skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which you can do, if you have enough charge volume. Are you charging $1 million/month yet?

No and I will never charge a million dollars a month through anything as I'm in the UK and over here card processing doesn't require anything remotely like that volume and we have a healthy local market for card processors if I choose to go elsewhere.
Yeah every 2 days I have to reboot all of our kit to apply updates...

http://i.imgur.com/5ZxiLGf.png
Thank you all for the discussion. I am on the support team at Coursera and wanted to share the official response we posted on the Coursera Junkie blog below.

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Hi Kathryn and readers,

My name is Hannah, and I’m on the support team here at Coursera. We’re glad that you raised this concern, and we sincerely apologize for any confusion around our policies.

We are fully committed to our mission of providing universal access to the world's best education. As such, we continue to offer free and open access to all courses. We also offer learners the option to earn Verified Certificates, which provide official recognition from Coursera and the partner institution offering the course and formally showcases their achievements. Our robust financial aid program offers full support to learners who can demonstrate that the registration fee for a Verified Certificate is beyond their financial means.

Coursera's free certificates, also called Statements of Accomplishment, were designed before we made Verified Certificates available. Over time, we noticed confusion regarding the relative significance of the free certificate and the Verified Certificate. The latter is an official document, while the former is an unofficial, unverified memento of the course. We chose to phase out Statements of Accomplishment in order to better distinguish the official status of the Verified Certificate.

Last November, we published a blog post (http://blog.coursera.org/post/102036391812/verified-certific...) explaining the value of Verified Certificates and describing how most courses would no longer provide Statements of Accomplishment. Still, some older courses continue to offer Statements of Accomplishment, including the Child Psychology course you’ve referenced above. Understandably, that inconsistency has proven somewhat confusing.

We do our best to communicate changes clearly and will strive to be more transparent in our communication around such changes moving forward. If you have any further questions about Coursera’s certificates, I encourage you to visit this page in our learner help center: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/201212139-Ce....
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Yes, but I did it the other way around: I found the aircraft that were using the transponder code, then looked up who they were owned by and what other aircraft they had. That's how I was able to identify potential front companies that don't fit the "XYZ Aviation w/ PO Box in VA" template.
On USB only Host is allowed to be a bus master. Thunderbold does PCI/PCIe and by extension allows any plugged gizmo to take over whole computer.
The dichotomy has long been "large number of single-purpose tools that can be combined" versus "single monolith that could theoretically be scripted but rarely is". The monolithic system doesn't have to worry about mismatches, seams and fragmentation, but is also brittle.
But you'd have no backwards compatibility. No software would run. You'd have to use systemd and be subject to the infighting in the Linux world, with short-lived projects and the CADT development model that appears to exist there. At least with Windows you can still write in the classic Windows API and it'll still work.

Your comments is naive, I feel?
Relevant other story from today: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alzheimer-s-origin...

I almost had a post here about how we might be able to easily fix defects, but the more I learn about genetics the less concerned I am about immediately churning out "superbabies". But then hours later, this article comes along to point out that even "fixing defects" could have unanticipated negative side effects....
yep. i assumed it did some image transformation to find the minimum diff between two images as to compensate for two differently angled pictures or something.
> The "only 2 SKUs" was just a rumour/wish.

Its only two consumer-facing desktop SKUs, but that's the same as Win 8.1. Its still down from Win 7, though.
Thats how... pretty much every peripheral in existance works. You need webcam drivers. Video card drivers. Sound card drivers. USB drivers, at the least for generic HID devices. Nothing stops there from being common standard generic SSD drivers, where vendors could publish their own if they had an optimization.

Right now the SATA interface prevents anything like that from happening, and the market has already moved to these proprietary broken controllers with braindead GL-class protocols to access them. (SATA, NVMe)
I do the same thing, because my brother has it. For what it's worth, he went to a series of lectures from the guy that wrote this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Per...

It has helped him deal with things.
What platform does not have 0-day security vulnerabilities? Hurd?
Compared to yesterday, it is an expansion of surveillance authority.

Compared to May 30th, it is a slight contraction of surveillance authority.
Or still-supported DDE, COM program embedding, easy-to-configure ODBC etc. etc. etc.
FBI Runs Secret Air Force Posing as Fake Companies to Spy on U.S. Cities
That's already happened - December 16, 1773.
Intel just cant let go the idea of collecting IP royalties from every single device you plug into your computer :/
I struggle to believe that subscript checking can be automatically removed in arbitrary code in any language (at least, not without full dependent typing), e.g. it seems pretty hard to make guarantees about something like x[y[i]] with arbitrary y.
That is true, offense does come easy.

Ableism and this article comes to mind http://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avo...

(that their* way of thinking)
I've never had that experience...but then I'm using domain joined machines.
It's definitely a pain to install those plugins. I spent a week customizing vim when I decided to move from WebStorm back to vim. I got 95% of the functionality I have in the IDE. If you have the time, I would definitely recommend spending it. The more time you invest in vim, the more it pays you back.

