skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough I was all set to argue your point about back blows. When I became an NREMT-B back in the late 90s, we were told, in no uncertain terms, that back blows WERE NOT recommended as they could lodge the object fully.

After just now doing a bit of research, it appears that back blows are still "controversial" with the Red Cross recommending them as part of their '5 and 5 method' (first 5 back blows and then 5 abdominal thrusts) and the American Heart Association ONLY recommending abdominal thrusts.
I recently bought a chipped key and key fob for my '07 Toyota and programmed them myself ($29). I had the local hardware store cut the key for $5, which made the total cost $34. The dealership wanted $50 to program both of them. So, worst case for me was $84 if I needed dealer to program.

Edit to add: Have you checked for your make and model on Amazon?
I think everyone in signal processing writes the same rant against zero-order-hold at some point. The Xiph people did (http://xiph.org/video/) and so has this guy.
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Yep. That was the line that annoyed me the most, other than the continued dismissal of concerns about ISP behavior--it's pretty obvious at this point to anybody in tech that they can't be assumed to be competent and unbiased actors.
"with a very simple and well-defined domain subset of geometry."

I don't think you're actually working with a well-defined subset of geometry. What is breaking here is the notion of persistent identity over time - "take this square and change its width - leaving us with not a new square/rectangle but the same square changed" - which I don't recall encountering in geometry.
>I know enough women who are not subject to such abuse to know that it is a tiny minority that is.

Are these women really not subject to abuse? Is it possible that they just haven't felt like they could talk about it? Could it be that they don't realize that some of the things they've experienced constitute as abnormal behavior? It took me a long time to figure that one out. It wouldn't be unreasonable to think that others would have the same problem.
Providing last mile service, be it electrical, water, gas, sewage, or TCP/IP is a natural monopoly. No one is going to build more than one sewage pipe to a customer. It only makes sense that we don't allow these natural monopolies extract monopoly rents. Right now, we do allow the cable companies to do just that, and worse.

If you find that your netflix or youtube is slow, just VPN into a server with a real internet connection and be amazed at how fast the video loads, even with the encryption overhead, all because the VPN bypasses the ISP's domain based throttling. (Unless you're a youtube or netflix employee who can spin up a VM for your own personal VPN or somesuch)
SHADES OF GREY
Even on HN, the cult of personality is very noticeable, it's just that we care about different celebrities and different aspects of their lives.
This line comes to mind:

Young Composer: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing a symphony. How should I get started?"

Mozart: "A symphony is a very complex musical form and you are still young. Perhaps you should start with something simpler, like a concerto."

Young Composer: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old."

Mozart: "Yes, but I never asked anyone how."
From the article: "Since 2009, D.C. officers have made more than 12,000 seizures under city and federal laws"

That's 2,000 per year, or 1,000 per six months.

Do you think a citizen ballot with 1,000 items on it will be a meaningful check on police powers?

Also, "from a child pornography ring" is likely incorrect. It should more likely be "from what is claimed to be a child pornography ring".

Otherwise the ballot will say "$15,000 from a drug dealer" even if it's better described as "$15,000 from someone the officer thinks might be a drug dealer but doesn't have any real evidence other than that drug dealer carry a large amount of cash."
Interesting idea.

Sort of related:

plot.ly:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/07/plotly-now-has-api.html

and Domino:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/02/domino-python-paas-now-has...
This by the way is what Aldi's are like in their home country, Germany. When we stayed with my mother in law it was pretty much the only grocery store around (and in an agricultural area!).
A POP OF RED LIPS
I worked on a mobile FPS that was able to run at full-rez, 60fps on an iPad3. Unfortunately, doing so drained the battery faster than the wall charger could refill it! So, we shipped locked at 30fps and provided a "battery hog mode" option to the user.
I'll leave this comment here for those of us who still prefer vi. :)
All fair and strong points, but we must keep in mind that our ancestors lived in different societies than we did. Their societies had different economies, different social orders, and in some cases, fundamentally different structures.

The education system we have now is an industrial system. That is to say, it was developed in the midst and aftermath of the industrial revolutions of the last several centuries. It is out of date. Unfortunately, "what sort of building to make and who should sit in it" is a very real concern. It's a concern about the efficient allocation of resources in service of a particular outcome. I'd argue that the outcome (i.e., why are we educating our children, and to what particular end?) is in need of reevaluation. Until we can define it for the 21st Century, we're just moving players around on a field with shifting goalposts.

