skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they still haven't discarded the requirement that everyone needs a job to have an acceptable standard of living, so lack of growth leading to unemployment is definitely a problem
Total privacy invasion.
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Who is crazy enough to code on a mobile/tablet though??
>I don't think Android is fragmented by design but by user choice.

Google forces vendors to ship Google's services if they wish to use the Android branding. I don't see why they can't include language in the contract that says vendors should update the OS too. All Google seems to care about is whether user data flows into their servers.
At first I thought something along these lines, then I remembered:

1. Google has "trends" when things happen, and "Earthquake" was most certainly googled near/at the time it happened.
2. The phone company has records, which many people texted/called near/at the time it happened.
3. 911 has records and calls were made near/at the time it happened.

and so on…

So there are private entities and government that have data around the event that can correlate behavior and situations, so it shouldn't seem scary to me… it's just should I have better access to the data? And if I do, what can I tell from the correlation?
How startups like dropbox and airbnb were launched?
Since Jawbone apparently don't know how to post a simple image for old-school browsers: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/dandiamond/files/2014/08/Jawb...

And for those who've noted that the NSA are going to have all the cool data, after seeing this chart, I'm pretty sure they'll start tapping into Jawbone as well.
How is this not high-level corruption?

No public bidding process? Check. Favouring a vendor? Check.

In my eyes this lawsuit is a cover-up for a deal gone sour.

Jail whoever assigned this contract and this sort of failures will never happen again.
Clearly you need to read the FAQ before jumping to any conclusions ;)

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http://aamn.org/. 2nd result if you google "men nursing".
The argument isn't whether the alert alerts, but whether over-usage conditions people to ignore the alert.

If this kind of usage of the alerting system causes people to ignore alerts in the middle of the night, and then an earthquake happens, then the system is counter-effective. Based solely on the situation as laid out in the article, the people deciding on using the system in this case should be strongly reprimanded for squandering trust like that.

If using the system in such cases is actually desirable, a lower tier of alerts that doesn't make more noise than a regular text message should be introduced. It's not like someone sound asleep at 1am is going to go searching for a Suburban just because they were woken up. Indeed, the car was only found by someone going about their regular business in the morning.

Also, the system can't really be said to have saved one life in this case - it probably contributed to reuniting the child with its parent quicker, but there's no evidence suggested in the article that the kid would have died if not for the alerting system.
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I wonder how they're going to implement the "no circumvention" part.

Surely there's an option in about:config that affects the new behavior? Is about:config disabled too?

There are also dozens of add-ons that lets you control every single header. Are add-ons disabled too, or is there going to be a blacklist of header-modifying add-ons?

It will take less than a week for point-and-click circumvention tools to become available all over the place. Just download this little .EXE that makes a small change to your Firefox profile and might or might not also contain malware! Should Google block searches like "how to disable Prefer:Safe" if such searches come from a browser that already has "Prefer:Safe" enabled?
All of the logic and anecdotes you presented could be computerized.

Retention is something you could optimize for in the long term.

Reliability for covering shifts is a number too.

I think you're right on a small scale, humans can make generally reasonable judgement calls with little data.

If you think about the future though, if a big corp can optimize middle management robots with 100,000 employees worth of data, they probably will.
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The long-term rise, a/k/a the Flynn Effect (mentioned very briefly in the article) seems to arise from a number of specific factors, mostly associated with the intense modernization of the 20th century, principally that our world requires a greater ability for abstraction.

Flynn himself describes these in the following video:

http://www.fixyt.com/watch?v=9vpqilhW9uI
A similar thing I knocked up a few years ago. Lacking in features and, well, most things - except it does have a pretty Qt based runner: http://www.rikkus.info/cplusplus-unit-testing-framework
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Fully agree. It is more about attitude of adults who often tend to assume the girl has not build stuff potential and treat them as such.

Just stop marking every single toy as boy or girl one. Most boyish engineering toys are actually perfect for both sexes, as long as you stop telling girls "it is boys toy, you are not supposed to play with it, see the coloring on the box?". And I heard the last one in toy store and it was idiotic on multiple levels. (Why should anything non-pink be for boys only, really?).

