skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The project is organized into different divisions and measures have been taken to reduce the administrative overhead where possible. Having 50 small projects does not reduce administrative costs, you would still have an enormous amount of reporting, both financial and scientific to deal with (on the EU and on the projects side).

> And with no clear roadmap to guide priorities, that overhead won't provide any benefit

But that is one of the purported advantages of a flagship project. You do have a roadmap and a unifying goal that is provided by the project. Thus you can avoid different institutions performing the same research over and over without any concern to how this relates to previous results and other relevant areas. The difference is that the roadmap is provided by the project instead of the funding agency and as such there is more flexibility.

> building ambitious 'platforms'

To take one of the platforms as an example, the idea behind the brain simulation platform is to be able to aggregate scientific data collected one way or another (even outside the project) to build a simulation model. The more data collected the better the model. Then scientists can come and test their hypotheses or run scenarios. Based on the results the brain model may be adjusted. The way I see it, this will be an evolving tool that will facilitate basic research. I am not a neuroscientist so I can't really comment on whether this tool makes sense or not.
Why is a publicity stunt something low or to be frowned upon?
I'd like to add scipy.spatial.cKDTree for really fast kd-trees. Just used it for a geospatial data analysis application (find the closest N facilities to a given point) and it blew the numpy and standard python alternatives out of the water in terms of speed.
For some reason, I read the url as getLIMP…uh…interesting name.

Look forward to the pricing plans - it'll affect if I will try it or even switch over from Basecamp.
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Secure Boot Breaks Kexec, Hibernate Support On Linux
> I have different expectations when searching local data than when searching public data.

Your problem is that you believe the Dash to be a search for local data, when it is not. It is a single search box which is supposed to figure out what resource you want (be it local or remote).

Observe ordinary users (the users that Ubuntu is aimed at, btw). Many will go to Google and type a URL in their search box. They do not distinguish. If a search fails, they don't care that they didn't type the search into the wrong type of box. As far as they're concerned, it didn't work. Demanding that they differentiate first is a worse UX.

If you want to do a local search, then don't type the search into a global search box.
Those aren't native to the operating system though.
I second this. I used to write pure LaTeX by hand all the time. I feel like Markdown lets me focus more on my content than my markup, and Pandoc's version of Markdown has some extensions that make it easy to take advantage of the LaTeX backend (including titles and LaTeX math). Pandoc is excellent and I've yet to encounter a use case where I feel like it'd be easier to switch back to writing LaTeX.
Early return is definitely needed. I guess you could make bare `return` early return, and `return None` the way to yield None, but that's kind of confusing.
That has to be such a very rare thing. Out of millions of patents, only a few dozen are being used by patent trolls. And most of those were "invented" by the person/company doing the suing.

I am listed on a patent through a former employer, and I am waiting for the day when some company implements this technology that is patented. Will be curious if that employer decides to sue and will I be entitled to any money from that?
The whole concept of overeducation seems foreign to me. Surely people should strive to be as educated as they can or want to be.

The background assumption is that education isn't really about education, and is instead merely about training people for jobs. If people were being trained for work which didn't exist then that would certainly be a problem, but as I understand it that's not really what universities are for.
I couldn't stop thinking about armed drones during the recent gun-control furor. I was wondering how it would change the debate if people were really thinking about it - about the near inevitability that they will be used domestically by government and non-governmental actors. The issue doesn't win clean points on either side, but it does seem to make a lot of today's fears about guns seem trivial.
my first 'hack' when I was 8yrs old: put a mirror in front of the game and shoot at it. total duck holocaust
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Most Muslims aren't belligerent.

or against the faith

Wrong answer.

When "against the faith" includes calling for the death or even censorship of cartoonists in other countries who draw disrespectful pictures of a religion's "prophet", the belligerent label is very justified.

And all Muslims are suicide bombers, right?

I didn't say "all". I believe the words I used were "large swathes", meaning enough of those societies to dictate policies that are indistinguishable from the nut job radicals that you claim don't represent everyone. For example, see the stories regarding the destruction of ancient monuments in Afghanistan. See the killing of Coptic Christians in Egypt. See the jailing/killing of Christian preachers in Iran.

Islam is fundamentally a religion of peace

That's a bumper sticker and something politicians have to say because they rarely speak simple truths. The Koran is pretty clear regarding the need to commit violence toward infidels. The Judeo/Christian texts (the Bible) aren't a whole lot better, although the mixed books and accounts in it are so imprecise, contradictory and watered down that there isn't a consistent call for domination of others in the world.
Well in this case, it exposes many unwilling/unexpecting people to pornography. That probably should be frowned upon.
It's just tacky. If I know anything about Dorsey it's that he's allergic to tacky
"The system" is the reactive, situational, instinctual and not consciously volitional shared human underpinnings of the volitional choices of power-having agents in society. There doesn't have to be a conspiracy, because humans across society are running on brains with the same evolutionary history. Thus the commonality can be treated as having intentions as a social unit, because that's how it behaves, when what it really has are closer to reactive mood-influences in discrete humans acting without shared plans, which all point in the same direction.

