skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it curious that the people complaining about this don't instead install valid certificates. That was routine for us even a decade ago because otherwise you're literally training your admin staff to ignore errors and enter sensitive passwords every time a security warning pops up.

That's never good and it feels dangerously close to professional negligence when it's a password which gives privileged access to a server.

EDIT: just to be clear, I don't think this is “these people are crazy” so much as “what reason is good enough to justify leaving yourself exposed like this?” Even the cheap devices I bought in the early 2000s allowed you to install SSL certs and installing something real was a routine part of the first-time install.
Bitrated Adds Reputation System, Offering ‘Chargeback-Like’ Process to Bitcoin
You're likely fine. These types of things are more to inflate the ego of the person writing them than to offer any real insight into the quality of programmer they'd be screening.
The US continues to jail people for failing to pay fines, child support, and similar. So there is in one sense still debtors prison, but it really only applies to debts owed in certain situations.
Tyranny with manners.
Hey everyone, Nadav from Bitrated here. Bitrated is a trust platform that combines identity & reputation management, smart contracts for reversible payments and a marketplace for trusted agents to serve as arbitrators.

Happy to answer your questions!
Cue the advent of colour e-paper smartphones.
Superfish Update – An Open Letter from Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius
The short version is that physical books have a much better user interface than electronic books by almost every criterion. Part of this is because of counterproductive DRM restrictions, but software and hardware limitations ensure that many uses of books, especially textbooks, fall far short in any electronic format.

We take for granted, or are just unaware of, many of the ways in which physical interaction with objects adds to the human experience of using them. Sense memory/muscle memory/spatial memory can all play a role in absorbing the content of the book, as can the physical interaction required to turn pages. For reference work, things like tabbed pages or over-printed index points or even just the ability to flip through the book or a section of the book at a glance has no equal in electronic form.
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Note that sports didn't really aspire to be a meritocracy before professionalism. The most meritocratic sports combine inclusiveness with professionalism i.e. a lot of people can enter the sport and the best are recognized as such. Programming often favors amateurism[0] like open source, side projects and being "the right kind of nerdy", while at the same being elitist in regard to things like education.

I also think a lot of the problems in regard to equality are latent effects of many who got started in the early days of the personal computer did so because of their dad [1] (and that gender roles where much stricter at the time).

[0] Which isn't necessarily about skill, while it do tend to change the meaning of skill.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677309
Augmenting Nest's Auto-Away
Yeah, there's no risk of someone repossessing the education you received, like there is of the house you've defaulted on. And a reduction in the value of a bachelor's degree doesn't affect your family's net worth like that same reduction in the value of your home.

Mass defaults (which you could argue we're already seeing at ~20%) would be terrible for lenders (private and public), and probably the schools involved, so there'd be an impact, but you wouldn't have the massive loss of aggregate wealth we saw impacting the middle class five to ten years ago.
But probably more than the almost-a-day the Apple Watch is likely going to get.

Being able to sleep with your watch on most nights of the week is a bigger deal than a lot of people realize.
Firefox multiprocess, by default, has just one process for all the tab content and one for the "chrome". You can increase the number of processes used for tab content manually in about:config.
I read this as "50 Shades of Dev" and got really confused.
This Antarctic Base Is More Remote Than the International Space Station
And several of those were formerly clinical descriptions of "mental retardation" -- "idiot" and "imbecile" for two -- exactly the same as "retard". The only difference is that they're further back on the euphemism treadmill.

You can argue against the use of certain words if you'd like, but you can't pretend that it's anything other than political correctness.
That's about right, I watched almost 500K pour in no time at all. I'd bet this will set a record for fastest funding on KS.
Norway has a population density 1/2 of the US, yet public transport works well for large proportions of journeys even in the rural districts.

For comparison, Norway is larger than Arizona, with a smaller population (or a bit larger than New Mexico and a bit smaller than Montana, with a much higher population than those two - so clearly you do have some areas that truly are rural enough for public transport to be hard to do right; then again, California is not that much larger, and most of California still has an atrocious public transit system...).

Yes, there certainly are areas where you can't really get by without a car, in Norway, so it's not like I'm expecting public transport to be viable everywhere in Arizona either. But in Norway that's because very few people live there. Just like the US low overall population density is largely down to vast practically empty areas. "Nobody" cares if there's no public transport in the middle of Alaska, or in the rural parts of states like New Mexico and Montana that have low population density to start with, and are pretty much "empty" outside a few cities.

And oil is not the explanation - most of Norways public transport system predates the oil exploration, and was built at a time when Norway was far less wealthy than the US.

