skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chomsky's ‘Galilean’ science of language (paywalled)
That would make sense - an evolutionary adaptation to lower light levels.
That will probably in the form of Web Authentication API (https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/) which started out as version 2.0 of the FIDO specifications.

Microsoft will release prefixed support of the draft spec in Edge in the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary update on August 2: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/04/12/a-world-witho...
>But that's quite alright, not everyone is cut out to be a scientist.

I apologize, but I can't resist the urge to ridicule you: I have a Ph.D in cognitive neuroscience so I think I'm more "cut out to be a scientist" than most.

>So how do you verify that the fossil was found where they said it was found?

You would have to ask a paleontologist, but I would be inclined to verify the following:

- You should find evidence of tectonic forces in fossils (fissures? encasings of a specific rock type?) that are consistent with the location in which they were claimed to be found.

- You should find other fossils near the location of the original

- Less satisfying, perhaps, but fossils are photographed on-site when they are found and the pictures are annotated with date, time and GPS coordinates

- The encasing sedimentary rock should contain the same proportions of minerals as the purported location.

So, again, you are misinformed/confused. Rather than lashing out, I urge you to take a genuine interest in these things; it's essential to understand a claim before disagreeing with it.
>Most of them don't know a thing about computers. It's a magic box with a small selection of shiny buttons on. They use it for passive media consumption.

You'd be surprised.

Except by "know about computers" you mean they known about interrupts, and cache lines, and filesystem design, and other stuff that are completely inconsequential to using their computers.

>Well, they clearly forget by the time they're twenty.

Actually the linked article states the opposite:

>"This current generation of young people has never lived without tech," said Linda Rosen, CEO of Change the Equation. "It's second nature to them." Yet, using technology for social reasons doesn't make a person adept at using it in other settings, she said.

So it's not that they "forgot" something, it's that they never bothered to learn it in the first place, e.g. Excel or whatever. But computers, for what they do like to use them for, are "second nature" to them according to TFA.
2fa via the Google app (not authenticator) does something like this. Login on computer, prompt appears on phone, tap yes to log in.
in my experience, nothing.
Distributing Business Processes Using Finite State Machines in the Blockchain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_and_Type_B_personality_...
I work 4/5 days with a 4/5 salary. I had this idea for a while. The key for me has been to negotiate it before taking the job.

It's been a year, and it has worked fine for me, no tensions with fulltime coworkers or anything like that. Just the occasional "yeah I'm working part time" when meeting new hires.
GNU Octave is using it for its windows binaries.
> is there anything in the new Photos icon that tells you that it anything to do with images, photos or image manipulation

Yes, it says "Photos" below it
Peopleware talks about this. There is a cost to overtime in terms of lost productivity afterwards and in terms of developer happiness. When developers are unhappy, their work quality drops and eventually they leave. Cost of employee turnover is mentioned as a cost that is actually quite high, but rarely factored in.

They also say that overtime can make sense if its short and a rare occurrence.
"Prank call" apps in the store do not help either.
I like medium but I am not sure when they will start showing ads on our blogs. I don't like ads on my personal blog.

But I also don't like to write in markdown and yaml and compile into static site and post it on GitHub so I recently moved backto blogger but I still blog on medium too. https://justruky.blogspot.com
Technically that isn't incorrect, BTCs are not money. They are currency.
Like, not here. Instead we hire contractors from some big contracting agency who pay them nothing and charge us $120/hr, then they proceed to destroy whatever quality was there in the beginning. Eventually it becomes such a shit show that we have to start over again, this time with double the contractors since we're given an impossible schedule to replace it.
9 to 5/5.30 (inclusive of an hour lunch) seems pretty common in the UK. It's also common to have flexible time, so I work 10am to 6pm most days.
2fa via the Google app (not authenticator) does exactly this. Your phone pops up a notification when someone tries to log in.
For all its coastline, there's relatively little of it that's of any strategic significance at all.

