skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's great that colleges are preparing our young people for the challenges they'll be facing in the workforce.
People that choose Python are "locked in" to a language that doesn't have static typing.
Seeing this paper is bittersweet for me as I work in a memory neuroscience lab that's been working on essentially the same question for a number of years. These guys beat us to the headline :(

That said, it is a great accomplishment for the field. Less so for the prospect of 'memory-restoring' technology in the near future, but more for what it says about how memory works. Essentially, this paper (and our work hopefully coming soon), proves that retrieval cues are the most superficial aspect of the brain's systems for memory. Thus, they fall first to the ravages of Alzheimer's and when they're gone, the pattern of information is still there, but the brain is unable to recall that specific memory when input into the network is noisy. There's been some other papers recently showing the persistence of memories even when synapses and spines are lost (for example, during hibernation). It's as if a record of learning is also stored somewhere in the cell's genes, but no one seems to really know what to make of it.

Maybe that stuff will also be of interest to neural network people...

All that said, there's now a large-scale study getting started in Canada that will be stimulating the brains of MCI and AD patients with tDCS to slow down Alzheimer's (pACT-MD). Maybe they'll be able to recover some those lost memories!
It's a MITM attack so I'm guessing the traffic is no longer secure.
People I know under 18 seem to barely even use Facebook. They instead heavily use more segmented apps like Snapchat and Kik to constantly engage with their friends. This is just my observation, but perhaps Facebook will soon be thought of as something only used by the out-of-touch older generation.
Governing Rhetoric: Did JFK borrow his most famous words from Kahlil Gibran?
Maybe it's just me, but at my grocery store I've seen them stock the same item in multiple places because it makes sense both places. That said, they're a hippie health food place.
Kubernetes 1.2: Performance upgrades and easier app deployment and management
But that's not why colleges like foreign students. This is about state schools bringing on "out of state" students who're paying full freight.
""" IBM referred to a 2014 statement saying that the company does not provide "software source code or encryption keys to the NSA or any other government agency for the purpose of accessing client data."

A spokesperson ... did not comment further on whether source code had been handed over to a government agency for any other reason. """

I'm glad the author pressed them further ("for any other reason"). So many times we see such statements like this from companies but nobody bothers to ask the obvious (to me) follow-up question.
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This is incredible. BIG ups.
That was always the odd thing, it wasn't really a good surveillance device. Not covert, lol. And the battery is unreasonably small for doing video.

I actually was angry I couldn't turn off auto-upload, and never used the camera. Would've been more than happy to have a model without it.
I stand at work and at home. I'm standing 90% of the time on a computer, and that's most of the day. First, if there's evidence that sitting down all the time is bad, then NOT doing that is already better. Second, and most importantly, standing is better not because you're not sitting down, but because you're in an active state, in a position ready to move around.

If you stand in exactly one position for hours (as if you're stuck in a chair) then you're doing it wrong. Standing up is really about having the freedom to move around as you're reading things on the computer, or taking micro-breaks to stretch your arm, etc. Constantly being in motion is the best way to stay active and use the computer all day.
Nothing at Disney is real. Reality is vicious, not cute.
That would be great, I'm not married to the implementation as much as the convenience of using the cluster manager we already have (kubernetes) to distribute builds.

I currently am using a VM with a docker runner, and there are two (somewhat obvious) issues:

* It requires root access to the machine to be able to spin up containers

* Every VM with a docker runner needs enough storage to handle every docker image used for builds, instead of centralizing the images. I really need to put in a cron job or something to clean these up.

Kubernetes should fix both of these, without introducing another technology in our environment like Docker Machine.
I'd like to see an example of that vs. using celery.
The source code alone is less problem than the private keys.

If the agencies have private keys of the creators of your OS, who then signed the "signed updates" you've got?

Example, recently from Microsoft:

In their forums: "Is Update KB3103709 Fake?"

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_oth...

On their site: " Try searching for what you need This page doesn’t exist."

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3103709
Nomad seems cool, but this benchmark is almost completely meaningless as far as I can tell. There is no reason to test this with 5000 servers and 1 million containers, it just seems like marketing nonsense. All you really care about is how fast it can provision 1 container and 1 machine. The rest is just parallelism - which, when dealing with multiple discrete servers should scale perfectly without any actual effort.
Here's another:

https://www.vice.com/read/atlas-mugged-922-v21n10

The eagerness of a different (but overlapping) libertarian cabal to court favor with the notoriously corrupt (and murderous) regime in Honduras to build their own version of paradise on the northern coast of that country (at the expense of the local Garífuna community) is also quite telling.

