skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that simple. In some areas I have lived the spending per student was higher at the inner city school vs the rich school 2 miles away. Where the money came from didn't matter.

What mattered is the parents of the poor school worked 2 jobs and had no time for the kids. The parents of the rich kids had stay at home moms and tutors.

Depending on your belief system there would also be very different genetics between the two groups.
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Many of the tumbling services use strategies that can be reversed with pretty good confidence.
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There seems to be a large amount of confusion in this thread about what Cyanogen Inc is and what CyanogenMod (open-source project) is...

Here is a good article: http://www.xda-developers.com/corporate-explained-whos-cyano...
Yes, feedback is essential for growth. Without it, you can't grow any farther or faster than your own ability to evaluate yourself and decide how to improve.

Annual performance reviews aren't a good feedback tool. They are much too slow, and usually also too big and generalized. What you really need is fast specific feedback (within a week, focused on one event, action-focused).

With that said, if you want to grow, don't ignore your annual review. It may be the only feedback you get from some people, so analyze it and extract whatever information you can to help yourself grow.

If you're a manager and your organization requires performance reviews, it's probably not worth the effort to fight them. Instead, work on giving your team feedback fast, specific throughout the year to help them grow. And do a good job on the annual reviews for their other purpose, which is recording performance for salary and promotion decisions.
Any function f of type

f : forall a b. (a -> b) -> F a -> F b

Such that f id = id is automatically a functor (respects composition).

In type theory, every equivalence is automatically natural.

There's a lot more and it's made worse by the fact that most of the side conditions are redundant even in normal category theory. For instance, you can specify an adjunction using two functions F : A -> B and G : B -> A, together with an equivalence phi : forall a b. Hom(F a, b) = Hom(a, G b) such that phi satisfies one additional equation. It follows from this that F, G are functors and that the equivalence is natural. Since a lot of definitions in category theory mention adjunctions you can usually simplify the definitions like this. For example the definition of a Cartesian closed category in most textbooks expands to something like 20 equations, but you can simplify it down to the usual few equations which specify a model of simply typed lambda calculus.
This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail? [video]
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> Screenshots show Uber’s rider app in [...] China

Interesting to see Google maps being used, isn't that blocked in mainland China?
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Historical note on the evolution of drawbots: Nike's Chalkbot was a direct and uncredited steal of IAA's Graffiti Writer robot project/ Streetwriter truck: from political dissent to branded drivel in one smooth move.

The OP's Chalkbot however announces itself as being inspired by Jurg Lehni's HEKTOR (2002). Scholars (HT @Sandy Noble of Polargraph) will note HEKTOR's twin-cord design from 2.30m in this deeply awesome MIT MediaLab/ SIGGRAPH video from 1988. Made of Lego! Programmed in LOGO!

Presume there are antecedents (pendulographs, anyone?) for this too. AFAICS, Lehni does not acknowledge the MIT crew anywhere... tsk tsk.

ACM SIGGRAPH 1988 Issue 40 - Lego/Logo

https://open-video.org/details.php?videoid=8213

Graffitiwriter vs Nike Chalkbot

https://vimeo.com/6075609

http://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/07/07/chalkbot-ver...

Polargraph

http://polargraph.co.uk

Nice resource for drawing machines here:

https://drawingmachines.org/index.php
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What I've always hoped for from a service like this is explicit sequel recommendation.

Of course, you might get it organically since the original film and its sequel are presumably pretty similar, but it would be nice to have some kind of list of unseen sequels for those films which you gave a positive rating.
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Banks in Europe use SWIFT, which is much faster, often instant. Scammer in this story appears to have received the funds and transfed them out within less than 20-mins of the victim clicking send.
If Freedom of the Press Foundation set up a supply chain of modified phones then the NSA and their ilk will likely intercept and compromise any mailed devices before they reach the intended recipients.
It sounds like something the Ministry of Information would issue (movie Brazil..a must see)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation_in_medici...

"A number of distinguished scientists have indulged in self-experimentation, including at least five Nobel laureates; in several cases, the prize was awarded for findings the self-experimentation made possible. Many experiments were dangerous; various people exposed themselves to pathogenic, toxic or radioactive materials. Some self-experimenters, like Jesse Lazear and Daniel Alcides Carrión, died in the course of their research."
I was just trying to make a point that OpenBSD is not always the best choice for all possible use cases to expand upon tptacek's post a little. In may be for someone uninformed or lazy but my argument is if you're willing to put in a little effort you can get a system which is arguably better from a security and defense in depth standpoint than OpenBSD.

There are obvious benefits to both but I don't think that grsecurity is something which can be dismissed as easily as saying nobody uses it.
Vitalik himself said that it is possible this may be needed and done again in the future, so it could very well be "fool me twice shame on you, fool n-ice shame on you".

