skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"These schemes must be tough in practice, not just on paper, and include strong, state-based enforcement efforts, backed by adequate funding."

Ah. There it is. That's what they're really worried about, if the "war on drugs" somehow comes to an end, or is dramatically reduced, by legalizing marijuana. They're worried that law enforcement agencies won't get as big budgets anymore, so they're now strongly "encouraging" states to keep the money flowing to them, but this time for "regulatory enforcement", instead of just catching them and throwing them in jail.
The quantity in dollars is completely and utterly irrelevant to the validated learning lean startups need. The OP's point is that Android allows you to start learning sooner and faster and to produce a better app which will make you more money.

iOS might make you more money right now if you're lucky enough to chance on an app which matches what users already want, but even that ship may soon be sailing.

Suppose iOS apps pay two times as much on average right now. Tell me: what is two times one-tenth of what you should be earning? You're hobbling yourself by MUCH MORE building an app that inadequately addresses your user's needs.
care to elaborate on your book?
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. A large, large, large portion of inmates are due to the War on Drugs, which is obviously very political. Not to mention the disproportionate imprisonment of minorities...

What I'm saying is, it's not that simple.
OP here. That's correct. This is work of Survata not Yahoo. I see how the title might suggest a connection, but that was not our intent.
And they're back. Just a blip.
It will be shipping in Q4 per [1], where I also see a video of the product. I do not see a firm shipping date still as you noted.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/qualcomm-toq-smartwatch/
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Right. And they only tested 5 logos picked at random from the first 28 that Yahoo presented. They may not even have picked the "best" 5 out of that lot. So really... this whole blog post was click bait. I'd never heard of Survata before... but now I have... for better or worse.
Sparklines in your shell
Nicely said. An argument could be made that if kids learn to study on their own they'll be motivated as adults to catch up on the stuff they weren't interested in as kids. However, as a parent I feel at least partially responsible for ensuring my kids spend their time in a useful way.
Tablets took off because the screen size is so much better for consuming content and getting certain types of work done.

The usefulness of tablets seemed obvious to me and many others before they became popular. I don't see an obvious use-case for smart-watches, unless they are extremely affordable. $300 is more than twice what I would pay for a fully-featured watch, and that's if there is a killer feature that justifies their existence.
Have you looked for any public Montessori schools? We have 3 Montessori charter schools in Denver.
I've found that the biggest problem with DisplayPort is that even if it is technically superior (unfortunately I'm not qualified to know whether it is or not), active DisplayPort/HDMI/DVI adapters are incredibly expensive.

Since HDMI and DVI came first, this limits the use of DisplayPort; manufacturers are unwilling to create a device that requires a $100 adapter to work with what most people own.
I see...

I was wondering about it...

Gift cards do not exist on my country, neither on my target markets, thus why I was kinda confused about it!
"5 years old" is a pretty far cry from "absolute latest". My 2008 Core2 Duo MacBook, upgraded to 5GB of RAM and an SSD, works like a champ for iPhone development. I don't understand this complaint.
What I took from the piece is that Android is far more developer friendly in terms of ease of development, deployment to devices for testing, and releasing.

Whether that is enough to make it a 'better' platform depends on what your needs are.

If I were doing a mobile startup and needed fast feedback on devices, Android's fast turnaround sure would be interesting. Not the deciding factor, but definitely a check in the Android column.
(This is mainly unrelated but simply fascinating)

I came across an article on this same topic, regarding a man who after being shot in the head could no longer sleep..... and apparently lived (as a fully functioning human being??) for 40 more years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kern

The problem is that I cannot find any scholarly articles that mention him (searched on Google Scholar, do not have access to other journals) and the wikipedia article has an extreme dearth of scientific details/sources on this individual; the citations listed are mainly mass media stories.

As someone who has (mainly unsuccessfully) waged a battle against sleep almost my entire life, this story that I came across yesterday intrigued me greatly, and the lack of medical details frustrated me to no end.
Yer FIRED, dude!

If you can't be assed [sic] to write accurately and consistently in your native language ...
>That means that in many cases, a good-but-legally-drunk driver will be vastly out-performing a terrible-but-sober driver.

How do you know what percentage of ability corresponds to bad driving?
> I don't know what the deal is, but a huge proportion of people writing code are plain incompetent.

