skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can barely remember high school or college. I can't name a professor from college right now, although I can picture a few faces. I played sports for all four years of high school but can't recall anything but a few flashes. I don't think this is completely normal, but why dwell on the past anyway. Try to live in the now.
So what you're saying is, ultimately, the sanitary conditions of hackers left to their own devices merit the government's bulldozing of their abodes. Hrmm... :P
>His perspective was that CS was about process and verification and proof and thus while the current implementation of computers is interesting, it didn't deserve any privilege.

Is that the basis for the quote about "CS isn't about computers any more than astronomy is about telescopes"?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Disputed
Haha, yeah I've dipped my toe into continental-heidegger-psilocybin-phenomenology and it's wonderful Being. I'm still trying to answer WTF (in general). I haven't read Deleuze. Maybe I'll check him out next!

I'm feeling like the more I look for definitive, objective answers, the more I'm pushed towards things like art and aesthetics; human expression, shared being, and culture. Those things seem more real to me than quantum mechanics or string theory. I'm not sure what to make of it all, or that anything can be made of it at all, but something sure is happening, and I feel, simply, that I want to be a part of it and play with whomever will join me :)
Well, if that sort of thing is indeed in the works, I doubt anyone would tell us- competitive advantage and all that- but it has been ten years since the Opteron 240. Maybe it will be time for the next one soon.

It could even be one of many technologies recently on the market. "Influence" is a legacy; you can't see it on launch day. Maybe one day we will look back on hUMA [0] and say it was one of those Things? The PS4 processor in particular, as the first processor with hUMA.

Although, it does look to me like innovation is more gradual now just as a matter of fact- the business cycle is much shorter now. The 4004 was released in '71, the 8088 in '79, but today every chip vendor releases a new chip every six months, so changes will naturally be spread across releases and it will be harder to point and say "There, right there, that is where the world changed"

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_memory_access#hUMA
The first programming language depends a lot on what the purpose is. EWD's purpose is to train mathematicians specializing in computation. For these types of people, Haskell is fine. "Commercial" languages are better for people who want to learn the basics of programming to apply in a job later.
If you need the same for Java: https://github.com/norswap/caxap
Renaming metaphysical dualism doesn't change the fact that it's metaphysical dualism. It's just a new label on the same old can of worms. How do we tell conscious matter from non-conscious matter? By finding or failing to find the non-material property of consciousness. It's perhaps a bit more scientific than relying on souls, but only by virtue of not positing life after death or an immortal being or some other manifold of meta-physics.

Being a materialist is all well and good, so long as one takes it seriously, and there are only two serious materialist positions: Deny the idea that mental constructs have any reality [and ignore the paradox required for denial to have any meaning] or posit mind as an inherent property of all matter and live with the consequences of universal animism. Any other form of materialism is a weak waffling half measure.
Though unrelated, today I was watching a 2006 episode of Boston Legal where one of the characters makes an impassioned argument about how Americans have next to no privacy nowadays (2006) and how the NSA is already reading all of our emails and listening to all of the phone calls. Anyone who was involved in any way with security knew perfectly well what NSA was doing, and yet it took this long for people to care. And truth be told, outside our technobabble no one cares still. Sigh....
Wow I hadn't heard any of this. If its at all true, it would make me reconsider ever using Stripe again
We apparently have different ideas of what 'major' means then, though I don't mean to malign Google's, or Digia's, or anyone else's financial contributions toward hosting our yearly general assembly and convention.
> It's 100% efficient.

Probably above 99.99% but not 100%. The light from the power LED might escape through the window and there's some electromagnetic emissions in the parts of the spectrum that might also go through walls, same goes for the sound of the fan.
According to this: http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1845/ziferblat-russi... it's £1.80 an hour, or £9 to stay as long as you want. A nearby coworking space, Google Campus, is £90 for 30 hours a month with coffee and tea paid for separately.

Of course, it would be easy to create an environment that deterred laptop users if that's not compatible with what they're hoping to achieve.
When did people leave cities then? Which cities were shrinking but now aren't?
I like this idea. Would love to see more things like this.
The design for the page that they use to introduce the design seems vastly better than the actual redesign http://www.nytimes.com/redesign/
> "... w/ 1 term only."

Nevada introduced term limits a few years ago and the result has been, at best, zero meaningful change and, at worst, actively making an already crappy state government even worse. And they're still given at least a few terms, rather than just one (which would make it even worse).

What ends up happening when you term limit politicians is other actors in the political system gain more power. And in Nevada's case, that means lobbyists and special interests.

They're the ones who can accumulate 20 years of experience while politicians come and go. They're the ones freshman lawmakers are forced to turn to because all other sources of institutional knowledge are no longer around.

