skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's so bogus about it?

Even if they were not printing out emails, the effect of disclaimers to a thread between staff of a few different companies is appalling. If using short emails to, say schedule an appointment, it can easily be worse than 1:10 ratio of signal to noise causing loss of important information.

I definitely support curtailing this nonsense legalism that has also led us to click through 100 pages of incomprehensible TOS documents. Its pretty clear we need political intervention to protect companies and their users in a sane manner compared to the path we are currently on.
Sounds like Microsoft Bob and some VRML demos I used back in the day. Unsure of the practicality, but could be interesting if done right I suppose.
√ no fans.

√ retina display.
As a frequent traveler, I regret replacing my 3-year-old 4GB + 128SSD with a 13" rMBP. I like the rMPB, but I should have kept my Air and gotten a quad-core 15" rMBP. The point? I'll pay a lot, in terms of cash and power, for portability and battery life.

I've been eager to move off of OSX for some years [1], but with this rumored laptop, they'll probably sink their teeth in me for another 3 years.

[1] If anyone knows of a laptop that is portable, that supports 16GB of RAM and works well with Linux, please let me know. Even the newly announced X1 and XPS13 are limited to 8GB (and I assume they get relatively poor battery life on Linux)
Moloch at work. In the end everything stays the same, only everyone's position is worse.
Email disclaimers are hokum, legally speaking. They're ordinarily seeking to impose a contractual obligation unilaterally. Unless the contract has been freely negotiated, in Europe, a party can't be bound to it.

The Economist covered this in 2011: http://www.economist.com/node/18529895
It looks like the folks at Apple insist on misinterpreting the "less is more" principle. Apple is becoming more each day a dictatorship company who thinks that whatever product it launches, they will be loved as they were in 2000's.
I can recommend the Stanford "Introduction to Databases" course https://www.coursera.org/course/db

I took it when it was first offered online in 2011, and really liked it. My review of it is here: http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...
Is it better for the planet if I buy a tablet which lasts three years and bring that to the meeting instead?
Have a look at Lenovo's X series.
It's been a long time since I was in school, but if memory serves correctly, there were plenty of dis-engaged parents in the 1980s, too, but the schools didn't seem to suffer the same ills they do today.

My wife and I homeschool our kids, but we have very good friends who send their kids to what's considered to be a very good public elementary school. They, as well as other parents, are engaged, even helping out in the classrooms. They speak highly of some teachers, but even with all this involvement, hands are tied by the expectations of the board of education. The kids spend large swaths of their day simply doing worksheets that prepare them for standardized tests.

In my experience, parents that really do care often end up taking their kids out of the public school system because, as the teacher in the original article notes, the edicts coming from "on high" really tie the hands of people who are trying hard to care about the kids.
Newsflash: US schools already spend the most per student in the world ($15,000), by far more than most nations, yet still perform at the bottom of OECD nations. Do you want to get your head out of your ass?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-globa...
> Email disclaimers are hokum, legally speaking.

That's his point. They're bullshit and a half, but when emails are printed (which is more common than you'd think) they still waste paper and ink.
A good developer will be able to go with whatever language you have got. However, (assuming I am a half decent developer) I would avoid jobs in PHP or VB.
Not convincing. Tags (with separate register files for pointers) significantly reduce GC scanning time and simplify the precise GC implementation. And you don't really have to sacrifice your precious integer bits for your tags.
I don't know where microtimes comes from either. It's entirely possible the per-user key is or contains a microtime - I've never investigated.

The per-user key does allow the entity operating the blacklist to easily detect any user who's moving between network access points. This is known. The feature is and was always stripped out in stuff like Tor browser for that reason.

There's good reasons to believe it wasn't malicious (it was necessary for secure updates pre-universal-HTTPS, and was removed as soon as HTTPS was deployed universally at Google), but it's also not really arguable it could be used for that purpose, either.
Apparently North Korean Universities have access to the real internet, but there is only a dozen or so computers connected to it, and for every computer there is a government official sitting in a room next door seeing what the person using the computer is seeing....and probably taking notes. So researchers can visit any sites they like...but as soon as you start reading something anti-NK you are very likely to get arrested.
But all that would have been needed would be for the money that the government used to bail out the banks instead go directly to the depositors, and for the government to seize all the bank's assets to help pay for that. All they would need would be the relevant records. That would only be impossible if the depositors had so much money invested in the banks that there wasn't enough to cover them. Was that the case?
I second Henrik's recommendation. Apart from the one he listed, there is no other database course available online that I'm aware of.
It's not that you can't measure; it's that tests (of the type we currently use) are a really wrong tool for the job.

