skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, this is certainly not what people who do research into how to teach math advocate. In fact, one of the recommendations for teachers is that they should try to get students to come up with the algorithms themselves, or to "guide" them to these algorithms, and then let students use whichever they prefer, because that's the only way to get students to really understand and use them.

That said, I've definitely seen some of that "let's just replace method X with method Y" – how harmful that is depends on whether it is just presented as a default or as The New Standard Algorithm, I guess.
DHTML was a horrible buggy inaccessible mess for anything more than extremely basic stuff. No design tools, and they didn't perform nearly as well as Flash. And sound? I highly doubt that in 1998 there was any capability for syncing sound files to animations outside of browser plugins like Flash, or shockwave or other lesser known plugins.
Perhaps this will get more folks to ask what "deleted" really means.
Don't install. Gladly, WU is broken beyond repair in those.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11459475/should-i-check-i...

That might not be your specific problem, but I'm guessing a few people have this problem today. I'm glad I check my libraries into my local repository :) Using a local fall-back for popular libraries hosted on cdns is a good idea too.

To be fair, I don't do it because I think it's stupid not to, I do it because I often work on my laptop while travelling and have to be able to continue to work without an internet connection :)
Hard to avoid. Also windows 10 is excellent besides the privacy stuff.
Oh, I thought that was something unrelated because of the "related" links that Quora put after the first answer.

It would have been nice if they had the small intestine, too.
Analytics and Metrics for Intercom
But not Mad Max, Zombie Apocalypse level problems.
What happens to your body after you eat a burger and fries? (With infographic)
>phones aren't always listening, always recording, and always reporting my location

But sometimes they are![0]

[0] http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdro...
Bribing politicians and law enforcement so I can do what I want, growing my businesses, women.

You don't even have to spend it, really. Just knowing you're richer than those around you is enough to make you confident and happy: http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1974718,0...
The piece at the very end is enlightening:

"SWISS PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY NOVARTIS first took the Indian government to court in 2006 over its patent law because Novartis wanted a more extensive granting of patent protection for its products than offered by Indian law. The company had been refused a patent in India on a cancer drug it produces. In a first case before the High Court in Chennai, Novartis claimed that the Act did not meet rules set down by the World Trade Organization and was in violation of the Indian constitution. Novartis lost this case in 2007, but launched a subsequent appeal before the Indian Supreme Court in a bid to weaken the interpretation of the law and empty it of substance. All of Novartis’s claims were rejected by the Supreme Court in a landmark decision announced on 1 April, 2013."

So much for world trade organization benefiting the world through more competition and a lowering of prices. Fuckers.
More of a reason to say no to Microsoft completely, then.
There were an estimated 345,031 robberies in the US in 2013, of which 42.5%, or about 146,000, were street/highway robberies (muggings) [1].

For the 13 years between Sept. 2001 and Sept. 2014, the Washington Post analyzed records from the DOJ and found 61,998 civil forfeiture cases "that were not made at businesses and that occurred without warrants or indictments". This is around 4,770 per year. [2]

Neither of these are broken down by location, race, etc. so your particular circumstances may vary, but at the aggregate level, you're about 30 times more likely to be mugged than to have assets seized at a traffic stop.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/08/th...
Yes besides your privacy, it's "great". Buy Solaitaire for 10$ a month?
I don't think trymas was suggesting that €20 is too much to pay for a piece of software, but that it is too much to pay for software that you have not been able to evaluate at all first.
Standard algorithms are standard for very good reasons. They are 100% reliable and at least reasonably fast, if not the fastest.

Failure to learn the standard algorithms impedes progress. You are unlikely to do well in the next course if you are slow and can't handle numerous cases.

Learning alternate algorithms is great... once you have the standard algorithms down solid and are ready to prove equivalence.
Not liking the first reference here from the "American Chiropractic Association."
As opposed to people, who generally come up with decisions of varying degrees of complexity, which are still suboptimal when the whole picture is taken into account.
Shutting off smartscreen is short sighted and wrong. Its no different than the lists Chrome and FF use to block malicious sites. These lists are shared via a shared security initiative between the major browser makers. Disabling this is a good way to make sure you get cryptolocker.

Shutting off cloud-based protection in Defender is equally stupid. Now you're not getting instant and up to date virus definitions from the cloud-based system of honey pots, third party hashes, etc. All you have then is day or days old virus defs that are pretty much useless against modern polymorphic threats.

