skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps greater than the fear of users leaving their site is the fear of fixing link rot for the next two decades as most of the 42 startups are acquired, go bust or change their name.
...and the same logic can be applied to the decisions made by the corporate overlords. It's why we have the law.

People in general are irresponsible. A complex world makes it harder to identify pandora's boxes lying all around. And that just amplifies irresponsibility at a speed and scale we haven't seen before.
I loved using SFU/Interix with Gentoo-prefix on XP and Win7 enterprise. I'm using Msys2 now and am pretty happy with it. There are mingw packages for practically everything but openssh is msys only. So this native openssh should give some speedup.
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There was plenty of Internet outside the U.S. by 1990, mostly in Europe, but also in other continents.

The web was invented in 1989 and came out of Geneve in 1993, for instance.
Go figure; a mass killing prior to the introduction of firearms.
Large agricultural companies lobby the most to remove food labelling laws.

IIRC they just got rid of the necessity to put country of origin on food.
Interesting. Looking around at the source now, it looks like it's not optimized to imply that sort of architectural thinking. That's a bummer. I'd love to have seen it take the React style approach of co-locating all the relevant parts to a module together.
> When I send messages, for example, I'm constantly having to correct some part of them. In about 90 percent of cases, I was better off typing my own messages or searches -- and then had just wasted 30 seconds doing something that I could have done more quickly myself.

This is what happens every time I use Siri to dictate more than a sentence too.
He goes from tens of millions is assets to billions. A fluke you say. If that was so easy we would have a lot more billionaires. Investment choices are always obvious after the fact.
I haven't been keeping up, but it certainly used to be the case that domain names can contain digits but have to start with a letter - see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035 where it mentions "rules for arpanet host names".
There's a perspective that unifies both the Liquid Haskell-style approach and dependent types, which is "behavioral type theory". Nuprl (the longest-lived implementation of dependent type theory, starting in the early 80s and still going strong today) is an example of a behavioral type theory, for instance; it's a trivial example, though, since the behavioral types refine a unityped structural framework, but you can generalize it to get something along the lines of Liquid Haskell, but without being tied to a solver. This is what we are currently working on with the JonPRL project; we have so far implemented a Nuprl-style type theory, and the next version of JonPRL will have a structural type theory underneath it.
Why is having PowerShell be the focal point for this bizarre? PowerShell is Windows' native command line interface.

Most of the scriptable administration tools (which are being heavily promoted as the primary way to administer Windows boxes these days) are PowerShell based, the tools for talking to Azure are PowerShell based, the new package manager in Windows 10 is PowerShell based, etcetera.

OpenSSH isn't being ported to Windows to make Windows overall more POSIXish; it's being ported to make managing Windows boxen from POSIX ones easier, and vice versa.
In the case of airlines, are you comfortable sharing your passport, SSN, or other familiar confidential information with the PA? Especially with someone that be an international country and being paid a nominal wage in a part time capacity.
This is something I've often thought about with regard to organic farming.

A claim is often made that modern agriculture and growing methods can decouple food's nutrition from traditional signals of nutrition like size and colour and blemishes. I don't know how true that is, but it seems like there's a branding failure here - that we somehow need to be able to select fruit and vegetables based on which specific producers made them rather than vague and inherently porous regulations governing what can be called 'organic' or 'natural'.

Supermarkets might not like that - they'd have to better manage sales space to accommodate multiple known 'brands' of apples or oranges, but consumers would have a lot more reason to 'trust' self-interested brands of farms than they would an 'organic' commodity label. Any kind of a label that doesn't involve individual self-interested reputation but instead involves regulatory compliance is going to be gamed and ultimately ignored.
Most of the ML toolkits have this feature. I'm not sure if there is much to innovate on in this area, the theory is well known.
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Whole Foods does it as a part of their "local" and "organic" brand identity, but even they don't buy from very small providers. Walmart and the major grocery chains generally do not.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/04/171051906/can...

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/08/08/where-does-your-grocery-...
A lot of Latin American countries play it, far more intensely than Americans do.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/latinosrise/columns/story?columnist=s...
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The rest of the comment:

"What we do need is critical thinking, and traditionally this was what was taught in an arts degree. In many ways the academics have done this to themselves, by dumbing down degrees and focusing more on 'business' outcomes they've eliminated what was the defining characteristic of a degree and it is now just a set of check boxes, which of course you don't need a uni for."

What I took away was an assertion that degrees are now about checking off practical checkboxes and that this is the fault of MBAs.

