skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that someone found out how to exploit the Nintendo NES using only the official controller just by pressing buttons at very specific times.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-...
WhatsApp has a public API? Or is this a partnership?
Funding schools via property taxes is part of how US schools got into this mess. It's a lousy system.
This is great! I was going to make literally the same thing just so it existed
That’s crazy for a keyboard. Brand new old stock Model Fs go for half that.
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> You are trying to use a universal solution to a specific problem

Wat? It (UBI) is a self described universal solution. Inability to avoid becoming degenerate (where your daily situation will gradually worsen) in the western world is not a specific problem. The idea that leveraging UBI for 2 years (which is oddly specific) is beneficial, is laughable. Almost every degenerate (not a pejorative usage here) started from a stable lifestyle, belies the problem with that approach. You've staved off a few years, but not addressed the underlying issue. If you aren't adapted (intelligent, able bodied, whatever) to survive in modern western society, is sterilization (or lawful restriction on childbirths) for permanent UBI moral? This avoids the octomom welfare queen issues. It's worth thinking about, I believe.
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How the ‘brainy’ book became a publishing phenomenon
I wrote jonesforth which is a simple threaded FORTH (in other words, interpreted and certainly not a modern FORTH). Threaded interpreters produce compact code. They are not efficient on modern CPUs, because they interact badly with branch prediction. For embedded cases where memory is at a premium and you usually have a simple CPU like an Arduino, FORTH is a great fit still.

Modern FORTHs are all compiled (as indeed are modern Javascripts). In my view FORTH is a pretty horrible language to write code in, and if you lose the advantage of the compact code for the embedded case then you might as well use a nice compiled language - whatever is your preference, but my preference would not be FORTH if I had to write code all day long in it.
The first 2 positions I looked at randomly were for experienced resources.

- Consulting Financial Analyst (Puget Sound Energy | Bellevue, WA) -> 7-10 years of experience in finance with at least 5 years of financial planning or strategic analysis for the consulting level.

- Business Administrator (Microsoft | Redmond, WA) -> 2 – 4 years of demonstrated relevant work experience in a fast-paced and complex environment

Not sure I see the point of this product if it doesn't even filter out these positions.
> Django has an inbuilt (and inferior) version of sqlalchemy

Django has it's own ORM with a different design philosophy that is optimised for a different use-case to sqlalchemy.

Django's ORM is generally cleaner and more readable for the common case and requires less code to set up. It might be slightly less elegant for more complex cases but it's a trade off that's made me pretty happy on balance.
I can see where you're coming from. But the fact that Google puts so much effort in to ensuring they hold the only vote in decisions like this makes me wonder how much respect they really deserve.
One wonders if the web would be a better place if developers used machines and networks slower than their users'.
Whatsapp is currently opening API to few partners

https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000648/Growing-our-Tools-for-Bus...
Yeah, that's why the US completely killed it in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Mission Accomplished!

This is one of the least thought out arguments against the 2A you'll ever see. It doesn't even consider that the military is made up of, you know, Americans, who generally love their country and the values it represents. Turning the military, or even the national guard, against the people would be a recipe for a huge number of AWOL soldiers. And guess what; those trained soldiers and veterans, with dozens of guns at home and a love for the country, not the government, will be the ones leading the resistance.

> nukes

Yup. The tyranical government will rule over a hellish wasteland, with nowhere to grow food, no taxable income, and millions of human resources dead. Sure hope you're not the one in charge if an uprising happens, because it seems like you're more likely to shoot yourself in the foot than stomp out the rebellion.
Are you sure the Internet is a product of a free and liberal society? It may just be coincidence; America happened to be the largest economy on Earth when the Internet was developed.

I would argue that the basic design of the Internet is the most efficient way to build a large-scale, general-purpose computer network; this is why it has subsumed or is in the process of subsuming every other system. Had China been the world's largest economy at the time I think they would have developed the Internet too -- maybe they would have tried to build some kind of censorship in, but they would have quickly discovered that it is just more efficient to censor at the edges (I think they are already aware of this fact, given the amount of censorship they require from social media websites and the last-resort role the Great Firewall plays; there is also the general tolerance of businesses using VPNs to avoid the Great Firewall).

