skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few different definitions for that word, so I presume they're going for the "to harm someone's reputation by criticizing them" definition, rather than "to pronounce the sounds of a word in a way that is wrong or not clear"
Too communistish for my taste.
"If we subtract £222 billion for Social Protection (we're replacing all of it with our BI)"

I think that's a fallacy with all these calculations. You can't just disband Social Services/Protection. You'll still need to take care of the kids whose parents drink all the basic income at the local pub or blow it at the casinos. And you'll need to take care of the parents and other reckless people as well. We won't just let them starve on the streets because they spent the money on cigarettes and booze.
The Mincome studies don't show a labor dropoff, and that's because Mincome was not a BI program. If you didn't work and tried to live off of Mincome, you'd live at about 1/2 poverty level income. Basically you'd starve or freeze to death.

What Mincome did show was negligible effects in almost all other areas, it neither showed significant increases or decreases in almost any measurable area. The reason Mincome was dropped as a program was that it was expensive and virtually worthless. It wasn't worth doing because it doesn't provide any positive benefits.

Please please please, if you do anything, don't cherry pick favorable studies and read all of them with critical thinking. Read the unfavorable ones and read the favorable ones and figure out what they aren't saying.

Have a great Christmas and New Year as well!
All you need as a proof HFR looks weird is to watch first Capitan America (from the new series of Marvel films)

I personally think most of the issues come from clear motions - you can see they are using props just because they are too light and don't move like a real object would. There isn't enough blur to fool your brain.
I'm sorry, I'm having a brain fart, are you saying that people would save as a mechanism to ensure the BI stay low?

I'm not sure people in aggregate think that abstractly. Though I will say there's lots of evidence that people's personal microeconomic decisions are impacted by macroeconomic conditions so...
Perhaps Swedish speaking finns used to watch Swedish TV? I suppose that would have a very strong cultural influence.
But NK sure is a convenient bogeyman for the real agenda: to bring in CISPA: http://www.zdnet.com/article/white-house-wants-congress-to-r...
I see very little point in Shumway.It will run most swf so slow it wont be really usable in a professional context.

Start from scratch.Use WebGL and emscriptem.Write a flash like IDE that uses C++ or a safe language that compiles with the LLVM toolchain.Make flash without flash,backed by webtechs instead writing an emulator or that's just cargo culting.
No. Some folks or kids will still need help after the basic income is spent on booze or gambled away. And some people will choose to live on the streets. Society won't just let them starve in the gutter.
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The first place I got the impression that it was a good idea to cache the array length and/or reverse loops was in Zakas, "High Performance Javascript" [1]. The book was written in 2010, and I have a feeling that compiler advances have laid waste to huge swaths of it. Some of it may have already been outdated when it was written. Even so, performance folklore is slow to disappear.

I've found everything that Egorov (author of this post) has written is well worth reading.

If there's one overall theme of his work, it's that it is generally highly unreliable to extrapolate the result of micro-benchmarks to real code. Instead, you need to measure potential optimizations in your actual code base. And you might need to do it again next year, because compilers are constantly changing and usually improving.

If there's a second overall theme, it's that you can and should examine the code that your JS compiler is producing, rather than relying completely on black box benchmarks. It would be great if browser dev tools would make this easier to do directly. Currently, I find the external tools for doing this hard enough to set up and manage that it isn't really very economical to do this kind of analysis frequently.

Compare to Julia, where you can call code_llvm(fn, (argtypes...)) to see the LLVM IR of a piece of code right from the REPL, or code_native(fn, (argtypes...)) to see the generated machine code for your architecture.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=ED6ph4WEIoQC&lpg=PA64&vq=th...
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Merry Christmas HN. All the best for the coming new year. I wish you all the success available!
Some people like it to feel superior and some parts of PHP make an easy target. Not to mention sheer mass of PHP scripts that make a huge target.
I don't think that we have the right to play god on people's life. What I was saying is very different, I am saying that, as a society, it is peculiar that we would choose to support those people.

Ignoring them is not the same as taking their life.
How portable is this, exactly?

Previously, node-webkit looked like a great contender for a universally shippable desktop UI system, but it actually falls on several platforms due to invalid presumptions about locally available dynamically linked libraries [1]. It would be great to see an up-front document about portability promises.

Is it possible to use other languages to drive the rendering via a linked API? Thrust [2] did a good start on defining an API for using the UI components from multiple languages, but it still relies on TCP sockets -- as far as I can tell, there's no way to make my application load assets from "bundle://" and redirect that to custom handler code while forbidding other network access, and the use of a local TCP socket to communicate between the UI and the main application means there's also major reason to be concerned about CSRF attacks on localhost. We should be able to build desktop UIs without these problems. Is atom-shell pushing forward on any of these issues, and if so is there any documentation on how?

