skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess bitcoin is superior, then. But really the point is a historical one; "superior" methods of gold forgery were equally as unavailable to the ancients as "superior" methods of gold verification.
"Decaf (CPU) is 2 times faster than Theano with GPU"

Have you managed to reproduce this? Thats awesome if it is true! I thought Theano was already very fast.
Being a consultant is the first thing that comes to mind. You pick your projects, set your price, and customers tend to appreciate you more than a boss would his employees (outlying companies aside).
Remember it comes in 3's, it's not over yet.
People tend to underestimate how fast technological progress can happen

Counter-example: Internet Bubble 1.0
Dancing with Responsive Design
Drcube: How do I know that open source developers aren't contractors out to put backdoors in? At some point you have to trust someone, and I doubt with all the eyes on windows, both within and without, that any extant backdoor would have remained hidden until now. There are quite a few people who do reverse engineer windows without a license, and would be shouting it from the rooftops if they found a backdoor.
iOS XCOM is a great game, is far more expensive than most iOS games, and is has been very successful.
To make sure you free() all your previous allocations on the way down. You can choose not too, it's "kinda" the same (can't remember the exact difference) but it's dirty and people with OCD just won't accept it.

(Disclosure: I got OCD too, this is not meant to make C development hostile to people with OCD.)
Russian diplomats charged with US benefits fraud
The book a long walk to freedom, not the movie.
I think the opposite of this article and would be happy to argue it... First, I would like to point out the failure that was the nintendo bandai experiment was from an Apple that was failing at everything. Their stock price was in the gutter, the outlook was bleak, and that was a shot in the dark. This was not the Apple that would make OS X, iPod, iOS, and iPhone.

I think assuming that the lack luster online services from both companies is the reason to avoid the merger is pretty absurd. Apple knows how to do online servies iTunes, AppStore, iCloud all serve massive audiences. And are just that, connected services.

Microsoft is also not a threat, their empire is slowly dwindling and I'm very literally, willing to bet, that it's going to get the nail in it's coffin with SteamOS pounding the head of it. Hardcore gamer's are what drive Microsofts platforms currently because your average consumer is voting with their dollars for Android and iOS (not Desktops/Laptops and not Microsoft products). SteamOS is the chance to remove one of the biggest arguments for Windows, that has existed my entire life, "it plays games, and your Mac or Linux box can't!" ... if a Battlefield or Call of Duty is releaed for the SteamBox I think it's game over (BOOM, PUN!).

The Xbox One falls flat for that market, as well-- out the door the PS4 is just better. Sony knows this is it's chance to rally, and that Microsoft is weak, and I think they've taken the opportunity to it's max by making a console that's just dollar for dollar unmistakbly better.

For one, Apple and Nintendo do one brilliant thing well, and it's the one thing that matters, they enchant their users. They provide an almost whimsical experience with their products that sets them far from the rest of the pack. They both drive innovation.

If Apple and Nintendo were to merge, we would finally see real first party titles showing up on the Mac, iOS, and most presumably the AppleTV (Wii-U tech would do wonders here since their airplay gaming sucks [latency]). Apple would begin to have a foothold in the one industry it has typically done so poorly in-- gaming.

Culturally, they both strive for excellence. It's better to not release something at all than release it, if it's not perfect (grain of salt with that one, but most will follow me on it). Apple knows how to make great software, and hardware, nintendo knows how to translate these into story telling-- to enhance and enchat the viewer into a stouper not well known on other platforms.

Finally, in regards to "what customers actually want" I'd like to point out that one very famous person said quite the contrary. Customers don't know what they want, it's their job to tell them. Because their customers are not the innovators, they're the consumers. I forget the guy's name, he ran some big fruit company or something...

[edit] For those who are like, WTF prompted this article, I think this is just a nerd fantasy that makes its rounds every few months (it's one of mine!).
Not only that, but many South Koreans still have relatives living in the North. So bombing the North is akin to bombing your own family
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DATING: SHE SAID WHAT?
Do not allow liberals to sanitise history. Mandela was a symbol of non-peaceful resistance and of the progress that it can bring.
>Go is significantly slower than the rest, much much slower.

