skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, most of the FAT LFN patents has expired by now. I think this is part of why MS created exFAT and patented it.
I've used it a bit on Android. It's important to note that OwnTracks only takes care of publishing your location to an MQTT server (and also subscribing to and displaying other published locations). If you want to save historical location data, and display it on a map, you'll need to hook up some more software, likely this: https://github.com/owntracks/recorder

As far as the Android app goes, I had no complaints. I didn't notice any significant battery drain issues or anything like that.
I have already entertained the internal and idiosyncratic logic at play here, that implicit operators are fair game. If that's the case, then tetration is the right answer. Furthermore, the question permitted argumentation, which was refused.

Why might 500 be a wrong answer? For the same logic you might use to answer that question, I would say that tetration is a superior answer to exponentiation, even following the typographic logic that implicit operators are okay. Typographically, tetration is the reverse of exponentiation.

And I believe I addressed the broadest-perspective point of all -- that this is not an adequate launching point for an argument against the Common Core. It's shrill.
Many (most?) water systems are privately owned, as are most (not all) utilities.
Context: In this 1994 paper, the researcher "invented" the trapezoidal rule for computing integrals[+]. This is a very common method for computing approximate integrals, and can probably be found in your local high school calculus class.

[+] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal_rule
> change the code a tiny bit

How? That's the principle that everyone's missing! Sure, you can change the code a bit, but the millions of copies of your worm out there already can't magically change themselves after AV vendors update their blacklist. Sure, you can make a polymorphic worm, but even after mutation, your worm still probably has common patterns that blacklist makers can catch.

I'm a fan of proactive, not reactive security --- but let's not pretend that what AV vendors are doing is completely bogus.

You also have to keep in mind that blacklists are behavior heuristics are more suited to a bygone age --- one of low-bandwidth, sporadic connections and floppy disks that could be infected with trojans. Nowadays, we're more worried about drive-by 0day flash exploits from ad networks than about infected, self-propagating executables.

I've always found it fascinating that the human immune system has both proactive and reactive security, just like our computers should. The innate immune system [1] is analogous to mandatory access control, OS file permissions, buffer hardening, and other non-specific security mechanisms. The adaptive immune system, on the other hand, works like a blacklist updated throughout your life (and propagated from mother to child!).

Both systems catch threats the other does not. There's still a lot to learn from biology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_immune_system
The FAQ claims they will loose about 1% of their strength every 100 years.

http://www.polymagnet.com/faq/
Local affiliates are independent stations with their own production departments. Some shows get picked up for national syndication (e.g. Car Talk from WBUR, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me WHYY, On The Media WNYC, Prarie Home Companion by Minnesota Public Radio ) while other shows might target the local market which won't make sense as a national broadcast.

Local affiliates can cross license content directly between each other, or from NPR, PRI, BBC, American Public Radio, and Public Radio Exchange, etc.

Local affiliates are not simple repeater stations, as you seem to believe.
Something to be aware of in Australia also;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-07/death-cap-mushroom-sea...

Another common garden plant most people dont know to be aware of is Oleander. I see this everywhere like in schools and am amazed. People have died using the branches as skewers to cook. The smoke can also be poisonous if people burn this plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerium

And for interest, only a problem in North Queensland check out the Gympie Gympie tree. This is really something to keep a wide berth. Amazing what nature can produce.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-enviro...
Not taxes; other USPS ratepayers.
Which one do you recommend the most? I've played a little bit of Nethack and I thought it was fun but not something I wanted to sink a huge amount of time into.
> ... if Google were "perfect", advertising wouldn't work, because it would always find exactly what you were looking for exactly when you needed it.

Advertising will always work so long as there is producer surplus[1] in the economy. If firm A and firm B both earn $10 of economic surplus on the purchase of some product, then either supplier will be willing to spend up to $10 to convince a customer to switch from their competitor to their product. If a customer considers the two firms' products to be substitute goods[2], then both products may be "perfect" search results, because the customer doesn't have a preference between them and considers them both to be equivalently useful, which is why Google can extract money from advertisers to show their product first without significantly harming their user experience.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good
> There's such thing as a wrong answer

I never said otherwise, why do you state the obvious?

> and it's pretty poor ethic to discuss psychology here before understanding someone's argument.

It's pretty poor ethic to proclaim one's understanding of another's mindset as fact without having asked them if it such or them having declared it. You have no place to try and claim what her logic was.

> I could just as well say that you are narrow-minded for not entertaining my perspective when I have given analysis for yours.

I did entertain and i found it wanting, as explained above.

> textual questions inherently have more than one answers [care to explain?]

