skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Characterising any of the Unity, Unreal or Cryengine trio as a 3D engine isn't quite right, they are full on game systems with physics etc. and especially in the case of Unity complete software ecosystems in their own right.

The further you get from utilising the core functionality of each engine the harder of a time you're going to have, and this constrains the genres you can work in. This is the main reason that a lot of 2D titles developed in Unity purely for iOS <-> Android portability have performance problems (things like the alpha cutout stuff goes a long way to helping here), while their showpiece games, such as those by Madfinger, that simply use the built in physics run perfectly. Sadly I can't be specific, but I have run into some amazingly simple games that ran like absolute dogs thanks to their inappropriate choice of middleware.
Graduate student unionization has had a troubled past (in the US, the article's author doesn't reference her institution). From my research and what I know at institutions I have worked in, organization has been stymied mostly by a ruling of the National Labor Board that disallows any person receiving "training" who is labeled as a "student" from organizing, hinging on the fact that they are not working a wage job but instead a "fellowship." This distinction can be groan-inducing for academics, but alas.

I don't think this necessarily reflects the "overall defeat of unions in the US", but your philosophical argument does give some food for thought.

For more information, Wikipedia has a summary history of graduate student organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_unionization
Is there an API for Oyster balances yet? (or planned?) I ask as someone slightly concerned by popular apps which seem to rely on you giving some third party your TFL login for them to scrape it for you...

Very happy to see that TFL have done as much as they have though. Lovely to see :)
I am currently on 13.04, I can't wait to upgrade to a newer version where this bug in Beanstalkd is fixed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/beanstalkd/+bug/12...

I think I will upgrade when it is available on Linode.
no, this is trolling. Steve Jobs was an asshole, nobody would argue that. He treated people like shit, but he did great things... So, I guess it's ok to own an apple device because, hey, he didn't hate MY culture, he just hates all people. Attacking one man because he disagrees with your political/emotional/sexual views is the problem. As a group that claims accept people that are different, your community comes off as hypocrites. So you only accept people if they're your kind of different?
And "kurz" is German for "short" or "brief". Somehow strangely appropriate.
There are three areas of journalism I see as relatively "safe" from bots for the foreseeable future:

1) Big-picture Op/Ed (of the kind you're talking about)

2) Investigation (of the deep, involved, I-need-to-know-where-to-start, I-need-to-get-people-to-talk variety)

3) Narrative nonfiction (profiles, colorful takes on a subject; see: The New Yorker, Michael Lewis, etc.)

The interesting thing is that each of these domains could be enhanced by the use of better software. And that's the best way to start looking at bot-fueled journalism. I'd love a machine-based fact checker for my pieces. I'd love AI-driven help with compiling and analyzing data. I'd love to outsource the high-frequency grunt work to a machine, just as it's done in many other industries. It would give me more time to think. It would let me focus where my focus matters. Instead of spending 99% of my time chasing raw research, and 1% of my time scrambling to assemble the piece, I could get more data, better, faster, up front, and thus put deeper thought into the analysis.

On that note: the journalists who thrive in the machine age will be the ones who understand what the machine is doing. Data-literacy is already a big, differentiating factor in the market now. Statistical competency will be very important, and the bar for competency will be positioned higher every few years. Beautiful logic will trump beautiful fluff.

This will accelerate the bimodal shake-out of journalism that we're already starting to see. We'll have base, commodified, LCD-pandering content farms on one end, and deep thought on the other. Quantity shops and quality shops, both of them improved by the automation of certain functions. Anyone in the middle ground is in trouble. This will be a good thing for both poles -- provided we can find a way to make the economics of quality work as well as those of quantity.
The PGP word list
Speaking of needing citations.
Why is asking for more information considered "silly"?

