skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the process of accreditation is highly questionable. While I think there should be some form of quality assurance for academic institutions, it didn't measurably improve the situation in my country.

I am located in Europe and there are quite some difference about who accredits institutions compared to the US.

Local critics say that the process is expensive, bureaucratic, inefficient, a danger to academic autonomy and slow.

That said, regardless of the process, the distribution of knowledge is easier than any time before. That students in the US need to take huge loans has to be a testament of giant organizational failure.
Valuing assets is difficult. Doing it every year would be infeasible. Doing it at the point when someone dies and their estate is distributed is much easier. In a lot of cases assets will be auctioned off anyway so you get a valuation for free.

(But there must be a lot of cases in which someone sells for a large sum of money a work of art or a copyright that they inherited and people then think: Hang on, was the value of that thing taken account of when the estate was distributed? Should additional inheritance tax be applied now, even though X years have passed and we really can't guess what the value would have been at auction X years ago?)
Any tips for a server side developers on how to create similar user interface? how was it created? fully custom? based on some frameworks?
Nice, am trying now. I am on IE 11 on my desktop (corporate environment, not my choice) and it just displays a blank screen.
My work is no longer my identity
At least it should, IMO.

It obviously should, but a casual observation of the world around me seems to indicate that it doesn't.
Org Mode in Spacemacs. I combined with a clean folder conventions combined with sensible usage of tags.

FWIW, I earlier had an analog planning system, but it wasn't scaling. With a new job and changed roles/responsibilites, Org mode gives me the productivity I was looking for.

The past 2 weeks since I have started using it has given me positive results. But I will wait for the year to give a definite answer :-).
>You haven't been victimized, you've been inconvenienced and/or had a poor customer experience.

That sentence only makes sense if you redefine the word victimized to mean a special, set-apart form of extra bad victimization.
First robotics and a.i. school for kids K-12
The typical alternatives for third language are French, Latin, Spanish or Russian, those clearly are much more about practical benefit than a language people around you regionally might actually speak (in parts of the country, I assume closer to the French border French is somewhat more practical than e.g. in Berlin)?
Even the previous generations of Epyc are surprisingly cheap compared to Intel - Azure has a L8s_v2 8 core with 64 GB RAM and decent storage for under £100/month, which is less than half the price of anything else. Obviously, core speed may not suit every application, but it's pretty eye-opening!
The underlying model only exists because a couple of artists snuck into the German museum where Nefertiti is displayed, and clandestinely made a 3d scan. Nice to see it getting used for this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160220090011/https://hyperalle...
> includes a cutaway of the back to reveal the insides of this astronomical object.

Can you really call it an astronomical object if it's no moon? Is the ISS an astronomical object? ;P
How you treat employees isn't the same thing as salaries.

There are environments where people earning $20,000 are still treated with respect and there are environments where people earning $200,000 are treated badly.
This explains a lot about why youtube recommendations are so bad.
Just fixing the French here: it’s Père Noël, not Pére Noël.
As money is fungible, there's no such thing as bad debt or good debt. You can only look at an overall debt/cash/asset position, not debt is isolation.
No. I specifically said remaining hours.

To recap:

- 8hrs for work;
- 8hrs for leisure (daily commute, family time, hobbies etc);
- 8hrs for sleep.

Once you take out work time & leisure time all you have left is sleep time. Sleep is unique because it is an exclusive human activity — it can’t be combined with other activities.

If someone decides to misallocate rest time, then s/he will become sleep deprived leading to low productivity. This is true regardless of whether you perform physically demanding work like farming or sit all day at a desk doing knowledge work.

A self-inflicted impairment like this is no different from abusing hard drugs or consuming too much alcohol (on or off the clock), but it is vastly different from low productivity resulting from falling ill, which is beyond any employee’s control.

