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I know the OP was looking at ARM for servers, but I've used node.js on a Raspberry Pi to do IoT sort of things - there are a few libraries that make controlling GPIO pins pretty easy, so combine that with node.js and you've got a pretty enjoyable hardware development experience.

At the time, though, getting node working on the Pi was a major PITA. There weren't any official built binaries available, and a number of bugs kept me from successfully compiling it. I eventually found a binary that someone else had built, and from then on it was smooth sailing. But I'm glad to hear that it's become a first-class platform now.
> don't decide to start new companies just because they saw opportunity on some competent person unemployed.

Right. But they would if there were a vast number of underpaid and overproductive workers, which is the thesis of the article.

> Enterprises need capital, risk taking, and several other factors that people don't just throw around.

Recognizing that there are a lot of underpaid yet overproducing workers and exploiting that is a form of arbitrage, and you can get financing for such a business plan. It's exactly the kind of opportunity investors are looking for.
Cool site...a couple points of feedback:

- Privacy & Digital Rights should be near the top of the homepage

- Every page hits me with a wall of text, and sometimes I have to scroll further down to actually get to the part about his views. It is fine to have that info, but would be great to have a giant bold one sentence summary of his stance on things at the very top. People don't like to read ;)
I agree. Some people rant about me using "value | 0" instead of "Math.floor(value)" and another would do "::before {content: attr(data-value..." -stuff instead of just using a good old elements..

Go figure :)
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I've used mrcoin.eu a few times recently, all were pretty good experiences
I think I'll stick with good old elements :)

Thanks anyway, and I really appreciate true CSS ::-wizards, don't get me wrong.. ;)
On a related topic, http://www.fdareview.org argues that much of the FDA is more harmful than useful; in particular the efficacy requirement. Does anyone know good counterarguments?
It's almost like there isn't another giant tech company called Microsoft there or anything like that.
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https://github.com/ajtulloch/dnngraph is an application of these ideas - it's a Haskell DSL for building DNNs for later execution by Caffe/Torch.
I think I'm not smart enough to get it; lots of servers run on Linux so how's that different?
"miniature sardine bun" ignited a mixture of horror and curiosity in me
He should stated at the beginning (or title!) of the post when he originally made these predictions. You have to read to the very end to see the footer "(Published Nov 10th, 2004)".
Go for it! ;)
They're not luring them away because they don't need to. There is a seemingly endless supply of labor willing to work for a tiny fraction of the value they deliver. Why offer $20/hr to lure Bob away from his $10/hr job when there are a hundred other workers lined up outside your door offering to do the job for $9/hr?
I don't understand what you mean about lacking math support. I am writing math exercises using asciidoctor right now, as it integrates with Mathjax.

I would highly recommend asciidoc over markdown for scholarly work in succint plain text. Markdown is limited in its capabilities by design, as evidenced by all the different flavors of Markdown extension. It's what I would use to write an e-mail or blog post. Asciidoc, in the design of the language, anticipated extension and post-processing and has better support for using it as part of a complete document processing toolchain. After all, it's just syntax sugar for DocBook XML.
Anyone else getting spammed by these guys? I got like 3-4 emails the other day from them, really annoying too, saying the'd looked into what we were doing for our HR etc and thought they could help, except for they were sending emails to an employee who hadn't been with us for a year (email forwarded to me), so not really looking at what we do and how we do it, just disingenuous marketing drivel.
They seem to be orthogonal at least. Smart people are not necessarily ethical and vice versa. I'm unsure as to whether the parent thinks that any increase in intelligence would correspond with a decrease in morality, which I disagree with. But there is a pretty clear issue, being that if we manage to augment intelligence without first understanding ethics there's a not-insignifianct chance of creating a sociopath who's smarter than any previous human. That wouldn't exactly be world ending, but it could certainly be seriously damaging.
Two things:

1) The A.I is not just a set of symbols, it's a physical machine, which means you're answering a different question.

2) The structure of the test means that you have stripped down the objects to be compared to the sounds they produce, and yet a person is more than sounds, as is the computer. Whenever we use the relation 'X is a Y' there is an implicit definition of the identities of X and Y; the more abstract it that definition is, the more things your relation will accept; at some level of abstraction the human and the A.I. may be called equivalent—but you'd have to state which one you're talking about.
quick. stop. look.

its some sensationalism!!!!
> A patient with a seriously life-threatening disease like lung cancer is perhaps more willing to gamble on a risky drug in pursuit of a cure, while someone with a disease that has a high survival rate such as diabetes presumably cares more about avoiding adverse side effects.