San Diego, Los Angeles - Long Beach. Malibu. Ventura. Santa Barbara. Pismo Beach. Big Sur. Carmel. Monterey. Castroville. Santa Cruz. Pacifica. San Francisco. Eureka-Arcata.

And that's along some 800 miles of coastline. Only the starred cities are of any particular size now, and most would have been far smaller during WWII. The Japanese may have chosen to avoid cities as they were more likely to be effectively defended.

Santa Barbara's oilfields would have been a modestly significant strategic target, though US oil facilities elsewhere, particularly in Texas, were vastly larger. California also had major inland fields near Bakersfield, Taft, and throughout the Los Angeles basin.
Yup.

Just sit at a cafe and note every couple you see and count how many women are taller than their male counterpart. I'd be willing to bet you that if I did in my area, I'd find 0. In fact, in all my years of living and traveling I've only seen ONE couple that had a short guy (less than five foot six) with a tall woman (six foot tall+).

Or look at dating profiles on match.com and see what women want in terms of eligible heights. You're extremely likely to find women want guys who are taller than they are. In fact, it's not uncommon for a short women to want at minimum guys who are close to a foot taller than they are.

And then look at movies and show and see how often couples have the women taller than the man. It's not often.
MMM is actually an important part of the answer, and it is unfortunate that it was presented this way (death marches are deprecated for their own reasons.) The right way to think of this is to consider four people each working two hours a day on the same problem. Sustained effort and focus matter.

This is most true for tasks that are more intellectually demanding, like the development of large-scale software (which is what Brooks was writing about.) The more routine a task is, the easier it is to divide it up (though that is rarely to the benefit of the worker.)
ElixirStatus celebrates first birthday, introduces ElixirWeekly
In my anecdotal experience (which I nevertheless tend to value more than "obvious" trivia everybody carries around),

Tall women don't prefer taller men.

Well, maybe they do in principle, but it doesn't seem to affect their choice at the end of day. Most of really tall women usually go with average height men.
Gambling with Oracles
Cool, so we don't need icons at all!
While in case of re-decorating ones own house with a new color/theme always seem better to oneself.

Maybe people get bored of looking at the same thing for long time at a stretch and hence anything new looks much better to our brains.
> You'll find that all sorts of everyday objects are optimized for tall people

Cool, I should move there (6'6"). Then again if enough people did so their average height would increase even further.
Incremental Development (Chrome, FireFox, Opera) vs. Waterfall (IE, Safari)
I find the UI in Mavericks overly fussy and cluttered. Horses for courses though, you like what you like.
The is the most egregiously clickbait title I've ever run across.
Never seen yellow notebooks, but yellow paper, sure. That yellow looks like the colour of the A4 pads I bought at the university bookshop in Norway.
Ah see I like that behaviour. I've never once wanted to fill the screen with an app without putting it in fullscreen, I just don't see what the point of doing that would be.
How does backing up your keys in a server somewhere is better than SMS auth?
Is this comment a sarcastic response ? I really couldn't tell.
Indeed, icons are unnecessary. They're there to fill space with colors, which people like. Full = good. Color = happy. good + happy = sales.
Why Your Retail Store Needs a Mobile App to Succeed
Could you explain why it is better than, say, "say"?

(neat, huh?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Functions

Medium of Exchange

Unit of Account

Store of Value

Standard of Deferred Payment - eh?

That can't be the deciding factor.
The comments section of the blog post is a perfect example of bike-shedding.
for anyone else non-US but curious:

Photos of typical yellow pads: https://www.google.com/search?q=yellow+legal+pad&tbm=isch

History of the yellow legal pad: http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/May-June-2005/scene_snide...
On Balkans they eat a lot of meat. They're kings of meat.
Mostly in grilled form. Was awesome.

Serbian women are also spectacularly beautiful. While men are mostly "meh" (can't appraise them much, tho)
Get Spectacles, which is free, then enjoy making a window maximised (without making it fullscreen) by pressing option command f.

Also, moving windows between monitors, making them side-by-side etc are insanely easy.
AMD Announces Radeon Pro SSG: Polaris with M.2 SSDs On-Board
No need for sarcasm.

