skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't Chomsky make a pretty big assumption there? I feel that he chills intellectual inquiry in this area by calling anyone interested in these questions racists and so forth.

It seems that there are legitimate questions that could be informed by this line of inquiry. For example, research might affect one's opinion about race-based affirmative action programs mandating that the admitted student body mirror the overall population (assuming that IQ is a relevant factor in college admissions). In the scientific realm, if IQ were indeed heritable and if there were substantive differences across large groups of people, wouldn't people be curious why, and by figuring out the pathway, perhaps be able to design supplements or lifestyle changes to raise people's IQs?

I'm not saying that this area of research should be given priority, but it does seem legitimate. As Horgan concedes, this overall sentiment does seem to go against the grain of freedom of scientific inquiry.
And then on top of that, there's the discouragement from your peers. It wasn't a particularly good thing to be the "smart kid". There's a lot of peer pressure to be average, and the outliers don't gain any popularity points.
Recent releases of Opera are just a reskinned version of Chrome. This is exactly them adopting a single competitor's ecosystem, it's just that Opera did the same thing even more completely a while ago.
It just needs the MAC to stay consistent for the duration of your travel through the airport.
This is another similar answer: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2012/11/13/the-net-fr....
> Pretty sure they can get the photos whenever they want once you have the app installed and running in the background.

If it has permissions to access all files at any time sure, point is there's no reason for the application to have that, and it's an opt-in.
I think those will work fine, my worry is that significant part of extensions that I use will no longer be available. I don't believe their functionality can be replaced with web extensions.

Here are some:
- FireGestures (mouse gestures)
- NoScript (it can do much more than the Chrome equivalent)
- SecureLogin (wand-like behavior from Opera; basically instead filling login and password after page loads it logs you in after pressing a button)
- Tab Scope (thumbnail of webpage when you hover over a tab)
- Tree Style Tabs (it does what the name says)
- Informational Tab (this I can live without, but I like it, it puts progress bar in the tab which looks nice)

This news sucks, first Opera 12 was discontinued and replaced with Chrome with different skin. I finally moved to FF and used multiple extensions to get some of Opera functionality back and now those are going away.
Feels like pressure from clang?
Thank you Vasco.
Given the scarcity of non-scripting language VMs that do not use JIT, this is what I mean by VM layer nowadays.

There is whole lotta difference between execution of a "AOT compiled to machine code, potentially profile guided if need be" program and a "selectively compiled under severe time pressure that precludes deep compiler optimizations" one, much that JIT camp would like to brush under.

There is still a substantial gap between the pregnant promise of a JIT and its delivered performance. The gap that needs to be bridge does gets narrower by the year though. [Mono does have AOT compilation, but I had given up on a then buggy Mono and haven't found enough motivation to go back. Should I ? A non bugged F# on Linux would be really sweet.]

Under circumstances JIT can, and do outperform, but those are not nearly the common enough cases and configurations, at least not in the number crunching world. And some of the scenarios that get held up in JIT's defense are plain hypothetical, 'for arguments sake only'.

C# is much better than Java about interoperating across the managed - non-managed bridge, D is significantly better still. The poverty of the C# eco-system in number crunching libraries, or even production quality glues to native number crunching libraries, is really stark. I guess it was never an area they wanted C# to venture in. For example their standard math library does not work on float32. WTF! The first time I realized this, I couldn't believe it.

By the way the author of the article you linked has this to say:

JIT can generate faster code, because it targets the
current platform of execution. AOT compilation must
target the lowest common denominator among all possible
execution platforms.

This points to another bridge that needs crossing (the one between the AOT and JIT communities). Had there been a garbage collector for the web, that should have been history by now. Command line options for compilers have been a thing for quite a while.
> "This is a bizarre reply. It needs access to them to be able to let you do so. There's NO NEED for anything like that for music."

His opinion, but definitely not everybody's. Probably not even a majority.
Async methods are mainly used in .Net apps that use an UI-thread paradigm since you avoid blocking the UI thread for things like IO calls
When I was in academia, some of the students I rooted for the most were non-traditional students, especially those who were former/current military. None of that "b...but, when will I ever use this in REAL LIFE! Waaahhh!" or "will this be on the test?". Just a willingness to work their ass off.
Would this not get AirBNB into trouble?