If he's more willing to gamble, then why not just let him do it? The FDA's job should be to enforce truth-in-labelling (which means drugs with no beneficial use should be labelled as such, and those with horrible side effects should be labelled as such), and patients working in concert with their physicians should determine which drugs to take.

For this to work, we may need to limit the ability of drugs to be advertised. I'm okay with limiting the civil right to free speech of pharmaceutical companies in order to respect the fundamental human right to ingest whatever one wishes of patients.
Be wary of falling into the trap of magical thinking with SaaS businesses. It isn't as simple as "oh, I'll just solve a problem and build a small SaaS business around, then live off the recurring income indefinitely."

Competitors come and go, the value of your solution comes and goes with market changes, cost of doing business and customer acquisition fluctuates, churn happens, etc. Businesses are never at equilibrium. They are not magical passive revenue streams.
Whatever.

Unfortunately, in doing so you have used the "AI is analogous to heavier-than-air-flight" meme. Please discard it, it's an albatross to discussion. Or to be more precise, it is a lead balloon - it never gets off the ground; it's a red herring. IOW you've chosen a poor and annoyingly wrongheaded counterexample. Now try and digest that.
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We want details! How does their algorithm work? What database does it pull from? Can it be altered to generate rom-com titles and casts?
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You're right, it is a typo. It's actually http://ark.intel.com/products/80817/Intel-Core-i5-4460-Proce...

I'll update the chart, thanks for noticing.
> Most intelligent people today still believe that mathematics is a body of unshakable truths about the physical world and that mathematical reasoning is exact and infallible.

I had always thought of mathematics as the language of science. (Instead of saying i want more apples, i can say as i want 5 apples). Physics and other sciences use mathematics to explain the physical world or make predictions about them. Is there something more to it ?
Charlie, would you describe a lot of the revelations here as coming to terms with the consequences of your collective life choices (for better or worse)?
Actually there was in the first version of this: http://pakastin.fi/cards_2006 (made with Flash)

Press "Räjäytä" (means "explode" in Finnish) ;)
Free and FOSS, the latter being more important. I can customize and self-host Madoko.
Terms like hardware and software are very limited when talking about biology because it seems more like hardware nested inside software nested inside hardware, forever and ever.

Here are some strong generalizations about the cell:
DNA by itself does nothing but store information. RNA is a transient store of information and can also perform functions. Proteins primarily perform functions, yet embody the most information about the cell's current live state. Each of these levels runs on and are run by the two other levels.
found it, it was Collegiate basketball (Cardinals) not NBA: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119836/
>I'm not sure I follow. What does "transform into new situations" really mean?

Emergence as a side-effect.

>If this is really what he meant, I appreciate the correction. If it would have been clear from the text, I would have proceeded with pointing out with pointing out the dodgy assumptions that underly the finetuning problem, but that would be even more like arguing against a deist/theist.

Yes, I am probably putting words in the author's mouth. He goes on a bit about computer simulations and how the Mandelbrot always "existed" because it is a mathematical consequence. In his view it seems different simulations are different universes and our universe is particularly amazing because it has evolved minds (computational constructs) that can distinguish different realities. Pair that with the idea that mathematics is a choice based on preconditions and you arrive at my statement.
Ask HN: Best places for intellectual discussion?
HN has a pretty high level of discussion most of the time in the comment threads, but unfortunately it's IT-centric and not very well-trafficked. I'm looking for something similar to HN, but more general and with more contributors-- but not a place that just discusses any old daily news item. Places that are hideouts of industry-specific folks are okay, provided that there's enough constructive "off topic" that is allowed, like here at HN.

Does anyone know of anywhere that fits the bill? Reddit used to be a barely-acceptable alternative that had intelligence hiding in the crannies once in a while, but now it's completely overrun and commercialized. Voat suffers from the same problem, except it never really had a golden era before the shills and trolls and idiots were out in force.
I am very like UI :)
You're probably thinking about this as "instances of NoSQL services replacing RDBMS installations" but that's putting the playing field in the wrong place. Look at it as a venn diagram. There are 3 important zones: the zone where RDBMS excels; the zone where RDBMS and NoSQL compete and one or the other may be preferable depending on circumstances; and the zone where RDBMS never makes sense. You're looking at the field as the first two zones, Yegge is looking at all three zones.

Which means that you're missing things like caching engines, such as memcached, and other services which are not replacing an RDBMS but filling a different niche, which are widely deployed in industry.
>In those days, a directory in UNIX was a file that contains a list of file names and some indication of where they are located (p. 169). There was no opendir or readdir; you just opened the directory as a file and read a sequence of struct direct objects directly. Example is given on page 172. You can’t do this in modern Unix-like systems, in case you were wondering.

