skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably cultural... latin-americans, and Europeans with latin culture (France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, etc) usually tend to take life "less seriously" (we all know the awful toll stress takes in our bodies/minds), and also eat healthier introducing other paradoxes like the "French Paradox"[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox
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So much hyperbole. Really can't stand the Sun.

Bit ironic too that this was one of the papers caught up in the phone hacking scandal and they are now preaching about security.
As entertaining as it might be to people who are entertained by such things ("not me" would be an extreme understatement), it's pretty much exhibit A for Linus' inability to manage people in addition to code. It's embarrassing, honestly.
Well, let’s see where the incentives take us.

Journalists want to report on interesting things which people want to read about or watch. Reporting on things by secret informants and sources is a bit harder, but usually worth is because it gives a better story. But informants who have to be kept secret from the government is another matter – it’s nigh-impossible, even for an expert, to keep such things secret from the NSA and all its collaborators (knowing and unknowing). So these stories are much harder to do, but the story itself is not that much more interesting than other possible stories which does not have the same level of government interest. For this reason, the journalists are incentivized to avoid stories which attract the government’s interest. As the government’s interest grows to encompass all things, the journalist is therefore pressed to nevertheless report on stories within the government’s scope of interest, even though the risk is high for failure. The obvious solution for the government is to provide juicy stories for journalists to report on which are not in the government interest – the more frivolous, the better.

And thus we can explain today’s media landscape.
>It's literally never been easier in the history of time to legally acquire content.

So? It's never been easier to 'illegally' acquire it as well.

It's interesting that you're happy to call users selfish twats but you don't seem to bat an eye at the exorbitant prices on iTunes to rent things. Why is it that redbox is like 1/4th of the price and that involves a physical disc?
It's a bit concerning that it's labeled a paradox, as you only use that word if it's strongly counter intuitive. That implies everyone who uses that term expected Hispanics to not live longer.

When you see that trend in the data surely you should say "that's interesting, I wonder if it's accurate and hence something to do with being Hispanic" rather than "By what devilry does my data suggest that Hispanics live longer?".
Should be rewritten in Erlang or Go, if you'd ask me.
I don't think this would testable because in the region of diminished resources, time would also be diminished (slow down but not necessarily stop).

Slowing time in the diminished resource region would also slow any local observer, making his observations seem normal. If other resources are diminished that will also interfere with observation.

Einstein's work on simultaneity also prohibits a single observer from observing locally and in another region (i.e., there is no God-like view).

It appears that physics has built-in mechanism for keeping 'observers' and 'the observed' in check.
Linus' trace shows that 12% of the runtime is spent in libc's malloc and free. So yeah, there's a problem there.
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You are absolutely right, I should have used the formula for adiabatic expansion.

However, I maintain that the pressure inside the thermos should only be 60atm, since this is the vapor pressure of CO2 at room temperature [1], where the liquid and the gas phase are in equilibrium. This is like the butane in a lighter: Butane evaporates at room temperature, but there is an equilibrium between liquid phase and gaseous phase when the pressure is higher.

Using 60bar and the adiabatic formula, I get 12.5kJ of energy.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Physical_propert...
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Fling OS – An Educational Operating System Project
It would be better if I can choose the color with keyboard buttons, like with

Q W E R T
A S D F G

Moving the cursor is really slow and is a disadvantage, especially with a touchpad, however I haven't tried on touchscreen.

Btw,

setInterval(function() {
var color = document.querySelector("#kolor-kolor").style.backgroundColor;
var links = document.querySelectorAll("#kolor-options a");
for(i in links) {
if(links[i].style.backgroundColor == color) {
links[i].click();
return;
}
}
}, 10);
Sample size 1, but: I don't pirate music, I don't pirate ebooks, I do pirate videos. It's not like I can't find music/ebooks (and indeed I do pirate books that aren't available for Kindle), it's simply that the paid UX is great: I can find anything I want on Amazon, pay for it easily, have it easily on my (non-Apple) computer and phone, and play/read offline.
Let's wait on the obligatory Cloudflare blogpost talking about how their paying customers are protected.
Incubator programs are slowly changing
That doesn't sound like a good idea. When law enforcement come knocking, your position is less defensible if you seem to be trying to hide your tracks.
To anyone who has updated their twitter mobile client they recently got rid of discover and activity. Typically you would get to these screens by swiping left on the home screen. Activity was a straightforward summary of what your friends had favorited while discover was an algorithmic garble of mostly high followed accounts. I think removing the activity feed highlights the path that could seriously hurt twitter. Alienating their core users for the sake of either ads or new users. Anyone who uses and loves twitter knows how to use it and why its so powerful.

