skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right now there are people who are running Android on Intel devices and they have absolutely no idea that they are.

This is good for consumers, but terrible for Intel. Once Intel stops wrapping a $50 bill around every Android tablet chip they sell, why would device makers or consumers choose Intel-powered tablets over anything else?

Android tablet SoCs are a commodity market with many players, and the prices will reflect that. It's a market that might bring revenue for Intel, but will never be able to help support their current fat profit margins.
I wonder what kind of "license issues" are present in the current software?

"U-boot/Kernel/Linux source code will be released 15-Dec-2014. Android source code will be published in February after cleaning some license issues."

Looks like the biggest problem with most of these ARM boards (raspberry pi included) is the dependency on some closed-source binary blobs, at least for boot, and sometimes even the entire kernel is a closed branch off some old release.
A somewhat interesting anecdotal snippet, but the ending was far too abrupt. Almost zero analysis as to the author's feelings about money being a myth makes the article feel like a "I used to be poor, but even when I got a 400k bonus, I still didn't want to buy good gloves"... Okay then, I guess I'll stop thinking there's security in money...
If anything, that justifies to me why tasers aren't good enough. They had a right to shoot him if he was punching an officer in the head while forcing the officer into a corner.
>"For example, Latanya Sweeney [21] from the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University, has demonstrated that 87 percent of the U.S.
population can be uniquely identified with a reasonable degree of
certainty by a combination of ZIP code, date of birth, and gender."

>"[21] Sweeney, L. (2002b). Achieving k-anonymity privacy protection using
generalization and suppression. International Journal on Uncertainty,
Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems 10(5): 571-588."

http://dataprivacylab.org/dataprivacy/projects/kanonymity/ka...

Of course, I was told that my tin-foil hat was on far too tight when I
said you should never answer the infamous chat question, "A/S/L?"

A bit more seriously, I'm beginning to wonder it is even possible to
properly anonymize/de-identify MOOC student data well enough to satisfy
all the FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) legislation
requirements. It seems the "other information" requirement of the law
would make compliance impossible.
It's an "infomercial" for a book.
Thanks for the great resource!

Similar interviews are in the following book from 2009. (I am not related to the book, I just read it years ago)

Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages

http://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations-...

[...] exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages [...]

• Adin D. Falkoff: APL

• Thomas E. Kurtz: BASIC

• Charles H. Moore: FORTH

• Robin Milner: ML

• Donald D. Chamberlin: SQL

• Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan: AWK

• Charles Geschke and John Warnock: PostScript

• Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

• Bertrand Meyer: Eiffel

• Brad Cox and Tom Love: Objective-C

• Larry Wall: Perl

• Simon Peyton Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, and John Hughes: Haskell

• Guido van Rossum: Python

• Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy: Lua

• James Gosling: Java

• Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh: UML

• Anders Hejlsberg: Delphi inventor and lead developer of C#

(Neither the The A-Z of Programming Languages nor Masterminds of Programming interviewed Niklaus Wirth (Pascal, Oberon, etc.).)
Ask HN: “Unofficial” second year CS student applying for technical internships
As a brief intro, I majored in economics in my first two years, went to a business program in my third year, stayed for a year. Over this summer, I took two first year CS courses (prerequisites for all 2nd year CS). Transferred to a CS program starting this Sept., taking mostly second year CS courses and two third year CS courses. So basically my CS knowledge level is at a second year level, but my official year is 4th year. I will finish the CS program and graduate in 2 years (2016). I have several business-related (tech consulting over this summer) internships over the past 4 summers since high school.

Starting this year, I have been starting working on side projects (web apps) but mostly front-end stuff for now. I have applied to Google's Engineering Practicum program and was informed that I wasn't eligible because I was not going to be graduating in 2017 or 2018. I was debating on applying for the normal SE positions because of my limited technical skills holding me back. I applied to several product manager intern positions as well.

If i want to apply for technical positions, what would be the strategy (target companies, positions, etc...)? What other suggestions do you guys have in terms of my current focus and priority?

Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it!
* ) the eigenvectors are [1,1] and [1,-1], via
http://live.sympy.org/?evaluate=X%20%3D%20Matrix(%5B%5B0%2C1...

* ) The standard basis B_s = {[1,0],[0,1]} and the Hadamard basis B_h={[1,1],[1,-1]} are a mutually unbiased bases, which means any basis vector lies exactly "in between" the vectors from the other basis.