The concept of "the system" got thrown out of mainstream discourse because the idea that there's a conspiracy is silly. But a conspiracy is just the simplest, crudest explanation for coordinated action.
And again with the flagging - dropped straight off the front page. Am I missing something?
For some projects it is already mandated in the grant agreement. I've heard that this will be extended to all project for Horizon 2020. I am also under the impression, that the EU protects researchers who post the full version of their papers on their websites even when the publisher does not permit it. I could be wrong on the latter.

Certainly, there is always room for improvement.
True. Trustworthiness is probably not a good word. What I meant was that trustworthiness could be construed as a objective measure (such as that reached by diligent security and privacy experts), while whether or not you actually trust someone is basically a feeling. Maybe "Fitness to be trusted" is a better term?
Though I wouldn't be against it if it were gifs really... I kind of like the videos without sound more.
Does it make sense that an app. with the sole purpose of sharing user-submitted videos would somehow be devoid of any questionable/suggestive content? Isn't it kinda Apple's fault for insisting that apps conform to their age guidelines, when those apps involve user-submitted videos? I mean...who lets their 12- to 17-year-old use an app like Vine? Do they honestly believe nothing bad might come of that?
Totally agree. I'm surprised that Twitter didn't. I wonder what the story behind that is
Computer + X = Computer

Keyboards, screens, mice, network terminals, speakers, microphones, radio antennas, gyroscopes, GPS receivers, cameras, etc, etc. Over time computers integrate everything they touch into themselves.

Specialisation at the component level (radio chips, GPUs, GPS chips, etc) is fine, but modern smartphones often have some or all these features integrated onto the same silicone as the CPU anyway.

Who wants to carry a handheld games console, a handheld GPS, a phone, a pager, a camera, an alarm clock and a palm computer? I used to routinely carry a London A-Z map book. Not long ago these were all naturally considered to be separate functions requiring a separate device. Smartphones are perplexing to you because you think they are phones. They are not. They are computers.
Or a stop-gap job being taken on during a period of massive job destruction (something like 7M jobs were lost from 2007-2010)
And from where.
how much emphasis to give to which messages is always the hardest part for me to writing these posts. I'll keep in mind that at times I can be too subtle.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts - RE: Talks not being local, I agree with the comment below about livestreaming.

RE: email, we do have an email list. However, we really don't want to spam people, so instead of opting you into it automatically, we make it opt-in here: https://www.airbnb.com/techtalks.

It sounds like we may have err-ed too much on the side of being non-spammy, and this list is not very discoverable. I still don't want to automatically opt attendees in to the list, but given what you've said I think we'll pass around a signup sheet at the next tech talk.
Hacker Keyboard. It will let you send keystrokes via the keyboard instead of needing connectbot.

unless you meant an actual bluetooth keyboard, then its just a matter of foldable vs fixed and what you like more. My dad uses this:

http://www.quill.com/android-keyboards/cbs/283296.html?cm_mm...

for his nexus 7. Works out pretty well.
Not if the reason people get those degrees is to get better jobs. If the proportion of degree holders is the same across all jobs, why should someone pay tens of thousands in tuition, plus the opportunity cost in lost wages, for that degree?
Headline is incorrect. More like hibernate and kexec break Secure Boot. A resuming kernel doesn't verify the hibernated image before running it, possibly leading to escape if you were relying on Secure Boot, but Secure Boot does nothing to interfere with hibernate. The article is about a patch to intentionally disable hibernate.
FYI, it took me a little digging around to figure out where your atom feed is. :-)

Here in case anyone else wants it: http://kellegous.com/atom.xml
and lolcats
Thank you all for your response!
I've been living in Emacs + Auctex for a while now, so my questions about markdown/pandoc: I have grown very accustomed to regex (and normal) searches on my bibtex/reference database and easily plugging in citations in my document. Is there support for this (reftex) in any of the markdown editors? I don't know if I've seen a good solution to this.

The other thing is preview-latex which inline-png's all equations, section titles and images in the emacs buffer. This is very valuable to me to easily see a figure without needing to tab between windows. I don't think markdown would support something like this, as far as I'm aware.

