skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studies don't bear out the idea that one test for a G&T program defines someone's success. One study that compares folks on the margin (those who just got in versus those who just missed) suggests that the programs don't matter as much as we think.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/do-gift...

That said, I'm a New Yorker who doesn't want to send my kids to the school down the street where 85% of the kids fail the state exams. (The DOE's response is "Perhaps the tests aren't capturing the learning that's happening there.")
I opened this page with the expectation too see some simple images, only to find myself walking through the enterprise. Awesome!
But then I was wandering around enjoying the scenery with no clue what to do and very little interaction. Don't get me wrong, it's really cool. Please bring more, there's a lot of potential.
Beautifully written article; matter of fact tone whilst managing to be incredibly touching. The last paragraph made me well up a little.
I don't think they handled it perfectly. Why would they need to ask for a domain transfer? The domain itself isn't necessarily related to their brand (for example, it could refer to a person named Ikeah Ackers or something). I understand asking for an end to ad revenue, and I think it's obvious that pulling in revenue while using someone else's trademark will result in this, but I would not have taken kindly to their demands if I were in that position.

The resolution is OK but they must know that you can't break even on $0 revenue, so it's a death blow to this brand in the long term. It gives her time to rebrand and relaunch.
`tptacek, I'm not sure you'll ever see this, but I'll reply to your point anyways:

As `shintakezou pointed out, this is very much a cultural matter here. France (where my parents and I are from) tends to subscribe more to the "it takes a village to raise a child" mentality. Correcting the behavior of someone else's child at the park, supermarket, in the bus, etc. if they are out of the parent's sight is perfectly acceptable in French culture, and as a kid it happened to me many times, without traumatizing me (even when it was a scary old man yelling at me).

It is not perceived as assault, and it is certainly not "terrifying them verbally" (I find that phrasing a little bit excessive though, and am surprised that you extracted that from my "a few stern words").

In retrospect, the one thing my father did wrong was not considering that he was living in a different culture, and that something that seemed normal to him might be scandalous in the US. But that only makes my wish to leave the US when I have children even more valid in my eyes: I'd hate to find myself in those sort of cultural misunderstandings that can very easily escalate juridically.

I do find the US's approach to parenting very poor: France's approach to parenting is that kids are human beings in construction, and that they do not inherently know what is right or wrong, good or bad - and it is up to adults (parents or not) to let them know (that doesn't mean that their feelings or interests are invalid because they are "incomplete": it just means that they are lacking the knowledge of social mores, conventions, mental tools, etc. required to be productive citizens). The US's approach to parenting falls more in line with the belief that children are just "little adults" and that one should respect their wishes and desires no matter what, which I find preposterous.
I remember watching this tedtalk. Very nice. Is anything known about the progress they made since then?
Wouldn't you look negatively at a job applicant who eschewed doing things he didn't particularly want to do?

What about those that had no time to do? There are very bright kids out there that have to cook dinner when they get home. Or babysit their younger siblings. Or any and all of the above. Basically, the system rewards those who have the opportunity to do more, not the desire to.
> Setting precedent for infringement being rewarded with a buy-out might send all the wrong signals.

Just exactly what wrong signals did Google send when they bough Youtube?

Unless we are blind and skip the fact youtube willingfully hosted 90% of ifringe content.
FWIW there's the full TeX source on github :)

https://github.com/liuxinyu95/AlgoXY

The PDF isn't included, but it's generated by the default makefile.

(There's also a PDF-download option on the Scribd mirror -- check the HN title -- but that insists on a Facebook login).
I mentioned this story to my partner, who's a doctor. He told me about the treatment for compartment syndrome, which is called 'fasciotimy'. Seems grisly and barbaric, but it's a shame this guy didn't get it done in time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciotomy
Maybe she shouldn't count if you're writing an article about why there are so many female gamers isn't there a female character in Assassin's Creed. My mom is in her mid-fifties and just got an Android tablet to read ebooks and is now addicted to Candy Crush. By that ESA study's standards she's now one of the ~50% female gamer demographic. She is not going to transition into a "hardcore gamer" even if more "hardcore" games have female characters. The statistic is just not useful in the context of the article because "female" contains a lot of disparate demographics.
That blazar picture - it would be nice if articles would always credit it as 'artist's conception'. It almost looked like a feasible real light image with the pixellation, so I was rather intrigued.
Wow. In my memory, it was the pressure from the hot gases that kept a star from collapsing on itself. I did not know it was light pressure! Is this a typo in the article, or is it really light pressure holding up stars?
Why is that bizarre? The fact that you concentrate on your rights as the end user to modify the software is exactly what the Free Software movement defends, unlike Open Source which focuses on the superiority of the development process.

