skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the "skip school and become an entrepreneur" meme chiefly an American idea? Everyone I know from China be like "get the best marks in the entire region and become an entrepreneur"
Not daily, but yearly, certainly they are. Where do you think they get the cost-of-living adjustment numbers from?
I'd also be interested in a brief comparison. This is the first I've heard of both Shrine and Refile. I'm really excited that backgrounding and direct uploads are being simplified in both projects.
Well, if you wanna go the literal route, one could consider "the empty discussion" to be a discussion if you're mathematically inclined :)
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Let's assume the study is valid except that it failed to correct for macronutrient balance. It failed to replace sugar with pure carbs. Let's say this made a difference.

The result of the study changes, but it's not invalidated.

Sugar is still bad, but so are other carbs.

You still don't want products to add extra sugar.
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Wall Street is never about the now it's about betting on the future. Apple has a single, massive, product. But growth is slowing due to saturation and they don't have anything else. Amazon meanwhile is gobbling up commerce and has now become the dominant player in cloud infrastructure which still has massive upside. They would appear to have far more upside than Apple today.
I'm curious if you would expand on why this is a terrible idea.
I was actually contributing actively to Refile before, so in a lot of ways Shrine is similar to Refile (the idea of backends is basically the same). However, the main difference is that Refile does processing on-the-fly, while Shrine (and CarrierWave) do it upfront, so it goes in that direction. Basically in Shrine I added all of the features I was missing and wanted to change, which I wasn't able to add to Refile in a compatible way. One major addition is the support for background jobs, which I just couldn't see how it could be added to Refile. Also, I wanted Shrine to be far less opinionated than Refile, that you can have much more options how to do uploads.
This sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I really grasp what it 'is'. Can you explain what this it to me, as if I were 5 years old? I really struggle to understand two things:

a) What this is.
b) Why it's valuable.
The EFF is probably as good as it gets for digital privacy issues, unless it becomes a widespread concern for millenials.[1] When you're a small minority like digital privacy activists are, using the legal system instead of the ballot box is your proper recourse, by design. Money would help, somewhat, too, but I'm not sure the tech companies with deep pockets actually support the digital privacy agenda in more than a tepid way.

[1] Which I doubt. Eventually, you'll have millenial senators. But I am guessing they will still care more about terrorism, chinese hacking, etc, than electronic privacy.
A few [1] have argued that the last thing Apple needs now is a hit driven mentality. If there's an opportunity to make a difference to an entire market, sure... But otherwise the focus should be on stabilizing and growing the ecosystem of these post-PC devices and continuing to let the the Mac ecosystem swallow up what is left of the PC world's profits. So far, that's exactly what Tim Cook has been doing, with the watch being less about a new hit and more about keeping the innovative thinking warm while they exploit iOS/tvOS.

[1] http://blog.gardeviance.org/2011/10/why-i-believe-aapl-will-...
At worst, I'll get annoying advertisements for burqas. Don't see how these are comparable.
Minor point but I'm fairly certain Telstra NextG is a 4G network.
This reminds me of this paper: http://honors.uoregon.edu/files/Keller%20Living%20Instrument...

You can see the effect of the perception shift if you read enough papers in computer science.
I saw a couple of videos' through the UCSF web portal by this guy (Lustig) a few years ago. I can summarize what he said about various diets. The Paleo and Atkins diets work not because what they include but by what they exclude; processed carbs, sugar, and booze.

Another comment. Dr Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist. If you start looking though the literature. Doctors, nutritionists, etc are all doing research to prove low fat diets work. And high fat diets are bad. And it's all about will power. The pediatric endocrinologists started working the processed carbs, sugar (fructose) are bad angle about ten to fifteen years ago. Probably about five years ago they became absolutely convinced this is correct.
This is very poorly written, if you don't already know the plot to Destiny then this article isn't for you.
On Ethereum there is no built in way to have a contract be called periodically, say every 5 blocks, or at a specific time in the future. This contract creates a market which allows contracts to hire people to call them at the requested time.
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Not sure if "taking control" of a drone would be considered a form a jamming, but the FCC says:

> Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with cellular and Personal Communication Services (PCS), police radar, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and wireless networking services (Wi-Fi).[1]

The FCC just handed out their largest fine ever ($34.9 million) against a Chinese company for selling jammers in the US capable of interfering with GPS reception from a half mile away.[2]

I recently became a licensed amateur radio operator (W6AKJ) and was surprised by how seriously the FCC takes enforcement of those radio bands that are available for public use. I find it highly dubious that these guys would be able to market and sell to the public a device that interferes with the lawful use of a radio band used for remote control.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/jammer-enforcement
[2] http://www.dronejournalism.org/news/2014/6/fccs-historic-fin...
Structural purposes.

