skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raising the standard of living does the trick quite well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
Also node-based visual compositing (eg. Nuke / Natron / Blender's compositor). It works very well there, although it does rely on people doing proper programming to create the nodes.
aoeui uses a simple mmap for unmodified files and a gap buffer mmap'ed from a temp file for modified texts. This allows huge files to be viewable instantly. Gap buffers are awesome, BTW.
Aren't you just trading cancer for heart disease though?
Here is a comprehensive list of different visual programming languages.

http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarm...

The issue isn't visual programming but rather that we haven't found many good cases to use it still.

I do think visual programming is going to have a bigger and bigger impact in things like robotics, space exploration etc where you need more tactile access to computation power.

It's kind of like with the idea of a 3d interface. It only make sense when the holistic whole rather than the details are important.

It makes no sense to create a 3d warehouse I can walk around when I could just do a search and a list.

But you wouldn't necessarily want to control a robot doing repairs on your spaceship by having to program it every time you wanted it to do something new.
Most one-off discussion has moved to Gitter. It's not an open platform but the channel is better maintained because Gitter has modern features like email notifications.
Fmod.io – Sound Effects for Game Developers
I've had looked into Shiny apps for my own ggplot2 work, but after seeing the usage in this post, I'll definitely give it another look!

What initially kept me away was the amount of idiosyncratic code required for the server/UI without many tutorials, which made compatibility annoying. Looking at the code in the GitHub, the code still seems pretty difficult. That, and http://www.shinyapps.io/ (which the OP is using) is very ambigious in their pricing on how "Active Hours" work, which is a valid concern when a post hits the front page of Hacker News.
In case anybody didn't know, there are already over 10 alternative clients. There should be something for everyone:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/list-of-client-implement...
I believe you can add 100 subdomains to an LE certificate which gets you pretty close to a wildcard IMO (if you have over 100 subdomains then buying a real wildcard cert is probably a negligible cost for your service).
>Limited resources will always keep population in check.

Actually, the opposite is true to a degree. Limited resources increases the birth rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
Ray Tracing: The Next Week – free eBook
http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4021
Sure thing.

So imagine you have a domain with a expected cardinality (which you pass) of 1 million and a threshold of 10k.

What will happen is every time you insert an event it will be multiplexed into all 4 sketches. Each one of them will have a dictionary "thDict" (I will look into having them shared in a domain to reduce memory) that can take up to 10k keys.
the keys will be the "strings" passed in and the values will be counters (+1 every time the key is inserted). Using a dictionary of 10k keys we can then give you precise 100% accurate:

* memebrship: check if key exists in "thDict"

* cardinality: count number of keys

* frequency: for a given key check the value

* top-k: sort the dictionary by values/keys

once the 10k keys threshold is reached, we can just replay them into all sketches.

Does this make sense?

Cheers and thanks for the kind words :D
almost all servers support compression nowadays, and most clients as well. The HTTP headers and such won't get compressed, but there's a very good chance that every page and text asset you get has been compressed in transit. Some servers even have the option of precompressing assets and delivering them without having to stream through a compression algorithm, but that only works with static assets.
Right, I missed this magic string behavior, and after I had a problem with the edit thing, but now I finally made it. I'm a cheapo.
Do you remember the times MS tried to kill Java by adding new features to Java?
Every time they "contribute to open-source" I trust them less and less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish...
Well, this is certainly an interesting development, although not entirely unexpected, given that JetBrains is developing Project Rider. It would definitely be interesting to develop a Java application in Visual Studio.
Trump’s feud with Silicon Valley
Reading it, it doesn't seem to be a completely altruistic policy. The way I read this blog post is "we are going to contribute to Eclipse to ensure that you can deploy your projects well on Azure".

I'm not saying it's bad. But it's not a "MSFT open sources xxx" headline either.
So Swift replaced Objective-C?

A friend of mine, who was a iOS dev from the beginning told me about this, but I didn't imagine it going so fast. He's a bit sad about this, because he did a few years of web stuff and wanted to switch back to mobile, now he fears his Objective-C skills are wasted.
Is this prime?
Married+But+Alone?+What+Went+Wrong?
For this reason I'd predict a society of immortal conservatives. No risk is worth taking. Speed limits drop precipitously. Traffic infractions become federal offenses. Interest rates drop to nil.

Everyone would just have too much at risk, to allow anything dicey.
Some additional information: http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-second-we...