Whether you like it or not, paid employment demands a certain monopoly of your time. The only way to opt out is to work for yourself.
I believe they're not allowed to exhibit either (unless there exhibiting rights where prehaps dependent on winning an award)

we were unexpectedly informed that the administrators at CES and CTA were rescinding our award and subsequently that we would not be allowed to showcase Osé, or even exhibit at CES 2019
> Steve Jobs' family had a nice middle-class life

According to the original argument, that directly contradicts the assertion that only highly priviledged people linked to the elite are able to succeed.

Unless the goalpost is moved further away to the point that middle class is now part of the elite, it's quite clear the original argument doesn't hold water.
"When regressing the pseudo-descendant’s earnings on pseudo-ancestor’s earnings, the results are surprising: the long-run earnings elasticity is positive, statistically significant, and equals about 0.04. Stated differently, being the descendants of the Bernardi family (at the 90th percentile of earnings distribution in 1427) instead of the Grasso family (10th percentile of the same distribution) would entail a 5% increase in earnings among current taxpayers (after adjusting for age and gender)."

So if your family was rich then, you probably make 5% more than than most people now. Nothing much to see here.
No, I did not misuse the word "ban". Read the article:

"My team rejoiced and celebrated. A month later our excitement and preparations were cut short when we were unexpectedly informed that the administrators at CES and CTA were rescinding our award and subsequently that we would not be allowed to showcase Osé, or even exhibit at CES 2019."

I.e the product was BANNED. Really seems that in this HN thread people are bending themselves backwards trying to find any other explanation for the events EXCEPT for sexism and/or discrimination. It is as if people have a priori decided that sexism can't occur.
Fortnite Scams Downloads Malware on Computers
He might be alive but I imagine he might no longer be sane.
How Startup Accelerators Work
Gates and Allen background was having written a BASIC for the Altair . Allen had also previous experience in programming. Not many (and much less younger) people had this background.
Become a Front End Developer in 2019
To me, the second is smaller but less clear for hiding the logic. I'd assume both button and text are output always.
Microsoft has also undergone a massive transformation over the last few years with respect to OSS.
I'm very impressed with how fun the game is. Your little brother has talent for game design.
'Tin la honte.
Maybe check how sailors do it when they’re in the middle of the ocean?
Granted it's a dual edged sword.

The issue I had, and why I originally commented, is it seemed people were being intellectually dishonest in denying any benefits of aspirational heroes, because they felt doing so would lend approval to an unjust system.

Which seemed... incomplete and unfair. Both to the heroes (Chan deserves better than to have some New Republic writer denying Chan's opinion of his own life's work) and to the people whose life might be changed by having a hero.

In reality, we can work towards both greater equality of opportunity AND highlight aspirational heroes.

I don't want to ascribe motivation, but I wonder how many people casting stones have ever been so down and out that they can't even imagine any success in their lives. Because I feel that's the reality for a lot of people in truly bad situations. And when you've given up trying to improve your life...?
>and subsequently that we would not be allowed to showcase Osé, or even exhibit at CES 2019.

It did, which means that there is a bias, given that other sex-themed tech was not similarly banned.
Sounds great, unfortunately I can't afford the $100k.
Ask HN: What are the best product demos you've seen?
Please post a link if possible.
Works really well and feels super smooth. Really great.
I agree that this separation is nonsense. However I don't really see much reason to call seed oils unhealthy. However, its not something I have researched much.
I lived in China for many years when I was younger and more naive, most of my friends were/are from Tsinghua/Peking/etc, and I actually do understand Chinese. Just because you don't see it happen with your own eyes then it doesn't mean that it isn't happening. For instance, while living in Chicago I didn't encounter a single shooting incident, but it would be foolish to believe USA doesn't have a gun problem.

