skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are referring to isn't a proof, it is invoking trust in a set of people.
Change as a Way of Life: CC Extensions and the Third-Party InDesign Developer
This is a BBC Radio Four programme in the "Face the Facts"[1] investigative documentary series.

> John Waite investigates why scientists say autism research receives a fraction of the funding invested in other conditions and that as a consequence, there are very few effective interventions to treat the disorder. Meanwhile, parents of autistic children say they face a long wait for treatment provided by their local authority, and have instead turned to unproven methods offered by nutritionists and psychotherapists.

[1] Bafflingly this series has been cancelled and they're not going to make any more. Fucking BBC.
Also see http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-...
Some interesting euphemisms in here:

""When it left it was preceded by a Station car and followed by another; their job was to determine whether the Soviets were escorting it to the rail yard. When it was clear that there were no Soviets around, the truck was stopped at the last possible turn-off, a canvas was thrown over the crate, and a new driver took over. The original driver was escorted to a hotel room and kept there for the night.""

I like "was stopped" and "was escorted".

""But perhaps more important in the long term than these positive intelligence results was the experience and example of fine cooperation on a job between covert operators and essentially overt collectors.""

Huh, "overt collectors".

I don't think the text says what country they were in.
Back Doors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms in iOS Devices [pdf]
I've been using http://gdne.ws for this, but it's cool to see another service cropping up. I'll keep an eye on it.
Every company believes the laws which interfere with their capacity for profit are bad laws. That doesn't actually make them so.
Net neutrality for this kind of application is a flawed premise. If you're offering it for free that means you're not offering it commercially. And that means any of the precedent or case law or regulations regarding common carriers or any of that.

Now if you started selling subscriptions? That would be a different story.
From the article I'm having a hard time figuring out if this new technique is a clustering algorithm, a feature reduction algorithm or dimensionality reduction algorithm
Sucks to be them then. If there was such a shortage we'd see more companies offering actually competitive salaries in the software industry.

Software engineers might be well paid on average but they're not better paid than many other professions requiring similar levels of training. If this is such an issue, companies should spend resources training staff for the roles they need. Like they used to.
I would very much like to read a comparison of CL and Clojure from the author at some point. As it seems he is offering a fair comparison.
So, the real issue is allowing to preform in-app payment by unauthorized party, not the "free" labeling (which is disguising and disgusting in my opinion, but is an old marketing trick that doesn't seem to have obvious solution).
care to elaborate more? I've always been interested in something like this to succeed. Its ridiculous that even today research papers have to go to an unknown set of referees who have no help from a wider bunch of more intelligent people to help them dissect whats good and bad about the paper. It is also great for outsiders/newcomers to quickly understand what the research community thinks about a particular paper.
Has anyone ever tried raising lobsters in captivity? Wouldn't that be cheaper than boats and traps?
The reason for the disbelief is an often repeated on HN in all cooking related articles, that it is impossible to cook a meal cheaper than buying at a restaurant. Because restaurants get their food so cheaply in bulk and few of them make much of a profit.
Not by default, at least in Android.
Meet new people, and make plans with them. Do stuff, and get out of the house.

As most people get older, it becomes harder to spend that length of time far away. Take advantage to the friendships that develop over months.
His Google Maps Obsession
-razor thin margins outside of server room

-pride

-if they deliver, they could take over whole industry, at least for a few years, ala IBM 5150
Weird Al's “Word Crimes” video created in 500 hours by 37 year old developer
While indeed slower then Google ones for example, like double the speed, still I would argue that it doesn't really change that much when you are loading the page.

For most part, entries a cached locally and in single visit, you are not visiting more then one domain.

I think we should welcome this line of thinking and acting, internet is becoming less free place every day. Not the same, but I was reading this article about a guy who is on Verizon and gets better Netflix when he uses his VPN.
It seems weird to try to characterize Julia in terms of object-oriented programming. Is that just me? Julia's approach to subtyping and multiple dispatch is sufficiently different from the C++ and Python approaches to OOP that I don't even put them in the same bucket, and it seems about as far away from CL's objects as well. Julia doesn't really advertise itself as OO; you can't even find the word "object" on the front page of their site. So I wouldn't try to think of it that way.

A lot of the comparisons in this article seem like that to me. Julia and Common Lisp are apparently just close enough to make a point-by-point comparison like this plausible, but things are not quite aligned close enough to make it work. It's still a good article with a lot of solid meat in it, but I think the topic would have been better served by going up the abstraction ladder a bit and talking about how the different paradigms of each language motivated the differences between them.

