skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bonus: A lot of elementary school teachers are there because they can't cut the math for some program they wanted and their college shunted them off into early education. These are, unfortunately, very often women. As a mathy woman who homeshooled my sons and spent considerable time getting my oldest over the math phobia school instilled in him, I harbor the opinion that sending math flunkies in droves to teach our children is part of why math has such a reputation of fear and loathing. They not only cannot teach it, they pass on their fear and loathing to the students. Extra bonus: Since they are overwhelmingly female, I think this contributes to keeping the stereotype alive and well that girls are bad at math. We give our kids sucky math education and also model that "All the women you know and admire are terrible at it and hate this shit."

Go, us.
I totally agree with you and also think a good approach is to start with asking the offender if he can help with explaining his code to me so I can understand it well enough so I can change it. Maybe also during the talk ask how he managed to test his code. If I am lucky this will make him understand why it is good to have solid code that others can understand and change without his help. This way I am not directly saying that his code is bad, I am saying I am not able to understand it leaving a possibility that it is me there is a problem with. If the code was written more than 2 days ago he will probably also start having problems with understanding exactly what it do.
Of course there's a lot of potential for tremendous good to come out of this. Right from the article: "Insel: One of the great challenges in this field is how to help people who do not want help."

If Google can somehow predict and prevent a mental health issue from getting to the point you describe, that would be wonderful. But we can't ignore the huge privacy issue to deal with there.

If Google was surreptitiously capturing reliable psychological assessments of people on a large scale, especially post-Snowden, I'm sure anyone could imagine more than a couple potential issues.
Yes, I write about mobile and product design:
https://blog.orangecaffeine.com
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Do they produce energy with it though?
thank you I missed that. They seem identical besides the antenna and the sensor. Personally I'd rather have the antenna as it seems like you should be able prioritize from the app if they wanted to enable an easy .. Prioritize feature.
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Totally agree with you. Hopefully, that's something we'll manage to change just yet :)
That is addressed with the discussion of the 3,000 threshold.
Dude, why so much hate?
What use would be an infomercial recommending to stop eating sugar?
> Of course what it should be is like at university. The professor can't spend all his time with you, so you get a rough list of what you should know about. It's then up to you to judge whether you need to read a bit more or a bit less.

This does not reflect common US practice.
An interesting point I read awhile ago (wish I could find the article) is that variable-length instruction sets (like x86) are preferred by authors of malicious software over fixed length sets because the binaries are harder to analyze. That is because in variable length ISAs, you must use a recursive decent parser to find all code paths in the program, because jump targets are specified in bytes or words instead of discrete instructions. This allows someone to jump into what might be the data portion of an instruction when parsed one way, and now the behavior totally changes because the bytes are being interpreted another way.
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Neat cartoon. It helped me understand Flux a little bit better.

In step #4 (Once it’s done changing state, the store lets its subscribed view controllers know), why can't the child views just subscribe directly to the stores and remove the view controller as a middle man?
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Right now, the version of the product we are offering, is the traditional software licence in which they buy a copy. So, offering them a discount is almost always useless, as they already bought a copy. Once we launch the corp version with subscription we could start doing this https://screensaver.ninja/corp/

And I agree. I want to maintain my relationship with existing clients, specially ivy league universities, banks, etc.
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Well now, we won't know if it's misguided if we don't do it, don't you think?
The argument is not complete only looking at the amount paid - you must account for what assets and income people get taxed upon. If the top 10% own 80% of all the income and assets, if they're paying about 40% of all the income and assets in the country (not an actual figure, just using for sake of cohesive argument), they are not paying their fair share. Then there's the fact that most high net worth individuals do not have most of their income from direct work anymore as much as passive income through stocks - the few exceptions are Hollywood celebs and similar that wind up getting taxed quite heavily. For example, most people's assets are primarily a single home and a retirement account in the form of a 401k or fixed income via pensions and social security, but this isn't similar to the asset distribution of the wealthy today almost ever. In fact, I remember someone noted how pro athletes that spend their money like how normal people do in direct proportion would wind up bankrupt quickly.
I have not, but had a friend recently who did. He works pretty much entirely from home doing graphic design and video animations. He does not have a home phone, but did run phone and CAT6e to all rooms. He debated on running the phone, but in the end decided to just in case he decides to sell down the road. Little things like that could be a costly add-on for a potential purchaser.

