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Ubuntu looks very interesting. I think it has a shot at being popular among enterprise customers because of the ease of management via the same tools other Linux desktops/servers can be managed.
I hired someone from one. They were awesome.
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Isn't that really the fault of an overloaded (as in doing too much) function API rather than a DRY related problem?
I do. I usually have one glass of alcoholic drink with dinner (beer or wine, depending on the food). I don't often drink when I go out, except on special occasions.
No. The photon population is not in thermal equilibrium. (They are concentrated at one energy, rather than obeying the Bose-Einstein distribution vs energy.)

More generally: A negative absolute temperature is possible only when the distribution of energy states is bounded by some maximum.
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Huh. I used to maintain bindings for the old bluetooth neurosky mindset for PureData/MaxMSP, never thought about the issues with their new headset with proprietary radio not having drivers. They were usually pretty good about open sourcing stuff too.

Last workshop I taught was http://artandcode.com/3d/workshops/2b-teledildonics-with-the..., which I had to compress into 3 hours so it was more an overview sort of thing. I think this workshop will require a nice device to start reversing from scratch, which is something else I'm going to have to figure out. Fitbit would suck since you'd have to learn USB, then ANT. Would like to get one HID device, one non-HID, just to cover most of the bases.
You can't be proud of something that generally works pretty well, but has flaws like any other human institution?
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The quality of _both_ images in the animated flipping version is greatly reduced from the original, making it not a really fair comparison.
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This looks eerily similar to late Microsoft design patterns.
"lled wid" and "filmnd widd" also do it.
"pilemd wid" and "demd widdd" add the word "attacks".

"condemned with with end with" and "demned go diamond with" are interesting.
Use NoScript.
The sinning function was the product of a human mind. Is it not the human mind always that is the sinner? So vigil must always delete the human.

In order for the human to produce a valid function that human must mentally execute the code s/he is writing. If that code is flawed then the mental compiler should delete the sinful code from the programmer's memory before it ever makes it to digital form.

If vigil merely deletes the code then it's acting like the human's brain, and forces the human to try again. But it does not eradicate the source of the sin. It acts as a tool for the human rather than a universal enforcer of good morals.

Note that one can lie as to one's sinfulness. Rather than lie about implores and swears a function can deceive by stating none at all (or just weak ones). This is like pleading the fifth. This is like not promising to not do something bad and therefore not being dishonest if you do do something bad.

Should flaws in vigil cause vigil to delete itself? Or should the inherent flaws in vigil cause it to delete the programmer who made vigil? If vigil can not catch all sins, as it currently cannot, should it therefore delete both itself and it's author immediately? If it does any less than this then it falls short of being an enforcer of pure morality, instead settling on a subset deemed of utmost importance.
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Sorry good sir. While your original message presents very useful tips that can be used for good or bad, unsolicited/unwanted commercial email IS spam.

Just like the bunch of crap that one receives in a regular mailbox and goes straight to the trash bin without reading.

Marketing being sleazy or not has nothing to do with it.
You really think this could be the next Facebook?!

But actually, I feel like this falls into the category of "cool but absolutely worthless" things (like Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson at http://www.drunkronswanson.com/). So while fun to make, I guess it doesn't have much value beyond that :)
It was listed on the result page on google.com
Incredibly interested in your work here. For small-dimensional problems (or problems with features that can be engineered to be small-dimensional), ensemble methods through random forests and bagging and the like are incredibly useful.

But for high-dimensional text problems that're pure classification, I tend to rely simply on 1NN classifiers (against a single centroid of training data of a target category, of which there tend to be many). I've spent a lot of time with NMF, for its potential as an incredibly interesting data-exploration tool ("There's a pronoun cluster! There's a Spanish cluster! There's a 404 Error axis!") or low-dimension projection step. I've even spent a good amount of time on implementing the algorithm in a number of memory-efficient ways.

Could you expand a bit on how you used NMF for these problems in practice (similar to how a sparse autoencoder captures reduced-dimensional features en route to supervised learning), or how others used ensemble methods?
I can't check from here, but this looks to be an exact duplicate of something posted and discussed a few weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933656

