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So my post with links to articles about what he actually did and said is ridiculous and awful, but nothing Scott Adams has ever done or said is ridiculous and awful?

And what's so ridiculous and awful about linking to Scott Adam's own misogynistic rants and the reactions they provoked? I'm certainly not the only one who disagrees with you and thinks Scott Adams is a certifiable douchebag. Are your sensitive oppressed male feelings hurt that I pointed out his history of saying misogynistic things like "The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles."

"He never called anyone an idiot." Get your facts straight. You could at least read the links I provided before making stuff up. His sock puppet called people who disagree with him idiots, in the same breath as calling himself a genius:

"If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That’s how the idiot mind is wired.
It’s fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can’t rule out the hypothesis that you’re too dumb to understand what he’s saying. And he’s a certified genius. Just sayin’."

The fact that you have to make stuff up that's not true totally invalidates your arguments.

"He's not emotionally invested in the issue like you are." And how can you possibly say that he's not emotionally invested in the issue after reading what he said, unless you ARE just Scott Adam's sock puppet, and therefore have special insight into his private mental state. It certainly sounds to me like he's extremely emotionally invested in the issue, enough to create sock puppet accounts and write ridiculous awful narcissistic crap like that, which you interpret as not ridiculous, not awful, and not emotionally invested, since you have so much insight into his mental state, yet no investment in devoting yourself to the cause of carrying his douchebag water. (That's sarcasm, Scott.)
It's hard to take any source seriously that uses the term "global elite"...
To break down nabia9's comment, there is no such thing as a negative inheritance, so the base is $0. Bill Gates is worth $67 billion, which is $200 per person. Warren Buffett has $53 billion, Larry Ellison has $43 billion, and so on.

Get the list from http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2013/03/06/full-list... . The US billionaires have $1872.5 billion. Assuming all of that will be inherited (after all, 3 heirs of the Wal*Mart fortune are in the top 20), then that alone is $5,700 per person in the US, or over 3% of the "average American inheritance."

Somehow, I don't think I'll get one cent of their fortunes.

To get a sense of the distribution skew, in 2012 MSN reported "the median inheritance for today's baby boomers is only $64,000, according to a 2010 study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College" (http://money.msn.com/gen-x/banking-on-inheritance-good-luck-... , referencing http://crr.bc.edu/briefs/how-important-are-inheritances-for-... ).

Many web pages reference that source, but note that it's only talking about what baby boomers would get from their parents, and not what (say) a baby boomer who dies now might leave to any heirs.

There's a 2007 comment at http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2007/04/dont_count_on_a.html quoting a MoneyCentral piece: "The median inheritance was $37,700. About 1% of those surveyed received an inheritance greater than $1 million, and 5% inherited between $250,000 and $1 million."

In any case, both of these median values are well less than the $177,000 "average."
> The renders are quite obvious

Obvious to you, maybe, but I showed three non-techie people the photos and asked them: "How do you think they get such perfect photos? Can you guess?" Only one figured it out.
The second point does mesh quite well with my observations regarding the system. If you question a fairly randomly sampled member of the populace as to why they would choose to vote for one of the established political parties rather than a new or minor party that may represent their position on most issues much more closely, the answer you will get will invariably be some sort of invocation of a fear of economical downturn or collapse, as only "experienced" or, in a somewhat Kafkaesque turn, outright industry-coddling politicians are trusted to know what is good for the economy. The net effect is that anything that the established parties have a consensus on is effectively impossible to challenge in the political system (and no member of either established party has much of an incentive to break the consensus); it is hard to imagine that this would be the case to the same extent if the majority of voters did not consider their economical situation to be in some sense precarious or unsatisfactory.
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Yeah their landing page is not great. I was not sure what the product really was. Even after I scrolled down a bit I still was not sure. The Clipboard stuff needs to be up higher and maybe a video?
yeah proper robots is absurdly expensive. But its also multi-faceted. So if your interest is in machine vision, you can do alot of experiments with a web cam (which are really good now!)

I built an optical feedback robot arm for under $100 [1]. At work I use a robot where an individual sensor costs $100,000

The algorithms are much the same though. Doing control on cheap hardware is more challenging, so if you can do something on cheap hardware, you really have done something noteworthy! Expensive hardware pays for reduction of noise, it treats the symptoms of reality but does not solve them.

To truly solve the robotics issue of environmental noise, you have to solve it in software which is really hard but can be investigated cheap on cheap hardware. Robot projects fail because of software, not hardware normally. You should always build the software stack before spending lots of money on hardware.