Personally, I hate moving/changing/adding classes with Javascript. classList is hacky. Stuff like this is exactly what data-attributes are for. [0]

img.dataset.filter // "instagram filter type"

The CSS would need slight changes, accordingly:

img[data-filter="filter_type"] { /* styles */ }

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Usin...
What if it is? That would also suck. They control the hardware, firmware, OS and apps. If there are glitches it's no-one else's fault.
I didn't do enough Husserl, so Nagel was what I went to with "what's it like to be a bat".

I will say it's very clear that Stephenson read his Kant when prepping to write Anathem; as a basic layperson's introduction to Kant's critical philosophy, the book is quite good.
> You are equating MRI with Ruby.

As far as there is a practical definition of "Ruby", MRI (which actually has, since 1.9, been YARV, a previous compatible-with-MRI alternative implementation) is it.

> If someone came along and fixed some ruby weak points (concurrency, performance, subtle bugs) I would be happy to call it ruby

If it wasn't compatible with existing Ruby and you couldn't use existing Ruby with it, why would you be happy to call it Ruby?

> just like we call java java regardless of whether we use openjdk or oracle.

OpenJDK's relation to Oracle's JDK is more that between Chromium and Chrome than that between Ruby and an alternative and incompatible-but-similar language from a third party.

> At some point that might lead to an actual spec...

Like ISO/IEC 30170:2012?
a carbohydrate refers to a molecule made up of a chain of carbon atoms bonded with hydrogen atoms (if I remember correctly from Organic Chemistry).

There are plenty of different molecules, such as Sucrose, Glucose, etc, which are all forms of carbohydrate molecules.

But when people refer to "carbs", they're not referring to the chemical molecule, but most likely processed carbohydrates such as bread.

Hopefully that's more clear
"I could walk you through" seems to me to be an offer to help, not a pitch for business.

It struck me as basically somebody saying "if you care about it for your app, I'd be happy to help you care about it for your website".

I feel like you're assuming bad faith, and the person confused as to why the comment was being downvoted was applying the principle of charity instead.
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I've played the game and still don't know the plot.
So from what I understand, this means that when I roam in the United Kingdom on an Irish sim, I get no extra roaming charges, which is great.

Does anyone know if this has any effect on calls/texts to other countries?
I wouldn't say that this was the primary reason, as the EFF has lobbied for this before and set the process in motion before that became public. It just provides a well-known recent example.
> But in the near term, I would imagine their growth would taper off as more and more of the developing world get an iPhone (China still has few more years of growth) & Moore's law means features aren't added as often.

Apple has enough in the bank to make a strategic shift or leap into another market when that starts to happens (who knows what they haven't released that they've been prototyping for years).
A number of companies are vying to be the 'Uber of trucking.'
Looks like this has been going on for a while http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/03/the-new-imac-designed-by-ap...
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I'm good with a bit of homework when the kids are not too little; there's something to say for sitting down by yourself and trying to focus and figure things out or memorize a little bit (it can be done at school too or instead of at home); if students don't have a minimum of study habits, how are they going to go about hard STEM courses in universities?
You might like a pair of CNET columns I wrote 13 years ago calling for a PAC for tech issues:

http://www.cnet.com/news/is-it-time-for-a-geekpac/

http://www.cnet.com/news/perspective-dont-get-mad-get-even/

I interviewed Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, for one of the columns; whether you agree or disagree with him, he's an able advocate for his issues. Here's what he said:

"One of the most important things the tech industry can do is a rating," Norquist says. "Every politician in this country wants to tell you that he's tech friendly...Pick 10 or 20 issues and give ratings. Then people who say they're tech friendly but they're not--there's a cost to that. You as a tech group don't have to advertise that. The candidate running against that person will promote it. It certainly puts the lie to some people running around who say they're tech friendly and don't have the records to back it up."

I also wrote some Perl code to scrape Thomas and create tech voting guides for Wired and CNET with an interactive Javascript map. Unfortunately I think the Wired one has died in a redesign, and the CNET one no longer works either. :( http://www.cnet.com/news/technology-voter-guide-2006-grading...
I prefer to get my gaming news from a site that doesn't push authoritarian social justice agendas, or denigrates its audience. Did not click the link.
I think there's the confluence of a couple of factors here.

One is that the ANC is no longer untouchable among a growingly frustrated electorate. Holding government responsible for more than what happened 21 years ago is becoming acceptable.

For another, this is classic human and social psychology at work. People rise up and are the most dissatisfied not when things are at their worst, but when things show signs of progress and improvement. That's people get the sense of what's possible versus what is and get the most agitated.