[1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-o...

[2] https://github.com/breach/thrust
Seems like an exaggerated straw man. I don't see how anyone could reasonably stretch a one-liner into 6.

But yeah - "dense" is an adjective that I try to avoid when coding. Code should be clean, simple, and easy to read.
While the article is mostly true, the commitment to this tradition is very exaggerated. Few of the people I know gather around the TV show.

Source: Being a swede.
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Same procedure every year. Europeans love their traditions and customs.
Maybe you could document that more explicitly. Basically defining the scope of the project and where to look for complementary tools like proj4js and rbush for instance.
How are they going to enforce the exclusive sale model?

I can think of three or four ways to defeat even a relatively sophisticated attempt to do so in an automated manner. And if you're going to make money off selling secrets, what could be better than selling the same thing to a dozen purchasers each of whom thinks that they have an exclusive on the deal.
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By disabled, do you mean the same processor design being binned into varying qualities of chip? In that case, it seems much more cost effective, and environmentally friendly, to send out chips with bad sections disabled at a lower price rather than to chuck them out.
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Title should be "Logistic regression without negative examples." Confusingly named as it is, logistic regression is a classification method, not regression. Regression does not have positive or negative examples by definition.
Problem is, humans are not the first intelligent species on this planet. Others are only tolerating us, and I do not know to what threshold.
Fantastic! I love your integrating the display into the whole experience. Its really surprising how nice the tuned piano sounded. Your tuner worked some real magic there.
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Regarding the aluminum tubes: the DOE's analysis, which found that they probably weren't used to enrich uranium, was classified. However, the CIA's analysis that it probably was used to enrich uranium wasn't. The two findings were released within a day of each other, back in 2001.

Because the former was classified, when congress decided to go to war, they were not presented with the DOE's findings. Only the CIA's.

If not nefarious, what would you call this? Convenient?
Tim Cook was lying. That doesn't mean people who engage in work to support scientific and technological advancement (rather then mere iteration) are also lying.
As a consumer family, during 2014 we bought several used Win 7 i5 Lenovo T410 and T510 from a simply-lovely and adorable eBay vendor. $200-$250 price class.

The ones with video GPUs chips went to the kids. They're extremely happy, so the laptoos must be good enough. They use them daily. I got The Beast, and added an SSD and BluRay player drive. I'm very happy too.

It's been a great year for used computer hardware. The available used hardware with Win 7 is great. YMMV.

Merry Xmas!!
Schneier is a skeptic. And skepticism garners more page views and also street credibility. It's not a bad way for him to get into the news every once in a while.

Moreover, basically what he's saying is there is more than one possible probable actor whereas the FBI discounted the rest. It's not that insightful.

Schneier is a pretty smart guy, but like everyone else has biases (I mean, tendencies). Not saying he's wrong here as I, as most everyone, have no first or second hand knowledge about this incident. Just saying that just because it's Schneier does not give him any more credibility in this than anyone else, unless he knows something about this incident most people don't know.
If you haven't seen Bvckup 2, it's easily one of the best designed Windows apps of not just 2014, but recent years - https://bvckup2.com/wip/. Lots of thoughtful little details - one beautifully fluid UI that still looks and feels native.
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Funny that you mention Homestar Runner -- I've recently introduced my daughter to that site, and she loves it. And while I'm watching her play with it, I marvel at how that kind of rich interactive experience (the sbemails with clickable text Easter Eggs, for instance) was available back then, and it seems like we've pretty much backslid from the functionality of a site like that with HTML5 -- if it's available in HTML5 and Javascript, it's still nowhere near as easy for nonprogrammers to author that kind of content without Flash.
Today I've finally found the time to add a long requested feature to the appointment scheduling system that I offer as Saas. It'll allow customers to pick and book multiple appointments in one go. As a bonus I'll make the look and feel a bit modern and ajaxy.

http://www.appointmind.com/
What if you were to use wifi to pinpoint the location instead of actual GPS? Would that make the hardware less bulky? Can you use inductive wireless charging to recharge the device?
Or how about "I've got more ideas on how to improve productivity. How about a raise, or I go to work for your competitor?"
Heck, a worker who can double productivity can write their own ticket.
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Good point, thanks. I'll change the name. Happy holidays.
Not only that, but 10x or more money is loaned out or invested than is actually in the accounts. That's why we have financial crises.
You don't have to depend on an article to provide evidence of a connection between Google's execs and the political leadership.

