skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with everything.me... I had the Flame (and now a flashed-by-me LG Nexus 5), so maybe I never saw that integration.

All the things you mentioned are true though -- it did have it's slew of problems, but the beauty is that most of those things are fixed now :)

Mozilla didn't have what it takes to bring up a mobile operating system, but I'm glad they had what it took to start it -- It has a life of it's own now (as I've previously said)

Highly doubt Acadine will have what it takes to put FFOS on par with Android and iOS (mostly because I don't think any company does) -- so it feels like they lose both on the philosophical and practical ends.

But love the publicity for FFOS :)
Use chemistry to explain to me how a human body converts a walnut into energy.

Hey downvoters, if Im wrong in thinking that the chemical processes involved in digestion are too complex to be coherently applied to a high level model of a human diet, then explain how Im wrong. Or am I just dumb for feeding the troll?
You said I create an encryption system to protect email. It gets large uptake to point NSA and FBI are pissed by it. With current laws, they will feel free to

Lavabit shut down because they got a court order! Related to Snowden (who clearly violated the letter of the law, he isn't just some rabble rouser that they decided to hassle). It would also be more interesting if Lavabit was forced to shut down because it did not have the ability to access users communications, rather than the refusal of Levison of provide the FBI with access (a capability he did have).

You directly state that Appelbaum manages to avoid problems (remember where I started? How would he just avoid them shooting his dog?).
> If people really didn't want that, the laws would be abolished.

Not at all. 95% of people could be against the cartel and it would still be law unless it was such a priority that it would actually change votes, which is not going to happen for a small issue like this.

Similarly for laws like those preventing Tesla from opening retail stores in some states. Pretty much nobody except dealerships and their families are for those laws, but there's no incentive for a politician to change them since they would lose donation money and hardly gain any votes.
Except, apparently, for walnuts. :)
I looked, and sure enough, this is already on Thingiverse.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12200

Thing number 12200. That's very early - Thingiverse has somewhere around 1.2 million things now.
"say nothing" ...hm... looks like you failed. Better luck next time!
I think ML will first make (some) people significantly more productive, but yes, the economic shift in productivity we're starting to see now is very much worth thinking and talking about.
I used to react negatively to all the Windows + Linux bashing because I've never had issues. I also use Macs. No issues there either. They are tools and they have different personalities. I thought I was just, well, somewhat unique.

Maybe something was wrong with me that I just didn't get it. I just didn't understand just how bad it was to use Windows as an engineer (and like it) and not have one iota of interest in becoming a vim guru (while still using it as needed) while rejecting graphical code editors and IDE's. So, yeah, even with over 30 years in computing and engineering I sometimes thought I was a little nuts for note getting it.

That's until this year, when a contract we won gave me the opportunity to spend a non-trivial amount of time (12 to 16 hour days) inside one of the most highly regarded technology companies in the world. What I see is thousands of engineers doing amazing work and, interestingly enough, every desk has a Windows machine on it. I see IDE's everywhere and not a hint of vim. I see Linux everywhere running on virtual machines and no problems at all. I also see all kinds of other applications and the amazing way the Windows ecosystem just absolutely hums when setup and managed professionally. Not a Mac in sight. Well, actually, just a handful, out of thousands of PC's (I'm guessing >30,000). What's also interesting is I have never heard a single engineer complain or worry about anything Windows or Linux. Ever. Far more important stuff to focus on.

I don't know what I can conclude from this experience other than, yeah, it works like a dream when setup correctly. In fact, some of what I've seen has caused me to rethink some of our internal setup. The other realization is that the OS largely becomes irrelevant in the context of an organization. What is important is how the web of computers, users and applications are setup and configured in order to create a larger tool-set with which to run a business. I've seen how a very large Windows deployment becomes largely transparent to an organization to the point where everyone can focus on the job at hand. It's awesome.
This algorithm is widely used in genomics. Here's an explanation by Ben Langmead, a computational biologist, with some Python code as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7NPk5lwbI

The original paper, interestingly, only published as a report:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-124.pdf
Well no. What I think refutes your point is that we possess increasingly good foundational theories for what minds are and how they work. I doubt that any intelligence we successfully create is going to be a black-box.
I'm going to try to build a self-help tool for unlocking level instances.

