skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome to start warning about deceptive downloads
I just thought of that because I remember reading how they couldn't fit everything into the ROM. Everything in that game was compressed and they couldn't find any extra room and it had to rely on an external graphics pack with emulator support is how I remember it.
CloudFlare’s CEO On Expanding In Key Markets Like China And Brazil
>>> A language with more phonemes can form shorter words and convey information faster.

Shorter words, yes. Convey information faster - only if you have perfect speakers and perfect listeners. Otherwise, in the best case you'd just have people ask - did you just say "hélló" or "hëllò"? In the worse case, they'd just misunderstand what you're saying. And since you strive to eliminate redundancy, instead of nonsense which would trigger request for repetition, you'd get meaning - but meaning something else that you didn't intend to say.
If the source of the music is a fundamental part of your experience of music, how can you appreciate a random piece of music for which you have no background information? Is it only because you assume (reasonably, though decreasingly so) that it must have been written by a human? And if so, will the advent of computer-generated compositions ruin your ability to enjoy music until you have convincing evidence of its origin?
> someone with a CS education needs to rely much less on their credential/alumni network than someone with, say, a liberal arts degree

To the extent this is true, I think it's only as a result of an employee's market in CS, something which won't always be the case (and hasn't always been). Also, wrt credentialing, CS is uncommon even among STEM fields; most engineering jobs strictly require credentials.

Education and mathematics are both liberal arts by most definitions, but in my experience, graduates in those subjects get jobs by merit rather than network or credential at least as often as in CS. (edit: in fact, based on what I've seen, education is far more meritocratic in the hiring process than CS.)

Finally, "liberal arts" can refer to the field, but it can also refer to the type of institution. So there's such a thing as a "CS liberal arts degree".
Visual control of big data
NeXT had them before Apple Mac OS classic.
NeXT/OSX is the only mainstream system in use that still employs them today.
Interestingly WhatsApp is also a XMPP-based system, although totally closed and likely incompatible with other clients.
SomaFM : http://somafm.com/
Practical Maya Programming with Python
I disagree that 0^0 is undefined. I would argue should be 1 and the function 0^x is not continuous at zero. The basic definition of exponentiation for integers is n^m is a product of m instances of n. Because the multiplicative identity is 1, a product of zero numbers is always 1. Therefore 0^0=1.
Non-standard analysis (e.g. http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/infincalc.htm -- another example of awesome web page design) does formalise the concepts of infinitesimals. It's quite neat to have a complete alternate formalism for calculus.
It works with Neo4j server only. Unfortunately embedded is not supported. I'll check out GrapheneDB in more depth to see if it would be compatible
Salesforce as a speciality does hold its worth just starting out, particularly when you have another skill like Java to back it up. Just starting out the salary can be good however it does have it's glass ceiling unlike a core java developer. Because there is a shortage of salesforce developers comparative to java or .net, you can expect a bit of work come your way, but going strong on java with a bit of salesforce would put you in good stead.
I'm curious if anybody has ever had any real success with this concept as a personal project. (record audio with light)
My results were lackluster to say the least.
If anyone wants to hear what Ithkuil sounds like : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ithkuil_...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil
It sounds like the college is residential but courses are online.

Is that accurate? Is this something temporary for their first couple of cohorts, or is this the intended setup?

Interesting in any case.

It's also worth noting that this is cheaper than private liberal arts colleges, but actually much more expensive than regional state universities, and even more expensive than some flagships (assuming in-state tuition and average scholarship). Which is also interesting. edit: based on the article, the target demographic seems to be high-quality foreign students. Which, again, is really interesting because that's a very different target demographic than most liberal arts colleges.

edit: I'll also be curious to see whether these sorts of institutions can get students into top PhD programs or MD programs, which tend to require lots of experiences that are really difficult to provide without physical space and tenured faculty.
It may also be diminishing returns, not all land is equal for wind turbine placement. If all the "good" spots can't generate enough for the UK's needs you might need to start using less suitable locations.
Ask HN: Google interview process timeline?
I had phone interview with Google recruiter on Tuesday(12Aug) for New Business Sales position. It went pretty well, the recruiter said at the end of the interview that he will send my applications to the next process. I've been waiting for... 3 days now and nobody contact me back yet. I did some research and get quite a lot of info. So if you experienced about getting the job in Google, please do share. So that I could prepare myself. It would be greatly appreciated! Thank you :)
I actually had interview with AWS ( sales) too but would like to know about Google for now.
Also hacking together a development environment through different open source projects and own code is not a bad idea. It's harder in the beginning but also gives you more control and more skill in the long run.
Enwp.org – en.wikipedia URL shortening service
A couple of points on the website, https://srclib.org/

1. Can't find an actual Download link, even in the section called "Try it now". Oh - turns out the download links are under "Docs", which is kinda strange.

