skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it should be clear by now that a lot of people think that their expertise in software automatically qualifies them to make authoritative statements on behalf of every other field of science and engineering.
Can you clarify what you mean here? Are you saying that certification would be required to build this device in the U.S. (not sell or market it)?

If so, this is incorrect. There is no FCC certification required for low-powered, non-licensed devices like this one if you don't sell or market them. You can run up to 5 such devices without any certication. See page 3 on:

http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Doc...
"inherently female", with the exception that it's not anatomically connected to the female gender.
Could also have been a male.

Just comes off incredibly sexist somehow.
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The purpose of the patent system is to allow investment to scale inventions to reach the maximum number of people.

As Lincoln said, the patent system "added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things." Discovery and production.

If patents did not exist, people would still research a cure for cancer or a better mousetrap. It's rewarding to solve problems, and one could make some money doing it.

However without some protected exclusivity to the invention, no company would invest the billions of dollars necessary to achieve regulatory approval, and mass-scale manufacturing, of that cure. It's just too easy for a competitor to swoop in, copy the process, and undersell the first company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🔥

Wow. I had no idea.
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i used to nap under my cubicle desk... w/ the geometry of my cube, no one could see me even if they poked their head in.

doesn't work w/ standing desks in open layouts :( now i often go to car.
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Additionally, many packages can use alternate, embedded focused SSL libraries (PolarSSL, etc.) that will also ship with OpenWRT.
I'd say that (based on comments here) the real different is intent. People seem to be suggesting that the exact same experiment, but measuring ad-clicks instead of emotional state, would be a perfectly fine A/B test. It doesn't matter that the experiment manipulated people's emotions, it matters that Facebook wanted to manipulate people's emotions.
> There's something I'd like to understand: the article talks about FRP yet writes "(Functional) Reactive Programming" with "functional" between parentheses, why?

This comment https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754#comment-... and this discussion https://twitter.com/ReactiveX/status/483625917491970048

> If it is "really" functional, I take it it's quite deterministic: can you then take all these streams of events and "replay" them at will, always ending up in the same intermediary state and, eventually, in the same final "state"?

Yes. See this http://debug.elm-lang.org/
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The Stroad to street transition seems difficult to manage. The main street in my hometown underwent some of the transition, going from 2 lanes of parallel parking and 4 traffic lanes to diagonal parking with 2 traffic lanes and a turn lane, but the wide patch of asphalt is still there, and business isn't really thriving. I guess the general economic malaise there makes it hard to score development concepts on their own merits.

It's interesting to look for the accidental victims of development, stuff like houses backed up against a road that probably started as a street. In areas where there is lots of room, the sensible thing is probably to just tear them down (or relocate them if that made sense), but people are too busy looking at the immediate impacts and ignore the needlessly low quality housing that will exist for decades (your link points out that the housing also makes the road less effective, which I hadn't considered).
I-495 through the VA side of the DC suburbs uses High-Occupany Toll lanes - demand pricing on top of HOV lanes. If you have passengers, you can use them for free. If you're solo, you pay the toll. They use a switchable EZ Pass transponder to make it work without toll booths at each end.

Colloquially, they're referred to as "Lexus Lanes".

As far as a I can tell, they haven't done much to reduce congestion on the non-toll lanes. But, if you can afford $12/day (peak rate, round trip) for a 10 mile stretch of interstate, you get to avoid the dirty, unwashed masses who are stuck in the poor lanes. :)
I have already forwarded the link to our team, we will be evaluating it to see if it fits for us.
I had assumed the worst: that the escrow was for the payout of the initial $3k prize, or some significant portion of it.
Language design, especially syntax design, is always a series of trade-offs. Aside from relatively rare outright mistakes (bitwise precedence in C, associativity of ?: in PHP), most syntax choices that people don't like are done to make something else easier.

I really like blocks, but Python deliberately makes it harder to support those in return for not needing scope delimiters in the majority of code that isn't using blocks. It seems like a reasonable choice to me.
Legally, it was created at Google. Technically, Orkut software was copied from the startup that Orkut the person was hired from.
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> Once again... caps for emphasis - PAY EVERYTHING ON TIME. A year of great payment history can be erased by a few late/missing payments. Keep good track of when bills are due and set up auto-payment if possible to ensure payment. But also watch those accounts like a hawk as even auto-pay is not a guarantee.

