skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'save' icon is fading away pretty quickly in common usage. Modern software is trending toward changes saved in realtime (driven by phones, also seen on OS X and web). When I write a note, I just make a new note, type in it, and close the app.

My favorite example of old-timey icons is 'phone'. https://www.google.com/search?q=phone+icon&tbm=isch

Still used everywhere, but phones just look like ▯ now.
It always bothered me because a grade should reflect the percentage of the material you actually learned. Not be just an accounting of how many hours you spent trying to learn it.

Well, the argument in those cases is that tests aren't always a reliable indicator of the material being learned. Speaking from my experience, I was a great test taker in high school, and they rarely indicated my actual knowledge of the material. It's not hard for me to imagine plenty of students having the opposite problem.
This is what MySQL gives you for \?:

List of all MySQL commands:
Note that all text commands must be first on line and end with ';'
? (\?) Synonym for `help'.
clear (\c) Clear the current input statement.
connect (\r) Reconnect to the server. Optional arguments are db and host.
delimiter (\d) Set statement delimiter.
edit (\e) Edit command with $EDITOR.
ego (\G) Send command to mysql server, display result vertically.
exit (\q) Exit mysql. Same as quit.
go (\g) Send command to mysql server.
help (\h) Display this help.
nopager (\n) Disable pager, print to stdout.
notee (\t) Don't write into outfile.
pager (\P) Set PAGER [to_pager]. Print the query results via PAGER.
print (\p) Print current command.
prompt (\R) Change your mysql prompt.
quit (\q) Quit mysql.
rehash (\#) Rebuild completion hash.
source (\.) Execute an SQL script file. Takes a file name as an argument.
status (\s) Get status information from the server.
system (\!) Execute a system shell command.
tee (\T) Set outfile [to_outfile]. Append everything into given outfile.
use (\u) Use another database. Takes database name as argument.
charset (\C) Switch to another charset. Might be needed for processing binlog with multi-byte charsets.
warnings (\W) Show warnings after every statement.
nowarning (\w) Don't show warnings after every statement.

For server side help, type 'help contents'
VRX really seems like it's much more smoke than actual fire; at least on recent specialty pharmacy news. It's definitely a complicated and shady-looking structure but it seems like they have shielded themselves from any fallout from fraud. That's not to say the stock won't take a hit in the meantime but Enron comparisons are really overblown right now. Management definitely screwed up by not clarifying things earlier.

Theranos is in a completely different situation. They could easily lose Wallgreens among others over the current fallout and not get the FDA to go the way they want. Company would take a huge hit and given that their signature technology is not really usable right now, I don't know how much more leeway they would really have after this.
Sony Music Tries to Force Creator to Pull Video It Licensed from Him
A Journey Through the CPU Pipeline (2013)
It's called a survey paper. In this case, the survey is particularly valuable, because the stuff in it was scattered across blog posts and conference presentations --- many of them by the author of the survey.

Just not a great critique going on in this subthread.
I wonder what the real story is. A lot of questions, that if true make it look bad, but if those are just random guesses with no basis in fact? Then its just a hit piece.
But see, even the statement "the idea of reality is part of our survival mechanism" is a statement about the nature of reality. Your statement therefore refutes itself.

To say that there is no reality is self-refuting. To say that there is a reality but nothing is true of that reality is also self-refuting.

Therefore, some things have to be true about reality. We may not know what they are (we may not even be able to discover what they are), but there is a reality that is more than our senses and perceptions. Some things must be true of that reality.
I think you're missing the point.

It wouldn't make much sense to keep the groups isocaloric but replace the calories from sugar in one group with say, protein in another. You wouldn't be measuring the same thing any more.

The entire point of the study is comparing monosaccharides to polysaccharides and observing changes in 'health' (excuse the vague terminology). Sugar is substituted with a longer chain carbohydrate in well planned research.
"For cybersecurity purposes".

It's a short bill. Read it again! These terms are defined, reasonably well.
OpenBSD developers: Antoine Jacoutot
It's possible to update it, not sure about replacing it with ones own code. I know this is "whataboutism" but here goes: Is this different from Intel ME processors with their "hidden" Sparc core?

http://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub
I disagree with your comment about better teachers. Teachers are simply a conduit for learning. They don't scale, which is why there is still a power-law distribution in educational outcomes despite tons or research and data and training and testing that should combat that. Basically rich people get richer because all rich people who are generationally consistently rich have one thing in common. They are autodidacts. If you can learn on your own, and have the capacity to recognize when the assumptions underpinning the status-quo are no longer correct, you can consistently remain wealthy relative to everyone else. True rich families understand this and teach it implicitly/explicitly to their children. Who end up being the fertile ground on which 'good teachers' have a multiplicative effect. This does not work for the poor as they lack the necessary base skills and knowledge to benefit from good teaching. Poor people still break through because circumstance often teaches people, like everyone who came from nothing on this message board, how to learn on their own without help or assistance from others. Advocating more assistance from others is not the solution. And for the same reason that sending $1T in aid to Africa has had mixed results.

