skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goals of unambiguous and concise are at odds, and this format (well, the defaults) errs on the side of shorter.

To lessen ambiguity even more, there's Crockford Encoding[0]. Results in longer strings, but there's no case distinction, and the similar looking characters decode the same. Looks like you can get mostly Crockford Encoding using this library by changing the character set (which is why said "the defaults" above). The check digit in Crockford Encoding is a huge win for when these are dictated/transcribed, but may need to be URL-encoded.

[0] http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html
How the MiG-15 grounded the U.S. bomber fleet in Korea (2013)
I'm not saying it's not addictive, or that it's not dangerous - it is.

Morphine is however just one of the many alkaloids that make up opium - together they have a different effect than morphine alone.

I can't quickly find a reference beyond Wikipedia[1] that mentions opium being less addictive than, for example, morphine, but I read a lot of papers on drugs and have read this before. I'll try and find some and post back if I do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine
Yup. Enjoy: http://www.breitbart.com/author/milo-yiannopoulos/
In my experience, Basecamp is way more user-friendly than a WiKi for keeping important information
If you want to really use SIMD units (on x86) check out ISPC. I recommend writing small functions in it that work over large chunks of memory so that SIMD can run at full speed with good cache locality.

This ends up being -very- fast.
Obviously, some rights can. Every transaction involves signing away a right. (A simple trade of money for goods involves one party signing away their rights to the money and the other to the goods.)

Why are these particular rights deservedly unwaivable? And why is the remedy "work and sue" rather then "stop doing it" or "don't take the offer"?

Can someone articulate the worldmodel that leads to this distinction?
It's ok guys. It's just our high-power server CPU architecture. Totally cool to slap a yellow star sticker with misaligned text on it. I'm not sure if that's comic sans or a knockoff. Also I just love the teal bevel and big bank bag of cash. And the stock icons for checkmark, arrow, and question mark. And the complete and total misalignment of all the text.

Goodness grief.
Facebook Has Deleted 5 to 10M Links to Competing Social Network
> I have no reason to believe that the pediatrician hand picked specifically 5 drawings of each set that were not representative of the overall result.

That pediatrician likely has the same bias as you, which is that you don't like screens and think they're bad. I doubt s/he's undertake this study without that bias. There's also a huge incentive to create and spread studies that show a correlation rather than fail to show anything.

It's totally pointless to speculate because we simply don't know what the other almost 2,000 drawings look like. If the rest aren't published somewhere, then the study is very likely BS anyway.

> Drawings are actually a great indicator of a kid's development.

Define "development" and show me a study.

> Intelligence is not general culture.

I can't tell if you're trying to say that "Wikipedia is general culture" (which is only a tiny subset of Wikipedia) or if you're saying that screens cause people to miss out on general culture. Anyway, neither point is true. I'd actually say the opposite is true of the latter point.

> "knowing things" is not the same as being intelligent. Plus, using screens when you are 14 is not the same as when you are 2 or even 5.

Knowing things isn't the same as being intelligent, but constantly learning new things (and being stimulated) certainly does make you more intelligent. Kids aren't just memorizing facts when they read Wikipedia. They're creating things to discuss with parents, which improves critical thinking. They're seeing trends across history and culture. Wikipedia article's aren't supposed to do this technically, but they often teach math and science concepts directly in the article.

And that's not even considering the things on devices that are supposed to make kids more intelligent. Most parents point their kids in those directions.

I agree that too much screen time can be a net negative, because it causes emotional issues and eliminates boredom, which has a negative effect on creative processes and anxiety levels. But there is very little science about any of this, at least very little good science.
I'm complaining about his beating around the bush, not a reading comprehension thing. I like to know where the author stands on the topic at the outset, otherwise the article feels dishonest.

For example:

I think there are a lot of people lying to
themselves and others about their own
ancestry.

Compared to:

Isn't it interesting that so many people feel
compelled to form opinions about how we might
notice that there are statistical variances,
when comparing observable heritage, as
compared to reported heritage? I wonder why
that would be? Some might say these are
alleged fabrications, but then again this
could all be very innocent.
Marketing+System+Pays+You+50+Cents+Per+Free+Subscriber+–+JOIN+FREE
who they think are the conspirators

Whoever wants to make the ruling government accountable for their actions. Basically, look at any totalitarian society.
So I realized that charging only was on by default on my device. It wasn't the cable that was the issue. It's possible that J&D cable is good.
It does make a difference - opium is comprised of many alkaloids, in a similar way to how cannabis is made up of many cannabinoids. These alkaloids increase or decrease the effects of each other, as well as exerting their own influence.
Why the founder of Rails automatically rejects 80% of Software Engr. applicants
Path Dependency, Infrastructure, and Entrepreneurship
Real world events make for such an awful James Bond spoiler.

