skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. Older minds analyze better than younger minds. They have more knowledge to bring to bear on a topic. Younger minds memorize better than older minds--repeated things make more of a lasting imprint.

Both young and old need to do both, but the best results come from using this time-limited memorization advantage strategically, not haphazardly.

Unfortunately, that's not what we do (in the US). Memorization is described by progressive educrats as "drill and kill". Instead of carefully analyzing what should be memorized to provide the most strategic leverage, they deprecate it almost entirely. Why put a lot of effort, they ask, into memorizing anything in the 21st Century? Multiplication tables? Everyone will have a calculator, they answer. Geography? Google! No, they insist, understanding is what matters: concepts, not facts, as if people reason better with facts stored at Google than with facts in their own heads.

Then they rush students through too much material too quickly for serious analysis. Our minds have multiple modes of operation, and when we don't have time to figure things out, Plan B is to stop analyzing and just try to remember--use memory and metaknowledge about tests to pass. The writer's daughter was explicitly aware of that mode switch.

So we end up with a "progressive" education industry denigrating memorization as a knuckle-dragging, traditional practice with the result that, instead of eliminating memorization itself, they just eliminate the "strategic" part.
Actually, pretty decent. I notice only a few blocks in the first two rows that stick out, but they are also really close.
I Am My Hair
Alot of my friends did the oppostie. American employers pay higher wages for professional labour than those in Canada. Most americans travel to study in Canada. Canadian economy is quite conservative, maybe thats why it fared ok in last recession.

So it does not make sense, to me at least.

my 2c.
Udacity is my absolute favorite tutorial for python - added!
It says: > Any shortfall between what you can express in code and what you would like to express in total becomes a plausible candidate for a useful comment.

This is a good way of looking at it... as long as you remember that this shortfall is often gigantic, and usually includes why this approach is being used instead of other techniques (which may have been used and abandoned for good reason).

Code does not exist in a vacuum. You should write code not just to compile, but to be read by others. And many times, the actual code might be only 30% of the important stuff. A good project may very well be 2/3 comments, 1/3 code, because it should include the reasoning behind coding decisions, which is often quite complex, but crucial to understanding why the code is written as is, and to understanding how to properly extend it.

Without that kind of documentation, you're doing a tremendous disservice to future programmers who seek to maintain or add to the code -- or to yourself, often times, when you pick up code you wrote yourself two years ago.
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Most Canadians I know have fallen prey to the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy. Those who have not seem discouraged/depressed about trying to hold back the tide of governmental privacy invasion AND/OR focusing all their attention on more visible issues like oil pipelines | religious symbols | taxation...
I was really hoping they could turn it around -- by all accounts the new phones are pretty nice and the mobile OS market could use some more serious competitors. But they have virtually no apps and no clear path to getting apps. Combine that with BYOD policies that let employees bring their own phones instead of having one issued and their whole sales model goes out the window.
Load Testing:  An Unexpected Journey
It's just business. The same thing happened when Apple switched from PortalPlayer to Samsung; their stock tanked and they were bought by Nvidia.
Poll finds iOS 7 design is a clear favorite over iOS 6
Samsung and Apple are both massive companies with an immense amount of overlap, so one of them boycotting the other would be like the US boycotting China. It just doesn't make sense.

Although it's only prudent that they still keep each-other at arms length, and scrutinize every business decision with the other.
of course, just like republicans and democrats in the US :)
The organization should have a number of laptops designated solely for international use. They should be restored to the org's "gold image" and kept "in stock" and available.

Prior to leaving on an international trip, the traveler "checks out" a laptop from I.T. for the duration of his trip. No personal or business data should exist on the data at this point. Once destinated, the needed business data can be downloaded to the laptop over a secure VPN back to company HQ.

Prior to returning, the traveler will run a "clean up" script that I.T. has developed. This script will upload any business documents that have been created or obtained while outside of the U.S. back to company servers (over that VPN) and then wipe the data from the laptop. Alternately, the laptop could have a partition set up that, when booted to, starts the reimaging process (sorta like how consumer PCs have a "restore partition"). This would be done, obviously, before returning to the U.S.

When the traveler has arrived back in the U.S., s/he returns the laptop to I.T. who again image it with their gold image and store it for the next user who needs it.

It wouldn't be that difficult or that much of a PITA, IMO -- it all depends on how important the data is to the company. It would likely require a change in policy and some users would almost certainly complain about it. Oh well.
I see a great deal of people to blame for your pain than just one group of politicians.

