skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of this reminds me of a project idea I've had in the past: figuring out how to teach people an 'abstract visual relationship' language. I'll quote from the article:

> ... he immediately responded that when he taught algebra courses, if he was discussing cyclic subgroups of a group, he had a mental image of group elements breaking into a formation organized into circular groups.

Jacque Hadamard once conducted a study of how mathematicians approach their work, which can still be found in a book called "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field". Here's an excerpt:

> Indeed, every mathematical research compels me to build such a schema, which is always and must be of a vague character, so as not to be deceptive. I shall give a less elementary example from my first researches (my thesis). I had to consider a sum of an infinite number of terms, intending to valuate its order of magnitude. In that case, there is a group of terms which chances to be predominant, all others having a negligible influence. Now, when I think of that question, I see not the formula itself, but the place it would take if written: a kind of ribbon, which is thicker or darker at the place corresponding to the possibly important terms; or (at other moments), I see something like a formula, but by no means a legible one, as I should see it (being strongly long-sighted) if I had no eye-glasses on, which letters seeming rather more apparent (though still not legible) at the place which is supposed to be the important one.

It seems to me that this is a surprisingly common approach to dealing with highly abstract subject matter. I first noticed myself doing it while reading Structure of Scientific Revolutions and later used it intentionally in working on math and CS stuff.

My experience with it so far leads me to believe it can be taught/strengthened. I've written a much more in depth essay on this in the past, but it's fairly unfinished. I still wonder about it though...
In theory perhaps you're right. But for women's dresses, I'd be advertising to women, not hoping men dare buy clothes for their partner!
I'm also happy to pay - it's less than Netflix. It would be great to go ad-free so I could watch online without the commercials. I watch it almost daily.

The thought also occurs to me that if CBC could make headway into immigrant and minority communities with their programming somehow, it could serve as a cultural bridge.... or something. Just a thought.
I would like to see in the article a discussion of the assembly the compiler produces, how it differs from the assembly the author wrote, and perhaps why the differences are worse.
I didn't listen to radio at all until, in the last year or two, I learned about and started listening to NPR through its app called "NPR One".

It's an app for your mobile device that streams NPR stories one by one, podcast style, starting with live news updated hourly, followed by anything else of significance, and continuing with stories related to your listening preferences.

On each item you can click "Interesting" to indicate your preference for more similar material. They are typically mini-segments analogous to a single news article, on the order of 2-15 minutes, though some go longer. There are also specific podcasts to follow such as "Planet Money", "Hidden Brain", and "All Things Considered".

Here's a particularly memorable segment that came up on my steam: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-f... - 7:50 story of the unexpected and unconventional economists who saved Brazil from (worse) hyperinflation by introducing "virtual currency". Lately it also has a ton of political content.

If you're interested in business, politics, world events, with a bit of science/technology and culture thrown in, then NPR is an excellent listen. It's not usually an activity that I sit down to listen to deliberately, but it does a fantastic job of filling the time while getting dressed in the morning, on the ride to work, etc.

Furthermore, following podcasts normally is kind of a pain in the ass, but NPR One makes it easy: just open the app and press play, and it streams segments until you tell it to stop. It's good for hours of content weekly, and has a large back catalog of past stories as well, which it will stream of it exhausts recent segments.

I'm not sure if it's available outside the US, but for US audiences it's completely free and has very few ads.
I hope not. They're not really ads so much as information. They're incredibly short and don't feel like ads. It's basically a, "Tonight at 8 we talk with some professor about some current event."
IMO the headline here isn't the minimally powered batteries, it's that this is a potential solution to the (very) secure storage of nuclear waste. In the US, for example, the proposal to store essentially all of our nuclear waste at one site (Yucca Mountain in Nevada) is a truly terrible idea that would create the world's most coveted terrorist target. Encapsulating the waste in small diamond shells that could be distributed among several sites seems like an ideal solution if they can get it to work at scale.
That's easily solved by securing their funding for several years into the future (possibly to the next government). That way the government can't retaliate for any hard hitting journalism.
Yeah you're right, I'll fix that.
I only discovered it around 2012, so I never got to see it in its heyday. I had great fun programming different things, though I haven't found the time in a couple of years. I still log in occasionally just to wander around and marvel at things--there's all sorts of weird stuff lying around, though I can never seem to find something when I go looking for it. I don't think they reap accounts anymore, since there's no longer a massive influx of players putting pressure on the database.
Clearly you don't understand the GPL. A derivative of the APIs themselves would need to be licensed with the GPL, but calling the APIs would definitely not.

