skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, haven't finished that feature yet. The idea was to track when the game "ends" and no more changes were happening. The idea was to track the last 5 generation states and if they were repeating, stop the game. However, sometimes the game loops over the period of 3+ iterations, so I'll have to think of a better way to determine when the game is just looping aimlessly.
When people talk about lowercase-f "free", they often aren't talking about copyleft- in my experience lowercase-f "free" is ambiguous to a lot of people. People who know nothing about open source software might assume free-as-in-price. Even people who know quite a bit about open source licensing might use lowercase-f "free" to refer to open source licenses in general, despite RMS and the FSF attempting to own that word in Orwellian fashion.

That's a long way of saying, I disagree with your definition of copyleft as simply requiring you to keep your modifications free- rather, the definition of copyleft simply requires you to keep your modifications also copylefted. I'm sure you know that as well, I'm not nitpicking you so much as using your comment as a starting point for a tangential rant. :)

Of course, if you buy into the FSF's attempt to co-opt the word "free" to only refer to their brand of freedom, what you said makes sense, but their habit of trying to co-opt common, ambiguous words like "freedom" to mean something very, very, very specific that they define is probably one of the top 2-3 reasons why they've driven so many people away from their cause over the past few decades. If they mean copyleft, they should just say copyleft. Trying to co-opt "free" is at best either dishonest marketing (because who hates freedom, right?) or a dishonest rhetorical device. It's used as a passive aggressive way of laying claim to a word that means lots of different things to lots of different people, even within the context of open source licensing. To the FSF's detriment, it confuses every single discussion about their goals, because it's never clear whether someone means free-as-in-beer vs. free-as-in-freedom vs. free-as-in-RMS.

And let's be clear- free-as-in-freedom is a different thing from free-as-in-RMS. Free-as-in-RMS can be a great thing too, I just wish they would be more intellectually honest about it.
I wish you would read the article and watch the video. The target market and business model is well explained. Can you imagine a region in the world that does not have running water and sewers and may actually enter in the "first world" before those services do? Well then, that's what this toilet is for.
Honestly a 4G-only, no-guest-wifi policy is the safest from a privacy perspective.

The downside being that it's possible someone sees you three times in one day and you happen to be on your phone two or three of those times.
... like paying scalper's price for a ticket onto the Titanic after it's already hit the iceberg. ;)
It wouldn't be that bad. The ad opens with a crane shot of an electric locomotive going through west Texas (or east california); cut to an electric awd truck winning tug of war against like two of it's competitors then James Earl Jones is like "The new Texas born Tesla Grand Coulee: It'll move a Fucking Mountain"
Yes, but the same logic applies to Ford. Once you remove all the executives, marketing personnel, support personnel, R&D staff, and everyone not working in a factory, Ford's ratio gets even better.
Because oddly, in their attempt to build credibility, or maybe because a completely different set of people ran the American branch or the organization, the American version of it was really really good. It spoke out about issues other new orgs ignore, had little in the way of sensationalism and focus on non-sense stories and celebrity scandals. I expected some Islamic propaganda, but it was shockingly progressive in a lot of things it reported on (thinking mainly of its investigative specials). They would talk about the issues with drug prohibition, abuses by police, violations of free speech, one of the only networks that covered privacy issues especially when it comes to the Snowden leaks, NSA, etc and gave it more than the 4th grade reading level version of it and gave time to both arguments, didn't just end the discussion with "because terrorists/pedophiles" like most networks. Jon Oliver regularly used their clips in his show for a reason.

They would also mention their campaign to free investigative journalists jailed by the Muslim Brotherhood run government in Egypt.
Not to rain on your parade, but the mechanism of SSRI drugs in depression is unknown. They do affect serotonin and they appear to work (although how well they work is questionable), but it's far more likely to be something downstream that isn't necessarily related to the serotonin.
Too bad. Al Jazeera America should have renamed themselves for the American market. Not to hide who they are, but to get past any initial negative impression.
It is a good example actually. Chakra does fully optimize functions with try/catch.

Caveat: we don't optimize try/finally yet...
Disclaimer: I work for MSFT on Chakra.
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Ironically Microsoft had to create a V8 C++ API facade over Chakra in order for Node to compile with it.

https://github.com/Microsoft/node/tree/chnext/deps/chakrashi...