In the abstract, I get the appeal of term limits. Fresh blood, new ideas, change for the better. In the real world, though, it just doesn't work.
> Not the OP, but: the GPL is more restrictive, in that you are not free to reduce the software freedom of some other person (say, by turning it into a proprietary product).

No one's software freedom is reduced if I release a closed source derivative of a permissively-licensed open source product. All the rights that existed to the originally permissively-licensed product are intact.
It would be trivial to use the same synth hardware and warp the oscillator that drives the overall synth by a couple ppm higher or lower.

It would be a lot easier to encode at the message layer.

You are all talking around a FDMA spread spectrum implementation and I'm saying a CDMA would be a lot simpler to implement...
Should have gone with primecoins... I would guess on a pool you could get about 10 a day with that much power (assuming they were i5/i7 machines) and then traded them in for bitcoin.

Although apparently the difficult of primecoin was raised a month or so ago. In any case going for another coin and trading is likely to be more profitable.
He might work from home or in a private office, or these might just be for a home setup. I have AKG K550s for the office (I know I'm paying for the fact that they're closed) but bookshelves, a small amp, and a DAC for home.

As comfortable and great as these headphones are, wearing them still fatigues me and I just don't enjoy having them on. I really enjoy speakers.

In my college dorm, I had TCA WAF-1s with a TCA Gizmo. I've upgraded my amp and purchased an inexpensive DAC + Energy 12" sub since then, but I'm very happy. You can spend a few hundred and have a really nice setup; after that point, you'll see marginal improvements but with huge leaps in prices.
sounds brilliant. I always feel guilty/uncomfortable sitting too long, but with this kind of place you never feel guilty.

1.80 per hour and includes everything (coffee?) sounds like a bargain in London standards. That won't buy you a cup of coffee in most other places as far as I remember, let alone fruit, vegetables, biscuits etc... Even cheaper than co-working spaces(?), especially for casual use.
There's also parental amnesia where as soon as a person has a child, they completely forget what it was like to be a child and get very frustrated that their children aren't adults. I see it all the time in colleagues.
Your fears are not uncommon. There are many of us who feel "different" from "normal people" and it's too easy to over-analyze and label our emotions and mental health.

Like you, I have ADHD. Like you, I was misdiagnosed with something ( bipolar disorder, at 16yo ). Like you, I've wondered if my idiosyncrasies are attributed to Aspergers.

In the past, I got caught up with these things. I know a few things: a) I have a classic case of ADHD, b) my ADHD meds appear to stabilize my moods, as I was always a cranky and generally bitter person to be around before I took meds. When I take days off of meds now, that part of me re-emerges. Perhaps the medication makes me calmer and more willing to listen to what other people have to say.

If there's one line of advice I have to give, it's that everything is on a spectrum. I once heard a story about a delusional schizophrenic. A man was standing on the atrium in the psych wards. As each person walked by, he said something along the lines of, "Greetings, ladies and gentlemen! Will you be returning for the show this afternoon? CNN, ABC, CBS, all the broadcasters will be here! Don't forget! At 3 o'clock I give a speech! All the world will be watching!"

I would never advise against seeing an expert if you really have problems. But never forget that everything is on a scale and difficult to measure. There are those who are normal, there are those who are perfect, and there are those with terrible afflictions. Most of us fit somewhere in between ;).
How do I get hired as a high schooler?
Basically, the computer will be very nearly as efficient as a regular resistive electric space heater, but the building is almost certainly not being heated that way. Heat pumps are far more efficient than resistive heating.

http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/1494

(The building may also be on district steam heating, fuel oil, possibly even coal, any of which could be cheaper than electricity, depending on location.)
I'm aware of both. The former has no plan to convince the patent holders that have stymied progress for the last decade beyond asking them nicely, again. The latter is too little, too late.

Google's submission to MPEG of VP8 as VCB should be interesting to watch though.
Why on earth would you risk expulsion from college?
Nah, the best response to the IT staff not revoking your access immediately is always to subtly threaten to ignore them and/or maliciously attack their systems.
> Because a BSD type license allows you to take software and turn it into non-free software.

No, it doesn't. A BSD-type license doesn't let a third party make the software anything but BSD-licensed software. It does let them distribute derivatives under different licenses, but that doesn't change anything about the original.
OK, I get that, but this assumes that their politics are not affected by their desperation, right?
Sounds Latin. If you like that go ahead. Also try lean domain search. http://www.leandomainsearch.com/
The whole point of abstraction is that you don't have to care about the underlying mechanisms...

As a math person I love abstraction, I love the idealism of not wanting to worry about underlying mechanisms. As a programmer, I would note that virtually all the abstractions which programming has produced are basically failures at that level - programming languages and constructs are invariably "leaky" to the extent that on the intermediate level you wind-up having to worry about underlying mechanism after-all.

