skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if I frequently uploaded pictures of people from it, especially if those where unflattering or embarrassing, people might start to mind more.

Given the history of the internet and humanity - its clear that this will inevitably happen.

As the cross section of people using glass and the members of humanity grows, chance of misuse approaches unity.

EDIT: The discussion on invasions of privacy were also raised when (Nokia?) camera phones first came out. People were concerned by the possibility of someone surreptitiously filming/photographing you.

People did adapt and camera phones are a mainstay today. They just have audible clicks when a picture is taken. (I believe that was the mandated solution)
> You're waiving your hands here; flailing, even. None of this is quantifiable

Just because it is not easy to quantify does not mean there isn't some truth to it. 'Flailing' and 'hand waving' seem exaggerated.
Original publication at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6086/1283.full (not sure if it's behind a paywall, I can read it but I'm in a University network right now).
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Forget FaceBook, what about Google’s mobile monetization strategy?
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Clients not willing to pay for design will have no respect for you or design.
On the other hand, you could get skewed customer experience information.
You are undercutting other professionals and by the way, those other pros are where a big piece of your business will come from as a small shop.
You won't know how much to charge your first client. You'll probably charge too little.
Here is one more large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax and very few features

http://jquery.com/
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Michael Nielsen has a series of Khan Academy style videos called Quantum computing for the determined: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-det.... Nielsen co-wrote the textbook on quantum computing and has made significant contributions to the field.
Generalizing over kids is rife with traps anyway. For example - different age groups (and sub cultures) have different role models to follow/copy/emulate If the 20 somethings find it useful for example - it could trigger the cool factor for adolescents and hence other kids down the chain.

Peer pressure, conformity, being cool and fitting in are huge factors for teens, and if their role models use them then they will be open to them too.

Heck people can wrap their heads around wearing their underwear visibly, I think cyborg glasses could be an easy sell.

(Alternatively If younger kids start using it (perhaps unlikely) then the older kids may even say "that's for kids" and stay clear.)

If the peer group approves, then the product will be fine.

edited for clarity.
If you can store values for a given time frame with such time frame higher than the delay of the circuit, why don't we just build a latch and extend the time frame indefinitely? Or are these diamonds only settable once, and then you have to build another one?
I love Flask for simple stuff, but I'm a little concerned that, as someone who considers himself a relatively advanced Python developer, I don't really understand quite a lot of this.

I have no doubt that if I dug into it then it would all make sense, but my first instinct is this: how much of this complexity (proxy objects to thread locals, context stacks etc) results from the fact that doing:

from flask import request

is just a bad idea?

Perhaps things would be easier if instead of:

from flask import request

...

@app.route('/'):
def index():
return "Hello from %s" % request.args.get('name')

we did:

@app.route('/'):
def index(request):
return "Hello from %s" % request.args.get('name')

I'm probably massively over-simplifying things, but the idea of magically importing state is the one aspect of Flask that always felt a bit odd to me.
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Since I started writing Perl I absolutely started adding more comments. I make sure that I add a comment with sample input for my regexes, particularly if they're complex.

The Regex comments make all the difference, because I can easily check if my sample inputs that I wrote the regex against have changed. I'm also reminded of what I'm trying to get, instead of trying to figure out "Okay, I have a $host, $ip, ..."
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Your page is kinda disappointing.

I click it and I get nothing of value. As a customer I see... cool a product...

What does it do? Nothing. Why do I need it? I don't. What will it help me solve? The owner doesn't know.

I don't know about your target market (maybe u have one?) but if it was me .. you wouldn't receive a tweet/share or anything of that sort from my end because well I will not have the time/energy and especially the MOTIVATION to do that for you.

Also if you are scared that someone will steal your idea then you might as well get out of the market. I bet you have competitors for whatever you are doing, maybe they are hidden on page 102 of Google search, but they exist. If you can't differentiate your product to a customer, nor can you explain your product you have just lost many opportunities.

It's like going to the bank and saying, "I need a loan for a business." They will ask, "What kind of a business?"

