skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you could cost effectively do a spectral analysis it is still not optimal. By the time the plants are showing stress it is past the optimal time to water.

The true place for these chips is university and cooperative extension research. By knowing more about how plants use water they might be able to come up with a more easily measurable metric that farmers can use.
Matching Without Sharing: Private Set Intersection in Government and Industry
In this case the appeal stays the decision:

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId...

Definitely agree with your second point - according to most observers, the FAA's authority to regulate small (model-sized) UAVs is tenuous at best. They're generally not expected to win their appeal.
It is no crime to have a highly airborne-communicable disease, but it is dangerous to be on an airplane with one.
> it also demands that it happens on release day

No it doesn't. It says right there in what you quoted that it doesn't.

> "The foregoing will be subject to reasonable quantity of limited-time exclusive promotional offers (in each case, with a single third party partner) (“Limited Exclusives”), as long as a) Provider provides Google with comparable exclusive promotional offers and b) the quantity and duration of such Limited Exclusives do not frustrate the intent of this Agreement."

And AFAIK the common case of music labels is to license an entire catalog or not
How is it sufficient? Sufficient for what? Do you think that their end goal is to get a charge, any charge, on this mid level dealer? Of course not; they want information on someone even more high level.

The penalty for 1 oz and destroying evidence (if they can prove that) is nothing compared to the penalty for 1 kg.
Which is enough to understand what's all the fuss about and why all those pages should make one "surprised". Blog post itself doesn't have any description. Doh.
I'm pretty sure such a constitutional implementation already exists: namely, they can just revoke your passport, which I think has to go through due process.
Unfortunately, simple, time-tested solutions likely won't get food production to the place it needs to be in 30 years.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that math isn't invented, it is discovered. I am not sure this is true. I think they are models that are not true or untrue, just consistent and more or less useful than other particular models. It is trivially true that if I have two things in my left hand and two things in my right hand and I put them together, there are four things because this can be mapped onto identity of things. But really quickly it doesn't scale and you need non-real concepts to solve more complex problems. Roman numerals mapped to things (I,II,III) but Arabic were more symbolic and enabled more complex calculations (but still were base-10, which is a choice, not reality, some bases are better for certain calculations than others.) But again they still represented things in some sense. Zero was invented, it had to be invented because it's not representing a thing that can be counted, it's the lack of a thing so it's, I think, fundamentally a concept and not "real." It's still fairly intuitive (despite the fact that it took millions of years to invent) but then there are concepts like infinity. But then it turned out that that just described an infinite number of "things", there was also uncountably infinite. Then there are imaginary numbers. They can solve real problems, but I don't even know what they are. They seem to be an artifact of math that let you solve quadratic equations even though they map into something that can't even be said to be a "lack" of something, like zero is. It is a mapping into a completely virtual space. It was invented to solve problems, but it's not real in any material sense. I'm not a math person, so there are a lot more that I don't know anything about. Maybe I missed the point of your statement, but I wanted to explain what I think. That math isn't reality, it is a human invention that describes reality. You can have things in math that aren't reality but are useful models.
There is a lot more of the US the I can fly over than drive through.
I can't speak for others, but if you write browser apps/websites for a generic audience you basically have no choice. The reason consist of two letters: IE
I don't think that that's quite a reasonable take on things either--I do not believe that officers wake up every day going "Man, I hope I get to shoot some kids today".

Such hyperbole makes it harder to understand their position and hence to effect useful change.
Imagine pushing 5kg worth of cocaine down a toilet while, most likely, incredibly strung out on said cocaine, with the SWAT team beating on your door. Couple that with the fact that they likely aren't stored in easy to open bags designed for pouring and what you're looking at is a bathroom full cocaine and a seriously clogged toilet. You've got to get rid of the plastic too, remember.

Maybe they bust you with less, but they'll still bust you.
Looking through his list though, most of the settings are less controversial than swappiness.

I do wish people were more rigorous about changing swappiness. Maybe if swappiness=0 was documented as "pageout every byte of /usr/sbin/sshd and /lib/libc.so before you pageout a single byte of java's bloated heap" then people would be less eager to apply it.
Could someone with expertise in this area share what is really meant by "end-to-end proof of implementation correctness and security enforcement", and the practical implications of it? The words suggest that the kernel is 'proven' to be absolutely secure, which obviously is false (and I don't think the authors are trying to make that claim). So what are the precise implications for confidentiality, availability, and integrity?
I am getting a familiar sensation.

An unsettling feeling that Home Automation™ is not actually about making the home and its consumer electronics more integrated, easier to use, and providing more free time and control to the individual. Rather, it is about making things harder to use for the average consumer without machine or professional assistance, requiring more hardware bundles and software services to get the "total experience", and control and data slowly taken away from the individual. Of course, this play for command and control is for the innocent sake of predictable behavior that can be optimized (and the steady revenue and growth that implies).