I'd propose doing something more radical for the onboarding process. Perhaps, they could show an almost random feed of tweets and rapidly update where the tweets are coming from by using a bayesian learning process. The point is you need to build your twitter from the ground up and not the top down.
If this college class operates like the ones I had then I think the professor is in the wrong. On the first day I would be given a syllabus that clearly outlined the grading scale and how the grade was calculated.

I look at that like a contract. Professor presented students with a grading scale, students accept by staying in the class or withdraw from the class.

Granted I know nothing about this particular incident, but it could be an interesting case to read about if it were to go to court.
COM sort of works, on Windows, when when one or preferably both sides of the connecting components are made by Microsoft. You never see non-Microsoft code talking to non-Microsoft code from a different vendor via COM. This is not a successful component interface standard.
The latest Ipsos Mori Public Attitudes to Science Survey (2014) is probably worth considering here:

https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharch...

From the summary:

The study shows that the UK public are as enthusiastic about science as they ever have been, with attitudes to science having come a long way over the past 25 years:

-More now agree that “it is important to know about science in my daily life” (72% agree, versus 57% in 1988).

-People are now more comfortable about the pace of change – just a third (34%, versus 49% in 1988) now agree that “science makes people’s lives change too fast”.

- A third (35%) still think that scientists adjust their findings to get the answers they want, and three-in-ten (29%) think scientific research is never or only occasionally checked by other scientists before being published.

- Half (51%) still say they hear and see too little about science.

- Seven-in-ten (69%) think that “scientists should listen more to what ordinary people think” and three-quarters (75%) think that “the Government should act in accordance with public concerns about science and technology”.
Not sure it has improved as far as the UI look goes. That ugly oversized left bar is hideous, as are all the badly low res gifs they seem to be using for icons. Look at osx or windows which have been doing crisp looking icons for a while. I could not bear to use ubuntu, have tried, went back to osx + windows 7.
I'm surprised. Steam has been quite successful because for most people the intrusion is acceptable, the portability/redownloadability useful, the social side works acceptably, and they regularly offer big discounts.

It never ceases to amaze me how slow the steam store browser is, though.
Why Coding Is Your Child’s Key to Unlocking the Future
It's possible to form a hypothesis about the nature of the machine simulating our universe. An experiment could therefore provide corroboration for that specific hypothesis.

It then becomes a case of deciding how strong the corroboration is and applying liberal slashes with Occam's Razor to see if an alternate hypothesis also fitted the results.
Interesting perspective for anyone considering moving down market. Note that they almost broke even, but that wasn't profitable enough compared to their other business:

During its short lifetime, this project has brought us almost as much money as we had put into its development, promotion, and maintenance.

In other situations, almost breaking even after only a year with a new product would be considered a huge win, but I understand they had considerable opportunity cost.
"Google bribes European news groups".
paywalled, anyone with a alt-link?

source: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/592991952829689856
This is a slight tangent to the usual piracy discussion, but I seem to be the last person watching (well, recording) broadcast TV and I'm at the point where I have far more recorded than I'm able to watch. I'd need to make a serious commitment to watching 3+ hours of TV every night for months just to clear the backlog.
It is as if you're trying to run a benchmark on a system: pushing the limits until frames start dropping.
We have a potentially infinite set of signals and data we'd like to communicate to programs

Ah, I think I've identified your problem.

Signals are for alerting programs to a specific (small) set of changes of external states. There's nothing "potentially infinite" there (frankly having 2 different SIGUSR's is generous).

For transmitting arbitrary messages, Linux provides message queues, which are very nearly sockets (and the ways they aren't sockets make using them for IPC easier). What's the limitation there?

It lacks multicast, sure, but then receivers can just make their own queues and have the broadcaster send to them if you want that.
CueKeeper: Gitting Things Done in the Browser
The Man Behind the Hidden World of Magic Leap
Are you missing '/s'?
The static analysis business is really hard from the monetization perspective.
X is going to be migrated into the recycling bin. Lennart wants to migrate PA to dbus, and the possibility exists for doing the same for some future version of Wayland.
One of the overlooked factors is religion.

