skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Symbols that just give you function names are very different from function names and the source inside them!
One inevitable business area is in anti-drone system, particularly in drone-capture systems (e.g. intercept and actually "capture" the drone and its cargo for forensics, etc). If you made such a system right now, you'd immediately have orders from the White House, other high security locations, and eventually the wealthy, etc.

And of course, stealing from delivery drones is going to become a thing.
What defines the defeat of net neutrality (like deregulation in general) as a corporate interest is that the predominant interest against net neutrality comes from big corporations, while the predominant interest for net neutrality is the general interest of individual consumers and other small fry. It makes no difference if a few competitors to Comcast come out for net neutrality, or if you can dig really hard to find that WeirdCorp of Boulder, Co argues for regulation that will reduce its own business opportunities. That's a minor footnote. The defeat of net neutrality is still a corporate interest.

"Business-friendly" is politically coded language for favoring capital holders over employees, consumers, and unrelated but affected individuals.
large news websites are targeted by marketing firms with shell accounts in an effort to slant a story. Hacker News is still very much under the radar, and doesn't warrant that level of manipulation (as much) yet.
I agree that getting things in the right order is important, but would argue that the order in which math is usually taken in the US is not the optimal one!
I recently took calc-1,2,3 and linear algebra through my local community college, and then started working my way through a wonderful book on mathematical proofs:(http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Proofs-Transition-Advance...), as preparation for working on higher level math. I would now argue that being able to understand and write proofs is a (the?) key mathematical skill to understanding what I would call 'real' (higher) math, and could be learnt by most students following high school algebra. My impression of the calculus series and linear algebra courses was an excessive focus on calculation, the math proof book was way more fun, surprising for a subject that is often thought to be too difficult for first year college students.
For those who are intimidated by the idea of a book on proofs (like I used to be), an example from the third chapter:

Theorem: Let x be an integer. Then x^2 is even if and only if x is even

It seems so simple, and I think would be accessible to anyone who had completed high school algebra but I found that even having done those calculus and linear algebra courses, I had now idea how to go about actually PROVING this! The book however, goes through the thought process step by step, and teaching the skills needed to be able to understand the real math books like Rudin.
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>None of these tools are "capturing everything I do on the Internet". They could be used to target an individual in some sense. But not capturing everything that everyone is doing.

That claim contradicts what Glenn Greenwald says. Why is he wrong?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-...
Right, but what we're worrying about is an ISP blocking, say, all torrent traffic. Hey, it's obviously 'unlawful' right? We will see. Overall, I am very optimistic about this announcement.
Wish I could delete my comment; fixed for me in the mentioned build (on Yosemite).
I'm not 100% sure on the timetables, but one reason for it could be that defense's counsel was getting sustained objections for cross-examining outside of scope. In essence, defense was trying to use a government witness as their own witness to prove other points.

The judge didn't allow this, but the defense said that they had been able to use opposing witnesses in this manner before. So, while it may have been a dumb idea in the first place, the logic may have been that they didn't think they would need a witness until that surprise.
I agree when will wordpress acknowledge this and make a change to the default username
Shameless plug. But Bosun's focus is largely on Alerting (http://bosun.org). We have an expression language built in that allows for complex rules. It leverages OpenTSDBs multi dimensional facet to make alert instantiations, but you can also change the scope by transposing your results.

It also now supports Logstash and Graphite as backends as well. The Graphite support is thanks to work at Vimeo.

Another nice thing about Bosun is you can test your alerts against time series history to see when they would have triggered so you can largely tune them before you commit them to production.
I resent that.

Perhaps at a certain testosterone level, this sort of statement wouldn't bother you so much?
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Yeah, at that point why use Laravel?

All the major frameworks are just as decoupled, but as soon as you start selecting off the "native" defaults for things like templating and ORM you lose integration features that have been built into other areas of the framework to support that specific library.
I think the net change in fuel consumption would be largely dependent on a lot of factors - but mostly on the speed of the truck. Since rolling friction tends to dominate at lower speeds, and a quadcopter expends a lot of energy to stay afloat, then it's likely that for most truck - quadcopter configuration, there exists a critical speed where net fuel (or energy) consumption flips over. My wildass guess is that for most configurations, it would be somewhere above residential speeds (~40km/h), but far below highway speeds (~100km/h).
>Don't succumb to the reductionist fallacy. The body is complex, and more than the sum of its parts

The above needs to be repeated more often, particularly on HN.

Tech culture is overdue for an epistemological yin to its empiricist yang.
The latter makes sense for DSL, but most of the cable monopolies are not government-granted at the Federal level. Some localities have a cable monopoly, but the local government is responsible for that.

