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This is why Debian does not recommend Raspberry Pi [0]

> Despite the hype it is a more closed platform than many other things you could buy

Claiming to be open, but still encouraging and endorsing non-open-source software.
I was startled to read why R.Pi is unsuitable for education [1]

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi

[1]: http://whitequark.org/blog/2012/09/25/why-raspberry-pi-is-un...
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Maybe a good counterpoint would be to suggest that OP "not look a gift horse in the mouth". That being said it isn't too difficult to imagine Wolfram having ulterior motives. Overall I think it's a good thing and a good act done for bad reasons is still a good act (though agreed, source code would be nice)
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very nice! plug: if you happen to be on windows, try PTVS which has nice features like mixed-mode Python/C++ debugging as well cross debugging from Visual Studio <-> linux & MacOS. (it's a free plug-in).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJaKQ94lBY
I've been an iPhone user for the past 4 years. I know about the undo feature but have honestly never ever used it.
> It's not like we had a lot of brainstorming and innovating solutions competing in this area (in fact, there are only 3, all too similar, major products: Word, Pages and Open Office, of which one has 90% of the users).

We also had PageMaker, FrameMaker, Word Perfect, Ami Pro.
Not completely unrelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering but what he/she was talking about is unrelated.
The map could be where Renesys's "vantage points" are.
I don't have any demographic information to share. But I personally attempt to rate my files. It gives a nice way to categorize by quality. That way I can have abjectly terrible music in my collection, but filter it out for the purposes of not ever wanting to listen to it.
So much for Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality.
This might be pretty meta, but from looking at some of these comments makes me wonder how in the age of the internet, which give us a de facto global commons onto exchange ideas/information/currency and securely for those who take the steps to do so, some people still have an an affinity for whichever line drawn around them the sand in which one had no say in personally. Can we form something better through the aforementioned means? And what will it take for more people to start looking outside the box for solutions? More increased hardships of whimsical imposition?
No but they have benefits for small developers. Really depends what you're looking for.
Fair enough. I consider Emacs a success by almost any measure. The question is, "If he wanted it for 25 years, why hasn't it happened?" It could be time and attention. It could be the ethos of working with volunteers.

This isn't coming from a dislike of Free Software per say, more just an appreciation of the challenges of herding cats (volunteers).
Which is this ocean you are talking about? Because Europe has only the Atlantic Ocean on its West and the nearest countries on the Other side of the Atlantic are the US and Canada.
it will be supported in the next version :)
I see what you did there. Good work.
What about WiFi?
That sounds reasonable enough, but doesn't really explain the statement "I don't run Java anything anymore."

Limited resource platforms can run java just fine - but large software with many dependencies, sure, that's a valid concern.
I would buy this in an instant if it had Android support. Are mobile devices on the roadmap?
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Yes, it is totally reasonable to have given up your rights when no-one ever asked you. But maybe you made it explicit anyway; have you ever said the pledge of allegiance?

No, you cannot give up your right to property, because you own your person.
#1-4 seem like reasonable issues, and I hope they get fixed. None are things that are a problem for me, but I can see how they would be for some.

#5 - I might be misunderstanding this, but it reads like: Apple-specific hardware does not work on Android, and this is the fault of Android. I would say the fault lies with Apple, who force proprietary interfaces and not open standards. Then again, for headphone interfaces (which I myself don't use - I have a decent pair of Sony headphones which just have a standard audio jack for audio only), I suspect that other manufacturers are dropping the ball too.
Huh? You can manually refocus the camera, just tap on the image somewhere. I'd do a video, but.. (Nexus 4 w/ 4.4)
It may not be for everyone, but for people like me it really boosts productivity. The last office I worked in was a massive open-office in a warehouse which sounds just miserable, but it was great. If I ever had a question, I could just lean over and ask the person I had a question for. No waiting for emails to bounce back and forth or for people to get back to their IMs. If I needed to make a private phone call, I'd just walk out of the office to do it. Plus, having people around me made it easier to focus on work instead of fucking off on Hacker News or Facebook.

Now, as a self-employed individual I rent a seat in a shared open office to maintain that focus. It's far too easy to turn on the TV or play a video game or linger on the phone with a friend when I'm working from home. In a different setting -- with people around: all focused on work -- it's much easier to maintain a focus on work and getting done what's important.
I've been on the fence about switching away from iPhone. I hardly use Apple software and only the non-straightforward backup really bothers me.
I've never ever had this problem, but I also run OpenJDK, so...
Here's an overview of some of the screens:

http://blog.simplelegal.com/simplelegal-reports

Though it does make sense to open things up a bit more for people to see.
You mean like Oxygen, just to mention one of them?

http://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/WYSIWYG_Editors.html

There are quite a few products already, for those willing to pay for the software they use.
No. I want a less dynamic, more content-driven web, not one that requires me to download more binaries.
I agree with your thoughts on #5. The main reason I mentioned it was not at the fault of Android, but more just at the fault of manufacturers.

