skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to suffer form frequent backaches. A couple of years back I shifted from modern office chairs to a solid wooden chair ($50) with no arms at home. The chair is heavy enough that it does not move as I shift my weight around. I find myself sitting up straight more often, as against slouching all the time, and since then I never had any back-pain.
Yeah there are a few apps (well, web services known as "Glassware") already. I haven't played with too many of them yet.

None of the third party apps are overlaying information in an augmented reality fashion. The performance is pretty good, the navigation maps turn smoothly when you turn, etc.

It is a little distracting, but not nearly as distracting as I was expecting.
Just downloaded. Really, really nice. How do I set a due date and does it have notifications?
The 13" doesn't have switchable graphics though, right? That's what has stopped me from upgrading so far. Hoping that June brings good news.
Ubuntu's patches for the various font rendering technologies are my #1 must-have software on Linux. Any distro I use is either a Ubuntu or something that has these patches an easy install away. (Arch has them in the AUR, for example)
I am a .NET developer, did not know about Jackson, I just saw it and oh man! now I understand you. way way simpler.
Looked at previously opened tab. Saw advert popup. Closed tab.
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Good to see Java is holding its own.
> Also the title made me think that this is about LESS, the CSS framework

I made the exact same connection. It was only by looking at the URL that I suspected "less" would refer to MVP rather than CSS.
I am a person that likes to get all this new geeky stuff even if I then don't use it... I would pay anything up to $600/$700. There isn't a particular reason, I just enjoy trying new gadgets and feel them mine.
Does the connectivity drop sometimes? Does it become just a bit of plastic when that happens or does it still do something?

Have you tested it outside a city?
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The ./temp/~c107DgA33R bit looks like a reference to a cached internal state of the system, so you can probably make about as much sense of it as you can of https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=H1QJE8EOaO2OkA28owXZ4H.
Not too much, only the top right corner. And why are the sucker punches limited to just Glass? Why not someone who stares at their phone during a conversation?
Your alternative proposition (hypothesis has a different meaning in philosophy than it does in the sciences) is rather confusing from a philosophical perspective. What is 'educated'? Education is a culturally relative idea that is very hard to closely define. Thus, for a religious person being 'educated' may mean something very different from a gypsy who grows up on the streets of Paris who is very 'educated' in the workings of life on the street. Does the 'educated' individual mean some one who can create amazing works of art? Or, does it indicate some one who has memorized and repeats certain culturally important texts and ideas?

There is certainly a cultural side to philosophy in Modern Western society that is largely anti-religious from the very beginning. I started out as your average fervent evangelical Christian, which I am no longer, but it was initially incredibly uncomfortable in a philosophy department to try to hold on to certain belief systems. However, it is not necessarily for the reasons that one would believe. It is a culturally phenomenon. In older generations, it was entirely unacceptable to be religious and be in philosophy. You were naturally routed towards theology by the university staff because the topics of conversation are entirely different; modern philosophy does not concern itself with the question of religion. Yet, the vast majority of older philosophy professors, when being honest, will acknowledge that despite their atheism there are still countless religious systems that have fascinating thinkers and concepts that are both rational and consistent.

It just so happens that in America, Christianity is the de facto symbol for religion and it is both irrational and inconsistent.
Really can't reproduce this. Tried it at home and at coffee shops. If you have anymore debugging info feel free to send it my way (dan at medium dot com).
Well, what's discussed in the article is a university mulling offering MOOCs to their students. I assume such MOOCs are not free.
Honestly, with the creation of retina displays and so on, games are the least of concern here. The 13" Retina MBP was criticised heavily for its everyday graphics performance- if an internal chipset can deliver my retina desktop without slowing down, I'll be happy.
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I just took it as an opportunity to empathise with the people who stare at me blankly when I talk about computer stuff. It would have been nice to have the acronym explained, and given that it's a website they could have used the acronym or abbr elements, but I guess you have to cut them some slack for knowing their audience.
What version of the programming languages are being used?There is a major difference between Ruby 1.9.x and Ruby 2.x
They're not seemingly random geographical features: they're usually geographical features associated with the Intel lab that did most of the lifecycle of development. With tick-tock, they have a new chip each year. I believe every chip development takes 6 years, so they have three labs concurrently working on things at various stages.

