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> According to Fernando J. Corbato who worked on Project MAC in 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Etymology

I'd appreciate the cool factor if computing stuck with the ligature, but I wouldn't appreciate looking up how to type it every time.
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I absolutely agree. When I watched this for the first time ~6 months ago it was crazy how much of this relatable oh-so-familiar stuff was taking place before I existed, the central date of March 31, 1998 being about 3 months before I was born.
Programmers these days stand on the shoulders of giants, most of them still living and breathing. And it is a priceless gift that it is so much easier to learn this craft when you're starting out.
It is a huge mistake to be the smartest person in a room, so I seek out people who floor me, people who are good at what I want to be good at. The Internet, built by our heroes, allow us young programmers to talk to our heroes as if they were people, and I suppose that helps us to discover that that's all they are.

Edit: If you enjoyed this, another personal-story-tinged entertaining-but-technical diamond I can recommend is a book about id Software, Masters of Doom.
There's a term for this: recuperation[1]. The opposite of which is détournement[2].

Banksy's art seems to me to be a good example of the dialectic between the two.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tournement
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It's like culture shock: "Speaking of the function library, massive is not really an adequate word to describe it. The range of capabilities available is simply staggering."
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Don't get me wrong. I loathe twitter, and I don't have an account. My point is that twitter doesn't need to do the hard sell on what it is anymore - as far as the public is concerned, it's almost a utility like power or water. It's everywhere, through everything, and it's "just assumed" that you use it, whether you actually do or not.

My point is that if people are online and looking at the twitter homepage, they know what twitter is already. The exceptions to the rule would be a vanishingly thin slice of netizens.
For syncing, look at couchbase mobile, which recently has added support for Core Data: http://blog.couchbase.com/syncing-with-core-data
"Raising money and getting press is fake work"

Raising money is not fake work if you don't know how you are going to pay your team in 6 months, or 3 months, or next month. Twice I have taken out a second mortgage on my house to pay my team, its not a good idea.
Press seems to be a necessary evil, again I have made the best product on the market, only to go unnoticed because of lack of press coverage. Its not like 99.9% of the press are out looking for a great product, they are being lead by the PR agents.

I agree raising money and getting press are "non productive work" as far as product advance goes. But so are things like washing the dishes in your house, they don't help you get more work done that day, but it is a needed part of the system.

So maybe y-combinator should take those two VERY important survival aspects over for the 25% of companies that they feel are the unicorns. For another 10% they will make sure they have enough money for the next year, and that they will get the press they need. Seems like a natural extension....
Yes, I skipped the text at first and wanting to see what this sine wave speech sounded like just clicked on the first sample. I understood all but a word or two on the first play through. After reading the text I seem to do about the same on the other samples as well.

Interestingly for me, although standard hearing tests show I have good hearing (somewhat above average for my age despite experiencing minor tinnitus) I seem to be worse than normal at understanding speech in noisy environments (e.g. near loud engines).
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Historically chat companies have had difficulties monetizing chat. Snapchat isn't a traditional messaging app though. There's something about graphics and photos being good for ads. I still reserve judgement on whether or not snapchat will go boom or bust.
I do agree that login processes can be a huge barrier. Slack got to be a gorilla by making onboarding buttery smooth, whilst its competitors had a fairly vanilla approach, clunky by comparison.

But, in terms of content creation that the GP mentioned (rather than content consumption), login processes are not the problematic part.
> What they are persuaded by is clear, straightforward application of what is almost always pretty simple law to extremely complex factual scenarios.

If the law requires consideration of extremely complex factual scenarios then it isn't simple law. Laws that look simple because they use words like "reasonable", aren't.

Creating simple, just laws is hard. But progress can be made by not attempting to adjudicate intractable quagmires like "fault" in a divorce.
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Your desire to have a word mean something different does not make that alternate meaning correct.
I don't even need a search. Just give me a "Trending on Twitter" view. Then as I read through it, make the "Follow" button more obvious. As soon as I click "Follow" then sign me up (or get me to log in).

Even when you go to a tweet from an external link when not logged in, 20% of the vertical height is taken up by a big blue "Sign up for Twitter (or log in)" thing.

Just give me the content and lure me into hitting the "Follow" button.
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That's really awesome and well done. Great job to all involved, even the players!
The name is the same, though. I think that's what makes it completely ridiculous.
You touch on a paradox I've been remembering lately. I noticed a long time ago how I would read an excellent article or comment, take a long time to write a response, and then later realize I'd completely forgotten to upvote the excellent post in the first place.

