skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a rather one-sided presentation of how this happened.

Neither Academies in general (the invention of the previous administration) nor Free Schools (one development of that idea by the current administration) are necessarily anything to do with religion. Moreover, we have had successful religious schools since long before that without the problems we're talking about here.

Whatever your politics and whatever think of either the Academies concept or allowing schools to be run by organisations with religious motivations, singling out a few cases where things have obviously gone wrong with insufficient oversight as if that is what either government intended to happen with the changes in recent years is hardly constructive.
It's well-known that phones report our locations at all times, I'd like to see a phone that falsifies that data as well.
Don't forget political risk. Rundown of Asian countries with political risk comparable to the US; Japan, Lorraine, Taiwan, Singapore. Countries with more political risk but not much; India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand. The second group have much worse legal/regulatory systems for doing business. I wouldn't plan on getting incredibly rich in any other Asian country unless I had a friend/patron to protect me from expropriation/gangsters. And you better be able to provide your friend with some quid quo pro orbe related tl them either by blood or by kid.

I may be overly cynical here but that's the perspective from China.
Should we look at cute cats when coding? Research says yes
ART replaces Dalvik as the runtime environment in Android. Both use the same application packaging format, which contains Dalvik bytecode. ART pre-compiles it.

Dalvik bytecode (DEX) was designed to efficiently interpreted. Eventually, Dalvik added a JIT compiler suitable for battery powered platforms. What ART stops short of is replacing Dalvik bytecode, perhaps with a more efficient intermediate representation for the purposes of pre-compiling.
Wow, at first I thought that you were being sarcastic, but then I kept reading.

I don't know about you, but my salary (plus benefits) rate is about $95-100 / hr.

So, let's say I 'work my butt off' for an extra 4-6 hours a day. That is an extra $3000 of unpaid work, per week, that the company gets for giving me food. Or, $200 per meal.

(That's not even taking into account the considerable extra value that the company gets in owning the results of my work.)
False equivalence. Science is simply making hypotheses about how the world works, and testing thises hypotheses with experiments. Everyone does thus, not just scientists. When he plant on my window sill is looking a bit ill, I might hypothesise that it's not getting enough water. I then test the hypothesis by watering the plant lord. If the plant still looks sickly I discard the water hypothesis, and may try for the sunlight hypothesis. The only difference when it's scientists, is that as professionals, they know what has already been tried elsewhere, so they don't repeat the same erroneous experiment needlessly.

Creationists actively reject evidence. I see no good coming from science bending to compromise with active ignorance.
No they haven't; the case is still ongoing, remanded to the district court.
There are some good reasons not to use the NDK (like the rich android UI, webview, etc); but performance isn't one of them.

The point I was making is that despite the downsides, even people from inside google are using it now. Makes the android teams 'pretend ndk does not exist' stance rather ironic.
Did a quick search: PAC money can't come from foreign nationals, though (wonderfully enough!) foreign corporations with subsidiaries in the US are able to donate.
What about 'Religious Education' type classes where they teach about religion, I assume that distinction is important?
For Clojure there is core.match [1].

[1] https://github.com/clojure/core.match
It's an interesting method. Does anyone know if these kinds of torture tests get collected into a common library to help any future compilers or if they just result in a paper and bug reports to current ones?
we do it at 10:30a, and most of the team is in by 9:30.
You should keep an open mind about this until you've written and read a reasonable amount of rust code. Rust isn't the easiest language to write or to grok-at-a-glance, but the semicolon thing is a real red herring. It's a really interesting decision, but it really isn't a big deal in practice. There are always other more at-a-glance clues that you either do or don't want a value.
I'm a big fan of quiet. I find that music determines my mental rhythm, and what I'm thinking about or constructing doesn't have a regular rhythm. For me personally, music interferes with thinking about something specific, so I only listen to music when what I'm doing is Listening To Music, or if I'm OK with letting my thinking wander.

