skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was handcuffed publicly, had a taser pointed at him, and suffered a decent amount of emotional duress without even knowing why they did it to him, or what his crime was.

The "innocent until proven guilty" bit might not be 100% accurate, but this is still incredibly irresponsible on the part of the police.
People who need money today.
Is it known how similar they are besides for culture, i.e. would an infant from there raised among humans or an infant from us raised by them be able to learn the culture? Has anything similar been tried with other isolated tribes?
Stateful RESTful Web Primitives, 1.7.2 Released
>backpropagation wouldn't work, because small changes in the tuning parameters wouldn't do anything

cough Rectified Linear Units cough
the point that has been known for decades is not, "Switching from Node.js to Go gives you better performance," it is "switching from a high-level language to a low-level language gives you better performance." This point _has_ been known for decades, but new generations of programmers keep re-discovering it. (note: I am not critizing new programmers, I am one of them. in fact, having recently switched from python to rust, you could say I am one of the many re-discovering the performance joys of lower-level languages)
Making UX Choices Based on What You Hate About the Internet
Multi-process is being tested in Firefox Beta right now, according to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule.
I was recently digging through my old blog's archives, and it was appalling how many URLs from the early 2000s have completely disappeared, despite the fact that the sites which served them remain — and gratifying when I was able to reload some fringe resource from 1998 or 2003.

The Web is about webs of durable readable content, not about ephemeral walled-garden apps.
Found that link - though even after getting the Neo's circuit board exposed I didn't think it was as simple as "connecting the pins and reading the key out". Op also specifically says yubikey 4 :)
Google applying to patent deep neural network (LSTM) for machine translation
I wish they'd document what version of GTK they require. I tried installing this on Ubuntu LTS 14.04 a while ago and it failed after downloading a bunch of dependencies due to GTK/Gnome being too old.

It might work on 16.04 LTS, but too gun shy to try again.
Higher level languages generally being slower than lower level languages has been documented for decades.
The interesting part (why I've submitted this):

"WARNING: You can’t change the country or region that’s associated with your account. If you’ve switched countries and want to change your location, you have to create a new Microsoft account in your new region."

This seems to mean that if you moved countries, you probably stop using the bank accounts in the previous country. But you can't use a French credit card if you have bought Office with a UK credit card -- it is required that the CC belongs to the country of your account. But you can't change your account region. Therefore you have to stop using Office or drop your Microsoft account. Am I missing something?
Hmm, I can see why that would be useful but that makes it much harder to reason about in order to automatically eliminate checks wherever possible; you can guarantee that adding a number in [0,100) to [0,100) will produce a number in [0,200) without needing to apply checks, but one of your Values may generate an error if you just increment it.
> Subcontracting out work + massive federalism

I think you meant massive anti-federalism.

If we had a federal procurement system for math and english textbooks, after being put out for a nationwide bid, the per-unit cost would be about 10% over the cost of paper and printing. (the 10% premium is the bid adjustment for a women or minority owned business)

Now $8 textbooks wouldn't save a lot of money compared to the national education budget, but it would be a good start. And do we really need regional variations in math textbooks?
It appears to be a support library for dfp.exe, which is the "Disk Footprint Tool". I never knew it existed until now, but it seems to be a potentially quite handy utility with a purpose similar to tools like WinDirStat (but CLI only?).

So to answer your question, no, it's not part of the telemetry infrastructure. And I'll add that calling that infrastructure "spyware" is a simplistic analysis of what's a complex issue. I say that as someone who goes to great pains to turn off as much telemetry as I can across almost all applications I use.
> It's because both breast cancer and multi-lingualism are associated with higher-wealth individuals.

Could you unpack some of your reckons here.
> It's important to look at the hyperloop in the context in which it was proposed.

I don't think it really is, because the proposal was a comically unserious one designed to generate interest in the underlying technology. The route proposed in the paper as a supposed alternative to HSR which has termini outside of the immediate area of the population centers which it notionally connects would never be useful and will never get built.

OTOH, the interest the technology has drawn from that splashy initial PR campaign means enough people are working to develop it that that, if anything like it is viable, one or more commercially-viable variants will likely be ready for Musk's Mars colonies.

> On paper, it's better than the high-speed rail in every way. Cheaper, faster and with less pollution.

Its only "cheaper" because the proposal both made unrealistic assumptions about real estate costs and avoided much of the real estate costs by not terminating any place with useful transit access to the population centers at either terminus.

Unlike HSR, which not only terminates near the population centers, but includes as part of the same project improvements in the local connecting transit systems.

