the linked article, this is unavoidable; you can't manipulate payment details without being logged into an account, and the only way to log into his bogus second account would be via a password reset.

If that's true, your proposal is in fact the situation: You do have to reset the password, and there's no benefit to the "scammer"; at most you can trick someone into paying for two different Netflix accounts. And this does seem to be true; he provides the link as https://www.netflix.com/simplemember/editcredit?locale=en-GB which doesn't contain an account identifier and does (of course) require authentication.

> The fact that Netflix and Gmail don't have the same notion of "existing account" IS the key issue here.

Well, first it's worth noting that Gmail is following the relevant RFC here (as per RFC 5321 2.3.11 Mailbox and Address, "...the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain of the address."), so if Netflix is relying on the semantics of the local-part then they're simply in error. And second even without this there's a lot of ways of getting a plausible looking phishing email into someone's inbox. If Netflix security relies on targets not seeing a malicious email, then they've done something terrible.
With revenue growth in software, not exactly a dying company - https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN1H41NM-OC...
Frankly feels like these comments are being astroturfed by Google.

Sure, Netflix should have done things differently, and technically what Google is doing is not wrong, but if we look back at reality for a second here, it is simply the case that many services (and users) make the assumption that only one e-mail address leads to a user's inbox.

This breaks this paradigm and as a result does cause realistic security issues, whether it requires a Netflix to make a mistake, too, or not.
I believe he's referring to Swift Playgrounds https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
ProjectM – Open Source Music Visualizer
That paper is remarkably low quality.
Not really. There are two Netflix accounts, and both recovery emails are directed to James’s Gmail account.

The scam is operating on the chance that James does not realize that it is someone else's Netflix account and goes ahead to add funds to it. The other person then logs in before James realizes his mistake and changes the recovery email to something else.
What’s better than semver?
Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?
I'm looking for peer to peer framework recommendations to build a distributed app. In particular, a framework that supports seeds and peer discovery, message passing, maybe firewall / UPNP support, etc.

I'm not particular about language (Java, Go, Javascript, etc), since it's for a new project. I found this thread from 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11145691), it had some interesting recommendations, but quite a few were out of date, and with the big push to distributed apps nowadays, I thought it might be a good time to readdress the topic.

Some of the solutions form the other thread or that I've found:

- Smokesignal (Javascript / Node, not updated in >10 months) https://github.com/marcelklehr/smokesignal

- ZeroTier: https://www.zerotier.com/product-netcon.shtml

- Maki: https://maki.io

- Telehash: http://telehash.org/

- A whole host of blockchain projects, Bitcoin, Ethereum, HyperLedger, Scorex (Scala blockchain)

Bitcoin is an interesting option, it certainly has a large user base and is well tested and secure code, but forking it has it's own set of issues.
I remember when my buddy Charles hacked minesweeper for fun and learning. I thought it was so cool. He wrote about it here if you are looking for another reference point: http://www.charleshooper.net/blog/minesweeper-hacking-viewin...
CSVFix author here - please note a better link is https://neilb.bitbucket.io/csvfix/
He’s right, and there is a simple solution: don’t give your kids an iPad.
Both can be true at the same time. 4chan is basically about pointing and laughing at things on the internet, right? So it doesn't matter much whether they're gaming YT's algorithm to show disturbing things to kids, or pointing to other people doing it.

(Also, I find it weird to give a kindergartener unsupervised access to any internet device. They don't understand the threats they're confronting.)
> Your ISP does not have access to most of your communication, social media usage and searches as that runs thru https.

Access to TLS certs is plenty enough to sell. You hit pornhub.com at 2AM, or expecting-parents.com at 9am, or foxnews.com at midday? Each tells a significant story. I dare you to take a month of time stamped DNS requests and share with the internet.

> Secondly an ISP charges you a subscription and that is their revenue model. They are not incentivised to build an elaborate profile on your in order to deliver advertisement.

Are you trying to claim that a for-profit enterprise who has an opportunity to increase revenues using their current business model will decide against it, because it might be a bit of work? Explain to me who was responsible for the law change allowing ISPs to sell customer data? It sure wasn’t the customers.

> Thirdly ISPs in most countries are required by law to support the police with surveillance information. That is done in transparent way (you can read the laws and ask your politicians

LEA access is not what this article was about.
Move Over Moore’s Law, Make Way for Huang’s Law
This way only the super rich will be able to fly.
I went to a community college and transferred to a prestigious public university.

In my experience, if you find a good community college, the high volume classes tend to be better than they are at a big school. There are usually less than 50 students (vs up to 400), the teachers actually enjoy teaching, and the material is easy enough that the teachers understand it just as well as top tier professors.

Honestly, California is the only state where I'd unabashedly recommend this path though.
The community colleges are consistently good, you have multiple choices in terms of top tier public universities, and transfer students are given priority.
server4you got sold to Hosteurope,

Hosteurope got sold to GoDaddy and they moved most of their servers from colonge to france, no problems so far.

i would not recommend strato and 1und1, everything is fine unless its not and nobody picks up the phone

no experience with manitu so far

ip-projects.de - good host and good customer service

netcup.eu - good host for smaller projects
The good thing for YouTube is that more kids are being born every day. They can sacrifice all existing kids and still have more new users going forward.
Courtesy of USDS [0] perhaps?

[0] https://www.usds.gov/

Edit: Realized this is actually Massachusetts and not federal.
If you make students take on crippling debt to obtain an education, you’re doing it wrong.
Interview with a Cryptocurrency Investor