And the Free Software movement also supports selling your software. In the words of rms, "redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity; if you do it, you might as well make a profit from it."[1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
WTF is this. Where is the thesis? What is the thesis? What am I supposed to take from this? Should I use d3? Should I use CSS? That information could be imparted via WRITING. WRITING. WRITE. Make a point. MAKE. A. POINT. I fucking hate the web these days.
of his mentor, who recognized the boy

Jean Kwok is the author of two novels, Girl in Translation, and Mambo in Chinatown, out June 24. She was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Brooklyn as a young girl.
We fought by pushing BillionsLOC of quality software because we believed in a defined freedom. (some actually did not care, for real, but most cared)

We made it a name, we made the rules by backing up our ideals with our code, and our definition of free software (sometimes great (python, Perl, postfix..) sometimes worthless (mine for instance ;) ).

Call me a vocal integrist. It may be true. But we all worked hard to achieve where we are today.

We fought to define Free Software in very precise way to backup our claim for freedom. CC (/NC) won't change the definition of free software without the people who defined it being a little pissed.

You cannot take our freedom away to define what free software is, because we all collectively took part in it thanks to theses licenses.

And for the record, I may be a so called integrists. But, making fun of my values because you don't like them or they don't suit you, is what integrists do.
I think they are very smart. They just don't really understand the solar system. And i think it is difficult for them to do.
I came across this last week, a colleague wanted to open up an X window on his Fedora VM, shown in his windows box. SmarTTY just worked ootb, it was pretty amazing!
There was nothing fundamentally un-gamable about the tests they used in the early 80s, if anything on the contrary.

But it was a very different time and culture. The notion that spending tens of thousands of dollars in test prep for a gifted and talented program was something a reasonable person would ever consider doing hadn't taken hold yet. Certainly not in NYC, which at the time was experiencing the height of "white flight", had just gone through a major funding crisis, and was in the midst of a crime wave.
Personally, I recommend escaping the world of American comics and finding some of them other countries to read books from. Historical accident might have made it so all comics produced here are over-drawn cosmic nonsense about superpowers and people wearing underwear outside their clothes, but obviously you can imagine writing a story about something else, right?

I recommend comics about competitive wine tasting.

http://www.vertical-inc.com/dropsofgod/
The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges: Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist.
> I worked on the firmware for the "Applied Biosystems ABI Prism 310 DNA Sequencer".

Do you have copies of that firmware or know where I could pick it up? I'd like to poke around, try some reverse engineering, etc.
>so honest question - what's in it for ME if I open source?

You lock the market. Once there is an open source project in a niche of high enough quality, especially if it comes out first, it will essentially never be dislodged and you can get corporate licenses for support/priority bug fixes.

Also in your case: encrypted. There is no app outside those that come pre-shipped with their platform that does encryption, isn't open source and is popular.

Lastly free work. To this day I am still shocked when I have people submit patches to code I've written without being asked/paid.
More specifically radiation pressure, not all of it is visible light. Some quick searching turns up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure#Stellar_inte... and http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay20/Ay20-Lec7x.pdf
I thought America had free markets?

So then why do people need permission from government councils in order to compete in Internet access?
>They want to introduce a broader range of criteria into the admission process, with the hope of addressing what is a current, and striking, lack of diversity at elite schools where the numbers of lower-income, Latino, and African-American students have sunk to disproportionally low levels. In addition to the current test, admissions officers would possibly consider things such as grade point averages, attendance, interviews, community service and extracurricular activities.

So.... I have one question, is the test racist, and if so how? If it's not racist, you might want to focus attention on improving performance of the primary schools that less represented minorities are enrolled in instead of just lowering the bar for them such that they fail when presented with challenging course work or hold other students back by slowing down the rest of the class because their previous schooling left them unprepared for that work.
fwiw, particle-board-hackers.com is available
The domain name could refer to a person named Ikeah Ackers. However, given the contents of the site, it is clear that the domain name refers to IKEA. I am not a lawyer, but I have been involved in a trademark-related domain legal proceeding. I lost the domain name, but learned some valuable lessons. To make the long story short, I believe this is what ICANN would refer to as using the using the trademark in "bad faith" under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

More specifically, "Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith" can be demonstrated that "by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location" (see https://archive.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm). In this case, it seems that the domain name holder is using the IKEA name to attract users for commercial gain. In a UDRP proceeding, IKEA would most likely be able to gain control of the domain name.

