skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying Coca Cola is not attempting to get a soft drink monopoly? You should be a convenience store owner and see both the battle between them and Pepsi and the demands they put on their customers for preferred pricing.
In case anyone happens upon this in the future, I was missing one:

W15
SIRUM
Where are you thinking about moving to?
Genetic fallacy. That the quotes originated under particular circumstances does not invalidate them as generalities.
There are things you learn in school. There are things you don't learn in school. Some of the things you don't learn in school are important. If school takes all a child's resources important things will not be learned. School has a head start capturing the children in the morning taking the best part of their day. One more year outside school could therefore be an enormous benefit. If there is a good learning environment outside school.
"...in the call today McAndrews made clear that those numbers [of users] are irrelevant since that service is shutting down, not transferring."
"Four categories of institutions of higher education dominate the VICE News list of the 100 most militarized universities in America:

1. "schools whose students attain their degrees predominantly online;"

This is very unsurprising. Online education is very attractive for people in, for example, the military. Plus, many government service jobs just require a degree, not that it be from a recognizable school; in general, as is often mentioned here on HN, experience beats education and experience in this case usually means the military or prior government jobs.

2. "schools that are heavily involved in research and development for defense, intelligence, and security clients;"

I'm sensing that this is actually a relative minority on the list (although most of the recognizable names fall into it). There is considerable overlap between this category and the next two.

3. "schools in the Washington, DC area;"

Yes, obviously, plus schools close to large military bases (Cochise College, Fort Huachuaca; Central Texas College, Fort Hood).

4. "and schools that are newly focused on homeland security."

And I'm not entirely sure what the heck that's supposed to mean. There's money in "homeland security" much like there was money in nuclear weapon design at one time.

I suspect this article is an attempt to work up heat about a "education/intelligence community" doohicky to replace the venerable ol' military/industrial complex. And I think it's a failure, since what I think they've discovered is akin to "Google hires a lot of Stanford grads".
If you were begging the question any harder, you'd be one of the people tech guys hate on in the Tenderloin. And at the same time you're teetering on the edge of an epiphany that strikes at the heart of techno-fetishistic free-market worship. Because the government guaranteeing loans and grants isn't a good way to provide education, no--but plenty of countries make education a state function and charge a very manageable amount, if anything at all, to students, while making the total cost of operation remarkably reasonable.
The CEO explicitly says that this is a response to ADP:

> As Conrad tells it, a select group of Zenefits employees holed up in the Courtyard Marriott to start working on a secret project to create a payroll system shortly after paycheck services giant ADP cut the company off earlier this year.

> “We’ve been working on this basically since the day we started getting blocked by ADP,” Conrad told TechCrunch.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/16/zenefits-launches-its-own-p...
Doesn't the state collect DNA from all newborns by law as well?

Now, I do see in principle why one would want one's DNA profile removed if an arrest doesn't result in conviction, but if the state already collects DNA at birth by law, would that not supercede these cases? Alternatively, the state could simply pass laws making retention from this input stream legal.
A few specific attack failures does not necessarily mean bulk signals intelligence is useless.

Frankly, both regular policework (HUMINT, usually) and SIGINT have to be employed. The question is how to limit the SIGINT so you're actually ethically collecting and analyzing what matters and what directly concerns a target, rather than slurping up everything and storing it for later scanning or "just in case".
Isn't it kind of a fake olive branch / placebo that airplanes have reclining seats anyway? It gives a little extra space to the recliner but takes space away from the person sitting behind, so to reclaim it they need to recline their seat and so on. If everybody reclines then everybody ends up with the same amount of space and no one is better off, except maybe the people in the front or back rows.
Apple to End Beats Music on November 30
Yes, because it is rude. The marginal increase in comfort does not outweigh the massive impact it has on the quality of life of the individual behind.
For a moment there I thought you were all talking about UA Huntsville, which ought to be on that list (but I guess gets folded into UA).
New open source java Paas
CloudUnit is a new open source java PaaS. Fully based on Docker. This is the easiest PaaS to use, to install and to hack. Join the community.

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Yes, many retailers have house brands. But I don't know of any distributors that do.
I know. I interpreted this article as: 6 year old kindergartners are more mature than 5 year old kindergartners. Perhaps they are as mature as 6 year old first graders.

