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I think I get your point, and while I haven't done much with meteor since a few weeks after it was first announce, I recently started a couple react.js projects using jspm. I'm not sure, yet, if jspm is ready for prime-time, but getting started was as simple as:

npm install [-g] jspm
jspm init
jspm install react

For es6/es7, adjust config.js babelOptions.

I've nothing to add in regards to ios / android / desktop, but for getting up-and-running, jspm seems to do the job quite well.
So What About Those Phone Records Now? EFF Writes to FISA Court
Does that imply that when they remove the cube (note that it is not permanently fixed to the machine), manually twist it (i.e. to shuffle to a random state, as in the video), and replace it, it has to be returned to a certain orientation?

Again, it still solved to the same final colors orientation even after it was removed, hand-shuffled, and replaced.

My apologies if I'm seeing something that isn't there.
The actual abstract from http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160125/ncomms10138/abs/nco...:
"Extracting useful information from large data sets can be a daunting task. Topological methods for analysing data sets provide a powerful technique for extracting such information. Persistent homology is a sophisticated tool for identifying topological features and for determining how such features persist as the data is viewed at different scales. Here we present quantum machine learning algorithms for calculating Betti numbers—the numbers of connected components, holes and voids—in persistent homology, and for finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the combinatorial Laplacian. The algorithms provide an exponential speed-up over the best currently known classical algorithms for topological data analysis."

Arxiv version here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3106
The heavy price we pay for 'free' Wi-Fi
The point is that Meteor will be handling the subscriptions side of things, the reactivity. There's a near-endless amount of work there to get it right. GraphQL and Relay don't even have an interface for subscriptions yet. The plan will likely be to make Meteor's actual concrete system work with the interface they provide by specifying a few lines of code. Facebook and React likely won't do much to address the implementation of subscriptions, which may very well be a larger undertaking than all of GraphQL itself.

In addition, what Meteor is about to build here is a long time coming. It's something they have been thinking about in one form or another for years. What I'm referring too is a purely webserver-based interface for subscriptions that doesn't take advantage of any special database features, and is therefore database-agnostic. GraphQL happens to come at the perfect time as the solution to supporting multiple databases. And as the only open source full stack reactive solution worth its salt, they know the challenges of building this solution better than anyone.

Their current solution, Oplog Tailing for Mongo, has been on the chopping block for a while since it doesn't scale far enough. They've experimented with PostgreSQL triggers. And now they're drawing from all this experience to harness GraphQL types to build the best-in-class interface for anyone to take on full stack reactivity. My guess is it will likely not be as performant as direct Mongo oplog tailing, but will allow developers to customize it to make it faster where you need it, which is something we've never been able to do. In addition, if the low level interface is good enough, it will likely result in many packages that provide for specific optimized reactive/subscription scenarios.

So no, the "React stack" has not "already won" on this front. Subscriptions is a big problem with many different solutions. Likely what Facebook has can't be used by anyone but the largest of companies. If Meteor both provides a decent database-agnostic subscriptions interface + an API to customize it for performance, Meteor will likely have done what nobody else has or is willing to do.
>Is this related to his book "Society of Mind"?

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

I think lot of things like modular architecture are still partially valid but I only have brief idea of his all views. I am sure some have been updated or falsified.
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Microsoft releases cntk
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isn't that what <script type="module"> is for? it does "use strict" automatically
I keep thinking about an article I read a couple of years ago about the two schools of thought in AI: the now popular Conventional AI and (I believe) Computational AI. The article was mainly about the lead proponent of computational AI and how, after he helped give birth to the AI field, he was in effect being ostracised because he didn't think conventional AI should be considered "intelligence" as we generally think of it. I'm paraphrasing of course but I'm wondering if Marvin Minsky was the subject of that article? It has been nagging me for a couple of months now and I just don't remember where did I read it or the name of the subject.
Workflows for a small team of gits
It's easy, you just do everything on the remote machine(s). I've taken this to such an extreme that I've given up on the Macbook and moved to a far less expensive and more secure Chromebook.
"Rules, schmules."
A rulesheet would be nice. Also a larger and maybe black score (some background colors seem to wash it out).

Also, some hole orientations are just about unreachable (corners), so perhaps exclude within an inch of a corner or a dot's width of an edge.
GBPUSD+Faces+Downside+Pressure+On+Price+Failure
I don't understand comments like these.. He's pointing out a legitimate attitude problem which I, and many others, also agree with. There's absolutely no need for the flippant attitude.

If the users of your framework are consistently causing major security problems and the framework is built in a way that it can't be fixed without compromise.. I dunno.. document it? Maybe? Your documentation is basically the API to learning your framework, so if the API is broken to the extent of causing security problems, then it's not god damn production ready!