There are other technologies for messaging (hangouts, WhatsApp, etc...). Also, if the issue is friends and family, OP could simply let them know to phone only in case of emergency but to use messaging at all time otherwise.

Complaining that people phone you, people who are close to you, family and friends, and proudly boasting of ignoring the calls feels very immature to me. You don't want phone calls? Don't give out your number, find alternative techs for messaging, or at the very least make it clear to people that you don't want them to call.
There also aren't enough teaching jobs to go around.

If there are more teachers than teaching jobs, teaching wages are still too high.
Two thoughts.
1. What is creativity?
Keith Johnstone (whom I had the chance to work with) in his work on theater improvisation adds substantially to the definition of 'creativity': A work of creativity does nit need to be 'complicated', 'new' or 'extravagant'. Often the most simple thoughts and actions are 'creative enough'.

2. Is creativity linked to motivation?
Motivation and resulting action is U-shaped. While being not motivated at all will result in (nearly) no action, both negative ("sadness", anger, hunger, etc) and positive motivation provide a good basis for getting active. That may explain why being sad 'is better' than feeling overall satisfied. However, positive motivation has a much stronger impact. So instead of forcing yourself to be sad and miserable in order to be creative (and god knows alot of actors exactly do that...), get interested, 'catch fire' like we say in Germany. Results wil be the same or better. And your overall quality of life, too.
Just my 2 cent.
Book Piracy as Peer Preservation
Question - have you split-tested your productivity over a few months working 80hr/wk vs working 40hr/wk?

I, too, can easily work 80+ hours a week on an interesting project. But I generally discipline myself not to do it because my productivity, measured in actual results ($ or other project success metric) tends to be lower if I work super-long hours.
That's a good point, Gnome Shell builds on lots of C code, and the project in this submission is at a different layer of the stack than it. What prompted my comment was the thought that people who were interested in a javascript window manager might also be interested in a javascript desktop environment. I mean, pulling up a javascript console and interactively poking at your environment is just a few keypresses away at all times. That's kinda cool. True, it's not "javascript all the way down". but I don't think that necessarily makes it less interesting. For example, Atom is a popular text editor amongst web developers, even though the underlying components (Chromium and Node.js) are written in C++.
Because there are cases where that's a weird thing to say, say, this exact sentence.
> One thing the Dutch do is give doses of vitamins particularly D to all children for the first few years.

We do? I'm 200cm (nearly 6'7") and was not given vitamin supplements as a matter of course.
https://books.google.de/books?id=UJloCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9...

"Tatbestand", "Auslegung", ("Leiche"|"Mordopfer") are my best guesses for search terms.

And I haven't looked, but I'd almost wager that Fischer wouldn't keep that tidbit out of his famous commentary.
I think they know less than the people who were using computers back then.

The difference is of course that today computers are used by more of the general public for communication, office, and media consumption, rather than (only) bunch of tech savvy specialists.

Most of my generation and the generation that followed barely have a concept of a computer beyond "press the thing to make things happen". They know no more about their telephones now than did the people using the landlines of 20 years ago, or how much most people understood the internals of TV or radio or fridges.

As for running circles around people while using a GUI, while I accept there are specialized fields and exceptions that disprove the rule, outside of marketing presentations I just don't see it happen. As much as any generalisation can be valid, the GUI does not run circles around anyone that can actually program and is generally the mark of the computer novice/consumer...
I'm not in the U.S., so maybe it's different there, but in my experience banks and credit cards to not resale/share your phone number.
I think the Linux Mint developers forked Mutter and used it as the base for Cinnamon.
Try '"geldwäsche" leiche verstecken'.

