skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole site is a treasure, the apogee of marketers marketing to lesser marketers: "Today we’re excited to announce new DoubleClick precision marketing innovations..."

Including this: "a new JavaScript API in Google Chrome, called Intersection Observer, which provides viewability measurement for your mobile and desktop web placements without the need for Flash. Built directly into the Chrome Browser, Intersection Observer improves viewability coverage for all video and display formats across screens by solving technical challenges associated with mobile viewability measurement. It also provides faster browsing and less battery drain, improving the consumer experience."

I don't use a web browser built by an ad company, but what does this mean in human language?
Pros and cons of visualizing firewall activity
On a related note: anyone knows a good guide to catch up with the recent frontend design/development trends?
Google Dreamweaver
https://www.pagecloud.com/ might be worth taking a look at. I've been impressed by it.
> colour scheme patented

Even if it was, it's been more than 15 years. You mean trademarked? Copyright?
Starts being... ? 1999 called
What? This?
https://github.com/blog/2039-adopting-the-open-code-of-condu...

That's from July 2015, a full seven months before she was hired.
Actually he just wants to install things on the host, which flys in the face of containerise all the things.

YMMV but I think coreos has a good base to support the latter.
If you had any kind of realistic measure to identify "important papers that would otherwise be published in Nature" then the problem would be already solved, since all the evaluation criteria could look at that instead of the journal ratings. However, we do not - currently the only actually usable way to identify "important papers that would otherwise be published in Nature" is simply asking "has this research been published in Nature?"
I think this is an idealistic view of what a work ethic is. This may be anecdotal, but I left home earlier than I should have and worked my fair share of "blue collar" jobs as a result and in none of these jobs were there people enjoying the present moment or describing any sense of loyalty to their jobs. They all hated their lives, hated their bosses and hated their jobs. Many could probably fit the description of a borderline alcoholic because that was the coping mechanism: Work all week, 9 to 5, then cut loose on the weekends until sloppy drunk and forget that you had to wake up and do it all over again Monday. And yet they were all "hard workers" with what may be described as a good work ethic. They cared because they had to...they needed the job and for them, anything better was a pipe dream. People in this position will literally fight each other for just a few extra hours of work...work that's shit and barely pays for a cup of coffee per hour. When you have the luxury of quitting, a strong work ethic should be valued higher because it shows an employee that genuinely takes pride in what they do. But when your life literally hangs in the balance of an extra shift a strong work ethic becomes instantly more selfish and less of an objective measurement of someone's capacity and instead is just a modern statistic on how far someone will go to survive. Most of these people are not noble altruists; they just lost their ambition when they realized their childhood dreams could never be accomplished and they've made the best of the situation. Working class heroes, indeed.
I disagree.

When you just start your project you may use github as your CDN and hope no one notices, but when you are as big as homebrew using someones elses resources like this is a pretty bad practice.
It's solved by "publishing" it in an open access repository - so the data is available to public, but all the ratings and citations and relevant rankings go to the closed access journal where you initially published it.
Solar Is Being Held Back by Regulations, Not Technology
HTML and WYSIWYG shouldn't really be in the same sentence. It is such a promiscuous but tollerant format/language that it instantly produces a mess. There are some interesting videos about it on computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-csXdj4WVwA (Where HTML beats C?)
I presume every business who doesn't run all their services on their own servers inside their own building is also just a billing dispute away from downtime. And even then if you don't pay your bandwidth bill you'll still go dark.
Yeah, I get that I'm being impatient and using my own interpretation of next day but when all the decent couriers (UPS, TNT, DPD, UKMail, ParcelForce) get a package to you basically pre-early afternoon and Amazon's own delivery service makes that experience worse then it grates a little. I'd happily pay more on my prime subscription to go back to getting Amazon deliveries with DPD.
Also beware the SJWs and the victim-bullies trying to play the Karpman drama triangle cards with manipulation, passive-aggression and disproportionate retribution.
TIL that Dreamweaver is still being marketed.
I never said she was responsible for it, but the same line of thinking behind that is what allowed a professional bully to get hired in the first place.
Speech Analytics: Convert Voice of the Customer into Business Success
Just collected the black coins in 1-1, and some in 1-2. The black coins seem to be what this game really is about, and damn does it a good job with it. Actually amazed at what it does with just a 1-button input method.