Hooray for short term job security!
For people who have specific disabilities, we should make adjustments, but I don't understand why a single way of teaching would not work for most people.

Most Africans have an IQ in the 80s, barely above mentally retarded. Most of them can barely be trained to even go through the motions of algebra, let alone use it to solve problems in new situations.

"College material" kids need to graduate high school with a mastery of algebra so they can learn calculus, which they will be expected to use unbidden to solve novel problems they encounter in other areas.

It seems unlikely to me that the vocational training of the dull can be combined with the education of the near-genius. It is like trying to teach carpentry and structural engineering at the same time.

Kids also have a gigantic range of self control. About 1 in 20 are profoundly delayed, being an average of 3 years behind "normal" in planning and self control. (This is called ADHD to pathologize it, but nothing that common can possibly be a true disorder.) So a typical freshman high school classroom will have pne student who can barely keep their shit together well enough to glue macaroni to construction paper. And will have one student, usually a girl, who operates on a fully adult level.

And then there are the variations in memory. One student learns the entire course in 20 hours, while another has to grind out practice for 150 hours.

There is simply no way for a single process to handle the range of human variation well.

Even the body is like this. My ideal bicycle could permanently cripple another normal person of the same height. Ditto for shoes.
IIRC, even J2ME MIDP had this feature on feature phones, see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/pushreg-156557.htm...

Circa 2002.

Everything old is new and magic and amazing now folks!
I'm more of a visual learner and something like this would be super helpful.
looks like a great guide.. i was working through the original "how to learn angularJS" tutorial, but it got dry through some parts because it was too much material at once without too much of the application behind it in the big picture. I think this tutorial will definitely help with that, good looks!
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Generally a fair analysis. A few comments/corrections:

> For example, it appears that the in-memory format was not sufficiently flexible for Python to wrap it directly, so the Python extension does in fact have a parse step.

This is not correct. The Python wrapper directly wraps the C++ interface. You might be confused by Jason's claim that "The INFINITY TIMES faster part isn't so true for python", but this was apparently meant as a joke.

It is true, though, that the constraints of arena-style allocation (which Cap'n Proto necessarily must use to be truly zero-copy) mean that working with Cap'n Proto types is not quite as convenient as protobufs, although most users won't notice much of a difference. Lists not being dynamically resizable is the biggest sore point, though most use cases are better off not relying on dynamic resizing (it's slow), and the use cases that really do need it can get around the problem using orphans (build an std::vector<Orphan<T>>, then compile that into a List<T> when you're done).

OTOH, over the years, many people have requested the ability to use arena allocation with Protobufs due to the speed benefits, especially with Protobufs being rather heap-hungry. I always had to tell them "It would require such a massive redesign that it's not feasible."

And yes, there is the trade-off of padding on the wire. You have to decide whether your use case is more limited by bandwidth or CPU. With Cap'n Proto you get to choose between packing (removing the zeros, at the cost of a non-free encode/decode step) and not packing (infinitely-fast encode/decode, larger messages). For intra-datacenter traffic you'd probably send raw, whereas for cross-internet you'd pack. Protobufs essentially always packs without giving you a choice. And because it generates unique packing code for every type you define (rather than use a single, tight implementation that operates on arbitrary input bytes), Protobuf "packing" tends to be slower.
Julian Assange claims his encrypted laptops were stolen in 2010 while traveling
That's why I separate degree from mindset. By education mindset I mean understanding education and wanting to teach.
Honestly I think the main reason we don't see more women in tech is because of the school system and the media portrayal of women. Women don't go into tech or science because those are "guy professions", at least according to movies/tv shows/magazines etc. Hell, some of the negative stereotypes the media pushes about tech/science are enough to even scare off a lot of the men.

What sexism exists that's connected to tech is usually from either marketing (E.G. booth babes), or associated cultures like the gaming culture (driven sadly by a lot of 12-16 year old males), or sports culture (Think Madden 2013 or whatever the current year is). There is the brogramming phenomena, but I think that's largely blown out of proportion, and something that I'd frankly love to see stamped out anyway (and arguably just an extension of sports/gaming culture).
"The majority of people here are doing low-level systems programming, usually networking related, and a handful of people are doing data analysis (call it big data, if you like) to figure out how to optimize Google's next generation hardware and software platforms."