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/spectre-james-bond-video-review...
Careful, being unguessable is not one of the properties required of a UUID. All a UUID guarantees is that two UUIDs generated by the specified procedure will never match, even if they're generated by different computers not in communication with each other. But it does not guarantee that an attacker cannot generate the same UUID generated by somebody else if they follow a different procedure.

It's the difference between avoiding collisions between cooperating entities, and avoiding collisions from malicious entities.

For example, a version 1 UUID is just the combination of the computer's MAC address and the current time. This is sufficient to guarantee uniqueness (as long as you don't duplicate MAC addresses, and you wait at least 100 nanoseconds between generating successive UUIDs) but will be pretty easy to guess if you have a rough idea of when the UUID was generated and which manufacturer might have made the NIC on the machine where it was generated.

More abstractly, a version 4 UUID is just a couple of identifying bits and 122 random bits, but the nature of the random bits is not specified. Your UUID generator may well use a PRNG that is not cryptographically secure, which could still be good enough for cooperative uniqueness, but not good enough to avoid predictability. (For example, a PRNG seeded with the machine's MAC address and boot time would fit this.)

In short, don't rely on a UUID being secret unless you know exactly how it's being generated, all the way down to the underlying random number generator. And if you're going that far, you might as well just read 16 bytes from /dev/random and be done with it.
Editorial members of linguistics journal resign to protest Elsevier pricing
w3 has some guidelines on capability urls: http://www.w3.org/TR/capability-urls/
Ask HN: Is there an equivalent to livecoding.tv? (or one in the works?)
I've recently heard Twitter described in a way I believe is accurate.

It's a broadcast platform; most people use it broadcast OUT, but very few people use it to consume. Sure, there is some conversation, but primarily, people read their @ replies/notifications. I often will go several hours or a whole day without checking Twitter; the reality is that there are tons of conversations I missed that just disappear.

But if someone hits me with an @ message, I will see it.
Sadly, GEMA is a stranglehold on internet freedom over there.

> I like the way Germany is going

Germany recently planned (or passed?) a law requiring mandatory data retention, that's Germany going the wrong way IMO.

edit: I've just researched it and realized the mass uproar lead to the data retention being cancelled. And I found a nice list of other European countries who don't have data retention (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Romania), nice.
If I really wanted to get around this, you can just use your magnetometer and do a 180 whenever you get interference. Combined with a pressure sensor (typically accurate to within a few feet of altitude if calibrated correctly) you can probably escape without issue. If you really wanted to be a PITA, just pick an arbitrary frequency pair and let https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system be your guide.
Link to paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.01606v1.pdf
Does anyone else consider 20% (soon 25%) cut excessive?

Personally i think driving for Uber is nearly pointless - the costs of operating a vehicle make this occupation very unattractive. But i think the 20% rent makes it even worse.

Many of legal problems Uber faces could be avoided if they simply charged drivers a fixed subscription fee to be "listed" with the service. 100$/month? 10$/day? I don't know, but i can't shake the feeling that this service is crap work and it has a lot to do with greed.
UBERs business model is the same the world over, it doesn't consider drivers employees. That is regardless of local laws it doesn't consider drivers employees. If the requirements of the role match what a local/national law says is an employee, then it doesn't matter what UBER thinks of their model. Perhaps these drivers have found that things operate differently or the requirements from UBER are getting more onerous, in which case they may feel they are being treated by employees now and wish to protect themselves as such.
Stickman Battlefields v1.5.4 Hile Mod Apk İndir
RDS Aurora vs. Galera vs. MySQL with MHA
Unfortunately that is not necessarily true, as nothing requires a UUIDv4 generator to use a cryptographically secure source of randomness.
I asked; they're three source control systems further down the road (VSS => ClearCase => SVN => Git). My friend couldn't find it. Sigh.
Volkswagon could sue for their expected future profits. A private arbitration court where the judges are corporate lawyers will decide if the court of a sovereign nation is somehow inhibiting VW's future possible profit. The health and safety of the citizens will not be considered.

