skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand anonymous code blocks is something that python doesn't do natively and other languages can do. What I don't understand is why it's worth the bother, given the hoops one must jump through to get it to work in Python specifically (new operators, keywords, and evaluating string literals as code).

If you really need new control structures, Python syntax isn't all that hard to hack.
流式细胞仪
Both may be related.

A major candidate for the physical substrate of consciousness is the ability for a system to integrate information, thereby locally reducing its entropy and thus its randomness, at the expense of its environment.

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- Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto; Giulio Tononi; http://www.biolbull.org/content/215/3/216.long

- Integrated Information in Discrete Dynamical Systems: Motivation and Theoretical Framework; David Balduzzi, Giulio Tononi; http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

- Qualia: The Geometry of Integrated Information; David Balduzzi, Giulio Tononi; http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

- A perturbational approach for evaluating the brain's capacity for consciousness; Marcello Massimini1, Melanie Boly, Adenauer Casali1, Mario Rosanova1, Giulio Tononi; http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/massimini_PBR_coma_scien... - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079612309...

- Granger Causality Analysis of Steady-State Electroencephalographic - Signals during Propofol-Induced Anaesthesia; Adam B. Barrett, Michael Murphy, Marie-Aurélie Bruno, Quentin Noirhomme, Mélanie Boly, Steven Laureys, Anil K. Seth1; http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

- Hierarchical clustering of brain activity during human nonrapid eye movement sleep; Mélanie Boly, Vincent Perlbargb, Guillaume Marrelec, Manuel Schabus, Steven Laureys, Julien Doyon, Mélanie Pélégrini-Issacb, Pierre Maquet, and Habib Benalib; http://www.pnas.org/content/109/15/5856.short
Using Evernote for Fun and Profit
I really like the << x syntax, it's devious :)
Oh, the places solar cells will go
The subprime lending bubble to build up a giant mass of capital, the financial crisis collapse, the banks and funds who pimped the MBS paid a nominal fine to maintain the appearance of punishment, that capital is now flowing to VC funds?
"code blocks" is why they invented functions and procedures half a century ago (and even those differ only in how they return). I think people forget (or don't know) that these are all labels to jump or branch to. So your named functions, functions, lambdas, code blocks, etc, become.. well.. equivalent. Hipsters, don't confuse the young ones with your 30 ways of jumping into a block of code. Cheers!
346 hours is both an underestimation and an overestimation. I can say that I definitely did not sit down at the keyboard for 346 hours to put this together. But how do you account for time spent thinking about the content, planning, visualizing, etc? What about the fact that most of that time was 'overtime'? ie. over and above my full-time job.

The other perspective here is that this took a lifetime of work. I've been learning about the source material for the past several years. Obviously it wasn't just to write this book, it has many practical applications besides. I've 'practiced' teaching people and writing for years before this, all of that certainly contributed. This quote sums it up nicely: http://www.marketingquoteoftheday.com/pablo-picasso-on-prici....

I don't think it's fair to try to trim down a project like this to an hourly rate because it simply doesn't work like that. I could stop putting time and effort into the project right now and I would still see some money come in, arbitrarily increasing that hourly rate.

Just to drive home this point having a book with my name on it opens up new opportunities. If I were to write another book and spend the exact same amount of time putting it together my 'hourly rate' would probably increase because I now have more people listening to what I have to say and trusting that I will provide something of value. So investing time now into this project is a long-term investment that I may not make back on the sales of this book, if you know what I mean.

I've no idea if it's feasible to write like this for a living. There are lots of people (even in the tech education space) who make a living selling their own products, but typically not just books. Look at people like Marc-Andre Cournoyer or Peter Cooper who have written books but make their living through some combination of teaching mediums (video, webinar, books, training, etc). For many of them their first product was an ebook.

Just to clean things up, this book was written out of love. I felt like I couldn't not write this book once the inspiration came. That being said, there was also a financial motive. I wanted to be compensated for my work, but also wanted other people to place value on the material. Too often free material is considered worthless because there was no exchange made for it. "If you don't give anything you don't get anything", so to speak.
Dave Winer on Time's hundred most influential
My worry about this isn't if the upgrade is going to happen as much as it is about the lack of a definitive yes / no from Microsoft. I'm having a tough time believing at this stage of development that someone inside Microsoft doesn't know. If it was upgradable then a press release would probably increase sales as fears would be eased.

If its not, I really wonder about Nokia and what they are thinking and what the actual state of the Microsoft / Nokia relationship is. If its not upgradeable, then they got the mindset of a lot of other companies that are irritating their customers with a "buy a new phone to upgrade" attitude.
Well they do take a stand in that they will censor the respective videos. The alternative would have been to pay up. Although I think the prices GEMA asks for are ridiculous and infeasible.
IIRC, the increasing hit and miss, "dodginess" nature of Linksys consumer level products has been noted as coinciding with Linksys' acquisition by Cisco.
Don't stop at the revenue from the book. There is also the value of credibility from a published technical book.