2. Downloaded for Linux. Unzipped, ran, got

$ ./src --help
bash: ./src: cannot execute binary file

I wonder if the links are correct, as all three download links on the Docs page (https://srclib.org/gettingstarted/) include the phrase "...?os=darwin&..."
I'd classify that as a "new edition"... since they own the code and assets, I'd suppose they just rewrote the bindings between the old game logic and the new game engine, not that they patched it at the binary level.
In the early days it allowed "I don't even know this person" as a reason.
I remember being at a private game programming school, there was a school project to make a game with unity 2 or 3. An entire class was using it.

Things were synced using subversion.

I never really jumped in that. I did not continue at that school.

I really think a video game is something that should be made with your custom tools. A good smith makes his own tools. Of course if you want to save time, you can use an expensive, well-made tool, but it will be at the expense of something else.

I'll always remember at that school, quickly arguing with a guy, that in C++ a vector is just a linked list.

Game programming is often highly technical, and often much more complex than what you're expecting it to be. That's why you should not neglect your tools and highly concentrate on making choices that fit your work.
> We use Slack.

I'm saddened and proud that every time I read that sentence, I initially think the person is using Slackware.
Fastest Growing New York Startups – The Rising “Rockets”
Sounds like the kind of problem OrientDB is supposed to solve (I haven't tried it though). I would stay away from network filesystems (they're fiddly, they'll add much more operational overhead than a database product, and there is no mature distributed one. OpenAFS is probably your best bet if you do want to go that route).
Does it really matter in a dynamic scripting language? When using reflection in a strong programming language there is a chance it will fail at runtime instead of being checked at compile time. Ruby only fails at runtime, so as long as the code is shorter it should not be a much bigger problem than it already is.
The problems with testing a microwave oven's shieding effectiveness using a cell phone are legion:

1. The frequencies used by cell phones (typically 0.8 GHz in the U.S.) aren't the same as those used by an oven's magnetron (2.45 GHz), so we're comparing apples and oranges. The only valid test of shielding must necessarily use the same frequency as the microwave's magnetron.

2. The signal attenuation required to render a cell phone inoperative is not nearly enough to assure a person's safety when a magnetron is in operation. A power attenuation of 20 db (meaning reduction by a factor of 100) will almost certainly render a cell phone inoperative, but cannot assure safety to a person standing near a typical consumer microwave oven generating 0.7 kilowatts (700 watts) of microwave power and therefore emitting 7 watts into its immediate environment.

I emphasize the second example is hypothetical, meant only to show that an attenuation more than adequate to prevent the cell phone from working, is not nearly enough to assure a person's safety, not that this is a typical microwave oven leakage power.
I use a similar style of writing, including slashed 7s. I wish I could find a nice monospaced font with slashed 7s and 0s, etc.
Ah, so you do inlining of your script code? I see, that's the most straightforward way. I don't know WebGL well, but in CUDA it's a little bit easier nowadays, you can call kernels within kernels and you can link kernel code together.
Show HN: See who you mute on Twitter
Goes very well with the vanilla html typography too. archived https://archive.today/6fzmw
Robin Williams’ Parkinson’s Disease
>Shorter words, yes. Convey information faster - only if you have perfect speakers and perfect listeners. Otherwise, in the best case you'd just have people ask - did you just say "hélló" or "hëllò"? In the worse case, they'd just misunderstand what you're saying. And since you strive to eliminate redundancy, instead of nonsense which would trigger request for repetition, you'd get meaning - but meaning something else that you didn't intend to say.

Perhaps I didn't include enough context from the document. He cited Esperanto as containing 34 phonemes, compared to English at 43, and then a list including Andean Spanish with 17, Japanese with 14, Hawai'ian with 8, or Rotokas with 6. That is, he cited (what seem to be) outliers with the smallest number of phonemes and implied that these were desirable. Later he notes that Eastern Polish has 49 phonemes.

