skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the ferguson report -- and I can't do it justice -- the police were systematically used to assault black people, and use them as a cash source to fund local government. Meanwhile, white people skated on the same charges. I can't do the report justice, but it's utterly appalling. And while white people might not know what is going on, trust me, black people damn sure do. To say the least, this does not improve cooperation with the police.

One should understand that the Justice Department did not simply find
indirect evidence of unintentionally racist practices which harm black
people, but "discriminatory intent”—that is to say willful racism aimed to
generate cash. Justice in Ferguson is not a matter of "racism without
racists," but racism with racists so secure, so proud, so brazen that they
used their government emails to flaunt it. [1]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/The-Gang...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/04/us/ferguson-po...
Take a computer user who hasn't written a single line of code ever. Fire up VB6-, drop a button, double click, write MessageBox "Hello Word" and press the play button. I have often got looks with amazement "Wow! Is creating applications that easy? I can do that!". I know of no other development tool or languages that demands same response from complete non-programmers. The minute people see angle/curly/curvy brackets, there is just too much explaining to do that would eventually end up in talking about how stack works.

Many of us thrive on complexities and are wired to handle large hierarchies of concepts that is required to make sense of things, but large majority apparently wants things to be simple and VB of an excellent way for them to experience the joy of programming. Professionally VB6- was however too limiting and its purpose seemed to be mostly churning out CRUD data entry screens faster than ever. So it's best used as introduction/launchpad in to programming with clear plan to weaning off after you had enough fun.
Nigeria: Made in ABU Car Unveiled in Zaria
Rovio revenues drop 9% in 2014 due to waning Angry Birds consumer product demand
It's your problem that you couldn't convince them of your worth and get fair compensation. And I don't mean that you hold the keys to the kingdom and ask the king for ransom. Simply quantify the benefits that your system provides and prove that it's in their best interests to have you working there.
There's always one like you in threads like this.

<sigh>
What effect will this have on the ability to boost driver support in Linux, if any? FreeBSD has ndisgen [1], but would this help improve that or a broader set of driver use in Linux?

Secondly, what about WINE?

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndisgen
To everyone insisting that the argument is silly: while in this particular case I do disagree with the conclusion, I'd encourage you to pause for a moment before dismissing it. I often find that when I approach philosophical theories with too critical a mindset, I dismiss it too quickly, and, if I spend the time afterwrd, find the issue more complicated than it appeared at first. It's something like being posed a coding problem, going "Oh, that's simple!", and then discovering later that the problem, is, in fact, quite complex.

On the topic of philosophy, in general, though, Bertrand Russell says it better than I can:
"Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true. This exercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind."
There's a special branch of knot theory, I think braid theory, that describes juggling patterns.
But this looks identical to the "immovable object vs. unstoppable object" paradox. It presupposes something that doesn't actually exist.

Experience is information. It doesn't make sense to imagine a situation in which she has all the information about a thing, except experience. Either she has all of the information about it, or she doesn't.
While myopia was not associated with the month of birth, there was a trend towards a higher prevalence of myopia among conscripts living above the Arctic Circle, consistent with the hypothesis that ambient lighting might influence
refractive development.

https://www.med.upenn.edu/cpob/documents/Myopiaandnaturallig...
I'd like a standard license which is like the GPL, plus you can't bundle it into anything with ads or spyware, interpreted broadly. This would prevent things such as SourceForge's malware installer wrapper.
I don't recall anyone saying it was original, but I'll be damned if this one isn't better.
I couldn't disagree more. Obviously it shouldn't be as drastic as having to leave to get a raise. But paying your employees more does not guarantee they will stay or be extra motivated.

https://hbr.org/2013/04/does-money-really-affect-motiv

"Other than its functional exchange value, pay is a psychological symbol, and the meaning of money is largely subjective. For example, there are marked individual differences in people’s tendency to think or worry about money, and different people value money for different reasons (e.g., as a means to power, freedom, security, or love). If companies want to motivate their workforce, they need to understand what their employees really value — and the answer is bound differ for each individual. Research shows that different values are differentially linked to engagement. For example, income goals based on the pursuit of power, narcissism, or overcoming self-doubt are less rewarding and effective than income goals based on the pursuit of security, family support, and leisure time. Perhaps it is time to compensate people not only according to what they know or do, but also for what they want."
The saddest part of this is that not only do most people NOT know their rights, but they're dead certain that they know things to be true, that aren't.

I got into a debate on Quora in which the other party insisted that your right to silence couldn't be invoked until you were Mirandized, which is completely untrue.

