skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough (enough to click the up arrow for a point well made), though I don't think participation in the patent system is quite as clear-cut. Gassing Jews? The vast majority would agree that this goes to the far end of the "evil" scale, if not defining the maximum of that scale. Having your employer patent your work? Meh, I'm pretty sure opinions will fail all over the scale, including the "good" end or at least the "still better than kicking puppies" part of the scale. For instance, I personally find software patents to be pointless and perhaps suppressing of innovation, but I don't get terribly rabid about it. But you're right, blind participation is certainly worthy of criticism, even if I don't necessarily agree that any participation is wrong.
I think all articles like this are fluff, but I do believe in the placebo effect. If I believe having good posture makes me happy then it will.
Too bad browser JS is single-threaded. If you switch windows the background application stops. Kind of limits its ability as a desktop replacement no matter how much effort they put into it.
Note that there's a bit of a pun here. "Finally" tagless isn't really any less initial than free monads are. The final encoding would give us something codata like, not just described via a typeclass. That said, both are still "initial" as in "initial algebra".
Facebook’s Rebuttal to Mahesh Murthy on Free Basics, with Replies
GMail works OK for me. Mutt does, too, but in a very different way.
The U.S. market is smothered by local monopolies[1] and a global duopoly. Your argument would hold water if the free market has been given chance at all.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/8ckIn
I too prefer this style of interviewing. I don't ask people to do whiteboard questions or solve puzzles anymore. I just ask for a portfolio of their work (like intelligent people in almost every other industry do).
I like "entities" -- I feel so smart when I use that.
Reminds me of the now-defunct g.ho.st (an early cloud desktop of sorts), and michaelv.org (JS recreation of Windows 3.1 UI).

Incidentally, I've been wanting to recreate Windows 95's interface for ages now. I should get back to that.
The thing is, big banks are historically no more trustworthy or benevolent than patent trolls. Mentioning a plausibly non-evil motivation for these patents is only reassuring if there's any reason to believe BoA wouldn't also use them for evil if they thought they could make a buck.
should programming languages evolve

its nice to have FOSS implementations of things
like smalltalk

but shouldnt we look more forward to languages such as
rust, perl 6, go, red .... or at least ocaml and haskell

is this useful for anything beyond legacy systems?
Jupyter dev here. FYI, we're currently working on building a new Jupyter web interface that resembles a more classic IDE experience, which we are calling JupyterLab. A first version is progressively coming together, and is planned to have code editor and terminal components. We also plan to have a notebook component, like the current notebook, in a later version. Our in-progress work is spread across many repos currently (see the various jupyter/jupyter-js-* repos on github).
A Swift Look at Protocols with Associated Types
Looks like it will be up to the court to decide http://uberlawsuit.com

I'd imagine in some markets Uber would actually benefit from W-2 workforce - this would allow them to mandate hours and location to avoid the dreaded (by consumers) surge pricing.
I think the bigger story here is that the NSA spied on, and tries to publicly shame, the lawmakers that are supposed to control it. For the NSA this should be totally and completely inexcusable. Democracy does not work if the branches of the government are allowed to pull this crap on eachother. NSA is part of the executive, and publicly shames members of congress with information they collected through covert means.

Sure Israel has interests, and tries to convince lawmakers. Great. So does every other country on this planet.
This is something that I wish the article would've focused on more, exercise. Simple things like going for a jog are underrated.
Or that the vital bits relocate to the spinal column
I'm not interested in Google becoming in arbiter of what is and is not a religion. I think it's entirely acceptable to fall back on what your national government has defined as religious and non-profit organizations, for exactly the reasons I outlined in my original comment. Similarly, I wouldn't want them making distinctions about political non-profits. I am happy they don't censor some ostensibly Democratically leaning health organizations, and I'll accept that they don't censor the NRA at the same time as the price of their neutrality.
A fascinating question, and as noted by others, may (and does) vary depending on the country.

Lawrence Wright's 'Going Clear' (more so the book than the HBO movie) goes into some detail about the apparent hand-wringing going on with the IRS as it suddenly had to come up with a definition of a religion.

Predictably it's a pretty fuzzy set of criteria -- though whether you want religion defined by your revenue collection branch of the government is a whole other question.

From http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/16/15-scientol... :

> In 1993, after a prolonged fight, the IRS settled with the church over its tax-exempt status. Miscavige was able to regain the status (after the government’s disastrous handling of the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas) by paying only $12.5 million of the $1 billion (which would have bankrupted the church) in back taxes it owed.
From the kernel commits Alexander Courbot appears to have worked on it recently. Even going back to the early days of previous-gen Tegra K1 support. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-January... Also Thierry Reding is the Maintainer of the Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager framework support for Tegra. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tegra/linux.git...