Her legacy would seem to cut both ways, we might say.
Can't tell if trolling or just incredibly clueless.
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Fishermen and environmentalists alike.
Switched to Osmand today after Scout stopped working on Marshmallow with External SD.
Young People Would Rather Have an Internet Connection Than Daylight
Or perhaps when a woman hears someone say "as a single man I would like more women in my field" she runs as fast as she can in the other direction?
Also, if my work is being measured by time spent on task instead of output, I'm working in the wrong place.
I'm not liking the fixed-point types.

I'd rather see the ability to place an attribute on a floating-point variable that would inform the compiler that fixed-point might be suitable. You'd specify the requirements that need to be met, and the compiler would choose the fastest format for the current architecture. That format could be fixed-point, decimal float, IEEE float, or something weirder.

For example, your requirements could include: minimum magnitude, maximum magnitude, minimum value, maximum value, maximum additive error, maximum multiplicative error, signed zero needed or not, NaN signed/unsupported/unsigned, infinity distinct from NaN and/or the largest number, etc.

You say what you need for correctness, and the compiler makes it happen.
Yeah go to harvard square on a sunday and is Maserati's and 22 yearold's. No offense against them but I mean in all fairness if I was 22 and my dad gave me a ferrari I wouldn't turn it down. Reputation wise though what type of people will they become? Humble down to earth and kind people?
By saying, "Pushing to get more even representation is at odds with business success or product quality," which is often outright stated and even more often pretty directly implied, people are basically saying, "Those 'diverse' people are inherently poorer workers with worse quality output." That's the subtext, and that's what I think is kind of offensive about that line of argument.
Only in the US. World-wide, Google's search market share is around 90%.
Hi, I'm the author. I would be very happy to discuss this point (or any other) in more depth on the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elements-of-clojure.
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#7 and #8 can be summarized as "Teaching is the right combination of presentation, participation, and feedback". Lecture is a valuable way to do presentation, but you need to integrate participatory activities such as clickers, worksheets, ANYTHING that gets the student to actively work with the material. And of course, that won't be enough for non-didactic people, so you should plan for how students will get timely feedback. Clickers are one mechanism that let you give immediate feedback, but there are many other approaches.
Show HN: Windows app to automate applying for Let's Encrypt certificates
I have one of these too, and I agree... but I also become very aware of everything else going on in the cubicles near me... and it's quite distracting.

It's much easier to filter it all out when I'm sitting down with my cube walls around me.
That's not a great example in this case, because any useful system that incorporated OTP would have to store the really long secret keystream somewhere. That somewhere would be vulnerable to subpoena.
I associate corruption with large-scale human endeavors, generally.

If one prefers to believe that any particular -ism has some kind of a corner on the corruption market, as it were... well, that must be a nice, simple, orderly world they get to live in.
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I mean let's not crucify Zucky for being a faithful adherent of the Google Gospel on Privacy.

Everything Facebook learned about mining and selling -- they learned from Googs.
Yea, the fiasco with OS/2 2.0 in particular is more complex than this, with both Microsoft and IBM being involved. It used to be my favorite topic.
i'm pretty sure js transpilers are a symptom of having to support many js environments and js versions but folks wanting to have access to current language features anyway. people have made this too for python and it's called `3to2`, which is a backwards version of the `2to3` language upgrade tool.

babeljs for example used to be called `6to5` so i don't think it's lockin that causes this desire, but it's certainly true that the options for clientside programming languages that are widely deployed are fairly slim. i don't think they're related though.
What needs to happen, and probably has little chance of happening, is for people to always mention how understaffed the support at the company in question must be. These companies are under-staffing their support and it's contributing to the situation where things often need to be publicly escalated before they get the attention they need. Making support and customer service part of their reputation will go a long way towards solving that. There's really no excuse for support as atrocious as some companies have become known for. Sure, some of the products are free, but at the same time they are able to monetize the aggregate of all that free use, so there's really no excuse, since the free use and their revenues are intrinsically linked.
Actuators, yes. At last. The power to weight ratio of motors has improved considerably in recent years. The current record is 5KW/kg [1], for a Siemens motor for aircraft. Tesla's motors are around 3.5KW/kg, although that may be peak, not continuous. Water cooling, as used by Tesla and Schaft, helps a lot. Schaft's innovation was to apply water cooling to small motors.