Self optimizing systems' predilection to predictability is quite predictable (whether machine or human).

While I believe Nest and HomeKit will likely be successful due to these optimizations they can potentially bring, I consciously will take the less optimal route this time, and have fun DIY'ing my automation instead.
More context on the SWAT team and the 2-year old
I keep a coding journal of all those unsettled questions and thoughts that pop in my mind. The questions I ask myself, the things I could improve,... It turns out to be highly valuable in my projects and I recommend anyone to try it.

I started a comment but it became gargantuan so I turned it into a blog post : http://tburette.github.io/blog/2014/06/25/the-power-of-keepi...
Wonderful response, thanks. I have attempted a handful of open source utilities and none of them ever received any activity from others at all. I would love to maintain a project or just work with others in general since I'm working in isolated 'for myself' territory.
A scale with a bit of powder on it does not demand 10+ years in prison. A gun, if registered (and it's not like all dealers have illegal guns) carries no penalty in and of itself.

They (the cops) need something to barter with. You're much more likely to get useful information from someone facing 10+ years than someone facing 1 year (6 months with good behavior) or probation. They want to find everything.
(1) Nothing prohibits officers from having to agree to these policies when they join the force. If they don't like it, they can find another job. Members of the military already have to give up certain rights while serving.

(2) A public pension is a public trust. Why should someone who has violated that trust be allowed to keep any interest in it?

(3) Those officers intended to use the force they did when they stormed that residence. That's premeditation. Even if I concede that point, though, negligent homicide still carries a hefty prison sentence.

(4) Giving those legal protections to police has given them the attitude that they are "above the law." This needs to be changed. Big time.
Start up fire sale--everything must go
Oh ok I see your point now. I stand corrected.
anything for gray hair yet? :)
swapiness=0 in some Linux versions disables swapping, also even with swapiness=0 and plenty of RAM, kernel sometimes will swap; people put too much faith in these values intead of doing proper capacity planning/monitoring imhho
I didn't compare Germany and the USA, I compare the German Autobahn to a specific stretch of 101 in California (for the Autobahn I was thinking of the A9 here but save for the north east most Autobahns are pretty similar).

Comparing on a miles driven basis for the entire country doesn't show the full picture because the miles driven per road type are likely vastly different, traffic density varies extremely in the US but not so much in Germany, and there are 50 different sets of traffic laws and educational requirements across the US.
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Old news for many of you, I'm sure. But for any of the less experienced devs out there like me who are just starting to feel the 'pain' from their fat models, this advice is spot on.
So would you say the claims are unfounded? I don't think it all hinges on tree rings, they are just one indicator of many.
You must live in the comfortable confines of tranquil suburbia americana. Stay there. Don't wake up. Be happy. It's better for you that way. Have another latte.

Like the rest who must escape to reality on a daily basis, I rather have a) My gun with me, and b) A cop by my side.
But IE didn't support SVG either until recently? If I read right, it was supported since the same version as HTML5 canvas (IE 9),

http://caniuse.com/#cats=SVG

http://caniuse.com/canvas
The power keeping a coding journal gives me
Here's one more.

Hiten Shah used to run a web hosting company.

http://mixergy.com/interviews/kissmetrics-hiten-shah-intervi...
Anybody with a disease that would warrant forbidding them from getting on an airplane is presumably being legally forcibly isolated/quarantined anyway. If not, then I see no problem allowing them on the airplane; the common flu is a "highly airborne-communicable disease", but we certainly don't stop people with the sniffles from flying.
Update: She's in. I'll post it on the site soon.
Introducing the Revert Button
Did you read the clause you quoted and actually think about what it means?

1) The time limited offer can only be with ONE single third party.

2) You must provide Google with comparable offers (when they might not be a suitable partner for comparable offers).
>If you aren't familiar with something that you see, look it up. If it looks useful to you, build something with it.

This is essentially what I do. Thanks for the tldr.
A follow up on due process, from Wikipedia: notified of the accusations, to confront the accuser, to obtain witnesses and to retain counsel.