Why is trying to get a more complete view of the situation considered "silly"?
Sorry for the multiple posts on this. You sent me on a bit of an adventure:

* Downloaded a modified DOSBox build with printer support from http://ykhwong.x-y.net/ (linked from DOSBox wiki so not too worried)

* Mapped LPT1 in DOSBox to LPT1 in Windows

* installed CUPS-PDF [1] on a CUPS server in a VM

* shared virtual PDF printer via Samba to Windows

* ran net use lpt1: \\vm.local\pdf /persistent:yes

* printed from DOSBox and got [2]

1: http://www.cups-pdf.de/ (or apt-get install cups-pdf)

2: https://mega.co.nz/#!ehpxha4b!U2q9lhH2RoniPKucW862Y2qRxCgMJ6...
Go to [0], install, configure to either "all windows" or "all windows in current workspace", and alt+tab probably works like you want again. It's not terribly difficult.

[0] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/
He has a pretty good track record for this stuff. IIRC Some of his AI predications from the 80s were accurate to +/- 3 years.
I found this review annoying. It seemed to focus less on the emotional content of the film, and more about whether it lined up with Kurzweil's predictions of the future (i.e. whether it fit into his timeline of events).

At some point futurists need to realise that preparing us for the future is less about guessing dates, and more about exploring the wider questions about how our society will evolve, and, quite frankly, whether we want it to evolve in this way. Better technology is not a goal in itself unless it's a good fit for what we want.

Regarding the film Her, I thought it was brilliant, one of my favourite films of recent times, but from a technology standpoint the most important part to me was the way that it was less intrusive (i.e. very little time spend staring at screens, more time spent by the characters engaged in the world around them (including the AI)).
http://m.9292.nl/ The mobile version works well, no big images.
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A great point you brought up. I know someone whose mother, by all intents, was cleared to get accepted to a PhD program in the sciences...but unfortunately, they didn't allow women into the program at the time. It was "simply not done." And this was a decade after the Civil Rights Movement!
That's mostly all good and fair. I don't have any data to contribute. But the I think my fundamental point is good:

PC market share as defined by analysts is reflective of the market that Microsoft is pursuing, but it is a large superset of the market Apple is pursuing.

You say this is silly to point out, but you're leaning on circular logic. You take "the market" as a given a priori, but the truth is that the market is defined a certain way, and that way is very unfavorable to Apple (and that's without even getting into the whole profit share vs market share question).
Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Triggers on foreign tables
More than just being production ready. I'm wondering what lessons have been learned that will actually help current browsers. Seems that servo is in a massive game of catch up, with no guarantees that things will be faster/better/whatever.
This is why you should own a volvo
this is why you should own a volvo
I always find it very frustrating when I open up a github repository such as this, but I am left having to poke around the source itself totally lost trying to figure out what I am supposed to do to use it.

You already spent a lot of your time doing something you felt was good enough to share. Please spend a fraction of that time putting together a simple step-by-step how to for even the most basic use case.

Edit: Found a link in the Readme file to a useful page [1] of HTML5-specific attack vectors and security adviseries. Still not sure what I am supposed to get out of the repository itself, though.

[1] https://html5sec.org/
Do you have any links to this? Would be interesting to look at.
The Truth About MapReduce Performance on SSDs
But it could still have bias.
Also released MVC/WebApi/EntityFramework to public was pretty big deal.
I'm also eagerly awaiting HiDPI support (I have one of those QHD screens on a 15" display, 3200x1800!). There is apparently some support for it in the GNOME version (I've read it was not perfect though). Don't recall where I read this but it was rumored HiDPI may come to 14.10. Probably no more than a rumor... But at least a version number to look at helps me cope :)
Offline webapps is an easy way to distribute apps. No installations steps, easy updates, probably even easier than an app store.

Also add very easy deploy and hosting of your app.
It's interesting how the article makes a great effort explaining why and how stereotypical "bingo" strawman pattern matching is counterproductive, and then goes on to categorize feminism as a "conceptual superweapon" using a bunch of shallow strawmen itself.
Exactly. Even with rawgithub.com, it doesn't properly work.

People need to use http://pages.github.com/ more.
> Guess were office software falls? Not under the daily usage at home.