I agree that a language can certainly have phonemes which are difficult to distinguish (Mandarin Chinese is famous for this) or hard to pronouce (the voiced "th" in English "the" is famous for this) or inscrutable for some listeners (most English speakers cannot distinguish dz from d), but I thought his minimalism was too extreme.
Yeah that makes sense. Now that I think about it, I realise the energy needed to extract deuterium is related to the chemical energy binding water molecules together. This chemical energy is orders of magnitude lower than the nuclear energy released by fusion. So the cost of fuel production will likely be irrelevant for fusion power.
Clearly, we have a different view of the man. I see him as a ruthlessly ambitious politician, who managed through a combination of intelligence, skill and luck to ascend to the position of most powerful man in the Republic. In my opinion, his reluctance to kill fellow Romans has more to do with long-term political aims in terms of political stability, cultivation of his public image and sheer arrogance than any sort of reluctance to shed blood.
Nah. I had the same conversations on Facebook, with the same people, and initially under much the same pseudonyms, as I had on MSN 5 years previously. Excessive insistence on real names is what killed google+.

Facebook succeeded, initially, by being livejournal but not letting people customize how their profiles looked. (News Feed really wasn't big in the early days). Everyone's page looked the same, and it was a good look; you immediately knew where to see interests, where to see favourite movies and so on. It also had better-integrated photo sharing functionality than any of its rivals.

And it was a much better interface for organizing parties than anything else: a big chain of email CCs gets unwieldy fast (and is irritating to anyone who can't make the party but still sees all the messages). AIM/ICQ/MSN/* never really handled groupchat properly. Jabber screws up if you want to sign in from more than one place. IRC gets the groupchat part right, but relies on everyone leaving their computer on the whole time, or doing something even nerdier like setting up a bouncer. Skype would eventually solve the problem, but it wasn't in the picture when Facebook started out.
I think the article addressed this very squarely:

> It is important to note that while InfiLaw’s abuse of the student-loan system may be egregious, it is far from unique. Ultimately, this story is about not only for-profit law schools, or law schools, or even for-profit higher education. It is about the problematic financial structure of higher education in America today. It would be comforting to think that the crisis is confined to for-profit schools—and indeed this idea is floated regularly by defenders of higher education’s status quo. But it would be more accurate to say that for-profit schools, with their unabashed pursuit of money at the expense of their students’ long-term futures, merely throw this crisis into particularly sharp relief. To see why, consider the regulatory and political mechanisms that have allowed InfiLaw to make such handsome profits while producing disastrous results for so many of its “customers.”

[...]

> What, after all, is the difference between the InfiLaw schools and Michigan’s Thomas M. Cooley, or Boston’s New England Law, or Chicago’s John Marshall, or San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson? All of these law schools feature student bodies with poor academic qualifications and terrible job prospects relative to their average debt. In recent years, as law-school applications have collapsed, all of these schools have, just like the InfiLaw schools, cut their already low admissions standards. And, like Florida Coastal, Arizona Summit, and Charlotte, all of these schools now have a very high percentage of students who, given their LSAT scores, are unlikely to ever pass the bar. Ultimately, what difference does it make that none of these schools produce profit in the technical (and taxable) sense, because they are organized as nonprofits?

> The only real difference between for-profit and nonprofit schools is that while for-profits are run for the benefit of their owners, nonprofits are run for the benefit of the most-powerful stakeholders within those institutions.
Well that would be awesome to monitor anticoagulation.
It's hard to overstate the importance of redundancy in natural languages.

This is the whole reason we are able to make ourselves understood in a noisy, imprecise world. Even if you miss a few syllables - or even half a sentence, you can usually piece together what the other person was trying to say.

Imagine someone technology-illiterate trying to describe a problem they're having with their computer in this language. Impossible.
I'm guessing this is because Kivy includes a Python interpreter and Python libraries in each APK?
Disclaimer: I work for Unity.
-As for 64 bit support, the biggest problem for that with Unity is all the dependencies to third party technologies we integrate. We've managed to get all those resolved for the Runtime part (Mac/Windows/Linux standalone players) a while ago (we've been adding 64 bit versions of those during the 3.x and 4.x release cycles), which meant getting Mono, PhysX, FMOD, Substance, etc all working on 64 bit. For the editor, however, there are a lot more third party libraries involved (such as a web browser engine for the asset store), not all of which had 64 bit versions to start with. So there were a lot of dependencies to resolve, which is why this took time. Good news is, we have all this working in 5.0, which will be out later this year.

-For the new GUI, we are not going to fix this only in Unity 5, but already in Unity 4.6, which should be out really soon.