Briefly: you get round-robined to a (healthy, importantly) GM machine the first time you try to start a level and that association needs to be fairly sticky. Once you've started the level, a piece of that box's memory is all your own until the level ends. To prevent a single player from getting memory on all the boxes we "lock" a level to a particular box. While the level is running, no other box will open the same level for the same player.

The problem is when the GM with your box becomes unhealthy. Nginx will put you in touch with a different GM, which could possibly mean your level is still running on a box you can't contact. At that point, you have to wait for either that box to hurry up and finish dying, for me to do a redeploy, or for one of the other GMs to figure "OK, that level appears locked but it's a very old lock so it's unlikely it is legit. I'll unlock it for you and grab the lock."

Levels generally die ~40 minutes after starting (but who knows with a failing GM). The lock ages open after ~1 hour.
Similar situation here. Working on a research project that uses C++ for MPI/RDMA/performance, but we would like to provide bindings in a more user friendly language
I think there are a lot of people for whom "becoming a morning person" actually means "overcoming this depression".
The Consumerization of Edtech
Yeah, somebody had fun with that article. It's one of my favorites on Wikipedia.
Holy heck this article is all over the place, history of nuclear physics? How radiation works? A full history of everyone involved? Uhh... I am patient and love a good story but this got old because it couldn't decide what it wanted to be and jumped from around...

According to read time this article takes 25-60 minutes to read. I made it half way down before I got fed up.
Nintendo's model has always been to use a relatively small number of common characters (Mario, Kirby, etc.) with varying game mechanics. There's more fundamental differences between any two given Mario titles than there is between, say, Watch Dogs and Grand Theft Auto.

I would rather play ten high-quality Mario games with diverse mechanics than ten over-the-shoulder cover shooters where each one features a different gritty man shooting people for a different gritty reason.
No One Really Knows How Much the UK's Surveillance Plan Will Cost
Black Goo Is a Demonic, Living, Intelligent Liquid Crystal
Hahaha. Got down vote for this joke. Irony is thick.
China’s top bankers who “disappeared” this year
Also not the op, but I personally tend to avoid Qt if I can help it because I prefer to release software under MIT/Apache/BSD style licenses, which is incompatible with GPL style licenses (in that direction), or makes things more complicated at the very least.
sort(1) might not use the same ordering as look(1)

Try setting LC_COLLATE=C and export it and retry.
I am not a devops but seriously curious, wouldn't this scalability problem they are experiencing been solved already by using Amazon EC2 and stuff?
This is beyond funny/awesome to me. Apologies that this doesnt add anything to the discussion other than my own feelings about the comic-like start to the anime-style-cyberpunk-future we have all been subconsciously building for the last 70 years....
Nice! Here is an older one that I made a few years ago: https://github.com/mikolalysenko/pitch-shift
I am fairly certain that it doesn't matter since the NSA will foot the bill.

In any case, cost is not an argument against mass surveillance.
not sure if you are joking, since they are using ec2 afaik
5 years, really?

How often do I have to replace stuff that I own?

My car is 25 years old (gasp) and reliable, though not designed for current emissions standards, my laptop is 8 years old and works great, though it can only run so many app-that-is-browser programs, my phone is 4 years old and works, and my router is 5 years old and still kicking, and my table saw is 10 years old and works great.

I'd like to not have to replace my biggest, most expensive tools in my life every couple years, just because someone else has and thinks I should too.
The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests
Base: A simple command line utility for converting numbers between bases
Maybe something like - " Bruh... Seriously dude?"
Uh, wow! That was it!

