skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr. Steven Novella on brainwave entrainment, from 2008:

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/brainwave-entra...

"That is generally where the science ends and the pseudoscience begins. A number of companies and individuals have then extrapolated from the phenomenon of entrainment to claim that altering the brain waves changes the actual functioning of the brain. There is no theoretical or empirical basis for this, however. Entrainment is a temporary effect on the synchronization of neuronal firing – it does not improve or increase brain functioning, it does not change the hardwiring, nor does it cure any neurological disorder. There is no compelling evidence for any effect beyond the period of entrainment itself."

I do like the "Cyberpunk" atmosphere of some of the music. But their other claims require some extraordinary evidence.

For example, does this impart any more benefit than me listening to my favorite working music whilst working? It doesn't seem to. But I haven't had a chance to sift through their supposed "180 studies"
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It worked quite well in their grandparents day over the same ground (more or less) with the same opponents in the Franco Prussian war.

Unfortunately technology improved and trucks supply ammo to modern machine guns mean it doesn't work so well anymore.
> Britannica was purely a social signalling tool. The content was secondary. People bought it as evidence of middle class disposable income, not because they seriously expected to learn anything from it.

I'm not sure what basis you could have to say that. Have you seen a survey?

Britannica was and I assume still is respected by academia as a serious, accurate reference tool.
Democracy is about equal opportunity though, and equal voice -- putting money behind speech is like government controlling the media --it's simply wrong, and it's what Hitler did.

Technically I think the news should still have fair-play laws where they were required to give equal time to someone with an opposing view everytime they did an op-ed. I think the news should be more open and accessible--I think when it comes to president ads shouldn't even be allowed, it should ALL be based on debates and nothing else. Because politics shouldn't be manipulated by people with more money than another person..--but that's in an ideal world.
To be fair, Samsung have offered some innovative features on their high end phones. Best example I can think of is the Galaxy Beam. The Galaxy Note was different when it was first released. The Galaxy Edge is slightly unconventional too.
The article is a year old. Does anyone know where the tech is actually at now?

I was expecting this to be slightly more common by now.
DC is a great storyteller, something missing in many other history themed audiobooks/podcasts/etc. My favorite series of his is either "Wrath Of The Khans" or "Ghosts of the Ostfront". The WWI series was also fantastic, but did feel like he kind of sped the pacing up in the last episode a bit, discussing the end of the war. I have a feeling after some of the previous series had run on so long, he wanted to cap this one at 6 even-length episodes.
I've tried many times to learn Haskell. The problem is always with setting up a compiler, getting packages, setting environment, not getting a ton of gigabytes of duplicated packages, getting useful vim support etc.
But limited static analysis.
This is exactly it. Goals will point you in the right direction, but the joy is in the pursuit.
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There are also co-working spaces. And plenty of ways to socialize online with co-workers or friends or new people over video chat, text chat, reddit/Hacker News, and other options. And lots of ways to meet up for non-work-related activities with existing or new friends.

Many people aren't doing it right if they aren't regularly interacting with co-workers online.
There are also co-working spaces. And plenty of ways to socialize online over video chat, text chat, reddit/Hacker News, and other options. And lots of ways to meet up for non-work-related activities with existing or new friends.
> I'm ... not so certain I'd expect to see a balanced or even accurate view (in cases), of Trotsky by Lenin, of Yosemite by Muir, of Wilbur Wright by his brother

That's a good point about those examples; they are flawed in that respect. My point was that I'd rather read an article written by an expert and held to high editorial standards than one written by a crowd of people with various levels of knowledge.

I'd also expect to learn much more uniquely valuable insight about an issue from the authors listed above, but that's a different issue.

A philosphical question I heard on Car Talk: Do two people who don't know what they're talking about know more or less than one person who doesn't know what their talking about?
I don't know why, but this makes me feel smart. Placebo++
Any range information the compiler intuits from signed values not overflowing could, in principle, be given explicitly with the following code:

if (foo > 1000) __builtin_unreachable();

Or macros that make that kind of thing look prettier. I prefer using unsigned values everywhere for both safety and semantics. (It's not possible to have a negative number of bananas, so why should I use a type that admits a value of -3 bananas?)
Really? What is this 10%?

We're using Haskell for server-side programming at my work and it's been fantastic. Functional programming is so well suited for stateless web services.
There's another method that shifts the phase of the entire spectrum instead of generating pure tones. That method has been available in software like CoolEdit (I think Adobe bought it later) since at least 1996. I wonder if that is the method used by brain.fm, but I haven't had a chance to check it out.
Yes, I was thinking about uBlock origin, but would an "average" user be comfortable with it? That's the problem.
It is absolutely true. Your test program is not well formed. The result of overflowing or underflowing a signed integer is undefined.

