skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a private preview for big name developers (Unity already has DX12 implemented) but it's not going to be public until Windows 10 launches.

Also, it's going to be exclusive to Windows 10. Not the end of the world since 7 and 8 owners get a free upgrade.
The Internet Applied to Things and the Third Industrial Revolution
It found a few routers/cable-modems that apparently allowed access from the outside world without any sort of authentication.
You'll just never find anyone using this verb in spoken English...
> shows that you are using a given diet that the human body is not meant to sustain?

In an industrialized society, you will have a difficult time finding a way of eating that can be justified as both optimally healthy and "as nature intended." By that measure the choices are bad, or less bad.
The Science-as-religion movement, which I personally call fundamentalist positivism, is doing more harm to science than a million creationists and anti-vaccinationinsts and faith healers could possibly do. It undermines science from within by performing a kind of deep epistemological bait and switch -- replacing scientific epistemology at the root with religious epistemology while leaving the layers above superficially unchanged. Destroy it with fire.
I think companies like Netflix et al are in a mutually assured destruction scenario with Facebook and others. They have the lawyers in house that can defend, counter sue, etc & by the current state of the patent system I'm sure there is something Netflix could try to sue FB for & I would guess neither one wants to fire the first shot in the war. The companies where this will be an issue for is smaller companies that may be in the right but can't afford a defense. INAL, I'm also a big user of React, while this license does irk me a bit, in reality if I were to ever go up against FB's legal team, I know I would most likely lose anyways. Don't mean to be defeatist about it, but its the state of our current legal system.
I played with it as a kid and I'm perfectly fine. Just look at my comment history.
There are different interpretations of what 401 should be used for. The spec only handles WWW-Authenticate authentication, which is pretty limited and not universally used (Bearer auth is occasionally used for APIs but Basic auth is pretty rare -- especially in end-user-facing parts of the web). The problem is likely that when the status codes were defined nobody thought people would ever need to build their own login forms.

I agree that it is more useful to use 401 to indicate that some form of authentication is required or has failed, and 403 to indicate that you are authenticated but not allowed to access something (which is what the spec emphasizes).

IOW, 403 should be "Unauthorized", 401 should be "Unauthenticated". Sadly the spec mixes those two meanings in various places.
The anti-vax thing isn't even a science issue, it's fearmongering based on nothing. The burden of proof is on the people claiming all these different kinds of vaccines have negative effects.

I don't know why the hell you brought up marriage.

You have a point about people getting zealous about climate change, but I think that's a response to people's horrific innate reaction of doubling down when faced with evidence against something they believe.
Yes. It's funny because everyone knows this has been going on forever, but I guess once they put a picture to it, everyone gets up in arms.
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that taxation is necessary for surveillance.

What I'm proposing is that regulation is one way of legitimizing the role of surveillance. The government has a reason to be involved by virtue of the fact that it's made regulations.

I did a bad job in conveying that idea above. It's certainly possible my analysis is utterly incorrect as well.
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What? It absolutely is a vulnerability, insofar that it allows unintended access to a computer system.

That's like saying, "Car door was open, therefore not theft."
That's an excellent article.

I've been using the phrase "Machines should think, people should work" to describe this for some time. Amazon/Kiva order processing, where the humans are just arms for the computers, is well known. Uber has also been mentioned. Marshall Brain's "Manna" is the SF precursor of this concept.

This has been pointed out repeatedly since Adam Smith visited the pin factory in 1776, and wrote, in the Wealth of Nations "One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on, is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations."

Some people like it that way. Henry Ford, on assembly line labor management: "We shift men whenever they ask to be shifted and we should like regularly to change them—that would be entirely feasible if only the men would have it that way. They do not like changes which they do not themselves suggest. Some of the operations are undoubtedly monotonous—so monotonous that it seems scarcely possible that any man would care to continue long at the same job. Probably the most monotonous task in the whole factory is one in which a man picks up a gear with a steel hook, shakes it in a vat of oil, then turns it into a basket. The motion never varies. The gears come to him always in exactly the same place, he gives each one the same number of shakes, and he drops it into a basket which is always in the same place. No muscular energy is required, no intelligence is required. He does little more than wave his hands gently to and fro—the steel rod is so light. Yet the man on that job has been doing it for eight solid years. He has saved and invested his money until now he has about forty thousand dollars—and he stubbornly resists every attempt to force him into a better job!"

