skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is meant to be used mostly as a configuration tool for the monitoring host. If the developer has recently updated/deployed then they are probably working on the site and can ensure monitors.txt is available.
As much interest as there is in Steve and as interesting as his interviews typically are, I don't think there is a market for showing this in theaters for a fee. It's not really clear which crass business person is behind this. If it was truly PBS, I doubt this would be the way it would be brought to the public.
There's this enormous focus on 'web scale' technologies. This focus necessarily invokes visualizing and making sense of terabytes and eventually even petabytes of data; conventional approaches would take thousands or millions of man hours to accomplish the same level of analysis that computers can perform in hours or days.

Tom Mitchell's definition of machine learning algorithms as those that improve their performance at some task with experience is precisely the way in which humans go about learning what's necessary to perform the same tasks that formerly took thousands or millions of hours.

For highly dimensional problems, such as text classification (i.e., spam detection) or image classification (i.e., facial detection), it's almost impossible to hard code an algorithm to accomplish its goal without using machine learning. It's much easier to use a binary spam/not spam or face/not face labeling system that, given the attributes of the example, can learn which attributes beget that specific label. In other words, it's much easier for a learning system to determine what variables are important in the ultimate classification than trying to model the "true" function that gives rise to the labeling.
But most people aren't Will Hunting...
You can just run Pngcrush[1] in a directory full of images, and it'll optimize 'em all. Trivially easy to automate.

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pngcrush
Yes! I also noticed this in Tokyo, I think they are just in the wrong timezone altogether. :)
Seems like a service would want/need to cache older versions of monitors.txt, and continue running them for some configurable persistence period before accepting a missing/new/possibly-malicious monitors.txt as giving a true read.
> he contributed in making PCs affordable

Microsoft did nothing like that. Quite the contrary - and since the start of the PC market, by forcing PC makers to license MS-DOS for every unit shipped (not every unit shipped with MS-DOS), they effectively prevented the introduction of a competing operating system. While making prices one OEM license higher.

Had IBM never allowed MS-DOS to exist (by signing an exclusive deal), PC clones would probably not exist and, if they did, they would run CP/M 86. 32-bit computers would have arrived sooner, as would 64-bit and RISC. Intel would be happy making non-x86 processors (I can't imagine they really like making their current monstrosities). The personal computer landscape would be much more diverse hardware-wise, (think Amiga, Archimedes, Transputers) but, probably, due to pressures from software market, there would be a cross-platform software standard, most probably around POSIX.

Microsoft would be making compilers. I wouldn't be a better world from all aspects because Microsoft wouldn't be making the Natural keyboard.

edit: other things would be different - the Free Software movement would have a lot less momentum, as there would be no enemy (Microsoft's monopoly) to fight. MSX (once popular outside the US) would have never existed (manufacturers would never gang up to build a standard that would have them competing in price alone in order to enrich a single software company in return)
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Lol yes I'll add something on this to the site...

My thoughts are the monitoring provider would keep a copy of monitors.txt and work from that, and check for changes regularly. If they can't get to monitors.txt that would trigger an alert.
The question isn't whether or not feature A can be implemented in language X, it is whether or not it has to be implemented as a local or global transformation. This is what the paper cited above defines as expressibility: adding a feature that requires a global transformation increases expressibility.

I made no claims about whether or not more or less expressibility is a good thing or how it relates to productivity. Nothing in my responses has anything to do with whether or not functional or imperative styles are better in terms of productivity or maintainability. In fact, by the definition in the paper, adding imperative features to a functional language increases expressibility. Also, adding goto to a language increases expressibility, so it is not a metric that is solely related to maintainability and productivity.

I am not arguing that Xtend is a bad idea at all, in fact I think it's a great idea. The whole reason people like languages with powerful macro systems is that they can implement features that Xtend gives to Java in the language itself, rather than having to wait for a new language implementation.
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@benatkin good points. We're working on a iteration now to address.
Obviously not.. it's just a movie. The point is that a liberal arts degree might not be worth going into serious debt for, especially when you can get 90% of the same information for free at the library.

That's not to say that liberal arts degrees are "useless"; far from it. But not everyone has 30k+ lying around to indulge in a degree just for fun.
Honestly, I like the cucumber format, but what you ought to do is publish an API of phrases so that monitoring providers can target a standard set of monitoring operations. Right know, I don't see how they can execute a generic spec as described.
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"I think you could anticipate that maybe you'll have a Skype call that starts going bad," Fletcher said. "Wouldn't you like to be able to hit the turbo button and have that come back up to be a good call?"

