skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, here's one of those dumb questions you seem very open to: Can we use this technique to (for example) reply with all of a page's dependencies upon the initial request? i.e. if a user goes to www.example.com/ and the server immediately replies with /, /favicon.ico, /styles.css, /script.js, /banner.png, etc? I imagine if it were possible, this would result in a massive reduction in latency...
The linked-to NYT article has a story about a hairdresser whose previous employer went to court and succeeded in banning them from working for any "nearby town" for a year -- even though this is unreasonable by any sane standard.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/noncompete-clause...

Insert "cutting edge" joke here, but at the end of the day, if you've signed a non-compete, there is at the very least an element of risk in willfully ignoring it.
> I did eventually manage to get in contact with Mel, but I scared him away, unfortunately. That's a story for another day... :-/

Tell us today! Tell us! Please?
Linux-ready MIPS SoCs target low-power wearables
Isn't the BLE112 already certified? Or does integrating it into a product require you to get the entire product certified?
In exchange for the "malware on iOS!" controversy? No thanks.
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Interestingly, Google seems headed in the opposite direction. They've even released an app that lets users complete surveys in exchange for Google Play credit.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Chrome Question: How come on the Network tab on the Developer Tools window (F12) I cannot see any of the traffic to the hundreds of sites the browser is pinging to render into iframes?
I agree with most of this post, except square and paypal play in pretty separate parts of the payments ecosystem. Square isn't at all competitive with PayPal's core business atm.
If some baseline human right can be defined as a privilege, then there still needs to be terminology to distinguish it from undeserved privilege so that it can be properly addressed. Undeserved male privilege should be eradicated, but basic human rights and dignity should be extended to all. I have seen some people make this distinction and some not when using this term.
Or you have hypothyroidism, and need to treat it (I am gathering more data on myself, I will write about it when I have enough interesting data to write a full blown article).
and I think we skipped the part where GoDaddy is losing $200 million a year.
Waiver of a right != denial of a right

If someone takes your apples, it makes a huge difference whether you agreed to trade them for the taker's oranges.

A right that you cannot waive is not a right; it is an obligation.
You keep assuming something about the turing test that is simply not the case. The Turing test has nothing to do with usefulness it doesn't even have to be correct. It just has to fool you into believing it's human.

You are talking about your own metrics, fine but it's not what the test is about. I too hear Searles Chinese Room argument in your basic rant.

And yes of course there are many useful things that can come out of something like this such as phishing attacks, hacking, honeypots even toys for kids.
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I just wondered, do you know whether operators are namespaced? Or whether that's possible?
I bet walkable fresh correlates pretty well with lower crime (especially within an urban context, but I would expect it to work even when you ignore development patterns/density).
Luckily they caught it relatively early on because a family member had it, so its been semi-easy to manage.
Malware is kept at bay by the sandbox. App review does jack squat to stop malware. Sideloaded apps could still be sandboxed.

Downvoters: please explain yourself. Is what I said incorrect?
Ah here we go. The spectrum for Rhodamine B is noisy and it's throwing the normalization heuristic off. I've added a moving average filter and zeroed out some small noise in the >600 nm range and the colors make more sense now.
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That's basically what last.fm does, so that's doable and not too hard. As somebody with a formal training in ML, I'm not convinced by the quality of the results (as much as I'm not convinced but last.fm recommendations…) but it looks like there's a good business case to make.
Is this so unreasonable? I needed to curry the function to sweep over the temperature T. And if you take out the units, it's simply pointwise multiplication of two functions.
Not getting molested comes at a price: $85 for pre-check status. That said, you also have to hand over your social media history and web browsing history. Its required for your KTN.
Some of it also depends on use case...

Some people use containers like lightweight vms.

Others use it as a way to ensure a solid/consistent userland per process.

Others still blend the two in various ways... I tend to think of it somewhere "a little more than just a consistent userland" but not a full running os image.
The base Arduino doesn't have networking. However, there are models, like the Yun, that do have wifi and/or ethernet and are less than the cost of the Tessel.
No, I put that in the first cell. You can take it out of the notebook if you want.
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I found a pretty useful service on Hacker News called WildFREE - Signed up about a week ago and got a few free products, overall really happy with it

Worth a go | http://wildfree.wildfiree.com/
> I see with the launch of Docker Hub that they have some flagged as "official" now, but for example the Postgres one is a black box (no Dockerfile source available - not a "trusted build") so I can't trust it.[1]

It is actually built from source - by a separate open-source project called "stackbrew" which is basically the "homebrew of official Docker images". It was setup by the Docker maintainers before Hub introduced auto-builds, and then it just stuck. The idea is to allow anyone to participate in the maintenance effort, contribute new images etc. by simply making a pull request (again, just like Homebrew).