Remember, if every student is failing your class, the student probably isn't the one to blame.
> the long-term results will speak for themselves.

No they won't because corporate management creates perverse policies of continuous turnover and stack ranking for this exact reason. Losing all your people many times over in a short time is just portrayed as a sign of a good manager culling the herd.
Zeller's is Canada's K-Mart, and nobody told Target that they were downgrading their brand in order to move into Canada.
I think that comic also accurately describes the problem leading to that as well: it dismisses any explanation of Git's underlying mechanics and repository structure as ignorable rambling prefacing the command to do what you want.

It took me a while to learn git, and the explanations I went through involved the underlying structure of the repository. They seemed excessively complicated at the time, compared to memorizing commands for cvs and svn. However, now that I understand that underlying structure, every new git tool or function just provides additional means of transforming the repository structure I have into the repository structure I want.

You don't stop learning programming once you've memorized a rote sequence of steps to run a half-dozen algorithms on a hash table. And you don't stop learning git once you've memorized a rote sequence of steps to run a half-dozen algorithms on a git repository structure.

I don't mean that to suggest that git has no room to improve in its UI; far from it. But that particular comic seems to excuse a self-perpetuating problem of not wanting to learn something useful, and instead relying on people who did learn that useful thing while simultaneously belittling them for knowing it.
Ha, I'll tell my friend to go climb a tree then. Still, it would have been a nice story if it was true.
If you can't identify the geniuses but you think that they (whoever they are) need lots of free time to succeed, you can just select people randomly.
Not just fratboys tbh. Wall Street is only about the money. Like power it tends to attract the worst and corrupt the best.
Full-team Git dashboards with python and git-pandas
I'd recommend rebranding and a big-bang launch. Enough people were put off by meteor that incremental improvements don't excite. Kind of the opposite of the boiling frog thing.
No, but they can be put in a 1-1 mapping with the integers, making them countably infinite.
So, it's time to sell?
That would classify "don't have sex until the weekend" as an abstinence policy, which is ridiculous.

If X period is repeating on and off on semi-regular schedule, then it's not an abstinence policy. That's just scheduling sex. If it's a single continuous period, then it might be an abstinence policy.

Or in other words, it needs to be semi permanent.
No, but it only needs to be countable, by my understanding.
My understanding is that current employment-based green card process is constrained entirely by slow turnaround by Department of Labor and USCIS, not some company shenanigans or legislative provisions for artificial delays, at least according to http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/E2e... And that slow turnaround is predicated by DoL / USCIS budgets and their ability to hire and train proper employees.
From Scratch you should checkout Snap! and snap.berkeley.edu

John Maloney (co-inventor of Scratch), Jens Moenig (who was on the Scratch Team and develops Snap!), along with Yoshiki Oshima (who may also have been on the Scratch team), are deveolping a new langauge "GP" (for General Purpose) which like "professional Scratch".

Here's a video of it: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

There's also lots of extenstions to Scratch and Snap! particularly around CS education, and I'd be happy to discuss those!
Ceylon language
When thinking about Meteor's value proposition, it's been neck and neck between what you're saying (which is that of a "universal build tool") vs. it's full stack reactive subscription capabilities. Both of which have been Meteor's 2 most important features.

That said, on the build side of things Webpack and Babel have been giving Meteor a run for its money. It takes more work to build your app with those tools, but it's a lot less work than it used to be using plain NPM, and you now have a lot more customization than in Meteor.

That's why doubling down and continuing the thought of full stack reactivity is so important to Meteor. I'm so glad to hear that they have suited up to upgrade their reactive server-side parts. I hope they put a lot of resources behind it.

If interested, here's my take my take on what "Reactive GraphQL" means to Meteor developers:

https://medium.com/@faceyspacey/what-reactive-graphql-means-...
The CIA didn't exist until several months after the 1947 Roswell crash of a US Air Force "weather balloon".

The CIA doesn't have complete access to Area 51. They fund projects and advise, but there are projects and Special Access Programs that are outside of their mandate and authority.

It is probable that in the 50s, 60s and 70s the CIA advised the Air Force on disinformation or other tactics, but I do not believe UFO mythology was created by them. I am almost certain but, of course, I do not know everything and I have no evidence to support my assertion.

A large part of the UFO-government mythology did originate from a psyop against Paul Bennewitz perpetrated by the Air Force-

http://philipcoppens.com/bennewitz.html

The first time a UFO expert (Bruce Maccabee) spoke at the CIA was in the late 1970s.
And spend his last days away from his friends, family, and colleagues, away from his wonderful house and his piano? No, I think that even with foreknowledge he would have chosen to die in Boston.
I visited my mother over the holidays, and was walking through the grocery store with her. She was like, "here are the chips." I responded, "no, those chips are fried in biodiesel. I want the ones that are fried in coconut oil" (in the natural food section).