This is the most blatantly bad product vision I've seen in a while. Network neutrality issues aside, why would I want to have my Skype call go bad and have to hit a button that says "fix it"?
If you're afraid of cannibalizing your current revenue you die. Apple's never been afraid of this in fact this is discussed in the Steve Jobs book. Example the iPad is eating into Mac sales and that's ok.
Oh, I think the slowness is client-side, I'd expect it to be fast enough with a modern javascript engine.
Something Javascript-based might work. Perhaps the site-wanting-monitoring supplies a collection of JS scripts to run, each of which will be provided a standard object providing assertions/conclusions/reporting about specific features/URLs/scenarios.
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I agree with the parent. Something very simplistic in json or yaml would be preferred.
That's impressive, both the awk and the lisp versions of that code seem pretty obfuscated.
"We know that the right place for right now is somewhere in social media."

Really? This seems to imply that every startup should be about social. People thought that Google would never succeed because search was cornered by Yahoo and AltaVista. I would think that VC-funded startups that are aiming for huge successes should take the opposite advice: look for holes in industries that aren't widely considered to be the "hottest thing" and create a market. Don't try to cash in on a gold rush in which there are thousands of players doing the same thing.

"Don’t start a soft drink company competing against Coca-Cola."

I'm pretty sure we have a Coca-Cola in the social space. It's called Facebook.
But he is arguing that they can be replacements for formal education, which they are not. For most people, the level of understanding that you can gain from lectures given by an expert in a subject is much better than what you can get just from just reading about it.

For example, which would you rather do: spend a few hours/days reading about existentialism or participate in a dynamic class about 19th century philosophy? Which will you get more out of?

Now switch that to machine learning algorithms versus watching Andrew Ng explain it to you in videos.

The two are not the same.
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This is the best lisp version of the syntax I've been able to come up with:

(awk (begin (set FS ":")) (cond (== $6 "/sbin/nologin") (print $1)) "/etc/passwd")

Any better ideas?

(The awk macro itself is an exercise left for the reader...)
I'm curious about this -- don't you use APIs which use largely, if not universally, English identifiers? Or is there a version of, say, the .NET Framework where the API itself is written in French, German, or Spanish? Or what language has a custom parser for each language so that you can write keywords ("if", "for", "do") in your native language?
Out of curiosity, why are you using FF 3.x? I don't currently test anything that old, but you're the second person I've run into in the last few weeks who is still using it (the other person was using an Add On which hasn't been updated)
That is exactly what I was considering for my home use. But unfortunately many businesses will deal only with windows servers, vm or not. This brings node one step closer into the realm of plausible platform for those cases.
"There is nothing illegal or immoral about having a monopoly. It is the natural state of affairs for many markets."

If you are saying that what's natural is necessarily moral, you are committing the "naturalistic fallacy" (aka the "is-ought" fallacy)[1] In brief, it means you are confusing what is (the supposedly "natural state of affairs") with what ought to be (ie. what is moral).

It is quite possible to argue that the "natural state of affairs" is, in fact, immoral, and what ought to be (ie. what is moral) should be different from this "natural state of affairs".

"Microsoft was convicted of abusing their monopoly. And abuse of a monopoly is somewhat tricky to process from an ethical perspective: a company using their base in one market to provide an advantage against competitors in a new, related market is totally normal, accepted business practice."

"Normal, accepted business practice" could very well be immoral.

[1] - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Naturalistic_...
I don't think he is saying that a liberal arts degree is a waste, or that the subjects you study are useless. He is saying that, unless you have a ton of money lying around, seriously rethink that expensive "useless" degree.

If you're wealthy enough or you already have earning power enough that you can decide to pursue a degree or advanced education in something that will not help you earn a living then more power to you, but I suspect that that is a very minor fraction of the population.
They're flogging a dead horse here, or perhaps a dead Jobs.

Excuse the bad taste but I think this is getting rediculous and my comment is more tasteful than all the grovelling snot soaked crazy people slithering around trying to make some cash of out it.
I believe when I was going to school we used DrScheme for Scheme development, and I think it was pretty straightforward. Suggest giving it a try - hope it helps you get to the fun part of learning Scheme (the code).
Yes, I do think that's the 64KB question. Forcing your erstwhile competitors to respond to your disruptive innovation is very powerful.

