skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And after 30 minutes, she told us, most of the children have had enough and want to go and play outside. Reassuring for anyone who, like me, would rather not have a child who prefers apps to apples.

But why? Faced with straightforward evidence of better performance, even for UK children, why should we be relieved that the app fails at 30 minutes?

We should be talking about making games that teach kids for hours! That little tablet is way more engaging than 99% of the experiences impoverished Malawi children are going to have. Perhaps sadly, the tablet is way more engaging that some large majority of experiences UK children will have too.

It's obvious to anyone who plays video games that achieving that level of attention is possible. And with games like Civilization and Europa Universalis, you can certainly make a long-play game that teaches kids traditional educational knowledge.

I hate the conspiracy idea that educators are opposed to this technology out-of-hand because it threatens them as an institution. And I'm relieved that there are researchers with government backing showing games teaching kids in rich Western countries.

At some point though, parents will have to confront teachers to do what improves performance. The question is not, when will games be capable of improving educational performance? That has already happened, and the evidence will mount inevitably.

The question is, when will we abandon the pastoral fantasy of today's schooling? When will parents have no opinion whether a child "prefers apps to apples," whatever that means?

The dark-age Carolingians made the template for today's public schooling. If a magic book capable of delivering all the world's knowledge (i.e., an iPad) were available to them, don't you think they'd make a very different education system?
I agree 100% with your feelings, and on top of that I find it to be a bit of humble-brag when I hear people talking about how much sleep they skipped to hit a deadline.

I have to bust ass once in a while to hit a deadline, but I always consider that a failure of my project planning. I get psyched about hitting a deadline without a single hour of overtime from any member of the team - to me that is something to brag about.
CenturyLink has a surprising amount of open source, especially around Docker and CoreOS: https://github.com/CenturyLinkLabs
There are numerous number of Muslim scientists who contributes a lot to modern mathematics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_M%C5%ABs%C...
An aside:

whether to allow the randomized addresses or not is a choice available today with no protocol changes whatsoever.

A network admin can turn off the "A" bit on the prefix in the router advertisements and turn on "M", and the compliant hosts will use DHCPv6 to get the address, which one will allocate statically per-user. This is exactly the same as "no privacy addresses".
"...they were just interacting with a web service in the way it is supposed to be interacted with - by sending it http requests"

That line of reasoning sounds a lot like the Andre 'Weev' Auernheimer case [0], where he gathered AT&T customers' email addresses by interacting with a server simply by 'sending it HTTP requests.' The FBI made its position clear on that case, prosecuting Weev for "conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers" and ultimately getting the guy sentenced to three years in prison.

The overarching circumstances are clearly different but undeniably parallel. It seems curious to me that the FBI could use these some sort of apparently 'criminal' tactics (by their own precedent) as legal grounds in their case against DPR.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/andrew-weev-auernhe...
Is this not a scientific analysis of a science-based course (psychology)? How could unscientific things be good in this context?
While it may have lacked some of the facts in the past (though that is disputable), we have known for some time now that the drug market is demand driven, and this demand is extremely inelastic. Basic microeconomics says that inelastic demand can be consistently profitable. No matter what we do[1], somebody will step up to take that profit.

So we, as a country, had (and still have) a choice: who do we want managing this profitable market? Traditionally, we have chosen to fund violent gangs and cartels. We took what could have been a regulated - and taxed - market, and handed those profits to some of the worst people on the planet. So yes, there is funding going on of some bad people. That is by design - the prohibitionists even put "raising drug prices" as the purpose behind many of their attacks on the supply side ("dealers").

Yes, even in a legitimate market the regulations can fail and there are always loopholes and other problems. When the alternative is to hand piles of cash to violent gangs, even small improvements are worthwhile improvement.

Really, the people who still insist on full prohibition - that is, the people that are choosing to keep sending cash to gangs - are engaging in one of the nastier type of magical thinking. They make the assumption that simply by banning something, demand will magically change. In that view - where nobody should want drugs because they are illegal - it would indeed seem like the people "selfishly ignore the law an buy drugs" are funding various "bad" organizations. You see the same kind of magical thinking in other areas, too, such as "pro-life" groups. I suspect this type of attitude is derived from a Just World Hypothesis[2].

[1] If we can't cut off the supply side of the equation in prisons, we can't do it anywhere.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
The initial idea was to use a tileserver-based approach like leaflet. Writing a custom renderer allowed us to have unique views per client infinitely deep that zoomed smoothly, rather than at fixed intervals. Another benefit is avoiding the on-disk size and generation CPU time of building tiles, as well as the bandwidth costs of serving a bunch of redundant views of the same image data.
"I think he would find there are a lot of people out there who share his passions."

