skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking the graphical user interface idea a step further, even the best user interface can't help but "leak" some details about what's going on under the hood.

And I'd argue that given the high-level general processing ability of our brains--Turing machines can simulate anything computable--we actually have a tendency to recognize that leakage and build better models of reality, if only a small step at a time.

Most of the time, the "interface" presented to us by our senses is very workable and lets us survive without needing to know too much. But as we keep trying to integrate new pieces of data, we do come to realize that our models are too simplistic, and we have to revise our models. So we do, slowly, over the course of our own lifetimes and over the course of of civilization, dig deeper into the reality behind things. That's what I consider intellectual progress.

Think about how some people develop critical thinking capabilities even though they live in regimes that basically feed them comforting lies 24/7. On the one hand, we often want to hide from reality to stay in our comfort zone, but when reality as currently handled becomes too painful, we do exhibit the ability to learn a better model.
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The problem is if you eat 100 calories of sugar you will be hungry again in 30 minutes, whereas if you eat 100 calories of protein/fat/complex carbs you will be satiated far longer. The first-law-of-thermodynamics approach is nutrition is often cited around here, but it's a trite truism that is useless in practice, and it is oft used as justification by many to eat a processed snack that puts one on a glycemic rollercoaster rather than an unprocessed item which will tend not to have the same effect.

Again, as I stated in my opening sentence, I am not pinning this on you, but it was your appeal to the old calories-in-calories-out trope that compelled me to respond.
Accounting rules changed after Enron; it's a lot harder to do what they did. The biggest recent drop was after a very negative piece from someone who publishes negative pieces while short-selling. I don't have much information, but I'm not all that convinced Valeant has real fraud issues.

Also, Theranos and Valeant seem like entirely different businesses.
Great stuff everyone, but thinking at the software level is a bit shallow; we must start over with ternary hardware; for the people, by the people #nanotothemasses
I feel like everyone in this thread should go watch season 4 of the The Wire. There is a lot of relevant work there, including the various pressures on, and requirements of the educational system.

tl:dr; Teacher's can only ever be a part of a solution to the complicated educational needs of our society. And given what we're willing to spend, they can't even be a particularly effective part in poorer parts of the country.
and then they use that info when evaluating an employee's eagerness to move forward, be a team player etc. !
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25 years, SMM was born on 386SL in 1990

but it gets worse, every processor from PPro (1995) on to sandy bridge has a gaping security hole reported (conveniently only AFTER Intel patched it 2 generations ago) by a guy working for Battelle Memorial Institute, known CIA front and black budget sink

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Domas-Th...

surprisingly good writeup:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/11/memory_hole_roots_in...

list of CIA fronts: http://www.jar2.com/2/Intel/CIA/CIA%20Fronts.htm
battelle is on it
Isn't it great how how those rich US states are opening their arms and pocketbooks to support the Syrian refugees, so that poor Sweden and Germany - to say nothing of impoverished Turkey, Italy, and Greece - don't have to bear it on their own.

And look at those US universities, all well-supported by the states so that students don't need to struggle with debt for a decade after they graduate.
This is the correct answer. A parallel is also designing for outdated internet browsers.
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Due to ever increasing development, squirrels can no longer travel the nation by jumping between successive trees as their ancestors once did. Today it involves much more work and danger: crawling down, scampering across open ground, climbing back up, running the wires, and dealing with those high voltage pole pigs. Actually, squirrels have been mad as hell at us for many years now. Thus far they haven't overtaken us because (a) we've appeased them somewhat by tossing them peanuts and filling bird feeders with sunflower seed, and (b) they haven't quite mastered the "opposable thumb" thing just yet. But they are known for adaptability and persistence, and there are reports they are making major advances with (b) by secretly observing our finesse at eating chicken wings at outdoor picnics and festivals. Really, it's only a matter of who gets there first: squirrels and thumbs, dogs and doorknobs, cows and upright walking, or cats figuring out the internet backbone. We'll soon be paying homage to our new overlords, and they won't even be from an alien planet.
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Has enough money for a really nice drone.. doesn't have the money to buy a 15 dollar push broom(the proper tool for this job).
One reason they are so secretive is because they are trying to maintain many of their technical advances as trade secrets rather than patent them.
So, what I'm hearing from you is it is not too late.
> Safely take control of reckless or malicious drones.