First hit was this book: https://books.google.de/books?id=CqVLvTSOwpsC

Looks like hiding anything of value that has been acquired by a criminal act counts towards money laundering if you follow the words of the law too literally.
Pokemon Go Bot Written in Python
They carry different connotations; "say" suggests a single example that is not necessarily representative but rather being used to make it easier to express the following part, whereas "e.g." can mean a list, and puts the emphasis on the examples themselves. One isn't better or worse than the other; rather both have their use cases.
Can't the legislature just change these things? There's nothing in the Constitution about Bitcoin.
Techcrunch just got hacked
I have seen this kind of denial for more than 20 years now. I have seen people argue that driving could not be automated, that people would never accept an automated cashier, that webshops would never compete against physical shops.

The level of performance and customization that robots can achieve in every single of the task you quote is far superior to humans'. I expect none of your list items to present any technical problem in 10 years. Maybe plumber, give it 20.
I'm honest! Because I'm fed up with app ads, limitations in-app purchases and other bull shit. And would like to share guy's work with audience to help people do better at finance.
The Weakening of the Dollar Could Destroy US Public Finances
More specifically, the damage these cause in a country that has no natural earthquakes to speak of (so houses aren't build for that kind of damage), and the political denial about this issue (because natural resources equal convenient state income).
You'd be surprised.

I disagree. The catalogue of complaints listed in this article are the norm.

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...
Xen Security Advisory 182: Privilege Escalation in PV Guests
Awesome! Love EU I must say
There must be a better solution, this can't be working well for most of their customers and sounds more the sort of nonfunctional process a lawyer would come up with.

I understand that there are people in vulnerable situations, but that is not the norm. Perhaps a check-box on the HIPAA form that indicates they need "confidential voicemail and SMS messages" would be a better solution.
No, not anything of value: https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/261.html

The definition of "money" in that article is simply "any object" :).
To me the current icon looks a lot like a Rhodia notepad with the typical orange cover folded over at the top:

https://www.stylo.ca/fr/produits/Rhodia/Basics-(no.18)/430_2...

Not sure how well known that brand is outside of Europe.
The judge seems to have used a very narrow view of money. They argued that money must be universally accepted and have a steady value.

I don't know the law in this case, but does this mean that money laundering is ok as long as it's done through something that isn't cash? For example, bearer bonds aren't universally accepted so I could launder my money using them? Gold certainly isn't universally accepted and its value fluctuates compared to the US Dollar so laundering with gold wouldn't be illegal? If there's a currency from a foreign country that's less accepted than Bitcoin, can I wash my money though that legally? The ruling in the case just doesn't pass a logic test. If something has to pass a two-pronged test of near-universal acceptance and stable value compared to the USD, then it's going to make money laundering trivially legal.

Now, this case seems kinda bad from the gov't side. I mean, imagine someone wants to buy some bitcoin from you and then casually drops, "yea, I'm gonna do somethin' illegal with it" at the last minute. What are you supposed to do in that situation? I wouldn't say no simply because, well, do these people have a gun and are going to get shooty if I don't go through with it?

In fact, the judge said, "This court is unwilling to punish a man for selling his property to another, when his actions fall under a statute that is so vaguely written that even legal professionals have difficulty finding a singular meaning." Which really says that the judge was struggling to find a way to let someone off that was captured by a law written so vague as to capture everyone. I mean, if the law criminalizes all financial transactions that might promote some illegal activity, that's a crappy law.

I can see not wanting to punish some random person that got caught in this police action. That still doesn't (shouldn't) mean that Bitcoin can't be considered money laundering.
SamsungOne, the New Universal Typeface for Samsung
Last time I implemented something like this was in uni about 10 years ago now, but I recall that not being the case – you should be able to render just the visible area, as (at least in the case of Mandelbrot) the data is independent.
Print them on paper and store them in a drawer in your house. That way it's legally protected more strongly and is immune to hacking.
The illustrious history of the yellow legal pad (2005)
I particularly like that in this case apparently a picture of a sunflower is a perfectly acceptable icon for "Photos"
I love what UK Gov is doing, they actually sound like the kind of business that I'd love to work with (I'm totally surprised because it's a Government) and I'm learning a lot just with these articles.