Girls do not need special toys build for them. We need to stop teaching kids that every damn toy is either inherently boyish or girlish.
I use tamsyn (http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/) where I can. It's a bitmap font and looks great at small sizes. However since it's a bitmap font there's a few places that it can't be used.
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I should be able to use the browse functionality if my filesystem is FTP.
Isnt it the case that coal mining requires considerable physical force?
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I agree… If this is only done when, Parental Controls, are enable from the OS level. Then a:

"parental-control:enabled" header would make more sense, right?
I just googled "more men into nursing" with no quote and some are actually working on it.
Interesting data. Some things that jumped out at me:

1. Apparently everyone in Santa Cruz goes to bed early and gets up early.

2. I would have expected bigger jumps on the hour. Maybe I'm the only one that sets my alarm on the hour though.

3. Why would there be dips in the AM? People hitting snooze perhaps?

4. How long do you have to moving for UP to think you're awake? How long do you have to be still for the UP to think you're asleep?
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A short but quite clear and convincing article. This is not only about racism, people will usually do everything to protect their privileges and will show stubborn ignorance/aggression if you try to convince them to consider other points of view. Race, nationality, religion, sex, political preferences - any excuse for discrimination will do, maybe only in Scandinavia they teach children and adults to restrain their need for domination (with some success imho).
Neither is this. Page says it works on all platforms but when I try the code editor on my Windows Phone 8, it's clear that it does not. Page scrolls to weird locations when I just type. I typed Hello and some second later text was scrolled out of visibility. Spent a few minutes just trying to type, but it really does not work. (This was typed on same phone without weird scrolling...)
Just have lots of different toys available to begin with and get more of whichever are played with the most. Don't restrict the use of computers.

Don't worry about outcomes or what people should be playing with. Actually "should be playing with" is almost a contradiction in terms since play is undirected.
Isnt lego more art then engineering through? I liked engineering toys as a child (mostly merkur), but found lego less interesting. It is more about building something good looking then about solving problems and being technical.
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>> It might even be that 10 false positives a day are worth it to catch one real event, if the "safing" operation is relatively non-disruptive.

This will cause so much panic that people will ignore them at some point. 10 false positives (even 1 a day) just make the system unreliable.
It is a matter of common sense. You can't reasonably control internet usage of teenager (and probably shouldn't). While 5yo is an avid user YouTube and google and it is a good idea to filter things they can get to
>Maybe such a retailer needs to invest some effort into 'slow fashion', where fit and finish is guaranteed, you can get 'replacement parts' for your wardrobe and maybe even get emailed every year or two to be reminded that it is time to refurbish the sock collection etc. With everything done online and sizes determined by initial purchases the 'hell' of the High Street could be avoided.

What immediately came to mind was high end leather shoes, where you can replace the soles, maintain the leather, and have them last for 10+ years. It's the polar opposite of fast fashion.
> already determined by your genes

The paper doesn't draw any conclusion _what_ makes success (they refer to "genes" twice, as theories proposed by others). The claim is only that there's not enough evidence that success is based on effort.

There are lots of possible outcomes of this research as to what's the origin of success: genes, effort (just not measured correctly yet), pure chance, ...

I'm in the "pure chance" camp (though effort is obviously a necessary condition in most cases), and I don't believe it's genes because there are too many outliers.

But should it be "genes", that's actually useful knowledge: Why work hard on your dreams, if they're _indeed_ impossible to achieve? Individually that must be terribly frustrating, while globally it's a waste of resources, and will also lead to "a less prosperous and ambitious society" than what more efficient allocation could achieve. [Edit: I can propose such an outrageous system because I really don't believe that genes can do more than optimize _slightly_ in favor or against some aptitude.]

IMHO Brave New World shows the downsides of such a (gene-optimizing) society better than Gattaca, because there's no need for society to create oppressed castes for doing the menial work like in the latter. Brave New World provides a "smarter" approach.

> a less prosperous and ambitious society

I'm a huge fan of intrinsic (over extrinsic) motivation, and maybe that's why I also prefer cooperation over competition. Extrinsic motivation and competition are two sides of the same coin for me since both hunt scarce resources (where's the motivation or the competition, if all you get for your effort is already available in abundance?).

With this point of view, my assumption is that a more cooperative society isn't "less prosperous", it just achieves more balance.

> The risk is that organizations like government agencies and companies will begin to consider your genes ahead of (or instead of) your ambition and motivation.

Genes are a proxy of heritage in a way. That organizations optimize for heritage isn't exactly a new phenomenon: SAT mapping parental income more closely than aptitude; IQ tests having cultural differential, probably mapping ancestry; "who you know vs what you know"...

All of that is driven (and declared "standard") by powerful organizations that optimize for not rocking that particular boat.
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I gave a personal instance of the Cloud 9 (https://c9.io/) IDE a go a year or so back. Using git locally and enabling git on the server gave me collaborative and offline options.