That's why civil rights activists in the U.S. blew up after the 1963 Civil Rights act -- after the govt actually did something -- as opposed to the decades languishing under Jim Crow laws. The SA students are now seeing that change is possible, and that's making them question a lot more.
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Which is ridiculous on the face of it - why would Wall St. subsidize Amazon's quest for 0 profits while spurning Apple's kingly quarterly earnings?

The reason is that Wall St. is threatened by Apple because they cannot control them.
Link to the Facebook Engineering blog post

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1556407321275493/building-fo...
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FDA inspection found problems at now beleagured Theranos
Meh. Replace with any number of YC successes.
In Vietnam, there are more and more buses have 3G router w/ AP to supply internet to their customers on road trips. Even the remote mountains now have stable 3G network.
But a potato isn't processed, and people call it carbs.
Me too, my friend. I've spent too much time here this week because I have something important I'm putting off. Sigh.
NextG is their 850 MHz 3G HSDPA network. Their 4G network is just branded "Telstra 4G" and "Telstra 4GX" for 700 MHz.
The filters are a collection of the same type of things. Therefore its more akin to filterAttr = filterEnumVal[autumn,auburn,sunnydale,cheezit,etc..]

Instead of polluting the CSS namespace, it's much more apt to use a data-instafilter="[val]" property.
with the training/test data sets, wouldn't it be possible to find the best parameters with a genetic algorithm? i mean, sure, it'd take really long ... well, probably too long.
Strictly speaking, there is no such a thing as "guarantee". Your alarm clock may malfunction in an important moment. An asteroid can suddenly wipe civilization with all insurance providers (now that's an idea...) So you - in a strict sense of a word - always have to estimate and compare probabilities.
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That "car-wrap" thing-- NOT a good look! Where's the gleaming aluminum?
Bonus reference: the root component is Denholm Reynholm. One of the lines in the cartoon is cribbed almost directly from episode 1.
I don't think age matters that much. Smartphones didn't really take off until 3G was pretty common. I'd wager the vast majority of smartphone users of any age in the US got a 3G-capable phone as their first smartphone. Speaking personally, I'm 35 and my first smartphone was an iPhone 3GS.
They should add "no battery recharge Wednesday".
You're being modded down for whining, no doubt, but I can see where you're coming from. Every dollar that goes to Theranos (or Enron, or any number of other slickly-packaged plays) is a dollar that doesn't go to someone else's company. Gotta be frustrating to watch that happen over and over when you're personally sure you're a better bet.
I'm not the biggest fan of Kotaku either as a site, but Jason Schreier posts are always solid.
Turning the iPhone 6S into a Digital Scale
Hence the motivation for the original post. :p
> All carbs pretty much are equal, it tends to be the amount of fiber that comes with the carb that changes things.

Anecdotally-empirically, a lot of Type 2's have found carbs, fiber or no fiber, are just bad news. For at least those with a specific variation of Type 2 (still as-yet not clearly understood, but there is growing consensus that there are many different "sub-types" of Type 1 and Type 2, each of which responding well to different treatment protocols), it doesn't matter how much fiber you eat with a scoop of carbs once the metabolic syndrome manifests itself with a high enough insulin resistance response.

With enough carbs (as few as 50g for some) the end result at that stage of the condition is still a highly-adverse event, a high blood sugar spike above 100 mg/dL. Even if the spike is controlled down within 1-2 hours, there is a lot of accumulating evidence that it isn't the duration or absolute value of high blood sugars, but the spikes (the occurrence of any delta in the first place) themselves that cause cellular damage.

In a few years, we will hopefully start accumulating a flood of highly-granular, anonymized biometric sampling data, ideally tagged with true/false flags of known and suspected genetic markers (but not enough DNA data to individually dox someone). Has someone solved the problem of publishing biometrics with tagged DNA data, and be able to update the DNA tags as our understanding of genetic markers improves over time, without risking doxxing an individual from the genetic marker tags?
In the case of app development targeting, I'd agree that Apple's market share is probably more important than Apple's profit share. However, the most relevant metric is probably iOS share of wallet vs. other mobile OSs. $MOBILE_OS can have an arbitrarily large market share but if people don't pay for apps on it, it's not going to be very interesting to app developers.

That said, market share is, of course, at least one of the relevant metrics but the market needs to be defined. Companies don't typically target the largest theoretically possible market for their products. They target a subset for a variety of reasons.
The value used to determine the Design Basis Flood is a 10000 year recurrence. Over a 100 year lifespan, there is around a 1% chance of that flood happening. The consequences of loss of all power including backups is the loss of the plant + huge evacuation costs and possible loss of life. $1M is very cheap to protect a multi-billion plant in this context.
> That doesn't work in a system like in the United States where we directly vote for a candidate who needs 50.1% of the vote.

First, 50.1% (or 51% or 50% + 1, more common alternative descriptions) is an inaccurate description of the requirement in a majority/runoff election, "greater than 50%" is correct (since votes are always in whole numbers, 50% + 0.5 would also be a correct minimum threshold.)

