skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, the article is not about that. It is one thing to clearly state assumptions and derive the conclusions from there (which is what your professor seems to have done). This is not "mathiness": indeed, this is exactly how theory is supposed to work -- as long as the assumptions and the logic are clear, he can disagree with the assumptions and this way argue against the results.

It is quite another thing to replace assumptions by handwaving, in which case the point of math and logic is lost, and the argument becomes non-falsifiable. This is what the article calls "mathiness" and argues against.
“Clock Kid” Ahmed Mohammed Announces He's Moving to Qatar
I am seriously considering moving to Edge anyway once I have Win10 on my work PC (so could be years!) Performance of Chrome is really poor now.
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Sorry but, I hope that those NYPD officers get more radiations then the public they are scanning.
What you are talking about is the lost sale fallacy and it does apply here but not entirely. Google is right to be worried. The mobile web isn't merely adding to the current web, it is slowly replacing large parts of it, so they absolutely will be affected. Google doesn't give a crap about people searching on their TVs because that isn't replacing anything.
In case anyone shares my confusion: they aren't talking about unlocking in the sense of removing carrier restrictions, but rather in the sense of disabling the security features of the device to access the data stored on it.
Google to the Yahoo Rescue
Painless if there's a service center nearby. This is all making me seriously reconsider buying one when I'd have to travel to get it serviced...
Bill Maris: Here's Why Google Ventures Didn't Invest in Theranos
Howdy Raises $1.5M from Top VCs to Develop Apps for Slack
I know the supply side of the economy exists; the Russian mafia apparently does quite a bit of child-porn production, and probably it's not because they're a bunch of pedophiles.

I'm just not sure where the demand side is. Like you said, I've also never heard of child porn "consumers" who weren't just trading the "amateur" videos created by others in the same groups.

From another angle: jump on Tor and you can find places to buy stolen credit cards, hire hit-men, or order drugs within 15 minutes. But you'll never encounter a "put Bitcoins in, get illegal pornography out" page. Is this sort of stuff just really well hidden (which I doubt, given the Streisand Effect); or is it a semi-backwards "industry" that avoids using the Internet for anything; or what?
Star Wars Shows Jedi-Level Social Media Skill, Drops Reference on Zuckerberg
I own stock in the company but not anywhere near an owner of their cars, but my fan-boyism is based on the fact that this company is trying to push other larger car manufacturers into pushing forward instead of the same old same. Yeah they have some issues but they're quick at ironing them out on the new set of cars.

If and when the Model 3 releases will be the telling for Tesla. For now I will keep my stock.
An airport security screen is about equivalent to eating 2.5 bananas, don't tell OP that bananas are so scary.
Big Endian AMD64? Cisco support? iOS compiled big endian to little endian? WTF!? Lmao crazy on so many levels...

EDIT to add:

Epic observation: "The good news is: if the size of socklen_t changes while your program is running, then... (other guy) OpenSSL will cope." Lol.
The issue in the forum thread you're linking to was not caused by Meteor but by the OP canceling a deploy halfway through the process: https://forums.meteor.com/t/first-visit-loads-are-ridiculous...
So they store Google hangout video chats forever?
More generally, a certain amount of humility and skepticism about these issues is good, but I have almost a pet peeve sort of relationship with people who think we must profess total ignorance. We really don't. If they live in this universe, they play by the same rules we do, and that will shape them every bit as much as it does them. While I have no reason to believe that in the style of pulp sci-fi we will stroll out into the universe to find a universe of interbreedable humanoids, there's really no reason to believe that we will understand nothing about the aliens.

