skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, Chrome shows the dotted address format in the status bar when you hover over the link.
This was happening to me too (Safari on iOS). I'm not sure of the mechanism. I assumed there was some ad I wasn't seeing before clicking on it.
If you're not still encumbered by student loans from your first degree, then maybe taking some out isn't so crazy.

With Math & Physics in particular, given that you're starting a bit late (even 18-year-olds struggle mightily with these subjects), might not be such a bad idea to take just a few credit hours, only in these subjects to help you transition from working full time to school full time.

Odds are you can probably apply some of your BA credits to your BSAE degree but with 4 years of math you won't be able to make the degree happen any faster even if you went full time to start.

Also, devote 10 hours to scholarship hunting. Apply, apply, search, and apply. It's amazing how much free money people pass up to get loans for.
> postgre.

Just so you know, that's not actually a thing.
That is not a bad thing in a window manager for people wanting an environment with few surprises. Openbox's development has been idle for years, but it where I go every time after I get bored with fighting GNOME3 or E17 on a new Linux install.
This is why I think a GitHub-style model is more suitable for certain open, collaborative information - it's simply less prone to abuse. The editing and submission process is significantly more structured than a wiki, which prevents attacks like this.
Not a Strava user - but the mention of 70mph winning speeds, makes me think that Strava should eliminate segments from their database where in order to win you need to violate the speed limit. As a baseline they should not be encouraging people to break the law.

It's not just the user of the program that should be taking personal responsibility, but the coders as well.
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WhatsApp, WeChat are already there I think.
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Those are some really nice animations and diagrams! What do you use to make the 2d vector graphics? Inkscape?
URLs for web designers and developers.
I mostly correct typos or small inaccuracies, but I've occasionally expanded articles on niche topics that I know very well (such as my high school).
I attended an AWS conference in SF this year and saved all of the tutorials to my dropbox. I think this is what you're looking for: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gyv5e3q6av9iqc8/lZ3_usn1s7
Here is my advice, if you are a programmer/developer/hacker

Once you become passionate about a new project, force yourself "Not To Start Development" on it for one entire month. In this one month, you will dedicate yourself to doing marketing research for the project - checking competitors, contacting potential customers, figuring out how to acquire customers (and how costly customer acquisition will be). If at the end of one month, you still find yourself passionate about the idea and find it feasible with respect to the market research done, by all means, jump in with both feet.

Why do this?
I am a hacker at heart and I love to get my hands dirty building things. This makes me invest time in projects that have no future and should not be worked on. Forcing myself not to work on any idea I get for a month, ensure that I give my time to only worthy projects.
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I donate money when they ask (about $5 each time) and I correct typos about 2-3 times per year (as I see them).
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I fix typos or obvious errors when I see them (mostly grammatical rather than factual). Beyond that, the politics is a bit of a turn-off and most of the articles on subjects I know a thing or two about are well-maintained. I guess my knowledge isn't very unique... :(
This is FUD. Anecdotally, I managed to browse coverage on the healthcare.gov site a few days ago, and the cheapest plan offered is about what I currently pay for individual health insurance, but a much, much, better plan than what I have. (In fact I got a letter saying my plan was so bad that Obamacare made it illegal, and yet the cost compared to a much better Obamacare plan was about the same.)

Obamacare might not have gotten everything right (single payer is the only good solution IMHO), and I too have doubts as to whether it will be a net plus in the long run, but your post is just FUD and not helping anyone.
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I believe you’re confusing a few different stages in the book creation process. Also, the submission you’re responding to was about web publishing, not print.

I publish printed books for a living. I’ve been involved in the design, editing, and marketing of printed books for 20 years.

Unless the person you speak of self-publishes, he doesn’t pay anything for the lay-out of the book. If he does self-publish, and he has retained someone to make it into a half-decent book, then yes, that person should advise him about logical structure and appearance (depending on what that person is paid to do.) And yes, hopefully, the person he pays to help him does know more than him about creating books and shouldn’t be afraid to give his professional opinion.

Remember, a manuscript does not a book make. Experienced authors know this and value publishers.
You'd be surprised by how much of it (mathematics) is. You obviously can't prove anything with gut feeling, but you can sure find things to prove with it.
Ok, I can believe that's true. I'm definitely talking pre-2010 here.

But you speak of competing and avoiding pain - my point is why not just use something that was decent from the get-go? I still don't get it.

