skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if what they want to do with the device they paid for is modify it to send on licensed frequencies?

Do any android devices use open source firmware for their cellular radios? I was under the impression that all cellular radios worked only with closed source firmware + closed source radio driver, in which case _you already_ can't modify some of the software on any android device?
Do you mean I can configure it to show folder size in the column 'Size' (as opposed to clicking on a specific folder to get that information)?
There's a micro-industry of journalists who teach users how to express their consent, even if vendors use a dark-pattern privacy UX. If less than 0.01% know to request a non-existent option, more may choose that option once it exists and they have been educated on the benefits. Witness the rise of ad-blocking and past industry attempts like "Do Not Track" and "Do Not Call".
Startup will connect campers to landowners.
We are participating in a Garage48 event supported by Eesti Telekom and Startup Wise Guys and our team of developers and designers are working hard to complete QuikCamp (https://www.facebook.com/Quikcamp) platform by tomorrow evening.

QuikCamp is an online platform that connects campers to hosts. You might want to sleep in a tent and wake up with the sound of roosters and moaning cows, while paying virtually nothing. Or you can pick a campsite, where you can use a fridge, showers and a pool. Maybe there is even an attractive hostess, who wants to play drinking games. If you are prepared to pay more, you can stay in a tent and live as a king.

As a landowner, you might think your day job is not “cutting it” and you want to branch out - we can help you here as well. Our platform lets you list your lawn real-estate and make some money out of it. If you are going to host more than one tent on your campsite, we will also help you do the logistics for that. For example, we will let people book a certain part of the land and there is a “locate my tent” function that helps people find their way back to their belongings. Even if they have bonded with locals and cannot make out your location further than the camp itself.

We are supposed to have the first prototype up and running by tomorrow evening. And you have an opportunity to help us out now, by LIKING and SHARING QuikCamp’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Quikcamp) or just signing up early, to get the free night in a tent.
Count on Techdirt to come up with the most misleading spin possible.

Independent of his support for ISIS on Twitter, Ali Shukri Amin converted his friend Reza Niknejad to a radicalized form of Islam, put him in touch with an ISIS recruiter, convinced him to join ISIS in Syria, gave him instructions on how to transfer from Turkey to Syria, drove Reza Niknejad to the airport to fly to Turkey, and relayed messages between Reza Niknejad and his family informing them of what was happening. In all likelihood Reza Niknejad is going to die working for the worst terrorist organization in the world.

There's clearly a discussion to be had about whether educating ISIS-aspirants in the use of Bitcoin to evade laws against donating to ISIL counts as "training" under 18 USC 2339A. I agree that some of what's alleged in the plea deal comes pretty close to criminalizing being nice to ISIS.

But there's a pretty cut-and-dried case against Ali Shukri Amin even without the Twitter drama. This isn't a teenager sentenced for a few tweets. He has been convicted on a single count of "Material Support". He has stipulated the truth of the DOJ's allegations about Reza Niknejad. It seems clear that the facts support the single count he's charged with.

revised a bit for clarity, and to add the dig at Techdirt
It does NOT restrict you from modifying the software. Read section 24.

"The Commission proposed that certain changes in layout, included components, operating software, or variations in overall electrical or mechanical constructions that do not substantially change the overall function of the device do not require a new FCC ID."

"The Commission proposed to continue to permit Class I permissive changes for those changes that do not degrade the device parameters normally reported in an equipment authorization application (including a decrease in the fundamental emissions that does not increase spurious emissions; an improved spurious emission performance; minor variations in the enclosure or components; and software changes that do not affect RF parameters)."
Great point. I guess Bitcoin isn't dying anytime soon :)
However, that's not to say there is zero correlation between blockbuster video games like Call of Duty and IQ. Maybe another study will pursue that.

There's a lot to learn and practice to achieve mastery in those games. And experience in other similar video games will strongly correlate to how quick and high the skill in one particular (popular) game will be achieved.

I was watching a video a while back with these two guys playing QuakeIII. They both knew the map intimately, and kept track of when power-ups would respawn based on when they were picked up. Then they based their strategy on what resources they had, and what resources their opponent had and where the other was likely to go next.

So yeah, we're talking hundreds, if not thousands of hours devoted to mastery in this game. Against an opponent like that, two Quake newbies would score about the same (dying almost instantly), even if one of the newbies was otherwise very smart, and the other very dumb.
interesting, i can incorporate this into future versions of the talk about pain points developers might have.

The list of users is value free, it is just a mention of companies I know using it.

Both the Google and FB talks about this mention the technical challenges, so i guess this is really a downside at very big scales.
I always think that being rich and/or famous must make life a PITA.