I'm glad we've agreed on USB, but I don't understand the need for proprietary 3.5mm remote protocols at this point.
You can practice your Navajo by watching Star Wars in Navajo. Darth Vader sounds particularly scary. http://www.npr.org/2013/06/20/193496493/translated-into-nava...
I didn't say it was solved, I said that it's nearly as strong as the best humans.

Furthermmore, known bots have been winning at mid-high stakes from at least a few years, and have taken millions from online poker rooms.

Lots of discussion about pokersnowie here:
http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/131-Poker-Theory/topics/...

Most of the experts agree that it's very strong.
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I absolutely loved this concept. I was surprised to some extent that this rubygem name is still available. Appreciated !!
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what you write is not only the jurisdiction

I think you a word there.

It's fairly absurd to say anyone who posts anything online should follow the laws of all places where whatever they posted could be read.
As others point out: Many here (even those of us who live in the US!) feel that it is equally a load of hogwash for the US to try go after others around the world. There's no hypocrisy to call "bullshit!" on both groups of cases.
Hah, nice. I sometimes think that..

A few years back I worked for a prominent design company. Our small group (of 4) had a nice little corner of 1/4 of an entire floor. "Oooh, nice, brick walls and people that look busy" I thought when I first joined. Not even a week later, reality started to set it. It was so ridiculously noisy.

And there were, of course, a few people that contributed to everything. I would sometimes get in around 8, it would be quiet and the usual offenders were actually working. From 10-6, it was like, forget it, noise non-stop. After 6, back to quiet.

This became really frustrating and after asking the offenders to chill, I made a trip to HR to ask wtf? HR was basically like, meh, nothing we can do. I ended up wishing those offenders would quit or worse. It was so bad and they were so loud.

After that I was like, never again an open floor plan. It was the worst thing ever and a total sham for those that want to focus and just get things done. Requiring the people whole want quiet to put headphones on only adds insult to injury.

Too bad quiet just isn't valued anymore..
The suggestion that a Google translation of a legal document is reliable is preposterous. Aside from the expected stilted mangling. pronouns are regularly confused and it's not uncommon for something to come across with the exact opposite of it's intended meaning because a negative modifier or idiom is missed.

Maybe let go of some of that righteous internet rage and go for a walk.
He is referring to the fact that some well-known journalists are married or live with some well-known people from politics world. For instance, Anne Sinclair, the wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was presenting a very popular talk-show about politics in the 80/90ties. I know of a few current examples I don't remember of precisely.
Agreed. I couldn't even re-install a licensed copy of the app without requesting permission from Wolfram support.
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While in the subject of debugging Python you should look into Bugjar (gui) http://pybee.org/bugjar/.

Looks really good.
This is great. Do you have any source code hosted anywhere? Or the software/hardware stack used?
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You misunderstand the point of the FSF. It's free as in freedom, not free as in no money. The whole thing started because rms wanted to modify a printer driver to give functionality their last printer had. He wasn't being stingy, he just wanted his workflow back. The FSF has no problems with charging for software, they have no objection to Red Hat, for instance, charging for the GPL Linux kernel (although they have other problems with Red Hat). The FSF is concerned with users having access to the source, not with everyone being users or non-users having access to the source.
Ever heard of these guys?
Does anyone know anything about unifiedlayer.com? Every ping or traceroute to my server on hostgator goes through these guys.<p>I'm just wondering if they are a legit company, or something shady.
I don't think there is any reason the current crop of consumer-grade MCUs couldn't do that. An adapter cable for the differing pin layouts (you're never going to get everyone to agree to the same footprint). On the PC side, they are almost all running the FTDI chip, with a driver that simulates the device as an RS232 serial port. So at that point it's really just making sure the data is standardized.

Hell, most of the devices have support for inter-platform RS232. You should be able to communicate between an Arduino and an MSP430 via RS232 (you might need some resistors in the middle, because I think one runs 1.7v hotter than the other).

