skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically Thinkpads have been the best option for a Linux laptop. I have a Sandy Bridge X220 that is mostly ok, but there have been issues like this xorg-video-intel bug that was recently fixed:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48525

and I still get occasional compiz window manager crashes but they are few and far between these days. If you want something along the lines of an Air have a look at the Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
Gotta agree. But people apparently need a Hero and hero worship to get exited about things (ie. funding).
I bet there are thousands of people who would have been able and willing to do the same things as Neil, and who today would happily make a one way trip to Mars.
Most people of course couldn't be bothered to get off their couch, so these people (eg. asttronauts) of course get my respect for pushing the envelope.
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I'm not sure there are 100,000 family-owned businesses where the owner has 75 years+ experience, spends 15+ hours a day at work and takes their job so seriously. I've worked in kitchens that were highly-rated in their own cities, but they never approached the exacting all-around level of quality and detail of Jiro's restaurant. If you've ever worked in the food industry, you'd definitely know the care they take in all steps of their process blows away all but the best of the best restaurants and I believe the stars from Michelin reflect that.
It's powered by love of crafting stuff :p
Looking at Theano, they seem pretty different.

Theano seems to be a beefed-up numpy (with compilation, symbolic differentiation, stability, and GPU use), while Sympy is a CAS framework.

That said, Theano looks really really really cool.

I wish I'd seen Theano before trying to force Sympy to do pretty much what Theano does (through Sympy's codegen).
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Soy lowers your testerone level, so I hope not.

Anyway it is much likelier that we will have labgrown meat, although I guess you would prefer we all go with artificial meat (lab grown meat is real meat, just without the animal. Plant based substitutes are plants).
So executing the Nuremberg Laws was encourageable?
This is absolutely amazing - I'll be sure to share!
Where did the photo in this article come from?
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I completely agree with this. I think using plain English and a couple of concrete examples at the top of the page would help immensely.

I didn't know what this meant, for example: "Wysp is a journey to realize your full creative potential."
> Today Apple went down in history as the biggest
> patent-troll of all time, stiffling innovation and
> competition like nobody has ever done before.

Only Apple is no patent troll, because they produce and sell high quality products which other companies try to copy.

Please, tell me how much innovation will be stiffled when Samsung can no longer produce these highly original connectors http://www.davidglover.org/facsimilist/wp-content/uploads/20..., or USB adapters: http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-P...

> Throw away your Macbooks, iPhones and iPads.

Indeed, you won't need them, others came with a plenty of fresh ideas:
http://dewith.com/2012/its-not-just-phones/
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No cite, but even if true. That is today. Things change. Increasing demand for land and water, increasing demand for meat by formally poor peoples in rapidly "industrializing" China/India will skyrocket cost.
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Actually, during Stalin times, the state delegated substantial part of no-high tech production to cooperative businesses ("артели"). Only later the system turned into a monolithic state monopoly.
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Fun read. Though we should first perfect the dark art of pizza deliveries before attempting to fly a taco over our heads.
Honest question. How does accidentally clicking a mobile ad lead to accidentally calling the vendor in question?
My current one is based on a Mecer http://www.mecer.co.za/notebooks - No problem at all (except a little bit too noisy when fan is on).
There's no single self-contained solution in the post really, it's more an illustration of a number of useful things that Lua can be used for. I might try to put another post together at some stage though.

For us our main goal is to prevent the majority of requests from even reaching the Rails stack. We've done this by introducing full page caching across the site, for both logged in and logged out users. This means that only a small percentage of requests at peak times need to touch Rails or any database at all - everything is served by Nginx.

This hasn't been without its challenges. The last section of this post might give a clue as to how we've solved the most difficult ones. I will think about a post tackling this whole subject but I need to think about how to get it across, it's not easy.
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There is no law that obligates the directors of a company to maximise profit, at least under the Corporations Act that I know of in the UK. There is a statutory requirement to act in the best interests of the legal entity that is the corporation, and what these obligations are has been further defined under case law.

