skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turing-complete but with clean subsets seems completely different from not using a Turing-complete input language at all.
They probably want to drive user adoption and show developers they can make money harvesting personal data.
Speaking of which, if anyone is reading this from the UK, and has an ~ 18 year old who doesn't want to go to university, BAE are recruiting heavily for apprenticeships. They are very serious about providing a 'university alternative'. I suggest taking a look.
Your two 'Russian' examples are different cases because you've thrown a comma into one of them.

A lot of what you say is covered in the rules in the first answer, which themselves don't claim to be final. There are also examples given where numbers come after adjectives - 'the first three days' is the normal way of saying that phase, and reordering it to 'the three first days' is usually only when you're waxing poetical. Or "this long weekend will be the greatest three days of your life!" sounds perfectly normal, and is subtly different to "... will be the three greatest days...".
> You should look a little more into what GDP means. The "money" you see is very much the tip of the iceberg.

:) I work in finance. I'm well aware of what GDP means. I appreciate you trying though:)
Nothing to add other than to say I'm a huge supporter of the work you guys have been doing. Can't wait until it is fully realized. Let me know if you plan on implementing different "styles" for the interface and want some contributions.
This is where it needs to happen. The problem is that co-designing a new hardware/software stack from scratch is the computer science equivalent of a moonshot.
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The information missing here is that they were paid 10 times the average Afghani wage, knowing fully well what danger they were getting into. They were very well compensated for that danger.

It's not only the US; ex-workers for the German Bundeswehr have the exact same "problem":

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/afghan-employees-o...

(Ironically, this article conjures the impression that other NATO countries, including the US, willingly accept these people)
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A) Top of book quote stuffing is a pretty dangerous game to get into. Can't confirm that no one is doing it, but I'd be surprised if it were a big problem.
B) NASDAQ is one of the better technology platforms and does not experience as much lag as the others, so it could be as you say, they just don't care.
C) the charges away from inside market are only one of several ways NASDAQ discourages excessive quoting. They also have tiered rebate pricing based on quote/fill ratios and PSX has a order rest time requirement.

So I guess if you were a shop that didn't mind playing with fire quoting top of book, and you never actually wanted to market make on NASDAQ, you could still quote stuff them.

I stand by my statement that venues continue to enact penalties to discourage quote stuffing and is such is not nearly the problem people make it out to be.

As a market participant, if the NASDAQ is not providing you with an execution platform to your liking (whether due to laggy matching or anything else) you are free to choose another venue and thanks to latency arb shops you are probably not going to pay much of a price premium to do it.

The biggest problem in all discussions of HFT/algo trading especially when related to internet forums and expose reporting is people using incorrect terms. We don't let people get away with it in other technical settings because it leads to unnecessary strife. I think the same thing applies to electronic trading.
>Medium is based on the belief that the sharing of ideas and experiences is what moves humanity forward.

You don't say. What a grandiose, BS, statement, for a blog platform...
Coincidentally, I'm in a Skype chat trying to explain this same thing. Now that I understand it, I'm growing to like the sideways cumulative histogram because it gives a good representation of the time factor. If we were to flip the axis with response time on the x axis using something like 5 ms binning, and the y axis representing a count of the requests for each bin, we'd lose the significance of a request that takes 500ms. On our "proper" histogram, it would be represented by a tiny bar to the right of the histogram. I'm not sure that's preferable.
> "So we can expect a bunch of half-assed software with no support? Awesome."

I'd rather expect we'll see a bunch of data collection and notification apps for services (ad-supported or freemium) that are primarily consumed elsewhere [1]: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Breaking News, Dropbox, etc.

Nothing about 'free client'/'no ads' necessarily says 'not monetize-able'.

[1] Frankly, the Mirror API doesn't seem capable of much more than that anyway. All you can really do is push notifications and supply a prompt whereby users can send you pictures and video.
There are other factors at play here. Node has access to a bigger audience, but it's an audience that already has mature toys like Python/Perl/etc. Node not only has to create a great ecosystem, it has to create a better one than what already exists (which is the central premise of the article).

Simply saying "Welp, there's more people on the internet now" is ignoring the excellent competition for hackers that Node (or any other new tech with grandiose ambitions) has.
Surely you're joking... you act as if great software only comes from paying people, that's simply not true. Sure, some developers will avoid the platform because they can't make any money "directly" from it; others will be smarter and see there are many ways to make money indirectly via reputation as the guy who did X on glass.
Because there is no correlation between making good software and making money off that software.
The thing is for your personal bank account a 15 character password is acceptable.

