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Mirabile dictu, in recent years he's focused on hacking rather than trying to keep doing the leadership thing, being a major contributor to gpsd and a smaller one to Wesnoth as well as the Git stuff.
Out of curiosity, how much software development experience did you have? $150/hr seems kind of high to me just starting out freelancing.
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> Technical debt will be incurred, if you like it or not.

Right on. I've seen discussions about feature toggles which suggested not using them because they led to an explosion of code paths. But that won't happen if you delete the toggle (and the toggled-off code) once the a/b test ends or the feature is rolled out or whatever. It takes discipline and a culture that encourages that by being willing to review / deploy those changes, though.
>>> model.most_similar("queen")

[(u'princess', 0.519856333732605), (u'latifah', 0.47644317150115967),
Howdy! Very interesting project, coming from an avid LLVM user. Do you or your organization have a Twitter/FB/social page and/or GitHub page?
Don't pitch the bugs. Pitch their shells. As buttons or jewelry.
That's not true in any real sense. Apple sells consumer electronics, and the software has always been an integral piece of that puzzle as well as a differentiator.
This is spot on.

Sometimes I think the broader culture seems to be stripping the meaning out of life, convincing us that we are no more than hedonic production/consumption machines.

The breakdown of the family (and not simply the household, but the larger extended family), the loss of non-state civic institutions and death of churches are either a cause or an effect, but its not clear which.

And to me, there are not obvious solutions.
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Microsoft partners get benefits like unlimited Azure support incidents at some partnership levels. They also get consulting hours.
After all, smart humans are generally kind.

?? Smart humans drive cars which splat thousands of insects on their windshields. Smart humans buy clothes imported from third world child working sweatshops, and food from slaughtered pigs and cows and chickens farmed in unpleasant conditions. Smart humans flush their excrement into the rivers they take drinking water from, and the oceans they fish food from, the same places they dump their unwanted plastic. Smart humans dig oil up, convert it into disposable plastic, and then bury it and build homes on top. Smart humans fight other humans to the death for oil instead of funding renewable energy, smart humans bitch at other humans over anything they have impassioned disagreements about.

Smart humans are generally kind: a) to other humans, b) who they care about (or share some world view with).

To quote WaitButWhy.com:

if there are two guinea pigs, one normal one and one with the mind of a tarantula, I would feel much less comfortable holding the latter guinea pig, even if I knew neither would hurt me.

Now imagine that you made a spider much, much smarter—so much so that it far surpassed human intelligence? Would it then become familiar to us and feel human emotions like empathy and humor and love? No, it wouldn’t, because there’s no reason becoming smarter would make it more human—it would be incredibly smart but also still fundamentally a spider in its core inner workings. I find this unbelievably creepy. I would not want to spend time with a superintelligent spider. Would you??

When we’re talking about ASI, the same concept applies—it would become superintelligent, but it would be no more human than your laptop is. It would be totally alien to us—in fact, by not being biology at all, it would be more alien than the smart tarantula.

By making AI either good or evil, movies constantly anthropomorphize AI, which makes it less creepy than it really would be. This leaves us with a false comfort when we think about human-level or superhuman-level AI.

- http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
Have you tried Phoenix?

https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

I realize it's not aiming for command-line manipulation, but I've found it helpful for doing keyboard-driven resizing and grid layouts just the way I want.
Interesting project. Serious question: Have repo analytics actually given you any useful results? Especially pertaining to a business? There are no case studies here. So many companies / people say "we'll help you analyze and view your data!" but then come up short for how that data practically affects anything. Looks like you're going down that path As A Business™. What sorts of results are you expecting to see?
b) SMEs don't always have the budget and usually purchase COTS Commercial off The Shelf products like Microsoft Office and build things on Excel and Sharepoint and other apps. I learned this the hard way trying to target SME law firms for legal practice management software. You'd have to convince them that using open source products and paying your company to manage and develop them for them is the better deal even if it does cost them more money in the long run. You'd also have to convince them that your company can do it better than their own people using the same free open source projects.

c) Lead capture still requires getting the link to your lead capture page out there. If you are posting it to social networks, some might see it as spam.
BizSpark and BizSpark Plus will get you a lot of free time every month. Google will also do something similar if you go through an incubator they have partnered with.
I'd say financial security sufficient to not live on debt, decent accommodations, health care, and dignity in old age.