The history of auto labor relations indicates that task boredom isn't a big issue for many people. Workers have fought for higher wages, better benefits, shorter working hours, more breaks, and more dwell time between cycles. But not for job rotation.

A lot of people seem to be OK with dull, boring jobs, provided they get paid reasonably well for them and have enough time off.
Apply the same logic to any communication network, say telephones.
> But subtextually: had you replaced C++ with Python, you'd have had the same outcome

Would you? http://pastebin.com/T5S0w708
In my experience, `icc/pc` and `ifort` give a significant speed boost for numerical code (on Intel hardware at least), but for more general purpose code it's not really very impressive.

However, the related products like `ipp` and `mkl` are where Intel has a real advantage. My experience has been that `mkl` in particular is dramatically faster than vanilla LAPACK and friends and still quite a bit faster than more optimized variants like ATLAS. But, you don't need to use the Intel compilers to use those libraries, you can use them with gcc as well.
Going back a bit you could include Windows CE alongside Windows RT if you liked. Windows Mobile as well. Is Windows Phone a version of RT?
When I look at the likes of Rockefeller, Ford or Edison and compare them with today's success stories at Apple, Facebook or Wall Street, the difference I see, lies in whose weakness they exploit to reach the top.

Today's success stories are all about exploiting every possible customer weakness, while in the good old days it was about exploiting competitor weakness.

Whether its exploiting people's weaknesses to get them to mindlessly consume content to sell ads, or cleverly misguiding them about mortgages and student loans, or tying social standing and aspiration(in the developing world) to the latest trinket in a phone...it makes me conclude that the best way to build the next superstar company, is to find a human weakness as yet unexploited in the ever growing bountiful list that cognitive and behavioral psychology are just beginning to provide and go to town.
>The simple fact is, getting approval to put your network somewhere is not only really expensive, but already heavily regulated

Very true. How does adding more regulation make things better? Are you telling me that the new FCC ruling will make all those existing regulatory problems go away? If so, that might help.

But if we agree the problem is regulation, I would hope we agree the solution can't be more regulation.
He says in his very next tweet that he doesn't know if it's real:

https://twitter.com/simonpang/status/562201979603021824

There’s lot of pay-to-review service on the net but most ppl never seen how they work. Dunno if it’s real but still give us some insight.
Oftentimes Congress lets this happen -on purpose- so they don't have to publicly take a stand on something.
Do you live in a jungle or something?
Everywhere I've ever lived, including California during the Enron scandal, power outages were an order of magnitude less common than (non-power-outage-related) internet outages.
I think Adams is very wrong here.

I'm sympathetic to his reasoning, since I have followed nutrition closely for the last twenty years, and believe the scientific/media consensus to be much as he described, and even worse than that occasionally, where people who should know better (a PhD teaching a class on nutrition in a community college) claim things that are both factually and obviously wrong ("Low carb diets are bad because the brain can only metabolize glucose" which has been known false for at least 50 years and probably more.) Cynicism, in some cases, is warranted.

That said, I think Adams is letting people off _way_ too easily. You will notice that when people refuse to believe a scientific position they are always (surprise!) advocating a different position more advantageous to themselves, that will not inconvenience them and that does not reflect badly on them or on those with whom they affiliate. They deny climate science not because the poor wounded souls have had their hearts broken too many times, but because the implication is that their lifestyle decisions are having adverse effects on the world, and addressing those adverse effects will be costly; and because (this is important) because the idea of faggy liberal scientists telling them they're living wrong is too much to take.

It is not an accident that the vocal opponents of things like climate change, global warming, animals welfare, pollution, etc., are the same folks who are 100% convinced that they sometimes get personal messages from angels. Their idiotic worldviews do not arise as a result of Bayesian discounting based on having received bad advice, but from intellectual laziness and an inability (or unwillingness) to look in the mirror and see a possible problem there. (And the aforementioned affiliatory thing about faggy liberals.)
To me there seems to be a distinct difference between actively broadcasting a signal(radio) and allowing access to those who request it(internet)

Radio works by beaming signals all over their coverage area. those signals are pushed to everyone.
Whereas, a website isn't just sending its html to every IP and port it can find, it waits for a request and responds accordingly.

This seems to be a fundamental distinction to me, but one that would likely be easily obscured by politicking and misinformation campaigns if that were the ultimate goal.