The sad part is you might be getting a good bunch of visits but I bet your bounce rate is incredible because there are millions of pages with millions of products on the internet.
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Oh if only social interations were that easy quantifiable. Life would be a lot easier. We could avoid all wars, be full of love and full of love and happiness, developing only the most successful products without ever failing to understand the (irr)ationality of our clients. Social data is so subjective, as it is almost impossible to control externalities, and something like the (un)importance of "facetime" is in my opinion always circumstantial. Therefore I would agree with the gut feeling comment, as it comes really down to the individual employee to evaluate his intentions/priorities/relationships and what works best for that situation.
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Adding to your understand and ask questions point; make lots of mistakes on purpose (or not) and see if the results were what you expected. the why (or why not) might be the vulnerability.
The timeliner is most definitely driven by TimelineJS from http://timeline.verite.co. Not sure if this is a related project or how exactly Recline.js is driving it.

Does anyone see what Recline.js is doing here over the functionality in TimelineJS?
Omega-3 for adhd is one example:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20424008

Basically what is says that omega-3 combination might help some kids, we need more research.

omega-3 is safe to use(except maybe for people who use blood thinners). The best strategy seems just to try.
This is a remarkably readable and succinct explanation of what's wrong with software patents. Thank you for taking time to write that.
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Duplicate : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4206378 (+ he used https)
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Testing views and data binding is great, I'm all for it. Yet, I think most would agree that this clearly is not unit testing. The instant you include the Spring dependencies and instantiate your application context, you're testing the integration of those components. Again, this is a great thing and everyone should be doing it, but it isn't unit testing and treating it as such is going to cause problems.
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* comments sometimes are posted, then disappear, then reappear a short time later.
Hopefully pigs will have evolved wings :D
As a result I'm more productive than the average non-telecommuting worker.

Although sometimes optimising somebody's individual productivity gets in the way of optimising the productivity of the company as a whole.

You need to figure out where the bottlenecks are before you know the right place to optimise :-)
This is awesome library. Thumbs up for the post.
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> OTOH, what's to stop Cisco's firmware blob from including all sorts of GPL'd software, died together by a proprietary program?

I assume that you mean officially GPL'd, not secretly incorporated by Cisco (although this type of abuse also gets detected.) GPLv3 forbids tivoization, so GP would definitely be better off with a router running GPL'd software. With BSD there is nothing preventing the hardware vendor from locking the software away from users.
Slow reply so you may never see this. But you raise a very good point. As do the other people who replied.

* If a company misbehaves then people can boycott it and/or protest against it. It can be punished in a way that affects it's competitiveness. Public pressure can't be applied in the same way to an organisation without competition.

* If we had multiple bar associations then hypothetically certain bars would preferentially attract good lawyers and others would attract bad. Good lawyers would transfer from a bad bar to a good bar (Please excuse simplistic use of good/bad). So there would indeed need to be an overreaching feedback mechanism that would punish a 'bad' bar association full of bad but cheap lawyers.

I suppose a simplistic solution could be:

* Enforcing multiple bar associations that are not allowed more than (say) 15% of the total number of lawyers

* A mechanism for banning any of these associations if they don't keep there members in check.

A thought just jumped into my head that the Bar Association and the AMA are essentially organisations that are, 'Too Big to Fail'. If you (The public through your elected reps) can't punish something then you can't control it or force it to enforce standards.
> complex

I found that once you get past the technicalities and when you get back to a bird's eye view, interactions among elementary particles follow almost naturally and looks deceptively simple [0], and the postulate of the Higgs boson existence seems like one† of the obvious solutions explaining mass.

Now when you get back down in the trenches and have to properly define it theoretically I'm positively convinced it is another matter entirely in terms of complexity.

† Then again, we previously tried to explain how light could be propagating through a postulated medium called luminiferous aether. Hopefully it looks like the LHC experiments are not going the way aether experiments did.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model#Gauge_bosons
> This really means that while this dude was goofing off

How these people balance their work/life ratio is really none of your business, especially since you don't know any details.
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As is often the case, the best solution is a compromise

Nope - there isn't a best solution.

