skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
""Humans are descended from monkeys" / "The Earth goes round the Sun" / … is a pretty extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Dismissing as "extraordinary" any claim to which you are politically opposed is not good science. (Frankly, the Sagan quote is in itself not good science until you can get everyone to agree on what is "extraordinary".)

Meanwhile, an entirely appropriate riposte to GP would have been:
""Genetics is the most important ingredient here." is a claim, and claims require evidence."
I wonder how the vertical FOV is - will you be able to look up and look straight down? Seems like this is optimized for horizontal 360.
Human-AI echoborgs make chatbots more real, but still fail Turing test
This is a fantastic explanation of covariance and contravariance. Much better than most explanations I've seen from the Scala community.
I read it as an adult and was disappointed by the flatness of the characters and the almost-total absence of any female characters.

To clarify: I'm not saying that people should shoehorn women into stories to satisfy a quota, I'm saying that stories that include women are simply more interesting, because they display a wider range of humanity and of the human experience.

Or, to put it another way, it's just boring to read a story where all the characters fit within a very narrow range of personality.
I feel like I would take more than 8 extra seconds just writing out and correcting the package names in imports than I would gain by trying to write Java in vim, and I'm saying that as someone who otherwise uses vim/tmux for everything.
Yeah, I understand that. I only included the DNI because he did.
> 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

You could, but neither CAFC nor DoJ did, so that's irrelevant.

> Now of course, you can apply some deeper logic to uphold Google's stance.

Or you could apply deeper logic and still uphold Oracle's stance. Now, I tend to think the District Court decision here was more correct than the CAFC decision (or the DoJ position), but I don't think as a legal decision its as clearly correct as some people would like to claim -- even though its also the outcome I prefer independent of what is correct under the current law.

> But that's the problem --- how "far" or how "deeper" do you expect the higher courts to look into this issue?

Fairly deeply on the legal side -- that's what appellate courts exist to do, and they are generally fairly good at it (though they do fail spectacularly at times, but not worse than trial courts, though with higher courts they get more attention for it) -- perhaps less so on the factual side (again, this is by design -- and why appellate courts often resolve legal disputes and send the factual matters back to the trial courts to resolve given the legal clarification.)

> Deep enough to understand Google's position?

I don't think the CAFC or DoJ failed to understand Google's position. Disagreement isn't the same thing as lack of understanding.
Also worth looking at Friends, a p2p Slack-like:

http://moose-team.github.io/friends/
And watch Samsung go Tizen over night, HTC partner up with Microsoft, etc etc etc.

Damn it, Android without Google is already big in China. And lets not forget that Amazon is maintaining what amounts to a fork for their device range.

Google can't really play hardball unless they want to go full Apple.

In essence Android has gotten where it is by being more accommodating to OEMs etc than the competition. Something akin to what MS was doing until they went retard with Windows Mobile 7.
> Statement #1 is pointless w/o first defining what consciousness is. We don't know what it is and yet, via our own limited and vivid perspective, we speak as though we do.

> Nothing is a measure of value if you really want to extend that. You'd have to understand a larger portion of the Universe and system to begin speaking in these terms.

In any event, it's important sometimes to highlight the gaping holes in core views people carry on with.

The gradient of consciousness between one human being and another could be as relatively vast as the one between ourselves and a newt and there is no scientifically grounded argument against it until you define what consciousness is.
You'd be surprised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intoxication_defense
This is not material design.

Also material design is not a safe guard for implementing crap user interfaces. In this case, if you decide to have moving tiles that disorientate the user and think 'well its material design', no that's actually just poor design.
Sorry to hear that you didn't like it. :-(

Thanks for the links, I'll take a look!
If you really want this, rent a VPS for a few hours/days and use it as temporary storage.
Steep Uphill Climb for GPU Computing to Hyperscale
Markov decision processes is an old,
mature, at times deep, and polished
field. Names include R. Bellman,
E. Dynkin, R. Rockafellar, D. Bertsekas.

There are connections with scenario
aggregation, potentials, linear-quadratic-Gaussian
certainty equivalence, currents
of sigma algebras, the strong Markov
property, stopping times, and much more.

Can we be more clear on just what the
Markov processes involved actually are
and, then, how they are to be used?
Some people are born too rich
Ask HN: How much are full stack developers worth?
15+ years writing software, web, and database code. Am I doing OK with 80k/year + basic benefits living in TN? The Robert Half report reads 140k but my employer is denying it. I made it to the last round of Triplebyte but didnt' make the 1st cut. I'm currently replacing an application a well known company has vested millions in. Should I be asking for more? I'm just not sure how many solutions need to be built before I draw a line in the sand. My skill sets include C#, Javascript, PowerShell, AngularJS, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, MS-SQL 2008, IIS, Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP, etc.