Price fixing in a cartel is illegal anywhere in the western world for good reason.
You can do that, but there is no way for an application to "ask" access to anything. You need to fully know how the application works, where it wants to read/write etc. I consider this under the hacking something together using 'sandboxing' portion of my post, since it's not something that will work for your regular user. (Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome but sadly not the same as a permission system)
I thought the idea wasn't that they were volatile on their own, but components that could be assembled into a bomb once on-plane.
Saving the manuals: It is Done
Written by mechanical turkers?
I have discussed with a japanese go player who told me that Pearl Harbour was a huge strategic mistake. Most of Japanese army is the navy. They can not play go in boats. They play chess. It is a good game for winning a battle, but not a war.
I hope it didn't cost more than hiring extra people to get the mega-lines through faster.
do as i say, not as i do?

the video reviews are flash still too.
Mdless: Better Markdown in Terminal
I wasn't talking about that part. I was talking about Notch basically not understanding why people would want to use pictures to make playlists and to identify themselves to friends on a social music platform. He basically said it was totally unnecessary and arrogantly inferred that the way he uses music is the only way people should use music.
You aren't accounting for an enormous cost, should we stay on this path for much longer: brain drain.
You're right, but he's clarifying that that's all they use that permission for. It might be worth auditing the app on a rooted device to see what it actually does though.
I have to disagree. Historically, conditions and restarts came from Multics and PL/I. There is also similar thing in IBM z/OS, descendant of MVS (ESTAE recovery routines). When ESTAE is invoked, you can decide where you want to recover (since it's assembler you may unwind stack if you have one), or you can "percolate", which means to pass processing on the next error handler. Unix signals is probably another descendant. So in the 1960s, recovery by error handler (the option 2) was very common thing. It only got a bit forgotten later due to them not being properly supported in C, so it didn't get into C++ and Java due to cultural disconnect.
I might be the minority here, but I've been burned twice with btrfs (in Q3 and Q4 of 2014) and was only able to recover the data with great effort. Both times the errors only occurred after extended use and without a clear cause. My (unfortunately necessarily vague) bug report was met with scepticism whether my hardware was at fault (I ran memtest for 48h without any errors, and never had any problems with other filesystems), which was quite frustrating after I had lost a significant amount of time on their experimental filesystem and at least wanted to help others not have the same problems in the future.

I'll consider btrfs again when a large distribution has adopted it as default and it has worked for them for at least a year.
Even if spoofed, a MAC has to be (locally) unique or else you run into all kinds of network issues.

As for spoofed on phones, maybe if you have root. But i doubt it comes spoofed out of the box (at least i have never heard of such a thing).
Dandies, hipsters, cosplayers- talking to myself about design history
Launching doesn't seem like a big deal, as long as you have a decent amount of altitude. If you launch slow, you'll just drop and pick up speed. Should be much like recovery from an aggressive stall.

Recovery, on the other hand, no way. Not too bad in smooth air, I think. You'll be flying really slow, but if you accidentally stall then you'll drop away from the airship to safety and can try again. But turbulence is going to affect the two aircraft so very differently that it seems like there would be a huge risk of collision. Note that there won't be any (consistent) crosswinds, since they're both flying through the same air.
Magnet schools can fix this issue. If you have 10 high schools, running 1 as a gifted program and the other 9 as before should not cost significantly more.

Of course, people complain about negative effects on the remaining schools [0] on the basis that removing gifted students hurts the remaining ones. This seems like a strange concern to me -- why should gifted students be responsible for pulling up their peers?

[0] http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/magnet-schools-m...
I think they're concern is not foremost for the safety of the passengers. The main concern is airplanes going into buildings. Of course, this is definitely an example of fighting the last war.

On a separate note, the TSA really pisses me off. Consider that UPS saves millions by not taking left turns. Removing or adding very small inefficiencies at a very large scale has tremendous cost implications. I don't think these security lines add much security and I think they do that task at a much higher cost than most people think.
I went to school in Iowa. Just the opposite - I was encouraged to read ahead, to ask questions, to push myself. But Iowa is known for having some of the best schools in America, for about a century now. Maybe we don't need to go to the Netherlands for examples of good schools.
What does “use strict” do in JavaScript, and what is the reasoning behind it?
I just have it disabled, and then enable it temporarily if I need it for a particular site.
I'd argue the send glitter to your enemies business was an example of business as art/collectible. MillionDollarHomepage perhaps another example.
While I plan to do the same for my own children unless the system dramatically changes, this approach unfairly favors the middle and upper classes who have the time to do this. The lower classes simply don't have the time and money to do this.

That said, if you do have the time and money, more power to you! No reason to disadvantage your kids because the government and bureaucracy can't do it right.
I haven't looked very closely at the Parallella, but I don't think it's a direct comparison to this cluster. Parallella contains multiple cores on a single board, which seem to share common resources.

There are two different forms of parallel processing, one for multi-core on a single node (i.e. shared RAM/peripherals), and one for multi-node (i.e. networked servers), where it can be highly impractical to share data due to the interconnections (usually Ethernet/Infiniband).

In most modern clusters, you have to use both approaches. RPi 2 is nice since you have multiple cores, and the cluster shown here allows you to play with the other side of the equation, multi-node parallelism.

