skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental issue is that papers are often incremental, that is, they build upon some previous work, which is thereby referenced. The issue this creates is that the papers become hard to follow for anyone who is not already familiar with the previous work in the cited papers. Even if someone goes on to read the referenced papers, it often does not help as the problem is recursive.

This keeps on happening till the research becomes old and mature enough for someone to write a book on the topic which then is nearly self-contained (or assumes some prior background like mathematics, or undergrad-level courses, etc.). MOOCs are also helping the situation since the instructors create nearly self-contained courses which often also include very recent research results.

To solve the issue you mention, this basic notion may need to be broken, such that each paper explicitly explains its subject matter without relying too much on the references. Since much research does not go anywhere, this may be a premature optimization really though.

A thing that does bother me, and signifies the extent to which what you say is true is that "talking" to the authors of these papers nearly always delivers those good insights within a few minutes that you would not get after spending an hour on the paper they wrote.
Kind of an eternal september problem. I unsubbed most of the defaults like 3 or 4 years ago so I don't ever read much of the poop.

e) Ugh, the comments.
> Or why the non-muslim American inventor believed he had created a working detector.

Did he?
Scientific papers aren't written for you, the layman. They are written specifically for scientists in that particular field. I'm a PhD student, and never have I read a paper with wording that I would describe as "convoluted."
This seems pretty clear:

How will this work?
In the short-term future, maintainers add systemd support to their packages. This does not imply dropping sysvinit support. As outlined in my post about the transition, systemd service files can coexist with sysvinit scripts.
In the mid-term future, both sysvinit and systemd are supported — this is the only way we can do a gradual transition, and Debian clearly does not want a flag day.
In the long term, we could switch the default from sysvinit to systemd on Debian GNU/Linux, in case we agree that’s a reasonable decision at that time. Non-Linux ports will still use sysvinit.

We can argue over the exact meaning of "switch to" (seems pretty pointless to me), but it seems fairly clear that in the near future nearly all debian users will be using systemd.
The one that makes them money.

Advertising.
As a fan of both Radiohead and Spotify this makes me sad :(
$10/month for infinite access to all music ever created just isn't reasonable. And the ad revenue from a majority free user base for infinite access to all music ever created is definitely unreasonable.

It's hard to argue with th connivence factor. However right now Spotify is destroying an existing model, not paying artists, and losing money hand over fist. It's lose/lose/lose. I'd rather consumers just pirate the music that way they at least know they aren't supporting the artists.
I think the concern is that there are crawlers that collect plaintext addresses, so typing out an address is a different level of disclosure than including it in an image.
I can confirm that his avatar is an original character. I don’t recognize it, having watched most of the show, and it’s not on http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies/Pegasus_ponies.
Web proxy detection and real IP address disclosure
I like the Flattr-esque idea, it would make me feel better knowing that my monthly subscription payment was only being payed out to the artist whose tracks I actually played.
"english" for programming languages
Memo: Privacy died a long time ago.
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If you want true privacy, you must disassociate yourself from technology, move to the mountains and live off of the land.
That's kinda the point of setting everyone's to the same value.
A little off topic; in the late 70s a popular Christian singer named Keith Green inked a deal with his label that allowed him to give his records away for whatever people could afford - - even free. So while what they did was recognized as groundbreaking, it was only new for the internet age.
Ask HN: Reccomendations for adult study in IT (SF bay area)
Hi HN,<p>I was wondering if you could provide some suggestions to a 30 year old sysadmin team lead who wants to gain a university based education in a related field (part-time)?<p>I currently do not hold any formal IT based qualifications (pending graduation of a diploma in network engineering from Tafe NSW Australia). I have over 12 years experience and work history that got me a work visa in the USA.<p>The ideal course would cover a moderate amount of programing / software development units, management units & project management. Any sysadmin type units would be nice too as they would hopefully get me some easier credits.<p>Ideally I would like to be able to complete the course work online, however a local presence in the SF bay area would be great for when I am stuck on some course work or want to get into a different environment to focus on my studies.<p>Can anyone recommend a "good" education provider with course/s that meets my needs that is not going to cost over a 50k USD?
it's $5 for a vps these days.

why would you need shared hosting?
it's funny you say that, considering HN is a breeding ground for shady marketing techniques. The most common kind here seem to be these generic "how to" articles that briefly mention some obscure product as an essential part of one's workflow (but maybe only by name so as to seem like it's an established product). That's usually followed up by someone in the comments asking about the product and -- wouldn't you know it -- the product owner showing up to give an elevator pitch along with a few satisfied customers.

I mean, consider where you are: a forum that's owned by a tech incubator. I'm not suggesting a mass exodus or anything, but I'm just saying that tech-savvy people have been marketed to for a while now, and it's up to you to recognize when you're getting played.
Honest question, is anyone else completely past the point of caring until he actually shows more? (Please read to the end.) So far all we've gotten is some powerpoint slides, claims that they have other evidence, and a lot of interviews.

