skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to reproduce toy examples and analyses from R in Racket. Things like plotting aren't too bad in Racket. I start to feel like I could almost code data things entirely in Racket if it weren't for all the R packages missing. That's when I come back to having an implementation of R that I can mix and match with Racket. A man can dream...
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Historically, (1) has not particularly depended on merit, and (2) would require a lot (because "nice atoms" were more interesting back in the 60s than today).
Basically all high-end headphones are now made with 3.5mm plugs, bundled with a 1/4" adapter. So why wouldn't you use them with your phone when you're listening to music?
Yes. It has awful nullable unions rather then monadic options/maybes.
Sorry, you're way off base here. The WPA only protects Whistleblowers who work within the government reporting system. It's not a get out of jail free card for any action you perform under the auspices of 'blowing the whistle.'
No one is going to click a link in their feed to buy a car or laundry detergent, and a brick-and-mortar retailer doesn’t want to encourage shopping to someone already online.

Automobile manufacturers have been working with digital advertising for years and their methods are quite sophisticated (1). Every day tens of millions of people see their campaigns on Facebook, mobile games, SERPs, etc.

Brick-and-mortar retailers are also using ads to drive people to their websites or to their stores. One example that springs to mind is the Best Buy campaign in the runup to the Superbowl to get people to come in and buy a wide-screen HDTV before the game. I don’t know how effective it was, but surely some people clicked on the ads.

1. http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/car-brands-are-startin...
I mean, they're right there in the git log
Publish? It's public already.
> It's a solution in search of a problem

It does solve a problem. It solves the problem of Apple having less money than it wants to have. It just doesn't solve a consumer problem.
Trump is the special interest. People seem to have this notion that Trump won't do stuff that only benefits the rich because no one paid him to. Instead, he is taking out the middle man. In other words, electing one of the Koch brothers doesn't mean the office isn't biased toward the Oil industry, just that it's cheaper for the Koch brothers.
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It's joined the ranks of Freud and a great many others in sticking around as a big idea in literary analysis.

There seems to be something about that field that leaps at the chance to use the shady, discredited pieces of the other social sciences.
I fail to see how this is concerning. Scala isn't a one-man project. Martin is a university professor, i.e. someone supposed to work on education and academic research. It's already pretty remarkable that so many students and researchers at LAMP/EPFL (funded by Swiss taxpayers) are working on real-world projects, that you can use in production at your commercial company.
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I think you math is a bit off here:

> the Tesla Powerwall has 6.4kwh capacity, 5k cycles and
> costs $3k. That means you can charge and decharge a total
> of 32k kwh, for $3k, or in other words $9.35 cents per kwh
> just to store the energy.

6.4kwh * 5k cycles == 32000 kwh for a price of $0.09375/kwh of storage. That still isn't economic in most places, of course.
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> But if the copyright is assigned to a mutually trusted organization like a FLOSS foundation then I can't think of a good reason that a contributor would withhold copyright assignment.

How would one know beforehand what kind of license it will be re-licensed under in the future, and what kind of legal action that assigned copyright holder will take, which you may not agree with? You make valid arguments, but it's not that simple.

As a contributor it's easy to argue that there's no reason for something one contributes under license X to be put under license Y two years later without consent (not required in this case).
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As a counter example, my brother who never uses a computer setup his chromecast in 5 minutes with zero help from me. I know b/c he called me and asked for help. I told him he wouldn't need it, but he didn't believe me.

Things are getting better. There will always be more crap out there than good stuff. That's why walmart is so popular, but things will generally improve.
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Some engineering requirements for space are easier, some are harder. The pressures involved in underwater systems are far greater; in space you're either dealing with no pressure at all (robotic drones) or at most 1atm of pressure (human habitat.)

Underwater, the pressure increases by 1atm for every 10 meters of depth [1]. At the sea floor you're looking at 20 to 400 atm depending on where you go, and that affects both robotic drones and human habitats.

On the flip side, if you're doing underwater drones then they never have to go more than a handful of km away from a surface vessel, so you can stay physically connected to them. That makes power, communication, and retrieval far easier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea#Pressure
I think it refers to the background radiation increase due to atomic bombs, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

Edit: a nice plot https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radiocarbon_bomb_spi...
> Sweden isn't legally allowed to extradite him

Of course they are.
I just received this email and can't believe it.

> In this study an Online Usage Tracker is applied to track which websites you visit, by recording the URLs.

How does this not violate EU privacy laws?
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And on basecamp homepage i see references such as NASA. They pay the same low price?
I could see it being useful as an affordance for internal testers.

