skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - it is short for daily active user and often compared to WAU(weekly) and MAU(monthly) to get rough idea of engagement. The apps with the highest DAU are usually really silly games, though, so maybe you are on to something there...
Larry Summers Likes the Idea of Bitcoin
for what it is worth, here is a version of a lisp interpreter I wrote in python:
https://github.com/keithgabryelski/plisp
I used _Interpreting_LISP_ by Gary D. Knott as a guide.
Then how would the attorneys keep their job and fund their lavish lifestyle?
You're missing my point, which is that the existence of cryptographically secure hashing functions is not equivalent to P != NP. So even if someone were to prove that there are no secure hashing functions (which you would be fine with so long as reversal takes a long time in real life), this would not necessarily resolve P versus NP.

I would suggest you read more about one-way functions and how theoretical cryptography relates to complexity theory, but you don't seem to take mathematical inquiry very seriously. Again, it's not a problem, but you should consider it a prerequisite for having serious discussions about P versus NP if you insist on relating it to hashing.
In Spanish, these are homonyms.
Google is giving away 2GB of space if you will run a security check
Using batteries seems like an insanely cost and environmentally-unfriendly way to engineer around billing practices of electrical utilities. I think we'd be much better off trying to get the numbers up for solar (installations, efficiency, lifespan, manufacturing) vs using vast quantities of highly toxic batteries powered from the grid from traditional power generation sources to game electrical utility billing for profit.

I really don't understand why this idea seems so popular with e.g. politicians.
This article sucks, and is basically marketing for the new wave of nootropic companies. I think nootropic use is an issue that will enter the societal conversation relatively soon, but it's important to note that for the most part, the younger generation has already gone half-in on nootropic use-- while many were non-consensually plied with nootropics by their parents/teachers to increase their productivity, nearly all have experimented with nootropics to some degree on their own, even if it's just with coffee. I am of the opinion that a good place for us to land would be the removal of any and all limits on what a person is allowed to consume in the name of self-modification, so long as it doesn't hurt anyone other than the user. In practice, most nootropics are whitemarket or greymarket, with a number of notable entries being prescription-only.

Nootropics are for everyone, and always have been due to the fact that having greater cognitive ability is a large factor in success at most tasks.

Coffee (caffeine) is the most consumed nootropic in the history of the planet, and is probably the safest. There are probably a number of other equally useful yet harmless compounds out there that are ripe for discovery, but I wouldn't exactly put my money on the options that this article suggests.

I've experimented with nootropics extensively, and here are some of my findings:

1. Piracetam makes me very spacey and distant

2. Modafinil is good for staying awake without jitters, but otherwise useless

3. Adderall is too stimulative and leads to jittery, coked-out thoughts

4. Caffeine is a winner

5. Weed improves creativity but makes tracing the logical steps of your thoughts more difficult

6. Fish oil helps reduce skin dryness but nothing else that is detectable
surely this is actually that a short lisp compiler or interpreter is the maxwell's equations. the analogy is way off the mark for software as a discipline in total. you can know nothing about lisp and understand pretty much everything... thats not true of classical electromagnetism and maxwell's equations
The problem (for node) is that the kind of developers who would node.js at this point are exactly the kind of developers who are aware of io.js, at the very least, and quite possibly aware of the reasons for its existence (which don't paint node and its steward in a positive light).
> Then, he refused to apologize for it and dodged the question when asked if he would do it again. That's not "expressing an opinion," that's nearly sociopathic.

Forcing someone to apologize for something that is not universally considered to be wrong is a good example of bullying. As is calling publicly his behaviour "sociopathic".

> He was clearly working against his employees' best interest.

This is hardly considered to be a firing offense for a CEO -- in fact, in many cases this is considered to be good by many people, e.g. by anti-tradeunionists when CEOs fights with unions.

> Many productive employees threatened to quit because they didn't want to be represented by a person who explicitly expressed hatred towards them or their friends.

Saying that he explicitly expressed hatred towards anyone is misrepresenting the facts, and is another example of bullying.
It sounds like it's talking about their MOOC offerings but it very ambiguous and could really be either.
No maluch was 126p, different car. There was bis version which was watercooled, most were aircooled. Good roads to you 72.
It appears that a big part of this discussion is about how we as a group are not sure if it really is a situation in which she "[did] something really f cking stupid", though.

Clearly, you do interpret her statement to be an offensive, racist remark, but by her own admission, she instead was commenting on how "[l]iving in America puts us in a bit of a bubble when it comes to what is going on in the third world. I was making fun of that bubble."