I got into a different argument that insisted that it was illegal to deny cops some basic information, like your name, driver's license and address. That may be true in some instances, but isn't necessarily true everywhere.

Beyond all that, the worst argument is the one which asserts that by invoking your right to silence, even peaceably, the cops will likely harass you and/or find some other reason to arrest you. That argument is the worst because it's the most likely to be true.
> I know for a fact that hosting Erlang apps on Heroku means you lose said multi-node advantages, along with incurring limits on concurrent connections.

Why would you choose Erlang, and then remove some of its major advantages?

You may be able to postpone a lot of operational complexity by just scaling up the hardware on a single server (or a single pair of servers). You can do a lot with a 2690 and 512GB of ram, and it's not that expensive to build.
Not my product - I would suggest mailing them directly
Reified pixels can be described in finite terms, and can be counted.

You can't just say you're at an infinite level of division, and ask for the name of the pixel you're at.

There is a simple bijection between pixels and a subset of rational numbers. You wouldn't say rational numbers are uncountable, would you?

I can make the same sort of tree argument about rational numbers. My set of rational numbers are constructed by multiplying numerator and denominator by ten and then adding 0-9 to the numerator. At each level they can represent any finite string of digits. Surely this is the same cardinality as the pixels.

There is no way to jump to an "infinitely deep" number by this construction. You have to go a step at a time, and then they're clearly countable. In the way that real numbers aren't, because there's no way to generate all real numbers in any order.

TL;DR Edit: Counting finite strings for an infinite time does not actually produce infinite strings. Each pixel is finite.
I would love to see a second control group where the kids spent 40 minutes a day inside a 10,000 lux illuminated classroom.
A letter to skeptics
There's a general result that the set of "All pairs of elements from two countable sets" is, itself, countable. (the Cartesian product of two countable sets is countable).

For example, the set of all pairs of natural numbers can be counted something like this:

1,1
2,1
2,2
1,2
3,1
3,2
3,3
1,3
2,3
...
"Gene ancestry and the Irish problem"
Thank you, very good answer! It makes a bit more sense to me. Also tested in Chrome w/o Javascript, and it does indeed work. Upvoting's just a little more inconvenient.
Considering the company pretty much defined EEE as we know it and is known for lying about competition, I don't think being cautious is a bad thing. I'm happy they're releasing things and trying to be more open, but... let's see where it goes before we start celebrating.
Spotify pays them, they get yet another cut and pays you.

at least that's how it goes for my friends receiving via bmi
Mary's Room is a thought experiment that attempts to establish that there are non-physical properties and attainable knowledge that can be discovered only through conscious experience.

From the beginning the argument pre-supposes there is objective knowledge that can learnt. As we know from relativity and quantum theory, there is no objective truth. The location of every atom, cell or neuron is unique to every observer.

Reading the RGB encoding of a photo, one number at a time, compared to seeing the photo with your own eyes, are different experiences. Imagine if each of our senses are different dimensions of perception, different ways of learning knowledge (reading about color through a book vs experiencing color with eyes) are orthogonal to each other. You can only connect those experiences and imagine colours after you've experienced it with your own eyes - your brain can "fake" perceptions, but only after having experienced the same kind of perception previously.

This blind man regained vision at 68:

When he went to the corner store with his sister, he handed the cashier a $10 bill when he really should have handed a $5 bill...The idea of remembering things visually is hard as well, and he still resorts to touching and feeling the world around him to store those memories. Of course while blind he'd been able to differentiate between $5 and a $10, but once he's regained his vision the touch-knowledge isn't connected to his vision-knowledge immediately.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382619/Canadian-man...

Knowing how neurone in our brains work is different to having those neurons interacting with each other.

I argue "knowledge", if exists, can be interpreted only through the filter of qualia. No human knows anything without experience. Even reading a page of C code can only be done through our eyes and our mind and compared through previous experience in reading the same. Our minds are qualia, period.

As this was a philosophical argument I'll post a poem from a philosopher.

Thus Something and Nothing produce each other;
The difficult and the easy complement each other;
The long and the short off-set each other;
The high and the low incline towards each other;
Note and sound harmonize with each other;
Before and after follow each other.

http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?m=NOzh&l=Daodejing&no...