The TPP is a government signing away its sovereignty and duty to protect its citizens, for both will take second place to expected future profits.
Ten Good Rules for Bad APIs - Some Comedy for engineers!
The "joys of the web" consist more often than not in moving the text I am trying to read to show some ads, messing with the scrolling of the browser (try scrolling news.google.co.uk on an ipad!), overlaying popups to tell me to register to some newsletter or give some feedback, etc. I actually find the web much faster and nicer without javascript. A couple of blog websites will only show complete gibberish without javascript but I think bloggers massively overestimate how keen a typical user is to read what they have to say.
https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/legal-advice-at-the-... explains things quite well. IIRC you're obliged to identify yourself when questioned but don't have to give any other details. You then have the right to legal representation, a free independent lawyer is provided on request if you don't have one.

I don't think we have a complete right of silence without - for example - being found in contempt of court.
Funny, I read about the first part of the sentence 'I tried a table look-up' and thought immediately WHAT ABOUT THE CACHE?

Then I continued '16 elements', oh, OK then, next time I'll try to read the whole sentence first.
Toyota Invests $1B in AI and Robots, Will Open R&D Lab in Silicon Valley
So I assume you eat only raw plants you grew yourself and raw meat from animals you raised and killed yourself then?
The only thing Slack has changed is the name of the chat application I open. In the 90's it was ICQ, Yahoo Messenger and AIM. In the early 2000's it was Meebo (remember them?). Just a few years ago, we had Skype. See where I'm going with this?

I'm sorry but I find nothing revolutionary about Slack. It has a good UI -- and it should, for being a real company and not some side project. But chat clients are like TV shows, they don't seem to last. I wouldn't be placing any bets in 2-5 years we will have all moved onto something else and be heralding it as the next replacement for e-mail or whatever. It's just way too easy to move on to a replacement that's the new new.
Ah, yes, let's turn this around. No matter that you haven't addressed any of the criticisms of your comments. No matter that when you get replies you don't like, you just delete what you wrote rather than owning your words and working through your mistakes. (Let me know if you'd like a copy; I saved it for you.) No matter that I encouraged your one actual idea, which was to maybe start volunteering. No matter that you don't know anything about the research on or the history of this topic, yet feel qualified to judge other people. Let's do it.

My idea? I don't need to have "my idea" to increase diversity. Other people have already had plenty of ideas. Better, they have discussed, researched, and critiqued those ideas. As a white guy, I'm unlikely to have any particularly good ideas, because I have little direct experience of the problem I'm trying to solve. I also try not to have ideas on products to create for the Chinese market, better approaches to goat herding, or the particle makeup of dark matter. I know I'm not an expert, so I'm not going to clutter the discussion talking like I am.

And what am I actually doing? A fair number of things, but the most important of them is to listen. I talk with actual people about their actual experiences. Via RSS and Twitter, I follow a lot of people who think and write about this stuff. I read studies on the topic. I read about America's incredibly fucked-up racial history, and about how we're still dealing with the effects of that today. I listen to actual minorities in tech about their actual experiences. And ones outside of tech, too.

I encourage you to try it. Because then you'd know that racial bias is widespread in the US despite "good intentions" [1]. You'd know that outbursts like this are a symptom of white fragility [2]. You'd know about the white savior complex, where a white person decides the only solution to racism is for them to go share their time and wisdom with those poor unfortunates, ignoring the structural issues that created the situation.

And then, once you get past the Racism 101 stuff, maybe you could help me and others who would like HN and the tech industry to have discussions on this that aren't somewhere on the horrific/remedial end of the spectrum. But take your time with the listening. It took me maybe 3 or 4 years of work. The hard part wasn't the learning, it was the unlearning of what I thought I knew. [3]

[1] http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/implicit-test/

[2] http://www.alternet.org/culture/why-white-people-freak-out-w...