So don't buy it. I don't own Photoshop, but I don't go to Adobe threads and decry that they charge money for their products.
Someone presenting speculation as fact ON THE INTERNET? Never. I'm being snarky, but it certainly seems that she's in a better position to know what facebooks data and reasoning were.
As soon as Elementary OS Isis comes out :).
These are easy problems for you to solve on your own, but since you don't feel like it I'll give it a shot.

1) You don't need to speculate what neurobiological means using phonetics, it's a real word with a definition you can just look up if your actual interest is in the facts. Neurobiological actually means related to the nervous system of the body. ALS is also neurobiological, and I'm guessing you wouldn't say it "sounds" psychological.

2)If you'd bothered to look, you'd find there is actually quite a bit of study of D2 and D4 availability correlated with ADHD symptoms. Like virtually all medical diagnoses both psychological and physiological, differential diagnosis is done by combining probabilities with presented symptoms, and not with exhaustive testing. Your requirement of diagnosing ADHD with a brain MRI is the equivalent of requiring endoscopy to diagnose an ulcer.

So what you say is factually incorrect, there's plenty of evidence. That's why the scientific body of many countries including the US has classified it as neurobiological (not psychological) for years, and the bulk of the scientific community believes pharmaceutical treatment is necessary in the same way that a broken arm needs to actually be set instead of telling the patient not to be lazy.

If you want to use scare quotes and insist on unfalsifiable assertions "prove the negative 'not' the result of psychological conditioning" then you are placing your argument in the same category as climate change deniers and anti-vaccers - anti-science, anti-rigor, pro-scare quotes.
Also SSD, and 8 gigs of RAM in case that might matter.

It's probably just that Lubuntu is my only reference point - it's so lightweight plain Ubuntu feels laggy in comparison. Doesn't make me any less happy with the increase in responsiveness though :)
I think it's perfectly reasonable to start a game development with "what would I like to play?" rather than "what would the market buy?".
That's sad, but you are not doing drugs - you can quit easily, just do it! Try to do sports or stuff like that, travel.. Seriously, alcohol is disgusting if you drink it every day.

I have a hooker problem, no joke. Since we are talking about addictions here?
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You're right. We should disregard a first hand account and instead believe second or third hand rumors.
How UX is bringing relevant and useful content to farmers living in rural Africa
Forgot to namecheck the TfL team though, oops! Fixed now. (Sorry guys!)
This is so sad, on so many different levels that is hard to pretend is not true.

While my hearth fights the need of shouting "stop behaving like a whiny bitch about the company relationships", then you realize that companies in US are equal to peoples.

And that, as John Stewart was pointing out recently, maybe sometimes they also pretends to have religious rights.

So I am not surprised that something like hires get taken as betrayals.

However, if logic had to enter this equation somehow, we should realize the purpose of a business is business. So, if an employee is an asset you should treat him as such, and let him go.

And if you or your friend CEO get emotionally attached to an employee, you have larger issues. One, maybe, is a narcissistic disorder.
I am in the same boat. It's actually really interesting, after some careful though, I've realized that I've cultivated a habit where I come home from work and watch TV while eating some dinner. Afterwards, I always plan on doing work.

The problem is, that habit of watching TV with dinner causes me to sit down and get sucked into my TV habit. For example, last night I decided to do that and ended up watching 3 episodes of random shows and then going to bed, instead of doing what I wanted to do.

When I eat dinner and listen to a podcast, I still have a bit of an urge to watch TV but I find it much easier to sit down and get to work afterwards.

Maybe you have this type of habit in your own life? Try thinking about what you do every day when you come home from work, and identify your 'triggers'. If it's like mine and you are watching TV while eating dinner, listen to/watch a podcast or TED talk instead. If you end up spending a ton of time on YouTube or Facebook, set up something like SelfControl (or the PC equivalent Cold Turkey) to make sure that you can't use those things during times that you have blocked off for work.