I'm sure the relevant devs hang-out on the LKML (if not here...) http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-tegra
I completely agree. An email button would be nice.
What Facebook wont tell you about FreeBasics
If we're going to spend limited public resources on building network infrastructure, the target use case shouldn't be households watching a couple of Netflix streams in the evening on their iPads. We should instead build the technologies that can deliver the broadest connectivity at the lowest cost, so people can apply for jobs, kids can do homework, send pictures to their friends or parents, etc. Wireless wins big on flexibility, and can be deployed at a cost that might allow cash-strapped municipalities to offer it as a free service. You'll never achieve that with high-cost and high-maintenance wired infrastructure.
I toured an apartment building several years ago that had 2-story units, where a unit's living space was on top of it's bedrooms, so a cross-section of the building would look something like:

Unit C living space

Unit C bedrooms

Unit B living space

Unit B bedrooms

Unit A living space

Unit A bedrooms

This means that the space directly above one's bedrooms - their very own living space - was less likely to be occupied while they were sleeping. Seemed like a very ingenious design to me.

My life has taken me to live in SFHs now, so I don't really look at a lot of apartment buildings anymore, but I've never seen another building with this design.
Well, we know that the outside of the brain uses more energy (by volume) than the inside. Plus, the evolutionary advantage of the wrinkles in the brain seems to be to increase surface area (of the outside, of course).

Disclaimer: I'm no neuroscientist but I did take an introductory psych course this one time.
Thank you and thank you Springer!

You just made my personal day and ruined my office day :-). I'll now spend rest of the day, and perhaps week, drooling over, downloading (and uploading them to my DropBox account) a whole bunch of these :-)
Back to the future. I have been very happy to leave the desktop metaphor behind.
Notice: a slight rant ahead.

I moved from a Dallas, TX suburb to a pretty "nice" place in Brooklyn, NY last June.

Holy shit, the things that people think of as normal and okay here are totally nuts.

I never heard a damn sound from anything in Dallas. Nothing. I could play my classical music pretty much as loud as I wanted whenever I wanted, and neighbors would never hear it.

Here in Brooklyn, I swear to god we live like animals, and people are okay with it.

I got a noise complaint with cops and everything the other day just having reasonably quiet sex with my girlfriend. Neither of us is noisy.

I can hear everything above and below and next to me. It's stupid. There's no central heat/ac. The building just turns on the heat when they feel like it, which is nuts. It's more than 80 degrees in my apt right now. I don't even like that temp ever. I have to open windows to let it cold air to bring the temp down to something reasonable.

There are no reasonable grocery store. If you want to cook a reasonable meal at home with your own cooking skills, you have to go to at least 5 different places, and there's nothing about a store that tells you what you can and can't get there. It's insane. And they don't tell you with a sign on the the door if they are or are not cash only.

I love the opportunities I've found in NYC, and am truly loving my job, but the tradeoffs are fucking terrible. Aside from public transportation, this is the worst, most idiotic city in the world.

Seriously, it's like living as an animal here.

And I live in one of the best parts of Brooklyn. This is just stupid, and I kind of hate it.
I don't remember reading a post as interesting as this one in a long time here.
The same website from which the thread-opening post comes has page about the reason L. Ron Hubbard founded Scientology as a religious organization--to make money.[1] That page includes an interesting account of knowing Hubbard by science fiction author Harlan Ellison.

[1] http://tonyortega.org/2013/02/16/scientology-mythbusting-wit...
Household items to never bring into your home
I just deleted my Facebook account today. All local newspapers are covered with their full page ads and their attempts to get users to sign their petition is just disgusting!
and for nudging negotiations in the right direction.
Things work great with LUSFiber in Lafayette, LA. Municipal Fiber is a solution to the problem of communication services monopolies. Which is why ISP lobbyists throw a lot of effort to get states to pass laws prohibiting municipal service.
I think this article is completely stupid, and is "conceptual debt" in not understanding fully what technical debt actually is. This article describes BAD PRODUCT MANAGEMENT.

DEBT is an instrument. A good CTO/Developer will know when the codebase/product/platform is taking on technical debt. The same way you might take debt for a house, and pay back over time so you can LIVE in it.
Shitty CTO's/Developers will take on tech debt without knowing it, and soon enough you're fucked. That's how people become homeless in the real world with real debt. (Well one way)

There is NEVER a time when you want to take on 'conceptual debt' AKA make crap product choices. That is just being stupid or short sighted. The only time to take on conceptual debt is if I am a development agency being paid by rich stupid people, and I want to make as much money as possible and not care about my reputation with them.
Why Calvin and Hobbes, 20 Years Later, Remains the Best Comic Strip of All Time
The EFF sent out an email a few days ago regarding the Innovation Act of 2015, which is supposed to make patent trolling more difficult. Here's a link if you'd like to contact your representative:

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-patent-trolls-support-the-in...
Considering the part of world we're mostly fighting in now, maybe it's high time to reactivate this Civil War era experimental unit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps
Without getting into the merits of the argument, here's a heads up on the author www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt
This is pure money. Thanks for the link OP !
The Bizarre Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin”
Obscurity is a form of OPSEC, just not a very good one.
yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer.

