skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immediately, you've come up with a solution that wouldn't fit my type of learning, and my comfort level. I absolutely abhor "final" exams. It's like a grand-finale that is make or break, forcing you to study a ridiculous amount of content and make sure you know/understand all of it for a single event in the future. If you fail, you have to do it all over again. No course-corrections, no motivational reminders/nudges. Nothing.

The example you cite in the beginning, your fear of the impending results of a small test. Now multiply that by 20 (as you said yours was just 5% of the final mark), and that is how anxious I would be for the entire course leading up to the final exam.

So drop the ubertests. Test students understanding using application and insight, not giant knowledge dumps that can only be tested in one long-winded sitting. (I exaggerate a little, sorry about that).
It also runs Linux

https://github.com/AdrianHuang/stm32f429-linux-builder
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It doesn't do any such thing for me. I `pip install`ed it just now and it ran fine. You mean the shell, right?
Indeed, my description was rough and from memories a few year ago. But I believe it still demonstrates the point I was trying to illustrate:

There is unneccessary complex behaviour in XMPP that you must write extra code in your client for. Otherwise it will work mostly, but not always and not reliably.
Botting the whole game for perfection involves a huge number of permutations since it's a dynamic system. But fastest time is arguably a less complex problem than maximum score since fewer of the RNG events "matter" to time attacks. In a game like Donkey Kong, maximizing one score-relevant event may take away from another.

My favorite RNG manipulation is the King's Bounty TAS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9cKEWbTiU

If you don't get it, here is the summary: To win King's Bounty your hero must find and dig up the randomly-located Sceptre of Order. This normally means questing around for map pieces, combat, recruitment, etc. But with some RNG manipulation it can be placed right outside your starting point.

The run posted actually improved upon the previous one with a new bot that does a more exhaustive search.
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CE marking requirements are also reasonably easy to work out.

This depends very much on the product (first challenge: identify your product category in the regulations!). Electronics and especially radio transmitters have more confusing requirements. It helps that there isn't really any spot-checking: if you just write "CE" on the product and sell a few hundred units, and it doesn't actually kill anyone, you'll probably be fine.
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On Linux, I use the unshare command to hide my /home, you can do the same thing with /etc:

sudo unshare -m bash -c "mount --make-rslave / && mount -n -o bind /tmp/empty /home && sudo -u $(whoami) firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote"

it :

- forks the mountpoints table for the process to be executed (bash) - it requires capabilities (hence sudo),

- make / as as slave mount in this context (because of systemd which shares the / mountpoint (see: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/shareds...),

- bind an empty directory to /home (that I previously created), it will only be visible for this process and its children, since it's in an unshared mountpoints table,

- I run firefox in user mode.
These are Hard Anodized pans, and they don't use Teflon. I've got this set of Circulon pans from Costco [1]; absolutely no problems and my friends have been equally impressed with the non-stick properties. You can especially see it when making something like scrambled eggs where the egg just doesn't stick.

[1]: http://www.costco.com/Circulon%C2%AE-Premier-Professional-Ha...
There are going to be some huge companies thanks to solar. Those companies are also going to have big valuations, at least until the market is much more mature and saturated, but we're decades away from that.

As Ramez said, you don't bet on an "emerging industry", you bet on the winners in that emerging industry, otherwise you may very well lose your money. When new industries are born there are usually hundreds of competitors in the beginning, but eventually only a few big ones remain, and it's usually those that started early and got big early.
Excellent! If they want to add flamechart-like visualization that would be excellent. Here's one I made myself back when I was needing to profile some python: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/35134924139/a-nov...
That router doesn't include WiFi, so would you have to connect it to a second router that has it?
Should it be discounted if it were done for pure fun?
Canonical has put a lot of energy into open source for a decade - contributing code and putting free software into the hands of millions around the world. It should be entitled (your word, different usage) to write proprietary code if it thinks that's the right approach.

If you constantly burn the companies and people who actually work on open source for not meeting the purity standard then you make it a hard environment. Honestly, there are way more fully proprietary software companies out there, or companies using but not contributing anything to open source to have a go at.
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Cambridge does this as well and I can't say I was a fan. In mathematics, three years of learning ends up being evaluated through five three-hour exams administered over the course of a week. All it takes is one to fall ill for that week and all of a sudden you don't get a grade. The best case scenario is you can convince the examination board your illness contributed to your performance and they might award you a DDH (Deemed to have Deserved Honours) which no one will really understand.
Sounds more like $5 logos for programmers.

The technology behind it sounds really interesting - expecting programmers to chase bounties and work for nothing up-front with only the possibility of getting paid - not so much.
> I do not think the pressure comes directly from the need for higher grades.

