skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love AsciiDoc and I use it wherever I can. I'd bet the reason for using Markdown has more to do with mindshare than anything else. Plus, Pandoc is a great tool for converting Markdown to anything else.

What I really like about AsciiDoc is that it's right near Markdown in terms of simplicity, but with a bit more beef behind it to handle more complex things like referencing figures. If you don't need them, you can stick with the basic syntax, but the power is there when you want it.
Just quit already. Plenty of meaningful relationships in the real world!
1. Common Gujarati lastname

2. Good old fashioned nepotism
Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers
Not if Amazon Prime is anything to go by - Prime Video in the UK at least is full of random Youtube videos (yes...) and bargain basement independent productions. I don't mind most of the time, as the recommendations means they'll mostly surface if there's genuinely little good stuff available in a given genre, but they're clearly not very concerned about it reflecting on their brand.
How oldschool game music worked (2015)
If you're interested in tracking down copies of A Russian Course, it appears to still be in print via Slavica Publishers at Indiana University: https://slavica.indiana.edu/bookListings/textbooks/A_Russian...

And the recorded audio material that used to be distributed on tapes with the books can be purchased in MP3 format from Boston University's Geddes Language Center: http://www.bu.edu/geddes/services/
Non-Patel Hindus that are of the same caste as Patels would have a hard time getting Handshake loans. It is really tribal. Within Patels themselves, there are extensive intra-Patel clans.
Problems with Automatic DNS Registration and Autodiscovery
Conceptual Captions: A New Dataset and Challenge for Image Captioning
Oh I know that it's widespread, it happened here; the guy who's job it was to care left and didn't pass on knowledge when he did. It is because there was a a role account assigned to comms about TLS certs that the notices were, well, noticed. I've worked in large orgs where comms are even worse.

But my point was that this is not some reckless sudden move by the browsers or DigiCert. In my observation, they have been earnestly and diligently working in good faith so people don't get bit by the transition.
Patel is a common surname in one portion of India.
What’s the Difference Between a CNN and an RNN?
VSCode – August 2018 Release (version 1.27)
How to Setup Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates for an Azure Web App – TeckLyfe
> The BRZ is a low end sports car frequently bought and wrecked by teenage drivers.

I certainly don't doubt that at all. 200 HP isn't a lot, but combined with being rear-wheel drive and coming with economy tires, it's enough to get you into trouble if you're stupid.

I'm 36 though and bought it because I wanted a car that has some pep when I want it, and good fuel economy when I don't. I average 33.5 mpg when it's stickered at 24 city/30 highway!

> Here's some actual data: USA Today found the Tesla Model S to be _the most expensive_ car to insure.

What I'm hearing is that the area I'm in generally just has really cheap insurance.
Not the other guy, but I had at least one CS per semester starting in 6th grade at magnet programs in Montgomery County, MD. They were math, science, and CS magnet programs, and so we always took at least one of each each semester, with various additional electives available.

My high school registered its domain name in 1990 (mbhs.edu) to give you an idea of how on top of the ball they were.
I would be curious to read some literature supporting this idea. Oligopolies driving R&D sounds counterintuitive to me.
Awesome ideas coldtea, thanks for taking the time to share them!
No. Hotels work because they require capital and low overhead — they also have a limited scope of competition. farming is a business in the middle of a consolidation wave. Small farmers are being starved out and losing access to capital as small banks go away.

I don’t thing that the gujarati model works for fringe agriculture. The big players in the agriculture business are global now, and a farmer in Ohio or New York will have a hard time making money, as the big companies just need to outbid you for one harvest season, and make up the difference with their weekly harvests in California, Chile, etc.

There are players (people serving Chinese restaurants and the Amish) doing well, but those markets are limited.
Really? The killer app here seems to be access to capital on amazing terms.

> They would give each other handshake loans—no collateral, no payment schedule, just pay when you can
It's a small target audience :)

I think graphics developers like myself would be interested; people who work with distance fields, tileable images, HDR imagery, and height map data.

Maybe a technical artist at an animation studio would be interested, or someone working with map imagery.
One cannot automate physical wiretaps on hundreds of millions of people from Nigeria and steal their data or sabotage their infrastructure via access to their phone lines.
Any reason not to make the default safe?
I recently learned about oulipo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo) who create works with constraints (sometimes severe) and the results are quite amazing. Lack of resources can be sometimes a blessing in disguise whether it is literature or hard business.