But for x many customer credit card details you're really looking for a much longer password that that. I'm talking 64 characters or more of pure random data.

You shouldn't be compromising for the convenience of being able to remember a password when it secures such critical data in my opinion.

Edit: I do agree though that your method is a very good way of remembering password.
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WRT your second point, are you implying that people will be more likely to spend $1500 on Glass because there are not paid applications available for it?
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That always reminds me of Tolkien's complaint that he was told one could not say "a green great dragon", but had to say "a great green dragon".
Oops, 1 is directly mentioned in the talk.
Aside from the non-heterosexual market being large, there are two other factors:

1) JDate allegedly has nots of non-Jewish people on the site who are looking to date Jews. I mean, it makes sense -- it's a great place to find them :) Maybe there are non-geeks who are looking to date geeks.

2) My definition of nerd/geek goes beyond programming. A professional (in law or medicine or engineering) is probably way more interesting than a .NET corporate programmer. I could see "career/lifestyle tags" working for this.

Arguably it wouldn't even need to be limited to geeky activities, but general interest interests as well. Maybe someone really likes backpackers, or people who have completed Bioshock Infinite, or corporate M&A lawyers, or people from Surrey. Having verified tags for those things would make searches more interesting.
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Just so I get your position right:

1. Al Qaeda can be described as 19 brown people -- not thousands of members (and hundreds of millions in finances) with repeated attempts at mass murder through terrorism.

2. If the Western world wasn't racist -- Breivik should have gotten as much attention as al Q, despite his whole gang (he, himself) being in jail.

3. This attention of Breivik is merited because: Two groups of crazies in USA, which did some terror a few decades ago, might have similar opinions as Breivik (according to you).

(One of those groups even have a different religion and the other group's members could hardly find Norway on a map.)

I'm sorry, my position is still that you're either a really pathetic troll or some sick hatemonger. But I did stop laughing, your existence is too depressing.
Wikipedia is supposed to be static, without questions from readers on any engagement besides reading and maybe correcting or expanding something.

Also, no serious Wikipedia article about math or physics is thought of as an introduction. Sometimes its the other way around, its written for experts and goes into surface or line integrals, or sometimes even tensor notation, when an introduction would not.

I think this website is trying to reduce friction for user interaction and aggregating it, and also tries to curate material into different levels of difficulty. Both things merit asking for a login, for social its obvious why, and to curate for difficulty its helpful to use the feedback from users as a signal of an innadecuate label.
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Does anyone reading this use Wayland for a significant portion of their web browsing?
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I did the same thing. I had to read HN to even have a clue about this as their email correspondence/site gave no indication that this was even a possibility.

I would assume a large majority of their clients don't read HN and would have no line of sight to do the same.

It's unfortunate that this happened, but I'll be looking for another host in the near future.
"no conscious understanding of the rules is required"

I hate to nitpick, but this is not entirely true.

First, there is no innate, specific grammar or syntax in the human brain. Any given language -- even one's first language -- is learned. It's learned in stages, and true, one tends to pick up the rules by immersion before studying them consciously. But conscious study of the rules is extremely beneficial to improving one's understanding of, and facility with, a given language.

To say that "no conscious understanding of the rules is required" is a little like saying "Kobe Bryant is a naturally born basketball genius." True, Kobe Bryant may have certain athletic gifts and mental wiring that enable him to exceed 99.999999% of the world at basketball skill. But he learned the rules of the game, just like everyone else. And he practices daily. In fact, he probably practices harder than many of his less talented peers. Even someone of his natural endowments couldn't have risen to his level without conscious and repeated effort.

It's true that grammar and syntax start to seem natural and subconscious over time, especially as one improves in linguistic fluency. That's a good sign, in fact. But I've never met a writer who couldn't benefit from conscious study of the rules and fundamentals, even if only occasionally.
I think two factors have caused this confusion:

1) Most of the people using the gnuplot template really don't understand what it's doing

2) We all assume that the output of `ab -g plotfile` is a serial log
Every rule of grammar you know have been made up by someone after watching how people speak.
I'm excited for these changes.

With today’s Windows Azure release we are also announcing significant price reductions to our Windows Azure compute options. This new pricing delivers a 21% price reduction from the previously announced pricing of Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS), and a 33% price reduction for solutions deployed using our Windows Azure Cloud Services (PaaS) model. Our new VM pricing also matches Amazon’s on-demand VM pricing for both Windows and Linux VMs.

With today’s Windows Azure release we are also adding two new VM size options to the existing 5 VM sizes we supported during the public preview. These two new VM sizes include a new 4 core x 28GB RAM configuration as well a 8 core x 56GB RAM configuration.
I'm not really in the dating market at all, but if you could figure out how to do this for HR or social/hacking/friendship/etc., I'd be really interested.