The ten lowest density US states have lower average population density than Norway, but they "only" house about 12 million people. And even for the rest of the country, most of the low density states still have higher density clusters. The top ten states house about 170 million people, with an aggregate population density of around 200 per square mile - far above places like Norway.

It other words: Distance is an excuse. It's down to politics and a culture centered around the car.

Sure, public transport will never cover 100% of journeys, but that's not the point.
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There Is Nothing in the Universe That Is Not Me
I hope they've managed to improve the color and sharpness on color e-paper displays. The ones I've seen over the years have been rather less than vivid.
None of it. The work on multiprocess Firefox is primarily an issue in the front end UI code (written in JS), and does not have much to do with networking or crypto.

Another thing to keep in mind is that patch notes are a list of user-facing changes, not a breakdown of where the engineering effort went in a particular 5 week release cycle. Removing the command line flag probably took an engineer an hour or two to do. In the same time frame, I spent weeks analyzing and fixing a variety of leaks that only show up in multiprocess Firefox, but none of that shows up in the patch notes.
The future repercussions may not be worth it.

As a US citizen (or Green Card holder) you must a file an annual tax return wherever you live in the world, plus disclose foreign bank accounts. Failure to do so can have very harsh penalties.

https://americansabroad.org/issues/taxation/us-taxes-while-l...
I think this is related to the “teleporting turtle” algorithm. Unless I misunderstand your suggestion, you’ll need a mechanism for checking a short length, then moving forward and checking a longer length (usually 2x) then moving forward and checking a longer length (4x the original) and so forth.
I noticed the inclusion of NIST curves and no modern ECC and decided I'd withhold judgment until someone else had a chance to look at it.

This is pretty terrible.

If anyone was looking forward to using this for creating browser extensions (do NOT deliver code from a webserver and assume it's safe!), you're better off using https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium.js instead.
This has a horrible vibe of all of these guides on how to get rich quickly, that a company would mail you for $19.99. Everything, beginning from having to supply an email address to be sent the first lesson,to cheesy "testimonials" like "now I can pay my bills 3 months in advance!" reeks of some sort of scam.

At the very top "A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS"

And at the very bottom:
"FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE'S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE."
If more employers understood the value of distributed teams, this wouldn't even need to be an issue. You could live exactly where you wanted to live.

Want a 700 sq ft studio in Manhattan for $3k/month? Great. Want a 2000 sq ft ranch home next to a river out in the country with your own garden? Done. Want to just save as much as you can, with a cheap apartment in a cheap town outside a cheap city? You got it. Maybe you even want that $600k suburban McMansion to raise your family in. That's not a problem either.

Most readers are probably going to prefer urban environments, but that's because the demographic of software developers is somewhat self-selecting. When it's nearly impossible to get a job as a developer not in an urban environment, people who don't like urban cities are going to self-select out of the profession. The high achievers among them will instead choose to become doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc. -- careers that aren't so location restricted, despite ironically being far less amenable to remote work. I had some really smart and hard-working friends growing up, and all chose to go into careers of that nature simply because they didn't want to be forced to move to a big city.
It's more a question of purity. If the gas pumped into balloons is actually only 99% helium and 1% miscellaneous gasses then that is not a problem. In many other applications that would make the gas unusable.
I read on my phone. It has a 5.2" display at better than 400dpi. I can read in the dark, in daylight, and I can do it one-handed while standing up on a bus or train. When I'm only reading on it, I get about 8 hours of battery life.

I read about 200 books a year on my phone. I prefer it...

except for comic books, technical books, and art books. In those, the layout or the physical format requires something much bigger, and still 300dpi or higher. That's very expensive right now.
Nothing in principle (I wrote the articles, after all). I just found it to be clunky. In particular, the signature and structure system made it needlessly difficult to express what I thought were simple things. And it was difficult to find resources due to standard ML not being widely used.
My current Pebble works for four days without any problems. Frequently longer.

So if they can increase that to 7 days and I can charge once per week then I'll be even happier. But largely I like the idea of a colour one.
This for sure! I like that I can flip to the table of contents to look at something or to the back for the index and not lose my place. They're doing pretty well at attempting to approximate that but it still feels like I'm leaving something that will be difficult to find later. Especially with some of the crappier reading apps on mobile.
I use Conkeror http://conkeror.org/.
I'm extremely torn. On one hand (or rather, on one wrist) I have the pebble steel and I LOVE it, couldn't imagine going back. But on the other wrist I have an iPhone and the pebble works better with Android ATM so the Apple Watch looks attractive. Back to the first wrist, the pebble has much better battery life and is cheaper than the even the lowest priced Apple Watch...