It depends on the company, the project, the team, etc. Sometimes everybody telecommuting is best. Sometimes a mixed model is best. Sometimes an everybody-onsite model is best. Sometimes flying everybody to a common location for a month is best. Sometimes...
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What makes you think those are client problems and not back-end problems.. Especially things like "changes to your profile take hours to reflect or reflect inconsistently" sounds like back end to me..
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What the hell does the patent issue have to do with free speech or political dissent? If you're against the patents on principle - like many are - it makes perfect sense to side with the one being targeted by them, regardless of what you think of them.

To paraphrase Beatrice Hall: "I disapprove of what you do, but I will defend to the death your right to be free from patent abusers".
Don't tell US HTF to WRITE and WE won't tell YOU HTF to CODE. Deal?

Reminds me of the movie Amadeus: "Too many notes."
Thread locals are addressed in the docs:

Yes it is usually not such a bright idea to use thread locals. They cause
troubles for servers that are not based on the concept of threads and make
large applications harder to maintain. However Flask is just not designed
for large applications or asynchronous servers. Flask wants to make it quick
and easy to write a traditional web application.

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/design/#thread-locals
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(shades of different colors, actually.)
well put.
I think you can still iterate and stay in touch. Indeed, I think that's the best way to iterate.

The problem wasn't the copy changes. It was not demonstrating sufficient respect for the other person's work. If he had emailed the colleague with a note as he started tinkering ("Great work on the landing pages; I'm going to see if I can tighten the prose up a bit.") and then sent her the diffs, there shouldn't have been any upset.
Keep in mind that patentability of software is not something that was ever explicitly laid down in law by Congress. Rather, it came from a combination of the Patent Office deciding to issue them and courts issuing opinions on whether existing law allowed it. Absent changes to the law from Congress, the Patent Office and the courts can just as easily change their minds about how to interpret the law.
That's defined in my slime.el (2010.04.04), which is why I require that first.
Exactly - asking questions will get someone to realize that they fucked up, and if they're at all conscientious, as the post's author appears to be, they'll feel bad enough, with no need for a harsh tone.
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Very disappointed this wasn't a gallery of Thermos tartans.
Random programmer decides to cast his "expert" eye over others' work in bid to determine the value of such work. Who are you again?
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In terms of efficiency, "You fucking changed my CSS" says a lot in just a few words. Once that's out of the way, you can always get on to the finer points of why that's a bad thing.

I'm glad I haven't had to work with people who acted like this yet. As I'm pretty sure my response would be a very efficient "Fuck you, stop being a child." somewhere around the second time it happened.
The editorialised title on HN is a bit ambiguous, it doesn't specify whether "beats" is for the shopper or the shop. As the article is written from the point of view of shoppers, I would say that 33% off beats 33% more.
They already use CloudFlare.

> In the past 30 days, CloudFlare has proxied 1,331,004,996 page views from 4chan
Makes sense that if you are forced to wear glasses and don't like it, modeling with them is nor your favorite thing in the world. I just thought about it: maybe because glasses aren't really optional like other clothes (because you can't see without them), they feel more annoying, even though objectively they look fine.
It should be noted that thread locals play well with greenlets, so it works well with gevent-style asynchronous servers.
This is the same uninspired crap that Microsoft always puts out. M$'s problem is not their marketing its their leadership. They keep making superficially changes and marketing them as huge leaps. XP-->Windows 7 = some gui changes. I launch the system program and tada its exactly the same as it was in Windows 98. The most innovrative thing they've announced in a long time is locking down your install completely to prevent install of unsigned software. Apple makes new products. Google takes real risks to change the way things are done. Microsoft is way to risk averse for the space they are trying to play in.

Step one to a good rebranding effort. Change what it is your selling. You can rebrand a turd as a chocolate lollipop and expect me to drop what I'm doing to rush to the candy store.
Where do the managers (and team members for that matter) fit in who have tried telecommuting experiments, seen productivity drop, moved back to co-located teams, and seen productivity rise back to previous levels again?
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Expensive, yeah. It should be free, actually; my whole gripe is that I don't want to pay to receive messages I didn't even want. It doesn't help if I have to pay not to receive them.

But it does sound useful. And if it gets mindshare, competition could make it cheaper or free.
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That seems like it only applies to WidgetFactories and not FilmCrews.