Whether or not her explanation for the off-color is truly genuine is up for debate, but scuttling somebody's life and career for something that only might have been a racist remark doesn't seem all that fair to me and (it would appear) a significant fraction of commenters here.
This is call-out culture at work. There is no room for error, no tolerance for people who do not agree with you 110%. To make any mistake or disagree with The Group is cause for expulsion and lynching.
yes, American worker protection laws are incredibly weak. Most employment in America is "at will" meaning you can be fired for any reason at any time, and similarly can quit for any reason at any time.

Very few things count as legally protected classes. Its generally limited to race, religion, and gender. Even then the fired worker would have to prove that they were fired because of their membership in a protected class and not for some different reason. This means, at minimum, a lawsuit and I'm sure you can imagine how lopsided lawsuits between well funded corporations and your average private citizen are.
Well, I think you're misapplying your principle in this instance. I think Harvard or MIT should have to provide captions in the spirit of the law that exists. It's not like the ADA was passed last year, so to think that the physical Harvard/MIT facilities would be ADA compliant but online facilities would not strikes me as a necessary coming to grips with the law as it's written. Hence the lawyers will fight this out and we'll probably get an answer.
It's hyperbole, as the victim doesn't actually die. But there are certainly similarities.

They were able to get Sacco fired. They were able to mobilize someone to take her picture right after her plane landed. And she had to leave Cape Town because "no one could guarantee her safety". So, it could have easily escalated into a real lynch mob.

How about people getting "swatted" by internet vigilantes?

So the "not dying" part is about the only significant difference I can see in some of these more extreme cases, and, God help me, I wouldn't be overly shocked if someone actually does end up dead from an "internet shaming" some day.
You're terrified by the idea that someone should be fired for gross unprofessionalism?

To repeat: she did not deserve ANY bullying or harassment whatsoever.

Did you experience consequences of the stupid actions you've taken?
And segregation wasn't offensive to most southern whites. Your counter argument is silly because you could use it to argue that nothing is offensive.
That's always the request, but then when you admit fault, there are follow up lawsuits.
Which is why you keep different online identities that don't point to each other. So you can say the stupid jokes on your "sgt.lonelyheart97" twitter while posting on your prim&proper official account once or twice a year. Someone who really wants to will probably be able to connect the dots after enough digging... somehow. But at that point it's someone with vendetta against you specifically.

Or just go and post on 4chan anonymously.
Einstein tensor notation is amazing. :)
> Adding transactions that just have events attached to them isn't a particularly useful aggregate to query.

I still don't understand.

The transaction log, in datomic, can be queried as easily as you would query the rest of the data. The view exists on the client. Changes are already queued by the transactor. And, changes are pushed to the clients from the transactor.
Well, the entropy in information theory is randomness too, in the sense that it's _unpredictable_, right?

If you've got 1000 numbers, but you can predict them all with "n[i] = i * 2", then there's not that much information present, in the information theoretical entropy sense -- all you need is the formula `n[i] = i * 2` to describe all 1000 numbers, actually writing all 1000 (or 100,000) out just wastes space without providing any more information beyond `n[i] = i * 2 for i=1..1000` or whatever.

But if the 1000 numbers are truly random, you need all 1000 numbers to describe the set of 1000 numbers in it. There is more information present, there is more entropy, precisely because of the randomness or unpredictability.

Or to put it another way, if you can compress something losslessly, then it makes sense to think the uncompressed version doesn't have more "information" in it than the compressed version, even though it's more bytes, right? And what can't be compressed losslessly at all? Something entirely random with no predictability.

So that's my understanding of the relationship -- information theoretic entropy is, in fact, randomness too. Random here meaning 'unpredictable', not describable by any formula or shortcut or compression -- the normal way we use the term 'random' in day-to-day software engineering, in fact, and the meaning that's crucial for cryptography for instance. (Then, as now, military budgets drove computer science research -- Shannon was a cryptographer on a DoD contract) (It doesn't neccesarily mean the 'random' data is _senseless_, just that it's entirely irregular and unpredictable).

So, okay, now I'm grasping and I'm not sure what I'm talking about, but in this sense, as the entropy in the universe increases, the 'information' in the universe increases in the sense that there's no shortcut for describing the universe's state, it's increasingly just randomly distributed stuff?

I don't know if that last paragraph makes sense, or if you can really talk at all about 'the amount of information in the universe increasing' -- I vaguely recall reading stuff on that before, the relationship between physical and information entropy, but I don't remember enough to speak on it really.