As a bonus, that submission doesn't have ads distributed throughout the text, looking almost exactly like the article.
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I must confess, I flagged this article before clicking through because I thought it was using dumb innuendo, not vilifying it.
This just made me realize that for the majority of people that use their ISP's router, there is effectively an easy backdoor (with a firmware update) into their private LAN. What would stop a government agency (w/ or w/o a subpoena) from requesting the ISP provide access to your local network w/o your permission, accessing resources you otherwise thought were secure? Or really, any malicious entity that can figure out how-to forge the certificate required to do this.
Yes, they have shifted from pure number crunching (which is Graham's approach) to a system that values future growth potential more. In Graham's style you can only judge a company on its past dealings, cash in hand, inventory, equipment, etc. But Buffett knows that companies also have other qualities that are very valuable, but not commonly considered as such. He went from a pure quantitative approach to one that is quantitative and qualitative. Hence, when he talks about moats, he is talking about those qualities that you cannot price, but are still very valuable. One great example of this is his investment in Coca-Cola. Not a great investment in terms of financials (dont get me wrong, it makes him money) only, but also in terms of all the goodwill that the Coca-Cola company enjoys (they invented Santa Claus!). So investing in it made sense because their long term prospects were positive given the past history and goodwill status.
nice! very useful, thanks for putting this together.
Are you sure? I thought trademark protection was limited by field. So if you intended to create a clock called TeaTime, and you got a trademark on "TeaTime" as a t-shirt slogan, that wouldn't stop another company from getting a trademark for its TeaTime clock, because clocks are not normally competitors to t-shirts. Am I mistaken here?
This doesn't work for me, unfortunately. I keep getting the male voice.
I use irssi, as well. The point of my app was probably lost in my wall of text, though. On the iPhone, an SSH client into screen and then irssi is pretty nasty. Now, on an iPad I might be able to put up with a nice, expensive SSH client, like the one from panic. Even then, that's a lot that you have to do just to check IRC. Also, the required overhead of a constant network connection at the mercy of the phone's wifi. I'm not wrapping a protocol or extending IRC in any way. I'm funneling IRC data into a database so that I can use it in a more natural way from a native iOS app. That's what's ideal for IRC, on a phone, in my opinion. Your mileage may very, though, and to each their own. Everybody likes their IRC their own way and I'm not even sure I'm 100% sold on this way yet, but I'm going to try it out. :)
Mark Steyn is not exactly a neutral party in the Black case, which has strong political overtones. The article we're commenting on also puts a fair bit of gloss on the affair; Conrad Black may very well be a well-regarded "historian", but what most reasonable people would call him is "one of the richest people in all of media"; he went into his legal troubles with something close to half a billion dollars in assets.

The dubious and controversial theory used against Black was "honest services fraud". The statute enforcing it does seem to have been perilously vague. But the moral/ethical/pragmatic reasoning behind it isn't; it boils down to maintaining a fiduciary duty to your shareholders or, in Rod Blagojevich's case, to the citizens of the state you govern. Also, Black wasn't merely charged with honest services fraud, but also with charges like obstructing justice and theft, charges that Richard Posner upheld.
My solution in this case has been to disable subpixel antialiasing on only the elements that are being animated. It's a messy fix but it works without sacrificing smooth text everywhere else on the site.
Ask HN: I'm looking for a mobile device testing service
I'm looking for a service that will go out and test my website for basic formatting issues, broken images, videos, etc. using a variety of mobile devices that I choose and then deliver me a report based on what worked, what didn't work, problems they encountered, etc. Ideally I would give them a URL, a list of devices and in return get a nice report that I can take action on.

Does anyone know of anything? I'd love to find out about and support a startup if possible.
Looks like the 'filled with so much drama' quote is from here:

http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/12/01/surprised.that.reader...

Strange, it appears to be text from a random news article. Some kind of bad training data? Or memory corruption?
Silly system. Takes very broad and multivariable dependent statistics and tries to parse them down to micro lifestyle criteria.

Red meat is a perfect example. There are no convincing studies that demonstrate that it as an independent factor reduces life expectancy. If anything, quite the opposite is true, based on previous generations or the health of populations where red meat is very heavily consumed but suffer few other adverse major health factors.
this one works for me, tx.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg John Cleese of monty python talks about creativity and it's essence. May be relevant and is definitely fun.
I do agree that this guy should have had a lawyer, even just as a go-to person for stuff relating to the law. He was running a business, and not consulting a lawyer from time to time is probably a bad idea. For example, if he was ever sued, he would want to have a lawyer on speed-dial, rather than flipping through the Yellowpages trying to find a lawyer while under stress.

My general thought is that it's quite possible that his lawyer would not have foreseen this turn of events. His lawyer probably would have referenced local, state, and Federal law on this, but could have easily not seen that another state would try to prosecute him for his clients offering online gambling to residents of that state.