Some places I've hung out that are directly on topic:

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/forum.php

http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/forums/3-General

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/

As a warning to the HN community who are a little neophilic, machinist web sites are much like ham radio web sites and numerous other technical hobbies, in that the cruder and less trendy the web design, the more likely the content is worth reading and vice versa. If the site includes something as trendy and modern as jquery or runs on node.js then its almost certainly content free and vice versa. So just brace yourself for the culture shock, ok?
I think the cable companies right now enjoy a public perception that they are not just providing a dumb pipe, but they are adding value with the DVRs and HD, so they don't seem like the gas or electric or water provider. If they come to be viewed as infrastructure, then there might be a push to make them into utilities and regulate their prices, since they have a monopoly.

Additionally, offering different tiers and mixes of products allows business to create more opportunities for profit margin, but simplifying their business to just X amount of download bandwidth and Y amount of upload bandwidth for a flat price will remove their ability to obfuscate the value of what people buy. And they will have to work harder to justify increasing prices, whereas now, they can just blame it on the media companies, etc.
Yet more TYPICAL US REVISIONISM. Once again they DENY the role that the UK has played in international history - this time OMITTING it, NEEDLESSLY, from the list of profligate petrostates.
Want to help? I went to http://whoismyrepresentative.com/ and entered my ZIP code. It took me to the page of my representative and senators. I submitted a link to the article and a message indicating that I would like to see the law supporting Stop and Seize repealed. I said some other stuff about being a gainfully employed citizen ashamed to call myself American due to the encroachment on our rights.

If this makes you sick, tell your congresspeople, and tell your friends to do the same. We do not get to have the rights we want without declaring that we want them.
I feel your pain, fellow Wacom-instead-of-mouse person.
Have you? I'm interested and curious about it.
Are you also surprised that the FBI can shoot people dead, while most people would get prosecuted for that?
It is Arabic, for example "من بین الحوضین" on the beginning of the first line means "between the two tanks".
I remember learning all about Al Jazari (and all of the other Muslim scientists, philosophers and doctors at that time) back in primary school. As an Arab I can't help but feel both proud, of such achievements, and yet so sad, because of the state of decline the Islamic contribution to the scientific advancement has known.
do you have a link/source for paul graham recommending Clojure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
For some reason, this guy never gets any love.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Shatir
I can't tell if your unswerving protection of police actions - no matter what those actions are - is a troll or not.

Some child with no weapon gets shot in the head in a police car? You're there, absolutely refusing to accept the possibility of police mis-conduct.

What would ot take for you to accept that some police officers are corrupt and that some police officers disobey the law?

When someone has had their money taken what are they supposed to use to fund lawyers to get their money back?
It is Arabic, Islamic calligraphy[0] can be confusing, I'll reckon that.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy
Recently I've listened to nearly all of the StackExchange and StackOverflow podcasts - as a tangent this includes the one's where they discuss updating the FAQ, the contents of the old FAQ why it was obsolete, what the new FAQ needed to accomplish, and of course the contents of the new FAQ as it evolved.

One of the reasons that I listened to all of those podcasts is that I found Spolsky's and Atwood's ideas [1] about online communities insightful and was able to relate them to my experience in other online communities. I recommend them to anyone who shares my interest.

[1] and those of their guests and other team members.
Some company should help the guy fullfill his dream and let him "design an engine room for a transatlantic ship".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna

The first to use Cannula to help a choking patient. Also contributed to the foundation of Unani (Greek-Arab) Medicine system.
XP SP3 was released in 2008 and android 2.3 was released in 2010.

At some point support should be dropped.
Well that's my daily dose of humility: a company with $20 billion a year in revenue that I had never heard of.
If the code detects that rendering a frame takes a while, it increases the threshold in which sub-panels are drawn. Hopefully it should speed up after those first couple frames.
There's a lot of work that goes on both before and during that "just".

Bugs can exist even in code most of us would consider trivial. The Tor daemon is definitely not trivial, and the project itself points out that it needs work![1]

Here[2] is "just" container.c from the Tor project. It's one very small part of the project that does fairly simple things any professional developer ought not have much trouble understanding.

It's almost 1600 lines. Are you telling me you can guarantee there are no bugs of potential security significance in that file?

They also want to make Tor even more multithreaded than it already is[3]. Threaded code never has bugs, right?

Any software is a potential attack vector. Tor is no different.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#tor...

[2] https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/HEAD:/src/common/...

