skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. This article addresses a lot of interesting points that I had not considered. It's amazing how different museums could become with relatively small changes.

However, the deaccessioning arguments made me nervous. I agreed with the point that selling puts the art in no physical harm as a private buyer has just as much incentive to preserve his or her art as a museum does, but there are other problems with his model. For instance, I would not object if art was sold to set up a fund to make admission free, but I worry that a museum would sell art whenever capital was needed. Take for example the Delaware Art Museum which sold significant pieces to pay for a likely unneeded expansion [1]. If it became easy and commonplace for museums to sell art to fund other ventures, we would see conflicts of interest: perhaps the museum believes expanding its building is more important than showing an influential piece. Even if we relax the limitations on selling art, we would still need some sort of ethics code detailing when it is and is not appropriate to sell artwork and this code would have to balance the conflicting priorities of museums, donors, and the public.

The author also briefly touches on the issue of digitizing collections. Although at first glance digitizing a collection seems like an easy shortcut to infinity accessible art, there is certainly a difference between seeing a reproduction of art and seeing the art in person, what Walter Benjamin would call the “aura” of the piece [2]. His 1936 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” is certainly worth a read – I have not seen a better analysis of the role of reproduction in art and society.

However, the issues I have brought up are just details that I think a concerted effort by a group of influential museums could overcome. I think the article overlooks one fundamental issue: the role of the art museum is not just to make art accessible to the public. For instance, the MET charges itself not only to “present significant works of art” to the public, but also to collect, study, and conserve art [3]. These last three goals may conflict with O'Hare's idea of an ideal museum structured toward maximum engagement.

[1]. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/arts/design/censured-delaw...

[2]. https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/...

[3]. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/mission-statement
Why I brought zero business cards to Big Omaha
Check out w3schools.com to see snippets of code to do specific things. Sites like STackoverflow and PHP.net are also helpful if you get stuck trying to solve a common problem.

A major bonus and challenge is that the sky is the limits with development. On one hand, it's important to learn what you can do AND figure out how to break projects down into small bits and pieces.

Visuals HTML5, CSS
Dynamic Visuals: Javascript, JSON, Node.JS
Browser Storage: WebSQL, Local Storage
Data Storage: SQL, MySQL
Server-side scripting: PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby, Java, C++
Wearing headphones for prolonged hours is not healthy, especially the type that cover all the ear. The ears need air circulation, otherwise there is a high risk of infection (as bacteria develop faster in closed, warm and wet spaces). The best thing is to agree with your colleagues to some common music theme (chill-out or something) and listen/accept/bear that as an increasing-productivity factor rather than something that you'd need to enjoy.
Well, spokesmen for the companies operating the driverless cars claim that they were not at fault. As far as I can tell from the article, there is no independent confirmation of that assertion.
Even as another driver I automatically class any police car I see as "highest possible risk of doing something stupid without warning", right up there with a minivan full of kids and a texting driver that I've observed swerving several times and has changed lanes without signaling.

The only problem with this is that the cop car probably deserves a class of its own, even riskier than the swerving distracted-driver minivan full of kids.
Racial and Ethnic Gaps Remain a Big Question in Medicine
So you believe might makes right?
I can't fathom why this didn't get bumped to the front page.
Thanks so much for working on the grammar docs! This is much needed and very helpful, considering how quickly Rust's grammar has been evolving.
So put the corporation in jail; take its personal items and lock them away, don't allow any outside communications except through visits, no access to bank accounts, etc.

On a more serious note, what happens to the author[ing company] of the software used to inject ads? http://www.komodia.com/about
I've never worked for the NIH (I've never even applied for an NIH grant, and I was only paid off of one for maybe 6 months), and I certainly don't work for a biotech.
This is interesting. Of course you now have to synchronize state between the servers, and it will only work if a significant fraction of the higher-latency events are independent between servers.
Videogame hacker punished by company – with his character’s public execution
Yeah, rates are important, but also small sample size (and who's at fault matters - the companies claim that human drivers caused all 4).

So you're not wrong, but my point is that humans are awful drivers, prone to distraction and fatal crashes. (32,719 in 2013 alone). If anything else (terrorists, sharks, aliens) were causing 30k deaths a year, we'd wouldn't be blithely accepting it as the status quo and acting fearful of measures that could dramatically ameliorate the problem.
Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust
Followup article: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/11/speech-recogni...
The first person to use libertarianism as a term was an an anarchist: The French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque.