My take is that there has always been a tradeoff between broader education and teaching critical thinking with learning specific skills.
It's rather laggy for me. (2011 MacBook Pro.)
It's an early alpha build. This is "just" getting to a point where they're working on a modern codebase. MS has said that they're going to add more functionality as they develop this into a much more useful admin tool.
Curiously enough, the Ember TodoMVC[1] doesn't seem to suffer from the issue here, at least for me. Can anyone say why? I don't know much about Ember.

[1] http://todomvc.com/examples/emberjs/
The original commenter claimed "He means it. Literally." I rather think my mind-reading is more plausible than his/hers.
One that can play ANY game, not programmed to play a specific one.
The former sentence is more a statement of religious belief than an argument. The latter is demonstrably untrue. Either way: the point of my comments isn't to take the side of the mental health care system and argue with all comers. In particular, there's a reason I keep using the term emergency mental health care.
This isn't a stand-alone IDE:

> This open-source project is about making a fully-fledged and modern IDE built on top of popular Vim editor.

Was about to try it out until I read that. I've poured quite a bit of time into customizing Emacs and building muscle memory for it (a few years by my count), so it's probably not cost-effective for me to switch to Vim for something like this.
Compare how over engineered this "instant web application" is with this todo written in turbolinks
http://todomvc-turbolinks.herokuapp.com/

Basically just re render the app after each change. Works pretty well and no need to setup pre rendering flux capacitor dual node virtual dom isomorphic gulp flow.
I was thinking this, it would have to be a major screwup though. It's basically killed the entire search engine for at least 24hors now.
That sucks, and, having some little bit of knowledge about the process you went through, I absolutely believe you.

Having said that: if you were my friend, and you told me you felt like you weren't in control of your thoughts and were concerned you might harm yourself, and you had no better options lined up (a long term mental health expert you'd built a relationship with, for instance), I'd help coerce you into the emergency mental health care system before I allowed you to become a victim of a controllable illness.
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Are small farms barred from participating in these subsidy programs?
Aw. It looks like it needs X. That's a shame.
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Crop-subsidies-found-...

http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2011/08/kernel-watch-9-farm-subsidy...
It's pretty great on this iPad Air 2
With those you still have to talk at more-or-less normal volume, it just eliminates outside interference and noise.
I think one fundamental miscalculation went like this: early adopters will start writing new code in python3, and it will gradually become more normal for new code to be python3, and eventually it will snowball and python2 will become legacy.

The problem is that early adopters have a choice: python3, or a completely different language. And there are a lot of good languages to choose from, and early adopters are a more radical by nature.

That's why breaking backwards compatibility is almost always worse than it looks like on paper: the early adopters you are counting on to get you through the transition are also the most likely to leave your platform completely.
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AGI is the idea of creating general intelligence. Which almost certainly requires some reinforcement learning (the ways dogs and humans learn, by having a goal and an internal reward system).

Deepmind's Atari player is based on deep reinforcement learning, where increasing the score represents a reward:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ

I used to believe the moving goalpost idea, that AI is anything that isn't yet possible. I now disagree.

I saved myself a lot of energy by avoiding entirely the question "what counts as AI?" by switching to the question, "what counts as AGI?" which is a term with a clearer threshold:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intellige...
Multiplying the growth of new housing units in SF by some low integer multiple won't decrease the cost of housing in SF? Can you go into more detail about the logic there?

The infrastructure in San Francisco (you mean, I assume, the roads and the public transit system) are abysmal, but they've been that way for a long time. It's possible that the Muni has actually improved since the second dot-com boom; when I lived there, it was a joke.
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This is something I've been wanting for a long time. Liquid Haskell and these solver-based systems should just be a special tactic library with some syntactic sugar on top of a standard dependently typed language.
Well, she kind of has to be a vertical agent, or "weak AI", right?

I believe the field has generally accepted "strong AI", or artificial general intelligence as being something impossible to achieve.
This is an excellent write up. I've often wondered why Linus never moved towards a microkernel. I read all of these same debates, and they always seemed short sighted.

Given the recent trend towards containers, it's obvious that people can now see how much better a model this is for micro-services.

It's just a matter of time before we start seeing more microkernels to run things like unikernels and such. Docker is just a stepping stone.
Some of us just want the red pill. Smart/curious people tend to prefer the ugly truth over a beautiful illusion.