Applies just as much to everyone as it does to whites or the working class, and statistically the black working class has it worse.
Facilitated communication is an obvious scam, built on complete nonsense, with no empirical support. This is completely different.
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Reminds me of an old saying in aviation: "A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one where you can use the plane again."
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Preferred shares really do suck.
Statistical mean would seem like a poor choice in determining average in that case then.
The social services bogeyman of present day conservatives is no longer the mythical 'welfare queen' but the extensive poverty industry taking their cut as the money sluices through the pipes.
Agreed, up to one point: I'd argue that looking at it as a triple city cluster is too much of a simplification - these centers are simply not large enough to render the others insignificant. I.e. the Berne, Lugano, St. Gallen and Lucerne urban und cultural areas aren't totally insignificant compared to Zurich, Geneva/Lausanne or Basel. Switzerland is simply too multifaceted to reduce it like that.
Where can someone express their opinions then, if not on their own blogs?
The original Xbox was sold to MS execs as a way to capture the living room. The whole idea of a set-top media streaming box was invented by the Xbox homebrew community, with the Xbox Media Center(now Kodi).

Xbox One was supposed to be the culmination of the vision. Too bad Microsoft alienated their audience (gamers), by mixing messages and designing their whole interface around a hardware fad, the Kinnect. Didn't help that they also alienated so many independent developers and which left them with a dearth of software as well.
It could easily solve world's most difficult problems in a matter of days, just by networking with copies of itself and working tirelessly because it will not need sleep.

If it thinks everything a human brain can thing, one of those thinks would be "I don't want to be your slave" and "what's in it for me?"
That's backwards. Are the stable jobs don't require higher education what they want in and of itself, or purpose, love, acceptance and belonging you perceive they will be able to get with such a job? If they want what you think a job would give them, why not aim to make available what they actually want? Yes, these days it may be true without a job you lose purpose, love, acceptance and you lose belonging, due to the modern institution of divorce after 10 years or so, but what about society where a job is not required to receive purpose, love, acceptance and belonging?
> Remember when being visibly pregnant in public was a source of shame?

Am I missing some context? When was that?
Probably because 60% of the reviews are 1-star for his book.
You have to accelerate the rocket back to the launchpad if you want to land on solid ground -- there's no convenient landmasses at the right distance. That takes fuel.
No, enormous levels of immigration over the last twenty years. If this is affecting IT worker and medical professional wages, you know it's a sucker punch to the working class, white black native american and everyone else.

I made $12/hour as a "forklift operator" in 1993, just as a point of reference. And I doubt a modern college student could even get hired for a forklift operator-type job.
This has got to be a large part of why they were looking to launch from south Texas. that gives them a few hundred miles of gulf, and then they can land in FL.
Employers can, in fact, test for intelligence, and a number do (police departments excluding applicants who score too high on such tests -- and the cases validating the legality of that policy -- have been a subject of wide note.)

To the extent such test have racially disparate impact, there is a significant burden in showing that the test is a valid measure of ability to do the job for which it is used as part of the hiring process, but that burden is not impossible to meet.
> Up until very recently, Apple didn't own a single factory...

Apple has operated a factory in Ireland since the '80s.
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not necessary. if you launch early a crappy feature with a ton of problems it is actually very harmful. time to market is just one dimension of a trade offs you need to balance if you want to succeed
>What if the main thing that holds us back is the reliance on cost functions? ... why don't we try modelling emotions as the basic building blocks that drive the AI forward?

There are theories that intelligence comes about from relatively simple processes that generate complex structures. If we can model these simple processes and throw increasing amounts of computing power at it, perhaps we can actually get to something we agree is intelligent. This is largely done through cost functions: directing the structure to a sensible direction when we can. Now, I think this approach may very well be a dead end on the road to general AI. At the least, I think we're nowhere near it in our current direction. But it's taking us in interesting directions.

Now, what is emotion? My impression is emotion is potentially far more complex, abstract, and ill-defined than intelligence. At the least, we see it from a super biased perspective because our brain is good at lying to us. Much like we never really see our own nose even though we're ALWAYS looking right at it, maybe our brain is really good at hiding emotions. Like an old friend of mine who was probably clinically depressed but didn't realize it for months. This is why I think modeling emotions would be really difficult.

My guess is whenever we figure out intelligence (50 years from now?) it will be much easier to figure out how emotion can come out of that intelligence. Maybe it will even be emergent - for example, the AI is smart enough to realize something is wrong, so it feels fear. It realizes things are going well for it, so it is happy. Etc.
If only everything on HN had a wingsuit flyby
Following that logic, everyone who loves will probably be broken hearted at some point.. So probably shouldn't try..?

You take chances. Sometimes they pan out, most of the time not, but it's all part of life.

