skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are numbers of warrants and exclude anything obtained directly from the network, which they also said happens.

The number of warrants is huge, eg in Australia where it suggests maybe 2% of the population are being surveilled with warrants.
I agree with a lot of the comments here. Just cut way down on sugars of any kind in general. I cut out about 90% of them about a year ago as part of a weight loss plan, and I'm sure I feel much better for it (Well, and losing weight too so no real evidence). I no longer have much craving for sugar and when I do have some it really tastes sweet now!
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When did capturing the reader's attention become "manipulative tripe?" The goal of any piece of writing is to persuade and convince. Opening with an engaging anecdote is a time-tested tool for bringing readers into a piece. Writers have been doing this for centuries. Would you rather the author reduce the article to a list of bullet points?
Great Product. Been looking for something like this in long time.
I love the Shiba Inu version of the article! much read.
We like to think the Ivies have a narrower range, though. This girl was admitted under UT's explicit policy of admitting unqualified students as long as they come from awful schools. That sort of thing can cause quite a large gap between, say, the 25th percentile student and the modal student.

update: for reference:

UT Austin 25th-75th percentile SAT math scores: 590 - 710

Cal Tech 25th-75th percentile SAT math scores: 770 - 800

How significant do you think it is that a quarter of Cal Tech students are below the 25th percentile? How far below do you think they range?
yes and no when i wrote this, i just had the idea and i didn't have any pen and paper on me so i asked my friend to borrow his phone(since i didn't have one myself),so i can quickly write the idea down and send it to myself and later send it to Mark Zuckerberg. But what end up happening is, he wanted his phone earlier than predicted and in the rush i skipped the sending it to myself part,and send it to him instead.Also I apologize for any inconveniences caused on my part. Besides that, I would like to thank you for your patience and guidance .
Think I just found a way using canvas with a semi transparent element inside of it, then overlaying that on each square, grabbing the computed/resulting color of the canvas to decipher which block is what. S O O N
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You can eat a little fruit once in a while, but it actually isn't important for your health. Think of it as natural candy. Now, vegetables/greens are important.

Looking through history, humans only had fruit available a few months/weeks of the year. Nowadays we can get all the fruit we want.
I don't think although all these languages have some functional characteristics that they should be called functional languages. It seems like the OP was more concerned with getting the results he wanted rather than answering the “Can a functional language do this as well?” question.
As someone who has earned a PhD I think the key thing is these programs are set up to train _researchers_, not specifically academic ones. As you say non-academic jobs in STEM are easy enough to find, and industrial research is alive and well.
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No. Or rather, there isn't supposed to be. About 8 years ago (see http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-yo... for an early demonstration) it was possible. This was considered bad, because it could help malicious sites gain information about the browser history which might help with an attack.

The browser developers responded by minimizing what a ":visited" can do, so Javascript shouldn't be able to get direct, or indirect through CSS, access to that information.
> Why engross yourself in a world that you know is just going to disappear? Why watch a drama that is just going to end on a cliffhanger, and never get a 4th season to wrap it up? Would you read a book that just stopped in the middle of the page, paragraph, or sentence?

Yeah, that's certainly a problem, even though it's far from being the worst problem of the Game Industry. I still wish I'll see the end of ShenMue one day (even thought it will probably never happen, and if it ever does, it won't be by Suzuki) - the way I react to that is that I just don't purchase games which cannot stand in their own right anymore. Games purposely made to be in episodes have become big red flags for me, no matter if the first one is good or not. Hell, EA games and Ubi games in general have red flags all over these days, I don't even consider them anymore.

> But sequels should improve in some way, not just better graphics, but better features, tighter gameplay.

Not necessarily, and especially not if you want to sell millions of units. The more you make a game complex, the more you cater to a niche audience who has seen the ropes of all the previous titles and you incur the risk of not having wide appeal. If Need for Speed had improved more and more from the first episode it would be a very serious simulation game by now (the first game on 3DO was very close to being a no fun, serious simulation) and nothing "arcady" like it has become. It probably would never have made it past a few episodes then, as you can see most serious simulation games completely died in the 90s (this is where you see that educated folks did not constitute the majority of gamers anymore).

> They don't understand or own the product in the way the original team did. By the time (if) they make it to the third game, it's a copy of a copy.

Yeah, but it's natural. Most people of the original game team don't want to do the same game for 10 years of their life. That's hitting you hard over the years. And when you have teams of 100-200 people on major games, of course MOST people are going to move from one version to another, just like in every other industry out there. Nobody's married to a series of games.