It's a bit like religion - According to your reasoning, everyone should believe in God - After all; why wouldn't you, who wouldn't want eternal life?
NuPRL hasn't been actively developed in 30 years and was only ever of interest to small group of people working on proof assistants and pure type theory, not industrial users. LiquidHaskell is actively developed and can be used in production today for real life industrial use cases.
An operating system written in C#! Interesting - http://www.flingos.co.uk/docs/reference/Why-CSharp/
I read the first link you provided carefully, and it doesn't appear to discuss compliance costs at all, and further refers to cotton farming, not food supply.

Can we just stipulate that commodity crops are indeed locked up structurally for giant agribusiness cartels, and keep focused on the small family vegetable and livestock farming this Salon article is talking about? I feel unprepared to discuss the public policy implications of wheat and cotton farming.
The ability to occasionally do something besides farming? Send your kids to college?
Just google rare gold coins and visit one of those sites. No more trucks!
Our approach to engineering is pretty utilitarian: we don't specialize in any specific technologies (though we do build a lot of Rails applications), instead we believe a good engineer will be capable of working on any stack. We look for candidates with solid fundamentals, and exceptional communication: because we're a small company, everyone here takes on a lot of roles, and strong relationships with our clients is absolutely essential to our success.

If you're curious, capable, and intent on improving, we'd love to talk to you about what you might have to offer.
I think you can use "klist" with "get":

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh134826.aspx?f=...
The new firmware offers more in the way of wizards and things for standard SOHO environments
That's basically what I'm saying in the previous sentence.
Something similar to git-lfs:

https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Except this is not a new standard. OAI is swagger, converted into a more open standard than before.
The processing of that non-visual input will still be performed by the visual cortex.
This is great news. @ Userify[1], we're looking forward to porting our shim to PowerShell asap.

1. https://userify.com
"Educational operating system" makes me think of an OS that's designed for delivering educational content, not one that's an example operating system for learning bare-metal coding.

I wonder if "model" might be a better word to use.
> that a large enough collection of interconnected algorithms executing simultaneously may be indistinguishable from intelligence

Or is intelligence.
That's as good as SciFi at the moment, no?
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1425/
I really enjoyed Jason Fried's chapter about this in Rework.

"Long lists don't get done" https://books.google.com/books?id=U77um_h_dgcC&pg=PA125&lpg=...
Although cool, this is not a particularly novel idea.

I remember reading a 2007 SIGGRAPH paper about something similar Valve did in HL2 (or maybe it was Orange Box). Either way, it was a similar method of rendering vector textures via distance fields. Here it is: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_...
Sure, Walmart is not buying bespoke crops from small family farms.

But it's not my argument that small family farms are likely to supply a significant portion of all the produce the median American buys at a grocery store.

Rather, my argument is that there are steady, high-volume buyers for small family farmers. Whole Foods can constitute a tiny fraction of the produce sold in the US (though: they don't; they're extremely popular) and still be one of several means by which it is viable for small farmers to be in business.

And, I guess my point is, this seems to be the case.

When you read this Salon article, you didn't get a bit of a "Brooklyn" vibe from this particular "mid-20s, early-30s" farmer outraged that their watermelons and lavender flowers buttered by the Sacremento sunlight on their less-than-one-city-block farm plot couldn't pay all their bills?
strange, I only see white rectangles on the demo (using ff 43.0.3)
I think both changes (mapM_ and print) are certainly clearer and probably more idiomatic today. Coincidentally, I wrote almost exactly your suggested line of code only yesterday for another project, but those simplifications didn’t occur to me as I was writing my earlier post, perhaps because I reached the original form via some edits to make all the examples produce equivalent output. I’d love to say I was just trying to be careful about portability in this case, but I’m afraid it was nothing so clever. :-)
Just had a quick read though that paper, and it doesn't really look like the same thing.

This technique treats a pixel as a unit circle, coloring it according to its length of intersection, along multiple axes, with a glyph simply described by 3 point beziers, oriented to keep 'inside' on the right.

A point fully inside a glyph has a trivial intersection, and is fully shaded.

Points on the edge of a glyph intersect a bezier, with shading of the pixel being proportionate to the amount of intersection, giving anti-aliasing.

The product I work on in my day job has similar code to handle rendering filled polygons, with similar constraints on widdershins/anti-widdershins to turn off filling for 'holes'. The 'magic' of this technique seems to be applying that technique in a shader, on a per-pixel basis.

There's no triangulation that I can see (compare with the elaborate schemes Loop-Blinn paper above), just a decomposition of glyphs to these ordered collections of 3 point bezier curves, and some fiddling to get it all saved in a texture.
I read the sfgate article that you posted, and I don't think that is says what you think it does:

Most California farmers, who grow mainly fruits and vegetables, do not get direct subsidies from the Depression-era programs, which remain largely targeted at grains, cotton, dairy and a handful of smaller crops.