Also such big dependence on tests seems to me like the result of people trying to structure out trust from their relationship.
You forgot "instead of waging war" ;P
This isn't GPU intensive at all, but there's a lot of software and CPU overhead in WebGL compared to native OpenGL. This depends on your browser, the WebGL backend it uses (that would be Angle+Direct3D if you're on Chrome on Windows) and your CPU.

I got 24 fps with my high end GPU (and bad stuttering) with an old, poor CPU on Linux + Firefox. GPU is practically idle, but CPU is at 100% and fans are yelling.
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What is a desktop email client?
If you're concerned about your CO2 footprint, one thing you can do without going as far as eating bugs is eliminating beef from your diet and eating only poultry. Minimal impact on your diet and about twice as efficient.
> Apple is becoming more each day a dictatorship company

As the article notes, the original Air was very similar to the purported new Air. It had a micro-DVI, a single USB port and a headphone jack.

It didn't quite succeed, but I'd guess more because of its anemic performances (SSD was an expensive option to an already costly machine, the CPU wasn't exactly a performance star, and let's not talk about the GMA X3100) than its I/O limitations. And if anything things have gotten better since (more wireless and "cloud" with less physical connectivity required).
Oh, my. Education in the U.S. is as broken as it gets. If you have to pay for being able to afford a job as a teacher, that spells doom for a whole profession. Not to mention a nation's future.
UC Berkeley has CS 186, but it approaches databases from a theoretical perspective rather than about how to use them.

https://sites.google.com/site/cs186fall2013/
If you're referring to non-american universities, the list does contain a couple of courses offered by European universities. However, the list does not contain any non-English courses but if you do know of any, do send in a PR and I'll gladly add it to the list.
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And how many US elected Republicans in Congress share those views?
Why would a tablet only last three years?

In any case, you can simply buy a laptop/tablet hybrid nowadays, instead of the laptop you'd buy anyway (exceptions made for people who need desktops or non-hybrid laptops for some reason, but they're an exception).
His point seems to be that it's a waste of ink and paper, not the legal aspect.
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For one, no one is mastering any subjects because they're taught to pass tests, not to understand. Teaching (and learning) to pass tests is less work for everyone, so schools tend to gravitate towards this.

Also, I've seen tests so dumb that the better you understand a subject, the worse your chances are - because questions and answer templates are stupid/made by people who didn't master the subject, and if you understand things well, you're likely to write something that doesn't match the answer template.
Sang Lee (Korean-American 3-cushion legend) opened a world-class billiards facility in Flushing, NY, called Carom Cafe. Heated billiard tables, the works. Sang Lee has since passed-away, but I just checked and the place is still open. Probably worth the trip!

They also host an annual memorial tournament where the world's best come to play. Raymond Ceulemans was guest of honor last year.

Twenty years ago, the only room in Arkansas with real billiard tables was a local place that catered to Vietnamese immigrants. I walked-in one day, cue in-hand, and was immediately halted by the owner who told me (in unfriendly terms) that they didn't offer 8-ball or 9-ball. I assured him that, despite my appearance, I knew how to play and won-over some new friends that day.

I've often wondered how many good ol' boys wandered into that place, found a bunch of pool tables without any pockets! and then went away, shaking their heads in bewilderment at the sight.
Statistics are not demeaning http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-f...
OS updates either aren't available or refuse to run on it, so it's still usable but not safe to connect to the internet.
Is there a laptop other than these? [1]

They are all limited to 8GB. According to [2] the new X250 is, like the new X1, also a single DIMM.

[1] - http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/

[2] - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8822/lenovo-thinkpad-x250
I don't want the government spending my money on computers they don't need so that they don't need to print anymore.
Integrated Apps? no thanks
Don't soak your dried beans
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He used it to prove a point. I understood it as "I am proud of Tim B-L, and what he brought us. Let us be proud British, and not bloody asses, and stop this disclaimer non-sense."
Runnable/verifiable specs are a good idea. A colleague of mine did some great work with compiling the H265 & VP9 specifications to produce a test suite, in a similar manner to fuzzing:

http://www.argondesign.com/products/2014/may/27/streamsvp9/
We once had an Ericsson MSC that only replied to _uneven_ ICMP packets due to some bug.

Made it look like there was 50% packet loss on an otherwise perfectly good Cat 5 cable...