Was there nothing to be done about the two doctors colluding behind your back? Because that doesn't sound like medical malpractice to me, that sounds like fraud.
I'd begin by basic electronics
Certainly relevant, but, Breaking Bad fan?
what a coincidence- I was thinking about this this A.M. I was conceptualizing a flowchart. Something like: 1. Observation 2. Massive overgeneralization of observation and posting to Internet. 3. Refutation of massive overgeneralization. 4. Insistence on narrow range of circumstances in which observation is true. 5. Announcement of extraordinary exceptions. 6. Anecdote in which even that exception was inadequate. 7. Call for advanced structural frameworks to encompass vastly differing perspectives. 8. Recollection of failed attempt at structure in 1976 (Optional: suggestion to live in geodesic homes). 9. Platitudes about how the details don't matter anyway. 10. Violent exasperation that details won't matter, including extreme hypothetical circumstances. 11. Shifting of blame to political figures and/or youth and their gadgets.
Seems to me the best thing that could happen to them would be a bankruptcy followed by either a sell-off, or a split-off, of their design division (and all associated hardware contracts.) Then you'd have the equivalent of a fresh start-up making these phones, with no debts. They'd probably do pretty well.
This deserves a post by itself
I would go on tangent and fantasize about quasi-corporate state described in SnowCrash. Towards which we are moving, slowly.
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Cloud Closures Remind Us of The Importance of Backups
While the shutdown of Cloudee, Nirvanix, and FileRock caused some rumblings in the cloud this week and a subsequent storm online, there is somewhat of a silver lining. It is a valuable lesson to all about the importance of regularly scheduled backups.

Every industry experience ebbs and flows and though some cloud companies find themselves unable to compete, cloud storage is here to stay. This month Verizon reported that cloud utilization grew by 90 percent between January 2012 and June 2013, and that organizations are on average increasing their cloud budget by 45 percent per month. The same blog post indicates that only 38 percent of organizations report the use of cloud services today, with 80 percent planning on doing so over the next year. Credit to Arthur Cole for a great blog post.

While the cloud isn’t going anywhere, the signal created by these shutdowns should serve as a reminder of the importance of backing up your data. Many see the cloud as their primary back up option and while this can serve well for the most part, you can never be too safe with your data. And we're not just talking shutdowns. Outtages can happen from time to time and if you need your files RIGHT NOW - you could be out of luck.

Some options to better safeguard your data include cloud to cloud or cloud to premise (i.e., your home or office) backups. The beauty of backups is that they are simple, and once set - so are you. Backups are insurance against the unexpected. They’re your second chance. Your serenity while others scramble.

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Does anybody know how RDRAND is being used in FreeBSD 10 ?
is RDRAND somehow mandated so that it must be used, I mean why are both Linux and BSD both thinking that this is such a swell feature that must be implemented ?

Theodore Tso - the author of Linux /dev/random thinks that using it is a bad idea
https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/SDcoemc9...
Let the mammals organize voluntarily. In my country, for example, some people are against central asian immigrants. That's fine. I propose they don't do any business with them and don't allow them on their private property. I, on the other hand, am completely fine with them, so I do business with them. I never signed a single document which says that government is allowed to make such decisions on my behalf.
Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn
Sure, it's an input type="color" with some css applied to it. On webkit, it becomes a picker, on other browsers, just a text input.

When it is changed, we loop through various elements and change their background color. The way the themes are generated is a little more complicated, but I don't think that's what you're asking about.
I've given up on F1 and I'm not giving Sky my cash. I do miss it though.
32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life
Are there any resources for investigating doctors? Is there no ways for patients to save themselves from the next Hannibal Lecter?
But the government already does set rules on how businesses can use their customers' personal data. In the absence of such rules isn't it fair to say that corporations will use their customers' personal data in a way that only serves themselves and their shareholders?

Not trusting the government with regards to privacy is understandable; trusting corporations to do the right thing for anyone but their shareholders is not.
Remix and the originality myth
and play 2.1+ can serve https as well http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/Configuring.... In practice, play instances are behind a front end server such as nginx for load balancing, https, caching, and virtual hosting. Play's convention for stateless sessions makes it really attractive to scale by adding more instances to the node balancer.
No, the Breaking Bad writers are fans of Ozymandius.
I believe the future in the short term would be something like BufferBox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BufferBox

"temporary parcel pickup station for packages ordered online"

https://www.bufferbox.com/

I want to do something like this in my country.
There are other tools that let you write slides in MarkDown, which is then compiled to HTML to be rendered in a browser: https://github.com/search?q=markdown+slides&type=Repositorie...
this looks like a pleasant introduction to machine learning
To Hell with Backups
You should use standard algorithms whenever possible. Sean Parent talked about it at Going Native. He was able to transform a horrible set of for loops he found in Google's code into a few lines of modern C++ using standard algorithms. But he _is_ Sean Parent!
If a customs official thought you had contraband in 1789, he could search your person, open boxes on your ship, etc, without a warrant and without probable cause. See U.S. v. Ramsey: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6107136132398268... (616-617).

