skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is still far away from just a device specific kernel (although it does cover most everything a user would care about).

I recently looked into porting cyanogenmod to my tablet (Dell Venue 7). It has an interesting scheme that seems more in line with what tomjen wants. There is an unlocked bootloader that allows you to flash the "/system" partition. Within a days worth of porting, I was able to Intel's fork of Android and successfully flash the system partition. [1] What is interesting in their setup is that the root parition (and bootloader) live in a separate part of the storage, and I did not find a way of writing to them (I think that requires a key). This still isn't creating just a device specific kernel, but the root filesystem is pretty low-level stuff that even most tinkerers wouldn't care about updating, and you can work around it (run an updated version from /system) if you want to.

[1] Unfourtuantly, Intel's changes appeared to not have propigated back to cyanogenmod yet, so I abandoned trying to port it to avoid duplicating a lot of effort.
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From EARTHQUAKE.

[edit] tough crowd...
Has anyone tried to port Racket to iOS and Android ?
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Sounds like a great way for kids to learn how HTTP debugging proxies work.
The method in the article, i.e. how well one is prepared for graduate school, IS probably the best method. It really boils down to how much you know given your GPA. Of course maybe I'm biased since my school, KU, was 1st tier.
<tldr>We conducted the first large-scale experimental study of censorship by creating accounts on numerous social media sites, randomly submitting different texts, and observing from a worldwide network of computers which texts were censored and which were not. We also supplemented interviews with confidential sources by creating our own social media site, contracting with Chinese firms to install the same censoring technologies as existing sites, and—with their software, documentation, and even customer support—reverse-engineering how it all works. Our results offer rigorous support for the recent hypothesis that criticisms of the state, its leaders, and their policies are published, whereas posts about real-world events with collective action potential are censored.</tldr>

In other words, much like the west. A recent quote I think puts this in to context...

The preconditions of revolution exist in the UK, and most western countries. The number of active pre-conditions is quite stunning, from elite isolation to concentrated wealth to inadequate socialisation and education, to concentrated land holdings to loss of authority to repression of new technologies especially in relation to energy, to the atrophy of the public sector and spread of corruption, to media dishonesty, to mass unemployment of young men and on and on and on. [...] Preconditions are not the same as precipitants. We are waiting for our Tunisian fruit seller. The public will endure great repression, especially when most media outlets and schools are actively aiding the repressive meme of 'you are helpless, this is the order of things.' When we have a scandal so powerful that it cannot be ignored by the average Briton or American, we will have a revolution that overturns the corrupt political systems in both countries, and perhaps puts many banks out of business. Vaclav Havel calls this 'The Power of the Powerless.' One spark, one massive fire. - Robert David Steele, ex-Marine, ex-CIA, Open Source Intelligence Expert in The Guardian, 2014-06-19
You're suggesting that compositor- and shell-specific plugin interfaces can replace X11's desktop protocols? I understand that X11's security issues had to be fixed: I just wish that the new system had preserved some of X11's support for heterogeneous environments and not relied on the extensibility of specific compositor implementations.
To add 'color' to the comments: I've got strong positive opinions about forth, when used properly. I've helped save several embedded/early-stage board bring-up projects with it.

More than one person has called forth a programmer "amplifier". If C++ has the capacity to blow off your whole leg, forth is more than capable of forming a black hole beneath you and sucking you in.
If the author is reading this thread, I spotted this type-o:

Type type claims that it's a subclass of object.
Article seemed to have never learned to put handlebar templates in their own file, instead of including them with dozens of <script> tags.
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This is in fact often the case, but the number of integrators qualified to handle a large Oracle project is not large, and tends to be the usual lists of suspects such as Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, etc who are as bad if not worse that Oracle at selling huge consulting contracts and delivering nothing.
You may be surprised by the latest versions, then.

I haven't edited xorg.conf in a long time (years?). And I'm using a power user oriented distro, Arch Linux.
Culture fit can be important in a sufficiently small company. What's baffling is why anyone would say that out loud to a declined candidate.
Consider the fact that Japan is swarming with high-speed trains, but there were no derailments during the huge Tōhoku quake.

The biggest advantage of warning is fire prevention, as gas lines can shut automatically. But I also wouldn't mind a little server interrupt telling my machines to get into a consistent state since they're about to be knocked offline.
Yes, their RDMBS is expensive, but at least it's good.
You're not factoring in just how much of this international security is driven by US interests(US imposed security requirements for airports servicing flights bound for the US). It's significantly driven by US interests. Domestic flights in several countries I've been to have much less security.