Yonah (Core Solo and Core Duo) - Intel Israel

Tejas (planned Pentium 4 successor; cancelled) - Intel Bangalore

Willamette (Pentium 4) - Intel Oregon

Nehalem - Nehalem River in Oregon

Here's a whole bunch of etymologies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_codenames
That's true. Setting up this on the cloud might not be straightforward. Thanks for your input! :)
The point is that the existence of agriculture leads to many things, of which even more centralized control is the result. Agriculture by its nature supports more people than necessary to produce the food. This surplus necessarily begets an underclass and an a ruling class. The book Guns, Germs, and Steel has some very interesting case studies of societies that grew into very stratified political societies based on the discovery of agriculture. The cause/effect implication is clear because of analysis of cultures with a recent common origin who where the difference in outcomes were only a matter of properties of the land which encouraged or precluded agriculture.
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Some of the PHP frameworks do better than Python frameworks.
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This is not to say that pedagogical advances can't be made, but as you pointed out, these advances, to the extent possible, should not be influenced by budget constraints lest we end up with cheaper, but proportionally worse, education.

Why do you believe that worse but cheaper education wouldn't provide a better value to students?
I hadn't heard of the dyslexic font situation. After a little searching, I found: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121004/18530620612/font-...

I assume that's the legal situation to which you are referring.
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Ruby 2.0.0-p0

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=environment
Wow, I should really give Go a try.
yea, it's been a while
Yep it has, since it's tethered to my Nexus 4 for data when not on Wifi. Plenty still works without data, you can still take photos, browse the "cards" that are on the device, etc.
> People that pull the switch are thought to have more sociopathic tendencies

That's interesting. Do you know what is the rationale behind this?
Note that this chip isn't doing genome sequencing - it's looking for SNPs, i.e. a bunch of known single letter changes in the DNA. This chip chops up the DNA, runs high-speed PCR to amplify the segments, filters the DNA, and then uses a new electrochemical sensor to detect the SNPs.

There's considerably more information at http://www.diginfo.tv/v/13-0022-r-en.php
If you register an account and login and look behind the scenes you'll notice it generates the entire user section client side, caching everything. Takes a load off the server.
In essence, pagerank sorts pages by the probability that you'd arrive at them by randomly following links form other pages.

G is a matrix of transition probabilities - each entry is the probability of moving directly from a particular page to another particular page. It is composed of 3 terms:

- the hyperlink matrix: the probabilities obtained by assuming a user randomly selects a link to follow from their current page, with an equal probability for each

- the dangling nodes matrix: to ensure that it is possible to leave every page, this adds an equal probability for moving from a page with no outgoing links to every other page

- the matrix U of all ones: this provides G with 2 desirable properties, by ensuring it is both irreducible/strongly-connected and aperiodic. It does this by making it possible to move from any page to any other page, with some small probability (exactly how small is determined by the damping factor d).

The pagerank vector represents the equilibrium probability distribution - in other words, the probability of being on a particular page after starting on a random page then spending a long time randomly moving between pages according to the probabilities in G.

Now, if at a given time your probability of being on each page is given by some vector X, the probability of being on each page after one random move is the transition matrix multiplied by X.

The equilibrium probability vector thus has the property that it is unchanged by multiplication by the transition matrix - it is therefore an eigenvector of the transition matrix, with an eigenvalue of 1.

Edit: After typing this, I see that explanatory hypertext appears when you mouse over the blue words.
Great example of the old adage: you'll never know if you don't try. Interesting title as it's slightly misleading at first, but ultimately truthful.
At $1500 I certainly don't plan on owning one. Depending on price points I could see buying one
It's pretty, but go and try to solve the problem "I want to see what library is open today so that I can take my kids there".

The best I could do involved clicking through to find a local library and then an alphabetical list that forces you to click through on each letter.
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I'm thinking the same.
This summer vacation is reserved for Go :)
Programmer pattern matching in action :)
To add to what Samuel_Michon wrote, I'm 38, 103kg at the moment (I'm substantially above averagely muscular, but also somewhat overweight now), 1m 85, and I exercise hard 5 days a week - 1 hour of heavy weights 3-4 times/week, and cardio the rest. I work in an office, so my work day is fairly sedentary. I also have a young son which keeps me more active than I've ever been before during the evenings.

