skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just relaying my wife's explanation from a few days ago and so there could be some things lost in translation. However, here goes. They use EEG to detect brain patterns developed during activities such as meditation. This is used to trigger an external electromagnetic field generator. They have mice sitting on the field generator which have implants that can in turn be triggered inductively by the electromagnetic field. This switches on an NIR LED inside the mice. The light illuminates a chamber containing designer cells which are programmed to produce a protein (this is the bit I'm not sure about) when exposed to the NIR light. Figure 5 in the paper was very helpful for me.
You can use 'free -m' to view the actual amount of memory being used.
I'm not entyrelly sure but I believe that the event mentioned was the genesis for the GamerGate thing.

Just search gamergate to get an idea of the mess.
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"Would you describe having an installed compiler as normal for the general computer-using population?"

Totally off-topic, but Yes :-)

.Net has a compiler built-in (you may need the SDK to get the command-line version), many systems have a compiler for a shader language, and your packet filter may ship with one.
I rarely see people being weird to women on IRC, but I guess it's as IRL: there are good places and bad places.
What about all those other companies not being Google, Apple and Microsoft?

Do they not get a 'significant say in the standardization process' because they don't have a web browser? And if not why should those who have a web browser get a say? Much less a significant one? The only way this matters is if you extend the capabilities of your browser outside the standards process. So if everybody would follow the standard then that wouldn't be a problem.

No more Microsoft sites that only work with IE (remember Active-X/COM objects?) no more Google using features that are only present in Chrome to cripple Google docs on Firefox.
It doesnt have as many drivers as Linux, but it is pretty easy to add them - does Linux always have the ones you want? It rather depends on platform.
Domestic abuse can be emotional abuse, which certainly carries over to text communications. Especially if they include death threats.
True, and you can look in the Makefile to see what the dependencies are.
What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m
If @armon is still listening, curious if there's been any talk of maintaining a log of the state of Consul. Along with consul-template, Consul provides a great way to maintain application configuration. However, there's still currently a need from external change tracking mechanism to facilitate rollback.
Much of that is due to issues of numerical approximation, which isn't an issue for our actual planets.

Though, unlike newtonian planets, our planets can precess slightly due to general relativity thingies.
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So wait, in the first paragraph you're saying that we should stand up for horrible people's rights, and in the second, you're saying he should go to jail because he's a horrible person. Which one is it?

Personally, my principles are perfectly clear: just because I disagree with someone's opinions or behaviors, that doesn't mean they should go to jail (actually, that shouldn't even be a debate!). As long as he has not physically harmed anybody, he should be a free man.

If we start jailing people for the psychological harm they cause, we would jail a lot of people (including most of the politicians). It's better if we (as the society) learn how to ignore the trolls, and give less fuck about what other people think/say/do.

Thankfully, that's mostly the problem in USA, not in Europe so much. We don't freak out every time someone curses on TV or shows her boobs. (On the other hand, we have other issues, e.g. xenophobia, gag orders, lack of free speech, ...)
Practical Compiler Construction: http://www.t3x.org/reload/index.html

This explains the SubC compiler I mentioned in the original post.
The average SNAP recipient has other income to spend on food. The benefit is a supplement. Except at the maximum end, it's not intended to fully fund your food purchases. Those "live off the average SNAP benefit" publicity stunts are disingenuous.
> If we start jailing people for the psychological harm they cause, we would jail a lot of people (including most of the politicians).

Perhaps we should, then.
I think that 3D scanners would be a perfect solution to this. It becomes easier and easier to digitize real world objects, even based on a single-camera video.

http://youtu.be/gu5Ywwb4RaU
I'm having trouble understanding why I would use this over ES6 modules, or even RequireJS/Almond? The README comes across as more of a blog post than technical documentation.
You need to spend more time walking in other people's shoes before you leap to judgement.
I've been cooking for a long time and over the decades I've noticed non-stick has become better "value engineered" over time such that no matter how much you pay or how much you baby the pan, you'll be buying a new one every couple months. When I was a kid my mom's non-stick lasted for years, until the handle breaks off or something, but they've done a lot of coating engineering work to increase repeat sales for non-stick. So maybe a decade ago I switched to cast iron in a rage at my latest pan only lasting a couple months. I was shocked at the cost, I was trying to buy upscale to get non-stick pans that don't suck, and instead of paying $100+ for a six month lifetime non-stick I was paying like $15 for a lifetime grade CI pan.

I do understand how non-stick pan mfgrs stay in business, because they're guaranteed about two sales per year due to amazingly low product durability. I have no idea how Lodge and the others stay in the CI business because the pans last forever. Its a mysterious business model.