I wonder why Americans don't do this (maybe they do, I don't know) - why borrow from banks (or VCs etc) with strict strings attached, instead of supporting one another based on trust? Obviously this won't work for millions of dollars, but this should work for 5/6 figure loans?
Corporate leadership at the board room level is often resistant to the idea that oversight is their job, even though it is literally their only job. (Insert "You Had One Job" meme image). In many cases these people are paid (especially on a per hour basis) more than anybody else in the entire organisation, they ought to be working _very hard_ to deserve this money, and at most corporates they do little or nothing.

Did Symantec's shareholders get the board responsible for this... replaced? Did they at least get a big cut in their wages given that they're apparently no good at their jobs? Nope.

The Web PKI in my not at all humble opinion is doing a better job of handling this problem today than, for example, many actual bona fide regulators. When Symantec kept trying to offer up little bits and pieces (e.g. let's wind up this lucrative Korean partnership programme we've secretly been running for years that had no effective oversight...) they were told it wasn't enough.

In the end this distrust that you're seeing now was mandatory but it was not intended as a "death sentence" for the Symantec CA function pe se. Symantec were told to go find somebody whose leadership we could trust, and let the trustworthy outfit physically run the CA (with Symantec's brands) while Symantec got their shit together and tried again in a year or two. In the process of negotiating such a deal with DigiCert Symantec instead sold their entire CA business to them, which everybody seems to have (in some cases grudgingly) accepted is a good enough outcome.

DigiCert did a better than might be expected job of this from a technical point of view, and I hope that it works for them commercially as a result.

[Edited for clarity]
The article (and most of HN) refer to the local Silicon Valley jargon definiton of the word "startup": a company that is meant to grow extremely fast through the use of new technology. It's not a synonym for any entreprenurial venture.

What you're talking about is locally called a "lifestyle business" (not a "startup") -- a small business that can provide a comfortable living for the founder and a few employees, but which has essentially zero longer term growth prospects.

This point seems to be the source of much confusion in the comments here.
Also * cough * a good chunk of those US shows/movies are made up here in Vancouver anyways.
It is true that some features can be maintenance burdens for software projects.

But bookmark descriptions? Really? That's ridiculous. WebGL, or WebVR, or Pocket, maybe, those could be a burden. But BOOKMARK DESCRIPTIONS?

Maybe the existing bookmarking system is crap and you need to re-implement it. You can put descriptions in the new implementation, in a few minutes - it's just another optional text field/property. Unless the goal is just to remove all bookmarking whatsoever. And instead of being honest about that, you're passive-aggressively trying to get people to stop using them first, by crippling them in various ways for obviously bogus reasons.
This study doesn't show that "Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook":

>Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Around four-in-ten (42%) say they have taken a break from checking the platform for a period of several weeks or more, while around a quarter (26%) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their cellphone. All told, some 74% of Facebook users say they have taken at least one of these three actions in the past year.

Is this different from what these people have done in the past? I've changed my Facebook privacy settings in the past year––but I've also changed them on a regular basis since getting on Facebook. Likewise, I've always taken regular Facebook breaks in the 13 years I've been on it.

This study is interesting, but it doesn't prove the claim in the headline.
Sounds like you should "just get new friends".

Who else is tired of hearing that worthless piece of advice? I don't dislike these people. Most of them I even strongly agree with-morally and ethically for the most part. Some I even disagree with. But they also wouldn't be on my "friends list" if I didn't value them enough to see their life shares and posts (Oh man Johnny took some amazing pictures of his new house, his new job must really be going well, good for him.)

But holy cow how disposable do you view people to just up and remove them out of your life because of a disagreement (cue someone replying to this post with a morally furious statement about some nebulously defined out-group they personally despise and why disposing of friends is okay because $group is bad)? Never thought I'd see the day where I actually miss pictures of babies, cats and food.

And no, this isn't an appeal to my friends to be apolitical and just stop having beliefs. I'm just fatigued with being bombarded with other people's vociferation at something $group did.

Give me a "disable memes & politics" button and I'd probably be back that day

Co-signing this statement.
If you are interested in these kinds of stories, check out the documentary http://www.thesearchforgeneraltso.com/

Aside from being specifically about searching for the origin of the general tso recipe, it talks about how chinese immigrants came to own so many chinese restaurants across the country.
But Netflix or any other streaming provider does not take public space. It is a private, paid service. The existence of Netflix does not stop any European company from offering its own private distribution service with exclusively EU content, or Indian content, or whatever content they think people will pay them to offer. Hell, the existence of Netflix even does not stop EU from creating a publicly funded streaming service... but anyone want to guess how watchable that would be?
Even the agrarian revolution that happened 10K years ago resulted in health decline since a human body for 190K years before that evolved with a different diet. It is after the agrarian revolution that we faced many diseases connected to suboptimal diet and food. Even the last 10K years didn't change that. Humans had an absolutely different diet and evolution finetuned our bodies to survive in different conditions and with different food than we have now:

"When populations around the globe started turning to agriculture around 10,000 years ago, regardless of their locations and type of crops, a similar trend occurred: the height and health of the people declined."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110615094514.h...
I stopped using it when it became nothing but new moms sharing every page they read on the internet.