(edit: ICMP instead of IP)
Hey,

I'm one of the coders (that's my site, I didn't submit it to HN).

It's deliberately lo-fi. It works on even the worst BlackBery browser we could find :-)

There are colour schemes available if you want to change the garish pinks. Pull requests always welcome http://github.com/edent/Dabr/

T
Having met both in person, I think "rude" is rather quite apt in both cases. You can be passionate and principled and not a jerk, or a murderer, or a scoundrel, or even rude.
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To avoid appearing as the stereotypical grumpy ol' luddite. It's just a rhetorical device: "hey, I love the internet like the next guy, but...".

Politicians often use codified sentences as shorthand for concepts that are already well-understood by the rest of the House; some are more creative than others.
I like

xsnow

and

curl -L http://bit.ly/10hA8iC | bash
Really? I think it looks delicious.
Debugging the circuits and general design takes a lot of time. I doubt it's 2 years of placement.
Wow! This is a gold mine. Lecture notes, project code (SimpleDB) and assignments are all available. I'll add this to the list! Thanks :)
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That's an iPad. :)
The article implies he did call them "useless", "meaningless missives" and "sluggish bureaucratic verbiage".
Hey! For me, this produces sound for the whole range of heights/frequencies! It plays a bit more silent for high frequencies, but for the lowest ones, the sound is quite loud (given it's produced by a screen...) and I think, it could easily go for an even lower pitch.
I am using a modified SyncMaster 203B (I replaced some of the electrolytic capacitors after the lighting ceased to work, so that may be it...)
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T450S will have 12 GB (1 DIMM + 4GB soldered), http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/01/lenovo-thinkpad-t450s/

X230 (Ivy Bridge, 2 years old) supports 16GB and has the good keyboard/trackpad.
When the spot on the wall between you and the router turns red shift your body to a different angle.
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"The legislation was accepted at first reading, but it is unlikely to become law in its current form without government support due to a lack of parliamentary time."

Translated: this Parliament is already over (elections are scheduled in a few months), so MPs are free to pitch in their headline-grabbing pet-projects, stuff that has no chance in hell to ever be taken seriously but might help their campaign prospects.
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10 minute rule bills rarely become law. It's a way for a politician to create publicity about something they feel strongly about.
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great activity to do with the kids!
Are you saying that the "google api key" passed by Firefox is user-specific?
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For those who don't know Guix, it's similar to Nix(OS), except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language (in contrast to Nix, where a special-purpose DSL is used to define packages).
It's a recurring pattern that Apple has to re-invent the entry level laptops every once in a while because they've become so powerful and versatile the target audience for the "pro" laptops starts to prefer them over the heavier, more expensive and overly powerful high-end alternatives.

Personally I have found myself continuously switching between the "pro" and "regular" offerings ever since the days of Powerbook and iBook, and if a 12" Air would be nothing more than a newer, better Air with a retina screen I would probably pick it over the 13" Pro I currently use.

Apple regularly moves the goalposts to avoid cannibalizing the high-end line.
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The Surface comes with a guarantee of four years of updates (minimum).
That's the I thought about too :-)
Not having standard ports would be pretty annoying -- at most offices, there are lots of power adapters left in common areas (I think at CloudFlare it's all MagSafe w/ MagSafe2 adapters, or MagSafe 2, and I've tried to make sure they're all 85W; outside of tech, I've seen Lenovo 20V the same way).

Having HDMI out built-in on the rMBP15, vs. needing to carry a mdp/tb2 to whatever dongle all the time, is a plus too.

USB 3 A ports are probably a minimum for me.

If I wanted no ports at all, I'd just use the iPad.

I don't think I could deal with OS X 10.10 on less than 16GB, either.
That's the one I remembered! I was a great Amiga guy :D
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No, not at all. SafeBrowsing had a separate encryption/MAC key. I think some of the confusion is because the parent poster posted a link to v3 of the protocol, which dropped the key in favor of HTTPS, but the old Firefox version implements v2.
Like the author, I hope people will get better at treating each new person according to their particular situation. But lately I'm seeing people use stories like this as evidence of the prevalence of sexism, racism, etc.

And it may very well be, I don't know for sure. But I think it could also be explained just by noting that if you're way out of the ordinary, you're probably going to have a lot of awkward interactions.