Knowledge cannot be taught it must be learned.
OK but when people talk about "carbs" they aren't talking about chemicals, they're talking about foods.

Nobody is ever going to know what the chemical composition of a potato is, it's just a potato. Fibre, water, protein content is "carbs" when it's in a potato.
Well, 20 years, maybe 2? The kids I know have no idea what those icons mean; the young adults I know may have some idea but have never seen the items pictured outside of an old movie.
But iOS 9 only ):
Morin's rebuttal is all the more laughable in the light that Theranos may be deficient in their quality systems: https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/27/9621026/fda-theranos-lab...

These aren't trivial problems that can be fixed "at the time of, or within a week of, the inspection", as Theranos claims.
"ceci est votre dette à la société?"
They also got an exemption for modifying of abandoned games whose activation systems are long since gone, as well as extending/clarifying the jailbreaking exemption.
Sure, but cellphones don't actually have any level of intelligence and could never solve a task it wasn't programmed to do.
I see your point.

However, the price is still steep considering what leading virtual assistant service companies charge. The bonus with a virtual assistant is the "on demand" aspect. Its not a fixed cost per month, every month. When I am really busy, I use it more and consequently pay more and vice versa for when times are slow...
Would you short it x10?
Knowledge cannot be taught it must be inferred.
Maybe don't tell them that they are smart. Tell them that it is OK to work on something and be bad at it. They need to learn to fail and try again not learn that they are smart. This doesn't mean giving them homework or not giving them homework but encouraging them however we can to actually use that creativity we know they have to learn how to learn on their own terms.
PageCloud
It's cynical because that's what we, regular readers of news, have to deal with. NYT may be top of the line, but sadly it's not above the line.

Now I don't want it to sound dismissive or personal in any way, but tell me - if say, few of great software devs now drop everything they do and come to NYT to help, sit down for months and develop the most awesome software package the world of press has ever seen, will it actually solve the quality issues articles have? And more importantly, if sold to other papers, will it suddenly solve their problems?

Will it make journalism honest and trustworthy instead of lies and clickbait bullshit?

I'm not sure how much blame to put on broken publishing workflow, a lot of this seems really to be about broken incentives - "deadline pressure to publish fast before the competition" that leads to the "many articles, as sensationalist as possible, truth be damned" mentality, especially in the management layer.

But you did give me a pause here. Only recently I had a chance to peek at internals of a tiny part of manufacturing industry, and oh boy how much money they waste on badly designed software, which is badly designed because of deadline pressure and top management pressuring to iterate over a broken software package (and then messing with the process) instead of scrapping it altogether and doing it right. Maybe software is more to blame than I thought.
Actually, I completely forgot about Swift, along with the fact that it will be coming to Linux.
And just to be clear. The answer for children is to make learning to love learning play. And the way to do that in a way that scales is through a video game. That is the future of education. Games for children that teach them how to learn, that they then use to set their own educational path. With teachers, schools, mentors, and advisors helping along the way.
Except Telcos cannot link (time, ip) with a paid account when traffic is only passing through them.
I wish. It was a project I did as a contractor. That company has changed source control systems twice since then, and been bought. I guess I should have kept a copy.
NPR.org Now Twice as Fast
I just had a talk with my brother about this Sunday night as he did his homework at my parent's home. He wasn't able to find his sheet of rules on how to simply some math expressions, so I sat down and showed him how I would simplify them without rules. He had been given rules, but never actually taught why these rules worked. (Not to mention at least one of these rules I would not count as simplification, though it would be useful in simplification.) Like you mention, he was scared of getting it wrong instead of understanding it.

An hour before that, I was talking with another brother why 'oh, I don't need help with that because we are no longer on that chapter' is a horrible way to think about math, especially at a grade school level where you are building up the core foundation.
Solving the problem of composability of visual components on top of the existing DOM leads to chicken-or-egg problems like getComputedStyle/offsetTop mentioned in that Mozilla blog link someone else referenced. DOM is a crufty stateful beast, and enhancing it is hard which scares me away.

Beyond that, the Web Components spec seems geared for coarse-grained components - like a widget or a panel. I could be wrong about this, I admit, my experiments a year ago with Web Components were short lived when I saw how much got polyfilled on Firefox. Anyhow, React is a javascript library exercise rather than a retool-the-DOM exercise to me, and that's a big reason I appreciate it. It offers data binding, rendering, templating, and true-componentization all in one package - and it supports legacy systems. I think there's an answer in Web Components for all of those things, including legacy support up to a point with polyfills, but it wasn't cohesive nor easy to roll things.