EDIT: Loving the feedback, thank you all! For clarification, the market is Cool Springs/Brentwood area about 10-20 minutes outside of Nashville.
Good point.

Do you know or believe it to be higher than most other classes?
See: http://www.nyu.edu/econ/user/bisina/Chapter5_Sacerdote.pdf Excerpt: "Surely it would be difficult to deny that genetic effects matter. Just look at how much more biological siblings resemble each other on education and income than do adoptive siblings."

So maybe genetics is not the most important ingredient, but saying genetics is not relevant to this discussion is astounding. Smarter parents beget smarter kids -- that's not a controversial statement. IQ is heritable to a large extend. Smarter parents tend to be wealthier. (This is not true everywhere, but it is mostly true in the USA, the land of opportunity.) Smarter kids do better in college. That's not a controversial statement either.
> Consensus can easily be derailed by those acting in bad faith. But it’s also a process that is ill-equipped to deal with disagreements that arise from competing interests rather than simple differences of opinion. The rosy idea embedded in the process that unity and agreement can always be found if a group is willing to discuss and modify a proposal sufficiently is magical thinking, divorced from the real-world rough-and-tumble of political negotiation.

Deal with competing interests by letting them compete. Iterate consensus. Don't wait for complete consensus. Try each competing interest and try again.
Yep, you can as easily find battery guzzling apps by looking at CPU time.

Whenever i have something odd going on with the battery life, some app is sitting right up there with Android system for CPU time (sometimes even above). And you don't hit those kinds of numbers even with heavily used apps like web browsers (and yes, the most frequent offenders are the Facebook slop that i only have because family).
Ha! Cunningham's law.

I see that many OOP languages (of various purity) have interfaces that may be extended by other interfaces. Is that what you're talking about?

I also found that *variance is used in the context of Haskell, but it seems to be far from being widely used.

Haskell being my template of a language with a good-looking interplay of polymorphism and algebraic typing.
I find the title misleading and unanswered within the body of the story. Also, Silicon Valley is not a university, though there are certainly a few peppered throughout the valley.
Udacity android nanodegree
Your Startup Has a 1.28% Chance of Becoming a Unicorn
Just FYI, `Arc<RefCell<T>>` wouldn't actually be useful, because you could not send it to other threads (`RefCell<T>` is not `Sync`). By your definition the "most permissive" thing would be `Arc<Mutex<T>>` and that hopefully makes it clearer why this would be a terrible default (`RefCell` has similar tradeoffs to those of a `Mutex` that killed your program when it detected deadlock, and `Arc` can leak memory). Rust absolutely gets the tradeoffs right here.

BTW, if you want a language where refcounting is the predominant approach (and where the compiler is built around it), but is otherwise very similar to Rust, you almost certainly want Swift.
We believe our test suite to be a complete test of the core accounting that we implement.

Would be beautiful to have a provably correct implementation, perhaps v4!
What happens in summer?
>I think we need to have room for people to speculate and discuss speculation without being ridiculed about the fact that it's not fact (which of course everybody already knows).

Why? What you're saying amounts to "nobody should ever ridicule anyone else". To be fair, you haven't qualified what kinds of things you want to speculate over, but some ideas are dangerous and their discussion/spread should be avoided/ridiculed/marginalized - e.g. spreading/discussing/propagating the idea that vaccination is harmful to children without applying any scientific rigor.

In general, I would say that you cannot concede that the point you're making is pure speculation and then also be offended at someone dismissing the idea !!! Lots of things are interesting to lots of people and it is normal behavior to dismiss ideas that one does not find interesting - especially given their speculative nature. :-)
This was a long time coming. It definitely shakes up the AR space. They were one of the only real independent players in the industry.

It's a good play by apple too. It almost brings them up to speed with the other major players. MS has the Hololens team, google's got Tango, Oculus has been snapping up computer vision companies left and right.

Metaio had a strong computer vision patent portfolio too
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGGGaveUgAAKFje.jpg:large
https://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html
Let's implement either
Concurrency doesn't rely on the number of available processing cores. You're thinking of parallelism.
Food Sovereignty
The 'elements' section is completely unusable on a mobile
Netflix Bandwidth Usage Climbs to Nearly 37% of Internet Traffic at Peak Hours
I agree 100%.

Cannot imagine a more valuable high school class than basic accounting.

I guess you'd agree with us that building any software that handles money should, by definition, use accounting to do so?
Transfinite Nim
Using the developer preview now there is no difference when installing new apps, so do developers all have to make manual changes in their apps for it to work, or will Google flip a switch at some point?

Currently you can change app permissions once an app is installed, but they gain all the permissions they ask for when installed.

If each app has to be updated by the developer for the changes to take place, it might take a while for this to have any large effect on the ecosystem.
> although time will tell how many successful exits it will have.

And that's exactly the problem. Semiconductors has no exit.