Every text is open for interpretation and its understanding always depends on any assumptions made while reading it. Be ware of assuming that your assumptions about assumptions made actually match reality.

Further, particularly in schooling, tests serve to ask whether understanding exists or not. I have repeatedly gotten full grades on problems where i applied the correct method and described it accurately, even when along the way a small oversight in numerical operations resulted in a wrong final number.

> can you explain if you think 100 is correct?

Why should i? I don't understand why you ask this. Please explain yourself if you think it truly merits discussion.

> Tetration is typographically written as the reverse of 9^9^9 on paper.

So, sub-script instead of super-script?
Rust also made the same mistake that Go did: it tried to appease the "exceptions are bad" crowd and ended up adding exceptions as an afterthought. I'm angry: Rust is merely good, but with a few early tweaks, it could have been great.
If you don't care about sharing this info with the world, what's the advantage of this over something like OsmAnd GPX tracking?
That's what happens when the answer is "yes" 99.9999% of the time. Have you ever seen a case where "no" is appropriate?
https://youtu.be/IANBoybVApQ?t=5m46s

and

https://youtu.be/IANBoybVApQ?t=6m28s

(links fixed)
As an FPGA developer, I think this is a noble effort, but will be of limited use in porting their design (one of their stated goals).

Essentially all of the modules they are asking for "clones" of directly instantiate hardware primitives on the FPGA die. Many of the blocks are basically analog pieces that won't be easily synthesizable from Verilog. While the simulation would work with other tools, the block won't be able to be mapped in other FPGA architectures.
How did it go?
I was under the impression that most local affiliates do not produce any content licensed by anyone else and just license content from other sources.
I've said it before but as hard as it might be to believe, I think smalltalk was 30 years ahead of its time when every program was packaged inside its own OS image.

Anti-virus bypasses and even exploits are extremely common. My current line of thinking is that the best way to take control of your computer is to use virtualization to run many separate OS images for different sets of uses.
See also, http://www.aprs.org
That's it. There's software for the MagPrinter on some of the TechShop computers. There's a class for it.[1]

[1] http://www.techshop.ws/take_classes.html?storeId=4&categoryI...
Here's the relevant quote:

"Nevertheless, I believe that a world-champion-level Go machine can be built within 10 years, based on the same method of intensive analysis—brute force, basically—that Deep Blue employed for chess."

A question: I was under the impression that AlphaGo's techniques would not be classified as "brute force", and if this is the case, is this indicative of how this field has shifted in thought since 2007?

Also, how relevant are the techniques described in the article nowadays? i.e.:

"When human players search through the Go game tree, they generally check the live-or-dead status of each stone only once, then in effect cache the result in their memories. In other words, they don't check again unless they have good reasons to do so. " (seems like memoization)
Hellotalk. It was free, but there was an option where you could pay $1 a month for unlimited translation (i think they'd only give you 10 translations a month normally).

Very helpful if you're in a conversation with someone and they've asked you a question which you can't answer without translating something.
I get frequent suicidal ideations. It's always like when I'm overhwlemed and upset, it just goes from angry --> sad --> suicide --> planning but I never go through with it. It's impossible for me to do it. So I just take it as my way of coping...with self destructive fantasies.

I think studying Eastern philosophy, buddhism and taoism will help people on spectrum gain a much more rational and scientific view on reality.

Anyways, sure is a struggle, especially with people, relationships, intimacy, everything is that much more difficult but you know I just think like people have different skills, people on autistic spectrum are off the scale in one area but equally unable in many other areas that normal people will have no issues with.
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Presumably it could scale all the way down to the domains on a hard-disk platter, but there are probably intermediate ranges of magnetic domain size where no practical techniques are available.
>> but are most likely incapable of getting a college degree, without a lot of support

You could say the same of trailer park kids.

I wouldn't expect Amish adults to know how to live in a non-Amish way, how do you expect them to teach that to their children?

If they had all the things you expect people to have, they wouldn't be called Amish, they'd be your neighbours.

You talk with judgement if Amish life is a negative thing. It's how some people live. Let's not dislodge them from it.

How would you like to be told your way of life is enabled by a government that plunders resources overseas, in a nation that was built on the back of slavery and robbing of natives? Not very nice, is it? It's how you live and you like to live how you like to live. Same with the Amish.
"This is why Hillary Clinton cannot win the US election"

I quit reading here. Not because I'm a Hillary fan but because it is a ridiculous statement. If his thesis comes to this conclusion then his thesis is wrong or he's doing a really bad job of defending it.
AlphaGo used Monte Carlo methods, which I believe qualify as "brute force"—you generate a bunch of random positions, since the full game tree is way too large.
An array of, say p, individual magnets some aligned with N up and some with S up produces a field that can be designed to repel or attract a second array of , say q, magnets (having a possibly different arrangement). What is interesting is that since the forces between any two of the individual little magnets in the arrays drops off non-linearly (inversely proportional to the square of the distance) a computer can be used to layout the p magnets in one array and the q in the other so that the aggregate force between the two arrays (i.e. the sum of all the p*q forces between all of the magnets in the two array) is attractive at some distances or orientations of the two arrays and repulsive at other distances or orientations.