Disclaimer: I'm only somewhat familiar with Julia and not at all with Common Lisp.
Thanks for the feedback. Definitely something we're going to keep an eye out for! Our company/brand name is simply "Medko" and we're also not competitors with Medco (Express Scripts) so I am confident we won't run into any problems... but like you say they certainly have deep pockets and certainly something to be better safe than sorry over.
Check what policy your themes platform has on DMCA requests. Most likely they are required to take down your theme even if the DMCA request is "bogus". You might be able to file some sort of counter arguments with your platform, but till they file a request and the platform takes it down, you should feel free to ignore it. DMCA requests are directed at the platform, not directly at you.
The future of warfare
> I would very much like to read a comparison of CL and Clojure from the author at some point. As it seems he is offering a fair comparison.

I suspect the authors main problem with Clojure is, that it is a mostly functional language which heavily emphasizes doing things in the functional way and discouraging imperative programming whereas CL is more like a true multiparadigm language.

I used to think that multiparadigm is best, but after migrating from Scheme which is mostly functional but has a lot of mutation and a sad lack of interesting datastructures apart from Lisp to Clojure which has good support for dicts and persistent data structures I think I prefer a community that is more focused on one approach.
IIRC, on Android the password isn't required if a payment was done recently (like in 15-20 minutes). That's fairly convenient if you're a sole account user and you went on a shopping spree, but if you share the device/account with someone... The complaint I've read was that if a kid persuades parent to pay for an in-game option then for a brief time they can (intently or not) make further purchases without proper authorization. Or something along those lines.

Not sure whenever this is still the case nowadays or had already been fixed - last time I've made payments on Play Store was months ago.
I'd procrastinate more if I wasn't so lethargic.
This is what I perceive to be the problem:

From the article:

> "I think when you look at Uber's ads on Facebook
> saying you can make $52,000 a year driving for them,
> it's very appealing in this town of kids that
> wait tables," said Clayton Dennard of Going Coastal
> Transportation.

I think it is appealing, and because it is possible to make money driving for UberX in a town with taxis tells you not that Uber is borked but that the taxi system is. That the municipalities don't see this (or perhaps they do if they are complicit in the existing status quo) is somewhat infuriating. It seems to me that if taxis were great then Uber wouldn't get any traction.
Thank you for the recommendation. I've been devouring MMM since you posted and I've already made a few changes to bring spending down.
The Value of Acquisition
Some people are happy working on a FOSS project that users enjoy using, they get positive feedback. Others are happy to run a small business and make enough money to survive while providing value for customers. But then, there are folk who look for an 'in' and then an out so they can become filthy rich and then work on their 'real' goal whether it be a tech company or some academic pursuit with the newly available freedom.

Isn't the big payday somewhat of a metaphor for that person valuing themselves above the rest - as someone who should be leading, working less, having more freedom and luxuries, etc. I feel somewhat conflicted with the idea because I have desired the big payday too that will ensure my freedom to pursue 'real' goals. Is life after life a silly idea? I think the real reason I even desire this grandeur is because I believe I am more important than a working grunt. I believe freedom monetarily will allow me to express my talents in math, physics, computer science, and general. But somehow I know this thinking is flawed and our industry is full of ego driven delusion. Thoughts?
You could use the phrase if you liked, but each word is only 10 bits of entropy.

One nice thing about having a mnemonic for the password is that you don't have to remember the words precisely -- you can modify the mnemonic to suit your tastes as long as the prefix remains. I originally wrote it to generate passwords that I have to enter frequently (e.g. sudo), so being short was a goal.

I'm working on making actual passphrases with more entropy per word.
One part that didn't mathematically make sense is the fisherman price varied over more than 2 to 1 ratio, yet it doesn't seem to cost very much money to store a lobster. So the fishermen are giving up a large profit by letting someone else store the lobster for them.

The voodoo nature is probably around almost all the value being constructed by multiple layers of profit taking middlemen in a supposedly blue collar occupation. This is seen as the norm for the FIRE economic sector, seems odd in a blue collar sector.

I'm mystified why no one vertically integrates. If "Red Lobster" owned their own fleet of boats and hired men, they would cut out a lot of profit currently going to multiple stages of middlemen.

Or if not big business, one dude could fish during the season, fill his personal warehouse, then go food truck it or whatever for the rest of they year and haul down an immense profit.
Advice: For the Entrepreneur by the Entrepreneur
Why do taxi organizations spend all their effort trying to make life difficult for Uber. It's not as if Uber has some sort of top-secret tech they refuse to share with the world. Perhaps some of their efforts should be spent on improving their own product. As someone that spent 5 years living in Manhattan, I feel qualified to comment on the state of taxi rides. I now take Uber almost exclusively. And several Uber drivers I've had the pleasure of riding with were previously taxi drivers. They've told me the experience is much better for them with Uber as well. Stop trying to kill Uber. Make taxis better for your drivers and passengers and the rest will follow.
Sorry to rain one someone's parade what exactly does this hardware project have to do with the EFFs mission?