Interesting thought though, as we do see the UK beginning to move towards this more hands-on internet regulation all of a suddden
Gold is kinda that. Reddit has started encouraging users to "gild" each other for outstanding posts, so it's essentially used like karma.
To me, net neutrality is pretty much a red herring.

I have had good and bad internet service in my life. The least reliable was at my somewhat rural childhood home from TWC.

The best is my current connection from that most reviled of companies, Comcast. I have had no service interruptions, and I get a reliable 50Mbps at all times of day (I check regularly with speed tests and checking Torrent activity).

The reason my internet service (and customer service experience) has been so good here is that I have two viable alternative providers, a high speed DSL carrier offering similar speeds and rates in the city, and a local fiber provider (recently introduced 10Gbps connection - yes you are reading that correctly).

While I would prefer to have no rate limiting based on usage or content, I don't view this as some inalienable right. There is a price I'm willing to pay for that service, but there is also a price low enough where I'm happy to accept rate limiting. I'd like to have the choice.

The problem seems to be that the competition which gives me the service I'm happy with and the regulation regarding whether I am even allowed to reason about my preferences as in the above paragraph keep getting tied up with one another.

To me the biggest benefit comes from having multiple options in providers. A legal monopoly who can't do rate limiting can still give me awful service. Many providers who can rate limit will most likely give me service I'm happy with, even if the plan is rate limited.

The history of utility regulation is rife with cases of legally enforced monopolies.
I work in the FPGA and chip design world and you have described our present day tools to a tee, including the use license daemons that tend to crash and get confused. This thread depresses me, but also gives me a little bit of hope that maybe someday in the future a gcc-like project will free us from our current bonds :-)
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Granting a monopoly to telecoms have been illegal for over 20 years, nationwide.

It's just not profitable to lay a second or third network. It's a natural monopoly.

In fact, it's a coincidence that we have two networks in teh US. The telecom and the cable company.
It's been said many times since the beginning, including in this article:

>Announced in September 2014 as part of a fundraising round that raised $50m from VC firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, Redditcoin was a key part of an audacious plan by Wong to give part of the company’s equity back to users.

>Wong wrote in a blogpost: “The investors in this round have proposed to give 10% of their shares back to the community, in recognition of the central role the community plays in Reddit’s ongoing success.”
Sure, but their name does not give them the ability to do a good job, an unpopular position given that they seem to be saving us from pay to play Internet fast lanes etc.
That ship has sailed. There's be no margin in the business. That's why you don't have little water utility startups popping up everywhere.
Public safety and homeland security are primary functions of the FCC. When government decides to censor, surveil, or manipulate information in the future it seems likely it will be instrumented through the FCC as that relationship was used to do the same for radio and television in the past.
It's not that capitalism is evil, it's that you have to make observations about some markets where capitalism is naturally working or failing.

The current state of broadband doesn't have any competition to destroy with regulation... last-mile internet should fall under a utility because it's already been tested in the market and there simply hasn't been any demonstration of competition because there is no direct financial incentive on the open market to overbuild on the last mile and compete.
His direct boss probably has little or no say in how much he gets paid, and the person who does influence that has probably never met him or even heard of him. Welcome to corporate America for the working class.
I assume he means shared profile/network authentication/configuration management. Active Directory stuff, basically, which yeah, OS X server can do, but I share the opinion that it is actually much harder to get set up to feature parity.
My problem with my landline is price ($35/mo to start) and features (practically non-existent, with huge premiums charged for useful things). The service effectively hasn't changed since the 1980s, while the prices have steadily risen.

I replaced my landline with an Ooma (a VOIP phone which let me port my old landline number) which sounds WORLDS better, lets me manage personal blocklists, aggregates community blocklists to automatically filter incoming calls from telemarketers, political parties, etc, sends voicemails to my email, integrates with Google Voice, can ring on multiple phones or devices, and other such things. It's in a completely different class of service, and it costs a fraction of what my competing local offerings do.
Right, Shockley wasn't bootstrapped by the government, but my memory is that the government & their ICBM's were the first actual customer for the transistor and that contract was both how and why it went from cat's whiskers on germanium to the planar silicon process.