South Americans are predominantly Catholic and less prone to drinking/smoking and end up fostering a community
Nope, which is one of the reasons they're the target of many if not most current US voting scams.
Does anyone know if and when the videos will be uploaded?
I would assume the frames per second would drop, and for us being simulated we wouldn't notice. Our clocks would still read the same, no matter how 'fast' or 'slow' the simulation is running. Weather terms like fast and slow even make sense to the machine simulating us, a linear single direction timeline could be a construct they are simulating. Maybe the live in a universe with 3D time or something equally different.
Another subjective opinion from someone who doesn't look much out of his box.
Of course science is dangerous. The study of atomic physics very nearly led to nuclear war.

> Dangers and ethical issues only arise when science is applied as technology.

I mostly disagree with this sentiment. If you're a nuclear physicist, and you publish a paper about the theoretical aspects of fission chain reactions, and realize that they may allow for good things, like nuclear power, and bad things, like nuclear weapons, you have an obligation to consider the consequences of how your research might be applied by others, do the cost-benefit calculation, and decide to publish, or keep your knowledge a secret[0].

Of course, in the vast majority of cases (GMOs, medical research, human intelligence, etc., knock yourself out) it's probably better to publish - the benefits far outweigh any costs. But I see no reason why this has to be universally, fundamentally true - maybe there are secrets of the universe too dangerous for publication - knowledge which, if made public, would predictably lead to great destruction.

[0]: http://arxiv.org/html/physics/0207094
Leo Slizard is usually credited as the first to come up with the idea of weaponizing nuclear fission. Slizard was in favor of secrecy, Fermi was in favor of publication, and for a while, they kept some of their discoveries a secret. In the hindsight of history, this was probably not necessary, but at least they weighed the consequences and had the debate.
Linkbait much? Further down below, Torvalds explains precisely why BE is anything but dead. All that's dead is general-purpose CPUs using it, mostly because x86 happened.

http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/09/simply-ex...

(Edit: which is precisely why I prefer BE for anything, unless there is a pressing - usually hardware- and performance-related - requirement for the opposite. Computers are good at reading bytes in swapped order. I suck at it.)
Now please fix race conditions everywhere else, like Baltimore.
Articles like this one are coming up with similar questions from time to time. For better understanding of the origin of suspicious attitude to science in some social groups The Cultural Theory of Risk [1] is very helpful.

According to it "political conflict over environmental and technological risks to a struggle between adherents of competing ways of life associated with the group–grid scheme: an egalitarian, collectivist (“low grid”, “high group”) one, which gravitates toward fear of environmental disaster as a justification for restricting commercial behavior productive of inequality; and individualistic ("low group") and hierarchical ("high grid") ones, which resist claims of environmental risk in order to shield private orderings from interference, and to defend established commercial and governmental elites from subversive rebuke."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Theory_of_risk
I'm with you. I don't have time to watch anything else. I have a PVR connected to a satellite dish with only free to air channels. I tape more movies than I can ever get around to watching - all you have to do is wait and everything appears. A new free channel just started showing Breaking Bad a couple of weeks ago. I didn't have to search any torrent site for it, I was just patient.
What you describe is exactly how it should be and is considered best practice in education.

Not a contract, but the terms and expectations of the class set out as clearly as possible in advance.

In this case, this has failed. The professor has then tried to punish all the students on his own whim, presumably because of the actions of a minority.

What about the other students: those who didn't cheat, those who didn't spread rumours, those who didn't contribute to an unsafe atmosphere, and those who met the educational goals of the class? There's no possible way the whole class deserves a blanket fail. Thankfully the faculty realise this.
Handling Servlet 3.0 and Error Pages with Spring MVC
I want more examples before I accept this Even the original "law of leaky abstractions" post did not have any good examples; using UDP rather than TCP will not save you if you pull out the network cable, and micro performance differences like the AND A = C example are rarely relevant.
Hacker Has Implanted a Chip in His Body to Exploit Your Android Phone
Agreed!

There will always be people who will go to any length to pirate content, and there is nothing you can do about them. They are not, and never will be, your customers.

But for others, it is absolutely a service issue, and I am one of those people. I pay monthly for Spotify and I spend money on Bandcamp and iTunes because it's convenient and value-priced.

And it's actually easier than piracy, which is probably more important than the price..
And ripping is actually more effort (in my limited experience) than just torrenting the damned thing even if you own the physical DVD.

It's magic
The Alex skin has been on the PC version since 1.8, which was last August I think.
I'm not sure I agree, I think the really high-level option is to use a library and not roll your own.