The more I think about this the more revealing it seems. Clicking a vote arrow is a reflexive response; thinking about content is a reflective one. Those two things (reflexive vs. reflective) seem to engage different parts of the brain. It's the latter that we want to encourage, so it's not good that the former is what we use to rank things.

Unfortunately it isn't as simple as "commenting on a story should upvote it". That would be great if we could count just the thoughtful comments on substantive stories. Widening the criterion to any comment, though, would add more noise than signal. It's definitely not true that all debate is good. Flamewars are the most active debates of all.
But the client code already has information about whether it's planning to write some more or not, so you could just depend on that, instead of using heuristics about the peer's behavior. Even regular stdio-style buffering plus an explicit flush would help more than Nagle's algorithm.
Unreal. I've been looking at his maps for months in /r/syriancivilwar but had no idea that they were produced by a 19 year-old. I assumed that they were produced by a journalist in the region or an aid group.
Agree with the first part, less so the second. YC is (rightly) worried about signalling risk. If they exposed who they thought the 25% were, the other 75% would struggle to get funding.
I'd argue they're better about extracting value from network effects – Facebook allows you to broadcast, but it really encourages interactions... the value grows a lot more with your network... whereas, following more people on twitter just makes it harder to follow.
I'd appreciate the cool factor if computing stuck with the ligature, but I wouldn't appreciate looking up how to type it every time.

Just for the curious, in Vim (possibly other Vi derivatives?) you can press Ctrl-K, A, E in sequence: æ (copy/pasted from my terminal).
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To re-answer your question, ideally d-bus would send the request to the session manager, which already has logic to start and stop programs as needed. If it is a system-level service, then the session manager should call the init system, through the formalized methods already set up, to start the service. The problem described in the original article is that d-bus lacks any sort of logic to figure out what to do if things go wrong, and thus causes more problems than it solves, in more difficult places to troubleshoot.

Finally, regarding d-bus' age, development on DBus started in 2002, about the same time as the first release of OS X with Cups, and well before Canonical started work on upstart. For the first several years, d-bus was just a messaging service, and it worked decently at it. Pasting on another component that starts and stops services is just asking for problems.
> but I think it beats trying to reinvent the entire world of tooling that programmers use all day: grep, text editors, IDEs, etc.

Exactly, but only because we don't have a any really good solutions to building tooling that supports meta-programming for typed languages.

> the window into the program that we have while editing doesn't see any of the results of that metaprogramming

I wonder if there's a way to build IDEs that provide support for metaprogramming.

(Also, this was a really excellent comment.)
I believe the questioner is asking more about what alternative answers laypeople might choose that an educated lawyer would reject?
I fucking hate these big business chemical corporations. Literally no care in the world for their employees, customers, or the environment.
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I gave Twitter two solid tries (ie spent time finding people to follow, downloaded the mobile apps,installed desktop apps too), once in 2010 for 3 months, and again over 2011-2013. I'm a technical business person and really believe that outside of the tech and media scene it is pretty much useless for every day use. They have a cool brand, but pretty uncompelling and un-engaging user experience. And I never missed Twitter compared with the way I "miss" Facebook or LinkedIn when I haven't logged in for a while.

Their instability with their management team doesn't help them much either. IMHO they'll be out of business in a decade at most.
It's amazing, I'm not really in tune with the state of the art with drones (but fly a little Cherokee Arrow, to give some perspective, and have friends that have been RC enthusiasts going back significantly). I looked on Youtube for that DJI Phantom you mentioned, and all I can say is, wow. It is truly amazing how poorly behaved and entitled some of the operators are, especially in comparison to a lot of the RC guys that have proceeded them. I remember that the RC planes only could be flow in restricted areas (unpopulated, usually), and you had to be real careful regardless. I know those guys were just happy the city let them fly their RC planes at their little airstrip near the dump, and tended to be respectful of airspace.

In contrast a lot of these drone owners act like they should be able to fly everywhere at any time, and have their craft be exempt from the same governance that aircraft seem to obey, and RC at least seemed to use to have to adhere to. I guess it's even more crazy to me that the vast majority of Youtube comments seem to like to compare FAA regulations to some sort of facist plot. I really don't understand why drone and RC pilots don't have to obey similar if not the same kind of regulations planes do, as it would probably save us from so many stupid incidents, like the drone recently preventing fire helicopters from handling that highway accident in California. [1] I am also shocked that the UVA student flying that drone over campus [2] only got a $10,000 fine; just watching that video of the flight made me cringe so much, at the amount of dangerous and recklessly negligent behavior. I am a little worried that as RC gets democratized in the form of drones, and grows way beyond the hobbyist following it had in yesteryear that we're going to have to clamp down in a significant way because of the lack of understanding/caring and the abuses that get perpetrated by a contingent of asinine, but hopefully few, reckless drone operators.

