skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done some checking and if you're going to settle there on a perm basis, I think it would be worth it.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/becoming-a-citizen/29288376

Foreigners with no direct blood ties to Switzerland through either birth or marriage must live in the country for at least 10 years (reduced from 12 years by a new law passed in June 2014) before they can apply for citizenship. (Years spent in the country between age ten and 20 count double). The person must be well integrated, familiar with customs and traditions, law abiding, and pose no threat to internal or external security.
The Federal Migration Office will then “green light” an applicant’s request to begin the naturalisation process but that does not mean citizenship is certain. Rather, cantons and municipalities have their own requirements that must be met. One canton, for example, might require applicants to live for two years in the region while another might require a decade. For more on the process, please visit the Federal Migration Office.

The other interesting thing is being born in the country doesn't mean you're granted citizenship.
This is mostly accurate.

Europe pre-WW2 was overrun with all variations of fascism and authoritarianism. Prior to that, it was still ruled by Kings, Queens, and Imperial rule ala Napoleon.
Of course, using the most abstract definition is not the best idea, but anything equivalent to the standard terminology is ok. For example, in 2d, we can san say the convex hull of a finite set of points is the smallest enclosing convex polygon.

The name convex hull is related to linear hull and conic hull, therefore defining it to not contain the interior is strange, but reasonable because in many applications we only care about the description of the convex hull by describing the polygon.
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His statement was about a single hypothetical database server that would cost more to secure that it was worth.

Budgets are finite. That's a fact of life. The trick is balancing the risks and hardening the important things so that, on the balance, you have the most security possible for that budget.

Not spending as much money hardening the (hypothetical) legacy DB with a noncritical data of some sort, so that you have more budget to harden the financials database; that is the right decision.

Of course, it doesn't look like that balance was struck effectively very often at Sony Pictures, but the theory is sound :)
Here it is without the ACM paywall:

https://cryptojedi.org/papers/verify25519-20140428.pdf
On a semi-serious note, McDonald's is positioned at major intersections in nearly every city and town in the United States.

If you wanted to go full-militarized police state, locking down all the major intersections seems like something you'd want to do.
No you're not. My background is biochemistry (UK degree), biomedical image processing (UK PhD) and web development (self-taught). After a decade of academic research in medical imaging, I'm now moving more towards pure tech. I'd love to go back to uni, say full time for 6-12 months, either in the US or UK, and rigorously study the fundamentals of Computer Science, however I haven't found a mechanism that really works for me.

An additional undergrad degree is too long and slow - I know I can study MUCH more efficiently than I could when I was 18, and I also want to be very focused on CS, so most of a US undergrad course would be a waste of time to me. On the other hand, a 1 year Masters is too advanced, since I don't have a firm grasp of the basics.

Online courses are definitely filling the gap but I feel like I learn faster with human interaction and mentoring. Bootcamps are okay to an extent (I'm currently doing The Firehose Project to learn some industry web dev practices, and they provide great mentoring and group projects), but they only advance your skills so far, and probably not up to the level I expect you'd be at after completing the first year of CS. It'd be great to see some different options out there which provide the rigour and cater to a more mature audience.
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You can only bait the bear for so long until it bites you back.

But he isn't "biting back" at the West. He's biting on the bones of thousands of civilians (of all nationalities) killed in Ukraine. And hundreds of his own soldiers, sent illegally (by Russia's own laws) to fight in a war beyond its borders.
>For example, the current build system is functionally equivalent to #including a bunch of C files in your C project and only passing one file to cc

That sounds like the perfect example of something that can be imporoved later and is totally orthogonal to the language design.

Semantics and syntax are what they need to get right pre 1.0, not the build system.
Couldn't you just... make a post to twitter?

I know it's become popular to integrate that kind of thing into apps and sites, but personally I'd rather not have twitter (and FB) widgets that track all of my activity across sites.

Easy enough to copy the URL and make a twitter post.
Thanks for the PR!
Police brutality in the US is a problem. It doesn't compare to the slaughter of millions under the former USSR, or the complete shut-down of all freedom of speech and freedom of the press under Putin.

If the US were anything like Russia, we couldn't be having this conversation on a heavily trafficked web site like HN located within the US. The US still has the greatest level of freedom of speech of any nation on earth, and the strongest speech protections, even after some of the recent erosion.
When did I say I was betting on anything? I was simply refuting the position that a poor person has never bootstrapped themselves into a successful entrepreneur, using a few well-known examples. Who knows what the statistics are on unknown success stories? As a poker player, you should know that even a bad hand can win a game if it's dealt to the right player.
Sounds like a promising future, and the only sane way to approach that level of integration.
This does make sense under author's definition: convex hull is defined as the boundary of any convex set enclosing the set of points.