What's the most recent file system where this is possible?
I know the feeling..
All this news just makes me want Wine to be better.
Cool, I'm looking forward to it.
That's a big and dangerous assumption.

Take the Bay Area...many people living here now that will likely never be able to buy a home if prices stay even close to where they are (let alone ever pay it off if they did). So then they have large mortgages or high rents.

There's also increased risk of major medical expenses, the baggage of paying for things like divorces, college, etc.
In fairness, it's not like any other university's PR wing is going to judiciously filter its alum bragging list to those who owed their success specifically to that university...
Precisely. Here's a specific example: infantile spasms. I was helping my wife research this condition yesterday (for work -- thankfully neither of our children were affected). I found this[1] really great summary article from 2006 that synthesized the findings of numerous trials over the past 50 years and presented the data in a very clear and understandable way.

If you want to medicine to build on the foundations of history, you need to be able to reference the history.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1464162/
So if you Gödelized the universe - mapped every conceivable state to a number (proving that that is possible left as an exercise for the reader) - then created mathematical operations on those numbers that transitioned the universe from one state to another 'physically possible' successor state.. I guess Gödel would be able to give you a number representing a universe such that you could not prove whether its state was possible or not?

Then all you have to do is demonstrate that we live in such a universe, and all the philosophers can retire because we've found the ultimate answer to the ultimate question.

I think we all know exactly what the Gödel number for our universe would be...
While writing C# with strong types for the browser is a nice idea, this project won't give you strongly typed access to the web api e.g. window. JSIL, which this project is based on, gets around this by making window and other objects available by the dynamic keyword.

You can still strongly type everything within your project but creating a complete strongly typed wrapper to the web api would be a big job.
Ah yes, for that elusive "malloc-safe" spec requirement.
> The lack of boilerplate makes abstraction really cheap, conceptually

Well, as long as you don't care about abstracting over anything other than int.
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> The thing is, the definition of a concept, is the axiom that it exists outside of human understanding.

I don't agree with that definition of a concept.

Idea = mental representation of an object, or a set of objects and their interactions.

Concept = generalization of an idea.

wherein 'mental' justifiably implicates the working of a brain. It is very much tied to what we call brain understanding. Sorry for taking this discussion to the definition of words.
Also, when Andreessen left UIUC to form a company, he was almost immediately sued by UIUC. Oppose this to say, Stanford, out of which have come many companies, where Stanford is usually legally hands off with regards to them.
No, but from what I understand op saying is that most open source from companies are lame, and I haven't seen any lame open source projects from companies, even if in languages I don't like. So by saying "Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable." it comes off that op things that.
Why aren't there a hundred employers springing up to quintuple their money in this way? Businesses constantly are formed to exploit far, far smaller differences in buy low / sell high opportunities.

Heck, I'd do it myself if I could find such opportunities!
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New England is more forested now than it has been in at least 100 years, possibly since before the Civil War. Between the industrial revolution and the shift of agriculture westward to the Mississippi and beyond, due to railroads, industrial food processing and refrigeration, the vast majority of the land that used to be cleared for farming has grown back up as woods.
I've been waiting for this since io.js was announced.
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What is going on?: Desktop vs. Mobile device security models
I was wondering if anyone can help describe or elaborate the security/privacy shift in models from desktop/laptop computing to mobile devices. I am sure everyone can "feel" this happening, but I haven't seen it explained out.

Examples below where the approaches for the same tasks differ in security model:

[Desktop/laptop OS] / [Mobile]
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Unlocking — Unlocked via long password (no data destruct) / Unlocked with 4 digit pin (+data destruct)
Logging in to services (e.g. Facebook, Seamless) — Desktop apps time out / Mobile apps stay logged in indefinitely
Changing settings - Desktop needs an "admin" user / Mobile change settings any time
Camera/recording - Camera LED on bezel / no camera LED activates on mobile device
Files/storage - Desktop, can manage local storage (e.g. Explorer, Finder) / Mobile, no way to "see" data except through apps

Common corporate email setup
- Check mail - Deskto (1) Login/unlock laptop, (2) Login to VPN, (3) Login to Outlook / On mobile, Exchange mail credentials stored in device policy, only password required is screen unlock
- Visit intranet sites — Desktop: Unlock computer, VPN, browser LDAP login / Mobile: device cert allows access

Just curious if anyone can describe what is going on with computing from a perspective of trends, assumptions, and models. Thanks for any insight provided! Happy Friday musings!
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I've been idly chasing that idea for some time. There's some great literature out there on categories of distributions and (conditional) random variables as arrows between them. That would be a good place to start looking more deeply!

