skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice to see an intelligent comment from someone who actually read Rand (and sounds like they got something out of it) instead of just mouthing things that they heard about her.

For reasons that I won't explain, I think you are right about the FH being a better literary work than AS.

I also agree that her work in politics was not original because most of that work was already done by the others. Her achievement was to provide an ethical base for Capitalism without which it would perish in time. Her greatest achievements are in ethics and epistemology.

I disagree that "she oversimplifies and makes false dichotomies" and I believe that that view confesses a failure to understand the scope of her ideas. She has identified the fundamental error of Kant and his whole system of ideas has collapsed but most intellectuals today are incapable of seeing it. She didn't waste time arguing all the ways Kant is wrong and left that for others to do so the modern intellectuals dismiss her as "unsophisticated" and claim she didn't understand Kant when it is really the other way around.

What she did do was identify the fundamental principles at the base of any philosophy; the primacy of consciousness versus the primacy of existence. This is the battle today and the four philosophers who have staked out consistent positions are Plato/Kant (primacy of consciousness) and Aristotle/Rand (primacy of existence) so if its not obvious, I think she is a philosopher of first rank :-)
Apple did do that before though: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1283
32 and in the same place.
Seems to me like the split is the biggest part of the update. One reason is that an iPython install now only includes the iPython terminal interface. On Ubuntu though one already needed to install iPython notebook separately (apt-get install ipython3-notebook) so not a lot changes, I suppose.
The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us
I certainly remember many students with that view. After first year they started carefully arranging courses and boasted about how they would never have to write another exam ... until the bar. I think I had a final for every course but LRW and a bioethics class.
Laws of Nature and Laws of Man
And people can revert those reversions and justify them.
Honestly no offense intended; however, even if you're the VP of risk management for Uber currently - a company with 9K employees having raised $6.9B - that in no way what so ever gives you any insight as to the usual way in which young (series A say) companies operate. None. Zero. Zilch.
I'm not talking about "developing for" I'm talking about "learning about." I have learned a lot about hardware using Gentoo, compiling my own kernel. If I wanted to I could look at the source code. I also never did, like you, I'm just saying there may be youngsters out there who would.
High-performance browser networking and optimizing application delivery
Perhaps, but experience does that ;)
I took a class from Matt Might and I like how we were graded:

"Your grade is your tests grade or your projects grade, whichever is higher." http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/spring-2015/#gradin...

This allowed both the really good test takers to succeed and also those who did better on projects, without all the pressure.
He's a kid. Just let him be. You can pick his brain when he is a little older. People forget that even prodigies need time to grow up.
I haven't used Squarespace (http://www.squarespace.com/) myself, and don't know the platform well enough to know if it meets your client's needs, but it sounds like what your client wants is pretty close to what Squarespace does. Might be worth looking into.
All my early work was in consumer web sites and applications. One of my oldest sites is a popular consumer/professional news and review site in a popular niche. There have been several failed attempts at a redesign over the years but it still chugs along and makes money. Absolutely no attempt has ever been made to make it work on mobile and that would definitely be a design requirement now. The back-end even has a nifty Ajax-like component that should still work in Netscape 4.

I do corporate web applications now and there is a lot of pressure to support modern browsers and mobile.
In no way is it a "bait and switch", but I wholeheartedly agree that too much emphasis is given to the president and not enough emphasis on voters communicating with state and federal legislators during the legislative sessions.
BPMN 2.0 rendering toolkit and web modeler
How does this deal with the fact that NAND flash isn't randomly rewritable?
Yeah I actually advocate for the moderate form of what you're expressing.

My issue with single, high-worth exams was that sometimes I would screw up, have some misconception in my head, and if it wasn't cleared up until the exam I was done.

I think you should be examined on a semi-regularly basis where each exam is worth an equal amount of grade.

That way the effects of various externalities, like I was sick, had something bad happen that week, or just didn't learn the material as well as I thought could be smoothed out of a period of time.
The Next Chapter in Human Computation
Along this vein, for anyone interested in the conspiracy theories pertaining Nixon (as well as Kennedy and Bush Senior), I found Dark Legacy[1] really interesting. I don't know if any of it is true, and I've never taken the time to research any of the facts therein (far too many), so I cannot recommend it as information, per se, but if some of what's in there is true, then Nixon, et al, were engaged in something much worse than just politically inspired crimes like breaking and entering and stealing. I'd love to hear what somebody else thinks about the movie after watching it.