Thanks for this answer...
On the hardware side, Repairability, same hardwares and less waiting time to repair than competitors which are too fragmented and far less hardware defective.
Perhaps it could be as simple as keeping a hash of levels tied to a box. When your monitoring alerts that your box is unhealthy, run a process to remove all locks associated with the dead box allowing the player to refresh and restart the session?

Also, maybe a new error, is getting mixed in, response from /gm/levels
{"ok":false,"error":"exit status 1"}
>If today everyone ditched their cars and used public transit and bikes, we shut down the airlines, and became vegan we'd be most of the way there.

One of these things is not like the others: shutting down airlines is an actual regulatory action. The others are lifestyle choices (and for what it's worth, I overwhelmingly just use public transit and my bike).

>Switch to organic farming and cradle-to-cradle manufacturing would almost surely get us the rest of the way there.

I'd like it if you could explain "cradle-to-cradle manufacturing", but I'm very skeptical that organic farming would actually help. Last I heard, even when you account for the subsidies paid to make industrial farming cheap, organic farming is still more resource-intensive than industrial farming.

Further, again, last I heard, lifestyle changes on the part of individuals have far less impact on resource usage than policy changes in major industries.
In the same vein of 'improvements over things everyone assumes you have to do with the more famous tool', we could say grep '^string' : look :: sort -R : shuf
Perhaps I wasn't clear, I said that's how calories are determined experimentally, I did not say that's how all calorie counts are generated.
For me it's the `moc`. Is it even possible to use Qt with only standard C++?
You like technology and learning, but you don't have an engineer mindset.

You can look for research jobs or freelance, where you can try lots of things quickly.

Alternatively, find a business partner or team that complements your skills/interests.
The version of this I heard is that the first air-to-air shots were fired during the Border War (US / Mexico) in around 1911 or 1912. Somebody unloaded his six-shooter and didn't hit a darn thing.

Just before WWI, Caproni designed an airplane with a machine gun mounted above the propeller [0], but the military wasn't that interested in it. It wasn't until the invention of the interrupter gear (credited in part to Roland Garros and part to Anthony Fokker) that air-to-air combat got to be really deadly, on account of pilots being able to fire accurately at other aircraft.

[0] http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/caproni-ca20
People don't understand nuclear power, and there's been a hell of a lot of fear-mongering.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a40195/paris-clima...
I'm very curious how twitter came to the conclusion that it was done by "state-sponsored actors".
If you don't have this basic linux utility, you can use

grep '^string' file.txt

but there's a greater chance of having look installed than grep.
It doesn't make sense to sort a configuration file, order and context matters. Easier to just use grep '^#' (or even better, ag).
Go Pro Game Pattern Search
"`diff` for your AWS infrastructure" might work.
The Girl on the Lawn
Not sure what it is exactly but the retina display doesn't play nice with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Webcam drivers also broke when apple switched from a USB Webcam implementation to pci or something.

Power consumption on osx is probably a half or third of 14.04 LTS.

I founded a company and need MS Office (unfortuantely), Fusion 360 for CAD work (FreeCAD didn't quite cut it) and once things got rolling the number of Skype calls picked up.

I still dual boot and prefer Ubuntu, but now I am 90+% in osx.

Before this computer and startup, I had been using Ubuntu for 6 years and loved it. Looking forward to going back one day, but for a while, I'm going to be on osx.
> I disagree strongly with this. Wolfram himself litters the entire essay with asides in which he compares and contrasts his own place within science history with both Babbage and Lovelace.

I count 18 times in the essay where he refers to himself with 8 of those times relating to his experience in computation, the others are showing Lady Lovelace's computation in Mathematic or small asides personal notes (e.g. "the same school where I went 150 years later", "When I was in elementary school, logarithm tables were still the fast way to do multiplication.").

Even with the times he relates it to his own work, he is basically using it as a guide for his conclusions on what he believes about his subjects.