Imaging a simple linear arrangement of the two magnet arrays. If both look like N S N S N S N S then as the two arrangements slide past each other they will alternately repulse each other (i.e. N against N) and attract each other (N against S). This is just a simple illustration of the principle. Watch the video in the linked article from which this can be gathered and more.
I highly disagree about the conclusion that spending inequality is more important to look at than wealth inequality. Wealth indicates security and lack of economic precariousness, spending does not. If you're middle income and in chronic debt because you have a disabled child and care for your aging parents, you might look just fine if you look at spending. However, your hardship will likely be clearly reflected in your lack of wealth.

The fact that they chose spending rather than wealth makes me wonder why it was chosen. The authors claim that spending inequality is the correct measure, but then provide zero research-based justification for this decision.

Reading the paper, they claim in regards to wealth and related forms of inequality, "none measures inequality in living standards, which should be the ultimate concern when assessing economic fairness". Well, that's a fine presumption, but perhaps we're more concerned by the increasingly capability of the top 0.1% of the wealth of this country (ie, the vast majority of it, as much as 80-90%) to buy our political process and start us down a feedback loop of no return.

Point being, these economists seem to bring in an awful lot of political and moral prejudgments into this study (as is their profession's frequent wont).
Seems like a waste of money. If people want to learn the edible species they can just join their local mushroom club like in the US.

I can see paying someone to be there a couple hours a week, but as a full time job that seems ridiculous.
Hilary Putnam, Giant of Modern Philosophy, Dies at 89
Possible inspiration: https://youtu.be/7YUiBBltOg4?t=46 (Monty Python = Accountancy Shanty )

And "up" was probably the inspiration for the helium balloons on top :)
Are there actually two accepted ways of defining type I error rates? (Genuinely curious, I am not a statistician)
Following the typographic (not mathematical) logic of using implicit operators, why would exponentiation of three 9's be correct in the face of tetration of three 9's? Alternatively, why would 111 be correct in the face of 999?
Plenty of lightweight thread systems exist for C++. You're thinking about the problem the wrong way. You don't really want generators: you want fibers. Once you have fibers, generators are trivial to implement. One implementation of fibers for unixlike systems is GNU nPth.
I've asked this to the Crate people before, and not received much in the way of a satisfactory answer. Elasticsearch fundamentally does not provide ACID-style durability guarantees, and Jepsen testing has revealed near-as-makes-no-difference insurmountable problems in replication during partitions. As such I can't wrap my head around why Crate thinks it's safe or even coherent to build a database product on top of it. Even ES core devs make it very clear when you ask (and I have) -- ES should be used as a secondary index, and not as primary data storage.

What gives? What am I not seeing here?
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The cool thing is that David Brevik didn't just work at Gazillion on Marvel Heroes, he actually played it. And he still does.

He and his wife stream on twitch and play every week as they've done for years now. Every now and again he'll talk about game dev type stuff, few weeks (maybe months now I forget) he talked about the tile generation in Diablo. He also still plays Everquest 1 of all things.
Thanks.

I found this article[1], (linked from the original) that also mentioned this:

"In recent years, many programmers have tried to get around this problem with Monte Carlo simulation, a statistical means of finding the best first move from a vast database of the games that might begin from a given position. That method is also used a bit in AlphaGo, together with the tree-generating methods of yore. But the key improvement is AlphaGo’s use of deep neural networks to recognize patterns."

1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/alphag...
And then you make it metamorphic.
What is interesting is that corporations have implanted this notion that copying an idea is "stealing" and is somehow immoral.

Copying is how we advance civilization. Every great idea was built on the work of others, or "Standing on the shoulders of Giants" as Newton would say.

The current framework for IP protection isn't working. There is no evidence that it is accelerating the pace of innovation.

We need to shift our viewpoint and realize that copying is a good thing.
Could it be that autists are being told to kill themselves in "certain" online communities?

For instance, from the urban dictionary entry on autism: "Shut up weeaboo faggot kill yourself you autistic bitch!!!!!11!!!"