There is no such law here in the UK. I will leave the US corporation law context to someone else with specific knowledge.
Pass. Doesn't handle Transmission.
You can compare US (or other post industrial, consumer based countries) with India and other countries heading towards post industrial consumerism. They being example of resource usage X years ago
Ok, question. How do you develop the skill of keeping calm under that kind of pressure? I get stressed for the silliest things, I'm sure there is a way to fix that.
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That seems to have been a major problem in many Japanese families, to the point that the absentee father is kind of a trope in a lot of Japanese media. If any of you guys played Earthbound, you might remember that, while the mom was always at home, the dad only talked to you over the phone no matter what time of day it was. Just one more clever little thing from that game.
See also, OpenOpt and the FuncDesigner package.

http://openopt.org/Welcome
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Iron Man probably.
Indeed. In other words, Apple is using tactics known to sales oriented organizations for decades.
I'd suggest that the figure became a reasonable amount when both litigant started turning over several multiples of that figure per quarter. It's the effect of general inflatin on economies.
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Tried to find the guy's email to ask if transmission is planned, but with no success.
See, this is why we should use the term "patent extortion" instead of trolls. To avoid pedants like the above.
There was a ton of engineering and test piloting that was accomplished on his part. You don't just ride Apollo up to the moon. And by all account, he was one of the most competent test pilots/aeronautical engineers in the program.
oh my god, but where is hacker news????
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In particular, [excerpts from Wikipedia] Gilder is a founder of the Discovery Institute, the leading think tank of the intelligent design movement. Gilder has written many articles in favor of ID and opposing the theory of evolution.
"booger" doesn't do it. Just sayin.
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How exactly is this whole power adapter and usb connector thing even relevant? Who sits down, and decides to buy a product based on the configuration of the included cables? I sure don't.

Nobody is arguing Apple hasn't done great things for the evolution of phones and laptops, but so have other companies. Least we all forget, Apple is the granddaddy of ripping off technologies (and good for them, we are better off for it).
I think the bit about talking to the manager is key here. Many of my friends are servers and customers will sometimes stiff them entirely on tips because they are upset about the quality of the food or some other transgression of the restaurant, but really this only affects the servers and hardly ever goes up the chain to the management. If you are having an issue, you need to talk to the manager or odds are it will never be corrected. Plus, when you've been sitting there an hour and your server might only have four tables, you could end up being a much larger portion of their tables that night than you realize. It's not uncommon to have little old ladies take over a table for a few hours drinking tea resulting in the server walking away with substantially below-average tips that night. I find the system completely unfair but have not yet found a way to protest it that wouldn't directly hurt the servers.
So, the claims are that capitalism is based on information and knowledge and not greed and that greed leads to socialism?

Is certainly an interesting opinion.

My first thoughts were that he seems to be confusing motives and methods. Information and knowledge certainly flow through a capitalist system and are definitely required in order to do well, but they are not the motive for most capitalists, In fact I can think of very few millionaires who are in business for the learning and philosophy, whereas the desire to own more stuff or money often is a driving force.

As for saying that socialism is the end product of greed, and that it is greed that leads to a socialist welfare state, well. Someone should definitely tell this to some of the various murderous dictators that have been propped up by capitalists in the name of stability, security and favourable trading positions. They'd have a pretty good laugh about it while checking their numbered accounts.

Also, if greed leads to the creation of welfare for the poor, presumably this means that the problem is the greedy poor. Which given that by definition they cannot be very good at being greedy as they have no stuff, makes me doubt that it was their greed that led to the creation of welfare, and that maybe having less than 100% employment might have more to do with the massive mechanisation and export of labour.
VSS/VPC == MLAG... but what is ALB? I am guessing server uses one link until failure then uses the other? Even then, there are still network issues to overcome that may justify MLAG.
Your example problem is solved cheaper, faster, and more reliably by searching online.

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+hard+drive+will+fit+in+...
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Yeah they definitely are not patent trolls unless the meaning of the term has changed since Lodsys made the news earlier this year. Lodsys seems to just be a company who has a bunch of patents and waits for someone to implement one and sue. Apple created something, got it patented, and took it to court. To me that seems like it is what the patent system is about.