I lived in China for two years. Many times, locals made wrong assumptions about me. I guess I could have been offended about it, but it seems to be a fundamental part of our mental event loops to aggressively pattern match and categorize as quickly as possible, so I couldn't really get mad at people for doing it. I was/am way out of pattern, so I think some awkwardness is to be expected. (Now, I fully concede that what the author describes -- people initially not believing her explanations -- is one step worse. That really sucks.)

Have you ever approached a stranger and asked them something without somehow verifying beforehand that they would actually be able to hear you? Wouldn't it have felt a bit awkward if they'd been deaf? Would the incident really mean much?

I can imagine a hundred articles like this, e.g., "Actual words people say to a 162cm professional basketball player", and the main thing we could take from them is that people are on autopilot and you're in for trouble if there's something significantly different about you from what people were expecting.
I have heard it referred to as empire building.
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There are the IP's from North Korea available as well, it was discussed couple of time ago on HN[0]. I think checking by IP is more reliable than checking the browser: Red Star OS is not the only OS in North Korea and someone could use Naenara Browser from the outside as well...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777226
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Those are square root symbols. Here's a check mark: ✔︎

(In case you didn't notice – perhaps because of your font settings.)
Sorry but I have to ask, where do you get this from? Have you personally experienced this or are you simply repeating the party line?

Not to be negative or discredit you, but you use word like "apparently" "probably" and "very likely" which is immediate indicators of hearsay or fear mongering.

Not that I have any idea what NK is like, never been there. But I do live in a country that suffers from huge misconceptions about the conditions here, hearsay and fear mongering. The entitlement to judge other absolutely astounds me sometimes, not to be applied to you yourself off course.
I had to learn Russian in school and for the life of me I can't understand why anyone would want to do this to themselves voluntarily. Russian looks weird, sounds weird, and nobody speaks it apart from movie villains (and that not even very well). But that's just my opinion. ;-)

I also had to learn French in school and it was beautiful. Hearing French and speaking French is just great. And it was tons easier to learn than Russian.

Later I taught myself English, first by watching Movies and later by reading books (novels). It helps with the pronunciation if you read it in the voice of a native speaker e.g. a well known actor. The English grammar I read up on some websites. I need English to provide support for my software products. In the first months it took ages to write an email and I had to use a dictionary for most of the words.

Having made quite a few trips to Spain in the last couple of years, Spanish would be the language I'd like to learn if I had the time. It sounds great and half the world speaks it.

And about that weird German language. Although being a native German speaker myself, I'm not sure I can recommend learning it. Nobody speaks it outside of Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland and it's not great fun to learn something you can't use.
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Mark Zuckerberg: A few years ago, an extremist in Pakistan...
Huh? That makes no sense. They barely made it through the late 90s and early 2000s intact and their products have never been better or more loved (if love = ££) than they are today.

They've always been an opinionated company producing opinionated products, right back to the launch of the very first Mac which was criticised for only being able to do what Steve Jobs wanted you to do. Or think of the original iMac - no floppy drive and USB-only connectivity before it had really taken off. Or the first iPhone launching with less features and connectivity than its competitors.

The times they tried to please everyone are when they did most poorly - remember the dreadful Performa range with loads of meaningless variations?
It's the other way around, the gamasutra article is from 2009
Just out of curiosity, what do you do with 16GB of RAM? I'm running OS X 10.10 on 4GB Macbook Air and I have faced no issues whatsoever. My general usage includes Chrome with ~20 tabs open, a Vagrant VM, terminal and text editor.
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Imagine that you and your spouse both work 15-20 miles away from your home, in different directions (This is common outside of the biggest urban areas). Unless you REALLY like to bike, you need two vehicles.
For anyone looking for courses using OCaml, there's a list at http://ocaml.org/learn/teaching-ocaml.html -- Prev HN discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603202

To be honest, I'm somewhat confused by the purpose of general lists like these. When they're small and focused, I can see them being useful (as the OP mentions here) but eventually they tend towards being a directory. At that stage I'd just use Google (edit: though it'd be hugely ironic if a Google search led me to an 'awesome-style' list - hasn't happened yet)
> you should check it out, they made a whole OS and the (word processor, PDF viewer, Web Browser, etc) in under 20K lines of code.

Check it out? Where is the source code for the OS?
I haven't found it in the link you gave..
For some fun: https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible-and-juliet
Hang, on that's not the definition of racism.

Racism is [dis]favouring a particular group based on race. If you choose the 10 highest scorers in a maths test in a group and the racial make-up doesn't match that of the group as a whole that's not racist.

One could manipulate your choice characteristics in order to achieve the racial profile that you want. That's serious conspiracy theory territory though.