Having this book as a consultant could justify a high rate for Ruby Unix work. He could gather speaking fees for Ruby and Unix conferences. It could also lead to follow on books from standard publishers.

I would say this revenue could be the start to more.
Yes, definitely. If you're talking to an investor, they're not going to be able to fully appreciate a deep domain insight anyhow. You tell them about what they can appreciate: the size of the market, the cost of bringing your product to market, and the problem you are solving for your future customers.
Totally agree about the 10-90 split. I like to think it's more like 25-75 but you drove the point home ;)
Yes you coudl just use somthing like a phone number to access websites.

I dont think you have thought this through who would rember that the local doctors surgery is XDFE123456!
I'm sort of glad to see it's not just Italy that produces inane rulings regarding Youtube and posted content.
We are in the future.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope 'Movie Trailer'
I'd argue that car manufacturers are indeed part responsible for car accidents.
The Uk used to do that :-)
Good for them! I'd much rather that than the budgets that the UK (and other) governments blow on websites which often aren't too complex at all.
Here's an idea. If you think it's a bubble then get on it as fast as you can as there's clearly money to be made and cash in as soon as possible or whenever it is you think the bubble is going to burst.

Sorry. I guess I've read too many articles recently about it being a bubble. I even agree, just not care very much.
I really wish people would stop submitting ExtremeTech articles. Their writing is bullshit, their reporting is speculative, and their staff doesn't seem to care about facts or legitimacy. They're the Perez Hilton of tech journalism. They make Gizmodo seem like a bastion of integrity.
I stand corrected, sorry about that, originally it did, which was the cause of much amusement for a while. Obviously they fixed it.
ITU :-)
Which is a pretty good argument for building a self-hosted Forth. You get a compiler and REPL suitable for commanding the computer in a package that will fit easily in the limited memory resources available. If you use threaded code with an "inner interpreter", it's possible to generate very compact code and fit a lot in a small space, or you could emit machine code directly ("subroutine threaded code") for speed.
I wonder if there's any way to make this into a decorative fixture? A strobe would be annoying, and a large LCD shutter in front would be expensive and spoil the effect somewhat. Any ideas?
Just wanted to add here, that in my experience I've been able to get potential employers to strike a LOT from their boilerplate contracts. If you're even the least bit concerned, I suggest crossing out the parts you don't like or don't understand and sending it back. The worst that will happen is their legal team will say, "sorry we can't lose those sections". Everything is negotiable.
Car sharing's potential impact on urban density
Just read the docstring of the module. It's very detailed.

As for mixing strings with code, I still need to adhere to Python's syntax in order to avoid syntax errors.
Anyway, syntax errors in strings are caught at "rewriting time".
Using words instead of operators would also cause some problems.
Wait, so this is only inside someone's building? They can already track my every move with cameras.
500,000 users in 50 days
"The public can access the collections both at a subscribing institution and at Britain's National Archive."

Well, that sucks! The Corvey Collection has a free trial, though. Still I think these should be free access. Ask Google or someone else to host them and I think they'll gladly do it.
The article indicated they could do that (and the author inferred it would have to happen) with the user's permission.

I think your visual of watching a puzzle come together is quite a brilliant description.
"Any idiot could rip a movie and upload it to Pirate Bay, and they're even making money from it. That's nothing but commercial murder of those who actually make those items,” says Pontus Berg.

”We could be accused of having acted in a legal grey zone. But for national finances, I believe it was a giant plus. The availability of demos and cracked games was very important in the beginning for the sales of home computers,” says Pontus Berg.

Early-onset dementia?
Got that from someone whose family works in the CIA, no link.

Edit : Assuming you were not asking for proof, only information, see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicl.... Note that "After a 10 month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles. Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents". But the dive in Toyota stock price, sales, and most importantly, brand image, was enough to send the message. Toyota stocked surged 20% after the then-Japanese PM resigned after his failure to get the US off of Okinawa.
There are a million ways to do it :)

I've seen success from releasing the content for free with a paid version for ereaders, or doing it like I did and just offering the paid version.
This is very cool. Kickstarter is the leading edge of a tectonic shift.

Quite often with these new ideas that come out of left field, the pendulum swings the other way after a certain point. While I like Kickstarter and other such projects (a lot of cool gizmos would not see the light of day were it not for Kickstarter), I fully expect the next year or so to be peppered with reports about fraud, etc. in the popular media.