One more point to add is I have CI grates on my charcoal BBQ and a similar seasoning mindset applies to CI grill as to frying pans. Dump the coals, scrape/scrub the grates, apply some oil/crisco while it'll still smoke a little but not too much, you're good.

Another non-stick alternative I cook with a lot is stainless steel. If you're generous with the oil and keep the temps very high but not too high and start with a surgically clean pan, you can fry in stainless. "Barkeepers friend" is the best thing I can find for cleaning stainless. Stainless is also basically eternal. Unlike CI, if you're used to spending $50 at Target for a non-stick pot or pan, a CI equivalent will be like $15 but a large stainless pot could be maybe $100 to $150 for all-clad? I'm in the "all-clad or nothing" tribe of stainless users, there are cheaper alternatives. I like a steak in a nice near red hot stainless pan. You'll need the "barkeepers friend" cleaning powder after that. I could imagine that powder would strip a CI pan pretty well, given how well it strips baked on stuff off stainless pans.
Check out http://www.sqldashboards.com/ live database charting and a command line version is available on the site aswell for generating reports.
It may depend a lot on the IRC network and channel. IRC these days seems to be confined to open-source software discussion, so the communities are more helpful.
Note she's only comparing it with TraceMonkey (which is now gone from SpiderMonkey) and the initial V8 compiler (i.e., not the optimising Crankshaft compiler). This makes competing much easier. It's about the timespan I'd have expected — Carakan (the second latest in-browser JS VM; Chakra is the latest, but relatively little is known about it) was essentially feature complete and competitive on perf after nine months of development (with 3.5 developers, and an increasing number of QA from 0.5 up to 2). Carakan's big thing was finding and fixing ever more obscure bugs (especially in the compiler), taking almost the same time again.
Not all abuse is physical. Verbal abuse is just as serious, if not moreso. The famous phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is really backwards. In truth, words can hurt far more than sticks and stones ever can.
Most people's actions are controlled by their circumstances. Most people don't have much leeway for free will, and those that do don't know enough to apply it correctly. And since they often they don't even know what they don't know, they can't educate themselves out of their ignorance.

There's remarkably little empathy in what you write. It makes me think you're either on the autistic spectrum, or very young with no life experience, younger that I had thought you were based on your profile age.
Ugh, yet another entry in the emerging genre of "We combined well-established techniques in order to generate a vaguely sci-fi-sounding scenario." Other noteworthy examples:

1) Brain-to-brain control: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

2) Rats controlling each other across large distances: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130228/srep01319/full/srep01...

It's junk science, and there's a reason why it's published in Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, or PLoS One. Every individual advancement (brain interfaces, genetic expression control, optogenetics) must be acknowledged as groundbreaking; this stuff, however, shouldn't excite.

University PR departments do love it, though. Makes for great press releases.
I don't think it's that much of a clash. These companies are the exception, which makes for a noteworthy article.

There's one sector in particular that has been suspiciously mum about the whole thing. A sector that relies heavily on secure communications and has tremendous influence on the US government: Wall Street.
He got jailed for something in a way that trampled on his rights, he shouldn't have been jailed in that way, a judge agreed and set him free.

But the real damage he caused (rather than alerting AT&T in a dumb way that their security sucks) is that he tried very hard to ruin some people's lives, and that he succeeded to some extent in doing this. That he rejoiced in their pain and then tried very hard to pretend it wasn't him is despicable (and makes him a cowards besides being an asshole) and I wouldn't mind if someone directly harmed by him sued him for that and if he went to jail for that.

Does that clear it up for you?

Ignoring the trolls gets a little harder when they start inciting people to rape you, kill you or violate your personal integrity in other ways, see linked article for your perusal.
As you point out, not all academic institutions have this access. For example, a college which only teaches undergraduates is unlikely to subscribe to the specialist journals, even though a couple of the professors will be interested in those topics. (One common solution is for, say, the chemistry professors to get a personal ACS membership, which gives access to a limited number of ACS journal articles per year.)

There are researchers at companies. There are researchers with no affiliation. Many have an issue with paywalls even though you haven't.

I'm a self-employed software developer in cheminformatics who also does research in the history of the field. I can do this because the local(ish) chemistry library has most of the papers on paper in the basement. It's a public library, supported by my taxes. Otherwise it would be very expensive to get copies of the hundreds of papers I've read or looked through.

As an example, one of the papers from the 1960s has information I wanted in 'figure 2'. Only it turns out that figure 2 was swapped with figure 2 from the next paper in the journal. Both papers were by the same author. I don't know if it's an author error or a layout error by the journal. It would have been much harder to figure that out if I had to ask friends at another site for a copy of the paper in the first place.