I burn ~2800 kcal/day when I exercise.

This is an estimate based on tracking every meal, and tracking my weight every morning, rather than what I "should" be burning.

Unless you have a very active job, or exercise hard (think stumbling out of the gym) for substantially more than an hour a day, or spend every moment of your spare time being highly active, you're likely not burning 3400 calories.

But really, write down what you eat for a couple of weeks, count the calories, track your weight, then adjust the number of calories to target up/down depending on whether you want to increase/decrease your weight, as there are so many factors that can change what how much you need.
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Not specifically for this source but Ipsos MORI have been asking similar questions for quite a while, the latest results are here:
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchi...

If the subject of perceptions of trust is of interest ... I've (mostly finished) a blog post about these trust perceptions which re-presents some of the Ipsos Mori stats in support of an attempt to plumb the implications for politics and the projection of power in the UK : https://www.bel-epa.com/posts/a-legislature-of-lemons.xml
Since you paid nothing, I'm not sure how strong of a praise that is. ;-)

Personally, I'd say I got my time's worth. Time is worth a lot, and I've put a lot into the classes, and I feel it has all been more than worthwhile.
I am becoming more and more a fan of the Jeckyll trend for front-facing web sites for government. I believe Hawaii.gov just rolled out their new site and it looks fantastic.

The Manchester city page is certainly better than a number of government sites I've seen in the past, (kudos) but might benefit from a bit better economy of screen real estate.
Thanks for posting this - I'm aware of that, but wanted to note that they don't offer a "real" dyslexic font. I should have been more clear about that.
We should take the time to appreciate the people who choose to design text based protocols like SMTP and HTTP. They may be a little inefficient, but at least they don't suffer from arbitrary numerical limits like this.
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Note that these are not even canonical URLs. Both of them now fail with a "Search Timed Out" error.

US Trademark Office has the same issue, there is no way to link to a particular trademark, because the only access is via the search engine and queries time out, e.g.: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:xt...
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I lean towards a sort of death. But perhaps we're all dying and reanimating in between each Planck time instant anyway, in which case we shouldn't worry about it too much :)
Oh, wow. I had assumed that people who visited around the same time got the same next page URL, maybe as part of a caching strategy or something.

This way seems impractical, TBH. Certainly for the user - the expiration a bit of a nuisance, as I'll get it more often than not if I read a couple of stories and then click 'More'.
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The quote was from most of a decade ago; probably truer then. (Though Clippy was Bayesian. I read somewhere a claim that its awfulness came from management messing with it.)
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I think a much bigger problem than old software on 32 bit machines is the fact that some (binary) protocols use 32 bit integers to encode dates. That means that even when hardware and OSes get updated and even if servers or clients are maintained, stuff will still go wrong when the protocols are wrong.

So keeping up to date software might not be enough. We'll also have to pressure our peers to update and to adapt new protocol versions (that might have other changes in addition to just the widening of the timestamps)
Yes. I haven't been following the outcome, so that might be resolved but my latest info bit is that it's currently a minefield. Comic Sans is a viable alternative for most use cases though.
I am hedging my bets and trying to accumulate as much surplus resources as possible. 50/50 odds on an anodyne global economic revolution?
A thought occurred to me this morning about Google Glass: would a good alternative to wearing glasses that project a HUD into your eye be instead to simply wear a wrist watch that connects up to a wireless camera that you can mount to whatever you want, your head included.

The benefit would be that you could mount the camera in a less conspicuous way, perhaps as a more traditional looking bluetooth headset. Or, you could mount the camera wherever you wanted; facing behind you, on your bike handlebars, leave it at your car while you're at a restaurant, put it on your RC airplane, etc. The camera would communicate wireless with the wrist watch, which would have a microphone you could speak commands to, and perhaps additional buttons to control the camera or even a multitouch screen.

And why stop at one camera? You could pair multiple cameras to your watch and control them individually. Put one facing behind you and in front of you, or give one to your friend while you both play one-on-one basketball.

Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that much less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass.

