skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What are two different equations with the same solution as 3(y-1) = 8?"

How is this scored if the student just adds 1 to both sides, then 2 to both sides, for the other two equations?

3(y-1)+ 1 = 8 + 1

3(y-1)+ 2 = 8 + 2

Is that a full-credit answer (it is technically correct)? Or do they want movement towards a solution? This seems very ambiguous as to what they want which I've noticed is common in CC questions.
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I agree, imagine people saying the same thing about China or Russia.

Not only that, they are completely missing Snowdens point. Which is that US intelligence are out of control and has become self-serving to the point of hurting US interests and principles.
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No longer as common as it used to be, perhaps even archaic, but not ambiguous.
> I think depreciation should be the least of our concerns

Here is a superb article showing that depreciation (and fuel) costs 19% of an Uber driver's pay: http://citypaper.net/uberdriver/

So, that's $14.58 to $20.25 instead of $18 to $25.
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Just getting out the first HVSImage 2016 behavioral tracking system for Mercer University. The original machine was slightly slow in tracking and real time analysing due to the i5 chip being a little below par - now I'm slightly slow in testing due to being coshed in Geary prior to flying back on Saturday. . .
More like goodbye vulnerable and out of date Flash Player on Linux.

The HTML5 iplayer works (better) in Firefox on Linux already.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/19d875b8-c966-46...

> started taking advantage of Media Source Extensions via the dash.js project.

That means they're using Javascript to decode encrypted video. It's a ridiculous way to play video. It also is the entire reason for this nugget:

> We plan to continue supporting Flash on the desktop for at least the next few years. This is partly because playing video using HTML5 requires a more powerful computer than Flash, and we don’t want to leave behind those users who cannot, or do not wish to, upgrade.

In the real world HTML5 video does not require a more powerful computer than with Flash. Trying to do it with Javascript is pathetic. If anyone wants to rip your content they still will since it's video playing on your computer. Not to mention it's a publicly owned company!
We haven't scoped out the security features. Cell level security can be difficult to implement efficiently, but if we see enough demand for it, I could imagine it happening.

My guess is that the first pass will be table and column level authorization, plus of course strong authentication. Row/cell/predicate-based security could be added in a later release, but it's a feature that's less commonly required.

As for encryption at rest, I imagine that will also be fairly high priority as we move towards GA or the first few releases after GA. But again, we haven't done the scoping exercise yet, so I'm cautious to throw out dates :)

If you're interested in helping to contribute either feature, let us know! kudu-dev@googlegroups.com
looks legit.
MSE on Linux does not yet support MP4/H.264. If your Linux system has an H.264 decoder, you can try flipping this about:config pref:

media.mediasource.mp4.enabled = true
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Thanks for the comment, totally agree with moderation. My goal is to ask "Is the structure I'm providing helpful right now?".

There's an implicit assumption that "more structure is better" (especially in technical subjects that can be structured) because it seems official and defensible. It reminds me of many Wikipedia articles -- they grow in length (why not?) and become more precise (why not?) and you're left with a description inscrutable to a beginner.

Calculus, for example, gets my goat because we spend weeks on limits, continuity, L'Hospital's Rule, etc. so students can "properly" understand derivatives. (Never mind that Newton and Leibniz never used them and seemed to do ok.) Showing a circle non-rigorously transform into a triangle to measure its area (Archimedes) gets closer to the meaning of Calculus than a page of epsilons, deltas and tangent lines. One you have the idea, you put in the rigorous skeleton by showing how the formal rules describe the same result.

Appreciate the comment!
My best math classes have been where the professor took the intuitive approach but prefaced it with a rigorous definitions so I always had a safety net to fall back on.
If you're just Joe Public doing Amazon deliveries, you can also break the speed limit or park illegally in order to make your deliveries. How is that any different from not being properly insured? It's the courier's responsibility to not do those things. The most Amazon can do is to not work with people they know break the law.
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Here is some detail I think you'll appreciate: http://www.apple.com/privacy/transparency-reports/
> Most content doesn't have a real monetary value beyond generating views. There won't be an acceptable ads consortium, advertisers will only get more ruthless or die.

Let's hope that sort of content dies.

I mean:

10 Reasons I Hope That Kind of Content Dies -- #6 Will Blow Your Mind!!
Yeah, the moral of this story was "Well, there goes one reason to upgrade"
Hey! I've written a bunch of stuff with lemon over the last few years and at some point. Lemon has been my go-to parser generator for a long time. At some point, I:

* collected some examples I'd found

* split up the single .c file into constituent parts

* improved error reporting and modernized some syntax

* started working on adding Rust support as a learn-Rust project.