Did we read the same article? D was faster than the rest, but Erlang/C/Go were not that far apart, unless its too late in the evening and I'm being stupid.
It sounds to me as though you find anything security, law enforcement, or military-related to be inexcusably "creepy". Otherwise, it would seem pretty silly to describe customers hovering over critical suppliers as "simply unreal". Would high-ranking Apple execs constantly showing up at Foxconn offices show a relationship to Apple that you would describe as "simply unreal"? Otherwise, it would seem pretty silly to put scare quotes around Special Forces "missions". Do Special Forces not conduct real missions in your world, only so-called "missions"?

"Creepy stuff"? Silly stuff.
But he was involved in terrorist activities. He was a terrorist.
There's no need to accuse me of that :)
Veni, Vidi
http://golang.org/src/cmd/go/run.go?ModPagespeed=noscript

"Run compiles and runs the main package comprising the named Go source files."
I don't think people should be so dismissive of the FSF's argument here. It's central to the issues with security these days. P2P Affero GPL licensed software is about the only way to be secure anymore. Even then, we have issues with unknown code and hardware at the lowest levels of the stacks.
I've never heard of either and just tried out gmvault and it's currently running and appears to be working.

Anybody tried out both and have data to share?
> Open/closed source software and secure/unsecure software are orthogonal concepts

No, they are not. It's fundamentally impossible to secure proprietary software because you have to trust its provider the software does what it says it does whereas with open-source you can always check for yourself. Any backdoor in open-source software is there to be exposed and corrected.

With proprietary software only one party can disclose vulnerabilities and in open-source anyone with the knowledge can do it. You can choose to trust a single party or choose to trust a myriad of different parties any one of which can blow the whistle if they find something fishy.

I find it highly unlikely a backdoor to a popular open-source application could remain there for long. I don't think it's unlikely at all with proprietary software where there is no incentive to fix a problem until someone outside the company learns about it.
I see your point, but I'm not suggesting a general "email first before pull request" policy, which I agree would be a big mistake.

I feel like this was actually a very unusual situation.
The sky over Victor V. Prison on Feb 11 1990 as Nelson Mandela was relased
Looks nice, will try it on the web app I am currently building with Meteor. Does it or will it support migration of MongoDB data from different instances. Say for example, I've deployed onto <some_domain>.meteor.com and next want to deploy to a production instance at modulus.io, then migrate my data.
After reading the Wikipedia article on Umkhonto we Sizwe[0], I found out he did a lot of wrong [1], but his peaceful efforts should be praised.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe

[1] - "South African police statistics indicate that, in the period 1976 to 1986, approximately 130 people were killed by what the source calls 'terrorists'. Of these, about thirty were members of various security forces and one hundred were civilians."
Oddly, the most horrific Cthulu-inspired sprawling demon from hell I've ever inherited was actually written in python.

I guess a sufficient level of disinterest in maintainability can defeat any language designer's hopes for the future.
Live Video: Watch Obama Speak About Nelson Mandela
This could be a really exciting development: a single model that explains multiple very different looking superconducting systems is exactly what everyone would love to see.

That said, I'm cautious in getting too excited when I hear about scientific research from a university press release: there's been a whole lot of good work on superconductivity over the years, and lots of promising ideas that didn't pan out. I'll be more confident if I start seeing actual scientists getting excited about this.
Along the same line I would like a good book recommendation on Mandela.
Anytime Microsoft comes up with their fake privacy promises one particular case always comes to mind: Mordechai Vanunu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu#cite_note-55

Microsoft is running an anti-Gmail campaign blasting Google for snooping on emails in order to serve ads. http://betanews.com/2013/11/05/microsoft-is-at-it-again-new-...
I'd say if you're an Irish person Thatcher could be seen as a terrorist.
A little flight deck on top of a parked UPS truck. But I think abigger issue might be things like (1) signatures; (2) porches, yards, dogs; and (3) multi-tenant high-rises (without doormen, etc). Some of these could be worked-around (eg, landing pads on the roof...or bolted on the side of a building...including a 'chute' to the basement)
>> snapchat was made with a purpose of being a startup, this is documented in the leaked deposition videos where they discussed who came up with the idea.