For mac users, here's a list of stuff that you can use (note that I'm not vouching for any app in particular, but they all seem useful to someone): http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/productivity-roundups/15-ma...
FYI, GCIDE lists "malleate" citing 1913 webster as a transitive verb:

Malleate \Mal"le*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Malleated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Malleating}.] [L. malleatus hammered, fr. malleus a hammer. See {Mall}, v. t.] To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf. [1913 Webster]
Whatever's best for the farmers, that's what Monsanto does.
>Pulitzer Prize by 2017

Isn't that a bit too ambitious? I admittedly don't know a lot about the Pulitzer Prize, but I'd assume the main qualities they're looking for in a journalist there are not 'fast', and 'factually correct'. The first one doesn't really relate to the quality of journalism, and the second one's just too basic a requirement.

What I'd assume is worthy of a prize in journalism, is the data collection and investigation process before even starting to write the article. This would include very complex tasks, most covering social interaction, which I just can't see a computer outperforming a human in by 2017.
Also, "kurzweilig" in German means "exciting", "highly engaging"
Just in case: tridge refers to Andrew Tridgell, one of the creators of Samba and rsync (which this article is about)
FWIW I used these techniques to overcome tobacco addiction and stress related mental/physical problems:

i) Sport, cannot be stressed enough how benefitial it is for human body any kind of regular sport activity
ii) Change of current habits, which might be in turn conducting you to your current situation
iii) Travel for an extended period or regularly, will effectively break your acquired habits and may open your mind to new ideas (it changes the perspective)
iv) the jacobson method of progressive muscle relaxation, which can be as effective as anti-depressants and that's no marketing talk. at least it worked for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_muscle_relaxation
Or contribute to Servo! Despite the huge milestone represented by Acid 2, it's still pretty early days and there is plenty of work to go around. The code's on GitHub [1], Josh Matthews did a nice talk about Fosdem that should give you a start on the architecture and how to contribute (video [2], slides [3]), and there is an irc channel (#servo on irc.mozilla.org) where you can ask questions.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/servo/
[2] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem//2014/UD2218A/Saturday/Serv...
[3] http://www.joshmatthews.net/fosdemservo/
Drunk on the Kool Aid....
pulseaudio -k

Tried that? Maybe if you use a previous kernel?
you miss my point to argue semantics.

What if the PhD is the ends (in and of itself), not just the means to some other end?
I can only hope I am not imagining the sarcasm that goes with that idea.
WeasyPrint is a layout engine written in Python. It is not written for education nor it is a toy, but I found it easier to understand compared to other engines.

One of Servo authors worked on WeasyPrint.

WeasyPrint passes Acid2.

http://weasyprint.org/
When will Microsoft launch it's own iPad (or a product as good as it). "Launching something for concurrents' successful platform". That's weird.
It’s (Probably) Okay Not To Have Any Ambition (2011)
It does mean at least that a systemd LTS ubuntu will be completely bulletproof with so many years of work from all other distros in it....
I love that there are aerospace engineers tasked with doing stuff for the folks who do underground trains :P
College Athletes Aim to Put Price on ‘Priceless’
Gnome 3 is actually pretty good (once you install a few extensions from extensions.gnome.org.)

Much less cluttered than unity (most of the time you just have a single black bar at the top of the screen) and handles workspaces nicely.

I never liked gnome 2, though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
and "Kurzweil" means "amusedness" (as opposed to "Langeweile", which means "boredness")
Any chance of an invite?

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01iUfIQYY-5hMeP...
Alt-Tab, Super+[1,2,3...0], App launching from the Dash and window spread.

I can't live without the Super+[1,2,3,4...] shortcuts.
Not supporting your pet feature != not supporting offline webapps. WebSQL is not even a standard.

Besides, if you want to use SQLite in the browser, you don't need WebSQL: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js
how often is the last mile maintained? Once established there's usually not much need fro maintenance until it is replaced. Coax cables and fibers have little use for maintenance.

Homeowners can comply with the FCC just as easily as the corporations. We won't make the stuff, only install it.