I've seen people in various communities saying, "Why is the media focusing on Edward Snowden, instead of the breach of civil liberties", but frankly, I wouldn't know how to cover this. He hasn't presented any concrete evidence, just the same powerpoint slides we saw a month ago. He claims he has some, but we're not seeing anything.

I'm not saying he's lying, or that this isn't a big deal- it is. I have a huge problem with the government ignoring the rule of law, especially in regards to treating digital content like it isn't supported by the 4th Amendment. I also don't like the idea of us treating our allies' citizens like they don't matter- legally speaking they don't, but morally speaking I'd rather we did better.

But at this point, how do you continue to cover a story when the key source of the story is taking it's incredibly sweet time in giving us anything more than "No really, guys, you've gotta believe me, you should be really mad!"
Unfortunately there isnt good PEG tooling in php, pegjs is incredibly easy to use so i can see why they went with it
So much for the bogus mainstream press narrative about Snowden being a "low level" NSA operative.
Duplicate seems a little dubious here... Unless there is some insane never before published vuln in some core routing protocol or the DNS that seems a bit misstated.

...I hope.
It's possible. That's what someone quoted by the article suggests.

People can be stupid without being malicious.

> Although Kelly is unequivocal about the Quadro principals’ fraudulent intent—“They were con artists,” he says—Murray feels that Quattlebaum, at least, genuinely had faith in it. “I think he did believe in it—it was his invention,” he says. Quattlebaum could have fallen victim to the ideomotor effect, the same psychological phenomenon that convinces users of dowsing rods and Ouija boards that they are witnessing the results of a powerful yet inexplicable force. In response to suggestion or expectation, the body can produce unconscious movements, causing a sensitive, free-swinging mechanism to respond in sympathy. “It’s very compelling, if you’re not aware of what’s causing it,” Murray says.

Some of the people peddling homeopathy really do believe it works, and that's just as clearly nonsense.
Goodbye, Arch Linux , SystemD took over
> encrypting my email isn't going to do much to stop them from getting whatever they want to know about me

Overused analogy: if a burglar wants to break into your {car,house,...} bad enough, they eventually will. Do you make it easier on them by leaving your windows open and doors unlocked?
Uh, have you been paying any attention at all, or are you just simply trolling?

There's new information and solid evidence coming out on a near-daily basis.
The fact that the United States has burned as much political capital as they have chasing him, at least to me, demonstrates a couple of possibilities:

1) What he is saying is true

2) He has something extremely damaging.

Otherwise why haven't they just said "lol conspiracy theorists"
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So you'd be fine if somenoe would follow you in a car with dark windows and park outside the building when you spend time at home/work/etc.? If there is no expectation of privacy, there should not be a problem with that. How about drones? In a few years it should be possible to have anyone be followed by one all the time. Would you be fine with that? I think at a distinct point it becomes really creepy, especially if you don't know who is actually following you.
Well, there's a good chance the same misbehavior or error will happen again and again, until the server is rebooted. Memory errors are not necessarily transient.
But can they be a force of nature?

Another YC company:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/3933816318.html
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Sony Stops Fighting £250k Breach Fine ‘For Security Reasons’
Good design does not have to cost much.
Instead we should try thinking of them as pairs of what you're going to build, plus the unscalable thing(s) you're going to do initially to get the company going.

This is probably the most important thing a new entrepreneur needs to realize. Envisioning a world where everybody is using your product isn't enough. You need to figure out how to get to that world from this one, and that is where many entrepreneurs don't have a strategy, and subsequently fail.
Where is it. Seriously, link me some stuff. I've read everything Greenwald and Snowden have put out, and so far, it's a lot of conjecture, not a lot of hard evidence. I believe him. But we literally are incapable of making more concrete progress without more.

I want more than words. Give me some pictures, give me methods, give some evidence. Some of what he's said doesn't make a lick of sense, likely because it's skewed slightly to make people more cautious about their privacy(which would be great) but is light on others. Specifically, his accusations of direct access to servers- I have a seriously hard time believing these companies, with an amazing amount of capital sitting around, would risk their potential profits to provide this backdoor(in terms of users leaving) and not fight it legally.
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Since, for all intents and purposes, there are no terrorists in the USA. I don't think we would. We are already over-arresting people for terrorism such that we're basically putting away people for sitting around talking crap while drinking beer. Unless you meant to say "terrorists" with sarcasm quotes?
What follows is not a critique of Vim - I use Vim just as much as I use Sublime nowaday, if not more. I'm just stating why I found a case for Sublime.

* * *

I'm not implying that Vim mode is the same as Vim, it's not, not at all. But function-wise, I find most of what _I need_ right back into ST.

