skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the public - interesting stance there. Your home Wifi connects to a private network, and presumably an ISP - what makes that dramatically different from this with respect to 'public' use?

A 'public' wifi hotspot is either run by, or connects to, an ISP. What's the difference there?

LTE-U will be used by the 'public' to access an ISP (that happens to be a cell phone company). By your standard, would all of the above be disallowed as they run through a company network to get to the Internet, or would they all be allowed as they are being used by the 'public'?
The pyramidal structure annoy me very much. I don't want to align with someone on a big trendy issue. A nation is a system, with organs, I want problems to be assessed on each, fixes proposed, and then applied. And I fear that in reality, no amount of discussion may convey what they are thinking, what they will do and how it has a chance to solve problems.

It's all far too shallow and blurry. Hence the need to rally people on a fad argument, sad.

ps: on to reading the last half of your comment.
I really wonder. So much money and freedom was spent and 7 millions of people are still dying?
Smart choice would be Termination, not Terminator.
> No one is without blood on their hands.

I concur. I just picked the side of the rather-under-represented. Neither am I a Rome or Ancient Greece fan.

> Bad often has to be done so that More Bad for More People won't happen.

Bad will always bring more bad with it. You can try to kill all the muslims, you'll end up with another terrorist sect, just from a different religion. Or you'll terrorise other moderate muslims, should you not be able to kill them all, and make them into terrorists. A vicious cycle of violence is only broken via virtue.
Billion-dollar innovation scheme
How to make 2016 your best year ever
There are dust storms, which resemble clouds from a distance.
David Brooks is the 'intellectual' for conservative rich white new yorkers who want to feel cultured and insightful but lack any self-critical impulse. The New York Times version of "kids today..."
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/7/15
Lyft (or someone collecting affiliate money?) using spam Facebook accounts to post coupon codes on several event pages. The author suggests that these shady marketing tactics are limited by Lyft's resources and market share. Ironic that even in marketing it sounds like they are mimicking Uber to the best of their ability.
I second the review of Mindset by Carol Dweck. This book is a result of her work studying these issues as a psychologist. Re-posting my summary:

Two mindsets:

Fixed mindset - talents, abilities and intelligence are fixed, endowed

Growth mindset - talents, abilities and intelligence are learned and can be developed

These mindsets are learned, and have fundamentally different reactions to challenges.
The two-mindsets model is a simplification for the purposes of explanation.

Failure

The growth mindset embraces failure as a necessary part of learning. In fact failure is a indicator of an area for potential growth, if the opportunity is taken to overcome that failure. The fixed mindset avoids and fears failure; it is taken as evidence of a hard limit of your endowed talent.

Motivation

The growth mindset sees effort as necessary to mastery. Almost any level of mastery may be attainable with the right regimen of practice. Obstacles are a normal part of mastery and must be overcome as a matter of course in order to grow. Criticism is not taken personally, but used to indicate areas for improvement and growth.

The fixed mindset sees effort as producing only small effects compared to their fixed ability. May be more prone to give up in the face of obstacles since it is thought that there is no new mastery to be gained. Criticism is more likely to be taken personally, as the individual identifies with the perceived limits of their ability and thinks that improvement is impossible beyond a certain point.

Perceiving others

The growth mindset is not threatened by others’ abilities. Others’ examples may serve to inspire. The fixed mindset is more likely to be jealous of others’ abilities since they are perceived to be highly desirable gifts and the result of luck and circumstance.

Teaching Children

Praise children by emphasizing their work and persistence. Do not use labels like “smart” or “gifted” that would reinforce a mindset of fixed abilities.

Relationships

Growth oriented mindset is more likely to be understanding and ready to learn from experience. Fixed mindset sees problems as a result of unchangeable personal attributes and are pessimistic about change. More likely to have unrealistic expectations, like not having to work at a relationship that is “meant to be”.

Examples

Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth and Wilma Rudolph are given as examples of overcoming early setbacks with a growth mindset.

Last chapter is a “workshop” of situations and questions to help you develop a growth mindset.
> You can't book an appointment with most of these directly, and not all of them can write prescriptions legally.

You can with many nurse practitioners (and maybe physician assistants, but I've had no experience with them) at places like minute clinic (http://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/).

I've gone to a similar place that's in my office for some minor routine things, and it's been cheaper and easier to schedule than a proper doctor visit.
research for this paper clearly wasn't very thorough.

this quote, which is key to the title is 10 years wide of the mark: ``"As the computer scientist and graphical interface pioneer Alan Kay likes to say, "the real computer revolution hasn't happened yet"
(“The Computer Revolution,” 2007)" '' This title, as far as I can tell, first appeared in the 1997 OOPSLA talk of the same name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
Also great is James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.
> What does LTE-U do that you can't already do with wifi, and WiFi calling?

