skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primarily, the fees are 1) a supply-demand response to spectrum contention (spectrum space ideal for use by mobile services is highly competitive in developed countries), and 2) go to fund expensive compliance regimes, like the expense of certification testing. This is required by industry and regulatory bodies to ensure that one manufacturer's lax quality does not adversely impact devices made by other manufacturers, which can unfortunately easily be a problem with modern radio.

At the end of the day, it's a response to the tragedy of the commons problem, designed on the theory of making the commons a lot less common (exclusively licensing sections of spectrum to approved users).
I would assume that if you need money you don't want to take it. Starting a company is also investing, but something more than money: your health, your time, your personal relationships. I wouldn't do that if the money I need wouldn't come to me easily enough. Really, if you can't focus on finding the smart money, better have a main job and treat the business as your side project, at least for now.
Here'a a more in-depth article: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchez/papers/2016.swarm.toppic...

and the actual paper introducing Swarm: http://livinglab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015.swa...
>decentralized ledgers and solutions for financial institutions

So is it decentralized or is it centralized to a company? You can't have both. It also isn't decentralized if you can mute/alter transactions. You're assuming people will allow you to use their computers/servers for free to run your transactions.
FMRI bugs: estimating the impact (Bibliometrics of Cluster Inference)
Ola Wikander? Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study seems to be his only work in English. Is that it?

Edit: I suspect not. Sigh.
Now that's a cool idea! Not sure I'd want real people in it though, might end up a bit Second Life-ish. But if you could each get sharded into your own version of the world, that would be a cool experience.
On hotspot: There are two bits in the header of every object. This is enough for an object that's never been used as a contended lock, CAS operations on the header can be used to handle the locking and that's that. As soon as you actually block on it, a 'real' lock is created (you can't get around the need for a list of threads to wake up as the lock is released) and the header grows to accomodate it. The process is called 'monitor inflation'. At a later date this might be cleaned up by a 'monitor deflation'.
Good thing we don't write those apps to be addictive. Good thing we all have clean consciousness - else we might end up compulsively venting guilt by propagating aggressive libertarian ideology's.
Good things.

I program Robots for a living, and you know what - im guilty of those peoples lives going to hell when they are let go.
They are not guilty that they can not retrain at 40.
They are not to blame that there endurance might not be high enough to get a degree.
Its also not the CEO who employs me to do my job, which i just do. I could quit my job anytime.
Im guilty and thus must work hard, to even that guilt out.
I try my best to promote basic income and unshaming unemployment in my home country.
Individual responsibility, suddenly sounds less happy, does it? Sounds like hard work and shame.

You arguments sounds suspiciously like shirking responsibility's by idealizing other people. Imagine if a whole society would do that, what a catastrophe, could you even call that a society anymore?
In my limited experience with it, and not being a gamer, I think it has great potential for mindfulness and quasi-psychedelic experiences. I tried a simulation of scuba diving and after a minute felt my whole body and mind relax into a peaceful state.

It would be nice to have something like that by my desk when I'm getting stressed out from work. Take 15 minutes and visit the tropics, Antarctica or the Andromeda galaxy.
To some (fairly large, in the case of ASCO or ASH or AACR, perhaps smaller for LLS or AHA) degree, the dues-paying professionals in these societies are the crowd. I would say they are a middle ground between something like an experiment.com or similar at one extreme, and NIH (which has inordinate purely political input -- ask your program officer!) at the other.

We shan't discuss scams like Komen here, but genuine research foundations can exist along a continuum.
It is more likely that the genes under selection which derived from Neanderthals in the Eurasian population are providing a positive selective advantage greater than the negative selection. For example, the alleles that increase the risk of depression may also result in higher intelligence. The way evolution works is what is present gets selected for or against and sometimes you have alleles that are both being selected for and against at the same time.

I have to say I don't like the weasel term anatomically modern humans to describe non-neanderthal people.
Again with the use of the word AI for what is really just supervised (deep) machine learning.
Pretty vacuous article on a subject covered at length since the dawn of machine learning by a very large amount of authors, in much more detail than here.
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I emailed you guys twice, but i haven't heard anything back!
I wonder if you could get similar results by having some magnetic ink tattooed into an optimal pattern on the hand.
More info from 12/2015 -- a little older than the paper mentioned in the article.

Poster here: http://livinglab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/poster.p...

Paper here: http://livinglab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015.swa...

Slides: http://livinglab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015.swa...
I've documented on my G+ profile how my YouTube account, deleted, would get re-created even within a few hours based on utterly unrelated other activity.

