skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you mean emergency thrust, takeoff thrust, or during cruise?

Doesn't matter, that's a percentage difference, and doesn't affect the orders of magnitude here.

> 1000 watts per square meter doesn't seem such a big deal.

Maybe you misread what I wrote, 1 kilowatt/m^2 is the power of direct sunlight. The power per square meter to power a jumbojet realistically needs to be 10s to 100s of times higher than that. And those are dangerous levels of power. For example, the risk of eye damage from reflections would be a significant concern, but realistically at those power levels you could risk melting plastics and so forth.
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> Is this benchmark data-intensive?

A draft paper where C F Bolz and I look at this is here:
http://tratt.net/laurie/research/publications/papers/bolz_tr...

You can also download the full experimental suite and check out the particular benchmark(s) yourself. In my opinion, fijal has provided an accurate summary of the situation as we currently understand it.
Saudi Arabia is one of the most fundamentalist Islamic countries, not at the royalty level who rule the country, but at the imam and religious law level. There is a separate religious police, who's job it is to enforce the Qu'ran as interpreted by the strict imams. Only Afghanistan under Taliban rule was arguably worse in recent times.

Now, keeping all that in mind, what do you think the local population will think of the US telling them which parts of the Qu'ran to not obey (according to their interpretation)?
An especially happy Thanksgiving to anyone here from out of town or away from friends & family!
How are they tracking the women? Phones?

Sounds like the couple that got the text wasn't even aware of the service to begin with.
> East Germany is a historic example of why surveillance states aren't a positive thing.

Street CCTV is not the same as a microphone hidden in your light switch, without you knowing about it. Not nearly the same thing.
> We're still trying to figure out how Stradivarius made violins, for example.

We're actually not trying to figure out how to make violins that sound just as good: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stradivarius&o...

Also, Stallman is specifically talking about software, not manufacturing specialized devices.
Striving ... The launch mistakes I made, or lessons I learnt
He said revenue, not cash flow.
You're making a total fool of yourself with these aggressive and rude replies.
$12.8 billion budget approved for European Space Agency
many people were chasing the dream of CMOS radio in the mid-90s.

You could even make it work in the lab, but holding a design in production wasn't possible then.
I first lived in Taiwan under its former dictatorial regime. Even then, when the late Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo was president, the people of Taiwan were very proud of the incorruptibility of their university entrance system. They pointed out to me that Chiang Ching-kuo's son was not able to get into university. The university entrance exams there, then and now, are like taking a battery of multiple AP-level or IB-level tests over just a couple days in July. Students were strictly rank-ordered by their scores, and students rank-ordered their choices of university departments. Then a matching algorithm paired students and schools. (There are other details I am omitting here for simplicity.)

The stringency and fairness of the university entrance system in Taiwan seemed to drive a lot of quality in curriculum standards and instruction in secondary schooling in Taiwan. (In those days, compulsory, taxpayer-subsidized schooling for all was provided through ninth grade. Many students went on to three grades of senior high after taking entrance exams for senior high schools. The best and most desired senior high schools were free to attend, having taxpayer subsidies, but of course were hard to get into.)

In most countries, over time, democratization leads to ever-greater provision of higher education places, with ever-greater public subsidies. Today, the best universities in Taiwan still enroll very well prepared students, who take many of the core subjects using the same English-language textbooks used at the better univerisities in the States. Some of the lesser universities in Taiwan are barely above the level of typical colleges in the United States, but in general there is still good quality of secondary education there. Selection to higher levels of schooling that is based on achievement at earlier levels of schooling, rather than based on bribes or connections, makes a whole country better off.
>I have zero use for your "idioms" as evidence or exasperations as they add nothing to the conversation.

And I have little use for your deliberate obtuseness. The display of exasperation and disbelieve is me calling you out for obvious general unpleasantness.

But no, you are right. Bicycle coconut clappers have undoubtedly destroyed your environment.
This is actually what Stallman is advocating! In his own words: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa...

> My suggestion is to change the effect of patents. We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement.
The datas do not match your assertions:
http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=scala&l=
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=clojure&l=
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=haskell&l=
PCSOs are not volunteers, they are paid. Special Constables are volunteers.