Interestingly though, in Australia you can NOT opt out of the screening machines. They will quarantine and deport you if you refuse to go through them. But then, Australia isn't exactly a bastion of personal liberty when compared to the US.
I agree, but MBAs are idiots and don't see this. The MBAs will try to save a few pennies on customer service but fail to realize investing a little in one area can save more in other areas.

(Which is why seeing an MBA on someone's resume is an immediate "toss into the trash" signal.)
This foreigner TV talk show discusses about this exact issue in Korea (starts around 14:50) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24chlk
The first application that comes to mind is vehicles. Picture a car driving at full speed, or an airplane about to land. With a 10 second early warning, at the very least the driver/pilot could receive a clear visual and audible alert instructing it to slow down / abort approach, brace for impact, alert passengers, etc.

Also: operators of heavy or dangerous machinery, surgeons, construction workers...
I spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to find the actual paper (it's in the right corner under "Related", I blame banner blindness!)

Link for others like me [PDF]: http://interactive.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Gom...
As usual, this is the key takeaway, imo:

"None of this is illegal. Far from it. A corporation owes it to its shareholders to keep its tax bill as small as possible."
Can I start sending "Prefer: Unsafe" headers and expect to see a difference, too?
Oregon's case is that Oracle claimed their products worked together and could be merely configured to suit +95% of the state's requirements. That proved to be untrue. (It always does with COTS software, but it's the siren's call.) On top of that, OCS was incompentent. It's not a staff-aug vs. fixed fee case (and there are many other commercial models in SI land) -- Oregon is alleging straight up fraud and a RICO case.
Terrific real-life example from Japan:

http://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature122751

"According to Higashi, only one train, running under test without passengers, derailed that day, when it was approaching Sendai, before it was immediately halted by the emergency braking."
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Question: Does anyone have updated information about Hinton's 'trillion parameter network' progress (http://deeplearning.net/2013/05/20/g-hinton-wants-to-train-n...) from almost a year and a half ago?

It's been quite a while and even Ng has demonstrated that a billion parameter setup could be built for $20k using commodity hardware (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5896684).

I wonder what's happening at Google labs as of August 2014.
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I've never used Forth. However, I am curious about those disasters you mentioned. Have you written about them anywhere?
Is it just me, or does it seem weird that we need a gender-specific way to get kids interested in engineering? Building toys seems like a way to get kids interested in engineering in general.
Are the constant uses of "<Asterisk><Asterisk><Asterisk>" a redaction of some sort?

PS: If someone knows how to print 3 asterisks in a row in markdown please tell me.
My understanding is that Apple prohibits programming languages in the App store.

By 'port to Android' do you mean running the Racket VM on the Dalvik VM? It is hard for me to see how that would be more productive than Clojure.
I have to say, I don't really care much for this, and I'm surprised to see it coming from Mozilla.

"Prefer:Safe" is rather vague-sounding. I was expecting something about incorporating something like "HTTPS Everywhere" into Firefox.

I understand the appeal of something to prevent kids from stumbling across porn or violence online, but let's not muddy words like "trust" (which mean something very different when talking about security and privacy) with the concept of age-appropriate content.
It says something about Japan that the sound is kind of sweet. In the US, we have the Amber Alert sound specially hand-crafted to make you think the world is ending.
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Off topic, but what made you want to donate a kidney to a stranger? On the surface this seems incredibly altruistic. It's significantly more committed than what many people do and give away a portion of their income. I hope this is not too personal but I'm just curious as to what thinking/events motivated you to do this and how you went about organizing?
In general the federal government can't order states to do things.
I wonder if there's "tax evasion as a service". Register for the service, pass all your income to that company, get paid as its employee at a much smaller tax rate than your country.

I think that some countries make that impossible for physical persons, though.
I often regret not having made more efforts to study Maths when I was younger.

I see the joy of being drawn into these fun explorations and I regret that these were not used in class to entice kids into wanting to go beyond dry textbooks that focused on theory and never tied the material being taught with anything remotely exciting.
And all of that money was earned overseas. It is up to the company to repatriate it or throw it back into overseas operations. This is kind of fair: if say Germans pay money to buy Windows, why not use some of the profit there in Germany rather than bringing back to the states?
FOSS requires competent contributors who care about what they are building. This doesn't describe most federal workers.
It is not tax evasion; this money has probably already been taxed at least once. But the USA is very unique in making tax claims on world-wide income, so if the tax rate abroad is lower than the tax rate at home, you are supposed to pay the difference when you move the money back (the converse isn't true, however).
Do not take external money. The longer you can bootstrap the better. I know you've heard this a bajillion times, and I know the allure of a few mil in the bank. It's not worth it. Hold off as long as you possibly can.
We've used Google's AppEngine to scale. It's not the easiest env to work with, but at 30+ staff and millions in revenue we have yet to hire a sysadmin (ie. overhead!). When load increases we just get charged for more resources.
Sounds like you have to parallelize: start MVP rebuild, and do mitigation on current platform. Four years in we are on the fifth major rev of our core processing system; point being that things change and you need to prepare for ongoing evolution.
I never knew it was possible to donate a kidney to a stranger. Was reading an article about someone who couldn't find a donor and a commenter mentioned that this was a thing. I signed up immediately.