I realize I'm unusual in this.
The recent Link Between Worlds for the 3DS is a direct sequel to the SNES Link to the Past, and in many ways, it's like a remix. I was skeptical, as I also adore LttP, but I really enjoyed the new one for the 3DS.
Second (and the last) part of trixter's write-up on how 8088 Domination was achieved is already up there.

8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Conclusion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924928
Samsun Kurumsal
Why do you have to do this? You remind me of a little boy in on the playground, who immediately yells "Im telling" the moment anything interesting happens. You don't have to agree with every post, just let it slide.
Kind of hard to fool triangulation. Software doesn't beat the laws of physics.
Teaching adults who are there voluntarily is a far lower level of responsibility than teaching kids who have no choice. Each child in a public school has, generally, one shot at each year's worth of curriculum, and if they don't get it it could set them back for a lifetime. Grade school teachers are being paid to contribute to the upbringing of the kids in their charge; college teachers' responsibilities basically amount to telling some people about some things they know.
Not really surprising that Catholic schools would teach the Big Bang theory. It was first suggested by Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, a Roman Catholic priest and astronomer at a Catholic University in Belguim, who called it the "Hypothesis of the Primeval Atom or the Cosmic Egg" apparently.
This is just blogspam.

For actual details, see the arXiv paper "Android Anti-forensics: Modifying CyanogenMod": http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6444
I didn't realize how old it was until I got to the bottom. It's cool how the project has stayed true to the goals lined out way back then. While lots of things have been changed and removed, as far as I can tell, none of those high level goals has been compromised, while some have even been reinforced.
Drones chased from National Parks after series of incidents
> It would benefit all of us for each side to recognize that they can live in harmony.

"mutually respectful, honest and rational debaters cannot disagree on any factual matter once they know each other’s opinions. They cannot "agree to disagree", they can only agree to agree." [1]

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/agreeing_to_agr.html
Yeah, I kept looking at that chart, trying to work out the point he was trying to make. It was a very confused essay, in general.
I agree, except that people in Europe aren't paid for their holidays, but for their work. Companies are simply mandated to give you 4 weeks+ off per year - that money is of course deducted from what they would pay you otherwise.

Not saying that is a bad thing; actually, it probably improves overall productivity vs the US model. But it's not a free lunch, and it's not the employer's charity - it's the money people actually worked for, equally distributed over working days and holi-days.
This reminds me of a feature that was on some Japanese flip phones.

You could set some contacts to be "secret", and any messages from them would not appear in the default app. The only notification you would get would be a small pixel embedded in the cell tower signal image in the corner of your screen. You would then go into some deeply hidden corner of your settings to get the "real" messaging app.

If you know about it, its useless, but (like this lying phone) , it can be very easy to overlook in a casual analysis of the phone (by your wife in one case, or by the police in the other). We should never discount how effective really simple things like these can end up being.
Open API = SMS Alternative for One Time Passwords
http://motp.in/SampleCode.html
So what? They're not shareholders, they're donors.

Once money is donated to a Super PAC, it's the PAC's money to do with as they see fit. "PACs may make unlimited expenditures independently of a candidate or political party." Short of the agreement to match funds having extra stipulations (or Lessig putting those wealthy benefactors in charge of the PAC) there is nothing they can do about how the money gets spent.
I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
Scientists tend to exclude unicorns and Santa Claus as well.
You can't actually tell if I'm home by driving by. You'd need to get out and walk.

That is, assuming you know the schedule of my automated lights and can accurately guess if I'm home or not with blackout curtains over my windows :P

Even my neighbors don't know when I'm home half the time.

I'm an odd duck.
> How do you suppose they buy things on Amazon in 1-click?

Have you tried going to a gas station, Wal-Mart, or convenience store in poor America? They sell pre-paid credit cards that are usable (with a few extra hoops) for online banking.