Just a thought, I don't know how viable it would be.
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I knew someone was going to say that :P I did get my time's worth back in multiples.
I think this claim is just confusing descriptive and normative ethics. Probably the most common confusion about ethics there is.

True, descriptive ethics is almost entirely composed of various facts about human psychology and sociology, but no normative claim can be deduced from these facts alone.
As a German I say:

German engineering is still of really high quality and there are lots of companies (especially in mechanical engineering) that make use of this knowledge.

But the German gouvernment has missed the information revolution and many powerful companies (Deutsche Telekom, TV companies, etc.) see anything that has to do with the internet as danger for their business models - thus they lobby a lot for laws against anything that endangers their business models and especially internet startups. See for example
> http://www.uni-muenster.de/Jura.itm/hoeren/materialien/Skrip...
to see how complicated the law has become there - full of legal mines.

For the same reason the idea to found a public corporation that builds a modern fiber network which internet providers can rent on equal terms (an idea that is discussed) will probably never be done.
Too bad that seems like only an external reference method, and the site never uses those URLs internally.
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In the late 1990s you could still get domains with the names of major corporations because they were asleep at the wheel.

In the early 1990s you could get four letter domains and you could get them for free. There was no registration fee until around 1995.
A does not mean "competent" in the US. Grades are curved so that only a few students get A's. It has nothing at all to do with what the student knows either. Hell, I remember some university classes explicitly assigning grades this way: a a measure of you relative to your peers. People generally don't get 4.0's either.
Thank you.

By the way, here is a good discussion related to "responsive" term - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14831530/responsive-desig...
I was there when Y2k happened! Alas, nothing happened except I was suffering from a huge hangover the very next morning.
It's called "ratting" [1] and happens awfully more often that it should.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software
Does not work in FF 20.0 on Ubuntu. (The header shrinks so that the labels no longer line up with the columns.)
I've used an Aeron and tried various other high-tech chairs and had similar results. I tend to have the best posture and feel most comfortable when in a hard chair, ideally with four legs I can prop my legs against. The rest of the time I spend standing.
I wonder why the 9 lowest ranked frameworks are all in PHP...
Sorry, right swipe :)
For those new to these benchmarks, all of the source code is up on github:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks

We welcome all pull requests, suggestions and criticisms.
I would buy it as an add-on to my analog glasses at $500, assuming reasonable weight and battery life.
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> Yes, iOS uses (parts of) FreeType.

Do you have a reference for this rather surprising claim?
Using text was largely a way to make implementation easier, more human readable, and also conveniently avoid endian issues.

The arbitrary numerical limits are usually in the implementation, as many a buffer overflow bug as demonstrated.
I am the opposite. I don't like having things I don't use and I'm almost never an early adopter; I tend to wait for reviews.
They're hardly free in this model. That's one of main points in the article. The creator of said MOOC charges a licensing fee for their usage. The smaller institutions see this as a slap in the face as they're then essentially expected to give more money to the already wealthier institutions.
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Lua is impressive - the first as a non-compiled lang. Is that Lua or Luajit in OpenResty?
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I assume this is for the eventual productised version and not for the current public beta / "explorer" version. I'd need at least a solid 24 hours of battery life with typical use, and some degree of weather resistance before I'd buy.
No, I was definitely implying that it looks unnecessarily similar.
This is very very cool. You've made a really well thought out service with this. Congrats.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

These San Jose professor are simply trying to fight inevitable disruption of the current university system, which is simply broken.
I originally heard of the Trolly Problem in an episode of the The Brain Series on Charlie Rose where the guest neroscientists presented that viewpoint. I personally don't belive it, but that was the messaage they were presenting.

The series is both fascinating and frightening in way. I reccomend watching it to see the current ideas in brain science presented by the people creataing them.
I quite like the colours on the second one.
>The plough was heavier [...] it gave men an advantage over women. [...] Women descended from plough-users are less likely to work outside the home, to be elected to parliament or to run businesses

And this is why North European countries, which used the heaviest plows [1], are the most backward in their treatment of women. Oh wait...

In any case, as anyone who has had a serious conversation with a farmer can attest, the bulk of the work in agriculture is by far in harvesting and not in plowing. Pretty much all traditional societies "allow" women to do that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carruca