skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the reply, these are some really interesting insights.

To the problem of laymen understanding any given article, I almost question if this is truly a bad thing? To me, it seems that the 'web' itself was meant in the beginning to help solve this problem in the sense that you could traverse up and down a network of related hyperlinks to gain the context/knowledge needed to understand the page at hand.

This kind of leads me to the thought that maybe it's not the individual articles that are really at issue when it comes to the widest audience being able to read with understanding: maybe what is missing is the 'meta' structure which would allow a user to quickly understand what prerequisite knowledge they need, and where to find it.

In teaching, the analogue is the scope and sequence. We introduce each subject and topic so that it builds on previous understanding. I wonder if some meta structure or learning 'tracks' that are curated on top of the article structure might solve part of the problem?
The title says Google won't use Oracle's proprietary APIs, which seems clear enough.
I guess Emscripten is the less reliable route. I think one can't reasonably expect any C++ code to be readily compileable with emscripten with no modifications whatsoever
Are they not _fantastic_? The insertion depth can be uncomfortable at first, but the experience of listening to 'loud' music, then removing the earphones and noticing that the ambient noise was even louder is just amazing.
The 'Executive Coloring Book' they show some images from seems to be 'A Coloring Book For Lawyers' here: http://pdf.textfiles.com/posters/lawyercoloringbook.pdf - pretty fun to look through.
I "read" >100/yr audiobooks just in extra time commuting, doing chores, etc.
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The simplicity and ease of use of C++ combined with the blazing performance of JavaScript. Truly the best of both worlds!
Finally, something very useful for anyone into python+data that doesn't like working inside a browser.
From Darts to Bodies, New Study Reveals 5,000 Years of Violence in Central CA
A year of cryptography in links
> Power users can only change if they have Pro.

So get pro.
Not handicap accessible - Uber/Lyft are legally required to have those options so will have them as an option. Wouldn't be a big enough market for that otherwise, and would probably be illegal due to illegal price discrimination.
Even for military not all missions have to be silent. I imagine they'd have a need to run supplies in a mountainous terrain.
Consider Google bought Motorola for $12.5B[1] and Oracle bought Sun for $5.6 billion[2], I would think Google buying Sun would have been a better deal than buying Motorola.

1) http://bgr.com/2014/02/13/google-motorola-sale-interview-len...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_acquisition_by_Oracle
> someone decided to call them "items."

I prefer to call my stuff "things."
i think it can be used for police operations instead of dogs in SWAT situations like this for example http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3323495/Hero-police-...
In the last year, my workflow for data science/AI has completely shifted to Jupyter notebooks. Is there any IDE that offers a similar experience?
I'm sure this is all true, but I've also heard that Neubau apartment buildings tend to transmit a lot more noise (I've never lived in one), as compared to Altbau apartments with much thicker walls.
The comparisons specifically criticized Torch's requirement of Lua.
Have you tried svglite? It produces pretty decent svgs for web use.
> how is this any different from Google doing the exact same thing when you sign in to an Android device

It's microsoft, so it's big evil being evil for the sake of being evil and you should hate them for being evil.
What It Feels Like to Be Adopted at 17
Well, headers can have comments and (in languages without RTTI) type names, which are irrelevant for interoperability.
They actually said they'd be perfectly happy to open source it, provided they were paid:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080514032748/http://www.object...

I imagine that the value would have depreciated enormously in the nine years since then. I wonder if someone actually bought out the source, or whether they just gave up?
It's part of a suite of data packages for doing analysis, which encompasses visualization, data manipulation, and modeling.
Sweet! I love the L4 design.
This could really do with a definition of the several acronyms used.
From reading the post, I'm still not clear if they're simply pivoting over the next year, or actually shutting down.
My 60-something Australian mother knew what Uber was before we even summoned one, here in Costa Rica where their arrival was very publicly contentious.
Marines don't even speak while on patrol, it's pretty obvious that a robot powered by a gas engine wouldn't be a good idea.