It's not out of reach. In many poor countries the last mile is done by small companies that string coax wires on existing utility poles (also paid for by the homeowners through the electricity installation charges) which are often just 1-2 guys. Coax cable or fibre costs less than $1 per foot in bulk.
It must be a difficult process for her readily identifiable adviser to realise he has been labeled a sexist all over the internet by someone who has been in the lab for a couple of years.

That said I'm all for a better deal for PhD students. They have a terrible deal.
Wouldn't it be even better if there was no need for feminism? And isn't it sad that some feminists devolve to hate all men? Turning a cause that has merit (but hopefully not forever) into hatred is self-harming. But railing against those causes doesn't help either.

Chill out everyone!
I'm thinking of trying to switch to it completely. I'll probably still need Windows for some stuff, but I'll try to use Ubuntu as my main OS once this LTS comes out.
I'm shocked by the sexism evidence in this article, and I respect the author for removing herself from such a place. I often wonder how this hostility compares to other institutions, and other labs in the same institution (forgive the scientist in me). I think it speaks volumes about the unevenness of higher education across universities, and where each PI can rule his fiefdom with whatever mercy he chooses to provide.

I believe the pyramid-like structure of academic research combined with the winner-take-all nature of publishing results is a toxic mix for exploitation, and sexism would make it all the more unberable. For women in the biosciences, I strongly suggest tapping into a network of support from other successful women such as Women in Bio (http://womeninbio.org/) and AWIS (http://www.awis.org/).
I'm just saying that he states it as a fact, like someone on the Facebook team had told him.
Very, very good idea.

Personally I think the ground clearance is still a bit on the low side.

It looks like it lost a bolt or something in the first impact image... oops.
I think you would enjoy this comic, which explores the consciousness copy problem:

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
Totally agree with that last line. I think the failure was that they came up with a design that looked really good, but fell short on the interactions that mattered.

It's a classic UX design problem: insular critique led the design in a certain direction, everyone loved it because it was pretty and "content focused." Then someone pointed out the user testing results, and probably used data to support an argument about how it didn't actually work that well, which made a whole bunch of people go "oh yeah, huh" and finally it fell flat.

Happens all the time. This blog post was spot on, and I found nothing unusual about it.

The unusual part is that an organization as large as Facebook had the ability to stop the momentum of a very large project because it wasn't that great. That's a lesson to take to heart.
You can broadcast a valid tx that depends on an unconfirmed valid tx that was already broadcasted. The second tx will only be confirmed if the first is, this is how betting sites that accept 0conf txs (such as SatoshiDice) work.

Not sure if pool software currently selects txs as a sum of the fees of the txs that depend on them, but it seems reasonable to implement.
"However, to improve things further, we provided an over-the-air software update a few months ago to increase the default ground clearance of the Model S at highway speeds"

I know this is not specific to Tesla, but it's still really cool. :)
The past few years' trend of "data science" positions make for an awesome landing ground for people who are trained in science but don't want to do science anymore. The programming/statistics/analysis/visualization skill set is broad enough that nobody starts as a star in everything, and the value is in being able to create value with the skills you bring, and get better elsewhere.
I would view PhDs as a pursuit, and achievement. Not a credential.
Things I would like:

1) drop the ridiculous Unity desktop. maybe I am old and out of touch, but that was <i>horrific</i>.

2) Dual boot just works with UEFI/Windows 8.1

3) Supports audio and graphics hardware in common brands like Acer

I have 9 installed on a samsung since 2009 and it's been an absolute pleasure, just worked. Trying to get 12 or 13 onto a modern Acer however... was a nightmare. V disappointing. I still don't have a functioning soundcard and the battery indicator only starts 1 in 10 boots.
I've been working on a project that uses React with Meteor. One advantage that React has is that it's very easy to render the html on the server side. Once on the client React only updates this html if and when it needs to. Can Blaze do this? If not, are there plans to support it in the future?
Understanding the Object Model [Ruby]
This is brilliant, the whole world needs to read this!
GNOME Shell is way better, and now much more stable than before and better than Unity.