EDIT: I looked into the parallella a bit. Still can't tell how well it represents multi-node parallelism, but it claims to have "a fast on chip network within a distributed shared memory architecture". So theoretically, this can simulate the interconnection of a large scale cluster, but I have no real knowledge of this board.
People keep saying this like it's magic. Don't just tell me what to do, tell me how To do it.

Assume people are busy/lazy.
Maybe they don't much care who gets elected; in that case there'd be no reason to buy a candidate.

Maybe they'd make a lot of money if people paid Google to influence an election in some direction. Or if not money, then regulatory or legislative relief.
but i actually do work. I'm not testing new ff releases all the time. i also run Aurora for that.

now you say release/sign your extensions.... well they mostly contain internal data and URLs. no way I'm publishing any of those.
I've had several IQ tests throughout the years and consistently tested in the highest 1% of test takers for my age class. I was skipped past first grade as a result at the age of 5. In my opinion that was a terrible mistake. This basically put a bullsmark on me for bullies and alienated me from my peers. At eight I wanted to be relieved of class duty since I loved the library and felt I learnt a lot more from assimilating information I wanted rather than being force-fed stuff I had no interest in. I wish I had the retort I have no when asked how this would result in a rounded education. My opinion is that kids will become interested in a field and start studying it and at some point in time they will need more practical things and ask their elders how to solve the things that would "round out" their education. Instead I just felt bored and my grades suffered. Consistent in teachers remarks is that I could be doing so much better. It sounds a bit hypocritical to me now that I actually asked to be able to do better, was refused and later scolded for not doing better. I was reading advanced physics texts at age 9, understood the difference between GR and SR. I wish that someone would have poked me in the general direction of Plato. I feel that if someone had, my intellectual development would have been accelerated a lot by it. Instead I was reading a collection of folk legends, the mythology of the Norse and a whole lot of popular fiction (both science and fantasy). I turned into a CS grad eventually and make a living coding. I think it would have happened a lot faster if there was a real program for misfit-brights instead of the minor changes to regular curricula I endured.

My point is that it's not enough to detect the brights. You have to do something substantive to succeed in nurturing them.
Of what use is this information to the people standing in line? "Oh, it's 30 minutes. I guess I'll hurry."
Complementary answer from r/emacs (courtesy or parent)

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3hsab9/could_emacs_b...
I don't think it's ever going to compete with injection molding on a cost basis.

Edit: That is, where injection molding is applicable today. 3D printers do fill a niche for low-volume runs.
> I know perceptive high-achievers haunted by revenge fantasies where they humiliate those who laughed at them for being in the remedial track.

Ahh yes, every time I manage another great achievement, my parents joke about how to best rub it in the face of that school administrator who said I'd grow up to be a pizza delivery guy. Of course we still haven't followed through, and its really way too late now for them to even remember.

(For context, I went to an over-achiever magnet school my freshman year of HS. They pushed so hard, that I basically broke and became an academic failure. The administrator in question was at that school. I did the remaining 3 years at my normal HS, where I actually did quite well. Though it did take those 3 years to recover my GPA.)
> This is extremely well backed with research.

Sounds like a bold claim in an area of controversy. Do you have recommendations for publicly available online articles that substantiate your claim that are:

1) readable by non-academics

2) well-regarded / reputable and

3) control for confounding factors?
Reminds me of a 30 Rock bit where Jack is talking about Tracy's kooky investment:

(S03E15) "His video game made a fortune and he invested all of it in a company that dismantles bank signs. They're doing very well."
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This reminds me of the book by Kevin Carson titled New Homebrew Industrial Revolution. He outlines in the beginning of the book how modern economics depends on mass consumption due to our mass production systems. But if mass consumption can't be subsidized by cheaper interest rates or cheaper energy costs (as stated in the summary) then we're boned.

Carson gives the alternative as a local industrial base that fits itself to local consumption similar to how flour mills operate. No need to force New York to consume as much as San Francisco.
It's about time!

Spread the word to those on the fence about medical use, legalization, and decriminalization.

For your convenience:
http://goo.gl/1UYj7k

(that article link is too long to type into an SMS.)
What'll happen to amazing addons like pentadactyl and vimperator? These are vastly more useful than their Chrome/Chromium counterparts.
> umatrix needs permission to disable prefetching so no network connections are made for blocked sites

Disabling pre-fetching is to prevent a TCP connection to be established at all, and this is something that needs to be also dealt with in Firefox -- it's not just a Chromium thing. This ensures that no TCP connection is established before it has been decided whether a network request must be blocked or not.

