skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all boils down to compatibility. You can make your webpage or webapp work on a majority of devices by rendering most of it on the server and delivering it as html with javascript handling the bits that can't be handled by html/css.

Or you can make your blog, which is essentially text on a webpage, that is rendered entirely by javascript. You can have your css download as javascript and be processed and rendered by the browser ... but why? Because they're new toys?

I think our infatuation with javascript has led us to the "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" situation.

Javascript is great but most developers I interact with aren't writing javascript. They're writing jQuery or Ember or Angular. They don't understand javascript as a language, they understand the flavor of javascript their library of choice gives them. They don't think about the fact that sorting a table in a browser will be a problem until it hits production, with 10,000 rows, and users without the top-of-the-line hardware are screaming.

It reminds me of the Windows vs Mac debate, which is really just a debate over control. Windows didn't control the hardware it was installed on; MS couldn't be sure everything would work so there were layers upon layers of compatibility solutions. Apple controls (most) of it's hardware so it has a smaller playing field and it knows what the next commit to it's repo will do to the majority of it's users' experiences.

Javascript is the same way. As web developers, you (should) know what your servers can do. You can plan for capacity. Offloading everything to the users' browsers is just evil. Think about the kid with his $200 hand-me-down chromebook who really wants to learn about programming or the guy in Africa trying to visit your site over GPRS on his mobile phone. They shouldn't need the newest version of chrome with ES6 to view a blog entry.

There are times where a SAP is the right choice for the user. We just have to realize everything isn't a nail.

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Blekko used to do this really well - I stopped using it when it seemed to be turing into an SEO tool instead of a search engine several years back.
No, people that agree with you about nuclear disarmament need to stfu if they want the de facto win you suggest.

Personally I don't think you can keep the stability benefits of MAD if secretly none of the buttons work. Eventually there will be a leak. You are literally suggesting security through obscurity.

But irrespective of my disposition this I still think this is the wrong way to get a "win". If you want disarmament then you should go through the political process and vote for people. Getting "wins" outside of the proper political process is just a bad precedent in general.
IANAL, but I thought I would mention it anyway. Do you have these recordings for safe keeping?
Australia is also a popular destination for Chinese students and sees high rates of cheating for many of the same reasons as those given in the article. Poor language skills allowed by lax student visa requirements, isolation, and the high penalties for failing a course when your family is paying full price creates desperation.

4 corners did a pretty good story on it and the smh investigation into MyMaster was also pretty good. Even if you can't get the video on 4 corners, the transcript is available.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/04/20/4217741.ht...

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/mymaster-essay-cheating-scandal-mo...
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I know its naive but I find it really hard to understand why people value the piece of paper more than the knowledge.

The good news is that you can't cheat as a software developer. Or maybe you can? Depressing thought.
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So the CEO fostered such a culture from literally the start of his interview. It was a warning, that the CEO was racist and not a place to work at.
Damn, first generation college student black americans sure are getting ripped off . . .
Some places, yes. But you're right, definitely. Better safe than sorry!
That's way different than these companies producing fake transcripts and even taking exams on behalf of students. Everyone has right to do college-prep as much as they like and everyone would get help in essays from friends, parents and professionals. But flat out lying, making up your grades and having someone else take exams for you is whole different ball game.
Cant say anything more, this is the best anime
Wait, what? You don't see the difference between "here's what you should study to pass the test" vs "here is the answer for that specific question"?
Since Docker 1.10, you can specify --userns-remap=default on the daemon and root inside the container will not be root outside: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/daemon/...
kiwi land as well http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/8662806/Chin...
What about the already congested roads, missing parking places in (european) cities and lastly the expensive maintenance for roads?
America is in fact one of the most transparent nations on earth. [1] That includes the judiciary, presidency, congress, and law structure. The US Government and state governments publish vast amounts of information about their operations, studies, results, bills, spending, research, etc that is publicly available. The US routinely scores among the top few nations when it comes to making such data public.

It's also widely regarded as one of the least corrupt nations. [2] Transparency and low-corruption are two things that very frequently go hand-in-hand.

[1] http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/transparency-full-...

"Denmark [the US came in #11] is the most transparent country, according to more than 8,000 informed elites from four different regions who filled out surveys for the 2016 Best Countries rankings. The rankings, formed in partnership with brand strategy firm BAV Consulting and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, aim to gauge global perceptions of the world's biggest economies in terms of specific attributes associated with countries."