I honestly think the share button everywhere killed the quality of the feeds. No longer was it about what people where actually doing themselves.
So, I just looked at their code. They do actually loan from sosend(), but they seem to have the same issues that I did, and disable loaning when on a multi-core system:

commit 386144702d14ee9cc5303a073383cf4e607a1ffe
Author: ad <ad@netbsd.org>
Date: Wed May 28 21:01:42 2008 +0000

Disable zero copy if MULTIPROCESSOR, until it is fixed:

- The TLB coherency overhead on MP systems is really expensive.
- It triggers a race in the VM system (grep kpause uvm/).*
I agree.

I hate to post anything longer than random thoughts on Twitter, but this is an unfortunate consequence of the culture shift in past 10 years driven by the social media giants. Like it or not, Twitter is now the center of gravity of the entire Internet, and currently the most effective online platform to make posts with high visibility is Twitter...

Other platforms like forums declined, even forums did nothing wrong by themselves, and they are in fact much more suitable for real discussion. But the culture is already changed, people got used to make random 20 words posts on their mobile phones instead of reading a long threads of discussion, microblog-like, social-media-like platforms would prevail in the shortterm future. The only thing we can do is to promote a OStatus-based, open, alternative social media implemented by GNU/Social, Mastodon, etc, to make the situation less harmful.

I'm happy that we can still have real discussion on Hacker News.
>If you don't take the money, they will go to your competitor, and give it to them instead.

Your competitor is getting funded whether you take the money or not. A failure to have planned for this is a de facto plan to drink the cool-aid.
Steel is one of the worst surfaces when it comes to harboring pathogens. AFAIU silver and copper are the best. Brass and bronze come in a distant 2nd (in absolute terms) but still significantly better than steel, where pathogens linger subject only to the external environment. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co... and http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1380626432_Va...

I wish hospitals, airports, and other shared spaces would use brass hardware or other alternatives rather than steel, particularly on door knobs and other highly trafficked surfaces. I always wondered if there'd be a market for selling such biocidal and viricidal hardware, either passive hardware using special alloys or surfaces (e.g. untreated wood performs well by locking pathogens in pores so they don't transfer readily); or active hardware that, e.g., ran a small current across the surface.
Not every place would bother making tons of money off of them because they'd rather have the programming out there. I'm going to guess many weren't making money anyway, since they were only shown once or twice on broadcast television. And overall, some of it might be a bonus for the production of new stuff.
Ill winds blow no-one any good
Thanks for pointing that out, that seems to patch up that rather large hole in the proposed legislation.
"Computer science" is where children are put under pressure to produce a publication before the end of the semester. It's what computer scientists do most of the time.

"Computer programming" is where children are made to glue existing pieces of software together; plumbing with data so to speak. It's what computer programmers do 99% of their time.

I'd say call it "sequential algorithms", so children can learn about the essence of the matter. It could be part of a math class.
Doesn't something like this already happen with TV shows in Canada? I recall quite a few unpopular TV shows (like Johnny Test) basically kept running purely because of some Canadian TV show quota the country had going, despite people's reactions to them being generally meh at best.

Either way, it's not a great idea, because... well, some countries simply make more/better shows than others. It's like in any other area of business, where some countries more representation in each industry, like how America's done well with films and tech because of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. All this sort of setup does is encourage streaming services to run poor quality, disliked shows to fill a quota at the expense of what's actually best or most appreciated by its audience.
Got my first book on QBasic just before I was in middle school, but can't remember my age, but probably 11 or 12. I was getting into C when high school started.

I wouldn't know what age to put kids through that - I don't have kids, but I know they are already exposed to computers much much earlier than I was. But 6,7,8 still feels slightly too young for me for that kind of comprehension.

And just to edit: The only requirement to this stuff is focus and the curiosity to learn. So younger aged kids may very well be adept so long as home life, etc.. are stable in that regard.
ummm you are probably wrong.
those job postings probably want people with PhDs in Computer Science/Statistics/Applied Math that did hard things with data.
Could they also require English subs then? Because for pretty much everything that is not originally English, my subtitle choices are between German and whatever the original language is.
> global context makes more sense when talking about SWE

why would any specific context "make more sense" when talking about SWE?
I think the problem with Lean today is that everybody knows about it.

