skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Of course, in many countries the ability to get an advanced degree is not very dependent on being wealthy

I... find your assertion to be unlikely. Of course, I could be wrong. Do you have statistics? Is there a country where there is not a very strong correlation between high parental income and advanced degrees?
Most people compare it to the flu but what about norovirus. It's spread in a versus similar way and pretty much everyone in the US has had it at one time or another...
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Very nice idea and good visualization, although I'd have preferred a single "switch" button to quickly switch the whole view between 2007 and 2014.

While this demonstrates the huge progress of OSM, it is important to keep in mind that the hardest (and not so rewarding) part of the work is not to create the maps, but to keep them up to date!

That's why it is important to keep supporting OSM.
Interesting thing I learned: A measure of inequality is ratio of maximum fortune to median of all fortunes. This apparently even has a name Phillips curve and it's actually not even close to half of what was a century ago (i.e. there was much more inequality then than now). This kind of throws a cold water on that "1%" argument which claims that inequality is off the charts in human history when you measure it by how many % of people own total % of fortunes.
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The poor Comcast business connection that's hosting the 2007 tile data is really struggling with the traffic! Lots of retransmissions (caused by packet loss) by the looks of it, likely because his upstream is completely maxed out.
No statistics, sorry. If you want to look yourself try the usual suspects, India, Iran, ex-Soviet states...
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Is there a reputable (Reuters, etc) report?
Very elegant. I'm far from being a Haskell expert but I found it simple to understand. Haskell is very good at this sort of problem IMHO.
How so? Presumably this is just pulling the OSM data from 2007. Remember that until late 2007 every data point in the system was from user collected GPS traces, and that they only had ~9000 registered users at the time.
OSM has really evolved in some places. For the immediate vicinity of my home, OSM is a lot better than Google Maps or any other map I've looked at.

OSM even includes horse trails and bicycling routes that I can't find in any other map available online. Not even local, official maps.

The weakness in OSM still is that it's difficult to tell whether or not the maps are of good quality and up to date for a particular region.
It's demonstrating the difference in quality of data, not city development.
Your anti-tracking addon (e.g. ghostery) is blocking google analytics. They're missing a simple try/catch block somewhere.
This bullshit posted again...
Not to state the obvious, but there are very few types of desktop programs where not having a native look and feel is OK. Especially when UI looks as unique as ImgUI does. Games, demos and, perhaps larger application software, like Blender, that are meant for prolonged continuous use and that run full-screen.

ImgUI is a very nice engineering feat, but it's not terribly practical.
DigitalOcean couldn't raise $500k, so they waited 6 months and raised $40.2m
Open Street Maps are way ahead of any other maps in my opinion. In my town they have all the fields, ponds, lakes etc all accurately mapped. Amazing.
If you code in C++, which most games do, the Android version is not that important, given the little exposure of Android APIs to the NDK.

Everything that matters, besides the existing graphics, sensors and audio APIs, can be built with standard C++ libraries.
> by then the market share of Gingerbread should be under 15-20 percent, too

According to the Android dashboard [1], among users of Google Play Gingerbread has a market share of 13.5%

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Looking at the data in my vicinity, I would say no exaggeration is taking place: after all, you could fork the project and check it for yourself; this is the atrociously poor coverage which I remember OSM had in 2007.

What this shows is how much it's grown, and how much better it's gotten.
Or you could just buy a computer and stick it in a corner running 24-7. After it has finished selecting/rendering, you have both a video and a computer you can use afterwards.
It's obviously not enforceable for wi-fi in parks etc. But law does say that ID is required for certain access points.

According to the text of the decree published on the government's online information portal, in order to use "collective access points," Internet users will have to provide Wi-Fi operators with their passport details. Operators will then be obliged to save the information for six months, and if necessary, hand it over it to law enforcement authorities.
K1/IR1/CR1 processing times are still around 6-8 months. A nightmare if a couple just got married or is going to and need to live apart during this time. Additionally the process is not straight forward and a lot of people will need help from a lawyer which makes it expensive.
BMI doesn't work well for measuring much. At least it's always been completely useless in telling me anything about my health.
My body fat percentage is around 13.8%. Do I have some fat to lose? Sure, but it's still pretty good. And I do have a bit more muscle than the average guy.
I wouldn't say I'm a "body builder", but I do workout 5 days a week, and measure out my food.
Trying to judge someone's health from just to factors like weight and height seems flawed.
what a garish nightmare. yuck.
According to the Data Retention Directive this sort of thing is required in many more places than just Russia:

"Internet cafes and public telephone shops with at least three terminals must seek a license permit within 30 days from the Ministry of Home Affairs. They must also store traffic data for a period which may be determined later by administrative decree. Wi-Fi hotspots and locations that do not store traffic data have to secure ID information from users before allowing them to log on. For example, users may be required to enter a number from an ID card or driving license. It is not clear how this information is validated. Mobile telephony users must identify themselves before service activation, or before a SIM card may be obtained. Resellers of mobile subscriptions or pre-paid cards must verify the identity of purchasers and retain a photocopy of identity cards."