On a side note, the site is great. I am glad I found out about it.
One of Hofstede's observations is that developed countries tend to be more individualistic, treating others as individuals rather than in-group or out-group. There are other correlated features on his individualism-collectivism dimension, such as the nature and purpose of education. The paper "Dimensionalizing Cultures" covers this in depth.
That could work, though it should probably be random lottery among people who are in some way determined to be students capable of handling the work.
Same here, except that in the end I didn't like the article. Medium is very fit for startup chatter and discussions on the relative merits of ios 8 and android 2.2. But writing about science in Medium, using this style and narrative? Not for me.
Fi-Board SMS for Android
New Aluminum Air Battery Would Recharge By Filling It Up With Water
As a game developer (mathbreakers.com) we recognized this was something we could pay attention to, and from the start we tailored the game to appeal to girls including female characters. Truthfully it was also a good business move, as the question often comes up with important contacts.

We still see the widely-held belief in potential customers (parents) that "girls (kids) might not like our game" because it has explosions and logic in it, but from our perspective there is little difference.

Like racism or homophobia, sexism will take a long time to percolate out, but gradually it is happening.

Another example is Mass Effect 3: You can play a gay, non-white female
Beetle Bailey was published as a comic book in the U.S., from, I looked it up, 1962 until 1980. I started off pretty sure it had been in formats beyond the newspaper funnies because some paperbacks were around the house when I was a kid.

Here's an example:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/04/16/the-comi...

I guess other funnies may have had similar runs.
I am not a lawyer either, but this does not have to be a trademark infringement. IKEA can probably gain the control of the domain via ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (see https://archive.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm).

Based on what I see, the domain name was registered in "bad faith", shown by: "by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location".
Having this on in the background compliments it ("Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs)"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA

Alternatively to mix BSG into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOfPGbZoT4Y
there are a bunch of languages mathematicians should know, haskell is one of them, so is prolog, lisp, APL, FORTRAN, and C. They all have their advantages, and you just have to know which one will give you an edge in your problem domain.
SourceTree from Altassian git and mercurial client, free

http://www.sourcetreeapp.com

CodeRunner from Nikolai Krill for easily running/testing code snippets in any language, $9.99 on the App Store

http://krillapps.com/coderunner/
Real-time Instagram tag research
Again, that's back to having a flawed admissions test.

The criteria should simply be those who apply.
Oh, there's still great stories being produced, and the best writers manage to work within the Marvel continuity while not assuming their readers have prior knowledge of it.

Unfortunately, you can't see any of that from the cover of the comics, and the best writers share shelf space with a whole lot of dreck, as well as a bunch of not-dreck that assumes you've already been reading the series for ten years.

My advice is to buy collected story arcs rather than individual issues, avoid crossovers, favor single-character rather than ensemble books, favor series relaunches or miniseries, and once you've found a writer you like, buy for the writer and not the character.
Explaining Continuations
This is the widely accepted theory but it doesn't explain everything. For example, lab animals have actually gotten fatter over time as well, and they are eating carefully measured diets and living in controlled conditions.

Diets are also not effective at losing weight. People rarely stay on them, and a fat person must eat significantly fewer calories, not just the same amount, than a normal person to maintain a healthy weight. Their metabolisms resemble those of starving people, the body desperately trying to return itself to it's "normal" weight.

Likewise normal people fed lots of food to become fat, quickly return to their previous weight after they stop. Genetic studies find obesity is more heritable than nearly any other condition including mental illness, breast cancer, and heart disease. It also appears to be affected by epigenetics. If your grandmother was starving you have a higher probability of becoming obese.
Things I have learned from Marc Andreessen: he thinks Snowden is a traitor. And blames Snowden for causing problems for US companies to sell overseas.
Another alternative to consider is FineUploader which has a mature S3 module[1]. However, FineUploader does require a commercial licence of $80-$500p.a.