The proposed Hyperloop route was the high-tech version of a bridge-to-nowhere.
We throw money at them, tell them they are heroes and don't hold them accountable.

It's the same reason we have no-knock SWAT raids on parents of toddlers. They have the time and resources and want an opportunity to do something different, get dressed up and play with their toys.
You'll have to clear chrome from your defaults and set FF as the default. One of the "features" in 6.0 (I think) is removing the ability to let an application handle an intent "Just Once". Instead, whatever you choose the first time will be the default. It's a very very annoying thing for the (likely very few) of us who like using multiple apps for the same thing
I'm suprised no one had mentioned instacart in this thread. Instacart has partnered with 12 grocery chains in SF. Many of them (including wholefoods) pay instacart commission and there prices are the same as in-store. With these partnerships, instacart could deliver greater diversity of products at lower costs.

They've got a long way to go to, but are building a formidable counter to Amazons grocery play.
Sega: Gaming Company's 1996 Training Documentary
Careful dude, Michael Bay might hear you.
That is just a method for an object. And the "double double underscore" thing is more of a way to show that the method is specialized and that there is no good reason to be redefining it. Nothing magic happens on the runtime in your application if you redefine the method.

If these would count as "magic", so would any language that supports operator-overloading and templates, which basically means that even C and C++ have "magic strings".

Still, you got close. If there is one thing that I could accept as "magic" is the fact that Python changes the accessor of functions if the function name starts with double underscore (but not if it also ends with double underscores). Even that would be debatable, because the behavior is well-defined and the transformation is simple.
New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
I use chrome as the default browser on Windows at work and on Mac at home. Though i tried firefox before on both OS, i feel it's nothing compared to chrome. I feel it's very heavy, takes more time to load pages than chrome.
"But the hardware design, how the chips are connected, isn't really a secret as such and is easy to reverse engineer and recreate. It's just not very complex."

Hardware design is a combo of how the chips are connected, the firmware, and getting it to users. Your link supports my assertion that they should put in whatever obstacles they can.

"Companies therefor try to protect their IP as much as possible by making reverse engineering harder and by "owning the ecosystem"."

Point 1 in my original comment.
It appears you didn't closely read the article because it documents two separate events:

1. The author's meeting with the Sentinelese.

2. The author's meeting with the Jarawa.

You are correct that most of the photos are from the meeting with the Jarawa and that much of the article describes the author's time with the Jarawa but there is a segment which explicitly describes the meeting with the Sentinelese, separate from the Jarawa meetings.
Adobe does not currently ship a mobile flash client. See http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html for currently supported clients.

Apple didn't dump support for flash on mobile, they simply opted not to support it (for very good reasons).
>I do think sexuality is at least somewhat malleable. I could never see myself becoming homosexual, but I can easily see how I could have been or could in the future become bisexual. I would be adding a new sexuality on top of my old one, figuring out a new way to have that experience.

I won't go into a long story but TLDR: I thought of myself as gay from puberty until a couple of years ago, I am now entirely bisexual. I don't know if the side of me that is attracted to women (I'm a guy) didn't exist a decade ago and my sexuality changed, or if it did exist and I just didn't know how to access it. But it certainly was a definitive change, previously there just wasn't any sexual feeling towards women in my head, ever. Despite this personal experience of sexuality being malleable in at least some form, I am still entirely confident that homosexuality (including the gay side of bisexuality) cannot, at least with our current scientific knowledge [0] be purposefully changed, and while I'm lucky enough not to have a personal anecdote about paedophilia, everything I've read up on the subject makes me believe the same goes for that.

[0] I say current scientific knowledge because who knows, maybe in X years/decades/centuries we'll fully understand the human brain and be able to modify it as precisely as you can modify a computer program. Setting aside the fact that this advance in science/technology would probably do far more to scare me in terms of how it could be used negatively vs. benefits such as removing the attraction to children from paedophiles, since we are no where near being able to do this we might as well keep the debate within the frame of what we actually can achieve in the foreseeable future.

> I fail to believe paedophilia is the only mode of sexuality that's open to most or even a significant fraction of paedophiles.

It's known that there are paedophiles who no matter how hard they try, and get supported with therapy/etc., never find themselves attracted to adults. It's also known that there are paedophiles who find adults as attractive as children, or also attractive but more/less so than children. It's very hard for anyone to find out how many of each because paedophiles in general often prefer not to talk about their condition, even to medical professionals, and especially paedophiles who can be happy in adult relationships probably don't have much motivation to think about fixing their attraction to kids, since they can have a sexually-fulfilling life without them.

