skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a fan of Mint for years, but 15 was a wreck for my box. I've been looking forward for the upgrade for months.

And by 'wreck' I mean it's entirely workable but with annoying bugs. I was hoping to be able to engage the developers (of Mate really) but they closed my bug without comment. I switched to Cinnamon and it was much better but still has some bizarre behavior centered around X stability AFAICT.

I'm hoping for the best with this release. When it works well it's awesome.
Very interesting work, I just looked at your paper. I like the idea of the proof cache which improves the individual user experience exploiting the collaborative setting; although I am not sure how this could be generalized to more general automation than the kind of term rewriting based search you describe.

Did you grade student derivations in a binary fashion, i.e. correct / incorrect, or did you also take into account especially "pretty" derivations or something like that?
Two things:

1. Too heavy.

2. Doesn't degrade nicely.
Also interesting to read about the work ConEd did to move its final customers off DC in NYC

http://www.coned.com/newsroom/news/pr20071115.asp

>In January 1998, Consolidated Edison began a program to eliminate DC service in its operating territory. At that time there were over 4,600 DC customers. By 2006, sixty remained. Between then and today[2007], when the last customer at 10 East 40th Street was switched to rectifiers on their side of the meter to generate direct current to supply its building’s elevators and sprinkler system, Con Edison has been switching DC customers to alternating current.

Since the start of the program in January 1998:

4,541 accounts in 4,288 buildings have been converted;
6,172 DC meters have been removed from the system;
193 in-building rectifiers have been transferred to customers;
148 250KW street rectifiers have been removed;
35,965 sections of DC mains (5,682,337 circuit feet or 2,660,634 cable feet) has been retired; and
545,185 circuit feet or 236,611 cable feet of DC services has been retired.
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Not sure what the point of that piece it. But it made me dislike Mr. Spiegel.
Why does the form have to be generated dynamically by JS?

A much better solution would be to generate the markup on the server-side. It should be easy enough to port this to Node, and a bit more of work for other major backend languages like Ruby, Python and PHP.

It could even be implemented as a webapp that takes the input JSON on the left side, and spits out HTML on the right, which I could paste into my site markup directly.

Right now, the trade-off is too big for the developer-time convenience of generating forms dynamically.
Hell, I had no problems with SMS and I was using Facebook Messenger as my default SMS app. I had no problems with the few days I used the stock messaging app.
The country is no longer of its citizens, but is owned by an elite

The government works for the country's elite, against its citizens

Democracy is just all fucked-up... I thinks this is another sign showing that in the near future we will have to confront and evolve our society: our grandparents had 2 world-wars, we will have now our share of social change which I believe will be a "political-war"

Hope not, but all signs point into that same direction, all around the ocidental civilization
It seems similar to how you generally don't see people whipping out an iPad in the middle of dinner. It's easier to seem not-rude while using a phone, because it's smaller.
Who knows what motivates them...

"GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug, federal prosecutors announced Monday. The agreement also includes civil penalties for improper marketing of a half-dozen other drugs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-a...

"Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients

A senior executive with Britain's biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them.

It is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs boss has gone public.

"The vast majority of drugs - more than 90 per cent - only work in 30 or 50 per cent of the people," Dr Roses said. "I wouldn't say that most drugs don't work. I would say that most drugs work in 30 to 50 per cent of people. Drugs out there on the market work, but they don't work in everybody."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glaxo-chief-our-dr...
The difference is that without a direct method of response when reading the newspaper one would often converse with a nearby acquaintance concerning the content of the stories.

They are different social methods rather than one being anti- and one being pro-social [did I make that word up?]. However direct local conversation seems more social [to me] for sure.
I'm one of the people who would say it's not that easy, and I'm a little confused by using "but it actually is" as an apparent counterargument. Could you please elaborate?
Perl 6 is the Unicorn of computer languages - a mythical beast.

Yes I know I'll be downvoted to zero karma.
It's pretty far down, but:

"Author of LuaJit Explains Why He Changed Mind on Weed"

...made me far happier than it should have.
They already have this: http://smile.amazon.com/
"de facto" defined means nothing. Compilers change and break programs that depend on undefined behavior all the time.
To play devil's advocate, if everyone in the U.S. gave $1 to a fund to help the world's poor, that'd be $314 million in aid. Nothing to scoff at, even though it wouldn't end global poverty.

