skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, to me a useful demo has to have several attributes to prove the concept:

1. It has to take place in a real-world setting, perhaps a vacant hotel room or a coffee shop that has closed for the day.

2. It has to be monitored by independent technicians who can verify that the energy transmission is occurring via ultrasound, not some other means.

3. The transmitter has to be plugged into a normal wall socket (to establish a lower bound on efficiency).

4. The receiver needs to show how much electrical power it is producing, and that needs to be at least 3W.

5. The receiver needs to be held by a human, and for part of the demo the human should be walking slowly in a straight line.

After all, it's not that the transmission of energy via ultrasound is physically impossible. No one is asserting that (including, hilariously, the professors this "reporter" got to acknowledge is within the laws of physics). The question is whether they have the technology they claim, such that a reasonable person might plausibly hope to refine into a marketable product.

To me, a demo showing all of that would prove the key technologies: namely, beamed power transmission via ultrasound to a working receiver, receiver tracking, and at least basic short-term safety for humans. That doesn't mean there's a viable product here, of course; such a device might still be unsafe in many ways, it might be a hazard to animals, it might be far too inefficient to be useful, it might not be able to track more complex motion reliably, it might not work well or at all with multiple receivers, etc., etc., etc. That's the "multiplicative risks" people mention and many of the objections to a marketable product would still apply. But many companies have technically functional products they fail to bring to market or make a profit from, without being fraudulent. Multiplicative risks apply to almost any new product concept. Having a device that, whether marketable or not, clearly has the essential attributes that they claim would at least quiet the charges of fraud.
Years ago I as a cook. I was in high school, and this was my night job. The owner was a trained chef, but really didn't want to be there. He gave me some brief training. It lasted one, maybe two nights. First he showed me how to sharpen a chef's knife. He then gave me a told me all the dishes I would prepare would be out of one book. The book was called
The Moosewood Cookbook. The only thing he actually showed me was how to make a roux, for cream based soups. Every other cooking technique, I learned in that book. That book taught me how to cook. It's all vegetarian recipes. She teaches cooking techniques along with her recipes.

Try the Hungarian mushroom soup. I guarantee you will like it.
You can probably split (by table) bootstrap information (config) from CMS information (posts/comments)

A plugin will usually set some entries on installation (then add its work data as well)

But yeah, I believe there's an interesting void of supporting tools for WP (it needs to be DevOps'd)
Here are the commands to execute this Quine program:

$ gem install burn && burn init && git clone https://gist.github.com/2d4831f3fca7b2604562.git && cd 2d4831f3fca7b2604562 && burn -c

Then you will get the NES rom file showing the original program like this:
https://twitter.com/mametter/status/663357865470504960

Take note that if you encounter the compile error then dig into the burn rubygem folder on your system and overwrite `lib/burn/tools/workspace_default.tar.gz` file with the following tar.gz binary:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fty41izoucyaeud/workspace_default....
https://getfinal.com/

One card to rule them all.
If Google were to exit a market for (c) that'd mean there's be no Google or YouTube in the US. I don't like censorship by an autocratic government either but we are moving to treating corps that are lazy/careless with users' information as victims at home too.

> The disclosure of that data is a violation of the Communications Act, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which requires network operators to protect customer information. "Congress and the Commission have made clear that cable operators such as Cox must 'take such actions as are necessary to prevent unauthorized access to such information by a person other than the subscriber or cable operator,'" Travis LeBlanc, the chief of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, wrote in an order filed November 5. "Furthermore, telecommunications carriers such as Cox must take 'every reasonable precaution' to protect their customers’ data. In addition, the law requires carriers to promptly disclose CPNI breaches via our reporting portal within seven business days after reasonable determination of a breach to facilitate the investigations of the FBI and the United States Secret Service."

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/fcc-fines-cox-for-fa...

Will cox get immunity from prosecution on things like this under cisa?

Google should push for protection of their users data from dragnet type surveillance in China but when we can't trust dedicated fiber optic cables connecting data centers here in the US, we really don't have anything to stand on. It is all very sad.
Wow, wow, wow!
You hit a gold mine of advice with that question... I agree with all these comments.
I hope you can see the trend in most of these comments. It's just too easy to say, "Don't compare yourself to others, it's a waste of time!"- though true... It's easier said than done.
I found for me, the moments when I was happiest, balanced & free from all those negative thoughts about myself and where I stood compared to others- is when I focused on me.
The best version of yourself has nothing to do with anyone else.
I saw a therapist for 2 and a half years. The first year was twice a week. After putting in that much time with figuring out why I felt the way I did about myself, it changed everything. Your emotional intelligence, your soul is not always an easy thing to navigate, but that work is incredibly rewarding. As others have said, you're the only one that can do it. What I'm trying to say most is, begin.
May you find a balance in your humanity - be it physical, mentally, & spiritually. And may you find that the compelling question is not how you compare to others or what they may think of you, but rather how you think of yourself. Are you who YOU want to be? If not, begin. You got this ;-)
Big things will happen- it's safe to say that they take time.