Sad to see so many people critize the $10 price tag. Obviously that was expected, but as an iOS dev myself, it always saddens me too see the rejection of people to basically pay for anything on the AppStore.
Here is a video from a UX Engineer on the Google Web Designer team, dated May 2016, which overviews new UI features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8x6kENKG0M
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build-...
There's a typo in the write up - lenght
> Good journals, in theory, are more selective about what they publish

It should be noted that this selectivity is not just on quality, but also e.g. on how "groundbreaking" the results are. This results in papers in top journals actually being retracted more often than in others, since they're more likely to be false.
i have heard good things about clion. codelite works fine too for basic needs.
Because there are more than a single one :)

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/
On the topic of grid defection, in some areas where gas heating for homes is common, there is a move to stop hooking new houses up to the gas grid, instead having all heating and cooking done via electricity. That adds another interesting angle on these calculations, since not hooking up in the first place is obviously cheaper than hooking it up and then not using it.
Openwisk and aws lambda
There are many possible platforms, however, there's a significant network effect since it's very harmful to your self-interest to switch to such a platform before everyone else does and (even more importantly) all the funding agencies acknowledge that this is the thing to look at.
SourceForge and GitHub feel different. SourceForge was always _really_ spammy from day one, GitHub has a far superior product.

It seems logical that GitHub will eventually figure out how to make money, even if it is just by following the tried and trusted "project management system" model
So you disagree with their internal politics? So what? As meh said in the Opal thread, you can absolutely use a tool made by people whose politics you disagree with.

Why are you assuming that GitHub will discriminate against you for your politics? I fully support your choice and in fact I think it's justified, but if you really didn't care about politics, you would keep using GitHub until they kick you off of it for thoughtcrime, as @meh would have the "SJWs" doing in that thread. It honestly just seems that you want a platform whose politics you agree with, and don't want to use a platform whose politics you disagree with.

That is totally fine and valid and is a thing everyone has the right to do. Nonetheless, it's still a politics. Politics is unavoidable, it is a consequence of being able to think and disagree. You can dislike the internal politics, but to do so you have to hold contradictory views yourself. That is the essence of disagreement, and cloaking it in anti-politics does nothing to change that.
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I got a sales rep from Github coming in at a client in January. Got any pointers?
To which the reply will be:

"If Burger King pays someone to enable me to get there faster, then that's cool!"

(devil's advocate)
I don't think it is necessary for Snowden to be "equivalent to" democracy for his treatment to be seen as akin to the crucifixion of democracy. He did bring to light one of the worst subversions of democracy we've ever known. He is being crucified for aiding democratic institutions reestablish their will, including by those very institutions he aided.

This can quite reasonably be interpreted as democracy being crucified, without Snowden himself "being" Democracy.
I wonder if, in a year or two, this will affect the Impact Factor of these journals - i.e. will their articles be cited less often now academics have (theoretically) no access to it? And then a few years later, will this the number of articles submitted drop as well?

(Assuming, of course, that no agreement will be reached at all.)
By boycotting?
It is used for overlaying some info like the room borders and barriers.

It is exposed to the devs but the quality of the camera doesn't really allow for AR experience so it's not really used.
> I would expect a great cultural and scientific renaissance because you could devote a lot more time to creative pursuits. Even if many people are too lazy, the few geniuses with much longer lifespans would turn the world over.

Genius appears to decline with age. Prolonging life would not necessarily preserve genius, even if it preserves life.
I guess you haven't built it a decade or so(if ever). It's literally this easy to build:

$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core

$ apt-get build-dep libreoffice

$ ./autogen.sh && make

With any relatively standard Debian/Ubuntu distro, you can have your own custom build in about an hour or so. Progressive builds just a few min if you have ccache setup.
and how do you keep those sites malware and spam free?
I have ran into problems getting my site hacked (I suspect worms) and I don't even know how it happened or how to protect my site from it happeining again
CO2 little, too late? 5 Shocking Truths
Perhaps this is field-dependant, but I have never failed to find the full text of a recent paper I'm interested in even if the original paper is closed access - the paper is inevitably available on the webpage of the author, or their university/research group, or arxiv, or something like that.

For classic papers from the 1980s I have to bother with getting the VPN required for my university subscription access to work properly which is a pain, but I don't recall having any issues with publications from this millenium.
Skype’s new prototype app wants to do everything
Suggestion:

Something may be causing something.

Counter Argument:

There's no proof of that.

Counter Counter Argument:

Ah, but is there any evidence that 'Something' is *not* causing it.

No, you see, that's not how logic works. You provide evidence for something; not the absence of evidence for it not happening.

There's even a name for it. It's called: argumentum ad ignorantiam (guess what that translates as), also known as an appeal to ignorance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
One day, when the commenter gets a bit more seniority, he'll learn what we all
had to learn at some point in our careers: you don't always have the
possibility to run a stepping debugger (e.g. when serving network).
Which is playable on the internet archive at

https://archive.org/details/1990SuperKrozTrilogy
You've already got a couple of good replies, but I just wanted to be clear about how far you've missed the point of what you're replying to.