I see Amazon Silk as a similarly disruptive technology. The key is that both are cloud-based, revolve around highly valuable and personal customer data, and both attack Google at it's core: the gateway to web usage (Siri is a bit more ambitious).
Going to be really difficult for Palm to compete in the tablet market given their industry instability. They contacted us about getting our game onto an HP TouchPad -- then promptly announced their discontinuation (???).

Plus, Google has already given me a free Galaxy Tab (for attending Google I/O). Among that and my iPad, it's pretty easy to guess which I'll be hacking on.
That's because oil is inelastically supplied, and those goods are not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_supply
Cucumber devs might not like this, but at the moment I'm taking cues for the API phrases from cucumber-rails-training-wheels (web_steps.rb for capybara) - I see why the devs wanted it removed, but it works great for something like this that needs wide support.
If you're going to do something like this, coordinating it on FB is a stupid idea.

Yes, I totally agree that coordinating something like this on FB (or many other websites) is pretty darn dumb. (Isn't there some Einstein quote about stupidity being infinite or something?)

As for your second point, I was an environmental studies major for a time. I really don't think most people think that far ahead. I hope, if nothing else, this does draw enough national attention to educate people as to how foolish and dangerous it is to mail contagious items. And, oh, breaking federal law by messing with the mail is very serious business. Much more so than many people might realize. Even if they don't get enlightened as to how dumb this is, perhaps they will at least get a clue that this detail is no small matter and can seriously impact their lives. I'm very okay with fear of the law being a deterrent to such activities in cases where "common sense" seems absent.
Fixed on the homepage but I'm still seeing it on category pages.
Eastman Kodak used this calendar internally for over 60 years. They called the extra month Sol.

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Is this for men or women? It's not clear on the website?
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I'm keen on your idea for an out-of-band mechanism, and would be needed for the obfuscated URL idea

"For the more gung-ho, obfuscate the URL and use SSL (e.g. https://yoursite.tld/something-unguessable/monitors.txt) and tell your provider where to find your monitors.txt"
When would you want to know about it? Should we put it up there now or should it be a surprise after you get your first pack?
what about clementine ? http://www.clementine-player.org/
Yeah, but would it make sense for you to create two versions - one for men and one for women, each promoting the needs of the other sex?
Well even robots need some form of human supervision.

I remember reading a comment from Steve Jobs to Obama that he would never build a factory in the US due to overly burdensome regulations and the like.

When the dollar started collapsing around 2008, I asked some friends who ran operations for the big manufacturing companies as to why they wouldn't bring the jobs back stateside. It made intuitive sense to me: wages rising in China, cheaper dollar, higher fuel costs. Not to mention its always harder to run things when your employees are half a world away.

The universal reaction was no way they'd bring manufacturing jobs back. Reasons:
1. Don't want to deal with unions.
2. Don't want to deal with hidden costs like healthcare etc.
3. Too many regulations.
4. Just too hard to scale up or down. Apparently in China if you need to scale up your factory, you send a bus into the countryside to pick up villagers. Train them for 3 weeks and bam you have a factory worker. Who's living in your factory dorm, so they're available for over-time etc.

It sounded insane actually, I can't imagine any normal person wanting to work like this.

But its great if you are running a factory.
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My problem with liberal arts is not "it's useless" it's the expectation of a job just because you have a degree, when it's fairly clear going in that there are less jobs there.

If your poetry study helps you do something, that's awesome but you shouldn't be surprised that others might not find it as useful as you, and are less willing to pay you as a result.
Nice idea. The monitors.txt should/could also contain selenium or imacros scripts for transaction monitoring, for use by monitoring services like alertfox or browsermob.
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Love the domain, but it seems a bit creepy. Why does my uncle know about everything?
Wouldn't sending raw Javascript upstream limit adoption due to the increased burden of securing the provider against malicious or buggy scripts? For this use case, a declarative solution seems like a requirement.
This would be very good news. If we can cause earthquakes, maybe we can cause them before the pressure builds up to dangerous levels.

If we could cause 5 magnitude 3 earthquakes nothing would have happened to fukushima, and no waves would have crossed Japan.

If this works, let's start doing it in Los Angeles, NOW.
So we probably don't have enough gold to make a single ship using gold instead of steel?
Why would you go to a radiation zone willingly. I thought the levels were still pretty high.
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I believe the extensive work on Windows support was from a Microsoft/Joyent collaboration.. as in the answer to your question may be measured in $$$.

