skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really: the parrot must have an internal representation of 'color' as something (a concept / quality) that can be had and shared between things. It (hm, s/he) must therefore understand that it is (it must represent it as) an abstract quality in the sense that it can be had by different things (likewise with 'shape').

Well so what? This entails (I would argue) that it has the capacity to store and operate on abstract things (more or less the definition of 'symbol') - and in this very sense, the parrot has the faculty for symbolic processing/operations. Not only does it extract properties from sensory data and generalize them into concepts (things can be wibbly-wobbly-in-way-A, or wibbly-wobbly-in-way-B (first order of abstraction (well, n+1 really)) => things have wibbliness, and some things have the same kind of wibbliness (second order (or n+2))), but also, it may operate on these concepts and use them in assertion/negation propositions: some objects have the same color but not the same shape. (I use the term proposition in the more general logical sense, not necessarily as in 'a linguistic assertion'; but when asked, the parrot provides an answer that can be put in a truth-table so to speak.)

Interestingly, that's one of the ways to actually define 'semantic content': something which provides truth-conditions (e.g. some language-formalizing systems would say that the proposition "The present King of France is bald" has no semantic content / has no meaning because it is neither true nor false (presently there is no King in France, and the reference fails) (though Russell would disagree ('how can it be neither true nor false?') (if interested: "On Denoting", 1905.))

So what #2? Well, one could argue that symbolic apparatus + semantics (a set of truth-functions / grounds for constructing them) => 'language', so it's kind of a big thing, I'd say. (At the very least, evidence towards abstract thought in animals is always somehow very interesting for me.) Again: symbols (abstracting from properties => projecting these abstracts back onto sensory data) + symbolic processing (basically, ability to ascribe truth/falsity to/via them) => darn interesting. There's a whole hot debate how/whether this can be achieved 'bottom-up' from neural networks (Connectionism) (is 'symbolic processing' the proper way of reduction? Even if cognition is 'symbolic' in the end, perhaps it is best to model this starting bottom-up and arriving at 'symb.processing' as an emergent/epiphenomenal capacity?) - or, whether you need 'innate capacity' for symbolic processing / language ('language genes') - top-bottom language faculties (that all add up to those same neural networks, but simply, you won't get much by starting bottom-up) (Classicism / Nativism (not really interchangeable, using loosely / generalizing, etc.))

(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/#ConDeb , http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/#ShaConBetCo... , etc.)

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edit fixed and added even more confusing stuff.
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This is why the business (intelligence/systems) analyst role was invented. If you have a business team that is making decisions based on data, you really need a dedicated person who is competent with databases, statistics, reporting, and visualization. Otherwise you will be doomed to drown in e-mails of Excel spreadsheets with manually copy-pasted data and broken formulas. This is how most businesses operate, and I'd go as far as to say it's a major reason why we have been in an economic recession.
At least once a week I am gobsmacked by how excruciatingly and pointlessly picky developers can be.

Want to start a real stupid waste of time fight? Bring up code standards. Not that having a standard is wrong, but rather just how inflexible and dogmatic developers can suddenly become when you bring up tabbing, spaces or other first-world problems, developer-style.
Is there something like a kickstarter but for political issues? That would be perfect.
what's so cool about it?
This might belong on AskUbuntu, but I thought I'd start here...

The ASUS Transformer EeePad ubuntu flash instructions have not been updated since 2011. Does this new method apply to ASUS Transformer pads? Is anyone trying to make it?

I haven't flashed Ubuntu since I was able to try it with OLife Prime (method for TF-101), and the included image was an ancient Natty, not upgradeable to current version without breaking everything, so I gave up and went back to using Android+Chroot. Is there any reason why these instructions would need to change?

Would appreciate a reply from any Transformer Pad users who have tried any method of installing a recent Ubuntu (or even Debian.) Where are the hangups? Kernel drivers? Touchpad?
Resemble.js: Image analysis and comparison
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> Who knows the word iOS? Nobody (oh, you do, but you are a geek).

I run into this problem constantly, as I want to refer to "devices that run iOS", but I know that that is a reference that a large number of people won't understand. I often find myself saying "iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch", which always feels exceedingly awkward. Does anyone know of a better way for me to do this? Am I simply doomed to permanently listing off, individually, all of these products? ;P
That's how one finds out about the real-world benefits. I'm not an ops person, but once it's already deployed, how hard is it to just leave it there for the limited benefit it does give?
"Oh hey Spotify, sure use ALL my upload bandwidth"
Hah.. c:
Hail Corporate: The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit
oh I am pretty many of the lawmakers have interns or the likes whose job it is to watch certain sites for trends and such.
I used to think like this when I did my first startup as a technical co-founder.