I like the idea of complete separation of content and appearance/layout, but Latex has many customizations (psfrag for image text replacement, tikz, programming custom macros) that I would be somewhat lost without. For instance, I start all my outlines in org-mode, and love having quick html, or tex->pdf output, but for the real nitty-gritty content, I _need_ my straight latex code.
i feel much safer now, take more of my tax dollars!
Exactly. I'm not exactly a power user, but once I heard about Ubuntu being based on Debian, and the whole Linux being modular thing, along with learning how decoupled 'Linux' is from the GUI I quite literally made the switch to Debian cold-turkey. It doesn't have things I don't want, and Debian stable is relatively stable(understatement I know). For other purposes, I boot into Windows.
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Exactly. I am using Ubuntu without Unity (Gnome3) or the Softwarecenter (aptitude) or Ubuntu One (wtf) for a while now.

I must admit i haven't touched Debian as a Desktop Operating System for many years but i appreciate the Desktop Experience that is available with Ubuntu out of the box very very much. All _my_ stuff just works (hello binary blob drivers at Debian?), most stuff nowadays has those private package archives, yet i still don't need to run debian unstable to get relatively recent software. I know i have 6 months until a new version comes along, as opposed to many years of waiting. I admit i frequently reinstall Ubuntu (like every 1 or 2 releases), but that's no hazzle while keeping /home. I still get to test btrfs (changed back to ext4 one release afterwards), i still can screw around with the system a little bit.. nahh.. i don't see me going back to Debian on the Desktop.. Ubuntu may be only a redesign of if, but they make it working nicely on my laptop, the community is huge..

I must admit i wouldn't want to sit down an afternoon with Debian to figure out why my graphics is screwed or my Wifi isn't working, etc. Not anymore, it was fine 10 years ago, ,not 2013..

That said, i'd choose Debian as a server OS any time!
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Ubuntu is, for me, Debian plus an unending parade of annoyances slapped on top. Mistyped a command? Let's wait 5 seconds for the prompt to come back because Ubuntu is going to search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox". Want to use a window manager or login manager besides the defaults? Hope you like pain--the last time I tried that on Ubuntu, only the default window manager was configured to shut off the program that draws the little "loading" dots on the screen as you boot, meaning my new FVWM desktop had glowing dots marching across the center over and over. Oh, sorry, my bad, if I wanted to use a window manager that isn't Unity, I should have downloaded an entirely different fucking ISO because apparently the way Debian has done things for years isn't good enough.

But hey, at least the community is a cesspool of idiots cargo-culting their way to oblivion!

Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Great stuff. Meteor is getting more and more compelling as a platform. At this point, I'd seriously consider using it for a new project.

One thing I'd be slightly concerned about is the lack of a serious server-side rendering option, though. The "spiderable" package is a bit of a hack (as they themselves admit).
> I don't know any common name for this, but let's call it mush coding.

"Ravioli Code"
Maybe it's the billion dollars asking price that got in the way.
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As a developer who has starting writing a lot of API documentation, this seems like an interesting conference to me. Great idea.
Just like with any technology stack.
Presumably you are familiar with Boehm's famous "Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library" [1]. Meanwhile, pthreads require heavyweight OS involvement and implementing a simple spinlock requires inline assembly or non-portable compiler builtins. There is still no widely-used portable library of atomics (the Linux kernel is the most complete I know of, but their atomic support isn't trivial to extract for use outside the kernel, and it was only written for one compiler (gcc)). I'm definitely looking forward to stdatomic.h. Unfortunately, compilers are already mis-applying [2] the macros that are supposed to be available for determining the presence of thread and atomic support, so, as usual, configure tests are needed for everything.

[1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.html
[2] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53769
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> Any other tips or tricks I should know about? I really don't want to lose too much productivity over the shift.

Think of OS X as 'unix with a really nice window manager' .. it might help.

I think it's mostly a matter of what you're used to. I mostly use OS X, when I shift _back_ to a linux host I really get slowed down, at first.

It's not nearly as bad as if they made you use a Windows machine - you'd really be slowed down for a while.
True, I'm unclear on what precisely that means. C traditionally hasn't had subsetting, so "standard C" code is supposed to compile correctly on any conforming implementation. If your code is "standard C99", any conformant C99 compiler is supposed to compile it correctly; and otherwise, you can't assume that (for example, you may be consciously using a GCC extension, which is ok, or relying on implementation-defined behavior, which is usually bad).