1. http://thedarklegacy.com is the official website, but I watched it on Netflix
I would love a gadget that doesn't require my eyes.

If I get a whatsapp message, why should I have to look at the screen to see what it says?

Looks like this is pretty cool: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.Comma...

But Siri can't do it.
But no-one really cares about weight - they care about body composition. That is key to understanding all of this, and it's missing from these results. Who cares if you lose weight if it's muscle wasting away? Who cares if your weight stays the same but you're losing fat and gaining heavier muscle?
> Overall I am guessing this is a horrible experience for her.

You either succeed or you learn.
It's a commonly aired complaint because it's true. It's interesting you immediately blame the editor for fixing something "they feel strongly about but have no evidence". What if he did have well-sourced information? Why do you question his temperament? Why should that be a requirement to add information to a site?

There are examples on probably every page of Wikipedia (ie millions of examples) of well-sourced information that is censored. Biased pages are the standard, not the exception. Editors are routinely harassed on both contentious and non-contentious topics, just ask any woman using the system. I was harassed online and offline for well over a year for trying to add completely factual and well-sourced information to the site. I was targeted by one of the site's most famous admins because I dared challenge one of the many ambiguously worded policies on the site.

During that process I learned a lot about Wikipedia's culture and I realized that on Wikipedia "might is right' and only the most aggressive and fanatical editors survive. If you're not prepared to fight then you won't get anywhere. BTW, any Wikipedia editor knows your suggestion to post suggestions to the talk page is completely useless.

Most people simply don't want the hassle, and to be honest, the fact that new editors are scared off so quickly probably does them a favor. Why waste months trying to get factual information onto the site when faced with a bunch of opponents who will use very wiki rule available to deny you, bend the rules when necessary, and will bully and harass you? It's not worth it. But while that may entrench the power of the people who survive, it's no good for the long term future of the project. So please stop trying to blame the newcomers. Blame the toxic culture and the crap software that it is built upon. Maybe then it can perhaps be fixed.
>>Market is reif [sic] for a new killer gadget

Is it? How can you tell?
This is why it's hard to take the field of nutrition seriously.

"New study finds peach fuzz makes you lose weight"

5 years later

"New study finds peach fuzz makes you gain weight"
There was a great talk about Daala at Linux.conf.au 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmho4gcRvQ4). It has both general, and technical information about Daala, so it's well worth a watch.
"Additional ideological ("Free Software"-style) reasons, which apply whether the rest do or not: because being decent to everyone is not too much to ask, and shouldn't have to be asked for in the first place."

Those are admirable goals, but a) they have nothing to do with free software and b) it is not established that these codes of conduct, especially when they enshrine fringe political viewpoints and explicitly racist and discriminatory behavior as this one does, will achieve those goals.
I'm very happy to see people are still doing this sort of thing!

I've always wanted to see something of a truly 'barebones' OS; but one that could at least get you 64-bit mode, OpenGL ES, audio output, USB polling and network connectivity with libc available. Yet not be as complex and large as Linux/BSD.

Being able to run a real-time application with no pre-emption, no virtual memory protections, no kernel transitions, etc could probably eke out an additional ~20-30% of performance on a CPU-bound application. Plus the near-instant boot would be great for media players, emulator arcade boxes, etc.

Probably just not possible, due to the driver situation. There was a bit of hope UEFI could lead to better drivers for hardware prior to boot, but efforts around things like GOP (graphics output protocol) haven't really gone anywhere that I've seen.

Sadly, there's a very small amount of modern things you can do with 32-bit mode, VESA and a keyboard. I've never even found a video card with a 1920x1080 VESA display mode; they're almost exclusively still 4:3 only.

Plus, no sound rules out gaming and media; no internet (let alone Wifi) rules out any connectivity; no strong filesystem rules out moving data around easily; no USB rules out loading things from external storage, gamepads, etc.