The fact that those execs were getting cheap gas for their private jets is more than enough for anybody to put 2 and 2 together and get the right result.
Does it have that horrible Lector dubbing?
Qt and JavaFX are extensible and can plug into the native APIs.

HTML is a document format trying to be a platform, without any mechanism to plug into native APIs.

I have done web development contracts since the cgi days and would never use it for native applications.
#bitcoin-assets on freenode is a good one with frequent discussion
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That's still not what I'm trying to say, no... Look at how I referenced saving. I said that BI should stay low, and that a comfortable life should be derived from "BI plus something" - with drawing down savings being one possibility. What motivates working people to save, in that context, is the hope of maintaining a higher standard of living in the future when they work less (or on something unpaid) or in the face of adversity. We probably shouldn't expect people receiving only the BI to be saving much - I don't know how that factors into the broader scheme of things, but it doesn't seem to have much impact on anything I was talking about.

In terms of a mechanism (beyond advocacy) for keeping BI sufficiently low: I'd propose (tentatively) pegging inflation adjustment to targeted inflation rather than actual inflation. If the BI is high enough that more people stop working than we can afford, wages and prices will rise and the real BI will fall.
Reading between the lines in the Gradle docs, it looks like Gradle will ditch Groovy soon enough. Gradle 2 had almost no Groovy left in its own codebase, only was what was directly related to handling the Gradle DSL. No open source project's Gradle build script I've ever seen ever drops out of the DSL to use any of Groovy programming language, including Groovy's own build script. I suspect Gradleware will replace the Groovy with its own lightweight custom DSL parser soon enough.
Please don't forget that regardless of what you think his agenda is, Assange was/is doing what the MSM is failing to do.
Part of the reason we have a vast and highly paid entertainment industry, for example, is because automation eliminated a large number of jobs.

Productivity gains enable all sorts of industries to exist that couldn't have previously, such as people who clean dinosaur bones, get paid to play baseball, do interior decorating, restore classic cars, organize your closets, etc.
I'd be really interested to hear from HN about "appeal to authority".

When someone talks about security, and links to Schneier, I give their argumet more credit. If they link to GRC I give them less credit, and sometimes I dismess their comment.

I realise this is a bad thing. Gibson is going to be right occasionally and Schneier is going to be wrong sometimes.

But is this a generally sound policy? Find the experts and "not-experts" and decide how much time to spend investigating what they say accordingly; or should I be evaluatin arguments equally regardless who makes the arguemtn (with exceptions for obvious trolls and wingnuts)?
It's a hassle if you have to call the vendor at all. Not all Windows versions have downgrade rights (see Vista, certain editions of 7).

Also pricing is an issue: all recent desktop versions of MacOSX are either free or very inexpensive ($30 or less).

You could likewise say that filing an insurance claim is easy... sure, but for some folks even knowing to make the call is an undue burden - exactly how the vendor wants it.
Hm, I don't think this is a good example if the point is to talk about general graphics slowness, because the slowness here is not due to generic graphics issues.

This is slow because each pane is running in its own process and it's doing some complicated cross-process graphics stuff to get all the drawing into the same window. This changed in… maybe Lion?
I've been playing with the Renesas RZ/A1 line, which comes with three sizes of eDRAM on board: 3, 5, and 10MiB. The price differences between them are so large it sure seems like they're binning the parts.
Taxi companies pay both.
I just finished going through a Fourier Transform course. The technical answer is that you don't interpolate the samples with lines, but with the sinc function. The sinc function is sinusoidal and so it more naturally approximates waves. In this case 2xMaxFreq is enough to reproduce it exactly. Using linear interpolation in the whitepaper is a blatant lie.

>So if our eyes really are 100Hz we can't see anything above 50Hz.

I'm not sure this follows as we're not perceiving waveforms when light hits our eyes, but we're perceiving intensity of energy hitting our receptors.
Umm... North Korea tries to avoid media attention all the time, phone up the consulate and ask for a VISA to roam around the country taking pictures, this is why they call it the hermit kingdom.

What NK tries to do is control the media.

Also, when they are successful at avoiding media attention you don't hear about it, so you have selection bias based on their regular outlandish threats that DO get media attention.
Starting a project like this in C seems like a dangerous proposition. Anonymity would be essential for all parties in the operation, and starting a project in a memory unsafe language doesn't seem like the strongest foundation to build on. It sounds like all of the people involved are experienced, but it still seems like unnecessary risk. Especially as I don't see which part of this would need to be so performant that C is the only option.