But in any case, I'm not sure if your example is analogous, because $1 from a person is incrementally helpful, whereas having that person's phone data is almost certainly not. This brings me back to the grandparent poster's anecdote -- I don't think that the NSA would have been able to stop 9/11 just by sorting through everyone's texting and phone calls. It just seems infeasible to really deal with all of that information unless the attackers were very obvious through their conversations -- correct me if I'm wrong.
Based on AWS spot instance pricing, LTC mining difficulty, and the present value of LTC, it can be profitable to mine for LTC on EC2 g2.2xlarge instances.

This project was inspired by Bob Feldbauer's post on Profitable LiteCoin Mining on EC2, and a desire to practice my Ansible chops.

As of right now, the spot instance price is approx $0.30/hr, so it's no longer immediately profitable, so I wouldn't recommend this if you're looking to flip a quick buck (before yesterday would have been a different story). Nevertheless, a fun weekend hack project if anyone's curious to give it a try!
More like "the user switches on the computer and types a username."

User stories a tiny portion of product development, not the sort of writing that works best for technical applications.
Im guessing just the name of a blog about this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling, not sure why its the post title though...
it's a little weirder though.
int main(int argc, char argv)
{
int a = 0;
printf("%i %i %i\n", a, a++, a++);
}

will give "0 0 1" (gcc 4.2.1), the increment "shouldn't" happen until after the ; if you're going with post statement. I think your rule would expect "0 0 0" with a being 2 after the printf.

BUT! you get a warning, so that's nice.
I can't help but to put this in the same bag as javascript lack of block scope, exemplified in the famous for loops counter undesired effects.
Such steganography is sort of possible, though it's hard to make it not look like the output of a markov babbler.
According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs, you still need people to do the boxing/packing even with a Kiva system.
> There is no world in which $1000/hr is a reasonable fee for any human being to do any work."

...Unless you're a ceo, banker, actor, musician, writer or athlete.
The real issue is close to this. The real issue is that when the organization is empowered it's up to an individual to say "no" to improper surveillance. That's what's wrong with the "well there are good people behind it and we are all on the same team" argument. When it becomes your job to prevent an attack, and you have the authority to spy more than you think is morally correct, do you spy anyway? Or are you willing to let 3000 people die, and face the music of the world knowing that you could have prevented it but chose not to for altruistic reasons.

That's why the laws must change: to protect the people who want to do the right thing.
I found myself clicking on a bunch of them, genuinely wanting to read the "article" behind them...
as a business owner and employer of several skilled high tech and unskilled call center workers, i think you're wrong.

it's not easy finding a better job, and it's also not easy hiring better people. in fact it's real hard to do either of those things.

if you have, in fact, solved this fundamental problem of labor market efficiency, please go ahead and collect your nobel prize and be sure to explain it real slow for us dumb underachieving slackers during your acceptance speech.

when the number of people far outpaces the number of jobs, "just try harder" is not a solution to this problem. i'm pretty sure, in fact, that NEITHER conservatives or liberals think this is the solution to a massive correction in the number of jobs like the one the US just went through in the past 3 years.
At present time:
job = need money to survive in our current society

In an ideal future (not here, not now):
job = personal development in some desired activity

So in the current reality we live in now, not having a job is (still) not freeing humans, its almost the reverse - its casting humans out of economic power, which in turn is reducing the humans ability to have a normal life
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No. You might be right if we were talking about "proper use" in English as a spoken language, but "undefined behavior" is a technical term defined by the C and C++ ISO standards.
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It's not effective. If brakes only operated 9% of the time, would they be effective?

"The current flu shot is only 9% effective for the elderly and only 56% effective in general, according to CDC figures. CDC officials are baffled why the vaccine is so ineffective in the elderly." NYT

And from the Lancet:

"Background: No published meta-analyses have assessed efficacy and effectiveness of licensed influenza vaccines in the USA with sensitive and highly specific diagnostic tests to confirm influenza.

Findings (Interpretation): Influenza vaccines can provide moderate protection against virologically confirmed influenza, but such protection is greatly reduced or absent in some seasons. Evidence for protection in adults aged 65 years or older is lacking. LAIVs consistently show highest efficacy in young children (aged 6 months to 7 years)."

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-30...

Heck, if the flu vaccine is so good for you why is it that health-care workers and doctors can't be bothered to get it?

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
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I have used dual wan routers that do this: While speed can go up, and bandwidth certainly does, the latency variance makes many games unplayable, and really throws some video and audio streaming apps for a loop.

I'd love to see a write up how well this does stuff that is sensitive to latency and changing network conditions, beyond simple web surfing.
Home schooling is usually more structured following inspiration from a traditional curriculum. Unschooling can be structured too, but is usually looser and more responsive. Wikipedia has an article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

It's controversial because of several factors, of course. There's the worry that parents, no matter how smart, interesting and committed to their kids, may not be the best at teaching them things. There's the worry that an organized curriculum provides a shared social vocabulary that unschooled kids may lack. There's worries about social interactions with other kids that might be lacking, and so on.