[3] https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#use...
Leaflet only allows discrete zoom levels as far as I know, whereas Pixels zooms continuously. I'm not sure a tile layer with an infinite number of zoom levels is possible either. At the very least, it would require extensive hacking.
>shorter hours were assumed to be a natural consequence of increased productivity

Another possibility is that progress will increase the amount of people that are unemployed or unneeded to support society, as the others continue to work the same hours. Not that far-fetched, if you consider our current work-culture.

If this happens, there would be rising social unrest at first, but I believe we'd reach a tipping point and a decrease in population would eventually correct the offset.
Of course human reproduction can't be explained away by simple supply and demand, but the fact is, birth-rates are lowering in developed nations.

While these may just be suppositions, I think it's interesting to try and predict how progress will shape our population growth.
> Yet more TYPICAL US REVISIONISM. Once again they DENY the role that the UK has played in international history - this time OMITTING it, NEEDLESSLY, from the list of profligate petrostates.

Are you mad that Slate didn't mention the UK, or mad that they didn't call them profligate?
Yes, scales are not simply based on the harmonic series. What I would suggest, however, is that their emotional value lies within the rational relationships between their frequencies (and I think we agree on this).

The physical limitation of instruments with fixed-pitch notes is one reason for the existence of 12TET, but I wouldn't say that it's the main one. The website I linked above gives a good idea as to the mathematical basis of 12TET, and he may go a bit far by calling it "God's temperament", but a logarithmic temperament that has so many close approximations of rational relationships is not just convenient - it's beautiful.
"Are you also surprised that the FBI can shoot people dead, while most people would get prosecuted for that?"

Hopefully the FBI won't be shooting people dead as a means of preparing a legal case—-that would be a pretty frightening 'ends justify the means' mindset. The crux of the matter is due process [0].

Granted, I'm not a lawyer nor am I well versed in legal processes: from a purely lay perspective, I just am seeing the FBI call tactic A a crime right before employing the same tactic A to indict someone else, and it smells like hypocrisy to me (honestly, more likely mistreatment of Weev than of DPR.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process
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Whenever you get in trouble with Elasticsearch, the first question a consultant will ask is, "why aren't you running the Oracle JVM?"

Technically it supports OpenJDK. In practice, circumstance usually drags you to Oracle.
You make it sound like they use it once and put it down forever. They don't. They put it down to go play (which, at that age, is another type of learning). Then they come back, maybe later that day, or the next.

Haven't there been studies on this? The human brain is not good at absorbing information after durations longer than this. It has to have time to process information before it can build on top of it. This is why khan academy and duolingo are so effective, too - you consume little bites of knowledge, go away and process them, and then come back.

Entertainment is not the same thing as learning. Videogames and movies are so completely different from the learning process. Yeah, you can learn from them, but for that amount of time not to be taxing you have to fill it with other stuff. Like a storyline and action and drama. They have passive elements which constitute most of their length.

The constant force-stream of modern classrooms is what makes them so dull and tiring, and gives us stupid kids and disappointing graduates. I think it's pretty awesome that they get to focus for half an hour and learn at their own pace (the most critical part), then get to enjoy being kids for a while.
I wasn't aware that git-based package managers were the norm, but I've used third party libraries in two different ways.

1. Nuget packages inside Visual Studio
2. Download the library using a web browser, and just put it where it needs to be.

I'm sure some people would scoff at this list, but it does demonstrate that you can certainly use third party libraries without using git.
Yes, I know of him due to Tusi Couple, which I briefly read about when I was going through Copernicus's work.
This is an outstanding 2008 NLP paper and work, they elaborate a distributional language model with word embeddings learnt with a deep net in a system called SENNA that has a surprisingly small c source code available in adition to a pretrained english model allowing one to do semantic role labeling that gives you a shallow semantic parsing just almost after unpacking once one learns how they display the results, and the computation goes at neural net speed, with competitive precision/recall with other reserach methods.
I don't mean the caption at the top. I'm referring to the letters on the diagram itself: http://i.imgur.com/Bj31AxJ.jpg
yes, i can understand that faucet owner always wins but i am curious about user's profile. i just really want to interview with a faucet owner about user's profile, behaviours, profit, etc..
PythonExpress  DSCE
It's been that way for a long time now. Just look at the giant freudian slip DOJ lawyers made during 'Jewel v. NSA' while trying to explain why the NSA should be able to retcon the public court transcript by claiming it was classified, ex post facto.

Apparently it was very important to keep various Snowden disclosures secret, because:

DISCLOSURES THAT WE ARE CONVINCED THAT HAVE
SERIOUSLY HARMED THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF
THIS COMPANY

(caps in original)

Company? Country? I'm going with "Freudian slip of the century"

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140813/23203228207/unsea...
Excellent Advice About Facebook Marketing That You Will Want to Read
I have no idea.

