skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you skeptical due to the sample size of 94?
The sample size only needs to be large enough to capture the variance in the response for the population. The sample size does not need to increase as the population being studied increases. Look into the concept of statistical power.
How. How is that thing still considered a solution? We are talking about Chrome's HSTS preload, right? How come downloading all the Internet's certs with a browser is considered at all? Yes, it's nice, but it's a bigger hack than Win95's GUI on MSDOS.
SkySafe – tech to take over badly behaved drones
> One of my piano teachers was forced to practice through tears as a kid

She was traumatized by figures of authority to learn piano, and she became a piano teacher. I'm not seeing the inspiration aspect of this story.
Cue corporate IT departments everywhere advertising the slow internet speeds as "We are helping you empathize with the developing world"

Today I found out my megacorp has been leading the charge to help me empathize with our customers in Africa. It's a sad day when my latency to the internet in Europe is higher than our actual satellite connection to a remote site in Africa.
Federal Reserve's Response to “Why Are More Young Adults Still Living at Home?”
yes. If you actually look at the results table in the study, the results are not even significant at 5% level.
This would be accurate if all we know is from our senses. However Math and Science together allow us to predict things that never were accessible to our senses, but can be confirmed with them. Now, it could be that we are still operating in a sphere of limitations, but it would be surprising Math and Science didn't tease them out. For example, even though we don't "feel" quantum nature of the world, experiments can be constructed that show a visible(to our eyes) effect that is predicted apriori.

Elaborating, it is unlikely that something can be confirmed from multiple points of view(senses, math and science), unless it is true.
I completely agree! Please look for my other comment above (control-F "tonydiv"). You will be pleasantly surprised about what we're working on here at Lingoland!
> And the way to do that in a way that scales is through a video game.

Well, that's one way. Any teacher who has used word-searches, acting, rhyming games, etc has found other ways. Don't get me wrong, there are a wealth of awesome startups in this space making apps, and I think they have a lot of potential, but they are certainly not the whole story, until we have something out of "The Diamond Age: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer".

Lots of good actual science takes place in the real world, and a video game can certainly be part of the solution, but there's a lot of room for engineering and whatnot that can be part of an autodidactical solution that won't live in an app.
International Students Find the American Dream – In Flint
> that there is an untapped market of people who want to play games on their TVs that is nonintersectional with the set of people who already play games on their TVs

I don't think that's Apple's belief. From what I see, they just want to take their current gaming userbase—people who own iOS devices, especially kids—and give them a TV "console" to run local-multiplayer versions of those same iOS titles, letting them re-use their iOS devices as controllers.

It's effectively nothing more than a NUMA-processing extension to AirPlay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCUV3iv9xOs&list=PL442FA2C12...

Finish this in a week, and create open source projects, then get a full-time job.

It doesn't have to be PHP, you can start with Javascript/NodeJS, but definitely learn a database side, server side and client side programming language to create a whole web application by yourself.
I can't see any way that Larry can acquire EMC without having his shareholders revolt. After they bailed out his personal investment in Pillar Data, this would basically be admitting what actually happened.
Yes it is, amongst locals. Not expats.
And sugary products in the UAE aren't as cheap as they are in the US.
Given your daughter is in a french immersion school, I would love to hear your feedback on what I'm working on: http://playlingoland.com

Language immersion from home!
Unlikely, if anything, the US carriers will double down on roaming fees. They tend to do whatever it takes to prevent becoming what the European carriers have become, just a line supplier.
The letscrypt effect just started discounted EV ssl
Does the fact that the Medium post was taken down since I made that post qualify?
> You don't need a whole page of quadratic equations, in fact you don't understand it if you get to the end and think you need more. OTOH, if you only do the first two and you think you get it, you might be enlightened when you look at some further questions.

You do a couple of them and you get superficial understanding. You might even have a decent mechanical grasp of how it works. But I'm yet to meet someone who can take topics of adequate complexity and actually internalise them without a fairly large amount of (progressively harder) repetition
Doesn't solve the problem of the network reporting your location (disabling the baseband does, but operating system level permissions don't impact the network).

I know that's outside the scope of your comment, but I wanted to point out that the baseband is not a thing the operating system really controls in any meaningful fashion.
> a flag which you may forget to use

It's not that you forget to use it, it's forgetting what you're supposed to specify. Anyway, it's a UI thing so we'll never agree. Fine.

> I usually spin up a virtual machine for testing out server stuff.

Yes, we've established that. What I'm saying is, not everyone does. In fact, the people you most want to use this tool (the SSL-illiterate, so to speak) are probably the ones most likely not to do it.