What I can say that a foreigner living in China will experience is 9/10 hotels and apartments refusing to let you stay there, even had landlord call my friend to kick me out of the apartment (happened twice, separate occassions). I also had a female foreign friend who got into trouble because she refused to sleep with a visa officer. It's possible to live in China for several years without problems, but it's only a matter of time before something happens, and then your whole world falls apart, because according to their laws a minor offense (e.g. something equivalent to jaywalking) that might result in a 50-100 dollar fine for Chinese people, can result in a foreigner getting deported and banned for 1-5 years, and it's something that happens a lot even if the foreigner lived in China for several years with no issues. And there's no process of appeal. It's also important to remember that pretty much every foreigner is breaking some silly laws, even if they don't realize it (e.g. by not going to the police when you move to a new place).

I also had multiple Chinese friends who weren't allowed to get visa to travel abroad to western countries, it was funnily enough always the 20-something girls, so I presume it's because the government fear they'll try to escape.

Also, in China you have no freedom of speech, no freedom of movement, no freedom of association, no religious freedom, no political freedom.. punishments include being sent to prison, concentration camps, murdered and having organs harvested. Overall, it's quite the shithole, and as we can see with Tibet, Hong Kong, South China Sea, Taiwan, etc. Xi appear to have similar ambitions as Hitler did, so it's not like the rest of the world can just ignore the shithole.

So naturally, China have a terrible view among pretty much everyone outside of China, especially those who care about human rights.
OCaml is a very fun language in my experience. Apparently they were going to add ad-hoc polymorphism in the form of modular implicits, but I have no idea what happened to that.
A while back I was reading a stack of financial books, and in one of them the author (I think it was William Bernstein) wrote that he'd had the opportunity to interview a member of one of these families, and asked how they'd managed to hold onto their wealth for 600+ years.

The answer was "art, gold, and land." If you had a rich estate back then and a foreign army was on the way, you could roll up your art, put your gold in sacks, and ride away. The title to the land would still be yours, and after the foreign army is expelled you just return home with your stuff.

I can think of some risks with this plan, and some improvements that could be made today, but basically these people aren't chasing returns, they think about preserving wealth for the long haul through worst-case scenarios.
World’s Steepest Street: Welsh Town Challenges NZ for Guinness World Record
Some of the greatest advancements in research and application of machine learning have been within image recognition in the past few years. The inflection point and subsequent boom of deep learning circa 2012 is basically marked by the ImageNet competition of that year.
> Not familiar with too many drug-sniffing cats...

Get them some catnip.
What's the benefit over plain text files? Is it just the prompted questions?
Thanks to my highly privileged information source, VSauce :D, I know that you start to have brain damage after 3 days
C# is ahead of the game with LINQ, expression syntax, and the entire Rosyln platform. Passing an IQueryable<> around that can be interpreted and transformed for multiple backends is a incredibly productive. I wish more people knew about this, and .NET in general.
Ask HN: What do you think about the Secalot hardware token?
Comparing open source security tokens/OTP generators/UFA tokens/PGP Smartcards, it seems the product from secalot has the most features for a similar price as the alternatives. It also has open source software and hardware.

https://www.secalot.com/

Has anybody tried it and can compare it to more popular alternatives like the yubikey or the nitrokey?

How would you rate this from a security aspect?
Isn't "invention" a patent term? Not all creative work is invention.
Then I was thinking of bying the Nokia 6.1, the 32GB version was 250$ while the 64GB one was 340$ and mostly out of stock.

The new 7.1 with 64gb is not available at all here. Only through imports with an 110$ surcharge.
Did anyone else get the impression that this is a shallow post? I expected some detail about eg. the issues of transliteration, but instead it presented a couple of facts about idempotency in UX.
It may not be strange for Europe, but don't you find it problematic that the few families that ruled the world in the Middle Ages still rule the world today? How is that even possible? It's frankly disgusting and speaks to how wealth and power concentrate and then never go away. The French and the Russians were right. Too bad what came after was so horrific in those cases.