Why?
This is a fascinating idea. I feel like the innovation that will have the most effect on the next 50 years is the kickstarter approach.
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4chan uses google analytics? doesn't the free version stop at 10M pages? Does 4chan pay 150K/year for google analytics?
What kills me is Time's air of surprise. The point of so much of marketing, especially price promotion, is exactly to confuse people into buying. So of course this stuff will be phrased in ways that are hard for people to evaluate.
That's true. It would depend on how deeply (or not) any proprietary software within the blob was linked/derived from the GPL bits.

But for encouraging contribution, if a company goes "rogue", the BSD has no real teeth to force them to give anything back.

I largely agree with your last point though. Good old fashioned competition should normally be enough to ensure the user gets a good deal (providing regulators are doing their job and there are no cartels or monopolies).
That could merely be because we've not been exposed to "33% more" as much, at least I haven't noticed it. I don't really buy advertising-driven food though..
I believe that quantum computers only give a square root speedup for bruteforcing symmetric encryption algorithms, so we'd just have to double the key length of those.

Asymmetric algorithms based on the hardness of factoring or calculating discrete logarithms are broken, though.
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They mean an implicit "for most people ...", i.e. it is how the shopper perceives things, not how they really are for them.
I agree with you, the business oriented solution is to push the old CMS as long as they can, to squeeze as much cash out of it as possible.

Anyway... that stackexchange question has some very good answers. Thanks for sharing!
> Linus Torvalds is not a mocking nerd

Really? I thought he notorious for abrasive replies telling people they're idiots for using C++, etc.
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It's becoming a problem. Even if your code isn't CPU bound, the GIL causes terrible scheduling problems.
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Everything you just wrote applies to working from home when other people don't. Very little of it applies to working from home along with everyone else.

It still applies - it just applies to everybody. The disadvantages are still there if everybody has 'em :-)
There is no documentation about the internals of PHP. You are left groping through others source code to do anything useful. For comparison here is Pythons documentation

http://docs.python.org/c-api/index.html
1.5 kloc of code is only a few hours to grok. Get over it.
Great comment.

A question: in regular universities, students form learning groups. does the kind of learning you describe(somebody teaches somebody) happen inside those groups, or mostly happen only through TA's ?
Why criticize someone for putting time and effort into communicating a message on a forum that thrives on people putting time and effort into communicating messages?
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Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed about Ruby people calling their hash table based dictionaries a "hash"? As a non-Ruby programmer, I always get confused when people talk about hashes and you can never be quite sure if it's a dictionary or an integer hash value.
If you enjoyed Geoff Hinton's talk you will probably find the theano 'deep learning' library to be of use. Still undergoing quite a lot of iteration but powerful and you get to run your stuff on the GPU for added fun. http://deeplearning.net/software/theano. Incidentally Hinton gave another google tech talk in 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU.
Just curious. If microsoft decided they really liked this concept, could they legally use it since the artist made this 'for microsoft'? Or would the artist be able to demand $5m in commissions before microsoft can use this design?
I'm sure that people suck at math and that indeed the conclusion of the article are mostly correct.

However, there are genuine cases where getting more is more cost efficient than a discount. It all depends on the quantity you need - sometimes, a little bit more is just all you need to avoid buying 2 units.
Especially in the UK where you almost never get 33% discount but instead "buy 2 get 1 free" offers.
The lack of internal documentation may turn away a small bunch of people, but definitely not a reason to discredit the language.
Quantum communication is unbreakable right?
Raises and promotions may be a function of relationships, but perhaps they shouldn't be? Perhaps they should be based on performance.

Not saying you're wrong - performance is a great metric to use for gauging contribution to an organization. However, I find that proposals that begin with "people should" or "groups should" are often about as easy to implement as cat herding.
The principle is to have a range of models, changes to form factor aren't really that easy on a device that developers have to target. That is why I believe the differences will not be form factor based.
>Am a bit frustrated reading that same description for years and still having no clue what it really means. Both values at the same time... huh? What is the physical property that is existing in two states at once?

Ever heard of this quantum mechanics thing?