The use of mutually unbiased bases has applications in quantum crypto: if the same basis is used for encoding and decoding a bit of information the bit will be transmitted faithfully, else if a different basis is used for decoding than the basis used for encoding, the receiver will decode pure noise (i.e. a 50-50% random bit). This "uncertainty about which basis is used to encode the message" is the key idea behind the BB84 protocol.
This is exactly what I retain from my limited experience with psychedelics. I sometimes jokingly say the world would be a better place if every politicians would have used psychedelics but I tend to think that might be true.
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One of my flight instructors actually put me through a few hours of tracon ;)
as I've gotten older I've increasingly wondered if I should make the jump (back, technically) to low-level programming. working on those highly constrained devices, every cycle matters, every bit, every watt, etc. because that's where I started as a kid and think it would give me a market advantage over the younger generation who've grown up with supercomputers in their pockets, a dozen high-level languages to choose from, frameworks for everything, tutorials and videos for everything, and not really having to worry about performance or resource usage like "we" used to have to do just to make anything work at all.
I was redirected to news.google.com and see no traces of Spanish media there.
This article is beyond awesome - I was actually starting to think I'm in some kind of burnout stage since I didn't feel productive at all and I was blaming it on the fact that I've grown from a developer role into a more managerial one. I'm quite an extrovert working full time fully remote and some days just seem like they last forever.

/me is off to find a coworking space nearby.
I build something similar for Atom a few months ago[1] and while some people liked the idea a lot of comments were negative and turned around that fact that programming is not about copy/pasting and plagiarism. Now a similar project is built but for emacs and comments about the concept of having a client inside an editor is interesting and powerful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7931667
A key feature for me would be that it remains runnable in the browser.

Gauss (https://github.com/wayoutmind/gauss) has some nice features in this space. But only has vectors at the moment.
Do we have any insight into why they made an exception for Google? The obvious starting point is Google threatening to stop search indexing sites they can't use in Google news - there might even be technical justification for that. But presumably the publishers would attack that as abusing a monopoly position, it seems pretty much textbook definition. They must have known signing with Google while that law existed would only make Google stronger like you said - so it'd be interesting to know why they'd do that.
You are, of course, right — perhaps I didn't make it clear enough in calling it a 'snippet' (i.e. extract) — but I feel this is far too paltry even if it is trying to sell a book!
No, that is not at all what I was saying, but thank you for trying.
Ask HN: What resources would you recommend to set up a paid newsletter?
Hello.

I'm trying to monetize a blog by setting up a paid subscription tier for visitors who want scheduled, special content that goes more in-depth than the web material (and includes extra downloads like source code, images, etc.).

I currently have Mailgun set up for transactional emails (and frankly, absolutely love the routes system and the general robustness of the API).

Does anyone have experience with configuring a paid newsletter option on top of Mailgun? Or another service? (I'm willing to integrate another service, but would like to keep MG in the mix if possible)
Mathematical Analysis of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Chord
The most heinous thing about opiate overdoses is that there exists a drug (Naloxone/Narcan) that if administered in a comfortable window of time will completely negate the effects of the overdose and there are still states in the US that don't condone or approve of its use among drug addicts.

Here's a link to a Vice documentary talking about it:
http://www.vice.com/video/back-from-the-brink-heroins-antido...
The cost of developing an ARM core would need to be paid for solely by sales of ARM chips.

By sharing x86 and graphics cores with all their other chips, that R&D is amortized across everything (and the financials for the Mobile division don't look nearly as bad)
I bought a Odroid-U3 and pretty often the bottleneck was on the microSD card so I grew tired of it and I bought a eMMC 64gb and it gets the job done. It is way faster than the best microSD if that is what you were wondering.
You seem to be assuming that the health conditions and costs commonly associated with obesity are all primarily caused by obesity. I'd suggest you consider the possibility that obesity is just as likely to be a symptom of poor health as it is to be the cause of it. On this point, there are plenty of people who aren't obese who have cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc.

There's a lot we don't know about the human body, but based on what we do know, it's asinine to believe that folks can eat horribly and live sedentary lifestyles without serious consequence. That, however, is what magic pill research effectively promises.
Good move on your part.

Lets hope Nadella works out well for you and MS.

I've made my career on MS technologies, and it's been painful over the past decade or so to gradually turn away from it as the big corporation management power plays run their course.
I've been using a SE39UY04 under Linux for the past year at about a two foot viewing distance, and it's no strain to use. I'm slightly elevated to its center because I use a stationary bike as my chair, which also allows me to lean in or out as I need. It is pretty big, so I'd probably hate using it if I had to sit in a regular chair all day, too though.

Also, since most major Linux distros handle HiDPI scaling for you out of the box, I only did minor tweaking for text in dconf. Pretty painless overall, physically and literally.