PCSOs generally do not have any more rights than any normal citizen in terms of arrest etc and therefor don't really have grounds to make threats against you (apart from using their radio to call an actual police officer).
I was reading about Saudi Arabia earlier, it's quite a strange place (compared to some of the western world). Their royal family is especially interesting, they have something like $1 trillion USD to their names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud
Geekup (blackpool) generally have a christmas meal. It isn't the same but it's as close as your going to get. Good bunch of guys that go from the NW, most of @wearefarm will be there which are based around the corner from you
Kickstarter actually demonstrates why this is not the sure-win that it appears to be on the surface. Crowdfunding is a great idea, but it's also very risky from a PR perspective. People--not you, perhaps, but most people--feel that giving money merits an equal-value return. At a step above the pure "I believe in you; take my money", you have the step where people at least want constant, accurate updates all the time. That's a cost that may outweigh the benefit of an extra revenue stream. And above that, people keep wanting more and well... that's a problem.

Solvable? Probably. But we haven't solved it yet.
This is intriguing. I wonder how effective it is in obscuring one's identity.
A service with a weekly downtime is still more useful than no service at all.
What I Learned When I Got Fired (the First Time)
>Either what you say is right – Microsoft is fine – or what you say is wrong and Microsoft has a bleak future.

And either of these could have to do with Sinofsky, or not. Honestly the whole speculation about what this portends for Microsoft is humorous.
If you work at any big company, or any company with a secured office building, you have to wear or carry some sort of RFID badge, sometimes two. If you drive across a toll bridge or down a toll road, you need an RFID sticker on your car. You carry RFID cards to use public transit or Zipcar. I don't know what my point is, except that this kind of thing seems like part of the modern world, and it's not that strange to see schools implement it.
Granted, but the USA still has vastly more social mobility than china. I'm a bit disgusted that someone would even claim they are about the same.

I had no advantages of highly educated parents nor much money, yet I was able to get through high school and into a good state university, then a decent phd program; money was paid but not that much, and definitely nothing to the public per-university schools I went to.
do you have a place to eat dinner?
Why I built Mariposta, the Tablet-First CMS for the masses - James Brooks
Looks thin and awesome. Although, just to be pedantic, I've had a lot of Tablet PCs with touch screens that also had keyboards (so called convertible form factor instead of slate form factor).
Are the school's administrators similarly tracked? Does the principal wear a badge around their neck?

Can students use a directory to see where in the building their friends are, or where to find a particular teacher?

I wonder if a surveillance society could work if everyone was allowed access to the information.

Opt-in systems seem to work better. Twitter, foursquare, facebook, etc. would be pretty terrible if they were government mandated.
A judge has granted her a reprieve [1] based on freedom of speech and freedom of religion grounds. The student claimed it violated her religious beliefs. I don't begrudge anyone the right to practice their religion, but I do wish it had been based on her right to privacy.

[1] http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/22/christian-student-wins-rep...
Until you buy something with it.
They used to sell fake "college IDs" in the arcades at Times Square in NYC, not sure if they still do. But I was able to use that when I was 19 to buy beer at gas stations all the time.
I'd like to but it'll be 4 or 5 by the time I could get there. i'd probably just break their toilet or something on accident, as I'm prone to do at parties.

edit: And yes, Mr. Matt rocks. He even offered to pick me up at caltrain.
They're treated badly by the state (officially), but it's getting better, AND many Saudis actually do treat each other much more reasonably than the law requires -- behind closed doors, plenty of Saudi women are living decent lives, and spend as much of their time outside Saudi as possible.

It's still bad, but it's not as bad as you might fear.
This is awesome. Kudos to you for posting, Matt.

I just moved to the city (it'll be 1 month tomorrow), but luckily I had great friends waiting for me who I'll be enjoying the evening with.

But the awesomeness of this post almost makes me want to join you regardless haha
Obviously this is because so many Saudi women are ninjas.
I don't know whether this fits your definition of an inverse problem, but maybe cruise over to the USGS website and find a picture or a screenshot of locating an earthquake based on seismic readings. Most people have heard of or can relate to that, I think.

Good luck with your presentation.
And very close ties to the Bush family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bush,_House_of_Saud

In Saudi Arabia, 95% of exports and 70% of government revenue come from oil, one of the big reasons I'm cheering on Musk/Tesla. Once oil is irrelevant, backwards religious bigots, from Saudi Arabia to Texas, will become irrelevant too.
But then when I come up with a good idea that I want to use in FOSS, I still have to keep it secret for days/weeks until it gets though a "patent-mining process" at whatever company I happen to be working for at the time.

There are a lot of costs associated with just having software patents at all, no matter what the duration. Can you demonstrate why we need patents in software so much that it justifies these costs, despite the fact that in practice, we did fine without them for 20 years?
"nothing whatsoever to do with academic priorities and everything to do with fattening school coffers,"

I'm not sure this makes sense. If a school gets more funding, they can spend more on academic programmes.

