skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I strive to remove incidental complexity for my students, so that they can focus on the intrinsic complexity of their research."

A worthy goal. I think, though, that calling out the fact that it's command line serves to distract more than illuminate - at least the reader and possibly the author. There are doubtless unnecessary steps between idea and code. However, shoving those in a graphical wizard doesn't make it any better.
London's mostly awful when the drivers are doing it, but I believe they've been automating more and more lines with stop announcements
It might not be as silly on an iPad Mini. Also you may be using Apple Pay to pay for things at home (e.g. Pizza Delivery, or to renew your Keurig 3.0 online subscription to re-activate your coffee machine).
True, but there are specific attributes that constitute classes legally protected against discrimination. Race is one of them. Intelligence is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

I am not a lawyer, but it sounds like Jordan attempted to argue that intelligence should be considered an additional protected class, like race or religion, but the courts disagreed. Since intelligence isn't a protected class, and since the discrimination was applied equally across all applicants, Jordan didn't have any cause for compensation from the police department.

Your hypothetical situation, screening for blackness, would absolutely not fly since color is a protected class.
I wonder why he can't just sell carbon credits to fund it? Is that not a large market?
I guess I'm missing whatever distinction people are trying to make here.

He says he thinks that fears of surveillance will lead to the breakup of the internet. Which is what the headline says.

What am I missing here?
What's the international crime statute of limitations these days? Maybe Africans don't want U.S. or European help because those countries used to steal Africans and turn them into slaves.

Or--maybe Africans actually do want U.S. and European help, and have repeatedly asked for it, and have expressed thanks that it is now being mobilized.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/world/africa/liberian-pres...
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There's nothing "bog standard" about underground roads of that length. Unsignalled vehicles would not be safe (IMO it would be reasonable to relax some safety constraints on the british railway to increase capacity - it would save more lives by taking people off the road - but that would be politically unacceptable; people respond irrationally to major disasters). Unguided vehicles wouldn't fit down the current tunnels. And vehicles with emissions would require much more ventilation than currently exists for the deep tunnels. So you'd need something like a guided trolleybusway with custom vehicles, you'd still need some equivalent of pointwork for the electrical supply, and the vehicles probably couldn't be as heavy or as fast as rail ones.
More specifically, a public opinion problem.

Techies tend to think that the US government has gone rogue and is defying the people, who universally want to tone this stuff down. But really, the government is just responding to the will of the people here. Many Americans are terrified of terrorism and approve of these sorts of government efforts to fight it.
Thank you for the link about one health team killed in one village in one country. (The comment to which I was replying, not posted by you, mentioned "health teams," plural, that were killed, without specifying a place.) The link you kindly shared reports,

"Eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about Ebola have been killed by villagers using machetes and clubs in Guinea, officials say.

"Some of the bodies - of health workers, local officials and journalists - were found in a septic tank in a village school near the city of Nzerekore."

Reading this, I'm not entirely sure whether or not any Western people were part of the group who visited the village. The participant here to whom I was replying referred specifically to

a tough battle to get people to trust Western medical teams

after previously writing

have you ever considered that maybe there's a reason people don't trust the US government to act ethically or in their interests?

I have considered that possibility, and that is why I am looking for evidence. Where is the evidence that people in west Africa specifically distrust the United States as a source of medical aid more than they distrust their own local officials or modernity in general? (The west Africans I know locally, by definition people who have traveled to the United States to settle and work here, don't seem to have a general attitude of distrust of the United States government. Many of the health care workers who cared for my late dad in the years he was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury were nurses and nursing aids from Liberia.)

I appreciate your follow-up to my question. I'd like to see more on-point journalistic sources from other people who have commented in this thread.

AFTER EDIT: I was aware of the news story from National Public Radio[1] submitted to open this thread (of course!) about one area in Liberia that has enjoyed success in stopping spread of ebola as I asked the questions above in the thread. Fear of Westerners does not appear to be general in west Africa, not even in areas infected by ebola. That's why I think some of the comments here seem so off-topic. They refer to nothing in the article.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/06/354054915/f...
Thanks for Firecalc! Saves me from having to build it myself.
Thanks for clearing that up, I've never used Siri so I'm not qualified to talk about Apple's personal assistant features.
What a pathetic farce. A bunch of feet stamping masquerading as actually giving a crap. Only interesting part is the Forrester study about potential revenue loss, which I can't imagine will be as much of a driving force as people think it should. And people like Merkel aren't who offer these seemingly poignant anecdotes, I'm sure they'd rather aid the competition to American companies more than actually effecting real change.
Well said! Congrats indeed to Mozilla for making this happen.