(I think it goes without saying that a lawyer probably would not have foreseen the government offering him a plea bargain to commit a Federal -- and international -- crime in order to plead guilty to a lesser charge)
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Curious to know their financials.
Oh... and as a hint, if your response includes ".. you don't understand .. " at any point... please understand that you are insulting the person you speak to.
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The service is called pingback and is one of many tools that will be rolled out in the next few months to aid sales and business development folks. The idea behind pingback is simple, as you are sending out important emails, bcc the pingback robot from any email client and it will remind you to followup in the specified time.<p>Take a look at the site for additional information.
So install an adblock extension to your browser. Don't get your ISP to block it for everybody.
Does the same thing on the nexus 7, but with a lot of stuttering.
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Along similar lines: http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/hit%20his%20head%20so%20h... ;)
It's reproducible for me in Google Now on my phone (Galaxy Nexus), but not in Google Translate.

Google Now is using a female American voice, but with low quality emphasis. Google Translate is using a male UK voice, with much better emphasis. I don't know how to configure each to choose which voice.

The Google Translate link in a comment elsewhere, that forces the American pronunciation (and high quality emphasis), reproduces it. The default, UK pronunciation, does not.
This is why you should be in control of your response to these things with your lawyers advice to guide you. If you just "leave that stuff up to the lawyers" without ever doing any kind of oversight, even the good ones who aren't 'make-working' billable hours are likely to embarras you with uncalled for nasty grams-sooner or later.
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No publisher is looking at Elite: Dangerous (or pretty much any other game kickstarter) and wishing that they'd have funded it first. Even Frontier couldn't justify funding it by normal means and they own the IP.

The game will probably cost at least $5M to make. The kickstarter just scraped $1.25M by calling on the core market. The game still needs to sell at least another 250k at full retail price to break even, and that's after many of the core audience have already bought it through kickstarter. Under perfect conditions, that level of sales on PC alone would already put in in risky territory.

As for indies, well yes, publishers already fund those as part of their portfolios. The ones that look like they're going to break even, at least.
there is no bad press. by vilifying it, she's promoting it.
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He wasn't a sportsbook, though. He's a software engineer.
Are bloggers finally sick of ads and donate buttons?
Recently I've noticed the trend that many blogs are using a new form of monetizing, the likeplum ask button. Bloggers are now making money off their close users questions.
How does this differ from followupthen.com?
Watching Charlie Rose over the past 15 years helps to prove this.
Hah, well done. That is awesome.
I hear you on the prevalence of spousal abuse. There was a report of it at an apartment complex we were living at. Police came knocking hard at the back door which we never used and which had bikes leaned against it from inside. I couldn't get the door open all the way, and my wife was barely visible back behind me. The cops became very aggressively agitated and unbelieving when I told them it wasn't us that they were looking for. They only left after we got the door open, and I agreed to let them talk to her in a different room from me.
It's absolutely possible if not probable that many Google employees prefer iOS or outright dislike Android. However the scenarios given were the worst sort of FUD that even Android detractors don't resort to (seriously, so anyone who actually needs to be contacted should avoid Android if we're to believe the claim).
All I can say is that I kept agreeing with most of the article as I read it.

I do have a N9 and it is still the best phone I've had. Too bad it did not get a proper fighting chance and now it is unsupported.

Let's see what Jolla brings as its "heir". ;)
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I think it is an awful idea. Those resources could be allocated elsewhere. Look, if Apple or Google starts making an OS for cars, Canonical shouldn't necessarily create a new car OS five years later just to be able to say "me too!" If you're entering it five years after it started, you'd better have something that surprises and delights people. Arguably it has been even more than five years since I"m just using the iPhone release date. Shrug.
You make an excellent point and I agree with you. The natural route seems most promising. Maybe they can steal Hinton from the University of Toronto and have the whole package?

Thanks for bringing Numenta to my attention. It appears to be a very interesting company.
This phenomenon has been consistently thrown at me by my parents as a good reason not to get tattoos.

As someone who currently likes the aesthetic of tattoos, I've been trying to follow my '5 year rule' for a tattoo, which means I must consistently want said tattoo for five years before getting it inked on my body. So far, I don't have any tattoos.

One of my friends puts his reasoning for getting tattoos a little differently: "I want these to be a big middle-finger from young, cool Danny to older, conservative Danny"

It is very hard to think about not liking something that I currently like, whether it be food, music, or activities.
Nice project. Noted that my Ghostery script is blocking both facebook connect and Google Analytics. Even if TOR is used these services are able to easily fingerprint the browser and compare to their own databases (https://panopticlick.eff.org/).

It would be nice if these where opt-in.
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In this week's edition of "Don't Believe Everything You Read on the Internet": http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2004/mar04/noaa04-...

These people went to jail because:

1) It's against (American) federal law to import wildlife taken in violation of the laws of another country;

2) The people in question took substantial measures to hide their smuggling activity;

3) The amount of illegal goods in question here was valued at millions of dollars.