Ruby/Clojure/Python/Javascript/Scala guys will wax lyrical about why they're awesome - ever seen Rich Hickey talk? That man has an ideology and a fiery passion for it. I never see anything remotely like this come out of the PHP world, just vague pseudo-defensive statements.
I had a similar experience. Got an unauthorized/clone product from an independent shop that sells on Amazon. Amazon refunded the full price.
No snark intended. Just included some stats for context. I'm not sure where you are, but I have a few dev friends in the valley that have a habit of forgetting that context.
I've contributed to some articles on string search algorithms. Most of my work has gone into the Boyer-Moore article, which has seen only minor edits since I rewrote it two years ago. There are many pages on algorithms that need some love, and it's a great way to gain an in-depth understanding of the algorithm in question. I haven't edited anything in a while though, mostly due to lack of compulsion.

For math and computer science topics there doesn't seem to be any of the edit warring or toxicity you hear so much about in other areas. Given HN's audience I would recommend starting out by adopting the page of your favorite algorithm.
Take a look at ShiftIt, it's a Mac application that gives you keyboard shortcuts to move windows around. I absolutely love it, so I get to keep my OS X while having some of the features I miss from tiling window managers.
How did you ID them as fakes?
oof. this is awful advice, even as a rule of thumb.

obviously, absolute black is impossible to create, but there are plenty of examples in art and design where truer blacks are intentional and used effectively.

Here's some beautiful photography of LA architecture:
http://cope1.com/ARCHITECTURE
eyedrop some of the shadows and you'll notice that many of them are #000000.

Or look at Svpply or VSCO Cam — two very well-design mobile apps. #000000 is used extensively in both.

http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/083/Purple/v4/94/fb/c6/94fbc...

http://static.squarespace.com/static/5006a00824ac21f35d8e2de...

Not to say that off-blacks are ineffective, but to claim that one should avoid black based on a couple cherry-picked examples is simply misinformed.
Thanks for the advice. I'll work with my mom on getting these done.
The only way you can become better is by reading and writing code. If there is something you do not understand dig deeper and learn how it works.
The extent of my contributions are purely financial. I'm still waiting for the day that they will announce Bitcoin as a donation method. I email them every year to ask if they will accept it.

In terms of edits and content, I'm with the others, I'm reluctant to get involved due to all of the moderation and politics involved. I find many of them can be very arrogant especially when you point out that they are wrong.
If you ever start to feel old, think in geologic time.
So I just dove into it and that notice was actually from Getty images which claimed she was using an unlicensed photo. When she asked which photo they replied with a photo from the rip-off site which she has no control over. Getty is actually responding correctly in this case but falsely targeting my mom since they assume it's her site. Now if only they can issue a DMCA notice to that other site..
I often wonder why something like this is not required to be open source from day 1. I think you still contract an agency to build it, but had the specification and code been open all along then this kind of thing would be less likely.

Of course, that would make sense and since we are talking about government contracting...
>When you say your laptop gets a lot hotter at 110V, do you mean the charger or the laptop itself

I mean the area of the case directly above the power input got a lot hotter than usual. This was tested over a couple of hours of the flight while the laptop was running in both high performance mode and the lower power modes
How come no one mentioned http://0xdeadbeef ?
Have you ever read "Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air?" http://www.withouthotair.com/ ... free book written by a cambridge theoretical physicist. Well worth a read. From a C02 perspective at least nuclear is quite a lot better than other things.
I love the idea, it is simple and really useful to the opensource community, great jobs guys!
i once tried to improve an explanation of some physical process and was criticised for adding "original research". i have no idea how explaining something in terms of basic physics is "research", but that ended my wikipedia career.
That is entirely a subjective thing.
Yes, but Apple prevents you from getting HD content with an older version.
A lot of PC laptops are used as desktops long after they go off warranty. It's one of the reasons why PC laptop sales have stagnated. If a laptop can still handle media, browsing etc. and still works, it often won't be replaced.

Apple deliberately combats stagnation of their market in several ways. Their fashion forward approach and sensationalistic marketing are one way to make people want to upgrade sooner. Lack of support for DIY upgrades, soldered batteries, and crippling the CPU are another. Aggressively driving prices down to the point where laptops are almost disposable is yet another.

Consider what happens when you bring your Mac into an Apple store with a bad battery. The laptop is quite probably off warranty, especially if you didn't buy extended Applecare coverage. You will be told the repair will take a while and will be quoted a price that is going to be distressingly close to the price of a shiny new mac, whose prices have likely dropped since when you bought your old laptop. You're already committed to spending some money, and the feeling that you can buy a new, cheaper macbook for not a lot more than the new battery, plus the instant gratification of walking away with a functional laptop now will put the hook in you.