Edit: Ok, I pulled the trigger, I can always get a refund or just resell it if the Apple Watch blows it away or something like that.
It's odd that they don't mention the reason Corinthian is shutting down so many colleges - http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/07/08/329550897/the-collaps...

A relative of mine works there and said they were about to be sued by the Department of Education over fraud in their student loan department. The settlement forced the company to sell or close all of it's colleges and no senior management or administrative staff is allowed to stay with any of the colleges.

It seems pretty clear that Corinthian did some bad things, and it's likely the clause the article mentions in federal loans might give _some_ students an way out of debt:

“In some cases, you may assert, as a defense against collection of your loan, that the school did something wrong or failed to do something that it should have done.”

IANAL, but I think it's pretty unlikely the government would let all of the students off the hook. (For a billion dollars!)
"We will ship Pebble Time worldwide, with the exception of Cuba, Myanmar/Burma, Iran, Sudan, Syria, and Russia."

Russia?
Hey, you live sort of next door.

Anyone interested in a HN meetup in Zurich? Mail me plz (e-mail-address in my profile).
For some people they are... and maybe in the future they can be both (hence Apple making a smart watch with gold). It will probably segment, but the average non-techie probably wants fashion over practical.
Sometimes the schools' hands are tied. The publishers use planned obsolescence to force the newer editions on students. If you can't buy new copies of older, cheaper books then there is no alternative but the shiny new wallet gougers.
I got the Pebble for Christmas and wondered if I needed it, but it does a really good job on a few simple things. It tells you whether that buzz you just felt on your phone was a text or important email or just a Snapchat. A few other features, but that simple thing is by far the best part about it.
> doesn't threaten the rest of the economy in the same way that housing loans did

I dunno about that - it's probably just a lot more insidious and less panic-y.

Adults repaying student loans aren't spending that money on other things. If you're paying $300 a month to Sallie Mae, that's $300 you're not spending on:

1) Savings/retirement/etc

2) Goods and services

3) Capital investment

4) Etc.

Given the compounding nature of some of these things, and the fact that these payments constitute a higher % of your income early on (assuming steady career progression), it's a problem that may just slowly unravel as time goes on.

Don't forget we live in a service economy - adults not spending money on a diverse set of services (as opposed to say, just student loan services) will hurt us in the long run.
Oh, crap. I suppose this also means we have the bug in our GNU Octave implementation:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/0486a29d780f/li...

Well, time to patch it there too.
You said it yourself, they were preying on the vulnerable. To what extent exactly should these vulnerable people take personal responsibility?

Why didn't you mention that these colleges need to take some responsibility as well?
You make some interesting points, but I can't agree with any of them. You basiclly lost me at "The funny thing about a free market economy is that it largely regulates itself"

That maybe true, but we're not dealing with free market economics. In hundreds of ways, some small, some big, the status quo is maintained by weak-kneed politicians giving into belligerent property developers and land owners who love spending tax-payers money but hate sticking to the deals they signed up to (hence all the ways they avoid building social and affordable housing).
Has anyone tried to make it easy for teachers/others to create and sell their own digital textbooks? That may be a solution.
Pebble Time Smartwatch Hits $1.53M in Kickstarter in Just One Hour
It's true that cocktails are extremely high quality in NY and generally the same price as they are elsewhere.

That said, you can't get a $2 Shiner Bock here.
> I digitized my CD collection and haven't looked back

Your CDs were always digital.
AngularJS: Export html table to pdf, excel, and document format
"34% of North American workers now consider themselves freelancers"

That is a very surprising claim. I'd have appreciated if they told us where they got the information.
It's not that it is a panacea, just that it is comparatively nice and safe.
The goal is 'by the end of the year,' we're a very long way away from 'started' even.
In 2011 it was pretty easy for a Czech company to get business visas for its workers.
That's half of it. If you have another functor going the other way, with some properties on how the two functors relate, then you get what's called an equivalence of categories. [1] Basically, you need both ways to compose the two functors to be "equivalent" to the identity functor in each category (equivalent as shown by a reversible natural transformation).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_of_categories
Wow, $400k in the last five minutes? That's a good brand if I've seen one.
If it's anything like the old Pebble display, it's not e-ink like we would see in a Kindle. They call it e-paper, but it's really a low-power LCD with no backlight. There's no problem making an LCD full color.
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ePaper is very different than the displays that are in the Apple Watch and various Wear devices. You can see it in bright sunlight. It can be a big drawback, particularly for a fitness device, to need to shade your display to read it.
> "...because the educational program was worthless when you're still seeking a career in the field requiring that degree"

That doesn't follow at all. The program could have been deficient. The placement program could have been fraudulent. And yet the student could make up the deficiency with other training and compete, as hopeless as that might be, against others in the same boat.