Obviously, you will not need an ID just to access the internet in Russia. But just like everywhere else you'll be using an endpoint that is loosely tied to some entity. In other words, you are not guaranteed anonymous access to the internet but that's true for most of the world, coffee shops, gas stations and other places that offer unsecured wifi are the exception, not the rule.
"... an examiner missed 304 hours of work in a year but was paid for the time. Despite warnings, this examiner kept cheating and was caught twice but not fired."
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I find it also quite interesting that such notices are not found on any websites anymore. I remember my first 'home-page' having a couple of 'download X browser now for best viewing experience' buttons scattered at the bottom of the page.

Whether that's an indication that browsers have gotten better (or more adhering to specifications), web developers less lazy or if there are simply more tools these days to make sure that your website will work properly on most common browsers at most resolutions, I do not know.
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So you're more healthy than your siblings because you're larger? (like you said; they aren't malnourished.)
I wonder how much of this was due the problem where paralegals had literally had nothing to do.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/07/3...

"The underworked paralegals did little as a backlog of appeals of patent examinations that many of them were hired to help process doubled from about 12,500 in fiscal 2009 to 25,300 last year. Soon after the appeals board brought on additional legal support staff to address a deluge of challenges to decisions by patent examiners, the Patent and Trademark Office imposed a hiring freeze that halted hires of judges needed to handle the appeals."
The one enlightening experience I had in the 2009ish timeframe is how incredibly easy it is to contribute valuable information to OSM.

Intuitively I would have assumed that this would be really difficult to do, but the tools OSM provides for editing are actually quite easy to use even for people with no clue like myself.

You don't even require accurate GPS hardware or anything. Knowledge of your surroundings combined with the (blurry, but available none the less) satellite imagery might already be enough for you to really do good.

In my case, I've added building numbers of my neighborhood, marked one-way roads, added a few gravel foot paths where they were missing and I knew where there because I walk on them on my commute and so on. All this required zero hardware nor actual knowledge in map making (also: The changes are still in unaltered, so I assume they weren't all bad).

Using a cheap GPS tracker and a bike I furthermore added a few small lakes and a small creek close to where I live. The GPS tracker was very helpful as the satellite imagery was (understandably) just showing forest, but biking around the lake a few times was really helpful in giving me the correct measurements.

All this was both a lot of fun and absolutely trivial to do. I highly recommend that you give this a shot on your end. I'm a person with zero experience in map making and yet I could easily contribute my part and I had an absolute blast doing it.

Also, if you are good with directions, this isn't limited to the places you live now - I've also added a lot of detail to the map around the place where I went to elementary school (yes. The environment has changed a bit, but that was a great opportunity to visit the place again).

Contributing to OSM is a very pleasant and fun experience.
nice overview!
Close one eye. Move your head slightly sideways. The difference in speed of each element on the "scene" tells you how far away those objects are. Your mind makes note of all this and prepares a mental map of your surrounding area. That way you know, however roughly, where the exit door is.

This is what this system does, by using the movement of the camera to interpolate a 3D map of the area around the path taken, as well as the original images that best adjust to the part of the 3D map being seen.
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I'm in the end stages of developing my first Android app. Throughout development I used the Android compatibility libraries to get it working on Gingerbread. However, now that I'm almost finished, I realize that many Gingerbread devices have a hard limit on the number of simultaneous active MediaPlayer objects that means my app will not (and cannot) function properly. (All devices tested on ICS++ seem to work fine). It works on some Gingerbread devices (and, annoyingly, all emulated Gingerbread devices I've tried) but not all. So now I'm in the awkward position of either changing the minimum API level of my app to exclude all Gingerbread devices (even though it works on some) or annoying some Gingerbread users by getting them to download my (large) apk only to give them a "sorry, your device is not supported" message when they first open it.

I know nothing about iOS development, but I'm envious of the narrow range of hardware and software in that ecosystem.
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> if the student had done some rote learning of algorithms, they wouldn't have come up with 1.5 at all.

When you see "7/12 is 1.5", is your first thought "one sec, let me calculate that and see if the answer is correct"? Or do you just know, without any computation, that the statement must be false?