Those tasks can and are done by programmers from anywhere. There is absolutely no reason to make them come to an office.
Code sitting on the same machine can keep on performing the same way forever.

But other things change. The library changed its interface. You coded your crypto lib when MAC-then-Ecrypt was all the rage. You aren't handling HTTP/1.0 headers. Windows 7 doesn't even have those 16-bit drivers any more.

I hate the "throw everything away and rewrite with the brand new frame work every two years" that some parts of the web development community seem to have (and then get angered when you ask about a version over six months old because it is what you installed everywhere). But sometimes software does rot if it's old and no one is trying to keep it up-to-date.
"The majority of people here are doing low-level systems programming, usually networking related, and a handful of people are doing data analysis (call it big data, if you like) to figure out how to optimize Google's next generation hardware and software platforms."
Awesome, so I have about 30^, which is less than I thought, but more than I'd hoped.

I guess I have half a year to migrate them all :-/

^Though actually far more like slightly over a dozen once you get rid of all the stack exchange duplicates
Dump-to-cloud, easily dump your database to the cloud.
This is a great pilot program. Uber is in a position to provide a vertical solution for ball clubs that uniquely identifies key sore points. Then they can expand to other profitable niches - imagine interview services for large corps where Uber knows how and when to get a candidate from building to building in a city/campus (think: Redmond/MV/Cupertino). Uber is in a much better position than random cab/limo company or possibly even the company itself - as transport is often a sore spot).

Uber can iterate/pivot flexibly, while most cab companies (and local governments) can't invest the time or effort to do this for such a small (but lucrative) population.
Wouldn't be worth it for the few days a year it's focused on that one particular spot. If the solar panels could move with the sun, then you'd have something.
> I hope employers stay away from their employees sleep.

In theory it could turn out well, if it turned out that the numbers said it was better to pay people to take an hour nap in the middle of the work day.

In practice I assume it'd turn out to be more of a mandatory unpaid nap, of course.
> Despite all that, I and several other people go by our day mostly care free.

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4741
I have two teachers in the family. The primary observation is their management is intensely toxic. So "changing the rules" is primarily oriented around, well, basically screwing over management's enemies using some new rules. It has nothing to do with punishing the "bad" teachers and everything to do with punishing the ones who don't kiss up or are in certain protected or unprotected demographic groups.

Student outcomes is ridiculous because given a reasonably small class size all you're doing is grading the randomness of the kid distribution aka you'll be rewarding / punishing teachers based on which specific kids they get that year. Sometimes a good year, sometimes bad. Statistically its far more valid to grade folks at a higher level aka a larger sample size, so obviously this should be implemented to grade district leaders and principals first... LOL that will never happen because it'll only exist as a weapon.

Making it an even worse weapon, most of the people doing the coaching are the ones in charge of assigning kids to teachers. So you can't fire a teacher for being a black woman, even if you hate black women. But if coincidentally you hate black women and are in charge of assigning kids and the 24 year old single hottie white woman just happens to "randomly" get all the angelic gifted and talented wonderkids, and the uppity black woman happens to have assigned to her all the village morons and wannabe gang members, well I guess the black woman's numbers are going to suck. And thats how, if you hate black women, you legally fire black woman teachers. There's a thin veneer of BS about accountability as a marketing technique to deploy the weapon, but its all about another weapon for toxic management.

Your reading example is ridiculous as I recently completed the same age range with my kids. The argument is that English as a language is completely screwed up with innumerable exceptions. So when the teacher is trying to teach basic phonic sound #17 or whatever, its not helping matters if you confuse the kid with peculiar exception 34 B subsection W item 6.

I understand there are perfectly phonetic languages where what you see is what you get. And there are languages situations where you just have to memorize Kanji. But at least in theory you can teach English to most kids successfully by gradually piling on first basic rules and later weird rules and finally shoveling exceptions on.

Frankly I learned how to read English from pure raw memorization and lots of reading. That's not how kids are taught today. There seems to be little point in blaming teachers or unions for the decision of middle managers in the admin building who selected a particular curriculum. You can homeschool kids using this curriculum you're making fun of if you want, it's a policy decision that has nothing to do with licensing the front line workers or their union or frankly even their immediate supervisors...
>How do you know what percentage of ability corresponds to bad driving?