I'm not a Mathematica user, nor do I follow the controversy with Wolfram. Its not my thing beyond having looked at the language underlying Mathematica because I look at almost every language (it is a hobby). That being said, I think your reading this with an eye to be irritated.
I can wake up like that pretty easy if I have a real reason to. But once I don't, I lose motivation real quick. 5 mins a week gives my internal clock time to adjust.
I used to have exactly this attitude about ghosts. I don't believe in them, but if I did, they would be this incredibly scary thing and my whole worldview would be different.

Over time, though, I've talked to and read about people who view ghosts much in the same way that they view living people. Mostly benign, but possibly harmful if you piss them off. So people live in homes where they believe that there's a ghost around, but they don't mind. They chat with them, etc.

I come from an evangelical Christian background, so this mindset was really surprising to me.
Your feet are a solid standby.
Hah. I actually just had this conversation earlier today with a friend (who I know is interested in this stuff):
Me: Have you read Anathem? A decent chunk of the book and the plot is all about orbital mechanics.
Him: No, but have you read Seveneves? There's a ton of orbital mechanics in that book.
Me: Huh. Well I guess we found his pet subject.

(Btw, I didn't really mind the orbital stuff in Anathem, but I found the repetitive explanations of the many-worlds idea, adding just one tiny new tidbit each time, a little annoying by the end.)
> Rails is holding up admirably.

... except that you have to spin up more boxes.

I think you have a different definition of "admirably" than most of us :-)

Follow Twitter's lead and switch to a JVM-based solution when you get a chance, you'll be shocked.
List of useful unix tools
Attribution is generally hard in these types of things, and some guy with IR experience can probably explain more than I can.

However, some of these attack groups follow specific patterns, use specific IP addresses, domains, emails, etc. because there is no real consequence to them doing so. Kaspersky, Mandiant et al [1] often have great writeups on these types of things that are often posted to their own blogs and to netsec-related mailing lists that show some of these common attack patterns.

On top of this, Twitter could have been tipped off by law enforcement or intelligence.

[1] http://www.mandiant.com/apt1
Need to disable wifi and all form of network connections for this to work.
What? They're reminding users they are obliged to pay taxes now?
Moscow's prominent cemeteries will get free WiFi
> Have you ever wondered why there isn't one audio and one video streaming site that has everything that rightsholders are willing to have streamed on the Internet?

I indeed wondered about that :) All those release limitations always looked stupid to me.

> The Big Music and Hollywood rightsholders aren't in this to make things easy for you. They're in this to make shitloads of cash.

They are just blind with their thirst for control, which outweighs their thirst for money. They are losing money on making things harder for their users. For instance DRM means lost sales for them. Same goes for fractured releases and poor availability of what they offer. They might gain some power to tell who can get what, where and when, while in practice they reduce reach of what they make which means less profit.

Avoiding too much distributor's leverage can be an issue if there is only one distributor or some collusion between them. If there is healthy competition, they can always ditch one and chose a competitor which balances this issue. In a healthy market, creators should distribute all their content through all available distributors.
I think skipping #5 is unwise. What's to stop someone from making starfighter account, scoring well, and then selling their account to some middling programmer?
Chat? Just simple chat? Why is this better than IRC, Slack etc?
Yes, I am aware of that but I wanted to understand the usage of 'look' at this point. It was a fault to try stuff using the .zshrc file at first because I ran into misunderstanding everything. It was just the first file that came in mind to me. Since sorting a source file and then "looking" for comments makes no sense in any way, grep seems to be really the better choice.
A TCP Load Balancer / Proxy / Rate Limiter for JSON Events
Yes, Num command has a quick list: http://www.numcommand.com/doc/helpers.html
Didn't work for me. I moved into an apartment with a sun roof. Made the bedroom super bright in the day and no way to cover the sun roof. I was worried I wouldn't be able to sleep because of the light but I was still able to stay up all night and sleep all day no problem. One of my best friends also has zero problems sleeping with the curtains open and sun streaming in.
As long as I have been using *nixes, I have never met a machine that didn't have grep. It was written by Ken Thompson himself in 1974, or 41 years ago, and first came out in Unix 4th edition.
But... But... ye gods, man. Bangladesh is entirely at sea level. Southeast Asia, the entirety of the -nesias, every island and seaboard, damn near ~70% of the world's population will be under water in 200 years, and their mass migration is headed toward arod plains that can barely support 50 people per square mile. A decimation is 1 out of 10; we are looking at 9 out of 10. The psychological impact alone is enough to make the survivors believe in Allah. Climate Shift is real, and I get the feel that we are using it as a political set piece in the Game of Chairs.
This is one of those threads where having spoiler tags would be useful ;)