In fact it's sort of a violation of the general Copernican principle... we are not so special that we will be uniquely unable to understand anybody else. We are, probably, fairly normal.
I was not aware of Google's policy for this issue, but I knew that Apple keeps all recordings for at least 2 years... so I was thinking that they did about the same.
I don't think this is really a problem, but I upvoted because I like the thought experiment. I love the icons. I would not want them in my browser.
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Someone doesn't understand the difference between ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation.
His point is that there is a good way to use math, which is to clearly state assumptions and definitions and then derive the result, and a bad way to use math, which is to avoid clearly defining objects that math operates on. It helps avoid criticism, but makes the whole exercise rather useless.
My 2014 Fiat has started to turn into a rattle can. It is expected of these cars from what I've read. But considering I get 40+mpg, I'm fine with it rattling down the road.
The large scale energy use projects are leveraged by personal users however.

If you have net-metering, then you sell your energy back to the grid. I mean, California's energy situation sucks (and will continue to suck until they build some large-scale energy storage solutions). But the majority of the country can just use net-metering... sell the energy back to the grid and get all the benefits of stored energy without actually having to buy Tesla's Batteries.
I believe they're talking about trying to access a phone once it has been "locked" from too many wrong tries at the lock screen.
> The way he was treated by officers was absolutely shitty, but it wasn't any different than how officers treat people all day, every day, at schools all across America.

If Ahmed Mohamed's case leads to a change in this area, I think a lot is won.
How do you access the latest crawling results programmatically? I hope you are not expecting me to click results link for a developer's tool.
This is the PERFECT attitude to email. Companies that do this really well (AirBnb for ex), their emails look and feel just like their website, and always focus on highlighting the relevant information.
<slightly OT>

I was lucky enough to ride on the Concorde from Heathrow to JFK when I was about 12 (the 747 (seats ~400) we were supposed to take broke down, and they only had a 737 (seats ~300) and a concorde (seats 100) available; my dad, having many tens of thousands of airline miles and super double platinum status on basically every airline, including british airways, was able to get our family of four as part of the hundred that got on the concorde for that flight).

The cruising altitude of the concorde at mach ~2 is between 60 and 65k feet, basically double a normal airplane (wikipedia says 60k, but I distinctly remember the monochrome LCD in the plane that said we were traveling 1350 mph at 64k feet)

I'm curious, now, what my cosmic radiation dosage was at that altitude. Surely, given the nature of atmosphere and radiation, the dosage at twice the normal altitude is considerably more than twice what it is at 30k feet. I wonder what that did to my chances of getting a radiation induced cancer now ;)

As an aside, that happened well before 9/11, so I was actually able (/invited by the flight attendants) to go to the cockpit and talk to the pilots while were cruising along at mach 2. I remember asking the pilot what the actual takeoff speed was (he said about 175 mph, if I recall correctly. Given the glued-to-the-seat acceleration we experienced on take off, sounds about right), and all sorts of other nerdy questions about the technology.

I'm gonna pour one out for the pre 9/11 days when curious kids could visit the cockpit of an airplane and be a nerd with the pilots.

I'll pour another one out for the Concorde.

I still remember it pretty vividly (though memories can of course be deceiving ;), but we made it from heathrow to jfk in 3.5 hours. I believe, also, that with the time change, we landed about 15 minutes before we took off.

</OT>

I've now been living in NYC for ~15 years (moved here about 3 weeks before 9/11), and have watched the NYPD develop it's various anti-terrorism tactics. From the weird aluminum devices I've seen in penn station next to the armed-with-assault-rifles national guard folk on major travel days, to the stickers on the street food carts citing their affiliation with some NYPD anti-terrorism program, I've been concerned for years about the NYPD overstepping reasonable bounds on their behavior.

Where does this end? How do we encourage the police to actually be reasonable? I do have an acquaintance in the NYPD (we went to college together), but conversation on this topic is more or less not possible. The thin blue line is very much a thing, and it appears to be impenetrable for us 'civilians' (the general attitude I got from said acquaintance is "you wouldn't understand").
I think he meant social commentators in academia/think tanks, not anchors at news stations.

> For a social commentator to speak out against the government on a major news outlet would be a ratings disaster.

