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No, we are not competing with Hamilton, Tecan, Cybio, or any of the other companies currently making big lab robots. i think of robots like the Hamilton Star as 'mainframe' machines. They are really great for centralized high-throughput, if you can afford one and have an automation engineer on the team.

The OT-One is aiming to be like a 'PC' rather than a 'mainframe' -- affordable, easy to use, and at a scale manageable by individuals. And with Mix.Bio you can download protocols to run, or design them in your browser. It is a lab robot for day-to-day use replacing manual pipetting.
A game-playing AI could trivially be restricted to the same inputs as a human: send button events, but don't write directly to memory.

If it actually figured out how to execute arbitrary code via button presses (humans have done this in Super Mario World), then we should patch the bug and restart the experiment.

Of course, an AI gaining control over the real world is a different matter, because in that case it may be too late to restart the experiment.
Google has been able to handle javascript in pages for a while now: http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...
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>Secretarial work is perfectly respectable work.

I feel like there's a feedback loop here: it is not respectable, because it is not respected. "Only a loser," we think, "would be so desperate as to accept a contemptible job."
Google has been able to handle javascript in pages for a while now.. http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...
appreciate the input -- what elements are not working on your iPad?
Out of curiosity, how's it broken on the ipad? It renders fine on my phone.
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> If sugar industry efforts skewed research about sugar’s harmful health effects, then national and international guidelines about sugar consumption are, in fact, based on flawed science.

Ancel Keys' holy-war against saturated fat was based on flawed science.

> Until recently, federal organizations such as the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration had never officially recommended caps on the amount of sugar a person should eat, even though caps for nutrients such as fat and sodium have existed for more than 20 years.

In the last year or two, research papers have been published that acquit saturated fat and sodium of the charges against them. But there's so much inertia in the propaganda campaigns that it might be another generation before 'the experts' figure out how to give good advice.

> “because profit-maximizing behavior leads [big corporations] to be out pushing products which end up causing disease.”

This point is nicely-stated, but is not pointed at the best targets offered by the food industry.

edit: Key's -> Keys'
Hammerspoon is a fork that has enough community to keep the mailing list somewhat active. It sounded like Mjolnir might turn into the basis for a less low level, more polished commercial product, but there is little news.

Anyway, both use Lua for configuring OS level controls of the environment and user interface.
its sandboxing behavior is a really nice touch. This is a really cool project, interested to see if this continues.
This sounds a lot like the "Just World" fallacy under the cover of genetics. At one point 99% of the population was illiterate and living in thatch huts, and no doubt members of the elite at that time also considered this to be an expression of natural order as well.

But as it turns out, almost all of those peasants were capable of learning to read, doing algebra, engaging in abstract reasoning, labor coordination, and operating some fairly complex machinery. Many of them were even capable of becoming software engineers. We know this, because pretty much all of us came from them, and if we can do it, they could've done it, given the proper environment. Someone advancing your argument 1000, 100, or even 50 years ago would've wrong, what makes your argument different?

Of course we shouldn't expect equal outcomes from all people, but to suggest that we've now reached such a level of access and fairness in society that everyone still at the bottom can't possibly be elevated any further seems... unintelligent.
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The landing page feels very busy. There are multiple things that seems to want my attention.

The blue, is it "color: blue"? I haven't seen that since the early 00s when I personally first looked at HTML. It is very ugly and sharp.

The middle part, ignoring the blue button, has like 3 different typefaces, the middle one is hard to read (imo).

Apart from that I won't say anything as I am not the target audience from a use-case scenario.
> you should own and control your repository

Doesn't every distributed system let you keep your own repo under your control? I have all my projects on github but if github disappeared tomorrow I'd just push my repos to a different service.
Hi there, it could be useful to know what content management system you are using for your site too. Are there specific requirements for software?

Does the mail content pull stuffs from your website too?

You may probably get by without a dedicated server which will cost more then $100 a year. Lets hear your requirements, I should be able to direct you to a solution.
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U need to branch out and prove what you are saying is true -- and u don't need to relocate... That is the strength of being a uber hacking sw "man of foo" that you are. If you are right, then your true value is an order of magnitude more than your employer is willing to pay. "Good!" -- prove it!!! Go to stack exchange and up your rep. Market yourself and go grab another job... But in all cases, (and respectfully) stop with the whining already.
It seems you missed many past news like:

- http://techland.time.com/2012/01/20/want-a-google-account-no...