Not that that's a bad thing at all, but it would explain the seemingly unusual choice.
It looks to me like this is only a fallacy on the assumption that government employees are like glaziers fixing broken windows: absorbing value that, but for a loss, could otherwise be put to another use. It is that assumption that I meant to question, though I see I did not express the point adequately.
Not really sure about that posting. Looks like the person needs others to tell "what matters".
I like this! I wish there was a way to authenticate though. So, as you can gauge in deeper and check if services are really working. But of course, if the file is public, that throws spanner in the plans.
It's true that much of what you learn in a liberal arts program can be gained by going through the library or through online resources. But that's only a piece of it; ostensibly, a strong liberal arts program not only exposes you to the best of art, but challenges you to critically examine it.

If anything, it seems just as easy to learn tech skills, particularly programming, on your own. And you are easily able to test and prove them to the real world. Think you have a great idea and good design chops? Then launch a site. It doesn't even have to be profitable, just something that can impress one of the many communities of developers (such as HN).

Where does that outlet exist for liberal arts majors? As most liberal arts fields don't yet primarily communicate to the web, you could publish a brilliant research paper that is never seen by the "serious" academics; same as if you disseminated your theory and findings through a blog.

Of course there are exceptions. It's possible that the next Harry Potter could come from a computer scientist who spends his/her off-hours writing a novel and then self-publishes with a viral marketing campaign. But it's far more likely for a self-taught programmer to build out a great concept, make it Web accessible, and have it seen and spread among the people who are most likely to hire him/her.
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Traveling to Beppu is to know and see a different Japan from what you would find in bigger cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto. Beppu is a very charismatic town and has its own personality.
A liberal arts education teaches you many useful things: grammar, for example.

Read his opening paragraph again.

"As usual I get a ton of mail on subjects that are controversial, and one of the more painful ones was the fact that the Dropping out is probably not for you post gave people the impression that I'm against studying the arts, literature or any other non hard science."

Awkward, no? That's because it's a run on sentence.

The things that a liberal arts education teaches you are not always obvious. Of course you can read Plato or Homer or Augustine by yourself, but unless you're in a collegiate environment, it's very very easy to be lazy.

How many times have you picked up a book, skimmed through it, and never opened it up again? How many times have you actually read a book, and then for some weird reason, forgotten all of its contents very soon after? Formal schooling forces you to reengage with texts again and again. Formal schooling forces you to be critical of yourself and your own work before someone else has a crack at it. All of these things can be accomplished by a very motivated and disciplined individual. But how many of us are actually that motivated and that disciplined?
Why do you say that? They're both from the same year and nearly the same length.
I imagine they require the developer account type for the device program, right? That's what the vocabulary on the page seems to imply -- I'm going to try to get the coupon with with a basic account first, but I expect they'll just tell me to upgrade to the developer account type.
I am pretty sure those are just fake numbers...unless they were counting income from companies sold, but I would not count that as a regular salary
I was addressing those referenced in the article who specifically refuse a vaccine after it is suggested to them because "it gives the immune system a workout".
The awk version looks idiomatic to me. Except that I will take the FS out:

awk -F: '$6=="/sbin/nologin" {print $1}' /etc/passwd
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I think the only languages that will ever have won were C, cobol and fortran. Why do we get"scala is too complex" posts but not "partial differential equations are too complicated" posts? Anyway I'm just not going to read them but I will cut MJD slack cause his perl books are terrific.
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I think it does, actually. When I took a Scheme class based on SICP, we implemented a Scheme interpreter as well as looking at an OOP system using lambdas.

Writing that interpreter is the first time JavaScript's scoping rules made sense to me viscerally--they're exactly the same as Scheme's. The OOP system we used was also really similar to what you can do with JavaScript; it just used closures to save state. It wasn't exactly the same, but it was similar.

Ultimately, I find that JavaScript is much closer to Scheme than other dynamic scripting languages I've used like Python and Perl.
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Is my understanding right? Verizon is saying that they will kick people off/restrict their bandwidth, when somebody pushes the 'turbo' button?
It's a burden, sure, but is the burden that large? Accepting and sandboxing remote Javascript seems relatively well understood, with lots of open reusable code already available. And perhaps the burden is offset by the familiarity and flexibility.