It gives the telcos a way to measure and control your access to their network and services so they can bill you for it. Wifi calling offloads everything but the actual phone call to a 3rd party (i.e. not Verizon) so Verizon can't keep their fingers in the pie.
Sure, that sounds entirely reasonable from a mathematical perspective.

But the question to ask is: does that justify the use of coercion to secure funding? I.e., does efficiency justify the use of force?
Ask HN: What's the best SCRUM tool out there right now?
It seems that so so many tools can't properly handle a good work breakdown structure - you can break your tasks down, but some arbitrary level of work (usually first or second tier tasks) is the atomic unit of work for a sprint.

I'm looking for Kanban, sub projects, hierarchical tasks, control over estimating, and not much else.

The critical function that none of the software I'm looking at can really do is putting a single sub-task from a story into a sprint.
GPU Platforms Set to Lengthen Deep Learning Reach
Story of Diaspora community manager
Teaching a Robot to Think Like a Baby
Door 2 is also likely fatal. Most electric motors produce ozone :)
And that is bad why? At least for me, it's a bigger chance that I would enjoy a book from that list than from a list made by some professional critic.
Where I live we have 2 WISPs - the 5GHz band already looks like the 2.4 band. This would potentially just wreck internet service for thousands of people.
"But yes, the server has no control over what data is being written. This is why this type of architecture only serves for personal / shared databases, not for public records."

A solution that doesn't take into effect security from the start is pretty limited for any real world usage beyond a simple personal data app in which case why over-architect it in the first place?
Long article but I'll boil it down to a poker analogy:

If you're short stacked, you have to take some chances.

Biology, economics, and just about any multiplayer game has mathematical underpinnings that call on the marginal player to take bigger risks than the average or wealthy.
It says only "coming soon on OS X". Does that mean it is an OS X desktop app only? (I currently use Mailbox on Android, and am very interested in finding a replacement, but could only care less about OS X if paid to do so).
This is unlikely to see widespread adoption. Boooom!
Andrew Fluegelman: PC-Talk and Beyond (1985)
> Somewhere in the middle you have wireless ISPs offering free bandwidth to their users for use with popular services. Hard to get customers to see that as a bad thing, especially if they already use those services.

I was quite glad that the CRTC ruled against this practice in Canada. If telecoms want to run successful mobile television streaming businesses, they can start selling reasonable amounts of data with their plans.

People want bigger data plans more than they want Bell TV on their phones, so I think it got reasonable public support. Consumers groups widely applauded the ruling, at least.
Speculating gently that this 'new' tech is intended to enable the signalling layer for LTE Direct (was FlashLinq) a quasi-P2P system, designed primarily for retailers to push stuff at you, rather than create 'classic' P2P filesharing networks. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me on this topic can join the dots...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259680/emerging_lte_direct_st...

https://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/lte-direct-wh...
Smuxi IRC Client (C# – Cross Platform)
>Make money, I guess -- but the product invariably seems to suffer.

They have to make up the acquisition costs. Why do people sell though?
In 1996 there was a huge need for airfare search. Look at the success you've had.

On the contrary email in 2015 isn't a huge need or a pain point for most people.

Since you're entering a crowded market your product has to be 10X better. Currently it's probably not which is why most people perceive Inky as a marginal improvement.

Still I'd love to see other projects you're working on Dave. Clearly you're talented and with the right idea I could see you getting back to where ITA & Crash was.
Yeah sadly, it was a hackathon hack I repurposed afterwards for a startup I was working for. Will try and dig it out.
Well, hybridization is certainly not a new theory -- as the article mentions, many plants hybridize quite readily, and the existence of "ring species" just goes to show how fuzzy the biological species concept is. The proper way to think about species is that they are hypotheses to be tested, and evidence can variously favor merging or splitting species.