Yes, the cable companies have gotten government hand-outs to build out infrastructure, but teasing apart which of that was public and private money (and therefore which would be 'fair' to force open) would be a nightmare.
I don't think the increase would be that significant, after all you're adding a few kilos to a multi-ton vehicle. But I can see another solution: imagine that the company allows people (not only truckers, but even ordinary car drivers) to lease a roof-mounted drone docking station in exchange for free shipping of all ordered items and/or some meaningful discounts. This would easily offset additional fuel costs, create an incentive for a part of the population to participate in the program, and the dedicated roof station could have some guidance hardware that would help the drone land, as well as a charging station that would let the drone recharge from car's alternator. Seems like a win for everyone, though not very much in a hacker spirit. I'd love to see drones just hitching a ride.
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>>He put himself in a position of being a foreign military threat and was dealt with as a military threat. No country extends due process...

First, he was not a foreign military. He was a US citizen and non-state actor. That is the crux of the US legal opinion on the matter, the US says it can use force against its own citizens anywhere in the world and international law does not apply because if it is a citizen, non-state actor, then it is a domestic issue no matter where the individual is located. So legally, the US makes the distinction between a US citizen joining a foreign military (state actor) and a foreign terrorist organization (non-state actor).

However, to your point if it was a foreign military while due process may not apply laws of war apply, for example, it would not be murder to kill a foreign military actor on the battlefield but it is murder if you killed a captured enemy (POW). This is applicable even in this case, because after the first botched drone strike, his father sued the US and was trying to negotiate the surrender of his son, but the US couldn't even entertain a surrender because then the US would have had to acknowledge the existence of the kill list and the fact this guy was on it. In any other context, under the law, an enemy combatant would be permitted to surrender and at least avail themselves to certain rights, like the right not to be killed while a prisoner of war. I am not suggesting or stating emphatically he would have surrendered, but I don't doubt the Father's sincerity in his desire and intent to negotiate the surrender of his son.
Agree 100% with the approach described in the post. The most useful cookbook I own is The Modern Cooks Handbook[1] which follows the pattern approach.

[1]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Cooks-Handbook-Lynda-Brown/dp...
What are some specific oversights that you have seen with just WP?
I'm on TRT for life (see my other posts on this article for why), and I have used Androgel packets daily for 7 years.

The side effect that I have experience with is hair growth on some of the body areas (that were hairless before I started using it) that I apply it.

Keep in mind that I may be encountering fewer side effects because my body is not producing any significant testosterone itself. If you're using it as a supplement, you could experience more side effects.
How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and Chrome

FTFY
I'm really impressed with Wheeler. When he was nominated, all the news was about how he was a lobbyist for the cable companies, and it was a perfect example of cronyism. But he's really been knocking it out of the park. Aggressive on net neutrality, redefining broadband, trying to restore municipal Internet. I'm very glad to have been wrong about my initial impressions.
I went and checked the undergrad curricula back at UMass Amherst where I went. I was incorrect: a generic Comp Sci program there stops three courses short of a math minor. The more theoretical concentrations - such as Theory of Computing, Machine Learning, or Programming Languages - teach enough theoretical content to come within one course of a math/stats minor, or even cross the line.

So yes, if you take a Computer Science major with a focus on Software Engineering, you will not learn enough math to minor in math "for free". If you pick a more mathematical subfield to focus on, you should probably declare a math minor for the one or two additional courses it will take you.

I made a truly stupid choice: I graduated in 7 semesters with a Comp Sci degree concentrated on PL theory without picking up the additional courses for a math minor. As a result, I'm "condemned" to learn that material independently later on. "Luckily", the Technion required me to do extra coursework for my MSc, so I've had to buck up and learn more theory.

Now get off my lawn until I'm done with my highly theoretical machine learning exam ;-)!
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I always think that event sourcing is missing the concept of commands.

If you have the idea of commands (which I think are mentioned in some of the literature) it becomes a lot easier. Commands are intensions to change the world that might fail, and have access to the current state when they are executed. If they succeed when they're run, they will emit events. Doing it like this means that you are guaranteed a sane event stream, and it makes it much easier to map from an existing system to events.

I've written both a web scraper and a database exporter that works in this way: as the legacy system is traversed you try to run commands. If the command succeeds and produces events you know that the events are compiant with your business logic. If the command fails you have the option to fail the whole operation or continue without the parts of the old system that don't meet your business logic.

edit updated as you mentioned commands above.
>Could we imagine calling in a drone strike on a black panther activist, because he was in a "part of town sympathetic to his cause" and the number of non-adult-male people in the kill zone constituted "acceptable collateral damage"? I think not.

