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> There was a time when some of the things he talks about mattered (1980s), and that time has long gone.

On the contrary. RMS's extreme views on software freedom are more relevant than ever before.

In the 2000's we have seen computers turn from general purpose programmable machines into walled gardens where you need a permission from the manufacturer to write and sell programs that run on them. That's pretty much the opposite of free software.
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I once spent hours looking for an internet archive or community of demo scene files / artists. There doesn't seem to be one out there in the eyes of google. Can anyone familiar with this art form please provide links to your your underground hangout? :)
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Wow. This is very elite Web 1.0
http://www.pouet.net is the only I'm aware of.

[edit] maybe http://scene.org also ?
That's just a limitation of MySQL, not relational databases in general. In Postgres you can do it live in a transaction.
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When everybody becomes a forced liar, it becomes easy for authentic liars to hide in the crowd.
Isn't cutting through the bullshit a more useful skill?
Thanks for answering those two.

The reason I'm not happy with "auto" is that as a programmer you'll end up hunting down types in source. Even more so if you inherit code from someone else. So we'll add them in comment as mental note instead of properly declaring them?

You call it messiness (visual clutter in the article) but in my experience it'll promote laziness and pitfalls for beginners. It's just a matter of time before you'll see questions like 'why does the compiler infer the wrong type here?' on StackOverflow.

Re-reading my post I see it's easily interpreted as arrogant. That wasn't my intention.
I actually think that's a decent question - in many cases you have to estimate something based on incomplete information in a domain that you aren't an expert in and maybe all you are after is an answer to the nearest order of magnitude.

In my experience some people simply won't answer those questions - not because they can't but because they aren't happy working that way. Of course, in some situations you absolutely do need people who will always work things through from first principles and attempt to give as precise an estimate as they can, but sometimes you don't.
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Try to lower the number of samples.
One major advantage piracy has over the current distribution model for most entertainment is its embracing of globalisation. It doesn't matter where you are, you can still consume the content.

Compare this to films and TV, where any non-US viewer has to wait possibly months before they get to see it legitimately. Considering these shows are discussed openly on the net, you have no feasible way of engaging in the discussion that surrounds these shows when the new episode airs in the US.

In some cases, the shows won't even see a DVD or Blu-Ray release outside of the US (see: Breaking Bad after season 2).

Maybe I'm naïve, and there's really not much profit in truly borderless global distribution. But assuming there is, the sheer determination of Big Content to enforce those borders and boundaries is really blinding them to simple opportunities to capitalise.

In fact, I think HBO are in the UK, now you can see some of their shows on Sky Atlantic. But generally, we have to wait a while before we enjoy something that came and went weeks or months earlier.
For me, it comes down to this issue: https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/issue/100/handle...

tl;dr: either documentation or cross-resource links will be broken - pick one. It's been broken for years. There is a kludge-around but it's a rake in the grass waiting for every user.

I also had a related issue which similarly means that a common Django feature breaks the documentation feature:
https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/issue/142/handle...

I won't say piston is dead but I will say that my experience with tastypie is that something like this would be fixed in a day or two.
sad it got flagged

thx for posting my blog article
It's sad he is forced to give it away to save face.
Why would I join something that clearly isn't even finished?

All you have on your homepage is a form, there's not even a single line of text even telling what your site does!
I'm pretty sure that pattern is a stock Photoshop one. But yes, it gives things some depth.
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Yeah. As it says on the bottom, "Copyright 2011 Richard Stallman released under Creative Commons Attribution Noderivs 3.0 unported".

It's a surprising statement for many reasons. First, I have traditionally thought of CC as somehow opposed to GNU, but here's Stallman releasing with CC. Second, it's a 2011 document -- had he not been to a doctor prior to 2011? unlikely, so maybe he just never noticed what he was signing?

Perhaps the most surprising thing is the "noderivs" part. One important text -- the GPL -- is also released as copyrighted, to discourage people from modifying the GPL in their COPYING documents in their repositories. But CC Noderivs prohibits any modification of this little snippet. I thought the whole point of free software was modifiability -- but Stallman doesn't think that this applies to free art? Meanwhile, it is not released as share-alike, which is the CC license which "copylefts" the work in the way that the GNU GPL acts to copyleft software.
I've started using HBO GO, both on my iMac and especially on my iPad.

I must say that I do like it. I'm glad that there are still places where I can pay money and get content like Game of Thrones. I hope that doesn't go away; if it does, we all lose (yes, even the pirates).