I really hate it when people purposely conflate security and privacy to win political points. None of the above is controversial and if you run any AV or use any browser, you're already doing this and you didn't have a problem with it before. I think its pretty clear that the person who made this list just found all the sliders for 'no' and doesn't realize what he's doing from a security perspective. If you use Windows, you should be using all the security features you possibly can (on top of running behind a router doing IPS/IDS and making sure to use a standard non-admin account - the UAC fails in many places limited standard users don't). Signed, a Windows sysadmin.

edit: really downvotes? Telling people to disable security features in an OS shouldnt be applauded, especially on a tech forum. This is "grandpa" level IT advice here.
GitHub as a workflow
They get sent home with pay when they shoot an unarmed person - I doubt anything will happen if they seize a laptop without justification.
I fully agree (on the visual editor)! It's a great property of Cycle.js apps that there is a one-to-one trivial map (isomorphism to be more precise) between the program source code and a data flow graph, so I wish I had time and resources (or hope someone eventually does) to build a tool where you can work in both code or data flow graph. I'm interested in the data flow graph as a "minimap" (think Sublime Text), not as a replacement to actual code (I dont think we can get rid of code just yet).
This is a totally unproductive (if all too common) attitude toward security. "If it doesn't solve every problem, it's useless."

This protects against a whole host of issues. It safeguards against garden-variety incompetence[1]. It provides some defense against the large number of badly-intentioned people who can write an Objective-C app, but don't have the expertise necessary to weaponize a typical root escalation exploit. It prevents apps from accessing your contacts, reading your emails, determining your location, and accessing the webcam and mic without your knowledge, amongst other things.

Does it protect against a motivated, highly technical attacker? No, not really. But that hardly makes it useless.

[1]: http://www.macobserver.com/news/98/december/981229/bungierec...
I don't know enough to write it myself, but it would be neat to see someone who did write a really good history of the evolution of the dynamic web. We've had so many technologies rise and fall, Java, ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight, and now HTML5/JS, plus however many dozens of minor players that never really caught on. It'd be nice to have a comprehensive record of who pushed what, how they all evolved and caught on, or didn't, why the technologies that lost out did so, and what the pros and cons were.
what's a good exercise for targeting the back muscle group?
ODROIDs come with eMMC storage, and they recommend using it over the SD card for this reason. (I haven't tried it, since the workloads I'm using it with tend to be CPU bound and SD cards are so much easier to find, so I don't know how much of an improvement it is.)
Yes the repetition can be really boring and some of the problems, even the easier ones from previous lessons can take a while to solve. But I still remember the concepts from algebra 1,2 and trig and can pull them out and apply them in real world situations. I had to build a gaga pit[0] for my towns school just this past weekend and some basic trig definitely came in handy there.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga-ga
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you should recheck, the updates are still automatic

the only thing you're advised to disable here are the reports to microsoft about your installed updates/software and P2P updates
Actually, this may be exactly the point of the quoted text: people don't know Rice for their CS department, but a high quality course could change this view.

Also, Chomsky is a professor in MIT, so I would give a shot in their linguistic courses.
> [... The scientific method] is rapidly becoming the only way we know how to think.

And for better or worse, it's not a way to think, it's a way to know and prove.
"Secular bull market" is a real term with a well-established meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_trend#Secular_trends
Depends on the granularity. Total stock market return is a measure of the intersection of time valuation with productivity growth, which has remained consistently exponential for the entire archeological record.
This is just a FUD article.
But what is "mathematical intelligence" or "math talent"? There's a big chunk of my family that didn't get any formal education in mathematics or anything else until very recently, and one of my most recent ancestors didn't exactly finish high school because of what I would retroactively diagnose as some learning disability. (Trouble with symbols & writing.) On the other hand, the same recent ancestor could visualize the way to build just about anything. So here I am, without a great love for algebra or analysis, but a great love for geometry (algebraic, differential, symplectic, etc) and a fine ability to create fitted knit garments and small pieces of furniture (and a PhD in pure math). Perhaps that's inherited, but due to the environment it didn't get anyone in my family past that far in higher education. I still screw up my face in frustration over subtraction problems, too, so do I lack "math talent" after all?

Did my recent ancestor who failed high school classes have math talent or not? And did my ancestors who didn't have a high school at all but could build a barn that still stands one hundred years later have math talent or not? How can we even talk about whether this thing is inheritable if we don't define it well and it manifests in such different ways in different environments?