In fact, these subsidies are handed out based on land area, and seem to have a penalty against large farms which operators have been circumventing by legally subdividing their farms to collect more.

Anyways, I think we can agree that these subsidies aren't relevant to the farmers in the article, who have chosen not to grow grains and other subsidized crops and are not in competition with these large farms.
A clique/cabal based communities is not the future that I strive or envision for the internet. This walled-garden model for the internet will prove harmful for the open nature of this medium of communication.
We're going to be porting our Linux/UNIX (python) shim [1] to PowerShell asap so that you can provide your users an actual UX for key management... integrating it with group policies would be really cool too. (However, it might be orthogonal to our goal of local admin accounts to eliminate dependence on centralized auth.)

1. Userify cloud ssh key mgmt - https://userify.com
Yeah my rMBP uses an embedded Intel graphics card. The performance is horrible, ~2 fps, tried FF and Chrome.
* As a very crude overview of performance, JRuby+Truffle with the latest
development version of GraalVM across 63 benchmarks is over 31x faster than
MRI
2.3.0, over 32x faster than Rubinius 2.5.8, over 17x faster than Topaz (Ruby
using PyPy technology) and over 24x faster than JRuby 9.0.4.0 with
invokedynamic *

I haven't looked at the benchmarks, but are they synthetic or are they actually relevant to typical rails usage?
I would like to read the article, but my eyes do not appreciate white text and black BG web pages. It is incredibly jarring and almost painful once you go "back" to the "normal" web. I will stick with the comments for now I guess.
It reminds me of the one Microsoft made, but we can actually play around with it :)

And this one probably isn't multi-threading everywhere.

EDIT: surprisingly easy to setup in a VM

EDIT 2: I suck at this apparently already made it freeze..
`python 3` is all about bringing more rules and standardization to python (apart from many other things, course). The `print` statement is a bit of a non-standard citizen in python 2.x world since almost everything else that does something is a `module.function()`, so maybe thats why they changed it to a proper `print()` function.
Hmm, no votes for "Thinking in C++"?

Amazing writing and incredibly well-paced introduction. Plus free online. The "The C in C++" chapter alone is magic.

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

http://www.linuxguruz.com/forum/thinking-in-c++,-2nd-edition...
...did you read the article? This exact paper was referenced in the second section.
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I believe it is in fact correct that, at least as far as the market was concerned, one of the big reasons for the failure of microkernels in the mid-'90s was RPC overhead.

But it's no longer the mid-'90s, and everyone's been working on super efficient RPC (Cap'n Proto, msgpack, BSON, etc.) for unrelated problems. I have been suspecting for a while that a brand-new microkernel based firmly on mid-'10s technology (and targeting mid-'10s processors) would be perfectly performant.
Nuprl is absolutely still actively developed, in fact; I am constantly in touch with the PRL group. But the code-base is very crufty. In the past two years, though, numerous features have been added (including nominal abstraction, exceptions, bar induction, and a number of other interesting things), which you'd be aware of if you spent more time paying attention and less time snarking.

I am not at all telling people, "Switch from Liquid Haskell to Nuprl!". I'm providing perspective on the design space.
This isn't my field of expertise, so maybe I'm missing something, but the article cites the paper you describe in literally the second paragraph.
I'm still waiting [looking] for the software that actually helps you process your inbox ~every day without fail.
Code here for anyone interested:

https://github.com/nateberkopec/todomvc-turbolinks
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dont forget

-never give up

-always keep fighting

-keep leaning in

-climb higher!

-never let your guard down, or your spirits
I wonder...
"Many have suspected it, but now it appears to be official: police departments refuse to hire applicants with high IQ scores.
Critics of law enforcement have long suggested that police officers tend to be selected for their lack of critical thinking, but news that department hiring processes officially disqualify high-scoring applicants might still come as a shock to many.
While a rare exception to the rule might slip through the cracks, if you are too smart, police departments simply won’t hire you."
http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/04/police-officially-refu...
I have had enough of decaying VHS tapes and dirty VHS heads to not particularly appreciate that form of art :-)
Why are you doing that? Jruby has been a complete ecosystem in itself and very few MRI specific gems need porting over.

You could spend a whole bunch of time on this and actually not make an impact on people who actually use jruby in production

EDIT: now that I think of it, there's one extension that would be very useful - libgit2 + Rugged.
Thanks to that, I found http://xkcd.com/1428/. That is genius.
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