[1] http://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/05/robotics-adaptive-contro...

Here are some cheap ideas:

1. Improve the robot arm control I outlined above. There is a huge market for cheap robot arms you could scale the ideas prototyped in [1] upto.

2. Active face recognition, put a camera with a zoom on a pan and tilt. Try to zoom into peoples faces for better recognition. Animals exploit shitty eye hardware with active attention in a way our current robots don't exploit.

3. voice activated inventory system for electronic components. Every hackerspace can't find the components they own. Popout a component tray via a push gantry behind it.

4. 3D hardware localization system. Actually determining the position of something is hard. Its the building block for gather training sets to do more challenging problems
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Hi,

Someone posted a while ago with shots of mac hardware with a creative commons licence. Does anyone know the link?
you missed #3 as part of a coup attempt - which unfortunately South America has had a lot of.
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> but loving what you do is the real meaning behind his message.

And his second advice is "Passion is bullshit" (and no, you won't get what he meant just from the title, again). Maybe you should read the article.
>There are plenty of interesting things to be said about the United States and its similarities (and differences) to totalitarian regimes of the past.

While implying that the US is a totalitaian state will get you lots of up votes from insecure europeans, the word has no meaning if it encompasses the current state of affairs in America. Could that change? Sure. Pretending it is already the case is fine as long as you realize you are just pretending.
It's nice to see they started with Debian and not Ubuntu - hopefully some good contributions find their way upstream.
Without making judgments about the motivations behind this statement, I just wanted to link to the LessWrong article on The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
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It's a console OS. It's based on Linux, and can run any game that is available on Steam for Linux, as well as any other Linux game or application if you flick a checkbox. Frankly, it's also in a better place than the two traditional consoles that have just been released, as far as game choice goes. There are, having a quick look, 684 games available through Steam for Linux.

SteamOS is being advertised as part of Valve's SteamMachines initiative, whereby hardware manufacturers will build PC-based console devices running SteamOS.

Where are they making it look like it's a desktop OS?
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Google buys robotics companies. Drones. China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space. Exciting times :-)
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"Default Installation
You will need to create a SteamOS System Restore USB stick to perform this install. The image provided here requires at least a 1TB disk."

I don't understand this at all. I wonder if there is actually a hard check.
Dude, the lack of top padding on the green section is really fucking me up, its wrong on so many levels. To the point where I can't take the professionalism of your site seriously. No joke. You should also consider pre-loading your hover images, or using sprites. Icons disappearing on first hover is so 10 years ago.
> The problem is that we are not a pure democracy like a republic would be, but that the head of the state, with actual political power, is Elected By God. Not the people.

Is it really a problem though? In practice, they (European rulers) have little actual power, so it's not unlike the president of Portugal, except it's a bit fancier during state visits...
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I don't have to tell you guys what autocompletes are, so I wont. It just amuses me when Google suggests something so random.

Come on, no matter how serious you are, some of these are funny.
As I have said before...

Surely if anyone can change things in the USA for the better, it's you, Mr. President.
I agree. I really don't understand the negativity here, and it reminds me of the immature and close-minded lambasting that the 3Doodler received. It's very disappointing to see the HN community act this way.

The majority of the negativity seems to stem from it not being an existing product, which is a silly thing to be indignant about, especially considering the first two words on the page clearly state "design concept". Even if the optical transfer strip isn't feasible, there are certainly other options to transfer data in a similar fashion. To see such a large group of knowledgeable people completely disregard an idea for no legitimate reason is.. baffling, to say the least.
I also sell a digital product with a 30-day "refund for any reason whatsoever" guarantee.

I think I have had one refund requested ever. It's not a huge seller, but that still puts the refund rate considerably less than 1%.
Is he, actually, obviously very intelligent?

He seems reasonably smart in some ways. But he also seems to have no idea of the boundaries of his knowledge, which leads him to say a lot of stupid things. That doesn't qualify as "very intelligent" to me.
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Yes - OpenSeadragon is great. We use it for the imagery on http://wdl.org, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov and parts of the [much larger] collections on http://loc.gov and I'm quite happy with it as an infrequent contributor.

For awhile it seemed like the project was languishing but in the last year or so it's really picked up steam with significant quality and performance improvements, particularly on mobile browsers, API and doc cleanups and some new features like rotation.

