skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One worrying aspect of this sort of thing is that it obligates them to go after really big revenue potential as an end game.

We don't know much about where online education is going yet, how it works. It may be the case that a MOOC could change the way education works fundamentally and still have revenue that does not justify a valuation like this.

The field is still young and feels like the potential is much bigger than the current state. We don't know what achieving that potential looks like. I hope they aren't taking important options off the table.
I haven't heard it described like that, but in a sense I guess. At Nature (where it was developed) we use it to decouple our front and back ends. So when we work on a feature we agree on a JSON structure beforehand and work in parallel. It also gives us the ability to work in exactly the same way on the front-end no matter which back-end system is producing the JSON. This is awesome if you're a company that has applications written in quite a few languages
I am going to need more than "I would think that" if I'm going to believe this, and considering how backlight leakage allows extra white light to emit from your screen, I'd consider that an important enough extra variable that needs to be accounted for before we just start equating "pure" blue lights to the complex lightwaves that come out of an LCD monitor.

Besides, the framing of your question is wrong. I don't even need to come up with a specific reason, the burden of proof lies on the makers of F.lux to demonstrate that their specific product does what it says, and simply citing inequivalent studies isn't enough.
Cool! Incase you're on Android you can download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid... Its basically teh same thing! I love this app! :) Glad more ppl can get flux now on iOS
Uncle Bob has a track of proposing things that sound good when he talks about
them, but when it comes to reality, the idea is brain-dead or debatable.
I wouldn't be too eager to quote him.
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Instagration Pt. 2: Scaling our infrastructure to multiple data centers
Blueprints does have some pure functional language influences. There is a control flow wire for imperative logic, but parameters feeding into that come through a graph of purely functional inputs and calculations that themselves have no side effects.
OSX stops me. I try and follow the vegan diet of the software world by mostly using FOSS. This can be hard to do for some software (games, photo editing) but for the desktop, GNU/Linux handles my needs quite well.

Assuming Apple went FOSS tomorrow, cost is the other large factor.
Apple store accused of racism after black teens ejected
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Pragmatic PBR in WebGL Part 3: High Dynamic Range
> The Bookmarks sidebar is a great way to organize and access all your open
tabs.

No, it is not. It's an terrible replacement for me, because it's a) bookmarks
system, which I use for something else, and b) I hate sidebars.
Good developers are good developers.
I don't see it solving one problem so much as lots of them.

With a decoupled front-end you can make applications which are much more flexible for dealing with change. Imagine swapping out the entire backend application, or completely re-writing the front-end - you can easily do either since the integration between the two is formalised and documented by the json contracts.

That also means a new front-end developer can clone down a Shunter application and start modifying templates with confidence it's not going to break anything without having to run the backend, services, mock db, etc. Great for working in big teams, or ones that aren't co-located.

It can also run a single unified front-end across multiple backend applications (for example if your rails application wants to share a common layout etc. with your Wordpress-driven blog section, or whatever ecommerce backend is driving your 'shop').
Because it has never been a question of who is deserving of what...

The poor have no leverage, and realistically, no one is going to give that to them.

We're not talking about an idealistic re-working of civic values, but the natural tension that already exists between private interests and the public sector.

One need only look to antitrust law to see why letting any single locus of control grow unchecked can wreak havoc on a market/economy -- I think we should appreciate the few checks & balances we have left, lest this notion of naive idealistic equality allows them to slip away unchallenged.
"Checkmate! The non-optimized JavaScript wins!"

That's funny.
This is one of the best features unique to Firefox and for me this was another reason to not to move Chrome. Mozilla embed stupid Pocket Stuff and removing most useful features instead of informing people to how to use them properly.
> I prefer labeling over folders and the mobile GMail/Inbox apps are a far better experience than the Fastmail app.

I use Fastmail, and they support standard internet protocols like IMAP and CardDAV. Which means I can use the standard Android email-apps, CardDAV sync, and have everything still work just fine.

No need to use an email-provider specific app, although Google and Gmail has tried to mentally brainwash everyone and their grandmothers that this is how email actually works.
UK PM David Cameron didn't realize that cuts would affect public services
I'm a bit uncomfortable side loading an unsigned binary blob on my device. Does anyone know if it's possible to see the source and compile it from scratch?
How can you do computer science without any stats? Don't you study machine learning?
and repeats, sadly
The definition of 'static' here I think may be a little different. It appears you are repurposing technologies to effectively be a database which aren't considered a database (at least in this context) in order to dynamically generate content in the users browser on the fly.

So templated dynamic html from a "database" is a fine architecture, but not what most people I think would call "static".