The difference is that this "plenary power" to search at the border has different implications today now that people carry their whole lives around with them on their phones. But that seems to me to be a fault of the people rather than a fault of the law.
But will they have enough engineers on board to make a phone? The hardware game is quite expensive.
> Much of Islam (most, probably) sees the Niqab as being optional

Which doesn't stop it from being a religious issue.

> Every Islamic sect allows polygamy (other religions also allow it). So tell me, why are we infringing on that belief?

Whether something is a bona fide religious issue is not, alone, dispositive of the treatment it should have by the State. So pointing out that other religious practices are prohibited by the State is irrelevant when the discussion at hand was over whether the issue was really a religious issue.
So the difference is that you trust the hospital to sanitize the data, and you don't trust the LEO to do the same.
RIM Director: Our New CEO Isn’t a Moron Like the Rest of You (2012)
25 things to do with a low-cost ARM based computer that has seen widespread community adoption doesn't really have the same ring to it.
Meet Cortana, the new voice of Microsoft
I always felt they could take what ever the damages award ended up to be

Like the other poster said, prices are almost certainly fixed--or else they'd face extortion as iPhone got more popular--but does anyone even dare calculate how much damages (including punitive) you have to pay Apple that's shipping some 100 million iPhones a year? Samsung and every corporation on earth would be bankrupt, not to mention that their stock would crash the minute word got out, almost certainly face DOJ, EU anti-trust and other issues etc etc.

Samsung singed the contract and they have to abide by it or else...

Not to start a war or anything, but Samsung decided to compete with their customer, not the other way around. Do we already need a reminder of pre-iPhone phones?
And I'd begin with basic mathematics.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Twitter
Blastar Paraphrase PHP LAMP Script Alpha 0.00001
You have to be especially careful with Imagemagick because it calls through to format specific libraries (libjpeg, libpng, etc) and the implementation of THOSE libraries can have a huge impact on your application.

For instance, say you are generating thumbnails for JPEG images. Most Operating Systems ship with the IJG libjpeg, but a few have switched or are considering switching to libjpeg-turbo, a forked binary compatible library that has several performance enhancements. One thing libjpeg-turbo doesn't do though, is implement the DCT scaling functionality of libjpeg, which is a way of efficiently downscaling jpeg images without fully decoding the image (and of course has an impact on image quality as well). The most important benefit of using DCT scaling for generating thumbnails is that it has much lower memory overhead. Since you don't need to decompress the entire image first, it can be done block by block, which means full-image sized buffers don't need to be allocated (which is what Imagemagick will try to do by default). Generating a small thumbnail of a large (10,000 x 20,000 pixel) image will allocate large amounts of memory, whereas using the DCT scaling option will allocate only small working buffers and complete much faster. If you're running an image processing server, these considerations are vital.

Long story short, if you stop thinking about your code at the level of the Imagemagick API (or whatever graphics library you choose), you can end up with more problems than you might realize.
My first attempt at a PHP script using LAMP. Needs the Moby Thesaurus database for MySQL to work.

A proof of concept to paraphrase words automatically. My first attempt makes word salads apparently. Any feedback or help?
Great link, that really clarified things for me (I think). The OP article uses this sample as something you can do with fat arrows. "Because the containing scope closes over the fat arrow function, you can do things like,"

let fib = (n) => {
if (n <= 1) return 1;
return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2};
}

I don't understand what this is showing. Wouldn't this code work the same way without fat arrows because there's no `this` being used anywhere?
I sympathize strongly with the people who lost their job. I don't, however, sympathize with the company that made their decision to go it alone despite overwhelming evidence that there isn't room for another platform. iOS, Android, the Web. That's it. That's all there's going to be for the foreseeable future in mobile. Even Microsoft is failing at this. How much evidence does a company need to see that their strategy was doomed?

It's classic innovators dilemma. BlackBerry could think of nothing but protecting their existing business, even with failure staring them in the face. They should have been planning more for the next phase of the company (whether that be selling enterprise servers or whatever else) and made a small, cheap, play at restoring their phone business (probably by forking Android).
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You can't continue to reside in territory controlled and defended by a sovereign people and then claim you signed no document consenting to abide by their rules. Your mere presence in their territory subjects you to their jurisdiction. That is in fact the whole purpose of securing and controlling territory--to establish dominion over that territory and those within.
I like C quite a bit, but if I said, "I like C more than C++ or JavaScript or Haskell", I'd be locked away forever. In a padded room. With nothing but a BASIC interpreter.