But in the end, I worked less hours, travelled less and spent more time with my family than the idea co-founder who marketed and ultimately got us the sales to continue.
That's not happening with SPDY, WebRTC, Dart, or WebP. Google's competitors are going over these proposals with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. I get the impression that people are extra skeptical of Google standards because of the potential to get steamrolled.
Growth = Engagement
Article about not blind pumping virality, cause it doesn't cumulate traffic without retention of users.
"iDevice" seems to be a useful word I hear a lot these days.
Completely agree that learning functional programming has improved my thinking and code. The one difficulty I continue to encounter is switching back and forth between recursive and iterative thinking. From a computational perspective they may be equivalent, but from a cognitive perspective they aren't (at least in my case). I don't know how many times, for example, I've been bitten by a stack overflow when jumping into Python from Haskell (or equivalently, jumping directly into the ST Monad because I want to iterate through some lists).
I was using the word "Lisp" to mean "all languages with s-expr based syntax" and not as an abbreviation of Common Lisp. I even explicitly noted that: "Until a few (3?) years ago it was a ... Scheme".

But I don't know the Lisp/lisps history that well, did I use the term incorrectly?
I think many people would love to be in a position where this question is applicable to them. For the very few, the answer is: when someone wants or offers to buy your company.

It's sort of like asking "How do you become a supermodel?"
Slightly tangential, but I signed up for Medium five months ago and I still can't post. At this point Medium has a negative connotation in my mind, just like Svbtle.
I'm not sure how to get excited by this. Seems weird that customers had to wait until version 3 to get a bubble chart and some basic animation events (though it seems you are still on your own to figure out the transitions). After using d3, charts built like this just feel so limiting and a bit old fashioned - I think it is a testament to the amazing work that Mike Bostock has done.
And you are correct, sir.
Oh no, I don't want them to win. At most, SONY will just add a "we use icons from KDE, licensed under LGPL" as a tiny text somewhere. The goal isn't to win a case against SONY and score massive profits from damages. The goal is to not be on the wrong end of a suit.
What's Jobs-To-Be-Done all about?
I work in advertising for multi-national clients the size of Sony, and believe me, acquiring the rights to images is a hugely important step in any marketing campaign. Most likely Sony hired an outside firm to create them a logo, and that firm copied it instead. I have no doubt Sony will apologize and pay a standard fee plus some for its use. If you think a huge corporation like Sony, with billions of dollars of sales a year, is purposely looking to rip off a single $1000 logo and hoping nobody would notice, you don't understand big business.
Oh My Cygwin: a zsh terminal for windows
Lists are. Vectors and hashes are not.

There are both mutable lists and immutable vectors and hashes though.

Edit: and user-defined structs are immutable unless explicitly declared with #:mutable keyword.
> 50% more shading power

From my reading, four of the shader units in the PS4 are reserved for Compute Units; things like physics (just cause 2) and lighting (battlefield 3), which cuts the raw advantage from 50% to 16%. Apparently on the 720, developers will be able to choose how to allocate compute units across the cores.

> twice the pixel throughput

Mainly useful for stereoscopic images or 4k. How many people have 4k tvs and 3D tvs? 16 render output units are plenty for 1080p (the PS4 has 32).

> twice the main ram throughput

At the cost of half the storage (4GB vs 8GB).

It's pretty much a tossup. Orbis is choosing different things to optimize compared to Durango. Textures will probably be able to be larger on Durango, while level loading will happen faster on the Orbis.

> with PS4 just having more of it

More of some things; less of others. Faster at some things; slower at others.

Either way, I'm not giving a dime to either of these evil companies.
This is how it should be with both patents and copyrights anyway. Corporations should not get to own them, ever - only to manage them for fixed periods of time decided in contracts with the owners. And if say the owner of a patent actually wants to sue someone, then they should be able to get a company to fight on their behalf (and share the gains). I think this would at least prevent most of the abuses for both patents and copyrights.
Apple devices?
A poem where every word is pronounced the same
Great insight. I was under impression VCs make a lot more (at least those 20 or so that 'matter' - and this seems to be data on the top ones. It means that all of them not in the top 20 are probably losing money or just balancing near zero. A far cry from 'sharks of capitalism' image they carry.
An older version of jqmobile used some kind of FastClick technique, but it was causing too many compatibility issues on android devices. Projects like these need to strike a fine balance between usability and device-awareness, but there are a number of exposed options in the library where you can optimize for specific devices.
First step to action is communication. Politicians aren't mind readers, they need to communicate with their constituents to understand their wants.