But in standard terminology, convex hull of a set S is the smallest convex set containing the set of points. The convex hull is always minimal because it's unique.
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What this article, and many commentators in this thread, are forgetting is that the college/university system is not designed primarily for education. The reason why the college system is tailored toward young adults is because we as a culture have decided that college is the place for young adults to "find themselves." College is often the first time young adults begin living on their own; putting them in a structured institution with their peers is how many kids learn how to "grow up" (in particular, the children of privileged individuals who also want their children to receive some sort of education/job training). There are other issues with the higher education as an institution, but the segregation between older adults ("nontraditional" students) is not one of them, nor is the seeming lack of responsibility found at college (though sexual assault and substance abuse are serious issues that need to be addressed) - it's a defining part of the American "college experience."

It could be argued that you can "find yourself" without college, and while that's absolutely true I would say that it's hard to find a better institution to do so (other problems like rising tuition/loans notwithstanding).
>I also see that your proposal seems to be to add header files to Rust

That kind of proposal should rightly be laughed out of IRC...
I wonder what Jews, Seventh Day Adventists, and Sabbatarians in general would think of this.
Perhaps it's more accurate to say that people acquire things in the cheapest way they can --- but also that they compute the `cost' as some combination of monetary costs, temporal costs, skills they have to use/aquire, social effects of community acceptance, etc.
DRM was sold to the politicians and public alike as a means of getting great content to customers and preventing piracy.

I suspect it won't be long before the DRM being used for the Amazon and Netflix 4K TV streams are well and truly broken like they were for HDMI and other "secure" measures before it.
Calling a promo banner a "prompt" is a bit of an exaggeration. Also, the same "Upgrade to the new Firefox" message is also shown to Firefox versions less than the current version (34).
This is also happening for people who have paid for Yahoo Mail in order to not have ads. I would be asking for my money back if they start showing me ads like that!

Edit: source https://twitter.com/AnthonyPAlicea/status/542670797912166400
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Unfortunately, videos are the best way to learn about this. 1, 2, 5, and 15 are all pretty good and give a solid overview of what's going on.
Schengen is about border controls for transportation, it doesn't mean a permit to work in itself automatically. Rather, it's because Switzerland is a member of EFTA. The UK isn't one of the Schengen countries, for example, but they can still work in Switzerland.
From what I hear from Googlers, just like any other big soulless enterprise software company like Cisco or IBM.

Maybe I don't meet super passionate Googlers. Most of people who work for Google are bored with their job and it's "just a job".
Not just toothless, but soon to be insolvent. It should only take another 12 to 18 months with oil below $60 or $70, to thoroughly crash the Russian economy and deplete their reserves (the share of their reserves they can actually use). At that point they'll either effectively capitulate, or they'll instigate a greater war.
This article has substantially more historical and clinical context than I expected, and may of interest to hackers for that reason.
If this isn't a prompt, what would a prompt look like?
agreed. the term upgrade also brings with it a connotation of being better. I am doubtful that this is this case.
Amazon's video streaming quality can be horrendous. Checking that I'm using an HDMI cable before streaming me HD content? Really?
This time around the software is getting commoditized (with open source).
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I understand, but the question then becomes why your library depends on dlopen and why you don't offer an alternative static method as Qt's "plugins" do. Doesn't seem like good design on the part of the NSS devs to me, and probably a poor choice of library on the part of the systemd devs to me. But maybe I'm missing something.
TL;DR - speculation it's due to DRM/pirating concerns. Most TV's have no output and are therefore a safe mechanism to allow playback, whereas a PC could rip the stream
But if I grab a torrent to the 4K version of the movie, I can play it on my computer.

Do people still legitimately wonder why so many people flock to torrents? Hollywood (and by extension, other large content producers) have the most sincere form of Ostrich Syndrome[0] that I know of.

[0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Ostrich...
The stated numbers are the costs of renouncing your citizenship. The state department drastically increased the cost last year.
Good question. It does a few heuristics depending on the strategy in use. But it has some VCS detection in it so if you're using Git it'll only upload files in the Git index (staged/committed/not ignored). There are also glob-based include/exclude filters you can specify. If all else fails, then yes, it uploads everything.
ITT: If Google does it it's ok, if Yahoo does it it's not.
That pretty much says what I said which is still in no way related to SOPA. The notion that adding these admittedly weak conditions on data retentions can somehow be construed as a backdoor authorization of those retentions seems like a huge stretch. Calling it SOPA 2 is pretty meaningless. You want to talk about "manipulated" this headline was crafted to inspire outrage out of something obscure and probably meaningless.
nice job. i'll check it out.
At the University of Minnesota, those with degrees from the university can audit courses at a greatly reduced rate. I'm not sure whether this applies to online courses, but it's very likely that it does. During my undergraduate education there, I encountered many such post-degree students; they were quite a joy to have in class.
While certainly the unavailable or inconvenience fact does cause some piracy, I'm not convinced it causes anywhere near most of it.