- https://marco.org/2013/01/03/no-avoiding-googleplus (the WSJ later changed that page)

- http://www.cnet.com/news/getting-gmail-now-you-get-google-to...
A roommate had a pet tarantula. It was fun and enlightening to play with.

It was a non venomous variety, of course.
I figured salt would be the reason. Also the thermal stress of quenching it.

Forgot about the mars aspect.
The diagram shown is only a visualization. The actual word vectors have many dimensions. To reduce them to 2 dimensions, they use a method which tries to keep vectors that are similar as close to each other as possible, but also unsimilar words apart. This creates the shape seen on the scatter plot. Just looking at the scatter plot by itself doesn't tell you anything about the underlying data.
We have an IRC channel (#firm on FreeNode), a mailing list (see libfirm.org) and there are github mirrors for cparser (https://github.com/MatzeB/cparser) and libfirm (https://github.com/MatzeB/libfirm/).
If you want to report a bug, there's our bugtracker (also linked on libfirm.org)
Once everything in the electric car gets as efficient as possible and electric cars reach the point where they are mass manufactured at a scale greatly exceeding combustion engines, we end up at the point where it makes sense to consider roadways as power lines and an automotive "third rail". The car could operate largely on capacitive energy or batteries designed to charge as quickly as possible to ~80% capacity and avoid trickle charging entirely.

At the end of the day it's crazy to be accelerating and decelerating the mass of the batteries if you don't have to, and once you have a critical mass of electric vehicles on the road this just makes sense.
This was my interpretation of this graph:

http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-an...

This was recently in HN if I recall so I did not source it in my comment.

We can debate what is the value of owning derivatives but I think we can agree it's not anything like the direct value created by actors?
"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense." - Henry Ford
I read an article in the late '90s that implemented game AI a bit like that.

The bots would have a number of emotions, and certain events would affect different emotion-levels. Like, a hit/miss from a bot against another would increase/decrease the "confidence" meter, and getting hit by an enemy would increase the "fear" meter.

The total state of all meters would drive the high-level behavior, like fight/flee and weapon choice.
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Yes it's definitely a real language that has been written down, and not one that we know of. So the only question is if it's a made up language, or a real language that has been lost. A made up language is possible, but seems less likely. There are thousands of real languages that have been lost to the world.
Already opened some enhancement request on the issue tracker, thanks! Any help you need :)
Not sure why this was buried at end of the article: "The person familiar with the deal added that as part of the transaction, GM will also get a license to a patent that was granted to Sidecar CEO Paul in 2002: “System and method for determining an efficient transportation route.”

Sidecar executives believed the patent covered the essential intellectual property behind ride-sharing, though Uber and Lyft never responded to Sidecar’s repeated attempts to enforce the patent, this person said."

This seems a story by itself.
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"Burns really fast" is literally the definition of a chemical explosion.
I've always felt like config should be "COPY"'d into an image. Etcd/Confd looks really neat, in principle, but I feel like it's asking for trouble in terms of "immutable containers."

I'm not overly familiar with the system though, so I may be misunderstanding.
> In order to build a complete artificial intelligence we therefore need to build a system that takes actions in some kind of environment.

This.

"Made up minds:a constructivist approach to artificial intelligence" by Gary Drescher presents a small scale virtual world with a robot embedded in it that figures out the laws of its world by interacting with it, much like what a child does. Need more people thinking like this.
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The author didn't give any novel insights about the text itself. It's just a proof of concept. If someone could translate a few words, it could give strong hints to what the translation should be of the other words.
There are tons of alt-coins. Am I missing something?
Google renders JavaScript when it crawls.
I'm working on something slightly similar.

But I'm sticking with the keyboard. And the "visuals" will still be text, with the option of other visualizations. Keyboard+text scales better than anything else.
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You are right there is always something missing. I've gotten frustrated because I couldn't watch the Rugby World Cup, or various other events on it.

But at the end of the day for 90% of what I want to watch, movies and tv from iTunes, netflix, and hbo the Apple TV does it in a much less klunky way. There is almost no maintenance, no patching, no installing drivers, it works.
"I guess my takeaway is that the companies can in fact take these arenas, but they underestimate the challenge."