The fact that it was no longer illegal in Honduras doesn't matter, though the reason why is rather esoteric. In criminal matters, liability requires two concurrent elements: 1) an act; 2) a certain state of mind. You have to have both at the same time--one by itself won't do.

E.g. if I'm in the woods hunting and I shoot and kill someone thinking they are a deer, I'm not guilty of murder because while I have engaged in every action required to commit the crime I did not have the requisite state of mind.

Here, they imported wildlife, and they did so with the knowledge/belief that the wild life had been taken in violation of Honduran law. They were mistaken about whether the wild life had actually been taken in violation of Honduran law, but as a general rule mistakes do not change the outcome unless the mistake negates the state of mind. In this case, their mistake did not negate their guilty state of mind. The result seems harsh, but it's just the symmetry of the rule. It's no more conceptually unfair than say holding someone guilty of attempted murder.
On commercial qualities, there are business plan competitions that MBAs do a ton - here's a post from someone who thinks they are useless:

http://steveblank.com/2010/05/17/no-one-wins-in-business-pla...

After a decade of development I am still completely off when estimating the work required for any particular task or project. Most timelines are still 2-3x as long as originally estimated.

Choosing ideas seems more art than science right now. I'd love to have a better way.
The user can disable it, but screwing with the user's traffic shouldn't be the default in the first place.
For some definition of "supports". The last two or three releases of Ubuntu have used the Nouveau driver by default for the LiveCD, which causes my system to hardlock (known, unresolved issue for almost two years now) so I've had to pass special kernel boot flags to disable it and use the VESA driver instead to install and then switch to the nVidia driver afterwards.

Realistically though, I don't think it's ever going to be practical to use the Nouveau driver. No Cg support, no CUDA support, and performance will always be a fraction of nVidia's driver.

That isn't to say that I don't wish them well, I do. But I still think it's foolhardy at best to ever expect this to be truly competitive with nVidia's proprietary drivers.
So did Honest Achmed, but he got shut down. https://bugzil.la/647959
Well, yes, but my point was that I see them as part of the same thing. A function (or whatever) that does lots of related things can be "DRY" if it avoids writing out all the related things longhand, or it can be "too much" if it introduces bugs.

DRY as a general philosophy to avoid cut-and-paste code is fine. But it's also an ethic that in my experience prioritizes concision at the expense of clarity. Loss of clarity is a factor in half the security bugs on the internet.
Thing is this is a Nature paper. I don't think it's really fair to expect scientists to rephrase this discovery differently. Negative temperature is a pretty long standing concept in physics and when a stable system is synthesized in the lab, scientists ought to be free to use the appropriate terminology. Scientists claiming to have found the harry potter invisibility cloak on the other hand.... :)
Which conveniently happens to be GHC! (In case anyone missed the joke.)
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I'm sure there were many contributing factors, but my own theory stems from a fun fact I learned in my History of Ancient and Medieval Science course: the idea of the crank, or continuously applying force in a circular direction to do work, in a way that didn't have a natural limit (such as reaching the end of a screw), actually wasn't developed until sometime in the vicinity of the late Dark Ages. Archaeologists have found devices for e.g., grinding grain that are astonishingly close to using a crank motion, but were in fact pivoted back and forth, a vastly inferior solution.

Without the development of the crank, the idea of spinning wheels with pedals or gears would not occur to anyone.
> You still need to join a University for the credit to be worth something. So maybe students will be able to transfer in many credits, kind of like APs.

This is in fact exactly what I think people should do. MOOCs are not an either-or proposition. Many people do not know this, but you can take an AP exams without having actually taken the course [1]. If you do well on the AP exam, it will count as college credit. Good scores on all of the relevent AP exams can easily shave off a year, and possibly a little more.

I see MOOCs as an avenue for self-study that allows you to obtain most or the majority of your college course credits relatively inexpensively by augmenting what you have learned in the MOOC alongside traditional (and accepted) examination procedures. Then, the University environment can be better utilized for where it's really needed -- for access to research facilities, computational equipment, labs, and other technologies are extremely expensive to obtain as a single individual.

In addition, almost every University (though it's not well-advertised) offers credit-by-examination or some variation of it to skip courses. I know of two rare students from Georgia Tech who were able to obtain a 4-year BS in Computer Science in roughly 2-years through this approach. It turns out to be an extraordinary difficult feat to do, since academic performance is both a function of raw knowledge well as experience.

[1] http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/about_faq.htm...
You could combine this with a bitlbee instance as your irc server, and then you could have unified mobile access to all your different chat networks.
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