The hardware situation is fragmented because I think people want the one-device-one-shield model. I don't think they want to deal with daughter boards dangling from adapter cables. The majority of users for these systems are either hardware novices or hardware-and-software novices. Most of the electrical engineers I know steer a wide birth away from them. And once they get invested in a platform like Arduino, jumping over to something like TI MSP430 is an effort that is at least as significant of an effort from where they started, while providing only a limited, non-obvious benefit (in that MSP430s are cheeeeaaaap).
I've been using Python for a while for fun and Ruby (Rails) on and off.

I've always find it interesting how the Python/Ruby community debug your code both during development (coding or writing unit-tests) and perhaps in production as well (for the record, I use "print" as my debugging tool).

I'm a long time Eclipse user who has recently converted to IntelliJ (almost a year) and the debugger that comes with these editors is something I can't live without hence I have not moved to Emacs or VI(m) or whatever the UNIX hackers use because it would crippled my productivity significantly (or so I thought, feel free to criticize my point of view).

So sometimes I'm wondering how productive Python/Ruby + VIM/Emacs users. Just an honest question really.

PS: most Java IDE debuggers can do local AND remote AND has some support for hotswap code.
Ironically, the tinder app is already completely overrun with chatbots.
Tell you what - I'll get back to the topic & blog in 1 year time. I'll chat you up on HN and we'll redo the discussion. I'm willing to admit my mistake, but if they jakub ends this project in a-la-tim-ferris "book about selling books", I'll call my hunch correct - that he just played the community for self benefit.

If the project is left-for-dead, I'll consider my second statement about drawing attention too soon correct.

On the other hand, if the project is showing progress and does a fair writing - I'll gladly apologize to jakubgarfield and to you.

Sounds fair?
The Elo rating system is based on the model that a rating difference gives x an expected result as a function of x. Therefore, the Elo ratings "have interval properties". For example, the Elo rating model states that if A's rating is 200 points higher than B's, A will get in average 0.76 points against B.

However, of course the Elo model might not be perfect, and thus a lot of other things contribute into the rating difference of players A and B, not only the expected result of the players playing only against each other.
Got it. Changing scores is good so your reviews are worthless and defending EA lies is also good. Polygon is just another game journo blog towing publisher lines.
I sit in an office with desks with half-height dividers. I enjoy it. A while ago our company expanded into another floor, and my product's team was moved there (dev, QA, product, services, support). Previously the layout was arranged more by department than product.

Pretty much everyone on the team loves it, and has felt a major boost in productivity and team cohesion, as virtually anyone you might need is "right there" in the room with you, and you can tune in to some of the chatter for an organic understanding of what everyone's up to. I imagine if everyone were in offices it would feel dead and empty, and totally kill the team spirit.

I think the only thing we're missing is more ad-hoc space - more conference rooms for breakout groups and individuals seeking temporary escape from the floor.
Also, with Yahoo's search results now coming from Bing, this does mean that the biggest potential sources of funding are all linked to companies who compete directly with Mozilla's biggest product - Google and Microsoft have their own browsers. It's certainly not an ideal position for Mozilla.
NB if you have a media keyboard with the play/pause buttons etc then this is no necessary.
vbscript? vba? visual-basic?

I only recalled it supported C/C++ (maybe ASM?) and VB derivatives.
Using the variable names i/j/k for loops is such a widely used convention that IMHO it doesn't really mater for a lot of people. Virtually everyone I know will read "array[i]" and know exactly what's going on.

And believe it or not, those variable names aren't arbitrary. They hearken from the ancient times:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/86911
This is great advice, I didn't know there was a better way than the scary import/set_trace() method. Thanks for sharing!
There's a happy middle ground here, no need to split hairs or be black and white. One formula that works is, be a legit programmer/developer/hacker, but be able to communicate with business people on the business level about business problems. Preferably using your own original language, rather than pre-packaged MBA-speak (though sometimes even that stuff is useful if a particular client needs to hear it).
He only brought it up to show the absurdity of it - the poster is probably from the US. Any other nation's constitution / body of laws could have been used as the example.
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Well written article. In my brief stint with YC and other startup circles, I think one big takeaway I've had is that most (or at least many) people who want to start a startup or hit it big with a startup actually really want a lifestyle business. Hyper growth isn't the goal of the founders. Their goal is to create a good product that helps people and allows the founders to live comfortably and be happy with their work. Raising VC funding is not counter to many of those goals, but it's not the only (or best) path to them in most cases.
Practice, my friend! Pick a project and start working on it. A year later, you'll look back and chuckle at how obvious the flaws in the project were. Rinse and repeat. After a while, you just get a sense for "am I sitting around thinking too much?" or "hmm maybe I should plan this one out before jumping in."