Google have been screwing this up for a long, long, long, long, long, long time.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/ibshLn9Z...
>This is nothing compared to the people who die from lack of access to cheap energy, each year, right now.

60%[0] of greenhouse emissions don't come from the worst of developing countries, so I doubt that many are in those countries are "dying" from a lack of access to cheap energy. 6000 people is a small number. You do risk losing a culture and people, but is the convenience of billions worth the culture of few thousand? I suppose that is a judgement call.

Regardless, it's not like climate change won't affect the billions, it will. It's more like the islanders here will be the first victims.

[0] Added up the numbers from the top ten emitters for greenhouse gases. Brazil and Indonesia are included in this list for their aggressive burning of forest for farmland. Indonesia and Brazil aren't quite "old world" countries, but I doubt access to petrol is the least of their problems.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/21/countrie...
Curious -- have you used an Oculus Rift or similar?

It seems to have a magical ability to turn doubters into enthusiasts.
Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'
Yet waiting for WebMIDI support for years.
Maybe because Moore's law is reaching it theoretical limits?
> Installing a "Mosquito" high-pitch noise generator means that the teenagers will be put off congregating here

So here you're installing a mosquito device outside of your venue? A device that produces constant noize pollution in a common street? I can surely see how somebody should complain to police, and they surely should confiscate that device and write you a fine. It's strange if that would not happen.

Also:

> ...a group of teenagers have taken to hanging out outside your store...

There's some kind of weird narrative here, because I've never heard things like this happening where I live. Not once.

> The teenagers end up playing football or skating or something, not intimidating people

Why won't they do that in a first place? If they also enjoy destroying bins and drawing gravity they can surely do that in ten minutes or so, doing all the damage and avoiding too much nuisance from your device? I can't imagine teenagers hanging in one place all the time, won't that be extremelly boring?
Is that sarcasm? Xombrero has broken TLS validation that's vulnerable to MitM script injection.
They have one (several, actually). The trouble is that they're called Cell, Nature, and Science; they're all for-profit; and they answer to no one.

The Wellcome Trust is walking the walk that NIH talked for the past decade. We will see how this goes. Cross fingers.
I think we're going in that direction, but current SLAM techniques aren't fast enough to provide the extremely low latency needed. John Carmack has mentioned prototypes that mostly work as long as you have dedicated room markings, but it gets unreliable when the environment can't be controlled, so it's a long way from consumer-ready.

If it could be done now, JC would definitely be getting it into the next GearVR. The other problem is that even with current best-case everything, something like GearVR doesn't have enough processing power and if it did, it would kill the battery.

The Vive already has a front-facing camera that it uses for Chaperone and a few other things, but it's not involved in tracking at all. In the short-term, expect other HMDs to borrow this idea.
>In a capitalist utopia, anything with positive ROI would receive investment

Yes. Including arbitrary licenses enforced by local governments to raise the barrier to entry and restrict interconnected innovation through forcing all players to route through a central (likely selfish) entity. This does not benefit the public.
Title annotated for general clarity as Dr. Nichols's original (in parentheses) is a bit opaque. Also, that should be a lower-case "f" on "fMRI"; I believe that the title was the victim of autocapitalization.
Ask HN: Build Systems
I am impressed with the design of gradle and dislike make/autotools. So before i start to hack things together an build a prototype I would like to know what you like or hate about your build system (or what feature you would really like to see).
I am currently searching for a language to build this thing in (no JVM!) so if you can recommend something, feel free to share!
Maybe write an app for smart watch. Most devices have compass and vibrations.
Why I Keep Talking About Why I Had a Magnet Implanted in My Finger
It's obvious what is going on. But like the elephant in the room, no one wants to acknowledge it.
Why call it data oriented design? Why not just call it what it is? Cache optimization.
None of those are as exact as a specific time. Each of those phrases could be hours long. When you say before sunrise, did you mean 7:00 AM because it's the middle of winter or did you mean 4:00 AM because it's the middle of summer? I live at 37 degrees latitude, less than halfway to the north pole from the equator. It gets dark before 5 in the winter and after 9 in the summer. That's a 4 hours swing, and I'm not even at a very high latitude.
US could have destroyed Iran's infrastructure without dropping a single bomb
Cool, just downloaded it - thanks.

Had a quick look at the book. He says:

"Yessir, the book you’re reading has been around the block a few times since I began writing it in November of 1983—which I boggle to think was over thirty years ago. It’s been through four print editions and on paper sold over 125,000 copies. It’s been translated into five languages."

