skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. People seem to forget that the reason we went with fake 3d UI in the first place was because people were having trouble with the previously-obtaining flat design. For a while, there was a nice simple visual grammar that told you what was editable, what was functional, and what was structural. Now I feel like we're falling back in the days of early Sierra videogames where some puzzles just required you to keep clicking around the screen until you found the invisible path. Skeumorphism was out of control but the trend has gone too far in the opposite direction, to the point where 'beautiful' has been turned into an empty marketing buzzword - it's now a synonym for obscurantists minimalism.
But don't you need to account for the width dx of the slices you sum up? I.e. wouldn't f.g = f(x_0)g(x_0) + f(x_1)g(x_1) + … over a real interval blow up?
I totally want my language to be a superset of C++, Scala, Haskell and APL.
Mr Robot – Full pilot episode
Have you got a link? I can't find any info on that happening
Best i can tell, Doze is supposed to cover that automatically. But then Doze will wake the device up if a GCM priority notification comes down the wire. And i expect Facebook and the rest to start spamming those to make sure they get every nanosecond of your life to their servers.
I don't understand it either. How should the carrier have any say/input into when the firmware on these phones is updated?
Are you an Opera 12 holdout? It's working just fine for me in Opera 28 on a Macbook pro
"maybe it just reads that way to me"

Bingo. WRT your speech coaching: give it a rest. IMHO tone policing and silencing is harmful and help give rise to stigmas.
Wakelocks have just been a scapegoat for people to pretend to sound smart when just saying that they want better battery life. They haven't actually been an issue for years.

No, this won't magically fix bugs in apps that lead to poor battery life. If an app opens the camera and forgets to close it, yeah that's gonna murder your battery.
I have a Dyson vacuum cleaner and it's effective lifting any sort of dust.
I don't know about _most_ important, but genetics is definitely a large factor. Quoting from Heritability of Lifetime Income[1]

> we find that 24% (54%) of the variance of women’s (men’s) lifetime income is due to genetic factors and that the contribution of the shared environment is negligible

The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics[2] sees similar results, coming up with 46% and 58% heritability in women and men, respectively.

There's plenty of research here. "Heritability of income" is a good search term.

[1] https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/38881/HECER...
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592970/
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(Do you think we would give you the option to easily cut our income?)
Concurrency in Go is a programming model, specifically CSP. They have been very clear about this from the beginning and saying they failed to deliver on it is disingenuous.
I guess they consider external storage to be already handled by the Storage Access Framework.

As for Internet, they leave that out of their "improved" Play store permissions as well (and the M groupings seems like a carbon copy).
Or google could just stop playing nice, they practically own the platform after all. If they would say "either you supply updates for two years or you are not allowed to preinstall google apps on new devices" the issue would be over.
HN is pretty dreadful on mobile.
I am neither a sailor nor into classic cars but I refer to all boats and all vehicles (not just ones I own or feel affinity towards) as "she." Always, always, always.

"She's my baby" is a common expression for anything that you value highly - I could totally see someone referring to their company with female pronouns. Feels very natural to my ear.
I differentiate between jump scares/immersion and presence.

Imagine playing a hack and slash game. A user is not reacting every time their character is hit. They may have an initial reaction to a surprise attack that catches them off guard, but no more. There is some level of immersion but there is no level of presence. They never feel like they might be in danger and their body does not react as if it is in any danger.

Presence would be having a feeling of discomfort anytime your avatar was injured. The brain having tricked itself into thinking it is the avatar. When the avatar gets hit by a weapon, the user's body sweats and tenses up, believing it was just hit by an actual weapon.

Air-pressured tactile gloves can help develop a sense of presence. For example, pressure when grabbing a rock may trick your brain into believing the rock is real.

I wanted to focus more on the studies than the .gif. Having a mannequin stabbed and the participant's body reacting is a sense of presence and not simply a jump scare. The brain couldn't tell its own body from that of a mannequin.
FHC govt is interesting. It was the govt that mostly opened up to USA control. He borrowed a lot from the international funds, and made every effort to never pay more than the interest.

Also sold all state owned companies, which mostly dealt with infrastructure, creating huge foreign owned monopolies. For a while, mobile and internet was worse than it is in the USA now, but the last two governments made improvements there (for example, now for US$0.30 a day --US$9/mo!-- you have a prepaid phone with unlimited calls, text and data ...well data was pulled out of that law last months. it is now 200mb instead of unlimited)

But it was also one that most spent in advertisement. So the public loved it. And even attributes the Real to that president.

The last goverment managed to pay out all the international funds FHC borrowed from.
Many Cell plans send your phone number to any websites you visit.
I can definitely understand wanting to classify Pavlov as supervised learning. I think it's a murky issue because supervised and reinforcement are very closely related (and it is frequently possible to reframe problems of one type as problems of the other depending on what type of model one uses).