If I had to choose 1 plugin, I would choose Unite. It's great for development projects where you have lots of files. Especially when you set up key bindings. Having 3+ files open at the same time (model, view, controller, tests) is a pain to have to type the paths each time. Often times you need to open them have them open at the same time. Having quick keybindings to open new windows and navigate them are really a blessing. The default controls are too much of a pain for this workflow.
The first USB-C device was the Nokia N1 released only in China and unveiled on 18 November 2014
You can be both pro civil activism and not a lawyer at the same time. It's not bad to ask someone to help you understand a legal document.
Emirates shouted me a business class flight
>two liner to scrape a web page, parse it and call a REST endpoint with the parsed data as JSON in PowerShell

Can you post this 2 liner? Sounds interesting.
TBH I couldn't find a decent book or resource and sort of hacked my way around for a year or so. It had a good build in manual (get-help). This is a good poke at the fundamentals of my example:

Scrape a page:

$flight = " LH3396"
$url = "http://bing.com?q=flight status for $flight"
$result = Invoke-WebRequest $url
$elements = $result.AllElements | Where Class -eq "ans" | Select -First 1 -ExpandProperty innerText

Hit a REST endpoint:

$body = @{
Name = "So long and thanks for all the fish"
}

Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri "$resource\new" -Body (ConvertTo-Json $body) -Header @{"X-ApiKey"=$apiKey}

Sources:

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9053573/powershell-html-p...

[2] http://www.lavinski.me/calling-a-rest-json-api-with-powershe...
Why do you keep posting more or less the same comment over and over again? We get your point, no need to repeat yourself.
Welcome back to driver hell. We thought you weren't ever coming back, but here you are!
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures fame.

A person of disreputable morality indeed.
Historically, we have dealt with belligerent non-sovereigns (e.g. pirates) via the military. How do you think treating Al Qaeda as a military threat has corrupted the military? My great worry is that if terrorism is treated as a crime, then the protections available to all accused criminals will be watered down to accommodate the needs of prosecuting terrorists. That's what, e.g., has happened in the drug war. There are a lot of bad doctrines (e.g. no-knock warrants) that were motivated by the drug war (specifically the ease of concealing or destroying evidence of drugs).
This makes me wonder why they're asking one guy to do the work of two or three people. If it's really that simple, and doesn't require specialized skills, there are plenty of archaeology and anthropolgy grads out there, realizing they made a mistake in choosing a major, who would love a job crunching numbers on Wall St. Why not hire more?
Hell is freezing over at 0K. Oh my god. Wow.
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>The problem is that he has been targeted by script kiddies, who found his IP address through Skype. Shame on you skype.

So if Skype relays through servers, they get flak for spying, but if they use P2P it's their fault for giving his IP out? The Skype options have a choice for exposing it. "Allow direct connections to contacts only". Make sure it's checked, and don't add bad actors to Skype.
this really shocked me. He must have been filled with all sorts of mixed emotions to not even say goodbye to the team. (or he did, and for whatever reason that's not public ..).

>> The day before, Markus had put in his last day
at work. Several others were in the office as he stood
up to leave. He hesitated, not sure how to say goodbye.
So he decided not to. He made his way past the desks
outside where his employees sat working, past the shelves
stacked with awards and prizes. He took a left out the
door, went down a small stairwell, and stepped out of the
building.
Not using default ports will mildly confuse automated scans and do absolutely nothing to a determined attacker. Or somebody with nmap, which is not the same thing.

If you're whitelisting IPs, you may as well run it on port 22.
I can't post the one-liner as it's earning me a shit ton of cash every month but in concept it's the same as what I've posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9649090
The amount of senior developers is never fixed, people get promoted by moving to a new job. I personally have never had any of the support that you say is needed for a junior. I know that a lot of people have trouble thinking that they are good enough and constantly ask for approval. That might have just been annoying enough to not want to keep reassuring you that you are alright. Your overhead might be too much for a small business to handle.
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Map Caps Lock to Ctrl. Then use Ctrl-C. You can keep your hand in home row.
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I actually have changed my diet and take drugs that help prevent more events. Additionally its really hard to track the progression since you can have an event (damage) without actually knowing (mild issues). However the damage is there and IMO is what produce the most day to day trouble. Tricking your brain into thinking your feet are on fire or your arm is weak weird shit like that. When I finally got MRI they found 7+ lesions in the brain and spine. For me to be honest most days I'm ok but it really sucks take these crazy expensive drugs every day. It's a very expensive disease that produces lasting damage even if a cure is to found.