[3] http://bengtwendel.com/your-teacup-is-full-empty-your-cup/
> Won’t a bit flip probability be linked to the size of the critical os code size

no, there are a wide range of memory conditions in which a kernel calls panic, and memory doesn't just flip single bits when it errors out, although that's certainly possible.
I proctor a game lab with young folks (Jr High to Collage and now a few grads) every Wednesday night. We've got 4 card/board games under our belts. The current on - "Hobo Hoedown" - is amazing, getting good focus group feedback and nearly ready to publish.
More Oil Companies Could Join Exxon Mobil as Focus of Climate Investigations
So say one study has a p-value of .04, meaning there's a .04 probability that there's no effect and the results occurred by chance. A replication comes along and gets a p-value of .06, so it gets counted as a failed replication. And yet, the probability that both results happened by chance is only .0024.
The difference here is that a drone will not be doing 2200mph over 3k miles so differences in the position of stars won't be particularly noticeable. You may be able to do some trickery with a few outward facing cameras and some software to map the horizon though.
Scikit-learn 0.17 released: LDA, faster t-SNE, NMF, trees
Or use subresource security.
"The observations presented here indicate no evidence for persistent technology-related signals in the microwave frequency range..."

Basically nothing detected.
No, and I have suspicions his opinions on the danger of women in tech might differ from ESR's. http://opensource.com/life/15/8/patricia-torvalds-interview
Not to completely defend Windows, but I feel like everyone forgets that it also has a powerful, though verbose, shell available. This sort of thing is also trivial via Powershell:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("TestVariable", "Test value", "User")
To make matters worse this gets no play on hackernews
Their model is to spam other platforms with a referral link, it's reasonable that they're seen as spam by another platform and then blocked.
I'm not sure why you believe this.
I quoted the actual text:

"1. No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory."

It does not say no party can compel an owner, it says no party can compel access to the source code owned by person of another party. That is not "no party can compel the owner" it's "no party can compel access to source code that meets certain conditions".

Period. There is no "nobody can compel the owner" part in there that i see.

The only reference to ownership is around a pre-req to compulsion. IE if you break it down, it says:

"unless the software that meets the following conditions, you can't compel access to code

Conditions:

A. It's owned by a citizen of the party

or

B. It's not being done as a condition for the import, distribution, sale, or use of such software, or products containing such software, in its territory"
tl;dr Tsu is a spammy site with potential malware. It also failed to pay out to some of its users. It seems generally shady, and Facebook was right to block it.

Most of that info I got from the article, but I also Googled a bit.

Tsu had problems with spam on its own site, and it was also likely spamming Facebook, which its founder admits in the article.

There's also some evidence that Tsu.co or its advertisers were distributing malware[1].

1. https://plus.google.com/+UgoCei/posts/2qXF7tFMCHK
This is simply not what Uber does. Uber has never actually been a ride sharing service. A carpooling service is a ride sharing service. A real ride sharing service doesn't have drivers and riders where the riders pay the drivers.

Don't drink the kool-aid, all of Uber's "ride sharing" and "crowd sourcing" and "sharing economy" nonsense is just marketing and legal stunts. They are essentially an online sweatshop a la mechanical turk for driving.

I don't hate Uber, I think that on an ethical level it's probably superior to traditional taxi companies who entrap their drivers by paying for their taxi license (they lobby to make these very expensive) and then paying the drivers poorly until it's time to renw the license.

But Uber is not a magical wonderful silicon valley company that's going to fix all the problems with taxis by disrupting it with some sharing economy. Uber is a company that found a loophole in the law that would allow it to create a global taxi service that isn't legally a taxi service, and this loophole involves drivers giving up a lot of legal protections.
While IANAL, the key word there seems to be "malicious". Merely operating in the same band doesn't show any malicious intent, even if it severely degrades performance for other devices in the band.

Jammers on the other hand do intrinsically show malicious intent because they operate in a way which serves no purpose other than denial of service for other local transmitters.
The rights are unwaivable because the power ballance in an employee/employer relationship is almost without exception massively tilted in the favour of the employer.

If these rights could be waived, you can be certain that virtually every single employment contract would waive them.

Except perhaps in the case of unionized workshops, where the employers and employees can negotiate on actual equal terms.
Opium comes from plants. Marijuana often has physical withdrawal symptoms for chronic users. I'm sure there are many people whose lives/potentials are limited by marijuana abuse.

Legalization/regulation is a good step, but let's not kid ourselves.
Show HN: Last week I quit my job at Google
OVH had Power8 available on a per-hour basis through their RunAbove brand for a while, but it seems that experiment was retired.
So this is like Adobe Flash but for mobiles, by Google!!??
That was the same spot I lost interest as well. Way too verbose.