Delaying putting your kid into kindergarten is just giving them more time to ripen on the vine. Delaying also means that you will be supporting them for one more year before they graduate school and also takes one more year of earning potential away from their working years. Food for thought.
ETL Language Showdown Part 3
I imagine that waiting a year to enroll can have a very high opportunity cost, especially for accelerated kids. I started kindergarten a year early and it was definitely the right choice for me. I would probably have died of boredom a bit later on if I'd followed the usual age-based grade prescription.
Padlet’s new vacation policy: Everyone gets July off
It looks harder than it is. For me it took less than 3 minutes (I already had CUDA installed) to run the logistic regression example.
It's interesting that the music studios are pushing for consolidation in the streaming audio market. Even if they do own a piece of the companies it seems like that could come back to bite them in the future.
Zombie-Town USA (Zombie Simulator with Census Data)
This is kinda like saying that because our bodies constantly emit electromagnetic radiation that could be used to construct a detailed nude image, using a camera with the tools needed to do such isn't invasive.

What happens when we have the technology to read internal monologues? What happens when the police are able to hear the lawyer talking to their client because they are talking too loud for the new technology... if they didn't want to be heard should they whisper... and what happens when even that is too loud? Under this reasoning, most all privacy is as good as dead and we are just waiting for the technology to get here.
Apple music is not usable with any device. Just to name a few issues I've personally experienced:

- Not being able to listen to music because itunes said I wasn't signed in. (of course I was and the only way to fix it was to restart my computer.) This error happens a few times per month.

- Songs not playing and getting an alert error with some random code that results in searching countless threads online. This happens multiple times per day.

- There's no way to get to an artist from a song...think about that. You can't click on the artists name or select it from the dropdown menu while a song is playing...So you have to search the song and then select the artists name in the search results.

- Absolutely no concept of syncing. Create a playlist on your computer and it might show up on your phone? Create one on your phone and edit it on your computer, but the changes don't reflect across devices. Everything just goes to shit.

- Extremely slow clunky UI. Click a button or link and wait 1-2 seconds for some random UI thing to pop up so you can do whatever it is you set out to do.

- Click any tab in the top navigation with the window set ot 50%0 of the screen and the UI will flutter quite a bit making you select a tab you didn't want to.

- Click on a playlist that apple made and get an error saying something like "This playlist is currently not available". This happens at least once per week.

...I could go on and on. The ONLY thing Apple music gets right is recommendations. IMO It is by far the worst piece of software Apple has ever release.
...or to a large military base.
I've read articles claiming both that there exist a small percentage of people who are amazing at detecting honesty in others and different articles claiming that no such people exist, so I don't really know what the latest accepted view is.
Gusto
He's not just showing appreciation. He's rectifying a problem of her being underappreciated by society at large.

So a) there is a well-known societal problem of women being underappreciated, especially leaders. And b) he added gender to his essay by talking about how they were dating and she was the mom and how her special skills were the kind of thing that get called feminine. (Note the many comments here explicitly relying on that.) He also talks explicitly about how people don't notice her contributions because they read her as a secretary, which is a very gendered phenomenon.

So whether or not gender is the formal thesis, the essay is shot through with gender-related issues.
> California officials argue that the court should follow the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Maryland v. King that citizens’ privacy rights are outweighed by the government’s need to use DNA to identify arrestees, just as it uses fingerprints.

The article makes it sounds like the Supreme Court has already ruled on this issue. Wouldn't that make this California case moot?
I assert that there is no way to guarantee it.

No real progress in stopping multicultural violence has been made since slavery was abolished. People are less violent overall when life is comfortable. But Balkans war and Syrian civil war show that nothing fundamental changes with few generations of peaceful living.
That is the last update for the 1st gen which seriously screws 4G owners because M will be released less than two years since that phone's introduction.
> I think the flaw was mentioned in the first sentence of the parent's response...

We can speculate all we want, but this just leads to confusion. :)
Here's 144: http://www.greenarraychips.com/. Built to run Forth by the guy that invented Forth using Forth: http://www.colorforth.com/vlsi.html.
Here's another interesting fact.

Once the arrested bit is set, it is immutable in the eyes of the State of California. Law enforcement knows if you have been arrested in the past even if the specific reasons are expunged at the request of the arrestee. Also, there's a very narrow window to request that arrest records be expunged. If you are arrested and acquitted or the charges are dropped, get in contact with the court as soon as possible to make sure you are within the window.
isn't it a marginal discomfort as well
The linked paper Computer Viruses - Theory and Experiements is a fascinating bit of history.

https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~aprakash/eecs588/handouts/cohen-...
Yeah... I have yet to accept the iTunes terms of service in the 2-ish years I've owned my latest macbook, and I don't plan to begin now. :)
As someone who switched to Rdio from Spotify because the former has not terrible music discovery, this is unfortunate. Looks like I'll be switching again...it would be nice to find a streaming service that was about music discovery rather than forcing the latest garbage down your throat.