[1] http://blog.fineuploader.com/2013/08/16/fine-uploader-s3-upl...
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DEFCOIN – lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm
Yes, but note that "likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement" is also a component of U.S. trademark law capable of defeating the fair use defense. As I explained, I think that the case for this is weak, but not nonexistent -- though it could easily have been cured without surrendering the domain name or excising the word "Ikea."
Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito at The Churchill Club
That's true. I'd like to hear a plan for accurately admitting those with certain attributes that exhibit no signs of them whatsoever, because I can't think of one.
I can't find the article but somewhere I read that a boy was intentionally never told what "color" the sky was. He could see color normally but when asked what color the sky was, he said "Clear."
To what end should hardware manufactures be required to inform their customers of component changes? One big advantage of Apple products compared to other competitors is that there are very limited number of decisions for average consumers to make. It will cause huge amount of confusion if a new model name and change list is generated each time any of the thousands of components in an MBP changes.
Haskell Talks
That defeats the purpose entirely. There are plenty of schools that take anyone who applies. These specialized schools only take kids who are capable of handling a more advanced workload. And on top of that, the average NYC public school student is in a pretty bad place in the eighth grade. A quarter of them won't make it to graduation no matter what school they attend.
The Metaphysics of Money [pdf]
A rough prototype of Arkanoid made in Swift and Sprite Kit
I was watching the soccer match between Italy and England, but I got bored quickly, so I started to play with Swift and Sprite Kit, and it ended up as an Arkanoid clone
I don't think they push CCS much anymore. The focus seems to be on generating long reads and then using Quiver to call the consensus (https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/GenomicConsensus/blob/...).
Tour de France Riders vs. Regular Cyclists
The best protection is to do chattr +i on all binaries and shared objects in /bin, /lib and /usr, and only lift it for upgrades. Possibly also for everything under /etc except /etc/mtab. And for everything under /boot, preferably mounting it read-only if it's on a separate fs.

It might get really annoying really fast though and only iron discipline will prevent you from forgetting to chattr +i something back after chattr -i to do an upgrade. And if you have such a good discipline, you're extremely unlikely to ever do a rm -rf /*.

It would be nice if you could have some hook in the package manager so you could write something to automatically chattr -i relevant files and then chattr +i them back. And a vim macro to do the same when you save a file in /etc.
Full life-size ship with all rooms filled out has been built in minecraft at least - http://minetrekshipyards.wikispaces.com
> While the ellipse that Mercury’s orbit makes around the Sun precesses at a rate of 43"-per-century due to relativistic effects (where 1° is 3600"), this smaller black hole should precess at 39°-per-orbit, and should inspiral in to the larger one in a timeframe of just a few thousand years!

In case anyone's curious: The double-quote is an arc-second. When measuring angles, a single quote is an arc-minute, which is 1/60th of a degree. An arc-second is, of course, 1/60th of an arc-minute. Rifle accuracy is measured in minutes of arc, with 1' being about an inch diameter circle at 100 meters. Proxima Centauri has a parallax of about 0.8".

To give you an idea of how far away Proxima Centauri is, we can scale everything down. A light-year is about 63,240 AU. A mile is 63,360 inches. So if Terra was an inch from Sol, Proxima Centauri would be about 4 miles away. The parallax from Proxima Centauri is the same as if you looked at an object 4 miles away, then moved your head 2 inches laterally. That's 0.8 arc-seconds. That's the second-closest star to us.
It not the complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_hole...

On a related note, I never understood how a black hole (or frozen stars like the Russians call them) could potentially orbit or be swallowed by another black hole. If they "infinitely" deform space-time, shouldn't they be unable to move at all? If time stands still past the event horizon as they say and they also rip the space-time fabric so much, they shouldn't be able to "get out of the hole". This is just too mind-bogging for me I guess.
Except Haskell isn't dependently typed, right?

I can do it in C# for small matrices, by including the dimensions as type bindings (http://bling.codeplex.com), but that is not practical for larger matrices, nor would it work for matrices loaded from IO.

To the downvoters: are you claiming Haskell is dependently typed? If so, why isn't it used in http://hackage.haskell.org/package/matrix-0.2.1/docs/Data-Ma...? Or just one matrix data type that checks dimension lengths via the type system?
It's trivial if you know the zip file contains just a single file. A zip file starts with a "local file header" (see [1]) that contains the compressed and uncompressed size metadata.

So you can decompress the first n bytes of the first file (where n = enough to get a complete header), look at the header, seek past it, then decompress the header of the next file, and so on, recursively.

Unless you meant how to do this without reading the size information from the headers at all, in which case I don't think it would be possible without actually decompressing. There wouldn't be any need to spend "space proportional to the compression factor", though; you would decompress recursively with a pipelined function, but it would just count, not emit, any data. For a 42 KB zipfile, the time required would be near zero.

[1] http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
I don't think it would send that message at all.

IKEA Hackers wasn't just some site using the IKEA name, it was a high-quality and well-established community. If IKEA had purchased this establishment, I don't think a reasonable person would conclude they would give the same treatment to just any other trademark infringer.

And even non-profit sites need money to pay for hosting.
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