skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't read his book but I've listened to him talk on podcasts. I think he makes some excellent criticisms on the horrible state of dietary science. He can be a bit digmatic himself and sometimes makes unhelpful statements but he also has some great points. I'd probably credit him with the chain of events that resulted in me deciding to go low carb which has turned out to be a great decision so far for me.
Even when falling under SOF, the entire contract need not be in writing. Only confirmation of the existence of the contract need be in writing provided that the verbally agreed terms can be verified (here through the transcript).

For practical purposes, the entire contract usually is in writing.
Snapchat user growth misses forecast
Hey, this was marked as dead. Looks like you've been shadowbanned. Most of your recent comments look quite ok.
I think it is going the opposite direction, where cpus get more powerful graphics cards integrated more and more into them. This allows for matrix math to become a bit more standard in day to day programming.

However, in the opposite direction where a gpu becomes more like a cpu, if streams could do some level of limited branching without slowing the whole thing down, it opens the door to threading frameworks and design patterns where you write a loop in code, every thread gets it's own copy of memory, and on the threading front, it just kind of works for a lot of generic code.

Then if gpus added some sort of piped-like summation-like instruction, in the cases in a loop where variables need to be shared, they can still be added, subbed, mul, div, or mod, easily and quickly, allowing for what looks and acts like normal code today, but is actually threaded. That would kind of bring code back to where it is today.

Who knows? It's kind of fun to speculate about though.
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They're still dragging an unrelated and unconsenting party into the mix.
I feel good about waiting through this generation of MBP.
And why do we care in a real-world sense whether this student has cheated in general relativity? If that person goes to a physics lab, he would be found out eventually.

In a real-world sense, cheating hurts nobody except the person doing it, if even that.
Aren't the majority of rapes perpetrated by people the victim knew previously?
Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Amazon tells Signal’s creators to stop using anti-censorship tool
You can globally remap Caps Lock to Escape by going to Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys.
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That was it! There was nothing around the area other than cows and some shanty houses. It was really cool to stumble upon.
So have they obtained the permission of ICANN? I rent my home, but I still call the police if there's a trespasser.
I just want to be able to make money as a dev, AND have a wide selection of software available. I still think Valve is going to win in this arena down the line.
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Yes, very. NYC isn't just Manhattan, it also includes the other boroughs like queens, brooklyn, and the bronx. Areas that are within commuting distance by public transport of basically anywhere else in the entire city. This is light years different from the situation in SF.
I have a similar USB setup that was getting hot to the touch this weekend (sd card reader). I blamed the reader, but now I'm curious.
1. This is not the issue. If it were, suburban low density Palo Alto would be absorbing new people at a fine clip. The problem is the lack of building.

2. This is much closer to the heart of it. Local politics allows homeowners to veto good housing policy in the interest of protecting their investments. However, Detroits expansion had nothing to do with the unions lobbying for housing policy, there just wasn't much in the way of zoning laws and people built where there was demand.

In any case, the only thing that's going to fix the housing crisis over there is zoning reform. Believe me I feel your pain, I live in Manhattan. At least we're doing some building, though not nearly as much as we should. If it were up to me all (most) of the three story sixpacks in Bushwick would be bulldozed for six story tenements.
Author of the paper being discussed here. I'd love to study what students actually learn too! As we note in the paper, the analytical approach is a limited, indirect proxy.

Unfortunately, as others have noted, doing this is intractably hard. We've reached out to dozens of coding tutorial companies, but none want to share their visitors' contact information (understandably). We've tried contacting students on our campus and others to find people who've used tutorials, but few have. If you have ideas about how to contact tutorial users, please share!

The even harder problem is measuring learning. There are essentially no reliable, valid measures of any knowledge of programming (exams in courses are mostly unreliable, invalid measures). It's something we're working on in my lab, but it will take years, as it has in math and physics education.

Andy Ko
Associate Professor
University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko
What happens when you have a housing shortage and 14% of your land is empty parking lots due to land use restrictions? It's a tragedy what is happening to California.
I may as well throw in my suggestion for this feature, since I'm sure there are facebook employees here somewhere:

Finder.

Like, Facebook meets Tinder.. but for finding companionship.
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Choice of domain registrar is up to the end user. We cannot recommend any one over the other. There are plenty that are offering the full range of registrations/preorders (including EAP), and you need to pick your own.