Here's the source URL from which that Postgres image is built: https://github.com/dotcloud/stackbrew/blob/master/library/po...
The same, although come to think of it, in the 50s, how many scruffy, bearded veteran programmers could there have been?
Agreed, not really a prediction, but rather a projection. Still, it surprises me that few people take the trouble to make the connection between the spectra and the perceived colors. Seems like photochemistry and colorimetry don't intersect as often as they ought to...
Well, you can and you can't. See the problem is that you have no idea what the next request will be about! So if you're sending the same kind of request from the client you can respond with a payload in the mime type that is being expected. But for your usecase you could receive a request for /style.css and respond with /favicon.ico if a client decided to make the requests in an order that you did not anticipate.

If you get lucky it will work, but if you're unlucky then you'll be sending out the wrong payloads on all but the first request.

The only reason this trick worked for the webcam is because it knows ahead of time what kind of request will come (the request for the next frame). That's why it can anticipate.
Human-reviewing the "scamminess" of an IAP at Appstore scale would be a complete disaster. Every reviewer would have to understand the full dynamics of the game before improperly labelling an IAP as scammy.

Its impractical to think every reviewer can spend enough time with every game to make the right call.
> Assuming those requests are sent in order

That's the problem right there. Right off the bat I don't see how to get around that one.
Then so be it. Apple's efforts are needed.
Livestream firing an employee for off-work conduct is just as morally wrong as Shanley was for tattling. Calling someone a cunt is certainly not nice, but it's miles away from firing someone or getting someone fired. It's not even in the same ballpark.

That said, he should've known better and used an anonymous account if he really wanted to make comments that might be dangerous to his well-being.
Not exactly from what I understand, but the operator definition is just telling swift that '<-' is a usable prefix and infix. To actually use them on an object you need to have class/struct specific implementations of the function.
I wouldn't have guessed these functions were so popular. I think those people who need them, need them often, but they are very few, so standards committees just ignore their needs.

If I have time this summer, I'll implement the Gamma and Beta functions, and their inverses, with a permissive license.
One can only speculate. I would refer you to his statement, seems like he is more interested in "getting shit done" than getting drained by bureaucracy.

As for Bill Scott, its a 2 edged sword. I think he runs a good ship, and great guy if you are part of his team or enjoy his patronage or benefit his goals/vision. Him and his team understand technology, appreciate doing what they do. They are one of the forward looking tech teams at PP. But, it comes with usual red herrings though.
As you were posting this ...

Another Exec Is Leaving PayPal: Senior Engineering Director
April Chang Goes To Eventbrite

http://www.businessinsider.com/another-exec-leaving-paypal-a...
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There is one serious issue that it helps me fix in my experience, and that's Upstart: a) doesn't work in docker, and b) is totally opaque to me. It's an obelisk of mystery. You're not supposed to read it, or understand it. I like runit.

Until Ubuntu can transition to systemd, which is supposedly more friendly toward containers, if I'm going to use Ubuntu inside of docker containers I'm going to need to manage my own inits. Even read them. The work phusion puts into runit and making services work under runit in baseimage-docker is invaluable to me.
I'd disagree - in my experience, the carrot and the stick is often visible within the first few minutes of play.

Clash of Clans is a good example, the "use gems to skip build timers" mechanic is revealed during the opening tutorial.
Typeclasses don't give you any specific to OO: they are abstractions over values and that's about it. You wouldn't be able to emulate an existing OO system in Haskell, and anyways, it wouldn't bring you closer to "talking about" and "thinking in terms of" objects.

My point that OOP is essentially "thinking in terms of named objects" whereas most of what Haskell focuses on is "expressing math by composing anonymous values." I believe this starting from a design perspective is the best way to highlight the real differences between OOP and pure FP.
My impression is that it's crowding out games that would actually be good.
One can only speculate. I would refer you to his statement, seems like he is more interested in "getting shit done" than getting drained by bureaucracy.

I know, but why couldn't he fix it? That is the real question.
You can only get 3 per boat at max size. Level 20 landing craft have 24 seats, tanks take 8 slots.

3 tanks does take a long time but every other unit trains in a fraction of the time tanks do. Tanks take longer because you will often take no casualties with them.
They'd also have to be all on the same connection. Also, you'd lose out on caching.