Downloading pc games on Steam is absurdly easy, much easier than pirating. Yet, games available on Steam are downloaded in masse.

People download network TV shows that are available over the air for free, on the internet to stream on their networks website / hulu, or on Itunes for 1.99.

I think it's a bit naive to think that getting stuff for free isn't the main reason people torrent.
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Eviatar Zerubavel's Seven Day Circle is a detailed and complex history of time telling.

It really helps to understand that in a calendar we're trying to measure three distinct (and variable) cycles, none of which fits precisely into the others, and each of which imposes its own rhythms on human life. Attempts to break each from the current 7/12/365 basis have virtually all failed.

The first is the Earth's rotation about its own axis -- different when measured with respect to the stars or the Sun.

The second is that of the Moon about Earth.

The third is of the Earth about the Sun.

We overlay them on each other and pick rough correspondences.

Much of the division has to do with Babylonian time reckoning, based on 360, and its factors: 2 * 2 * 2 * 3 * 3 * 5. From that you find 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 30, 45, 72, 90, 180, and 360. A seven-day week doesn't fit this directly but is close (between 6 and 8), and a 30-day month also fits well.

Then you come to realize that all timekeeping, _especially_ that which picks a specific starting point, is arbitrary.

The book also details several attempts to change the system, particularly following the French and Russian revolutions (oh, and the reason for that being the October revolution -- and there's the question of what was the last nation to adopt the Gregorian calendar, and why the output of 'cal 1752' is what it is ... and why even _that_ is arbitrary (it depends on where you're specifying the date).

http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9780226981659-2
I could see "We love it, but make sure to stick something on it saying its unofficial", just from a trademark dilution perspective.

but yeah a C&D/Github DMCA would be incredibly stupid.
Here is the list:

The Philae spacecraft's touchdown on comet 67P: was named as the year's most significant advance by Physics World. It was singled out for its "fundamental importance to space science".

Light on the cosmic web (January): Researchers used the radiation emitted by a quasar as a "cosmic flashlight" to illuminate the hidden tendrils of dark matter that underlie the visible Universe.

Neutrinos from the Sun (August): The Borexino experiment in Italy detected neutrino particles from the main nuclear reaction that powers the Sun. The number of neutrinos it saw agrees with theories, suggesting we do understand what's going on inside our parent star.

Laser fusion milestone (February): Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California made a breakthrough in the long road to self-sustaining fusion when they managed to get more energy out of fusion reactions than was deposited in the fuel by NIF's powerful laser.

Acoustic tractor beam (May): Once the preserve of science fiction, tractor beams are now a reality - at least in the lab. Physicists built a device that can pull objects by firing sound waves at them. The beam could have medical uses, such as manipulating objects within the body.

Supernovas in the lab (June): The Vulcan Laser Facility in Oxfordshire was used to recreate miniature star explosions, offering a window into some of the most powerful and unpredictable events in the cosmos.

Electron magnetism (June): Researchers in Israel were the first to measure the extremely weak magnetic interaction between two separate electron particles.

A better fibre for images (March): Scientists in the US used a physical effect called Anderson Localisation to develop a better optical fibre for transmitting images.

Holographic memory (February): American and Russian physicists built a new type of holographic memory device that stores data in the form of magnetic "bits".

Quantum compression: (September): The ability to compress quantum information was demonstrated for the first time by physicists in Canada and Japan.
Thanks, appreciate the info. Basically it would be on mac and feature-wise, not sure just yet. It would be for a 'traditional' radio station style setup, aka music, not podcast type of thing.
This is pretty much the target, a 2 year program that covers basics to mastery in a particular subject. I have seen folks who have put together curriculums for that out of MOOC lists but it hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves. My theory is that if could retrain for a new discipline in 2 years it would strongly mitigate the notion of 'structural' unemployment. Particularly if you already had the basics down (aka an undergraduate degree). I suggested to the Alumni group at USC that such a program, a "mini-bachelors+masters" might make for something they could provide their alumni (or others) that would both get them more tuition dollars and help people.
I'm hoping to port Shen to Rust, but I need to read the guide and learn my way around Rust itself before diving in too naively.
Exactly my point and the reason I get into these arguments. Most of us at some point have pirated something. I don't understand why some people feel the need to twist words and invent causes to justify it.
And they are rightly so to tell people to upgrade to the latest Firefox.
Relevant piece to this discussion is SEC. 309. PROCEDURES FOR THE RETENTION OF INCIDENTALLY ACQUIRED COMMUNICATIONS.