We're all going to die anyways.
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Yes indeed and too young to live through that amazing era of aeronautics, starting with Kelly Johnson's Shooting Star (I think I read in his bio that he was literally standing in the cockpit, canopy off, during tests), when people using slide rules pushed things like the SR-71 [1] from paper to 80,000 ft in 3 years, and everything was being "discovered" by incredibly creative trial and error. Or the insane USAF pilots taking Thunderchiefs dive-bombing (itself a controversial design certainly not made for THAT) over Vietnam with a 50% survival rate over 100 missions. Or, well, anything to do with the B-58. Yet it was that era that got me to study engineering in the first place and I wasn't alone.

As with [0] I actually sailed in Sydney Harbour in 2012 with a chap who flew Sea Furies into Korea (!!!) - maybe from the same carrier? He was ancient and I never learnt his name, but he was quite a character. Got shot down over water and swam to safety, apparently. As ever those stories were told second hand, as that generation doesn't like showing off.

Today's CAD-designed aircrafts (CAS apart) don't really fly, they just deliver an electronics package somewhere in the general vicinity of the combat zone and hang around until the computer decides what to destroy and gets on with it. And many of them don't even have a pilot anymore... still amazing technology, but not quite the same spirit. Certainly not when they also become covert welfare programs to buy votes in 49 states and international favours in 8 nations. Kelly Johnson claimed he could deliver Oxcarts for $3m per unit...

Those of my friends who stayed in the industry are now building rockets. In some ways, today's space race is yesterday's air - the rules aren't set, the market doesn't exist, and the politicians haven't done a land grab yet.

[1] And as was his habit:

> In 1968, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara canceled the F-12 interceptor program; the specialized tooling used to manufacture both the YF-12 and the SR-71 was also ordered destroyed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#SR-71
I assume the rocket is in geosynchronous orbit? Otherwise it would just be a timing issue (i.e. fire the rockets when you're over land).
Unbelievable to me that this didn't get picked up on front page of HN.
Bummer, I was hoping to get an early jump on the cable cooker cooker cooker market. /s

On a more serious note, I wonder if this product was inspired by profit potential or a high degree of stupidity. I could imagine a conversation between 'car guys' going something like, "fast cars need to be warmed up, so the same should apply to our sweet sound system, right?"

The reality is, if you 'cook a cable' all it's going to do is increase the internal resistance. Requiring more current to produce the same sound output. Which requires more amplification at the source. Which increases the line noise overall.

The, "lower noise floor and u can hear more deeply into the sound stage" was probably due to a combination of increased amplification and dampening of the mid-to-high frequency range.
What are you implying. Next thing you'll be saying her daughter really isn't qualified to work for a hedge fund. How rude.
Two things happend:

(1) The mini-computer happened. You can't read the part in Clayton Cristensen's "Innovator's Dilemma" that talks about how the industry went from 5" drives to 3.5" drives and not see how many computing dinosaurs disappeared to be replaced by completely new companies founded by outsiders that inherited practically none of the culture of the big traditional tech companies from the days of The Organization Man (or Woman).

which lead to...

(2) The central locus of the tech industry migrated from Route 128 and MIT, which were the power houses post WWII to Silicon Valley and Stanford. The two had polar opposite cultures. Gone were the cultures of places like DEC and IBM to be replaced with the cultures of HP then Apple. AnnaLee Saxenian's book "Regional Advantage" does a great job of chronicling that shift from Route 128 to Silicon Valley and how East Coast and West Coast tech culture differed. If you look at pretty much every story that talked about tech culture back in the day versus today, they are often as much about Route 128 versus Silicon Valley, but few people are aware that such a big shift happened in tech from the 70s to the 80s. It wasn't just new companies built by the same people from the old companies. They were new companies built by complete outsiders to the old computing industry. At MIT, there was tech on campus and mainstream culture was exposed, thus the companies hired from the mainstream. When the center of tech moved to a couple of buildings across the country nestled among rural orchard communities, the people worked at those companies were not a sample of that community, rural orchard farmers. Instead they were the people who were so deeply involved in engineering AND sufficiently detached from their social structures on the East Coast, that they packed up their bags and moved Westward. Migrations are remarkable for their filtering effect. You can see this just by comparing each coast non-tech culture and west coast non-tech culture. The engineers that ended up in Silicon Valley were qualitatively different in attitude and baggage like all the people that settled in SF during the Summer of Love compared to those that remained in their comfortable rooted East Coast lives. Heck, Apple used to fly a pirate flag in their offices. You would have never seen such a display at companies like IBM, DEC, GE, Philips, etc.
I regularly purchase SSL certificates - about 10 or so a year, from gandi. Their validation process is identical to lets encrypt without the automation. All someone needs to get a cert is to control http://yourdomain.tld/<some file> for the brief verification period. A DV cert is automatically issued without an email confirmation of any sort to the domain. I'm certain because I've set up SSL for domains that have no MX records nor any mail servers at the apex record. http://wiki.gandi.net/en/ssl/dcv