On corruption the US is listed at #16 by transparency international, ahead of France and Japan, but behind Australia and the UK:

[2] http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015#results-table
Lane Keeping on Tesla is miles ahead of Lane Keeping on other cars. It centers in the lane, slows down and anticipates curves, etc. It is really a game changer vs. traditional "lane keeping"
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Assuming your first+last is already being parked by someone? Was able to get mine at a registrar, but it was my nickname where I paid a "premium" about 7 years ago... five letters and I really wanted it. Negotiated a guy from $3000 to $300. More specifically, his first response was $3000 then I waited three months and offered $300. He had a formal landing page.. no different from hugedomains.com - I've noticed for non-brandable "premium" domains these services are trying to get $1-2k for personal domains.
What efficiency is the engine converting those 42.80 MJ/kg into power at? I know it's still far above batteries, but what's the actual level batteries have to reach to be competitive in the power to weight ratio? Even that's not the full picture though, as for a system like this you would presumably include the engine weight for an engine that could produce comparable output, but that makes it more complicated.
Earth was simply too large to sail around the other way.

Yet ... 27 years after Columbus' first voyage, the Magellan expedition started it's circumnavigation sailing west proving it was possible.

There are plenty of islands in the Ocean to load up on food and water. Magellen, in fact, stopped at several islands.
Just don't ask.

Curious about how race impacts someone's life? Spend time with them. It will become very obvious without you having to ask anything and you'll get the benefit of being able to empathize from seeing it first hand.

Or, if you want to really try hard - work against your biological instinct to segment people into buckets based on physical attributes. Get to know who they see themselves as rather than how you see them by finding out what is important to them.

Here is an easy start: Instead of asking "where are you from" a simple and innocuous question which reveals basically nothing about someone - ask "what kind of hobbies are you into?"
It's usually their rich parents who value piece of paper, not students themselves as much.
This is new behavior from google. Nobody is aware of googlebot creating accounts and/or logging into websites in order to scrape them.

If this is a new policy, then google set a precedent. Now anybody scraping a website post-login can claim "google does it too," which is already an accepted excuse in defense of scraping in general.
I believe they're just soft links to the latest/appropriate version of the executable under the /nix/... directory.
No, that would make it much LESS safe.

Instead of now where you force yourself to be fully awake, instead you will allow yourself to semi-snooze, until you hit a situation the computer can't handle - and then you are in real trouble.
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Most American military hardware has long since been shielded against EMPs I believe.
Third voyage: South America, fourth voyage: Central America.
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The popular drug of the age always seems to reflect the general mood, the zeitgeist of the time.

I just assumed the era determined in what direction people generally choose to escape from reality, rather than economic factors. Go-go eighties. Tune in and drop out 60's, etc.
They are not connected to continents.
I share your sentiment. My sibling did Dartmouth for undergrad, Harvard and MIT for graduate school. I bootstrapped and sold a handful of companies after dropping out of college.

People need information to judge and trust others by. Information about ones capabilities should be verifiable by your accomplishments. At the start of a career though you have no accomplishments.

Companies, especially larger more established companies with higher head counts, are often risk averse in their hiring so hey use prestigious degree programs to filter out other potential candidates.
The idea of levels or areas is always applicable. A vast open game like Star Citizen is partitioned into area spaces, usually in a cubic array. When you move out of range of one of the cubes, past the point where you can see it, then all resources in that cube can be safely freed.

I don't know where Rust came from, since the discussion was about C++. But feel free to write an engine in Rust. It seems like a promising approach.
Is there any kind of overview of the JIT improvements coming in Java 9, or do you have to follow the relevant mailing lists/commits?
I'd heard that seats at Harvard was going for $20 million per piece for internal students who wouldn't remotely qualify otherwise. There are always few seats like these reserved at most universities. If you do the math, that one guy basically covers the cost of his entire class.
> If nothing else work should be a place where race questions aren't even in the air.

If only that were possible. Sadly, people have blended their work, public and private life so much that it seems to me that everything is about everything now. The concept of different spheres is now dead and buried. I'm not sure that was a wise move, personally.

I also wonder, now that "meritocracy" is a bad word, what can we use to promote the idea that you can earn something through talent? I mean, we are now denied use of the word that literally means "a place where you achieve based on talent", so how do we even have a discussion about this? It seems the idea of a workplace where you get what you earn is no longer possible to discuss, so how it can be implemented is beyond me.
"The bill is currently being debated in California's Congress as part of the upcoming annual budget" - it's called the Legislature.

I mean, yes, I knew what he meant, but it doesn't give me confidence that he understands how to influence the political system.
> Is that really a problem?

I think it is if you consider wasted effort a problem. But apparently not everyone does.