Personally, I have an issue with paragraph 3 section B as follows:

(ii) the communication is reasonably believed to constitute evidence of a crime and is retained by a law enforcement agency;
(iii) the communication is enciphered or reasonably believed to have a secret meaning;

I don't know enough about this, so will someone more educated in this field tell me: am I wrong, or does the exception in ii apply to the way law enforcement currently uses State intelligence services to get around warrants? Does this change anything?
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Why charge me for having more hosts? I am used to the reverse. Buy more, save more.

IMHO, keep the app and 'hours of retention' limit in. Remove the hosts and user limit (I hate user limits; don't you want more people exposed to your app?!?)
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I've been using Firefox again recently - I stopped when it was slower and less stable than Chrome.

These days it often feels faster than Chrome.
> there was at least one TRON arcade game... that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten

I can barely express how amazing and influential Discs of Tron was to me as a kid. The concept, the animation, the black light... totally captured my imagination right when I was first learning BASIC on TRS-Model III and C64.
That's awesome. Question: Could those post-degree auditors get any credit for those classes? Or was it simply for the content?
(Late to the conversation - I've had this tab open that long!)

I just wanted to ask your opinion on the docker comment - I think tools that make repeatable builds will always be necessary (even if only to make the first docker instance of your immutable server).

Or is there some other theme at play I so not understand that means this idea is old hat?
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Do you mind sharing why you still use Yahoo Mail, let alone paying to use it? (serious question)
>> "Perhaps right now walled-garden devices are still profitable, but if they continue to become more limited"

Aren't they becoming less limited? Every year Apple allows developers to do things they couldn't the year before (e.g. keyboards, widgets).
The notes to Rule 16 discuss the Constitutional issue:

> The Committee recognizes the force of the constitutional arguments advanced by defenders. Requiring a defendant, upon request, to give to the prosecution material which may be incriminating, certainly raises very serious constitutional problems. The Committee deals with these problems by having the defendant trigger the discovery procedures. Since the defendant has no constitutional right to discover any of the prosecution's evidence (unless it is exculpatory within the meaning of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)), it is permissible to condition his access to nonexculpatory evidence upon his turning over a list of defense witnesses. Rule 16 currently operates in this manner.

Note that the notes discuss a house version of the rule that included a provision requiring both sides to, at the defense's option, turn over witness lists 3 days before trial. That provision ultimately did not make it into the final rule.
I have a hard time getting too worked up over this in the case of Amazon, because I have a heck of a time getting them to stream even SD content without horrible buffering issues.
Unfortunately, VM storage isn't a solved problem at scale. You can use remote storage (like EBS) to avoid being dependent on any particular server, but in practice it also has outages and performance anomalies.
It's not hard--it's impossible. The only value that ROT13 returns "unpx" for is "hack." There is no possible collision.
What are you talking about? There is maybe 1 total critical comment:

http://i.imgur.com/8cI6hCW.png

Hell, there are more comments in favor of this because Google did the same. Quit playing the false victim card.
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It actually makes sense to call it a minimal convex hull, since you can construct and envelope, or hull, for a set of points that is convex but not necessarily minimal: e.g. a large square with edges (min{xi},max{xi}) along each direction i.
Which devices support Netflix and Amazon 4k streams?

ETA:

From Netflix' FAQ it looks like it's via the TV apps on select "Smart" TV's.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444
COMPLIMENT FROM WHO?
Now this started to look like a fair play.
> I've found it difficult to wrap my had around some of
> the concepts (ownership in particular).

Have you tried reading the Ownership Guide (http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide-ownership.html)? I actually haven't read this particular guide myself (it didn't exist when I got started with Rust), but it sounds relevant :)
I hesitated to make the analogy because I expected a response like this, stretching the analogy too far.

It isn't a matter of managing init scripts - that's easy. Continually updating a distro to use your init system of choice is a wholly different matter. I can change the oil in my car. I can't replace the transmission.
> Anyone who knows technology knows the computational and image-processing capabilities of even an average PC or Mac far outstrip those of a streaming box, set-top box, or smart TV by several orders of magnitude.

It's quite possible these TVs or STBs are shipping with a special hardware decoder that supports this format that they're using.
What, exactly, is faster? Why does this have 50 points when there is no content?
Google deserves every last inch of this.
Or me.
I guess I'm mistaken then. I thought freedom of movement, including for work, was covered under the Schengen agreement's visa policies.
I've been using Firefox for several months and have no regrets. On Ubuntu Chrome was doing all sorts of weird things, plus being slow. Firefox's tab groups is also a great feature.