The full list of registrars onboarded for .app, including annotations for those supporting EAP, is here: https://www.registry.google/about/register.html
I mapped Caps Lock to Escape and spent a few months retraining myself :-/
A tip for fellow Americans here on HN. What are you waiting for to take FB to court over Cambridge Analytica scandal? Believe it will be more successful than that Show Zuck and Congressmen made last time... Remember some of the Congressmen may surely be on "his" payroll via Mme Sandberg political lobbying endeavors...
Alphabet made $31B in revenue last quarter. [1] CydeWeys already addressed their costs, but $100M over 10 years doesn't exactly sound like something they get out of bed for, especially considering they're already out $25M and they really will have expenses to cover for this.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_releas...
Given that this was posted back in January and nobody else has chimed in with a "my computer too" or "oh my goodness that's how my peripherals all died" post, I'm guessing it's an isolated failure.
What if some of the statement were true? We don't hesitate to close down bars and nightclubs where the patrons are regularly getting into fights, we prosecute people who leave their car key in the ignition and people who leave guns in plain sight. This kind of negligence encourages criminal behaviour, and that is something we don't need more of.
Warning: Once you remap this, you can never use vi on a non-remapped keyboard again (Source: me)
tried playing a game that uses fn keys on my friends new macbook and they just didn’t work lol. everyone i know seems to hate that bar thing for one reason or another

my next computer will not be a macbook
I unfortunately cannot use this as I’m concerned about living in a Facebook panoptician (seriously).

* living being narrowly defined as interacting with a/the world via an immersive virtual reality.
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Facebook has paid out $6M in bug bounties
This is a recent technique for censorship circumvention called "domain fronting." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting for details.

Essentially when implementing encrypted channels with TLS, the domain name is still clear text in the SNI field, making the censorship circumvention scheme vulnerable to deep packet inspection. The technique is to modify the SNI field in TLS traffic to innocent domains. Major anticencorship efforts have all adopted this approach. Tor has it as meek.

A while ago Google has disabled such usage for Tor. This is just another cloud vendor shutting down another anticensorship vendor.

The real implications here are two things. First, domain fronting is built based on the deterrence of collateral damage, i.e. as a censor you wouldn't want to block TLS traffic with google.com SNI in it, but this deterrence viewed from the perspective of cloud providers is unwanted risks. Second, domain fronting in practice is abused by malware too much (in fact Tor is also a major malware enabler) and cloud providers can't accept this.
Because up until I posted, this was the official party line as far as I had been made aware: https://redis.io/topics/encryption

And this was the start to several other changes I am in the process of adding, which Salvatore had historically not been interested in. The patches I'd been working on for SSL/TLS were small enough to be easily cherry-picked, at any point in the future, if Salvatore had wanted them.

It was easier to release some SSL/TLS bits to start, than to do everything else I need to do before adding SSL/TLS.
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Owning cars is quite practical in the bay area.
You might argue that COMMUTING in a car is impractical, but then again, I just commuted 20 miles down 101 in the heart of silicon valley in under 20 minutes this morning, so, I don't know.

I'd say relatively few people commute on the limited number of public transit lines you say everyone has to live near.
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Sure, they might be found out when they fail their oral quals, but it would be much easier for everyone if there were a much faster way to find them out, such as a low grade from a school that strictly enforces anti-cheating policies.
> Go also has a Snapdragon 821 for ONLY VR

Sadly the Snapdragon is woefully underspecced in it's video decode capability - tops out at 4K which is less than ideal - 5K HEVC are already popular and a noticeable improvement for VR video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

> "Suppose buyers cannot distinguish between a high-quality car (a "peach") and a "lemon". Then they are only willing to pay a fixed price for a car that averages the value of a "peach" and "lemon" together (pavg). But sellers know whether they hold a peach or a lemon. Given the fixed price at which buyers will buy, sellers will sell only when they hold "lemons" (since plemon < pavg) and they will leave the market when they hold "peaches" (since ppeach > pavg). Eventually, as enough sellers of "peaches" leave the market, the average willingness-to-pay of buyers will decrease (since the average quality of cars on the market decreased), leading to even more sellers of high-quality cars to leave the market through a positive feedback loop."
They're not capitulating to anything... they're asking one of their customers to not break the terms of their service. Same scenario if someone was running crypto mining or bittorrent on the cloud.