Why are they not campaigning on more relevant issues?
Set some parental controls? Don't authorize them to use your credit card? Don't let them use the device at all if there's nothing else you can do?

I know it's devious for app developers to go after kids but you can prevent it without any government intervention with a little responsibility on your part. You wouldn't give your child a credit card and let them loose in a toy store either.
Here is a deeper look. Not quite a spec, but a step in the direction of a spec. So that folks can understand more precisely what I'm doing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0D75T4_xjMNDdMdgaeRPtNv...
Database Scalability – The Shard Conflict (slideshare)
This is an interesting observation and, generally speaking, I agree with it. But there is something else at issue as well: democratic legitimacy.

By any normal definition of the term, ordinances imposed by the City of Charleston are imposed by a democratically elected government. Moreover, it is a municipal government which, at least in theory, is the most democratically responsive unit of government there is.

If Uber were operating in an oppressive dictatorship, I would be a lot more sympathetic to Uber's plight. But at least in theory, the laws they are ignoring in Charleston are laws enacted by representatives of the people of Charleston!

I suspect that Uber's supporters here will argue that this is really only a fiction and that the residents of Charleston agree with Uber, and not their own government. This is possible -- though I doubt anyone here actually knows if this is true, and it ignores the fact that, in a representative democracy, representatives are not expected to do only what their constituents want.

In any case, it's interesting to think about how commenters' attitudes about Uber relate to their views about democratic government.
This video discusses how Lobster made their transition to a luxury item in a "storytelling" format:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5yWTf2ajE&t=4m33s

tl;dw westward expansion in North America meant people were increasingly living in areas without plentiful lobster -> refrigeration and canning made shipping lobster west possible -> lobster was fished heavily to meet demand -> lobster populations declined -> rare lobster means expensive lobster
The articles main thesis is that an intuitive, artistic understanding of turbulence can help inform mathematicians.

And yet none of the historical evidence that was presented supported this claim. The pure mathematicians made progress and discovered interesting patterns. Those who focused on art and philosophy (Schauberger and Schwenk) contributed nothing to the understanding of turbulence.
If you are interested in a GUI example then you might like the post I wrote just before this one:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/06/spreadsheet-like-progra...

That shows a spreadsheet that you assemble using Applicative and Monoid operations that is built on top of several abstraction layers, and the correctness proof of each layer buulds on the previous proofs.
Who cares ? If the protocol is open and good, and we can build open source implementations, no one cares about the life of the creator.
Uber will never work out. Following are few reasons :

1. Uber is directly competing against taxi drivers in each city. These are low-wage workers having strong unions in each city.

2. Traffic laws are controlled by city or town. Because there is no single govt. in every city/town , local mandates vary.

3. Uber might project that it is helping local economy. What are taxi drivers ? Are they not part of economy ? There are 233,000 taxi drivers according to BLS. If every common man tries to take share of these drivers , who by the way part of same city/town and local economy Uber is claiming to help, it will result in voilence ultimately.

4. Uber is tanking dollars in VC and select-few founders pockets with false pretension of giving back to local economy. What about taxes on drivers' earning ? That is great loss for city/town in terms of revenue. Individuals are not necessarily honest about their earnings from Uber.

5. Uber has also entered Indian market. India is all together different country and there is very very strong support for taxi drivers in mumbai , banglore etc. Wait until these uneducated people learn about Uber and start smashing every Uber car.

edit - Now shills are down voting truth.
>I had some fun earlier this year implementing A* in 6502 assembler, starting with Python and working my way down through Objective-C and C before finally hand-optimizing the critical paths in asm.

Oh, that's a really great idea. I'm going to do that with a few interesting algorithms now, starting with Python and working down via Rust and maybe C to assembly.

I'm actually doing a take on that with several network clients (Stomp and mqtt) at the present, starting with Python and then moving to Rust.

But I'm really interested now in embedded programming so I should pick a challenging algo and work all the way down to assembly to run on bare metal. Algorithms are nice for this type of exercise since they typically have limited IO.

Great idea, thanks!
Twitter and Audio Steganography
I'm actually not aware of a proof in the wild equivalent to the one in Appendix B. If you know of a machine checked proof that Applicatives lift Monoids then I would be happy to link to it.
I think we've missed each other here.

I'm not suggesting that these things are trivial, exactly the opposite actually. I'm assuming that they aren't and suggesting that they should be - that all the validation and heavy lifting is something that ideally Apple/Google would handle and enabling the functionality would be trivial from a developer perspective.

I wonder if conversion of free to ad-free would be better if the offerings were truly separate?