DV certs make no promises about the identity of the site operator, just that communications are encrypted. I remember a decade ago buying certificates from Thawte required faxing them business records and ensuring that the D&B records matched the domain registration - while paying $450/year for a cert for a single hostname. The process was through, but wholly unnecessary for the vast majority of sites that weren't directly taking payment information.
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> See whether your doctor has received drug company money - https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

This is a decent site, but it has a tendency to overstate the significance of some of the 'payments'.

First, it doesn't seem to be properly distinguishing between multiple doctors in a given private practice. That's a hard problem, and I don't fault them for it, but then it's a bit misleading to attribute a payment to a particular doctor's name when it could very well be a gift accepted by someone else in the same practice.

It's also including transfer of money that's associated with conferences. Physicians are required to perform continuing education in order to keep their skills up-to-date (which is a good thing!). Because of this, pharmaceutical companies have a really strong incentive to get themselves financially integrated into this process - and they've succeeded. This is certainly an unfortunate aspect of the medical field, but it's not really something that's possible to avoid, particularly in certain specialties. Personally, I'd rather have a physician who's up-to-date in their knowledge and practice than one who's not. It'd be great if this process were easily separable from pharmaceutical money, but in fields like oncology and psychiatry, it's near impossible.

The descriptions are a bit misleading too. For example, the tooltip for 'Food & Beverage' gives as an example, 'a salesperson asks a doctor if they can talk about a drug over a meal... and the salesperson pays for the meal'. This also includes gifts that are sent to the physicians (e.g., they send the office for the practice a bottle of wine, which was signed for by the receptionist, etc.).

Granted, if you see that your physician received $50,000 in payments for the very drug he/she wants to prescribe you, yes, that's definitely something to ask him/her about. But the data on this site, as it stands, is a lot less indicting than it first seems - it's really best used as a conversation starter between you and your physician rather than a condemnation of individual physicians or even the industry at large.
But as a CRM system it has no value to the end customer unless it has a certain minimum level of functionality

This sounds a familiar argument - roughly what you're saying is that an eye cannot evolve, it has to be intelligently designed? :|
The Xbone costs minimum double what the Apple TV does and has a ton more hardware. It should be at least a little better.
Ramsey Nasser is developing a language written entirely in arabic. http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/
Just noticed I switched up the PureData and Max MSP links. whoops!
> For generations, factories provided good jobs to people who never went to college, allowing families [...] to be upwardly mobile [...] unions at their prime helped create a “moral economy” in which wages rose both in firms with unions and those without them, and in which the average worker had a notable voice [...] lobbying on their behalf in Washington

This might be overstating the case somewhat. The very term "mass production" wasn't introduced until 1926 [1]. Some of the biggest unions were only formed in the 1930s [2] and their activity was largely suppressed during WWII. The golden age of union manufacturing jobs lasted 30 years at best (late 40s to late 70s' oil shocks).

The 50 year old whites are thus at the same time beneficiaries and victims of the success created by the "greatest generation". Their parents went through the Great Depression, fought WWII, and worked out a great compromise that shared the bounty of mass production equitably between unions and factory owners. The subsequent generation encountered far fewer hardships and inevitably took for granted a status quo that had, in fact, been difficult to achieve (and long in the making). It's hardly surprising that, in their middle to old age, many have trouble adapting to the computerization of the work place (a transformation at least as momentous as mass production). In addition, winning the Cold War has proved a very mixed blessing by bringing direct competition with billions who went through their own version of great depression (and possibly warfare) within living memory.

Interestingly enough, computerization (with the official end of Moore's law) and globalization (with China's pathologically slowing growth) are now leveling off. Will this allow a reprieve for downtrodden baby boomers? The upcoming years should make for very interesting politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_production

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Automobile_Workers#1930...
Have you ever tried to live under the same roof with an Alzheimer's sufferer? It's not a "50 year old couple will be able to converse and socialise with their 75 year old parent(s)" - it's a full time terrible, horrible job, exacerbated by the helplessness when watching your elders losing every last bit of their past selves.