Ethereum Foundation hasn't even set some foundational beliefs like a list or principles of what it is to be expected, fungability etc. It's too fluid, and it maybe it's not their fault but rather it's due to the Turing-complete nature of EVM/Solidity that they have to deal with.
The weight difference between Toyota Mirai [fuel-cell] and Tesla Model S [electric] is 5-20% (the Mirai being lighter).

Not a big difference considering that weight isn't a big issue (wind drag and wheel/road friction are the main factors for range).

For example, someone calculated that simply removing the side-mirrors on a car would increase range by 5+ percent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S
Yes US banks are that bad and they lag their European counterparts.

Fidelity is a large US brokerage with $2T under management. Only last year did they start to offer two factor authentication as an option (had to ask). I have accounts with one US regional bank and one US credit union which use basic device recognition and a security question when logging in from an unknown device.

Other anecdotes..

My account at Fidelity is a joint account. After setting up online access and funding the account I discovered a year later that it was possible to get full access to the account by creating online access under my wife's name using the account number and a semi-trivial validation process.

Accounts in the US typically have all features enabled by default or can be enabled in a trivial manner and this can't be disabled. Why should a typical account have the ability to wire funds internationally?

It typically isn't possible to configure a second level of authentication for higher risk transactions.

Limited ability to configure alerts based on unusual behavior. For example access from a new device or a transfer over a threshold. No ability to alert when those alerts are changed.

Opaque account recovery processes. Even if additional security measures are implemented it may be possible to have them disabled trivially by phone.

Almost zero customer education around risks and ways to reduce risk. stupid things like "Don't use your bank's password on other sites, it should be unique!"
I don't think a judge or the legal system is concerned with such a thing. That is a problem that Ethereum would have to solve, if it can.

That said, the blockchain is always going to be consistent. The catch is that a judge can still force things to be fixed in various ways - either by requiring you to return the ether, or perhaps requiring another type of currency to be given back. So in that way it doesn't really matter what the state of affairs on the Ethereum blockchain is, because you can just settle it apart from the blockchain if you really have to.

And the reality is that you could make those coins impossible for you to access, but that doesn't do you much good, and while your ether is inaccessible the judge can seize your assets and require payment through other means.
The next game is called Spooky Pooky and is a 2D metroidvania platformer. No, seriously.

"Horatio Bones is a curious lad.

Working late one night at the Nefarious Science Corporation he strays into a deserted sector and unwittingly triggers ... The Machine.

The Machine strips Horatio of his fluids and organs ~ he finds himself reduced to a living skeleton trapped in a specimen jar!

The horror!

Thus begins the longest night of Horatio's life as he travels through a dangerous and bizarre world in search of Restoration."

Like QB1-0 this is also being written in C + OpenGL, although because I'm now aiming at PC/Mac/Linux and iOS I'm using SFML to give me an OpenGL context and for Audio + controller input.

More info at http://fistfulofsquid.com and there's a devlog at https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=42130 with loads of techy details.
>You seem to be complaining that innovation is happening.

Not at all. I'm complaining that all of these seemingly similar tools keep superseding each other and solve...what exactly.
Arch Linux enables -fstack-protector-strong last I checked by default. I admit Debian often drags it feet on some things like this but I think Ubuntu has enabled it for a number of packages as well.
In fairness, Foundations of Physics (where this paper by Meessen was published) isn't a trash journal, but it is an odd duck. The editor in chief is Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft, who everyone agrees is brilliant, and generally still rigorous strictly speaking, but whose interest have become much less mainstream. Articles published in the journal are rarely flawed in a technical sense, but they do often explore highly speculative avenues that are usually considered unpromising for good reason. I'd say there's a good analogy to cold fusion, which is a field that is highly unfashionable for good technical reasons, and which has attracted a lot of cranks, but in which there are still formally open problems and which can't be completely dismissed.
They didn't really explain how it pulls weeds.

The nerd in me has my credit card out and is ready to overnight one of these things to my backyard.

The suburban dad in me scoffs because one of the best parts of having a garden is planting stuff with my kids and helping them water and care for the garden.

Robots vs kids....

Hmmm. That gives me another idea...
Nobody knows how to express contracts formally, not even "real" lawyers. There are almost always clauses about force majeur, and then humans talk to each other.
Oh, yeah, I missed that bit of context. Oops. OP's comment makes much more sense now...
Similar experience here except I started on my high school's network ~1996. Built two physical clusters commercially in the last few years. Personally these days I mostly use virtualization to emulate entire clusters, as it's not worth building them physically until you really need the power!
Ah… Classic case of decentralized system with no authority.
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Which is a misnomer, because the data probably isn't generated by a model.
> Boltzmann's fluctuations are pretty easily defeated by Feynman's argument: small fluctuations are exponentially more likely than large fluctuations, so if we make a new observation (e.g. opening a door) the fluctuation hypothesis predicts that we'll see random noise; yet we don't, we see more ordered structure. The hypothesis is refuted.