Only strong use case would be for embedded; but ARM platforms have this area beat substantially in cost, power, tooling, etc.
Only work for a startup that will share its financial situation with you. If they don't trust you to share that, move on to something better.
This is a false argument because the number of PR edits is so small in comparison to the total number of edits. The culture is toxic, period. See my other post on this thread.
Why I'm Selling My Google Stock Grant
Yep, same here - paper classes were a real pain and always made the end of a semester rather unpleasant with deadlines looming. Just saying that system is a bit extreme, and I don't think it's universally applicable.
But certainly they collected body composition data in the course of the study, it just doesn't make the headlines?
I wouldn't say that they are pulled out of a hat. What they are saying is "if you have no dev knowledge, it would take x hours at x cost per hour to build it". The entire article is subjective. If you can code, it's virtually cost-less minus servers..etc. if you can't, cost is based on the dev's charge, the dev's location, is it a single person or a team?...etc. really... A pretty pointless article.
Creditors of the failed company, as is traditionally the case when liquidation occurs.
I find it hard to believe that bad literary technique could elicit a sneer. Stilted dialog might result in, at most, bemused indifference or perhaps sadness at witnessing a failure. I'd bet you don't sneer at flat-earthers because they don't threaten your worldview. A sneer is reserved for much greater transgressions and you are afraid to admit that Rand's works, as art, presents a worldview that clashes with your own.
>in the next 30 years DC will actually reach full buildout as allowed under current zoning and height restrictions

Where there is a will:
https://youtu.be/gjHo5BZM7V0
Opus was actually a similar combination of two codecs, CELT from Xiph.org and SILK from Skype.

So similarly, there are now two projects, Daala from Xiph and Thor from Cisco, which are both preliminary but being worked on in the same group, so hopefully the best parts can be taken from each to produce a new, better open codec.
Ok if you want to do the demo apps here is what I suggest:

1. Build a list of potential customers. Ideally names and phone numbers.

2. Write a script of what you will say on the phone.

3. Call them all with the aim of booking a half hour appointment (in person or Skype if too far away).

4. In the appointment find out more about their problem and pain points, see if you are a good fit to help, try to close the deal. Require upfront payment.

5. If in 20 hours of cold calling you can't get anyone to hand you cash then pivot.

...Or beg or borrow :-). Or maybe get that second job and resign after 3 months.
What I don't understand was that Jason was also an investor. Apparently she didn't reach out to an existing investor that was so bullish about the company within days of fatal funding problems. Its just bizarre.
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There's certainly plenty of wiggle room when it comes to "unauthorized removal" considering her position. It'll be interesting to see how any investigation plays out, but I would bet nothing comes of it.

>If almost any federal employee (even ones with low-level clearance) was caught doing this, they'd likely have security assist them out of the premises immediately.

Of course, but then they're not Secretary of State. It's not a stretch to imagine her position should come with some latitude on how they execute their job function.
Regarding learning assembly, I'm beginning to come to the view that it's in fact the best way to teach the first course in programming to kids. They don't come with any preconceived notions of what programming should look like and given an explicit, visual model of the computer, they quickly learn the small number of operations to write programs. More over, once they learn to do

LDA A
ADD TWO
STA A

DAT TWO 2 <-- initializing variable TWO

then, this line of code

A = A + 2

in C or a higher level language makes soooo much more sense. That awkward phase of internalizing that '=' is an assignment operator and is different from another operator meant to test equality gets a lot shorter for a beginner.

Btw, this is the best online CPU simulator I've found for that use http://peterhigginson.co.uk/LMC/ I'm shocked at how all the code academies and hour of code's haven't created a polished version of LMC (Little Man Computer... look it up).
Well, firstly, I think we should probably throw the entire patent system out. It's a hindrance to innovation. <--- yes, that's a period

In your case, I think you argue that there is nothing special about lava stones, and in fact, dirt/mud contains many stones. Probably, including tiny lava stones, whose only real difference with the additional lava stone bits is size.

So, adding stones is not very novel. There's also not much difference between a lava stone and a non-lava stone; if I can put in a non-lava stone, I can probably just as easily put in a lava stone. Is it not obvious that if I can put a quartz into a mud pie, I could also put a lava stone?

I guess the general strategy is to find the more general pattern and then show that the patent is just a specific instance of a larger, known pattern.
You are genius! So lets better suck the life out of you with an office job with stressfull deadlines and mindless meetings.
I'd create a music generation software. You pick your base sounds and the mood you want to create, and the software will take it from there. There's already tons of research out there on what make a song happy, sad, etc. - all that would essentially be needed are base sounds as a reference point and the software would create various versions of an instrumental by cycling through example or custom melody patterns whcih alter the pitch of those base sounds. With all the info that's out there, I'm really surprised this hasn't been done before. Would definitely need a team for this, but I'd love to get my hands dirty in between managing.
Canonical's primary product is Ubuntu, which is, to first order, a repackaging of Debian. Facebook and Dropbox just use free software. GitHub is sort of in between; certainly they have invested a lot into the stuff besides raw git hosting, which is why they have such a dominant position, but certainly git itself is a core part of their product.
> Is it better to patent something and tell the whole world how to do it? Or is it better to just keep it secret?