> https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/ seems like a pretty clear, easy to comprehend, overview to me

Well then, there must have been a miscommunication about the aim of this project. The target user, from what I understood, was supposed to be the SSL-illiterate who doesn't really care too much about the whole tech, he wants things to Just Work. The experts could already self-sign or snag a certificate here or there; the point of this tool was supposed to be helping workaday IT guys get on board the encryption thing with the minimum of effort and cost.

None of these people is going to read that page (who reads "about" pages on marketing websites?). They are going to clone the repo, check the readme, maybe check the user guide linked from the readme. If it doesn't work the first time for whatever reason (because the guide is not clear where it can and cannot be run), they're going to drop it and just keep doing what they're already doing (which, after all, Just Works already, it's just not encrypted).

If LE developers want to onboard stupid people like me, they have to clarify that:

1) this is supposed to run only on internet-facing servers with a domain already pointed to them,

2) this doesn't work on mac -- no half-hearted "experimental support", if they can't be bothered they should just drop it,

3) all the info required to make it run "without thinking" should be either in readme or user guide.
It's true that this is primarily a rant, in that it doesn't describe a solution. Part 2 (coming) will describe the solution that we at Urbit have implemented. If you don't want to wait for that, check out the other documentation on urbit.org.
Why I should be a Christian?
I could definitely seem board games as art. As for RPGs, the books themselves are art as are the stories produced. A given session of play would also be art; akin to some kind of improv/acting, though not done with any thought given to an outside viewer. As for the system of rules... that one I'm left unsure of but it may be art in a same way some see elegant code as art.
snickerdoodle: A brain for your robot
Ask HN: What's the best path for learning JavaScript for web development?
I'm a web developer who doesn't know Javascript. Yes, that's a bit shameful to say, since Javascript is the language of the web. I've basically managed thus far with just backend languages and frameworks and hacking together CSS/Bootstrap/a tiny bit of jQuery, but obviously I need to learn JS.

Assuming I have close to zero JS knowledge but know how to program, what's the best learning path for me to become competent in frontend development?

One idea I had was

1. Read Eloquent Javascript

2. Read Javascript--the good parts

Work on side projects using this stuff as I read through it

3. Read a book on jquery, keep doing side projects

And then eventually start learning a framework. Is this a good plan? Any suggestions?
I consider this to be a good advice.
Twitter monthly active users miss target, down 11% so far in after hours trading
Put another way...

Will you have just worked yourself to death making ice sculptures with a chainsaw, or will you memorize every line of Star Wars?
Random thought: maybe "gratuitous positivity" is as damaging as "gratuitous negativity" and should be treated the same way. Only seems fair, doesn't it?
And, according to Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's screenwriting book, a successful movie should abide by a very simple 3 Act formula (paraphrased):

Act 1: Introduce Nice Guy

Act 2: Get Nice Guy stuck in a tree, throw rocks at him

Act 3: Get him down from the tree

Or, in other words, just watch Die Hard enough to get the idea.
Its actually very simple with some clear winners emerging now:

Log / Stream Processing - Kafka \n
Scalable Storage - HDFS \n
Data Processing - Spark, Map reduce (in that order) \n
Historical Analytics - Hive/ Spark SQL \n
Real Time Processing - Spark Streaming, Storm \n
NoSQL - Cassandra/ HBase \n
NoSQL (In memory) - Redis \n
Search - Elastic Search \n

Some more honorable mentions:
kibana on elastic search - for analytics visualization \n
druid - for analytics \n

Above are the basics - if you add them you will have 90% of the standard stack for big data.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-petition-inspect...
For the people creating content, that's a problem, not a benefit.

Yes, for the readers, if there were enough structured content available, that would be a benefit. They aren't the ones that need convincing.
The Pentagon's Missionary Spies
Second theorem of Godel's Incompleteness?
Check out Codecademy too:

https://www.codecademy.com/

It's a generally good way to learn something through available resources (which are accessible as never before), do an Open Source project of your own and then look for a junior position to apply and widen that knowledge.

Good luck!
It's more like for using the skills they know than ease of development. Web is more common this days that developers fear the working directly with an OS...

Years ago developers used to code websites on languages intended for the OS (tools to make that easier was there) and today we see the opposite.
I'd go with for Groundhog Day:

- (3) A miracle of god

- (5) Love's obstacles

- (14) Pursuit

- (23) Struggle against god

"God" being the situation he find himself in (both the miracle of it, and the struggle), pursuit being his overall progress, and of course the "main" love plot.