I'm healthy, I only need one, and like I said, I figure by the time I actually need one we'll be able to grow one -- but I suspect it won't actually come to that.

In that light, it doesn't seem all that altruistic.
>Apple reported it had $137.7 billion in offshore accounts. The CTJ report also found that Cisco had $48 billion, HP had $38 billion, Google nearly $39 billion, and Oracle $26 billion offshore
There's a whole industry that tries to convince parents that they can change their child's future by supplying them with the right toys - but there's little to suggest these toys actually matter [1].

I'm glad these two are trying to get more kids into engineering (female or not), but their thesis is pretty hollow on a few fronts. Most importantly that engineering toys lead to engineering kids. But also that engineering toys that currently exist (lego/knex) have some kind of implicit feature that keeps them out of the hands of girls.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,0...
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It might be true for some of it, but all these companies are well known for using european tax codes loopholes[0] and pay little to no tax on this money

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
>And somehow nobody has ever used this as an opportunity to kick everyone out, hijack the plane and crash it into a building.

Because how much damage could you really do with one of these, versus a widebody jet fueled up for a long flight?

Here's someone who crashed a smaller aircraft into an office building. It just damaged a corner office and killed the teenager who was at the controls, not exactly the kind of major attack that terrorists go gunning for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Tampa_plane_crash
As long as you use the open source drivers, you'll be fine. And lucky for you, the cheapest graphics cards (Intel integrated and AMD) have the best open source support.
> A call to arms for the Free Software movement?

No chance, these algorithms are too dependent on very expensive hardware that sole coders can't afford.
This is a good case why the US should lower corporate taxes to a rate that is competitive with other jurisdictions, or just get rid of them all-together. Corporations don't actually pay taxes even when they do; it's the consumers who pay for them in the form of increased prices (tax is just passed on as an expense). Better to collect the tax at time of sale (VAT) - perhaps on a sliding scale.
I can't help but think that the reason some of those holes have serrated edges is due to the problems representing the actual numbers with floats. I can't say for sure, it's really just a hunch. The patterns are fascinating either way.
I like your example about skydiving, but your reasoning is flawed. Hijacking a skydiving plane and crashing it into a building isn't likely to cause a lot of damage. More importantly, it's not likely to cause a lot of terror. The planes are relatively small, passengers are well equipped to simply jump out (therefore, no hostages), or some would happily make a fight of it, knowing they'd probably be safe getting out of the plane anyway.

Nevertheless, your point is important. There are a lot of potential "terrorist tools" that are not protected. How about a terrorist taking over a subway/train and running full speed until it crashes or derails? I can't be the only one who's noticed operators are almost always alone. Even during a shift/operator change, overpowering 2 of them wouldn't be difficult. Same goes for most other type of public transportation (commuter trains, busses, trolley, ferry, etc.)

There are a LOT of terrorist plot/targets that scare me more than a commercial airliner today. Lots of things that keep me awake at night and wonder about the world our kids will inherit. I'll be completely shocked if a commercial airliner type of plot happens again in my lifetime. At least in that environment people would be far more aggressive towards an attack during a flight. The US government is well behind the curve with TSA and it seems clear they are simply attempting to justify the TSA's existence.
Because it wasn't earned overseas in the way you're suggesting. It was "earned" overseas. Often companies route sales through overseas shell companies. See the StarBucks debacle in the UK. Microsoft's explanation of them being a "global" company is BS. They will wait for a corporate tax holiday to bring it back at a much reduced rate, or a chunk of it at almost no rate.
This makes sense to me. If you make this money overseas... shouldn't you use the money in whatever nation you made it in to make that nation better ???? I think people who talk about taxes really miss this point. Because the taxes talk is all predicated on a foregone conclusion that bringing money to the US is the best thing you can do for shareholders. I'm not sure that's true.
Are you planning on windows store support (universal)? Says you support all major platforms but one is apparently missing :)

Great contribution!
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This is a security problem for Project Euler and should have been disclosed to them as such. Dropping what amounts to a zero-day on their submission form is not acting in good faith.