One thing that took me years to learn is that the devil's in the details, especially if you're in uncharted territory. Thinking is what uncovers those details before you're forced to do a rewrite.

> How would you know if you're doing the right thing?

Does it work? Can you look over the code and think "I did this twice as well as my last piece of work?" Those are probably the best metrics.
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> I don't get it... Wolfram is a money-hungry egomaniac.

That's kinda funny. Our revenue per employee is lower than the industry average. If the company was interested in money uber alles, there are many more profitable and less interesting ways of doing it than what we do now.

> not a single source line of Mathematica code is exposed

Well, not sure what you mean by 'exposed'. But you can read large swathes of our code by looking in the right place in the installation. We also have some official open source projects, like our HadoopLink: https://github.com/shadanan/HadoopLink
Haha, being a shop assistant is probably considerably more intellectually fulfilling then being a PHP developer.
How is freer, a wealthy, educated, socially mobile person with healthcare who can't say certain things, or a starving person who can say anything they like?

There's a difference between "defacto freedom" and "dejure" freedom.
Wikipedia summary of the Suzuki testing is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_v._Consumers_Union

One piece of missing context is whether the rate of rollover injuries is higher than average for the small-suv market segment. Following the link to the original source for those numbers reveals a lot more about suzuki and GM internal memos (but nothing about whether or not the rates of injury are out of the ordinary).

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/press/date/19970422/press...
You are doing it wrong, and you are making generalizations about these languages on the basis of your doing it wrong?
If prostitution is this shady thing where only drug addicts work..

Legalise drugs as well. Drug addicts need help, whether they are prostitutes or not. If we can help these women clean up, they may choose to leave prostitution and do something else.
Very clever! My parents would not get this. At all. :P
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Perhaps the Mediterranean? They call it a "sea" if you want to be pedantic.
> $400k is what one-trick ponies like doctors and lawyers and traditional industry local small business owners earn.

Or a little under twice that of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( pop. 60 million ), when summing his MP and Government jobs.

The combined ministerial and parliamentary salary of the Prime Minister is £142,500 at April 2013

I'm fairly confident in saying that David Cameron puts in considerably more effort than the CEO of Mozilla. I really don't see how anyone can justify $400k for such a job.
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Great post, love the series on groove.

Question on convertible notes: doesnt a 1M seed round on a note suggest that a second round needs to happen? How do the investors feel about not having a second round to set the price and convert to equity?
This is what appears to me to be an American (or USian to be more precise) complaining about France fining a US Blogger, so a direct comparison of the US to France is highly apropos.
You could do some research and make up your own mind, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
To be fair, U.S. judges often don't have the time.

How many time did I see "SUSPECTED Al-Quaida member and his family and some of his neighbors were killed in an explosion while a drone coincidentally flew over his house" in the news this month? I lost count.

A few points:

* French are fed up with US agencies, nothing against US judges.

* This was a civil deliberation, and will probably be nuked if said blogger make appeal.

* That regulator have no way to enforce their decision.

* Yes, this judgment is beyond ridiculous.

* Yes, the AMF should be disbanded (if they are as corrupt as they seem) or need a severe shake (in the case they are 'just' dangerously outdated).
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i know nothing about pi's except that they are cheap- how do you send raspberry pi the content from your computer?
> And 'A New Kind of Science' was a fascinating book.

Indeed... A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfra...
Although VStudio Express does not support plugins, you can also use PTVS in combination with the free "VS2013 Shell" https://pytools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=PTVS%20Installat...
Including during the sainted Eisenhower administration.
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It's all about balance. Open offices work for certain occupations but not for others. When it comes to software development I think you need a combination of open office and cube farm. The best balance I've found is open office with all communication happening in a place it can be persisted (Campfire, HipChat, etc.) for others to see and benefit from. Occasionally the entire team can break into talking in the open office area but this should only be done if the entire team is participating. If the entire team isn't participating then communication should be handled in a chat (preferably) or in a conference room.

If you're trying to build software in an open office where people are constantly talking then I'm sorry, good work will not get done. Decisions to change your office layout should be in the interest of boosting communication, team cohesion and productivity. Cubicles are too restrictive, completely open is too distracting.
These are not deal killers for me, so much as they are selling points for Apple.

Android has plenty of deal killers; slow scrolling response, too many crap apps in store, bloatware, cheap hardware designs, music players that lack complex playlist algorithms, lacking mac integration, limited upgradability, dumb OS features (samsung, ei: eye tracking?!), OS updates delayed up to one year after release, short battery life, etc.
I'll be sure to make the transfer to the account with my name on it.
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