In the case of conservation, there are political reasons for defining species. The laws either have no provision for protecting populations below the species level, or otherwise there's no political will to attempt to do so. Therefore conservation biologists will often try to keep species "distinct" in order to keep what would normally be termed a "population" or "subspecies" under protection. (You might ask why bother protecting populations or subspecies when the larger species is fine -- oftentimes there are suspected local adaptations that would be wiped out by letting that population go extinct or hybridize with other populations.)
The power brick supplied with my machine is encased fully in a block of resin on the inside, which meant that one could not get access to the parts easily. It also started to heat up quickly after a while.
Let's Encrypt launched; you can get free 90-day certificates automatically: https://letsencrypt.org/
How to Monetize Your Blog (Make Money) – Paid Online Jobs
Nice. White list approach as oppose to black list. Makes sense. I would probably end up still using a filter though, because I don't want to have so many contacts for people I barely contact.
I agree. I have one, and about the only want I can tolerate is their Cola Zero. However, I've since went back to Coke Zero cans, and was excited by the Kold, but the price really is a non-starter.
I liked this quote from the interview:

"The amount of code that’s doing the work is tiny compared to the amount of code that’s just making life pleasant for you."
-- Andrew Fluegelman
Not to mention that Amazon acquired Goodreads in 2013. The integration makes the Amazon "best of" more likely to be aligned with Goodreads.
Kotlin 1.0 Beta 3 is Out
some modules might be re-purposed for a Nautilus X, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X
Nexus Security Bulletin – December 2015
Implementing Git flow with Docker
Agreed! It had great functionality, including customizabiltit and the best approach to separating wheat from chaff I've seen to date. Spark is entirely client side (Though they're hinting at adding server-side features; as long as it doesn't include server-side access to my email no problem).

Mac client slated for early 2016. They support plain IMAP (yes!) and even Exchange.
You mean placing text in a rectangle? Looks like it.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I'm not making any technical claims about what portion of nodes or miners need to collude to compromise Nakamoto consensus. I'm also not arguing that Ripple is superior to bitcoin or vice-versa. I'm arguing that the bitcoin protocol without the Nakamoto consensus is not an improvement over conventional clearing technology, and at least in terms of its claimed features is not much different from ripple consensus -- ie, the federated open source protocol, not the Ripple network that requires XRP and is maintained by Ripple Labs or whatever they are calling themselves these days.

Yes I do hold XRP, Bitcoin, and a number of other digital assets, which is consistent with my view that they could become valuable in the future. That doesn't mean I think banks should adopt these protocols to transfer conventional assets. But when I read a press release talking about "blockchain technology" I assume the author either does not understand bitcoin or else is making a wrong prediction about the future.
Nice idea. But, just to play with the numbers, it would require tons of fuel and, unless ura thinks of a debris field instead of a park, we must break and descent it there.

I suppose that whould cost a lot more than 140 billions.
You're mixing pollution with green house gases
Stupidity because people who act in malice are dicks. You can choose to be nice, but it's inevitable you'll be stupid at one point or another.
This is a fantastically presented and well-written essay. It's too bad the author stops short of providing any clear, actionable steps towards the reinvigoration of the professions:

> It’s high time for those of us who continue to value the professions to reinvigorate and, as necessary, reinvent the professions. We need to acknowledge our complicity in the current undesirable situation, embody the principles and values that have enabled professional practice at its best, and work to ensure that they will be strengthened, not undermined, by the technologies to come, and insofar as possible, in harmony with the ever unpredictable winds of history and culture.

This is about as close as he gets to an actual suggestion:

> we need to regulate markets firmly and fairly

Who is "we"? How do "we" do that? Perhaps Prof. Gardner should have had a word with Larry Summers over a pint at the 2001 Harvard faculty Xmas party when Prof. Summers returned as the university's president, having helped repeal Glass-Steagall a few years prior.

More seriously, Prof. Gardner is in a position of power within an institution that does more to shape the future of the world than any other. He should have one of the best vantage points in the world to suggest changes, given his access to the students and faculty that go on to make many of the governing decisions within the country. It would have been interesting to read more about how the culture of a pivotal institution such as Harvard has changed over the past 30 years, and whether that has been in response to, or the cause of the decline in profession.
Lack of water is a problem.

In the mid east, and other arid regions, fossil water is being used up faster than it can replenish itself.

Some places, the water table is falling by several meters per year.

That is not being helped at all by the now unsustainable population density, courtesy of the conjunction of modern pediatric medicine and traditional family planning.
Jarringly different in style than the rest of the site.
Only one of the algorithms in Phobos still uses the GC.
>The search for the red wolf's origins have led scientists to a new theory about how evolution actually works

A close reading of the (beautiful) story shows that while the red wolf presents a nice narrative, there is little truth in this statement. It may have caused much hand-wringing among environmentalists, hunters, and government officials — an important conversation and issue in its own right — but scientists remain quite unsurprised. This is just another in a long-line of cases where "species" is hard to define. The old chestnut of "can't breed" doesn't work in all mammals, much less bacteria where horizontal gene transfer is common.

In terms of sequence, it's not as fun to look at, but the best example is probably E. coli. Across all of the E. coli strains only around 40% of the genome is shared in a "core" genome.[1] At first glance that makes no sense and probably says just as much about our characterization of bacterial species as it does our definition of bacterial species.