A "static" system would be more like Doxygen where the content is "compiled" into straight html/css pages
In regards 4 the basic problem is it is really difficult to reproduce work. If an experiment does not work is it because the original paper was wrong, or is it because you are just not doing things correctly? The person best able to ensure everything is correct is the original investigator provided they have the time. This is what we need to fix.

If we were to move to a lottery process then there would be no need to limit anyone.
>empower community managers or other managers to encourage and enforce civil behavior.

I don't disagree that it can be unpleasant, but you can't just change one thing about a community and expect everything else to stay the same. In reality, enforcing community changes will have unintended consequences. As the article freely admits, the best way to get quality contributions is to let the code speak for itself.

If the named code was objectively bad, as the article suggests, then that programmer was doing his community a disservice by submitting it, and he needed his community to correct his behavior.
What should an educated person know of science?
Gross profit margin is the gross profit divided by revenue[1]. Gross profit is revenue minus the cost of the goods to the company[2].

Securis keeping 51% of the money generated by its business, after you figure in what that service first cost the company, is indeed impressive.

What is also impressive though is if, as Securis' CEO suggests near the end of this[3] article, after all that their net income is only 1.4%. Is he really saying, there, that direct operating costs eat 99% of their gross margins, or is he not telling the FCC that a big chunk of change is being "spent" as operational costs on M&A and other re-directional consumables? My expertise is quickly exhausted in the subject, but... it can't all be going to kickbacks to the prisons.

1: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/101314/what-are-diff...

2: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grossprofit.asp

3: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2015/06/19/securus-profits/
Sound Waves Could Power the Hard Drives of the Future
> I'm surprised we haven't seen this emergent behavior for iOS yet. As more and more people have Xcode and a dev license, we could have a sufficiently large amount of people to skip the app store for apps that will never be allowed.

If this ever happened and got popular, you can be certain that Apple would shoot it down in an upcoming iOS release.

Because that's how Apple works: No freedom permitted on "their" devices.
There has always been problems in science due to the demand being greater than the dollars available, the problem with the current system is we are rewarding people cutting corners and doing bad science. This needs to change.
In-N-Out is meant to be consumed on-premises. It doesn't travel well. Twenty minutes after it comes off the griddle, it's not really all that great.

Since DoorDash is handing the food over to the customer, after a delay that will likely exceed 20 minutes, I can see In-N-Out's point here.
Why not start your own website and post there?
Url changed from http://qz.com/545515/the-science-of-human-behavior-is-reshap..., which points to this.
By that logic govt could prevent you from utilizing your health insurance. Not sure if anyone could even think in that direction.
In the UK, we have an industry-wide "Faster Payments"[1] system that allows for inter-bank transfers in less than an hour. The majority of banks also support Paym[2], which links a bank account to your mobile phone number, so people can send money to your mobile and it lands in your bank account.

Recently, the government decided that an Open Banking API Standard would be a good idea, so work has begun on figuring out how to deliver that.[3]

1: http://www.fasterpayments.org.uk

2: http://www.paym.co.uk

3: http://theodi.org/news/open-banking-working-group-uk-experts...
It's really amazing how all MS-related posts still seem to attract the people wearing tinfooil hats. Not saying there's no truth in there but, you know, just sayin'.
For a second I thought In-N-Out had hacked the Streisand effect perfectly, but alas DoorDash has indeed removed them from the app.
Pity that they don't have a kind of webcam so that we can see how many calls happened up to now.
Are SD cards 'raw'?

I thought that they have their own ARM processors inside together with (updatable?) firmware. You can buy wifi-enabled cards, for instance.

OTOH, I assume they don't have direct access to the USB bus and so can't pretend to be other devices. But that still leaves lots of room to do nasty things with the data 'secured' on it.
Neigh - BIG idea !
I think there's also an issue around keeping the results of the research secret.
Man, they look cool as hell.
Well, at the current rate, it won't be too long before copyright extends 2000 years and then the Institute can claim it and demand a royalty from everyone who wants to know what they say.
What killer core features does Oracle have that Postgres doesn't?

Lots of third party applications that support Oracle and not Postgres is sadly the most common reason I see people deploying Oracle these days. Also Oracle used to be a lot better with larger databases (400+ TB or so), but I have no idea if that is still true.
"But even amid a tidal wave of publicity, the company has never publicly demonstrated a fully functioning prototype of its system. Nor has it ever produced an outside expert (who wasn’t an investor) who could attest to its ability"

Sounds a lot like Theranos
https://twitter.com/ValbonneConsult/status/66473293646646886...
I never hear anything positive about Carnegie Mellon ever. Do they even do good things? :/
a camera for scanning something like QR codes

I can see it now: A hacker with tiny QR code imprinted cuff links or rings. They brush their hand close to the camera, seemingly by accident, and BOOM! Buffer overflow in the QR decoder :)
True, you can use URI paths with WebSockets which at least makes the streams resource-oriented. CBIX does it: https://www.cbix.ca/api-websocket

I think calling this RESTful is a bit of a stretch though, at least in any conventional sense of what that means to people.
I'm 29 years old and I had only heard of Orwell in school when one of my English Literature teachers mentioned Animal Farm in a passing comment about Russia.