I'm somewhat distrustful of IAP for this purpose as it has been flaky in my experience (likely to due to the seller run validation services as you describe). I'm much more inclined to try a 'Free' app followed by purchasing the ad-free 'Premium' version than I am to buy an IAP to convert one to the other.
> "our politics are so backwards in this regard"

Explain how so ? How checking safety on public transportation, insurance requirements, fines is backward ?
I have seen other comments on windows requirement, tourer fines but I think city government is fully justified while imposing fines on Uber drivers.
$HELL? Is that SHELL with a $? Is that Shell Oil and Gas? Is Shell Oil a problem for the human race? I suppose it could be, but your point escapes me.

Or maybe the $ is a typo and you mean the Christian notion of Hell? Is Hell a problem for the human race? Not likely as, even if it exists, it's only a problem in the after life. So again, your point escapes me.
New View of Rainier’s Volcanic Plumbing
> if taxis were great then Uber wouldn't get any traction.

Uber has a few luxuries that taxis are not afforded (due to regulation), including significant surge pricing and the general ability to turn down fares. To compare, Uber is allowed to charge 3x the normal price during peak hours, whereas NYC cabs have a fixed 50 cent surcharge at night and $1 during evening commuting hours.

Personal anecdote: requested an Uber at the ferry terminal on the embarcadero 20 minutes before a surge. Driver was a block away and suddenly canceled, forcing me to request again. The second request occurred during a surge, so I had to pay 2.5x for that trip! Fortunately Uber refunded me but that type of stunt is what the laws exist to prevent.

As I understand UberX, since the drivers are not required to take on commercial insurance, their insurance costs are also significantly limited. The biggest botheration, though, is the fact that the insurance policies technically don't allow driving for hire.

It seems we all want a situation with the regulations, guarantees and protections that are currently provided by the laws AND the convenience and benefits of Uber. Unfortunately they are mutually exclusive. If we allowed taxis to charge more for fares and to skirt the other regulations that they are currently bound to, I'd expect that the taxi landscape would improve immensely
> Funnily enough, they look at HN the same way.

[citation needed]. This would be somewhat... surprising.
A runner's eye view: Lessons I have learned from my dad and marathons
I knew that some people would do that site if I do not. Thank you and good luck!
Great news. My kids ask me to buy a game for him on our iPad and when I find a free game, I don't want my kid coming back to me 20 minutes later with a screen asking to buy more 'tokens'.

Fuck that. Thank you Google for leading the way with this. Free should be free as in the entire thing for free. Or let me pay for the damn thing once and let me go about my day.
I share your views of religion. I also feel pretty much the same way if compelled to fake extroversion and attend, say, a fancy dinner reception. In the eyes of the article author, it is fine to dismiss religion while extroversion is to be coveted. I assume this to be because he is himself an extrovert atheist and can't imagine other people being happy in another way.
Because at the end of the day, no one gives a fuck about a spec of sand in their eyes. Having your balls ripped off, might be different. YMMV. Human feeling is a bit more complicated than just adding.
I don't see the issue with calling it small. Small and large are sizes, whereas resolution is a quantity independent of size. A 9.7" screen is small, whether it's 1x1 or 2048x1536 or 4096x2160.
Have you talked to many UberX drivers? More than the money, most have told me that they love the flexibility to clock in and clock out as needed. When you lease a cab, you pay a flat fee per week to the medallion owner and then work every minute to turn a profit. As a result of this, any down time comes out of your own pocket. I spoke with a driver last week who hadn't been on vacation in 4 years because he was afraid that one missed week would take him out of the driver lineup. He would have had to pay to rent the cab even the week he was out, in order to keep his spot. It reminded me of stories from sharecroppers in the south who lived and worked with a low but constant level of fear, pressure and anxiety.

The problem isn't with insurance or vehicle standards, all of which will be addressed in time. Uber fixed a fundamental structural problem with an antiquated system that favors medallion owners at the expense of both drivers and riders.
The scientists who study turbulence are quite aware of its beauty. Indeed, the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Society of Physics has an image contest at their annual meeting -- it's quite competitive.

Their online gallery format could use some modern-design love, but the images are still beautiful:

http://www.aps.org/units/dfd/pressroom/gallery/

More here:
http://www.aps.org/units/dfd/gallery/index.cfm
Why do they need Internet connections?
"needs someone to do what Nintendo did in the 80s"

What exactly? Genuinely curious.
FYI: CeroWRT is a fork based around David Taht's work combating bufferbloat. It describes itself as a project built on top of OpenWRT, which sounds slightly less scary IMO than fork.

http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt
Link us please
I'm not sure I understand your point. Is it that you should be free to disregard any law you think is bad, because these bad laws infringe on your liberty?