This is a sequel to "Ray Tracing in One Weekend". http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-we...
In theory, couldn't a lot of heart disease (if not more general cardiovascular diseases) be addressed by figuring out how to affordably grow new hearts from tissue? I understand that's not something we're capable of doing right now but from my (largely ignorant) perspective, it seems like the issue is "hearts break down over time". The heart is essentially a mechanical part, and unlike neurological systems, there's no qualitative difference between one heart and another aside from how well it pumps blood. When you have a mechanical part that wears out, you replace it. Artificial hearts have issues stemming from the fact that they aren't 1:1 replacements for human hearts but if you could grow a new heart from a person's cells and get to a point where doing so is relatively affordable, could you not swap out an old heart the way you'd swap out a fuel pump that's wearing out?

Compared to stuff like cancer, I feel like replacing hearts is more an issue of cost and engineering rather than developing entire new forms of treatment.
Wholeheartedly agree. I couldn't find the source report - anyone manage to?
Hmmmm ... I suppose you could look at all of life this way: After all, aren't all relationships in competition for your time?

This article has some common sense rules about publicity, but has a crummy headline.
25,000 people were killed by flooding.

The U.N. estimates that Chernobyl caused cancer in 4,000 people. It's an estimate because it's not statistically detectable. Chernobyl was a horrible design that didn't even have a containment dome.

The level of radioactivity around Fukushima is lower than naturally-occurring radioactivity in some parts of the world. Few if any deaths are expected.

The Fukushima plant was built in the 1970's. Another plant nearby was built in the 1980's with improved safety features, and got through the same events without difficulty. Nobody advocates building more 1970's-era reactors.

To whatever extent you excuse Banqiao for its "thousand-year storm," you should also excuse Fukushima for its thousand-year tsunami: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12740649

Meanwhile, engineers are saying a dam in Mosul, Iraq in on the verge of failing and killing at least 500,000 people by drowning, and possibly up to 1.5 million. Google "Mosul dam" for a slew of articles. Here's one: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/1-5-million-may-die-if-mos...

Our other baseload energy sources have safety issues too. The American Lung Association estimates that coal emissions kill 13,000 Americans every year.
You need a domain name registered. Otherwise what would they issue the certificate for? You could buy a domain though, then have a local dns resolve it to your own machine.

Alternatively you could use a self signed cert and sign it to localhost or whatever, then configure all your browsers to trust this certificate.
This person is very inexperienced with LabVIEW.
The first two points are not true, and there are lots of hidden shortcuts for removing mouse use. (Ctrl-Space)

I was similarly furious with LabVIEW before I started working with people who had been using it for decades.

It's the easiest language I've used for making graphical user interfaces.
Its been done from time to time, but not as the main theme as far as I know.
What is the current state of open source speech recognition?

It would be immensely useful to be able to run a monologue or dialog wav file through a program and get more-or-less good text, even if there are some errors. As far as I know this is still quite a difficult problem, requiring an immense amount of data, and good language models, but I wouldn't be surprised if today there are some pre-trained models available that can be run using one of the many machine learning Python toolkits?
Organic+Cotton+Classic+naturepedic+mattress+reviews
great chart bloomberg

http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
First SQL Server on Linux? More like a continuing strategy going back for years, since they began opening up bits of the .NET framework, compiler, ASP.NET and MVC, etc etc.

Now the great majority of the .NET development stack is completely open, aside from Visual Studio itself. But there's always Visual Studio Code, the lightweight, open source alternative. Runs on linux too.
FYI: There are express and the older desktop versions available for free.
Hosted ELK Provider
Ok so i have found https://logit.io and wondering if anyone else has heard of them or uses a similar service?
Yes, we all remember Embrace, extend and extinguish. Even people who weren't around then. Because it gets brought up in every single Hacker News thread about Microsoft.

At this point I really don't think it's useful to cite a Microsoft strategy from the mid 1990s. It's clear at even a cursory glance that their approach has changed dramatically.
It links to a slightly longer article [1], which provides a bit of detail, but doesn't elucidate.

First of all, how do you only allow passive orders? If an order is marketable when it arrives at the exchange, then is it rejected?

Second, how does this resemble IEX's speed bump? I'm very confused.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/this-upsta...
Zenstores, a cloud-based shipping platform for online sellers, secures £400k
This shift occurred some time back when MS started the process of open-sourcing .NET and porting it to Linux.
Between this and Donald Trump, it's like it's the last season of "Planet Earth" and the writers are just going nuts.
Cyclops: a programming language written in undeciphered Greek runes
They're doing this for themselves. If MS don't invest in open source, they'll be left behind.

It's a nice reminder how important OSS has become.
The idea that the American economy was centrally planned in 1967 or any time after that, is laughable. The government has made policies and enforced them, but no one is telling IBM how much R&D to allocate to chip research, except IBM's stake holders. And the reference that US corporations sometimes have budgets larger than country budgets is unimportant in the context of the overall US GDP. Apple's economy is dwarfed by the US's, and their ascendance to massive wealth proves the point that the US economy is built on the disruption of established markets.