There may be a kind of adverse selection effect, where people inclined to pull their kids out of school may have the most to lose by doing it. So it is worth thinking carefully about the objections and talking about the particular situation with trusted parties to make sure it's the right choice.
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I think that's just Bootstrap's default look. I've never seen that site before.
In theory, it's possible to load balance transparently across multiple IP addresses, provided that you have a well-connected VPS in a nearby datacenter to serve as an intermediary.

From the world's point of view, you'll be connecting from the VPS's IP address, but between you and the VPS, you can do pretty much anything with the packets.

Granted, that's now how dispatch-proxy works.
I would add an encoding meta tag. The font icons from bootstrap look like crap to me.
I don't understand why the press glamorizes this party lifestyle that apparently Mr. Spiegel engaged in. I want to hear about about the work that went into building SnapChat.
The term “luminance” refers to a physical quantity, the intensity of the light. It can be measured in candelas/square meter. The relevant technical terms for the perceptual attributes of a color are “brightness” (which is the perception of how bright something is on an absolute scale given current adaptation of the eye/surroundings), and “lightness” (which is the perception of how bright something is relatively, taking into account knowledge of the scene lighting).

Luminance (light intensity) is going to fall off with the square of distance.

Brightness/lightness do not have an exponential relationship with luminance. The curve is (very) roughly like a square root.

In any event, the article was clearly mistaken about this point. It’s a fairly trivial mistake though. Vanity Fair’s fact checkers probably didn’t bother to ask an optics / color expert about the statement.
Well, for what it's worth Wikipedia article on the paleolithic suggests there is much evidence of trade during that era (referenced, but I don't have the time to research that ATM). But that's beside the point really. The issue here is how we define what economy is and what trade is. But more to the point, trade in general is not a defining characteristic of capitalism, it's not the differentia specifica of capitalism. But I agree that the statement "trade is the foundation of any economy" is too strong in the sense that it's not only trade that is needed to have an economy (you need production, consumption, etc.).
"So if life isn't fair -- it's not about working harder, it's about working the system." --Evan Spiegel, The son of successful lawyers, Spiegel grew up in a world of wealth, power, and privilege.

This is pretty much explains the behavior of "The One Percent" and mega-corps.

I hope all of snapchat's employees are equally as rich. Otherwise they just lost out on a huge, life-altering windfall due to some kind insane arrogance. Or I'm very wrong, FB comes back with a bigger offer and Spiegel takes it. I mean, it's just a screenshot/video sharing app with a little twist. A twist that can be undone by a software-update making it impossible to prevent the device from saving it. Did you know Android-KitKat comes with ScreenRecording? I wonder how snapchat deals with that.

EDIT: Ives's answer about SecureContent flag sounds good. Now I wonder about the future Custom ROMs...
Would Steve Jobs have become a philanthropist?
'Unschooling' is an educational method/philosophy.

Rather than the conventional approach of defined courses / curricula, it encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, and learning through natural life experiences.

For example as a result of something the child experiences, the child may have a sudden interest in Greek Mythology, which would then be explored at that point.

While its certainly a form of home education, it is only a subset of homeschoolers that follow this method; many (most?) homeschoolers continue to follow structured curricula similar to conventional schooling.
It's hard to figure out what the article is about underneath all the hype coating.
I could be mistaken, but it "unschooling" seems to be a divergence from the typical "homoschooling" approach. Specifically, with regards to having children discover and learn through experience as opposed to the more structured and one-way approach common in most schools (even typical homeschools). He summarizes a bit more at: http://unschoolery.com/about.

I have one child currently in traditional school and try to implement some of the unschooling concepts at home -- in whatever limited time we have. There are definitely positives and benefits to both approaches.
Yep, Edinburgh rocks. ;-)
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The San Francisco building in which in live has one of these drum elevators. I had no idea it's DC powered. Fascinating.
The history of Bitcoin in 4 minutes
One of the advantages of using a proxy is that you can configure it per app.

For example, let's say I have 3 interfaces.

Interfaces (1) and (2) are low-latency and interface (3) is high latency.

I can start a proxy on localhost:1080 that redirects to interfaces (1), (2) and (3), and configure my download manager to use it.