Thanks for the link.
Ford Blames Market Conditions, Pulls Out of Japan, Indonesia
The main discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970867. We're (slowly) working on a system for aggregating related URLs, which will take care of this problem in the future, but for now maybe I'll post a comment over there linking to this, which is worth reading.
Minsky's Society of Mind lectures are online, thankfully - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg .

In one of the lectures, Minsky told a story about how when he was at Princeton, Oppenheimer invited him to lunch. When Oppenheimer brought Minsky to the lunch, there were two other people there - Gödel and Einstein. Talk about brainpower, that must have been an interesting table conversation.
This is not the Prof Minsky I remember from 1970s where I was a MIT student. His mind was laser sharp then and could drill into the core of any problem.
I don't think bolt could say that. He'll be in the very top (for certain kinds of metrics), but to say #1? That presumes you know your rank compared to 8B+ people.

I would have preferred Asimov to say something like "Sagan and minsky are the brightest minds I've encountered in my life." And if you think Asimov is super smart, then you'll respect Sagan and Minsky that much more. And you'll respect Asimov too for not being so egotistical. It doesn't even matter if it's actually true or not.

Minsky, in my experience, demonstrated humility when talking with or listening to him. For that I gain admiration beyond the talent.
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It'd be trivial to make your own with google image search and stickermule.
Anyone can get a free 180 day trial of any version of Windows. Just do a fresh install twice a year in a VM, no big deal :)
If that's true, then he needs to work on his language because it's easily interpreted that way. Either that or the GP needs to expand the quote.
>A UFO over US soil would usually be a USAF plane, but the CIA ran (runs?) a reporting hotline because they might occasionally be foreign spy planes instead.

The OXCART program (SR-71 predecessor) was a CIA program. This is probably one of the best pieces of journalism I've ever read on the topic:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-mag-april052009-back...

While the entire article is good, paragraphs 5-8 are by far the best. The CIA literally drugged their own test pilot during debriefing.

>I'm pretty sure this is the result of a deliberate strategy: create a bunch of fake information, so that real information about US military capabilities will be harder to find. A few hints and a few taunts, and voila, every discussion about unidentified aircraft is guaranteed to have a schizophrenic walk in and start rambling about aliens!

I was actually just writing about this, except in context of aviation industry insiders perhaps misleading a respected industry journalist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10971548

Entire thread for context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957365
Here's a nice tribute by Philip Greenspun: http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2016/01/25/marvin-minsky-1927..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10971472.
If you start with the same weights, then the neurons with similar connections will learn the same things. Random initialization is what gets them started in different directions.
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Well said! I actually think the community has done a ton of work on Electron and we will see the desktop option soon too.

This announcement is exciting on many levels and I think some of the unspoken bits will be interesting later too. I hear they are working directly with people at Facebook on this project.
As an investor, I've made north of $5M on Twitter stock. At this point I hold 0 -- because I believe MAUs are dead in the water. I believe they'll be acquired and become a footnote in history.
Right, it's the price point that changes a bit. You can make an argument that given enough money, you don't need to sacrifice privacy at all :)
I've always wondered if stories with trolls and dwarves date from a time when there actually were other hominids around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
"... and stay the hell out of the woods too"
A music mixtape for teaching US history. Any other recommendations?
We've actually been considering if we should turn our internal environment into a product and/or service-product mix.

We've got a mostly automated cloud-agnostic process for spinning up a multi-datacenter Mesos cluster which integrates nicely with a docker CI workflow.

I'm pretty sure it's quite valuable, though I'm also unclear what people would be willing to pay.
The headline is a little misleading.

According to Cisco (specifically, their General Counsel):

"If infringement is found, Arista, despite their efforts to delay the ITC process, may be just a few months from an exclusion order banning a majority (or all) of their products entering the United States."

That's a (debatable) claim, not a fact, and -- for someone who works with gear from both of these vendors -- had me going "Huh!? What!?" and hurriedly clicking the link to get to the article to find out what was going on.

Regardless, I think this will be an important case. I don't know if Lotus v. Borland (as mentioned by kazinator) counts as precedent (though, I hope it does) but the decision will definitely affect future products and services.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Takes on B.o.B.’s Flat Earth
Meteor doesn't need to steal any developers from vanilla React, because React has negligible share of the addressable Web development market. People will start on Meteor because it is easier and then they'll stay on Meteor. I doubt vanilla React will catch up with Meteor in marketing or ease of use because Facebook isn't hungry in the same way MDG is.
They had to have timed this with the X-Files premier on purpose
I have this theory that the Bigfoot story goes back to the time when there really were multiple species of humanoids living in tense proximity.