My two main reasons for going with this name are as follows (if people see issues in my logic, I'm happy to be convinced):

1) Reinforcement learning gets its name from the behaviorist psychology concept of reinforcement in which an agent's actions are met with rewards in order to shape that agent's future behavior. This is precisely the kind of response conditioning that Pavlov is well known for.

2) The key difference is what the training data look like.

In a supervised learning problem, the training data are input/output pairs (a stimulus and an appropriate action).

In reinforcement learning, the training data are input and reward pairs (an action and the reward applied to that action).

I would argue that Pavlov's experiments more like the latter case - the dogs are not shown 'this is the correct action for this stimulus', they are shown 'this is the reward for this stimulus'.
Well, I'm not aware about this special case you are refering to, but this is a different problem than preserving the french language. What you are talking about is that when you are selling a product or a service in France, you must provide user manuals and support in the national language (french). So it's just a law which purpose is to guarantee that the customers will be able to have the best experience with what companies are selling them.

I guess that would not be possible in some countries like US where there's no official national language.
that to me looks like the worst of both worlds.
It is not intentional. :-)
For me your #2 is the deal breaker. If I have to box a bunch of stuff back up and drop it off somewhere it's more hassle than shopping at a brick & mortar shoe store. There would have to be a huge price advantage to make it worthwhile.
The situation is so bad that they announce all this new stuff, and I think, that's great and all but who cares. A few thousand people will use this stuff and everyone else is 2-3 versions back. And they don't care, either.
Getting good performance out of iOS was a major focus for v0.8 - thus the shady dom. They got >5x faster performance: https://blog.polymer-project.org/updates/2015/03/27/why-0.8/
I always go into a previously created sheet or document and press create new. I really could not find it until I complained to a colleague and he told me
Analytics (the app and the site) don't look like they've been updated to Material Design, they look basically like they always have.
Ahhhh, *variance.

The definitive explanation of why inheritance should always be avoided in favour of implementation of abstract interfaces.
I took an sp360 on track. Review: pass. I can dig out the video if you care.
That shouldn't even be possible IMO.
as i said in another comment, FHC is the one that most spent in advertisement.

Yes, GDP is bad now, but employment is at an all time high. while it was at an all time low during FHC.

employment rates is something odd. while GDP everyone fells somewhat equally, employment is only felt by that group of people. So you have to try hard to not alienate yourself on those matters.
DOJ is not a court but it is a "high official" (or "official body"). What I was stating was that the "higher you go" -- in terms of official government bodies, whether they're courts, or something else -- the less competent I would expect them to be.

You can simply say,
1) "Oracle owns Java"
2) "APIs are part of Java"
3) "Google uses Java APIs"
4) Therefore, "Google uses something Oracle owns" so Oracle should win this case

Now of course, you can apply some deeper logic to uphold Google's stance. But that's the problem --- how "far" or how "deeper" do you expect the higher courts to look into this issue? Deep enough to understand Google's position?
Reduce income inequality and promote social rise creates inflation, too. In the past you could pay someone R$300/month and have her cleaning your home everyday. Now the same value doesn't pay one week. Inflation to the riches, better work for the poors.

Controlled inflation == growth.
Reminds me of Jussieu/UPMC, very large university, quite an architectural and administrative clusterfuck. Too large, unfinished, constant maintenance in progress.
Sure, but you have to subtract out the expected value of your cardiac care.
There are plenty of examples of successful politicians being former friends with actual terrorists. A facebook photo seems unlikely to make that any different.
> It's crazy to prefer free technical books just because they're free.

For deep study, and assuming you can effectively evaluate other relevant qualities of books before committing to one, sure.

OTOH, the first isn't the only thing technical books are useful for, and the second isn't always true of non-free books.

> I'm saying you should just forget about price altogether and choose based on sampling/reviews/recommendations.

Other than personally-trusted sources that are familiar with the area in question, I find reviews/recommendations to be extremely unreliable, and the decline in brick-and-mortar distribution channels, and the frequently poor sampling options for non-free books (digital or hardcopy) in online retailers make that also poor. Free electronic books thus have a significant advantage in the ability to effectively evaluate quality before making a substantial commitment of money or time.
This story is often posted but never often enough. The incident illustrates why there is no "right" to nuclear weapons on the basis of fairness, sovereignty or deterrence - contrary to the zealous cries of recent and aspiring members of the nuclear club. This near global catastrophe is also a reminder that government policy is often tragically imperfect, and that one stubborn independently minded bureaucrat is often the only check and balance available. For anyone interested in the many similar incidents in the US, there is this sobering book, Command and Control, Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Incident...: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C5R7F8G/ref=oh_aui_sear...
>As for Internet, they leave that out of their "improved" Play store permissions as well (and the M groupings seems like a carbon copy).