It would be useful when things break so hard you don't even get a log.
> none of the suits was filed by individual developer who was contributing to the code base

Isn't that what actually happened in the GPL-Violations.org project with netfilter?
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I would normally agree, but Apple has a good track record of yanking out things that were considered crucial and turned out to be relics from the past in desperate need of innovation (or replacement). My optimistic prediction: the increased demand for wireless headphones will drive manufacturers to constantly improve their products and drop prices to remain competitive - two years from now, we won't even remember the day our phones had a headphone jack.
I think you can find much of what is worth knowing about these projects starting there.
What happens if there's an error in the crypto handling system?
Edit: Not a troll, I'm seriously interested in "minimum required functional systems" in the case.
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Additional problems:

1. Hassle with batteries

2. I'm not really sure but from quick research it seems most of wireless headphones still use lossy codecs for signal transmission.
The evidence of people choosing love over survival suggests that there's something to this, though.

I'm thinking of Harlow's monkey studies in particular - there's some evidence that (macaque) infants will choose comfort over food. Certainly food is more directly tied to life, but Maslow's structure carries a lot less weight if people will seek higher tiers even when they lack the basic elements of survival.
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> It's already kinda flaky with a 3.5mm form factor

No it's not.
The linked article gives an example, in the ring Z[sqrt(-5)].

6 is divisible by 2. However, "the" (really "a") prime factorization of 6 is (1+sqrt(-5)) * (1-sqrt(-5)), in which 2 does not appear.

So your assertion that "if it's divisible by a number, the number must appear in its factorization" is not true in all rings.
Personally, I think VR will find it's killer app in being a creative medium and expand from there.

There's been too much emphasis on it's possibilities as a passive entertainment experience so far, but the truth is we're nowhere near the point of VR being a good platform for consumption of passive entertainment yet. It's an active experience, not a passive one
We do a lot of migrations from custom systems or SaaS integrations to Kill Bill (open-source subscription billing and payments platform) [0] and we've summarized our strategy and usual pain points in our migration guide [1]. You might find it useful.

Happy to chat offline too if you want to go into specifics.

[0] http://killbill.io/
[1] http://docs.killbill.io/0.16/migration_guide.html
Funny, but incorrect. This mostly has to do with spurious RF noise generated by badly engineered devices like power supplies or manual light dimmer switches - things that aren't designed to communicate. Manufacturers are supposed to test for these sorts of emissions, but frequently don't.
This needs to be higher. Take a phone a part and you'll see that the headphone jack isn't the constraint.
I read it was served in Paris before WW1. I also read in Russian book that in Siberia locals fed mammoth meat to their dogs.
Let's assume for a minute that this isn't a naked attempt at making more money off of accessories.

The post-Jobs Apple (or maybe even Jobs himself) needs to learn that "less" is not always "simpler" and "combining it into one thing" is not always "simpler".

"Simple" also has to factor in history. If we had all spent decades using devices with a single port for power and audio, then this might make sense.

As far as ugly goes, the ports are pretty well-hidden on phones now. Slim? Not sure shaving 1mm off the phone is going to make as much difference as removing a major port.
My wife is a dentist and dentists don't really have technical interviews. You already have a degree and a state license (which will require a national certification test and another board test like CITA). Instead, most interviews are about personality fit and then you often have 4-8 hour workday with the office to see if you're a good fit.
I've been a Rails developer for 10 years. I'm looking at Elixir and Phoenix today and I'm sad that I started my last project in Rails. My test suite takes upwards of 10 minutes to run and everything I hear about Elixir is that tests run 10 times faster.
Come on, the last thing he reviewed sent everything in plaintext, had no root password, called out to multiple chinese servers, ran ssh via a hardcoded password that was something like a simple word, and didn't have any way of actually updating the code on the device. Oh, and it barely even functioned as a lightbulb...

This is lightyears better than that, and yeah they fucked up a bunch of stuff, but it at least shows they tried. Even shitty AES is going to increase security over plaintext...
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I think you're right regarding codecs. Either way, not enough to convince me to carry one around due to my own experience.
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So let me get this straight. You contact "The Office of Special Counsel [1]" and they contact the FBI/CIA to take you away to an undisclosed location. You are never seen again. I'm just not buying the effectiveness of the formal procedure unless ones' goal is to die in vain..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Specia...
you can have a public restroom in the U.S as long as you are a male or a female and if you are not... well you are screwed.
> Maybe now is the wrong time, and Apple is making a mistake. I don’t know.

> Patel misses the bigger problem. It’s not enforcement of DRM on audio playback. It’s enforcement of the MFi Program for certifying hardware that uses the Lightning port. Right now any headphone maker in the world can make any headphones they want for the standard jack. Not so with the Lightning port.