People generally pick up Apple products and make the mistake of thinking they're built to last. They're not. They're built to feel good in your hand and be replaced within 2-3 years.
So I was wrong when I said it was a DMCA request. It was actually Getty images telling her she was using an image without licensing it. When she asked which image they sent her a link to the rip-off site since they assumed it's her. Now she just needs to tell them it's not her site and she'd be glad to have them issue a DMCA request.
Of the number of comparisons drawn here, I'm rather surprised that this hasn't been compared to ember.
I have a bunch of beautiful book covers to sell you.
> I think most casual users of Wikipedia massively underestimate the percentage of articles that are edited mostly in the interest of pushing a point of view for commercial or ideological reasons.

Yup. I read a dicsussion recently around an article about Piers Anthony's obsession with pedophilia in his fiction, and a number of people were surprised none of the controversy around e.g. his scenes with 5 year olds havign sex with adults was mantioned on Wikipedia. It's buried behind a couple of layers of Talk pages of course, likewise the whitewashing of Eric Raymond's.

Wikipedia is easy for obsessive rule-lawyers to show the information they want to show.
> This, obviously, is a ploy to bring MacBook owners into an Apple store to pay to have their battery replaced. One cannot do this himself because it will void the warranty on a MacBook.

If the battery is bad and the machine is under warranty, it will be replaced under warranty. If the battery is bad and the machine is not under warranty, then you can't very well void the warranty no matter what you do to the battery. Similarly poor logic saturates the rest of the article.
Bingo. They should call themselves mongodocs, not mongodb. The way I see it mongodb sees widespread misunderstanding about its use cases and instead of make the use cases more clear, they seem to take an interest in seeing mongodb being used unnecessarily.
Help your Mom refresh her site content completely. Rewrite everything and reorganize it in a fresh new way. Make sure that you include some duplicate links for the same pages and do proper canonicalization to indicate to Google which is the authoritative link. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

In the process of rewriting, change some of the key URLs, i.e. some of the pages that link to a lot of other pages on your site, and submit those changes to Google for recrawling
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/submit-...

This will help defeat a copycat who has munged up their timestamps because Google will now believe that your mom's site is the original.

Don't rewrite too much, i.e. no need to change every word, but just try to improve every page, make it a bit clearer, restructure the content to put the most important info first using journalistic pyramid style writing. Change some of the wording in headings and titles. Never make a change just for change's sake, but always make changes when they improve the content, and help the target audience for that page. You could even test a few pages on actual target audience members and ask them if they think the rewrite is better and clearer.

Once you go through all of this, keep up the resubmissions to Google when key pages change, for instance the site map, index pages, portal pages, and so on.

They will no doubt copy your site again, but it will do them no good.

P.S. if you want to try an underhanded attack on the people doing this, don't go to a blackhat link spam site. Instead contact the site owners of all the real sites, and offer to help them for free, in making their site copy-proof. If you find anyone who actually paid money, urge them to report the fraud to police. Keep hunting for the people behind this, and when you find them, send a copy of all the official fraud complaints from all over the country to their local police department. That way you keep the moral high ground.
Hmm. That was not the intent. Let me take a look and see if I can fix the css.

Thanks for letting me know.
I used to be a developer for some technical websites (publishing articles, blogs, newsletters, that sort of thing), mainly around SQL Server and .NET. Almost all of the authors used Microsoft Word, the main value being familiarity and using Track Changes. I came to appreciate Track Changes when I wrote or edited the occasional article, and I can't imagine it would be easy to find a replacement for the functionality that would work smoothly enough to justify convincing all the authors and editors to switch. Fortunately, the authors and editors were pretty good about using the house style in Word, meaning that the articles were semantically marked up. I wrote a converter that did a pretty good job of generating clean HTML from the source Word, mainly by mapping Word styles to the corresponding pieces of HTML.

One of the more interesting challenges was the mismatch between the structure of Word docx files and HTML. Whereas HTML has plenty of nesting, docx files have a comparatively flat structure. For instance, suppose you want a nested list of depth 2 that looks like this:

* Outer
* Inner

One way a docx (XML) file can represent this is a paragraph element with the style "Bullet1" (and the text "Outer"), followed by a paragraph element with the style "Bullet2" (and the text "Inner"). The two elements are completely separate, and you have to infer that they're part of the same list, and that the second bullet is the child of the first. Once you've done that, you can generate the corresponding HTML, which has the inner list as a child of the outer list element.

If anybody's interested, I wrote a Word to HTML converter for node.js using the same ideas: https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js
Summary:

At a GoSF meetup audience member asked if Go was reliable...

- Op was surprised because he had been using it in production for nearly 3 years.

- Previously used it at a Financial Company (wholesaler for institutional share traders and stock brokers).

- Op used it previously for system Monitoring, as a data store and messaging middleware.

- Go's adoption is gathering pace thanks to the terse syntax, straightforward powerful standard library, excellent tooling and concurrency primitives. [Sic. And performance]

- Go's core development team a reason for why it is showing maturity beyond it's years.