For what it's worth, there is innovation coming out of China, and it is happening at an increasing pace as the Chinese economy grows. The freedom to criticize your government or to organize a protest movement is not really necessary for technical innovation.
Re: PCA vs. tSNE. I don't know much about tSNE, but if it is a "manifold learning method" as the sklearn docs say, you could try something like LTSA instead:

e.g. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/aaai/aaai11/paper/download...

Then, it's not difficult to understand what a manifold is, but it took me a number of attempts to get it, and then I only did when studying them formally with Spivak 1963. Now the concept of manifold seems patently obvious to me and not really needing much formalization, but...
You are if you don’t have a CLA or other agreement that gives you different licensing terms with contributors. The OP meant code you own in a strict sense.
Unfortunately the largest cost is rent, but I like your idea. I'd even be happy to donate to such a service.
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I got the alert to change my PW. I had had the same PW for 12 years!

Edit: 12 years, not 13.

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Account credentials from 2007 compromised

from reddit

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>Western materialism is our doom

i doubt it. The leaders of Orthodox church, like the Russian Patriarch Kirill seem to have successfully integrated their religion with Western materialism like $40K watches, Maybach cars, etc. and enjoy close spiritual, social and economical connections to the Russian political and economical elite who have openly fully embraced the Western materialism. I think any good Orthodox follower should just follow their example.
Nowhere in this article does the author provide a source for the mentioned 40% drop.
I think that Ruby has lost its “cool“ factor whereas .NET is back on the rise due to the release of .NET Core and TypeScript, so a lot of people have moved away from Ruby which leaves those of us who still have an interest in it to fill in the gaps.

It also seems like every year we hear that “Rails is dying”, but I don’t think I’ve seen those claims materialize. It’s maybe not as popular as it was 5 years ago, but I’m not hearing any death knells.
From an armchair perspective, there are significant ways in which Alaska is behind the mainland US, so it's encouraging to see that the APF distributions provide a positive impact.

I would suspect that the results would be broadly applicable to underdeveloped and rural areas, so of the three examples, there are certainly areas in rural north California, rural Mississippi, and New York (probably upstate) that would benefit.

I think extending it to apply to urban or highly developed areas would be pretty questionable, though, I'd guess Manhattan is not going to behave similarly enough to draw any conclusions.
I'm not an economist, but when I once asked examples of good econometric methods to study especially related to synthetic control. I was given just that Marinescu's Alaska paper you are referring to.

They needed a counterfactual for exactly one state. They create "synthetic Alaska" elsewhere in in the United states to make the comparison valid. Even if the researchers did not intent it that way, the selection methodology selected areas in the continental US that have geographic featurs similar to Alaska. It's really fine paper and good methodology.

Another fine point about basic income in the paper is that it makes difference between tradeable businesses (can be are exported) and non-tradable businesses (stays local). Employment rates in non-tradeable business don't change. By contrast part-time work did increase, and employment fell in companies that sold goods outside Alaska (this has implications for wider applicability I guess).
The solution is simple: legislate so the very wealthy can't avoid it, while remaining in the country. It's really not that hard: if they have assets here and reside here, then you tax them, and seize them if necessary. The only reason this isn't done is because too many people vote for politicians who pass laws favorable to the very wealthy.
>Mostly this ^. As a parent you want to get to work on time. So staggering when school starts is both good for traffic and parents’ sanity.

Part of it is the assumption that kids can't get to school on their own. I was walking by myself to school when I was 6.

And in a lot of places the built environment is such that kids really can't get to school on their own. Schools are either far away, public transit isn't possible, or there just aren't sidewalks, crosswalks, or safe routes to walk.