Does anybody know of a good resource for asking folks that work in/with developing countries what apps would make the most difference in the lives of the folks living there? Is there a StackExchange site that might fit the bill?
They're [trying](http://www.automaattimetro.fi/en) to do that in Finland. The cost is around 170 million euros now, even though the projected cost was 100 million.
Check out ESI blocks: https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ESIfeatures

Varnish will very likely be an order of magnitude or two faster than sending requests to your app. You can get going with a simple config in a few minutes and without breaking anything (just have varnish listen on a different port and use :80 or your app server as the back-end), so I'd strongly suggest playing with it if you're curious. It's pretty impressively fast software, and VCL gives you an awesome abstraction for controlling how the cache handles different routes.
There's no way reading email in the terminal is close to 1% of all email users haha.
It's funny because even though the headline is hyperbolic, I feel that it's not far from the truth... except it's not going to end up breaking the internet. The internet has been broken from the outset. It wasn't originally designed for high security, it was designed for collaboration and it's only as we start retrofitting security on top of it are we realizing just how inadequate it is. It just goes to show that when you leave security as an afterthought, this is what happens... so all those companies that are still designing software with security as an afterthought, take note - because you're walking down the same path. Security should be at the forefront of your mind with every development task you complete.
Claim 1, 8, and 15, on which the other claims are based, indicates the patent applies to how the system recovers from NFC failures, not the NFC payment mechanism itself. The other claims cover ways of diddling (mostly hardware) parameters to recover.

1. A method of operating a portable electronic device, comprising: using the electronic device to conduct a mobile payment transaction at a merchant terminal; and in response to detecting that the mobile payment transaction has failed, updating at least one operating setting on the electronic device prior to performing a subsequent payment attempt at the merchant terminal.
Nope. 300 points. Each recipe can be crave/rated for points.
Snapchat getting ads soon
Why is privacy important?
Us humans are a social bunch. We make friends, we work as teams, and we like to party. Sure, we value our alone-time, but we also like knowing that we can reach out to others if needed. And the rapid spread of social networking technology shows how strongly we feel about sharing our lives with those around us.
But with all these means to communicate, just how much are we really sharing?
Letting others know your favourite books and movies is relatively harmless, and we also make employment history and professional connections available when we think it benefits us. But what about those photos of you in a bikini from last year’s holiday? Your friends might give you plenty of “likes” for it, but how do you feel about a future employer seeing it in your profile? Even if you only share it with close friends, they can share it on, ultimately putting your private life in the public domain. For now, it seems, sharing aspects of your life online also means relinquishing control over who you share it with.
And in the wake of recent scandals such as the leaking of celebrity nudes, more and more people are becoming aware of the need for stronger online privacy.
Of course, one can argue that the victims of these scandals shouldn’t have been naive; they shouldn’t have placed such sensitive content in the Cloud to begin with. This leads us to ask, what information really is “safe” enough to put online? And who has the right to make use of it?
That’s why we’re building Friends & Co. We recognise your need to be social, but also your right to your own data. If you’d like to know more, sign up to our waiting list at http://friendsand.co.
In the U.S., different organizations have different standards. There are 2- and 4-year criminal justice university programs, but many police departments only require a high school diploma. A criminal justice degree or other related degree is usually a plus even if it's not required. As an example, the Minnesota State Patrol requires the applicants either have a 2- or 4-year degree in any subject or be a licensed peace officer (which could have happened through a criminal justice degree or through a police academy).

Most large cities have their own police academy or there's a regional academy that several cities use. Police academy is usually three or four months of intensive training that new recruits go through (a little like boot camp for the armed forces). After graduating from an academy, the officers are sometimes rotated through probationary assignments and then given a more permanent assignment.

Detectives and other specialists are generally promoted out of the ranks of police officers.
How about the idea of building a giant "freezer" in the coldest part of Antarctica and sublimating the CO2 out of the air? Some places already hit that temperature naturally [1]

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131210-colde...
We don't need to tie this behavior to a new video extension or a specific video format. A more sensible approach would be to allow video sources in <img> and restrict their profile to GIF-like behavior.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=895131
GestureKit: Open source cross-platform gestures for mobile interfaces
Having had the pleasure to know and work with William, I think he would be chuffed with the existence of the award, though probably a little embarrassed to have it named after him which only makes it more appropriate.

It's a perfect tribute to him and I can't wait to see who wins the first one :)
Does anyone know how much it costs to have a job applicant do the Wonderlic test?