I think with lots of tool support, perhaps a compiled language targeting the Web Components spec, it could be just as easy to roll Web Components as React Components.
Was this the same research that showed that one of the biggest predictors for divorce was whether your partner held you in contempt? I recall reading that that was a bigger problem for marriages than things like outright hostility or infidelity, but I could be remembering things completely wrong.
On the other hand, honey is mostly glucose + fructose in about the same ratio as table sugar and HFCS.

Seriously. If two things are chemically the same despite being from different provenance, chemistry teaches to expect identical behavior for the most part. Sometimes trace elements change things significantly. Why anyone would expect that of honey though, wishful thinking?
It was probably a very cheap device they could give out to the people in the study.
Receiving feedback as an intern at Khan Academy
How can you perform live tests on patients and still be in stealth mode?

At some point you have to come clean with the FDA about your technology, right? Or is this considered a wide-field clinical trial?
Or pay for VA's that can do a LOT more for close to the same price?
Evidence of Headphone Break-In
I agree it is a jerk move, but I also think it's a good lesson in choosing the appropriate license for your work. MIT is clearly not the right license if you feel that others should give you a courtesy credit. Regardless of how rude it is to do so, the MIT license tells people that it's OK to use your work without attribution. There's some CC licenses that would probably be more appropriate.
Fixing notation would definitely help talking about nutrition. Scientific terms should be used precisely, or not used at all. Dear diet industry: invent your own words, or capture the generic ones. Start with 'magic'.
The UC FAQ about the policies anticipates and acknowledges one such issue:

>My publisher’s policy says _____________, which is different from UC’s OA policies.

>Publishers’ policies will not, by default, represent the terms of institutional open access policies. You should read, and keep, any agreement you sign. In particular, you may want to look out for rare contract terms asking you to affirm that you have obtained a waiver of any institutional open access policy, or that you have not previously licensed any rights in your article to anyone besides your publisher.
Reducing storage requirements means that one can fit more apps on the device, and that apps download and can be used faster.
Google thinks Sinek is a fly
Anti Evil Maid 2 Turbo Edition
Scientists just found that red meat causes cancer  or did they?
Valeant is especially pernicious case of credulous investors looking at a rising stock price and skipping their due diligence. There's a lot of amazing blog posts from John Hempton and others outlining the problems with their story.

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/some-comments-on-v...
http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/simple-proof-that-...
http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/valeant-and-its-ca...

http://azvalue.blogspot.com/2015/08/valeant-detailed-look-in...
http://azvalue.blogspot.com/2015/08/valeant-detailed-look-in...
Is it just me who finds auto upgrade on a router very scary? I mean, I get it, ordinary ppl wouldn't upgrade otherwise but still the security / surveillance aspects are frightening.
I've always found MySQL's CLI vastly easier to use than PostgreSQL. The \G command alone is godsend. And the ASCII formatting makes everything much more readable to me.
One movie I've always had a hard time categorizing is Groundhog Day. I went through the 37 plots listed and still don't see a good match. Does achieving enlightenment count as a plot?
This is completely missing the point. They're not deleting apps (although all three reserve that ability, it seems Google is the only one that's actually used it), they're deleting the assets from the app. And they're only doing it because you haven't used it in a long time, and other apps need the space.
Jive defeats patent troll, judge invalidates patent
Rubinius, Inc. – A Benefit Company
and those companies are doing great!
Screencast - https://getvql.com/demo_citi_bike.php
My mother always told me how angry it made her to see obese children.

If you're an obese adult, it sucks and there are things to say, but whatever you do you. But kids don't know, kids need to be taught. And you're basically 100% responsible for any kind of extra weight on your child.
Me too, but I'm also very curious to see the due diligence reports (if any), DFJ has on Theranos given that they've been in Serias A, B, and C.
I bet they pour over and nitpick lots of minor details on the financials

Tech? That's for the nerds. The light is blinking so it's fine I guess
Have you tried Google Trends? > http://smallbusinessbc.ca/article/how-use-google-trends-perf...
I'd love to have a window made out of ants.
+1
I think the problem is not homework - it is there is no other reliable and affordable "better" alternative to homework or standard test. We can all argue that homework is taking away the time kids can otherwise spend on exercising, socializing, innovating etc, but truth is they are more likely just sitting there and playing their phones.
I think it has more to do with the fact that it is just sugar by itself. From what I've read, it seems that the context of the sugar is what makes it "good" or "bad", and that's because the effects are measured by how the food affects your blood sugar after eating it. This is tracked in the metric known as the glycemic index of the food. In fruits it is with fiber and plant material that results in your body taking longer to process the sugars and doesn't give a spike in blood sugar like eating the same amount of refined sugar would. Honey is just lacking the context that most natural sugars is and is thus more similar to refined sugar.
R v Dudley and Stephens – British murder case of 1884
US Army bug hunters in 'state of fear' that sees flaws go unreported
Compte-Nickel, a French operation, has a basic package available that includes a debit card, IBAN number (to receive or wire funds) for 20 euros/year. No other fees since there is no possibility of being overdraft. Payments are free, although ATM withdrawals are paid (something like 2 euros/withdrawal). It can be bought from tobacconist's stores and refilled there. An ID is required but nothing else (so it is available to homeless people). Overall seems like an interesting, non-preying offer.
Oracle finally launches Elastic Compute Cloud, 9 years after Amazon debuted EC2
University investigating duplicated images in retracted paper
I think he means there are few operating systems out there that make security the primary goal. Most other options seem to think in terms of "how can we best secure the platform we already have and is used by millions of people without breaking anything".

