skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even highly-respected peer-reviewed scientific journals make mistakes. The beauty of science (and scientific publishing) isn't that it's always right, but that it's willing to admit it was wrong (given sufficient evidence or reasoning).

Scientific American has very high standards. They do extensive fact-checking, even for columns that don't matter as much (such as David Pogue's). Many of the longer articles in Scientific American are written by the scientists who did the work, often stuff that was previously published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The Scientific American version is written for a generalist audience.

Scientific American, the magazine, rarely breaks major sensational science stories. It's not their mission.

You say you "recommend avoiding these sources [such as Scientific American] entirely." What do you recommend instead? Reading peer-reviewed journals? Who can read those, other than the specialists?

I recommend reading Scientific American, alert to the possibility that something may be wrong. Because there's no such thing as a scientific publication that's always 100% right.
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This is beyond ridiculous and will have a serious chilling effect on the growth of online learning content.

That you should be obligated to spend additional money on captioning your free videos is incredibly unfair and also unjustifiable. Unfortunately, in many cases it will make the costs unsustainable so we'll see videos taken down entirely—thus, the deaf are selfishly insisting that if they can't have something nobody can.

It's like someone with a peanut allergy suing me for handing out free cookies.
He was saying that he isn't very educated on the topic. It was a humbling qualifier, not a brag or appeal to his expertise.
"A ternary lookahead algorithm does not yet exist, and other algorithms that would be needed for ternary to be practical are also missing."

Really? I'm pretty sure carry select look-ahead would work for ternary.
The problem with this approach is you have no idea what will become wrongthink in the future. In 2008, opposing gay marriage was a relatively mainstream idea. In 2014 someone was fired for donating to an anti-gay marriage campaign. In 2015 it might be acceptable for one to express wariness of expanding the H-1B visa program, but in 2020 will it be so?
> I don't have any great insight here - but I think there's more to it than environment as suggested by this study. There are people all around the world who live in far worse conditions and who aren't turning to substances, even when they are available. My feeling is that rats living in cages, who can see rats living in Rat Park would be more likely to seek addiction. And perhaps even more so if they see other rats being moved from cages to Rat Park, but not them.

To a certain degree it comes down to a semantic argument about how you define environment.

* Just the structural physical environment - nice benches, and trees, flats that are a decent size, and don't have mould on the walls, etc

* this plus the consequences of other people on the physical environment - needles left in parks, shouting in the corridors, people pissing in the lift

* this plus the immediate social environment - you are treated badly because you look like a drug addict

* this plus the cumulative internalized values that you have picked up from your social environment throughout your lifetime - other people living successful, prosperous lives around you, or in mass media, and you falling short of your expectations

Rats don't necessarily have the latter two, at least I don't think they have a social stigma for drug addiction!

For humans, the parallels are inevitably to some degree limited, because you can't just take someone out of their own mind, and put them somewhere where they feel good about themselves, although you can try, and will succeed with many.
MIT's endowment is 12b. That's a ways off Harvard's outlier of 36b, but if they're paying out 5% a year as a benchmark, that's $600m a year just off the endowment. Not being as rich as Bill Gates does not make one not wealthy if one still has over a billion dollars. One can not imagine it would be that hard for the folks at MIT to put together a program to crowdsource quality captioning. (Let alone some kind of "technological" solution, isn't text to speech a thing these days?)
It can be, assuming you are in the right location in the world. The problem is cost efficiency: you are talking about tens of thousands of dollars for a system that will only pay for itself in a decade (often times; in some situations this is the perfect answer). Geothermal is no silver bullet unfortunately. There is physical efficiency, and there is economic efficiency.
Hard drugs isn't a category of drugs, but powerful opiates seem to be what's included anyways. I'm not aware of opiate users habitually taking off clothing. Other powerful drugs can make you feel cold, adding clothing. Some people really sweat on acid, which is probably a decent cause of taking off clothing.
At least in the UK, the banks moved liability to the merchants, not the cardholder.
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It just strikes me as a little funny that Rand Paul might be supporting cryptocurrencies on their face, considering he (like his father) prefers to have currencies backed by something.

I guess that's why he is so intrigued by the corporate stock idea.
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Nikoli has a lot of interesting puzzles.

[0] https://member.nikoli.com/index.html?lang=en
It would be really great if somehow, automagically, a downloaded app would trim away all the unneeded assets for the device it's installed on. My iPad 2 doesn't need 3x iPhone 6 Plus assets.
I need to check my sources, but I believe the Travelocity deal excluded much of Travelocity's technology, it was just a brand-name purchase.