I really don't get people bitching about the cost. I spend more on a date with my wife than the entire cable + HBO package, which we get to use all month. It's more than worth it, even if I never watched anything else but HBO.
But on OkC, that's easily avoidable: just create another dummy account and stalk from there.

On FB, you can't just do that because people are now showing stuff to "friends only".
In my experience of those kinds of problems the catch is finding realistic values for X and Y - often nobody is going to hand them to you on a plate and you must work out a way of estimating them - that is the real skill.
Not everyone who asks these problems is an idiot. Given the amount of dick-swinging that goes on from Google employees and the famed interviews one gets from the big tech companies I can imagine a lot of younger managers reading these and thinking that it's how you get hold of great engineers. The simple fact is that a lot of the time interviewers aren't experienced at interviewing, and most of them will spend longer formulating a process than an interviewee will spend preparing for said interview.

Anyway, surely the ideal thing to do would be to play along with the interview, answer the stupid question as best as you can and when the interviewer ends with "any questions for us?" you ask them why the felt it was necessary to test you on a general-purpose brainteaser with no relevance to the job when they could have asked something more relevant, like "x". This way you show that you roughly know what you're doing, you're aware of how the interview went and you've provided a question that will make people sit up and think.
Noticed the 'tabs-on-demand' feature a few weeks back in Nightly. That's a great feature, that should have been in there earlier.

You can turn this behaviour off as well. I'd like to see perhaps the option to turn it off on an individual site basis. Or perhaps set a default value of off for pinned tabs (I haven't tested, the behaviour of pinned tabs.)
Gosh, some guys are so easily hurt by a fact. And what "subtext" you read in my comment. Terrible.

As a matter of fact, demo producers are offered more and more API choices. Compare what you had to accomplish with tinkering around with bare-metal BIOS interrupts in the 90s, compared to a full-fledged DirectX API including GPU-raytraycing almost out-of-the-box.
Just an unneeded rant IMHO
Infinite time includes spending infinite years floating in the void of space, alone. You don't even have any rocks to perform computations. That sounds like death to me.
Ask HN: Libraries for classification of text
I've searched fairly hard, but I'm finding it hard to locate exactly what I want. Maybe it doesn't exist, and maybe I just need to adapt something that's there, or write my own. But I thought I'd ask.

I have a bunch of text items that have had classifications applied to them. These classification aren't exclusive - each item may be in one or more classes. Perhaps it's best to think of them as tags.

What I want is a system that has a stab at applying these tags to previously unseen items, based on the tags of existing items. I know that such things exist, but they all seem to be poorly performing, proprietary, hard-to-use, free-but-closed, or otherwise just not quite what I want.

Can I take suggestions from the floor? Is this a problem you've dealt with, and what did you use?

TIA.
I'm going to take the contrarian point of view here: partially for the sport of it, and partially because I genuinely think there's value in puzzles and brainteasers -- though I do think the value is limited, circumstantial, and merely one datum out of many in an interview.

These questions are about having a logical process, regardless of where it gets you, and spelling that process out in a sequential fashion. It's more important to communicate "I do X, and check for Y. Then I do Y, and check for Z" than it is to arrive at a reasonably accurate Z.
The added component of pressure (i.e., you've only got a few minutes, in the uncomfortable setting of an interview, in which to answer the question) helps (or allegedly helps) detect your ability to remain calm and logical under tight deadlines.

Basically, the question is asking "Under pressure, and faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem, will this candidate give up, or will he try to address obstacles in a rational, collected, and systemized fashion?" They're essentially variants on the Kobayashi-Maru test of Star Trek fame.

Furthermore, I don't agree with the apparent consensus that oddball "puzzle" questions would be better replaced with more technically relevant brainteasers. That's not the point. You have technical questions to test your technical literacy. These questions are trying to test your character. (Brainteasers are often non-technical precisely because the interviewer doesn't want you to be able to fall back on existing knowledge as an escape hatch from the question). Some brainteaser/puzzle questions are much more inane than others, but the exercise itself isn't entirely worthless.

I have never asked a puzzle question in an interview. If I were compelled to do so, I would never hire someone purely on the basis of his or her performance on one. It's one of the least important variables in a hiring process. But I'd consider with some skepticism anyone who outright refuses to answer a brainteaser, or who gets totally flummoxed by one, or who gives up without at least attempting to work out an approach.