What do you see them constantly doing when it comes to police brutality? And for the federal level, have you watched Fox News while we've had a Democrat president or MSNBC while we've had a Republican one? Gratuitously negative in both cases.

There is certainly tons of bias at all the popular news outlets, but it's very different from the bias of state owned news agencies.
I tend to get conference call setups running via Microsoft Skype for business. The call in number stays the same but the conference code changes for each meeting even if it is a recurring meeting as does the link for joining via web.
Off the top of my head, the closest thing I could think of that would be "wireless" is the endocrine system, specifically the pineal gland. It secretes melatonin that affects other systems, but is not directly wired to them.
Last I read, that was anonymized data. Or have things changed?
I do live very close to a service center and that certainly is a factor in my ownership. If I didn't live near an SC, I would opt for Ranger service.
And your daughter is only 8? Damn, nice job on the parenting. Might I ask what you've done as a parent to help get her to the point where she's asking these sorts of questions?
FireChat used to replace cell carriers in Tahiti
I was similarly confused. While the HN title accurately reflects the Reuters title, I think it'd be reasonable to retitle the submission to something along the lines of "Apple: breaking encryption on devices running iOS 8 and newer 'would be impossible'", or something (point being to highlight that we're talking about the encryption issue, not carrier).
> The drug Nebraska purchased, sodium thiopental, is an out-of-date anesthetic that stopped being used in executions after the sole FDA-approved manufacturer quit making it to keep it away from death penalty states.

In the recent climate of stories like pharmas price-gouging, it's nice to hear they aren't always greedy. (Edit: They were somewhat coerced by Italy, where they produce it[2]. I think EU export law forbids it now too. Still, they could probably produce it in the US at a worthwhile premium if they wanted to, but it appears they don't.)

> Other death penalty states have turned to different drugs, but Nebraska had few options because the state’s protocol calls for sodium thiopental.

I don't know how that came about, but it makes me wonder if this would be an effective way to weaken a law you don't like: compromise on a legal implementation that depends on something that won't last forever. I guess it's not unique, though; it's like how the debt ceiling is only bumped up a bit, or PATRIOT Act provisions extended a couple of years at a time.

> Changing it to a more modern execution drug would have required public meetings, and that would take time that Ricketts and his DOC did not have.

It sounds like Gov. Ricketts' ego and legacy rest on maintaining the death penalty in his state. The Atlantic[0] covered how the state legislature abolished it, and the multiple ways the government sought to twist law to do it anyway. The governor and his father personally financed $300k on a petition drive to suspend the new law[1]. Must be nice to have so much money and nothing better to do than try to obtain the right to legally kill strangers.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/a-govern...
[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/19/nebraska_d...
[2] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=175550&p=irol-ne...
Simply untrue.

Airports. No fly lists. Mass surveillance. Free speech zones, civil forfeiture, national security letters. Millions of Americans have a security clearance, the government has created a two tier system of those inside and everyone else. Big media is tightly controlled in America, and after TPP and other international treaties the internet will also be even more tightly controlled. Civil liberties have been extensively erroded since 9-11, how can anyone besides a shill or the ignorant not know such basic facts?
What's more absurd that he was suspended for either a silly prank, or for plugging an alarm clock with exposed wires and a transformer into an AC socket which went off during a class, refused to cooperate with the school administrators, and later then police or that Google invited him to the Science Fair for putting a radio shack clock in a box which put him in the same club as other attendees like 17 year old Olivia Hallisey who got her spot for inventing a new faster, cheaper, and more reliable method of detecting Ebola
http://googleforeducation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/spotlight-o... or 13 year old Pranav Sivakumar who designed a machine learning algorithm that can detect Quasars through gravitational lensing which is now also being used to discover dark matter clusters http://googleforeducation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/spotlight-o...?
wget -O- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuspeech/gnuspeechsa-0.1.5.tar.gz | tar -xz
cd gnuspeechsa-0.1.5
cmake .
cmake --build .
./gnuspeech_sa -c data/en -p /tmp/test_param.txt -o /dev/stdout "Hello world." | aplay