> compilers are clever enough

Yes, but only because someone did a lot of work to make them clever. And they only had to do that work because someone else did a lot of work to write a clever algorithm. If we as an industry had just done the Right Thing to begin with both of those people could have used that time to do something more productive.
And thank God. As someone who has been unfairly punished for cheating, I appreciate this fact.
You're trying to keep the filament very hot while spending the least amount of power. Apparently, reflecting the thermal infrared back at the filament lets you spend less power while keeping the filament equally hot and equally luminous in the visible band.
History of teaching machines to understand us
I have to agree with you on the piece of paper. It always confused me when friends would take easier university courses to keep their GPA higher when they could take a harder one and learn more. In the real world, people don't care about your GPA, or the piece of paper really. They care about your competency.

I think you're right in that software is a field where it's hard to fake it 'til you make it. Not sure how it is in the US, but where I live it's typically students in business, accounting, marketing, and management that do the majority of the cheating. Whether that's because how those subjects are assessed makes them inherently more suitable for cheating or because language problems make essays, but not software, harder to write is difficult to say.
Yes, you can do this. There is a utility "nix-docker" that will convert a Nix configuration file into a BusyBox Docker image (see e.g. http://zef.me/blog/6049/nix-docker)
> Google can handle construction, changed lanes, and offramps, city streets, and follows navigation directions.

Oh that's great news! Now where can I buy a Google car again?

There's a big difference between a general production-ready car and what's basically an internal-use-only car.
For this post the A.I. Optify team has scraped open web to collect various signals (e.g. online reviews, ratings, depth of topics covered in a book, author influence in the field, date of publication and many more) for 100's of Software Engineering books.

We fed all above signals to our machine learning algorithms to compute a Fit Score for each book and publish the list of "Top Software Engineering books".
A shorter bang to search google images: !i
Even if you could hide a wireless reader and transmitter in a floppy disk, you would still be able to pick it up on X-ray. It would be very difficult to differentiate an SD card with a malicious payload even if one X-rayed it.
One more idea. I once witnessed another company being shown a competing companies unreleased product while testing my own product in a testing facility. I send them an unmarked envelope with a letter of what I saw and the names of the people involved (as they were wearing name tags). This is stone-age now, but perhaps it might help.
In my experience it has been declining in importance. In the past I'd see jobs advertised asking little more than a degree (or equiv. industry experience). Today I still see degrees listed, but often as "preferred" & always amongst a litany of other skill-based requirements.

Seems to be that there's at least some commercial pressure to value the "piece of paper" less. Of course it could also be that a degree is now the de facto baseline, & the wheels just keep turning.
Give me a break. I went to a big state school that wasn't a playground for the elite, but you'd see these Chinese students who could barely speak enough English to order a pizza demonstrating supposed mastery of written English in core classes.

The "ABC" Chinese students who were pissed off about the blatant cheating, reported one group of foreign students were openly sharing answers during the test in Mandarin. The ethics committee's investigation was "undetermined" and no action was taken.

The reasoning is pretty clear -- foreign students pay more and pay in cash.
The thermal mirror needs to selectively reflect infrared while being transparent to visible light, and it needs to bounce radiation back and forth, which requires a certain geometry. The novelty of this paper is creating a big flat filament sandwiched between high-temperature plates that reflect infrared and can be deposited as layered coatings.
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I think it was written to be accessible to a very broad audience.
I'm not affiliated, I'm just a huge fan.
The problem is tagged images are fundamentally broken. If I can't reproduce, bit-for-bit, what is in the tag, how can I vouch for the tag?

Images are nothing but a caching technique for the results of deterministic builds.

If you're using them for any other reason, you have a flawed process that is going to come back to bite you some day.
I believe those are just symlinks to the binaries in /nix/xxxx, so that $HOME/.nix/bin can be added to PATH.
Apple sales are weak in India because iPhone is overpriced in India, prices of Apple products in India are a lot higher than US. In 2015, over 100 million smartphones were sold in India.

Apple sells iPhone 6s 16 GB for $920 in India[1], while you can buy comparable Android smartphones from manufacturers like Xiaomi and OnePlus for $300 to $400

Sweet-spot price for Indian middle class is $300 to $400 and they typically upgrade in 1 to 2 years.

[1] http://www.apple.com/in/iphone/compare/
That whole one time leading into 95 (b.")b
That's an interesting point. How would you make a map from it?
Where google has lost me is on country detection. It's virtually impossible to change country context.