Atheros was probably the last company to go from startup to big hit, and look how long it took them to exit.

Why will a VC throw money at a company that has a 5 year exit, at best, when they can throw a lot less at stupid 20-somethings, flog them like slaves, and sell to Yahooglezonsoft.
A 2D scan, though probably not what the parent comment intended, implies a size via a fixed DPI. A 3D scan, similarly, can measure actual dimensions without requiring a reference object.
Also check out his guide to C programming [0] and his guide to network programming [1]

[0] http://beej.us/guide/bgc/
[1] http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
This is unconvincing. We might stipulate that consensus is inadequate to governing a nation, but TFA seems explicitly to address the decision-making of activist groups. There's no reason why any particular activist issue should only be addressed by one group (in fact every issue I can think of seems to be addressed by dozens), so if you don't like how Group Z makes its decisions, then just join Group Y, if they'll have you. If it had any examples of a strictly hierarchical-leadership-style group being more effective in some way than a consensus-based group, then TFA might have had some (anecdotal) point. As it is, it merely seems to say "some people like consensus, and others don't, and by the way the former are wrong."
You can't consume if you don't have any wealth to spend. Conversely, the wealthier one is the lower one's marginal propensity to consume. Very wealthy peoplewho literally have more money than they know what to do with end up investing the rest, but thanks to financialization (among other things) that investment doesn't generate as much demand for labor as it used to, making it harder for people without surplus capital to accumulate wealth.

I know you love to characterize poor people as living high on the hog but it's a bullshit characterization. The least educated are the most vulnerable to the constant imperative to consume with which people are confronted in western society.
I am deeply saddened that I cannot find a schedule that will allow me to see XH558 in her final season. I've been a contributor to her maintenance and upkeep for the last few years. The license plate on my motorbike is "XH558" in her honour.

I only saw a Vulcan flying once, when I was five years old at the Abbotsford BC air show. It made a massive impression on me that I still (obviously) hold to this day. YouTube videos of the "Vulcan Howl" are a poor substitute for that memory.

Setting aside politics and moral discussions about warfare and nuclear weapons, the Vulcan represents the pinnacle of British power and global authority. It is the culmination and distillation of the essence of "Rule Britannia". Yes, the Royal Navy Vanguard's have greater destructive power and (arguable) applicability in the modern era, but they lack the visual presence and and iconic stature.

Thankfully, the Vulcan To The Sky foundation will keep and preserve XH558 and continue their educational mission.
balanced 2D vectors across the balance sheet, with one or many inputs and one or many outputs is an ideal visualization of a journal entry.
All very true. Still...

The HVAC has to be there anyway. It's just a few more ducts.

The labor to build offices isn't that expensive, and it's not like the boss is gonna have you some in on Saturday to do it :) People who sell cubicles also sell (or contract) the labor to do installations.
No, they also talked from the start about how Go makes it easy to leverage many CPUs...
WCAG 2.0 level AA requires a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text (14 point and bold or larger) and 3:1 for large text (18 point or larger). Level AAA requires a contrast ratio of 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text.

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
Optimizing Python – A Case Study
Perhaps because France happens to have exactly one official language: French.
Apple quietly bought an unusual startup
> 15+ years writing software, web, and database code. Am I doing OK with 80k/year

That's about what I was making with less than two years experience at an extremely small non-profit with a very limited budget as their full stack developer - so yeah I think it's safe to say you should/could be getting more.

[N.B. this is in Boston which probably has a higher cost of living / average wage...but still nuts someone with your background/experience is making what I was at the non-profit]
Re-com: A ClojureScript library of UI components
Tech coops are a new thing really as an ex poptel member that is news to me :-)

Though you might have thought that a politically aware organisation which all coops are would know what Al Jazeera's line was in running this story - hint it isn't a dedication to the Rochdale principals.
You are right I don't have emperic data. Maybe I'm wrong.

The reason I believe that retention is higher until you exhaust the cell cycles is explained in the article. For instance, the reason why the active temperature during which writes were done is because lower temperature during such time will somehow strain cells more. But that effect will be noticable if you are close to exhaustion of the cell cycles. Let's say that 3000 write cycles at temperature best for retention are equal to 2000 write cycles at suboptimal temperatures (that's on the pessimistic side I believe).

Well, that's order(s) of magnitude less than the amount of writes a normal user does. The cycles I've used should be ~60 out of 3000. If I've used 2 orders of magnitude less cycles than the product is designed to survive, I expect to have retention which is at least a multiple of the guaranteed one after all cycles (1 year).

In other words, what makes SSDs to eventually fail reads is that the cells can't hold charge. They can't hold charge because the insulation has been damaged ("by design"). At 2% of the designed cycles, the cells are almost brand new, retention of electrons within cells is great.
>Does this sound like something out of Dirk Gently to anyone else?