I know that when I was in a fairly under-funded high school in the UK, I'd have supported something that would bring in more funding. The school isn't some sort of evil corporation trying to fuck everyone over and give their profits to already rich bankers - they're a local not-for-profit organisation trying to educate kids.
Awesome story and true, I know that I will be following his progrss.
Reminds me of the "bluesniper", which was basically a Yagi antenna on a rifle stock, meant for sniffing Bluetooth devices from a distance.
For the history buffs:

- https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/gnu.gcc/NeXT$20and$20copyleft

- https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/gnu.gcc/Objective-C$20front$20end$20for$20GCC$20from$20NeXT

I do not see Steve mentioned anywhere (http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/OSCON-2011/compliance.html makes that link, but IMO lacks argumentation).

It is hard to tell, but it seems that there were a few months where a pure preprocessor was (getting?) integrated into gcc, where the idea was to ship gcc sources with a NeXT licensed library to users, and have those users do the linking step, thus preventing NeXT from breaking the GPL. One could argue that this was one of the things that, eventually, led to the library exception to the GPL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Vers...)
Probably for the negative, given the human propensity for procrastination.
The ability to eavesdrop through cell phones, even where they're not making calls, is pretty similar (although probably more effective) to the capability of bugging light switches:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html

Street CCTV can augment traditionally eavesdropping intel, tracking movements and, from that, extrapolating relationships and activities.
Both are search/website results. "Links to entries on other sites" are exactly that, and DDG's special sauce is presenting third-party results contextually.

As for "followed by bing results", there is a single one that is equal to bing. The results that follow are also far from similar (this is exacerbated by Bing insisting on giving me local results regardless of relevance, which DDG purposedly avoids).

And yes, I do single word searches very often, but if you're so inclined, here are results for a longer search: http://cl.ly/image/0m1E3I3J0M1U (DDG shows Hulu, tv.com, CTV, amazon, and doesn't repeat the Wikipedia entry)
Come with me!

Let the deathists buries their dead.
Thank you for posting this, lots of nice tips in there.

Aliases for submodules were missing though, I guess you're lucky enough to not need them:

sh=show --submodule
df=diff --submodule
fe=submodule foreach
A lot of people, myself included, thought Facebook would never overtake MySpace. MySpace was adding more people each day, for awhile there, than Facebook had. I remember around the time of my high school reunion in 2008, I had something like 40 classmates on MySpace and 5 on Facebook. MySpace was a juggernaut in a niche protected, by definition, by the network effect.

The problem Facebook solved was not that people needed a way to share and connect online generally, but that people needed a way to share their real lives online and connect with the people they knew.

Facebook took advantage of a higher order of network effects which were backed strongly, unlike "social networks" before it, by the real-life connections developed over years and generations of human conversation.

I think you can separate the space a startup proposes to enter from the manner it chooses to enter it in.

As pg says, entering a highly competitive space can only be a good thing, because it's evidence that there is a real problem here and people are still looking for a solution. Another way of putting it is that many companies realize where there is a real problem, but the startups that succeed discover what the problem actually is.

Yahoo, Hotbot, Lycos etc all knew there needed to be a way to discover the web's content, but none of them placed a premium on solving the underlying problem that PageRank fixed: there was no good way of ordering the results relevant to a search.
I'd like to expand on your point. There seems to be a misconception that most/all cctv cameras are operated by the government. Currently, and nearly all cameras are owned and operated by private parties, and such as shop owners. No one but the owners have access to the footage from these cameras, and and in fact most are set up to record to static media (tapes or hard drives).
Well, I suppose downvotes are what I get for commenting at 6 in the morning at 35,000 ft. Correct, as the article mentions Harmony takes many cues from Python, as does Coffee, and Coffee cannot magically create features that aren't supported by the underlying JS.

However, it is possible to get a near-equivalent of generators (albeit with more overhead) using Continuation Passing Style and Iced CoffeeScript await/defer or another CPS lib. There are many who have explored this concept before myself, and I am now inspired to create an example to demonstrate IcedCS's ability with such a concept once I'm through the holiday.
Yes, it does.

Your data is showing that Scala grew from 0.01% to 0.03% over the past two years. Sounds impressive, right?

It's a relative number. Whenever somebody quotes growth numbers instead of absolute numbers, they are trying to hide something.