[1] - http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/us/california-freeway-fire/
[2] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/9/4821094/remote-aircraft-pi...
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What are they spending almost $200 million on each month?
Apple opted not to use Linux because they already had the Nextstep kernel and management daemons, which had been in use in high-end workstations for a good long time. A lot of early OS X used Nextstep frameworks under the hood, with software like Netinfo used into the 10.4 days.
> We do not intentionally expose you to the speed of light as a limiting factor early in Stockfighter… but we can’t remove latency as being an actual limitation distributed systems have to overcome.

Couldn't you remove latency as a factor, at least in a game world? To play devil's advocate, it seems like you could build a game where time advances according to the player's control by API.

Imagine if each API call optionally took a parameter describing by how much time should have advanced since the last call, upon the arrival of the current call. If the parameter is omitted, the server advances the world by the corresponding amount of real clock time. The game simulates that time passing, and simulates receiving the call at the time specified. Perhaps an API to stop and start the flow of game time, or run the game for a certain time and stop.

Players can interact with the game naturally, and solve problems without controlling time, but if they run into latency issues they can orchestrate the advance of time on the server precisely. I understand this will not be simple to implement, especially if the game consists of multiple communicating agents, but it could allow you to remove the uncertainty of players interacting with the game over a network, and more easily set up complex race conditions or timing attacks. It will also more gracefully handle any slowness that occurs in the game or bot simulations, since while game calls might take longer real time to return, they will presumably not take more game time. Last but not least, it could allow you to design test cases that are deterministic in ways that involve time, i.e., this event occurs exactly 100ms after the game world begins, every time. Players can exactly reproduce situations that would otherwise occur nondeterministically, while you retain your ability to simulate interactions that you want to be nondeterministic.

(I'm just exploring the idea because it seemed interesting, not making the case that this is especially important in the scheme of things.)
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There has to be a vaguely reasonable claim that you did so as part of your employment. For instance, you pirate work-related software. Or your manager asks you (I've seen that happen).
And that's exactly why you shouldn't ignore compiler warnings...
Time to open up their (very nice) API to third party clients again. I think there's still a lot of room for innovation on the Twitter platform and it isn't going to come from Twitter themselves.
Does anybody think the FOIA results were tampered with? Or that the NSA should have better tracked emails?
Wow. I remember watching this fifteen years ago and seeing that young kid (Stuart Parmenter) join Netscape right out of high school and thinking, "Don't do it!". I, too, joined the industry early and by 2000, I'd pissed away the first half of my twenties pulling all-nighters working at tech startups while the rest of my friends were partying at college or backpacking around Europe.

Recently, I'd read something about Mozilla and wonder whatever happened to that kid. Well, looks like he's all grown up now. I'm impressed to see that he spent so many years with Mozilla. I wonder if he has any regrets at starting so young.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartparmenter
There is also a question of whether the crimes defendants are in fact guilty of should even be on the books.

There has been a trend in legislation. X is bad but is already illegal, and some people who do X use Y, so Y is made illegal too. Some gangsters use large sums of cash so let's ban large sums of cash. Some terrorists use strong encryption so let's ban strong encryption. Some spammers use whois privacy so let's ban whois privacy. Some drug dealers use scales so let's ban scales. Some bootleggers break DRM so let's ban breaking DRM.

This happens many times over until most of the people who are not gangsters or terrorists or spammers or drug dealers or bootleggers can nonetheless be charged because they harmlessly use cash or strong encryption or privacy services or digital scales or DeCSS. And charged with "money laundering" or "arms dealing" or other incredibly serious crimes.

Which may at least partially explain why so many people are locked up for "violent crime" -- it isn't that so many people (outside of gangs) are spilling blood, it's that we've allowed "violent crime" to encompass things like weapons possession that don't inherently involve violence or harm to anyone.
FWIW, waifu2x was inspired by this paper from researchers at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Microsoft Research Asia http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092v3

waifu2x is a great demonstration of this approach applied to a specific domain.

By coincidence, Flipboard's DNN approach was developed around the same time as the MSRA research in summer 2014.