I had never read any Orwell works until 18, and that was entirely recreational and extra-curricular.
This is awesome, thanks.
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I don't really care to. I understand William Binney has provided some whistleblowing on the shady business the alphabets have been up to but he also came up with "5 Eyes" which is the foundational legal justification that routes around the Constitution (among other legal documents and protections among the "partners").

I guess I just feel he has an impossible task to make up for that. I think he's a good cautionary tale for young nerds who have an overwhelming amount of intelligence and cleverness but a paucity of wisdom, natural or developed over time.
The HERE needs definitely backup. I have country maps downloaded there for travel, and phone is always offline, but often I see white map for the downloaded area. Initially it is always white. Sometimes it helps if you get online for a moment, but even then later on I have still got white map. Similar issues with both Android and iOS versions. Unreliable stuff
Built-in multi-master replication is the only real missing piece there, AFAIK every other replication base is covered well natively.

Besides that, sync & async replication has been there nicely since 9.2. 9.3 added timeline switches, needed for cascaded slave setups in practice. 9.4 added replication slots so the master can keep track of slave sync status, and the foundations for multi-master & logical replication. 9.5 added pg_rewind which speeds up resyncs.
No, this is in their apps only. There are 3rd party map APIs which have offline capability: Nutiteq and Telenav for example
Most fortune 500's. It takes a lot of time and effort to build a good development team. So once you have swapped internal for external it's very difficult to bring it back in house.

Going from a good team of 10 developers to a good team of 100 developers can easily take 5 years if you want to maintain quality. And you probably won't see major dividends for another 5 years on top of that. How many senior managers are invested enough in a company to take a 10-15 year view on it?

On the other hand if I need a $50 million project finished within the next year I can get 150 average quality developers next week from Infosys.
Wasn't there a conspiracy theory about the "SJW"s setting him up or something?
This is quite possibly the best thread ever.
Long polling is a hack. Anyone who has had to scale it across more than a single CPU core on a single machine will know this.

TCP and WebSockets are stateful, HTTP is stateless.
So long polling is essentially:

Stateful -> Stateless -> Sateful

You start in a good place, then you add complexity to make it stateless and then you add even more complexity to roll back the statelessness and then you end up where you started... Except it's 90% slower and you now have to use an armada of sticky load balancers to prevent the system from falling apart...
First time it happened to you too? I wonder if this will be a norm.
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Well, either it works or it doesn't. What's there to talk about? It's not that they're doing rocket science.

> "But even amid a tidal wave of publicity, the company has never publicly demonstrated a fully functioning prototype of its system."

This is what I don't get - how the hell did they manage to get investors? I mean, ultrasound charging isn't magic, anyone who knows their stuff around EE should be able to throw together in a month a simple prototype of the tech to show to the investors. That is, a prototype that actually charges a phone, not this[0] which a) doesn't really charge the phone, and b) seems to be geared towards confusing people clueless about electricity. The fact that they didn't, after 4 years, produce anything suggests that they don't even have anyone on board who knows this stuff, so why are they getting money?

Seriously, I think I'm gonna plug my IRC bot to TTS and go raise money for my AGI startup.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHxyweJcZI
> You can't fairly compare them with CJ's $6 burgers, or the $10 restaurant equivalent.

That's fine; I mostly meant out of the fast food places you're supposed to go to in CA I preferred them. As far as INO's fries are concerned I have yet to find a fast food fry that I thought was worse than INO's :)
Wealthy defendants usually have wealthy parents, grandparents, siblings...
> Fascinating. What's the signing ceremony for .IO look like?

For a minor novelty TLD abused by tech hipsters because "IO sounds cool", I suspect there's no ceremony at all.
TIL: Cute monkeys are not allowed in ads on porn sites.