> Presumably Apple’s Lightning earbuds will work on iPads, too. But it’s going to suck having to use different headphones (or a dongle) for the Mac than you use with your iOS devices.

> Will MacBooks ship with a Lightning port in lieu of a headphone jack? If so, will they ship with headphones? (Probably not, I say. Cough up the extra $29 for a new pair of Apple EarPods.)

I'm increasingly irritated by Gruber's increasingly cozy relationship with Apple pitch-people (sometimes even using language only they use, like "with iPhone" or "on iPad").

But this is neither amazing nor apologism. He's ambivalent, at least in the text of this article. He is not defending the decision, extolling it's brilliance, saying Apple's doing the right thing.

(To the commenter who's about to say, "Cherry picking!": Please consider the likelihood that your brain is cherry-picking when you see the name "John Gruber.")
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You're right

>>> It's a topic of morale though, Instagram does not owe the DSF anything, but I guess this shows where Instagrams appreciation lies.

That's the point I was actually making. My experience that when you have people brainwashed with "competitive advantage", "profit maximization", and such, well, morale just doesn't exist anymore. In my case, I was surprised to see how quickly someone I trusted can actually switch to this brainwashed brain...
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If he went missing in Ecuador it could be spun as "local gangs" or something. If he were to go missing or end up dead in the embassy there would be a lot of fallout.
Isn't this idea hiding the problem though? While using uncommon hardware and protocols may thwart certain users, it's really not solving the problem of security. It's somewhat similar to the idea of using a hidden wireless network and calling that security instead of securing your network with WPA2, etc.

As these devices become more popular, we'll start seeing more Zigbees and Z-wave devices become commodity hardware.
I really do not see the problem with this. Odersky oversees a team of very capable people he trusts to work on the current Scala version, while he works on the future. He is the father of Scala, but please do not underestimate the brilliant people that are actively working on Scala now, allowing him to develop the bleeding edge.
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Article summary and Article http://www.cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/16.04.minimal.pdf

edit: appears to be the full article (scroll down past summary)
FWIW, I downvoted you because it's a lame joke.
Now we feel like Steve Jobs visiting PARC. :-)
Obvious is different than easy to prove. The concepts of multiplication, division, prime number and "divisible by" are much older than formal proofs and arbitrary sets of axioms.

Let's say I only now what multiplication is and that AxB = BxA and that prime number can't be written as AxB unless A or B are 1.

Now it's obvious that there are factorings of a number: you just divide it by smallest possible prime divider until you reach 1, that process obviously terminates every time and produces a finite factoring.

Now let's assume that our number A has two factorings F1 and F2. Let's sort them from the smallest to the biggest divider.

Is it possible that F1 and F2 are different at the first position? It isn't as that would mean the same number has different smallest prime divider. We therefore divide our number by the prime divider at that first position and continue the process proving that dividers at all the positions must be the same or that F1 F2 are factorings of a different number.
It is in fact obvious to someone who understands multiplication.

As to some points from the article:

>>it is obvious that 23\times 1759 is not the same number as 53\times 769.

It is, we sort them from the smallest to bigger prime in the factorization. If they were the same number that would mean the same number's smallest prime diviser is 23 and 53 at the same time.

You may want to argue that it's not obvious that to be divisible by a prime number it must appear in a factorization - here I just assume you understand it's obvious for anyone who knows what multiplication is and that the fact that it's not obvious to your system with your axioms is your problem altogether.

>>If it’s so obvious that every number has a unique factorization, then why is the corresponding statement false in a similar context?

It's not a similar context, at least for non-mathematician. You are introducing some weird objects in the form of a + b*sqrt(-5). I may not even understand the concept of a complex number but I still can understand FTA. Btw, for that FTA isn't obvious because there is no order for those objects, it's not clear what is bigger or smaller than something else and which position given object is in if we sort them from the smallest.

I get it: FTA is hard to prove in your nice formal system with your nifty arbitrary chosen axioms and formal deduction rules. It's bloody obvious to the caveman who can do multiplication by putting stones in a rectangle though.
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Under "History" in that article:

>The close relationship between animals and fungi was suggested by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1987

>Early phylogenies placed fungi near the plants [...]
Python may not be statically typed, but they still have an automated tool for migrating from 2 to 3.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that if Apple do decide to ditch the 3.5mm jack, they'll replace it with another (presumably thinner) analog connector (e.g. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/09/22/apple-prepares-for...).
This is an article, not a project. Does it really belong on Show HN?
Lost its power? This is just copyright apathy. Nothing new, especially in China. Look at it from the manufacturer's point of view. They know how expensive this would be to take to China and prosecute and they know they're a tiny fish. It's simply a reasoned gamble that saying no is the fastest, most efficient way to get this dealt with. Much easier than auditing the code, having the developer separate out sensitive data, etc. Well before you consider the long term archiving of this stuff. They're probably already making the next generation of this rubbish.