Edit, sources:

> Sparks was brought in a couple of years ago to turn around the company, which needed a wholesale upgrading of its back-end systems in order to make a go of it, but apparently the transition fell short. [1]

[1] http://skift.com/2013/08/22/travelocity-gives-in-sites-to-be...
I completely understand the personal motivation behind solving this bounties but when you talk about people earning a lot of money you are talking about outliers. It is profitable work for very few elite security researchers. Most of computer security people will never find a bug in Google Chrome.
Couldn't agree more. We have the opportunity to make it big in the tech agriculture space, because of our great location in the Corn/Wheat belts
LINQ isn't SQL-specific and does apply generally. It can be used against the standard .NET framework objects and collections. There are different LINQ focuses or flavors, and there are 2 ways to write queries. There's LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL (no longer actively maintained; nowadays Entity Framework is the Microsoft alternative), and you can write your own LINQ providers to target other purposes.

As for syntax, there's the fluent syntax (chained methods), and there's the query syntax which is syntactic sugar that gets compiled to the methods. The query syntax is probably the biggest reason people mistake LINQ for being SQL specific since it resembles SQL.

E.g.,

var results = SomeCollection.Where(c => c.SomeProperty < 10)
.Select(c => new { c.SomeProperty, c.OtherProperty });

The same thing in query syntax:

var results = from c in SomeCollection
where c.SomeProperty < 10
select new { c.SomeProperty, c.OtherProperty };

Then you can iterate over both the same way:

foreach (var result in results)
{
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
This is indeed the unit a fellow student used. He dealt with ADHD, anxiety, and many other things in conjunction with medication side effects. For him, this was an invaluable study tool.
Correct. In addition, in the US merchants are only liable if they haven't upgraded to chip-and-pin—i.e. the banks are making sure that retailers have an incentive to upgrade aging hardware.
If it speaks standard XMPP you can use Bitlbee to connect to it via your IRC client.
I understand that by "IT industry" you mean the Web, which is the industry's equivalent of a fashion show.

Work clothes, suits and hazmat wear also don't change their design every three months.
I understand the reward, but Facebook was buying the incentive for people to look for bugs like this; they weren't competing with the black market.
It's not so much a huge disadvantage as a huge trade-off.

The risk is that Lisp is used to create a lousy language ill-suited for the task at hand. The benefits come when it is used to capture the ubiquitous language of a domain and used at the appropriate level of abstraction.

If it makes the code harder to reason about, then it's not the right level of abstraction. But poor code can be written in any language.
That alternative being...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Comparison_to_o...

In this table, bicycling has 170 deaths per billion journeys while flying has 117 and cars 40.

Different countries have different safety numbers for various reason. For example bicycling tends to be safer the more there is of it.
Your link doesn't disprove what I stated in any way.

I said "5 year cancer survivability" which relates directly to quality and availability of medical care. Poor care and difficult to access care will directly affect that.

> U.S., Japan, and France recorded the highest survival rates among 31 nations for four types of cancer
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080716/cancer-survival-ra...

America's life expectancy issues (in which we are 1-3% behind the rest of the modern world, oh noes!) has to do with us being overweight. So, no, the stats you provided are completely unrelated.
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A fair point. Also Comment is Free in the Guardian.
reminds me of this
http://i.imgur.com/gNefvUG.png
Yes and it should be faster, but I don't want to promise anything until we see what real world usage and performance is like during the beta. Thanks for the feedback, again.
It seems like Facebook's Bug Bounty Program payment processor bugbountypayments.com is down http://isup.me/bugbountypayments.com . Anyone have any experience with that site? I haven't heard of it coming up before in security program discussions on HN or elsewhere.
I'm interested for managed email. Signed up!
> for no reason other than your own personal animosity

If that's your understanding of people who vote against gay marriage, then you really have no idea what's going on in this country.
You seem to be forgetting that if you want more storage you are free to choose a larger model.

There are a range of customers for whom the built in apps, plus a few big names like Facebook and Uber, and maybe google maps, are more than adequate.

Yes, 16GB isn't great for large music or photo collections, but those are solved problems. You can choose from a wide range of streaming options for music, and you can use iCloud Photos to offload your photo storage from the device.
Come on... ask any one out of the IT world and they all prefer not using GitHub... your vision is way to oriented from a developer perspective.
The /r/opiates subreddit seems more accurate on opiate usage. Don't get things wrong, it can be terribly addicting. But for many users, that's not really a bad thing by using, any more than needing to pee more is considered by coffee fans.

Extended release opiates are a huge lifesaver though, allowing you to wake up without feeling like torture incarnate.
So here seems like as good a thread as any.

What do you do when you think a company would just fix the bug based on your report and not pay out anything? I have seen so many bugs in the wild like this. For example a site in the uk where I can get access to any account I wish.