Of course, pre-paid cards are, like all things used predominantly by the poor, susceptible to poor regulation of fees and penalties, but then the 30% of Americans without credit cards are also not the ones able to keep a wallet.dat secured...
But hardware definitely could. With a manually aimed antenna and proper tools exposed to the user, a phone could be made to communicate with only one cell tower at a time. This would make triangulation impossible.
The world could really use a good competitor to Adsense, couldn't it? How about some ad network that is based on contextual technology such as Facebook, retargeting, etc.
We made close to €20,000 EUR last month via bitpay

The cost .... $30 USD!

Then our bank charged about €24 to receive those 25 or so transactions, Bitpay pay the next business day to the bank account, its really really nice!!

Fraud rate? 0%

Chargeback rate? 0%

Not having to worry about all sorts of middlemen and fraudsters trying to rip me off and waste my time

PRICELESS!

Now if only my suppliers accepted bitcoin then wouldn't even have to withdraw some of the bitcoin back to fiat!
There were a few of the state funded free schools trying it on -

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/jul/17/creationist...
Wow. HN really IS the reddit of a few years ago... You can have your opinion, but if you can't behave in public, please bury your ad-hominem s___ in someone else's backyard.
Naive implementation of trial division.
This is an interesting question. I'm located in Europe so I can't hear what the crowd is humbling.

-Do you think there is enough collective desire for a particular change? It's often hard to rally everyone for a "spring".

-Do you think this action has the power to overturn any decision making in the US democracy?
The moment you add syntactic sugar to it, you lose the power of sexpressions. You no longer have lists that are easily manipulateable, or can easily be generated via macros or easily worked with a code walker. That's why the L in lisp really means List. Shift away from Lists and you can't even call it lisp at all.
It's Official: The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave
As he does in the preface of the video, before you watch the interview I would recommend reading up on who Alan Kay is, his work, and the places he has worked (e.g. Xerox PARC).
Listen to the audio snippets of the Boomerang Kids too - they add quite a bit of depth to the piece
We've moved pieces of our game backend architecture from Python to Go, especially the bits that really benefit from high concurrency and possible parallelism. Moving the entire API is a monolithic task, but I imagine we'll eventually get there. But carving out the bits that need high speed, high concurrency (like sending 500 GCM notifications a second, for instance) really thrive.

Our client dev is all Unity, however, and I don't quite see Go entering our client dev cycle at all. And I'm a huge Go fan.
Is there anyway to buy their The Feasibility Study book? I'd love to help them and get one copy.
Well, there is a huge surplus of PhD's in every field, and there is less industry demand for certain fields (French Lit, for example). This seems like a classic situation where certification in a professional association should be required to teach college, so there can be better collective bargaining at a national scale.
Maybe it does not pass their basic threshold for assumptions. Anything can be claimed with the same level of potential to be true. Also they may have the strength to accept unanswered (or unanswerable) questions without needing to invent something. For me all religions are the same. They are so absurd to me like the scientology stuff probably is to you. Also Strawberry-God, cause why not. Where do you make the distinction?
It will not be a burden on anyone. Show a little compassion.
This is great news, good to see Google building a mobile + desktop interface with Go. Just like Apple did with Objective-C.

And yet with Go there is more use of it for CLI apps and web apps. Adding mobile to that equation just makes it even more complete.

Good job Google.
I doubt 4-6 hours extra per day (13-14 hour days) is typical.

Aside from that quibble, look at it from both sides:

The company spends a few hundred dollars a week on meals and gets 5-10x return on that money. Everybody agrees this is a good deal for the company.

The employee trades a few hours of his life for food. The hours he works, he would not have received any money for anyway unless he was working another paying job. The employee is trading "opportunity costs" (imaginary value) and receiving substantial value in "free" food.