I strongly disagree, it entirely comes from the narrative instilled in all of us that we're screwed if we don't get top grades, that I am a huge failure if I can't get into an elite program. If that pressure wasn't there, neither would this problem. Some kids literally think it's the end of their life if they don't get into x,y,z school. There's no one telling them that college doesn't actually matter a fraction as much as it's built up in their head. Just get a degree, but I mean, at this point, 5 years out of college, you're not limited in the slightest by where your degree came from, not in this industry, where what skills you have and your hustle dictates all (granted a degree from an elite program gives you a marginal boost, but still marginal). My fellow Ivy League grads would get blown out of the water by some of the people I work with.
"Youngest monarch in Europe says people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets"

Oh, the irony of it all ...
We use bacon fat or avocado oil. For cleaning, we use a Lodge plastic scraper if needed. And we never use soap. We wash our cast iron with about 2TBSP of kosher salt. Just dry on the pan, maybe a few drops of water, rub with a paper towel. Removes all the food debris while protecting the seasoning. Rinse the salt out with some water then dry or deglaze immediately.
What a non-story. I'm glad I use ad-block.
Hi. Could I speak to you about this?
It's a question, not an opinion. He/she might just be interested in the practicalities.
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That would help.

As it stands, I actively avoid wsj.com content, largely on the basis of assuming it's going to be paywalled (this isn't always the case), but increasingly too, for presumed corporate / editorial bias.

It'll be interesting to see how long Murdoch can strip-mine WSJ's goodwill.
Dumb question: why don't manufacturers disable the JTAG interface after all the flashing and testing are done?

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate them leaving these devices easily reprogrammable for us hackers, but there's really not much benefit in it for them.
I think go with IOS development, learn swift.
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Good question. Sadly, I don't think Twitter knows the answer anymore.
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You can make superhydrophobic surfaces with laser etching that affects the nano structure of the metal. Thus if you take a strong metal and laser etch it there is no need for potentially dangerous Teflon coating.

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metals...
If people see a solar thermal plant going up near their town, will it encourage or discourage them from installing PV?

I don't think this will make much difference - individual PV installation is an investment decision (just like other big home improvements) based on cost of energy and subsidies. It makes some difference to how "green" people feel, but the cost matters more. It may have an effect in planning battles. Here in the UK (esp Scotland) it's all about the wind farms. European solar thermal is currently struggling against low natural gas prices: http://www.estif.org/statistics/st_markets_in_europe_2014/

Pumped storage requires naturally occuring suitable locations (not too many available) and incurs environmental damage of damming a river.

(Calling it "PVC" is really confusing me with the flexible polymer)
What's the interaction between the home solar market and the grid solar market. Is the cost p/kw following the same curve?

Even if these two use the same basic technology, I think they are essentially two completely separate "markets."
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It's too wide of a question because of several reasons:

1. What do you count as an API request? Do you mean requests to "external" APIs? Or do you mean requesting content from the actual app server (e.g. Facebook loading timeline content)? Which API requests are you interested in?

2. What is a "typical app"? A game? A news reader? Twitter?

Even if someone could give you an answer that answer would most likely be irrelevant. API requests are a design choice. You can build the same app making 100 requests or 1 request for the same content. Both have tradeoffs.

Obviously it also depends on how much the user uses the app.
I really love this approach. I am currently trying to do something similar for academics as part of my PhD project.

We have to understand that programming an algorithm actually is not always "easy". Imagine a new method presented in an academic paper that you would actually like to use. Re-Coding the whole thing that it works exactly the way presented sometimes is not possible (as not all implementation details are explained in the paper).

But imaging having a place (like Algorithmia) where researchers can upload there implementation (without giving access to their source code) and for others to access this algorithm with a very easy to use API would be a huge step forward in academics.
The original blog post from Mozilla explicitly stated versions of Firefox without pdf.js were unaffected and a Mozilla employee confirmed disabling pdf.js would be enough to protect against the exploit. Mozilla was also extremely cagey about the nature of the exploit, its severity, and who might have been affected by it.

If people were misled into thinking pdf.js was completely to blame, then that's Mozilla's fault.
It's a pun

PUN: Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile

CB: Breaking News: Pentagon attack
Some background on the project:

".. an open source project in which people could join by contributing data, with the understanding that data and code would be posted. The topic was small worlds and corporate governance that resulted in a book by that name, published by MIT. The data are the names of directors and owners of firms in 20 plus countries; the code largely in C++ and some python is still at the frontier of network methods and includes simulation and matching coding. The final chapters in the book describe in detail the algorithms. We would love to see the data and code used by others. The data are approximately from two panels ~2000 & ~1990"

From a book review, http://asq.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/29/000183921559...

