skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because spender doesn't get along. and lkml isn't exactly the most accommodating of places.
hear from someone that have a fire phone (and who has to take it out the garbage drawer when the main phone died)

fireos is garbage. you can't have a calendar or clock widget. any widget. none.

the launcher is a joke designed by committee. you get a huge icon of the recent apps
1 huge icon at a time. which would show app data on the bottom, but not even amazon own apps use it. so it's just one big icon for you. always. from the screenshots, on this version they changed that to instead show your media hosted in Amazon's cloud. yeah, that will be useful to have using 60% of my home screen at all times.

then the reviewer says he didn't find any app missing... well that made me sure that is a paid fluffy piece (and I'm done with arstech site forever thanks to that) because besides Facebook, every app is missing. from youtube to Firefox. you get nothing but social site apps and fart apps.
At work we (like Uber) own the servers and the clients, and even then it's very time-consuming to support backwards compatibility. Occasionally, we all but have to require an update. Ours don't leave you stranded, so it's not apples-to-apples here, but it's a thing.
One of the problems with de-emphasizing standard tests for college admissions is that they do a pretty good job at predicting college success

Maybe. The SAT has become so watered down that the ACT, which MIT didn't accept back when I was playing this game in the late '70s, now has more predictive power for success at MIT.
> IMHO when debugging software needs to be automated to the point that a library needs to be written (and itself debugged)

What is the underlying problem you're referring to?

It is admittedly a rabbit hole when you're writing code to debug code. But isn't that the whole spirit of writing tools to make your life easier and more efficient? We pile new abstraction layers atop more and more abstraction layers, and then we get computing in its impressive form as it exists today.

GDB and LLDB and any other debugger are huge software libraries for debugging, and yeah they might introduce bugs as well, but that does that mean they shouldn't be used or that they're not useful? I find it quite useful that LLDB has a scripting interface to automate debug sequences I find myself doing over and over. And since there is a scripting interface, we can find open source libraries for common debug tasks so when there is a bug, the bug is shallow due to many eyes.
He identified a bug in the function `evaluateIntegerExpression` which parses an integer literal from LLDB, erroneously always parsing in base-16.

But the pull request he created (https://github.com/facebook/chisel/pull/117) didn't fix that; instead it just replaced that function call with manually parsing the literal in the one specific place he was having problems with.

Did I miss something there? That seems like a really weird "solution". Why not just fix the original function?
Why does ++ have poor performance on big numbers in JavaScript?
> Frequent standardised tests; testing the same things across all the schools and all the students; using that as your measuring stick, shapes the fact that you're going to get a lot of unneeded, even harmful, education.

Harmful? Really? Please tell what harmful education is coming out of standardized tests. Even the standard test taking strategy itself is useful in a general sense. You don't know the solution so narrow down to ones that seem reasonable, pick one and move on.
Only if Apple changes their requirements, like disallowing access to the UDID, but even then you have plenty of time (and such changes are requirements on future versions) so it's very doubtful Apple has anything to do with this.
Adobe regularly refers to CC, CC2014, and CC2015. Even things like CC2015.2 to denote a second minor update. And all of their programs still have a traditional version number somewhere in them; the old warhorses like Illustrator and Photoshop are getting close to version 20.

I'll agree with the peddling mediocrity part though. AI CC2015 is chock full of new bugs in core parts of the program.
Thanks, but I'm not going to consider a database that's not open source, sorry.
I wonder what those numbers would look like if you included private companies
Based on your experience working in higher education, would you say that the SAT in its current form is as effective a test as the version you took in the 1970's?

My perception is that scores have become more correlated with money spent on test preparation, and less correlated with actual aptitude.
I did the same. But those non-technical users still ask why they can't paint their text red, right-align paragraphs and insert as many line breaks as their good taste suggests. So it can't really work unless they agree to get a bit technical and understand what semantic markup and CSS are. And then, I'd really prefer to teach them some basic markdown and have them use a markdown editor, only so they can stop believing that "what they see is they get".
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Yes it is common for an employer to ask you to sign a non-compete. For example, an employee at Wipro who is working on a client's project say Pitney Bowes cannot come work for Pitney Bowes directly on that same project. He / She can get sued if there are agreements in place.
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I wonder how many people using MomentJS are aware of this.

http://jsfiddle.net/mauron85/aujyeacc/
Well, I have seen both cases happen where you have to and where you don't. In some industries it is standard, others not so much because of the incestual nature of that field. Perhaps ask others that you know in the same industry?
Amazon sells ads just the same. it's actually the 4th biggest network.

and they are king of tracking users. nobody does better
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Every industry has its own health hazards -- we're just now learning what they are for the computing industry. If these issues are as widespread as the article implies, it's something that needs to be attacked on a company- or industry-wide scale instead of by individuals trying to hack their way around the system.

