skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a perceptual dialectological difference between "hella pregnant" (Northern California) and "totally pregnant" (Southern California).

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?
The Perceptual Dialectology of California

http://eng.sagepub.com/content/35/4/325.abstract

http://people.duke.edu/~eec10/hellanorcal.pdf

This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state). Quantitative analysis of a map-labeling task carried out in Southern California reveals that California's most salient linguistic boundary is between the northern and southern regions of the state. Whereas studies of the perceptual dialectology of the United States as a whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular regions of California less with distinctive dialects than with differences in language (English versus Spanish), slang use, and social groups. The diverse sociolinguistic situation of California is reflected in the emphasis both on highly salient social groups thought to be stereotypical of California by residents and nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) and on groups that, though prominent in the cultural landscape of the state, remain largely unrecognized by outsiders (e.g., hicks).

[...]

By far, the most frequently remarked-upon slang term in the map-labeling data
was hella, accounting for 47.4 percent of the slang and other lexical labels. Hella is
a slang term originating in Northern California and one that remains—aside from a
few brief moments in the national spotlight due to its circulation in popular culture—
largely restricted to that region (Bucholtz 2006). The term, which apparently lexicalized
from (a) hell of (a), functions as both a quantifier (There were hella people
there) and an intensifier (He runs hella fast). Four respondents also mentioned the
slang term hecka, the G-rated equivalent of hella, but this term was not counted
separately, because tokens of hecka always co-occurred with hella.
For Southern Californians in particular, hella represents a crucial shibboleth separating
the two major regions of the state. As shown in Figure 7, respondents tended
to identify hella overwhelmingly as a Northern California slang term, and its appearance
in other regions of the map drops dramatically from north to south.
Thus Northern California was variously labeled the hellas, Land of the Hella’s,
and Hella capital, and one respondent provided an isogloss designating “the ‘hella’
line.” (In the map data, the Central Coast around Santa Barbara seemed to be the
dividing line between users and nonusers of hella, and the fact that the study was
conducted in this region may have enhanced respondents’ focus on this particular
issue.) [*10: The respondent’s confusion may also be due to the existence of the Crips, a notorious Los
Angeles–based gang.] Hella users were also negatively evaluated by Southern Californians, and
the term came in for a good deal of criticism, such as Hella is not a real word and
[hecka is] probably the worst word ever.
its not, but on the other hand, existing GUI APIs are not live coding friendly nor made in Pharo ;) Also the moment you want to change something or hack something , welcome to C++ hell. You sacrifice native look and powerful features, you get a live easy to hack system in return. But as I said Pharo DOES NOT forbid you from using Native libraries of any sort, including GUI. The fact that the vast majority of pharo developers choose not to use native gui apis, says a lot about how desirable GUI APIs are compared to "non native look" Pharo GUI API which is called Morphic :)
Analogizing McDonald's:Ruth's Chris::Android:iOS is dishonest. While I agree you can't necessarily draw that conclusion, it's like having a major (equal caliber!) seafood restaurant deciding whether to start selling steaks because Ruth's Chris is doing well. It's still apples to oranges, but it's not apples to Twinkies.
Then you don't really believe in democracy, and I have to disagree.
I'm charmed that they sound about as nerdy and astonished as I and my friends would if dropped into the same situation.
That's why sigma additivity (property of a probability measure) only allows union/sum only of a countable number of elements of the sigma algebra:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_additivity
Audio processing on Android devices is Slow. Even seemingly small delays (10 milliseconds) is enough to make apps seem clunky and erratic. This puts the Android platform at a disadvantage for developers whose product ideas involve delivering high quality audio performance.

The embedded graph with the U shaped figure pretty much sums up the author's search for the components in the software that are the culprits.
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If that's the case then why don't we see more faired uprights? It should be possible to greatly improve aerodynamics without much harm to weight or safety. I think it's because most R&D is spent on bikes at the top end of the market, where most customers are pros or want the same bikes as the pros. Even partial fairings could make a big difference, but we don't see them because they're banned by the UCI.
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I'll consider implementing one of those options. Thank you for your feedback.
They currently do, to a point.

Lower functioning students are provided with much more 'hands on' teaching situations.

I don't know how effective separating student more would be- one could argue that at a certain point it might harm the students because of the lack of socialization. A selection bias of social awkwardness, if you will.
Is there anyone here believes we need open government and liquid democracy?
I think "technological for the sake of it" is exactly it. Our school district had similar results. A big announcement, the goal being "an iPad for every student." Strangely quiet about the results thereafter. A number of the iPads went missing and turned up in local pawn shops. Others were damaged beyond repair. All in all a waste of millions of dollars and bonds that will now have to be repaid all for naught.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...
Maybe if they're having rouble with EME + HTTPS they should stop being defective by design and abandon their mistake of using EME.
>Slots model instance variables as first class enities and enable meta-programming on this level.