I can think of no actual centrally planned economies that pay more than lip service to democracy, nor any that have compared favorably with free-er market economies in improving the lives of the average person. Humans tend towards corruption, and free markets are the best tool we have for managing that. Want to see brutal, selfish, horrifying corruption, just look at your local centrally planned economy where the greed represented by a McDonalds happy meal campaign is instead implemented by the local police force.
CTO. Side project to streamline the technical job application and interview process.
Answer to BTW:
But what about debugging and stepping through the grammar
execution? I assume that in the
case you are describing EVAL is performed on text generated "in memory". If you want to debug your code snippets (grammar actions) or just the grammar flow itself you still can't escape the generated code, even if you can escape generating an actual file.

Answer to BTW2:
Could you describe such a use case? what would be the motivation for it?
> After all, we are not talking about general network conditions but performance of a website in a web browser such as Chrome

As I explained, a single prefpane on a Mac can potentially allow you to check network performance issues in every browser for OS X, Windows, Linux or any other desktop OS allowing you to thoroughly test how your site/app performs.

Saying "I tested it in Chrome and it was OK" is basically the 2010's version of "Works best in Internet Explorer". That a lot of people saying that, are also calling Safari "the new IE6" just makes their position even more ridiculous and laughable.
Of course it's in their interest to do this, but that's always the case when it comes to company sponsored open source?

It's not like they're going to throw money on something that they believe never will benefit them in any way. This is completely fine and how it should be.
I feel like I'm not seeing the forest for the trees.

I swear Microsoft's business model was to bring people in to their ecosystem and then charge them for what is hopefully a superior development experience.

Is there a new business model? How do they lock people in and squeeze them for money? Is their cloud solution radically different from the competition that they can put all their eggs in that basket? What's the big picture plan?
Or is the new CEO just going rambo and pandering to DIY geeks who want everything for free ? (myself included!)

I feel like there has to be some parallel universe blog where these press releases explain what they're doing to investors beyond "we're going to take your money, and we're going to make things with it. And then give it away for free! Please give us more money"

Like awesome dude... but what the hell is going on?
zdnet.com isn't even a blog it comes from ZiffDavis originally a print magazine firm's first effort to come to the internet. zdnet is owned by CBS Interactive.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols isn't a blogger the guy has been around since the 1980s reporting on technology. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjvn1
The thing about math is that it isn't a requirement for most things in life, but there are almost zero things that aren't helped by learning math
Normal day job: Professor of Mathematics at University of Washington (number theory). This is a tenured position, which gives me a lot of flexibility for "side projects". (http://wstein.org)

Side project: SageMathCloud, which is a collaborative web application to make teaching and research in mathematics using open source software easier and more accessible. (https://cloud.sagemath.com)

I plan to swap the two starting in June 2016, so that being a professor would then be my side project.
isn't it idiotic? if you can't get a textual diff, or if a textual diff is meaningless, what benefit do you even get having the file on git?

this sounds like a problem for teams blindly following orders from clueless managers.
"a $3T industry"

Not. $3T is the value of the assets held by the funds, the value of the industry is the expense fees. Its probably lower than that, if ETFs didn't exist some portion of that $3T would instead be held in mutual funds.
To me it feels like they are IE6 of Open Source
It's an index mutual fund[1] that is also available as an ETF[2].

1: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=5861&...

2: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0938&...
First of all no one ever expected machines to beat humans at Imagenet. At least not this soon. It's an amazing accomplishment, because Imagenet is high resolution pictures of many different types of objects. Which is very different than tiny photos or pictures of digits.

Second the examples were produced by scraping Flickr. Then mechanical turkers were asked to confirm if the object was in the image or not.

There are many images that are kind of ambigious, or contain multiple objects, so humans don't do perfectly. One researcher tried to estimate human performance, and got about 5%. Which has been beaten by computers now, by a lot.
People can have rather serious strokes that kill large number of neurons without losing their sense of self. Sometimes we remove half the brain

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

That gives me confidence that replacing neurons at a rate that counters natural aging does not significantly alter me.
Can you mention one company sponsored open source investment that isn't based in self-interest?

I don't think that is relevant, but of course open source is important and probably will be in the future as well.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-8-18

The ongoing increase in life expectancy in developed countries is associated with changes in the shape of the survival curve. These changes can be characterized by two main, distinct components: (i) the decline in premature mortality, i.e., the concentration of deaths around some high value of the mean age at death, also termed rectangularization of the survival curve; and (ii) the increase of this mean age at death, i.e., longevity, which directly reflects the reduction of mortality at advanced ages. Several recent observations suggest that both mechanisms are simultaneously taking place. ... We illustrate the method with the evolution of the Swiss mortality data between 1876 and 2006. Using our approach, we are able to say that the increase in longevity and rectangularization explain each about 50% of the secular increase of life expectancy.