But my understanding is that Shannon was inspired by the thermodynamic entropy in inventing information theory, realizing that the amount of randomness present in a sequence of data, the amount of unpredictability in it, was usefully understood as 'how much' information it contained. The "information" in "information theory" is not the plain-use meaning of the word 'information', although it has a relationship to it. But it means, well, precisely this, entropy or unpredictability. And that meaning has proven useful for reasoning about computation. But it's a low-level mathematical/computational sort of 'information', not information like answers to trivia questions.
They way I read you, you are in complete agreement with S. -- That essay expounds thinking for oneself over "much reading". That, or you're trolling.

The line you incorrectly quoted is: "It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could easily have been found already written in a book; but it is a hundred times more valuable if you have arrived at it by thinking for yourself. For only then will it enter your thought-system as an integral part and living member, be perfectly and firmly consistent with it and in accord with all its other consequences and conclusions, bear the hue, colour and stamp of your whole manner of thinking, and have arrived at just the moment it was needed; thus it will stay firmly and for ever lodged in your mind."

Please quote correctly, your quotes are just gibberish.

Also, there is a "secret sauce" comprising humanity's prized possessions. Would it were, eh?
Perhaps, but when you add alternates like Algol and PL/1 (1964) that case becomes a lot weaker. (Although I don't really know Algol and only know PL/1 as of IBM's late '70s version.) The weaknesses of COBOL were widely realized (and in it's niches it's not hardly so bad, or so I say from one week of using it).
As a corollary, I remember trying opium whilst on a nice long career break overseas, and being frankly pretty underwhelmed.... and then considering whether I might have thought otherwise if I'd had any source of stress or dissatisfaction in my life whatsoever at the time.

[of course the alternate hypothesis is that what I was being supplied with wasn't opium, but I prefer the first one...]
looks good. but typing urls on the moverio is still so much pain. someone should come up with a good text interace or keyboard replacement for all this ar devices!
I agree completely, and didn't mean to compare the Turing machine to Lambda calculus, only to the C language (it made more sense before the context above was deleted).
> I think that public shaming can be laid directly at the feet of Social Justice.

I'm not entirely sure of what "Social Justice" means in the US, or how can such a thing be negative, but it seems to me that it's about enforcing social norms. If the social clock was set back a few decades earlier, you would get the same pitchfork mob if you tweeted something in favour of homosexuality. Just look at what happened to Adria Richards.

My personal theory is that people like to see blood flowing. We don't get our bread and circus any more, pogroms and lynchings have gone out of fashion, but we still have the Internet to get our kicks.
On EdX.org, where Harvard and MIT put many online courses for free, all course videos already are professionally captioned and accessible. The cited videos in the lawsuit aren't even course videos, they're promotional videos or streaming versions of conferences. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President Obama and Lady Gaga visiting campus for an event. - see http://creeclaw.org/online-content-lawsuit-harvard-mit/
I looked into (and did a trial of) truBrain (trubrain.com). They seem to be trying hard to be authentic and have scientific integrity, which is nice in this industry. But still when I looked into the research behind their ingredients, most of the support was more along the lines of 'keeping your sanity while aging', which is great, but not exactly what a a 30 yr old is looking for. I think I'll keep my money for a while as the nootropic field matures.
It's because they are going overboard... I stopped reading when I saw the word "sociopathic".
This is a non constructive comment... they suck ...
Your point is correct, but the details are wrong: coal (and nuclear) provide so-called "baseload" power, while natgas and hydro provide "peak" power (this is why natgas plants are called peakers). Coal has a very long spin-up (and spin-down) time. If you've studied process control, the first-order time delay is on the order of hours to days. Natural gas and hydro have time constants of ca. minutes. Moreover to your point, batteries have very short time constants (but a plethora of of other problems).
Announcing the First Build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones
You will still be able to login with linkedin:
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/signin-with-linkedin

They just rehashed the website @ developer.linkedin.com
California’s No Drone Zones
not the fine upstanding citizens making millions of dollars off these folks, thats for sure.
As someone who makes free content, this is scary. I understand the Harvard has a lot more money to take care of accessibility than I do, but why would that exempt me? What is the legal formula determining who is in danger from lawsuits about whether they provided an accessible alternative to a completely free thing?

If there isn't a strong protection here then it means you might as well not offer any free content at all unless you have the money to make it accessible to everyone (and for lawyers to defend yourself). That would be an astonishingly broad chilling effect.
The catch, in my anecdotal experience, is that third parties have terrible integration with the hotels. In some cases, they fax a reservation using a company credit card, to pay on your behalf. End result is some percent of the time, this gets messed up and you end up dealing with an annoyed person on check in that sometimes ends up having to get the agency on the line to sort it out.