Educational reformers, on various sides of various platforms, are tacticians in want of a strategy.
> When you look at dark chocolate you're looking at anything from 70 to 99%.

Not that I disagree qualitatively (quite the opposite), but legally neither the EU nor the FDA have any such category, their highest categories are at 35% cocoa (respectively "chocolate" and "bittersweet chocolate")
Which is not inherently a bad thing.
I didn't expect this to be an article about education. But it seems to make a lot of sense. I have always felt that bad teachers recognize that there is a problem with their classroom management, however the solutions they come up with aren't great. I also have seen that most bad teachers have common problems. Which would imply that with a pretty standard set of instructions a bad teacher could transform into something better with just a bit of work.
And let's not forget that the prices at those corner stores aren't low either!
"It's clearly an intellectual piece addressing her work."

I'm going to guess you've not read it. It's a (long, rambling) diatribe from someone who claims an ever growing list of academic credentials when challenged on basic stats errors (e.g. misunderstanding how averages work).

Oh and it's only part ! of a series. It is, in its very existance a bit frightening to me personally and it's not whipping up a hate mob with tales of my devious deceptions.
This feels strangely relevant: https://rms.sexy/
I think that having a move from elementary to middle school (junior high) is going to prepare a student better for high school because they have already made one leap. That change of environment is a mental exercise that requires kids to refocus.

Moving to junior high is a big step and even as a kid you prepare and start over in a new environment, just like you would do in high school and again in college, then in jobs and so forth. Changing environments I believe is important for preparing kids, dealing with change, mental state/clearing the slate of the last school. Also kids get to be the big kids on campus at 6th grade, again at 8th or 9th then again at 12th grade, they also get to experience being the lower grade at a school a few times. These experiences I think just make people prepare/focus better. Change is good when it comes to environments of learning.
We are discussing the mathematical model of the system that has been found to be the most proper to deal with the practical problems that arise about image processing.

When he says "the device integrates over..." what he means is that we can model the display device as a reconstruction filter integrating over the point sample lattice.

Remember, we are discussing the mathematical model of image processing.

In the purely physical model the pixels in the memory are probably a linear array of n-bit numbers, that drive voltages over the illuminants of the display. However, the "linear array of n-bit numbers in a framebuffer" is a really awkward model to start discussing e.g. image processing algorithms.

The point sample model, as the author tries to persuade, provides a simple formalism for a lot of practical problems and is also, from the point of view of sampling theory, the correct model.
Do yourself a favor and google "bypass throttling", or better yet, VPN into a server with a real internet connection and try out Netflix or Youtube and be astounded by the difference, even with the encryption overhead.

http://lifehacker.com/use-a-vpn-to-bypass-your-isps-throttli...
This is super exciting. I was disappointed by one pull quote: "This is not an experiment. African American people are not an experiment,” Thompson says. “People need to stop thinking like that, that we cannot afford the things that people in other communities have.”

The fact is: this is a poor community, and the accepted wisdom is that they can't have nice things. This is indeed an experiment to show that that accepted wisdom is wrong. There's nothing wrong with doing experiments: we do them all the time, whether it's testing drugs or the work of economists like Esther Duflo, these are crucial. And I sure hope if throws sand back in the face of those who have given up on these communities.
In my experience there are two drains on power:

- The screen. Doesn't matter what the app is, if the screen is on the battery plummets

- Network hunting. If there's no WiFi, but the radio is on then it wastes loads of battery trying to find a network.
Too meta.
Looks nice, will give it a spin!
What kind of marketing did you do? It seems like a pretty reasonable idea but I can imagine it would require a heavy investment to get a sustaining userbase.
Hm, I think I see the point you're getting at.

It's still a good paper. :)
LCD and LED displays are made of little coloured rectangles, and many programs are writing for them.
Precedence climbing solves these problems.

This article is from 2009. Same blog 2012: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/02/parsing-expressions-...
Because apps are commonly requesting that the device perform actions that require excessive amounts of power according to the laws of physics. Can you imagine the complaints the OS devs would get if they stepped in to intervene?

"I noticed your app made a separate request to the ad server every 30 seconds (between menus). So, I decided to batch up your requests and only send them every 10 minutes."
Hamms: a misbehaving HTTP server for testing your clients
Nothing special. The authors have implemented a machine learning algorithm using a quantum instruction set. DWave has had open-source implementations of some machine learning algorithms for a while. This is not exactly an easy feat, but it's not particularly novel.