Any content you make using blender is not restricted by the GPL (or any other license). Only blender itself is.
Fair point Ryan, in early days of our business we invested time in Styleforum/Reddit but the ROI was very low, so we changed our focus. But it looks like we need to get back to them, especially our new products will be very relevant to the community.

Our current target customers are more on the lifestyle sites like GearPetrol and Racked.

Let me know if you have any question, I am sidra (at) themarkhor.com
Biased is entertaining.
Flying cars are closer than you think (Marc Andreessen interview)
Quora has really gone down hill
Come join Linux my friends. My fedora hat wearing greybeards wait for you. Only operating system left that gives semblance of privacy and security.

And to those who think I am derailing... http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-wants-all-linux-dev...
I'm sure you've heard that ignorance of the law is no excuse right? Similar principle works here. No way the CEO did not know what was going on if 1000's of his subordinates were doing it. Saying that he couldn't have known is negligent. Personally I do not buy the story that he did not know. Come on for fucks sake, Trump just got elected on virtually pure lies and you are still being stupidly naive. This CEO knew.
Show HN: Soshipop, a free Instagram growth tool
We'd generally wrap them as C functions. We'd frequently use the compiler to generate the assembly; have a prototype and all that.

Which is better depends.
Don't worry, there isn't much "endless" playing to be had with this thing.
For those of you who are outside of Canada, and even for the many within, please take some time to consider the possibility that the CBC is not a benevolent public broadcaster, and is perhaps not actually putting out high-quality, unique, and novel information that would be inaccessible to Canadians without its public subsidies. Tristin Hopper[0] does a wonderful job of explaining a centrist's argument against funding the CBC/the CBC's modus operandi.

[0] Tristin Hopper: Maybe CBC could use its resources to do something other than steal other people’s ideas http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/full-comment/blog.html?b=ne...
yes, I am aware of that, but many fintech start ups are using blockchain with centralized data stores.

and here's the link to byzantine generals' problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance#The_...
The Supreme Court has upheld binding arbitration agreements in the last few years, and unfortunately "demonstrating incompetence" isn't grounds for voiding this. There's also nothing here to indicate that customers or the bank were not "competent". There are certainly issues with the fraudulent accounts, but the entire relationship with the bank would likely be covered by the arbitration clause from the initial account setup (which the customer agreed to). Customers would have to show something along the lines of fraud in the inducement.
If anyone is wondering: yes, you can own your very own atomic clock for a "reasonable" price! I encourage everyone to read [0] where a father takes his kids and a few atomic clocks up a mountain and back down. By looking at the clock drift due to changes in gravity, he was able to observe relativity!

[0]: http://leapsecond.com/great2005/
They probably guessed that you were male and then showed you women's fashion to make you buy something for your wife.

I have come to understand advertising a lot better since I asked, while looking at some lingerie ad, "Who would ever want to wear something like that?" and someone replied "This ad is for your spouse who wants to see you in this."
Even better: if you don't pay they'll send armed soldiers to imprison you or worse!
In what client? Doesn't work in outlook.
Can you blame them? It's ultimately driven by users. If we didn't click on these article titles, the publishers wouldn't use these ridiculous formats.
Could you do a special offer to previous buyers, offering them a second, cheaper deal which they can then gift to someone else?

Comes across as a reward for them, justifies the lower price (discount for them only), but hopefully solves your inventory/storage issue somewhat.
Why so many French firms are stuck at 49 employees
Fedora is too young for Greybeards.
Just to add my own experience since there seems to be some interest. The first bug I found in Apple I just ran across while developing an app (http://blog.appgrounds.com/content-blockers-track-browser-hi...).

I've gotten bug bounties from Facebook/Google/Firefox by applying fuzzing to open source projects, using AFL/Libfuzzer. I'd say that fuzzing open source projects are a good, easy way to start security research since its relatively low barrier to entry and can pay good dividends.

Anyways, hoping to get a response from someone I can interview for my project! Please drop me a line if you can help. Happy to answer more questions.
What are these targeted platforms and how did you find them?
Having worked at large corporations myself I can assure you that the CBC does not have a monopoly on mismanagement.

Yet somehow despite corporations mismanagement they still are more productive than many a small business.
Freedom isn't free!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzW2ybYFboQ
Your mechanic definitely doesn't have sufficient data to make meaningful statements about which cars are safer. Your mechanic might have opinions about which models look better or worse after certain types of accidents but that says nothing about safety. Safety data is gathered by either recording accident outcomes or by simulating accidents. Your mechanic is doing neither of those. In fact the most important outcome is whether a passenger or driver dies, and your mechanic probably never sees those because the cars are generally totaled.