(Incidentally, my gay->bi sexuality is why I find the subject of paedophilia from a medical point of view fascinating, since it does seem that they are very similar things biologically, just not culturally. And no, I don't mean that because they are similar biologically that they should be similar culturally, I fully approve of saying homosexual relationships are good and adult/child sex relationships are bad.)
> PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height.

Don't be absurd. There's no reason one couldn't choose to input inches only, or decimal feet, or metres, decimetres and centimetres, or decimal kilometres.
> My dad had given me his extra computer, so I decided to sell mine: a 14-inch, 2012 MacBook Pro.

Perhaps the cops were going after him for false advertising...

Edit: A point made in jest, but in all seriousness, if he had actually advertised it as a 14-inch model, it would add to a reasonable suspicion that the laptop was not his.

You see this all the time with stolen bicycles advertised online. You can spot the stolen ones a mile off, because the seller doesn't have a clue what it is they are selling.
The Not To-Do List of Tim Ferriss and Jack Dorsey
Time-to-market is probably more directly influenced by the familiarity of the developers on the project with the language in question and the ubiquity of stable libraries and frameworks and online answers to the typical (and atypical) problems that arise. It just so happens that higher level languages have strengths in these areas because they attract more developers in general (they are easier to learn).

Maintainability cost is probably more directly related to how clearly one can express the high level concepts the program must deal with in the language in question. If the concepts are things like manipulating huge arrays of numbers, bit operations, interfacing with the system APIs, or other tasks suited to native langauges, then using a native language may be better. If the concepts are things like manipulating large dynamic data structures like strings and maps, doing a lot of asynchronous operations, and communicating with external services via JSON APIs, then a dynamic high-level language that easily speaks JSON may be better.

Development cost is a mix of the above.

I think this is a better characterization than "high level languages provide better time-to-market, maintainability, and development cost". For example, while this may be true for some projects, I know of many others where the better time-to-market, maintainability, and development cost comes from using a much lower level language.

It's all engineering. Measure. Analyze. Weigh the trade-offs. Make decisions. Monitor.
> He was investigated, nothing was found, and he was released.

Let me guess: you're a white male, aren't you?

When these things happen to others but don't happen to you, you can pass it off as "mistakes happen". But when these "mistakes" happen only to a certain section of society, it's a cause for concern.

Why was he handcuffed and had a taser on his back?? Why was he treated like a criminal in front of everybody? You don't put handcuffs on someone unless you want to detain them.
I've read stories like this too:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amazo...
The author indicates that the Indian government banned visits to the Sentinelese after their visit had taken place.
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For a few years, I've considered the hot hand experiment[1] somewhat of a free will test in the sense that if our choices are not a function of the past then we should have the ability to fake coin flips. It supports idea of free will being a continuum because the answer to the runs test is the probability that the data was faked - never a definite yes or no.

[1] - http://math.williams.edu/the-hot-hand/
He was investigated, nothing was found, and he was released.

That doesn't follow. Why did he need to be released?
Thanks for sharing! In full disclosure, I work with Scandy ;). We are about to announce our larger spheres. We are testing out a 6" and a 7.5" Scandy Sphere. I'd love to know what you think.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFg9hq0jjGL/?taken-by=scandy.co
Covariance and Contravariance: a fresh look at an old issue [pdf]
What's weird is that the URL gives a 'mixed-content' warning in Chrome, supposedly for the logo. But in the markup, that image is reference by a relative URL; I can't figure out why Chrome is trying to load that image via HTTP...
Playing devil's advocate here, but why should I waste my time on it if the source code is not even available yet? Please make a 0.1 minimal release with clear and easy installation instructions and show me the code, and I'll be interested. But yeah, looks nice and usable. Hope it succeeds, since pgAdmin4 is taking too long to have any kind of public release.
Does anyone else see a future where programmers need to get a licence to practice their craft?
+1. He was a suspect. Things didn't check out and the cops let him off without even taking him to the station.

So now whether they had the probable cause to search his computer or not - that is unclear as we obv don't have a full story from the law enforcement side of things. I highly doubt that someone calling the cops and telling them - 'someone on craigslist is selling a laptop that was stolen from me' without any proof would trigger this ordeal.
ccleaner and possibly the other piriform products do this
A very nice explanation about what covariance and contravariance mean, especially in the context of subtyping (with potential parametric polymorphism).

And implementation details are provided. An undergrad should be able to understand this.
But not while you were in prison for not revealing it. Surely you'd be lying there at night and passwords would be all you could think about!