Sure, you have money to do whatever you want, but, those friends you have? You sure they are your friends, and not the friends of your wallet?

Those people you trust, you sure you still trust them not to make a quick buck from selling stories about you?

Want to head out while looking like crap? Sure you want those photos posted all over the media with the accompanying headlines about how you have let yourself go?

There is a saying about how the best way to enjoy a sunrise is by sharing it with someone....no amount of money can make that happen.
I always think we are going to have some hard times in the future when one of the big volcanos (ok maybe not supervolcano, but a big one) explodes and we get a ash cloud for a few years. Apart from the natrual issues caused, what happens to our electrical grid if we accomplish moving most of our infrastructure to renewable energies...
> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
I had to go through an IQ test and a couple of brain teasers for a job application -- I wasn't hired even though I scored well in the IQ test and answered correctly 4 out of 5 of the brain teasers, they were expecting an outstanding result (though they would pay you about $20/hour).

I came to conclusion that IQ tests and brain teasers are just bullshit (in the context above, that is). You usually expect an exceptional result of it, because really, in day to day life you usually complete much more challenges and give good solutions than, lets say, 90% of the population.
The US government has long outdone ISIS in terms of atrocity.

This news makes me so incredibly sad and angry. The judge should be the one rotting in a cell.
Use a different browser.
This kind of attitude is the exact source of his suffering.
Just because one is wealthy does not mean that all your problems will suddenly go away. Yes, you won't end up on the street because you can't pay your rent, but it does create a ton of new problems that can lead to isolation.

A few that come to mind, that I've noticed with wealthy friends:

1. Time. You'll probably have plenty. You're free. What do you do all day when your old friends are working? That probably means making new friends. But it can also lead to disconnects with old friends. Most people don't understand.

2. Ulterior motives of people. Imagine you meet a person - any person. Most relatively wealthy people will assume this person wants something from them. Guess what, people DO usually want something from them. This can lead to problems bonding and/or having relationships.

3. Investing and taxes: what if I invest badly and lose all my capital? Ok, so you invest in a property in Spain and a few years later sell it. You pay $x tax. For some silly reason the authorities don't agree, and want to levy additional tax x2. On top of that, your tax lawyer isn't great, and you need to go find a new one. It'll drag on for years, going through the courts.

etc etc

Many people would say, cry me a river. Obviously it's better to be wealthy than to be poor, but it's not all it's made out to be. No therapist is going to fix that.

Problems are problems, and I personally respect that everyone has their own set of issues in life. Wealth can be a burden.
What's up, cuz? :)

But, a "matrix" comes with the matrix multiplication we all know and love, right? The word doesn't just mean a 2d array. I think of it as a math term, not a CS data structure. More of a class, if you will, data and operations bound together. Not literally and not always, my analogy is imperfect, but, if you asked someone to perform an inner product on a block of numbers, you'd just confuse people if you said "matrix multiply".
I thought the consensus on HN was that developers would much rather collect competitive salaries instead of options.

This comment from earlier this week comes to mind (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10132343):

"Most people will negotiate for more salary because they understand that options will just fuck them over. Money won't."

No surprise, I guess people want it both ways. Competitive salary AND lots of options.
How is wi-fi interference an "imaginary" problem?

Note, for example, the many stories people tell about microwave ovens interfering with wifi:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wifi+interference+microwave

And when open up a spectrum analyzer and look at how much power is on the wifi bands around me, it sure looks like interference is an actual thing. So it seems to me that interference is a real problem, which is why we have the FCC regulating this stuff in the first place.

The right they have, by the way, is that we the people created the FCC to solve the problem of radio interference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Radio_Commission

Now it could be that there are better ways to solve the problem. But given the people totally losing their shit in classic "ehrmegerd guvmint steelin my freedums" style, I am wondering if this issue belongs in my bucket labeled "antivax, fiat money, 911 truth, etc".
1) Yeah because humans behave rationally.

2) If your algorithm does not take the value of the holdings of an ETF into account you deserve to lose money.
Python is a set of packages. On Windows, you're supposed to use a distribution, such as Anaconda.

Even then, building some of the fancier libraries (with native code) by hand is bit involved.

In fact, Anaconda works very well on Windows, as long as you don't require extreme latest versions of modules.
Not everyone wants a kid. It is not a failure at life, it is not their greatest regret.
>I feel more free here in China than the US/UK

It seems a bit hyperbolic to write something like this right when the Chinese economy has been in a tail spin, and the Chinese government has been censoring the press coverage of declining value of public companies (many of which have significant government ownership stakes).
They are already used for that purpose:

"The largest human cognitive performance dataset reveals insights into the effects of lifestyle factors and aging" Daniel A. Sternberg, Kacey Ballard, Joseph L. Hardy, Benjamin Katz, P. Murali Doraiswamy and Michael Scanlon,
Front. Hum. Neurosci., 20 June 2013
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00292
> But there's a pretty cut-and-dried case against Ali Shukri Amin even without the Twitter drama. This isn't a teenager sentenced for a few tweets.