* fixed 64-bit conversion warnings

https://github.com/martinmroz/lemon

It's definitely not packaged up, but hopefully someone finds this stuff valuable. I'd love to see Lemon gain more widespread use. I want to help address the biggest issues I had getting started using it, which were lack of community, lack of documentation/examples, difficulty contributing and lack of a package/distribution medium.
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likely her concern and that of other SJWs is that robots will be created in the ideal image that many have for both men and women and not in the image most of the SJWs actually possess.

if anything the biggest objectors tend to be people who themselves never can be the target of such activity
There is an issue with startups in that we are constantly fed the line that we must aspire to be billion dollar companies or we won't get funding. This puts the focus on the wrong areas if we want to solve hard (real) problems. It's much easier to build a company that makes money than one that solves the difficult problems we are facing today. Almost all VC style investors like to roll out the billion dollar line. I believe in building things that help the world and her people even if it is not a billion dollar idea. Not all worthwhile ideas are profitable. If I am successful the billion dollars will be a (an admittedly welcome) side effect but I can't get excited by it being a goal and I'm hesitant on working with people who do get excited by it.

To put it another way no one is going to remember you because you bought a sports car.
>A colleague in London mentioned to me that there is a hamburger restaurant that is offering Australian "wagyu" burgers. That seems completely messed up to me as I can't see any advantages (other than marketing) to doing that. You just get an expensive burger where most of the money has melted away and been deposited in buckets under the grill.

It's funny you mention it because Umami Burger, a popular restaurant in San Francisco, does exactly what you describe for $65: http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2013/12/09/umami-burger...
Looks like this is the studio that put it together: http://www.felixandpaul.com/
Here's hoping my Macbook will successfully reconnect to Wifi when waking up. I'm not optimistic, though.
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"contains no supports" (was "contains to supports")

Funny thing is on first reading, I didn't notice that at all and read it the way you meant. I only saw the typo on a second reading. Interesting autocorrect the brain does.

In any case I like your Arch Fallacy! I think I will use it.
And your employer (sometimes) shares with you (some of) the spoils. :).
Only from android to android.
Other platforms don't have it implemented yet.
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Wait, you mean that policing shouldn't be a revenue generating activity? What a radical concept!
Agreed. Basically, he could have gone with almost every modern language there and the result would be the same.
May I have a link to your blog?
It's worth noting that the concept of "all accents being equally valid" is not true in informational terms. Google "vowel degeneration" if you want to know why some people speak in what appears to be an over formal, over enunciated accent. Rather than showing off education or age, often they are simply distinguishing key sounds in the language.
I think it's more of a rejection of the instruction, not the concept being instructed.

I had a similar experience with music instruction, everyone taught to the instrument and to the book of music, never any concepts of music theory even to the point of "What's with the sharps and flats over here by the squiggle? Why not put them where I can see them easier?" "Yeah, I don't know, it's kind of a pain, I just write them back in with pencil." "How do you write a new song?" "Oh, it's really hard, you have to be really smart like Beethoven. Don't worry about that, we have plenty of stuff to practice in the book."

Later, in self educating, I discovered key signatures, playing to those keys (and even improvising!), and that I don't have to think about sharps and flats except for accidentals and it makes so much goddamn sense, but no adult I had access to in childhood ever knew or at least none could explain something which was so fundamental, something that actually made music fun and allowed me to create a positive-feedback loop required for consistent practice.

Had I stood firmer on the grandparent's question, rejected instruction sooner (instead of just through confused burn-out), and begun to self educate sooner, I could have avoided wasting a lot of time.
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Here's to hoping Bluetooth on my Macbook won't stop working every time I put the computer to sleep. Then hanging the entire system when I try to toggle it off/on.
The other 29% are cops and government employees
Sadly, Apple isn't on https://canarywatch.org/ Did I miss another way to know about that information (that does not involve parsing all Apple documentation by myself).
If publishers start to really notice ad blockers, they are just going to proxy everything through their web servers.
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Many SW projects don't get the same hate for doing the exact same things.

Still, I would like to know in what way do you want the source exposed? Just the code files? How is anybody going to judge what's a bug? The usual process is requirement->design->code->workproduct. To be able to start to understand the code, you need to have access to at least the requirements, but usually also the design. Should car makers and the suppliers publish these to? Maybe stream on Twitch.tv the engineering work?
And when should it all happen? After the car is released or during the development process? Should we upload today's checkpoint for the next year's Ranger model for EU? I mean, how long should we wait for bug reports before making the cars? Keep in mind OTA updates are out of question at this moment for large care makers and post-SoP (start of production) releases are really expensive.