You can run electric motors far above their continuous rated values for short periods. Also, electric motors specifically designed for brief overloads (high-temperature insulation, temperature sensors) are quite possible. Every automobile starter motor is such a motor. With synchronous brushless motors ("brushless DC" and "variable frequency synchronous" motors are the same thing; motors above a few KW tend to be called the latter) and big power IGBTs, you can have huge torques briefly without much difficulty. If you have the electric power available.

Batteries, maybe. Running time between charges is going to be a problem for a long time to come. There's a huge battery industry trying to get energy density up, with modest success. For many applications, trailing a power cord most of the time is an option. Especially if the robot can plug itself in, which the Hopkins Beast was doing in the 1960s.

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/siemens-world-record-electric-motor-ai...
Literally Atlas Shrugged. What was the name of the company?
To be fair, that's what great R&D labs look like while they're inventing. They're all over the place, and only with hindsight can you connect the dots.
It has a well-deserved bad reputation now, but Internet Explorer 3-6 were, pretty indisputably, far superior products to the competition from Netscape. And not just because they were free and bundled with Windows. Of course the undead Netscape-as-Firefox would later end up for its own part becoming far superior to IE6 back in IE's near-abandonware period.
US corporations may have high tax rates but that's only on paper. In practice, they massively benefit from loopholes in the tax code that are too many to count. Not to mention tens of billions in subsidies.
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I think part of what he's insanely good at is carefully soliciting feedback from other people, particularly those with a lot of experience with similar but distinct problems. The final spec goes back close to a year (https://www.aeracode.org/2015/6/17/beyond-request-response/ https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/mt1mTNvc...) and the polish really shows.

I think of that as a “senior developer” skill which is easy to underestimate since it doesn't directly translate into tons of commits but is so critical to the long-term success of a project.
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Awesome! Thank you. :-)
There are lots of drawbacks to an SMTP based service vs. something built on a newer protocol with client-side crypto everywhere, but email has a huge installed base. This becomes a question of "good" vs. "perfect", but it might also be a question of "too dangerous to use" vs. "replacement" -- depends on threats, alternatives, and quality of implementation.

I know one of the people at Proton Mail pretty well, and have met the others. Of all the companies doing secure email right now, they seem like the best.
I generally would like to see a more patriotic (real patriotism: none of this flags and hoo-rah silliness) approach to student recruitment and scholarships on campuses. I believe American schools can produce excellent students. I think the US has some very high-class aspirations and values, and care should be taken to preserve them and to grow practices such as tenure and free speech which let the best of US values flourish.

Having a heavy mix of people from places with other aspirations and values will dilute this system.

Of course: the language issue is a big deal. I've had fellow-students that couldn't speak or understand a word of verbal English - in graduate school!!! But their written was adequate. I don't believe they should have been accepted - they should have been kindly redirected to their national universities. Most international students don't have this issue, of course! Most are very fluent in English, even if they have an accent.

One very tangible aspect of the situation is that international students often pay cash and are charged out the ying-yang to attend. Perhaps if our fine federal government mandated public universities have equal costs for national and international students, universities wouldn't feel quite so incentivized to attract the (often extremely talented!) international students.
You misinterpret.. My comment had a very specific list of middle-tier fast food joints that have gone to crap.

McDonald's wasn't in that list. Neither was Taco Bell. Both very affordable, and still pretty consistent.

But if you're going to call me out on classism, it's a fairly ironic position to take that fast food is some sort of special charity to the poor. A far more charitable approach would be embracing publicly-subsidized grocery stores in food deserts rather than letting private equity slumlords peddle sugary deep fried dog food as if it's the only game in town.
Thank god I'm not the only one who feels that way about PEP 0484. No offense to Guido or the other authors, but I don't know what was going on in their minds.
Some friends and I were chatting about this last night while watching the heinous MacGuffins and Deus ex Machina moments in the final episode of Atlantis, oddly enough, backpedalling furiously trying to come up with alternative excuses for the coordinate system.

Our best stab was handwaving frantically and uttering something about a Hilbert curve [1][2].