Libertarianism was strongly rooted on the far left for a long time - Lenins "Left Communism - An infantile Disorder" was aimed at libertarian Marxists, for example.

The "modern" right wing libertarianism is the new kid on the block.
Double jeopardy doesn't prevent someone from opting out of a class action lawsuit and suing separately.

Yes. But one individual probably does not have sufficient injury to represent a meaningful case for the company. The point is that you've blocked a second, larger, class action lawsuit. Which is what the company is actually scared of.

The hot coffee case wasn't a class action lawsuit.

You're right. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Interchange_Fee_an... for a more meaningful class action lawsuit.
Smooth traffic happens when all drivers are doing it well. This is part of why self-driving cars could work... they will work better together than humans do.

But if humans are hitting them, what we need to know is why. See, my stream of consciousness on this goes something like:

Was the human just being careless? Or did the car do something that would be safe under normal circumstances, but didn't fit the actual scenario, so a human was surprised by their actions? For example, if a piece of debris flies in front of a self-driving car on the interstate, does it just stop? Or does it check behind itself, and the lanes next to it, to see if someone behind it is tailgating, so moving to another lane is safer than stopping? Do they activate their hazard lights when something is wrong up ahead, to alert the tailgater behind them? Can they judge lateral motion of an object well enough to make the call on whether the flying debris would even still be in their lane when they pass? If they judge it will miss them, but hit the guy next to them, do they move over to avoid the carnage? If they do make a lane-changing move, do they do the move I see pickups do all the time, swerving out of the way of a stopped object/car, so the person behind them is suddenly presented with the stopped object, but with way less reaction time to avoid it, thereby making the human-powered car have an accident just because the self-driving car, frankly, is driving like a dick?

I have no idea how deep the logic goes in accident prevention in these cars. But there is a lot more to it than just not hitting something. I'd love to see an in-depth article covering that aspect of self-driving algorithms.
I'd like to see how your face would look on a replicant...
The defenses of DNSSEC are a bit confused.

First, the proper comparison for X.509 trusted sources is between the root anchor and the browser vendors not the specific trust sources chosen by Mozilla (or Microsoft or whomever).

Second, we can tell how many entities we have to trust, and the author just counted them: Mozilla's 177 delegates. Arguably, with DNSSEC, we can't tell how many entities to trust: how many zones has `com.` signed?

Third, X.509 allows the signing of arbitrary names largely because DNS isn't trustworthy. (And also because DNS isn't the only naming system people care about.)

Finally, with only one trusted path, there is only one place you need to attack to fool everyone.
That's a valid thing to do in C++ because the language doesn't support alternatives. And you can't really expect it to, because C++ has tried various things over the years that make this much harder to add ex-post facto. However, it's worth noting that using such tooling in C++ can cause more problems than it solves if you aren't careful. This is just one of the ways C++ is showing its age.

These problems are exactly why this is unacceptable in Go. Go has the benefit of learning from C++'s mistakes and seeing other attempts at solutions to the problem. Language designers have made these mistakes before, realized they were mistakes, and come up with better alternatives. This is just another example of the Go team either being unaware of or ignoring decades of development in programming languages.
This reflects how I feel. We gave Slack a go at my 4-person company. It was cool and all (although it actually did make Firefox crash often) but we decided against it since it did little that our other chat clients couldn't already do. We ended up using Hipchat for business communication since one of our external clients used that and we kinda got used to it, but I personally just wish we'd stuck with gchat. Now between my phone and computer I use hipchat, LINE, fb messenger, gchat, and email. I would like to just fb messenger if possible, although it probably isn't the best medium for business talk, so maybe gchat as well added into that.
I know I probably invited inflammatory responses by suggesting that the best PhD students are able to stay in academia, which I admit is an overgeneralization.

From what I see (and this is getting more personal than I'd like to from a response to my lighthearted comment) you left academia to work at a pharmaceutical (non-profit) company you started. I may have gotten that wrong. If so I apologize.

I do think it's a bit beside the point to be arguing about this instead of the ideas, but so be it.

Peter Mitchell was exceptional, as was every other Nobel Prize Winner, the vast majority (the rest?) who were academics. If you're arguing that moving to a model where individual scientists soliciting charity for their research is better, I would have to disagree. You think the general public is better able to assess research value than the NIH?
I'm actually in the market for a new pair of speakers, and the only objective advice I've seen is spending more gets you better speakers. While it must be true in some sense, price as an indicator of quality seems like a terrible idea because it's so easily gamed through marketing.