While Wikipedia is not case law, having done a year in law school, I can attest that those pages are some of the most accurate out there. Definitely seems as though the notice requirement, in particular, is not being met by the government, as the punishment (not being able to fly) is being discovered prior to the accused even having the limited options presented to them. There's also good arguments that their right to counsel and trial by jury is being violated (although there are some larger loopholes for avoiding those - namely that trial by jury and some other 6th Amendment protections only being available in criminal trials, which I assume the government would dispute, having never formally filed charges, as well as the hazy catch-all the US has learned to use - classifying those who it wants to treat as criminals without having to obey constitutional and legal standards as enemy combatants. I doubt they would resort to this, however, as it would be inevitable that someone misclassified would get some media traction, and potentially force a judicial ruling on enemy combatant status, which is not in US interests).
Or… you could just emigrate to (one of the better-functioning parts of) Europe. Public universities with no or low fees, some of them excellent to world-class, no worries about SWAT raids, greater privacy protections, healthier food, etc. etc. I used to admire the US when I was young(er). Mostly, I came to realize, because I have deeply liberal values (liberal, that is, in the original European sense!). These days, I ask myself why anyone would even stay in that pathetic joke system, especially if young, flexible, and intelligent. You can't get anything done for your own people, starting with education and health; all you do is work them harder to extract more taxes to pay for your warlords to terrorize and snoop on the rest of the world.
Actually my problem is not necessarily with the size, but more with the just reaching over and using a mouse. With the pen you either put it in the base or you leave it laying there. If I am working coding or something where I use the mouse rarely having to reach, pickup, use is more time consuming and frustrating to me. With a traditional mouse it is more natural just to move my hand to the right, use the mouse, and go back to typing away.
Helloco.de 
wwww.HelloCo.de is a archive of programming languages that have been developed from 1950 to present. My personal side project
My comment were intended as a direct reply to phpnode's code, 'ignoring' the rest of the thread.

How do you mean when you state that for(of) is incorrect?

Perhaps this 'example' clears something up?

« for (value in {a:1,b:2,c:3,d:4,e:5}) console.log(value)
» undefined
"a"
"b"
"c"
"d"
"e"
« for (value of {a:1,b:2,c:3,d:4,e:5}) console.log(value)
× TypeError: ({a:1, b:2, c:3, d:4, e:5})['@@iterator'] is not a function
I took a look and I don't know where to start. The table of content is completely different from how I would introduce the concepts. The site says "This book requires that you first read Digital Circuits", which is a good point, so maybe most of the design/Verilog content should go there instead.

Unfortunately, the digital circuit book also doesn't have a modern table of content: SR flip-flops and 7400TLS are not exactly related to Verilog much at all.

Is there a place where such issues can be discussed?

EDIT: I started https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programmable_Logic/Verilog_for...
Also, `'s`?
Wouldn't it be reasonable to observe the house for a while before a raid? That's where you pick up on clues as to who lives there. "Hmmm, seems to be a lot of small children here and not too many gang style criminals. Ok, team, we go in fast, but force probably won't be necessary." Oh, wait. This type of thinking would probably prevent the no-knock raid to begin with.
Looks like there is a mistake in the article. The new plane will "burn 70 percent less fuel than a Boeing 737", however, the numbers immediately below indicate that it will actually burn 70 percent of the fuel a Boeing 737 does - 30% less fuel.
So this is a piece of JavaScript. What happens when a bot blocks that JavaScript from running and/or emulates it but returns a result that indicates the user is human?
The 12 biggest, baddest, boldest software backdoors of all time
Google Will Stumble
You are providing examples of aggressors, not protectors.

Every police officer on active duty right now begin their career with the idea they are to protect their citizens. This doesn't seem like the case in the original article. To me it sounds like people that have lost the intent of their job.
I guess this is exactly the kind of case where you'd have a chance to see whether RapGenius is actually useful?
Aren't non-EU students supposed to pay full price for their university education?
Kevin Rose making new friends in Portland, Oregon
I didn't see any ads
Make cash contributions loans, not equity. The risks/reward of all the founders should be aligned, and aligned to working. The option of passive ownership is divisive.
Awesome idea. The name, "Machete" is fine, but the logo is too aggressive. Consider something more playful, like a smiling machete, or ASCII art of Danny Trejo :D, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Danny_Tre...

Just kidding. But seriously, a friendlier logo would make me more likely to try the service. Best of luck!
Thanks! Burying as dupe.
Google offering a $150 credit for Pixel owners screwed over by Verizon
You are 22 and female. I kind of hope you will cut yourself some slack. As a 49 year old woman, I kind of wonder how much this whole thing was impacted by your gender. It took me a long time to realize how many doors are just not open to me because of my gender, how many subtle ways I get cut off from information I very much need.

Of course, male or female, you did a helluva lot for someone your age and I really think you should feel fine about the entire thing.
Define Survey application. Your website litterally tells me nothing :/

If its anything like some of the other survey sites asking you to complete X surveys to get payed a few dollars.
Actually paying out would be the best start. 90% wont ever actually payout and are total scams.

Those that do are mostly broken. Surveys wont ever complete ect ect.