Ultimately, no single type of interview question is flawless. That's why you have a wide variety in your arsenal. You've got technical questions, case questions, puzzle questions, whiteboard questions, and even the oft-derided "Tell me about a time when..." questions. In isolation, none of these types is sufficient. In combination, they test different aspects of a candidate's thought process and preparation.
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It's not exactly an isolated case. When I turned 18 I was presented with the same document. To my mother's dismay, I pointed out the flaws and then marked in the necessary negatives in pen to render the document useless before signing it. Since the other party (a member with legal power at the clinic) did not sign after me, I'm not sure the form is actually binding on either of us. Could somebody clarify what precedent holds in the case of a single party signing a contract and having it accepted but not signed by the other?

EDIT: It occurs to me that I should mention that there is no place for the other party to sign on the document in the first place. There may have been a photocopied signature already on the form.
Actually, there can be no authentic liars if everyone's a forced liar. Nor can there be truth, or communication, for that matter.
This is a very thorough list of the most famous (read:best) and most influential demos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840830
Stallman's mentioned at various times that he doesn't think modifiability is nearly as important for expressive type works. He has a very user-centric view on why software (and hardware) should be free, basically that users should be able to modify their own devices and share the modifications, or at least pay someone to make the modifications for them, as part of the right to fully use/customize/control your own computational environment.

Being able to modify and distribute copies of Stallman's 2011 narrative account of a doctor's visit doesn't seem (to me, at least) to implicate a similar right-to-your-own-devices rationale. Reuse in the artistic domain is more of a "remix culture" type of thing, which I think Stallman is sympathetic to, but it's not his core interest.
Or in Common Lisp you would be able to "signal" a condition and then handle the situation. Signal will just do nothing unless some higher level code has an explicit handler for it [1].

[1] I remember reading a MIME encoding library years ago. There was a point where the code would detect an error but if the error was at the end it would just drop that part and write in the last couple of bytes. In this situation, most clients won't care that this is happening but what about those that do? Since this code signalled error by returning NULL there was no way to signal "saw an error, but fixed it". In Common Lisp, signal could have been used for clients that would want to report on this.
This seriously begs for a torrent.
While the doctor's office may have been the proximate agent asking him to 'lie', the true culprit is the incomprehensible, self-contradictory system that elected and unelected bureaucrats in the US have cobbled together over the decades. If the doctor doesn't maintain that privacy paperwork (which as rms noted the police can view at will anyway), they will not receive reimbursement from CMS. There are likely other statutory issues with HIPAA that I'm unfamiliar with. It's difficult to fault them for not wasting their limited time/money resisting the paperwork requirements when it would only detract from patient care resources.

If he were actually In Extremis, the physician/nurse/EMS would treat him under implied consent. Technically a patient of sound mind can refuse care but in practice someone who looks like rms (beard discrimination) ranting about his privacy would rather quickly be hit with a B52 (50mg Benadryl, 5mg Haldol, 2mg Ativan). Emergency providers are in a bit of a quandary as they must choose between the possibility of missing a subdural hematoma on a patient refusing care and facing a wrongful death lawsuit, and facing a lawsuit for unlawful imprisonment and assault.
You should be careful just adding "not", because they can always claim they didn't notice you modified the agreement (I'm assuming no one on their staff signed or initialled your change).
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It sounds like a great tool, but I'm curious about the all the social rules they're trying to enforce. Who can be in what rooms; cliques; what you can say where.

In my experience using other tools, these things work themselves out when you can see/hear the other people. Regular social intercourse has mechanisms for dealing with the run-on talker, the snide remark, breaking up chat-fests ets.

{ disclaimer: I now work for Sococo }

With audio at least, you can use tone of voice, a cleared throat, a group Ewwww! etc. to turn discussion back to work topics. Add video and you can tell advanced presence info, attention vs distraction.

We've been testing video lately and its a game-changer in group meetings. Even just the thumbnail adds so many cues about where a speaker is going, what's toung-in-cheek and what's serious etc.

And chat is still there as a 'back-channel' for side topics, either in the meeting room or person-to-person as needed, while you continue to monitor the discussion via voice.

Voice and video totally speeds up group test sessions, document walkthroughs, bug descriptions by taking the delay out of dialog. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a word and a look is worth a hundred chats.