While women with their legs akimbo displaying their crotch, whilst eating pizza is absolutely fine.
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-11-wi-fm-fm.html, which points to this.
So now we've come full circle to what Movable Type did over a decade ago (static generation based on contents stored in a database)?
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Thanks. I am sometimes just so perfectly assbackwards, and so blind to it ;)
>>that you can only get actual equal access for all to education/trial-defense/something-else if you force the rich and powerful to have an equal playing field with everyone else

This sort of precedent would only hurt the indigent or impoverished. Wealthy people have wealthy friends who will pay for their legal defense. Financing will be offered to the wealthy, allowing them to maintain access to disproportionate resources in their defense. The poor, not having access to social networks of wealthy friends or family will be screwed. It's bad enough having to get time off of work or find child-care for the poor and working-classes, now they won't have access to their meagre resources?

I wish society would do a better job of considering the ramifications of what is supposedly being accomplished by the adoption or pursuit of policies. "Equal playing field" is nice in theory but it took me a few seconds to realize that the wealthy would still be able to marshall considerable resources just like they already do, except that the poor won't.
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I've been doing some spare chess programming on a GUI myself (non-intensive on-off work for 1 year so far) and I decided to stay with the naive method (12 bits, straightforward src and dest squares) for compressing moves. It's obviously easier and faster to implement, I'm not hostage for some wacky bugs I could have done, and it's straightforward to parse and to format to long algebraic form (e2e4), which is the format UCI likes to receive (stockfish, for instance) and to store to a file.

Having said that, I might take a look into this 8 bit format :)
How about some sort of middle-ground? An individual is accused of $x fraud or theft, $x of assets are frozen? That seems perfectly reasonable.
cf.lumen is much closer to the same thing, as it actually adjusts your screen's gamma.
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How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (2012)
The same goes for Torch: New York, Oxford ...
After reading the docs, I'm still not quite sure what Shunter does.

I do understand the use scenario. I've done some sites with this same model using Prismic.io as the backend. It's a nice customizable CMS-style system that provides JSON APIs, which a Node.js app then translates into HTML (basically just filling out templates with data selected from the JSON). This has worked well and I've been really quite happy with Prismic.

So it looks like I could be using Shunter for this scenario, but I'm not sure what the benefit would be over my hand-rolled Node apps. Can someone illuminate?
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I'd suggest a slight change. Code all the pawns into 2 'pieces' and have a special piece for promoting. The 16 moves for the special piece can be an index from a list of possible promotions which is easier to generate and canonicalise than the total move list. This frees up 5 pieces for promoted queens. You could special case the king into the spare entropy in the rooks and bishops to save one more piece.
I'll be going to ZKM next week. From the photo ( http://hop3.de/mobiltelefon_en.html ) it seems like the phone displays the number of missed calls. I'll let you know what it says.
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Now as a startup if you are trying to compete with the big players who have 100x as much capital you need the top 20% developers. And you won't get them going through the consulting giants.

And having someone to blame is very important for a senior manager.... But useless for a startup founder or small business owner.
That really is a superb typo...
Ask HN: How do you search for an appropriate English word?
Consider that you are writing a blog post or an essay. No one will have all the words we need at the tip of the tongue at all times. So when you struggle to find the appropriate word, what resource do you use to find the appropriate word? There are more than one ways to find a specific word. One is where we know a related word and look for its synonym/antonym. For example the word 'beautiful' is so overused, you would like to use a synonymous word which is more exact. The other is finding a related word where we know the surrounding context and try to use the appropriate word for that context. For example "a ________ pupil" you might want to describe a person who is a perfect pupil disciplined and intelligent. So how do you go about this type of search?

Do most of your search fall into 'synonymous' type or 'related words' type?
No book is mandatory for English study, teachers have some choice within a set selection of texts.

Animal Farm is one of the options.

http://www.educationumbrella.com/curriculum-vital/gcse-engli...
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I'm 50/50 on it. Was a contractor at the time and it was a blunt hammer instrument that denied me the benefits a multinational would get when I plainly wasn't a disguised employee.

It's like with the tax credits thing at the mo - I think people would stomach the cuts more if the government was as ravenous about squeezing large multinationals as the smaller guy.
Or CityDesk from Fog Creek 14 years ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000010.html
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I thought a similar thing myself. The USB drive seems to be the weakest spot of this whole thing, especially with how prevalent USB-based infections are (Stuxnet, anyone?), and the fact that sophisticated enough malware can operate completely autonomously.

I also wonder what other things they may have locked down on the laptop itself to try to stymie key exfiltration? I assume they pulled the wifi/bluetooth chip, but what about the speakers? After all - the whole ceremony is being broadcast live, and depending on the audio degradation from the live stream the speakers may actually be stable enough for successful data exfil.

I'm also curious if they attempt to do any power cleaning/shielding to prevent any forms of tempest monitoring?
normality and returning to society a well adjusted and prepared individual

I think it's been abundantly clear for quite some time that the goal of the US criminal justice and incarceration system is anything but rehabilitation.