This is essentially what happened to Fred Hampton. People don't like to admit it, but freedom is protected by blood, and in order to maintain the society we have, we have to continually suppress the people who would seek to destroy what we've worked so hard to achieve.
I took weekly shots at 100mg. Cypionate is usually prescribed in the US. Enthate everywhere else. Monthly is way too long. Most doctors recommend every two weeks. However, there was a new report (http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-72185-4_11) that shows the half life (http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/articles/article-steroid-half-li...) of which they thought was closer to 12 days is actually something like 8. So at the end of the second week you're likely to start feel physical effects again (I know I do). Let me see if I can find it.

Orals shouldn't be considered.
Obviously I'm not in their place, but in hindsight, my first thought when reading their initial issue was "Why not make a container that serves the minimal subset of Rubygems stuff necessary to bootstrap Rubygems, and use that as a source in the event that the main side died and needed to be kickstarted again.

Docker itself used a similar strategy for their build process: the recommended build process uses containers to build the Docker binary, so they made a precompiled binary available that was crafted "the hard way" that could then be used for running the saner build process.
The New Yorker, last May: “Obama’s Bad Pick: A Former Lobbyist at the F.C.C.” http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/obamas-bad-pick-a...

“Rewarding campaign contributors is par for the course in Washington, of course. Usually, though, the prizes are ambassadorships or appointments to obscure boards rather than the chairmanship of a big federal regulatory agency. That’s another thing that makes Wheeler’s appointment look like just the sort of Washington inside job that Obama used to decry as a candidate. […] Perhaps the best that can be said about his nomination is that, assuming he’s confirmed, he’ll have an incentive to demonstrate that he isn’t a patsy for the companies he used to lobby for.”
I thought quadcopter battery life was a prohibitive factor as well. From what I've read casually most have a battery life of 5 to 10 minutes.
I'm realizing just how naive it was the further I get in the process :) Definitely a lot of challenges I hadn't expected and a lot of mistakes I've already made even this short of time into it. The biggest has been not doing enough research into my target market and application. Right now it's looking like my original idea isn't going to be a viable product, so I'm going to be switching to a new application idea, this time with much more research involved.
IIRC, React Native still runs a JavaScript thread to execute the logic. JUniversal and similar code translators will convert to Obj-C (iOS) or C# (Windows Phone) to run at native speed / memory / CPU consumption.
The question was whether we should allow unlawful content for the sake of erring on the side of caution. You seem completely unwilling to discuss or take any stance on this issue. You want to talk about surveillance, and you say it's the same thing. It's not the same thing. You aren't discussing the question which was put to you.

For example, child porn is an important form of unlawful content that many people do not want to allow. We might decide that the civil liberty issues are so important that we are just going to have to put up with more child porn than we'd have under a more restrictive regime. Or we might not. Either answer would pertain to the question.
But end surveillance now, NSA, it's all the same rah-rah doesn't pertain to the question.
I agree 100%. This completely defeats the point of web technologies - you must as well write C# and use Xamarin.

I don't want to learn yet another HTML-type spec plus a CSS fork. The whole point was to use web technologies: JS + HTML + CSS to develop mobile and web apps that look the same. WebViews are finally improving to the point where great PhoneGap apps can be written. Instead of improving PhoneGap and web technologies further we'll end up with the equivalent of Python + wxWidgets, and we all know how that turned out for the desktop = the lowest common denominator. The mismatch between declarative React UI and imperative native components is gonna bite you in the ass sooner or later. It's completely different to HTML which is declarative to begin with.

Whats the deal with native looking apps? Why are devs so desperate to make apps look native? The great thing about the web is that all web apps look different, they have their own branding and UI flow and there's nothing wrong with that. Look at the best mobile apps: Uber, Airbnb - they dont look native, and they try to look the same on all platforms. I thought that was the future of the web. Because if it isn't, I might as well learn Swift.
As someone who's recently started cooking as well, thanks for putting into words something that I've been struggling to do myself.

Hoping to submit a pull request soon.