But, really, who cares? The article quotes Darwin:

>I look at the term species as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a set of individuals closely resembling each other

Which is essentially how scientists use it now. It's very convenient for categorization when it is, but often has no valuable meaning. You can (and should) say the same thing about the definition of life. Are viruses alive? It's an interesting question, but does it change anything? It's okay for some of the edges to be a bit blurry. The fluidity of "species" is, I think, one of the cooler aspects of modern biology. What better way to start teaching kids about evolution and the DNA that connects us all?

1: http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jou...
I think your points make sense but you are forgetting that the demand for a certain skill isn't constant. So, while it's true that there are many people who can code entering the workforce, it doesn't imply software development being a poor choice of a profession if the demand for them is also going up.

And from what everyone seems to be saying, the increase in supply has still not yet hit the demand.
The space station can't hold itself together on the moon, it is not built for 1/6g; you might be able to position it in lunar orbit, but that would be quite expensive; higher orbits would preserve the station just as well at much lower cost, but the station would be an unsafe derelict in a few years.
My Favorite Food App for 2015 (Inc. Mag)
Consumers in the West are choosing between pyramidal corporations vs independent professionals in many industries. While the former are often less expensive to the end user, they drain money out of the local economy towards fiscal havens. On the other hand, the latter often exploit their local connections to supercharge clients. For the health of my local environment, I tend to pay some more to keep the money within my community.
Yes, there's a point where it gets very difficult to get a new job without retraining yourself. When I started programming professionally in 2000, the hot frameworks were Java Swing 1.3 and MFC 6.0. I could probably get a job in these, but there's about zero chance it would be doing cutting-edge stuff, or even anything other than maintenance programming. C++ & QT is probably in this category already.

If you have an adequate cash cushion and accept the need for it, though, re-training is not that scary. Six months and you can come up to speed with whatever the latest hotness is, and then you'll have a leg up on new grads (because you've seen all the ways software projects can fail) and on grizzled hires who don't have experience with the latest tech.

The tech industry moves fast enough that it's not always worth staying at the bleeding edge. Jump to the bleeding edge when you retrain, and use the time in the middle to work on soft skills and things that don't change as rapidly, like back-end development, domain knowledge, and fundamental CS. You can save a lot of time by skipping technology generations entirely.
I like that he makes it more about the economics of saving lives, which should be the primary argument.

But that is a tricky problem since we have 4 million a year dying from indoor cooking smoke, and millions more from other various aspects of extreme poverty. Most of which would be a greater ameliorated by cheap coal plants. Cheap coals plants are horrible polluters, but they are cheap, aren't as bad as indoor pollution, and allow countries to pull themselves out of abject poverty, thus saving lives immediately by fertilizing crops, making cheap concrete, powering factories, all the things a richer society needs.
> no book of religion pushes people to grab a knife or a gun to harm others; crazy leaders do and unstable and uneducated people follow.

There are calls to violence for the sake of Islam in the Quran. These verses are among the last to be revealed and thereby are considered to overrule earlier verses (the concept of abrogation in Islam is known as "naskh"[2]). This is in stark contrast to Christianity, where Jesus abrogated the Old Covenant (i.e. the Jewish laws that contain most of the barbarism that people love to quote) with the New Covenant (hence the names). This view has been held in Christianity pretty much from its inception and is what the vast majority of Christians believe[3].

Two oft-cited examples from the Quran:

>And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.[0]

>Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.

[0] http://quran.com/9/5

[1] http://quran.com/9/29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naskh_%28tafsir%29

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_the_Old_Cov...
Outlook has it now too, which is surprising.
why not the moon?
Desktop version slated for early 2016.

https://twitter.com/sparkmailapp/status/673945229221896192

They've shown screenshots of the Mac app in dev.
Can I and if I can, how easy it is to get e-residency, open bank account and form a company from abroad (I am from Serbia)? Anyone with such an experience and using such company for a startup?
Etymology is not the same as dictionary definition.

In fact most Greek and Latin words have been altered a lot in meaning post adoption.
The idea is that conventional gasoline engines will pollute, electric engines won't. As for the source of electricity, it's currently not 100% clean but getting cleaner as renewable sources take over.
I agree with this. Amazing that we need AS to give people a dose of wisdom. I have to agree with everything he said. I am not convinced about CO2 causing global warming but I am 100% ok with our society pushing away from coal, gasoline and fracking.
Does anyone know if they will take a US DL, or do you pretty much need a passport? Their form has an option for "other ID" but I'm skeptical that a drivers license is adaquate.

Otherwise there's a consulate in NYC so it would be easy to pick up :)