I can then start another proxy on localhost:1081 that redirects to interfaces (1) and (2), and configure my game client to use it.
A poster child for our time.
No, Chrome. But I do have Ghostery installed. I wonder if it's preventing me from leaving comments. When I click on the comment box and then accept the new tidbits about G+ comments, the page just refreshes.
The big problem is the 1%'s lobbying power, and lobbying to increase/lift political spending, or these super pacs

Money is just playing way too large of role in the politics of the people

I think if we could fix democracy to be more fair the inequalities of wealth would reduce, but that is a steep up hill battle given the power they have :)
Yeah, I used to think they might have an ace up their sleeve after turning down the facebook offer. This article is making me think it's just because their CEO is spoiled and arrogant.
Readability has a subjective basis and in this case comes with a cost. Findability and grepability have clear advantages without the cost that readability incurs (the gendered pronoun debate). If you apply a pure text search engine over such documentation, relevance and discovery is enhanced. Signal-to-noise, again.

You're telling me that "it" or "they" riddled more often than otherwise does not negatively affect search results? Pronouns increase the chance irrelevant results. This is implied by your use of "properly"; which only begs the question.
…and yet so many of us (yes, even the tech geeks) do not use it.

There's always a reason: it's too bothersome, we find the password prompts annoying, our friends don't use it, "it's not worth it for the unimportant stuff", "they'll get me anyway if they really want to". We complain about the NSA snooping, but we can't be bothered to properly encrypt our E-mail, even though the tools are right there, in front of us. For free.

If you're on a Mac, use https://gpgtools.org — there is really no excuse, it's so simple and straightforward to use. I'm sure there are even easier solutions on Windows and Linux.
1.) Build a working prototype before you raise the $20k. There is no reason with today's tools that a working prototype not be created before investment (with a few exceptions for moon shots).

Also, you do not yet have external pressure. So, cut off your friends, sell your TV, etc. and spend 100% of your time outside of work building a prototype.

2.) He is correct that your costs estimates are low. In India, your expenses will be higher. Unless you're in some remote area with exceptionally low cost of living, the expenses you'll experience in a big city are high.

3.) Don't start with the assumption that you'll be solo. It's just not realistic. No one can run a sizable company on their own. Find a partner, or at least up your cost estimates to include employees.

4.) Marketing: No product markets itself. Marketing and sales take tremendous efforts and should receive the bulk of your spend.

Hope this helps.
Walgreens says about the nasal spray "It should not be used in pregnant women" which implies it is harmful in some way, does it not?

http://www.walgreens.com/marketing/library/contents.jsp?doci...

Flu shot by injection does contain thimerosal, unless you get the special version which doesn't. Walgreens and Safeway have a limited supply of it and people have to call ahead to get this special version.

Given that an OB confirmed the above to me and I watched the OB's nurse administer a single shot without thimerosal, I think I'm more right than you on these matters.
iPhone's Siri does something similar, but for a different reason: reliability. It multipaths each query.
The Power of a Pronoun
It is usually against the rules to drool in libraries...
For a valid contract Picasso should have stated his rates upfront.

The contract is valid if the woman accepts it; a valid contract doesn't require that the rates be stated upfront so long as the terms are disclosed and consented to by both parties.

Also, it's not exactly the free market hiring thia compliance firm. Where is the competition for his services ready to pay $1k an hour?

The other market participants for his services are other potential clients who would otherwise incur his time. Michael Bromwich works for Goodwin Proctor in the White Collar and SEC compliance groups. http://www.goodwinprocter.com/People/B/Bromwich-Michael.aspx (Goodwin Proctor is one of the biggest law firms in the world.) His client base consists of multinational conglomerates and multi-billion dollar companies, most of whom would gladly pay $1000/hour or more to avoid criminal sanctions and other penalties that could run into the tens or hundreds of millions.

And demanding to intervieq all the famous bigshots? I think the complaint is valid whether or not they win.

His job is to ensure compliance. He does this by interviewing those in charge of complying, i.e., the CEO and any executives overseeing the relevant company divisions to make sure they have taken, or are in the process of adopting, steps to ensure compliance. According to the monitor, those in charge of complying have thus far evaded most of his meeting requests, so it is necessary for him to keep issuing meeting demands until they actually agree to meet with him.

The alternative is for him to get into the nitty gritty by auditing Apple's corporate and business-line practices. This is a far more involved job, which would entail a significantly higher billing rate (mostly for additional staff, not his own personal billing rate), significantly more time spent and billed, and a significantly greater disruption to Apple's business activities.
Adding it now.
I think they are the only thing relevant in the article. The introductory example is just one example of how not knowing about sequence points leads to bugs. There are many more and it makes for a much more interesting read to first learn about sequence points and then applying that knowledge to various examples.

This article goes about it the wrong way.