Just recently Ian started collecting instructions for the other side of creating images – if you want to try something like this, there are some simple command-line tools:

http://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-ima...

One particularly interesting project is https://github.com/zoomhub/zoomhub which is trying to be an open equivalent to Microsoft's zoom.it service.
I see the problem. You meant "meaningless" as in "it doesn't tell us anything about whether this person is a great guy or not". I interpreted "meaningless" as in "this act has no consequences and does not actually help people as it intends to do".
The bias is very obvious. There is a leaning toward SQL. While some of the things may be true there is a heavy focus on standards here & less so on performance & capabilities.

Looks like its to push the commercial product on the bottom of the page.
I just went through a (long for me) job search. As someone who has typically been able to have another job within days, this time it took me roughly three months. It was exhausting and frustrating, but also very eye-opening. I found a pattern among companies that gave me great insight, and from that I could choose a course of action.

I found two different companies trying to hire -- those looking to fill positions, and those looking to solve problems. Huge difference between those two; the former is tactical, the latter is strategic. Everyone needs to strive to find the latter.

I found interviews with those looking to "fill a position" bordered on the absurd in terms of their hiring approach. It throws you (the job seeker) off your game and makes you question your own competency. Don't fall for it; keep looking for those companies that are trying to solve problems.
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Cynical to call it style points when you're the only one doing anything that matters. Like instructing a kid, or leading a crowd that could have become a mob, or starting a community effort to reduce graffiti etc.
Briefly checking, I see it on the front page of cnn.com, foxnews.com, and nytimes.com. Interesting value of "completely unreported", there.
I don't read anywhere that he said this was the first time. Why would you suggest he said that?
Do people really say "I wish that all my doubles were actually Maybe<double>s, which could cause my program to explode at any arithmetic operation?" I have never heard this complaint.
This reminds me of the Stephen Colbert quote, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
This is great and all .. but it doesn't work in the latest chrome?
A lot of people are commenting on the design issues, but those things can be fixed rather quickly. What's going to take more fixing is the value proposition.

"The fastest" and "the easiest" are so over-used that they've become meaningless. Especially considering that the alternative solution -- just emailing something to yourself or to someone else -- takes about 10 - 15 seconds. Cutting that down to, say, 8 seconds, is counter-acted by the time it takes to download/open the app (is it an app? I don't know), ask others to download it, etc.

What pain point is this solving? Whatever it is, make that your main message. That's the fastest and easiest way to your the point across.
But again: it assumes you can build a drone which wouldn't be killed by the laser system.

Even if you silver the drones, they're not going to reflect the laser back at it - they'll just scatter it away. But a drone is a complicated surface - you've got optics, flaps etc. on it. And a silvered drone would reflect the sun incredibly brightly - it would be the easiest LADAR or just optics target to find in the sky, which means you wouldn't need to hit it with radar and reveal your position to shoot at it - and if the camera optics look at the laser, they'll be destroyed instantly.
JooQ is Apache 2.0 licensed. He's selling support and drivers for commercial databases.
"Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 503 (Service Unavailable)"

Perhaps, a HN DoS?
I don't get it. Tried in several browsers and nothing happened.
Assuming you mean the BCL (base class library).

In my experience, the BCL is more comprehensive. For example, the iOS framework lacks a built-in queue or a sorted list (as far as I know).

One thing Obj-C does have, that I miss in C#, is equality methods defined for collections. You can compare the contents of arrays and sets and dictionaries without writing any special code or using special methods. (Although you can break it by creating cyclical structures, since it does naive recursion instead of unification.)
Depends a lot on who you surround yourself with.
All of these, plus Self-Destructing Cookies (featured on Mozilla's list).

I love plugins like this that just quietly get on with their job without bothering me with too much noise, allow me to easily override their functioning when I need to and just work smart.
It certainly is for some. For example, the folks still indefinitely detained at Guantanamo would probably agree that it's a totalitarian state.
It's supposed to change the background to the dominant color of the image as you keep scrolling further down.
go to http://unsplash.com/ and scroll down, you'll find them.
Try reloading several times, worked for me after few attempts on latest firefox, chrome and safari
In the name of self defense?
Appears to be working on latest Win Chrome
Dito for AI and ML - I know some who moved out of AI research for this very reason.
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And up votes from middle class Americans who are just outraged about having to pay taxes. Or something-something NSA.
No you can very obviously sell advertizing on you tube which fits with Googles business
doubles come with that built in -- NaN.
... And Nuget is always behind Maven.