Good point about Instagram. You're right, Burbn was started as a startup, it was the photo filter and sharing part that they kept that was Systrom's piece that he just wanted (since he claims to have been square cropping and filtering his photo's for years).

With Snapchat, however, that's not the whole story told by people who knew Speigel at Stanford (my brother was his year). The argument came after they'd already built the app and run around campus showing off how cool their app was. They did, however, very quickly realized that what they built was a company. It's also extremely likely that they had all intended to start a company and that SnapChat immediately became the company once they figured out what they were doing.
Do not allow liberals to do anything. Safer that way.
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Thank you for the info. I will check it out. Does the overall idea seem feasible?
How Ninja Sphere Is Making The Internet Of Things Less Dumb
Pure speculation. iOS is a serious competitor, and Nintendo is having trouble, so ... Nintendo should persuade Apple to buy them? Nintendo has long survived against other major platforms, and Apple only buys companies when it's important to their core goal of selling hardware. iOS is already a persuasive gaming platform without Apple buying a gaming company, so there's no incentive for doing so.
Those who were around in the 1980s might remember and appreciate The Specials AKA:

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=AgcTvoWjZJU

For those who weren't: this song protesting Mandela's incarceration got widespread airplay around the world. I'm not sure I can recall a similar case of popular music taking on a case of protesting for the freedom of a single individual, and suspect it played a large part in waking consciousness to the inequity of Apartheid and much of the pressure which was brought to bear in the late 1980s against South Africa.
>Mr. Raptopoulos is one of the founders of Matternet, a tiny Silicon Valley start-up that is building a UAV transportation system that he says will be useful in developing countries that lack passable roads.

Developing countries trope, Check!

>For the transportation of crucial goods, small drones have several distinct advantages over ground-based vehicles, he says. They're fast,

ridiculous comparison (drone faster than a truck?)

>energy efficient,

"green" trope, Check!

>and—most importantly—they don't require huge investments in infrastructure to start working.

Right, because a handful of trucks is not as useful as a handful of drones!

Now I'm going to watch Andreas R.'s video:

>1. "1 Billion people are totally cut off for some part of the year."

Has it occurred to him that their culture doesn't mandate UPS delivery?

> It will take them 50 years to catch [ to our road system ]

Has it occurred to him that their cultures don't want or need roads like ours?

And if the roads are washed out due to rain, how are you going to charge the batteries in remote locations? certainly not with solar power! A typical UAV battery might be 24 Watt hours. That's 20 minutes charging in full sun from a typical large panel. So, you can only charge about 12 batteries per day in remote locations. You can move 24kg per day autonomously in sunny weather

sigh... we are certainly living in a narcotized world!!!
Go ahead. Call exit(). On your HTTP/IRC/anything server. Just because you couldn't allocate memory for one more client. Now your service is down and the CTO is looking for blood =)

Yes, it's far-fetched and like some said further down the comments, you "can't" run out of memory in Linux, but straight killing a service is never good.
The article kindly submitted here is a university press release. That digests the facts in the PNAS article from October 29, 2013

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/44/17623.full.pdf

into more readable prose, but it also adds some hype in the familiar manner of the Science News Cycle.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

It will be grand if this scales up to commercial power transmission someday, but there are a lot more research and development steps to go through before we would see such a thing, if it is possible at all. The obligatory link for any discussion of a preliminary research finding like this article is the essay "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" by Peter Norvig, LISP hacker and director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

The paper here reports a new theoretical framework, so the first stage in checking it out is to conduct many more experiments to validate the new theory--or possibly prove it wrong.
George Clooney has a satellite he uses to keep track of a warlord. Individuals have capabilities which were previously accessible only to nations. I wonder if it is possible that an individual might intervene in North Korea, instead of a nation... but the parallels of a individual intervening in another nation's affairs sound a lot like terrorism. Some more thinking to do here...
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Which is, urm, rather the point.

Some of us care more about open source than free software.
Interesting book, thanks for the info! Will take a look.
And here we have the left's equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Nice. Can't login with my Spotify though. Just says 'launch spotify or login here'.
> Sure, our work is closed source, but that doesn't automatically mean it hasn't been externally verified for a number of different things by a number of different organizations...

