skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you just have a room with two entrances, and you want to be able to toggle the lights without having to walk across the room in the dark.
These tools are exactly why ASII is not dead.

Unicode is ideal for storing text exactly as the user wanted it. Which may be crazy.

But when I am writing a program for internal use, or creating a communication protocol, or trying to parse one program's output into another, or trying to make a 7-segment display show some characters, I don't want to have to handle these crazy possibilities. Just text is fine, thank you!
The dongle (iLok2) was cracked recently.

https://torrentfreak.com/ilok2-drm-system-appears-to-have-be...
Yep, most homes in India are like this.
Exactly. The history said, in this case, that money and power did not win the dispute, not that their influence does not exist or should be considered negligible.

So, if in the case of drugs, society moral standards, money and power are all at the same side; what's the chance of grassroot movement changing the laws?

That question was not rethorical, but giving my own answer, I think the path is changing the perception about drug addicts. That they are ill people, not criminals. If the social perception of a drug addict is the same as an alcoholic, then there is a chance of stopping the war on drugs.
Product development services for startups
a = F/m

Want motivation? Just saying.
I remember using CSLA.Net back when I was into windows, .net and C#. The books [0][1] were great resources for learning about application architecture and did a good job at explaining the author’s rational in respect to some framework design decisions. Also I found it easier to understand and use than entity framework.

I think it’s great that the less restrictive MIT license is being used now.

I see they have already begun a javascript implementation [2] as well (not much activity there though). I think implementing CSLA.net with node.js or dart(lang) would be nice in depth familiarisation exercise with both languages/platforms.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Business-Objects-Books-Professi...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Business-Objects-Experts-Voice/...

[2] https://github.com/MarimerLLC/cslajs
Definitely. Banks want former bankers. Consultant firms want former consultants. If you don't already have one of those backgrounds you're going to struggle in the job search. Have a back-up plan if you can't actually end up switching careers--make sure the $$$ adds up: You're blowing 2 years of opportunity cost and going into 6 digit debt for 10 years. Do the math and make it make sense.

Also, regarding networking: 50-70% of your class-mates will not be career switchers: They'll already have banking or consulting backgrounds, already speak the language and know each other's firms. Make friends with them or you're not going to reap the much-touted "networking" benefits of MBA school.

I went to a top-10 school, but happened to graduate the year Lehman and Bear imploded, and ended up right back in engineering. So, for me it ended up not being worth it financially--but for folks who graduated a few years before me it was totally worth it. Do the math and make sure you can deal with that risk.
> The UK has a unique way of wiring houses which doesn't lend itself well to automated control.

I never heard of this. Does anyone know what it refers to?

Edit: Free karma points for anyone who sketches ASCII art diagrams of the replies! The links are nice, but none of them show how switches and lightbulbs work in ring vs radial.
People still use Pro Tools?

I can't think of a single popular commercial DAW that's worse to use. Pretty much the only people I see use it are all aspiring rappers. I guess it has hip hop cred.

Tangentially, I can't think of a single piece of Avid software that isn't a flaming piece of shit.

Full disclosure: I used to have to support Avid.
Or use the TV as a dumb monitor connected to something like a Chromecast. I understand why the TV manufacturers probably hate this model, but as a user, sending content from a tablet to a TV seems just about ideal.
As I see these headsets, I have a feeling that these should have been the tech of the '90s.

As they were, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality_(gaming)
The real benefit of using a strict-by-default language is that laziness shows up in types. That is, I can check the type of a variable, and tell whether it's guaranteed to be a value (if it has type `Foo`), or it's a potentially still unforced thunk (if it has type `Lazy Foo`). For instance, the real type of lazy lists would be:

data Front a = Nil | Cons a (Stream a)
type Stream a = Lazy (Front a)

Haskell doesn't do this, not even with the Strict or StrictData pragmas.
Some interesting points in regards to licensed applications as well. I know this has been a highly debated subject, but if you have an app that people use on their phones under your license, who owns the data? If the app is under investigation, could user's personal data also be at risk? We quickly agree to so many legally binding agreements without even thinking about it...
Unit Testing Allowed Me to Pick Up My Kid Today
No, it's because 90 degree FOV is just not that much and the resolution is not high enough for even that FOV to make for invisible pixels. I don't think we need to have completely invisible pixels to be productive in VR text work, but it will definitely be a completely different day when that is available. For now, this is "better than DK2", but not "better than GearVR". It's a step forward, but not objectively great yet.