NCR feature disappeared, and even choosing a specific language for the search results won't prevent some results from one's country to bubble up at the top (i.e. if I am in France, setting the interface in english and asking results for 'any region' will still boost french results)

It's just huge PITA to search for resources in a global context, which is the majority of my searches. DDG is a lot more sensible and manageable in this respect.
This Huge Camera Rig Busts People for Texting and Driving
Thank you, that's exactly what I meant.
Cuba legalize private business
Tax liability as well. Holding land and doing nothing with it costs money.
How should repeated (third or more) plagiarism offenses be addressed if not expulsion?
I tried Crouton as a gamble, and it's paid off extremely well. It's the nicest linux laptop I've ever had, as the hardware support worked out of the box.

Being able to swap back and forth between Chrome OS and crouton at runtime has been great.

Difficulty resolving display settings for a cranky old projector under linux? No problem under Chrome OS.

Linux temporarily horked by an update, but I really need to check email? No problem.

I haven't needed to configure any linux wireless settings on the laptop either, as it operates through a crouton interface.

Want to let someone borrow your computer? Chrome OS is an instantly-understood interface.

Want to hit <delete> instead of <backspace>? Use the windows key as an unmapped personal <meta> key? Well, you can't have everything in life.

Battery life has been great, and the in-flight wireless deal that came with the Chromebook has pretty much offset the laptop's cost.

Thank you, Crouton devs. You've made my life better.
The international students have unreasonably high standards for maintaining financial assistance and staying out of academic probation(3.5-3.8 at my university). By design college courses give work just a little beyond what a student can reasonably accomplish(with a "good" grade) and curve accordingly. These kids aren't just cheating they are marginalizing students who are honest or don't have this kind of social access. If you're not part of a fraterntiy/sorority that archives coursework/tests of previous students or part of an international student in-group then you can easily fall through the cracks from this grade deflation effect.
If you choose to view the world through this lens where simple questions become disparaging attacks, then thats your problem.
Here's the hilarious thing about that page. I've been there before in an attempt to opt-out of LinkedIn e-mails. It has a lot of categories of e-mails it wants me to opt-out of separately, and I know I opted out of all of them that I possibly could last time I was there. (I believe there were other well-hidden pages I also had to go to.)

Since then, you've added one called "Jobs and Opportunities", and it's switched on. This has happened before. Of course your company is aware it's doing this, but it would be bad for business if you never sent e-mail to people just because they unsubscribed, wouldn't it.

It's great that you had me check because now I have solid evidence of the "adding new categories that are automatically opted-in" behavior.

How often do you expect me to log in to LinkedIn, a service that I hate, and remind it that I really don't want its spam?
Mostly the author, with possible editor override. In my case, my working title got changed, and it was certainly a net improvement. My original title was 'Pseudorandomness', by analogy with the computer science concept. Now, it's 'Chaos Monkeys' (by analogy with the software tool). Definitely an improvement.
Apparently not all economists agree that increasing housing supply would make rents cheaper.
Libel laws in the UK are notoriously very favorable to the plaintiff. At least in the US, the test is more along the lines of "knowingly false".
Are you arguing that "rich kids tend to have more resources" is justification for cheating, or is it the case that you reflexively comment on articles that don't explicitly criticize the "1%" with a non-sequitur about what you wish the article had been about?
These tips usually don't help in India. If you look poor and nobody, the police could even beat you up for no reason.

If you look and act rich & influential, then police and Government officials play nice with you.
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. I sincerely doubt that most minorities (myself included) think that we've "reached as good a point as can reasonably expected". I don't think I've ever really heard much arguments to give evidence that the US is "among the least racist countries in the world"

Discounting the value of any discussion about race because you believe we've reached good enough is not a conducive mentality to have towards just about anything, much less society. Things have improved over time because people weren't content with "good enough".
Obama also unfortunately tends to act in good faith and with intent, so snark aside if he requested the funding for them he is probably OK with tactical nukes.
That is what's known as a Category Error.
Older machines have a tendency to be simpler.
In the mean time, this thing will do Mach 20 (~ 7 km/s), and its already concidered as old-tech with a newer version being worked on -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTVgJ8Sb34E
Coming from the other side: I run Linux on a Chromebook Pixel 2015, but I don't use Crouton, I just replaced ChromeOS entirely. Except for "ctrl-L" on every boot (which, really, I don't reboot my machine enough for it to be anything but an extremely minor annoyance) it works perfectly. It's vastly higher-quality (i7 processor, 16GB RAM, fantastic screen, great battery life, fast-charging with USB-C, the build quality of a MBP) and more linux-compatible than anything else I could have purchased for a similar price ($1300).

The only real downside is the 64GB SSD, but I can augment that with an SD card. I'm pretty deeply in love with this laptop as a development machine.