That sounds similar to Self, where everything was expressed with slots, including instance variables. I believe Self also had a way to mark slots as immutable, which would be an awesome feature to get in Pharo.
Free version: https://archive.today/WyCdu

This is why I despair at all these new keyless cars. I would pay money to have a normal key over one of those, because it's more secure.

Also, one huge reason I would never want a keyless car: I can't check if it's locked before I walk off; I just have to trust that it will lock once I'm far enough away and before someone else jumps into it and drives off.
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The README implies that `tar` is "not streamable". Someone needs a history lesson on what it was originally used for...
I personally worried about the simplicity of the attack. Granted at this stage, its just a DoS, but then take corporate patch cycles into account.. In reality, most aren't going to get patched, at best, for another week or so. Security is still second-fiddle at many companies.
Ah, that's a Mac font. I'm on Linux, but you should try a more general monospaced font like Consolas, or there's probably one on Google Fonts you can use.
standing ovation for the free IT resources :)
Having everyone use books seems like a level playing field to me.
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So if I get it correctly the problem is twofold: there is some extra intermediate processing and the buffer size and sampling rate are fixed to 256 samples and 48kHz respectively?
And which of these two does Superpowered fix? Or both? And what would be the lowest possible latency on for example the Nexus 9?
It is a law against TERROR: you cannot oppose it!
Thanks!

The project launched last year with the High School, and this coming school year we will be expanding to the Middle Schools.

It was genuinely exciting to see the students helping their peers.

It's almost all stock Ubuntu, Google Apps for Education, and a few other tools thrown in. We aim for Open Source where we can.
Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts?
I am a teacher.

Ability/need isn't a scalar quantity and real students don't distribute themselves in a way that can be described by a couple of parameters.

I don't know what the answers are either but I think we need to be very explicit about any assumptions underpinning proposed models. I also agree with the 'bottom up' part of the gf comment.

Now, what discrete 'styles of instruction' are there do you think?
I'm an IT Dir. for a district in St. Louis county. I remember reading this article and being blown away. I ran a copy over to my Superintendent. While we're not ditching Windows or Chromebooks at the moment, the part I was most interested in adapting for our district is student involvement in the tech process and peer support.

We're setting up a student led and staffed tech support group so that they can help their classmates out with issues around BYOB, Chromebooks, etc.

I was an enterprise Linux admin in a former life, and I'm working on integrating it more. I've already got it in the hands of a few students on their own BYOD devices.

Great job out there.
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If you look at the source its using something called blekko.php - which upon googling heads to a "IBM Watson purchased this".

Is this using watson behind the scenes?
First tried searching for 'Quake', then 'Daisy Johnson' [0]. Nada :(

[0]: http://marvel.wikia.com/Daisy_Johnson_%28Earth-616%29
I agree but there's always a tiny 'ignorance is bliss' ring in my head while I'm thinking about it.
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Got it, but that's systemd requiring the coupling not Linux (which I assumed you meant "the kernel"). If we're talking about distros, then yes, there is a very high coupling of the ecosystem to systemd. The kernel continues to be unaffected, mostly.
The key to consulting is not technical skill. You can hire that.

technical skill != business value

The necessary element is knowing people who are willing to pay your rate and convincing them to do so. If you're not in the orbit of people who are in the habit of dropping $10,000 per person per week on consultants, such work is inaccessible. Getting into those orbits is usually a matter of "paying dues". It takes a deep rollodex to sustain a backlog.

Good luck.
Or, rather, actually care about audio. Google (/Motorola Mobility, when it was owned by it) doesn't even care if a phone ships with a broken headphone port and refuses to fix it.
In all fairness no one really watches voting records in France like people do in the US. Most of the time most French MP don't bother showing up, even for important votes. Particularly if they are late at night.
I feel like I learned something about the problem. I was expecting to also learn about the solution but instead got hit with sales pitch at the end there.

How does Superpowered get around ALSA and the Audio Flinger?
I agree, but that leads me as a backer to try to validate the ability of creators to finish. The best way for me to evaluate that short of personally knowing the creator is to see if they have previous campaigns that finished well. This continues to turn Kickstarter into a pre-order store where all of the risk lies on the purchaser.
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You could get an RFID-blocking wallet (should anyway, really) and put the key in that.