Oh! and enjoy the ride!! Fuck- Nobody really knows for sure if we get another go at it.
Copyright and automated police force.... You go to jail forever for running an unlicensed bot.
If everyone can code you won't code for $60/h
It completely depends on the industry and the worker's rights if you ask me. Where I live, tipping is pretty unusual and unnecessary because the industry functions as normally: prices are based on some measure of cost+profit, and cost includes the full remuneration fee for the worker. Tipping as a way to supplement a deficient salary is a ridiculous business practice that doesn't exist in most industries. I don't tip the bus driver, my teacher, a retail store worker, a police officer or bank manager that provide products or services to me, either.

Now paying a small extra on the basis of quality of service, does make sense. But again, that's different from supplementing a worker's deficient salary. The former is merit based, the latter is, on average, a necessary, expected and you could almost say culturally mandatory pity/solidarity payment by the customer that ought to simply be priced in the product or service and arranged between employer and employee.

Paying extra based on merit does make sense in some industries, like say a tour guide who didn't just tell you the facts of whatever artefact you walked by, but made sure you had an amazing time, catching your interests and focusing on things that resonate with you, waving stories into a unique experience, that's tip-worthy. A restaurant worker who puts in extra effort might be, too. But a delivery man who mostly has 1 actually important parameter of quality 'being on time or not', mostly, that's not a tip-worthy parameter in my opinion, that's just his normal job, and if he's getting a decent salary, I wouldn't tip for that.

I'll happily tip anyone doing his job if it's necessary to supplement a deficient salary, but I wouldn't tip anyone just for doing their job if their salary is sufficient. Whether that's the case for this particular uberised delivery industry will play out soon enough. I'm over in the Netherlands, generally tipping is not done and not necessary either as salary levels are quite decent. (the only exception is youth-wages, which are beyond ridiculous and a movement is on the rise to do away with the concept).
Well, isn't that how humans do it? When I'm skiing I may have a plan of where I'm going, but I don't have a plan for every mogul or tree. I just adjust and evade based on instinct (though sometimes I faceplant too :)
it's inappropriate to make ad hominem attacks here, please refrain from doing so.

I didn't name any shortcomings in Haskell, I gave a general rule of thumb.

However, as you yourself demonstrate dramatically, by using an ad hominem and saying "spreading irational FUD", if I did have a clear and rational understanding of why your prefered technology has underlying shortcomings as a trade-off, which learners need to deal with, then I certainly would keep that information to myself. Who wants to be skewered by a community?

For this reason, you will never see clear explanations in that format. Instead, people who have attained that information for themselves will simply keep it to themselves - they won't teach it at all. They will teach it without reference to alternatives or to the strength of trade-offs that have been made.

That's why it will seem like a case of "poor pedagogy". But it never is that. It's a case of people in the know politely avoiding teaching it.

Please note that this is just my personal opinion, you can disagree with it. I didn't mean to start a debate.
marketing...
In any case, this is stuff moths can do. There is a long way before humans are obsolete.
I wrote some blog posts about ChucK a couple of years ago. I thought it would be interesting to teach programming from the point of view of music.

http://blog.afandian.com/tag/oxlork/

It was a rewarding experience, and quite fun to start from musical principles, which have many common concepts, ranging from control structures to continuous and integer variables.

This was part of the Oxford University Laptop Orchestra, which was a spin-off from the Princeton project.

The blog posts went the way of all side-projects...
But if the first 10-15 are valuable and rich and the rest don't slow you down or disadvantage you, isn't it the same thing.
Bookmark/Retrieve your location with Android app
Government has never been strong enough to completely resist revolution or upending war.
I'd prefer "rest of them".
Can you self host Blogger and download the code?
In order for anyone to get into an advantageous position, it would require that the 99 % are able to purchase your automatically produced product, which is capitalisms reason to provide balanced salaries to "the rest of us".
> Even the business of creating WordPress themes must be very significant.

It is, lots of people make full-time livings doing it, and even have entire companies set up to do it.
>With heating, the government is placing a +infinity price on heat retention for buildings(with ceilings > 8'), but isn't actually enforcing that price in any other manner. Why not just charge progressively increasing amounts for electricity/gas expenditure?

Because they just want to impose a rule for what they believe is better for the environment.

They don't want to make it into a market product.

>Basically, if I want to pay for tall ceilings in my house, shouldn't I be able to, assuming I pay the appropriate amount?

That just makes it into something the rich can do while the poor can't. While indeed it also servers to lower the number of people doing't it -- it's not what any society that holds to high esteem any values besides net worth would want to do.