He also had an "IT closet" built in the house. It houses all the phone, networking, and a media server. It has dedicated circuits, a metal door, concrete walls, and a separate small AC unit built in for cooling. While he doesn't intend for it to withstand any disaster, he did want some added time or at least a little more reassurance. Overall the house is about 4500 square feet, and each room has drops for cable, phone, and multiple ethernet drops. He also has WiFi throughout the house, but for streaming content having the wired connection provides the best quality. Finally for his home office he dropped a fiber connection from the closet. He does have a backup system in the closet and also backs up that remotely, but in general the fiber was probably an overkill for just one room in my opinion.

He has a bunch of other "features" throughout the house for controlling environment, lighting, security, temperature, etc from both inside and outside the house. In the end I don't think it was much more expensive to do since they were starting from scratch. I am sure it probably would have cost a ton more to do post-construction. And I think with the direction the smart home movement is going it probably added to the value of the home in some way.
If it saves you even an hour of time over the course of months or years then why wouldn't it be worth it?

With that being said, if it's not yet "stable" then I agree, a hundred bucks is quite pricey for an unfinished dev tool.
> Slaves have no rights

That depends on the exact historical milieu. For example, slaves in Athens at various times had the right to freedom of religion, right to claim asylum at an altar, right to not have their owner kill them out of hand (or more precisely if the owner did this, he was brought to trial, at least in theory), etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Greece has some selected details.

Totally agreed with your last sentence, though. ;)
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"Müllheizkraftwerk", so - yes.
It is not that simple, simply because you cannot calculate the amount or rate of absorption. Your intestinal bacteria acts and reacts to changing foodstuffs. For example if your eating a consistent diet of the same foods regularly, your intestinal bacteria will become more efficient at breaking down the food over time. If you suddenly switch foods, it can become less efficient. That could be the case in this study.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/the-food-figh...
Many hedge funds have started to consume this type of data.

There is a piece in WSJ that discusses how one fund, two sigma, uses cell phone tracking data, as well as many other sources of data to build trading signals.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-computers-trawl-a-sea-of-dat...

In fact, I think the biggest funds are putting more effort into this type of big data exploration from funds than they are into trying to glean more information out of the time series data provided by the exchanges data feeds.

10 years ago, being able to scrape the web was a competitive advantage for funds, 5 years ago it was real time sentiment analysis of news reports.

Today, its being able to consume 100's of disparate data feeds and build alpha generating signals from it.
I'm glad to see that the link to the study is now in. Also, the current version of the article includes phrases like "the study’s lead author, Dr. Robert Lustig"; did it originally? I can't find the link to the version history of the post.

I'm skeptical of this "software" explanation. Software can of course make citation management much easier, but I see lots of articles that don't even bother to mention the lead author of a cited publication; and how did the software get that way in the first place? The software reflects the priorities of the corrupt organization that produced it.
> Secrecy isn't necessarily an indicator that there is law-breaking involved.

So? Abusing loopholes in the law is also by definition perfectly legal, but still dubious practice. In fact, that's exactly what this sentence from the article alludes to:

> By the same token, when Oxfam estimates that just 1 percent of the world’s population will own more than 50 percent of the world’s wealth by 2016, it’s important to realize that such a state of affairs doesn’t just happen by itself, or even through the actions of individual wealthy people. For the most part, the wealthy are busy enjoying their wealth or making more of it; keeping those personal fortunes out of the hands of governments (along with creditors, litigants, divorced spouses, and disgruntled heirs) is the job of wealth managers.

> Given the little that is known about the profession and its role in global inequality, it seemed imperative to learn more about how wealth managers pull off this sleight of hand: Without breaking any laws (for the most part), they enable their clients to sidestep many laws and policies—especially those designed to prevent the kind of neo-feudal concentrations of wealth emerging now.

You're right on all other points of course.
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Sure, you can use pgcli instead of psql. But it doesn't replace psql. In fact, most tasks described in the article cannot be accomplished with pgcli.

- it can't list schemas with \dn

- it can't list materialized views with \dm

- \dt <star>.users doesn't work as it does in psql, i.e. it just lists all tables due to the * instead of listing users tables in all schemas

- it can't use your editor with \e

- it can't input existing files with \i

- it can't redirect the output with \o

- it can't extract data with \copy
Well, wouldn't it be more productive to write your own blog post(s) on why CISA should be opposed?
> I think he has a point about the absence of race and racism as gameplay elements being very conspicuous in a game about prison.