At that point you might as well just inline the css and javascript.
Most talked about topic at NFC Solutions Summit? BLE.
Tell tale achieved: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/14/facebook-e...
Unfortunately for haters of the West the game is over and China is no longer the savior. China is a liability unless they are purchasing your natural resources.
Just in case you missed it: you can "docker commit" the state of a container at any time (and "docker diff" to see what has changed on disk since creation). Would that solve your problem?
Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity
NoSQL cluster worked fine except for two minor things: reading and writing data
Now that I think about it, one could use a small javascript library embedded in the index page to make a number of additional requests and interpret them as the correct types via data: URLs. That would be a lot of messy hacking to shave off a few hundred ms, but might be an interesting exercise to undertake...
Damnit, I was hoping to find a justification for my oversized head.
Steven Pinker: Writing In The 21st Century
Is #slack answering the problems of work communications properly?
And it's not like store security isn't going to be watching you. There's a good chance they'll detain you as soon as you try to walk out the door.
I would say mobile games are viewed as more disposible than PC or Console games.

Developers can pull a game from the Android or iOS markets at any time and unless you somehow made a backup, you'll never get to play it again if you happened to reset your device or get a new one. With steam though, my game library stays there, even if the developer no longer sells the game on Steam (happened with the Wolfenstein game that came out a few years ago). Also, many mobile games also depend on server side resources and won't function without them.
For the First Time Ever, a Computer Passed Turing Test for AI
I've always been a little bemused by the single-minded focus on clickthrough and direct engagement in online advertising.

In television and radio advertising, you don't have direct engagement metrics like clickthrough -- just reach. X number of eyeballs saw your ad, and that's that. Television ad campaigns tend to have a far more abstract strategy than anything that could be captured by something like clickthrough. They're about building brand image and planting a well-designed perception in the mind of the viewer. It's a long-term strategy. And despite a lack of any measurement or expectation of direct engagement, companies don't even blink at paying hugely more for television advertising than an equivalent reach of internet advertising.

Why are they willing to believe in longer-term, more nebulous ideas like brand image and mindshare with television ads, yet Internet ads are expected to result in direct, immediate conversion for pennies on the dollar? It's as though you measured a TV ad's success by the number of people who dropped whatever they were doing, went out to the store, and bought whatever was on the ad immediately.

It just seems like an absurd double standard, and I don't understand where it comes from (other than the general arbitrariness of marketing in general).
In that case: am I allowed to voluntarily pledge every minute of my life to you for the next 7 years in exchange for an all-expenses trip to the other side of the world? If I change my mind, are you allowed to imprison and torture me until I comply to the terms of the agreement?

While this is textbook ad absurdum, there is some point at which a line is drawn on which rights may be voluntarily surrendered, especially as regards selling one's future self. (Or if you believe that all rights can be voluntarily sold/surrendered: Can I voluntarily surrender my right to surrender rights? Can I sign a contract that says I may no longer sign contracts?)
Hello, how long to fly from oz to USA?
>That is, users systematically spring for games with lower cost-benefit tradeoffs simply because they are offered for free.

Except that's not what the paper says. It just notes that the decision-making process that goes on in people's heads doesn't just include the monetary cost (duh), and that when one option is "free" some other non-monetary factor is revealed (e.g., removing the mental cost of even having to do a cost/benefit analysis).

That said, I'm troubled by your notion that when people's actual behaviour does not conform to a model, the problem is with the people.
Don't be silly. Are you really suggesting that Apple is doing this to clean up your news feed? They don't care whatsoever. Facebook does, you do, Apple doesn't.

What OP said is right. This is about Apple having tighter control over the app marketplace, not your news feed.
The normal conversations I have with people do not consist primarily of them trying to change the subject.
It seems that Kevin Warwick is well known for doing this sort of thing, so I wonder why it isn't evident on his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warwick
nothing in Javascript fundamentally forces IO libraries to be asynchronous, it's just that the domain in which JS is used (Node or Browsers) tend to have a lot of async IO due to networks.
Yeah, seems very similar to what we went through with DDT and animals in the 1950s and 1960s. Hopefully India has its own Rachel Carson advocating for the birds and the environment.
Issuing commands to a computer with a "mouse" -- ridiculous! It will never work.

More seriously-- why does this need funding? If the idea is clear enough and people see a need for it, someone will help finish it or write their own version as open source.

Having watched the second video, which is better, it looks to me like there could be some good ideas here; but a lot of them could be implemented on their own. Some could even be done with short shell functions in bash.
That would require broadcasting in restricted bands.
> By some I mean it happens

And I'm asking if you have seen any actual evidence that it happens. I have not, and the information I have seen, which I mentioned, leads me to believe that it should not have happened in any fusion experiments we've done to date. That's why I asked you for a reference.