Depends how literally you take "god" for if those fit or not.
$ shopt -s checkwinsize

on the bash command line before starting psql should fix this. This was one of those things I figured out several years after I started using bash that would have made my life much less annoying.
There's an alternative philosophy to consider, stoicism:

http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/why-stoicism-is-one-of-th...
FWIW, sports was not actually my choice. My parents saw it as very important (and they had to pick me up from school after practice every day, so they thought it was worth 1.5 hours of their time in addition to my time).

Not that dropping sports typically helped, based on other students. I was really paying for sports with my GPA; people who didn't play sports typically had better grades and about the same amount of sleep (the 2-3 hour average was pure homework; I didn't learn to study until college, largely because there simply wasn't time).
The real argument is not about whether we need homework or not. It's more about can you learn more than 7 hours or so a day? Kids are at school from 8-3 being taught by the teachers and then they have to spend an another 30min to 1hour at home. This is just too much.

Homeworks are important. It's the only time that they can think by themselves and put what they learn in practice. But after being taught so long at school, kids are tired to learn. They want to play!
All of the philosophy in Anathem is just shuffling of names and descriptions of real work by real-world philosophers.

The "Sconic thought" of Anathem is mostly Kant (as is the discussion of beauty, which is almost a literal quotation of Kant on the sublime); the "fly-bat-worm", and wondering what it would be like to be a bat and experience the world through its senses is a nice allusion to Thomas Nagel.

Back when I first read Anathem I kept a running set of notes mapping the book's presentation of philosophy to the real-world thinkers and schools they corresponded to. Might have to dig it up again.
Mightn't the deferral of tax payments until newly-taxed properties are sold or inherited remove (or at least reduce) the time correlation, thus improving the market position of the sellers?

Avoiding any adjustment in ownership patterns seems impossible to achieve without strong legislation, but attempting to provide adequate compensation through the market (rather than the government) seems like it might work? (question mark because I really have no idea...)
Thanks! That's a good point. We will use IEnumerable and LINQ in the next example that we'll make
Zachary Hammond shooting: officer who killed teen avoids criminal charges
By the time the video of the sporting event is transmitted through the air, satellite, or internet, there is already a time delay between when the viewer sees an event happen and when that event really happened. When you watch an NFL football game on cable or satellite, you are really watching something that happened dozens of seconds ago, if not a couple of minutes ago.

That is plenty of time to inject post-event meta data into a broadcast to enhance the viewing experience. There is no need to predict if a basketball shot is going to be a miss to the viewer at home. We can simply wait for the event to occur and then the broadcaster can inject the results between the time the event occurs and the when the viewer sees the event.

I guess not many people watch sports from a DVR, but imagine if you had an hour to two to computationally enhance the sport event's display.

Or maybe you could watch an episode of The Walking Dead and elect to see real time Twitter/Instagram/Facebook reactions alongside the broadcast or on your second screen.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased with the progress - but doesn't this just mean they'll make it harder to crack?
People's bodies are not linear systems.

Eat too little carbohydrates, and you'll die. Eat too much, and you'll die. Your claim that any increase must lead to the same marginal results is absurd.
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"Sugar" is composed of fructose and glucose. Do you mean carbohydrates in general?
Yeah, he had never really thought about it (and I wouldn't have thought about it) and wasn't planning on installing them at all, but a couple realtors he talked to said it probably wouldn't be a good idea to omit them completely. Even if he didn't put them in every room, at least have them in key rooms (i.e. kitchen, general living area, and master bedroom). One realtor told him that installing them wouldn't increase value, but not having them could decrease value depending on the buyer.
Oracle Compute Cloud
Why?

Edit: It seems to me that depending on the market one targets there's not much to be gained from designing for slow connection speeds...
Welcome to yet another arms race...
A thought about loading screens: game studios do them because people are willing to put up with them. But there are definitely ways to do "streaming" asset loading/unloading in games, that studios almost universally ignore because they trade off loading time for perceived quality (i.e., they make for sometimes-awful screenshots that could end up in someone's review.)

For example, imagine an open-world MMO game. It's fairly simple to keep a "base cache" of low-poly models with low-res textures of all the world areas, and then pull down the asset pack for the "active" area as necessary. Now, instead of a loading screen, each level looks like prev-gen crap for 30 seconds when you first arrive—but you're free to continue interacting with the area, as the better-looking assets asynchronously download and replace the base ones.

This is what people expect for e.g. streaming video—that when your connection chokes, you get a degraded, blocky view that continues in real-time, and then slides back into HD as the connection improves.
Yes, one can limit some permissions, but there are others that vanilla Android will not allow one to block. For instance: Device ID. I don't have a complete list of the un-blockable permissions, but simply using Android's built-in functionality is not sufficient to block all identifiable data that your phone's apps leak.
Unless noted, I assume posts come from companies and comments from individuals. This has large impacts in trustworthiness and skepticism level.