Are there any data protection laws that would provide leverage? How would you make first contact with a company that doesn't advertise a bug bounty program?

Does this kind of email seem ok?

"Hi, I have seen a security vulnerability on your site. How do I report it? What do you pay?…

May you respond in the next 7 days or I will be forced to take this to xxx.org for the protection of your users"
Go now. Make a mobile app. Hire your founding engineers and live a long, prosperous life.
It really shouldn't be beyond anyone's capabilities, though. In its simplest form all you need is a plain .txt file with the spoken words. Major services like YouTube can take that file and align it to the timing of the video, automatically. Almost all the hard work is done for you.

Obviously all content is different, but for the benefit you get, it's hard to understand how any creator of any size at all does anything other than gain from such a simple and basic step.
I'm not sure it goes back to the formation of our DNA. Or at least not in that way.

We're raised on stories of Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks and we idealize how important they were to society. Now as people leave childhood and begin facing their own complete lack of importance think they can join the social justice fight and simply by bullying people really be somebody. They'll spend hours a day in a rage at their keyboards while thinking what they're doing is really benefiting society.

Getting outraged politically is a quick and easy path to a social identity and group membership. That does make us sound a bit like apes....
This makes me so sad, it makes me wonder why the National Association of the Deaf doesn't try to encourage recruiting volunteers to the association to help with closed captioning. With this litigation I feel they're only alienating those that can actually help their cause.
Relax. Have fun with it. You're going to do great.
Yep! Here are a few, I customize the questions a bit based on seniority and background.

1. In a 1-d gaussian with mean=0 and variance=1, what is p(x=0)?

2. If I give you a csv file with a header, how would you return a tsv file with columns 6 and 2? Just high-level, not actual implementation.

3. If I have some dataset (I change it up a lot, a common one is subway ridership by station and date), how would you create a visualization to give some insight to a fairly non-technical audience, e.g. the distribution of ridership by station.

4. If I gave you a house dataset with a bunch of attributes (e.g. year built, number of sq feet, presence of pool, zip code), how would you go about building a machine learning model that predicts whether the house is being rented or is owned (assuming you are provided with tagged data)? The selling price? How many times it has been sold?

5. What's a technology that you're excited about (could be a computing tool, a machine learning algorithm in a library, etc)? Tell me some of the pros and cons of it and competing technologies.

We also give out a 4-6 hour task as homework, and evaluate the code quality, tools used, answers provided, etc.
For the second time today, I can't resist pointing out that Harvard would, in any other circumstance, be rushing to tell everybody else about how important it is to be inclusive and scrupulously comply with not just the letter "as written", but the spirit of the law.

Whatever slack I might be inclined to give to others, I am not inclined to give to Harvard. This is Harvard. If the brand "Harvard" means anything, shouldn't it mean going above and beyond the call of duty in providing educational services like this?
You're right that going 3D is a natural thing, but there appear to be pretty serious manufacturing challenges. The most obvious one: chips already take a pretty long time to manufacture - apparently the "latency" of a typical fab is on the order of weeks. If you double the number of layers, you double this latency.

So the only way to get serious about 3D is to produce thin slices in parallel and then put them together somehow. As a corollary, this means that we're most likely never going to see a logical unit such an entire core being distributed across two layers of transistors.

This doesn't invalidate your point, of course. We're likely to see designs where multiple dies, each with several cores, are stacked on top of each other.
Perhaps what Someone1234 would like, is if the 32GB model became the baseline in both pricing and model--instead of the 16GB model.

Though the latest update on iOS for 16 iPads was specifically to make updates in the future smaller. (I have one and that's what was described in part of the update)
220-240V is much more likely to arc then 110V.
Made me think of this tweet I saw the other day:

"Everyone who questions my obviously compassionate and righteous cause is a dangerous sociopath" — Many sociopaths
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This looks great. Thanks for making it open-source. I've tried other self-hosted chat apps, but this one looks promising. IRC integration would be great. :)

When I was experimenting with websockets, I wanted to make a simple chat app that integrates with Github projects. Of course, not nearly as feature rich, but just an experiment to learn.

Source with demo: https://github.com/alfg/chathub-client
If you break your cap they make more money, no?
The problem is that Apple's pricing is pretty static: "lowest end is this, next is that, next is that."

Doesn't matter -what- the lowest end is, they seem to always set the price in the same place.

Upshot is that dumping 16GB has a pretty high chance of effectively bringing the price of the entire line down a notch.
I don't mind the downvotes really, it's kinda interesting to see how the wind blows. But damn, must it be frustrating to be deaf and see how how little thought goes in that direction, compared to the tears shed for Harvard ($32B endowment 2013) and MIT ($11B endowment 2013).
I agree with you and find it immoral to compel MIT and Harvard to close caption their courses. This is because I embrace a deontological ethic.