I don't want to sound like an a-hole, but I truly want to understand what people think they will achieve with access to the source code. I am quite sure the VW hack could have gone unnoticed till the end of time.

The car market needs a reshape for sure, like an article in The Economist suggested, but let's not get carried away with this wave of revolt and call the hangman on the car makers.
This same effect occurs in computer science with "big-O notation"

Every time I'm asked about big-O in a job interview, I'm asked to recite the formal rules of the notation, rather than demonstrate how to use the resulting insight to make the code better. Just because I don't know the formal rules of how to calculate Big-O they assume I can't write any code that scales.

Its like a teacher assuming a student can't speak english because he can't recite the adjective order chart from memory.
Clearly you didn't read the DESCRIPTION section.
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Is there any particular reason these days to favour a parser generator over a straight-up backtracking parser combinator library like attoparsec these days?

Seems like the whole reason for LALR(1) parsers was performance, and parsing is no longer as significant an amount of time compared to the old days, while helpful feedback, which any parser generator approach tends to be bad at, is at a premium.
Presumably this has to do with most Americans having at least some understanding that Amendment IV exists, as well as likely believing that any judicial arguments in favor of civil forfeiture are unconstitutional bullshit.
The interesting part is that 72% never heard of the term. That typically show how people are deeply involved... Ok they disagree, but, do they do anything about it? No! They were not even aware of it in the first place. That's the problem here in my opinion. People need to know what kind of fucked up things the government is doing, maybe then we'd have enough engagement to change anything.
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Judging by the syscall implementation, seems to be 32 bit only? Apologies if I missed something in the docs, such as they are.
This is very exciting!
I see this as being a direct result of more data in healthcare- now that there are better and more effective ways to scan patients and get a more holistic view of what's going on inside their bodies doctors can take a more nuanced approach to treatment. Back in the day when we could only see that there was a lump SOP was to open the patient up and take the lump out, because that was the only thing you could do. But now there are more advanced screening methods and monitoring so jumping right into surgery is not the only step to be taken.

Health care is splitting into doctors like Dr. Esserman who take the time to incorporate new technology and techniques into their practices and old-school doctors who don't update diagnostic and treatment procedures beyond what they learned in school, whenever that might have been.

Also this makes me extremely relieved because as a woman the two things you fear most are breast cancer and ovarian cancer so it's good to know that at least with breast cancer the trend is moving away from "cut them off! cut them off immediately!"
That won't help; ad blockers can block ads on the same domain as the content.
I find LR parsers to be conceptually simple--they're the same idea as recurisve descent parsers with the optimization that the many stack frames that result from "recursively descending" are bundled up into a single stack frame, corresponding to an 'item set' that contains every parse item that you might recursively descend into. You do not actually add a stack frame until you consume a token of input and "call" the next item set based on what token of input it was.

So, if you have an item X that might call rules Y and Z, instead you have an item set {X, Y, Z}. This has the additional advantage that arbitrary left-recursion is handled naturally, since you're discarding the 'call graph' between rules when you build these sets.

To deal with the compressed stack frames that you've now built, you construct a goto table for each item set that tells you what to do based on what item has been returned to you, from the observation that only certain items could have 'called' certain other rules in the first place.

Finally, you add lookahead to your goto tables so that, in case of ambiguity, you can peek ahead to the next token and make your decision that way. This will not solve all ambiguity but it solves most cases in practice.

This is a very hand-wavy description, but I hope it is useful if you decide to look further into the Wikipedia article. Unfortunately I have never seen a complete description of an LR(1) parser that takes the conceptual approach, and I don't have time to write one here.
Maybe the app comes back up with all its users missing. Maybe you get an email a day later telling you you've been hacked and listing details of your database. Or maybe the one instance wedged itself in a weird way (crashed with a lock open, etc.) and destabilized the system, and you spent sixteen hours getting everything back up.

The severity of a bug has nothing to do with its commonality. Sometimes there's something that happens once, and bankrupts your business. Security vulnerabilities are such.

However, I'm more confused by the statement "add central logging"—how are you doing this, and how much time does it cost you? If you mean enabling logging code you already wrote using ops-time configuration (in effect, increasing the log-level) then I can see your point. If you mean adding logging code, then you're making your ops work block on developers.