What's tripping you up is that C can be very lax with stuff it doesn't allow. Some stuff is required to generate a compiler error, like if you try to start a variable name with a number. Some stuff is just "undefined behavior" which means the compiler can basically do whatever it wants.

Undefined behavior is often referred to as "nasal demons" because it would be perfectly legal for a conforming C compiler which encounters undefined behavior to make demons fly out of your nose. This is impractical, but real-world compilers can and do crash or silently emit unexpected values in this case.

The most confusing part of this is that a subset of undefined behavior is doing what you want it to do. That's what you're encountering here. The moment you do i+1 you've hit undefined behavior. In this particular case, the compiler is emitting code that causes the value to wrap, which is what you expected. This is still undefined behavior, which means your program is ill formed, and the compiler can change its mind and betray you at any moment!
In 'Europe' also there are many damages you will be left hanging with if whoever caused your damage is not insured. If you think you're golden when something happens to you because you live in Europe, you're in for a rude awakening in case something would happen. There are many personal injury lawyers across Europe. They just don't make as much money because of no punititve damages.

(Example off the cuff, was on tv a while ago: girl gets ankle damaged in accident at car show. Yes the foot gets the plaster 'for free', but here are some other costs that aren't covered by national insurance: travel costs, time off for parents, adaptation to the house to accommodate reduced mobility, wheelchair-accessible car, ...) Please tell me if I'm wrong, but I know of no social healthcare system that covers such costs).
Do you think it would better to link to that site? Instead of suggesting an addon my self?
I'm a native mandarin speaker from Taiwan and now living in NY.
I think it just comes down to the fact that english is not everyone's first language there.

For your example, people end up pronounce A.P.P because not everyone knows that app comes from `application` and therefore you might run into conversations with people speaking with different pronunciations. Some people pronounce 'app' the normal way, and some people pronounce 'app' similar to (ape).

After awhile, people would explain what they're trying to say by spelling out, and eventually you'd learn to just say A.P.P instead of attempting to incorrectly pronounce the word.

Same thing goes with Facebook, which is referred as F.B, and Instagram, which is usually referred as I.G
I think you're missing the point and being quite obnoxious about it too. Chill out and enjoy the whimsy, for chrissake.

This is 'just' a fun project, and there's a veritable cottage industry of fun projects like this to illustrate and play with new ML techniques. They're not meant to be technical contributions, they're playful doodles.

Plus, this one is actually really well done! It's got a great oldschool dictionary typeface, a tumblr reblogging the tweets, nice details like that.
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The article doesn't even mention personal responsibility until roughly halfway through it.

And you comment about "born to be lazy" holds no water. If you want to be lazy, you have to accept that you won't have opportunities non-lazy people will have.

If you're "born to be lazy", that's fine unless you want to be somewhere that non-lazy people are. If you're sitting on your butt cause the inspiration for your novel hasn't come along because it isn't time yet, you're not working hard enough.
I am named after my great-grandfather who perished here along with so many of his compatriots. He died at Fort Douaumont, as I recall, as the German soldiers shot into the tunnels of the fort. He had three children and was around forty years old. My grandmother never knew her father. These tragedies resonate throughout generations. Astonishingly, it is possible to find his death certificate online [1].

[1] http://goo.gl/WdUpid
Anyone know what's going on with the Pixhawk 2 + 3DR + Open Source software and hardware? Doesn't seem 3DR is making it very accessible.

Seems like something strange from a RC Groups Thread[1] I've been following for months.

[1] http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2391271&page...
Why Zelda Was So Revolutionary When It Came Out 30 Years Ago
Like Slack but for VR
Should I have equity in this startup?
My brother started an eCommerce business back in 2009. He launched it alone and did all of the leg work to get it up and running. He then closed the business in 2011 to go to university.

He relaunched in 2012 after dropping out of university. He was running the business from his bedroom. I joined at this stage as the first employee.

It was part time work at this point (mornings and afternoons) doing logistics (postage, packaging) & customer service admin and quickly moved into marketing (email, social, display etc.).

We worked together, going to meetings with web teams & graphic designers getting the website redesigned etc. I helped with a lot of the nitty gritty, I was full time for a while, then 4 days a week, 3 days a week and back to full time - various different hours throughout the 3 years I worked there.

I played a key role in the re-branding, moving into our first office, interviewing our 3rd and 4th employees. My main role at the company for the majority of time was marketing.

During the time I worked there I was in the office more than my brother, he barely came in at all. Some weeks he'd be in only 1 of 5 days. I did 10am - 5pm as my hours. I was on a salary that amounted to about £15,000 per year.