It's interesting that the license of the Chakra shim is the V8 license:

https://github.com/Microsoft/node/blob/chnext/deps/chakrashi...
Every time there is news somehow connected to Gore, I can't help but think somewhere in a parallel universe, the supreme court stayed out of election politics, didn't hand the election to Bush instead of Gore

then 9/11 never happened the following year because he actually paid attention to the memo about "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" - then Iraq was never invaded - then the TSA was never created - Gitmo wasn't created - the NSA didn't abuse its power - then credit default swaps were stopped in their tracks before they destroyed the economy.

Imagine how incredibly different the US would be today if that series of events was alternated.
Do they really have to have the right to search your personal device? I'm sure they would like to have that right, and perhaps they have managed to obtain it, but it's in conflict with the right to privacy and one could just as easily decide that privacy is more important.

What if you had just memorized the information – does the company have to have the right to waterboard its employees just because they would like to search for evidence?
This sounds really good! I don't understand why people would buy the commercial license, though, so I must be missing something. With the LGPL, it seems like you could have closed source and just provide a copy of Qt.
That guide is for the preview build of Windows 10 that Microsoft themselves said contained additional tracking components.

It mostly doesn't apply to retail, and most of it won't work. Plus you'll disable useful functionality with no privacy implications if you follow it.
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For better or worse, companies do generally have the right to monitor you when you're on company time. All companies that I have personal experience with, large and small, recognize that doing so aggressively may lead to lower morale, employee mistrust, or lower productivity. So, they choose how they monitor carefully.

Your primary agreement with the company is a trade of your time and skills in return for money, and the symmetric right you have is that you definitely do have the right to monitor and verify that you've been given the proper amount of money.

> HR files could be misused [...] so why aren't such files open for inspection?

In some places, they are open for inspection. There are laws in at least some US states that the company must show you your own personnel file, if you request it.
Ugh, "Chakra" is such a tasteless cultural appropriation.
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I think what game theory could use is a little bit of the concept of price-of-entry into a new market, Ie, doing something at a loss now in order to generate profit later. This is similar but not exactly the same as the idea of a loss-leader. What a lot of classic game theory is missing is the idea of a feedback-loop.

In a game where "Bob" is continually offered one cent, if he burns the other player who is trying to get the other 99 cents, he's signaling that they'll have to cut him a better deal. The other player would be irrational to continue offering the 99/1 split after it had been previously rejected.

For the other player, even (especially!) if it's a computer, the rational choice is to keep upping Bob's percentage until it finds a number he'll accept. So you're right that 40% only speaks to a specific utility, but in any case, the only rational number is whatever number Bob (and the first player) will accept.
vscode is intended to be a compiler/debugger/etc. It can already debug node/mono apps. Checkout dnx, .NET Core, and Roslyn. Soon, Visual Studio will not be needed for pure c# applications, except traditional MSBuild/csprojs and C++.
> Furthermore are cable customers really Al Jazeera's target audience?

I think it was purely a business decision. The way the US cable model works is the content providers get however many cents a month per subscriber that has the channel. The individual amount isn't great, but the cable company does all the hard work of collecting the money and giving you a single nice bigger cheque.

It also helps with advertising, because they can now give aggregate demographic information to their advertisers such as income levels, locations, and others based on correlation (eg age). Advertisers really don't want to pay for non-target users. For example if targeting women in their 30s, they aren't going to pay for ads going to males in their 60s. The problem with Internet streaming is getting any demographic information, especially if you don't already have it (eg Google and especially Facebook do). This can be somewhat addressed by requiring accounts to view, but that is a big burden for getting new viewers (who wants a new account to view something you have never seen before?)

Ben Thompson of Stratechery (good site and reporting BTW) has a nice overiew article on the US cable tv ecosystem: https://stratechery.com/2015/changing-unchanging-structure-t...
Agreed. We have a composting toilet at a remote cabin, and it works great. No muss, no fuss, no odors, just rotate the bins a few times a year and dump the dried mulch.
Whether it matters depends on the use case of course.

If the bitmap is not vectorized it can't be styled with CSS. It also means that the resulting SVG contains arbitrary data from the source or edited as text.

Anyway, years ago when I was dealing with WMF in a vector context, not SVG, embedded bitmaps made the imported objects mostly worthless. Years before that, I would use Corel Draw to vectorize bitmaps and it worked remarkably well for ordinary cases.
Game theory is often used as a guiding principle in human negotiations, but as you say, there is never a truly isolated system when it comes to people in real world situations. Good negotiators are cognizant of this.
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> I agree, but I'll go further than you - I don't think this essay is confusing at all. It's simply nonsense - the kind of thing someone clever writes when they're discussing a subject completely outside their area of competence.