You're right though, I was probably wrong about relativity.
Also time, our university did something like this on their library computers. It meant waiting 5min after someone logged out for it to do a system restore before the next person could log in. Which seemed like forever when you're rushing to print a paper.
For years I subscribed to the Berkeley Wellness letter (http://www.berkeleywellness.com/). While not a scientific publication, it is written by MD's for the public, with the goal of taking the latest results and putting them in the context of every thing else that had already been done. It's like a low pass filter for health related science. Highly recommended.
Just a quick note, you forgot to change the title of your post from your previous entry
If the paid-for app ratings don't do it like this, I would be surprised.
The submitter is asking for an original source, not for the very source that he or she submitted. The person who tweeted it doesn't know any more than we do.
I can speak in 4 languages and just about manage to converse in a fifth. There are definitely advantages to knowing more languages than one:

1. People love you if you can speak their language without forcing to search for a common language; you can build a rapport much more quickly. If you love to travel, this will definitely help!

2. Different languages force you to think in different ways. Different languages have different constructs and vocabularies/concepts not even present in English. For e.g. in Marathi/Hindi, the word "sit" can be translated in 2 different ways depending on the respect you show to the other person.

3. If you have any interest in cultural history, learning the local language will help a great deal.

Plus I think being able to think in different languages is just wonderful! I can't describe how boring it would be if I could think in only one language.

Do these translate to monetary gains? Hard to tell. Does it help me lead a more fulfilling life? Yes, I definitely think so!

Having said that, I definitely want to learn more languages. 4 is really less in India, there are plenty of people who can speak more.
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If you're going to spend / waste time watching old Peter Jackson movies, do yourself a favor and check out Bad Taste.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/
When people have a company based around abusing your systems, it's never "quite easy" to get around them.
The free market is a nice fantasy. Most Americans live in a place with one (1) choice for broadband Internet.

How can competition be reduced from that as the starting point?
Global warming is a weird example to pick on, because it's dominated by marketing, financial interest, media mis-reporting etc.
Global warming works like this: your boss reads an article in some rag and thinks that there might be an opportunity to target a new market. They tell you to go find some studies or something that could back up your claims. Usually, this would not survive any kind of rigorous scientific investigation -- but it sounds good enough to use for marketing.
Done. There's precious little science in global warming. Just follow the money.
We're generally open for this. However it's a bit of extra work since RethinkDB doesn't currently have a pluggable storage backend API like MongoDB or MySQL do.
There's a big difference between being able to find instances of people doing this kind of thing, and widespread hacking of results. I think it's a given that it goes on sometimes, especially in cases where there is financial motive for doing so. But as far as it being a widespread issue? I have never seen evidence of that.
USPO is a first class mail monopoly because other players choose not to get in that game. Instead, even when you do ship via another carrier if that carrier deems your route to be too unprofitable they will give it to the post office because they cannot refuse. In fact, FedEx and UPS are the post office's biggest customers for this very reason.
Except we don't like the Internet we have today, where net neutrality is always teetering on an edge into an abyss of sponsored channels and provider blocking on a whim.

That, and we don't like how the major telecoms exploit us all for huge profits off the backs of decade old taxpayer funded infrastructure they got through political manipulation and now sit on for free money.

The golden age of Internet access was in the late 90s, when over-twisted pair dialup was still a thing but the regulations meant the wire runners had to license it out at fair rates, so you would get a hundred ISPs offering you service for dollars a month. But that could never scale, and we ended up with DSL and Cable Internet without any of that open market aspect where we are all taken advantage of for corporate profit.

That is not to say that Title II is anything good. It does not solve the central problem that ISPs have no incentive to improve the networks, all it does is compel fixed rate competition, which is only good for keeping us exactly where we are, when the technologies already exist to give us so much better.
I'm a bit surprised that it is worth it to rework effects for a second trailer.
The worst codebase I had to support in that period was a serial communications library which cross-compiled for a bunch of Unix flavors and 16/32-bit DOS/Windows/OS/2. If memory serves roughly half of that code was preprocessor directives.
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I am okay with that as a teaser, as long as it is billed as a short or it is made to be characters doing something.

Doing scenes within a movie and making it feel 100% as a trailer and then cutting it out is different.
Ask HN: With gas prices dropping, when will carrier (UPS/FEDEX) costs decrease?
I bought on on Dec-31. Three weeks later, the bundle that I bought dropped in price.

Amazon price-matched it and then less than two weeks later...
npm can use server-side resources.

But where do you store the 25GB blockchain in a client-side full-node implementation?

Isn't this just an implementation only for Node?
I think he meant that most shaders only receive four light sources. However I am not a low level graphics guy but my understanding is that deferred or not most shaders will only receive four light sources.