> It's not simply a case of the same thing being boring the second time around, the game is literally weaker than the predecessor.

It's not about being boring, even when people have full creative freedom and almost unlimited money they just sometimes FAIL completely to make something good the second time around. Or even later. Take Richard Garriott, he peaked at Ultima 7 The Black Gate and this was probably one of the (if not the greatest) RPG ever made, and the follow-up, Ultima 8, was a massive disappointment, inferior in all aspects to its predecessor - a massive setback. If even the best game designers out there fail miserably from time to time, you cannot just expect average game designers to hit the right button more often than not.
Hmm... it doesn't mention anything about the used VM settings.
System has 8gb ram. But as i remember java vm is restricted in its use of ram as is NodeJs ( i guess this test was performed in node). To use full 8gb ram you would have to run multiple nodejs instances? am i wrong?
Edit: First sentence doesn't make sense, I mean it took me some time to hear it referred to as "snabel-a".
Do you guys have a repo? I'd like to see how this works first. I need to know more about the permissions system, specifically.
Which country/time period? Across much of Europe for much of the 20th century, trying to do that would bring your entire workforce out on strike.
Naivete and immaturity. The tech crowd doesn't realize that the best time to work towards a better future for themselves is when things are [generally] going your way.

What many do not see is the rapid commoditization of the low-end of the market, fueled by OSS RAD tools.
Apparently not: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Canvas/Dra...

> Visited-link styles aren't applied to links rendered in SVG images, so history information can't be retrieved, and native themes aren't rendered in SVG images, which makes it harder to determine the user's platform.
Yeah,as a foreigner ,it's hard, never know what to put after a verb to get the right meaning,let's take "to go".

to go on,go back,go off,go around,go by

have a different meaning...that's the most difficult part of the english language imho,now you can use a different verb for each expression,but it wouldnt feel idiomatic.

At the same time,it makes english composable and easy to extend,it cannot work with my language.I wonder if other languages work like that too.
Sure, but why would mobile should be learnt first, then? I'd just like to understand your train of thought.
I hope they come up with a name that's easy to pronounce if they do.

I also doubt they will do well in the rest of the world for the same reason Huawei aren't - lack of trustability.
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It was a different time obviously but still goes to show you can still achieve great things even if you are not the typical 20-something hacker anymore ;) Peter Norton was around 40 years old when he first released Norton Utilities and started that remarkable part of his career. Given the time, he probably didn't even start programming until he was 30.
Also grammatical mistakes like "an historic".
Dos navigator was better than nc.

Also midnight commander has much better editor than both norton commander and dos navigator. I use mcedit instead of vi or nano and it works great.
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It isn't open source. But we will consider for it in the future :)
I guess that's what was meant: no registration, no redirects, it just works. It surprised me too. Interesting talks.
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Mailbox.org now english including PGP explaination for dummys
When the pricacy-aware mailhoster mailbox.org launched 2 month ago, no english information about the service was there. That's fixed now. Even the little videos explaining PGP are translatet.
Xiaomi is cheap.

But I hate Android, if they change the OS, maybe I will buy one.
Finnish schools start teaching programming at the age of 7
sitting in front of the computer and reading this article makes you obese, better do some stretches. i canceled reading it at the half, because i already felt gaining some pounds:)
Based on my circle, Huawei is not insignificant and getting traction. Cheap and reliable is a good way to start.
I like their domain, very short, haha.
Peter Norton's books, or at least the ones he wrote himself initially, were wonderfully clear and well written, even though they absolutely got down to the bare metal. I kept my copies for many years because I could not bring myself to get rid of them.
That's not a clear-cut mistake, and in my opinion totally forgivable. http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w005.html
How does this compare to OpenGov's offering?
HN: why has this been downvoted?
For Windows however there's an awesome and open source Far Manager - http://www.farmanager.com - but I guess if you know what NC was, then you already know about FM as well :)
Sounds awesome :-)
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From CNET: "Xiaomi's Redmi offers exceptional value for its low price, and blows all other budget handsets out of the water. If you're looking for a cheap Android smartphone without having to compromise performance, look no further." http://www.cnet.com/products/xiaomi-redmi/
Translated to english (with bing): http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=fi&to=en&a=h...
straight from TFA:

"So now you should in theory have a working FM transmitter. How do you test it? Well you could build an FM receiver, which would almost be identical, just in reverse. However, I believe this would be an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the utility of SDR. With a $20 USB dongle from Amazon and the following tutorial, you can operate your own SDR receiver from your computer."