So yes, I am a researcher whose research is restricted by the cost of reading the latest journals. My decision to look at the history of the field, rather than the present, is partially influenced by the fact that I have better (read "cheaper") access to the old materials than the new. Interlibrary loan is amazing.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the school in question, has a dual degree program where you can use some graduate classes to satisfy both the BS and MS credit requirements. She still had to write a research thesis.
I am working on a similar product Viur
http://www.viur.pt with a very flexible pricing targeted to startups, small and mid-size businesses. Our private beta is going live for our subscribers in the next few weeks.
She didn't abuse him, unless you think every man who's cheated on a woman is also abusive.
Why the Internet is slowly strangling religion
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I meant Eric Schmidt, by the way, not Larry Page.
> It does not seem to be about women in tech generally but seems to boil down to the work of a few socio-/psychopaths caught in a feedback loop.

I think it's more than just a few and I think she's trying to broaden the scope by showing (fairly clearly) that outside of the BSD community these issues are pervasive.

Hard for me to judge if that's true or not but I'll take her word for it.
Two Types of "A" Players
Why is it that there seems to be the assumption that all "A" players are those who live to work, work 60+ hour weeks, and generally immerse themselves with their work?

I employ "A" players who want to work 40 hours a week and spend the rest of the time with their families. They are excellent at what they do; they just want to do it as a job, not as a lifestyle, and they want to compartmentalize it into 9-5, M-F.

Why is that so hard to believe?
I didn't think I would need to explain this...

The problem with that is that it's a very slippery slope. Everything you do, someone will complain, and be hurt. You're pro choice? You hurt Christians. You're pro life? You hurt women. You're pro immigration? You hurt domestic workers. You're against immigration? You're hurting foreigners living in oppressive countries. Most any binary choice will have some people pro and others against, and unfortunately everybody can pretend they're emotionally hurt, which effectively means you'll be jailing people whose opponents are the loudest.
Indeed, I really don't see how you can defend not being punished for seriously harming others be it physically or physiologically. Especially in this day and age, where mental problems are beginning to get the attention they deserve and it's not longer taboo to talk about them.
RIT requires a full year of work experience (co-op) for a BS in Computer Engineering.
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot per Person for the Entire U.S.
NASA normally has pretty low-level stuff. To the point of being able to do full firmware updates — though obviously that's something they don't want to risk ordinarily.
She got harassed IRL, that exceeds 'not liking the text on webpages' by a considerable margin.
Examples would be nice. I'm not especially a require fanboy, I use almost exclusively ES6 modules nowadays, but i'm not sure to understand what your library brings.
Ask HN: Wide vs. deep tech skills
I think we find ourselves in a world where (at the top end of the game), you need to be very specialized at one good technology and/or vertical; if you are reasonably good at five different tech skills, the marketplace has very few options.

However, if you don't keep expanding your skill set, you risk being left behind.

What is your strategy for dealing with this?
Congress has a 14% rating overall.
Individual members have much much higher ratings.

People are quite happy with their individual congresspeople, they just aren't getting what they want overall, because everyone wants different things.
You had been target of completely sexist discrimination and many of the perpetrators should be on Jail, but Annita Sarkeesian and a few like her are a completely different subject: http://youtu.be/WuRSaLZidWI

We always look for people with the same motivations and the same struggle than us so I blame no one who relates to her.
That's not all she did, IMO thezoepost is an account of textbook emotional abuse.
It is true, almost to the point of truism, that most people who end up with bad outcomes got there by bad choices. But this omits far too much; good choices aren't made merely by moral character or some other characteristic that can let you condemn someone without further consideration. They're a product of a life's education, a learned way of living, and indeed, a learned helplessness in many cases.

I would argue that moral character mostly doesn't exist. It's mostly just an artifact of what you stand to gain vs what you stand to lose if caught, and what your alternatives are. And when these patterns are iterated, the tradeoffs change. Once you have a criminal record, the fear of getting one is far less, and the opportunities to do well for yourself without one disappear. And so on.

I find it disturbing when people dismiss a whole class of other people for decisions that are cast in a moral light, with the language of blame and hints of sins, and connotations of deserving some kind of punishment. It shows a deeply misguided and unempathetic understanding of humans. It's the kind of thinking that dehumanizes other people.
"Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the top Republican on the Senate’s intelligence committee, has said there’s no urgent need to pass the bill. The law authorizing the NSA to collect bulk phone records expires on June 1, meaning the new Congress can wait until then to pass legislation, Chambliss told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in October."

So this is a public discussion and debate that the country is going to have any way between now and next Fall.

The question then becomes "Why this news article right now?"

Looks a bit like political posturing. If your party is on the way out, you can pretty much propose anything you'd like. Nobody is going to vote it trough, so you get credit for taking a position that you'll never have to live through or defend. It's a win.