I dare say if this were a major manufacturer, more effort would be made to make them behave, but we're talking about a short-run switch here.

If there ever becomes a mechanism to DMCA-takedown physical products on an international level, we might see some movement here. But China (et al) would never, ever agree to that. It's hard enough to get them to block things that clearly break international safety standards.
I wonder how they removed the genes? I am not an expert in microbiology. I work with mainly eukaryotes, but I am guessing intergenic distances are not a huge factor here? What about spatial arrangement of the genes? Did they generally leave that alone?

Genes are not independent functional modules. Their placement and arrangement on the genome matters. Did they only mess with coding features (genes)? Or did they also mess with other genomic features? Or do such things just not matter with bacteria?
I worked on several of the Palm smartphones. The original Pre was notorious for having the headphone jack fail, and some of their older Treo devices also often had jack failures. This wouldn't kill the phone, but did really affect its usability.

Palm tried to remove the jack with their ultrasmall Veer phone which had audio routed over a magnetic connector. You had to use an adapter to plug in headphones and it blocked off the power connector. The Veer was barely launched before HP pulled the "plug" on the product line, alas.
I've heard of companies like BMW (not true, see edit) just ignoring requests for GPL code, or promising to release it but just never doing so.

And that's a shitty thing to do which I 100% disagree with, but at least it gives lip service that they are doing something wrong. If what this reviewer says is true, the company just told him no.

That's not ignoring copyright/GPL, that's laughing in it's face.

Edit: BMW apparently did not do that, I probably read that somewhere that had an axe to grind...
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This is the reference 6 of the spectrum recording of ball lightning from 2012: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/5

Impressive that the model has "passed all the tests" for an acceptable theory of the origin of ball lightning.
Dawn of the nuclear age IIRC.
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> TV money is absolutely going away -- the future of TV is commercial-free subscription VOD (like Netflix)

No, the future of TV is like cable TV, but on the Internet (Subscription Fee + Ads)... like Hulu.
No. The rift is not over the license itself. From the mail archive Benno states...

> > As you know, I will not assign my copyright to the FSF, nor to
> > anyone else. All the code I write is GPL'ed. You don't need to
> > own the copyright on any code in order to be able to enforce the
> > GPL. [...]
>
> Indeed, and in fact for a long time the copyright was owned by me
> before it was assigned to the FSF. It's not required per se, but
> generally speaking, there must be a Maintainer of the Software who
> believes in the ideals of the GNU system

I do believe in the ideal of the GNU system: to have computer systems
that consist entirely of libre software.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg000...
Cynical me says no. There was an "XML all the things" craze back in the early 2000s. My wife is a tech writer, and from what I can tell, the vast amount of tooling created at that time is still king today, albeit in a nominally updated form. At least that seems to be the big enterprisey market.

Startups and other hip young companies do whatever's sexy in the moment. This is the sort of tool I'd use as a consultant doing technical things, however, because I can do powerful things quickly. I mostly use org-mode, but this holds appeal too.
When an industry leader makes decisions that are anti-consumer, other members in the industry have a duty to speak up. Whether we support Apple or not as a consumer is irrelevant.

We also don't have to use IE as a browser, windows as an OS, cisco devices for networking, or anything else. That doesn't mean we won't take issue when a market leader makes a decision that will take the industry in a bad direction.

Just like how the industry rallied against IE and pushed for open standards on the web, the hardware industry is calling foul on this decision for the very same reason. We need hardware to remain open and standard in the exact same ways and for the exact same reasons we need our browsers to be.

Mark my words, this change is about DRM. It's about music, movies and TV. It's about ensuring that the apple store is able to attract and retain more publishers than everyone else. It's about lock-in and not just hardware lock-in but DRM/licensing lock in. The very first thing we'll see after this is implemented is a protocol to secure audio transition similar to what's been implemented in hdmi. This isn't about thinner phones. If it were, they'ed just implement a smaller analog solution. It's not like the phone is pushing 10 amps through that connector. It would be trivial to make it smaller.
Here are some more facts:

1. the Vice President of the USA, Joe Biden, has publicly called Julian Assange a terrorist

2. the US Government has a policy of assassinating people it considers to be terrorists.

Make of these facts what you will
Do I understand it right that Benno is doing a lot of work, but he does not want to continue the project in a manner which is consistent with the vision Chris as the principal maintainer of the project holds?