Second, many single-winner elections in the US are plurality rather than majority/runoff, for which the threshold is actually "greater than any other candidate" not "greater than 50%".

Third, the system used for elections is subject to change (in many states, through citizen initiative, so the "but the incumbents will never vote for it" objection doesn't apply), so, "it doesn't work in the existing electoral system" isn't really a reason something won't work, just a reason why making it workable also involves advocating for change in the electoral system.
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A little passive aggressive (better than the legally aggressive approach of Axel), but pretty interesting. Not sure if I would qualify the eschewing of an AdBlock work-around as Big Brother, but the legal precedent is worth discussing.
Hm, this is an interesting case where stylesheet design principles and application logic aren't so loosely coupled.

The data attributes almost seem to be a way to invoke CSS styles as functions themselves.
I feel the same re: images of center aligned 'inspirational' text which I more artifact than original content.
This has bitten me in CTFs before - anyone aware of any disassembler tools that help with this problem?
Did a CA once accidentally sign a raw CSR that requested to itself become a CA? It seems like I remember something like this, but I couldn't find evidence. Anyway, that's one reason for the CA to be very careful what values it pulls out of the CSR.
You mean Flextronics?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/13/us-assembly-of-app...
An iRobot: android capable of basic tasks to help out with repetitive chores. Costs much more than $600 and every few years it gets progressively less stupid, meaning that people will happily shell out money for the latest and greatest because the newest one is just absolutely gorgeous and can not only take the dog for a walk but will teach you another language.
Google was sued for 9 lines of code [1], so it looks like anything's possible.

[1]: http://www.pixelstech.net/article/1408152349-The-9-lines-of-...
> their core business (cloud properties and technology)

not their core business.
Generally speaking, I think an equal amount is a fairer structure than an equal proportion.

I understand the arguments for progressive taxation and I'm not advocating against them, but when you look at taxation in the western world (particularly in the USA) you see a steady rise in use of tax funds to insulate people from negative outcomes that derive primarily from their personal choices.

I'm all for freedom of choice. I'm less for "you pay for my stuff" because I made a choice to pursue a life that doesn't contribute to the general welfare of the country, now or in the future.

I know people will downvote this post, but I know I'm not alone in my thinking.
Why is a caller pool required? You don't care who calls your contract, as I see it, nor how reliable they are in general - provided they call your contract at the right time, you're happy!

Since the caller gets rewarded for making the call, the incentives should be in place to make things work without any need for centralization.
What about Grails? Its the Groovy(ie Java) version of Rails. I think its gaining traction in enterprise software shops. https://grails.org/
Like in this case, by Leukemia. One of the problems with nuclear disasters is the fake "but nobody died" mantra repeated again and again.
I don't see the point of this. Either you trust your cloud provider, or you don't put it in the cloud. You could think of a technical solution to prevent monitoring, but how can you ever be sure that your provider has actually implemented it? Plus, I don't think providers would want something like this; if there's something gravely illegal going on, you want to be able to know and ban that user from your service.
It seems like you could solve the "new line" problem within a constant factor - just pay the cost for a pool of triple the number of "lines", which then get allocated a day ahead of time by spending a bearer token (round-tripped through eg TOR such that the provider cannot link the new and the old). Device "identities" can be reused because the mix pool is constrained by the subscriber base anyway.

I'd worry about the IMEI/etc becoming a secret token that could be reused after it was assigned to someone else's device. But even if the SIM's technology couldn't fix that, it could be fixed at a higher level after gaining network transit.

But yeah, I was teetering between $30M and $100M for my estimate, and the unknown unknown wtfs pushed me on up :>
Sure, but it's short term. Calls and messages are dropping every month, even on developing markets. The raise of WhatsApp and similar messengers (FB, Hangouts) is exponential, no hyperbole.

Telcos are dead and they don't want to admit it. I'd bet my money on super cheap mobile ISPs raising soon. Based on a completely different technology and making better use of the mostly empty spectrum.
Reads like one of those awful investor blogs you get when you google AAPL
I'll make you a deal: let's stop using tax policy to try and create certain social outcomes. That way, you can get rid of all of the loopholes that everyone hates.
I wonder if you could sell your car to the inspector, let them inspect it, and then buy it back.
The main difference is that using classes, is misusing them. Because enum values as classes pollutes the namespace.

Enum values should map to attribute values. It makes logical sense. Attribute values don't go into a namespace. They just exist as things to query by.

It is possible many CSS engines optimize this fact. By not caching attribute values until there is a selector that uses them. Classes on the other hand are inherently saying 'I will query by this at a later time - I give no hints as to whether it is mutually exclusive with other class values. I merely have a list of class values which apply.'