Whether or not a petition is an effective means of communication I'm not qualified to answer, but it seems like a better option than doing nothing at all.
I have worked at three startups where I joined at <10 employees. Best result was stock-options worth less than the price. Worst was they owed me a paycheck. I had fun, and we had a good chance of making it big with all of them. I like to think that if I'd been offered the chance to join Google at <10 that I'd have been wise enough to spot the potential value of the company and take more stock. Unfortunately: a) I was not asked and b) I probably would not have had that wisdom. However, if I had been asked, but had not taken more stock, I'd still be a millionaire, just not a billionaire.
PostgreSQL's LargeObjects are faster than MongoDB's GridFS
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It's interesting that it would appear surprising to let the people who invent things control what they invented.
How are you going to find 100M people who agree on what is in the public interest?
I work in an environment similar to this (an outside agency working with a large multi-national) and believe me, I CAN believe that this is an unintentional mistake. Also, there's not "multiple layers and layers of reviews" for small "build your vaio" websites such as this. Sony may be large, but that doesn't mean it's CEO, legal team, or any senior person with a VP or C-level title ever saw this.
Tumblr is #1 social network for young adults in US
Why does webkit have a limited tag depth?
Drac and kvm?
Survey Finds That Fish Are Often Not What Label Says
You have two situations when it comes to organizations:

The first, is typically called 'bundling'. An organization, say PETA, organizes a donation drive and encourages its members to make their personal contributions to campaigns PETA has researched and through such bundling the donations have a clear statement of why they were made and what policies are important to those donors.

The second, is an organization donating its money politically, effectively increasing the net donation impact of its members. (as they can donate to the organization and still donate individually)

The argument against the second situation still allows for the first. But conflating the first and second is begging the primary question of whether organizations themselves, in their limited-rights-having-but-clear-non-person status, ought to have their own right to political speech.

Because we can deny organizations the right to contribute directly without denying them the right to bundle. And such a situation would actually massively multiply the power of organization itself: as engaging an increasing number of voters becomes more important than being able to convince a small number of wealthy backers to contribute increasing sums of money.
Sounds like step #2 is using a tool supplied by the device manufacturer. The person running the tool is not reverse engineering or otherwise performing unauthorized bypass of DRM. Likewise, the HTC unlock tool is not affected.
It's funny you mention Motorola as an example of bad software, since Google owns them now. They're trying to maintain a separation between the two companies, and I guess that's a sign that it's working!
THe only thing that really distinguishes lisp these days (IMHO) is its macros. However, I think there are better languages out there to learn any particular paradigm-Python/Java for OO, Haskell/Erlang for functional, C for procedural, Ruby/Python for dynamic & duck typing, etc.

Lisp is great if you need a compiler tomorrow. If you have the time, though, I think that other languages are better when there's more time to invest.

EDIT: To actually answer the question, of course it's still relevant and useful, but perhaps other languages have caught up. It's still used in industry (Google uses it via ITA, IIRC).
Fair enough point...it's actually more like ~$100 in a relative sense, as far as my working experience in Poland went. But even saying it's the same relative price as in America, consider that this is a foreigner, calling at 8PM for a 9PM home appointment, very quick paperwork, and cash payment like the doctor delivered a pizza (we even tipped her). Everyone else here that I know has public healthcare that's largely reimbursed, so they were actually appalled by the price...go figure.
It's illegal to unlock a carrier-locked device for use on another carrier. This doesn't do that; this unlocks the bootloader to allow you to load another OS.
I'm not sure it is as deliberate as is being suggested. I think renaming the store allows it to potentially function for all types of devices, not just android devices.

Also, if you look at the play store on a device or the web, you generally see the android character all over it.
That sounds interesting - let me know if you're interested in getting that started again; I'd be up for working on it.
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Actually it's all about the OS. The apps work everywhere, and the hardware is largely the same.
Just checked the stats on your latest tweet (https://twitter.com/LenKendall/status/304626304391737344)

Here´s the bit.ly stats for the link included in that tweet: https://bitly.com/ZjYhUz+

Bit.ly analytics show 20 clicks in the last hour.

$75 for 20 clicks is a CPC of $3.75.