I'm not sure how familiar with programming you are, so I'm not sure how to key this summary. That said, let it be known that anything that can be done with a classical machine can be done with a quantum machine -- just not necessarily as fast. A quantum computer has one operation (lets call it emin) which, in parallel and in nearly constant time, selects the minimum value from an array of items AND the arguments which made it the minimum. So if I want to find the minimum of f(a,b,x) = a^2x^4 + b^2x^12, I can run emin(f) and it will return [a=0, b=0, x=0, value=0]. We _could_, in a classical system, for integer values, just try all values of a, b, and x. (There are other, simpler ways, but it's just an example.) The quantum instruction set means we don't have to try each instruction one after the next. We can try them all at the same time.
> What I wrote was supposed to be fun reading.

It was! As a (very) amateur-level musician and programmer, I greatly enjoyed reading your comment. It took a couple of times (because of my shaking understanding of Fourier transforms, not your writing), but I understood your point in the end.

So thanks for sharing. I'm glad you're enthusiastic about this stuff, it'd make a great blog post.
in OS X system preferences you can set sticky modifiers. I used it for a while with emacs, but finally abandoned it because, while easy on fingers, it tends to cause strange things if you start typing a combination and halfway you change your mind (you can just release a modifier key usually, but if you just typed it there is nothing you can do to undo it, except C-G).
I negatively affect the environment simply by existing, and routinely do so to increase my comfort level far above what is "necessary" to survive and even far above the average comfort level of humans. I also tend to refrain from littering and water wasting, and I believe that it is important for people to collectively to likewise refrain, but it is irrational to say that the former is a consequence of the latter, since I only have control over my own actions.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

(This quote has often been attributed to Hyman Rickover, but he apparently did not claim authorship of it[0].)

[0] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Misattributed
It's a balancing act between giving devs power over their code and managing battery. You could say that Apple 'solved' the problem by preventing developers from doing really cool things, whereas Google/Android still have battery concerns but devs have built awesome apps that depend on that flexibility.

This isn't something than can be 'solved'. All the time, Google will make improvements to the OS (like JobScheduler in Lollipop) and devs will get better at managing their resources. Slowly we'll all get better battery performance.

I make PressureNet, which runs in the background on Android in 10-minute intervals to get GPS, barometer measurement, and network lock. Maintaining a good battery life isn't easy, but it is possible. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
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I'd did the HM on a guy choking at a Backyard Burgers. The weird thing he was making these seal-like barks, which wouldn't seem possible with a blocked off airway. Anyway, it worked and it dislodged the hamburger.

I have heard of people's ribs being broken, and wouldn't be surprised if someone was sued after a HM. Fortunately I didn't hurt the guy, despite me being 6'5" and probably lifting the guy off the ground.
Are you aware of evil-mode? One of the many things it implements is the :%s/stuff/otherstuff/g syntax.
Kathy Sierra suggests that the fact that she was listened to by many people was what triggered the hatred for her:

http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point/

"I now believe the most dangerous time for a woman with online visibility is the point at which others are seen to be listening, “following”, “liking”, “favoriting”, retweeting. In other words, the point at which her readers have (in the troll’s mind) “drunk the Koolaid”. Apparently, that just can’t be allowed."

Read the whole thing, it's heartbreaking and eyeopening. It also involves some of the same people that attacked the author of the current post.

So whatever these two woman did to "incite" this harassment was shared by at least two kinda-succesful woman in tech.
There's evil-mode,[1][2] which is a fantastic vim-emulation mode for emacs. Using it, you'll get all the modal editing you're used to in vim.

One user's transition from vim to emacs+evil was recently discussed here.[3][4]

[1] - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil

[2] - https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home

[3] - http://juanjoalvarez.net.nyud.net/es/detail/2014/sep/19/vim-...

[4] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8581530
Here's some elisp I use to do this (assuming I understand your issue correctly and it's the same as mine):

(defun replace-regexp-g ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(goto-char 0)
(call-interactively 'replace-regexp)))
> reasonable response to the Fermi paradox, though I agree it's a pretty stupid one

That leaves us with a very peculiar subset of certain values of "reasonable".

There is nothing wrong in principle arguing that there might be something wrong with our general galactic neighborhood, without touching the Copernican principle at all. For a random example, a local population of Von Neumann drones killing all technology-using civilizations wouldn't hold any especially deep cosmological problems.

There is also the small matter of us not knowing a lot about pretty much every single factor involved with Fermi's equation, so this leaves a lot of room for us simply living within a empty patch.