Being able to find a set of N people who are into ancap/lib ideas if not politics, blinded tokens, HSMs, and are within a 100 mi radius of X would be interesting.
This is exactly my take on the Parallella board, and it's the exact reason why I donated to the Kickstarter back in the Fall.

I want to try my hand at writing a real, efficient, many:many message-passing API on top of SHM. It's something I've been interested in for a while (and am doing in an a side project for x86_64). Not because it hasn't been done a thousand times before, but because it's neat.

I want to write a compiler for the Parallella. Not because there aren't compilers already, but because I've never written a compiler that targets a RISC architecture before. I've never written a compiler that respects pipelining.

I want to write a parallelized FFT based on the original paper for the Parallela. I've used various FFT libraries before, but never actually implemented an FFT straight up. Why? Not because it's never been done before, but just because it's an idea that appeals to me. And for practice parallelizing algorithms . . .

I want to write a raytracer for the Parallella. Not because I haven't written a raytracer before, but because I think that I'll be able to do something interesting with a Parallella raytracer that I haven't done before: real-time (ish) raytracing. Not because that hasn't been done before, but because it'd be neat to build.

I want to build a distributed physics engine. Not because there aren't excellent open-source physics engines (Bullet, ODE, etc.) -- but because I find the problem interesting. It's something I've wanted to do for a while, but never got around to. Why? Because it's interesting.

I could go on, but I'll stop here. The Parallella, I think, is a catalyst for a lot of small projects that I've wanted to do for a while. The Parallella is my excuse to spend time on random projects that will never go anywhere beyond a page on my website describing what they are, plus a link to the source code.

And, you know what? That seems perfect to me. That's why I want a Parallella, and that's why I'm eagerly awaiting mine within the next month or three. (Hopefully!)
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Tens of thousands of credit and debit cards, many of which are likely to be corporate cards with extremely high spending limits ?
Not sure Chomskyan is dominant, but anyway, yes, an ability to be grammatical, is widely regarded as innate. Sort of like how every computer can compute the results of a Turing machine, regardless of the actual machine language or high level programming language glommed on top.

Or perhaps to say that humans parse a sentence like a concatenative/stack language, but not an algol/C-like language. (Not saying exactly that, but saying that's the sort of statement that could get to the heart of it).
Whereas "C vs Java" varies across cultures".

That is, the low level hardware memory model is universal, but the shape of the structures on top are diverse.

I would also highlight a distinction between universal grammatical rules that are key to "making any sort of sense at all" vs customizable rules that "disambiguate among multiple possible interpretations".
That was put poorly, but bear with me.

That is, SVO vs OVS is arbitrary, and could go either way, but members of each community need to agree. But number-color-object is nearly universal because color-number-object is uninterpretable as a concatenation of color with number object, unless a language specifically develops a concept of a color applying to more than one non-group entity. And here I speculate, but I can easily imagine a human language where an adjective before a number is understood to emphasize that all items are exactly the same color, or that the items are all connected with no other-color between them, like a "red 3 plates" understood to mean the plates are in a stack.

Heck, I bet that if I were really good looking or famous and started using that pattern, it would spread
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I've always described Pinterest as "Twitter for images instead of text."

If this is a common description it might help to come up with a better proxy. If not, go for it. I have no clue personally how to evaluate consumer products like this. Seems just as likely as any to work (Low probability high reward).
I can't duplicate? I've tested across all my devices with three different ISP's and it still loads fine. I'm also making use of Cloudflare so the site being down would seem unlikely?
That's why I used the Barbary Pirate situation. The Barbary privateers were loosely affiliated with and supported by the government in Tripoli (which is the legal entity against which we declared war), but were not really an organized army acting on behalf of the state as we think of such things today.

In any case, what Osama did would clearly be an act of war if he had been a general acting on the orders of a government. So what makes it not an act of war just because he's acting on behalf of an entity that isn't a sovereign state? Surely, it is most logical to measure the justifiable response to an action in terms of the nature of the action itself, not the political affiliation of the actor.

Finally, as you note, it's hard to say that there is any rule of law in Pakistan. Laws only have meaning to the extent courts have jurisdiction to enforce them. "Murder" isn't a universal constant--it's a law defined in the context of some sovereign entity's legislative jurisdiction. Killing a terrorist on the battlefield is not murder if there is no court that has jurisdiction over the actor that would call it murder. Indeed, it seems utterly non-sensical to me to argue that someone like Osama, that has rejected the criminal jurisdiction of any state, can turn around and claim the protection of the laws of that state.
Okay, a clarification.