I think some form of VCS access to these services determines their ultimate usability.
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OP seems to be talking about "automated systems". A harddisk might stop reading/writing for moment and park the heads to avoid a head-crash and things like that.
Unless it's child porn, I think.
An interesting idea, a kind of gradually-open model of participation. Could work if the source or (selected part of it) is incrementally released from time to time, so at least there's opportunity for open participation if in a more structured manner. Ultimately, the entire source is made available, but by then it works according to specs and has been constructed sanely.

Maybe my interpretation of your idea wouldn't work exactly as you has in mind, but I see your point, that maintaining greater control of the development process would likely lead to a more coherent and predictable product that functions in accordance with carefully designed specs.

Among flies in the ointment is the necessity for such a highly principled and skilled steering group to manage the effort with the requisite wisdom around scheduling releases and titrating the level of community involvement. The level of talent it implies is likely in short supply.

That said, an admiral proposal, distinctly possible, even revolutionary. To quote Spinoza, "all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare".
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It's seems to be in a Lisp dialect that predates common lisp unfortunately.
You cannot try and refute an argument based on something that is not in the spec and is "common sense" since "common sense" is not a defined value for a spec that has global implications.
This is silly hit-piece journalism. Of course the internet has changed... I'm surprised he expected conformity to his ideology as it opened up to everyone and everyone else's ideologies. There is no "right" or "wrong" way the internet can exist, its an evolving communication paradigm.

Expecting everyone to go along with his philosophies of using the web without any enforcement of that is like a high-schooler's attitude towards communism. Social paradigms evolve and adapt as needed. The internet, and its users, are going to be just fine.
> 1. Apparently everyone in Santa Cruz goes to bed early and gets up early.

Probably some selection bias at work here. It's possible the type of person who's buying and wearing personal fitness monitors is also the type of person who gets up early.

> Maybe I'm the only one that sets my alarm on the hour

Probably my OCD coming out but I only set my alarm with minutes beginning 0-4 and ending with 8. I'm sure everyone has their own habits. On the hour seems so numerically boring!
It depends on what you're building. If you're playing around with minifigs and the basic bricks, then yes, mostly. However, Lego Technic is much more about solving problems, particularity the Mindstorms [0] range. I had the RCX when I was around 9, and programming it and making things that move really started an interest in robotics. I've helped out at some local FIRST Lego League events [1], which are very engineering-focused.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_EV3

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST_Lego_League
Yeah I could see how that would be beneficial. And I guess that it could work for repetition as well. Where did you get the audio?
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... and a pretty amazing lineup of speakers for a 'local' conference. If I were anywhere at all close, I'd go.
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I don't think most of them would be that stupid. Just lazy. In a government official's mind, if the 50 page IT security document was filled out then he can't be held responsible when the shit hits the fan.
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Here is DARPAs version of the exact same thing, from 8 years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081209121430/http://www.darpa....

https://web.archive.org/web/20081204131348/http://www.darpa....

http://adjunct.diodon349.com/Kursk-Memorial/Warpdrive_underw...

http://adjunct.diodon349.com/Kursk-Memorial/storm_over_the_s...

There isn't any more information on it. Looks like that project was either shelved or a success and highly classified. I'd be willing to bed that it was cancelled because cavitation basically prevents any kind of stealth, which is the major advantage of underwater travel.

Also there might be unknown disadvantages when slowing down, like the vehicle being ripped apart.
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All these cloud IDEs seem to be popping up everywhere, but I just don't see the value in them. I use Vim as my editor so I can use everything over SSH anyways, so I just use Vagrant or SSH back home if I'm working on my Chromebook.
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Spec shouldn't define what's good and what's not for your children. That's something for parent to decide. Spec defines a "tool" which can be used by parent who thinks it makes sense for them
I work with several codebases, (+250Kloc, +150Kloc and 50Kloc), all in Python (plus some bash scripts). The teams working on them are obviously bigger than 3 people.
Though they present challenges, I wouldn't consider them "a nightmare", and the number of bugs introduced by the lack of typing are absolutely minimal.