i.e. nobody, but nobody says their favorite language is C anymore, they've all found languages that have trade-offs, and most people don't need the trade-offs C can provide. Parsing XML? Un-fun. Regular expressions? Un-fun. GUIs? Un-fun. Hierarchical subclasses of actors? Un-fun.
"really" being the key word. if it's not immediate, it's good practice to show some sort of loading indicator, and neither angular or backbone are immediate.
this asshole is spamming this on supportchannels on freenode.
Yeah, I am pretty sure that you're correct.. This was a new input to me (<input type=color />) - learn something new everyday.
Especially the part about KDFs being deliberately slow, and according to him that somehow implies that RNGs should also be slow. Whut? This guy is really a CTO?
Apple TV software update 6.0 with iTunes Radio, iTunes Music Store and more
I'm sure they'd be exploring alternatives ... But it's just the scale at which Samsung supplies them the chips that it's not seemingly possible for many other suppliers in the world ...
>> With a choice between pride + 60¢ per day or $10-20 per day from begging why wouldn't you choose the latter?

The article mentioned that it reduces the likelihood of robbery, but to put it more simply, they have less of a chance of being mugged. Panning for donations is quite obviously easier, but makes you fall victim as a potential mark, labeling yourself homeless is like shouting, "I have no dedicated protection I can rely on, won't be taken seriously by police, and likely don't have anyone who worries about me."

>> To be able to afford laptops, smartphones, cigarettes etc. these men must be getting money from somewhere other than bitcoin.

The subject of the article lost his jobs and subsequently his housing, the laptop and smartphone are most likely relics from before he was homeless. The cigarettes are a common theme I have seen among homeless, not just these guys; sometimes they don't even buy them, but nab a still lit cigarette a passerby tossed on the ground.

>> Also: "he decided to live on the street for a while" makes me think he probably has some money in savings that he is able to make use of

The article reads exactly as this: "After a few months, he got back under a roof, but that didn’t last, so he decided to live on the street for a while, rather than yo-yoing between home and homelessness." The last part of the segment where he says we wishes to avoid yo-yoing between homes is because he does not want the stress of having a place to stay, and then finding himself without, occurring over and over. It is possible he has a savings account that he is storing cash in to get off the streets, but your comment is not based on fact so that may not be true.

>> This is a feel good article but lets be honest: The vast majority of homeless people don't have laptops or smartphones. [...] Bitcoin isn't going to help most homeless people.

You're right, the majority don't, but it's purpose wasn't as a solution to the problem of homelessness, but instead an exposition, a case study if you will, where Bitcoins have proven to be beneficial.
> "Some kind of aversion" is a long, long way from seeing other human beings as "things".

Every moment you to avert your attention, you are treating a person as a thing. You stop seeing the person and react to the aversion instead.

This is something that happens with pretty much everyone.

The difference here is for me, I am seeing people who, from time to time, will have aversions, and will in that moment treat that person as a thing. For you, it seems to be an unforgivable act that once committed, can never, ever be redeemed. I think that latter is another form of typecasting, don't you think?

I think it is useful to recognize that each of us have done this in the past, as a way of being aware of what is happening in the present moment. So that, when you do find yourself walking down the street, and you are busy, rushing to somewhere else, and someone asks you for change: do you at least stop, look at that person in the eyes, and sincerely tell that person, "No, I don't have change for you. Sorry."?
I still don't understand all this uproar over fingerprinting.

Fingerprints are obviously incredibly insecure. They're obviously identifiable. How is this news?

Fingerprint readers on phones are like locks on doors -- they deter casual people, but are totally worthless against anyone determined. But still pretty useful for their convenience in most situations.

Fingerprint readers on phones are for preventing your mother or your girlfriend or your son or your coworker from getting into your phone. And nothing more. It does zilch against police/government/espionage/etc. But it was never supposed to, any more than your front lock is supposed to keep a SWAT team out.
Doesn't seem to be applied here.
Reporters should ask Tim Cook the following question:

"Does Apple make anything which is best-in-class which other companies need?".

The answer is obvious. No.

> "Chipworks also found the new M7 motion coprocessor inside the iPhone 5s, which is labeled as the NXP LPC18A1. It's based on the LPC1800 series Cortx-M3 microcontrollers made by NXP. As for the enhanced camera in the iPhone 5s, the iSight module was discovered to be a custom Exmor-RS sensor from Sony. Other parts in the handset include a touchscreen controller from Broadcom, an LTE modem by Qualcomm, and NAND flash from SK Hynix."

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/20/samsung-confirmed-...
Show me a country that does not reserve to itself the right to carry out border inspections (and if you're going to mention the EU, that change is only recent and by treaty, effectively making Europe into a single country of multiple states). As long as there have been borders there have been smugglers, and as long as there have been smugglers there have been customs agents. This is especially true of the US, because before the 16th amendment and the creation of income tax, import duties were a primary source of government revenue.