As an individual, on the other hand, leaving the industry until they get their act together could be the best course if your circumstances allow it. Altering your own work practices and lobbying your company to pay more attention to these issues are also worth considering.
Yes, I recognize it's quite common to sign a non-compete, my question was specifically about whether it was common to include vendors in the agreement.
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Came here to say "no shit," beaten to it, because it's the most obvious conclusion.
>Don't buy this girl's passwords. I'm a 40 year old man and I can make you software that does this for free! Don't be fooled by this little fraud.
I'd like to see the term "warfare queen" become part of the vernacular the way "welfare queen" did.
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From what I saw they're rather dissimilar.

Desk reminds me more of Python's virtualenv.
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This looks like the prime example of FOG computing [1]:

"A network architecture that uses one or more end-user clients or near-user edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of storage (rather than stored primarily in cloud data centers), communication (rather than routed over backbone networks), and control, configuration, measurement and management (rather than controlled primarily by network gateways such as those in the LTE core)."

[1] http://fognetworks.org
Britain’s Blair says 2003 Iraq invasion played role in Islamic State rise
They have that: https://m.uber.com/
No it's not accurate. I mean hell, $7 of your $50k goes to welfare? That's 0.014%. In reality, depending on what you want to call welfare (republicans like to call everything welfare and pretend it's bankrupting the country in order to scale it down, for example, so you have wildly different definitions in the political spectrum) it's around 5-8% of GDP. So this is just laughably inaccurate. Defense spending of $250, in reality it's closer to $2k.

Then there's the corporate subsidies, they're more interesting because they're not necessarily wrong. Perhaps this number is but in general they're very high, but not in the way people normally think about subsidies. I see numbers thrown around all the time with murky definitions and it's misleading.

For example, the IMF did a study that showed $5.3 trillion in oil subsidies worldwide. Gigantic number, consider world GDP is $75 trillion, US a little under $18 t.

Now I'm sympathetic to the study, agree with it, and think we should take that number seriously and do something about it. I also think it constitutes a form of subsidy.

But it's a bit misleading to say this means we're all paying thousands of dollars to corporate subsidies on this basis from our actual paycheck. There are different forms of subsidies and there's value in not muddying the semantics too much.

What the study measures are externalities that aren't priced in. A person dies in motorised traffic? You can combat it by pricing that into the price of oil. A climate change related natural disaster happens, or we have to pay for CO2 cleanup, or healthcare costs rise due to oil-industry fumes causing lung cancer somewhere, you can price all of that in. Not pricing that in is a form of subsidy, but it's not like we take thousands of dollars from our pay check and send it to the companies to support them, very little money goes to these companies, the issue is we don't extract enough from them that we should once we look at the damage they cause, and this is technically a subsidy. The IMF measures the missed revenue from taxing fossil fuels at a lower range than it should if it prices in all externalities.

Yet I've seen renowned green energy pundits in my country (the Netherlands) talk about these $5.3 trillion subsidies as if we're sending that money to corporations every year. I'm completely on their side, yet I don't think this is helpful, there's too much misleading information thrown around.
Thanks for the catch! Looks like my new CDN provider does not provide gzip automatically like my old one. Fixing this now.
You're pretty lucky you had a massive govt welfare program to fall back on.
People will find every loophole in every system.

When I was a kid in the sixties I would call my family home, collect, from a payphone. When my family answered, and they were asked if they would accept the charges, family answered "no." We all hung up, and family went to the pre-arranged place to pick me up.
Being a born Karachiite I don't agree with the tone of the article, it's giving feeling it's more dangerous than FATA area of Pakistan which is definitely not. Here markets remain open late night, people stay with their friend and families on road on weekends. Just last week I had a wonderful 'Sea View' trip and it was marvelous. The guy behind `Humans of New York` recently made a trip of Pakistan including Karachi.

In short, Karachi is not part of Afghanistan and you may have a wonderful time here. Here crime rate is no larger than any other mega city in the world.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/951511/crime-rate-in-karachi-fal...
If you were a parent, and you couldn't afford to educate your child yourself, then it would probably still make sense to send your child to school beyond grade 6. If you don't do so, they won't have the qualifications to get by particularly well in life...

My rebuttal: Your secretary does not need to know (taken from the sheets you posted) what an angle given by a line bisecting two parallel lines is...These things all have a use, but they don't have a use to everyone...