Although who knows, maybe Spotify's radio now plays more than 10 songs...
Right, because the stdlib calls out to C/C++'s malloc/calloc/realloc/free implementations. Their allocators ask the kernel for memory which, in this case, doesn't exist yet because we're starting from bare metal.
Healthcare Data Breaches Cost $6B a Year
the funniest thing I found was the range of divisiveness over who gets the arm chair rests on the middle seat
> A cancer researcher is rewarded less than a supermodel. Why? Because those abilities are rarer and affect more people.

Really? World has more - or even proportionally more - cancer researchers, than it has supermodels? Or, putting it another way, the superstar cancer researchers make something comparable to supermodels?
I'd love to see this cross-referenced by leg length.

A lot of shorter people literally don't seem to understand why reclining could be "rude" when as they like to parrot "I paid for this seat! I'm entitled to!" Try being someone with long legs and having the person in front of you bounce up and down on your knees for several hours, let me tell you, it is as fun as it sounds.

That being said, the problem isn't with short people, or people who recline in general. The problem is with a race to the bottom that the government should have regulated several inches ago.

Airlines keep making their seat pitch (distance between your spine and the spin of the person in front) narrower and narrow, year upon year. It started out to add extras rows, now they just do it so they can sell that seat pitch back to people as "Premium Comfort" or "Premium Economy."

Airlines are now only judged by the economy price on ticket comparison websites. So if one airline takes 2 inches of seat pitch but also reduces the price by $10/flight, then another has to do the same to remain competitive.

Ultimately at some stage we need to just sit down and decide what the minimum seat pitch should be, and then have every airline in the country stick to that. It effectively ends the race to the bottom we have now, as there is now a lower bar (and one that doesn't have passengers fighting in the isles about reclining).

I'd also like to see airline seats redesigned. They've barely changed in many years, and only one major company manufacturers them.

http://www.independenttraveler.com/travel-tips/travelers-ed/...
log the action to a shared defaults or container and send it when the parent app opens.
Rekt.
And they definitely avoid to sign many of the claims from the other letter.

And the other letter is bad enough:

"21- Armed insurrection is forbidden in Islam for any reason other than clear disbelief by the ruler and not allowing people to pray."

Imagine that I'm a president of, for example, Turkey, and I just say that I'm an atheist. And that the Muslims should pray in their homes and not in the university (the women weren't actually allowed to cover their head in universities in Turkey since the 1920s, as introduced by Kemal Pasha, I don't know if the current government reverted that recently). From the letter it can be concluded that the Muslims are supposed to organize armed insurrection in Turkey.

"9- It is forbidden in Islam to declare people non-Muslim unless he (or she) openly declares disbelief."

So imagine I say I'm an atheist openly. And that god doesn't exist and that Muhammad just invented what he claimed that came from god. What does the letter imply? That then I'm to face the Islamic treatment of unbelievers?

Quran: 5:33 "Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,"

In reality, Allah really doesn't exist. Otherwise he would leave us a message or two about the speed of light or the atoms. Instead he supposedly said (hey, Muhammad said so it must be true) that Muhammad's uncle will burn in hell. Now that's really important for humanity. No joke. (the sound of some ears closing singing I can't hear you)

I have news for you possible martyrs: if you go around and get killed, you'll just die. No 72 virgins, no heaven. Try to be nice to the people around you instead, this is the only life you and others have. And you believers, that simple fact is the basic source of the existence of morality, not your religion.

Now imagine I've said all this publicly. There's chance I'd end up like Theo van Gogh. That's why a lot of people are scared to say it. But it's so simple and it's true.

I understand that people find their religion part of their identity. We all have to learn how to respect and recognize everybody's identity but to leave the 3000, 2000 and 1300 years old superstitions behind.
reclining isn't about gaining space, it's about being able to sleep.
As someone with lower back pain, for whom 1-2 inches back is a huge improvement, I'm not sure why you'd privilege the person in back, while saying the one in front is required to suffer. The person in back may find it harder use a laptop, but I'd save "quality of life" for talking about genuine pain, not moderate inconveniences.

That being said, this is pitting two victims of an airline's policy against each other, not particularly constructive.
Wow, how long has an Android Apple Music app been available?

I might have gone with Apple Music if I had known this a few months ago. With iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play music, it was a pain with duplicate music libraries.

I went with Play Music (now gets ad-free youtube thrown in), but I might have made a different decision.
I'd completely forgotten about Apple's involvement with CUPS, but that does explain a lot. Between that and Bonjour/Zeroconf early 2000s Apple made my home networking life so much easier.
Phiro is a smart robot that lets kids learn to code 5 different ways
Yes, exactly. So this should probably be decided early.
Really interesting stuff, but a couple of notes about applicability to humans:
"It should be mentioned that the KD used in this study, as well as in other studies in mice (2–4, 25), may differ from KD used in humans. Indeed, this KD contains almost no carbohydrate and the protein proportion is low, whereas KD used in humans usually contain less fat, more protein, and also more carbohydrate."