No prosecution in England is automatic. Police gather evidence and present that to the criminal prosecution service who then decide whether or not to push a prosecution. Private citizens can push for something to be prosecuted and in rare events they can prosecute themselves.

English courts are pretty keen to prosecute corrupt police officers.
Valid, though I never have to click through any kind of EULA crap to use Go.

So long as Go is supported in gcc, I'm not particularly worried.
I used to work at OkCupid, on OkTrends.

You're not the first person to propose this question - there's a comment like this almost every time OkCupid makes the front page - and here's what I wrote the last time[0], which I think explains it well:

There were a number of factors. A bit part is that, in 2010, there were 2.5 people working full-time[1] on doing research for OkTrends, which allowed us to research, write, and publish posts much more often.

The blog posts took a lot of work. "The Real Stuff White People Like"[2] took almost two months of my time, plus some from Max and Christian as well. (Much like the product design process, since we didn't start each post off with a clear end result in mind, not all the work was visible in the final product).

I left to go back to school. Max ended up taking on more responsibility for other data/stats work, which slowed the pace a bit, and he left at the beginning of 2012 to do his own stuff. And Christian became in charge of running OkCupid after the acquisition, which meant he had even less time then he did before Max and I joined.

People asked me for the last three years whether the reason OkTrends hadn't posted since 2011 was because of the Match.com acquisition and whether Match shut them down and I had to tell everyone "No, trust me, they're still around! It's just a coincidence!". Thankfully I no longer have to. :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8097780

[1] 2.5 full-time means: Two of us full-time, as well as Christian, though he split his work time between OkTrends (the blog) and other stuff.

[2] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-peopl...
Oldie but goodie: http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~dduke/models.htm

The Tusi couple is like halfway down and the link right above it allows you to compare and contrast models.
Show HN: UrDesk.net – An operating system in a (Chrome) browser
Horribad commerical glam rock is dead, there's probably more bands than ever right now my local concert listings section is 7 pages long clearly people are still making music.
I've worked on a product that used the classic tricks (large byte[] arrays, access through sun.misc.Unsafe, indexing instead of references, etc) and while it was quite fast, it was written by someone who worked at Azul and deeply understood the jvm and gc. Personally, it makes me think D is the right solution: gc for 99.99% of your objects, but for the performance critical bits or where you're fighting the gc, opt out of gc and manage memory by hand.

Also, theUnsafe makes me snicker

.Unsafe.class.getDeclaredField("theUnsafe");
My sis lives there and made $1000 waiting tables last night, a big win for a college kid
I remember seeing an article talking about a black British model, born and raised in the UK, in a French fashion shoot, described as African-American. Her own country would refer to her as British, not African-British...

Here in Australia we're getting infected with this compound term, to reassert that heritage doesn't mean non-citizen. It's really annoying, because I grew up in a suburb of Greeks and Italians, who were also Australians... and now (from some corners) it's Greek-Australian and Italian-Australian. It wasn't perfect - the stereotypical Australian is still seen as a WASP - but this compound noun system isn't the answer to fixing the problem.
He is definitely a master craftsman. It reminds me of old school precision clockwork.
> it should have already been treated like a utility in the first place

I worked for Comcast circa 2003, and it was the company's official policy that its broadband services were for "entertainment only", to skirt around regulatory issues and downtime liability. While it was a dubious claim even then, it's farcical to call broadband internet anything but a utility in 2014.
aha, well it does look like Old Turkic Alphabet[0], I am not sure.

0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#Table_of_ch...

Edit: Some characters don't seem to render properly, an Image seems more practical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#mediaviewer...
Vice is a fairly compelling case. They started with trashy "Do"s and "Don't"s, and now have reporters embedded within ISIS.
Whether functionality should be contained in the "core" or in libraries is often a subject arousing contention, but I think it is, or can be, largely a technical distinction.

Where it matters is how well the functionality is integrated with the core language. The argument goes that in Scheme it is less regularly the case that libraries are complete and consistent vs. CL.

The effort of the R7RS-large work group to create a "standard" library of extended functionality is ongoing, but in a year or two should produce a language standard that could create consistency across Scheme implementations, effectively similar to CL.

Of course, how well that works out depends on the willingness of implementors of Scheme to make it so. Let's hope that they will do that.
Isn't it because F2FS is designed specifically to target SSD devices unlike most others?
Also there are some very interesting videos about marvellous artisan work on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/
If this actually works, it's a security hole in both the devices in question and the wifi access point, for allowing a random device on the network to break its connection and block access.

Detecting devices by MAC address and warning about them makes sense, but it should not be possible to block a device without cooperation from the access point, and the description on this site makes it clear that that isn't the case.
Institutional vs incidental, if you will