Either way, what is the cost you're imagining to central logging, that you would consider adding it in specific cases where it's "worth it", but not otherwise? It's just a bunch of streams going somewhere, getting collated, getting rotated, and then getting discarded. The problem itself is about as well-known as load-balancing; it's infrastructure you just set up once and don't have to think about. It doesn't even have scaling problems!
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Thanks for finding the typo. Glad you like the idea.
To paraphrase Spock, "Even laws must give way to mathematics".
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The FK issue is just a matter of diligence. It's the metrics and compliance data that you mentioned that are important. You can't get data back.
Or you know, incorrect:

"No direct link existed between currently depressed mood and either creative interest or creative behavior. These results suggest that the association between depression and creativity is solely the result of rumination."
did you read the blog post even ? He was calling for mutability in the classes and for the state to be closer to the data object itself.
I once attended a talk by the head of DARPA at a technology conference in DC. He said, in essence, the job of DARPA is to take a serious look at things that sound crazy, but just might work.

As background he pointed out that a lot of ideas that are fundamental to our current understanding of science and technology were at one time considered crazy and impractical. Now, most ideas that we today think are crazy or impractical, are in fact crazy or impractical. But it's likely that a tiny few will be transformative. DARPA's job is to seriously test and cull for the good ideas. Once they find a good idea, they hand it off (as they did the Internet).

This can lead to some science-fiction-sounding headlines (like this one). But the truth is that DARPA has no idea if they will work. So when it comes to news coverage of DARPA, you have to bring a big grain of salt. News media love to report crazy-sounding stories, and frankly it seems like DARPA enjoys having a science-fiction reputation. That doesn't mean the programs are "real," the way we think of other government programs like the F-35 or Medicaid.
58% would follow the drugs, 30% would follow the money? Following the drugs would catch smaller fish at each step.

Also 72% of people were unfamiliar with the term.

Serious question, does being unfamiliar with the term for which the survey is named taint the significance of the answers given?
Want to measure BS...

(1) Get a life skill that used to be called reading people / empathy. If you don't have it, hire someone that does.

(2) Hire more recruiters who actually read and evaluate resumes and ask strategic interview questions outside the cookie cutter 99% standard.

(3) Stop scanning resumes for "key words".

The day any great sales rep will show their W2, is the day when startups disclose all their financial records.

Until then, I'd rather take a sales test (remember those?) that cannot test for empathy, drive, and creativity.

Engineers commenting on this topic, I will just say this...great sales people have been selling $h!t since they were a kid. No different than great developers, you don't just learn sales by taking courses at Stanford.

p.s. I stand behind my W2s, but I find this insulting to the true sales community. Especially in the Valley, where easy as pie "sales" roles at cos. with unicorn technology, an avalanche of inbound leads, or zero competition are landed because it's not about (say it with me) "what you know, but who one rushed with at Stanford".
No, from the context of the post above mine, it is obvious that by "leaking indiscriminately" I meant to the general public.

You are either lacking context comprehension skills or intentionally splitting hairs to make Snowden look bad...
I think that same quote has been said nearly verbatim for the last about one thousand years, just with different belligerent parties, each time we invented a new technology and found a way to use it for masturbation.
From the article:

> "If I have sex with a human-like robot that I’m free to dominate and objectify, then my brain is not going to be able to compartmentalize that behavior as robot-specific"

This is ignoring the fact that lots of people already have crazy BDSM sex behind closed doors, and that prostitutes have existed since the dawn of time. You don't need robots to see that people are in fact able to compartmentalize their behavior. I know, because I've been part of the BDSM scene, and I don't just assume that every woman out there wants to be dominated.

When realistic sex robots come out, they are going to sell, and yes, the clients will likely be over 95% male. I don't think this will lead to some collapse of society. I think it will give sexually frustrated people a good outlet. That might not be such a terrible thing. Maybe we'll end up living in a society that's slightly more relaxed when it comes to sex.

There's some interesting implications to think about. For one, you can obviously make sex robots look as tall and thin as you want. It will be difficult for flesh and blood humans to compete with them in terms of appearance. You could say this will lead to even more unhealthy body image standards, but maybe it will be the opposite. At some point, when the sex robots end up looking like anime characters, trying to compete with the said sex robots in terms of appearance will become entirely pointless. The likely outcome of that is some kind of counter-culture of people who don't wear makeup, don't spend tens of hours at the gym and generally don't try to look like superfit robots... Who knows, maybe having a slight weight surplus will end up being a turn on for lots of people, because it's kind of obvious evidence that you are in fact not a robot.
> So, new rule: any rant about common core mathematics can only contain as many words as the number of words in the longest proof the speaker has written outside the context of a homework assignment or exam.

No, he is "not shit at math", he loves it, tried to pass that love on, got that dream promptly resisted, and you don't make the rules. Anecdotes and narratives are valuable. Looking at a lot of these studies, they are just gussied up anecdotes with questionable method and results.