> the sun is 1/10th of ITER's goal temperature so your well in the range for PP fusion

No, the ITER is not "in the range for PP fusion", because temperature is not the only requirement. You also need sufficient density. The density in the Sun's core is many orders of magnitude larger than the density of plasma in ITER or any other Earthbound fusion experiment. That has a huge effect on the PP reaction cross section.
Neither does a "normal" conversation with the bot. It only tries to change it when you start probing for weaknesses and going off script.
That's pretty awesome. I love Lua lately, for its simplicity both in design and implementation, and it's great to see that I can use it in an MCU! That said, it's pretty dumb that it has to have a JS transpiler in order to get popular.
>> I think part of the problem is that composition of images is strict "subclass"-type inheritance, so they don't compose easily.

This does seem like a pretty major limitation, is this a fundamental constraint or is it something that might be fixed in the future?
No, A 'Supercomputer' Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better ( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07284327524/no-su... )
A site with a medical review by a doctor of every "House" episode: http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html
Bevvy – A Platform to discover the next drink
It’s a data-driven web app called BEVVY (cocktails, spirits, and beers). We are techies in San Francisco who love our tipples and want to share what we would like to use ourselves. Yes, we did build this while having a few. Most people tend to drink what they know, or what’s most popular at the moment, missing an entire world of amazing libations created by mixologists, bartenders, and cocktail enthusiasts. Bevvy is building a platform to enable people to find their next drink. When you find yourself at a bar you can look up that next cocktail on BEVVY.

A cocktail menu is like a dating site without pictures. What does the Corpse Reviver 2 looks like? What does the Bees Knees tastes like? Typical cocktail menus have creative drink titles with a list of ingredients but it doesn’t tell you if you would actually like it before spending your money. A picture is worth a 1000 words as they say. There are so many cool cocktails to try if there was only a better way to discover them.

Bevvy is a data-driven web app that dives into the relationships of an alcoholic drink with its multiple facets, including the recipe (original and variations), base spirits, mixers and other ingredients, historical and cultural significance, bartenders, venues, and more. View alternate variations of a drink, fork a classic recipe to add your own twist, follow drink menus you like, or create your own drink menus, and more. Social is built right into the DNA of Bevvy, because let’s face it, drinking is social and Bevvy makes it easy to share what you’re drinking with your friends.

We want to help the world drink well - not just drink.

We went live (public beta) On World Cocktail Day - Tue, May 13, we’d like to invite your readers to come check us out and tell us what they think.
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They are pushing their online loan application hard. Their rate is a lot cheaper than Kabbage, OnDeck and Merchant Cash Advances providers.
Oh wow. Well consider this another day! That's amazing.
Thank you, as a veteran Operations Engineer couldn't agree more.
.multi-word-block__with-an-element--and-modifier

Also see the .site-search example here http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head...
You're asking why have consumer protection systems at all, more or less. And the answer is that some people make poor choices that hurt society as a whole - both by putting themselves in vulnerable positions, and by rewarding the exploiter's bad behavior.

Here's the simple measuring stick: If spending money on IAP is a substitute for skill in terms of game progression, it's a societal negative.

It exploits those least able to make good decisions. And it ruins what may have once been good games for the rest of us. What might be a really good game is distorted by the IAP market. You are monetarily rewarded for adding subtle gates that are very difficult to pass without spending money.

And worst thing about all this? Ask the people who spend a bunch of money if they really think the game is fun. Go ahead - ask them.
Are there app's available teaching men to masturbate? If there are, then she has a complaint. If there aren't, she doesn't have much ground to stand on.
You're at that stage of new technology adoption of where you think you know enough to criticize an idea but don't know enough to answer your own questions. Give it a few more hours of experience.
Snowmew's (game engine written in Rust) architecture: part 1
"Maybe, let’s talk about something else? What would you like to discuss?"

And that's where it failed my amateur, "BS" test...
I think you hot the mail on the head there. That the delta between mathematics and programming is time. Lee Smolin makes a similar case for physics.
Article doesn't properly address the headline. Apple's rejection could be the same for a game about male masturbation.
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Do you have a source for that story?
These are buttons, just styled differently than others you may be used to.
cool, but the output css reminds me of animations I made in 1998 using dreamweaver. It also generated a ton of "steps" that it would call via setTimeout to make the div move around the screen
I still use this on 0.11:

docker ps -l --no-trunc
lxc-attach -n xxxxxxxxxx
> Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing water or washing away oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your finger underwater.

Are those mutually exclusive? Can it not be an evolutionary trait AND be caused by some process?
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Asia's Greatest Fear: A U.S.-China War
Indeed. Natural selection only cares about things that interfere with the ability to live long enough to reproduce. Whether or not the organism is happy, well rested and enjoys their life isn't particularly important from an evolutionary stand point.