MARSOC units apparently use electric dirtbikes to quickly through rough terrain on some missions.
Neat tool, but watching the video, the grammar nazi in me couldn't stop looking at that "palendrome".
I recognize how tongue-in-cheek this is (I laughed), but in all fairness, V8 is... really, really fast. Not really fair to the team to be mocking it anymore. :)
Useful to some degree, but if I understand correctly, patents are not part of Oracle's suit.
I think you missed some context. Up-thread, someone raised the point that it's unclear whether the question was "Of these 600 programmers, which wrote this code?" or "Did this programmer write this code?", and this subthread is discussing the latter case.
Funnily enough, that's how most criminals get caught. Boasting about it down the pub!

I was once given some wise advice. If you've ever knowingly done something wrong, never tell anyone else, and never admit to it. Your mouth is your worst enemy.
I've actually had FDE for ages (back to when I was using TrueCrypt!), that point was for illustration from the perspective of a normal user, who would have had almost zero exposure to these options.

Totally guilty on leaving my computer in coffee shops, though.
HIPAA basically requires a bunch of safeguards to be in place if you fall under its regulations. So if a prescription delivery company (like ScriptDash, NimbleRX, etc) want to send a delivery person with a prescription, the driver needs to be HIPAA certified. Otherwise the company would be in massive trouble for violating HIPAA requirements.

It's not a common enough use case for Uber/Lyft's consumer facing services, so I don't think it's wise for them to get into it; they're better going after UberEATS/etc opportunities. The idea would be ridesharing for businesses who have more strict requirements, kind of like Box vs Dropbox.

FWIW, you still deal with the difficult people operations aspect of ridesharing in that case (drivers are hard to recruit and manage, and are city specific), so I'd probably go after outsourcing the logistics platform for businesses with existing delivery mechanisms. E.g. bring UPS's 'no left turns' technology to companies that can't develop it internally.
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I've had this problem with Wikipedia also when looking up various scientific or mathematical references I find here. Most do not have a laymen's explanation at the top of the article, requiring me to lookup other unknown terms referenced in the summary.

I really wish more articles had a summary for laymen with a more detailed explanation below.
Or even save all your open tabs as a MAFF archive! Then you can read them offline. I like to add them to my todo list and then read them when I turn of my networking so I don't get lost down a hacker news rat hole. Dunno if chrome supports that, but Firefox (obviously) does[0].

[0]: http://maf.mozdev.org/
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Indeed. For example, I am deeply amazed at how in Flux and many of its derivatives Actions are not executable behaviours, but messages describing an action to be performed, while ActionCreators are the actual, well.. "actions".
1.7: as java.util.Objects is present ( https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/mast... )
Maybe your folks don't watch as much broadcast television as you'd imagine. My parents (over 50) know what Uber is given

- The amount of name drops the service gets on late night TV (Conan, SNL)

- The news it generates (medallions, the france protests)

- The viral facebook posts that go around when someone spends $300+ on an uber ride to go home.

Despite the fact they live in a suburb.

In any case, if we used your stringent definition of "household name", I doubt companies like Samsung, Sony or Twitter would fit the bill despite having massive consumer reach (and marketing spends).
But who are the hypothetical readers who need to understand the camera matrix without knowing math? In general, my feeling is that most Wikipedia articles are pretty well pitched to the people that would be interested in the article topic.
Will this introduce multiple version issues into JVM ecosystem like Python 2 vs Python 3?
How it's supposed to work is for knowledge to advance... "useful arts and sciences" as the case may be. The real question becomes, would you still have created your "invention" without the patent system? Would you have enough of a first mover advantage to recoup your investment into the invention without the patent system.