The simplest assumption is that these kids are bad at math because math in our elementary and middle schools sucks! Look at the stats for immigrants to the US. If you came from impoverished places without educational opportunities, educational attainment rises over time. If you are a kid who comes from Hungary or Romania or Russia or South Korea, you'll be so much better at math than the US kids that it's not even funny. If your grandparents came from Hungary or Romania or South Korea and kicked ass at math, but your family has been in the US for a few generations, you'll suck as much as any other average American. If you're going to push heritability, you're going to have to face the conclusion that the water and air in America prompt genetic mutations that make people bad at math over a few generations. (I'm so glad I'm first-gen in part, but I fear for potential children.)
Yeah a bit harsh but with reasons. When I look over that list I see UT Austin up at #9 in a tie. I've known for years that the UT Austin program was worthwhile, because it is. I'll stand by the assertion that Rice isn't known as a hotbed of tech, but it is a very fine institution with, I'm sure, excellent metrics in the U.S. News & World Report scoring system...mostly because it's expensive, small, and extremely picky with its applicants.
> 7. To disable telemetry (...)

Why should I disable that? What does it do? My understanding is that it's only statistics on data usage, which I find useful?
Thank you. This phenomenon is, in my opinion, among the most annoying things the internet has ever produced.
Still leaks on an exception. That's also an annoying construct to be forced to use.
I've heard of it. Rust is probably the most promising to me.

Unfortunately just because a language exists, doesn't mean it is usable on a particular embedded system architecture. The processor core and system libraries need support.
Oh come on -

"Knowledge that helps save lives should not be under copyright (nor should it be a for-profit enterprise, but that is a separate argument).

"

That's what I was getting at. Devices and processes are what patents are for, for a reason. Scientific research - ok, that's a different beast. I probably changed the subject there, sorry.
> Everyone on this board has a career because of IP law.

I don't know about that. I think more people here have a career thanks to open source. It has proven that it's a lot more effective than the barriers to knowledge.
Yeah, the video-only thing is problematic. But I think they're stuck there. If you're having a hard time convincing students to pay $50 for the class, can you really ask them to buy a $200 textbook?
The stated reason for only testing on two of the task types:

> For simplicity, we focus on the reasoning tasks which can be formulated as classification with predetermined classes.
> Web pages should be documents to be read, not programs to execute

Says who? Seriously.

Some things are better off as documents, sure, but having a secure and efficient way to run apps over the web has enabled a huge number of awesome things.

And exactly what is so non-open about it? HTML5, JS interpreters, and almost all of the major browser engines are all open-source.
ok, thanks a lot. I was aware it was French, but cannot speak/write the language myself.
If you're using your laptop to look for directions to locations on their map app then it's useful. Otherwise, it's useless since it uses geo-ip to find your location.
This would be better as a Windows app (with a single step, and an undo) rather than a blog post.
Out of curiosity: Any news on the hosted version of edX (mooc.org).?Site went up quite a while ago, but I haven't heard any developments since.
As the other answers have said, there is dark matter expected near the Earth, it's just at a very low density. There have been a number of experiments looking for some signature of weak dark matter interactions near the Earth. One of these, DAMA, has claimed a detection of an annually varying signal which would be consistent with the Earth moving with and against an ambient medium of dark matter over the course of a year. However, no other experiments have been able to verify this detection.
Nearly all of the windows privacy issues come from useful features.

If cortana wants to automatically recommend appointments from emails? Guess what? She has to read your emails.

If you want to be blocked from downloading malware? Guess what? You have to check with a central db first.

etc

Apple, Google devices etc have had this stuff on for ages.
When did Solitaire become a vital component to using an operating system?
How do you engage your mobile audience?
That's Google Ads. So I guess most of the internet isn't really appropriate to send to the average non-technical user?
That they "just don't care" is not in my experience true. When it is explained most people I've spoken do care. However, then they ask "and what can we do about it?" and the answer is either "change everything about how you do things" or "not much"... And then they don't care enough to go beyond this stage or they are just confused and scared. Either way back to facebook the next day.
Hijacking Meteor Accounts by Sniffing DDP
What makes Y Combinator so good?
It doesn't work if you use a third party email app like Postbox (for now). If you use Windows Mail then it works.
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Illustrating flaws in thinking by analogy is wonderful. People become too rigid in their faith in their current understanding, which is always wrong to some greater or lesser degree. By comparing one complex system to another complex system, we can quickly communicate volumes of information - such as a history of shared experiences. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Sorry if I was unclear, but I was making the point that a market is a system which can have temporary flaws. Such as a human can have smallpox, or an ecosystem can have a wildfire. I wasn't attempting to make the analogy between a market and smallpox or wildfires, I was attempting to make the analogy to a market fluctuation. Large difference. Perhaps the fault is mine, but I suspect it's more a case that you'd like to think poorly of people who think differently than you do.

Logic is wonderful, because it gives us the tools to have a conversation. Logic fails when two people have different assumptions. At best, it allows us to discover our different assumptions. You assume there is such a thing as an equilibrium price. Given that assumption, you can use logic to debate government regulation.
Right, I mean I get that idea, but coming back to the bigger concept at play with Coursera, the one that kicks off the article regarding "Will this help a student/graduate in the job market?" I have a bit of skepticism.