I keep going over where I went wrong in the exams I did a month ago and I've already had the results with all at 90%+ (yeah r/iamverysmart, I know)
ah cra, my bad. thank you for the correction
The Concept of the Modern Pop Album has a Complex History and Depended on the Input of Many, Many People Over Many, Many Years, and Although No Single Person or Album 'Invented' It, 'Pet Sounds' is Interesting to Discuss as a Milestone.

(Perfectamente!)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713423
I agree that mathematics should be taught in a 'larger context', but you have two problems - 1: even for a subset of math (take a fairly 'small' field that was considered 'recreational' amongst mathematicians until recently - algebraic geometry) would end up filling up half all 4 walls of an elementary school room; b) a DAG is not the appropriate construct to capture entities (there is a lot of 'interop' both internally within a set of mathematics, and even more so as you go into the first rank poset containing that set; yet more as you go to rank 2)[1], c) most of those public school teachers wouldn't have the faintest what any of 80% of those nodes mean past "yeah, topology, I think I remember what a manifold is..." even if you kept the graph constrained to an 11x14 page of paper. I was fortunate enough to go to one of the those G20-esque schools[2] and by 10th grade I was asking questions that most of the instructors weren't capable of answering (and I'm not particularly bright - this a testament to those who tend to gravitate towards the profession).

That being said, I was attending high school in the "we just got cable modems & youtube has 2 sets of lectures, one being Sussman teaching SICP" days. Those who are interested can easily find dozens of lectures from any conference/symposium/some-random-bright-grad-student-talking-to-a-room-of-8-people and then directly e-mail him/her. Knowledge is accessible really accessible these days, and those who are motivated to read further on a topic have high quality textbooks, pre-prints of papers, and open discussion amongst the communities (i.e., lurking on a Terry Tao project, or watching in real time as the classification of finite groups is underwent by a group of post-docs and grad students). For those who are motivated and learn by conversation/immersion like I do (did?).

Perhaps this[3] explains my point a little clearer. (Note that Fermat has more than one proof, and I could easily at least the intuition behind the proof to a 2nd year undergraduate with no background in higher mathematics, given perhaps two semesters.) Conceptually, something like Poincare would be way more challenging just because at that phase everyone's used to Newtonian physics and Euclidian geometry; unteaching those 'intuitions' would take a semester alone. It could, however, be 'intuitively' (i.e., without rigor) taught fairly easily to someone with a background in higher level physics (i.e., most of the foundational maths of Riemannian geometry, etc, have been both taught and intuitively absorbed by students at that point).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oWLIVNI6VA Here's a lecture from a Princeton professor emeritus (IIRC) that demonstrates what I'm sure I poorly explained here. Introduction ends around ~6 minutes.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20_Schools

[3] https://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers... and in refutation - actually there is, sort of[4].

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_mathematics_topics#Pu...
This is disturbing.

What happens once they are able to wipe SMART data? Is that even possible?
These people are humans.
> That's why there is no jury in all countries that I know of except America.

The UK uses juries in much the same way as the US does, as do many other countries whose legal systems derives from that of the UK (which are a fair number, because colonialism.)
What makes Portuguese a mix of Spanish and French and not, as TelmoMenezes says, yet another child of Latin? How do you categorize Romansh, Languedoc, Galician, Sardinian, and all the others?
A guess would be so that you can compare the current best open ray tracing library on the CPU with their GPU implementation as well as switching to CPU ray tracing under the same API.
What I think you're missing is that using a runtime is impossible in an OS kernel, unless the runtime doesn't use any OS features. You at least need to bootstrap enough of an OS before you can use the runtime. It's not the same thing as kexts or IOKit modules.
You have a business opportunity here if you train that on fresh vegetables. Many people have trouble with these issues:

1. Knowing what the hell a (example) rhubarb is or looks like.

2. Knowing if it looks fresh or about to go bad.

Being able to aim a camera slowly across an isle with it getting highlighted would solve first problem. Spinning vegetable around in front of the camera would could solve second. So, try that and make it a paid app.
When I had my laptop stolen in Miami, I couldn't even get the lazy police officers to write up a police report for me.
I would pay something like $5 per day for this if it was a real person who looks at my photos, categorizes them accurately, and enters them into MyFitnessPal.

I won't trust an AI until it has a massive database and a million users. Until then, it's just not going to work well enough. You also need to convince users why they should use your app, instead of MyFitnessPal (which already has a massive database, including barcodes.)
https://github.com/gorilla/websocket#gorilla-websocket-compa...
Proper training alleviates these fallacies. I trust a judge much better than a jury of random people.