On the other hand, I think Dijkstra's wrong about one's first programming experience shaping one irrevocably. There's nothing wrong with learning pure abstraction first and then finding out it never works but there's nothing wrong with learning "bare metal" first and then learning abstraction. I think learning depends on keeping your "mental space" clean more than on what stuff you've done.
Speaking as the founder of an "OSS startup" here are a few observations & thoughts:

The ultimate case-study is probably Red Hat.[1]

My perception is that their subscription model is the best route to "selling" open-source software. Having observed RH for years, both from within and without, their model just seems to work. And, FWIW, it's the same model we're pursuing at Fogbeam Labs[2]. We can't say yet if we'll be successful with this model, but I'm confident enough in it to make it the initial plan.

The important point here, I think, is that the product being "sold" is an enterprise play... it's something companies will pay where the thing they're actually buying isn't the actual raw bits (you can get 99.9% identical bits for free by downloading CentOS), but rather the comfort and the risk-mitigation, and the "somebody to call at 3am" and the "somebody to sue" factor. Many managers in companies just plain want there to be a company backing any product they use - and they want an ecosystem with support, and consultants and training and what-not.

The net-net of that observation? The RH subscription model probably works fine if the OSS you're monetizing is something that will be used by big companies. Otherwise, this model may very well not apply.

I'll also expand on this by saying that RH have other revenue streams besides subscriptions... there is training, certificiations, and professional services among others.
Likewise, when we get "off the ground" with our products, we expect to offer training, certifications, and services along with the actual subscriptions. And, in our case, the way our offerings work, lends itself to the possibility of having some value-added "data as a service" offerings that complement the products, that could constitute another revenue source. We'll also be looking to take our product platform(s), build certain specializations of them, and offer those as SaaS offerings. That latter plan might be a good model for others looking to monetize OSS, although I can't swear to it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat

[2]: http://www.fogbeam.com
Wow, that's impressive. I didn't realise macros can be that powerful in practise.
I'm guessing that you're referring to something in particular?
I was hoping your comment was going to end with "I didn't even realize I had a baby until it was down"
I'm hooked to OneNote, started using it a year back. From what I've seen it's extremely intuitive. Creating a table is a breeze and so is the indenting.
Cubicles aren't cardboard boxes; that would never pass fire code.
Yeah, except app devs screw it up and few things work right. Pixel doubling can be done entirely transparently to an app.

And yes, so can other scaling, except a lot of apps opt-in to the "no I know what I'm doing, lemme scale myself" and then screw it up.
> I was under the impression that they were munched by Intel

Nope, you must be thinking about something else. Transmeta started moving into IP in 2005, sued intel for patent infringement in 2006 (settled for a cool 250mil, Intel got a perpetual, non-exclusive license out of it), licensed tech to Nvidia in 2008 and died in 2009 (was acquired by Novafora in January, Novafora collapsed in July but not before Intellectual Vultures made off with the patent stash in Feb)

Now part of Intel's activity at the time (the PIII and Pentium M side which ended up with Core) may well have been inspired by Transmeta (as many allege), but at the same time Transmeta's activity best matches Intel's pursuit of the NetBurst (P4) shit-cake, which ran opposite to pretty much anything Transmeta looked for (unless Transmeta had patents on lofty promises they couldn't come close to deliver on, then year the P4 fits).
My 2 cents on great teachers... I only had a few. Perhaps 2 in high school. Another 2 in undergrad. And perhaps 6 or 7 in grad school.

My observation on them is consistent with what the article conveyed.

1 - They knew exactly how much a top student was capable of, and kept the bar at the top of that range. No higher, and definitely no lower.

2 - They were passionate masters of the material. They were teachers, who covered computer science and biology. They were biologists and computer scientists who taught. (And economists, etc)

3 - They taught the same classes over and over. (Like the conductor) This was perhaps enabled by 2, and allowed them to know 1.

4 - They weren't afraid to give bad grades.

5 - They prepared you both for the exam (AP, final, or whatever) and to think deeply. It wasn't (Content OR Reasoning), it was (Content AND Reasoning).

Teachers like this are few and far between.

I will define great as "People who I thank later for the lasting impact of what I learned from them."
(wikipedia) responses to sneezing
Thanks.

Yes, it is Perl.
> percentage of their market cap or something comparative

The income from the local market comes to mind, as this is realistically the piece of the cake that the local government has some control over.
>Consider John Doe. John is an ordinary internet user who's heard of bitcoin, but has no iota of how it works and 0 control over it. Will John trust his life savings with it? No. I think that's pretty obvious.

err consider John Doe... He doesn't give a damn if his bank is open source or not. John Doe is not your target, people who use BitCoins (and I don't mean lemonade selling girl scouts) are your target.
Ask HN: Why are managers so bad?
In all of the talk about flat structures and the removal of bosses, "managers" seem to be a major scapegoat. So, what is it that makes "managers" or "management" so bad?