Same for flight bookings. I've never found the attraction of booking through third parties; it only adds a failure point. Maybe small or specialized agencies are the exception, like Amex's travel service (which, I think, used a platform like Expedia's, but they had fantastic phone options and would always go figure stuff out on my behalf.)
Yeah, well, not mentioning Erowid is pretty counter-intuitive to the entire article. It's ignorance dressed up as education. The path has already been started long before VC/SV smelled something interesting. Maybe if VC/SV had a great track record in investing in actual research science, which in fairness is being choked and driving people out of the profession, then maybe there'd be some hope. Thus far, I see far more risk than reward in complimenting or encouraging the VC/SV community to pursue this field.

Also, citing movies like Lucy and Limitless just feels juvenile. Why not strap on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for some counter balance? Drugs is drugs is drugs...
A couple nights ago, I said "OK Google" and activated the prompt on my girlfriend's phone, across the room. Voices don't even have to be similar.
Not necessarily. You learn a ton about electromagnetism before you ever get to Maxwell's equations.
Codeship really gets points for clarity and usability here. This is the best implementation of parallelism I've seen yet.
> If you get offended by a thing that's so over the top it just can't be taken seriously, you sir are an absolute moron.

I gather many youtube commenters have a Twitter account and an attitude.
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An interesting bit of trivia for computer history buffs:

Alan Turing independently discovered the Central Limit Theorem while still an undergrad in 1934.
The alarming health risks of workplace stress
Ustwo release Clockwise Framework for Android Wear
I think this is a major set back for net neutrality. I like the idea of giving free internet access to people that need it, but who gets to decided what sites are accessible? And what is the process if I want my website or service added to the list? Tiered internet is not the solution.
First of all I think this is awesome! But my question is, the system looks ready...If I pay now, why do I have to wait till April?
This is interesting. I've dabbled with nootropics for reducing anxiety and helping with sleep, and I've been rather pleased with the results. This is obviously anecdotal, and could well be a placebo, but frankly I don't care. Whether or not it "works" the effects have been positive for me.
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Well it's wrong. Wikipedia's source for that definition is listed as https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/discri... but it says: "The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."
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Now we have created a culture within which ostracism, shaming, and zero tolerance for difference or error is the norm. Then you add in making examples of people to frighten others into compliance.

Perhaps the possibility that the means of choice are toxic should be considered.
Even if this is a different game it somewhat reminds me of countless games of minesweeper 20+ years ago. Luckily (or unluckily?) I'm no more as addicted to these kind of games as I used to be or I would spend all the night playing this one :-)
Some information hasn't been written down in books.
I've seen a few places that do this. edx was doing it for some courses at one point.
Here's a demo from 3play: http://www.3playmedia.com/services-features/plugins/interact...
you're awfully quick to judge a person you've never met and know nothing of except for about 16 words you read on twitter.
Where in HIPAA does it require anti-virus or IDS? Last I read it only requires encryption (both locally and on the network) and you have to have a written security policy which you will be audited against.

If you don't want AV or IDS then simply don't put it into your internal security policy. Nothing in the HIPAA says that you have to have it, unless they've amended it recently to include that.
Her explanation does sound like it was crafted by a political PR group - which makes sense considering her profession - but I'm still happy to take her word for it.

However, it's pretty easy to see how it could be considered a racist and bigoted tweet and I'd expect her to have realised this before sending it.

EDIT: I totally agree that scuttling someones life on career off the back of one tweet is unfair - I 100% agree with that. As I said in the original comment, the bullying she experienced was totally unfair.

I don't believe, however, that her career is ruined by it - evidenced by the fact that she's now gainfully employed. I think it's definitely a red flag on her resume but by doing volunteer service after the fact I'd be surprised if any company wouldn't see this as "I did something dumb, I learnt and grew from it".

Professionals in PR should naturally be extra-vigilant about issues like these.
This isn't asking. This is forcing them to do something.
On my Moto X (2014), which has a custom activation phrase (mine is "Excuse me Carson"), I've noticed that my wife can not actually activate it. Other men often can, though.

It's not designed to be an authentication feature, of course.
Wow! This:

"A Canadian medical expedition had collected the soil from beneath one of the mysterious stone heads on Easter Island, a speck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."

.. combined with this story:

http://www.disclose.tv/news/Study_Ancient_Humans_Bred_with_C...

.. I'm starting to think that Szukalski wasn't such a crackpot after all.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Szukalski)

Are we perhaps on the brink of a new era of Zermatism? Yikes, what a scary thought... ;)
I ended up using a Nexus 10 for reading technical stuff. The kindle is too small and you lose the page formatting. I really wish they'd bring back the Kindle DX format.