Yes. And their core mistake is not understanding the real needs of the customer because they make assumptions in a familiar territory.
I just installed Ansible on a workstation and started playing with it to configure a server (the server only needs SSH). Or, use this guide:

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It's particularly funny when the stack fallacy is held by database providers, because databases are the wrong tool for most of the jobs they get used for at the moment.

Current usage of the database uses it as a loose, adhoc, difficult-to-maintain, polling-based API between multiple applications.

The future perspective looks back on our time, shaking its head at the way people use databases for everything in the same way that we shake our heads at bloodletting.

Oracle's business model is (1) convincing people to use platforms they shouldn't be using and then (2) selling the victims ongoing hacks and services to work around the limitations of the model.

Amazon's software services won't be build on a database. They'll be built using a decentralised messaging platform.
It's dangerous to generalize, but as a white American originally from a poor rural part of the US with few minorities, I'd say that the regional and economic differences usually trump the racial differences. In most communities being white would be an advantage, but the rich/poor divide is often greater than the white/non-white divide. Prejudice certainly plays a role in the opportunities people have, but I think that may be more of a hindrance in more lucrative and prestigious positions than for general labor. I'd guess the difference is also larger for the unemployed than the employed.
> In extreme cases they never even saw their own success in their lifetime

The fine arts are a prime example of this. Sometimes it can take decades for the world to decide how great or influential a person's work was.
> I thought the GPL says you have to provide the source code if your customer wants it.

There is nothing about what the customer wants. You have to either publish the source or provide a link, like a URL, to it.
I was playing around with writing an app for the new Apple TV, and it was fun enough that I ended up putting a bit of polish on it and releasing it to the app store. It's a free game called Slingshot Superhero.

It wasn't until the app got approved that I started to realize just how terrible app discovery is on the platform. There's no "new apps" list at all. There are no Top 100 lists in the individual categories. I can't even link you guys to the app. The only way anybody can find my app is if I personally tell them to go to the app store, find the search feature, and use the hilariously bad text input feature to search for "Slingshot Superhero".

I probably won't be making any more Apple TV apps.
> It doesn't have to be church that brings people together, and there are other communities that have church like qualities such as car clubs, user groups, etc.

Participation in social activities requires time--the presupposition that you aren't working two jobs to make ends meet.
My primary concern is with personal knowledge bases [1]. This intersects with new approaches to programming, because programs and algorithms are an aspect of and a way of interacting with knowledge.

It's mostly conceptual right now, but my idea is to represent knowledge as a hypergraph with spatial and temporal dimensions on both edges and vertices. This, I hope, could represent every kind of knowledge I can imagine. The hypergraph would function as a filesystem and database, and you could query/program the system. It would be Emacs for all media, and not just text.

I want to augment the inherent power of the hypergraph with a mashup of the OpenEndedGroup's Field, Xerox PARC's Smalltalk, Doug Engelbart's NLS, Symbolics' Open Genera, org-mode, Vim, the Wolfram Language, Bell Labs' Plan 9, and Ted Nelson's ZigZag and Xanadu projects.

If anyone finds this interesting and wants to chat about this stuff, please email me at the email address in my profile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_base
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Sounds like a great opportunity for 20 employees of sidecar.
This level of inequality makes me sad. Really sad. I know I can't be the only working stiff in the valley whose poor siblings and family think they are rich for earning in the $100-150k range. Nevermind that I can't afford to buy a house here. I can't enjoy my success because of the near-desperate financial situations I see my relatives enduring.

My sister gave me a $50 gift for christmas, and it brought tears to my eyes because she's a single mother making the federal minimum wage of $7.15/hr. That comes out to $290/wk, before taxes, if she's lucky and gets a full week's worth of hours. To earn that pittance, she is physically laboring and might have to work 7 days a week to get enough hours in the schedule.

It makes me feel like a douche every time I think about it. Me sitting there in my Aeron chair, eating free snacks while reading code. And making ~10x what she does. When I really think about it, from similar beginnings, only a relatively small number of key decisions separate our two economic outcomes.

I try to give generously to assuage my guilt. But I've found that there are limits to what can be given without stirring resentment, or provoking attempts at reciprocity. That's how this $50 gift came about... I bought some nice stuff for her kid, and she wanted to show her gratitude.
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I used org-mode for about a year, but then switched to Vim and none of the vim org-mode plugins looked great.