Why would they do that? On it's own "Internet" may not seem to be an important category, but I am willing to give apps many more permissions if I know that they can't phone home. For tools, the Internet permission is often the deciding factor for me.
You do realize lack of water and power is a problem of the State government (governor) and not federal government (president), right?

Edit: which for sao paulo, where i guess you are from, it all started with PSDB, same party as FHC. Also same governor that started to use military police on pacific protests.
This is a thing I think people start to realize about the digital era. We can have it all, more friend, more memories, more data... but nature likes to recycle, evolutionary pressure to keep things people working together together while the rest rearrange.
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Wow. That's bad. I did not know that, thanks.
> Interesting history -- but consensus building is really just another name for politics.

How so? I would say that politics is the day-to-day actions of governing a country or region. While some political systems are ostensibly based on consensus or at least majority preference, others are not. In fact, I would say that political action becomes less relevant as consensus grows.
In the paper we point out that it is a legacy, but I'll stop short of describing it as bad.

The legacy descends from the fact that accounting was created before negative numbers were in widespread use in Europe.

However, the columnar separation, dual accumulation, and industrial permanence suggest that it's more of a vocabulary issue than technical deficit.

Yes, accounting is that old, with the core absolutely unchanged.
Sumerians were a society, a true civilization with specialized jobs, training, and technology.

You can't have battle tactics without the "conscious" year long practice with your kinsmen.

While interesting, this doesn't provide adequate refutation of the idea of late-emerging consciousness. Ants, flocks of birds, and packs of wolves are all capable of cooperative, specialized behavior, and we don't generally think of them as being self-aware.
Too dismissive. I thought the piece was excellent, told stories I hadn't heard before, and made me think about the problem differently.

It's not easy to act correctly in insane situations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment. Plus other experiments show that most of us can easily be manipulated into doing horrific things. These are not necessarily rotten police officers. It may be a rotten system.

One nice insight of the post was that modifying the behavior of the few at the top of the hierarchy can effect widespread change. And somehow, we've got to find a way to stop brutalizing and incarcerating so many people.

The more Reddit Hudsons there are, the faster we'll get there.
But ARM != compatible with the Raspberry Pi.

The GPIOs, GPU, booting process, etc. is all specific to it, and I guess manufacturing a compatible processor would need complicated if not almost impossible reverse engineering and might violate Broadcom's copyright or some contracts.

And a lot of commercial products, programs and libraries depend on the Raspberry Pi, so they have to be able to continue making compatible products.
Martin O'Malley to keynote ESRI user conference
This is why Amazon gave in on state sales taxes. In order to pull this off they needed to expand their distribution network, which meant having a "presence" which would have put them on the hook for taxes anyway.

I'm curious to see if they'll pull it off. There's a lot of wreckage from previous attempts that failed.
It is readily apparent that the commenter is using an analogy ("a sort of uncanny valley of VR"). Let's not get sidetracked.
It's more like context...

Rails has a lot of context which allows developers to rapidly specify what they want to happen in the context of web apps.

Rails is like asking someone to get milk, rails maps a route, obeys the laws of the road while getting there, pays for it, and returns with milk.

In other frameworks you explicitly have to tell it every little detail of how to get milk, usually culminating in the IMammalianFactoryMilkFactory pattern.
TL;DR TJ isn't one person, but many.

Who knows how many of those virtual persons "exist" and if they are the 10x programmers, which the recruiters are referring too? ;)
As best i could tell, on a device running M it would be like this:

M ready app, you get no permissions display up front but asked to approve on API use.

Older app, you get a permissions display up front and can disable API access in Android settings.

On older devices both M ready apps and older apps would behave like today, giving you a list of permissions up front and no way to control them (unless you are running a custom Android or the OEM added the possibility).
That's for an external party. Wouldn't the Pi foundation have a better idea of how to do it?
It looks like its been compressed and made suitable for a web page where the image quality of that screenshot is pretty much irrelevant to everything.

Which seeing as they used it for a 400x248 image in the blogpost is pretty much exactly on point.
The real deep truth is that the entire income statement is really just a subtree of retained earnings, with expenses being contra-income. :-)
Casey Neistat builds his own Google Glass
A few years ago mobile virtualization was hyped a lot. What came of it? I'd love to be able to run multiple OS instances on same phone. Use one for private communication and others for fun and games (not that I play games, but the point).
debt does not equal money;

there is money that is not debt (e.g. gold coins, fiat currency)

there is money that is debt (e.g. bank account money, IOUs)
Everyone with a pulse has asked themselves that already, and come up blank. All we have are potential conspiracy theories revolving around ad revenue for both Google and app devs.
Google at I/O 2015
I, too, would love to live in a world where it's impossible to write bugs. Things would be so much nicer if Google could just solve the halting problem already.