What's the difference between that and recklessly or maliciously taking control of safe drones?
My take on it is that Elizabeth Holmes set out to make this idea a reality, but has been unable to do so. Sadly, all signs point to her trying to buy time via smoke and mirrors. If she has misled investors in the same way she has misled the media, given that she has raised $400 million, she's looking at decades in federal prison.

I see this whole thing ending in tragedy, whether that just means the loss of $400 million that could have gone to other startups, a full-scale criminal prosecution, or some other dramatic end. Whatever happens, a happy ending no longer seems to be in the cards.
What emperor? You mean that homeless dude with schizophrenia?

Yeah, that's VC funding for you.
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Dell's capital cost will be lower in part because they aggressively paid down the debt from going private a few years ago. That has to be one of the most valuable reputations in the world -- probably saved over a billion dollars on this deal, just from having good credit. Yow!

Yes, its incredible how hard-won that trust is, and how much the market will reward you for it. Basically, investors are saying that they consider Dell to be a safe bet and are willing to charge less for it so that Dell may succeed and give them a great ROI for years to come
Probably because you don't know where your app will blow up. Unless the app is geographically restricted, there's no real telling where the spark will happen. Maybe it unintentionally solves a massive problem that is happening right now in India, and you suddenly have a massive influx of 2G users. If you hadn't even considered the experience for them, it won't matter how quickly it blows up; it'll fizzle immediately when you have a shitty experience.

For example, on my trip a few weeks ago, I used T-Mobile's free 2G roaming to get around. Searching for something on Google was pretty quick, and loading a Wikipedia page also was relatively fast. But the second I moved away from them and onto real sites that didn't try to optimize for lower speeds, I was pulling my hair out at how much data was trying to get sucked down on such a slow connection. It took minutes to load some websites.
Holmes ran that business in high school. She was born in 1984, so that would put the date around 2000. There were good reasons not to use G++ in 2000. When Alexandrescu's book was published, in 2001, it was somewhat notorious on my team (shipping code on G++) for how much of it didn't work well, or at all, in G++.
It does meet the most basic requirement of being free to read. That's a huge improvement.

I've no problem with BY, but NC and ND are quite restrictive. ND particularly as the license says I can't "build upon" the material. What does that mean in a scientific paper, I can't replicate your experiment? I can't create improvements to your algorithm and publish a new paper?
GOG buys rights to distribute the original works for pennies on the dollar, the exemption EFF got is that you are allowed to reverse engineer and distribute software which can be used to run games that you own for systems that are no longer available, as well as transfer the games from their original media to modern ones in order to preserve them.

It doesn't not however give people the license to sell those games commercially doesn't matter if they are "abandonware" or not.
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Seems like trying to take control of a drone might cause it to crash. So whoever operates this might find themselves footing that bill or taking responsibility if the drone then hit someone or something on the way down.

Plus drone manufacturers will take steps as soon as this is available. Basic encryption and or frequency hopping is inexpensive these days.
> maintain many of their technical advances as trade secrets rather than patent them.

That... is true about most companies. Patents are almost always strategic disclosures.
I don't think it's a bad thing for Facebook to take this obviously good idea from Google and adopt it themselves. It seems that the only outcome is a better experience for users.
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> They don't try to make it seem like you can eat sugar cubes, chicken breast and avocado and be healthy.

Most of the people I see practicing IIFYM believe exactly this.

They routinely top off with donuts and candy to hit the high carb count needed to gain weight. It's way easier than trying to choke down a pound of brown rice every day.

IIFYM is probably not a bad diet for a teenage boy or steroid user trying to pack on weight while doing a high volume of work. Everyone else will put on a lot of unwanted fat.
Also can result in stealing.
Prosecution seems fabulously unlikely, given how infrequently founders have gotten in trouble with the law for misleading their investors. Holmes won't be close to the most lurid bad-faith founder claim (if that's how the story indeed ends).

This is why we have investor "accreditation".
Happy visitors to your page/app/whatever?

Return visitors to your page/app/whatever?

Just because one is connected using Verizon, doesn't mean the connection speeds at any given time are all that great.
How does a benefit company affect things like funding? Or acquisition if the time comes?
> Yes, but it's usually limited to free services, or low cost services. It's rarely applied wholesale to a group who is already paying through the nose for crappy service.