It's a point in the sense of being the dogmas of a pundit who disguises his propaganda using the form of a game criticism.

> I don't think Super Mario Bros' subject matter is comparable to Prison Architect's, and so I wouldn't expect the same kind of articles written about it.

Personally I would be mildly surprised to NOT find a kotaku article that uses a mario game as a flimsy excuse to make some completely irrelevant point or sensational hook that the writer (or editor) wanted to make anyway.

> I think he has a point about the absence of race and racism as gameplay elements being very conspicuous in a game about prison.

According to you. The idea that a game about prison HAS to address race is the dogma. That's the preaching. That not only has nothing to do with making games that are fun and entertaining, but it also has nothing to do with a true artistic culture (rather than a circle-jerking pseudo-intellectual culture of criticism)

PS http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1022hm.html
He gives a shoutout, too, but less directly. (saying he was inspired by Ted Benson's post here [0], which has the same code)

[0] https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wif...

The kid is just really bad with appropriate attribution, but he does refer to the people that inspire him loosely. The issue is that he's posted code in various places without any direct reference, so anyone copying that code will attribute him, rather than the original author. Which sucks because he's literally copying large chunks of code 100%.

e.g. https://gist.github.com/theleybzon/4e721f17e5dfc642c738

is 100% similar to the source he copied it from (Benson).

https://gist.github.com/eob/a8b5632f23e75b311df2

He does refer to Benson in the article, but not the code or its repository. Anyone looking at the code would now attribute him, not Benson, the 100% original author. It's an issue but it's not out of malice or ego or anything like that in this particular case, I think he's just messing up a lot rather than trying to present other people's work as his own. (the OP's article does have hints of that, though)
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As far as looking for complexity goes - it's a matter of perspective. People will look for the complex, just as they'd look for the simple.
Note further that "you may have a mental illness" -> "you may be at increased risk of committing..." is as sketchy as "you are a minority" -> "you may be at increased risk of committing...".
I was just responding to what you'd said above:

> I do see lots of places in the bill that allow sharing to other private entities or to the USG for cybersecurity purposes.
Linkrot is a huge problem, and we need IPFS or a similar system to prevent it.
Very true! I started at 200lbs (I'm 5' 6", 32 years old) and cut out soda. That got me down to ~175lbs. Keto is helping me get down to ~150lbs.
So in some localalities people pay to be able to hand off their trash to be converted to energy. Wonder if that's because of a difference in local businesses or in local recycling behavior.
Curious. Can you provide a full code example so that I can try to determine what's causing that error?
Based on my son and daughter's math education I agree with this. It's not all entirely on the individual teachers; the program (created by groups of other teachers) is heavily based around non-algorithmic math. I really liked math in school but I absolutely hate the math my children have to do.
In the abstract you're right, however in this case there are actually links between eating sugar and inflammation in the body. Sugar affecting arthritis is not a new concept; there's plenty of studies on the topic already out there and the relationship between sugar and cytokines in the body. I'd say that's fairly far from a placebo effect.
> You can lose 1.36 kg per week on any diet if you restrict calories

This line gets parroted around here constantly (its just thermodynamics! calories in calories out!), yet more evidence continues to be provided that macronutrient balance matters, as does gut bacteria.

EDIT: What if dieting turns out to be as easy as naturally selecting bacteria for the gut that can't break down carbohydrates easily, and selling it as a probiotic pill that replaces you're existing gut bacteria? Wouldn't that be a huge win for public health policy?

And before anyone comes in and says that's not possible, check out this women who became obese from a fecal transplant from an overweight donor:

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015/02/04/Woman-becomes-obes...
Small nitpick, but i would lose the first GIF which has about 6 emails scrolling by in quick succession. I'm not a speed-reader, so even managing to make out the grey summaries at the top took me like 6+ iterations. That's pretty frustrating, and i only stuck at it because i'm procrastinating and should actually be doing the dishes, because i should actually be changing a light bulb, because i should actually be rinsing my yak, because i should actually be writing my thesis manuscript. In that order.

EDIT: or at least slow it down, because of course the point it's trying to make is cool and/or worth it and/or noble.
That's a non-standard view of art. I don't know of anyone who uses the term like that; of course an analysis of art must take into consideration its "huge influences".