I'd also love to see other governments to take a similar approach, but that seems highly unlikely for most countries including Spain (where I am from).
That doesn't mean the IRS won't take you to court to change the interpretation. Proceed with caution..
> A.) 188 cm
> B.) 1.88 m

Those are exactly the same for anyone even remotely familiar with standard units.

Whether feet or centimetres are easier to grasp is a matter of what you are used to — its purely cultural.
You can go to the neighbouring Belgium to enjoy food.
The Joy of Data [video]
The history of ransomware
A lot depends on how into the project I am.
Is it actually officially correct to use "eg" instead of "e.g.", and "ie" instead of "i.e." in English? (UK, US, AU, or whichever else?) Both http://dictionary.cambridge.org and http://dictionary.com seem to show only "e.g." and "i.e." for me?
There are three philosophies to deal with multiple workspaces and multiple monitors:

* one pool of WSs for all monitors (gnome,mate,win10)

* one shared pool of WSs for each monitor (xmonad)

* one pool of WSs for each monitor (awesome,dwm,e17)

So what xmonad has is one set of workspaces and each monitor can pick one from the shared pool! It's so great to have a WS dedicated for WWW on a side monitor and when something important comes up, I can bring that WS to the main monitor. Not easily done with the last idea.
I know a few people who still print photos, but most of my friends never do. So a photo on a screen would maybe be a better metaphor if you need one.

It's a really difficult problem. So many of the things we do today are done on a rectangle with a screen. That doesn't make a good icon. Maybe icons are obsolete altogether?
i.e., "We've decided it would be easier to make everyone who updates a page on the GOV.UK website change their language than to make everyone that makes screen reading software produce a product that reads screens correctly"
To paraphrase the author of Leftoversoup: "Every day I drive past a church sign saying in big letters STOP SUFFERING. Every drive I pass it thinking 'Fuck you but no, I will do as I want. I have more important things to do than stop suffering' "

Heh.
We don't do yellow pads in my country either, but I still find the yellow icon with writing on it ('notes') more evocative than the white icon with no writing ('lack of notes'). If you were to show me the flat white icon without any context, I might not even get it right.
Agreed.

The title scared me a bit.
Yes. Especially if it's a shared project - then I'm reasonably sure that it's me who introduced a bug, and not the others ;)
$80 each?

In Europe (Ireland) 10Euros on pre-paid gives you 7.5Gb per month and unlimited calls (tax included)
The only yellow paper I remember seeing was when I did a dunning cycle application for accounts dept. Depending on the age of the debt, it would either be white, fluorescent yellow or florescent orange. I remember thinking this was a clever way to get your invoice noticed.

Perhaps yellow pads are the future.
Yes, it's tracking time the same as https://wakatime.com but assigning time to commits based on the files you edit while WakaTime doesn't match files edited to files changed in the commits, it assigns all time between two commits to the more recent commit.
None, but I do remember loading Autocad from four 5 1/4" floppies. Back when it supported dual displays; monochrome for text entry and some other color display; may have been EGA or some proprietary IBM display. Had to have an 8087 coprocessor, pen plotter, and large digitizer. All seems so boring now.
Case in point, just below the article you can find this: http://imgur.com/a/iQe0Z

The puzzle background goes contrarian to the text label and makes my eyes/mind jump while trying to read the labels.

The first button makes me think of Wikipedia, the second one of Facebook. It's precisely that kind of cognitive dissonance where you read "blue" written in red and get asked to say the color or the word.

The last button has embossed text for some reason, possibly in an attempt to make it readable in face of the noisy background, but in turn it makes it stand apart from the other buttons.

The whole theme of the design reminds me precisely of the design language of Mac OS X from its origins to Leopard. It's not bad per se, but people don't need as much no-so-subtle hints as before in the UI, which get perceived as distracting noise. It's not zeitgeist anymore.
Students' broken moral compases
No.

NIST is legally required to collaborate with NSA on crypto. It was widely reported that NIST people fumed about NSA undermining heir standard and they removed the offending crypto from the stNdard quickly.
I knew I just felt something brush against me