We have the same problem in the states--so-called "Old Money" mixing with all the "New Money" lording over the rest of us. We also have politicians who are far past their expiration dates. Long live ANARCHY.
There is evidence to suggest that the stone came from Wales, so perhaps you weren't too far from the truth. ;)
This reminds me of the Peter Tripp stunt where he stayed awake for 8 days straight[1]. It sounds like a great idea but you never know what the side effects will be. I was in a sensory deprivation tank for an hour and I started seeing crazy things.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tripp
If an act is selfless, and the opposite is socially accepted, you won't find many takers.. The ethics matter and I'm sure huge swathes of people are in denial and subscribed to the fallacies listed above in this thread - but ultimately it comes down to doing what is right when no one is checking you except for a few high level thinkers and the universe itself.

It also takes commitment. I've been vegan before and I'm trying it again - usually stomach problems force me to at least retain cheese. I think with Elmhurst's new peanut protein shakes, Ill be able to stick to it. Give the vanilla one a try - they are amazing and so much better than soy.

https://elmhurst1925.com/shop/protein-shakes.html
British humour at its finest!
Microsoft have been very helpful to OpenStreetMap. Since 2010 they allow the OSM community to trace from the Bing aerial imagery to add things to OSM. Roads, buildings, everything you can see with the aerial imagery. It's fantastically useful. OpenStreetMap database would be a fraction of the size if it wasn't for Microsoft granting us this. As of July 2018, they allow us to use Streetside imagery too. (Alas you can't use the actual maps, just the aerial/satelite imagery)

Yahoo allowed tracing from 2007 till 2011.
Of course, there are no solutions that will 100% prevent cyber attacks. The task is to increase the cost of such an attempt when efforts aren't worth the result. In a distributed PKI, it is not possible to access all accounts through a server attack, and it is also possible to dynamically and transparently track all changes in accounts.
Yes, CES has previously given awards to sex toys - even to sex toys targeted at women.
From the evidence provided in the article, he seems relatively unscathed.
What’s Next for Marketplace Startups
Actually I wouldn’t have. The industry had no idea whether Amazon’s business model would ever be profitable or what would happen if they raised prices enough to be profitable.

In reality. Amazon still hasn’t proven that there original business can be sustainably profitable. All of their profit from 2017 came from AWS.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-of-amazons-2017-operating-...
I only did the floating tank thing once and have to say: lack of distractions and ensured lack of disturbance is nice, but it doesn't change meditating much.

(and I actually might prefer distant street noise over salt crystallizing on your face and condensation running down your face)

edit: and I don't like the dark for it, because I immediately see or imagine shapes. but they are also just a mere distraction.
Expensive satellite communication networks.
How Jason Antic Created 'De-Oldify' to Make Old Photos Look New – Ep. 76
https://torrentfreak.com/proxy-sh-vpn-provider-monitored-tra...
That's not rational either. Perhaps to be distrustful only of that particular one. That might be sensible.
AI Neural Networks being used to generate HQ textures for older games
Logic vs. Magic
“A long time coming” – ARM as personal computing platform
Prism Break is also worth taking a look: https://prism-break.org/en/

I like that it has OS-specific recommendations.
you've failed to articulate how forcing google to disable this convenience feature contributes to photographer's bottom line.
Here's why: If Gates failed, he knew he could go back to Mom & Dad's place and be just fine. We don't all have that guarantee in life. My early years were punctuated with just how bad lower middle class life can be, my parents weren't poor, just lower middle class, but there was a ton of strife and not that great of a home or property to live on. Thus, every risk I took in my 20s had to be tempered by the "what if" game--if I fail at this, I have to move back to that shit life. Of five children, I am the only truly successful one, but I never could justify the really big risks that might propel me really far. Then again, it has long been my belief that successful entrepreneurs are selected and not simply lucky.

So yes, pedigree is important, especially if that pedigree involves three-letter agencies like C-I-A, looking at you Google and Facebook.
Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn sketchy, appearance
>All [vpn] providers listed here are outside the US, use encryption, accept Bitcoin, support OpenVPN and have a no logging policy.

Yes but how does the average person really know if those suggested foreign VPNs are not CIA or other government coordinated honeypots?