Don't get me wrong: I'm all for limiting NSA. I'd just like it to really happen, instead of reading 100 articles like this over the next ten years while nothing ever changes, which is the way this seems to be playing out.

For whatever reason, the establishment, that is, both parties, seem to have secretly decided that it's perfectly okay to have the government sifting through all of our personal lives. I like seeing this lobby group make an economic argument to the Republicans: this is killing our tech sector. I like seeing folks in both parties make a freedom argument: this is the not values our country was constructed on. I even like my personal argument from pragmatism: our country cannot keep operating in such a manner. But all of these arguments seem to just bounce off a stone wall. I hear all kinds of people talking, I see speeches made and bills sponsored that will never see the light of day. I see bills that have a chance of passage that look like they hamstring the government but in fact just allow it to keep doing what it's doing. The only thing I'm not seeing is any real movement here. I'm hoping that will change.
"Pretend to be emotionally hurt"

If we were just talking about mere offense and hurt feelings (which are still serious), I wouldn't be talking about jail time.
Did they control for crop loss and farmer knowledge?

There is a chance that the causal links go like this:

* lack of knowledge -> spray at wrong time

* spray at wrong time -> no pests killed

* no pests killed -> crop loss

* crop loss -> income lost -> depression

* crop loss + lack of knowlege -> spray even more at the wrong times

Thus creating a destructive feedback loop with depression as an accidental side effect of the process. I can say with a high degree of certainty that each single link appears to be true. We'll say 90% confidence factor for each of the five steps, 60% total confidence factor across the whole causal loop.

Knowledge is a huge factor for farming. I can say that from watching my family farm over the past 20 years, that as my family has figured out what to spray and (more importantly) when to spray our pesticide use has dropped and our yields have gone up.
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I also think that one needs to look at the underlying assertions and assumptions the federal government puts into its poverty report.

As cited from http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq2.htm

-Its "headcount" approach identifies only the share of people who fall below the poverty threshold, but does not measure the depth of economic need;

-It does not reflect modern expenses and resources, excluding significant draws on income such as taxes, work expenses, and out-of-pocket medical expenses, and excluding resources such as in-kind benefits (e.g., food assistance);

-It does not vary by geographic differences in cost of living within the contiguous United States;

-It is not adjusted for changes in the standard of living over time; and

-Its strict definition of measurement units—"family"—as persons related by blood or marriage does not reflect the nature of many households, including those made up of cohabitors, unmarried partners with children from previous relationships, and foster children.

There is also the fact that government handouts are tremendously regressive. During a time I had of joblessness and no income, I was on food stamps and other supplemental assistance. When I found a part time job (15 hours/wk), I took it! So.. I made $100 in the first full week. I really got $80, less taxes. And cost me $8 for gas, so my real effective pay was $73. So, SNAP takes out $100 from my food benefit.. ?! I only made $73, so I am in effect being punished $37 for working and trying to better myself.

There are cases much more extreme, where every benefit goes down by X when income goes up by X. Those people end worse off working, unless they can get income that covers all of their losses. Any understanding of basic business 101 says that in their case with the regressive benefits system makes no sense to mildly make oneself better. Unfortunately, the bigger 'make oneself better' just never happens.
The world doesn't owe anybody anything, but to write people off as hopeless is incompatible with at least my personal philosophy, which holds that no one is irredeemable. I prefer to live in a world where people, including myself, can learn from (and be forgiven for) their mistakes.
Are you calling me a misogynist? How on earth did you get to that incredible insult from my initial post?

This kind of abrasive behaviour is exactly why discussing these issues seems impossible. This is why people like me get sick and tired of it. Please educate! Please give me objective education, I crave it!
Extension methods are rewritten by the compiler to a normal static method call with the subject as their first argument (that's how they're defined, anyway). And since you can legitimately pass null to those methods there will be no NRE by default.
Thanks for that explanation. Sounds exciting indeed!
because ES6 modules are not yet well-supported?
Recent Netflix problems were caused by ISPs behaviour that otherwise could be prohibited.

Howso? It's a pretty broad reading of NN that would force Comcast to build beefier connections to Level 3 and Cogent in common data centers. I'd be very interested to hear the interpretation of any currently proposed NN policy that would have resolved that dispute in a positive way for Netflix.
It's also not that uncommon to run a largely GNU userland on non-Linux-based distributions. Some of the Illumos distributions default to the GNU rather than the Solaris-heritage userland, for example (I believe SmartOS is one). And you can install most (all?) of the GNU userland on FreeBSD too, if you prefer it.
At first this was surprising, but those questions aren't as hard as they are making them out to be.
The entire point of a standard is to have multiple implementations. They don't all need to be justified.