Absurd. What crime did he commit? "Radicalizing" someone is not a crime. Putting two people in contact is not a crime. Driving someone to the airport is not a crime. Relaying messages to someone's family is not a crime.
>converted his friend Reza Niknejad to a radicalized form of Islam

Honestly asking: Is that any different than spreading any other idea or creed?

Seems like the only proper defense we have as a society is to teach children thinking skills so they aren't easily swayed by poor ideas. Otherwise we encroach on others' freedom of expression.
Probably to run tasks e.g. gulp/grunt :)
> Bitcoin is huge to many industries:

Is bitcoin really huge to those industries? Or are those the biggest industries using bitcoin? A quick search pulls a stat that worldwide gambling revenue is ~350b - is bitcoin really even 1% of that? The US illegal drug market is $151b/year - bitcoin is what percentage of that?

I'm not weighing in on whether bitcoin is flawed or what will happen to it, but the idea that bitcoin is having a meaningful impact on these massive industries at this stage is a little silly.
They do that because they measure the rich person's woes and find that they are considerably less than theirs, its basically that they don't appreciate the person in the sedan chair complaining about the heat.

A wealthy person is still a person, but when another looks at their burden and finds it lighter than their own, they often don't pity them because they perceive they can much more easily mobilize their own help (see: an article about a billionaire's emotional state vs European immigration crisis.)

Basically, the "pitfall" of isolation by riches is a problem a large portion of humans would like to have.
Well, look at it this way: Python used (still uses?) very standard reference counting. It can go very far into the design.

What he's wrong about is that the choice is C style, ARC or full GC. There's another intermediate step which is achieved by using C++11 smart pointers - manual reference counted memory management.
On a similar note, I once read that reaction time and IQ are correlated (not sure how strongly), which is interesting because you might expect motor functions like that to be orthogonal to higher-order cognitive abilities.

Speed is good, in many contexts. Say you've two people, and person A has overall cognitive speed 25% greater than the other.

That doesn't just help with Jeopardy!, it gives you 25% more time to think in normal conversations, on SAT tests, while playing video games, at work, etc.

Even a 10% slower speed differential from a baseline human is a big, big disadvantage.
I hope he gets out of this rut and finds a way to be happy and do more good things. It's a little painful to watch a smart guy with billions spend his time making gimmicky video games and partying and being generally unhappy.
Because in some devices, to restrict the baseband from interfering, you also have to lock down the OS to the point where the user can’t modify it.

Also, another example: You recently saw the post on Hacker News how someone collected images from weather satellites by modifying a normal satellite receiver? This would not be possible under the new rules.

People should be punished for doing illegal stuff, not for being able to do illegal stuff.
It probably also depends on who your manager is - often the biggest determinant of the work environment. A great manager will defend you from corporate b.s., bureaucracy and politics without you even knowing they are doing it.
Notch never offered them the choice.
The flip side is that everyone is trying to write Ruby packages and projects in Elixir rather than thinking out of the box as to what is best for this new programming paradigm.
You are pretending such things I mention don't happen but they happened all the time before the FCC came into being and happened often during the CB craze. In fact, I still occasionally hear of such things.

Imagine there were no regulations. Such things would be rampant as they were in the past.
My initial angry reply had mostly to do with the perception that you were saying 'Saying that men are more interested in sex than women is sexist and should, therefore, be not mentioned'.

That is my pet peeve - current climate of PC whereby certain things that are true should not be mentioned, lest they perpetuate the sad (in the eyes of the speaker) status quo.

Now that you have clarified your position, it seems that you're mostly unhappy with absence of the words 'in general' before the generalization. Ie the phrase "“add up to sexual nirvana for most heterosexual men" would pose no problem for you.

This is a different type of issue - I don't mind people obsessed with semantics (identity politicers are a different matter). What you are basically saying is that 'Even if there is 1% of men who are less interested in sex than women - that sentence if false'. While being technically true it misses the fact that any statement concerning large sets of anything can have excptions. The question is whether these exceptions are singular or sufficiently numerous to render the generalization false.

I think that anything over 90% doesn't require qualifiers. Others may feel differently - for example note that the author already went out of his way to accommodate gays by talking about 'heterosexual men' as opposed to 'men'. So he is effectively tipping his hat to you in order to satisfy the 4% of the population who might react to the sentence with 'I don't care for sex with women at all, what a stupid generalization that is!'.