I spent a few hours in a throw away vm trying a few out one day just to see if it was actually possible to make any cash on those sort of things. Its not.
Unfortunately there are several stories floating around where the law abiding gun owner was at the far end of the house and had enough time to get a gun out and fire through the door at the calamity coming forth. Which has frequently lead to the death and/or life time conviction of said law abiding gun owner. This might be ok if it weren't for the frequency with which these law abiding gun owners had their homes mistakenly raided.
Because there is a lot to consider in densely packed cities. If these interfere with public utilities but hitting power lines, or crashing into homes, or school play grounds, etc... I have no issue with them planing ahead in this scenario, and do not feel it has anything to do with competitiveness.
Freedom of movement is a human right. There is no real way to equivocate that without arguing in favour of a police state.
A sane take on things, discusses some of the sticking details: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140623/17084727661/more-...

It's worth noting that this is a negation process. This is Google's proposal and the labels aren't even willing to negotiate: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/24/youtube-mu...

Also the fact that someone leaked this is most likely part of the negotiations.
If you install Naptha (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/project-naptha/mol...), there's an experimental search feature for images you can use.
Flights to Magaluf
Kevin Rose has every right to do this, but the events leading up to it left a bad taste in the mouths of his future neighbors. I don't know why anyone would want to create and move into a hostile environment.
Microsoft unveils Nokia X2 Android phone
Sure, in the UK. I don't even count them in Europe anymore. ;-) Try Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden, France,…
How Aaron Swartz turned Lessig to the fight to reform Congress
It's not pedantic. Liberty is definitely one of those rights that isn't 100% clear. The law is sometimes unfair/rough when it comes to balancing the rights of the individual against the rights of the state to protect against terrorism (real or perceived).

And then we go and revoke the passports of people who are behind on child support payments, which isn't even a crime, and suddenly restricting the ability of people to travel becomes something the government can use any time it wants without a court order with no clear reason why.

Definitely think this area of law can use some refinement to protect all interests more fairly.
That's the first time I've seen a San Francisco startup with each employee having their own landline telephone.
That was an exceptional episode in a period when NI was basically in a state of civil breakdown. I don't think you can extrapolate from that one datum.

It was an unfortunate coincidence at a point in time of aggressive soldiers, civil disobedience, no-go-areas and the presence of armed PIRA units.

For the next 30 years of 'troubles' there was never an action like that again by regular army forces, despite constant provocation and attacks against them.

The SWAT / armed police raids, on the other hand, are occurring every day in the USA.
The Javascript highlight isn't exactly surprising to me; I'd wager 100% of web developers have used Javascript at some point, with the vast majority of them using it frequently. This trend probably isn't tied to the surge in popularity of Node.JS (though that may be a contributing factor), seeing as virtually every web development project is using Javascript in their client side code.

It would be interesting if we could somehow separate front-end JS code from backend JS code to determine the relative popularity of (Node)JS among other backend languages like Java, PHP, C#, etc.
Using .htaccess to Prevent Web Scraping
It Takes Guts To Do Research (2013)
Suicide is highest in spring
Yes. In the ruling, the Court "has concluded Plaintiffs have a constitutionally-protected liberty interest in the right to travel internationally by air".

However, it goes further as they found that as per Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 333 (1979) the plaintiffs constitutional right to due process has been violated because:

1. not only do they have a right to travel internationally, being placed on the no-fly list stigmatises them as the government discloses the list to other parties (such as ship captains) and additionally deprives them of their liberty.

2. Notice is insufficient as there is inadequate information given to those on the no-fly list, because under government policy they neither confirm nor deny they are on the list. This leads to a catch-22 situation where you cannot appeal an erroneous decision as you cannot tell what that decision was.

Interestingly, the court said they couldn't determine if there were issues with judicial review.

There is a third test, which is to weight the government's interest against issues with disclosure, but this couldn't be determined by the Court.

The ruling is quite readable, btw. It can be found here:

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/latif_v_hold...
Online Controlled Experiments At Large Scale (2013)
"YouTube users can now download all songs for free, which means there’s no need for anybody to buy music from iTunes anymore"

More like: Users can pay for a service that allows them to cache songs for offline playback in their YouTube app. It's not free and it's not like users are downloading the MP3s.
Tools like http://raphaeljs.com/ allow you to support older versions of IE.
A priori knowledge is supposedly independent of experience. I agree with you that we have no evidence of knowledge outside human experience.

But from a scientific perspective, both knowledge and experience arise from the physical properties of the universe; properties that predate humans and biological systems entirely. From that perspective, one could say that all knowledge is a priori.

But whether we say it's all priori or posteriori doesn't really matter. The point is that making the distinction privileges the human perspective in a way that we have no scientific evidence to support. The entire exercise begs the question by assuming that human experience is determinative, or distinct in any way from the rest of the universe.