But if you write C11 that uses VLAs, it seems like it's still standard C11, sort of: VLAs aren't merely a vendor-specific extension, like the GCC extensions are, but an optional C11 feature which hasn't been deprecated. Nonetheless, a conforming C11 compiler doesn't have to accept your code, so in that sense your code isn't really "standard C11". Will there be more fine-grained names for the different subsets of the standard features, so you can say that such code is compliant with "maxi-C11" but not with "core C11" or something?
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You're taking that word way out of context. "Overeducated" here means getting an academic credential where it isn't necessary. There's nothing wrong with learning a lot, but that doesn't mean you need to pay $200K for a college degree.
vuely.com stuck out, could imagine a photo app or something being called that, someone beat me to it though. Be interested to see if any of these ever come back to HN as success stories.
This has the usual journalist bias of putting all graduates in the same bucket. I would like to see the same statistic, but with Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, EE, Mechanical Eng., etc all in their own buckets.

There seems to be some kind of outrage that you can go to a good school and get a 4 year degree and end up working with people who just graduated high-school. New grads were probably led up the garden path and not given realistic expectations. On the other hand everybody knows there are no jobs for English, Communications, Journalism, or any of the various 'Unemployment Studies' programs. Everyone knows this, it's past common knowledge and well on it's way to becoming a cliche.

Basically, I guess you can boil down what I'm saying as, "If you partied in college, and didn't take classes that were hard: you didn't learn anything, and that is why nobody will pay you for access to your training."

It used to be that certain kinds of jobs were reserved for a 'college man', but that was because that was synonymous with white and upper middle to upper class. The great liar, statistics, said that a college degree was highly correlated with lots of great outcomes, higher income, better employment, etc. The government started laying lots of money into getting everyone to go to college, without realizing that people weren't paying for the college part of college grads, they were paying for the stuff that college was correlated with. Like if the British started sending more people to Eton because they wanted to increase the size of the royal family.

These days who you know matters as much as ever. However, and this is kind of new, since the 20th century (or post Edison anyway), you can have a very comfortable and low risk life regardless of where you started, if you can learn enough technical stuff. Rich people and companies will pay to rent your brain all day. They will only pay, though, if your brain can do things that most brains can't, it's like anything else, value comes from scarcity.

So, if you are going to Harvard and your dad went to Harvard and your parents friends are as rich as they are, study whatever, you'll be fine. If your parents had to show up to work and had a boss, or worse if you are on scholarship, for the love of god study something with some cash value.

“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.” - John Adams
Without major advances in artificial intelligence technology, drones have a key weakness: the wireless link. Miniaturization may win the drones arms race, which makes drones accessible to non-governmental actors, but when it comes to controlling the spectrum, bigger is better. So governmental actors are always going to have an advantage because they can build the biggest antennas attached to the biggest power sources.
People who like Gnome2 might want to try MATE, Mint's fork of Gnome2. People who liked Ubuntu when it was pretty much just Debian with a simpler installer and better defaults for a desktop might want to try Mint Debian Edition.
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Same here, but it seems kind of justified. C11 looks a lot less ambitious than C++11. Just tweaks outside of the threading stuff, and I suspect most thread users will stick with their existing feature-rich but nonportable libraries.

C++ has always had the feeling of a language that isn't quite finished, so there's a lot of interest in where it's going next. C has the feeling of a language that does exactly what it sets out to do, so it's not really going anywhere.
Astronomy vs. Data Science
Some of those are fixed in software (4.2 fixes the sunroof issue and deep-sleep related issues). Some are hardware issues that Tesla has been resolving on a case by case basis (door handles and charge ports). The regenerative breaking issue is a feature. It will reduce the breaking ability if the batteries are too cold or if they are full (and the standard charge mode only goes to 90%, so it rarely is a cause). When breaking is reduced (or acceleration is too), the car shows a dashed yellow line on the current gauge. So, there is an indicator and you can know to expect the reduced breaking force.

Regardless, it's by far the best car I've ever owned. Considering the vehicle didn't exist outside of a CAD program 4 years ago, the minimal number of issues people have found is amazing. Tesla is a very well-run company and it's clear quality is their top priority.
I must admit that serial terminals were not something I was excepting to pop up in this thread :D
Why this Linux user is now using Windows 3.1
Speaking for myself here, but many of the reasons Google is so bad for privacy isn't necessarily because of something Google did themselves. There are very few websites on the internet that don't have some form of Google tracking device on them (analytics, ad-sense, jquery loaded from a Google domain, etc).

Any one company having access to such a big database of information about pretty much everyone that has ever used a web browser should never happen, but it happens at Google.
Look into `tag`: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TagHel...

ERB view:

<%= render @items %>

items/_item.html.erb:

<%= tag "fieldset", data: { id: item.id, category: item.category } %>
It seemed there was resentment from Dorsey after the news was announced. I can't remember exactly what the signal was, but something like deleting his Instagram account.
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