In fairness I do know Chomsky's work and his prestige in the field. Personally as an artist and student of language, and as a working professional who employed an English degree for my income year after year in business environments, I am not a fan. At all. I'll just leave it at that.
Why Building a Team with Diversity Is Better Than a Team with “Smarts”
I don't understand why you would want to disable LAN distribution of Windows 10 updates to your other Windows 10 machines. It seems like a great way of avoiding multiple downloads of the same thing, and I'd love something similar for Linux (aptorrent or something; manual rsync of /var/cache/apt/archives isn't quite the same, neither is apt-mirror).

Disabling uploads to other external machines does make sense to me, though.
Wow, but I don't expect my public servants to stick me up. Something terribly twisted about that.
No, but it boils down to that. Copy one company's hook-up app that cost nothing to develop, and you're the bad guy. Copy one company's drug that cost billions to develop, and you're a hero. The more important the end product, the less people are okay with the makers getting rich with it.
This illustrates how you can use Tcl to ensure that files get closed even when errors happen by combining catch, close and return (from the Tcl manual):

proc withOpenFile {filename channelVar script} {
upvar 1 $channelVar chan
set chan [open $filename]
catch {
uplevel 1 $script
} result options
close $chan
return -options $options $result
}
There should be a global consortium for socialized medicine. It's insanely problematic to have for profit companies demanding the right to kill the poor.
The term Faustian Bargain comes to mind in regard to paying for commercial services with our privacy. Most people just straight up don't know what advertising is really about. Also, at least in America, we aren't educated about what's happened historically after super powerful institutions invert the privacy/transparency dynamic. Just because the human species hasn't, in the last 15 years, evolved to learn to weigh long term, abstract consequences on an appropriate magnitude with immediate gain does not justify those exploiting this quirk in human decision making.

Also, a camera on every street corner and spy agencies spying on you isn't what "voluntary" means.
No problem, you can never tell with Poe's law.
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I recommend yoga, and I'm surprised that no one else has done so yet ITT.
There needs to be a "No results found" type result. Currently it's impossible to tell the difference between no result and an empty result.
And you believe it when it says its not sending data to Google / Apple / MS?
You bring up a good point in favor of R: Hadley Wickham and the rest of the RStudio people.

Packages like {ggplot2,rvest,dplyr,devtools, etc.} are basically creating a sub-language for R.

I use both at the moment, but I echo the OP's ideas that R's target audience is statisticians, where Python's target audience is broader and includes statisticians and computer scientists. And Python's syntax is nicer to work with. That's why it's become the primary glue language.

That said, the overhead for learning Python as your first data science language is a bit problematic for me, as you basically have to learn Python followed by Python's data science tools (pandas, matplotlib, etc). whereas with R, you're learning the language and the data science tools at the same time, even if they're a bit idiosyncratic.
Anyone find any real-world matches? I was able to get positives by typing in foreign curses directly, but couldn't find any startups with foreign curses in their name.
Exactly.

I don't travel much international, like twice a year, but know dates in advance. I clone my drive and ship image encrypted ahead of my trip. I travel with laptop without hard drive in it.

This is of course, inconvenience, but not illegal. Many times they will ask me to "turn it on" to make sure this is not a bomb disguised as a laptop, but you don't need a hard drive to have BIOS flash on your screen.
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The ironic part is that people have just become accustomed to (or ignorant of) the way data is gathered from your average Android phone. Everyone is upset about Win10, but little attention is given to Android and the associated ecosystem of apps.
But both groups were people the Nazis wanted dead, so this isn't quite as ironic as it might sound at first blush.
> Why hasn't it happened before? Not because of how unlikely it is. It hadn't happened before because it hadn't happened before.

Yes, that was the basis of my analogy. I do indeed think those situations are similar for that reason.

> But a long term downward trend in the stock market? Means death for a nation's economy.

Well, you're forgetting the idea of a steady-state stable non-growing non-shrinking economy, which is one possibility (see spain: https://www.google.com/finance?q=MADX%3AIND&ei=p5LcVYr0EI6S2...)

But even talking about down-trends, I think "death" is a bit strong. It could also indicate a gradual transition to a lower stable position. Plenty of economies survive at small sizes.
This story is about a parrot in America.

> Grey African parrot vanished from British owner's home in Torrance, California in 2010 before reappearing in the same town
Another good read on the same subject: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin.
Uhm..

As someone who havn't used Windows for a long time, can't you just create a PowerShell script to do all these things?