Sorry don't mean to rant.
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It's like people don't even try to learn how it works

It's much harder to know how it works, for some reason. Information like this doesn't make its way into the community and circulate. On a UNIX system you can poke around /etc and get an idea of the scope of what is configurable. The same is very much not true of the registry and only slightly true of WMI.
Highly resourceful and trustworthy! Loving it already and the logo is so cool.
Great questions. USA Freedom has some reforms, and shifts the collection to the telcos rather than the NSA. Then again it largely keeps the current regime in place (which makes it a win for the NSA), and it misses out on a lot of potential improvements. Some privacy and civil liberties organizations supported it; EFF and ACLU neither supported nor opposed it.

Unfortunately, more aggressive reforms -- like the Surveillance State Repeal Act -- weren't on the table; and there was a lot of concern that the Senate would further weaken it. So given the makeup of the House and Senate, passing the House version unmodified after a sunset was probably the best outcome. ACLU's Jameel Jaffer says "This is the most important surveillance reform bill since 1978, and its passage is an indication that Americans are no longer willing to give the intelligence agencies a blank check."

While the sunset doesn't actually have any long-term effect, IMHO it's still symbolically important: it meant that the usual tactics of "engineer a last-minute crisis" didn't work this time. And because of Rand Paul, it's actually going to be an issue in the GOP Presidential campaign -- which is huge. [Sanders voted against it as well, saying it was too weak.]

So on the whole I'd say it's a win for reformers ... a small win, admittedly, and tinged with disappointment that even after Snowden we couldn't do better. Still, it's a long term battle. And frankly it's been a while since we've had even a small win.
Still no alt+F1 to alt+F7, right? That would be cool to have. I'm really curious, as I made the leap to Ubuntu years ago and the most I've touched windows is doing reinstalls on friends computers.
It's appropriate, too, as "dis" is Latin while "dys" is Greek.
Great lies of our time: “journalists and coders should sit together”
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This is exactly what lpeg is for. Lpeg is written in C.
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For all those confused about this, this is a mild victory. Certainly better than the Patriot Act, but not as strong a piece of legislation as it could have been. EFF writes their opinion of it here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/usa-freedom-act-passes...

"Technology users everywhere should celebrate, knowing that the NSA will be a little more hampered in its surveillance overreach, and both the NSA and the FISA court will be more transparent and accountable than it was before the USA Freedom Act.

It’s no secret that we wanted more.

...

Even so, we’re celebrating. We’re celebrating because, however small, this bill marks a day that some said could never happen—a day when the NSA saw its surveillance power reduced by Congress. And we’re hoping that this could be a turning point in the fight to rein in the NSA."
Assuming you have typical HN leanings, this bill is a qualified good thing. It ends the NSA bulk metadata collection, but keeps less controversial things like roving wiretaps.
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I've been cutting down on plugin use and esoteric mappings because of similar reasons but 50 is really small. I still hover around 10ish plugins, some of them are language dependent to help with indentation. Some of them just aid in intergrating with tmux or git, make it just a bit easier to open a file (ctrlp), or some show syntax errors.

Without stuff like that I'm still fine should I find myself on a remote machine. But I don't see an issue with making myself more comfortable than just being 'fine' on my personal setup where I spend most of my time.

I think the key is to vet your plugin and mapping choices to ones that expand upon vim in some way and avoid those that override core functionality or prevent you from learning them. If you do that you should be fine without imposing an arbitraty vimrc length.
Depends what you mean by "traditional". Traditionally, retailers have always been about niche markets in one form or the other, originally simply geographically.

The massive chains are going to get buried, but I wouldn't call those traditional. And I won't miss them polluting the high streets either.
Twitter Bootstrap anyone?
Is this bad news for HP - others will have access to something like/as good as a memristor?
Track 84 Aircrafts the FBI Uses for Surveillance
I wonder if this breakthrough will allow development of better atopy treatments. Allergic rhinitis can be a real pain in the ass.
A simple summary is: a problem domain is decidable if there exists an algorithm that will always be able to tell you true or false if any problem in that domain is solvable.

Some examples of this are propositional logic and linear logic are decidable, whereas the halting problem and nonlinear logic are not.

For instance, the halting problem isn't decidable because although you can answer true or false for some specific programs, there exists programs where you do not know if they halt or not. Arbitrary mathematical problems in general are undecidable (see Gödel's incompleteness theorems) but we can still carve out domains within this that are decidable.
You've always had this.
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"Almost infinite number of write cycles" is the subtitle. Really now?
You completely ignored my question to you. I asked how you got to the topic of license plate readers, I know how they work and an explanation of how they work does nothing to answer the question of how you transitioned to that topic.
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Yeah, I would genuinely like to know what all is considered to be bloat within the Unix space. If anyone could point to some information about this I'd be curious.
Two I've seen and enjoyed were:

1.) Given a name, print out the appropriate lyrics to the "name game."

2.) Given a word (and the morse code table), output its Morse code translation.
Headline should be "Senate Approves Bill to Reinstate most of NSA Surveillance"
Dabble DB[1] was a really cool business and implementation of "really easy to use databases".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabble_DB