When I game at 1080_120 or 1440_60, I do scoot back a little more out of habit, but it looks amazing close up. I have another 1080_60 TV the same size, and I have to sit across the room if I don't want to see the pixels. If I did get another monitor, it'd be a 22ish inch 1440_144 overclock. They seem pretty much ideal size, refresh, and DPI wise.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but a pill is nowhere near as effective at causing weight loss as changing your diet can be.
You're affirming the consequent. We don't have receptors for plants found in the wild (cannibis, nicotine, etc). Rather, compounds formed by those plants match up with receptors we already have.

There's an entire endocannabinoid system, and it's not because pot is natural. Nicotine broadly matches up with acetylcholine and nicotonic acetylcholine receptors.

It's far more likely that plants evolved and selected for compounds which have beneficial/detrimental effects on possible consumers, like nicotine as a pesticide, than it is that we have receptors for plants found in the wild on the off chance that we may have consumed them or that they would have been so prevalent in the past that receptors for them would have been selected for.
It'll happen 16th December 2014.

http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.pt/2014/12/an-update-on-g...
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Strong people would be healthier than weak ones. As Mark Rippetoe (author of Starting Strength says):

“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”
Do they still make VA panels? What are the good ones you would recommend?
Can you work in the US as a freelancer without the H1B visa?
Woman Started Drinking 3 Litres of Water Everyday, Now Looks TEN Years Younger
It is utterly pointless and expensive to have an entire monitor dedicated to an application.

A basic monitor is a couple of hundred dollars. That's only a few hours work for a $100k employee - if that setup makes them more efficient, then it's easily worth the money.
It's hard to explain when there are all these reasonably featureful programming editors and IDEs going around. The key realisation to have is that even today I spend a huge amount of time just editing text. Commenting on HN? Editing text. Emails? Editing text. Coding? Editing text.

Once you have that "everything is text" realisation, there are two ways to make the most of it. One is to have an editor that's easily called from other places (e.g., vim) and the other is to have an editor that can be integrated into everything (e.g., emacs).

I started using emacs over a decade ago, and it keeps growing and changing to best suit my workflow. And yes, that includes reading mail.
What do you do if the news organizations seem to have less integrity left than Google. It's a shameful display of German "journalism". Everyone in that lobby should just quit. Go to Pluto, go suck somewhere else at your "job".

I am angry and ashamed at the newspapers of my country.
>" if you are interested in maintaining [control of] civilization" //

Fixed it for you?
Once Intel stops wrapping a $50 bill around every Android tablet chip they sell, why would device makers or consumers choose Intel-powered tablets over anything else?

Why wouldn't they is the real question. Previously they wouldn't simply because platform support was mediocre to non-existent, and third party apps didn't support it or ran miserable.

It was an ARM party. x86 was a non-starter. Intel would have zero buyers if they sold at normal prices for what was destined to be a second-rate experience.

Now Android fully supports x86 (and very soon x86-64), and while many third-party apps explicitly support x86 (the NDK makes it a simple extra flag, and of course fully managed apps already fully support it), those that don't still run superbly.

Regularly here on HN we see people who are actually in this industry who don't even realize that Intel and x86 have become serious competitors. That devices they might have used are running it.

Android tablet SoCs are a commodity market with many players

Qualcomm has seen exploding revenues, now pushing $30 billion per annum and great profit margins. It is anything but a "commodity" market, and a few makers are making gangbusters.
They want it back, and they want it to pay them. And they want a pony too. So they all ride the wahbulance off to try and get the authorities to fight their battles for them.
Meanwhile all the spanish folk who can, are already leaving Spain in search of work, given the massive unemployment there.
1. Choose Yourself! by James Altucher
2. CRUSH IT! by Gary Vaynerchuk
3. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
4. Let Go by Pat Flynn
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> * Maybe this whole board is just one giant programmatic timesink meant to waste your time and discourage you from doing something.*

As a kid I read a science-fiction short story to that effect --- a successful scientist discovers that he's being drawn into more and more university-committee work, etc., and thus has less and less time for his real work. He detects signs that "someone" (aliens?) is doing this intentionally, to all kinds of knowledge workers. Wish I could remember the title and author.
To be honest, titles don't matter. Authority and duties matter.
Laser hits a mirror – captured at 100B frames per second
My point is that they are not relating to each other.

Modern conversation seems to be morphing into the art of using others' comments as triggers for one's own monologue. Instead of having the discipline of quieting ourselves in order to comprehend what others are saying, we isolate ourselves into narcissism by placing mirrors onto their heads.

An awareness of this trend may surprise you about how little we actually relate to each other. Rather, we use others to relate to ourselves.
Only the rich say that money doesn't matter.
no, you can check your inflating operations before executing them.