Chromium used to not be able to support the pre-emptive blocking of network requests, but that has been remediated in 2012 with its webRequest API in Chrome 17.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest
This is a great example. Cultural change happens faster than most people imagine. Look at slavery, an institution that had existed for a long, long time. Look at atheism. Women's right to vote. All these things flipped from everyone being one way to another in a brief time (ok slavery is a bit complicated, having evolved differently in the US and UK).
Yep, I didn't really know what it meant to push myself, either, until I got to college.

I was foolish enough to get talked into taking 19 credits for my first college semester. I ended that semester with a GPA of 1.6, but it shot up and rose steadily as I started learning--for the first time in my life--how to truly focus.
That's no longer true with Windows 10 where .Net Native compiles everything into native code directly
I'm still having a hard time with async. I see lot's of async code using Tasks, pretty much 99% of the time. Wouldn't this make async code using threads anyway?
Getting younger? I could go for that! ;)
You seem to imply that currently (retail? investment?) banks in UK are obligated to provide the government with information regarding customer's accounts. Can you provide a reference?
Might be useful when deciding on whether or not to have another beer before heading to the departure gate ;)
For a btrfs NAS use case, I suggest Rockstor. It ships with bleeding edge kernels from elrepo and is pretty much exclusively btrfs.
Yeah, I'm not sure the signs will help people, it's kind of out of their hands - but I like the idea of airport staff being able to spot bottlenecks more easily and shift resources where they can.
For desktop apps. As far a I know, you can't run in IIS native apps.
Nope, definitely not "most" phones. iOS 8 randomizes MAC addresses, but probably not often enough to stop this from working: http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomgate/

And of course you would only need a sample of passengers with static MACs for this to work.
As opposed to getting younger?
I can't say that I know of much off-hand...for me the turning point was actually failing a few classes. That seemed to finally give me the wakeup call I needed to light a fire under me, so to speak. Not that I recommend failing, per se, that's just the way things ended up for me.

One thing that certainly helped me was to take a slight detour from my graduation path for a semester to take classes that genuinely interested me. I found that taking a few courses where I was more willing to put time in out of sheer interest helped hone those same habits for classes which maybe were less interesting / more tedious.

Hope this helps, and best of luck!
> "non-personal unique ID"

Isn't that quite contradictionary?
I agree.

One possible workaround would be to provide a way to add keys from which you would accept extensions. Then as part of the extension development process, you could sign your extension with your key when you are ready to install it.

If the issue Mozilla is really concerned about is security, this should be an acceptable solution.
Would the downvoter please explain? I am genuinely curious about how this could be enforced.
or rather dying
I wrote 2 games for the Gameboy/Gameboy Advance back in the day (Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver and Matchbox Emergency Patrol) and it was an awesome experience. There's nothing like being able to hold the entire machine in your head and have every line of code executing being written by you.

If you're interested in development I suggest using the No Cash GB/GBA emulator; it's spot on and only had one glitch that Nintendo found in testing due to something about switching off the screen at the wrong time. I did almost all of my professional development in it and only had to burn to a Bung cartridge (used to be available from HK for cheap) for final testing infrequently. Much cheaper and probably better than the official dev kits available (but I wouldn't know, I never used one).
I had a similar experience. I was really excited, told I could have one, but at my parents' advice, we rented one from Blockbuster with its full host of games before we bought. I had it for 2 or 3 days, invited a friend over to play, and then returned it with little fanfare, and the clear understanding that I wasn't interested.

The games were enjoyable, but the ergonomics were the tough part. I never quite could figure out a way to play comfortably with the furniture and tables and chairs available, so there were head and neck aches associated.

VirtualBoy stands out for me as the first time an expensive toy was so disappointing that it wasn't even worth spending my parents' money.
Yup. Been there, done that, getting old is preferable (despite the aches & angst).
Right. I had a moment of severe mistrust develop around all the times I've heard the phrase "neural network" mouthed in a pitched voice after I studied the math and realized it was barely cooler than Taylor series approximation. For a moment stacked Boltzmann machines were going to stay in obscurity, but then they became "deep learning" while also solving real problems. If there is one thing I could contribute to the popular programming lexicon, it would be making sure that the phrase "isomorphic" gets used for something other than javascript.
Adafruit Industries Limor Fried on Bootstrapping a Startup
A Wordpress blog run by a third party does not constitute a secure messaging system, even if you have TLS enabled on it. And it's still a lot less easy than using WhatsApp.
"It's 30 minutes, I'm definitely going to miss my flight home and I should call my family to let them know."

"It's 30 minutes, my kid has time to go buy a snack and eat it before we go through security."

"No, don't use the bathroom yet, the line looks long but it's only a 5 minute wait."

"I really hate airports, but it's a little less frustrating when I can see the wait time."

"The taxi line is 20 minutes long, maybe it's worth taking the subway instead."

etc.