The patent system is intended to allow for inventors to recoup investment and make money. It was started in a time where it would take literally years of R&D and a decade to even break even on hard, physical costs. Software and process ideas take minutes to come up with, and hours to develop... A single license/sale generally recovers any creative investment.
Bitcasa is even worse. Not only did they sell unlimited and retract it, they claim zero knowledge encryption without providing it, as the key is linked to the password which is used to access your account through the web interface.

The sad thing is apparently they're partnered with larger companies like Samsung, Intel and Huawei, so their product is being spread to people who likely don't know any better.
Lived in altbau buildings for 10+ years. It totally depends. In our previous flat the most silent wall was the (modern) drywall to the adjacent apartment. In the one before there were steal beams which transmitted noise if something like a speaker was positioned too close.

The worst buildings are probably the postwar period buildings which were built both cheaply and without the regulatory framework in use today.
I recommend and use sqlworkbench, which is great as long as you don't work for one of the govts disallowed by the license (which is apache otherwise) http://www.sql-workbench.net/
> If we see Google specifically didn't choose OpenJDK to avoid GPL.

As far as I know, when Android started to be developed, OpenJDK didn't exist
Aren't design patents still subject to prior art?
The REAL tin foil hat: $12 hipster headwear protects from 'electromagnetic smog'
> a) read up on how to do concurrency

Can you suggest a few resources to further this cause? I'd love to write more concurrent code but outside of an OS class, I don't have much experience.

Thanks!
This is a huge win for open source if Google is going to build on OpenJDK. The implicit patent grants are huge! They can even pour resources into building a better GPL'd run time. So much of Google's internals are written in Java that they would certainly benefit from this.

Looks like another LibreOffice/OpenOffice Jenkins/Hudson split in the making. You'd think Oracle would have learned by now.

I wonder if they'll fork the Java language standard? That would seriously damage Oracle if it got traction. They couldn't use Oracle's trademarks but people are familiar enough now with Dalvik that they could just introduce Dalvik Server Edition and people would lap it up.
> [1]: I am willing to bet that very few people understand what the Oracle v. Google court case is all about,

And what it was about?
Founder had previous exit, could be why they didn't capitalize as much (though that's pure speculation). They're probably just restructuring and using existing technology for another company.
Flaming Wreckage of Clinkle Rebuilds as a Referral Service
This battle is very important: two questions it will answer are these:

1. Are APIs copyrightable?

2. If APIs are copyrightable, does providing an alternative implementation of someone else's API (the way Android provided an alternative implementation for some of the standard Java APIs) constitute a fair use [1]?

Google and Oracle settling this out of court would be very bad news: it would leave the above issues in limbo. That is a lot of legal uncertainty for any project that may wish to provide an alternative implementation of someone else's API.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

EDIT: formatting
How I almost shipped a product every month in 2015
That sounds like a very interesting and I'm assuming, a sad story. Do you mind if I ask if you are sharing it publicly?
Absolutely on naming. The python module "optparse", which was standard for quite some time, did not have any way to specify that a flag must be passed. As soon as the newer version "argparse" came out, this could be specified. All the documentation pointed that "mandatory option" was a contradiction, not realizing that they were the ones who had labeled it as an "option" in the first place.
> So Microsoft is charging more to not keep the key, which means they view it as a benefit for them to keep the key.

Or it means that Bitlocker has been a Pro or Ultimate feature in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, and PHBs decreed that Microsoft wasn't going to put the full-fledged feature in Home to continue to differentiate between Home and Pro and that the intended market of Home users did not need to be provided a way to lose their keys and brick their computers because nobody wants those support calls and the negative publicity about your data being inaccessible?
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We're not PaaS and not hosting anything, only orchestrating, so scaling is not our biggest concern right now. All the integrations are run in one-off Docker containers, which we're managing in our internal Docker cluster. Up until now we've been adding integrations ourselves, but the plan is to open-source our integration framework and let anyone add support for their tools. It's going to be quite easy, we will most probably require only Dockerfile and a metadata file for us to build the pipeline UI.