$VISUAL data/en/ttm_control_model.config
If it can happen in Chicago, on such a large scale, as recently as 4 months ago, then are we really safe at all?
This is really the wrong question. Offering the best customer experience should, looked at systemically (aka in the context of reality), be a return on investment. Looking at it any other way is simply incorrect.
I suspect a bit of it is psychology, too. If it's "Paused", it implies that it's usual to be enabled, both as peer pressure and for features/usability.
Wow, that looks really cool. Sadly it was going to be a million dollar car, and it was cancelled in 2012 after only 3 prototypes were built.
Why is sendwithus.com allowed to advertise by posting as a blog site, why isn't it flagged by now? These are the types of people I block in my server's email configuration.
Where did you see the photo exactly? Was it a close-up of your license plate?
If you're on a Mac, you can have some fun with voices (plenty designed for multiple languages):

say -v ?

Or just run this script to pass hours of time in joy and terror: https://gist.github.com/DelvarWorld/3f700aac8d7972b053f0
The market for lethal drugs perhaps outweighs the regulatory costs.
Also similar to https://morph.io/ which has more of a trend towards open data sets.
Herbarium records are reliable sources of phenological change driven by climate
Are you blaming them for not rejecting opportunities to meet some of the most powerful and influential people in the world to spite them for what happened in Texas?
Apple tells judge it's 'impossible' to access data on locked iPhones
Can someone explain how Apple has managed to render brute force ineffective if there are only 10000 possible 4-digit passcodes?
"Entirely different argument"? We weren't discussing whether the school reacted poorly?

People can be wrong that:

a) The school should have instantly made Ahmed a saint on seeing his device

while still being correct that:

b) This never should have escalated to arrest.

Both a) and b) speak to the question of whether the school reacted poorly.
These are not transactional emails, but triggered emails that are automated by a user's actions. Transactional emails typically revolve around a transaction, example emails include an order confirmation, shipping confirmation, or order cancellation email. I'm pretty sure most of these emails would require the customer to be subscribed to your email list, while a true transactional email would not.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_marketing#Transactional_...
Shocking as it is (since I write software for a living) I buy only used cars with as few options as possible. All manual transmission, locks, windows and doors. I don't even have A/C in one of my two cars. Owning a car in America is like a tax: you need a car to have a meaningful participation in the economy. So while I admire Tesla's technology, through this lens I can't imagine buying one in this lifetime.
I don't see the problem. Early adopters are shaking out the bugs in the Model S and the Model X. If Tesla adopts the Uber model, you're never going to care if the car has problems, it'll be Tesla's problems.

All of this hand wringing assumes car ownership is going to continue as it has in the past. I'd say the tea leaves are showing something different with self driving cars advancing as quickly as they are.

Tesla Model:

* Sell expensive cars to people who are rabid enthusiasts.

* Hustle hard to get Superchargers and Gigafactory done (funded by expensive cars from step 1)

* Perfect autopilot/autonomous systems

* Sell Model 3 to those who want to buy it, rent by the mile to those who don't want to buy

* Profit hard.
Globalization seems to manage some amount of it all by itself.
Not being familiar with the original context, this is unfortunately meaningless other than in the general sense of 'mobs are bad.'
Ah yes, the classic "check out this extremely cunning and subtle genius who is too dumb to build his own clock right."
As far as I know, studies do not show any health benefits to food that is labelled organic. One reason is that the label of organic is more about marketing and industry than about health. The work of Michael Pollan is very good on this subject, especially Omnivore's Dilemma.