Counterpoint. I have ~13 years of solid/good credit history, and walked away from a severely underwater townhouse ($~100K underwater) 3 years ago. I have over three years of missed payments on that mortgage (+36 "dings"). Credit score dropped from 750s to 690, no credit lines closed by other institutions, and I'm still able to easily get financing.

Credit scores are highly overrated.

Pro Tip: Being an authorized user on someone else's card who makes all of their payments on time will positively affect your credit history.

This was originally not going to be the case, but was changed at the last minute when the Federal Reserve mentioned Regulation B to Fair Issac:

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-debt/fico-08-will-sco...
It's always really cool to see how academics approach problem solving whether it is in software engineering or otherwise. For some reason they are always approaching the problem and solving it on a higher level whereas most software engineers are perfectly content hacking away until the square peg fits in the round hole with total disregard for any higher level principles and abstractions.

Really good pointers by the way especially the one about not selling your soul and approaching your discipline like it is a craft.
I'm living in Europe, here you are liable for any RF device you use - and even in the license free bands, if you operate a self built jammer (or accidentally build a jammer instead of a working device) you're liable.
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The reason this _must_ be a woman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slut-shaming
They count actual traffic though right? They aren't relying on qualitative assessments, they put those hose things by the side of the road.
> ..since NOAA only supplies forecasts for 16 days out, Google now has to make sophisticated guesses using a giant database of historical wind and weather data.

It would be interesting if, as a side-effect of Project Loom, Google ended up becoming the world's leading weather forecaster.
% capacity and % utilization are measures of congestion - not of demand. If your roads are only meeting 10% of latent demand and you double their capacity, guess what? They will be just as congested as before.

Leave it to "years of urban planning" to determine a proper solution is to make roads so poor that people decide not to use them.
I was thinking the same thing. Atheros has been very good with Open Source friendly hardware documentation and licensing.

The downside is that most of the Atheros chips have a single <1Ghz MIPS core, when most of the rest of the router SoC market is switching to multi core 1GHz+ ARM devices, or is focused on other parts of the device space.
I find it fascinating that we've slipped into a world where we have completely forgotten that liberal arts universities are not and have never been trade schools. If you want to learn the basics of chemistry, you can learn that at a university. But as a rule they will not teach you tradecraft, you will not learn techniques specific to the manufacture of industrial quantities of chemical compounds, those you will need to learn on the job.

But when it comes to software engineering the gulf is even more severe and important. Firstly, computer science theory is extremely rarely applicable to software development, and is far less a suitable foundation for a typical career in industry than typical science degrees are. Secondly, the highly specialized knowledge and skills necessary to become even just a basically competent software developer are sufficiently large and requiring of expert instruction as to be comparable to many professional trades.

But there are a few problems here. For one it's just not practical for employers to attempt to use on the job training to force feed new hires that knowledge, as it would require education in lieu of productive work to the tune of maybe 2 entire developer-years, give or take. For another, it's also not practical to try to back feed a trade-school education into typical CS degree programs. For yet another, most attempts at trade-school software development educations are huge failures. Partly because almost no one with enough smarts and talent to actually become a good developer would attend a trade school, and partly because there's no agreed upon objective standard curriculum for development as a trade. Currently the best way to learn is through apprenticeship (decidedly hit or miss) or autodidactism (currently the most prominent method).

Of course another side effect of this is that because the most important education a developer receives is a subjective, informal, mostly undocumented one it is almost impossible to tell how good a developer or even whether they are fundamentally competent in the trade just by looking at their credentials.

For various reasons these conditions will continue to prevail for some time. Personally my bet is that humans will be living on Mars before these things are sorted out, but I could be wrong.
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God said, "pines finally faster bridle"

Pine trees or pine needles?
> As for Visual Studio, I run it just fine on my Ultrabook! Huge project, it works well. Not perfect, but good enough. VS2013 fixed some very blatent threading bugs that VS2012 had in its UI (oops!) and things are generally snappier now.

VS and VS+ReSharper are two different beasts. ReSharper can bring a VS instance to a crawl even on a powerful machine if you don't tweak it for better performance.
I don't recall being invited to Orkut, though I could be wrong about that.
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Lambdas and blocks are different things.
Having done some grad work in this area, I'd say this is a fairly superficial take on the topic. This certainly describes one area on the supply/demand curve, and perhaps even a pervasive one given that we essentially stopped building highways 40 years ago, but it's not inherent to the problem.