I had said recently, here (in another HN thread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11889412

that I heard from a McGraw-Hill editor, that Scott Meyers' book Effective C++ had sold in the region of 50,000 copies. And the editor, Simon Yates, said that was a fairly high number of sales for a computer book.

And now I read (above) that Duntemann's books sold 125,000 copies.

Phew.

I do remember reading that Turbo Pascal was hugely popular in those days, being the first under $100-dollar language compiler (it was $50, IIRC, others were probably closer to $500 at the time). My guess is that it was a combination of factors that led to such good sales of the book - Duntemann's own programming and writing expertise, for sure, but also the huge popularity of Turbo Pascal, and the fact that it was a boom time for desktop software apps and companies. Let's hope that his new books also become hits.

Edit: spelling.
i think it would be a cool culture thing to be like well i get up at 23 every morning at sunrise. What 0-23 index is your sunrise? Oh sunrise is 13 for you? How cool!
We're talking about one or two weekends a year, not every weekend.

I feel like this position is almost hyperbolic.

Even if you have a family, I'm sure you can manage to get away once or twice a year. After all, there are people with families who even travel for work. The horror!
Wonder how they manage SIM distribution / authentication?
I meant that the image is not zoomed out and it pans across the width and height of the image on the wall. ;)
Maybe a web app, maybe not a web app. Whether the code running on the Comcast set-top boxes is a web app or not doesn't matter. What does matter is that is is that the code running on the Comcast set-top boxes is likely built with the assumption that it would only ever talk to Comcast's back-end, and Comcast's back-end is likely built with the assumption that it will only ever talk to Comcast's set-top box code.

In other words, they're going to be tightly coupled. Sufficiently so that decoupling them enough to provide an API compliant with the FCC's proposed ruling is going to be an expensive engineering task that Comcast would rather not have to spend money on.
Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules
This Map Shows the Most Unequal Counties in America
> Another is the nature of the medium itself. It's 2016, and these dead, flat, static PDFs are functionally identical to the paper they replaced!

Well, many of the existing publishers (at least ACS, Nature group, Wiley, Science group) are already pushing hard towards something "more" than PDF, mainly for DRM reasons. And scientists in general are resisting greatly, because PDF is such an established format, supported on all devices and platforms, can be created by the tools we use, and can be shared freely amongst peers. The barrier to adoption for a new format is extremely huge.
With DAO you are building a refinery- you look at what comes through, how long it takes to process, how its stored and where your pipe has the smallest diameter and what distillation unit takes the longest.

With Object Orientation you will do the same, but with n different typed bottles in boxes, the boxes in containers which are driven around as a whole by trucks. You might be able to do so in great comfort - everybody on this planet knows how to ship boxes. But you will trade off for control and efficiency.
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any standardized downloadable format (to include VMs or AMIs) also fits these criteria. PDFs aren't inherently bad, but on occasion they are not the best tool to communicate results.

For example, Sean Morrison's recent paper on live-imaging stem cells in vivo benefited greatly from inclusion of movies showing the live-processed data. Their point was that live adult stem cells can be imaged, and this revealed niche biology. The only way to support this was to provide the proof, and MPEG did this nicely.

Agreed regarding permanent vs ephemeral, though.
cevelop is free while clion is not.

cevelop is on all platforms and visual studio is more of MS platform.

visual studio code is really better at js/web devel.
The programming mistakes people make relating to time are legion. I feel like time/date, floating point and crypto are areas where nearly everyone (not just programmers) would hugely benefit by coders only using libraries written by the very few who are actually competent to write them[1].

And anyone who thinks they are qualified to write time related code by virtue of having coexisted with clocks and time definitely should not be writing time related code.

[1] Time handling is different than FP and crypto, in that most of the complexity is human-created and policy driven rather than deep math, but for whatever reason people really don't understand that time handling is very complex - it seems to be widespread Dunning-Kruger. So they repeatedly make bad mistakes with very strange-seeming trigger conditions that can't be debugged on demand until someone realizes it is a time related bug.
> How does one implement malloc in C?

It's unrelated this one. C the language does not depend on malloc being present, whereas the GC is part of the language in Go.

The important thing for the grandparent comment is that Go is not interpreted, but compiled. Thus when the Go compiler (i) is being compiled by another Go compiler (ii), the (i)'s own GC code is not utilised, but the already-compiled (ii)'s one is used. After that it's all machine code.
And for a steal at just over $2000!
That depends. As long as I've been in the game there have been relatively expensive options. Back in the day I kept hearing about SmallTalk and I saw the price tag in an ad in Dr.Dobbs. Sticker shock! But "serious" pricing is still alive today. Check http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-1c.html for instance.