The fact that all of the 3D acceleration hardware we have today is built for raster graphics, not vector graphics. Filling fields with a vector display is extremely expensive. There's a reason they died out for most uses.
Despite the tongue-in-cheek tagline on the site, these are some really neat tools.
>We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

-Carl Sagan
Wouldn't that be a problem with torrents in general, though? After all, the vast majority of torrents aren't encrypted.
Hate to hijack what I am sure is a mind expanding discussion on software distribution, the law of karma, and modern celebrity. But I am curious about something and was hoping to get an opinion from some of the music production experts on here. Of which there appear to be legion. Which is awesome :)

How difficult is it to duplicate Serum-esque wavetable generation using ChucK or CSound? It seems in my uninformed opinion you would have a lot more freedom using raw math over visual gui. Do you have the same range of available osc's and filters as you have in commercial packages? Or would they be relatively easy to implement if missing out of the box?
We have enough problems with already legalized and standardized drugs: alcohol and tobacco. It is not wise to let smokers to increase burden on society.
Pokegraphs
I havent been to Japan, but what about the Burakumin and the Ainu? Didnt Japan pass a law to stop discriminating against the Ainu at one point?
Just add another example, beef consumption is very low in Hindu countries even for non-Hindus. Similar observations are true for Muslim areas and pork consumption. Case in point is that a strong cultural identity can bring about a soft enforcement of certain practices (in Japan's case potentially help to explain lower drug consumption rates).

Worth also noting that in Asian countries, attitudes to and awareness about drugs are very extreme. Beyond being far more socially deplorable, most people also harbour ignorant views on the physical harm drugs can and can't cause. There is also less glamorisation of it in media.
It's a prototype for crying out loud. It's not meant to be a consumer device and it's not being advertised as one. Get off your high horse mate.
FireLayers Insights from Elastic{on} conference
each contain two LCD screens at resolutions of 276x372 each

Yup, that's exactly the same thing.
The interaction with the objects looks interesting and is something I haven't seen in similar product videos. Good content is obviously key but there should be some immediate use cases for business settings where you can sell development of the needed content (consumer, not so sure the content "needs to be there").

Ships Q3, I'll see if I can convince someone to get at least one for our HCI labs.
IBM InterConnect 2016: DevOps Thinking for the Line of Business
Is this authentication scheme secure?
You took the words out of my mouth. RS might be the most disgraceful mainstream (or semi-mainstream, however you want to describe them) journal in America today.
Ouch, sorry. You are right. I mixed it up
Microwaved water makes tea taste flat and gives a weird aftertaste.
As stated in [1] they use a variant of "Simple and Efficient Construction of Static Single Assignment Form" [2], which does not require a dominator tree (or a liveness analysis).

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[2] http://pp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/uploads/publikationen/braun1...
End of grey hair in sight as scientists find gene responsible
Isn't 1080 x 1200 per eye for the Oculus CV1 > 2560 x 1440?
"He looked at me with a straight face and said: "There are no engineering applications of differential equations."

This made me laugh; I think he wanted you to laugh too.

Some DE courses could be better described as _histories_ of the applications of mathematics. Consequently they appear to be little more than a patchwork of tricks and hints. My DE professor, as adept with applications as theory, weaved this patchwork together quite skillfully and held our interest.

BTW his DE skills paid his bills extremely well (oil companies have lots of DEs to solve), while the university position allowed time for theory and was frosting on the cake.
I don't think so. Even a dumb TV can have an OS controlling the program and channel settings, or respond to commands from the remote. Set-top boxes generally aren't any smarter than a dumb TV, so you don't need it for that either.

What we call "smart" are simply TVs that have a general-purpose OS, indeed to run apps. That doesn't have anything to do with TV viewing, but with fragmentation of the delivery landscape: with the current appification, every video outlet considers your TV to be part of their "user experience" and wants to control and monetize your TV.
'better' according to what? A quick DDG search finds examples that rate an electric kettle as faster and more energy efficient than a microwave e.g. http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/ask-pablo-electri...

edit: searched using duckduckgo, not google
Air travel is safe now because people died, died and then died. IoT companies will probably have to kill a sizeable bunch before understanding what responsibility means.
So...

Why didn't she just give him a firm, but polite "I'm not interested"?

I'm not saying that stalking and/or harassment are acceptable. I'm just saying that she probably could have avoided 14 years of misery if she had just politely told the guy that there was no potential for anything more.

Women need to learn to reject people in whom they're not interested. They think they're being "nice" or at the very least, being "not mean" but they are being incredibly cruel by letting the other person think there's hope when there isn't.

Don't expect him to take the hint. Tell him directly.
You can only be committed against your will if a mental health professional determines you to be an active risk to yourself or others. The key point there is that you have to be evaluated by a mental health professional: and it's not like there are psychologists roaming the streets evaluating strangers. There are only a couple of scenarios that can result in being evaluated: voluntarily (i.e. seeing a therapist) or by some sort of court mandate (if a person accused of a crime displays signs of mental illness, often a forensic psychologist will be asked to evaluate them). Basically getting a stalker committed requires getting them charged with a crime or in some way in front of a judge.