But the idea that in 2014 this integer overflow detecting in C, is still a headline is frankly scary. We are all living a very fragile life.
If I were Google, I would start charging a fee for being indexed in Google news.
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Alcohol is a drug.
Yes, absolutely. The companies pay you via either one of the freelancing sites or direct bank transfer(paypal isn't working in India right now) and you pay your taxes in India.
Here is most of what I remember:http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/162zpu/tomtvi...

The other game I can't remember was contra/turrican like game with main character like a robot and you could go in all directions on a map. I remember there were egyptian motifs around levels and I vaguely remember that game had a name Phoenix or something similar. Same time period, same nondescript arcade cabinet. Both in Europe / Croatia.
There's some truth to that, but you have to pay attention to the other factors involved in a typical full-time job. You probably are giving up a lot of money compared to what your work is objectively worth, but not simply to greed and exploitation. At least some of the gap is from the stability and reduction of risk. You know exactly how much money you're going to make every month, and it doesn't change, even if the company/your product isn't doing so well right now. That isn't natural, and it doesn't come for free.

To see the other side of that, you can always work as an independent consultant. You'll probably make more money if you do it well, but you'll have a lot more risk and variability in your income. Can't find a client this month? Tough luck, hope you've got savings. That's what you're giving up money for protection from.

There's also usually a bunch of other stuff provided, which may include sales, advertising, market analysis, customer relations, infrastructure management, etc.
Thanks! Entered. I've read Execution before - really good stuff on the importance of processes and management
I fail to follow the point of this article, especially given the author's stated insincerity regarding compassion.
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Curious about this. I agree, Google gives more exposure, but Google does make money off of them.

I'm not as worried about this in news snippets (as it gives people something to read to decide to click which benefits the news content creators), but what about in situations where that's not the case?

There's a lot of searches that straight up scrape wikipedia and show the first paragraph as the result from google - thereby disincentivizing people to click on that result (and hurting the content creator).

Google's been creeping into the 'content" space over the past few years, both serving as a portal & serving up direct answers. I'm curious to if it will come back to haunt them in the future (or what content creators can do in response to this).
This response shows a willful ignorance of the stated goals of Common Core, especially with relation to the Common Core math curriculum. Common Core's primary pedagogical shift in math is to remove the historical focus on math as a set of mindless procedures, and instead teach children math as a broader, more holistic approach to logical & numerical reasoning. Common Core teaches children to solve problems many different ways, make arguments about why both tactics work, etc. This is about as far as one can be from the traditional "teaching to the test" downsides.
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It doesn't have to be "better than diet," per se. Though, I do note that diet has done a lousy job of helping most of the population. And the response that people aren't following the correct diet is missing the point. As that is the point.

That is to say, which do you think you'd have better luck with, convincing a segment of the population to take a pill once a day, or to adopt a diet that will have advantageous results?

Edit: And this ignores that you could go with both, of course.
Experience is worth something, even if it comes from toy projects.

The downside of "lazy learning" is you can't know what tools you'll need in the future. I was able to win at one of my favorite work projects because I'd played with signal processing and machine learning for fun.

Had I not, I would've concluded I couldn't beat the terrible solution we had—I wouldn't have had the tools to know better.

And of course, your reinvented wheel might turn out to be an actual improvement!
in case you missed why your comment didn't add to the conversation: Khan Academy and the article are both not about coding or learning to code. This article is about math.
It seems like a lot of problems in C/C++ is caused by "this code might be removed duration optimisation." Makes the whole environment undefined.

Why has nobody pushed for marking key sections of code with "don't optimise away" flags?

In C# you have this:

[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.NoOptimization)]
public static string GetCalendarName(Calendar cal)
{
return cal.ToString().Replace("System.Globalization.", "").
Replace("Calendar", "");
}
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Couldn´t agree more, but how do you convince millions of people to change their diet with the promise that it will reduce their health problems in 20-30 years, saving their country billions of dollar a year in health care costs ?
Some eMMC modules claim 150MB/s read/write; i.e. same speed as hard drives from about 5-7 years ago. Or put another way approximately twice as fast as an average USB3 flash drive.
Shareholders. The traffic to their websites dropped so massively they would have killed their own business. Took less than a month. So the same guy (CEO I think) who bashed against Google at any occasion had to get it settled or risk his own job.
Unless you're one of the people who have metabolic issues which make being functional in life with a duet that would support weight loss impractical without a pill. People who need to lose weight are often not in perfect health aside from being overweight (sometimes this is either a cause or effect if being overweight in the first place.)
someday I'm going to build a nuclear reactor out of legos just for the buzz
that's a case of love/hate to Google we also have in France. The press and Google also fight a lot.