Also, Vim doesn't quite have multi-cursor the way ST has it. I'm sure Vim has a plugin that does it, but then you have to install it manually or with Pathogen or Vundle - Sublime's Package Manager works way better in that case.

The reason I favor a GUI over Vim's terminalish interface is that in Vim, everything has the same height and width: a char size. In Sublime, I can set my desktop manager to draw menus and stuff in super small points and keep the font of my code in a bigger point. The separator between two editor windows doesn't occupy a whole character width for itself. The status bar at the bottom as well. The autocompletion feature doesn't occupy an arbitrary character-sized space.

Fuzzy search in Sublime is great. ST3 comes with `Goto Definition` which works great too, especially when you tell Sublime what you consider being your project.

It's configurable in Python and JSON, which I find to be more readable than Vimscript and Elisp.

Its fancy design calms my need for artistic beauty, as non-hacker as this might sound. I like that it looks great.

Finally, I write a lot of Go and GoSublime is just a killer plugin.
gpg4win[0] works -- or it did the last time I used it anyway (several years ago) -- and from a quick search I found "Outlook Privacy Plugin"[1] (for 2010 and 2013).

Unfortunately, the best solution I've found for Windows is the commercial PGP product[2]. It's not free or open source but it does work and it configures itself for opportunistic encryption, so that's a plus.

[0]: https://www.gpg4win.org/
[1]: https://code.google.com/p/outlook-privacy-plugin/
[2]: https://www.symantec.com/desktop-email-encryption
The record in particular was So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt, and the Wikipedia article is really cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You_Wanna_Go_Back_to_Egypt
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They probably do fight it. They're just not allowed to tell you that.
I totally agree. But at this point, we're kinda just having to take his word for it.

I want something specific here. Vague claims of spying over all these services, without specifics, without explaining why it might make sense for these companies to comply and not try to fight it legally(especially when they have grounds provided directly by the US Supreme Court in regards to the NSA letters), is just wearing on me. My attention, my ability to care about this is just running out, plain and simple. I want to be active in this, but when my demands are about as vague as those of the Occupy Wall Street movement, well, not a lot can be done.
ECC RAM is about 10% more expensive than regular. And RAM is typically 10% of total server hardware costs. Is 1% saving really worth risking it?

32 GB ECC:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE...

32 GB non-ECC:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE...
Note that Intel added CMOV when they were already on out-of-order CPUs.

The link doesn't show what the context of the discussion is, but its intended application is the case where Linus says it does work:

" - if you KNOW the branch is totally unpredictable, cmov is often good for performance."

You see this kind of data dependent branches in eg. compression code where the unpredictability is inherent.
If you already have a project that uses php and can't migrate it all to a more favorable language. You can use some language that compiles to php and just include this compile into your build step.
As an Indonesian, I can concur.

PayPal, etsy, and eBay is like a disease over there. No one wants to deal with third party eCommerce platform. I don't know whether it is because of the cost or other things.

What I know is you can not scale verification of bank transfers once it reaches a certain number.
But then why have your CEOs claim the complete opposite? They're not compelled to lie, they would only be compelled not to talk. Furthermore, I imagine the cost to fight something like this wouldn't be small- would it be so easy to have it lost in a company's financials?
I had no idea that individual artists had any say in this (thought that the mega labels determined the fate of everything related to their signed artists).

Or are Yorke and Godrich's solo arrangements with the labels nonstandard, which makes this possible?
I found a bunch of radio head CDs in a pile of rubbish.
Shipping nginx access logs to LogStash and ElasticSearch
Most of the value you can get from universities is through networking. If you don't meet anyone while you are there your degree truly is worthless. It isn't merely a matter of learning it for the sake of learning it is a matter of other people knowing that you know something or not.
Perhaps it's similar to Go where the default is to break, and you have to explicitly say pass.
In an enterprise environment (in other words, Active Directory, Exchange, and Outlook), e-mail encryption (S/MIME) can even be rolled out and centrally managed with zero effort from an end user.
ns5.he.net is not answering authoritatively for this domain despite being listed as a primary at the .us level. This will lead to significant amounts of pain until it is resolved.
From what I remember with Yorke and Radiohead, they're at a point where they have pretty much complete control. Whatever label they go with is just who they choose to do distribution.
You guys should take a look at eLife sciences journal then... I think it is what you want...
Looks like stupid paid prose.io clone.
I'd like to see a compare/contrast between profit per listener per song on Spotify compared to terrestrial radio.

I have a hunch that, per listener, they get more from Spotify.
Thanks Joey, I appreciate the comment. I hope this can be of use to you in the future.
So then you put an "up to" salary number in the ad.
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The Atoms for Peace project is on XL Recordings which is distributed by Beggars Group. Beggars Group gives all of their artists 50% of streaming revenues.