It used to be that if you had a widget that you wanted built at scale, you had 2 options: mortgage the house (and bug the relatives for cash), or approach one of the big guys and beg them for help. With Kickstarter, you don't need the big guys anymore. And as with any other such change where the Old Guard gets sidetracked, expect them to fight back with scare stories and mockery.
Should I be talking to our company lawyer (which my co-founder knows personally before we started) or another who knows nothing of the situation?
Pricing everything in the number of times you could rocket to space seems like "the next" Internet meme.

Great for SpaceX for achieving that, but it's really not a measuring stick for value.
This bundle has a higher average (almost double) than previous bundles. My gut tells me that this is related to the new rule that requires a minimum $5 payment to get the Steam keys. That's an interesting way for the humble folks to get people to pay more but now we're two steps removed from the "pay what you want" model; I wonder what compromise will be next.
This opens up more problems though.

For example how would the Google Chrome browser work (and search to a degree), does a user who types "pepsi" into their omnibar want to go to http://pepsi/ or search for pepsi?

It also adds confusion for webmasters trying to parses URLs on their website. When a user types pepsi.com/coke into their blog for example that link can be made clickable to http://pepsi.com/coke/ where it can't for pepsi/coke
Or, more than likely, if Youtube and others can't afford to deal with the restrictions imposed on them by GEMA and the courts - GEMA is now free to prop up their own front. Of course, at little to no licensing fees to the operators, while making a tidy profit by giving GEMA the control they desire.

It looks like a textbook regulatory capture play, through the courts rather than the legislature.
First of all I implement abstraction using language features and there for I take advantage of it.

- I favor maintainability over performance, also keep in
mind that promised function take promises as arguments
and can't do much until they're fulfilled (associated IO
is done) so that small performance hit is insignificant
in most of the cases.
- You can write your own decorators to wrap constructors
and their methods if you need to. That being said, I'd
recommend against, mixing mutable state with logic does
no good in long run. You'll be better of with functional.
- As for map / reduce, promises represent eventual values,
not sequences of them. For that there are streams and I
have explored that area as well:
https://github.com/Gozala/streamer/wiki/stream
I have not wrote about it because I don't think it was
good idea to dump everything in one post.

I'm happy async did that for you.
Estonia is looking quite intriguing... the low/simple tax thing could be quite tempting for those of us sick of the high/ponderous western european taxes.
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Google's new indoor maps stuff is implemented at the map layer. They don't have the infrastructure in place to track your wifi from a location's sensors and then communicate that back to the phone. It's just whatever physical-location technology is already built into your phone (typically some combination of GPS, cellular, and a list of what wifi access points are available), plus an indoor floorplan.
I probably shouldn't mention it so publicly, but once you've built a profitable product, you are allowed to stab one of these "offer you half" business majors per year. You will shortly receive a handy wallet-sized card with the number to call for body disposal.

Remember: use your quota wisely. There are a lot of idiots out there.
skylan_q: taking a step back, I'm being a bit liberal with the traditional use of inflation. Inflation is generally reserved for the 'general' price level. I don't believe we are capable of determining the 'general' price level, and the conflicts over various measures of inflation, what to include and how to modify it year to year, to my mind is evidence that it is not wholly agreed upon that we are capable of measuring it.

So I assume you are suggesting that a bubble is when an industry is out of sync with the general economy, in terms of pricing and/or growth. I would argue that that is not critical to the notion of a bubble. A bubble is overvaluation of an asset class. To restrict it with dis-coordination would mean a bubble could not occur during hyper-inflation.
That's of course not true. Privacy is not binary. While most people have lost some privacy over the last years it's not a "all hope is lost, lets throw in the towel" situation. There are still many ways to safeguard one's privacy and it's important to still fight/agitate for that right.
You make it seem a lot easier than it is. Youtube has tons of content, not specifically German, that I wager lots of Germans would like to watch.

But your point comes across, all the same. It'd be really nice, if all the big tech companies could band together in favor of internet protection. I'm sure if Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook (just to name a few) would say "we won't operate in any country that filters internet content", I'm sure we'd be seeing much less of these actions. I suppose though, that may spark antitrust.
Pax americana, friend. What're you afraid of?
It's always easier to target an audience that you are familiar with and are a part of. Since I would have bought this book myself if someone else had wrote it I knew what people would want to know and how to reach them.