Obviously the click rate will change depending on the nature/timing of the tweet, but seems a bit expensive to me.
It might be worth trying to run it through trickle to limit the allowed upload bandwidth.

http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

[Edit] I see someone else has linked to trickle above.
One Minute Adviser: Aspire to Mediocrity
Sony ps4 main features and points
I take pictures all the time. While the Flight attendant in this situation seemed a little over zealous, it is not a huge deal and it's not why you got thrown off.

There are a few words you can not say on a plane. Never say "bomb", and NEVER say "terrorist" in any context. When you said, "I'm not a terrorist", you were doomed. Sorry. It had nothing to do with you taking pictures, just your naivety about language, perceived threats, and the illusion of security.

Also don't mess with business class. That is their cash crop.
The End of Low Hanging Fruit?
> Don't lie to your parents. They're your safe harbour, they will understand and help you. Tell them what's going on.

I understand what you mean by this, but just wanted to comment that this is not unambiguously good advice. Some parents have their own issues (severe anxiety, substance abuse, poor interpersonal skills, etc) and can't act as a safe harbor; lie to those parents if you've got to! Leave them in the dark! Find someone else to talk to about your problems.

I am glad that you have supportive and stable parents, though, but some people don't.
The Ph.D. bust: America’s awful market for young scientists in 7 charts
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> I think Google messed up badly early on by not putting marketing muscle

But according to ForrestN

> Google has been heavily reliant on branding from the very beginning. Being nerdy, "don't be evil," even being anti-marketing are all very conscious branding strategies, emphasized over and over again in PR contexts especially.

The concept of marketing muscle just evaporated for me. It seems like you mean they should have behaved differently.
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aka "Selling Out".
"Every penny possible" is like $1000, which is the going rate for icon licensing. Sony would just pay it. No "copyright reform" will happen from this.
EDITED: The original title was "Paypal once refused to hire someone because they liked to play 'hoops'"

It has now been edited to the less informative "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay"

The original title pointed out a rather striking anecdote that could trigger discussions about culture and discrimination while the current title doesn't point out anything interesting in the link.

For the impatient : This anecdote appears in Max Levchin's first contribution about halfway through the article. Just search for "hoops"
Majority rules is just another tyranny.
I'm glad more people are recognizing this truth. Though it's not like no one ever pointed it out. I would say that this was one of the central points of the E-Myth books (E for entrepreneur) http://www.amazon.com/The-E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses/...

That said, it's possible "Follow your Passion!" is still a useful lie... I'm not sure, it's certainly a prevalent lie.
Even at a 128KB/s fixed upload, that is still ~2x as much as my upload speed limit on UK ADSL.
Is it hyperbole, really, when the same argument would be applied in the opposite direction?

I know that KDE somehow has a reputation for quiet professionalism [1], but I don't think that should extend to a developer's personal opinion, nor do I think that pointing out the hyperbole of someone else is itself an example of hyperbole. Especially when the hyperbole is so obviously hyperbolic!

[1] http://inmyholyopinion.com/2007/05/11/gnome-vs-kde/
Awesome. Ubuntu even has packages for this. Thanks for the tip!
You are indeed wrong. Most states maintain the code internally and release it in a complete, copyright-free form. Here are a few with nice mirrors: http://www.statedecoded.com/states/
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My guess is that in the future the device in your living room is more or less just a PC which is streaming content (games, movies, music) to you. You pay for a subscription to the playstation network/xbox live/steam to get the content they offer, but they are rendered in the cloud and streamed to you.
I tried some of Gaikais game demos last year and was very impressed at how well it worked. Of course for the mass market this is atleast 5 years away, but its coming!

As even games are now moving to the cloud, i wonder how much longer the computing power of your local device really matters. The quality of your internet connection is getting increasingly more important than your hardware.
Cool idea!

fduran has some great points. I would shorten the Who are you? part to just the basics. You don't have to tell me your a marketing guru, once you get 100K followers and can charge the appropriate CPM well know you are.

You'll also eventually need some Demo information about your followers, average Klout score, average followers, etc (just throwing some stuff out there) to sell what I assume will be a premium CMP because of the 'curated' bit, and to do some quality control as you gain followers.

It would be cool to get some 'celebrity endorsements' showing off (with their permission) some big names that are following this account. Star power never hurts.
They most certainly will pay $1000 to license the image, or change it, AND punish the person who did that... What makes you think Sony won't work they way every large corporation works in this respect?