Edit-
One of many sources: http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/15/beggars-group-give-50-of-s...
Long after my formal academic career ended, I continue to learn from people. Not all of them are the best teachers, but if I think someone has something to teach me, I put in the effort myself to learn whatever lessons they offer.

Sometimes I think the biggest problem with higher education is we're encouraged to go through it long before we're really ready for the challenge. I graduated high school at 17—I was a smart kid, but still immature. Now, at 28, I'd love to spend a semester studying under someone like Dijkstra, even if he did (hopefully accidentally) inspire a horde of programmers to hate on every use of a single language construct without thinking.

Chances are good someone like Dijkstra could teach me things a teaching expert with a cursory knowledge of the subject matter could never hope to. The only disadvantage is it might take more effort to learn from a subject matter expert who isn't as good at teaching, but I think that's a price worth paying.
You may consider a smart card or a different mail client/UI if/when you need to make use of encrypted mail. I use mutt as my mail client and I could easily paste in my passphrase if I wanted to.
I wish hadn't looked at the comments.
You didn't have anyone asking about the weird attachments on your e-mails that they couldn't open?
Radiohead had a 6-album contract with EMI, but from In Rainbows onwards Radiohead were able to call the shots a bit more, hence being able to release it with a 'pay-what-you-want' model.[1]

The article states that Radiohead's old stuff is still on Spotify, and that the albums removed were Thom Yorke's solo projects. So I imagine that EMI controls the first 6 albums, and so they are still on Spotify, while newer Radiohead content and Yorke's personal projects are more under his control.

This isn't a typical arrangement for new artists, they only got that because they were a huge superstar band already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Release
That sounds super cool, I'd love a write up
> $10/month for infinite access to all music ever created just isn't reasonable.

Why not? Most people go through a period of their life where they buy lots of albums, then they stop altogether. Flattening that out to be $10/month forever, divvied across artist based on content, would be a net win for everyone.
It feels like a sea change over the last year or so. Reddit used to feel pretty progressive, but now, even in the tamest subreddits, it feels like casual racism flourishes. Guess that's how it goes with social networks; they always start off with interesting people and interesting dialogue, and as the community matures and grows, the mob-mentality breaks down the doors, says "nice round-table you have here" and proceeds to ruin the place.
But not important enough to justify encrypting it, right?
> I wonder if artists who withdraw their music from services like this because they don't make "enough money" from them, realize they are getting paid again and again for me listening to albums I've already bought

I wonder how common that is? At least 90% of the things I listen to on Spotify are things that I have not bought on vinyl, CD, or any non-streaming online format.
You mention a lot of stuff regarding wireless. Did you learn this from YC/HN directly or while you were in it?
It's not about whether it makes sense to automate or not... it is about how vital for a young startup it is to do things that a big company wouldn't do (hence cannot scale) to make the client feel special: e.g. sending the client a hand-written note from the CEO. The article is really great and I think it really makes the point that such seemingly unnecessary actions can make the difference.
Great read!
So...put a top salary number in the ad? If this is a hard question, maybe they should be asking it in their interviews instead of linked-lists.
Unless amazon have homomorphic encryption services how exactly will you be able to do something with the vm without having the keys in memory? NSA just have to wait to fire it up.
Well, I stand corrected. That would, indeed, be a killer feature, if it works well. I suspect it won't, unfortunately.
Two questions:

1. What do you want to learn? Sysadmin stuff? Software development? Something else?

2. Is your goal pure "learning", or is your goal to get some kind of degree/certification to put on your CV?
Chinese woman reportedly electrocuted to death by iPhone 5
I've got an RC car that will stop before it runs into walls. Arduinos are fun!

http://gilgamech.blogspot.com/
Linux has a lot of high quality desktop software. What is needed is polishing.
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If you have something stupid to say, keep it to yourself.

Too bad you don't take your own advice. You would have saved yourself the embarrassment.
Are you saying it's not obvious? (e3pi hope you don't mind us discussing your post in this way!)
I have always wondered why Spotify does not raise their subscription fees (maybe after one year for example). If they asked me to pay more than $10/month, which seems a totally unreasonable number for everybody in this market, I would just do it because the convenience is awesome, and it is so much cheaper than any other legal alternatives for music lovers...
I created something like that: http://musiclove.rs

You hook up your last.fm profile and each week you get to divide an x amount of money between the artists you listened to. I've been using it myself for about a year now.

The only catch is that you need to find the email addresses of artists you want to pay to yourself, so they can be paid with PayPal.

This 'catch' allowed me to use it as single user for a year though so its very usable for me in this stage. Feel free to try it! Let me know what you think!
Hard to give feedback without knowing what the product is. The website copy is mostly marketing fluff talk. It's basically saying: "Do you want to make more $$$? Sign up for my not-going-to-launch-soon service here"