If I were targeting the book at sysadmins, for instance, I would have had no idea how to get in front of them or talk to them at their level.

re: pricing, nope. I think the discounting works because it's intermittent and gets people sharing. If I were to lower the price permanently I wouldn't expect sales to remain that high.
Wow, this precedent covers much more than YouTube. If German courts will hold any such service accountable for what the users post, pretty much all widely used services are susceptible to suing.
That is not entirely true. Governments, unlike individuals, are fairly rational agents and do not start wars for revenge. For all we care, the murdered president was member of the opposition and his disposal might have helped the current ruling party.
Regarding the first trick: the value really isn't very much. Storing 2x2 downsampled versions of an image at all levels is only a 33% increase in size. This is the mipmap trick, and can be done right now with nothing but a size check on the client. I don't think 33% is worth mucking with file formats over.
Idea worth minus a million
Randomness should be a function of both a numeric series and an agent. It should measure the ability of a given agent to predict the next element in the series.
And the cell company can track your (macro) location. And a store can track your visit if you do something like, oh, make a purchase - doubly so if it's with a loyalty card. With all due respect to privacy concerns, those are probably the bigger problems.

And online social-media/advertising tracking? Egads.
I have a Focus right now, and was considering buying a Lumia, but the wavering has me waiting. On the other hand, there might not be an answer because they might not know. Windows 8 isn't finished, they may be pushing to reach their goals. If it comes down to pushing back the release date or cutting features, the Windows team has always erred on the side of cutting features. They have enterprise customers depending on the set-in-stone release date.

WP8 will be relying on W8 to ship. If W8 is holding them back, they may not yet know if they're going to be able to make the upgrade.
Antitrust case against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, & other tech titans advances
Allowing arbitrary TLD's is semantically equivalent to getting rid of TLD's (e.g. in your last example, "google" could be thought of as a TLD).
By the way, I wish that '<' was a simple typo. Unfortunately it's Wordpress: it's driving me mad.
Everytime some code has '<' and '>' in it, something unexpected happens.
Team hires incompetent web developers. Attacks fan when those developers publicly expose elements of an upcoming redesign and the fan notes this.

In the UK, accusation is now coming to approximate formal indictment. And it's always the individual end user who is considered to be at fault.

Too bad the team and potentially the web developers probably won't be sued for slander. Perhaps a hefty judgment against them would make them think twice, next time.
"most of us leave wifi on by default"
I wonder if this is based on some real evidence. I don't see any reason to leave wifi on by default, and most phones i've owned don't enable it by default.
The grandpost is brilliant. But that comment assumes that ideas and execution are independent variables, which is not the case.
What if online doesn't work for branding?
The article implied it was a conversation with a business, rather than an investor.
I havent used the code and I'm sure it works well. However, we've been seeing a lot of unnecessary library usage. A lot of jQuery-based things that really don't need to be as an example and looking at the .coffee files here, I think that the JS it produces would be very simple. Why not just write the JS? Is there really a benefit from coffee in this situation?
i use llama on my android devices to turn on wifi only in places where it knows and turn it off else where. saves power too that way.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...
Just to be clear this library implements just a subset of Q with exact same API, with only addition of `promised` wrapper. I'm convinced that this wrapper is a better way
to deal with promises than dozens of utility functions that you have to learn about.

For example Q.all is promised(Array) I find later more intuitive.

That's not to say don't use Q! Q is brilliant piece of software and I'd be more than happy to see more people using it.
Haskell School of Music by Paul Hudak
"These days" means everything after 2010 when the sex scandal+insider trading+FBI sting caused the ouster of super executive Robert Moffat, thought to be the next CEO of IBM.
Completely agree.

And I might add, even if you don't have any rare talent or skills and you feel you have "just an idea", you might get my attention if you convince me that you are truly motivated, that you will call people every month, clients and/or potential partners in order to validate the product and find real world data points that enable us to determine the direction the project should take or when we should pivot.

I might be interested if I can trust you are willing to do the important business and marketing work, the things that distract me from building and improving the product, and convince me you will do it with as much passion and dedication which I will put in designing, architecturing, engineering and coding.

If you bring this to the table and you look like you have good common sense and at least some curiosity about the technical side and technical constraints we will be working within (maybe, for example, you are even willing to learn to edit a few html files and check them in the repository, not to become the html guy, just so you get a basic understanding of this aspect of _your_ business) , I might just be willing to give you 50% of the business, even more in some cases!
The next elections in Germany might bring a change as the German Priate Party is gaining more and more votes in the polls.

This could bring the change we all hope for.
I'll agree to the above. Thank you for the clarification. I just like to see a little bit of nuance here and there. ;)
All fair points that I agree with. Mruby is promising but it's still in its infancy. Whereas MobiRuby is interesting on its own, but lacking advantages over Obj-C for real development.
I built an almost identical system this past year as my EE capstone project. The accuracy of these systems is limited by environmental factors (large metal structural/aesthetic features of a building) which can be corrected to a certain extent, but it would still be trivial to avoid being tracked by using a directional antenna.
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