Also keep in mind the bar for committing someone against their will is pretty high. For instance, a person with schizophrenia who is homeless and spends their days talking to voices in their head has a very poor quality of life and is likely to die due to disease, starvation or exposure, but is not suicidal and thus cannot be committed, at least not long term. Sometimes that person can be committed for a few days for evaluation and observation, but no longer.
Publicity stunt
If your friend was looking to raise money and went for a Stanford MBA, his chances of getting funding are pretty significant according to this chart:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/aNjbh5KE0PvNCiLyA2g5T9NT5y...

But agreed, the high premium is a pretty big burden if you don't succeed. Potentially crippling your future.
Well done prosper
On Product Hunt: Build Integration Components for Web Apps with Java and Node.js
Just a Few Bugs in 514K Lines of Code – Amazon Web Services SDK for C++
Agreed. There are lots of legitimate problems with smart home devices. These arguments are weakened by throwing out things that are completely false.
You're both "working towards that day" and "waiting until at least the next generation"? What does that even mean?
Are you familiar with version control systems?
There is an SDK. Unity is just the best way to get started with it right now. More info will be released later.
Pentagon invites hackers in and backs encryption
Docker meets Continuous Deployment
I do have experience with Toastmasters and it's a great step for sure. I would definitely recommend it as a more affordable alternative.
Adblocking is a 'modern-day protection racket', says UK culture secretary
Have you considered that perhaps being fed a lifetime of propaganda has lead you to the conclusion that "drug"[1] use is somehow incompatible (if not actually assistive) to being of "sound mind, body, and spirit"?

[1] (that is, whatever we decide to lump together under that ridiculous umbrella term)
I'd argue that there's no meaningful difference between ASCII text and UTF-8 that just happens to not use any characters higher than '~'.

As long as there's no BOM, anyway.
It generally changes characters to numerical character references, not HTML character entities (which, incidentally, are a rather limited set of characters and pretty much useless these days – they were useful to include a few non-ASCII latin characters from Latin 1 in the mid-90s into HTML pages with browser charset detection messing things up if included directly; by now you just use Unicode and forget that a named set of entities ever existed).
He seems to be suggesting that the FBI (and maybe law enforcement in general) is in charge of deciding what our civil liberties are. They've simply decided there's no right to create an unlockable lock, when there's clearly no law or part of the constitution that indicates that. But since they think they're in charge of civil liberties, they've decided by fiat.
The FBI's Tragic Mistakes in San Bernardino
An article I always recommend on this topic:

"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" by Joel Spolsky

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
I think the hot water is for MREs...
I'm not certain what your point was intended to be, but human men are far stronger than human women with very rare exception. A randomly chosen women is unlikely to be able to physically dominate any man at all, absent deformity. The difference is quite stark.

Certainly a highly trained female body builder is an exception, but they are also vanishingly rare in the population and very unlikely to be randomly chosen.

Sorry. This is one area that feminism doesn't cover with its hypothesis of equality.
Any decent self-defense instructor will tell you that the best way to win a fight is to not get into a fight at all. So why do something to encourage violence? Let's say you do get a gun, you go to a shooting range, you get good at shooting it. Who's to say that, when the stalker shows up at your door, you're going to be able to pull the trigger? Taking a life is not an easy thing to do, and in the "heat of the moment" some people can be unwilling to do it, even when doing so would save themselves from harm.
As opinion pieces go, I expect a lot better writing and research from someone employed by the Economist, even if they are an intern.

This article could easily have been titled "Not all MBAs are created equal" and needed no further explanation.

"Business schools constantly boast about the network students can tap into. Don’t be fooled. Do you need to pay thousands to meet middle managers from industries that you have no interest in?"

I don't know about UK MBAs, but a cursory glance at the employment reports of any US MBA school will provide the names of companies that come on campus to recruit candidates. This is the first thing any prospective MBA student should be looking at when they're creating their shortlist of schools.

If you are looking to get into consulting, those schools should have McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture and the like on there. If you're interested in technology, Amazon, Google, Facebook etc. should be coming on campus. For finance, Goldman, JP Morgan, etc. An so on and so forth.

If those names, or other high-profile names aren't on the list, you may not get your money's worth. An MBA has never been about the quality of the education you get, but rather about name recognition and how much pull the school has with recruiters. This is common knowledge for anybody doing even an hour's research into whether an MBA is right for them.

That's the biggest flaw of this write-up. The writer appears to have done little to no research on his program before enrolling, and considers his support officer saying "you should have had all the money sorted" to be some sort of cold-world realization, which is absurdly irresponsible when you consider how much an MBA costs.