For example, when people review classic movies, they take into consideration what studios were willing to fund; executive meddling; whether the movie bombed at the box office; the political situation at the time; the moral codes of the time; budget limitations that forced directors to be extremely creative; problems between the lead actors; etc.
Wow, that could work. A self driving van. Of course, the drone would charge from van.

How about the optimization: as the van is slowing down or looking for a parking spot the drone takes off. Van begins unparking as the drone gets near.

Or in cities, the drone could take the subway.
If you are in San Francisco you can see a demo of the rkt API service and the acbuild tool at the CoreOS meetup tonight: http://www.meetup.com/coreos/events/225731210/
It's really nice to see a tool like this come out for a statically typed language. When I started learning programming 2 years ago, tools like Light Table and the live editing capabilities of Seaside for Smalltalk were not only a huge help but are something I've come to miss in other languages.

I think that live coding tools for the big 2 languages (C# and Java) could be a great boon to students learning programming in college, where at least in my area statically typed languages seem to be the norm.
interesting key findings:
- potential to address lack of diversity in tech
- investors are educated and capable of sound financial decisions
- motives to invest are altruistic, not purely financial
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Actually, Train was the first thing that came to my mind when typing that comment. The fact that we both immediately thought of the same niche game that apparently has only been played twice without it's creator present suggests that these things aren't terribly common (that's not to say that these edge cases aren't interesting). But maybe a die hard board gamer can correct me, since there tends to be a lot of interesting stuff that goes unnoticed (this is definitely true for video games, I'd be surprised if it wasn't true for other games).

The people who seem to be pushing for games to grow up or talking about Citizen Kane moments (and seemingly forgetting about silent films) seem more interested in validation than anything else. There have been interesting games for decades; if they're truly interested in these, all they have to do is play them.
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I don't think that your solution is appropriate to the problem. The telcos would not make money on our data if we were not customers. We should demand a) either that they proof that we're not part, e.g. opt-in only b) share revenue or c) sue them into oblivion.
"The metaphor that resonates with me as a musician, would you expect someone to get better at piano only by attending lessons but no practice at home?"

If they were at lessons for 7 hours a day, five days a week... yes! Yes I in fact do.
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Yes 7.09 MHz My bad it was soooooo fast at the time now I laugh. I really thin the move from anything to Amiga at the time was just leaps and bounds greater.
> My problem is that games-as-commercial-artifacts and games-as-art both miss the point. Games are both, as well as entertainment and cultural artifacts. Criticism and analysis needs to consider all these things or miss important aspects required for understanding.

That's why reviewers can attempt to do both. Just like they do with movies :)

The problem is that videogames are relatively new and people are not yet convinced they can be reviewed as art. It's safer to stick to them being just entertainment whose content is pointless to analyze.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, this is just a placebo effect. Does it really matter? If it provides a noticeable, reproducible result that improves someones life, who cares? Is it guaranteed to work for you? No, but there's no guarantee with a double blind tested, well researched method either.

It's giving up sugar, not ingesting plutonium. Worst case scenario you don't get the 'infomercial results', but it most likely will still improve your overall health
I've seen parents argue for more homework so that homework would make up a larger percentage of the students grade in an attempt to make up for the fact that their child is a "Bad test taker".

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.
I would consider this illegal wire tapping. Just because the carrier has the location data as part of its operations doesn't mean it can use that data for any other reason besides providing service.

I am glad this story is out, I have seen airsage data and it is easy to deanonymize. This company shouldn't be in business.
> What if coke is able to change their business and provide those healthy alternatives?

That was the implication of the post, yes, hence the mention of sugar-free drinks they already produce.
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I am looking to setup my own secure video calls server home. So people at my home can connect to the server and call each other, and video talk.

Checking things i saw this
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/OpenVCS+-+Open+Source+Video+Conferencing+Server

and another alternative was looking at asterisk server, or a jabbar server.

As I was searching , found that the machines needs only client compatible with rfc 3261 meaning supporting sip protocol.

Anyone has any recommendation on a specific software? windows or linux based.

the most important thing its to be open source and free to personal use.
They absolutely should not be insulted if someone disagrees with them. Presumably the people involved are adults, and should be able to disagree in a civil manner.
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I say this because of the people I know who attempt to treat video games as art. They examine social aspects, political aspects, and so on. There's a tendency to either ignore or gloss over economic aspects.

That said, it's probably easier to do that with classic movies about which there is a sizable body of knowledge. You don't have the same production information about a video game released last month.
Best research I've seen on the topic... http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html