Perhaps it predates even language and became embedded instinctually, thus explaining the sightings.
IMHO, the problem is not only whether people will pay.

The problem is that this includes too many new tools that startups need to learn about, implement and maintain.

Most people, just reading "Mesos" "Marathon" or other in the space just tune out.
"Besides, globalisation will overall increase the total wealth of the poor + middleclass combined."

It won't really increase the overall wealth of the middle class. It will pull wealth away from the middle class to pay the poor at a cheaper rate. This is what's happening right now and why people in the tech industry are so upset by it. It's a form of global wealth redistribution.

I also don't think the middle class has any divine right. They just need to start preparing for job loss and overseas competition.
Hopefully the court sees it the same way and rules in favor of Arista.
yes you are correct, docker-machine mounts your current user's folder into the VM as well so thats not an advantage over docker-machine either.
I thought the black bar was done by the people who run the site, and "we" don't judge it at all.

In which case, it's a personal decision to honor someone they care about by placing a subtle notice on ther site, which happens to be popular. It's no different in spirit to the thousands of tribute blog posts being written as I type this.

I find it extremely distasteful to criticize how someone chooses to honor the dead. As long as they're not doing it by shooting guns into the air or hosting a destructive party next to your house or something like that, what do you care?
You mean to tell me they are not?!! I remember reading that carrots have some nutrient necessary for good eye sight, beta-catorene I believe. I don't think it improves your current eye sight so much as it keeps it from going bad from a lack of it.
Blogging platform powered by Google drive?
Is there a blogging platform that is powered by Google drive ? I am thinking of making and open-source one.
Agreed...current attention spans, well, they're not what they used to be...

The New Yorker, through the years, has produced as much quality long-form content as any magazine in the history of North American journalism...this article is no exception...I'll leave it at that...
He was truly a brilliant and humble man, who wrote so much influential and interesting stuff!
Here's one of my favorite papers by Marvin Minsky:

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious

Marvin Minsky, MIT

Abstract: Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the
mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden"
thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense
as for other comical subjects. In this essay I argue that the
different forms of humor can be seen as much more similar, once we
recognize the importance of knowledge about knowledge and,
particularly, aspects of thinking concerned with recognizing and
suppressing bugs -- ineffective or destructive thought processes.
When seen in this light, much humor that at first seems pointless, or
mysterious, becomes more understandable.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt
What's the book you have?
Go is nowhere near the middle on a scale between dynamic and super-powerful type systems.

I personally almost feel that using Go and super-powerful type system in the same sentence is disingenuous.
See also: https://xkcd.com/538/
The officially released facebook graphql query parser is written in C/C++ https://github.com/graphql/libgraphqlparser
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Sure, in lucky situations I've been able to speed things up by an order of magnitude by just changing memory layout and using SSE. But 46% in a tight spot is worthwhile change. Basically, when dealing with a highly performance intensive code (storage, if you must know), my rule of thumb was, 2% of more of improvement in overall end-to-end throughput on a long running benchmark is worthwhile if change is not too complicated. This could mean 10x improvement in one of the parts of the pipeline, or 2% improvement across the board, or anything in between: the goal was overall throughput. Likewise, nothing that regressed the performance could ever go in. You'd be surprised what you can squeeze out of your code if you establish these ground rules and run with them for a year.
Marvin Minsky – Web of Stories
It's more about "how can we waste their time" than it is about competence.
They should make a commercial driving down the Rideau Canal.
Pretty consistent for me in projects that are:

- Sufficiently large

- Contain a closure that contains a compiler error

- Which the compiler tries to work around via type inference, causing another error
It is too bad that his book Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines is out of print.
This looks like a really good start. I like it.

My request is that you include some real case studies. That's something that Peter Seibel did with his book, "Practical Common Lisp," and it was terrific. I bought Seibel's book--even though you could read it online for free--because he took the time to include those examples.

If you want to distinguish your book and encourage sales, show us how to do something that others have not. Build a game using a graphics library. (Real World Haskell just flirted with a GUI) Show us some web scraping or maybe build a stream editor. Make a server for the web. It doesn't have to be Apache, but if it serves web pages, I'll be impressed.

Anyway, I'll be following your progress, but there are already good Intro to Haskell books. If you want to stand out, go the Seibel route and include a final part that has real programs that showcase Haskell as a viable alternative to python/ruby/java/c/c++/etc...
OTOH, didn't Oracle just show that APIs are copyrightable?

In other news, Arista is now pushing CloudVision and NetDB after being satisfied with the CLI for years.