In my opinion, the maintainability of a codebase is not that much a function of the language, but of the architecture and structure of the code.
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FWIW I've been using Catch for a few years now, and I find it mature enough for real world usage.
Actually, everybody who posesses a credit card or paypal account could start tracking a location of any mobile phone with country-level resolution. Any bulk-SMS sending company has a service called HRL Lookup, which is normally used for optimization of SMS-sending costs to users in roaming. Though VLR address (which is the result of HLR Lookup) can be used for user tracking purposes - the first few digits of this address is just a country code of the country which the user is visiting now.
I'll put the question as follows?
Do we really need such a service? Come one! Come on!
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Disasters tend to have a knock on effect that can ripple for years. 2 that come to mind were the floods in Thailand and the 9-11 terrorist act. The floods temporarily knocked out the supply chain of HDD components, which had the knock on of system builders not having enough components. And eventually, technicians not having enough spare replacements for current systems.

1. In most businesses these other locations are supplementary to HQ. Typically there is no one at the datacenter and CS centers rely on guidance from HQ. They are not in the position to make decisions and drive the company.

2. Growing up and working in Florida you natural disasters are like clockwork. I can say for sure that 1 is covered by insurance and the gov't and 2 is going to be hard to pull off without looking like a complete dick. Also, you have other constraints. Airports may be closed and driving can be dangerous. Plus cars need fuel which is typically in short supply and expensive.

3. If you have a company of a few thousand I would say a few hundred are essential. Where are you going to find a place to house a few hundred people at once? Remember that other companies are thinking the same as well.

I also believe the most essential employees are that way for a reason. If they have the same preparedness in the company they also have the same mentality in their community. It would not be illogical to imagine the person in charge of DR for the company is also a member of the volunteer fire department.

Microsoft would be able to recover, then they find out the caterers don't have food to serve the cafeteria, employees can't come to work because there is no fuel, etc. These are the soft issues that most DR plans don't account for.
Soooo.. This is sending "Hey, this is a kid on a restricted machine" to all servers now?

I mean I fail to understand the original idea, obviously. It makes no sense to me. But I question the value of the above - basically now the server can _just as easily_ do crap with that information. You can now identify minors (using that feature). Beautiful.

The server operators cannot decide what 'parental control' would mean for parents, they cannot decide what is ~okay~ or what isn't. Referencing a random US regulation/law (COPPA?) in a discussion about international traffic, international browser products seems crazy.

If you want to prevent your kids from accessing 'stuff', make sure that 'stuff' is filtered on their machine or better on the edge of your network. Don't believe that random guys on the net will correctly guess what you find questionable content for kids and hide it, because .. your kid's browser sent a friendly "My parents didn't allow me to see unspecified things" header.

Edit: I reread that thing over and over again. Something else that utterly blows my mind is this:

Users won’t find any UI in Firefox to enable or disable Prefer:Safe, which becomes one less thing for kids to try to circumvent to disable this control.

Newsflash: That includes the parents. Unless that is utterly misleading (or my English as a second language parser fails) this means that I, as a parent [1], can NOT

- activate parental control features that are somehow detected by Fx

- opt out of that idiotic header that announces decisions from my private household to each and every server, starting with Google for example

1: Hypothetical example. While I've got two kids, but both are too young to operate a computer yet and I probably won't buy into standard 'parental control' solutions anyway.
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Very useful. Thanks! :)
Well, if one is willing to one-up a fellow human like that, one is a bad person. But you don't need Jawbone data to do that, there are plenty other ways. Honestly, the problem in your example isn't the data.
The macro trick is at https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/blob/785db43bb2cd64bfe7...: planting the tested expression to the right of an operator ->*, which is overloadable and allows for changing the type of the left hand side in the comparison. The rest is a "simple matter of programming". Clever but probably a bit cute - errors would look weird if the expression isn't set up as expected.
it's the legendary investor Warren Buffett who said “one of the reasons for my great success was that I was competing with only half of the population. I mean, my sisters are as smart or smarter than I am, and my parents loved them with the same degree of intensity that they loved me, but they had different expectations about them, their teachers had different expectations about them. And just think of the waste that occurred you know for decades and decades and decades.”

Scandinavian countries are really more active in fighting bigotry, though in recent years the situation is more confused, with the rise of rights wings movements.
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Sure they do. And they could do a lot of good with this data.
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They do not suggest that dependencies are ignored. Not everything in sequentially dependant. And sometimes some material may apply to multiple courses. The idea is to break things out so they can create the dependency graph and take advantage of places where there actually aren't dependencies or know for sure when there are.
There's a functional analysis course at https://www.coursera.org/course/functionalanalysis. I've only skimmed the notes but they look pretty good, if a bit terse.

In general I think the lack of higher mathematics classes is because it would be very hard to evaluate proofs in a MOOC setting.