So no, it's not a radio. The radio is in the dongle, the other part is just an oscillator. So it's more likely about 1/2 million transistor radio or thereabouts (estimate of the # of transistors on the chips in that dongle).

The 'crude mixer / demodulator' can be done with just one transistor, this just isn't that.
How big are the binaries? ICC inlines a lot more heavily, it's possible (I've seen it before) the code size has bloated, not fitting into the IC...

Having said that, most of ICC's general gains over GCC and LLVM are due to the much faster maths libraries (even more so on Linux), and that doesn't look like that would be useful for these tests...
I doubt most of this is legal. MSdos 6, for example, is still copyrighted as far as I know, and Microsoft can still enforce its rights...
You do have a sliding scale, in the form of the hosting cost pass through. Your average restaurateur is entirely unqualified to estimate the AWS hosting costs of your software in relation to his/her restaurant, so these costs are completely opaque. (As patio11 puts it, "Metered pricing is none of predictable, transparent, or fair.") You, on the other hand, probably have a very good idea of the costs relative to e.g. size or popularity of establishment. In the interests of transparent pricing, you ought to consider factoring these costs into your price and charge your customer a fixed predictable amount, tiered according to the relevant parameter.
Feels like i have read the exact same thing half a year ago and half a year before that. We have seen countless times that what works in asia doesn't always work in the rest of the world and vice versa.
Last i heard was that iPhones sell very well in China though :)
Why not Google buys Mozilla to beat Swift?
Reasons:
1. Firefox is losing.
2. With Apple moving to Swift, Google needs a better language than Go to replace Java on Android, but can not wait 4 years. So Mozilla's Rust is good choice second to none.
Great! I'm all for more cheap high-spec Android phones! I would buy one.
Well the problem now is that you've got your publicity before you were ready for it. Now when you do have a demo, your publicity has already been and gone.

I like the landing page. It looks good. But without a demo, you're already just-another-startup.
Once you get your doctorate, the logical step for most STEM graduates is a postdoctoral position. There aren't many of these at all, most departments have double the number of PhD students than they do postdocs. So right off the bat, half the students will be finding jobs elsewhere. Industry (hardware/software/analytics/whatever) pays more, is often more fulfilling and although your work isn't completely open it is usually more obviously relevant than your PhD.

So 60% will find tenure track jobs? Well that's obviously true. If there are only about half the postdoc positions compared to the number of new PhDs then only half the PhD students will be getting tenure track jobs.

Most postdoc positions are 2-3 years and are filled by newly minted PhDs. The logical evolution for most people is to do a postdoc (or two) and wait until their research is renowned enough for the university to offer a lectureship. You do that for another few years until they offer you a Readership, wait a bit longer and you get your coveted Professorship. If you're really lucky and you're top of your field you can hit assistant professor by 30-35 in the UK.

Until you get the all-important lectureship offer you're a contract worker and there is always the prospect that funding will be cut and you won't be able to renew your position. Remember that once you've done your postdoc there are even fewer positions to be promoted into.

Doing a PhD has largely put me off the idea of staying in academia, I think this is becoming more common. Being a professor would be nice, good pay (£60k min) lots of travel, but it's a very stressful job, you have no time to do any real research beyond project management and by that time you're thoroughly institutionalised.

Should point out that my experience is from physics, ymmv. On the plus side I don't know anyone who has struggled to find a job from my department; plenty go into research in non university groups like Microsoft, the British Antarctic Survey, the Met Office, etc.
That's really good, and a very informative forum post!
If nothing else, I did get a good list of Programming and Engineering websites :D - http://pastebin.com/zrQ7EBnP
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None of these attributes are incumbent in the nature of delivering health care. They're just things that are part of the system today. As you stated, in today's health care system, true costs are obscured. The exact problem is that nefarious corporate forces have removed most of the real market elements by adding layers of indirection (health insurance), which allows everyone in the industry to maximize their dollars billed and push some paper around, and leaves a great many people totally screwed. The issue is that there's just enough variance and division that there isn't a unified, whole-hearted call for reform, because it works great for 30% of people, works mediocre for 40% of people, and completely leaves the last 30% destroyed. I believe that those ratios are calculated and intentionally kept in place to prevent unification and meaningfully addressing the issue on a social scale.

Health care has become a perverse industry because its market properties were destroyed not by government, but by malicious corporate conglomerations out to maximize their own profit at the expense of human life. People forget that one of the purposes is government is to prevent private organizations from growing too powerful and interfering with the general welfare of the people, because the narrative is rarely framed this way, but it's a very important governmental function. I don't think socialization is the answer, but something has to be done.