Most people don't demand to see the pediatrician's degree and certifications because the government regulates the industry.
NPR content is much, much better than CBC content though. And it costs about 1/10th the money per capita.
Do you think the low quality of the content has anything to do with the fact that advertisers pay for ratings? Conventional wisdom dictates that the best way to boost ratings is to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Sure used Gameboys are cheaper, but the supply of usable ones will surely dwindle in the coming years as old hardware inevitably breaks down. It's good to see efforts to create new devices with personality that are fun to work with, not to mention being designed for homebrew software instead of relying on hacks and 3rd party carts.
I get a sense that Holmes has surrounded herself by the kind of people who will stand by her crazy side to pretty much the end.

I'm not going to armchair psychologist and suggest a diagnosis... but she's gotta be something...
awesome, congrats on your finds! would you be willing to answer a few questions via email or something? would really appreciate it.
Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary
What do you think about this documentary re: Finland storing waste in their version of Yucca:

>This film explores the question of preparing the site so that it is not disturbed for 100,000 years, even though no structure in human history has stayed standing for such a long period.
"Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants are placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels – that must last the entire period the waste remains hazardous: 100,000 years."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ3dT7xcMgU
It's pretty awesome (have 2 from Kickstarter) but I don't see the appeal for anybody but a developer.
But if it's for interstellar probes, we could use just carbon-14 and keep the diamond...? Unless we're wrapping it in a diamond to protect the electronics.
Not all financial assets are in real property. I'd call assets that are not real property pretty much an artifact of the financial services industry. I don't mean just fees.

Your usage is much more precise.

I invoked Bretton because Truman was running around trying to get as much of the finance industry for the US during Potsdam and thereafter. Bretton Woods was roughly the same time frame.
Do you think President Trump will harm freedom of the press?
The shit disasters vendors force into their forks would never be accepted mainline, and even if they would be, these vendors take the route of most control - working with anyone else would violate their own ego that they always know best, so they never work with anyone else.
The fact that you complete it says more about your character than the courses you did. Not everyone has the determination to _finish_ things. I applaud you.
Tyler Cowen has written a lot about this:

"Individuals don’t in fact enjoy being evaluated all the time, especially when the results are not always stellar: for most people, one piece of negative feedback outweighs five pieces of positive feedback. To the extent that measurement raises income inequality, perhaps it makes relations among the workers tenser and less friendly. Life under a meritocracy can be a little tough, unfriendly, and discouraging, especially for those whose morale is easily damaged. Privacy in this world will be harder to come by, and perhaps “second chances” will be more difficult to find, given the permanence of electronic data. We may end up favoring “goody two-shoes” personality types who were on the straight and narrow from their earliest years and disfavor those who rebelled at young ages, even if those people might end up being more creative later on."

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/the...

Pervasive employee monitoring and feedback isn't costless. Some people will improve, others will get fired/quit find a new job, but there will be some who cannot take it at all. If losing a job wasn't so punishing economically and status-wise, it would take a lot of, but certainly not all, of the sting away.
‘DroneGun’ takes down rogue aircraft from over a mile away
PIPs are far more insidious than even that. sure, they are advertised as a way to get rid of bad apples or underperforming hires that slipped past the bar raiser. in practice, though, they are used by managers to further their own internal politics and goals as a no-fuss way of removing any existing employee that might make them look bad or be in the way of a friend they would like to get onto their team. all the manager has to do is give you a task with low visibility and then wait 6 months before calling you out as trailing in performance and bam, no way to defend your career. they know that most devs will just quit rather than put up with the bullshit or the humiliation. I feel terrible for the younger or less aware folks who don't see the process for what it is and take it as a genuine indication of their skills, talent, dedication, or worth.
yes it does seem pretty silly. Even googling "how to make a homemade bomb" will just be logged as "google.com"
-O2 will remove stack pointer setup
Why would anyone attack that facility? Its extremely easy to secure - If you somehow neutralize everyone protecting it you still wont get in and out with any meaningful amount of material before a military response comes in and removes your ability to actually do anything.

Note that Yucca Mountain doesn't just have piles of fissile material - all the waste is in the same concrete capsules they arrived in. The ones that need a crane to be moved[1][2].

You could argue that these will fail before we know what to do with them and that they will leak radioactive material over time, but that still wouldn't make it a good terrorist target.

[1] https://www.nwmo.ca/en/Canadas-Plan/Canadas-Used-Nuclear-Fue...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage

NOTE: Sources don't say that you cant move these without cranes, they just say that these are larger than a person and made of steel and reinforced concrete so I thought it would be a safe assumption these are a pain to move.
So given that, assume you put an array of batteries together, what is the formula for Batteries of qty=N allowing a range of Z AU comm ability to earth / current-AU-distance == distance-from-earth before we will not be even able to receive said comms...??