The right way to go about this would have been to break the captcha, submit the problems, and then email them a polite writeup. Claim the glory after they fix it.
There are probably neuroscientists researching the links between human visual perception and memory. I would like to know whether someone has done a comparative study of literary perception and visual perception with regards to memory. I recall reading that because vision takes more sensory input and our spatial reasoning is so well developed, our brains are able to reason and recall more effectively in this realm... but I assume blind people and others may have alternate configurations. Would the 'photographic memory' applied to literature result in words? Or visual recollections? Feelings?
I agree with you on one part, writing static language INITIAL code, does generally take more time. Depending on the language, it can vary from slightly more in something like Go (where composition is valued over type hierarchies) to a great deal longer in languages that encourage lots of castle building and type relationships.

That said, I have been in industry for over a decade in a half, and the most miserable, hellish experience I ever had was dealing with a large (100k+) non-trivial consumer facing Python application. It was a special type of pain, with novel errors happening in production on a regular basis 4+ years into the project. Refactoring was horrifically risky, and the analysis tooling stack is AWFUL... to the point that when used, it was often outright wrong.

I will gladly give up those cost savings on the leading edge, to have a product I can actually maintain in the long term. I suspect this inability to maintain apps writing in certain dynamic languages is why they have culture bias towards starting over (and being proud of it, "version 2.0, rewritten from scratch!")... which I found a bit shocking at first versus C, which would trend far more toward refactoring.
dbx was terrible. I often resorted to gdb on Slowlaris.
Statically checked dimensional analysis is a great deal trickier though.
they should be able to for things like this, it's a grotesque waste of money for states to build their own system. It would be as insane as each state having it's own army or space program.
Your suspicion is confirmed. Most participants are within or closely connected to MIT. They seem to use rigorous math for hypothesis testing, but if the personality and other characteristics of the participants are not representative, their results may not apply to the general public.

I wonder why they did not cast their net wider, e.g. advertise in the Boston Globe, and statistically account for differing backgrounds, which is a pretty standard methodology in social science research.

From the actual paper: http://interactive.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Gom...

> The participants (14 men and 10 women) had an average age of 27 ± 7 years (minimum and maximum ages were 20 and
42) and were recruited via email and fliers distributed around a university campus.
Or maybe states are simply not qualified to manage large software projects and they should stop trying to do it.
It's a confusing UI, but I'm pretty sure the "selected" column indicates that drug alerts are not configured to alert.
It's a calculated expenditure with the expectation of creating future benefits, not just for UT, but for society in general. They're investing in a high-growth segment of the market. We can reasonably assume that the cost to attract and educate a student from a family with a college-going tradition is minimal compared to that of a first-generation student. Furthermore, by graduating a first-generation student, it's possible that a new college-going tradition is started in their existing family or any subsequent families they interact with.
"The only multi-platform cloud editor" except for all of the other ones.

https://www.nitrous.io/
http://codev.it/
https://codio.com/
etc, etc
it is absolutely ridiculous, they (the federal government) could have (did) build their own system and then host it for each of the states. Better still, host it in the ones where electricity can be generated cheaply. This is whole reason we have a federal system.
We do have a lot in the pipeline, and Windows will be coming along :)

Thanks
None of those are made for mobile/table. Not a single one.
Is it possible for shareholders to force corporations to repatriate money back to US?
Obviously you haven't meet some of the robots I've worked with...
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http://donhopkins.com/home/RobotMovies/Empathy.mpg
I suppose Codio has iPad support it looks like.
I'm not quite sure I understand the purpose of the app. I would have to actually check the app during an earthquake to have it tell me yes? Well, in that case I would already know that there is an earthquake near me.

Maybe a better title would be "Was there an earthquake near me?" and you could show nearby earthquakes in the past hour, day, etc. However, there are already a lot of sites that do something like that such as http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/index.php, so I'm not quite sure what additional value you could add.
It's not tax evasion.
This looks hella good, I particularly am intrigued by the nested setup/teardown system. The natural assert syntax is interesting, too, amazing what macros can accomplish.

Appropriately, the first question that came to mind was, "what's the catch?" :)
Yeah but sometimes they are triggered by mistake. Happened to me one or two years ago, without any actual quake happening.
It's still not tax evasion.
More info: https://github.com/DarkLilac/Sxz/tree/master/Library

But yes, I agree there needs to be more background info here.

I'd also like to see a written format specification document (even though I can read C#)