If I were to be the devil's advocate however, I would say that the difference between you putting a video out there, and MIT doing it is one of elasticity.

The effort of putting closed captions on your informal video would be much too great and would be very likely to prevent you from releasing the video. However, for large, well endowed organisations like MIT and Harvard, mandating close captioning of their videos is much more likely to result in them incurring the cost of closed captioning than in them not releasing the video.

By focusing on businesses, the law attempts to target those inelastic actors.
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Playing this game requires using the mouse all the time, whereas playing 2048 only required the four arrow keys on the keyboard. I use the mouse only when I have to. Unfortunately, requiring the mouse makes the web interface of this game klunky.

Edit: 20 minutes later, and this is a big deal. I'm sure it's possible to enable the four arrow keys and enter key so we can use the arrow keys to navigate around the grid, and the enter key in lieu of the mouse left click. Other keys on the numeric pad could also be utilized, such as + for the "eye" hints.
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Have you tried a mapping based on IP address (this might work depending on the size of the business)? If the business is big enough, IP addresses should/would be registered to the company rather than a general-purpose ISP.
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You raise a good point about not being clearer in the project page. I'll give it some thought and probably expand a bit on the dynamodb and datomic sections to incorporate the reasoning.

Again though, you are right, the events could be added to the datomic transactions with a fressian serialized byte array (we're fressian serializing into dynamo anyhow). It doesn't seem ideal to commit transactions with only the event data attached to the transaction and then at some later time possibly create an aggregate derivative from the event in a separate transaction.

The bottom line is: The event store and the transactional aggregate view are two very different things - putting both into one place conflates the two. We simply picked what we felt was better suited for each job, independent of one another. You could trivially point the event queue at Datomic instead - it really just doesn't buy you that much.
That sounds akin to extortion...

Edit: I should probably expand on that. Telling a company that you know about a bug but won't tell them about it if they don't pay you and instead threaten to turn it over to other parties who may have more nefarious intentions is pretty much extortion and is likely illegal.

I understand that you'd want to make money out of it, but if the company offers no bug bounty, it's no good threatening them. If you do so, it'll likely trigger a hostile response.
Yes, that's true for Coq extraction also. You can choose to extract to ML, Haskell or Scheme, but whichever one you pick the target language is basically treated as an untyped language. (Of course, it tries to avoid unsafeCoerce/Obj.magic if possible; if the program can be typed with just simple types, the extracted code should not have any unsafe coercions in it.)
Exactly, that in itself is the whole point of this being a security bug.
Re/ "family business.."

"Unlike in the U.S., where most adoptees are children, 98 percent of Japan’s adoptees are 25-to-30-year-old men."

Why? "In Japan, a 2011 study found, businesses run by adopted heirs consistently outperformed those run by blood heirs."
Subbing is a surprisingly difficult thing to get right in anything but the most simplistic of cases.

What a creator gets as a benefit is not having to do all the work of subtitling for the benefit of what will ultimately be a rather small - if not zero - boost in audience.

There's a very real scenario in which you throw an accessibility party and nobody comes.
Ironically the disk IO probably far outweighs any decoding overhead.

Also, from what I understand: Not only did they include raw audio, they included raw audio for every single language, even in the download version.
I just remembered radioshack by buying 200 bucks worth of electronics that would have cost 2k retail before the sale, that I could have bought on amazon for about 200 bucks.
Sorry, that last line was from a song, "Sweet Home Alabama," that briefly mentions Gov. Wallace. It's decently well-known in the US, but my mistake in expecting everyone would recognize it. :)

Anyway, nobody's talking about shooting or terrorizing anyone. But the Civil Rights Act in the US compelled private business owners not to discriminate in their clientele, and that compulsion was behind the (implicit) threat of police response, as with just about all government compulsion. That is way more of a response than anyone's discussing in this thread; the worst that's happening is people losing their jobs and livelihoods, which is pretty bad, but not nearly as bad. But it's not a particularly common belief today that the Civil Rights Act was evil, or that its ends did not justify the means of government compulsion. (It was a somewhat common belief then, and some US politicians did oppose it on those grounds, though who can say if they also privately objected to its substance.)
No, you can't make things impossible to reverse-engineer
If I may, I want to comment on the name of this media company. It seems akin to starting another one called Real N!gg@s in order to promote equal rights for blacks. Or something. I don't know.

Some might call it a publicity stunt, but I call it bad taste.

And I don't see this statistic as anything more than insignificant. As an Indian, I've been mistaken as a worker at hardware stores a couple of times.

So what?

This is nothing more than a phony attempt at intensifying race-based bigotry.

That's perhaps even more tasteless than the name of the publication.