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This history has happened without anyone trying deliberately to target and treat the causes of aging - all gains in longevity have been incidental. The difference between the past and the future at this point is that now the research community is just starting to develop therapies that do in fact target and repair the causes of aging. Future results will reflect that change of focus.
I didn't know about it and I'm glad it was brought up.
They got no choice. They realized that if they don't do these moves their platform is dying.

But let's scope the discussion just around this announcement.

Majority of the topics here are around azure for non-.net market. There's TFS but only because this is how IDE works: provide plugins for a source control systems to reduce task switching.
Perhaps we have already solved death and the world we currently live in is a virtual reality in which death is simply a reboot cycle where memory is wiped and new attributes are assigned.
OpenFoundry
What in your mind, can Microsoft do to Java at this point in time? It's been a decade since that case, and Java has matured and hardened to the point where any form of EEE is going to be an utter waste of time considering the ecosystem of the computing world.
This is a response to JetBrains. The company has IntelliJ and with Project Rider, a viable competitor to Visual Studio. With the emphasis on Azure, it's in MS's best interests to add additional language support to VS.
Competition is a good thing.
Microsoft is finally realizing that Open Source is not an opposing ideology but an alternative kind of business contract (which happens to lend itself to services).
OwnCloud Server 9.0 released
"A low carb diet has been proven to inhibit the development of most cancers"

I am curious. Do you have a link to this proof?
By far the most useful book I've ever read is Prescott Lecky's Self Consistency, a theory of personality. I think it was published in the 40's. It's his theory of the human personality in response to the popular ideas of the time from Freud and various behaviourists. If you want an incredibly useful model for understanding your mind and the various forms of resistance we all have to deal with, I don't think you'll find a better book. (And I've read a lot of them). Last I looked the book was about $150 used, on amazon, but there are PDF's floating about.
Argh. Was hoping to hear about C# integration not Azure hooks.
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The point here is that people remember MS aren't doing this for philanthropic reasons.

To answer the question: Canonical. While they're aiming to become profitable, I don't think Mark Shuttleworth has any illusions about getting back all the money he invested.
Starting new job next week as an R&D Analyst for a leading payment processor, moving from an Android Developer position.

Side project is automating eBay / Amazon Arbitrage (Dropshipping) using Go / Java. Learning Go in the process.
Opinions on ELK provider
Hiya, I've been using ELK internally for a little while but I'm looking to upgrade the version of Elastic. As part of the process I'm seeing what is available in terms of a hosted thing. I found https://logit.io and they seem reasonable. Anyone have any feedback and opinions? Even any alternate providers. There doesn't seem to be that many out there.

thanks.
Watch Eric Siegel's geek rap video (predictive analytics)
A visualization of real estate prices on the Finnish market. Based on open data
I was really thinking the announcement was going to be Visual Studio in eclipse............long shot I know.
Exploring the Web Audio API with D3
I think conversely that Drupal 8 is the swan song. Too late to the party. Everyone who was really unhappy with the spaghetti bowl of code in prior drupal versions has already moved on. Those who have not, are not interested in rebuilding their sites on a new platform. They just want Drupal 6 to keep working.

Drupal 8 is not a gentrified neighborhood, it's more like the ghost cities in China: clean, modern, well-designed -- and empty.
Not unless they find a way to deal with boredom.
What if all stock market would adopt a strategy that orders are processed one per minute. Same way it works during opening/closing market.

Some advantages:

1. All assets will be as liquid as they are now. Still got opportunity to buy/sell 8 * 60 = 480 times per day.

2. Most of the HFT industry will be redundant. Instead of allocating super smart people on made up problem, they can solve more important social problems (e.g. robotics, curing cancer, aging, space exploration, high growth tech companies).

3. Less day trading, encourage long term perspective.
Why not explore PostgreSQL? You would be free of licensing/pricing moves.
It's worth noticing many "Physical ETF" lend the securities they hold, in order to increase the ETF performance.
Big damned if. Personally, I expect us to all starve or burn within the next 30 years. We have repeatedly shown that we are not responsible guardians of our own technology, and our disasters just get bigger.

Additionally, immortality is not a good thing. It would lead to domination of the world from now until eternity by the powers that be at the point at which the tech becomes available, stagnation of development (if you have 1000 years to do something, you'll take your time), and ultimately the depletion of what it is to be human.

The only way immortality could work would be with a complete moratorium on new births, and perhaps a Logan's Run style annual carrousel that randomly eliminates a percentage of the population.

None of that sounds better than what we have now.
Where do you want to go today?

Open source, apparently.