I'm not sure what you're implying here, but Knuth does know what art is, as he almost majored in Music. See this for some recent work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo
Original in French here: http://kchozeurbaine.blogspot.ca/2014/02/les-autoroutes-urba...
I use it because i love it and i have not found a better alternative.
Maybe that bought them existing distribution deals worth that much (or more)? Can't think of another reason.
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Composting toilets have problems. This is effectively a composting toilet that solves all those problems. The biggest problem of all is that there is just not enough time and storage to compost on site (on site being your bathroom). This solves that problem. If you are going to take the poo out of the bathroom at all for composting elsewhere, then you might as well just take it all the way out of the house and to a facility. If you are going to take the poo out of the bathroom at all then it really needs to be tidy. This solves that nicely.
Looks like they're using the same business model as Quantopian. Get contributions for free, still hold tons of leverage over anyone else that tries to compete, but otherwise allow other people to use the code.
That's interesting, as a native American English speaker approaching 40, I have never heard anyone say "go for a bike". Neither native speakers nor people whose first language is not English.

Is this common in some part of the country, or outside the US?
In developing areas, people grow food as close to their drinking water as possible to make watering and/or irrigation easy. I don't know if anyone wants to recommend that they start adding human waste to the mix.
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> A couple of mental hops and they've now incorrectly associated their peace with the success of their business.

This.

Personally, I find physical activity the best way to combat this. Last year I biked 4,000 miles commuting and on long weekend rides, lost 30lbs and feel super healthy physically and mentally. Now I attack situations in my business and personal life like a big hill climb. I know I am going to get through the pain, I try to embrace the pain because I know if I don't give up I will be stronger because of it.
Yeah, VSCode definitely seems more responsive. I tried giving Atom a try 2-3 times now, but it always seemed "laggy" for lack of a better word.
I use JetBrains for Erlang, which is unusual in the FP community where people usually use Emacs. It's probably the only Java program that looks nice.
The argument of the article is that no one is experiencing the illusion. The entirety of the experience is the illusion itself.

Essentially: consciousness does not exist. We only think it does because the thing we think with is wrong. But because we think with it, we can't tell the difference. So asking "who is experiencing the illusion" is begging the question.

Look at it this way: what evidence can you use to distinguish between an object that is actually conscious, and an object that is merely faking consciousness? This is commonly known as the Chinese Room problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

But whereas the Chinese Room has been used to argue that computers can never be fully conscious, this article reverses the equivalence: maybe the Chinese Room proves that nothing is fully conscious, and it is our concept of consciousness that is mistaken, not the rest of the observable world.

This is conceptually similar to the mental leap behind General Relativity: since we can't find any way to distinguish between gravitational and inertial acceleration, maybe they are in fact physically equivalent and indistinguishable--then build the theory from there.

Starting with the concept that all consciousness is an illusion allows us to side-step a lot metaphysical conversation and just try to figure out the mechanics of the illusion--how it works, not whether it exists.
They can't access anything. They accessed his work work account because they thought it was the work account, and they had already asked him not to send personal stuff through the work account.

They didn't make any judgement about his personal account (which also got read) because as I understand it they've already ruled that you can't read personal accounts without very good reason.
They do a good job of separating the regional channels from the main one. AJ English is quite different from AJ Arabic that at times I feel it's a different channel entirely. However as an Arab Muslim my goto is AJ Arabic as it focuses on the region and I feel covers important events and causes. It's documentaries and investigative pieces are awesome as well.
You're trading one filter bubble for another. Unless you want to see how the population of another country experience propaganda, I don't see how it could be useful. You could do critical thinking on any source, not just alternates.
This device has quite a bit of moving parts, needs periodic part replacement, and requires electricity to operate.
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Airlines have done it with routes and gate access in the past, so that does make sense.
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I took the original Ford quotes regarding Apple/Tesla a bit differently.

People keep these things for up to 30 years. I haven't had a car I kept for less than 10 years, and the average is over 10. There is a huge support network that goes into enabling this. At this stage in the game, are you willing to buy an Apple or Tesla product that you plan to keep for more than 10 years? Are you willing to bet that those Tesla supercharge stations will still exist in 10, 20, or 30 years?