The documentary states that planned obsolescence was invented in the US, in wake of the stock market crash of 1920's. Some economists wanted to find a solution for the depression. Initially one of the economists came up with the idea that planned obsolescence should be controlled by the government. Check out Bernard's London paper on the right of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
The idea was that products would later be gathered and destroyed by a commission or something. A similar approach was used by Phoebus Cartel, which fined factories which made light bulbs lasting over 1000 years. According to the documentary, it still exists after multiple name changes.

I don't remember the exact details, but the documentary then proceeds to show many commercials and famous designers who promoted new goods with short life span. Instead of the government making people give up their stuff and destroy it once time is up, the focus was on "low quality" and advertising.

Here's the link to full polish version on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPPW8KM7eEU

It's dubbed, but you can hear many interviewed people talk in english. I'm a native polish speaker. Treat it as a teaser :-). Points of interest:
- nylon stockings at 27:10
- at 16:10, an interview with a woman who met Bernard London. A few minutes later the section with commercials starts. "Planned obsolescence. A desire by the consumer to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary..."

The documentary doesn't mention STEAM, but I think it's similar. STEAM is DRM in sheep's clothing. It comes bundled with so many extras (I can live without) such as friends lists, IM, automatic patching. These days, people are asking developers to publish on STEAM. They are seduced.

As for games in general and planned obsolescence - after watching this documentary I think I know why so many games these days are linear, story-based and short.
Bitcoin as a Monad doesn't seem to have been addressed here.
> I don't think there are rules, only guidelines

Every so called grammar "rule" ever written (for natural languages) are written after observing how people spake and write.
How about this rule? Order the modifiers to maximize the product of their successive restrictive effects. For example, we would prefer "great green dragon" to "green great dragon" because

([_] - [great _]) * ([great _] - [great green _])

is greater than

([_] - [green _]) * ([green _] - [green great _]),

where the notation [x _] denotes the expected number of substitutions admitted by the hole (_) in the context x.

Note that this ordering rule seems to do the right thing for the obvious corner cases. For example, we would prefer "modern brick house" to "brick modern house" because, in the second ordering, [brick modern _] is about the same as [brick _], making the second term in

([_] - [brick _]) * ([brick _] - [brick modern _])

tend toward zero, making the preference score for "brick modern house" also tend toward zero.

EDITED TO ADD: Just to be clear, I'm not claiming that this is the rule we actually use when we're putting words together. I'm claiming that this is the "true" rule, to the extent that anything can be said to be true in human communications. What we do in our heads works out to be an approximation: We (1) choose the modifiers that we think we need and (2) order them so that none seems wasted. For example, when describing a modern brick house, we know that "modern" and "brick" have to go somewhere, but putting "modern" after "brick" makes it impotent, so we put it before. By avoiding these "zeroes," which ring hollow to our inner ear, we make every word earn its place and indirectly seek the product-maximizing ordering.
I haven't read through the API super carefully, but I believe that you won't be able to write your own camera app, but you could certainly interact with the camera, by having the user share to a contact that you create/
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I can think of some amazing uses for this. I'm tempted to get one just to port this old hack of mine to it:

http://adam.ierymenko.name/nanopond.shtml
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Stop asking what existing things you can do with it,

Ask away, I'll keep linking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
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"*nix?" What about arch, RPM, pkgtool?
So instead of $35 a month, they're paying them $350 a month? They'll be rich the rest of their lives! But seriously, that's not the point of the article.

It shouldn't matter how much or how little the US Government is paying them, the point is that if the US was willing to trust them in sensitive situations, they should also trust them to enough to grant them a Visa.

It also doesn't matter if the US is alone in exercising poor judgment; that doesn't make it right.

Some of these people helped the US/others with the belief that their country would be a better place after they left. Not worse.
UDOO, taking the best of arduino and raspberry pi and combining them.
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I can see a lot of utility in this tool. I don't care about quotes for quotes sake, but I could totally see this being useful as a tool for saving snippets.

No idea how that's a business, but you can figure that part out.
I'm reminded a bit of the logic that lead to Itanium: all this silicon dedicated to doing voodoo mind reading on linear machine code is wasteful. Let's instead push parallelism up into the compilers.

It didn't quite work out that way, but as a handy side effect it killed off PA-RISC and Alpha with little more than a few press releases.
It's unfortunate that SRP is one of those things that's technically sound and has been around for a fairly long time but has never seen widespread implementation for whatever reason. (See also: IPv6, SCTP, C99.)