You've missed the point of Boltzmann brains. No one who studies this stuff thinks we're a Boltzmann brain. The question is whether we can rule out theories that predict Boltzmann brains as the numerically dominant observer with our observations. Indeed, many very popular theories of cosmology (e.g., eternal inflation) are in apparent conflict here.
I condensed your suggestions into a simple PasteBin at http://pastebin.com/ueLdcVmQ. Thanks so much - I am grateful to all of you.
>>Enforced W^X userland as of 6.0

>Linux

Well grsecurity's mmap protections are a strict superset of OpenBSD's W^X which we've had for what 10 years now?

>Literally every other OS out there has stack protector, and it was Windows pushing it to wide adoption

I don't know when OpenBSD or Linux distro's were starting to add SSP support but stack protection/BSC (buffer security checks) have been enabled by default in every Visual Studio version since (at least) 2005. The mitigation has been improved over the years as well.

DEP and ASLR became default in 2008 (not really relevant here though).
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Neural Machine Translation: Breaking the Performance Plateau [pdf]
Majority of the reverse engineering started with packet inspection and reversing the APK's from the Android version. From there a lot of effort was put in to protobuf's and reversing the protobuf messages. Two things learned from the packet inspection was the authentication schemes for Pokemon Trainer Club and Google; and then how to use the JWT's in the API requests. All of the protobuf requests have been figured out, but sometimes it's about implementation details in how things are called (for example S2 cellid's for map object requests, etc).
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4uac4e/sli...
Huh, i was going to say that wget won't fix the links in the downloaded files, but turns out they thought of it too.

Nice, that means the tool does exist already.
F =ma. The force you need depends on your acceleration requirements. Going uphill, taking turns, slowing down etc all make mass/weight very material.

Edit: I know weight and mass aren't the same but we are all considering the same gravitational pull so we can disregard the pedantic argument...
My understanding is that the beta for the game got out to a larger audience than they intended and they pushed up the release date, though I can't immediately find anything on Google to corroborate.
Like bureaucracy, the complexity of your tech stack grows to accommodate the number of people available to work on it. Go crazy on the hiring, and what do you expect all those people to do all day?
That's their business model? Really?

I think we both know that their business is nothing to do with the technology they use.
V2 is currently in beta.

> In the coming weeks, a more stable release candidate will be coming out, with the final product landing not too far after.

-- https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/07/11/annou...
I've created this as my quick and easy reference to all Amazon api's. This works for me better to browse quickly between different calls, and suits my personal workflow more.
Lots of Tesla owners live in northern climates, line or way and Sweden, and it works there too.
It is based on the json reference of the aws api, which is being used to generated all different SDKs.
Yeah, it isn't real type safety. That said, don't assign enums through vanilla integers if you don't have to. :-)

Our engineering organization of 300+ people builds the majority of our code with -Werror (and a bunch of warnings enabled). Just an anecdote, of course.
Some Cyanogen devs did/do contribute to CyanogenMod, so I would expect some impact to CyanogenMod.
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A "TODO" file. ;-)
It helped that he speaks Russian. It helps even more that he clearly had an idea of what was going to happen and so could roll with it. I know a few North Americans who did not speak English and did now get even close to similar treatment; they were viewed as walking ATMs. It also didn't help the North Americans that they freaked out and tried to fight it out of their own sense of what is fair and right.
I am not sure.

Perhaps for people that want to grow their roles in organisations, it's important. As a freelancer, I am happy to live without this ritual. In the past, before I became freelancer, I dreaded these reviews, as I suspected often these performance reviews could be politically charged and not necessarily deal with my performance (for example a manager might tell me I need to improve some aspects for a raise - I might have to suck up to some manager to get more chance for a big raise, when a limited budget is available for a group of employees).