Still, that's pretty cool!
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Press X to continue – the hedonic treadmill
My GP did the same but at least he sold his practice to a group so I didn't have to find a new one immediately. I ended up sticking with the group because my new doctor is the best!

We spend hours and days finding the right library or framework to best fit our project. We spend weeks looking for the right laptop. But most people just go to the nearest doctor their whole lives without even wondering if they are getting the best medical care.

My wife is a surgical PA who has worked closely with probably 50+ surgeons and other doctors in our area. She told me to memorize the names of the best 3-4 surgeons she's worked with. She said in an emergency I would be ok with about 10-15 of the average surgeons but the rest of them, over half of the surgeons she has worked with, don't know what they're doing after they cut you open. Some of the bad surgeons take 4+ hours to do what the good ones can do in 30 mins or under. Of course some of the good ones are in a rush and don't care about the scars they leave behind. The best ones operate quickly and cleanly but unless you have actually been in the room with them during surgeries, you can't tell. So best is to get 2nd/3rd opinions before you get a major procedure.
Interesting you say that. My wife always claims I have a brain, but it is free of wrinkles. She's probably right.
It certainly looks as if each app lives in its own process of sorts - check the 'process viewer'

I'm sure they could use some sort of thread/process implementation with a scheduler to do stuff. Speculation, each program could be compiled to some sort of bytecode, use asm.js to implement the guts of the thing, etc.

When you think about it, a single-core machine is "single threaded" as well, you just need some interleaving code to let more than 1 thing run at a time, and from some casual usage of the demo, seems they've done exactly that, so there you go
The topics that dominated Twitter this year
Show HN: RealHellToupee – A Trump-Inspired Twitter Bot
Hi HN!

I built and shipped my First Real Project (tm) this week. It's a twitter bot that scans for new tweets mentioning Donald Trump every two minutes (http://twitter.com/realHellToupee). Inspired by the Daily Show skit "Donald Trump is White ISIS," it replaces "Trump" with "WhISIS" and "Make America Great Again!" with "Notice me, Senapi!"

The code for the artwork is freely available for reuse and modification (https://github.com/the-bobo/helltoupee), along with an expanded artist statement. I hope you check it out and enjoy, and would love to hear any feedback!

It was my first time shipping and deploying a project to completion, and I learned a ton. How to deploy correctly on Heroku, the necessity for an http ping process to keep my dyno alive, how to create a manifest for npm install to work properly, how to use the Twitter API...a very fun if at times stressful experience!

To improve I need to update the version of node it runs with and make sure everything still works, and perhaps cache the most recent tweet to make sure I'm not duplicating it with the next call to the Streaming API since nobody likes (and Twitter rejects) reposts. Excited to hear any feedback, thanks!
Why is Mark Zuckerberg angry at critics in India?
duh power > money
I don't know any offhand, but if you want PCBs made, there's tons of that stuff there. I would think there's also a lot of 3D printing stuff going on there.
Professors at IITs and IIITs on Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’ Proposal
Somehow "after about two to three minutes, the students rated their subjective energy level" turned into "a lot more energy throughout the day". Also, all the study participants did both styles of walk, contrary to the blog post’s implication. Overall, the summary misleading and not particularly relevant to the author’s main point, which is about the long-term effects of chronically bad posture.
Well, right now it's still technically illegal to download them, unless & until Springer actually says some different license. Not that anyone would be prosecuted, obviously; one could clearly claim that it was obvious that Springer intended to distribute them at the very least for personal non-commercial use, even if Springer didn't say so explicitly anywhere. If the terms are even more liberal than that, so much the better... But it ain't so till Springer says it's so :-).
Um, why not? The stress of actual combat is far more than almost any cop ever goes through, unless he's one of the rare ones involved in an active shooter situation (and even those tend to be over pretty quickly; military combat can go on for hours or days).
Refactoring as a way to understand code
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If all that tissue is not needed, then why did evolution conserve it? It consumes energy, adds size, and increases weight and head size which reduces agility.