(God I wish I had the time to look into this myself!)
Employees should be paid at least what they are worth. Unfortunately, the workers responsible for the top 40% of the nation's productivity make only 10% of the money.
Flash version had some of those:
http://pakastin.fi/cards_2006

I used 52-framed movieClip as a card, where frames were values.

And then every suit graphic was one movieClip as well with 4 frames: spade, heart, club and diamond

Worked great! Not so easy to do with HTML though. Lots of figuring out coordinates manually.
There are quite a few problems with your assertions, such as the fact that it's hard enough to gather good statistics on mental illness in the present time, much less over the past 200 years, and the idea that secular humanism should somehow concern itself with "cosmological catastrophes" that humans can't do anything about.

Finally, it's not clear that your last sentence really tells us much about the nature of altruism. What can't be turned into a matter of faith by someone whose business is selling faith?
> The basic problem is overpopulation.

This is farcical. The basic problem cannot possibly be overpopulation in a country with as much land per person as the United States of America.

There's a contradiction here: you want a very, very active economy, but you don't want the population required to sustain that economy.

You can't be rich without servants, and you can't have industries without workers. How do you propose to run tech companies with even fewer people per dollar-of-revenue than they already employ?
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The problem with these kinds of arguments-from-probability is that they are valid arguments even in highly improbable universes. So yes, maybe on average, most sentient life forms that ponder these questions are living inside tiny simulated universes created as undergraduate term projects for passing credit. But we happen to be in a really big universe. Maybe ours is a grad student lab project. Or an exhibit in a museum. Or maybe we hit the jackpot and ours is real. Point of such arguments is you can't really tell from a sample size of one.
1) You need something to compute the outcome of the symbols in order to test the accuracy of those symbols. I am not sure how to experimentally test your point without doing so. Perhaps that is the crux of the issue, we can't test symbols without tying them to a "physical medium".

2) We can introduce more communication layers as you desire and still keep in the spirit of the experiment. I opted for the strip down version due to simplicity of describing the experiment and the similarity it has to the turing test.
Not to mention DJB. Wouldn't be the worst place to be a security minded company.

EDIT: But yeah, Illinois :(
Still dangerous, just slightly less so; the set of life experiences documented in non-fiction suffers from selection bias, as we (mostly) gloss over the boring and don't always include all of the unpleasant.
People who hate XML never had to deal with variable-length bit field formats...
This site is what made me realize that minimal unit for planning had to be at least "Neighborhood"...

http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/

See also https://www.patternlanguage.com/
>Kotlin's equivalent of LINQ doesn't use deferred evaluation.

Wow, I'm pretty surprised at that. Any kind of list comprehension/functional sub-language over collections seems like it ought to be deferred/lazy from the ground up. I'm doubly surprised at that from JetBrains.
Earlier this year, I needed to upload the LaTeX file and it needed to be written with the journal's template. In order to specifically fit into the journal's guidelines, the template was sent to some editing contractor where some minor changes where made to the source, e.g. "eq." to "Eq.".

As far as I know, a lot of the journals have their own automated build systems for the manuscripts to perfectly fit into their designs.

Nevertheless, I've also encountered PDF uploads. But even then, the PDF will be automatically checked for consistency.
And you insist that perfect arbitrage is something that exists. In an illiquid market, arbitrage is almost non-existent.

Have you started a company some time? If so, would you ever start one for applying the work of underpaid overproductive third party workers?
I've mostly spent time on the Mac side of things so far, and have helped out a colleague with the mobile stuff. Recently they've added a lot of documentation for the Mac side that covers basically anything you want to know - or at least it covered all the stuff I wanted to know when I first started the Mac app 12 months ago.

For mobile, Xamarin Forms can be a little difficult to wotk with, but it's getting better all the time. I don't really want to bother with learning native development at the moment, and because we have a pile of calculations and logic in our shared PCL Xamarin is working out for us.

There is some criticism that the pricing model makes it expensive for people developing at the low end of the mobile market ($1 or $2 apps), however I think that's more a failure of that kind of market in general rather than a problem with Xamarin pricing itself.
This is just a part of MS larger new open source initiative for legacy systems. ASP.net 5+ projects will be using DNX https://github.com/aspnet/Home/wiki/DNX-utility which is already open sourced.
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