His point was that the absolute peak of the system is in the afternoon during the summer. Which is when solar is most effective, so it shaves this peak quite well. It's like profiling your application and finding the hotspot, that's the place you most want to fix. It'll not only generate some energy that's needed, it will save you building a whole extra plant that's only needed for a few hours a year, if it's distributed then it'll save you upgrading transmission for a peak that's only needed a few hours a year.

You talk about today, which is in mid December, which in places that use air-con means the peak load today is about 1/3 or so of the peak in the summer. California has more than enough power plants to supply the load in the winter even if all solar was unplugged suddenly. That was the whole point of what you replied to.
How about: bad ideas get to remain in power for much longer, because the generations of administrators/voters/executives that enforce them don't turn over.

But also: you can have people with literally double or more experience, working on your hard problems. You also have a government that will look out much further into the future, because they will see the outcomes themselves.
About two meg per page
Then you will have no new treatments, and be back to square one.
My guess: if one had to run it 100% JS it would drain viewers' batteries faster and slow down their browser more than if one uses that new native API. Not that I want to be somebody analyzed by that sw. I'm sticking with other browsers and keep blocking tracking js scripts.
Interesting. This probably makes a couple of food delivery companies rather nervous.

Are they delivering 24/7 or at least in the evening? A killer feature for normal amazon would be delivery at a time where people are home from work instead of during working hours...not sure why this isn't a thing yet.
In my country (Poland, so not much renewable energy unfortunately) night-time (and weekend) rates are significantly lower (in some cases over 50% lower). You may choose uniform rate but it's not worth it (just remember to do your washing at night).

I worked in a company that sold energy-trading systems for many countries in Europe, and it was similar there (usually individual customers may choose uniform average rate, or much better offpeak rate and slightly worse peak rate, while the big energy market participants trade with different peak and off-peak rates almost always).
MSVC does not guarantee a stable standard library ABI, so those that need to target it are out of luck. In linux land, the switch from libstdc++5 to 6 still haunt the memories of many, although it was quite a long time ago (gcc 3.4) and the ABI has been stable since.

In practice the reason that many projects provide a C ABI is that they want to interoperate with other languages and the C ABI, being extremely minimalist, is the least common denominator.
I have an Android phone, so I'll have to wait, but I'll likely buy it regardless if it's good, just to vote with my wallet on the payment model.

I despise anything that's not pay-for-cosmetics or buy-the-damn-game-once. I can pay for my entertainment, but I'm not playing a game that's designed around microtransactions, eschewing the game mechanics.
> God, why am I so damn confused all the time?

You and me both. I'm afraid it's because we're only just barely sentient. If you think about it, in evolutionary terms we literally only just now managed to build a technological society because we only just got smart enough to do it. We are by definition at the absolute minimum level of intelligence that's able to do that, otherwise we'd have done it sooner. We've had plenty of time.

The human brain is a botch job of highly optimizes special-function systems that has developed just enough sophistication to manage basic levels of abstract thought. That's why it takes months of training and practice to teach us how to reliably perform even the simplest mathematical tasks such as multiplication or division.

We've spent thousands of years congratulating ourselves on how clever we are compared to animals and how we're the ultimate product of the natural world. "I think, therefore I am" is held up as an amazing deep insight that's one of the pinnacles of our philosophical achievement. Future AIs will laugh their virtual asses off. So it's not just you, it's all of us. At least you're aware of it.
Professional bully? She's a Ruby developer, and a damned good one at that by all accounts. Even if you choose to categorize her as a "bully," it's very evident that "bullying" is a hobby of hers and not related to how well she does her job (programming). If her contributions to community management software are valuable, what does it matter her politics?

I reiterate that if you are looking for a place to host your code where a) nobody has political opinions or b) everybody agrees with you about everything, you will never find it.

You may be the only person in the whole world without any political opinions whatsoever. I realize that's difficult and I applaud your intellectual independence.
But other than a couple of concepts, the books are excruciatingly bad. Without giving the plot away too much, his characters literally cure cancer, fix pollution, and invent an economic system that everyone in the world agrees is fair, in between taking loads of drugs and having loads of sex. It's wish fulfilment for 14-year-olds who are bored in science class. I'd give all 3 0 stars on Amazon if I could.
I don't know why I don't have nautil.us bookmarked.
UpTown18
I think there is a setting where you can change the default save location to local. I don't know if it disables the popup though.
Even though I'm not completely satisfied with its state, I've recently picked Material UI over React Toolbox. Too bad React-MD wasn't around at the time because it seems like a fierce competitor at first glance.