My go-to pattern is stir-fry:

- Aromatics (ginger, garlic, onions)

- Crispy vegetable (red/green/yellow Peppers, snow Peas)

- Thin cuts of meat

- Absorbent starch (Vermicelli, egg noodles, steamed rice)

- Sauce (Cornstarch, soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce)
I just checked, and it doesn't look like they do.
> johncp brought up Congress, not me. I'm just pointing out that vetos aren't relevant (although mikecb's clarification helped). So why am I getting downvoted instead

Because Congressional opponents of neutrality can (and, in fact, already has) attempt to head this off through legislation (so Congress is relevant, so its not wrong to bring them up), but to do directly undo any regulatory action, they will need to pass new law, to which the veto power is relevant, so it is incorrect to "point out" that vetos aren't relevant.
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There is a big body of literature demonstrating how the value of money is derived from the state's ability to levy and enforce taxes[1]. In fact, this is the basis of most sovereign currency regimes with floating fx. In these regimes, governments issue currency out of thin air and levy taxes to force its ubiquity. However, at the U.S state level(CA,FL,TX,etc) and in the case of the Euro(France,PIGS,etc)at the national level, these entities are constrained by tax revenue and ability to borrow same as a household or business. Thus, instead of bitcoin, which is backed by nothing, why not have states issue their IOU's to pay state liabilities but also accept those IOU's to retire liabilities to the state. Naturally, this idea is in lieu of federal aid which has been withheld to states because of austerity politics.

[1] http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/06/modern-money-theo...
Tangential side question:

Must energy conservation be local? Would it be "legal" for -- say -- energy to be spent/dissipated (entropy increase) at one location leading to an apparent over-unity effect ("free" entropy decrease) somewhere else? I'm not talking about energy transmission through wires or EM radiation... I mean something apparently disconnected yet coupled.

I ask because I've encountered such ideas in sci-fi before and couldn't think of a reason why they're forbidden -- though I have no idea how you would do such a thing.
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It is funny how american media is eager to depict China as a North-Korea, and how americans opinions end being formed by their partial media in the same way it happens under dictatorships. Have spent a decade in China, I have yet to see a cop carrying a gun. Cops in China are way more friendly than in US, and for me, way more trustable. people think they keep the chinese people under fear and draconian control, but if you spend some time in China and listen to the people, you see thats not the whole truth. American media call Mugabe a dictator and call Cameroon's President a "chief of state", but both countries hold the same kind of elections. Anyone saw the news about the recent death of the Arabian king? I didn't read any mention about him being a dictator, indeed he is, but he is an ally.
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Yeah I think it's time more than a few people eat a little crow.
To those of you who got into cooking later in life, consider your experience if you [ever] have kids. You will enrich the rest of their lives if you involve them in the kitchen and teach them some of what you know.

I learned how to cook by helping my mother and father for as long as I can remember. I don't honestly know when I started but it was definitely before 10, and likely around 7 or 8 when I could make meaningful contributions and not just get in the way. It has benefited me greatly and I should really make a point of thanking them more often for it.

Sure, I might have groaned when being tasked with preparing my own school lunch, or being asked to help peel potatoes, but through the years I picked up lots of valuable experience without even realizing it. I learned these patterns that the author talks about, even if I didn't have a word for them.

Cooking is one of my greatest pleasures and, to be honest, I feel sad that some people see it as only a means to an end.
Just as a friendly heads up to those who use the 8.8.8.8 family of DNS resolvers, it is currently not resolving any query for donttrustrobots.nl (no "A", no "NS" and definitely no "proxy.donttrustrobots.nl").

Using the DNS on AWS returns the correct answer.
Americans refer to people who live in the USA without government permission as "illegals". These people often take low paid work, such as pizza delivery.
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Not completely sure of what you are saying, but I will try and answer some points.

> Well - relatively does. QFT is weirder. Part of it reduces to plain vanilla Maxwell, but it also includes forces [...]

Indeed. QFT is usually referred to as the more general framework, the actual models that explain our physics are usually called Electroweak theory (QED (Quantum electro dynamics) as a special case) and QCD (Quantum chromo dynamics). These are all QFTs with associated gauge groups (a.k.a. Gauge theories). QED reduces to Maxwell, more or less, in a classical limit.

> That doesn't mean the Newtonian model is just as good.

Oh, absolutely not. But for certain experiments it is preferable to use. The same goes with every theory so far, say GR or QFT, non of them are the final "theory of everything", but I wouldn't say that they are "wrong" or "misleading".
I believe this is actually how professional cooks discuss food.

For example the various components of a soup all have their own names.

* Stock

* Mirepoix (flavour base eg. carrots, onion)

* Bouquet Garni (more flavourful herbs eg. basil, pepper)

* Protein

Replace the various ingredients in these component categories and you get different soups.

(I am not a professional cook)
You may notice which party represents the "wrong side" of each of those issues. If they're clearly wrong on so many issues, what are the odds they're right on any given issue?
>> Part of congress is already mobilizing against this movement.

An unusually large segment of the public is paying attention to this. To kill it will require actively voting in favor of a bill. Seems like a big career risk for a politician.
I believe he said he got close to 1000ng/dl naturally, which I consider on the high side based on lab ranges. 400ng/dl is actually interpreted by some doctors as low depending on symptoms even though it's "in range".
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