Yes, but we have to take your word for it.
The Copenhagen Wheel official product release
If malloc() fails now, it might succeed again later. So you can just go on doing everything else you were doing, then try the memory-hungry operation again in the future.

For example, this could be important in systems where you might be controlling physical hardware at the same time as reading commands from a network. It's probably a good idea to maintain control of the hardware even if you don't have enough memory right now to read network commands.
Similarly, gasoline has chemical energy which can effect work, and this would still be true if every other human disappeared.

But those properties have no "value" without humans to extract its "value" by using it, and/or desiring it. The point being, that there is no objective standard of "value" and that concept is hoplessly entangled with human desires and needs. For example, you could make the argument that there is "intrinsic value" in whale oil, but it doesn't matter because we can extract it from the ground in a cheaper fashion (that's arguably more ethical, too). The market for whale oil - outside of a very rare few corner cases that are more than taken care of by the strategic sperm oil reserve - is effectively zero.
OK, so let's say I export all emails from Gmail from 2004 til today and I want to import them into Outlook.com. How would I go about doing this?
Who contacts who? the party that has less power contacts the party that has more power.

that is the way of the world, always has been, always will be
Bafana actually refers to the South African soccer team (correctly “Bafana Bafana”), and does translate to "boys." Just an fyi.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apartheid
Do not allow anyone to do anything. Safer that way.

/reductio-ad-fascism
> Mandela was a symbol of non-peaceful resistance

Yes, and:

"Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated as "Spear of the Nation") was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), co-founded by Nelson Mandela, fought against the South African government....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe

Indeed, let's not allow anyone to sanitise history. It's a fact that Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and PW Botha all called him a terrorist.
> Debian SSL bug lasted 2 years. Open source means little for security.

How many examples can you come up with? Was this specific bug being actively exploited when it was discovered?
Microsoft's effort to protect customer data from government snooping? sounds legit. I'll just leave this here https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/dual_ec_drbg_...
Live coverage as Mandela death announced
Fraud, yes. Terrorism, no.
I still remember sitting in front of the tv for hours, the day he was released. The long, extended coverage of his exit from prison, delayed as he spent his time saying goodbye to inmates and captors alike.
Half of England agrees with you
Bluetooth SIG announces Bluetooth 4.1 - adds support for hub devices
> a single man to create peace

Let's keep in mind that South Africa has been very far from a peaceful place over the last 20 years. Many thousands have been murdered, and many thousands more have left the country.
Mutual Information for the fields:

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I(m_facebook_photos_count,members_became_friends) = 0.0449092782303

I(f_facebook_photos_count,members_became_friends) = 0.0426531483254

I(m_shoe_size,members_became_friends) = 0.00276175766018

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I(f_number_of_siblings,members_became_friends) = 0.00019278884716

I(f_gender,members_became_friends) = 0.000124279429698

I(m_gender,members_became_friends) = 0.000124279429698
i really like this post. you guys come across as smart and really caring / understanding about what you're doing. imho, small things like this really do make a difference. i truly believe that introspective, intelligent exploration of the social choices we make is critical to any kind of group work. this is what i always felt was strongest about "agile" - at least, the kind described by cockburn - but which seems to have slipped away and been replaced by lists of rules...

i hope you end up happier!
Why does Apple need to own the company behind that IP in order to win? If Nintendo releases the games for iOS, Apple gets a cut anyhow.

I could possibly see the argument for locking them up as an iOS exclusive -- but Apple doesn't need to buy the cow, so to speak, to get that milk.
The US was actively opposing apartheid at the same time as the ANC was added to the watch list, during the Reagan administration. Reagan has a weird relationship with apartheid; he vetoed the comprehensive anti-apartheid act, but his veto was overridden by his own party in the Senate.

It's worth knowing that the ANC was implicated in violence in South Africa --- or, rather, splinter groups of the ANC.

Having Nelson Mandela implicated in "terrorism" is obviously stupid, as was having the entire ANC listed as a "terrorist organization", but it would be misleading to suggest that the US Government was supporting apartheid based on this fact; it was a complicated time period during which the government was to greater and lesser extents working to oppose apartheid.
UK Court Rules That Software Functionality Is Not Subject To Copyright
China Restricts Banks’ Use of Bitcoin