Answering your downtime question, sure we will provide plans with SLAs and multi-AZs, but basically it's a similar situation when repository hosting provider, DNS, container registry, or another infrastructure service is unavailable. That being said, we'll definitely think of a way to provide a fallback mechanism. Thank you!
What counts as an area of study? Integrated circuit design? Astrobiology? Nuclear fusion? Veterinary medicine? History of warfare? Textile manufacturing? I'd definitely like to hear his some of his answers. Heck, this might even be the basis for a game. There is a deck of cards with professions (architect, banker, doctor, actor, etc.), and another deck with subject matters, and your goal is to try an come up with some tenuous reasons for why that profession needs to know about that subject. Maybe there is a timer, and there are two "professionals", and the other players judge which one had the most credible idea?
XQ Super School Project: It's Time to Rethink High School – What We SHOULD Teach
Smart Air Filters India – Affordable Air Purifiers in India
The rise of web apps and app stores show that distribution is everything.

You can complain that this isn't what a browser is for, but it won't really matter until you can distribute your favorite kind of software in a way that requires (nearly) zero effort and zero risk for your end users to get started with.
Perhaps, but it's not like Google lost much by buying Motorola.

"I think the Motorola transaction has been a success for us. Financially, we bought the asset for $12.5 billion. It had $3 billion in cash; we were able to sell the Home division for $2.5 billion; we ended selling the handset division for $3 billion. There were some other tax assets as well. When you work through the math, you realize we spent between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion for the patent assets. At the time, the nearest comparable transaction was the Nortel patent auction where Microsoft and Apple teamed up to buy that asset for $4.5 billion. And there’s a good argument that the Motorola patent portfolio is a better portfolio."
1099 classification is not very defensible - see FedEx $228M settlement in just CA. Obama said that he thinks a third class of workers is just a watered down version of W-2 protections. Since we're likely going to see a Democratic president, they're going to be more W-2 friendly than 1099 friendly (though hopefully also technology friendly).

Point being...under existing regulations, Uber/Lyft drivers are probably W-2s. But Uber/Lyft are lobbying hard for an alternative, and will probably succeed in changing minds about it faster than the government can move to crack down.
Hmmm ... I think everyone has a obligation to pull their weight. If you don't pay your fair share of taxes, other people have to cover it for you.
We should be teaching real life to students for sure. I agree.
The encyclopedia articles are not supposed to teach math. And most of the article can be incomprehensible to most people.

Having a plain English lead paragraph that put the article in context is very important, but the leads are often hopeless.
Uber shutting down would have significant macro-effects for fundraising at all levels (including VCs raising from LPs)
VertiGo: The Wall-Racing Robot
I learned this as the Green Glass Door. Everything in the title is also valid to go through the green glass door.
The article is a trainwreck. There is no difference between the Oracle Java API's and the OpenJDK API's.
DBeaver, not just Postgres but Oracle, MySQL, SQLite etc...

http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/
It should be a combination of the two. Real life skills and important data along side proper education. The US is definitely not at the top of the education game by any means. We should have been rethinking high school curriculum a long time ago.
Why Does the Sharing Economy Overlook Brainpower?
The noise level was a pretty obviously non-negotiable flaw in the mule from early on. You'd think that someone would have pointed that out before dumping $42M into it.

I wonder if there were plans to reduce the noise in the unit that never worked out.
Anyone know if there is much of a demand for .Net developers in Zurich?
Ah no neither myself nor my wife shaves my legs. I don't have my legs shaved.
On the learn to code movement and its lies
I think "X is the year of Y" headlines are wrong about as often as the answer to "Is Z?" headlines is "no".
They note that you are behaving outside medical advice, and mention that your insurance might as a result refuse to pay for the procedure.

Whether this is actually the case is a different matter, but that veiled threat should be enough for most.
> In other words, how is this any different from Google doing the exact same thing when you sign in to an Android device?