Overall - I don't think you've made a case why the author is wrong to generalize that men are more interested in casual sex than women.
That's because the core of OO (message passing to opaque things) is really all you can do if you have a PID. In other more-traditional object-oriented languages, they usually have defaults that let you do more than just send messages - such as mutate the internal state directly in ways that the object cannot detect.
You get a PIN and you get a PIN, everybody gets a PIN
That's great news, thanks - I hadn't seen that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139442 is very worrying though and I'm sure that sooner or later the gaps in the law will be plugged since the intention is clearly to catch the likes of Fastmail. The direction that the law in Australia in general is taking is clearly towards more surveillance - Fastmail was top of my list of alternative mail providers, but this will definitely make me think twice even if they're exempt right now.
Ironically the plot of a season 2 episode of Stargate Atlantis.
No, not actually.

I only used the word "trick" because you did. There are NO TRICKS in math. If a practitioner uses the word "trick" its because he's being facetious or joking. The algebraic manipulations which you find challenging are absolutely essential to master inside-out to be able to follow more advanced mathematical reasoning. You'll see these "tricks" again in a profoundly more generalized form if you study Algebra again (abstract algebra, that is).

There is utility in doing algebra on your computer when you're dealing with literally pages for one expression. That is done to save time and reduce the probability of errors-- and NOT because you "can't" otherwise do it. Even then, you'll need to manually sanity-check the work using skills you learned doing all those tedious problem sets.
Converting friends to radicalized Islam is not and should not be a crime. It's the whole pattern of facts that makes this person's intent and effect clear. Feeding ISIS actual people is material support in the clearest, truest sense.
You may try contacting major art museums in the US they would probably be better suited to answer this question specifically. Ideas would be the Smithsonian in DC or NY Metropolitan Art Gallery.
Well, it actually depends what you've been told about what "multiplication" is. Multiplication should be closed, hence dot product is not a multiplication because the result is not a vector (unless you are using 1-dimensional vectors, sure, but the result is still not a vector.) Wedge (or outer, or cross) product is a delicate issue, because, well, it works as a product but to get it to be actually defined you get the generalisation (exterior algebras) and then they are also not closed (because the exterior algebra is different from the source algebra and is only the same dimension in a few cases)
A year and a half back, when I was in the 10th grade, I did some similar research on the effects of video games on the cognitive skills of students. I specifically designed games for this research. I wanted to further this study to test commercially available video games, but due to lack of support and finance, I could not (I'm still in high school).

You can go through the paper here if you want: http://www.emerginginvestigators.org/2015/01/gaming-cognitiv... OR http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01665

TL;DR; of the paper: I divided the class into two groups, one that played the video games and one that did not. Two tests were taken - one before the children were allowed to play games and another at the completion of one week. Children were made to play games for an hour daily. The results showed that gaming does improve cognitive skills. I was particularly surprised by the substantial improvement that it led to in scores.

PS: Anyone who wants to take this further or maybe has ideas for implementing this, please feel free contact me. I would love to help you out on this.
Before today, Australia was on my short list of countries to consider moving to, now its on a growing list of countries I'll have nothing to do with.

Looks like it might be time to make friends with some Kiwi's
You aren't addressing what contigenics said. You are just filling in whatever you wish they had said and attacking that. This is called a straw-man argument.
Let's look again at the source material:

"Wow, yet another anti-China article from NYT. I can't get over the volume and frequency. Things look pretty good on the ground here!"

No one said anything about the availability of news sources. Contigenics simply pointed out that the article in discussion is incongruous with what you are likely to see on the ground in China. He/she further points out that NYT seems to publish a disproportionate number of negative stories on China (which may also be of dubious veracity). Therefore it is worth entertaining the possibility that the NYT might be full of shit. This possibility is independent of whatever qualm you wish to raise with regards to CPC journalism policy.
Traditionally, multiplication takes two elements of a set and turns them into another element of that set. The dot product doesn't do that, it takes two vectors and turns them into a scalar.

The cross product only exists in three dimensions. And it's not associative (A×B×C gives a different answer depending which order you do it in), which is another thing multiplication usually satisfies.

There are two other not-quite-multiplication operators that I recall seeing. There's an analog of the cross product in two dimensions: (a,b,0)×(c,d,0) = (0,0,ad-bc), so it can be useful to have an operator (a,b)×(c,d) = ad-bc, again turning two vectors into a scalar.

And if the dot product is defined in terms of matrix multiplication by A·B = AᵀB, then you can also define an operator ABᵀ, turning two vectors into a matrix. These vectors don't even need to have the same length.
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