I think it's very possible to jump ahead of this effect, but the capital outlay would be impressive, and as a society we apparently aren't permitted to accomplish Big Things anymore, so it's likely we stay in this weird bit of the function for a long while.
Working from home helps a lot here. I've found starting the day with exercise (30 minute cycle ride) helps kick start my alertness. I split my lunch, I'll eat quickly at my desk around 12, then work for a couple of hours, then take a nap around 2pm. Seems to set me up for the afternoon.
But then who gets to decide on that limit? Does the limit differ between people , i.e can senior officers print more currency because they might have more need for it?

Is there a person who is in charge of tracking the Ferengi economy and deciding how much Latinum is ethical to produce based on inflation? Is there a board of people who decide? Do any Ferengi get a place on that board?

What about people who do not have access to a replicator , can they access Latinum via somebody elses replicator without causing that person to go over the limit?
Awesome service + very interesting article to read too. Not sure if anyone has already made these suggestion:
1) Allow new subscribers to get [part] of old shipments.
2) Offering part of old shipment that was a favorite in future shipment.
3) Page for subscriber to rate pieces from the shipment. To support #1, #2 and #5,
4) Different sized / freq subscription.
5) Custom one time packaging.

I'm more interested in 4/5 personally. I already have access to some of these things where I live, you are in Japan (I'm not), so I'm sure there are more things I would like to try, but I think current offering is too much for me. ... I may break down and subscribe anyway, I don't know, too much thinking, brb need some snack.
My personal favorite is organizations' vast overestimations of the size/complexity and performance needs for their software projects, probably related to delusions of their own grandeur.

Rails is more than capable of serving an intranet application for your 150 employees. But nooope, we're an enterprise, so we need J2EE/Oracle.
7/7 comments pointing out why this article is incorrigibly bad, but with 5 points the article is frontpaged.

dang, the ranking algorithm is weak.
> "inherently female", with the exception that it's not anatomically connected to the female gender.

Its a reference to a supposed real phenomenon that is sex-specific, so whether it is anatomically connected to a particular sex is irrelevant.

> Just comes off incredibly sexist somehow.

That's because, while it purports to be a reference to a real sex-specific phenomenon, its actually a reference to a stereotype that is sexist on multiple levels (notably first, the presentation of it as particularly female without any empirical basis, and, second, the fact that the whole reason it even exists and is notable is gender asymmetry in sexual behavior norms.)

So, you can't really replace "girl" with "person" and maintain the reference intended, but the intended reference is deeply sexist.
I came here to comment the same thing.

This really sounds like an over engineered explanation and usually the simpler explanations turnS out to be more accurate.

To use the author's own analogy, it's more like a pipe that is being overwhelmed being replaced by a slightly larger pipe that will continue to be overwhelmed.

That said, I hope it encourages people to find creative ways of solving the traffic problem.
I am curious, why can't you tie the balloons to the ground and just have them stay in the same place permanently until they lose their air?

Could you then create a continual service over a grid like network of these balloons? Or are the balloons too expensive to do this?
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I'm a huge fan of toll roads. And I really like charging for use at certain times.

Perhaps you could reduce rates for each passenger in the vehicle. Maybe a four-passenger vehicle gets to drive free anytime. This encourages car pooling for those who can't afford to pay the tolls.

In fact it may create new jobs.
This is an interesting project, but it's a shame they're using a Mediatek chipset instead of an Allwinner one. Mediatek is one of the biggest GPL violators out there, while Allwinner chips are among the most open hardware out there (perhaps the most open). See:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page

The only non open hardware on Allwinner chips is the ARM-licensed Mali GPU, but it's been reversed engineered to the point of producing a working, third-party, open source driver (the lima driver).

Both are very inexpensive Chinese chip manufacturers that use ARM-licensed MCUs, so it's not like the Allwinner is a vastly different product.

I personally prefer licensing projects with a permissive license that permits closed commercial development, such as the MIT or BSD license, over the GPL. However, when a company like Mediatek chooses to use GPL'ed software and then fails to follow the license terms, I think that displays a contempt for the entire open source community that I cannot support.
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Clearly, Google should just focus on their cars.
Yes, it appears they did.
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>I doubt even a gov investigation starting today (for whatever reason) with all the power it has would achieve it (unless more than one person knows the secret, in which case a US investigation has a broad range of legal methods to compel testimony and reveal it).

As much as members of the Bitcoin community like to think of themselves as agitators, there were very clearly no laws broken here.
> Have to make an explicit cast with a structural type? Surely you can do better, like, say, a trait.