And I'm not just talking about the "tall ceilings" thing here, which might or might not be reasonable, but the more general question "shouldn't I pollute/waste as much energy as I want if I pay enough for it?".

Somethings we don't allow people to do at any price. Like kill people. Even if the victim also agrees. I, for one, don't believe payment trumps any morals in principle, and I wouldn't want that to be the case.

Whether it happens in practice (e.g. bribery etc), that's OK. But I wouldn't design a system where that's accepted and celebrated too.
Any news from the YC-backed Immunity Project? Seems like nothing new on their blog or Twitter feed since 2014:
https://www.immunityproject.org
Maybe it's the price they're sold at to retailers?
If you continue your studies that statement will be clarified.
It's been long enough that the most radioactive stuff is gone, the US military also did extensive cleanup 30 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enewetak_Atoll#/media/File:Run...

"The final cost of the cleanup project was $239 million."
Look at what's happening with drone regulations. This is a very important issue. It will determine what access citizens will have to advanced robotics for the forseeable future.

The major problem with advanced robotics is the same problem with many advanced technologies. The government is afraid of the power it will give citizens, perhaps rightly so, and thus only a handful of highly regulated large organizations can have the power to utilize the technology and thus power will consolidate in those organizations. This is not a big deal when it comes to technology like advanced weaponry, but it becomes a huge deal when it replaces most of the economic framework that people rely on for survival.

If everyone has access to advanced robotics like they have access to publish a blog then the issue would be largely mitigated.
His point is that your argument is so difficult to follow that it looks ad hoc. That, in combination with your throwaway account, raises red flags for trolling.

Ad hominem attacks are informal fallacies, granted, but they're still sometimes relevant.
Sounds like the most hyperbolic article ever.

"Sprig" as I see it isn't likely to replace/centralise all of cooking. It's nothing more than an easier 'takeaway', a 'cometo' if you will.

This sort of thing's been around for years in the UK: HungryHouse, JustEat, precursors to Deliveroo, etc. - I was shocked recently in the US when I couldn't find an equivalent (I guess I didn't search long enough to find Sprig, or it's not yet widespread enough).

For me at least, but I'm pretty sure for most people, HH or JE is like the 'one stop' place you can go to choose a takeaway. I don't have to think "I want Chinese food, let me find a Chinese place that delivers", or "I want pizza today, let me find a pizza takeaway site" - it's all in one place.

But that certainly doesn't mean that all my food comes from a "centralised" place, and I never cook...
I'm sorry, can you give a single example in the arts and sciences of something that has a reputation for "poor pedagogy"? (But is in fact just inherently difficult.)

Here are some inherently difficult subjects: quantum field theory, advanced calculus, orbital mechanics. Do any of these subjects suffer from a reputation of "poor pedagogy"?

I was referring instead to specific technological solutions, and, specifically, to encountering the idea that a subject "merely" suffers from poor pedagogy.

My comment had zero to do with the difficulty of any subject.
Well, that's unfortunate. I think perhaps it's a misattribution(?) as it's perhaps not representative of what the Genre has evolved to be.
So if you start following what flows out of that bitcoin account, couldn't you find out who it benefits?
Economies of scale. IBM can build "Watson" more readily than you can.

Ultimately that's what capital is: the ability to make a big investment in something before it provides a return.
$25,000 probably.
A few hundred years ago someone threw out an Edison voice recorder. You would speak into it and it would record on the wax cylinders. I brought it home and looked up its value on the Internet. I was suprised this particular model was not bringing in much money. I didn't have much room, and my girlfriend at the time talked me into throwing it out.

Before I threw it out, I took the AC/DC motor out of the device. I just couldn't throw out that beautiful little motor. I now have that motor on my desk as a paper weight.
People look at it, and ask why does it have a DC switch. I don't actaually know, but my thoughts were Edison was unsure of our electrical future?
PHP guys are very smart about not trying to reinvent the wheel. They always supported the most common web setup: Apache running on its standard configuration. That's why every shared host company in the world is confident in deploying PHP and avoids like the plague more complex solutions based on Python, Java, and Rubi.
Exceptions are a more complex solution.

Are they really? I'd like to see the actual code which gets generated from that ultra-abstract solution, since I already know what creating an exception frame or setjmp/longjmp turns into.

If we have \/, the possibly-error is just a value.

If you use pointers, then an error can also be signified with a value (0), and there's also this very simple but possibly slightly less efficient way (in the success case):

ret = (v1 = func1(v0)) && (v2 = func2(v1)) && ...
Tickling trout is illegal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_tickling) - so presumably it's not that difficult.
What you're describing might be called Competition. As much as capitalism makes production extremely efficient, the chief mechanism effecting that is competition. A substitute is never far behind.