This is what the average consumer wants.
The most funny take on Al Jazeera you'll read today:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown...
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I can't speak for the commenter, but for me the ... concern ... with using shell scripts is the complete lack of understanding of what they are going to do. It's not exactly a lack of trust for the Kubernetes team as much as when it goes toes-up (not if), then one needs to be able to understand what it did in order to understand what it didn't.

I haven't used their cluster provisioning in a while, but back when I did it made a lot of modifications to AWS before falling over, at which point I need to either undo those changes or the scripts need to be smart enough to resume where they left off. Shell scripts are not well suited to that purpose, in my experience.

Yes, I am aware of their salt stack procedure, but it doesn't hold a candle to the simplicity of Kubernetes on CoreOS, which unlike the 23+ directories worth of salt things to read is something you would probably fit on 3 A4 sheets of paper: https://github.com/coreos/coreos-kubernetes/tree/master/mult... I provisioned a Vagrant cluster using the Kubernetes salt mechanism just for this comment, and the "Cockpit" username and password didn't work after it was finished. Which salt config contains that information? Beats me. I'm thankful that `vagrant ssh master` did as expected.

I recognize that the previous paragraph is just _my_ experience and _my_ preferences, but the anecdote is the reason why (in my experience) one must understand what the "magic" deployment process is doing, and only after that voluntarily cede control to the scripts merely as a labor-saving tactic. It does me no good to have a cluster brought to life that I then have zero idea how to maintain.
Is that the case even if you are using your vehicle for a delivery service and they suspect you of stealing stuff?
Well I mean I can't say anything to Russia Today but Al Jazeera for instance is often the only english language network with reporters on the ground in a lot of middle east situations.
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This might be an urban myth; however, when we were travelling in Europe a few years ago, my Argentine wife just laughed and laughed when she saw a car "Pajero", which in Argentina means "wanker"…
In a significant sense it is. It means if it wasn't malicious from the factory then it can't be malicious now.

The best security design for software-in-hardware always starts with the software being burned into ROM. Then you can pick from one of two ways to do updates.

The first is the updates are received from the operating system during every boot, so removing power is a reset to factory. So if you throw the system disk in the trash and replace it with a clean one you know you have a clean system. This is in nearly every sense the best way to do it, except that you can't fix a firmware bug that exhibits before the OS boots.

The second is to have some flash memory on the hardware that can be used to install firmware updates, but have a jumper that determines if the system will look there or in ROM during boot. Then if you want clean updated firmware you set the jumper to ROM, boot and install the clean firmware to the flash and then set it back the other way.

The best solution is to support both and then ship the system with the jumper set to ROM. Then you can do 99% of updates automatically through the OS and in the event of a pre-boot firmware bug the affected user can still install the update manually if necessary.
Now imagine eight people using that toilet every day all year long. Imagine that household is in a city of 200,000. All that poo is never going to compost fast enough. This new type of toilet is for high usage and high adoption rates. It could turn a total cesspool of a city into something clean. A composting toilet in every home in the same scenario would just result in mountains of barely degraded poo at the end of every street.
What does this mean for "AJ+", their SF-based social-tech-media-incubator-youth-mobile-blah thing?
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Good point about the notifications & IAPs, I hadn't thought of that.

They make the licensing even murkier - you could envisage a situation where even if you had the app source code and the ability to build and install the app on a device, the app is worthless because a key feature depends upon secret keys that you have no access to. That's getting closer and closer to tivo-isation.
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This is good news for Quebec, hopefully this won't take too long!
I'm gonna bet that most of their american customers actively consume the website more than their divested assets.
I prefer secure boot without backdoors.

http://www.tianocore.org/
So how would you test things differently? I'm not being facetious here: you sound like you have a good grasp of statistics, and I only have a minor in math (and a love of good number crunching).

At the end of the day, we need to be able to tell management that we believe the change had this big of an effect, within these errors bars. Management need that in order to make financial decisions. They aren't dumb, but they also can't be expected to have a masters in statistics.
!! Thanks!! I have spent the last two months furiously working on improving a project of mine (Cycript) that is built on JavaScriptCore, and this is super useful to see!
Isn't this the business where renaming your channel "sy fy" and broadcasting wrestling is par for the course?
If you target Quebec customers then you will have to comply.