If you understand division, it's far easier to explain why this answer is wrong without appealing to an algorithm than by appealing to an algorithm.

And besides, the very example we're discussing proves this isn't the case!

The student was able to use the algorithm correctly; his error was at the boundaries of the standard algorithm -- correct input and interpreting output properly.

Simply practicing arithmetic will not prevent you from ever making a silly (or not-so-silly) mistake. Rote practice of the algorithm without also acquiring an intuition for the meaning of division won't help.

With correct guidance, practicing the algorithm can help students form this intuition, but that requires an a priori realization that we need to teach something other than just the rote algorithm, even if we teach it by discussing executions of the algorithm on specific inputs and outputs.
Just curiosity. Why Go instead of JVM languages like Clojure? By choosing Go you lock yourself to Google App Engine, I think. Am I missing something here?
Now how do you stop judging without free will?
Testing is the least efficient way to fix those bugs.

Testing isn't a way of fixing bugs. It's a way of making sure you don't introduce bugs when things change. The important thing to remember that 'code the first implementation' - where you go from having no code to having some code - is a change just like any other.

Writing code without bugs is a lot more efficient than writing code with bugs and then fixing them.
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That's not true. Our company (http://www.caplin.com/business/page/fx-motif) provides SDP solutions written in JavaScript. Works great.
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Oh thank god YoYoGames have seen sense and made GM free again. Though, seriously, the damage was already done.
The point I was trying to make is that Ebola patients don't spray their bodily fluids the way flu patients spray saliva.
I would say stick with i3 unless you are really a fan of lisp. I used StumpWM for years until I discovered i3, however a few months ago I switched back to StumpWM.

The floating layer in stump is quite frankly terrible. Pop up dialogs often act oddly. Yesterday I was updating ebooks in Calibre menus were appearing full screen and the progress dialog would grab focus and pop to the front on every tick. These are the types of issues that caused me to stop using it 4 or 5 years ago so unless you are willing to fix them yourself I wouldn't count on things improving.

That being said I much prefer the StumpWM tiling over i3. The tree structure that i3 uses is a bit odd. Stump is much more straightforward you have frames and windows. Windows are displayed inside frames and you can split and resize frames however you like. I never have to focus parent in order to split a frame vertically instead of horizontally as you might in i3.
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1. No. There was no personal attack, and no fallacious reasoning from any personal attack. 2) An intellectual field is a very abstract form of authority, in this context.
I like the nice clean look of the site! Quite pleasant to use.

As far as content I am not in the target demographic(FM), but the Dragon section gave a useful overview of the basic motifs for the opening. Really needs more content but I am sure that will come with time.
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Some roads look strangely incomplete. But looking it at the point that the city I linked was probably done by a single person it makes sense.
Appreciate having some stellar for my account too - 'guyc'
When one describes a computer program as "wrong" it is within the context of what some other agent wants or expects it to do. As a purely physical process, it can never be wrong or right, it can just be.
> both of these technologies were abominations

I'll give you that they were buggy, but Flash enabled a LOT of cool stuff to be delivered on the web that HTML still can't do. Go visit Newgrounds or Kongregate and see what people have been doing, basically unchanged, since the late 90s.

I'm not sad that it's gone, but it was pretty great at what it did.
Tried it a few month ago, haven't noticed any actual superiority compared to StumpWM, besides StumpWM have active community and dswm seems to be developed mostly by 1 person.
ahh the good old looking for config.php etc trick
The frames per second I quote are all recorded frames per second (eg, for every second of real-life time that passes, how many frames in the final video were taken during that second?). Play-back rate is always 24fps (or some other fixed constant).

What we're trying to say is, if you feed your video to the program, you're going to get output that is sped-up 600x compared to real life. That's a ridiculously high speedup.
Beautiful technology, but Google will buy them anyway...
> Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee??

Would you be referring to the business morals or technical requirements of Facebook? You need a lot of good hacks to deal with large bulks of data. For example: https://github.com/facebook/warp

I heard Goooogle developed Go partially because they were fed up with the time taken up compiling massive C programs.
Agreed.

If you've been developing for about 10 years (and hopefully should have used (at the very least) 3 languages by then), you would have realised by now it does not matter on the language/library you use - you will achieve average proficiency sooner than 2-3 months.

There are also those of us, however, who have spent the past 10 years coding the same crap, and learning a new technology would be like starting from scratch.

So, I speculate that you can work out the ability of a developer in an unknown language by multiplying the number of known languages by the total experience time. Roughly, as there are many other factors.