A hint / related keyword for a quick Google search for the answer is that yours is a question about fix points in permutations.
Heck, you could go clear back to at least 1963, with Allan Sherman's "Automation", a parody using the tune of "Fascination". Sherman was the "Weird Al" Yankovic of his era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsDFYUD5KUA

(skip the first 20s)
"Original mistakes"...that one made me smile :)
The interesting thing about look is that it uses binary search, so it is much faster.
That seems dangerous if the quadcopter falls down in the middle of a freeway or something
Well, obviously. But the last time I tried that in the gym, they suspended my membership.
Thanks to @climagic on Twitter, I recently learned that sort -R and shuf are not in fact the same thing. (sort -R doesn't actually shuffle...)
Differences between taking risks and being reckless
I think there was a mention in one of the ipcc reports where they actually ran the numbers and concluded that no amount of terraforming (be it forests, algae, and some other hypothetical "negative" emission approaches), even ignoring economical or technical feasibility, would be able to stop or reduce ghg concentrations.
Funny thing is: the device is sufficient for the use. It's attached to a DSL connection that's far slower than it, and largely ties together a small number of client systems which communicate exclusively with the Internet gateway (no local traffic).

Oh, and the folks who own the system itself would have absolutely no idea of what any of the items in your second sentence mean, or what they'd matter to them (if the features mattered at all to them, which they in fact don't). There's no GigE on the property. If they had a Web-only system they'd probably be ahead of the game (less shit to go wrong), and wireless bands supported work fine with devices connecting to it.

Point is, there's a piece of perfectly _suitable_ and _usable_ hardware that's running just fine at the job for which it was originally intended, but the manufacturer's abandoned it.

Something I strongly suspect we'll be seeing rather more of in the coming age of the Internet of Broken Things That Spy on You.

But, say you've sold me: what's a decent replacement. And a Free-Software based ROM to put on it (I'd like to put extensive blocklisting on the gateway device itself).
I'm glad to see Micro$oft is back, I missed them.
I'm a fan of the JVM, but it doesn't remove the need to be prepared to scale up by adding more machines. That said, it's great at concurrency, so it's easier to harness the full capability of a machine than with other platforms.

Even if I didn't need multiple machines for throughput I'd probably still want them for redundancy (redundancy of machine hardware as well as redundancy across availability zones). (Note: didn't vote on your post)
Geo Packets – Plotting source and destination of data packets on Google Maps
"inside one of the most highly regarded technology companies in the world."

any reason not to name the company? I'm trying to think of a technology company where Windows (and not Mac/Linux) dominate engineering workstations and failing.
SwanLuv
Not sure where you're quoting from, but January 2011 is the oldest entry in the fossil repository:

http://runtimelegend.com/rep/lforms/timeline
Yeah DST throws a huge wrench into this whole plan. Good luck waking up with "sunrise" for work.
Uncompressed still.
How+To+Use+Risk+Management+To+Protect+Your+Capital+and+Increase+Trading+Profits
I never said they should make several GTA clones (though one couldn't hurt their library).

Recycling the same material over and over again gets old real fast unless you're a die hard fan or toddler.

It's also a bad idea for a entertainment company to rely so heavily on a few series like that.