However the people behind this have been thinking about it far more than I have so I'm sure they have their reasons for doing it in C.
While i doubt it was NK, if they didnt mask their ip, then everyone would just block that range(i heard they only have a few, although im not 100% certain).
The part the author is using here is especially odd: it's on the large side for AVR microcontrollers (128 KB flash, 16 KB SRAM), and comes in a DIP package. That's an unusual combination; most microcontrollers that size nowadays are ARM, and are often only available as surface-mount parts.
Excellent article. Really portrays the "golden age turns to dystopia" well.

Also, not safe for work.
Also: Bitmarkets http://voluntary.net/bitmarkets/

It uses Bitmessage and two party escrow Bitcoin transactions.
Which seems backwards because before Chrome, Google would pay Mozilla pretty large amounts of money [0] just to have their search as an easily-changeable default.

[0] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp
Nobody is arguing that. What people are arguing is that if copyright does not promote the progress of science and useful arts, it fails to fulfill the intent of its existence. The follow-on argument is then that indefinitely extending copyright undermines that promotion of progress. If you buy both arguments, then you see why many people find the extensions so objectionable on Constitutional grounds. I don't think many people disagree with the first argument, because it's right there in the text (which is the point I believe your parent was making), but of course lots of people disagree with the second argument, believing that longer copyright terms better promote creation.
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Ofcourse you can! I dont know why I didnt think of that
In a digital world, those distribution partnerships need to move a lot faster or a lot of people will give the same answer.
It's a bit easier to imagine than create.
Schneier himself makes a couple of appeals to authority (Allan Friedman, Jonathan Zittrain) by essentially saying I believe this because so and so told me something (and I think their logic and conclusions are sound). But in neither case provides opposing opinions (as though there might not be).

But, to your question. I think we should question everyone one's assertions. Lots of experts, I mean true domain experts, will opine one way, just to be wrong down the road. So, maybe being an expert gives them an edge over a non expert but it does not make them automatically right.
Interesting paper.

My anecdata: I went to a boring state school. At one point it was not much more than a finisher 4-year school for commuters and people transferring from the local community college. I went there when it was a little more established and at least had a few proper dorms, I was a transfer from a community college (which meant I skipped all of the selectivity issues).

Going for my M.S. was easy, the school assumes if you graduated with a B.S. from one of their programs than you should be qualified for an M.S. without taking a standardized entrance exam. So I "applied" and started going to class the next semester.

These days it's harder. The school has become more selective -- about 60% acceptance rate -- which puts it in league with schools like University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign, University of George, Texas A&M, Rutgers and slightly more selective than Michigan State, University of Vermont, University of Colorado and much more than Drexel, University of Missouri, Auburn, Loyola, Oklahoma, Kansas or Arizona State.

I have a number of peers with undergraduate degrees and high-GPAs from top-tier schools who can't get admission into a Master's program, or second Undergrad program at my University, even after multiple attempts and "settle" for other schools nearby that, paradoxically, are better known nationally and rank higher. Their personal results seem to befuddle the U.S. News data on national rankings (though there may be local effects, my University is apparently a top-5 school for my state now).

I feel like I'm riding a prestige wave I didn't get on. I grew up poor and was just glad to have the opportunity to go to college, even if it was a marginal state school. I get recruiters hitting me up for not much more than the school I went to and when I went looking for my last job, a topic of major interest in the interviews was my schooling.

So it really has grown up and become more selective as a school, and my understanding is that the direction the school wishes to go is to become even more selective and become a proper Tier-1 institution...to the dismay of many of my fellow alums due to the future opportunities it will no longer afford incoming students.
You should probably take the time to think about how you're writing your software soon, and maybe consider the possibility of hiring a consultant to audit your code before you ship.

Also, what debacle said.
Very cool! Have you looked into the legal issues, for example ToS and copyright? I wonder if Blizzard would be within their rights to force a takedown of the code whenever they want.
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Qt with QML can use JavaScript, therefor it is possible for developers who are used to the web platform to use it without having to relearn everything, AND it is far more lightweight than Atom Shell.
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Happy/Merry [whatever your particular culture celebrates] everyone.
CISPA was already vetoed due to inadequate privacy protections but the fundamental rationale of requiring private companies to share threat information with the government is pretty reasonable. CISPA just needs to be fixed and reintroduced which has been Obama's stance for a while.
While my impulse was to agree with you, I think there might be a worthwhile distinction to be made here. If so, we all need to be a bit clearer on it.

If qsort's comparison function is a callback, is that true of any function argument to any higher-order function? If so, why the additional term? If not, what makes a function passed as argument a "callback"?