With your babel fish you listen to an alien recording "A tall being and a short being once stood here". You wonder, having never met or seen any sign of aliens besides this audio recording, how tall and how short were those beings?
no, it's more that they're being played like a fiddle by a skilled demagogue making emotional arguments
Reminds me of Lynn Hill (one of my climbing heros) advocating that men and women should compete together on the same routes [1]

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/31/magazine/cliffhanger.html?...
That's not surprising! Some really good enterprise and POS software got developed in Delphi (and other desktop frameworks/IDEs) back in the day. In Brazil a lot of businesses were starting to adopt POS, and having someone building a billing program for you was all the rage. There's little incentive to update such systems as long as they work. Not everything needs to be a website! (shakes walking stick and shouts to kids to get off his lawn)

I remember hating .NET in the beginning. Performance was abysmal and anything mildly low-level took a lot of work. I made some good money as a freelancer writing COM libraries or C++ libraries with a thin C# wrapper so that they could be used by companies that had bought into the whole .NET thing.

Then C# introduced generics, and it started breaking away from the similarities to Java. Things improved and in time .NET became a very capable runtime/framework. I'm actually excited to see Microsoft finally opening it up. As much as I love Python, the cloud and all the fancy new stuff we have nowadays, I occasionally long for the good old days when desktop software reigned supreme.

OK, better go to sleep now. I'm starting to sound like an old fogy :)
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Ohhh, now there's a good idea. I'd like something like MIT but with the same clause. Maybe someone with a better grasp of legalese can draft a common "don't use this in your shitty deceptive/scammy software" clause we can put at the end of any other license?
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First of all, I'm a bit surprised that the article does not even mention Club Mate.

Second, it's catching on in the Netherlands through the underground. All hackerspaces have their own supply line, either through their own import, or through other channels. There are now several wholesalers who sell it, and I'm starting to see it in small cafe's as well.

I've also heard that there is a cocktailbar in Amsterdam which uses Club Mate in some of their cocktails.
I increased my paycheck by >3 times in the last five years. I can't talk about saiya-jin's 20x, but I assume it's partly to do with starting on a stupidly low salary in the first place, and then going to something above average.
>Beyond all that, the worst argument is the one which asserts that by invoking your right to silence, even peaceably, the cops will likely harass you and/or find some other reason to arrest you. That argument is the worst because it's the most likely to be true.

Why is it worst by being likely true? It's probably not a good idea to immediately invoke the Fifth on a routine traffic stop, for instance, for exactly that reason. (It wouldn't cause them to arrest you, sure, but they'd look a lot harder for reasons to cite you that would otherwise "not be worth it".)
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Law will follow business, Business will not follow law
Greece (not) sticking the finger to Germany
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New site coming. A taste : "Incubate your colleagues through transcendental super-intelligences"
Implementation is one paragraph of SQL or statistical code, given access to the data set and a few minutes to execute.

This change in how revenue per song is calculated is truly simple.

The only hard part is convincing people it's better.

Adoption has nothing at all to do with complexity. Be careful you're not moving the goalposts.

Bill gates giving me a billion dollars to screw around with is extremely simple, and also will never be adopted.
If Mary only knows about colours "intellectually" then she might be a SHRDLU for colour, knowing the calculations of blocks symbolically but not knowing blocks and gravity, having never experienced it. http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/
Will it help making drivers for filesystems which MS doesn't care to support?
Eh, the downvotes weren't that bad. I wasn't complaining about the downvotes, as much as people acting in the manner you describe. I don't think i have it in me to not comment on that, just as they seem to not have it in them to attempt to silence the opposition heh.
I'm very sorry dear sir, english is by far not my native language (I'm pretty glad you got fooled though), I will try to do better next time and please accept my apologies

EDIT: Wiktionary does not yet have an entry for e.g.
>Being a dick includes - but is not limited to - the following instances:

That "is not limited too" sounds scary. I would hesitate to use software under that license. So I guess that is the big difference between the licenses: One allows you to do pretty much whatever you want. The other allows you to be sued for pretty much whatever the author wants.
We will at some point. Right now working on module loaders support (browserify, webpack), then will be adding more testing frameworks support. TypeScript/CoffeeScript next.
Feel free to add feature requests/vote - https://github.com/wallabyjs/public/issues
Nintendo's Next System Is Code-Named the NX
The article implied
that the Math Olympiad
work didn't much result
in significant results 30
years later
from the work in math for
the contest.

You are correct that the OP
didn't directly say that the
"training" of the "kids"
was poor.

My view of such high school
math competitions is that
they waste the time and
effort of the students
and, otherwise, with good
guidance, there would be
significant results
from the efforts 30 years later.
In this sense, then the
training was a "poor job".

But the OP did not say that
directly -- that's my
interpretation, heavily
from what I saw used
as efforts to have some
high school students
do better in math --
the efforts were a waste
of time for all concerned
and because the people
directing the efforts
didn't know enough math.
Let's take the claim "experience is information" to be true (I've yet to find a reasonable definition of "information", so I agree).