The landscape of local competition seems quite limited (Best Buy seems to dominate everything with B&W and ML), so it feels there's no way of knowing if they're actually worth those prices, or if it's just Best Buy's standard sucker pricing. Going up into that price range I also know there is a whole host of speaker manufacturers that are of course impossible to find locally (not that intense listening room tests are super enjoyable for long periods of time either). And going up in price also makes the price of "screwing up" that much larger.

So I've given up on that idea and figure I'll simply start with a Fry's special and see if I find them objectionable in any way. I'm not looking to make this a hobby, and higher end just seems so damn intractable otherwise.

I've already got the speaker cables from RadioShack (not much time left to obtain them)! Let's hope your exact advice canonizes and I can sell them for Monster cable prices in several years...
> $25 million dollars is close to $20 million which is half of the original $40 million.

Better yet, $15 million is precisely half of $30 million. And that number is the pre-money (as in, the actual, now) valuation for the company.

So suggesting that a deal is "10 on 15" rather than "10 on 30" is suggesting that the company is precisely half the valuation of the first suggestion.
Hm. It's back - Just got a fb message via xmpp.
Thank you. I really like that idea!
GCHQ employs thousands of people. Why is the idle speculation of a translator or mathematician relevant?

Don't forget that they only handed over the non-classified communication. I suspect that the GCHQ employees who know anything would have either not commented or have had their comments classified.
Not great for the wildlife, however.
The Scarlet Twitter.
It looks like from the comments on your gist, there are ways to do it. Whether it's expressive enough is subjective but it's worth pointing out that there _are_ solutions.
> Well, you're assuming that streets need vehicle traffic. If zoning were relaxed on the narrow streets so that people could run shops and small businesses then you wouldn't really need to drive to buy stuff.

You still need to drive fire trucks and ambulances...
Also the hot coffee lawsuit wasn't as stupid as people make out. The McDonald's coffee really was hot and gave Stella Liebeck some nasty burns.
Using a waterway as a heat sink for a server farm may not sound as bad as dumping waste, but it's bound to have an impact on the wildlife there.
I'll admit, I've used pictures from google images as profile pictures a few times. Never for a serious account though, always for fake accounts usually for testing the site's security.
The Art of Knowing What to Learn, When
Because an accident caused by a self-driving car will have huge financial consequences (liability) for the manufacturer. So there's no way self-driving cars will ship when they merely reduce the total number of deaths. They'll need to be nearly perfect.

Can you imagine the headlines if there were thousands of deaths caused by self-driving cars even if it were say a 10x reduction in total deaths?
Isn't this mixing two different things? The average driver "has" one accident per 165,000 miles, driverless cars haven't "caused" an accident. The current article discusses accidents not included in this Mashable calculation. Even if driverless cars don't "cause" accidents, they may be involved in more accidents per mile (I don't think we know yet publicly). It may be the case that human drivers are better at avoiding unexpected dangerous situations, for example.
The opposing viewpoint essentially boils down to "use violent coercion to stop non-violent coercion" which is not only ideologically inconsistent, but an escalation.
> Getting a faculty position is basically a crap shoot that requires politicking, landing a lucky project, getting a high impact factor publication, or all three.

True. That's because we've been cutting the percentage of GDP spent on basic research, and because we structure academic careers pyramidally, ensuring there will always be more PhD graduates than permanent academic jobs (unless you wish to pave over the universe in professorial offices).

Now look, I'm in industry right now, but while some smart PhDs leave academia and some don't, most smart MS and PhD holders would rather be doing research. So don't talk about how research productivity has dropped off and will never come back: social determinism is the kind most likely to be wrong (since if people understand the prediction made by the social determinist, they act to prevent its coming true).

Instead, let's understand just how much everyone stands to gain from advances in basic science (to follow the given example: longer, healthier, happier lives) - how much we have always gained from advances in basic science - and restructure the scientific career to make it happen.

Throwing free money at anyone with a PhD doesn't maximize scientific productivity. Neither does starving out the overwhelming majority of all trained scientists with a pyramidal career ladder and ever-shrinking science budgets.
Seymour Cray: Cray-1 Introduction (1976) [video]
Stellar: A Decentralized, Nonprofit Infrastructure for Financial Transactions
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Namely, the inevitable coercion by private companies left completely unchecked to amass power, money, and influence.
Ok, where will they park ambulances and fire trucks?
Yes it is. Just your looking at the system at a different level. Resource contention is the stalls caused by context switching, cache missing, system latencies, and branch prediction.