It isn't unusual for schools to defraud students by gaming placement by, for example, providing a pitiful amount of seed money for business majors to set off in a leaky lifeboat, or by forcing law students in lower-tier law schools to drop out before graduating.

You also have to consider that debt repayment in constant payments pays down very little principle at first. A student may have paid a lot of interest, but their debt remains high.
It's an improvement, but not nearly as easy to use as leafing through a physical book. I'm thinking of the use-case where you're solving exercises in one place but also want to sometimes go back to the theory or to a reference section in the back.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted so much. I assume the usual FOSS fanboyism that rules HN.

I used Chrome, IE11, and Firefox all day. FF is the only one that locks up and crashes on me. Its so rare in the other browsers I'm shocked when it happens in FF. I run almost no extensions and I think my copy at work has zero extensions and I don't even have flash installed, so the idea that it must be a plugin problem is questionable. Once a day lockups or crashes are still, unfortunately, common. I really wish it was a better QA'd project. Its such a nice piece of software, but I imagine its reached the point where it can and should be forked to a lightweight browser the same way FF forked from the big ugly Mozilla suite. Current leadership at Mozilla just don't seem to make crashes and resource usage a priority.

I also dont like how it switched on me from google to yahoo as my default search engine. If MS did this in IE people on HN would be losing their shit, but because this project is a FOSS darling, everyone just made excuses for it. At the very least it should have asked me if I wanted to change to whatever search engine they've gotten into bed with this year.
speaking of zooming, and if any Moz devs are watching, please finally fix radio and checkbox control zooming. it's been 7.5 years.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400364
Presumably she had planned to become an LPN or RN. Her current position would not have required a degree, and to get to those other levels she must now still attend a different school. Corinthian wasted her time and her money.
I'm a huge fan of the Kindle for your typical linear fiction. It has many advantages over a stack of paperbacks.

For any other kind of book, e-readers are an unsolved problem in terms of both hardware and especially software. I'm convinced that it's possible to make some really excellent textbook-oriented software (for a large-ish tablet device), but it certainly doesn't exist yet.
$300 a month seems low. I went to North Carolina State University, generally regarded as a cheaper school (compared to neighboring UNC Chapel Hill or Duke) for a solid quality engineering education as an in-state student. I graduated after four years in 2013 and my monthly payment to Navient (formerly Sallie Mae) is easily triple that.
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The demographics targeted by predatory for-profit colleges could easily teach English in China? That's absurd!
On Android, it's attractive, functional, and lets me quickly switch between services. I'm not sure what it could do better.

FWIW, I have 4 services set up on it.
It's very interesting to see the higher tiers selling even with the early bird available, which is cheaper per watch than any other tier.
er, I meant choose two, and we're generally at zero or one.
Doesn't the US still have an embargo on Russia for the whole Ukraine thing?

I find Cuba to be interesting. I thought we ended that embargo in December.
Heapsort has poor cache performance though. Its asymptotic complexity depends on the assumption that memory access is O(1), which is not borne out in practice.
21 minutes later, an extra $1M.
Pythonic PHP Code Formatter
Google Hates This Safe Exploit That Reduces Bounce Rate
Github:
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Examples could be Sentry(exception logging), Slack(IM), Monitis(uptime & server monitoring), Mandrill(Email), etc.
It would be a mistake to try and out-compete Apple on the exact same turf because they'll always be out-spent by a comical margin. Much better to maintain their current aesthetic and brand (and price point!).
Post hoc ergo propter hoc is supposed to be a warning, not a guide!
A lot of scams come from Russia due to their lax enforcement of laws when the victim is out of the country.
To pay for someone's education someone else must be taxed. Why is it better to tax a working person for every student's education instead of just having that person pay for the exact education they received?
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...pretty unlikely...

Eh, it's not "real" money. Students will have debts forgiven when it's politically expedient to do so.
and is propagated by people spending the money that allows those property developers to see profits by exploiting said politicians. If it weren't profitable to behave that way, they wouldn't. It's only profitable because even though people bitch and complain about it, they still part with their money, which allows the behaviour to continue. I understand that many thousands/millions of people feel they have no choice, but every time they pay their rent, they're allowing the situation to continue.
Why's that added to the main program, though? I mean, there's extensions that do the same thing, right?

(I'm sure others have made similar remarks about other features that were added over time that were originally in extensions)