Usually, yes. But the only way that's as general as the Python line is to use the structural type.
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As with most articles from the Onion, there is an element of truth, but if you look at a city with good public transit options (NYC is the only one in the US) over 50% of commuters travel by public transit. If you look at cities with adequate but not great public transit options (DC, Boston or San Francisco) more than 30% of commuters travel by public transit.
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Yeah, this explanation is so obvious to me, I just don't understand how they can try to spin it any other way.

There are MILLLIONS of drivers in LA, I doubt we could build enough roads to make it so that there is never any traffic.

I wonder if we're missing something here? Maybe the other and parent are leaving out some key details, but I doubt it.
Opportunistic encryption without authenticated certificates is basically useless. Actively decrypting and re-encrypting the entire current internet at line speed can be achieved for only a few million dollars.

It's neither a technical nor economic deterrent to surveillance.

An SSH style TOFU auth model might provide some safety here but at a significant cost in user experience when certificates do change.
I know this isn't tech related but it is a bit of a start up in need. Plus, lots of people like hot sauce. So I just thought I try to get the word out.
Dates are decided by fiat (always with a bias of keeping astronomical events at sync), timespan is very well defined and does not change at all.
What costs more - hiring a consultant for a few hours, or putting out a proper job advert, organising the logistics for handling submitted applications, sorting through the candidates, choosing several, receiving them at interview, booking a suitable room, and possibly covering their travel costs?

I would imagine that in quite a few situations, the consultant would be cheaper.
What a terrible article.
This guy needs to look in the mirror and reflect on his sexist bitterness.
Hi, can you make that question on the gist so that the discussion persists there? I'd be glad to try to fill in the missing mental bits there.
I'm a music journalist so I read a LOT of music blogs, constantly. I'd like to get behind this idea but I can't really differentiate Radcircle from others given the current offering. What's your methodology for songs that make the front page (& email list) - are they just users submissions, sorted chronologically? Are they vetted by other blogs, e.g. Hype Machine? I read your about page looking for this but it was a bit fluffy and didn't give any info about how Radcircle works.

I'm always excited about new music projects so I'll be watching you guys. Just subscribed!
This. That the author doesn't understand this completely undermines the article.
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Driverless cars have the vast vast potential to fix traffic congestion problems. Traffic mainly results from humans' inability to gauge the spacial and speed based tolerances required to prevent braking and as a result sending a backward brake wave through the cars behind it. Add to that fact that there are no game theory advantages to a single driver to driving properly (other than an altruistic realization that if you decide to drive with better tolerances and other people do the same, the congestion is abated)
Check this out too: http://8devices.com/carambola-2

The hardware design isn't open-source, but all the software is, and it's available now for 19euro per module.

It's built on Atheros' AR9331 chipset which means you get to use the awesome open-source ath9k driver.
On my chair/desk. I reduce the chair's height so I'm not bending over too much, and put my head on my arms on the table.
why is email safe since lots of users seem to have switched to social networks for most of their communications?
Perhaps it's also worth mentioning mkxp in this thread: https://github.com/Ancurio/mkxp

mkxp is an open source cross-platform runtime engine for RPGMaker games and supports games made with RPGMaker VX. This is the engine they used to make "To The Moon" platform independent. From what I've read it's pretty easy to move games over to mkxp, but you have to be very careful not to use any RPGMaker-licensed assets in your game even if they are royalty-free because they're only licensed for distribution with the genuine RPGMaker engine.
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The video doesn't do a good job of explaining this at all.

Ultimately the reason why adding more roads to a system produces more traffic is more people take cars vs. public transit.
My desk/cube is on the main corridor with low cube walls, and everyone walking past me sees me napping - I don't give a damn :)

My wife has done the napping in the car bit earlier in her career.
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Go actually does give you access to OS threads in the runtime package in the sense that you can easily reserve a thread for the current goroutine via http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#LockOSThread and similarly can give it back up to the scheduler with runtime.UnlockOSThread()
Please correct me if I am wrong about boxing in Rust, but doesn't boxing produce some overhead, by creating extra heap allocations (and therefore possible memory fragmentation and almost certainly poor cache locality), as well as pointer dereferences?

I really hate it in Java when I need an array of bytes but don't know the size in advance, or the size changes, and I have to incur all the cost of boxing those bytes up. On 64-bit systems (most of them), pointers are 64 bits which is at least twice as large as the most common things you put in a list (int, float, byte).