- Op changed positions so he could work on Go full-time.
Might be worth finding out "why?" before declaring the designers of a brilliant piece of engineering "stupid" just because you don't understand one very deliberate decision.
I created DoerHub.com as a side project and it now allows me to see how much interest there is in any of my side projects. That interest and the help that comes with it keeps me motivated longer (to the point where I quit my job to do DoerHub full-time). If anyone likes a project on DoerHub, they can contribute in multiple ways (spread word, join the team, pick up a task, or invite someone). So if I see an abandoned project of mine garners interest it gets easier to get back on it and a lot more fun, because I can do it with other people.

http://www.doerhub.com/for/whichvc
http://www.doerhub.com/for/doerhub

http://www.doerhub.com/of/dzink
See http://johnlewis.ie/pre-built-coreboot-firmware-for-chromebo....
The downside of attempting to kill all the magic in the world is that, should you ever succeed, you will be so bored you will want to die. I was never so happy as I was as a child, when everything was fresh and new. I try keep a little bit of magic unknown still. Fortunately that's pretty easy to do in today's world.
Of course, Europe has good infrastructures. But Thailand is much cheaper than Europe (almost an order of magnitude cheaper for food and lodging).

An other thing that makes Thailand appealing is that there are many expats or long term tourists slacking/working there, so you wouldn't feel out of place living there with no well-defined purpose. I don't think you could get the same kind of vibe in Europe.

As far as prostitution goes, Thailand is VERY different from Europe and the US.
As a rule of thumb the advice is correct. Nature rarely produces pure blacks and that's all the author is trying to say. To look natural is to not use black.

Your LA architecture link is a perfect example of that -- the photographer captured very striking unnatural structures with aggressive, sharp edges and used a very unnatural pure black as emphasis. It works. But it's absolutely not a point against the author's argument.
I wholeheartedly agree with this article. I've had great success with Go's reliability.

Another important point to make is that when programs written in Go do fail, it tends to be trivial to figure out why. There's no type hierarchy like most OOP languages and no method_missing magic like Ruby. I can typically just trace the logic backwards from the error to the cause. Most bug reports I receive for my open source Go projects get fixed in minutes.
This mirrors my own experience on Wiki, which dragged on for months after admins were caught removing content for internal political purposes and alienating tens of thousands (according to objective metric) who used those pages. Conflict resolution there is centered almost entirely on people-drama and almost never on content or _anything_ of substance which is rather the point of an encyclopedia. This is plainly evident from reading any of their notice/resolution boards which are often little but favor-currying.

Wiki-lawyering (citing policies in purposefully cryptic and usually erroneous ways) is rampant, and all these problems exists because admins aren't appointed due to domain expertise (or any sort of expertise for that matter) but being in the good graces of other admins. This conflicts with most wiki content editors, who are often domain experts rather than bureaucrats/politicians. I ended up being banned for doing a reasonably popular reddit AMA about all this, and apparently violating the rule to never talk about wiki administrating outside of wiki.

In sum, the system only works because talented and intelligent people want to create encyclopedic material, and there generally aren't enough admins to stymy this.
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This hi-draw mode is actually only available when on AC power. Doing anything CPU and GPU intensive will obviously increase battery draw, but these exceptionally high CPU speeds are only possible when the MagSafe connection is active.
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Question: is this an automated summary or are you doing these summaries yourself manually?

On topic, it seems odd that a Python process that would take 3 minutes to scan nodes could be reduced to a go script that takes under 1 second. Perhaps this is entirely due to going from serial to parallel, but the timeout thing that he mentioned sounds like an error in the Python code rather than a language problem. And I say this as someone who uses/enjoys go.
The power adapter simply isn't able to provide the full power required to run the entire laptop with the CPU at full speed. The battery in that case is acting as a large capacitor and in most cases when running at full tilt is actually discharging even when plugged in.

When the battery goes bad and a notice pops up stating that it should be serviced they don't want to cause any possible issues such as the battery catching fire or exploding. Better safe than sorry.

Also, this is all hardware controlled, and happens not just on MacBook's but on plenty of other machines too. Had an old Toshiba that when the battery was removed it would limit itself from 2.4 Ghz to 1.2 Ghz max.
chrissmeuk has a pretty innocuous (and short) comment history (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrissmeuk). The only visible clue is that someone accused them of being a Microsoft shill, and maybe someone pulled out the hellban hammer in response. There's clearly something fishy going on, on one side or another.
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AWS has extensive documentation on their own site. Also, stackoverflow.com has lots of questions & answers.

Finally, I highly recommend reading Eric Hammond's blog posts over the years, he is one of the most knowledgeable EC2/AWS users around - https://twitter.com/esh