I don't like using the word "entitled" to describe people, but I have to wonder about the conclusions he reaches about his teammates who didn't speak English well. They ended up in management consultancies, while he, the heroic working man struggling to teach them English, is interning at the Economist, a position that usually goes to undergraduates. Perhaps he should stop to consider that maybe they got their jobs because they attempted to network more, or simply showed up to their interviews without a chip on their shoulder as this writer seems to have.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (London)

Full Stack Javascript Developers.

Technologies: React, React-Native, Redux, ES6, Node, Firebase

We love building products quickly / prototyping peoples' ideas.

https://z-dev.io

Please email inquires to richard@z-dev.io
25 ways designers can make money without dealing with design clients
Not sure how you get (1080 x 2 = 2160) > 2560, or how 1200 > 1440.
There's a TED video being released later today in parallel to the pre-order launch. That should provide some use cases ;)
SEEKING WORK - Boulder, Colorado or Remote

We are a 3-person full stack digital agency that's more or less just getting started. We are looking for clients who have challenging projects and who have the time and money to prioritize quality execution. Check out our portfolio at http://stratosphere.digital. Check out or most recent client project at http://divvydose.com.

Some of the technologies we're most familiar with:

Web and mobile design, UI, UX, iconography, illustration, design prototyping, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SASS, LESS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, WebSockets, AJAX, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Cordova, PhoneGap, iOS, Android, Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), AWS, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, C, C++, C#, Java, Objective-C, Swift, QS/1, HL7, HIPAA

We bid projects or offer hourly/daily/weekly rates.

Contact: via our website or you can contact me directly at eliyah@stratosphere.digital.
FRONT END SOFTWARE ENGINEER/ WALTHAM, MA/ REMOTE/ FULL TIME/ https://www.maxmind.com/en/home

See the full job ad at http://www.maxmind.com/en/careers

To apply, please email careers@maxmind.com with your resume as an attachment or link in PDF, HTML, or plain text format. Candidates must also include a cover letter. Please include a link to your GitHub account or portfolio if you have one. We want to know about you!
Survey about self-driving cars. Help 2 master students build a concept for Volvo
Nobody builds software
This is very nice for evaluation of cljs.

I know this is your own project, and adding parinfer could be useful, but I wonder if collaborating with proto-repl[0][1] to add cljs support to Atom could be something you'd be interested in.

The fiddle is very useful for sharing code snippets, but better clojurescript support in Atom would be a big benefit for me.

[0] https://github.com/jasongilman/proto-repl

[1] https://github.com/jasongilman/proto-repl/issues/54
You're blaming the victim. Do you really believe she didn't tell him no clearly?

> Women need to learn to reject people in whom they're not interested

No, that's not the problem, women get plenty of experience with that. People should not stalk or harass, period.
I used to work at Meta while they were located in Portola Valley.

Meta "applications" are highly customized Unity 3D scenes with a generous amount of custom GUI elements.

I would take everything in this video with a grain of salt.

Also, Meta has a terrible habit of copying logos. Their old logo was a blatant copy of MIT's "M" and their latest is eerily similar to Mazda's "M" series logo

http://www.miata.net/faq/mfield_files/image004.jpg
The implication seems to be that students can't do the trial-and-error, understand then apply the theory. I agree with parent comment that this is awfully defeatist.

But even if it is futile to teach true understanding, why are we knowingly teaching computation in its place? What if we left the computation to the computers from the get-go? Could we then have enough time to teach true understanding?

I can't tell you how much time I spent trying to memorize my multiplication table – a 12x12 grid of numbers that for most students became arbitrary 3-number sequences. "3, 3, 9" is different from "3 sets of 3 is equal to 9." Most students learn the former in place of the latter.
This is great advice. I will try to reach out to some more high-profile people here in the local community. Maybe a nice title and a position with lots of freedom could interest someone.
Are you planning on filling out those body parts that aren't currently clickable? I know you can't really lift weight for wrists, for example, but working on their mobility is fairly important, especially for those of us attached to a keyboard.
I think that's a widespread myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Debate_on_design_goals
Mathematics of a Startup: Pivoting, Product and Team
I think VR devices will be sufficient to build the tools for the "office of the future". I'm saying skip AR devices and stick to VR devices this gen, as the added complexity of real-world object recognition is likely too much for current-gen hardware, when the 3D graphics for VR is already taxing and you need that for AR, too.
Couldn't agree more on this "The resources for self-study are gigantic, lots of great books, youtube videos per topic and entire courses from Harvard ..."
Show HN: Bossman – Zenpayroll/Gusto for Australian small and medium businesses
You sir are a twat and believe this is simple. Fact is you apparently dont know squat about hardware/firmware, have you considered the fact that said update is not even related to ios? Have you considered that the firmware itself may be burned into the chip providing key access?
many thanks! looks good!