I wouldn't consider returning to a chat tool for group dynamics, after using Teamspace. I'm addicted to the speed of exchange it allows, the advanced presence info over anything chat can provide, doc sharing and shared browsing etc.
He releases his books under GNU FDL, so they can be remixed. But I assume he doesn't want people changing his blog posts. Makes sense to me.
There are many options. Charge them money (and ensure you can force them to pay it back, e.g. wage garnishing), public service was suggested, etc. Looking them away from their life seems incredibly excessive.
Its increasingly lower returns for each dollar, thus I don't see the point of anything above the minimum. The expected return may be negative (further hence the minimum investment) but its negligible.
This type of questions (the bus one), are called Fermi problems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
This one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_xEUoK79o It was uploaded in 2048x1526 resolution, so anything less than that will be downsampled by Youtube.
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Just say no to interviews. (Seriously. If a decision maker wants you hired nothing resembling one takes place.)
You are just looking for a multi-label text classifier by the sounds of things. You could start with Weka: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/ (see http://weka.wikispaces.com/Text+categorization+with+Weka) or there's the CMU toolkit called Rainbow (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/bow/rainbow/).

Or if you want something simple I wrote about how to create a naive Bayesian text classifier in Dr. Dobbs some time ago: http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/184406064
> Why anyone would want to write a billion line init script now that upstart exists is beyond me. Perhaps they don't know about upstart. It could also be that they are stuck on CentOS or RedHat. My heart goes out to you if that's the case. I know how that feels.

RHEL/CentOS 6 uses Upstart (and the next major version will use systemd).
which makes as much sense as putting soap in our milk to keep us clean.

name one person in this day and age that does not brush their theets with a fluoride tooth paste.
The most important point in this post is this: "an interview is a two-way process".

I am constantly surprised how many people come out of interviews without asking detailed questions about the company, job, culture and work atmosphere.

You have to be more sure that that they will be a good fit for you than you have to be for them. You will be one of many: they will be everything to you, probably for years.
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This is why I hate the bureaucracy in my country (Brazil). There's a clear penalty for trying to do things the right way (tons of useless and expensive paperwork), and nothing happens to the crooks who take advantage of the system.
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Thanks to you both, that what I was looking for.
To which the reply is "That's a shame, you should train your staff".
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Jump in front of my iMac

IMO if you wake up before 5 AM and jump in front of your iMac then there's either something wrong with your to-do list program or with your to-do list itself.
When I ran into this problem I simply added a post-checkout hook that deletes *.pyc files within the git root.
Yes, couldn't agree more.

I agree with the people that say that future generations will see Steve Jobs as revolutionary a businessman as Henry Ford. But this hagiography has got to stop.

Let's put things in perspective. Steve Jobs made really good products that sold at a high-margin and made a lot of money. But hang on -- another way to see it is he focused on the features customers really did care about: nice UX, beautiful cases -- and ignored the features they said they cared about but didn't really: processing power, durability. That's it. He found a management style that worked for him, and it's worth looking at how he did it, but Apple and Steve Jobs had a bunch of flaws which are worth looking at as well.

What annoys me is that people can see the awesome parts, or they can see the flaws, but few people manage to see both. Even people like Isaacson (his biographer) who note both these sides don't really analyse it in a deep way. It would be interesting to read the history books of a 100 years time to see how Steve Jobs has been remembered after his impact has been put into proper perspective.

(Though another thing that annoys me is when the top of HN comment threads become dominated by an off-topic discussion. Sorry swombat!)
As someone who's mother tongue is one in which "anniversary" actually means anniversary, reading 6 month "anniversary" just kills me.
Interesting nonetheless. It draws some analogies with software license agreements. I start out trying to read them, but if they exceed a few paragraphs - I skip to the bottom, check the checkbox and proceed. I lie.

I guess one good thing about picking an off the shelf license to accompany software, is that at least it's probably more likely that I'll read and try to understand it.
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Thanks. And yes, I think I am, which is why I'm sure such things must not only exist, but should probably be readily available and reasonably easy to use.

I have written a Bayesian classifier before, but that was binary, not multi-label. I can run multiple binary Bayesian classifiers, but that's probably not the best thing to be doing.

Hence the question.

I'll check your suggestions - thanks.

Added in edit: The package "bow" doesn't compile on my machine, so now I'm looking at an undetermined amount of time fixing the package so it does compile. Always fun.
Prediction: within 2 years they will have a "subscribe now" on YouTube for HBO and other networks and in 3 years YouTube will be the biggest affiliate for them.
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How exactly do you tweak a gun? And what sort of gun that will kill bears ain't gonna kill a wolf? And I am not sure that wolves stampede.
A telltale sign of a bullshit apology are the words, "sorry we didn't make it clear."

It's a bureaucratic way of saying, "The only thing I did wrong was fail to hold your sippy cup for you while I explained the rules."
He said he go to bed at 9, it's just a schedule shift.
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