Where did this 'patents are good because they make inventions public' idea suddenly come from?

I've seen it bandied around a lot lately from people who are uncomfortable with directly supporting patents.

No. It's not better. Don't be ridiculous.

> Or is it better to just keep it secret?

How do you imagine anyone will do that?

Imagine I come up with a new compression algorithm that achieves 1:4 compression on 80% of compressed files and normal 1:2 on the rest.

In a patent system I can:

1) Use it privately and not tell anyone. Keeping it secret.

2) Patent it and license it to other people. I risk being sued out of existence by existing patent holders and trolls.

In a non-patent system I can:

1) Use it privately and not tell anyone. Keeping it secret.

2) Share and sell it as a black box implementation. People will immediately reverse engineer the compression method.

???

How is privacy and secrets an issue here?

In both cases (1) is the best choice if you don't want your competitors to get access to your algorithm.

In the patent case its easier for 3rd parties to find the implementation details by doing no work themselves. It's also significantly more risky.

In the non-patent case, people have to actually work to reverse engineer the implementation, sure, but then they're free to use it. There's also no risk in selling and distributing the product.

So, lets see here, things which are better, since both paths lead to the algorithm being made freely available in the end:

1 - Do research, at risk that you'll get sued into oblivion the moment you publish & sell. Even if you don't immediately get sued, you have zero temporary competitive advantage because you just told every competitor what you're doing.

2 - Do research and have temporary competitive advantage once you release it?

The only people who win in the patent way is lawyers.

The 'secrets are bad' argument is a straw man; first you setup the straw man (but then we would never get to know the secret details!!?!!), then you punch it a few times (but sharing knowledge is good! How will the global body of knowledge grow if everything is just secrets??).

It's just daft.

So yes, "It seems like some refinements to when you can sue might be in order"; indeed; ie. never.
Are you aware how broad a term "animals" is? The term includes hawks, ants, turtles, snakes, trout, leeches, sharks, jellyfish, lions, coral, alligators and many more. It includes all vertebrates, but it is not limited to vertebrates. The diversity of eating habits in animals defies easy generalizations. Maybe jellyfish do skip breakfast, but that does not tell you whether humans should skip breakfast.
And if it's absolute profit, then the company is still worth running - you're making enough money to pay your suppliers, your employees, and CEO's still getting their salary and bonuses. Hundreds people directly paid by the company are better off with the company still standing than closed. Thousands of customers are better off being able to exchange their currency for your product. (else they wouldn't do it.)

The only people suffering are shareholders, and you wouldn't do them any good by shuttering the company, because if you stay open there's still chance the company will make the profit in the future.
Well, if you're US passport holder you can stay upto 90 days without visa (business/travel). For the rest of the cases, you need to get one. If you get a proper job, employers will sponsor your visa.
> Say what you will about his methods, and they were dubious at best, the guy was dedicated to his principles.

Yeah, at least it's an ethos.
The title is confusing. This does not run on Mesos.
Eating less helps you lose weight. News at eleven. Seriously, how difficult is it to understand that? Once when I was in the US I had some pancakes for breakfast and on the side was a huge chunk of white mass that looked like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I took a large bite and oh boy.. it was butter. Plain butter. That chunk alone was about half of the calorie need of an average young person. Oh, and then there was the maple sirup, chocolate, and artificially sweetened orange juice. No wonder the US is so obese.
Why is text selection disabled? :(
Right? He had also said she updated him regularly which makes me wonder what type of updates he was getting and if he anticipated this or not.
what does offline mean here?

I agree that public disclosure of their trades is viable, because if they decide to trade based on information they have, the public (whom they _serve_!) should also get the same opportunity.
as a mechatronics engineer, i didnt understand so well kalman filters
Neil's a fantastic human and great mathematician - I'll just post my same comment from the last time a story came up about him here:

Great to see this article about Neil, a warm and brilliant guy - I had the chance to meet him personally the last time the joint AMS meetings were in San Francisco.

When I submitted a simple integer sequence[1][2] to OEIS on Thanksgiving Day a few years ago, he took time that very day to respond and coach and educate me about some delightful related math.

[1] https://oeis.org/A168521

[2] http://apps.keithflower.org/?p=322