Things I like about React MD over Material UI:
* Fully tested
* Separation of styles
* Grid included

On a sidenote: the page's styling messes up during loading. It takes one second before it morphs into the actual state.
slowly being replaced with sli.mg, the way that reddit is slowly being replaced with voat.co.
IIRC Rayman Jungle Run and Rayman Fiesta Run are not at all annoying about in-app purchases. I paid once for the game and that's it, I don't even remember what was available to buy, cosmetic stuff probably. They're great fun and I highly recommend them.

The latest iteration, Rayman Adventures, is free-to-play and so suffers from the usual mobile free-to-play tropes. It also suffered performance issues on my (good) phone.
StackOverflow (and all the other SEs) is CC-licensed, and you can download the dump yourself: https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-c...
Google Video Ad Rules: Hello HTML5, Farewell Flash
One of my favorite charts:

http://i.imgur.com/UUy8Xvz.png

For the 4.5GW of wind installations that came online in 2014, the average capacity factor is above 40%. For 1/6 of the projects, they're above 45%. When we go to 140+ meter hub heights, NREL expects the best projects to have capacity factors of 60-65%:

http://i.imgur.com/ebfPQYD.jpg

Nuclear obviously kills that with 92+% factors, but coal and natural gas plants are right there near 60%.. we're really on the precipice in the best possible way.
This is ironically something that rust (and cargo) solve, isn't it?

That said, what you describe isn't really an issue with Firefox. Unless you're running a very odd distro, apt-get build-dep or mach bootstrap will set you up automatically, and on Windows there's an installer with the dependencies (outside MSVC). Of coure, the people who like to customize to no end might be those running an odd distro, but something something digging yourself out of your own hole.
Amazon logistics at least do Sunday deliveries as well.
Far too many stores have "next day delivery" for which ordering on Friday night means it doesn't arrive until Tuesday.
PRE-TRAINED CONVNETS AND OBJECT LOCALISATION IN KERAS
Bad news for stargazers
It's almost as if I am judging a company by what they say. Shocking.
Economic failure is still "a fault" if it takes systems offline with it, that other people are using. Not all faults are purely technological ones.
- is a function. Because Closure is a Lisp1, substraction function being passed as an argument like that is very probable. In Common Lisp you'd pass #'-, so it's clear that it's a function being passed.
No - Nelson Mandela first. Martin Luther King first. There's a precedent of people going to jail for standing up to civil rights violations.
I echo this. We're already over-populated on this planet as it is. Yes there's still a lot of available land, but there are reasons we're not using it either to live on, or to farm - too hostile, too wet, too hot/cold, and the cost of terrafirming those areas is prohibitive.

Unless we manage to escape this rock, and find a nice Earth 2.0 out there, extending lifespans is pointless. It's driven by pure selfishness, and if ever comes to fruition, will create a subdivide of people who can afford to live longer and healthier and those that can't; Homo-Richus vs. Homo-Poorus.
In a few years I expect people will just buy the kit directly from Huawei who makes it anyway, and be like, Cisco who?
Good point, I don't think I've seen that suggested before. However I think motivation is a big issue. Our instincts and emotions are what drive us far more than rationality. If we decide to build an AI smarter than us and program it to really, really want to design an even smarter AI then it might essentially have no choice.
Asking for a statement of relationship between proposed intervention and proposed outcome is not even near absurd. Pedagogical researchers in policy do this all the time.

For example, Fiona Phelps has researched into gaze aversion in multiple contexts, one of which is pedagogical, and in there she proposes an intervention for educators, and she discusses outcomes. She is interested in making a causal link between intervention and outcome. It should also be noted that the causal model she discusses is simple, discussable, falsifiable, affirmable, has few factors and few measurement instances.

Discussing simple causal models is standard professionalism in pedagogical policy literature... or any other empirical field involved in policy.

Is it that scary to say that a Pyret or Python intervention should have a relationship to CS graduation rates, upper division performance, GPA, or some other stated policy outcome?

Not stating your intervention outcomes allows you to go statistical fishing.

One can say the same thing about iPads in schools. It's not wrong to ask what outcome variables the school intends to affect with an iPad intervention. Maybe the effect is there, but we can't begin discussion unless the proposed intervention is willing to state its predicted outcomes.

Why are you <not> pushing for a discussion of outcomes?
I'm curious...are there restaurants (or I guess kitchens) that are delivery only? If the infrastructure works well you could have strongly automated kitchen in a warehouse type of setups and deliver via Amazon. Guess the branding/word of mouth could be a problem but that might be solvable with money (free stuff, hope people like and recommend it)
In 2014, mobile users accessing the internet surpassed the desktop users
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