It is based on reaction time. So if you approach a stop light that turns red and you have a 70% score, you are taking approximately 30% longer to hit the car brakes.
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That infographic is pretty unclear. Most of the statistics do not compare to the general population. Furthermore, the ones that do are unclear as to whether they have corrected for other major factors such as family income or parental education level. For example, students who are home-schooled are more likely to attend college than their non-home-schooled peers. Are they more likely to attend college compared to similar non-home-schooled peers (in the same socioeconomic status, race, parental education level, region of the country, etc)?
Good driving doesn't have that much to do with your reaction time. 40% slower to respond, with a well planned drive, is a lot safer than 40% faster driving too close.
Scientists develop a literal window into the brain
"I'm not sure why you think I have no real architectural details. What do you know about what I know?
"

They do not appear as supporting details of your argument, so ...

Again, you are trying to make it seem like pedantry and that i am addressing only extreme cases or bugs , and my point is you have offered no details to support any part of your argument.

"Likewise, my point was that it is generally true that iOS 7 doesn't allow apps to wake up as often as they want. "

I quoted your statement about battery life, and said you have offered no details to show this to be the case.
Rather than offer details to refute that, you have now instead said "I said something different".

I'd appreciate it if you would stick on point and address my contention that you have not offered details about this statement:"it let poorly-behaved apps drain significant amounts of battery in the background and it's not true that Apple has now added that possibility."

Please offer details to back this up. IE what architectural details you know that you believe make it the case that apple has not added the possibility of apps using large amounts of battery in the background.

If the details are "apps can't arbitrarily wake themselves up", then your statement about the possibility of background apps draining battery life is easily shown to be wrong, and i'll be happy to refute it for you.
If it is something else, i'd love to hear it, so i know exactly what argument i am addressing.

Let's stay with this one part of the argument, please.
Er, not really. Choosing not to actively use Facebook doesn't protect you from shadow profiles or the actions of people that you know.
Woo! Congrats guys!
Skimmed through the article and I didn't find any evidence of "making your data center run like Google's". More specifically: I didn't see any live data connections to the NSA.
Packaged this up based on https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake
It was tough turning all the synchronous asset resource requests into async ones. Not sure why this is a necessity for Chrome Packaged apps for local resources anyway. :-(
Using Go for Statistical Programming
Looks like your Murmur implementation may be broken?

-Austin (Murmur author)
I used to work next to where this was built and the site was empty for ages. I imagine it got delayed due to money trouble at the time. They would have had a lot longer than usual to think about potential problems.
Bug 899080 – Make all plugins except Flash default to click-to-play
Reminds me of something a certain Mr Swartz did ...
I believe you 100%, but I find it hard to imagine how a single family can offer the diversity of experiences present in a public school. Do you have a way of addressing that?
Let me put it in concrete terms:

1. The wars were 100% borrowed money. Every dollar spent was borrowed.

2. The wars produced nothing. Zero value. Not even any cool technology we overpaid for. A complete waste.

The wars literally increased the debt and associated economic drag on us and our children and their children by $2T in debt.

We would, therefore, be literally $2T richer. Not all of it was paid to Americans, but of the amount that was, every penny will be taxed out of us and paid back with interest. Pure drag and deadweight.
How it felt to be fired
I think you've misread the 580 patch. By definition, you need to read the existing vector clock value before you can issue an update against it.

/Member of the presumedly incompetent Cassandra tech leadership
Why do you think that an educational system run by central government and funded by taxes represents the revealed judgement of capitalism?
Don't worry about the trolls, your points made sense to me.

The crazies have come out in this thread.
How is this front page? This is extremely old
Almost everyone I talked to uses folders - especially in iOS where you can dynamically create folders by drag/drop. The alternative if you have 3 dozen or more apps is pretty daunting.

Where I do agree with you is that Springboard needs a major update - I want to see a grid of apps I've recently launched for example (the recents tray on double-tap home is way too small). Or ones that have updates/badges so I don't have to hunt over my 5-6 screens for updates. Perhaps the notifications enhancements (and the "today overview" a la Google Now) might alleviate this.
Not to take away from this still being pretty awesome, but this was absolutely huge (for the time) on HN back at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 :-) including plenty of rewrites in various languages.
Twitter Open Sources Streaming MapReduce Framework
This is a little bit of deja vu.