IOW, the diet is an artificial construct not resembling any occurrence in nature. Artificially low protein in a KD sounds just dangerous, as adequate dietary protein will produce any needed blood glucose via gluconeogenesis, keeping those pathways active in a more natural sense.

2) note the second paragraph in Discussion where they discuss effects of BAT (Brown Adipose Tissue aka "brown fat"). BAT is present in significantly higher %age in mice vs humans.

3) later that paragraph: "most studies have found that weight loss improves insulin sensitivity in humans (41) and mice (36)." Well, we have kind of an impasse, then -- were those studies' KDs more realistic in terms of macronutrient ratios?
You can setup a credential manager in git and don't have to continue supplying credentials with HTTPS repositories. For instance, I commonly use this one on Windows [1]:

https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Wind...

[1] Although currently marked as pre-release, this is a fork/successor of an earlier one that was fairly rock solid, now with a better installer. The "pre-release" tag here mostly is with respect to the new 2FA support.
Do you have statistics that actually justify your statement? For some reason, I doubt that there has ever been a poll that directly seeks to determine whether more people care about speeding, or about surveillance overreaches. Without such a poll, this is just a meaningless appeal to the masses.
I don't think you can conclude the attacks are proof that surveillance has failed unless you know with certainty surveillance has failed at stopping most attacks. Surveillance organs could have stopped anywhere from zero attacks to all but the ones we've witnessed.

That's not to say surveillance is the answer, but its saying it may be an answer depending on effectiveness and our willingness to make this bargain.
I was a Spotify user from the first betas, but switched to Rdio couple of years ago. Better designed and good music recommendations. Sad day :(
That's exactly the position I'm in, at least eventually.

My son was born in early July and my wife and I are trying to see if we should wait until he's a full 5 and be a year older than everyone or go when he's basically 4.

The extra year in a job to me isn't trivial. It's a 50k + extra year of experience decision. I left high school a year early and even though I'm the same age as a lot of people around me, I have 20k extra in my 401(k), I'm in a management position and I have graduate school finished.

The start advantage is fading as I get older though.

It probably still depends on the child. Some can probably handle it better than others. Personally, I'll have to wait and see to see what the little guy is like and what he can handle.
Most GitHub forks are because people don't understand how git refs work. I used to work at a company that required us to fork every repo we depended on and lock our dependency to the fork rather than using a package manager and git refs.
Uber: Embracing the Chaos
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
just found this Chrome extension that allows you to export playlists https://twitter.com/frank_chimero/status/666373969394708481
> And divert those funds to old fashioned policework

Not just policework, intelligence with covert agents. That's what most intelligence agencies have been giving up in favor of electronic surveillance, and we see now how ineffective it is.
Except, he doesn't actually say life is fair or a meritocracy. Rather, he claims that you are competing in an unfair and demand driven world.

My own experience is that people who focus on successes and failures in terms of themselves and how they will deal with the environment next time, do well. Those who focus on how the environment limits them, will not do well relative to how others with less advantages will do.
Quitting Open Source
Existing code bases and knowledge with the current tools.

You will need C++ and Fortran compilers able to target SPIR with the same set of language features, debugging tools and libraries that CUDA has available today.
But isn't that just called 'having a song stuck in your head?'

I almost always have a song running in the background, never the same, but I wake up to a song and I go to sleep with a song.
This isn't really too surprising, nearly all Law Enforcement agencies have been using these as a pretense to undermine civil rights. And the argument is just as broken for crypto as it is for guns, people who are going to use a tool for ill, will do so regardless of laws disallowing such use. And while it would be possible to force vendors to put back doors in phones, it doesn't prevent anyone from sideloading a crypto app.

One of the best counter factuals for this debate is that our terrorists are using high explosives in suicide belts and fully automatic AK47's in their acts. Both of those things are supposed to be "impossible" to get by non-authorized personnel and yet they are. Those physical things have to move through channels that the authorities already have the right to search and seize (trans-border crossings) so why not fix that problem?

It is a sad situation, and I mourn for the people of Paris and all the people and in the future who have been and will be killed by extremists. But that pales in comparison to how much I mourn for the death of a free and equal society with guaranteed human rights.
Yeah, Rdio's "radio" way much better than Spotify's. In general, I think their interface was better, too, though Spotify has lyrics and Rdio doesn't.