Ultimately these 4 sources of latency build on top of each other to generate all your stalls, and slow downs in the system. What you see as CPU frequency scaling, I just see as my state switching in my program happen slower. What you see as pipeline stalls are just cache/ram misses, hard disk IO latency, and lots of context switches compounding on each other.

TL;DR You say "a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum L.", I say potato.
What people really search for most on Google (2014 annual list)
It's not bike-shedding when there's nothing else to talk about. This is basically a forum about bike shed painting.
That's over the line if it's true in my opinion. But again, all we have here is some anecdotal quotes that might be really out of context. It could just be just on a status update meeting on Monday 10am and the guy who's responsible for a critical component did not show up and no one knows why.
Three Things I Expect from a Software Architect
Social Impact Technology
Is there a more efficient system? That's not a rhetorical question. Especially for cases like these where actual damages are either speculative or small enough that they wouldn't ring the bell of government prosecutors. I think a compelling answer is: do nothing, let the reputation economy handle the situation. But the reputation economy works on information, and litigation generates a lot of very good (vetted and authenticated) information.

Re: cy pres awards, while Pearson v. NBTY (out of the 7th Circuit) did not involve a residual award, it did strongly imply that they would be unreasonable when, as here, the class members could be individually identified and compensated directly. More generally, after the 7th Circuit's recent cases on the subject, cy pres awards are low hanging fruit for objectors and plaintiffs' counsel have an incentive to structure settlements to avoid such challenges.
It would make my day to see companies (or the individuals who called for this retarded project) get punished under DMCA / RICO / CFAA. I bet we'd see those repealed real quick due to lobbying pressure if that kind of thing actually worked.
How do people perceive AngelList on Twitter?
Do they get a discount if they allow the NSA to tap them?
Modern datacenters are not cooled that way, and some of them don't even have substantial makeup water inputs.
This is one of a series of innovations happening recently to improve Haskell's package ecosystem (which was not tooo bad to begin with). If "cabal hell" or anything like that has even ruined your attempt at Haskell: this is the time to try again.

The language and ecosystem are really mature now. But the main reason to go Haskell is simple and still the same: less bugs.
If your boss is breaking the law, and you don't do anything about it, you're a coward.
For the record I don't think you deserve to be downvoted like this. You stated a valid opinion. Go is not meeting a need you have and thus the value proposition for you is not the same as mine. This appears to be a case of people downvoting because they disagree not due to the quality of your comment.
And since when do we have a duty to capitalism? Its responsible for a lot of the pain in the world u see no reason to exacerbate this.
Putin's political opponents have a tendency to be killed or jailed. He has invaded another country (Ukraine) for no good reason. He is an evil man.
Indeed. This needs to be illegal, not inconvenient.
I was excited when MIT switched to Python for setting the trend for other schools to follow that it's okay to teaching computing from the top down.
> I was curious to find interesting scripts, i.e. scripts that trigger unusual edge cases.

In my limited experience with afl-fuzz, it seems to record test inputs which cause crashes (at least by default). Did you change the criteria for it to consider a test failed/crashed or otherwise worth recording?
And is not exactly encouraging to those who are thinking of submitting their projects.
Get it Ryan! You rock ;)
Unless you want to use the back button...
It is precisely because I don't possess domain expertise about Darwinian evolution and global warming that I take my advice from the people who do have domain expertise, and thus believe in both.
> Scientific computing is stuck with 2.

False. NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, and friends all work great on Python 3.
Consider what the outcome here would be if, instead of Lenovo expressly doing this, it was a single rogue employee who e.g. Modified the system image used by the factory with the exact same software in the exact same way and took the ad profits.

Whatever would happen in that situation should happen here. I would guess prison time would be involved.
On the other hand, many times deep principles can be discovered and validated when they reveal unusual correlations between previously unknown-to-be-related systems.
>For some reason, liberals are insulated from the question on what happens when leftist ideology it pushed to its extreme.

Well, it helps that liberals are not leftists. "Leftist" begins at social democracy (think of Elizabeth Warren) and goes from there.
Punitive damages would occur after any trial victory. This is just the very first step, essentially a legal accusation.

As to why the government hasn't tried to indict for criminal charges, there could be many reasons. The case might not be good. They might be waiting. They may think it's small fry stuff.

The doj doesn't go after everyone.