I believe my position is common, and why undisclosed company comments are frowned upon.
The problem with me is I need support. I'll admit I'm lazy
If Hoffman's argument is simply that humans don't see reality "as it is", it's clearly true but not very interesting - of course perception is flawed and a simple imperfection can be systematically corrected. Each moment, our visual system receives a distorted image of a given object and the system combines these to make a more "exact" image. We have created artificial aids to extend this process, again correcting immediate inaccuracies. The difference between humans and beetles that mate with brown bottles [1] is that humans can (sometimes) correct our sensory perceptions over time (plus Hoffman's use of "evolution's equations" in his video seems meaningless since in the abstract one can assign fitness to whatever quality one wants).

The serious problems come in with systematic errors - especially for philosophy which has often relied internal reflection. We know about optical illusions and mirages. If there are higher-order things that only do we "not know that we don't know" but ideas/approaches/beliefs that we tend to not be aware of even when they are called to our attention. And we in fact know about many bias humans make[1]. It would have been more interesting if Hoffman focused his attention on these. Then again, his own biases might have prevented this.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_a...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias
Oracle’s charge into the cloud creates fear of lock-in
Would appreciate any feedback on how to improve the simulation for testing. For now turning off traffic lights makes the efficiency go up by 10 cars/minute. It would be interesting to test real city models, and different traffic algorithms
> If there "truly" is no reality, there is no logic, either, since logic is part of reality. Right?

But see, you're making a logical argument there. If your position was right, then you can't do that...

The only way you can say that there is no reality is by making a statement that you claim is true about reality. The only way you have argued that there is no logic is on the basis of a logical argument.
First in a Stanford class can still turn out to be an incompetent VC who doesn't do due diligence
No every software shop in the world should be designing to the requirements of their target userbase -- which often is not India.
Holy shit broseph, you just converted me to a new film religion... I shall no longer worship The Dude. I shall worship Phil.
Not charging outrageous prices for upgrades, and not shipping devices with ridiculously small storage, would also mean that one can fit more apps on the device. So what I'm wondering is why they're doing one but not the other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
Don’t forget to clear your client side state when logging a user out
You're right, I didn't give a straight answer. Alive will use the CPU and the disk, but your computer won't be crawling nor crushed. And when you're done, just click the button to stop Alive, and it will stop - for real.
Word-processing: A bit of googling suggests that a texlive distribution may exist for AROS. Not wysiwyg but can produce professional results. PDF reading looks like xpdf or one of the dvi based viewers or gv.

OA could perhaps have mentioned bit more detail about the apps supplied. Perhaps a typical workflow for small task?
But it's all natural...

It's bad enough when they're talking about one sugar being healthier than another, but it really gets strange when they start comparing table salt.
I think we focus too much on those rights and less on the overall big picture. US slavery was bad, but Caribbean slavery was much, much worse, what made it worse was the conditions the people labored under.

Personally, if I were in a minor outlying area of the Roman empire, I perhaps would have preferred to become a Roman slave rather than be free out in the boondocks. I've read that a Roman conquest would always start with a call for anyone in the opposing army who wanted to be part of the empire to defect now and become a Roman slave, that was supposedly a better fate than losing in battle. In Rome I could, by hook or by crook, earn my freedom and perhaps even become emperor.

If I were in Africa, and I had a choice, I would perhaps choose to become a slave on James Madison's plantation rather than stay in Africa. You should read the book written about one of his slaves, he was truly extraordinary.

What made US slavery so bad wasn't so much the slavery but the racism. Roman slaves looked just like their masters. But when US slaves earned their freedom through manumission or simply buying themselves off their masters, a somewhat common practice in the run-up to the Civil War, they had to be careful or fall prey to slavers capturing them and re-enslaving them.

If it weren't for the racism, you could make a credible argument that enslavement in the US was, on the whole, better for the people involved, going by the standard of, if you had all the relevant information, would you prefer to stay home or go to the US as a slave.

Of course, American intellectuals made this argument at the time as a justification for slavery. The practice of indentured labor where people willingly sold themselves into bondage to escape their homeland lends some credence to this, but in my opinion the racism blacks experienced and still experience places it solidly in 'wrong' territory.
There are no roaming charges inside of US, are there?
Mobile Development should always be about using the least amount of battery. We were just going over the proper way to handle iOS audio visual usage in today's iOS Training Class http://iostraining.invasivecode.com.
We, at hike ( http://www.hike.in), did following things:
1. gave the cheap android smartphone to use as their primary phone
2. asked employees to stay on 2G on their mobile phones

It helped a us lot to improve our product for India market.
Automate all the things but wait