Fortunately the densely built areas don't have most of those problems. As long as the neighborhood kids travel in groups they're fine. And the "I Promise" program gives them their own bicycles and free rides to and from school within 2 miles.
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One good reason (IMO) for doing "cat file |" is it's easier to grab the command from your history and change it to something like "grep foo file |" rather than if you had run "cmd < file".
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Not all parents should be allowed to raise their children...
The political chasm is because the democrats keep moving right to try and win over moderate republicans the republicans keep moving into crazy territory.

Moving leftwards is absolutely the best thing the democrats could possibly do. further left policies are popular. Further left policies address the massive amount of voters who don't give a shit because neither party represents anything but corporations.

America could use 50 more senators that were willing to start moving much further left.
WhatsApp has a business plan[0] that includes API access.

[0] https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/26000067
i bought my mom a Huawei Mate SE a couple months ago and she loves it.

I also read that Huawei's new Mate Pro notebook is getting rave reviews, it comes with a 3:2 ratio screen, hate the wide screen format most manufactures use nowadays
Isn’t this the same company that’s barred from providing parts to US government systems - because their hardware has been found with advanced roots?
It would be possible with a blockchain based system that included a crypto currency. No one would need to be taxed, and in fact current taxes could be dramatically lowered.

How much is the data of a nation worth? For some, it could be incalculable. Not just government for and by the people, but also its data and computations.
TLDR:

* students get a tag that pings every second so they can be personally located within the school

* apparently the pinging continues outside school as well and can be used to track students
Google for "port out scam" for one way SMS is vulnerable.
> common knowledge among non-technical people

You should talk to non-technical people when you get some time.
2FA does not usually mean U2F hardware such as Yubikey. Reddit does not support hardware keys.

Most of the time, 2FA means using a token generator, such as Google Authenticator, Authy, or similar. They are just apps. This is much safer than SMS because one would need physical access to your unlocked phone to generate a token.
How is this different from unemployment checks?

An issue with that approach is that you may end up giving more $$ than the person could earn from any job they could take, effectively forcing them to stay jobless
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The democrats just need to move even further right than their current neoliberal catering exclusively to donors platform.

That would close the gap.
Fantastic, it works great. I'm really impressed, brilliantly clean UI
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What are you going to do with flour, rice, etc.? You need a way to cook it. That means you need an apartment, with a kitchen, with working electricity or gas. Those are the things that really cost people. Giving a bag of flour to a homeless man isn't going to help him.
At work, we use Git to store our docs (markdown) and Atom feels natural to write MD files in and to push updates. Most casual users understand what push and pull is but they are not really that comfortable to use git commands via CLI.
Indeed. I think that probably a fairer way to allocate taxes for this sort of purpose would be either a wealth tax or a georgist land tax.
If only the UI designers at Pioneer weren't the same ones making Winamp and WMP skins in 1998.
Well, AC does help. But fast forward 100, 200, 500 years. After the food riots, the protests, political meltdown, the scarcity of clean water, the wars, the starvation and pandemics, the loss of coastal cities, the collapse of ocean ecosystems, loss of the ice caps, forests, deserts spreading, we'll be lucky if 10 million people survive living...underground.
Well, you can yell at Apple to get that to exist. Good luck.
The dual BSD/Apache route is also a good option if you’re concerned about scaring off people who prefer the simpler licenses.
I was literally just looking into the pros and cons of P2P lending because I hadn't heard of it prior to today. I mentioned on another forum how annoying my student loans are being part mine, part my fathers, and all with high interest rates, and someone suggested P2P lending (such as SoFi).

Now I am not so sure.
GDP isn't the best measure though of the actual health of the economy. In the current situation maybe doing what you're suggesting would work, somewhat... but I could imagine situations where it wouldn't.

For example, Elon Musk is rich. If we just redistribute all his money to "people who still spend it" (the poor), we get a bunch of people buying slightly better cars instead of getting significantly better rocket technology. At that point it's less of a clear benefit.
Dependency injection scares me as it feels like a move towards the JavaEE/Spring world.