That is not an isolated example.
When I first saw that, I was like... I wonder if that was a porn studio that they setup to avoid laws/taxes.
<do not try to regex validate people's names>

Or email addresses, without knowing all the legal characters. (An annoying percentage reject '+', which is a great Gmail tool for spotting how your email address "leaks out".)
Fellow traveller here - going to try it in my solo bike tour from Lisbon to Istanbul that starts in a few days, let me know if there is any aspect of the software that you want reviewed
"False positive" has a precise meaning in statistical analysis. The second thing you're talking about is useful to know, but calling it the false positive rate is just wrong.

"Out of 1000 positive tests, 50 were false positives, 950 were true positives" - valid statement.

"The false positive rate was 50 out of 1000" - abuses a common technical term in a way that sounds valid on the face of it, but which is potentially VERY misleading.

We can't even calculate a valid false positive rate from the above data, since that requires taking the ratio vs. all tests and not just positive tests.
Before the telegraph, which was invented in 1844, the fastest that news could travel was by the speed of a horse or a sailing ship.

Not strictly true, the semaphore telegraph predated the electric telegraph by about 50 years.
The company is getting a bit bigger and it's now hard for a new employee to get a full understanding of the company org chart without such an app.
You need to use dairy and not olive oil with them, for what it's worth. Unless you sautée them with butter and salt you're not going to bring out the flavor.
Ken Shirriff's teardowns are the best.

In particular, this comparison between different USB AC adapters was quite illuminating:

http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap...

The legit ones have quite a bit of complexity inside their inconspicuous package. The fake one carry some not-so-innocuous surprises inside.
This is insanely clever. Thanks a lot for the explanation
In the 1950's many people thought women only went to college to find men. I mean, what else would it be good for? This sexist feeling was common. My three sisters all said as much before heading off to college.

BTW, they weren't successful.
The emphasis on lifetime spending power in this paper is odd, since most people wouldn't choose to starve through their 20s and 30s in return for the ability to spend more on luxuries towards the end of their lives. I suspect they are also assuming that young people today will end up with the same spending power as today's seniors, which is a pretty questionable scenario.

Overall the article leaves the impression of authors with a conclusion in mind and a determination to find data which matches
This sounds more like a mechanical turk than actual automation. A restaurant without waiters is usually called a cafeteria or a deli, not "pure magic." This article is credulous and obfuscating to the point of dishonesty, even if only through emphasis.

By the dubious logic shown here, if Uber put a divider between the passenger and the driver, it would be a self-driving car. Their definition of automatic seems to be "not seeing a person" instead of "not needing a person."
There are signs up around the ACT like this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VeN5uDOjoIA/Tx9Qq5oQCLI/AAAAAAAArV...
I suspect we're on the verge of pretty big advances in genetic engineering, robotics and other physical technologies, including technologies that are likely to spur the development of other technologies. Genetic engineering of embryos for increased IQ is looking very feasible, for example. This is likely to increase the pace of innovation drastically in those countries that allow it.
I agree, people rarely enter medicine because they are particularly good at maths. All that memorization just happens to draw a different kind of personality. But it's hard to blame medicine for that: in the practical act of applying medical knowledge to heal people, the memorization is much more important than mathematical understanding.

Where it breaks down is medical science, which relies so much more on subtle mathematical interpretation than most other empirical sciences. But that is just what happens when there is so little opportunity for deliberate experimentation and such a large dataset of "naturally occurring" experiments to observe. (and it surely is helped by this millenia old tradition of nonempirical medicine, i guess all that bloodletting based on beautiful but hilariously wrong theories is to this day giving the theory-building part of the scientific method a bad reputation in medicine, making it work completely in "stupid mode empirism" where every part of thinking that is not strictly looking at numbers is heavily frowned upon)

Maybe there is a need for a stronger differentiation between academic paths leading to to applied medicine and those leading medical science. Biotech comes close, but it certainly isn't about teasing more reliable insights from clinical datasets. Other sciences take the easy road and simply train everybody for science, leaving practical application to learning on the job, but we sure would not want to get treated by that kind of MD.
You're right, that is definitely the worst part.
Yup, pretty awful.
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Rust does not have exceptions, not even in the limited capacity that Go sort-of has. It's legal for a Rust implementation to translate panics into aborts, which means that they cannot be relied upon as an error-handling mechanism. Furthermore, the means to halt unwinding in Rust exists only to prevent memory unsafety from occurring when Rust is embedded in another language via the C interface, because unwinding across an FFI boundary is undefined behavior. In fact the exact mechanism used in the aforementioned role has deliberately arbitrary restrictions placed upon it in order to prevent anyone from using it as a general-purpose error-handling mechanism. Finally, the prevailing Rust culture overwhelmingly discourages using anything other than Result for error handling, to such an extreme that I've never in all my days even seen anyone attempt to "catch" a panic as an error-recovery mechanism.