I think health care needs to be brought back down to earth, and we should outlaw all non-catastrophic health insurance products. The insurance racket has completely destroyed that market. There are other elements that have caused the health market to get completely out of whack, but insurance is at the very core of the issue, and it has to go away.

When almost half of the country's bankruptcies are due to health care debt, simply sick people trying to stay alive, we have a real social problem that we need to address.

Of course, we did the opposite of this and made it illegal not to have health insurance, only further inflating the size of the monstrosity that has leeched and destroyed the system in the first place. I don't believe writing a blank check, like the other countries have done, is the way out. I believe the way out is going back to a what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach, and forcing medical providers to charge rates people can actually afford, as their business will immediately plummet if they don't seriously rework their billing structure to become affordable again since people will actually be paying it now.
When I do the search I see "✓" in the query string.

http://www.torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/demo/search?utf8=%E2...

That's my first time ever see such in query string!
this follow-up is better. But you're asking me to guess!

>How significant do you think it is that a quarter of Cal Tech students are below the 25th percentile? How far below do you think they range?

I don't know.

It would help if your figures didn't cut out at the bottom-quarter mark, i.e. if you gave some figures on the lowest SAT math score (and what about verbal?) admitted to these institutions, or some other indication rather than asking what we 'like to think' about the range or having me guess :)

I'm not saying you're wrong, but the way you expressed it, "despite being below the 25th percentile for students at that school" and "It specifically calls them out as being in the bottom quartile" in your original comment is probably not a great way to show your case. Your range comment is much better, but stops short of indicating what the full range is or where this student falls.

Basically, I am directly saying that being in the bottom quartile is not itself an indication of sub-standard performance - at any school. Because nearly a quarter of students will be below the bottom quartile - at every school.
Most people, including Americans, pronounce historic as historic, not 'istoric.
They may call it natural. From Wikipedia[1]

"To produce agave syrup from the Agave americana and A. tequilana plants, the leaves are cut off the plant after it has aged seven to fourteen years. The juice is then extracted from the core of the agave, called the piña.[2] The juice is filtered, then heated to break the complex components (the polysaccharides) into simple sugars.[Need to cite reference for production process] The main polysaccharide is called inulin or fructosan and is mostly fructose. This filtered juice is then concentrated to a syrupy liquid, slightly thinner than honey. Its color varies from light- to dark-amber, depending on the degree of processing."

So we have juice extraction, heating to break up the components, filtering and concentrating. It just shows how far the industry has gone to consider that as natural.

Or alternatively :

"An alternative method used to process the agave juice without heat is described in a United States patent for a process that uses enzymes derived from the mold Aspergillus niger to convert the inulin-rich extract into fructose.[6] Aspergillus niger, a fungus commonly used in industrial fermentations,[7] is "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.[8]"

We have a process to alter its chemical structure, luckily it is "generally recognized as safe".

Just because someone says it is natural doesn't mean that it is. Natural to me is picking an apple off a tree and eating it. Some food does need processing. Meat and some veg needs cooking, but anything beyond that is processed in my book.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_nectar
I think shoruzorhorheugogeuzudeazaeon actually sounds a bit more like a demon than the other candidates.
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How each program was compiled/run is documented in the source: http://www.unisoftwareplus.com/download/blog/2014-06/magicFo...
Becoming a professor is hardly the only reason to do a PhD in the sciences.
Well Ubi Soft headquarters are still technically in Montreuil, next to Paris. While it's true they have offices all around the world now.
Well, judging by the link in the article...
The only thing I absolutely detest in Git, is that is no quick method to change history on local changes. Say I add a method and make a commit - then I do a bunch of other work and 10 commits later I realize that the method I had written needed to be const. Instead of be able to edit that commit and add the const labels, I end up having to make another commit that no one cares about and no one really should have to look at. It just makes the history incredibly cluttered and make it a lot harder to find the commits I'm interested in.

I think you can use git rebase --interactive to reorder the new commit and squash it with the older: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3921708/how-do-i-squash-t...

Of course, that requires manual labor (brrr), but that's nothing that a small script can't automate. I'd do it myself if we used git where I work.
When I read about the "natural" status of Agave nectar, I was immediately interested in the process of obtaining it. Thanks for placing this info right here!
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Is Chris Dancy the Most Quantified Self in America?
They thought of everything, :)
Keybase.io is doing good work in making public key encryption more easily available.

Except for the part where they want you to upload your private key to them. But that is optional.
What does the karma have to do with the post content?

I agree about the link though.