I really dislike "Chief Wiggum skepticism" that likes to just hand wave away and cheaply dismiss amazing things that might teach us a lot.
Amazing! Right off the bad I found some great topics:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-6383-8
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-30241-1

Looked like great reads right off the bad. Thanks OP!
I can't say I know what happens at a prison, but I'd assume there's some person(s) working as office admin at these places who sort out the incoming faxes. I'd be surprised if these don't just get trashed when received as they have no real bearing on the prison operations. I doubt Yelp reviews would sway elected reps either, unless there was proof a person they represent who can vote was upset. In other words, I imagine these faxes just waste some prison admin time in filtering them into the trash/recycle heap.
I think this is really great. How often do we as a society take the voices of prisoners seriously? It's kind of interesting to see a "view from below." Very cool work.
I think any supernatural connotations applied to consciousness in this article may be red herrings. In his recently Blindsight novel, Peter Watts argues not just that consciousness might not be a necessity for high-functioning spacefaring life, but that it might be an encumbrance.

>, consciousness does little beyond taking memos from the vastly richer subconcious environment, rubber-stamping
them, and taking the credit for itself. In fact, the nonconscious mind usually works so well on its own that it actually employs a gatekeeper in the anterious cingulate cortex to do nothing but prevent the conscious self from interfering in daily operations (If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert.)

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Blindsight_End...
I had similar feelings, so I don't open source things anymore. I wrote about it here: http://brianknapp.me/open-source-guilt/

For me, open source projects aren't worth my free time. I'm fine with giving code away. I'm less fine maintaining it years later.
> Certainly, the example of the patient with a 126 point IQ is an outlier

But in this case, one outlier is all you need. If this person really is fully functional by all measures, then that implies whatever is missing in his brain is unnecessary for passing the Turing test.
India is bigger than the US and Europe combined. I think we can even add in the US again. They are a rapidly developing economy with a strong educational system. Wouldn't we all benefit if the moved up from generics and created new medicines? More drugs, more competition, etc
Brain size is indeed correlated with intelligence, certainly on a human population basis, and also between species.

I don't even know what "not necessarily correlated" could mean; perhaps "not deterministic of"?
> I'm guessing "ordinary paper process that we've been doing since 1750 but in teh blockchainz!"

Didn't the Supreme Court decisively swat down that sort of thing (i.e. "but do it on a computer" patents)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Int'l
The cynic in me wonders if it is because people are able and willing to pay higher prices in America.
> "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"

People that can pay more do, those that can't... don't?
Reading the reviews it's about 95% joke reviews with an occasional honest one about visitation or conditions. I doubt anybody takes them seriously.
Not a Lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the 6 months timeline for third party submission of prior art applies directly to the patent. In other words the patent office will directly revoke the patent if it is notified of prior art before 6 months. The court system could still be used to determine that prior art invalidates a patent. Kindof a shitty rule, but the patent office doesn't have the resources to be overseeing every patent dispute -- it is essentially for the courts to decide. Speaking of which. Is there a crowd sourcing site for "here are the patents that have recently been approved -- what is prior art?" to help reign in patent craziness?
> Github could very easily own that space if they implemented something like "give x$ per month to every project I've starred".

I would love this. Has this been discussed anywhere?
In Opera, you can right click on any tab in the tab menu, and click 'save tabs as speed dial folder'. All open tabs will be saved in a folder on your speed dial. If you wan to open them again, you can right-click the speed dial folder and select to open them all at once.
> $35.00 overdraft fees?

Overdraft fees have been opt-in since 2010 in the United States [1]. If you have a checking account opened before 2010 that opted you in without consent, you can contact them and opt-out.

Absolutely no one should be subject to overdraft fees in 2015 unless they have specifically opted in.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/2009111...
It would be interesting if they could be used as scouts.
Most over-ear IEMs usually have better microphonics (the ER4's microphonics are notoriously bad). Shures and Westones both have good isolation and low microphonics (and start at reasonable prices).

If you are considering customs (CIEMs), I'd strongly recommend you audition some other headsets first - ERs were my first pair of IEMs, and I loved them, but they have poor bass, and there are sets w/ better detail, instrument separation, soundstage/imaging at the same price range. IMO, for the price, the UM Pro 30s w/ Comply tips are hard to beat. Another set you might want to check out might be the LEAR LHF-AE1d, a dynamic driver (vs balanced armature) IEM w/ balanced sound, and the ability to cheaply add a custom-fit nozzle.

The IEM market is undergoing a sort of cambrian explosion right now, with design approaches, quality (and also sadly, price).
Standard cell
The website says "Open Access: This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time."
Why is it technically illegal to download them?
as in native desktop
Well of course, I don't know why people find this surprising. You are not paying for the cost of manufacturing the single individual pill. You are paying for the cost of researching it and testing it, as well as a thousand other drugs that didn't make it to market.

If the US market didn't pay for these drugs, they wouldn't still be cheaper in India. They likely wouldn't exist at all.
Funny, as of 5-10 years ago, I heard they refuse to entertain anybody affiliated with Caltech due to repeated trolling incidents. I guess you didn't cut him off soon enough.
In America, we have insurance companies to pay the drug cabal on our behalf.