When did Google start storing Android full disk encryption passphrases? I certainly haven't heard that it does.
I agree. I just don't think anybody has taken initiative to do so. We should be teaching things in high school like why your credit score matters. What politics means for the younger demographic and what they can do to help.

MIT Solve has it right, we should just be integrating it into a younger crowd.
They don't want to pay the extra money for a skilled person. PCs and programming have gotten easier over the years so they can hire someone with less skill for less money.
CTE's should be used to improve readability, they shouldn't be used if performance is a concern. There are many queries where the difference will be negligible if even noticeable. We should write code for humans first.

That being said, does anyone know if there are any plans to address them being optimisation barriers, or what the challenges are? Seems like even a naive rewrite into subselects before even creating the plan would reap a lot of benefits.
Isn't the concept of "Conceptual Debt" antithetical to the idea of MVPs,lean startups and the "ship fast, ship often" mantra dominating the tech culture nowadays?
Motorola was threatening to start suing other Android ODMs which would have wrought havoc from within the ecosystem. IIRC, Sun was a lot more forgiving and basically willing to look the other way at Google playing fast & loose with Java stuff. It was not yet in the offing that a) Sun was for sale, or b) Oracle would be the one to buy them within 2-3 years almost exclusively to bludgeon Google with the IP. In hindsight, it would have made all the sense in the world. Back then, I don't think it was clear it would be necessary and would have surprised people in a negative way probably ("Google's going to sell SPARC servers, now?" -- remember IP was not the stated reason for buying Motorola even if it's obvious that is what it was about now - at the time Google claimed to want to make devices). Connecting the dots forward is hard.
Try logging in to Wikipedia and enabling Hovercards[1] in the beta features. It creates a pop-up with a summary of linked pages when you hover over the link.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Preferenc...
On a similar note... some of us are noise def... I can't really make out anything but the loudest sound in an environment like that... most conversations I don't get anything if the person isn't facing me, and even then it's only if their lip movements are enough of a key to get what they're saying... I have an inhuman sense of smell, but less-than-average vision, and piss-poor aural perception.

The harder part, is that rough surfaces that tend to mute the "loud" tend to collect a lot more dust and be harder to clean properly/regularly at scale, which is another concern for some spaces.
Server internal error here
Every point you make I can counter, I've been with them for years, have multiple VMs with them, find their support team fast, competent and courteous. DDOS is a problem for every ISP and every ISP customer.
Another neat story from NPR on a specific piece of hardware tech from China: the hoverboard.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/27/457404184/episo...
I used Sidecar a lot when it was fixed pricing. When it went to the variable marketplace, it became more of a pain. Eventually I stopled using it.
Very large numbers of people will be dis-satisfied with the results of the US presidential election. (That one's a no-brainer.)

ISIS will succeed in two or three more semi-large-scale attacks in the west (ten to hundreds dead, but not 1000+).

Optimism about deep learning will continue, but it will not revolutionize the world within 2016.

The economy will continue to muddle through, neither exploding in growth nor crashing through the floor.

Syria will continue to be a war zone. The peace process will not make significant progress. However, NATO and Russia will not wind up in a nuclear war.
The comparison rates TensorFlow higher than Torch on two criteria and lower than Torch on two, and explicitly agrees with you about Lua ("However, let's face it, Lua is not yet a mainstream language.").

What, in your view, should it have looked like in order not to be a "Torch puff piece"?

[EDITED to fix a trivial typo.]
Which ones specifically, im sure commenters here could help. ETL = Extract Transform Load, a common pattern when transferring data from one system to another. GIS = Geographical Information System, having to do with positions in space, generally lat/lng and mapping concerns.
Lol. I had something very different in my head re "Adult" colouring book. Perhaps, "colouring books for adults".
Yeah, cool presentation. Just wished the videos weren't that large (as in pxs high).
That came out wrong. I was referring to the whole paragraph, which contains examples of men being sexist, rather than that quote.