So I thought about what I used it for, and realized it was mostly cycling items between TODO and DONE with a keystroke and text folding.

So I forked vim-markdown and added syntax highlighting for TODO and DONE on header lines, and a mapping to cycle between TODO and DONE. Been using it for a couple of months now and I'm reasonably happy.

If you want to give it a shot, code is here: https://github.com/spatten/vim-markdown
When I lived in China I was pretty happy the https movement hadn't won yet. Sites that forced me on a secure line were basically useless.

The great firewall doesn't appreciate encrypted connections, and will usually grind to a halt, when deciding if it will let you get the content.
You could use something like casperjs (http://casperjs.org/) for a bot (I did this to scrape a proboards forum, worked quite well).
I can't speak about operational costs. However drugs in india are so cheap because India is the country where most generic drugs are manufactured. There is a 30 min documentary on YT about it called "India the Pharmacy of the World"". Very interesting to watch, it gives you a good history on pharma companies doing the chemistry equivalent of patent trolling that you see in the big consumer electronic & software companies
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> They can now work isomorphically, on the desktop, and on
> mobile.

So can plain HTML. Without any needless scripting.

> We're moving past the days of the static web.

We are not. Maybe you are, we can wait till you come back.

> Especially, now that it's trivial to pull data from many
> different sources on the client-side.

HTML is even more trivial.
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Someone came up with http://unmaintained.tech/ for exactly this reason. You can add a badge to your README.
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Of course we used it as our main communication tool. With each other and within the company.

The problem? We had it running 24/7 on work laptops and phones so the messaging issue was less obvious. The typical user started Skype on their desktop, and killed it after a video call. They also killed it from running in the background on their phone because it killed the battery. We just keep charging the phone.

And as we saw issues come up with Skype for our usage patterns, we did focus on those. Did you know that originally the limit of a group size was 300, a random constraint someone added in, and got hardcoded in all the apps? That size was basically chosen because we were pretty sure the largest company Skype group would not grow beyond it. Well, it did a couple years in and we spent more time and effort trying to solve this then a lot of the other stuff. I mean people could not get in to the Tallin office social chat channel and were missing the gossip!

Eating your own dogfood is a good thing - but it also leads to overusing your product and being less critical with it over time.

Also, on top of this the fact that our user base kept growing despite these flaws did give us a false sense of security.
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It did. I remember wondering why all the "successors" didn't have that "basic" feature
Did they ever fix the spammer problem on it?
France does have regulation, but so does the US - industrial nations are generally over-regulated today. France also does not have a legal system that is as costly as the US, so litigation risk is less important.

Taxes don't really play on this --> many startups don't make a profit ;-) . Social Security might, but a talented engineer in France still costs less overall than the same one in the Bay Area and employee loyalty is higher.

One issue is uncertainty over government intervention, there is a bad history of the French government weighing-in on M&A activity. But the real issue is raising funds - while Seed rounds are generally covered by, among other things, government loans/subsidies, the ecosystem is lacking funds financing Series A and B. Here the government tries to provide incentives but pension funds are not the right level of financing for these rounds...the VC ecosystem needs to grow and that is a challenge because of a risk-averse culture.

If I were a VC in the US, I would see France as an opportunity.
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This sounds like a good title for a crime novel. Interesting read about problems they have with democracy and free speech in eastern europe.
looked at your projects, cool stuff.
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We did acquire GroupMe with the same thinking: take that startup with a good group messaging product and integrate them into Skype.

Except this never happened, GroupMe is still a standalone app and pretty much a standalone team. I am not sure why we didn't or could't integrate them, the Microsoft aquisition of Skype, and the subsequent integrating with Lync (and the birth of Skype for Business) probably had higher priority.
TBB is a little underwhelming in my opinion. Stuff like mutexes, condition variables and even atomics is pretty much standard nowadays (even if you need portability, you can usually rely on stuff like glib or Qt or boost); thread-safe collections are rarely the right solution, because too many fine-grained locks incur excessive overhead. The work-stealing queue is nice, but if you really want things to scale you need stuff like highly-parallel fast paths, with message passing on the slow paths. And this is where TBB falls a bit short of the expectations.