Your idealistic answer seems to argue for changing the relevant topics. That's fine. That's an argument against the curriculum, not testing. All testing does is measure whether the curriculum is actually being taught.
This is the reason I don't use uber unless I have literally no other alternative. They continue to show a willingness, damn near an eagerness to make their drivers suffer for their unwillingness to work with local government by chipping away at the earning potential of drivers.

And even when I was out of work for a while-I've got a car that would be perfect for Uber Select, I refused to drive for them because their business practice makes it abundantly clear they do not care about you as a driver. You're a means to an end, no matter the cost.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil," _is_ true, the active word here being "premature." Once something is working (and hopefully testable), one shouldn't hesitate to dig in and optimize anything and everything. This is not sinful!
I think it is important to remember why testing came about. Bad schools were doing so bad that kids were graduating HS without the ability to read or do basic math. In order to fix a problem this bad, first measurements have to be taken.

My biggest problem with testing is that it can hold back gifted students.
You should read/listen to this: http://www.npr.org/2015/10/20/450175865/do-we-have-less-symp...
My understanding is that the CATO Institute is paid for largely by the right-winger Charles Koch (a former member of the John Birch Society) and is an organization that shills right-wing thought. The CATO institute isn't an "independent think tank" - it's been set up to promote a right-wing agenda.

Paul Krugman histories the development of an entire network of such entities by wealthy arch-conservatives and small-business organizations (who supported right-wing ideas because they reduce taxes and empower employers vis-a-vis employees and especially unions) in his book

"The Conscience of a Liberal":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393333132?keywords=conscie...

This network of organizations, which took decades to build, does indeed compose a "vast right-wing conspiracy" in the sense that they coordinate with and cross-reference each other to deliver right-wing political views and to promote the hiring of lobbyists and aides in Washington, D.C. who share their political views. Luckily, according to Krugman, their persuasive power is diminishing with time.

My take-away: don't equate one of these right-wing "think tanks" with a real think-tank, e.g., RAND corporation.
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I wonder what role optimization algorithms can play in reducing crime rates. The police are under staffed, but can those minimal resources be used for maximum output in terms of safety?
Britain's Blair says 2003 Iraq invasion played role in Islamic State rise
Wow, ProseMirror is really great. Thanks for pointing it out! It's wonderful that it uses CommonMark as its document model, and especially that (to quote):"ProseMirror adjusts to your site, not the other way around". :)
What's the difference between a paternity test and a maternity test? Will there be a "first case of paternity test fooled by chimerism" for an asian/ a person under 22/ a person with blonde hair?
When I said "tax revenues" I was including all taxes: income, property, sales, etc.

It would appear California has more than made up for their low property taxes with other taxes. Yet, they still need more money?
A very spooky week is coming
Good information in The New Yorker piece, unlike the continuing coverage I have been reading in Bloomberg, which uses fracking as a refrain with minimal information attached.

This is about disposal of waste water from watered-out fields, not about fracking. The New Yorker correctly points out less than 10% of the water going down these disposal wells is from fracking operations. So why does Bloomberg (and not just Bloomberg) keep raising the fracking bogey-man?
The problem is that even small libraries end up with multiple public contracts that evolve independently. Trying to identify these with a single version number doesn't work. Allowing major version numbers to define interoperability is even worse. We don't see dependency hell in practice.
Are you sure it's a guessing bonus? I teach the LSAT. On that test, there's no guessing penalty, and you get a point for a correct answer.

So, if you guess five questions, on average you'll get a point, making each guess statistically worth about .2

But guesses don't have actual value of course, it's only when you guess right that you get the points.

I can't speak for the grade school standardized tests since I don't teach those (nor do I want to).
Where can I verify this?
In general I think it can be fine to use a person's device for other things.

A famous example is Skype: they were able to set up a global VoIP system with very little capital, by making it a peer-to-peer application rather than requiring a central server to route all calls. So your computer was used to forward unrelated calls, but that's generally fine, the burden on each individual user is low.

In the Skype case, there were tons of computers out there, owned by individuals but mostly idle, and Skype managed to use them more productively--that is a win for everybody. With mobile phones it might be a bit different because the bandwidth is limited, but still, people can see how much data the uber app is using, and decide whether it is worth the benefit to use it to hail uber cars or not.
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Well, they are his genes. Just not for the whole body.
I'm surprised the article doesn't question whether there's something about the environment itself that is contributing to these health problems.

Use of electronic devices is definitively more prevalent in Silicon Valley, and there is evidence that blue light exposure from screens or artificial light exposure at night may be harmful to health. And while this may be far fetched, there also are indications that some forms of electromagnetic radiation could potentially be harmful too.
I've been working on rebooting my life, it's hard, especially trying to get out of a long rut. Eating better, exercising, all of that is fucking tough.