Personally, I have to admit the Fermi paradox bothers me, as I've written before here on HN. But there is an infinite supply of imaginable reasons that don't require paranormal intervention, so I don't see the need to actually consider those other reasons at the moment.
Generally that's true, but there are cases where it isn't.

Suppose you increase prices at a rate exceeding that which decreasing supply would demand, in collusion with other suppliers. You use the proceeds to increase wages.

Some point in the future, supply increases back to normalized levels, but now the cost of supply has also increased (because you pay people more), so the wholesale prices remain increased. Prices can only drop back to levels of the new cost floor, or the cost floor has to be moved down somehow -- in this case reducing wages.

We see a similar effect in oil markets because the cost of oil production has gone up as easy-to-exploit sources have dried up and more expensive sources have had to come on-line to meet demand. Production has actually increased but prices have stayed relatively high. This includes massive new production outside of OPEC cartel control, so even cartel price fixing doesn't account for it. Even more important, in a major market like the U.S., the distribution costs have dropped as a share of wholesale prices as domestic supply has come on-line.

Consumers have simply gotten used to the higher prices so there's reduced pressure to lower them competitively in order to ensure sufficient demand to move target inventory volume.

There's also other factors than pure supply/demand. Product differentiation can build in higher prices through perceived value (or other factors) in consumer's minds. Suppose over the next 10 years, the U.S. chocolate industry creates a marketing term "Savanna Chocolate" and starts rebranding all products by percentage of "Savanna Chocolate" they contain. "Now with 5% Savanna Chocolate!", supplemented with a marketing campaign to push all products as "Savanna Chocolate". The term is meaningless. However, it allows them to charge a 10% premium on product which helps guarantee higher prices.

Because Savanna Chocolate is not a thing, there's nothing to compete against, it's also trademarked. A competitor can't simply start selling their cheaper "6% Savanna Chocolate" competitor because they'll be sued into oblivion, if they wish to use the term, they'll probably just be charged a license fee large enough to ensure price compliance. All they can do is start an information campaign to try to persuade the public that Savanna Chocolate doesn't exist. These don't necessarily translate into higher demand for a competitor's product, and may in fact deflate the entire industry.

tl;dr - pricing is hard, simple supple-demand models don't describe it very well.
Thing about QOS is that if I buy a level of service from my ISP and you buy an equivalent or greater level of service from your ISP, you and I should be able to communicate at that level of service. The which bits we decide to send to each other should be completely up to us.

QOS should happen at the edges of the network, certainly not in the middle because the middle has no clue what bits count to me.

Common Carrier law is exactly what Title II is, and what currently applies to trucks driving down the roads (can't buy a faster speed limit), electricity, shipping, oil pipelines, landline telephony, postage, etc.
This paper only mentions integration in the context of sensors, not displays. So it's pretty straightforward: the scanner/camera/eyeball is integrating photons over time and over the surface of the sensor. None of those are inherently discretized by little squares, because even the photoreceptors on a chip aren't perfect rectangles and are subject to optical effects like things being imperfectly focused.
I think there is a misconception around GC, you could still be retaining memory you didn't intend to. It won't lead to a dangling pointer, but there is still a need for some kind of assertion of the effect: "I know this object should be collected at this point in time", and some complex tools to analyse the retention path. Because even if the object is still valid on a memory point of view, it could still be in a inconsistent state if you thought it was not retained, but it is, and now it goes into a pipeline of code that can't handle its state etc. Imagine a closed file handle that you forgot to remove from a collection or something like that.

The memory errors in C++ are not exactly memory error, they are, like other errors, a misconception on the state of the object graph. And it's hard to find and fix.
"The gamers" got aggressive and violent? You're tarring a large and varied group of people based on the actions of a vocal few.
We get to the display device after the display pipeline has transformed the source image. The author is discussing the best way to think about and model the source image.

The best model for the source image is a lattice of point samples if you want to manipulate it in any way.
I should add that your explanation for why you don't vote doesn't seem compatible with your explanation of why you don't litter. Don't you think that if people collectively didn't vote because they are happy with any likely result, those likely results would get pretty bad? Without my addition (regarding the small chance of your vote impacting the election), it seems like you should (according to your reasoning) still do a lot of research to find the better option and then vote for it, even if the difference between options is very small, because if people collectively did no research and didn't vote, the results would presumably be bad.
jcabi-ssh is a wrapper of jSch :)