To this day my brother owns 100% of a company that turns over around £900,000 a year. When I started it was around £300,00. I really feel I had a hand in it's success (my brother does not).

I am unsure how equity in startups work and if I am entitled to anything.

I have now left the company as I felt I wasn't properly rewarded for my efforts. It was an awful situation, especially as family was involved.

If I am entitled to something, is there anything I can do? There was never any employment contracts involved, all just done on each others word. I would appreciate any insight anyone has.
It almost definitely is. I smell nationalism here.
Would a buyer be buying anything more than a user base (not to say that is not a worthy thing to buy)?
> Can't understand why you wouldn't be using Haskell for server-side web development.

I can't tell whether that's just a rhetorical flourish, so I'll answer straight.

To begin with, there are a couple of concerns that might kill an attempt to use Haskell.

1. I might not be able to get management approval. Haskell is an obscure language with a reputation for difficulty. The bosses might well say no.
2. I might need to work with an existing codebase in something like Java or Python. Not possible from Haskell.

If those don't kill the project, there's the cost-benefit tradeoff. On the benefits side:
1. Haskell code is very concise. (definitely) And greater concision means faster development. (possibly)
2. Haskell code is less likely to contain errors, because of very strict typing. (probably)
3. Haskell coders are disproportionately capable, because the language is obscure and difficult. (probably)

On the costs side:
1. I have much more experience in other languages. It would take at least a year, maybe two before I'd be up to pro standards in Haskell.
2. The community of Haskell programmers is small. It might be difficult to hire anyone if the project grew; I might be faced with training someone from scratch, not just in a new language, but in a new programming paradigm.

So, this isn't anything like a slam dunk. Quite the opposite, actually. There are a couple of issues that might nix the project right up front, and then a daunting cost-benefit calculation.
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+1 yes! The stack new project templates have saved me a lot of time. Stack, I'm general, is a great improvement in my device work flow.
There are definitely some of us whose balance leans toward "leave me the heck alone." I work at home in a rather remote location. I often don't see anyone besides my wife for weeks at a time. (and I love it).
"What does the 11 from C++11 mean? The number of feet they glued to the octopus to make it a better."
This
In fact if you add all the numbers for the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, it ads up to less than what it should be, i.e. on its own the core business has a negative value, which is kind of interesting.
The more peers you have, the less pressure you have to actively distribute it yourself. If you see the swarm is healthy, just pretend you don't have the file, peers will manage on their own.
OS X doesn't seem to do this for me. Did you install something simulating Windows' Aero Snap?
I tried again as you said, but it still complained. What I ended up doing was to send the invitation to your gmail address without the two dots (as it's an alias for your original address), and apparently it worked.

I also emailed you the invitation code they generated, from my personal email.
> making pkg installation easier

http://www.pyinstaller.org

Best thing since bread. OK, sliced bread, but it's close ...
Could someone please post a link to a PDF version of this article?
The headline is a little confusing. Basically, these researchers measured the brainwaves of expert pilots during a flight simulation, and then stimulated (using transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS) the brains of novice pilots during a flight simulation to match the brainwaves measured in the experts. They found that the real tDCS-applied group showed 33% "increase in skill consistency", as compared to the sham tDCS-applied group.

The interesting bit is the tDCS use, really. As many here may know, diy tDCS has become a popular trend among lifehackers. It is thus vital to note the possible negative side effects of tDCS, as pointed out by the editor of Kurzweil AI in the comments of the blog post: "Electric brain stimulation decreases IQ scores and racial prejudice" http://www.kurzweilai.net/electric-brain-stimulation-decreas...
> Why not both?

Unless it's about something I already know, I can't always tell when a Wikipedia article is totally off base, either through omission or commission, about facts or context. I trust Britannica and experts more.

IMHO, often the difference between experts and amateurs is that the amateurs have huge blind spots, gaps in their knowledge that they are unaware of, and a lack of context. A doctor and a patient can read the same online research but there's a big difference in how they might interpret it.
"Moonshots in Education" is a book full of case studies from all around the world. Implementations are as diverse as the conditions of learning environments. Intelligent tutors may be fully integrated, squeezed on the sidelines, or somewhere in between.
That is because there is no official English.
Yahoo was somewhat bound to this state when it decided to brand as a advertising company instead of a tech giant.