I have a small side business with a friend that has one employee and we're about to hire another one and have long been curious about using the Wonderlic test.
> If BI increases demand for consumption (as most of it's proponents claim it will), then the price of consumption will increase - hence, inflation.

This is a very bizarre argument against BI. You can clearly see how silly it is by applying it to reducing the unemployment rate (or for that matter anything that provides income to the poor) -- if more people have income then consumption will increase and cause inflation.

The reason the argument is silly is that it's way more complicated than that. Even the assumption that BI will cause increased consumption is based on other assumptions about what people want at different income levels. It could be that members of the lower middle class are hungry for an opportunity to start a business and will use the money to invest rather than consume. It depends entirely on the contours of the economy at a specific time and place and is constantly in flux. Investment vs. consumption is also a false dichotomy, because investments just turn into the consumption of the entity selling the investment, and businesses obtain capital by selling products as well as by soliciting investors. So it's really the difference between consumption of consumer goods and services like food and entertainment vs. of business goods and services like commercial equipment and marketing services, and even that distinction is as clear as mud.

On top of that, whether an increase in demand causes an increase in price depends on the supply of the goods in question. There are many products for which this relationship is negative. Where there is no practical limit on the number of units suppliers can produce, having more demand will give sellers more units over which to amortize fixed costs and can thereby reduce the unit price.

This makes the statement "basic income will cause inflation" completely meaningless. What it will do is cause the price of some goods and services to increase and others to decrease, much as any economic change will do. Whether this change will on net cause prices to increase more than decrease (and to what degree) depends entirely on the contours of the economy and on which specific goods and services you're measuring.

But perhaps most importantly, even assuming it would cause inflation in a particular economy, the amount of inflation is necessarily less than the amount of the basic income because of the existence (and likely preponderance) of products with less than perfectly inelastic supply.
How did you figure out your strategy for being in the right place at the right time, and what sort of stuff did it consist of?
Can we stop with the regulatory arbitrage equals innovation stuff?
>> "then relaying the lining."

Former tunnel boring engineer here.

Modern TBM's usually line the tunnel with prefab concrete sectional rings, which are built by a human-controlled hydraulic arm at the front of the TBM's trailing gear, immediately behind the cutterhead chamber.

As far as I know, cutting heads that could bore soils/rock could not also bore through metal lining. This is limited by the material properties of the cutting surfaces, typically hard metals or coated ceramics. Heads with acceptable wear rates in hard rock or soils will likely have unacceptably high wear rates against metals.

And 3-5 years is probably a drastic underestimate of project duration.
Meanwhile California can't get high speed rail, or connect LA Metro from 7th street to the terminal.
I heard this segment on NPR recently:

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/30/352808184/how-to-cook-everythi...

It was about the book "How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food"

http://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Fast-Better/dp/047...

Personally, buying a slow cooker was an awesome investment. In under 30 mins I can easily put things into it and leave them cooking over night and have excellent meals for the rest of the week.
I wonder if a better model would be to use dwolla to charge a monthly fee of $0.25. I bet that ads, even opt-in, will be disruptive and eventually move to opt-out or no-choice ads.
I'd be interested to know if Google Now can do people reminders. Unfortunately I sold my last Android device so I'm unable to test it myself, but a quick search brings up this article[1] which suggests that it doesn't exist yet. Either way, I'm sure it's only a matter of time until both Siri and Google Now can do it too (which is a good thing, I've found it incredibly useful).

[1]. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/3122344?hl=en
Another year goes by, and once again the Nobel prize comitee fails to award the prize to Thomas Pynchon. Really. If I was president of the US, I would declare not awarding the prize to Pynchon (or maybe Cormac McCarthy) an act of war and threaten to nuke the hell out of Sweden if Pynchon does not get the prize (just imagine the delicious irony if Barack "Nobel Peace Prize" Obama did that!).

That is not to say that whoever got it this year does not deserve it. But still.
Indeed. I'm disappointed that the new generation of codecs (h264/webM) has won out for small internet videos because they seem to be processing-power beasts.

Full-screen mpeg-2 (DVDs) was doable with a $40 device over a decade ago. Video compression is definitely a worse-is-better space.
I managed to get a 302 response code in curl by passing both a Firefox user-agent and an accept header.

Neither the accept header alone nor the user-agent alone are sufficient. It seems they are testing for both.

curl -H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8" -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0" -I http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.mp4
Public Cloud runs because of Trust. If the trust is broken, then the future of public cloud services is uncertain. China effectively shut down most of the US cloud services. Who can say India and Russia will not do that in future.
Or the statement could be predicated on the notion that certain ethnic groups have traditionally written the tests for "intelligence" and thus, have biased them for what that particular ethnic group considers intelligence.