Why would you expect that? There's nothing about increased privacy levels in ToS or in product marketing, nor there was ever in history an actual, significant demand for privacy services. It may change now, as all the stories broken over the years slowly make people care about tracking. But why would anyone assume that if you pay for something, you get special treatment? You get only the minimum required treatment that's spelled in the contract. That's how it always has been everywhere.
Is Facebook still planning to gate the internet in India behind Facebook, though? I recall they had plans to give folks in third world countries access to Facebook only, which is extremely sad.
I like how one of the employees in the foto is wearing a react t-shirt :)
Also, if you shop at Amazon, use smile.amazon.com for purchases, after hooking it up to EFF.

It's the "Give % of sales to non-profit of your choice" option in Amazon.
Can someone explain how this technology works? I can assume, but I am interested.
I blame video games for making me into a history buff. And maybe Legos, combined with the History Channel before it was the RedneckAliensJesus Channel.

Civilization, Lords of the Realm, Caesar II, Robert E. Lee: Civil War General, Close Combat, Total War, Pirates!, Anno 1602, Europa Universalis/Crusader Kings/Victoria/Hearts of Iron, Age of Empires

Or to go way back, Math/Word Rescue, Treasure Mountain, Midnight Rescue, Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, the crazy game that was part of Encarta, Dr Brain, Maxis Sim games all taught me math, geography, history, logic, physics, etc.
> This is exactly your mistake: you seemingly can't conceive styles as something apart from content/structure/HTML.

Like I told you before, people have been using class names as styling hooks since prehistoric times and what you have been proposing is not something new at all. As for me, I use classes EXTENSIVELY not EXCLUSIVELY and this is the main contention in this debate.

As with the example you cited, this is a pretty good example and use case for packaging the style module and slabbing a class name on it and pushing out the door but the problem with your approach is that you see EVERY and EACH CSS rule/ruleset as a viable candidate for potential reusability down the road when real world experience shows us that this is unnecessary and overkill. Not every CSS rule will end up as an independent module somewhere and in the eventuality that this happen for some of them, it's easy to remedy the situation with a few code lines and it's done without the need to invest upfront in a naming system that comes at a cost and has a considerable overhead at least from an organizational standpoint.

Regarding the last point, there's nothing smart-ass about my solution ( production-bound projects are not a suitable candidates for show-off or competitive coding contests and I guess you know that already ).

Again the problem is that you don't want to acknowledge that you don't solve the styling problem in CSS by simply passing the buck to HTML. Taking the earlier timeline as an example, if you'd go class-only in CSS and to throw away all the simple logic provided by those pseudo-classes, you'd still have to provide a similar solution in your HTML template files.

Please don't fool yourself that you wouldn't have to do this because there's no other way to supply those specific classes (one for the first and last item, one for the inner items and then extending it to even or odd item) other than programmatically. This logical problem needs to be solved and you'd have to come up with a scalable and reusable solution to meet the requirements. If you prefer to solve the problem in the HTML domain with the help of JS and you're capable of taking all the precautionary measures to avoid introducing errors in the template, it's your call but please note that there are other people who prefer to solve styling problems in CSS terms, if applicable, and not toss it around to other domains for the sake of just holding to a dogmatic position.
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There are no rules against roaming charges, so it depends on the plan.

I believe that most plans don't have roaming charges within the United States. Mine certainly doesn't. It's hard to have a competitive plan that has roaming charges.

Roaming charges outside the United States can be quite high. I have to watch carefully who I'm connected to when I'm near the Canadian border.
You can learn on your own, I think this would be better than a boot camp depending on your skill level anyway.

You're not going to pay the bills right away so you're going to need a 'day' job though and learn on your own nights and weekends. Maybe see about a non-programming job at a web development agency.

If you are just getting started . . .

Get a copy or pdf of
Head First HTML and CSS

google head first html and css pdf

This will get you started with the basics.

I recommend using a mac if you have one (PC will work too)

Use SublimeText, MAMP or WAMP and filezilla, buy a domain and get a hostgator account learn about the domain, DNS (pointing A record to your hosting), uploading/updating your website.

Learn some Javascript and jQUery there are head first books for these too.

After you get through that book move on to . . .
Headfirst PHP and MySQL

Once you make it through that book you should checkout Rails and/or Laravel which are frameworks for building web applications.