I dont agree with patents in the current form, but that is the game right now.
In the US, you are usually asked if there's anything you don't eat when ordering omakase (unless the chef knows you, in which case it's not an issue). Is that unusual elsewhere?
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I'm a big fan of System76's laptops: https://www.system76.com/ -- they're well priced for the power they pack, and I've never had a hardware problem. Plus they come pre-configured with the appropriate drivers for their webcams, fingerprint readers, and the like. Smoothest-running Linux laptop I've ever had (although I defintely heavily customized their shipped config).
I asked people on Reddit, and they answered in this thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/yue0s/what_laptop_sho...

Good luck!
Regardless, "fabricates" would be a lot clearer.
Here's one that - if executed on the Federation computer on board the Starship Enterprise - would make smoke and sparks fly from the terminal...

http://wikiloopr.com/Reince%20Priebus
This has been happening since 2000, over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia.
With guided rocket propelled "grenades" and the terrorists are the CIA and pals in USA government.
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Same thought. The core of webos looks small, and capable enough to make most of day to day apps. It would reduce friction and unnecessary toolkit complexity.
It's much, much worse than what you describe. They are seizing domains based on the preference of a private entity. There is no allegation of criminal infringement against dajaz1.com -- not even a little bit.

This is not an issue of harassing minor offenders, this is an issue of harassing those who have not offended in the slightest. Who are guilty of nothing more than saying something (in the form of links) which the RIAA does not wish to hear.
Thinkpads are excellent for Linux. I've had many, currently the T520.

All the bells and whistles are supported, like the Trackpoint, web camera, special keyboard keys, LED light, etc. The only gotchas I've run into are with NVIDIA graphics drivers.
It's looking great, but there's one detail I had feared might be the case, which seems to have happened: Font Bureau's lovely, custom type family Prelude appears to have met the licensing axe. (More on Prelude here: http://webos.org/2009/07/05/webos-font-is-called-prelude-dev... )

It's a shame, because Prelude was as much a part of the WebOS identity as Helvetica Neue is to iOS or Roboto is to Android 4+. What might be best at this point, if it's true that Prelude simply cannot be legally included in the OSS distribution, is that a new, open-source family be selected. I'd suggest Lato, a friendly, 10-weight family with a similar humanized geometricism to Prelude's Futura lineage. (http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato)
I'd definitely recommend a thinkpad. However if you buy a high-end model with optimus graphics, you'll need to use some workarounds like these:

http://sagark.org/optimal-ubuntu-graphics-setup-for-thinkpad...

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Some places to start:

The Use of Knowledge in Society: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

Economics and Knowledge: http://www.econlib.org/library/NPDBooks/Thirlby/bcthLS3.html
Intangible "property" is Non-exclusive. The idea that it can be "stolen" is hilarious[1]. "Oh, I'm being infringed...call 911 and blow the doors off the house???" WTF. Arguably, amongst the strongest cases for copyright is that it protects the integrity of free speech, by managing how other people treat your work. Which is a bit Ironic in the cases here, where we are trampling over free speech to protect strictly monetary interests.

Edit:

[1] In a logical way, not a ha-ha sort. If you have rights, they are still your rights. The rights are your economic asset. Your rights have not been stolen. This raises the crux of the matter: the enforcement of your rights. In particular, the cost. So as a society, we need to ask ourselves who pays for all of this? "Damaging" the economic value of your rights is a problem if the cost of enforcement is high.
Great timing. I recently began working on a project where I ran into the problem of cross-domain fonts in Firefox trying to serve static assets from S3 to CloudFront. Had to resort using my own nginx proxy through CloudFront for fonts and add an additional request to the page. Finally, problem solved!
That's right. After paying more attention to the paragraph in question I'd love the grandparent asking his friends about the new models that are being tried and how are they based on Wittgensteinian pragmatics. I haven't seen any, but I've only been exposed to the applied mainstream of NLP, not to the bleeding edge of the research.