If the "opportunity cost" of those extra work hours are sitting in front of Netflix watching zombie movies, he probably got a good deal trading that time for food. If the "opportunity cost" is starting the next hot startup, he got a bad deal.
http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Programming001/95161345
I agree completely. I've always found that listening and transcribing are mutually exclusive. In university taking comprehensive notes were often helpful, but I would usually not know what had been discussed in the class until I re-read the notes later.
It is good to remember that there are humans building software, and I personally like the idea of software paying a tribute to the people behind it. Another example: http://www.wowwiki.com/Shrine_of_the_Fallen_Warrior
It seems interesting in itself, but perhaps gwern had an analogy with semiconductor progress, given yesterday's front-paging of the 5nm and 7nm goals.
I just want to add that there are several references in the bible to there being an under the earth, and if we look at the latin where this is more clear, it doesn't mean inside, but below. The old testament is not scientifically accurate.

Believe whatever mythology you want, I will fully defend your right to do so. But do not try to force your agenda on those that don't follow or share your doctrine though made up fiction masquerading as science. Evolution through natural selection exists, it's demonstrable, and the only piece we do not have a precision view of is speciation. But not unlike the Higgs, when we have all the other pieces, we can extrapolate, and we have some pretty solid theories on how this happens, and evidence that through husbandry, we as humans have caused it to happen through human selection.
You could look at which tower you connect to with which strength at which time. This would not give as exact results as triangulation for sure, but you could probably still infer a rough trajectory.
No,It can.
> One time my bank just canceled my card without giving me any reason besides 'security' and mailed me a new one. What would I have done if I were traveling at the time or needed to buy something in the meantime?

What would you do if your wallet.dat were obtained, unlocked and emptied out while traveling? Being able to call your bank while you're traveling to get stuff sorted out is a feature, not a bug.

Of course, you'd probably just point out that you're not dumb enough to use a simple passphrase and that you can protect your wallet.dat.

But that's not going to apply to the majority of people who currently shop online, which is why the current system, where merchants and banks cooperate to detect fraud in many cases even without consumer help, is so important.

You can't do that at all when running your own Bitcoin payments, and if you use an exchange to do so on your behalf then you leave yourself liable to being irreversibly MtGox'ed.

Bitcoin certainly didn't invent fraud and embezzlement but it doesn't make people immune from that either, and Bitcoin-using schemes which fail to account for that are dead-men walking.
compare your revenue growth rates, earnings growth rates, gross margin and other metrics to similar public companies. Then looks for a price/sales figure (or forward price/sales figure). Based on the info you've given, your company is probably worth around $20 million at the moment.
Free will could be the result of 'background noise' in the brain, study suggests
9 ASCII Games You'll Want to Play Again and Again
(unfortunately) nobody cares about the desktop ad space anymore, "the future" is mobile
> Science can provide insight into how God's creation works, but it can never exclude God.

People really like to downplay this, but a scientific investigation of any phenomenon must begin, in step zero, by assuming that god is not responsible for the phenomenon. There is no evidence that could support a conclusion of "it was god", because the scientific method assigns that hypothesis a Bayesian weight of zero.

Religious scientists seem to understand this when it comes to their own field; you don't see a lot of young-earth geologists, but you can find geologists rejecting evolution.
Microsoft’s Quantum Search for the “Next Transistor”
> "Do you have a degree?" -- "I sure do, I graduated with MS in coffee arts (MsCA) from Starbucks University, Phoenix". Or just got a "PhD in applied lobbying from Lockheed".

Not arguing against public funding of education, but you're making a nice point about the inherent BS of degrees that exist merely on paper.

Nobody actually cares about that piece of paper - employers want to know what you DID and what you're CAPABLE of.

A college degree used to be reasonable proof of peoples' abilities, but today conflating the two usually doesn't help. Thus post-college unemployment, or idiots running companies from nice positions.
‘Entrepreneur’ Barbie Heads for Silicon Valley With Some Glam Accessories
> If the group succeeds in raising its goal of $12 million by the end of June, it intends to use the 2014 campaign cycle as a testing ground – targeting five House races to demonstrate whether it can propel candidates who are committed to a system in which small donors have a much greater influence. (The group will announce its targets later this summer.)