In terms of cyberspace cat & mouse games, I think VPNs can be useful to evade Netflix streaming restrictions to particular countries or to hide your DNS queries from your ISP. You don't need a lot of trust in VPN entities to evade commercial businesses.

However, using VPNs to evade government surveillance is a whole different ballgame. Because of the far reaching tentacles of government agencies, there's no reliable method to determine which VPN to trust.
> You have to read all of that pretty carefully to understand that it's NOT MongoDB

I disagree. If I see "Blah-compatible" I know it's not blah.
One of my favorite tweets of all time -

Hey Mongo I just met you
And this is craaazy
but here's my data
so store it maybe?

unfortunately, I can't find the tweet.
This reminds me of the water torture myth-busters episode where Adam's ability to withstand it was only limited by the capacity of his bladder. It's not so much the confinement or the water that makes you go crazy, it's everything else.
Intermittent fasting. (See "The Obesity Code" by Jason Fung, MD.)
Uhh… What? I’m confused. Did you think this would be a smoking gun to your argument?

Of course Time.now() is an effectful routine.

This is not a strange idea to “FP purist zealots” either.

How is it defined in Elm?

Time.now : Task x Posix

How is it defined in Haskell?

Data.Time.Clock.getCurrentTime :: IO UTCTime

And no, you have not given any examples of using JavaScript in a type-safe way. If you think you have, it means you don’t adequately understand type-safety.
How SendGrid handled 1,000+ PRs during Hacktoberfest
This is great, but I'd be worried about easily losing all of my journals by simply clearning my browser history and wiping everything unknowingly. Any plans to wrap this as an Electron app or something that could be installed on the desktop?
The project is open source, the github link is on the same page. It's build with Preact, a small react alternative.
Hopefully a more recent Googler will answer you. In 2013 they were granted often, so long as they didn't compete with a Google product. I had to close my photo sharing site off to new users when I started at Google.
Hong Kong Billionaire Invests in ICE Backed Cryptocurrency Exchange Bakkt
I have never claimed that these things have no effect on the body or are THE ideal foods.

However there is a long, long step of blaming them for all the major public health disasters, ie heart disease, cancer and high blood pressure.

And these things were made responsible those things with STRONG support and push from government and non-profits. Such strong was this believe that alternative theories had little chance of getting anywhere, specially on an institutional level.
Unidecode may handle Chinese fine, but it definitely handles Western European languages wrong.

DIN 5007 Var. 2 specifies that for the purposes of sorting, ö is replaced with oe. This also applies to ä (ae), ü (ue) and ß (ss). This same replacement rule is also used on passports and IDs.

Unidecode does not handle this correctly.

The unidecode author wrote about this:

> In German, there's the typographical convention that an umlaut (the double-dots on: ä ö ü) can be written as an "-e", like with "Schön" becoming "Schoen". But Unidecode doesn't do that-- I have Unidecode simply drop the umlaut accent and give back "Schon".

> (I chose this not because I'm a big meanie, but because generally changing "ü" to "ue" is disastrous for all text that's not in German. Finnish "Hyvää päivää" would turn into "Hyvaeae paeivaeae". And I discourage you from being yet another German who emails me, trying to impel me to consider a typographical nicety of German to be more important than all other languages.)
Work is work. Just write it as a normal job.

I don't know the details, but don't work for free -- this is called slavery and it is illegal.
> Amazon employee working in Physical Consumer (not AWS)

You too? I'm in AFT. I posted the original "whatever the customer is willing to pay" comment. Mostly just offhand and yeah there's a lot of nuance to it.

I don't mean that anyone should want to individually gouge each customer, but when running a business one should pick a price whereby the total long term profit is maximized.

Your pricing determines the number of customers. Your pricing also determines the profit on each customer. But choosing your pricing strategy correctly, you should have some people who won't buy your product.
Many changes occur only after the painful experience experienced by the company. The first ones to implement cybersecurity solutions are cautious and prudent, who do not want to find themselves in a situation where a cyber attack will erode confidence in them.
Why software development should help you in lifeand politics?