TeamTreehouse.com is a great place to learn a wide variety of skills.

RailsCasts.com and LaraCasts.com for Rails/Laravel.

Once you have HTML and CSS down you might be able to get an entry level position at a local web development agency.

Also working through those books you'll learn if you have a knack for programming. Do you track down/notice bugs quickly? Or do you spend hours tracking down a : that should be a;.

Inspiration:
http://jenniferdewalt.com/

Good luck.
Except they were going to offer that service for free, which IMO changes the picture.
You need to be a bit proactive :) Even if you join one of the camps you still have to spend time learning and practicing (during, and after) to learning everything you need to know. Good luck!
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The newest news says, that the first big carrier is looking for legal ways to get around this. So "abolish" might be a little to much promise.

The news behind the news is, that the EU parliamentarians likely did sacrifice net-neutrality to get rid of the roaming charges (it is rumored, that many feared that when the whole package was not voted for fast, the roaming charges would also be dropped from agenda).

So, very possible, in the end we get nothing of it at all!
There are; outside of each carrier's coverage. Tho some carriers don't have roaming charges.
This is the complete opposite of what we need.
Probably more a matter of convenience. His current broom broke and he had the drone handy. A replacement broom would mean a trip to a store, plus the money for it, plus the time to still do the sweeping. Had he started with the drone, yea that's just questionable.
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It's not that bad. Copyright covers the publication, in this case the written paper, not the technique; that could be covered by a patent, but is unlikely. For basic, wet-lab bench research, traditional copyright has for example permitted replication forever - no issue there.

Code is a trickier issue, but generally no, you could not publish derivative code. Not that you generally can under traditional copyright.
I believe the FB Empathy Lab[0] is all about this sort of device testing

[0]: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/656582605173858305
"Possessed of an ambition" is a weak attempt at listing a basic plot -- you can phrase this equivalently as "having a goal", and it will obviously be present multiple times over in any story at all.

Phil has several ambitions in Groundhog Day, some more closely related to each other than others:

1. get out of Punxsatawney (changes over the course of the film)

2. stop the repetition

3. sleep with Rita (when he finally gets this, the repetition stops!)

4. optimize the day

(3) and (4) are both given quite a lot of screen time and plot focus; (2) is the source of many jokes.

Some other thoughts on the list:

I was surprised to see "Struggle against God" categorized under DISASTROUS SITUATIONS PRECIPITATED WITH CRIMINAL INTENT. I would have put it under TRAGIC SITUATIONS OVER WHICH THE VICTIM HAS NO CONTROL.

"Possessed of an ambition", interpreted as a goal, includes a lot of the other elements (consider "love's obstacles").

The list makes a three-way distinction between "enmity between kinsmen", "vengeance", and "kindred avenged against kindred". A better-thought-out list couldn't do this.
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The biggest problem with this I think is that it files in the face of the goals and incentives of all service providers. They want your personal data for marketing (not to mention engineering reasons like infrastructure optimizations), and they need your personal data because government.

Some commenters mentioned that you can still get burner SIMs in Europe, but last time I checked it was incredibly hard anywhere in the world (maybe I don't know where to look) - even in China they want your official documents to sell you a prepaid card. The reason I always been told, that sounds plausible to me, is that easy access to burner phones leads to too much mess with criminals using them for their criminal things, and with random pranksters calling in fake bomb alerts.
> Are the transactions (issued from within the browser) performed optimistically? If so, will this not give "flicker" in the browser in case a transaction needs to be rolled back? Is it also possible to easily perform a transaction from the server (i.e., not optimistically)?

I was at the Lisp NYC talk where David talked about Om Next. He specifically spent some time talking about this and demonstrated how to perform optimistic updates that do not flicker.

I can't really say anything else (the talk was great, but way above my head at this point), but it seems to be able to do that.
I would start from ruby and then learn RoR framework
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Probably being downvoted for using the word "steal". It has a negative connotation where there should not be one.
> Theranos and Valeant seem like entirely different businesses.

I think you're missing the point I was making: Valeant is a timely and interesting example of what can happen to the valuation of a company under fire.

> I don't have much information, but I'm not all that convinced Valeant has real fraud issues.

If you don't have much information, how can you be convinced of anything one way or the other?
yeah except I'd have someone there to train me and help with things to keep pushing me.