Jackson's point here is specifically to show that there are at least two kinds of information: physical information, and information that is not physical. Bearing that in mind, what do you mean by:
> "Either she has all of the information about it, or she doesn't."
UK abolishes tax returns. Switches to online tax accounts
Smashed your HTC One? No problem, they'll replace
Or Wimbledon.
This is more resembling a manifest then a license.
so, man being underrepresented in humanities is not a concern? where is the line drawn?

sounds like a bunch of politics trolling and narcissists forcing others to see their ways as the only way
Because the cops don't have the right to detain you without suspicion of you having committed a crime, and (at least historically), invoking the fifth is not evidence of guilt.
The problem with MSBuild is that it tends to get used for things for which it is not really designed.

MSBuild was originally designed as a file format for Visual Studio solution and project files, generally intended to be managed by a GUI. If all you are interested in is spitting out binaries, it works pretty well, and the fact that it adds a ton of extensibility is actually quite useful.

It becomes problematic though when people try to use it to manage their entire end-to-end build process -- running tests, generating reports, stopping and starting servers, manipulating configuration files and so on. When you get to that level you really need a proper scripting language with a clean, readable way of expressing loops, conditions and subroutines, and that's where MSBuild falls down -- XML is horrible for that kind of thing, and the declarative, task-based paradigm simply isn't flexible enough.

Unfortunately, because of the all too common insistence of many .NET teams on being spoon-fed by Microsoft, a lot of projects stick with MSBuild for their entire end-to-end build process regardless, simply because they believe That Is How Microsoft Wants You To Do It.
So if I licence my code under this license, you get to do whatever you want -- including using the code in proprietary software -- but I have to provide downloads of it forever? Seems like a downgrade over BSD or MIT licenses, if you want a permissive license.
This is a good point though. What do you folks suggest for the standard traffic stop, along the lines of,

"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"

Presumably both "yes" and "no" would be bad. (The former is obvious, and the latter could mean you're not paying sufficient attention, etc.) So, do you just stare at them in silence? Do you say something like, "I'd rather not answer," which while accurate, sure sounds like "yes". (At the very least, there goes your chance of a warning instead of a ticket...)[1]

I agree with serve_yay that many of these situations start off seeming innocuous, and staying silent is easier said than done.

Another example is the cops canvasing the area of a crime, looking for info. Do you just refuse to speak to them without a lawyer, even though you had nothing to do with it? It's certainly possible (albeit unlikely) that they actually have you as a suspect and are trying to trick you into some sort of false statement. (Or a statement that appears to be false because it conflicts with other evidence, even if it's true!) But in the vast majority of cases it'll be exactly what it seems. Or say you actually witnessed a crime. Or were the victim! Still lawyer up before talking to the cops? It appears the safest thing is, yes, always get a lawyer. But at some point on the spectrum, does the cost and inconvenience outweigh the insurance factor of doing so?

[1] I've only been in that situation a couple times, but I've tried my best to answer politely without saying anything material. One way to do that is to answer questions with questions. "Do you know how fast you were going?" "How fast was I going, Sir?"
some of those look pretty scammy, and no offence but you made an account 5 hours ago. Any "real" stuff out there?
Probably missed the whole content of TFA, which is that his experiments were redone now, with possitive results...

It's not like it's impossible to be taught BS (e.g. that "something us incorrect") and it later to be proven true after all...
And the ever appropriate: "Orchestrate your super powers through next-gen cross-functional teams"
>You add an fourth dimension to a computation grid and it reduces numerical problems with the 3D computation

e.g. gimbal lock solved by quaternian rotation.
I took home first prize at a AT&T hackathon here in Houston and I thought the exact same thing.

A lot of corporate ones are set up with contracts that leave your work at their mercy to continue without you. Unless there's a prize - it isn't worth it with these types of arrangements.

For social good, civil, city government, university etc - I'll do it with no expectations just to make a difference.
"society unwittingly steers female students into careers like health care, education, and law, and encourages male students to pursue STEM careers"

Perhaps this is dong wittingly. Health care, education, and law are all fields that offer secure, local, long-term employment with excellent maternity benefits. Physicists, mathematicians, and other hard science fields often provide much less reliable employment, frequently with travel requirements (academics typically do not get to spend their careers in one place) and excessive time commitments required. Put simply, women steer clear of STEM jobs because they stink if you want to reproduce.

Want to make STEM jobs attractive to women? Start rewarding scientists in measure with their education investment. Stop treating grad students and post-docs worse than pipe-fitters and welders.
WhatsApp Web is now on Firefox as well
WhatsApp Web is now on Firefox as well.