No, it sounds like bog standard declarative programming applied to hardware design.
Agreed, the SP360 is just awful. Shame.
+\- doesn't represent it better, it represents it identically...in modern terms.
Vicious legal feud in Hollywood over hologram technology
It still heats of course. It's free heat.
Click menu in top left and then load assistant.
In top right click plus and you can create 'awesomes' from there.
Absolute numbers really mean nothing in determining if you are being paid what you are worth. Just like in real estate, location is everything.

The best metric is to determine the high water mark for being considered "well paid" given the cost of living where you live, and then adjusting your expectations around that.

Software developers in most US metros are usually paid well above the median income in their area. If you aren't making that much, you have two options:

1) Move to a different area where average developers salaries exceed median income levels.

2) Work remotely for a company in such areas, where even a discounted salary for their market puts you above the median where you currently live.

My take on the salary that you've stated is that it feels low if it's in Nashville or Chattanooga, but it might be high if you're living in Johnson City. This is totally subjective based on TN developers that I've worked with in the past.
READ_PHONE_STATE is given to every app for "free" now. It is no longer listed on the play store and hasn't been for almost a year.
Certainly good work automating a category of base tests like this, though I notice some odd assumptions being made like having more than 5 ports open at all being an inherent warning, tests that assume presence of systemd and auditd (the audit trail can be useful, though from what I know many distros configure it poorly out of the box, if at all), aufs being marked as a warning (over what - Device-mapper? UnionFS? How is it a security consideration?) and the LXC execution driver being a warning.

EDIT: Apparently the CIS paper justifies marking aufs due to its age and gradual dropping of mainstream support. >5 ports isn't rationalized. LXC driver again legacy reasons in favor of libcontainer (though why do I seem to recall libcontainer had pluggable backends, LXC included... hm...)
To bait dem' clicks!
I'm so fed up with this. I found a gardening analogie to the way our government handles the country development :

Normal people, whenever they want to grow plants, they start by looking at a fertile soil, with good sunny weather, and good water supplies around. Then they throw thousands of seeds all around and see what grows, and take care of it over time.

Now, in france it's different. We bring in 20000 liters of water in containers, buy 3 tons of fertilizers, and put one seed in the ground.
In addition, the SSC technologies spun out into many things and would have spun out into many more.

Even such mundane things as "fire ant control" are important.

People don't realize that science and space spin technology into general usage much faster than military.
That was a huge controversy and many have since stopped. They are now trying to send a unique ID number, but not the actual phone number.
Almost everything is the same using a VM, with the bonus of VM functionality like cloning and changing the hardware specs.
I just read it for the first time ever (I know, right? I'll turn in my nerd card at the door) a couple of years ago.

I thought the original trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) was amazing.

I also thought Asimov really, really, really should have stopped there.
I'm more than a little disappointed about this news, having watched some of the various interviews and such related to the restoration project of XH558 along with tons of Youtube footage taken from airshows in the UK. But, I also understand their reasoning. It doesn't make me any less sad! I just wish I had taken the chance to watch her fly. The Vulcan is a gorgeous aircraft.

> Edit: It wasn't just the fact that it was loud, very loud, it was that Vulcans make a very spooky wail/howl when their engines are close to full power.

This reminds me. I live in an area that was once home to the F-22. Their engines made similar ghastly noises during maneuvring, which I suspect was due to the shape of the inlets. It'd scare the tar out of the household pets when they were flying night missions and usually get the neighborhood dogs worked up in a tizzy. I rather miss it!

Hilariously, residents complained to the USAF about the persistent sonic booms from the F-22 training missions, and were later relieved when they were recently replaced with a wing of F-16s. Now that training has resumed (along with the sonic booms), I can only imagine what those same people must be thinking. ;)
NICE! Thanks for those quotes!
We're both kind of guessing :) but I'd suspect financialization before I suspected computerization. This is total observer bias, but what I have seen is some productive asset get sold and resold, and the accumulated debt strangles it. Computerization took the form of sheet metal shaping, CNC, order management and mainly tended to reduce error more than it replaced skilled labor.

We also had the big China buildout which idled a lot of factory labor. I'd be willing to expect that to reverse course over the next decade.
About $2000
The README links to a blog post (http://nepste.in/jekyll/update/2015/02/22/MDP.html) which details how the library is implemented from the definition of a MDP.

For a more rigorous treatment, Andrew Ng's notes (http://cs229.stanford.edu/notes/cs229-notes12.pdf) are an excellent resource.
Apparently the best effect was the scramble on full 105% power by the on standby nuclear armed Vulcans.
> It's a good candidate for formal proof of correctness - not too big, and critical to system operation.

Unfortunately, having actually looked for production strength proofs of correctness for production allocators (as opposed to toys), I wasn't able to find any. Given how high-value of a target they are for formal verification, we may be underestimating the complexity of doing so.