"Based on a series of conferences between 2004 and 2009, the project brought together more than 30 leading network scholars representing 22 countries. Combining state-of-the-art network methods with an explicitly comparative focus, this book is the most comprehensive work on corporate networks ever published. Along with a related collection edited by Thomas David and Gerarda Westerhuis (2014), Small Worlds represents a new frontier in the study of corporate networks, one that will be an obligatory starting point for researchers in this area for years to come."
Your platform is definitely interesting,and there's a lot of value locked in academic algorithms , but isn't the fact that most academics haven't offered algorithms via the cloud(it's not terribly complicated), hint to some other barriers ? And how do you plan to remove those barriers ?
Looks like a very good resource, however which prior knowledge does one need to have to understand this book?

e.g., do I need to know bayes' rule? bayesian inference? etc.
Why Dalga instead of plain cron?
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Except doing that on a large scale would be super expensive.
irregular - with sides of different sizes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_polygon
Why aren't academics just hosting in the cloud ?
https://xkcd.com/1138/ (Heatmap)?
When I do this on Fedora 22:

repoquery --requires python-ipython-notebook

I get node.js stuff.
tl;dr version (since this blew up on Reddit and there's lots of stuff to digest)

* in Windows 8+ any PC vendor can include an .EXE in Firmware/BIOS, and Windows will look for this on each boot, and run it right before you log in. This is called "Windows Platform Binary Table". This is something Windows does, and there is no way to turn this off. To me, this is the bigger story, because vendors may now start to use this method to install anything, making a clean windows install impossible.

* Lenovo uses this method if you try to install Windows 8, but if you install Windows 7, it does the sketchy "overwrite your system file (autochk.exe)" method instead.

* Either way, Lenovo installs a service on your PC. It was found to have security bugs. I can't find the link, but they said this was placed on some laptops/PC's from late 2014 to Summer 2015. They've released a new firmware 2 weeks ago that turns this off.

I would like to know if any non-Lenovo pc's have used this "Windows Platform Binary" method to run software from the firmware, because when I searched for it, I saw people with Dell's and HP's who thought they might have a virus, posting scan logs that contained the text "wpbbin.exe" (which would only be there if Windows found it in the BIOS and put it there) For example see https://www.google.com/search?q="wpbbin.exe"+site%3Aforums.m...

Check your PC:

Windows 8 and up: Check your event log for "Microsoft-Windows-Subsys-SMSS" and if you see "A platform binary was successfully executed." your PC vendor is doing this. Or, look for a file called wpbbin.exe in windows\system32. (This file would ONLY exist if Windows found it in your firmware and ran it.)

Windows 7: Verify your autochk.exe is legit. I think you could simply do: "sfc /VERIFYONLY" in cmd.exe (as Admin) but I did not test it. My autochk.exe was signed by Lenovo in 2014 (which tipped me off it didn't come from the Windows 7 DVD I got in 2010!).
seems like there's a lot we are just discovery, and there's more room to learn from what we don't know

reminds me this: " Google's chief engineer, Ray Kurzweil, recently told MIT Technology Review that he envisions a cybernetic friend* based on deep learning that listens in on your phone conversation, reads your emails and tracks your every move so that it can tell you things you want to know even before you ask."

site: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pelletier201412281

*I'd like an Einstein like cybernetic friend
Why Dalga instead of Kala? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10046164 Aren't they very similar? Isn't it better to join the efforts?
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I doubt that. I do more or less as you do but, after that process, if I take a clean towel and rub it against the "clean" surface, it invariably comes back with a distinct brown color. That brown color doesn't look like "clean" to me, it's more like burnt oil... I'd expect my towel to be 100% clean if that "seasoning" was working as advertised...
Strange, are you using any local mirrors or something? Because it should be available as you can see here: https://pypi.python.org/simple/click/
Why aren't they just publishing the source?
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My question is, how long before the press stop using "Google's Alphabet" to refer to the new entity. And also how long before Google is referred to as "Alphabet's Google".
The difference is English compound words were historically actually separate words, which got compounded together through common usage. Brittanic and German style languages intentionally compound words to form new ones.
Although he did state this in his address, the address itself is ceremonial. This was part of the Dutch "state of the union" speech (Troonrede), which is written by the current seated government, and serves to introduce next year's budget.