Considering their plan is to target and win 5 specific races, they're probably basing the number on previous campaign expenditures of those five 'targets,' planning to outspend them.
As a C# developer, have you looked at Xamarin? I have done several apps with it, shared code between iOS and Android. I highly recommend you give them a try.
> They thought the Earth was a flat disk back then.

What "they" are you talking about? Europeans haven't thought the earth was flat since the beginning of recorded history. It seems reasonably safe to extend that viewpoint to Mediterraneans.
Likely not - C# seems here to stay on Unity3D, but speeding up execution through tools like IL2CPP seem most likely.

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/20/the-future-of-scripting-...
> Smaller governments (i.e. less power, shallower hierarchies), good voting systems, and an informed public are the answer; not avoiding government altogether.

> Libertarianism (i.e. absolute belief in the capitalist market and private property) doesn't work, [...]

For the vast majority of (US) libertarians, libertarianism is the first sentence, not the second. Only a small group of libertarians are free-market anarchists.
There's a CSS color named 'Gainsboro', and a color named 'NavajoWhite' that's not super close to white. 'RebeccaPurple', from a pragmatic sense, is easier to understand than those two in my opinion.
Not at all, you can just provide the sugar as an alternative. Much in the same way that '() expands to (quote ...).
New sensors will scoop up 'big data' on Chicago
If the operating system provides an API for the actual/measured location, why can't that API just be changed to provide a fake location instead? It could be a user setting: location services - use fake location? yes/no
Terrible choice of words.

I doubt this would really affect you in any meaningful way.
I think "any" is probably an optimistic stretch. Certainly there have been academies[0] teaching it. It wouldn't surprise me if some religious schools would still like to (Muslim and Church schools being most likely).

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/jul/11/schoolpriva...
I disagree with you completely about this article not being suitable for HN, but on the other hand, I have to respect this approach to people quoting guidelines.
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Answering the dead question, it's an iPhone 5s running the latest iOS. The only catch is that I have to plug it unlocked and tell it to trust my computer (running Ubuntu 14.04) when the prompt pops up. It imports pictures into Shotwell just fine. I also tested it with an iPhone 4 (not 4S) and it worked just the same.
The Maker Movement Is A New Mecca For Entrepreneurs
and single-page apps work great on mobile
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8452396/does-pypy-transla...

Pypy is written in RPython, a subset of the python language. When it's 'compiled', the pypy RPython code runs in cpython or pypy, to re-compile the pypy source into C code, to generate a binary. Lots of tuning and such occurs at the same time, so the JIT runs well on the target machine. This is why it takes a long while, and lots of memory.

The build also prints a fractal while compiling. http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#why-does-pypy...
Eh, what about not relying on timestamps at all in distributed systems? Use lamport or vector clocks if you want a notion of time in a distributed system. This article makes me more reluctant to consider quasardb.
triangulation is performed by analysing response times from cell towers - the FBI doesn't just call yourphone.getLocation()
They are definitely looking at it and talking to Persona developers.
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Can anyone please explain the OBSESSION that bitcoin supporters have with the idea of getting rid of credit card fees and having that savings passed to the consumer? I don't work in the finance department at my company, but from what I have heard, transaction fees for credit cards cost us about 4% of revenue (lets ignore the fact that they also ENABLE 100% of our revenue).

If all of a sudden that went from 4% to 0%, what would actually happen? Lets say we decide to pass ALL that savings to the customer. Wow... now a $100 product costs $96.

Profit margins in many business are in the double digits; for high tech firms (SaaS) its higher than 50%. There is a lot of markup happening in all businesses, its inherent to our capitalist model; and trust me, credit card transaction costs are not the main source.
The Open Internet? (2014)