I would not compare an interest in organic food to a gluten-free diet. I would be careful when saying '"gluten-free" craze' because celiac disease is very real and certain people cannot tolerate gluten. I am not saying the subject is out-of-bounds, but just be informed before discussing. Personally, I find trying to understand other people's diets to be a subject that is best avoided and I would not get into it with your friend.
I don't even know if I disagree that the NYPD using things like this isn't a more effective way to prevent crime, but I don't think it matters. They are a law enforcement agency, not a domestic espionage or counter-terrorism agency.
An old supervisor of mine was a Jaguar fan, and often bemoaned their reliability - "There are two days when you love your Jaguar: the day you buy it, and the day you sell it"
A basic fallacy and tautology, I'm sure if I list a thinker you will simply state they aren't respected or are 'fringe'.

Does the Chicago blacksite count extraordinary evidence? There is so much evidence of police illegality, wanton murder, and lack of criminal action at every level, from the bottom to to the top where our country commits torture and does nothing that it is extraordinary for anyone to not belief America is a police state. You life in an oligarchy ruled by a corrupt elite, I can even site academic evidence of such but again, you argue by tautologies so why bother? Open your eyes.
I don't know, even if this effect exists, its weight on the overall math performance is really weak, there many other factors at play. Just compare the PISA results [1] of countries that use the same language:

FRENCH

France: 495

Switzerland: 531

Luxembourg[2]: 490

SPANISH

Spain: 484

Chile: 423

Mexico: 413

Peru: 368

PORTUGUESE

Portugal: 487

Brazil: 391

This is just a personal anecdote, but I have studied maths in 3 different languages: Basque (with a counting system similar to the French), Spanish and English. And I can't really say that I felt more comfortable using one or the other, but the three use pretty similar systems though.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-overv...
[2] At secondary school, in general, until the 9th class every subject is in German, except mathematics and sciences (in French) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism_in_Luxembourg
Part of it is about skills. Part of it is about things like making questionable connections between what is actually mathematically shown in the model, and what is claimed in terms of real-world relationships. Of course this is much easier to do when they don't clearly define how exactly real-world objects translate into the model :)
Theoretically, couldn't Apple push an auto-update to the phone that could decrypt the data?
the same way everyone else does. they limit the number of attempts you get.
After six tries a rate limit is reached. There is no cool down period. You have to connect it to your computer and login to apple, or wipe it.
Unofficial uBeam FAQ
> The term “wheelhouse” was also used in the rail yard. When a train came to the end of the line, it had to turn around to go back the way it came; this was usually accomplished by using an enormous circular turntable that rotated the train. These turntables were often covered, or partially covered, with a building so that maintenance work on the locomotive could be carried out indoors between runs. The buildings were commonly called roundhouses but were also known as wheelhouses.

When a train came to the end of the line (or even a division point in the middle), the engine was often rotated on a turntable. Not the train, just the engine.

The roundhouse was built around the turntable. It was not a cover over the turntable.

And I have never heard of a roundhouse being called a wheelhouse. It is by far not standard terminology, if it was ever used that way.
There is an option to "Erase Data after 10 failed passcode attempts"
After a few invalid attempts, it forces you to wait a while before trying again, increasing the wait time each time. One can also set the phone to wipe itself after 10 failed attempts.
Anonymized voice recordings? I can't recall if the last article that I read about that a while ago mentioned it, but either way, I would say that it is pretty much impossible to completely anonymize a voice recording.
The article talks specifically about searches though, not that people are using the internet without seeing ads. A lot of mobile usage is people scrolling through their Facebook feed. They aren't searching via another channel and so Google isn't missing out on anything.

I can see the argument that using a Yelp app for example might replace what used to be a Google search, but even on the desktop I think people are learning to use vertical search engines.

From a growth point of view, the game may be over for Google but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot of profitable years ahead of them still.
That wasn't really the point. I think they're saying that just because a tool is ubiquitous doesn't mean that it's objectively the best tool for the job in all cases. Just as vi and Emacs coexist, curl's existence doesn't make httpie pointless.
Of course not, API will be available soon - in a week or two. If you have some other feature requests, please let us know, we need to help with prioritization.
That's the price you pay for ideological freedom.