For some languages, lower prices won't significantly increases sales volume. And 1.5K is not a barrier if it's your bread and butter language. It's in the same ballpark as a developer machine.
One of the defining characteristics of the Kalman filter is that it computes a gain (called the Kalman gain) that is a function of the state covariance and the measurement covariance. Alpha-beta filters use constants, so I'd say no, they are not a subset.
A better comparison would be the formation of Canada, or better yet: the Quebec referendum to separate from Canada (put to a vote of the people, but narrowly lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995)
This is a very confused article with many errors. It appears to imply that no one validates the accuracy of machine learning models, or that they lie about the accuracy. Even more strangely, it suggest that the only way to address this is by ensemble methods.

Validation of models is one of the most important parts of any machine learning system. Every expert practitioner measures the accuracy of their models with well established methods such as cross validation or hold out tests. So the basic premise of this article seems quite at odds with the reality.

Further, the article users the security domain as an example of the lack of validation. Most applications of ML to security use unsupervised algorithms to perform anomaly detection. This is entirely a different thing to a supervised algorithm. Anomaly detection via unsupervised algorithms is well known to have many false positives.

But possible the worst error in the article is suggesting that ensemble methods are a way to validate the accuracy of a model. An ensemble technique is not a way to validate accuracy. Rather it's a way to try to obtain higher accuracy. You still need to validate your ensemble via something like cross fold validation to understand the expected error.
Where do product managers come from?
Click the link. Read the rule.
> And even in an OO language, no decent practitioner writes one-class-per-object.

But that's the stereotypical example of OO design. You have duck->paint(), duck->quack(), duck->plunge() all in one class (file) and of course the dependency mess and the scattering of aspects throughout the project.

These have definitely been problems in my own software design attempts and in many of the projects I've seen.

And even if you make more classes, so that your design is more like one class per concept/aspect, I think the criticism of Mr. Acton is: if you have many instances of a given class, then there must be a better way than calling a method on each individual instance.

In other words, the idea is that classes are fine (they promote modularization), but there shouldn't be more than one instance of each class.

Can't see a straw man there.
That's pretty cool. Active listening and a lot of the negotiation techniques end up helping as well.
"About – the origins of Cevelop
At the Institute for Software we have been developing plug-ins for Eclipse CDT for almost a decade. Some of this work has been contributed back to Eclipse (e.g. the majority of refactorings and the underlying infrastructure for writing refactorings), others like Linticator are available commercially, but the majority is open source (e.g. Metriculator) or free to use (e.g. CUTE).

Over time, as more and more plug-ins were created, it became tedious to discover and install them one by one. So we decided to bundle them all into one single download, including the latest release of Eclipse CDT."
WebKit, which is the heart of Safari, is open source: http://webkit.org

I've been tracking many of these issues on the WebKit bug tracker: https://bug.webkit.org

For example: https://bug.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80559 (Bug 80559 - [ES6] Add support for ES6 Harmony).

The release notes linked to also links to the public commit that implemented each noted fix/update/new feature.
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There's the problem though. I don't think all that many people are ever going to get to play a room-scale title.

First there's the expense of the headset. Granted, it might come down a bit, but it's still a large expense on top of a console.

Second, there's the space that you need to play a Motion + VR game. It's not trivial for people to get that. A simple console + TV setup can fit in any tiny apartment around the world. Dedicating a whole room just to play a game? That's like asking people to move house just to play VR...

Even in my house which is fairly spacious, I'd still need to move around furniture everytime I want to play. It's just not going to happen.

Motionless VR, or at least, seated + arm movement VR, has a fair amount of potential however.
Just stick some electrodes on your head to poke at your vestibular system so that it matches up with what you're seeing

http://www.fastcompany.com/3058414/mayo-clinic-technology-sa...

If their system actually works hopefully we'll see consumer implementations in the next couple of years.
Just to nit pick Cro-Magnon people were the Eurasians that populated Europe after the hybridisation event(s) between Neanderthals and AMH.

We know from sequencing studies that they had a higher level of Neanderthal alleles than modern Europeans. Their larger brain size suggests a liger-like overshoot in brain growth given the constraints of the birth canal. I suspect Cro-Magnon women had an even more terrible time in childbirth than modern women.
this. Thank you!
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"anatomically modern human" is not a weasel word, it merely describes humans sharing anatomical features which arose ~ the last 200ka and are common to modern humans, in comparison to e.g. Neanderthals, who may very well have been cognitively modern but have common anatomical characteristics of earlier origin which distinguish them from all present day humans.
It's so you can do that paperclip trick. She removed it immediately after.