For example:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Spherical-...
Yeah though his point that if consumers want to pay $13 less for a Pinto without the plastic block they should be free to do so is impractical from the point of view of consumers being able to analyse that stuff. (4m55)
This really is a pointless article of he said, they said.

There is nothing at all to be gained in reading it.

There's no actual evidence of who was in the wrong or what the real story is.

(You could easily argue after 20 years in the game he fully knew all the students wouldn't actually get a F, even this is unknown)
Anyone else think of usenet when they saw the headline?
NASA-Is It on the Verge of Discovering Warp Bubbles?
I'm greatly enjoying myself by using the Chrome developer console to see how the Irmin store (which is based on a git-like model) is logging and syncing the local actions.

It's intriguing that JavaScript compilation into a browser is a really nice way to debug complex logic that also ends up in Xen unikernel deployments...
I've written non-microsoft code that talks to non-microsoft code via COM. It was a painful experience, but you do in fact see it happen. I also know people who do this regularly, and seemingly fairly painlessly. I wouldn't call it a standard by any measure, more of an underdocumented and arcane mechanism.
EXPERT WRASSLING
If the syllabus is a contract, cheating is a breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

I'm all for failing classes pervasive cheating. There isn't enough social pressure in schools to name and shame cheaters.
In all fairness, that's the most exciting thing for experimentalists. For theoreticians, it's a variation on the same thing, coming up with a theory that explains phenomena beyond what they were developing it for, e.g. Einstein's single greatest personal experience was when he discovered his general relativity explained an anomaly of Mercury's orbit.
Well, at least that kills any argument of Google just being an unbiased aggregator.

Bloody hell, there have been military coups that have tried to take control of the media in more subtle ways than this...
Unit testing isn't enough. You need static typing too
I'll agree on the debt side. The grade issue is infinitely worse in a lot of competitive cultures.

Even if you take the money factor away, Have non-US universities really figured out higher education? Most of them tend to either be a lot more rigid in structure, or they copy from the US system.
What tells you it is a human in the first place ? It is a fictionnal world, it could be a monogender race, you don't know that. I don't recall Bioware making 'male' asaris in Mass Effect where they are clearly unambiguously female.
Why forcing anthropocentrism in fictionnal worlds where lore and characters may be secondary or where you don't need to associate with its characters ?
As opposed to an objective opinion?
Rarely Reversible
Yeah I mistyped that. I meant to say that bike riders emit much less CO2 than both cars and scooters.
I have zero trust in the banking system or even the monetary system as it stands. I only partake because I have no other viable choice. The system is so flawed that it's doomed to fail. It's not a question of if but when.
Somebody should modify perf to log "time spent in call", "time spent in stackframe setup", "time spent in mov", "time spent in branches", etc.
Not really concerning to me.

For example, what if my data showed that less affluent people do better in school, or have better health, than more affluent people.

Would that surprise you, and would a healthy response be to check your data again before chasing after this conclusion?

I think generally, yes, because it conflicts with our notions (from earlier studies) about how socioeconomic status affects success in schools and in health.

And that's likely at the core of the 'paradox', that hispanic communities are relatively less affluent than a median citizen, and that lower socioeconomic status is normally linked to negative, rather than positive, affects on health. The surprise isn't really concerning.

I mean I get your point, it's important to remain open-minded and ask open-minded questions, as opposed to questions which carry lots of preconceived ideas about the world. But in this case it doesn't seem all that concerning to me.
This looks great! Now we'd also like to know what you used to build this? Just underscore.js?
There will always be people who will pirate no matter what. You can't do anything about that, and they will never be your customers. And for games, the percentage of the audience is probably higher than elsewhere because it is a mostly young and tech-savvy audience.

But the explosion of indie and smaller games on Steam should be evidence that their platform works, and that it makes economic sense to distribute digitally in that fashion because there are tons of us who want it, even with the ongoing piracy (that has been around since floppy disks and will never go away).

My Steam library has over 100 titles in it. I mostly buy during sales and via Humble Bundles mostly, but I also occasionally buy full-priced launch games that I really want to play. I can't remember the last time I bought a boxed game for PC.. Probably 2006? And before Steam I bought maybe 4-5 games per year? The service absolutely works.

One last thing: games piracy also has the added layer of protection cracking, which is pretty much a social contest in itself that incentivizes the activity (and leads to distribution as a measure of recognition etc).