There's a lot of research about how the SAT discriminates against minorities because white people historically wrote the test and that gives whites an edge, intentional or not.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sat+discriminates+against+mi...
GIFs just work. GIFVs might or might not work. That's a huge difference.
Basic Portable Executable File in Assembly
Are you sure it wasn't an issue with cache evictions?
Can I... Can I actually date Watson? Is that in the short-term plan? Anybody knows?
I find constructs like isAwesome() && alert("yay"); confusing as well, but in our codebase it's pretty much standard to use a simple falsy check like 'callback && callback()' for optional callbacks, but we don't use it anywhere else.

To be honest, I like and use some of those, especially when writing experimental/disposable code, but otherwise I try to be gentle to less experienced developers and my future self.

As of #5 - I used to do and love this when writing unit tests. At the end of the work day, if I'm in the middle of implementing a feature, I'd commit and then write the next unit test (inevitably) sitting in my head and leave it failing. Really helps when it's Monday.
I wasn't talking about opinions, I was talking about threats. If one of those racists advocates violence against a specific persons, they will get a visit (so long as someone notifies the the police) Sure, if you don't want to see opinions you need to avoid the people that have ones you don't like.
100 auto-playing videos will still bring your computer to a screaming halt.
From the Creator: On the History of Comic Sans
You need to read the claims of the patent - it isn't patenting payments over NFC, it is on ways of recovering on NFC communications failures.

That still doesn't seem novel, but that is a different topic to argue than payment over NFC...
Looks more functional than my real hand. I had an arm reattached which I believe was the wrong choice. (Doctors argued against, parents argued for) Now I'm stuck with a useless hand that no doctor will remove. I'd rather just have a stump and optionally a prosthetic. But I don't understand why so many prosthetics try and appear real and end up in the uncanny valley. They are robot arms, make them look like robots.
Someone's trying to draw a picture, but they're not accounting for other people inserting pixels, so it's ending up shifted.
I'm not sure, and the server response from your sample certainly does not fit with this idea, but maybe it's because curl uses http/1.0?

Or is that wget that uses 1.0... Fire up wireshark ;)

Edit:

So it was the useragent and accept header that did it. Nevermind my stupid idea.
That's the use case of everyone running MongoDB, so Redis Cluster should be able to find a significant user base.
This statement from the article cautions us that the economic incentives (which are also reasonably well described in the article) so far aren't promoting technical fixes like the one proposed by the inventors: "None of the world’s thousands of coal plants have been outfitted for full-scale capture of their carbon pollution. And if it isn’t economical for use in power plants, with their concentrated source of carbon dioxide, the prospects of capturing it out of the air seem dim to many experts. 'There’s really little chance that you could capture CO2 from ambient air more cheaply than from a coal plant, where the flue gas is 300 times more concentrated,' says Robert Socolow, director of the Princeton Environment Institute and co-director of the university’s carbon mitigation initiative."

When I hear about plans to capture CO2, I wonder immediately about whether those plans will help enough if other gases (for example, methane) play a significant role in greenhouse effects. We may have to sequester more than one gas, in more than one way, to role back the accumulation of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, if that is considered a desirable worldwide goal.
From the way the rumor mill is churning it looks like the iPad won't have NFC, and so the Apple Pay functionality would be limited to In App purchases through Instacart, Groupon and such, rather than In Store purchases at Walgreens.
- Stanford iTunes course, anything on Raywenderlich.com

- Built my first app based on what I knew from tutorials

- Biggest challenge: programming is hard
We don't use flat templates in Alpha. We use a full context-free grammar that turns the question into a symbolic representation of what the user wants, which can naturally involve chaining. E.g. "when was the president of the US was born".

Then we execute that symbolic representation using a variety of strategies. There are funnily enough quite a few cases where we can understand the question but don't have the curated algorithms to actually answer it.
async != an incorrect system. Cash machines are a good example of an asynchronous, eventually consistent system that works. As is any well built eventually consistent data store.

Redis/Mysql has it's problems, as does all databases. However, as a practitioner it's important I know the shortcomings of each, so that I can know exactly what a certain database is offering in terms of safety and whether it's a good fit for my use-case. Antirez being open about them is a huge +1 in my book.

Data drift or loss of acknowledged writes isn't correct for a wide range of use-cases. If you know the limits, you can choose the incorrect system, and deal with the fallout when that "rare" event does happen.
What's involved in say an alliance of nations (-USA) creating a 2nd Internet? Is it too hard. I know it won't stop surveillance but just wondering.