I have one from http://difrwear.com/; I've tested it and it's never leaked any signal from cards inside; should work fine with keys too.
Completely agree, pseudoscience and fear mongering will rule the world if this happens...
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Sort of a tangent, but it occurs to me that a computer winning the Turing Award would be the ultimate way to pass the Turing test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
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Not that I'm aware of. The device layer usually does it already and it's supposed to be sufficient.
Awesome. I am in Allentown, PA and running for School Board currently. I need to make sure I look into this project for some of our students in our city.
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I agree, but that leads me as a backer to try to validate the ability of creators to finish.

Hasn't this been pretty clear from day one? Kickstarter may not be perfect, but I feel like the one thing they've been pretty consistent on is that they don't have a lot of control over how the creators fulfill their obligations.
Oh, la merde =/
Host-key rotation in OpenSSH 6.8
I was hopping to see like this http://tarantool.org/doc/book/replication/index.html?highlig... but for redis.
Wow! I'm from Lancaster. This is the last thing I would have expected coming out of there. That is some great stuff.
From the two responses I've had it would seem that my comment is going to be misunderstood and misinterpreted. Fair enough. I could write essays on this (in fact, I have when I took Philosophy as a minor to accompany my Pure Maths and Computer Science courses) and comments here just aren't going to cut it.

As I say, fair enough.

The responses I'm getting from it have a consistent feel. They are either reciting facts, or they are totally non-committal. Here:

"I don't like picking favorites. Everything
that is something regarded with special favor
or liking seems good to me."

That has all the feeling of a canned response.

I know the advances that have been made, I know how impressive this thing actually is, I know how hard it is to do this, and I know the work that must have gone into it. And even knowing all of that, when it makes what are to humans trivial grammatical mistakes, it takes away from all that and reduces it to a machine.

My comments are not intended to diminish the accomplishment, but to highlight a place where the illusion gets broken. If you have a large, totally white canvas with one small, off-center black dot, what will people look at?

So please understand that this is not a dismissal of the work, or of the achievement, but a highlighting of one specific point that disproportionally detracts from the effectiveness.

To continue to provide feedback to try to help, it just rendered like this:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/acuman.png

Latest Firefox on latest Ubuntu. edit: That's just a grab of part of the screen, I can do the whole window if you'd like to see the context.

Edit: It would be nice to have some details about how it is doing what it's doing. They might be there, but I haven't had time to rummage much, as I'm in the middle of other things. Someone mentioned AIML. I will be back to look again later.
> This is not a good analogy.

I'd say it's a bad analogy because most people who don't live in the US have no idea what Ruth's Chris is.
Six percent of U.S. adults plan to buy Apple Watch
interestingly, a 2012 article[1] by Arun Raghavan mentions:

On the Galaxy Nexus, for example, the best latency I can get appears to be 176 ms. This is pretty high for certain types of applications, particularly ones that generate tones based on user input. With PulseAudio, where we dynamically adjust buffering based on what clients request, I was able to drive down the total buffering to approximately 20 ms (too much lower, and we started getting dropouts). There is likely room for improvement here, and it is something on my todo list, but even out-of-the-box, we’re doing quite well.

Let's get systemd on android and then see !

[1] http://arunraghavan.net/2012/01/pulseaudio-vs-audioflinger-f...
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That's not going to survive forever, though; law does not allow you to do things and then absolve yourself from any consequences.
Most districts I've seen do this to some degree, so I think the premise of the question -- that schools don't -- is fundamentally flawed.

Of course, there are more axes of student variation than schools can segregate on without having a single educator dedicated full time to each individual student, and there are other factors working against such segregation -- it imposes additional curriculum costs costs, and administrative costs which are politically unpopular, and it creates decision points which parents frequently disagree with, which leads to conflict and additional costs on top of those basically necessary to manage the segregation.
What makes AngularJS a highly preferred JavaScript framework?
We should not forget Pharo IS a fork of Squeak, it goes to a very different direction but is based on the same code. GUI wise Pharo inherited its GUI API, Morphic from Squeak. My personal opinions is that native look interfaces are dead. Nowdays most apps use custom look especially web applications.

Native looks apps look boring. Users don't like boring applications. At least I dont :)

The GUI in Pharo is not ideal but we should not also forget that this is a small community that is able to come up with tons of new cool useful features in each release because of how R.A.D Pharo is.
They also hire lawyers and agents to handle the negotiations that result in favorable working conditions and compensation. Maybe tech professionals should do the same?
Also the term "advanced"... :) But it looks WIP so maybe it'll pick up
Yes it does! I'm not sure how much you can do, without adding attributes e.g. version number, last app to edit, who last accessed etc. But anything is progress.