So how far can they get on N batteries before we cant hear them?

Is there such a thing as "solar-syncronous" and "galactic-syncronous" orbit such that we can deploy a TON of little relays that would speed up comms to each probe to the Earth?

I.E. we have however many in a sphere around the solar system, then at some AU distance out, that the extending probes can contact more efficiently?

Assume that the little diamond batts can only reliably transfer a signal by AU/.00X - then we need to create grids of these little guys at AU/.00X intervals to relay the signals within the power capabilities of the probes...

or is this a stupid thing to say?

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This begs the questions; what is the best method/technology for sending messages between sensors through space?

We can still hear the Voyagers, how long do their signals take to get here? How much data do they send? How long will their batteries last? How far until they go dark? (they are already like 34 times as far from us as we are from Jupiter.)

How well could these little batteries power the new EM/ION drive: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/evaluating-nasas-fut...

How much power does that need?
Agreed. For lack of a better choice, I tend to line up with Sumner and the Market Monetarists, which is a different flavor of monetarism yet ( and I'd think more in line with trying to get V up ). So the pallitative for monetarism may well be monetarism :)
From #diamondbattery tweets: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23diamondbattery

Could be used in underground seismic monitors https://twitter.com/Keminoes/status/803297734694465541

Car keys that require batteries. If we don't have a spare battery with us and our keys die, we're stranded. MP3 players, too https://twitter.com/tysongeisler/status/803438384052129796

To power a low-power-mode Arduino for gas detection (CO, CO2, Low O2, etc), fire detection, radiation detection, etc. https://twitter.com/noalear/status/803389146433626112

Could diamond batteries be used to power medical nanobots? https://twitter.com/weirbe/status/803418222972125184

Power clothes that contain sensors, as well as clothes that electrically regulate the temperature. https://twitter.com/CIMCloudOne/status/803440800759574528

how about in cell phones to give a little charge to the battery while the phone is not in use. https://twitter.com/W_Haas/status/803352403512872961

Is there the potential to power watches as a fair amount of waste is generated from depleted watch batteries each year. https://twitter.com/Merrett72/status/803297788163289088
Those are the cases of devices never supported with Windows 10 in the first place. Dev Preview still worked (for a while), but it never officially got 10.
Set a script to visit EVERY website? There must be hundreds of them by now.
0.0013 Watts per gram would be about 1 kilowatt per ton.

If there were enough of this stuff and it would be easy enough to manufacture, maybe slabs could be installed under peoples' houses as the foundation. How much heat does it take to make a diamond? Would Americium be a more practical source of radioactivity, considering how much infrastructure is already in place for smoke detectors? I'm not really sure what they mean by "radioactive field", there are several different modes of radioactive decay (gamma, beta, alpha). Carbon-14 undergoes beta decay so I assume this is the only decay mode that will work. That would make sense since beta minus decay creates an electron. Americium undergoes alpha decay so if that's how this works, Americium would be no good.

This could be used to make ever-luminescent things like road signs or something. Very interesting.
Microsoft only had to support one architecture, and continuously changed driver models. Except 32 and 64 bit. Plus you can't use drivers across Windows versions that much. But at the end of the day it was a financial decision by them to maintain a very large degree of backwards compatibility, and by their customers to pay that price. But also remember just how "sticky" Windows 98, XP etc were. People wouldn't give them up. Also have you tried to use USB 3 on Windows 7? Or how about skylake until the backpedal?

Note that with Linux you can get more a semblance of Microsoft style stability. Use RHEL (redhat enterprise linux) and they do the work of backporting relevant drivers and changes. You also get to pay handsomely for that.

Note that the majority of devices do make it to the kernel. You can plug in virtually anything and it works!

You really should read LWN. They do a fantastic job of covering various issues. For example here is an article on hurdles: https://lwn.net/Articles/647524/
Secret Santa script written in Python
I'm disable windows update and windows background intelligent service . The most reason was windows keep re downloading broken update and cost a lot my broadband bandwidth. To secure my laptop, i only remove csript.exe and wscript.exe.
Not at all true. He was wrong, but he wasn't shot down in the slightest. One of the main focuses in development right now is the workflow/UI.

https://code.blender.org/2015/07/blender-2-8-the-workflow-re...
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/
Google eats none of the cost of supporting Google's buggy OS builds.
And probably eating animals. Once we have lab grown meat it'll be easy to take the moral high ground on that.
I install all apps with privacy guard on by default. I really wish there was a way to say something like, "Let this app have location data for the next ten minutes."