It's not a single company here, thousands of businesses rely on AWS and don't want their service disrupted because of Signal.
anecdata:

I actually noticed a popping sound recently when plugging in a USB receiver for my wireless mouse via a USB-C adapter. The adapter was already plugged in, and then I plugged the receiver into the adapter.

Since that happened, I've been putting the receiver into the adapter first, and then plugging in the USB-C adapter second, and haven't heard it happen since.
I'm not sure what cheating means here, it is about lying to professors.

Helping someone do something immoral is also immoral.

Depends on the circumstances
Amazon and Google are certainly within their rights to refuse this. Allowing domain fronting is likely to put quite a lot of their money at risk, so this outcome is unsurprising, but it's still the less ethical one.

This might be the only possible outcome given a corporation's legal responsibilities to its shareholders etc, I don't know all that well enough, but I think it's still justified to lower my opinion of Google and Amazon because of this.
I think the "out of print" argument is a cop-out. That's allowing the economic constraints of physical copy production to override the ideals behind the law.

Things went out of print because the unit cost of producing one extra copy was much higher than producing 10000 extra copies. As demand for copies tends to taper off over time, you eventually reach a point where you simply cannot produce just one extra copy at a cost lower than the price the next customer would be willing to pay for it.

No such pressure exists for digital reproduction. Every additional copy costs the same low, low amount. The author then has no reasonable argument for refusing to make an additional copy.

And yes, there was infrastructure for capturing and preserving copies of print flyers. It wasn't all-encompassing, and didn't catch everything, but there are many museums of ephemera now that have extensive collections of published material that was of limited circulation (and limited literary value). For those items that were expected to get thrown away or used as toilet paper, there was always the possibility that someone might have saved it, and it could still be around in some form 200 years later.

It is entirely reasonable for an author to demand that no one else make and distribute copies of their work. But in my opinion, if you can find the author, and make them a reasonable offer for a new copy of their copyrighted work, and they refuse to make one and sell it to you (or to license the right to make your own) then they have essentially abrogated their copyright. You would then be morally (but not legally) justified in copying that work from another source.

When something is published, the genie is out of the bottle. No law can stuff it back in. And copyright was intended to protect the livelihoods of creators, not to give them the ability to more easily destroy what they have wrought. Thus, whenever there is any confusion or ambiguity, I always personally interpret a copyright situation with the test "is there any way this might lessen the creator's ability to sell (or otherwise monetize) one more copy of this work?"

If the creator is no longer attempting to make money from a work, screw their copyrights. We granted them that limited monopoly to make enough money so that the effort of creation would be worthwhile to them. If they don't care to sell, I don't care to protect their ability to sell exclusively.
> Eventually the only people left in the Bay Area will be executives and really high-paid lawyers.

I don't think that's sustainable. This is called working your way so far up the supply chain that you pop off the top and fall out.

Eventually the entire supply chain below you collectively asks the question: "Why are we paying these people? What do they do anyway?" Then the supply chain starts looking for ways to wiggle out from under you.
This is great. That said, I am trying to figure out how I'm being tricked here.
Also they have services at 9.2B vs consensus 8.4B, which is a fantastic beat and 31% growth YoY.
Author of the paper being discussed here. Re: self-sufficiency, our evidence agrees. You might be interested in this paper from my lab, which successfully attempts to teach self-regulation skills to novices:

Loksa, D., Ko, A. J., Jernigan, W., Oleson, A., Mendez, C. J., & Burnett, M. M. (2016, May). Programming, problem solving, and self-awareness: effects of explicit guidance. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1449-1461). ACM.
http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Loksa2016Programmi...

Andy Ko
Associate Professor
University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko
By definition (and I share the original post's issues above), a subject in this state is already far enough out of calibration that they cannot self-diagnose issues, let alone work towards correcting them. Also, maybe there aren't actual problems with the subject themselves, but rather with the environment in which they are trying to operate.

As with so many things, any defects must be measured from a wider scope within which comparisons can be made. Corrections can also be incredibly difficult or just costly, if a positive direction can even be identified.