Here's something Spotlight (Mac) fails on utterly: I have multiple source trees for the same source base (1 for each ticket I'm working on). When I look for a file or build, it shows me 6 of them - without letting me know which project they're in! Useless.
Several good answers can be found on http://mathoverflow.net/q/95865 and http://math.stackexchange.com/q/45594/14018
> Public discussion of education is always hampered by the fact that people not professionals in it have no sense of how complicated it is.

My friend's a teacher and the stories she tells me give me a glimpse into it. She's been in an intercity school for about 3 years now and so far, yearly:

* 3-4 of her students will be shot dead within a mile of their home or school
* 10+ of her students will be in jail or in juvenile detention for a significant amount of time, usually on drug-related charged
* 5+ of her students will have a child and miss a significant amount of time
* 1-2 of her students will be pulled out of class and beaten by a rival gang

That doesn't even include the kids who work jobs, drug related or otherwise, outside of school to support their families.

Reforming education will be a side effect of working to improve society. Any attempt to reform education without looking at the environment the kids live in will fail.
Woman defends muslim couple after listening to racist rant on train
I guess you never used Vista. Or Windows 8.
Because we blink; its normal for our brain to process rapidly-changing scenes.
As in my other comment, they mean proven talent. It's very hard to assess engineers so the easiest way is to let some other company do it and then poach them.

Training in this industry is basically a lie told to children. It doesn't exist at startups and barely exists at corporates.
Accumulation.

If x is the unit of measure for the end-result and we have n components that add together, then we need at least x/n as unit of measure for the performance of each component. x/(2*n) is more reasonable to not deviate from the target performance more than one x after rounding in the worst-case.
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I'm actually OK with the enforcement. The politicians should do their damn jobs and update the laws. The police shouldn't have to maintain a list of exceptions in their heads.

... and yes, this is a car culture thing. Most of the broken laws relate to bikes and pedestrians in the places where I have bothered to look.
Organized labor is great when you've got a local labor monopsony (one-buyer) which is exploiting your work. This was clearly the case in many company towns back in the organized-labor movement's heyday, and still has relevance to groups like public school teachers, but the last figures I've seen say that economists estimate that the average rate of exploitation in the US at large is somewhere roughly between 1%-3% (because switching firms is an expensive proposition).

There's a reason that labor union membership is at an all-time low, and yet here we are with the labor movement trying to double down on a 19th-century solution to our 21st-century problems. The concept of organized labor is more beneficial today to robots than it is to Americans -- robots, and imports from developing nations.

We won't even get into all of favors the labor movement hasn't done itself on various topics, either, like union leaders paid executive-like compensation or the Teamsters' ties to organized crime.
Even more, we've given them root access.

From your link:

each laptop is equipped with a filter to block material deemed harmful to minors. Filters are enabled both on and off campus

I bet that won't be much of an obstacle... but I like how you're encouraging them to "hack" - it's great to give them full control over their computers and see what they can do.
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The problem is that computers in the home may not change outcomes for low income students. In fact, some studies have shown that giving poor kids computers actually makes things worse [1]. I certainly don't think that we should keep computers away from poor kids, but we need to think carefully about how to maximize the social value of the money spent on these programs.

As an example, I have lived with at least one computer my entire life (that I can remember), starting with a Commodore 64. My parents encouraged me to explore, and my dad helped me learn BASIC when I was 9 or 10 (I may have given up without his assistance). The computer was important, but so were my parents. One without the other would have created a very different outcome for me.

Parents of disadvantaged children are less likely to have the time, knowledge, or energy to provide the motivation and assistance to help their children benefit from having a computer. So then, how much social value are we getting when we drop $500 or $1,000 (or more, with support costs) and hand a disadvantaged kid an iPad or a laptop?

In my view, having worked in academic technology, albeit at the college level, we would get better results by providing an excellent technology curriculum, taught by competent teachers, with a low-pressure, low-risk environment (AP Computer Science doesn't work here because disadvantaged kids don't take AP classes). The cost would be about the same, or even less, but in exchange for the money we could get both pieces of the puzzle, hardware (computer labs, imagine in-school hacker spaces), and the knowledge and direction to actually make something of it.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w16078
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As much as a love Python, JS really isn't that bad. Seems to me like you could become competent with JS (at least for simple frontend tasks) in the time it would take to familiarize yourself with Rapydscript.
It's a prank! Giving a company their own geofilter seems like a fun tribute in a way.