As a freelancer I am free to decide on the aspects I want to improve on and as such I don't need a manager to help me with this. This makes me much happier.
I've noticed higher CP pokemon tend to run away more quickly. You also have to remember that there's now great balls and razz berries to influence throw chances, so the client probably publishes the events it's doing (gave a razz berry, threw a pokeball, threw a greatball) and the server creates some randomness that says yes/no.
Relevant discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11856915
I love the reframing angle. Sooner or later we have to realize that we can only control our life and how we show up in it. Frustration, anger, and resignation are our choosing. Faced with this situation, you have one of two choices. You can decide to avoid it and hope it goes away, or you can decide how you will engage it. I speak from experience in this department and would love to work with you as part of a free challenge I have thrown out to my fellow software developers. http://goo.gl/forms/pa3tkykjoyBmcCn52
it's probably not a force.
Are you frustrated, resigned, or just burnt out?
Just try not to humble brag or add 0 or negative valued commentary. No one gives a rats ass about your hangover, when you'll read the article, we care about comments about the article when read now..
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These sorts of guides are much appreciated. I started out with a managed host, and learned a lot about web apps but not a lot about the backends like Apache, MySQL, etc. I hadn't bothered to try my own VPS because I assumed as soon as I spun up my own VPS I'd get attacked and hacked. But when that managed host had entire disks of customers' files wiped out due to a PHP malware, I decided it was time to jump ship and try to do it myself. Am I ever glad I did, and these sorts of guides (and what DO has put up) have been immensely helpful.
Like 3d printing, I think this only solves problems for a small subset of the people who will buy this. In the case of 3d printing, industrial engineers could prototype things much faster, before ultimately sending it to a factory for large scale production. In the case of FarmBot, I can see some agriculture scientists working in greenhouses benefiting from automating the planting, testing and controlling of certain crops. Especially if precise timing and its documentation are needed.

But for the average consumer, this doesn't seem particularly economical. Automation of this kind of thing only makes sense when you have a significantly larger field. I still think this is a great idea, but I think its reach is a bit overstated.
The bicycle is making a comeback in US cities
They punch it underneath the soil so it can't receive sunlight. They show it happening in the video.
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As far as I'm aware, Hailo (>3 backend devs, not quite 100s) did exactly this as well, and the ex-Hailo devs I've spoken to considered it a pretty bad move. It took them ages to refactor into a global system if I remember rightly.
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I just noticed this script downloaded from mobile.nytimes.com on mobile chrome, so whatever bug it is is widespread.

Edit: http://mobile.nytimes.com/ on desktop also triggers it.

The source of the csync.php file for me is http://qsearch.media.net/csync.php?vsid=1123686542018807000V... Media.net is a yahoo/bing ad property, so this is an example of ad networks misbehaving.
Precision agriculture is all about controlling variability. When you have a small plot of all the same soil, under the same weather conditions, your really not going to have much, if any variability, and probably won't actually need any precision agriculture. As opposed to a 400ha paddock where you can have 3 different soil types and different weather at either end of the field.

As for this technology being used on a larger scale, I'd be really interested to see the cost for a similar setup over a few thousand hectares, and what sort of efficiencies might be gained compared to our current system. However I'm not convinced it'll replace our machinery any time soon.

The other interesting use for this would be, if it gained a large enough user base, the sharing of different planting setups and rotations for nutrient replacement. i.e planting crop x and y in rotation, or interrow with crops a and b.
Should I stay or should I go now?

If I go there will be trouble

And if I stay it will be double…
MongoDB doesn't eat data any more than any other database.

It's used by eBay, Foursquare, Adobe, Facebook etc.

And NoSQL databases underpin most of the popular websites around today. It's nonsense to assume all of that data isn't valuable.
>You have no clue what SQL or ACIDity is.

That's quite an attack. I trained for an Expert SQL certification from Microsoft back then, when I was writing 3000K+ long stored procedures to migrate an Access application at a fortune 40 company. So I know what it is and I know quite a good deal about RDBMS. I'm not among those who criticize what they don't know.

Regarding the gist of your comment on NoSQL, I haven't been able to convince people coming from where you are with two days of meetings in a row, so I'm fairly confident I'm not going to change your mind on HN.
All it takes is for one server in one datacenter to be slightly different, or perhaps you had a bugfix that needed to go out for users in one area, but you couldn't take the risk of a flaky deploy for the areas that didn't need it, now you've got a deploy that will be a lot more complicated or error-prone than a loop around deployment to one location.
That makes sense. Parent was correct - I was not reading you correctly. Thanks.
My one experience doing it has only involved one job change/interview/offer, so I'm not sure what the typical experience is.

After I grew dissatisfied with my first job out of college, partially because I'd just been there five years and wanted to try something else, partially for ethical reasons (the new owners were hosting fundraisers for Jenny McCarthy), I sent resumes to three companies, got a callback from one, did a phone screen, took a day off work for the interview, and then got the offer a few weeks later. Gave three weeks notice, took a month off, was at a new job about three months after I first decided to leave the old.
React is so versatile (raw React, React + Redux, React + Relay, to name a few) I don't think they should tie it too closely to one framework. I would love to see a more official/opinionated framework that uses React, but call it something besides "React".

Ditto for Redux. They're both low-level building blocks that could benefit from some official "opinions".
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