Recruiters (and their clients) do not know this.
I enjoyed these two:

* In Search of Planet Vulcan, by Richard Baum and William Sheehan
* The Northern Lights, by Lucy Jago

Both are more about the scientists and astronomers than about NASA space missions, but I found both very interesting.

If you prefer something a bit lighter, Men from Earth by Buzz Aldrin was pretty good.
The difference on my island is huge :D

https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#12/-20.9850/55.4634
I had a similar experience staying at a high-rise hotel in Tokyo.

My whole room flashed up every 2 seconds as the adverts scrolled over, similar to when a police car with lights on drives by your window.

You'd definitely want to invest in some very good shutters.
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That is a weakness for all maps I've seen.

There should be some sort of heuristic based on the number of edits which could guess at Goodness.
All made possible by a mapper near you! And you too can map places like that, near your home or when you're on vacation or whereever :)
IMHO, Google (Android) seems to be at fault here, as they lack a proper way to determine whether an app is compatible with a particular device, without false negatives.

Instead of getting angry at developers (eg. calling it "cheating" and a "horrible hack"), who want to maximize the compatibility of their app, the Android team should add a standard way for apps to define what they need to be compatible with a device, without getting false negatives.
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That's the one we used as a basis for undergraduate course on dsp a few years ago. (2nd world university) Good on getting an actual understanding if not a bit light on math.
I'm in the "professional automated trading" space. This is by far the most common vendor mistake. "We make trading simple!" is pretty much a surefire way to mediocrity at best.

"We make tax law simple!"

"We make heart surgery simple!"

^^ similar silly things, only you don't ever see them

The thing is, no one actually DOES make anything simpler. They just restrict the toolset with which you can solve problems to things that work for the 80% cases.
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Consider switching to Xamarin + MonoGame. You will have to pay, but features might be worth it (better yet familiar language more mainstream in gamedev, decent cross-platform support). Alternatively try using Unity3d if you don't mind scripting instead of programming.
The growth must have been unbelievable back then. When I created my account in June 2008 I only found very few streets in my city in Germany that had not been mapped yet.
This article had me wondering what will happen when people start storing copyrighted data (or worse, pedopornographic images) inside the blockchain.
Or maybe apple? :)
> Ok, http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/occupations.aspx

Ironically, software engineers aren't even listed here except for in an aggregate group (possibly many) which undoubtedly includes many other occupations.

It's pretty lucky I don't make sweeping generalizations about your intelligence based upon a single data point :-)

Just to be clear, negative stereotyping "backed" by statistics is still wrong. There's plenty of scientific evidence "justifying" racism. Even if that scientific evidence were completely correct, racism would still be morally abhorrent.

> Doesn't feel like anything at all

I think you've profoundly missed the point (point: empathy).

Anyways, when your hobby project is upheld as fantastic research by physicists and leaders of national labs, you can be condescending toward other occupations.

end troll feeding
Site is unreadable on mobile due to excessive pop ups and advertising.
Getting consensus with 3 nodes is easy. Keeping it is the hard part.

You'll no doubt find that your daemons don't behave the way you'd expect cross platform, cross architecture.

Come back to this post when you fork, and tell me again that I'm talking nonsense.
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Sure, but you also have to stick to the older standards. This wouldn't work if Lua were using any of the new features of C99.
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> It's interesting, actually. In some ways the US is actually the small-government low-regulation country that it likes to pretend to be, but in other areas it's just a labyrinth of aggresive mollases-paced bureaucracy. Examples:

Exactly this. There's a myth that the US is less bureaucratic than Europe, for example, and while in Europe you have the things like Italy which are horrible (in Bureaucracy terms) a lot of things are simpler.
> A variable is assigned its own value.

Self assignment is used to silence overly aggressive and incorrect uninitialized warnings in GCC (esp prior to 4.5).

I'm not sure if thats what the code there is doing— not enough context, but I'd guess it's likely. Odd that the author hasn't seen that before.
That's an easy one:

If somebody explains you the reason why judging does not make any sense and you understand it and apply it to your life, then it wasn't "free will". It was causality - you're doing it because of a "variable" (the explanation) that was part of your "system". Obviously, there is a huge number of other variables participating in your decision, not just one, and you could track them on a micro level (molecular) as well as on an macro level (i.e. your family, friends, wealth, etc.).
While I agree with nearly all your post, to me the end seems overly optimistic: there are lots of technology which were supposed to be 'the future' which didn't grow out the tinkerer/nerd phase.

And IMHO, it's far too early to know whether 3D printing is the new computer or the new VR (well VR may change soon but for now it's nearly nothing).