Starting a startup in 2002-2005 was hard, just the mechanics of it. Incorporating took several thousand dollars of lawyer time; there was no Clerky, and online LLC-generators were largely unknown. Accepting payments meant getting a merchant account with a CC; no Stripe, Square, or other payment processors. Payroll meant dealing with ADP or PayChex; benefits meant hiring a person to manage those relationships. There was no YC, generally no seed funding ecosystem other than angels, no AngelList, no gigantic startup blogging scene where everybody gives advice on everything.

As a result, there were plenty of unfilled pain points, and potential customers were overjoyed when someone would actually come talk to them about it rather than assuming they knew what was best, a la big companies or massively VC-funded startups.

Now, everybody and their brother is founding startups, which means that if you do happen across a genuine pain point, there are already 2 dozen startups working on it. Customers get weary of even talking to prospective entrepreneurs because they've had that conversation so many times before. I've done the Lean Startup methodology, and have several friends that have tried it; the most likely outcome today is that you'll talk to a 100 customers (after trying to talk to several hundred more who don't respond), and then discover that there's no actual market need addressable with current technology and you should keep your day job.

Like most knowledge related to markets, once everyone believes it's true, it ceases to be true.
Grabbing already works well enough for tape libraries. I wonder why they haven't switched from cardboard to reusable crates or pallets.
Came here to say, CO is sunny as all get out. Spent the last year in the San Luis Valley, which gets 350! Although it’s really rural, so you make some tradeoffs. I could probably live there forever :)
Did you read the article? Blank is saying that the lean approach is still highly relevant unless you have a huge amount of risk capital available to essentially throw away on mistakes.
No quotas on immigration, but on tv? Their cultures won't survive because of an extra few subsidized shows made in Finland...
This would ruin the physical security of lost devices wherein the attacker is willing to ruin the device. This is worse than key escrow because it ruins the physical security all all devices everywhere.

At least with key escrow we could laughably pretend that the government would keep their master keys secure. You are suggesting that all portable devices ship with security that can be defeated with a screw driver and hoping nefarious people don't react by installing actual security in software.
> Sorting is categorizing, just with an order imposed on the categories.

…and infinite categories.
What is the best way for a website to format data to the public?

I already have my presentation, but I can also provide it as a .xls, .csv, sql, or html table.

What would be best to help programmers/data scientists use my data?
Except that -ieren ending on sortieren is indicative of an import from Romantic languages, typically French or Italian. [0] So it's likely that the English and German word both share French sortir as an imported root. Etymonline lists it as 14th century English, so too late to have inherited it through German. [1]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ieren#German

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/sort#etymonline_v_24299
Um. That's already a part of the television culture in some places. Norway has slow tv. I don't watch it, but some folks out there do.

https://www.visitnorway.com/media/news-from-norway/finally-t...
In India, last names were usually based on your occupation. And iirc, Patels used to be farmers or merchants. It's the most common Gujarati surname. That's why you would see some people having "Motiwala" as a last name which literally translates to "Pearl merchant".

Source: have the 3rd most common Gujarati surname.
Yeah I'm also getting the impression he's kind of losing it. I mean the first tweet could have been a simple error but then instead of saying sorry he just seems to be digging himself deeper. Also 'pedo guy' seems pretty non pedo http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6132427/Elon-Musk-ac...
No, both depend on how careful the eavesdropper is about safeguarding their special access. Both could be secure (as secure as planned, anyway) but both add some extra risk.

There are practical differences, sure, but it’s all the same principle.
Surprised nobody seems to have mentioned it yet, but what about expiring credit cards? Do you send those users an email about updating their cards?
Most people think they are good people doing the right thing in the context of their own thoughts this is pretty meaningless.
I was going to mention him, but stopped short. Glad you did.
It's not (just) that most Americans feel these jobs aren't worth their time. There is a very strong individualist streak in American culture and a very strong taboo against lending friends or family members money for any reason.

There are plenty of American families who have relations who could easily help bootstrap a profitable small business in the way described here. It just doesn't happen that way very often.

Instead the typical means to wealth is inheritance or luck of birth providing access to investment capital (not loans) and business connections. For every WhatsApp there's a dozen or more Microsofts and Facebooks (Gates and Zuckerberg both benefitted from the immense social and financial capital their families could provide).
Similar environment except for the blacklisting didn’t happen to us. Any chance some wires were crossed and someone pushed out a policy explicitly distrusting the CA?
Sounds like the kind of pointless law that streaming services can easily get around by just buying the rights to super cheap movies from the country. Although apparently "streaming services will also have to ensure visibility and prominence for local content," not sure how that will be enforced.
They have to do that for student loans too. Even if you're co-signing.

You should go back and look at the document you signed. It's a contract just like anything else and if your counter-party doesn't abide by the terms then you have grounds to get out of the contract.