But that still doesn't really explain anything about why the ancients would pull the equivalent of going from IPv6 to v4 by dropping the number of coordinates in the Milky Way gates.... or, anything else, really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
[2] a la https://xkcd.com/195/
Perhaps they didn't want to hire someone with a reckless disregard for the health of their coworkers.
Expanding on the above, if you create a VLA with an unchecked size derived from user input, you've got problems. If the user provides a size bigger than you can allocate, your program could crash if you're lucky. (If you're not lucky, it might appear to work but behave unpredictably.)

On the other hand, if you're currently allocating a fixed-size array that's big enough to hold, say, 1024 elements (of which you're only going to use some initial subset), then replacing it with a VLA that's the exact size you need (<= 1024) will be an improvement.

malloc() is supposed to safely tell you whether an allocation succeeded or failed, but in practice it doesn't do so reliably. On Linux, by default, it can allocate a huge chunk of address space, and then fail (with no way to handle the failure) when you try to access it. When that happens, it can invoke the "OOM killer", which can kill other processes.
Yes, but the product being sold is broadcast time slots, not audio/video.
Starting containers can be done in parallel, but scheduling cannot be trivially parallelized because it needs to take into account the resources consumed by existing containers. Situations like a rack failure can cause scheduling storms where many workloads need to be rescheduled as quickly as possible.
The under 18s eventually become the older generation ;-)

They leave college, get married, and within a few years they are posting baby pics.....
If it is justified it isn't red tape.
I actually think just disabling login is better.

People that set the shell to /bin/false or nologin are asking for trouble IMHO.
Well... either your library invents its own type classes, and all client code must implement them (boilerplate!). Or it relies on agreed-upon type classes which come from another library. If it's not basic classes like Functor or Monad that's just not manageable (dependency hell!).
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The effect will be to raise housing costs because that profits people who invest in houses. Voters want to get a job, borrow to buy a house, then sell it at a huge gain so they can retire early. U.S. voters are just like those in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and since the 2008 crash, will vote to restrict housing supply via zoning laws and boost buyer and renter supply via international students, and the flow-on effects in immigration and tourism -- students who graduate want to get a job and stay, and their families back home will come visit them -- just like what happened in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
> He greatly overestimated the amount of fuel SpaceX needs to land a Falcon 9, and especially overestimated the amount of fuel needed for the SES-9 landing attempt.

He made no estimate of that and didn't mention SES-9. What are you reading? Is that in the original audio recording because it's not in the article.

His criticism was that "it requires flying additional fuel to perform the landing", which I interpreted to be about weight and not fuel cost, and that ULA's plan is to parachute the rockets down, I assume to minimize that problem. Do you have information that contradicts him?

Where is this coming from? [Deleted last sentence]
That is a solution, along the lines of xeroxing your insurance forms to store them in multiple folders in your filing cabinet. It has synch problems, though - if you have to update in one place, you might forget to update the copy. Or in the store, you might run out in one place and not the other, which causes waste of effort.

A step better is how libraries have card catalogs, but a step better than that is online grocery shopping - which definitely does not store their products in a hierarchical database.
More than happy to share my insights for those of you interested in how its been measuring for a year.
Yes, but that could have been addressed by making them optional for freestanding implementations but mandatory for hosted implementations.

Are there any hosted systems (systems that can support the standard library) on which VLAs are difficult to implement?
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Redaction blunder reveals Snowden as Feds' target in Lavabit case
TR 18037¹ defines fixed point arithmetic, but it does not seem well supported.

¹ http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1169.pdf
I'm actually getting pushed away from Facebook. Nothing in my feed is particularly interesting anymore to me, it's about 50% political opinion, 20% ads, and the rest is usually nonsense. Facebook is generally a place where people post to show off about something, it's not entertaining anymore. I'm sure over the next few years, there will be alternatives that will schism the markets so there is always an opportunity for a startup with a good, catchy idea.
Django has outgrown its humble beginnings. I am building a fairly sophisticated single-page business application using Django along with Django REST Framework, and have yet to run into a situation that made Django feel "crufty."
In my opinion, standing vs sitting is irrelevant as long as you work out and have some muscles to support your spine and help maintaining good posture for long-ish periods of time.

I would guess fitness accounts for at least 70% of not having back problems, which makes me believe people with a strong back can sit/stand however the hell they want.

Can anyone enlighten me with any research or articles that correlates with my beliefs?
If we ever make it around to a second piece of javascript on here, can I request that it be a collapse comment function? I promise i won't ask for anything else.
Reddit is kind of a dumpster fire though.
Before Islam: When Saudi Arabia Was a Jewish Kingdom