I'm excited to see future research in applying deep learning to generative tasks. Some of the CNN music composition work is quite impressive.
What they do is connect users to what they want to see. Your persistent attempts to force a distinction have the distinctive air of someone whose livelihood depends on said distinction.
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> What is really need is for the legal system to streamline. As long as it takes 20 hours to do your divorce, it'll never be cheap.

My fiance is a divorce lawyer, and she basically says this all the time. She's able to work much faster than her much older colleagues simply because she knows how to use Google to look up things and she doesn't depend on a secretary for transcribing things on their PC (I'm not joking). There are so many aspects of the industry that are still in the stone age.
I used Mutt for two years or so...then mailbox app came along. Then it updated yesterday. Now I'm back to using Mutt.
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Well played, Mr. Banksy, well played. (golf clap)
Sounds great! Dare I try it on windows now? (The last n times I did ... things did not work out).

Kudos for taking also the texture colorspace issue into account - I've found people new to real time programming tend to find this initiaĺly one of the most bysantine minutiae one absolutely needs to get right
There is a more recent version of this paper published here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092v3

At Flipboard, we did not have time to do a full comparison of related upscaling research, but we were happy with the low amount of error our CNN achieved.
A great story. Made me think of the story in the movie 'Woman in Gold' (recommended).
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That was really cool. Thanks for posting.

I think like a lot of you I probably can't watch a documentary without feeling "omg that guy was biased!" but I felt like they were pretty even-handed here.

- long hours
- stock options are a lottery, a stupid tax
- "and I won the lottery"
- the countdown timer at the open-source launch, the last minute typo of domain name, the person who observed it and directed the fix - that was awesome
- the realistic portrayal of burnout and long hours
- the sale to the giant evil internet corporation
- the original reply to jwz's "AOL is buying us and here's why its not so bad" mozilla.org post

I use Mozilla (Firefox) as my "daily driver". At work I recently had to switch to Chrome because they offer a USB/serial device API through extensions. If Firefox did too I'd maybe work overtime to port that shit over because I love Mozilla. What an organization.

I feel bad because these guys did waste a bunch of their time building a fucking web browser. But maybe, just maybe, the web would suck a lot less without mozilla.org and their free codebase. And then, I did start to get the idea, "hmmm, maybe it'd be good to write HTTP again... this time with sessions baked in..." and wander off into "Can I implement that?" territory.
Real, huge and pretty vague. I'd almost say the author wasn't being charitable to the founders.

He says "I tell founders to consider how directly a task relates to growing. Obviously, building and selling are the best."

Well, many of the complaint list he has are arguably orientated towards building and selling. So I could be charitable and say he's trying to say that they're doing much of what they need to be doing but doing it wrong.

Well, that's the nature of all work and isn't greatly helpful or insightful. In detail, exactly, how is one supposed to scale if your technical debt and demo is a mess? How do I do PR correctly? How do I hire and build a team capable of rapid expansion? How do I know how much money is enough or wasting my time (my part-time accountant says we have enough money for 4 weeks...)? What do I do when a certified letter comes in from another company claiming patent infringement and I'd catagorized hiring a lawyer an obviously low requirement? Why is cult-of-personality always a bad thing (let's see a study on startup success between milquetoast founders and media savvy personalities)? Personalities make all the difference in the business world.

Which is why this opinion piece is given the gravitas that it is. But I'd honestly be more charitable to the founder in the trench and consider that YC is doing a poor job of preparing founders for... reality.
GPU in PS4 has 18 cores, in Xbox one - 12. They work quite well. Not exactly powers of two, but neither is 48, to be honest.

The problem with Cell was not that it had multiple cores. It was that it had to do a lot of graphics tasks to take the load off the weak GPU. And doing graphics on a CPU is quite hard. Doing so in concert with another GPU is doubly so. On the other hand, doing CPU work on GPU is much easier.
There's also http://hyperallergic.com/231114/banksys-new-apocalyptic-them..., which might be a bit more substantive. via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10095509.
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If you can't sleep, do you get right back at whatever project you're into? If not, then what do you do while waiting to be tired enough to sleep?
Not my field either. If a picture is just a big 2d array, then i don't think so, you're deleting bits, and information is lost.

If the picture is a collection of summed sin waves, maybe. If the big picture is just sampling more frequently, then maybe it's cheating by looking at the encoding. the smaller resolution will have sampling problems, it'll lose higher frequency data, because it's not sampled enough.

I dunno. I can see the op's point. Maybe there are artifacts introduced by scaling down. Still, regardless of the mechanism, information theory tells us there's no lossless compression. Information is lost, and the NN needs to make something up to fill in the blanks. Looks better than bicubic to me!