Let's take a look at the absolute numbers:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+java&l=

As you can see, Scala's line is a flatline around 0 compared to Java.
I didn't mean 'trigger an event', I meant 'spin the event loop'. Unfortunately web workers have too many limitations, and won't work in many situations. And the solution of 'don't use a loop' isn't possible/feasible in certain cases. No point in going into detail here, but basically I am porting a virtual machine to javascript.
Turns out the failure reason is quite funny, they pointed me to a screenshot I had created of the application for advertising in the store, it is basically a point in time image of what's trending,

one of the articles trending was :
I amlost feel obligated to pirate Office for Mac !
http://rys.sommefeldt.com/2012/10/01/i-almost-feel-obligated...
There are apparently many other "phantom islands": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_island
Blackpool is 45 minutes away on the bus - thanks for this, I was really dreading sitting alone at christmas!
True.

I just reacted to your statement that LYSE is "much better than a random collection of links". It's not always better is what I wanted to say.
Will you pay by mobile phone?
What if you'll be able to pay using your phone offline and online.

What do you think about the idea to use your mobile phone instead of credit card?
Nothing more than anecdote, but hey:

My Yorkshire village has a playground. They installed CCTV last month. More people complain about the main road changing from a 40mph to 30mph. I don't care if the 'they' is government or centralised or whatever. The numbness to surveillance unsettles me greatly.
My Facebook "price of coffee" experiment: 40 countries
The other day I asked my friends in Facebook to tell me
- where they are now
- how much is a coffee
- the quality of the coffee

It may seems trivial but I wanted to test the power of Facebook/internet.

I got 55 replies from about 30 countries + one guy in the middle of the Atlantic ocean (he works on a cruise ship).

I find this amazing.

I think this is the first time in human history that we can get so precise information, so fast and so cheaply (free).
Nobody cares about the price and quality of coffee now of course.
But maybe some of us will find a way to extract valuable information or insight from that.
A startup idea?
It's less about ensuring that students are at school, but ensuring that they are counted. The school district receives funding from the state dependent on attendance. That's what is meant in the article by "it's all about money". With the cameras and now RFID, they can record that the student is on the premises even if they are not in the homeroom for attendance taking. (There are legitimate reasons a student may miss roll call.)
I second that. Would be interesting to know a bit more about the systems setup.

Also why the decision to use an ORM? To manage the partitions?
You know too much.
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I like when he talks about why Mars is the best planet to inhabit. 24 1/2 hour rotational cycle, 1/2 the earths gravity, lots of water/ice. Co2 atmosphere (which plants like to consume). Ultimately terraform the planet to make it like earth.... Sign me up!
nice post :), care about revealing more info on your stack and how you went about building the site? The responsive design is really well done too.
> Whenever somebody quotes growth numbers instead of absolute numbers, they are trying to hide something.

No, it is the data you asked us to look at and it refutes your claim that "they are as insignificant today as they were five years ago". They are _less_ insignificant. They may still be several orders of magnitude lower, but your claim is still incorrect.
If this general issue were limited in scope to Texas, then I wouldn't be concerned about anyone but judges in Texas.

That she was able to effectively use a (honestly, kind of nutty) religious argument is great for her, but I don't think it does the rest of us much good. If this becomes a trend, I could definitely see it ultimately being marginalizing.

This is fundamentally a privacy issue that could effect anybody, but if the only effective arguments against it are religious exemption then what we have created is a situation where you are only free to exempt yourself if you can effectively form an argument against it in your particular religion (if you even have one...).

That is not a situation I am comfortable with.
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There is a preston Geekup to but i'm not involved with it as much as the blackpool one as I work with a few of the people who help organise & run it even though we all work in Chorley.
What do you think they're doing with the CCTV?

They're almost certainly recording to a VHS tape, which cycles every couple of days.

IF some crime or vandalism happens on the playground, they will then grab the tapes, and check them. The chances of a conviction will be far higher with video evidence.

It's not "numbness to surveillance", because it's not really surveillance.

If you want to be free to take videos and photos of random places/things without being arrested, you should also allow that same freedom to owners of property who want to reduce crime.
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I take your point, but there was a little local difficulty in Birmingham UK recently with Police operated CCTV with car number plate recognition.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/25/birmingham-cctv-mus...

Of course, CCTV simply pushes street crime away from the central areas.
Is the poetry of talking of systems that spring back to life without a focus on the 3 years of human effort all that different from the poetry of cat walk models, photoshop body images, etc?

Poetry can be great, but not when it enforces unrealistic expectations. In technology we are not above the limerick.
>and spend as much of their time outside Saudi as possible.

Well, they shouldn't have to. That's the point.
I'd bet you they will allow browsers to optimize their compilation steps, so they are more then just sugar.
Measuring Thanksgiving for fun and profit... well just for fun really
Thankfully, I ended up finding a place just less than an hour ago. :)