I get the impression that many small companies instill a no-management policy because they had experiences with horrible management. When large companies (Zappos) restructure with this goal, it seems like a well-architected recruitment plan.

So, are there any objective reasons that managers/bosses/hierarchies are bad?
If I didn't know better I'd think you were saying these banks are too big.
CES 2014: From smart onesies to virtual reality
Autodesk acquires online circuit design tool circuits.io
It would be nice if the auto manufacturers spent the effort on making their existing products better before they distract themselves with these projects.

Case in point? My car uses 1 quart of oil every 1000 miles (123K on the odometer) with a perfect maintenance record, and the manufacturer say this is Normal. Raise your hand if you like to stop in the middle of a family outing to pour a quart of oil into your car.

Or the power window motors that failed every 60K miles. Or the vinyl drivers seat that cracked to pieces. Or the traction control that engages on wet manhole covers. Or...
I think that game industry's reliance on the proprietary model is somewhat odd because they could do a really nice code is open source, but the art assets, sounds, etc. are licensed. Let people have and modify the engine, and if they purchased the game, they're free to add or do whatever, but no one can take your assets and resell them legally.
> If we could look at all the pieces leading up to experience under a microscope, I still don't think there would be a way of seeing someone's experience or subject it to proper scientific scrutiny short of actually being that someone.

See... but if you take a connectionist approach, it should in fact validate your intuition that you can't experience like someone else short of being them.

Making an analogy with neural network models, you can't transfer the weights from a network to another with a different structure and expect it to produce the same states. The experience imprints in the structure, and from that structure emerges the experience. And that's a ridiculously simple model, with ideal neurons and nothing else in the organism modeled... imagine the richness of behavior of the real thing.

I don't know... maybe it's our bias to believe matter is messy, filthy and mundane and that our consciousness, all the richness of our thoughts and emotions can't be explained only by it... but I actually find no less fascinating to think that is from structure alone that may arise sentient beings capable of living and breathing and feeling, out of the same atoms you find in the dirt.
This article gives a good overview in the USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_United_St...
Mapbox Android SDK
> Despite its many benefits, there still just isn’t a whole lot of excitement for the Firefox OS.

What are its benefits other than not being controlled by Apple, Google, or Microsoft?

The only benefit the author cites is HTML5 apps which can be built for any OS using a variety of different platforms.
> However, not quite sure about the “criminal trespass” threat. [...] I find that hard to believe as it is a public university.

It doesn't matter that they're public, if they've asked you to stop it's trespass. You don't even have to be on campus, if you accessed the network from home it could be trespass to chattels.
The goal of No Child Left Behind was to raise the standards of schools over time.

What ended up happening (some might say "as intended") was unrealistic expectations used to cut funding for schools that didn't kowtow to the state/federal rules and politicians.

The concept of a constantly increased expectations needs to be tethered to reality or it becomes a ripe condition for abuse (see stacked ranking).
I realized that worthwhile is a vague term when I wrote it. I would say that making $2.35 over 4 days is not worthwhile, but maybe $20/day (beer money) would be reasonable (considering I would not be paying for electricity). More to the point would be a rate (dollars/cpu/day) where you could calculate what the total take would be from running under different conditions. However, I realize that with the dynamic nature of bitcoins and the variety of hardware available that rate could vary quite a bit.

disclaimer This information is for educational purposes only, I want to keep my job.
I sympathise to some extent. But this is not an entirely scientific perspective. The NYT will undoubtedly have performed significant user testing and also looked at the metrics (articles read, time spent, etc.) before making this switch.
Ouya has worked great for me and my friends, who play it pretty much anytime there are more than 2 of us hanging around.
Still valuable as a joke. :-)
I had a similar situation happen at my alma mater; we had a set of interactive login farms available (one sit-down computer cluster designed for interactive desktop use, and one shell cluster designed for remote login). Periodically, users would run around using up all of the farm resources they could find to go mine cryptocurrencies, to the extent that they would starve people working on real class work. The all-time worst were the GPU miners, which caused substantial desktop latency, since they threaded poorly with whatever the compositing window manager du jour was.

Sigh. Glad this guy got nailed. This kind of thing can be pretty disruptive. I think most of us did stupid things in our time at college, but I'm surprised that this guy has the temerity to go try to brag about it on Hacker News with his real identity...
Awesome. We have US, UK and AU Stripe accounts and this is exactly what I was wishing for a few weeks back. Thank you :)