Sadly it's more likely I'll just get some stupid pony instead.
i've been buying the same items (specific diet craze) from the same whole foods from 2009 to today.

my monthly cost on that alone jumped from $300ish to well into the $500.

it's mostly organic produce, a few meats, lots of seafood (which i grant that it has a very volatile market price but still)

So i'd say for quality quasi-essential products, it is even higher than that. probably because premium shops were keeping their profits a little lower because of the 2008-2010 crisis.
Thanks! We'll check it out
Opera is not dead; Presto is dead.
Because it is unnecessary in English, when you refer to something inanimate as male or female it implies you have an emotional attachment.

I refer to my car as 'it', my girlfriend calls it a 'she'. When she parked it into a pole she cried and I shrugged.
I thought this would be about becoming a naturist, like Mick Aston of Time Team fame, or perhaps reference Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" where the Nest has a sign "did you remember to put clothes on" just inside the door (Spider Robinson says he had the same arrangement in his home).

Instead, it seems vague anti-nudist, by insisting (in its analogy to the Emperor's New Clothes) that having clothes on is better than not having clothes on.

That's seems like needlessly negative views towards an admittedly small portion of the population, when the point is mostly to just start doing real things, and nothing to do with actual clothes.
Is Tesla disruptive?
Bug note: if you're browsing by popular and add a book to your shelf, the page is kept in the query string but the popular=1 is lost so you jump to that page of date sort instead.
Well put and fascinating points.

I;m not entirely sure if this is adding to or disagreeing with the points you make…

A few weeks ago I commented on some thread about robot maids and such. My point was and is that when we picture a far off idea that we suspect is coming (AI, VR, human-less hotel-resorts) we need mental placeholders where people go now. Technology tends to replace people in the way reddit replaces librarians but we can’t picture reddit in advance until the world wide web or something similar exists. So, flying cars, robot mades and sexy female AIs. They’re placeholders for future automation or changes that make the need go away rather then meeting the need.

Back to Jump. Our starting point is a made up idea of what VR entertainment looks like. Game of Thrones in VR. Jerry Springer in VR. Xuxa in VR.

You make a valid point that this won’t work. I totally agree. But, I’m fairly optimistic about the ingenuity of artists. Lots of things run into these kinds of problems. A conversation between two actors pretending to be doctors is not uncanny, but there are arts to making it palatable. They will figure out POV issues. Should you be a character or an invisible eye like in flat films? Maybe they could use filters to make it look like ‘A Scanner Darkly’ to get over the issue you describe.

This is what art does. They’ll figure it out.
> Note that the decoupling correlates closely with the computerization of society/business around the mid-1980s.

Something I have only recently been realizing is just how much of a business transaction is not automated yet. There are still many, many jobs that involve updating Excel spreadsheets.

I think people tend to equate "manual labor" with physical labor. There are a ton of business/cubeville jobs that will get automated in the next 20 years.

It will take that long because businesses can still make money with manual business processes, they just can't scale. And it takes a special kind of business owner to care, to want to grow beyond a successful business to a billion dollar enterprise.
You might like the book Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think. The entire book is dedicated to analyzing historic examples of Super Hard Mode for governance, and how solutions can emerge that reduce violence and other undesirables without what we would recognize as a government or state.

It's a pretty accessible pop-econ book with a compelling premise and a good amount of historical examples and citations.

http://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-Unbound-Self-Governance-Cambri...
Interfaces have variance too, as long as they give rise to a subtyping relationship (which, in most languages that have them, they do).
Cool, didn't know it. Not in wild Russia:)
While this holds true for many here, frankly I would just rather turn my brain off on occasion or should I say exercise it, by going out amongst others.

There are enough shut ins in this world we don't need to add the entirety of the tech sector to it. I know far too many who use work as an excuse to avoid public encounters.
Google Identity Platform launches
Well said.

Many people ask us if we're GAAP compliant, and all the rest.

We just say "we are if you make the right entries!" :-)
By the same token, do you feel compelled to tell your employer when you are interviewing for other jobs, talking to recruiters, or simply bouncing ideas off friends/potential business partners for a company you may start?
I shudder in horror. While I personally am your average classically trained CSSE grad, many of my friends and family are autodidacts who created for themselves very successful careers in IT and software engineering. I cannot see how a guild would help them, and frankly the deplorable state of modern IT certifications plus the similarly large pool of friends and family who do _and_ don't test well would make me continue to Fizz Buzz (and more) potential recruits no matter who says they've got programming chops.