I've had a gym membership for behind my apartment for 2 months now. Tomorrow will be my first day going. I got the membership to remind myself that I have to do it. It's working.
How an F Student Became America's Most Prolific Inventor
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That's interesting. 8.x is pretty antique, though; has anything from the 9.x mainline been merged back in? I'd love to hear about a release date, too.
Are the newer PostgreSQL development been merged back in greenplum, or is it based on an older version?

Is the recent Dell acquisition putting the open sourcing plans at risk?
Shaping the future of cities? oh my
He's an Alawite (A relative minority but the ruling cast in Syria) which means that his an upper-middle class or even more likely upper class, due to this his family is for the most part more likely to be safer in Syria than in the refugee camps in Turkey or Lebanon, especially when considering that those Refugee camps are filled with Suni's, Kurds, and other minorities that do not look at Alawites in a very friendly manner.
The army's healthcare system is positively European too.
Just the photo alone made me facepalm. Why buy a riding lawn mower for five times the price of a basic push mower that would easily mow a trailer park lawn in 10 - 15 minutes?
Wireless+Router+Repair+Fix+Services+in+Dubai
I think it'd also be cool to look at more sophisticated deterministic methods with these nice visualizations. I imagine a similar diagram that shows the expansion and contraction of the trust region in an L-M solver would be pretty enlightening as well. Or look at the path taken by steepest descent for pathological cost functions like the Rosenbrock banana.

I've done visualizations like this in Mathematica, which is really awesome for doing interactive visualizations, but it'd be fun to redo these in Haskell. I haven't done much plotting in Haskell, what libraries do people favor?
The fake external threat of terrorism destroying western society has been running for over a decade.
Unless phone storage and bandwith become cheaper than data centres, there is no saving, and even if there were, the cost hasn't vanished, just been hidden.
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So I don't work directly with the admissions process (I run the public web) but as a parent I see the correlation with money spent. Also I've had conversations with the SAT preparation consultant that we used for both girls and the degree to which preparation classes or one-on-one consultation helps is dramatic at least at her firm. I know this to be true because of the feedback from other parents that we recommended.

The funny thing is that one of the highest correlations with college retention, as compared to just getting admitted, is how the student feels when the visit the campus. If they feel like they will fit it they have a much higher retention rate.

Because of this colleges track visits to their campus for campus tours and some factor that in at least when courting the prospects.
So it's 1/2 shared dna for siblings, not 1/4th. Only (I think, possibly) it's 1/2 on average instead of being exactly 1/2 as in the case of parents and children.
They provide some pretty straightforward calculations to back up their point. Are the calculations wrong? If so, where is the first mistake?
"From September until Christmas vacation, [Brookside] was like any school you would imagine. Then, once they got back from Christmas break, for the next nine weeks until testing began, it was a different animal. What they did was drop their curriculum, drop their texts, and instead study exclusively from a standardized-test prep book. Kids weren't getting a liberal arts education, but prepping to a very narrowly drawn standardized test in primarily language arts and math. Because they were interested in passing the test more than anything else, for that 22 percent of the school year, they taught primarily to the broad middle section of kids that were going to pass. Plus, the school went and reached out to those kids who they thought were on the cusp of possibly passing. So who gets left out? The kids at the bottom and the kids at the top." [0]

It's not the tests per se, but it's what is put on the line. Raises, funding, evaluations, keeping your job - these are all disincentives to well-rounded education. Please don't make me quote the plethora of studies that show how important arts, literature, and the sciences are to primary education. Completely stopping studying these things for half the school year is bad.

So it doesn't matter if the tests are filled with good-to-know knowledge - they're positioned to dis-incentivize and devalue anything that isn't math, language arts, and a narrow reading of how to structure an essay.

[0] http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/04/11/why-excess...
So, they use the internet, which is generally considered "two nines" reliable, to achieve 99.99% reliability? Oh, tell me more. <wonka-meme />

I skimmed through the youtube preso and saw nothing about results observed in production, either through actual DC outages, or chaos monkey, or game days.

Seems highly overwrought architecture astronaut'ing and also very difficult to get any telemetry on how well/if it works, to me.
It's far more important that students can add than that they got to goof around in togas. Ideal world? They can do both. But if they can't do the math, then the togas just have to wait.
Yes, carbohydrates are comprised of: simple sugars (e.g. glucose), more complex sugars (e.g. sucrose is a disaccharide), even more complex starches (e.g. amylose) and very complex fibers (e.g. cellulose).

Each one is processed in a different way by the body.
Five paragraph essays are way more important than home ec or shop or literature.
atom is FOSS though...
Brain implant lets rats ‘see’ infrared light