-About the "JavaScript" misnomer, I agree that that was a bad decision in retrospect, though it is not trivial to change at this point.
The actual apk can be as small as 5-6mb, but yes it's too big. Ideally common files to all Kivy applications (the python runtime and libraries) would only exist once, but that's a problem people can't quite agree how to solve. https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/issues/202
huh, cool. that's what I was asking for.
It was a great idea, badly implemented. I feel confident that we'll rediscover SOAP, or something like it - it's still pretty much the best option for RPC in typed languages, which are coming back into fashion. (Maybe Thrift is better, but it's morally the same thing IMO).
You're keen on this story - you've submitted it twice before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8179473 3 points, 12 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176770 3 points, 22 hours ago
Why I keep my blog in a unikernel
Yeah, something that stores the data in a system I control and then pastes it on to the page with a greasemonkey script would be optimal.

But, then that would be work.
Are they really? Because IIRC various credit rating companies will sell your data to nearly anyone. In fact, a dark web group sold on legitimately purchased data from one of the largest credit rating companies in the world last year. I don't think these companies care about your privacy anywhere near as much as you'd think, and I don't think it's a net positive to rely on them.
OrientDBs clustering is, IIRC, built on top of Hazelcast. Storing my files in a clustered Hazelcast is another option I am considering, although I forgot to include it in my first comment.
> (That or they're completely incompetent - I'm not sure which is worse.)

Given that they changed their police team and tactics to what you suggested should have happened in the first place gives us our answer, I think. Especially if you realise this is apparently so special that it has even reached Dutch news channels:

http://nos.nl/artikel/686596-nieuwe-aanpak-kalmeert-ferguson...
Open source JS touchscreen keyboard, with autocorrect and 50 layouts
yes indeed, this opens up new possibilities for monitoring what's going on in our bodies. But we would need more knowledge / education so we don't jump to conclusions when a value out of bounds.
It's more of an open question than your reply would seem to indicate:

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html

It's less controversial when the terms are integers, but even there an argument can be made for indeterminacy. As the linked article says, "There is no one definition that always works well for 0^0"

I can use 0^0 = 1 to prove that 1 = 2, but I'm sure you can anticipate the argument's form.
One of the problems with existing for-profits is that because of the lack of tenure and unwillingness to match industry salaries, they have trouble recruiting and retaining high-quality faculty. Especially in STEM, where non-research teaching faculty accept well below-average salaries in exchange for tenure.

If its deans are teaching (not typically the case, but then 4 deans for a student body in the double digits isn't typical either), then Minerva seems to have solved this problem.
Here's an application my co-worker built using Kivy. https://github.com/aigarius/photoriver
The main argument that it shouldn't be defined because there will be some situations where any definition will fall short.

Your definition only works for situations where you are dealing with integers.
I've been trying to beat this drum for a long time, sometimes on this very forum.

Face and gait recognition really is the scariest thing going on these days. I don't like the NSA snorting all the phone calls and the emails, either, but there are reasonable countermeasures.

To avoid this shit, you can't go anywhere, ever, unless you're in disguise and you breakdance/shuffle down the street.

It's a short jump from license plate recognition to face/gait recognition. Sure, the software isn't as good yet as it is with license plates (near perfect), but everybody on this website knows it will get there. And 'they' will be able to do all the same things they can do with license plates.

Not only track where you are and whether you go to this place or that place; they can decide ten years from now to find out where you went over the past decade.

And, they don't need a black budget and the complicity of major corporations to do it. In this case, they can be the Sausalito police, Starbucks, or your local shopping mall.
As stated in the article, I think the hardest barrier for this project will simply be the lack of branding. College has pretty much boiled down to institutional prestige and the credential that comes with it.

Gauging "success" within this system seems hard. It's hard to attribute success to a university when it's prestige ends up determining the calibre of its student body in the first place. And a clear feedback loop exists here. On account of the prestige associated with their college, students end up leading illustrious careers. Their "success" is a combination of their inherent pre-college skill and their credential, one could say.

Now, given the Minerva project, where the feedback loop doesn't exist and the quality of students are towards the higher side, how does one begin to test the efficiency of a new system without any proper control experiment?

Because of this difficulty in assessing the success or failure of this project, even though I hope and believe it works well, the general opinion might be that it failed.
Deming Library Video with Dr. Deming Discussing the 14 Points
Thousand-strong robot swarm throws shapes, slowly
So who gets to decide who gets in the class seems ripe for discrimination against minorities and females.
I think the bigger problem is that the issues are potentially security issues.
The debate goes beyond that point, as illustrated by the lengthy Wikipedia section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0%5E0#Zero_to_the_power_of_zer...

From an undergraduate math point of view, it's wise to understand that 0^0 is not well defined.