It was not well received, as the set of policies introduced made it fiscally unattractive to have your parents live-in with you to better care for them (their pension would be reduced), and they made no effort to loosen the restrictions on volunteer work either.
Ugh, yeah, that's what they have here in France. Gives me a headache to look at my writing being criss-crossed by the overly heavy ruling :/

Perhaps i should sometime become un-lazy and look for some proper paper, rediscover the joy of writing :)

My other gripe is that my fountain pen keeps drying up (i use it too infrequently) and as a result i'm reduced to using those horrible throw-away BICs, at least they don't dry up. Does anyone have any golden tips for keeping fountain pens healthy?
Oh, you're right. Crappy corporate set-up.. Works just fine in the wild.
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many different reasons:

- no time

- no incentives (publish and perish)

- no knowledge

- usage of very different programming languages

- no platform to do this
It was served through ad networks, the only version in the wild I've heard of was targetting a russian network
This is a great system. Have you ever considered partnering with someone to help increase sales, instead of selling it?
Looks great! Is there any impact of both the profiler and the target (or profilee?) being run under the same interpreter? I'm thinking impacts of the GIL, specifically...
I personally prefer Heavens Above as it gives more details regarding if the station is visible and the relative brightness of the pass.

http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544
Our company leaves them enabled 1) because it's not really worth the effort to disable and 2) it's super handy if you get a product returned to re-flash it if it's somehow been bricked!
Your email address isn't in your profile. I'd be interested in discussing details with you.
I made an 1 day e-mail, so if you can send me your e-mail I will write to you all my questions I have. The mail is navi54@yopmail.com .
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Completely agree with that. As someone who came from the British education system (one big exam end of year) to the American college system (a test every week), I quickly realized that in the US I had no time to read around the syllabus. If you're being tested every week, you Have to stick to plan. Essentially, it is "teaching to the test".

I much prefer the British way. You have a lot of time to explore your interests without the risk of jeopardizing your future, you are given optional exams to test your knowledge, and you can bring it all together at the end of the year with a final exam.
Once it's seasoned well, it doesn't seem to flake. I've done tomato based sauces in my cast iron a few times and the seasoning hasn't flaked.
Kala is in Alpha stage. Dalga is stable and used in production ~2 years at https://put.io.
If you're up for it I still have my 2500 W windmill here and can't use it so you can have it, the base is damaged (slip rings, tower shaft and tower mount) and you'll need to put up a pretty solid tower. It's a 2.5 meter diameter machine.

See:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill

It weighs about 100 Kg and it's currently in storage near the town of Beverwijk in NL. It cost a small fortune to make it and I'd rather see it being used than slowly rust away in storage.
Yeah, I just wondered if any of these ad networks would be serving through any of the large-scale adult sites like pornhub, tube8, etc.
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The lead in batteries is generally recycled, lead in solder isn't.
That is completely untrue. It may be true for tech jobs which rely on hard skills, but for any sort of management jobs, graduate school admissions, banking jobs - virtually anything else - pedigree matters a lot.
Why not? It seems simple to me.

Simple doesn't mean easy. Factoring a 2048 bit number is very simple and very hard.
It think the pressure comes from globalization. The meme for success has shifted from a local scope to the global one: You are only really successful if you work around the globe in an international company. There are however, due to hierarchical centralization, there are very few positions in the global market, so you end up with a lot of people competing for a very low number of high-end jobs. That creates pressure, and in return, out of empathy teachers grade more benevolently. At the same time the education systems became more centralized too, leading to competition as well: Good teachers are those with successful students, leading also to grade inflation yet again.

I’m unsure whether this problem is solvable (e.g. with basic income or laws that penalize globalization), or whether it will solve itself with time.
Wow. I personally cannot do much work without being part of a community to share and refine ideas with. It is amazing that someone can produce important work while working essentially in isolation.
* Dalga stores jobs in a MySQL table which is handy if you are already using MySQL (backups, etc.)

* Dalga can schedule one-off jobs.

* Dalga has built-in retry mechanism.
Isn't that every newspaper that has ever existed?
And for now, there is no report about a ThinkPad getting an unknown kernel module or any config tamper attempt from an unknown source?

The problem with coreboot/libreboot capable machine is they can't longer be shipped with Intel newer stuff. (thanks to Intel bastards).

I feel we are kind of stuck in eating proprietary and evil software until we die.
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> This is what's so scary about the free market and our current chemical regulations of innocent until proved guilty.

I get your point, but the situation is not much better in non-free markets as well. Regulators have a price for which they can be captured.
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Any support for Windows yet?
I'm keen to move to rethinkDB from using redis, but my development is done on Windows at the moment.
I was applying your 'principle of charity' and that's why I asked for him/her to update the profile instead of calling them out on being a troll.