... And C# devs always borrow patterns and best practices from the Java ecosystem, so I think it's you guys who are always 5 years behind us.

... If you're using MSBuild or Nant and can set up an adequate build system in one afternoon, either your project is super simple crud, or you're not using enough tools to ensure proper engineering/verification, or you're the top 5-10% people who can bent .net build tools according to your needs, or you're exaggerating.

If you think that we shouldn't sweat over build scripts then that seems to be a hint that you have not dealt with large projects.
We are getting there, seen as how MRO managed to snap a picture of Curiosity's descent.

Or how NASA tried to work with India (Chandrayaan-1 and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) to perform a bistatic radar experiment. I find the idea of two entirely diferent crafts operated by two countries and working together to be fascinating.
tl;dr Rant about complexity of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance and it's practical uselessness.
So you would rather a Wikipedia that vets ideas for quality rather than simply recording them? That would make it difficult to research ideas that are both important and wrong, like the ones of 19th century messianic cults and Theosophy.
thanks, it worked after several refreshes. I could've checked network panel in chrome to see what's up if I was smart enough.

It is actually quite cool, I tried similar thing (albeit a trivial approach) with css only: http://cssdesk.com/VYN67

Try changing image url in source to see different effect.
My very first hire was a guy who was 50. I was 24 and my manager was 30 - we were both intimidated by the thought of being the boss of someone so much older than us.

For the first two weeks of his employment, the guy was quiet. Really, really quiet. He just kept to himself and read the material I'd given him. I was starting to get worried, when one day he asked to talk to me about his tasks... He then proceeded to ask a series of incredibly pointed questions about the work we were doing and his part in it. Not only had he absorbed the details of our requirements, and our plans to meet them, but he had already anticipated the problems & challenges that we would be facing months & years down the line when it came to testing and delivery. He was completely on top of his game.

As a youngster, my approach was very different from his. Lacking experience, I would energetically tackle things head on, and deal with problems as they arose. Working with this older guy really made me appreciate that other approaches are at least as valid.

So, if someone is on top form at 40, they'll probably be even better at 50.
If you know what both companies are capable of separately and how evil they are, then this news is probably one of the most important and most frightening news of this century.

There is NOTHING good for humans that can come out of it. Period.
In his post above, he says temperpedic is 1.8 lb. so which is it, 8 or 1.8?
This is a uniquely American view on the situation. In America, unless your favored major party holds overwhelming dominance, then voting for any third party is actively voting against your own interests.

Its easier to lobby within a party to change things then try and form a new one, given the way the first past the post voting system in the US works. In countries without one, new parties can form and gain some influence all the time.
Why would they give you old PDFs? :)

Jokes aside, I had no idea that OReilly gave PDFs with their books. I thought that was only something that much smaller publishers did.
I am tempted to write a book on this now. Model driven, event driven and generally AOD absorbs complexity much better than the traditional OO or procedural only models (and obviously the building blocks are procedural/OO after all). NoSQL (document based approach) is made for model driven, event driven AOD environments.
I was not selling it. Just researching the idea. Had I tried to sell it people would have not given me much data to crunch. I'm still convinced the idea is good. Though it will require a great amount of effort to gain momentum. Businesses are very conservative due to the fear of losing precious resources on a wrong decision. They need to know about others being successful with a product/service before they decide to try it.
It wasn't working for me and I got the following error "Uncaught IndexSizeError: Index or size was negative, or greater than the allowed value.". However it worked in incognito mode, I could reproduce the problem by enabling Disconnect in incognito mode. If you are having troubles try using incognito mode.
I agree with you but due to the state of (teachings, or lack there of) our primary and secondary public school systems many probably think: "But if a majority think they should be locked up forever without trial then that's democracy and the goal we're striving for right?! We win!"

EDIT: It seems the emphasis is a bit heavy on democracy and too little on liberty. The minority that needs the most protection is the individual.
An argument which can be used by all sides. In the end, it's the civilians who get screwed.
The various European monarchs have the power to use their absolute power exactly once.

It might do something. But shortly thereafter its unlikely they would retain the legal authority to do it.
Go China! As an american, I hope China keeps pushing the boundaries on their space program - maybe we'll then decide to invest in science and space exploration again.
organizing the world's information .... with robots???
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Its a sexy read.

James Mickens is AKA "Galactic Viceroy of Research Excellence"

http://microsoftjobsblog.com/viceroy-james-mickens/