They had yahoo answers before Quora got popular, they had tumblr, yahoo sports, etc., all of which were market leaders at some point in time but in the end all the potential got wasted due to the direction the company took.
Is this article available as a PDF document?
I have a different opinion on this topic, but this is the same discussion as strongly vs. weakly typed programming languages (I'm obviously on the side of strongly typed ones).
I don't think it's excellent at all. It's mostly for and by novices in their first weeks or months after really starting learning about it and many zeroday beginners who think it sounds cool and post the nth deep learning news article and ask how they should start learning about this stuff. There is very little advanced discussion there. And the advanced questions and topics usually have very few comments.
> Why do some people seem to have the opinion that authoritarianism (anti-privacy) is a feature of one political party (or ideology) more than another

The parties market themselves as anti-authoritarian to their own base, while (correctly) characterizing the other party as authoritarian. The marketing propaganda plays off peoples' varying desires for specific freedoms, and whips them into an aggressive fervor bent on taking away freedom from the other team. The politicians are then free to implement the authoritarian policies purchased by their respective sponsors.
US asks VW for electric cars
Perfectly preserved bronze age wheel unearthed in Cambridgeshire
How can Verizon be a serious ad business challenger ? aren't the valuable data using https?
Resharper (plugin for Visual Studio), I barely know how to use it, but it already makes me miles more productive with VS
Re moving the negation: it could be faster if x is available a few cycles before y in a superscalar architecture as you could save a cycle by negating x while in parallel computing y.
Does it matter how well the system analyzes and recreates facial gestures when anyone can just > load poker_face.vrscript?
I'm a (jr) mechanical engineer by day. One of my hobbies is programming. Nothing special, various small projects to either scratch an itch or learn something I was curious about, though I have contributed thingies to a few small OSS projects (ie 1-line patches for minor bugs).

Other than that, various outdoors activities. Skiing (xc, alpine, bit of touring), bicycling (incl some bike touring), general exploring.
The malignant stance of Canada towards US citizens you describe is exactly my experience in the 5 times I've traveled here for business.

I can now add "been deported" to my list of life accomplishments... My work visa was rejected because there's no category for "software development" in NAFTA.

While I'm inclined to believe that this app was not spyware, but rather a broken leftover from deleting other apps on my way there, I'm certainly not 100%. I'd say, about 70-30.

My client now wants to move his company out of Canada because of this... Trudeau has a lot of work ahead of him.
> English overtook French for the banal reason that more people saw more individual benefit of learning it over a long period of time.

Add to that the fact that French doesn't tick all that many boxes in the "ideal language" test either. It takes its romantic roots and adds a lot more complexity than does Spanish, Italian or Romanian (and a bit more than Portuguese too).

Spanish seems like it would've been the best candidate to push as a universal language rather than creating Esperanto. Its pronunciation is simple and follows a few simple rules. It doesn't have that many irregular verbs. About the only complexity it has is the masculine/feminine of words. Introducing and pushing a gender-neutral variant of the language seems like it would've been a lot more successful than Esperanto has been.
Have you tried stack? It was released about six months ago and has revolutionised Haskell's offering in this area.
Opinionated deployment tools and Kubernetes
Most Expensive £500 rechargeable battery pack has £22 worth of batteries inside
At least the UN considers the British spelling as the official one:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languages_of_the_Unit...
It's a shame they seem to be getting away with it, too.

Not the least because it's quite unfair competition for companies based in countries where the GPL is more likely to be enforced!
I'm not sure an artificial light source looking like the sun will replace the actual sun in regards daily energy and motivation, among others.
Sorry I forgot to mention this in my comment! Thank you for posting it!
Sure, I want that, but that article was a year old. Their website seems like it only mentioned things through 2015. Not for $60,000. I'm in seattle, add me as a reseller for say $1000 and I will sell 10,000 units.
All languages have their problems. English is no better or worse than any other. Worrying about this is a waste of time. You can't change the world's lingua franca yourself. At best, you can perhaps try to get its orthography reformed.

English, like any other language, can communicate ideas well. And that is all it needs to do.
I can rewatch every movie/series I have seen in my mind. I always thought that is normal until someone told me it is not. I can't even describe how it works, but basically I can see the movie and forward/rewind. Since I watch a huge amount of movies/series (1500+ movies alone) there is a lot in me head I guess. Can be fun though, if you are bored and got no tv/computer/phone around, I can close my eyes and watch something on demand :)

I also can remember most days in my life like this. As stated it can be a burden, those unhealed wounds of dramatic experiences that you live through over and over again in every detail.
AFAIK there's no way to unlock the bootloader of the Verizon variant once upgraded over the air to 4.3 or later.
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Uber driver just went on a multi-death shooting rampage
Oh, good point. After I posted the comment above I googled to educamize myself and this was helpful http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/rus/ There's also fertilizer and ships. Everything pales in comparison to petroleum exports, though.
Perhaps it was the word choice: "can" implies that the killing would not be punished. Obviously any person can kill another, so to say "can kill" suggests a "license to kill". If I were a policeman warning someone about a criminal, I would say "might kill" or some other phrase that discusses likelihood rather than capability.