When that's what you're working with, you're limiting yourself quite a bit in terms of adding new security solutions. At best you'll be at least a decade behind the innovators in security who aren't afraid to build new stuff from scratch and break the old stuff.
> I bet they pour over and nitpick lots of minor details on the financials

What financials? Lots of these companies have little to no revenue.
> There's no such thing as true reality

Interesting. When you say "there's no such thing as X", aren't you imagining a sphere of existence in which, whether we want it to or not, "X" does not appear?

Would you not call that sphere of existence "reality"?

If you're saying we can't perceive reality, well, that's what's being argued about in the article. If you're saying reality doesn't exist, you're contradicting yourself.

To put it another way, "there's no such thing as truth" is a claim about what's true. Imagine that you say "there's no such thing as truth" and I say "yes there is". What can you say? "You're wrong"? I would reply, "if I can be wrong, it means there is a Real Truth for my statement to contradict."
(The title is a quote from the comments)
There is if the set of legislators that are in favor of the end to mobile roaming charges doesn't overlap exactly with the set of legislators in favor of net neutrality. In that case, the number of people who vote in favor of the package might be the intersection of the people in favor of the two things, which is strictly smaller than the set of people in favor of one or the other.

Classic poison pill maneuver.
It's a conflict of interest only if there actually is a conflict of interest. Tell me, what "conflict of interest" does Dave Morin have with Theranos?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872

satellite recon of walmart parking lot usage, to estimate business trends
HN asked me to re-post since the original didn't get much attention before it fell off the front page.
Drupal 8: What you need to know
It's not "inside" trading if it's data available in the marketplace.
The author's original blog post doesn't mention Hadley Wickham at all. It seems to be a judgement call when deciding whether to give attribution.
" "Considered Harmful" Article Titles Considered Derivative and Uncreative"
Isn't a diet you lose weight from the very defintion of an unhealthy diet?

Sure, it might be what you need if you start out in an opposite but equally unhealthy state, but in the long run consistent weight loss is fatal.

It might not feel relevant to you, but large parts of the population in the world find themselves in that very situation through no choice of their own.
>In fact, I'm not sure people even remember that one of the original propositions of cable was that it was ad free.

That's mostly a myth. The original purpose of cable was to get TV signal in areas where broadcast didn't go. The first basic cable channels were TBS--which had advertisements--and Christian Broadcast Network--which probably didn't. The unfiltered cable stations, for the most part, had advertisements.

You are likely remembering HBO, Cinemax, The Movie Channel advertisements. They didn't have advertisements because you had to pay per channel.
Projections up and to the right.
From the HN guidelines: "Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was “Scientific discussion goes out the door the moment the lawyers enter”.)
Sure, the basic plots begin to elude anything remotely surrealistic or avant-garde. Try similarly categorizing the likes of Luis Buñuel, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Stan Brakhage, Catherine Breillat, or hell, even Michael Haneke.
I look at it as a series of mis-aligned incentives. Only so much funding is available, and that defines the size and scope of the experiments that can be done. This, in turn, limits the study design (and by implication the downstream breadth of the conclusions that can be drawn). Researchers, by and large, do the research they can afford to do. Once that research is done, career and future funding potential comes from how much publicity and notoriety a study can get. Credit in many research communities goes to the authors of the papers that get the most citations, and you get citations by producing popular papers. Novel conclusions breed popularity.

In the hands of a pop science journalist/communicator, traffic/audience engagement are often used as criteria for success/career advancement/job security. Thus, there isn't proper, unbiased funding for the serious evaluation and consolidation of the conclusions that can be drawn from a new research paper. This is why we get the Buzzfeed-worthy "They compared honey to corn syrup, and you'll never guess which one was healthier" headlines instead of the boring-but-accurate "No variation reported in limited time-series study of sugar intake" that might better represent the data.
I would prefer a pony over UEFI... possibly Rainbow Dash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10441538
Just a side note: very many Java developers mention IntelliJ.

IntelliJ is good but I prefer the free Netbeans even when I have access to the full IntelliJ paid by the company.