I think about this when reading studies/articles about wealth consolidation: "billionaires control xx%" of the wealth" etc. Almost always, there is no longitudinal component to the analysis. The majority of billionaires are self-made, and the billionaires today are not the same as the billionaires of 15 years ago, are not the same as the billionaires of 15 years before that.
For folks complaining about their lack of rigor, the obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/397/
So much for the internet killing the middle man (and the advantage of economies of scale) in practice (as opposed to "but anyone can sell directly now" platitudes).
According to the CDC, squirrels are almost never a source of rabies. http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/pets/ - that is, unless they are acting in an unusual manner, such as letting people walk up to them and grab them....
>Will "the rest of us" just give up on automating anything for ourselves and mindlessly become dependent on using the systems operated by "a handful of gods"?

How is this different from the current situation? Genuine question.
They'd obviously rather have more money than less, but why via a tip? What difference would it make if done as a regular delivery fee rather than the bizarre dance where someone throws some money at them just because they're in a servile role and happen to be nearby?

I hope it's a better reason than "they'd like to evade taxes". Even the usual justifications about "you can reward more for better service" are hard to apply here: what's the variation? Is it a bonus for not eating the food?

In software, I'd prefer the end customer throw bank notes at me, but I don't equate that with an actual superior model for how software development incentives should work.
They would have to do it for all commercially-available devices. Why would they pick the one device you have to compromise and leave out all the others. You'd need a special government department with maybe a hundred employees taking every device coming out commercially and figuring out durable, undetectable compromises, where it's not even a given that it's really possible to do so on them.

If you're insinuating they do this already, then don't you think that would have been the very first bomb dropped by Snowden? Snowden had access to everything. You don't spin up a department like that overnight, it takes years before the department will work well enough to rely on in different situations.
Last year at the local planetarium I saw a great presentation about how the Polynesians navigated using the stars. It was a tradition that was almost lost, but they found someone in the 70s whose grandfather had taught him how, and now they have a school in Hawaii that teaches it.

http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/index/founder_and_teachers/nainoa_...

Interestingly, part of their motivation in reviving it was that they were offended by Heyerdahl's hypothesis, which in their view basically said "Polynesians were dumb enough to get on a raft and just let it drift." More recently DNA analysis has shown that Polynesians came from Asia, not South America.
Interesting read.

An idea:

Using planet.com's satelite images to find boats at drift seams like a cool use of technology.
Reset the firmware too.

Also, just because they have people that can compromise individual devices in the context of a field operation doesn't mean those people are available for regular law enforcement ops, any more than you could get an NFL coach to head up your son's kiddie league team. The scale of engineering is totally different.
There seems to exist this technocratic fancy about "critical thinking." As if it were a discrete group of rules which could be cultivated in students by simply sitting them down in a classroom, lecturing to them about the rules, and then asking them to apply them in practice scenarios. This, of course, is how one teaches grammar, and most normal subjects.

But would such a student actually become a critical thinker? Or would they simply become a regurgitator of logical fallacies, able to spot them in encountered arguments, but not able to discern whether the reasoning was ACTUALLY fallacious? Take, for instance, the "slippery slope" fallacy. Which is not necessarily a fallacy, because "doing A will lead to B" is valid if both A and B stem from the same principle C. If affirming A implies affirming its principle C, and if B is related to principle C in the same manner as A, then yes, "doing A will lead to B" is valid reasoning.

This is certain value in studying philosophy generally, and formal logic specifically. But it is not a fundamental subject in the same way that most HS subjects are, and it will be of no avail to students who have not already reached a high level of reasoning.

The mistake Paul and other technocrats make when calling for "critical thinking" is that they treat it as an actual subject matter. But there is not textbook for "critical thinking," with which a teacher can instruct a class. It is an intellectual virtue, like curiosity, or honesty. It is not taught directly, but indirectly, through other subjects. THROUGH the constraints and methods of science, one learns to think critically about evidence and causation. THROUGH reading and analyzing literature, one learns to detect intentions, both explicit and implicit, in the voices it encounters. THROUGH algebra and calculus, one learns to think about abstract objects and their relationships.

There is no "shortcut" to critical thinking, just like there is no shortcut to teaching children to be responsible or caring or hardworking. It is a skill that has to be practiced in the various arenas of life.
Just curious: what do you about dropping the ball? I just showed my 94 year old Dad how to use Blogger and he really likes it.
"[...] where fewer and fewer people have the necessary skills to work in the frontline of its advances"

This is my main concern. Where I'm from, even with a university degree an age of 27 and over 20 years of school behind me, I'm still in a position where 1/3 of me and my peers will not have a job in the first 6 months after our graduation. And this scares me quite a lot, because I'm almost out of ideas on how to improve my skill-set, and just as important, in which direction to make this improvement.
One of my favorites :-)