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Actually, OS choice does make a lot of difference.

If the OS is open source and well documented, the process for rooting, jailbreaking or exploiting the device on which it is running will be much easier.

The same couldn't be said about Apple TV, the 3rd generation and beyond is completely locked down.

I personally use Airplay extensively, it saves time transferring video files to my HTPC when I can beam them directly from my laptop.

tl;dr your experience represents you, no one else, stop trying to pretend otherwise.
No I am saying that college is not about "goalposts". I truly now believe that college is not something that should be done solely to further ones career (hence, passionless students). Instead it is something you do because you are genuinely interested in a subject and want to further education. Otherwise you end up in the situation we are in.

If the goal is to have a job, there are better ways of accomplishing that than taking on student debt and pursing something you are not that interested in (or spending lots of money trying to figure out what you enjoy).
Macros are not functions, macros are a mechanism for adding features to the language itself.
Background noise and activity isn't all alike. In a coffee shop it's irrelevant: strangers moving about and talking about things that don't concern you. That's easier to tune out than things than the noise and activity in an open plan office where it's people you know moving about and talking about things that may be relevant to you.

Also, people are different -- some are better able to tune out background noise -- and the same person is different on different days and while doing different tasks.
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If anyone can send me a sample of the Lepton camera module so I can connect it to my microquad, that would be awesome. Message me if you can help.thx seedmediacreative@gmail.com
Firstly, I want to be clear that I responded specifically to the idea that "MIT license == somehow bad". Releasing code under GPL is not in any way a bad thing, and I'm not arguing against the GPL. People can do whatever they want, and there are a lot of solid reasons to prefer the GPL. My purpose here is to stick up for fellow gamedevs, because it's absurd to believe that we're not interested in contributing to open source just because we prefer the MIT license. I could name several gamedevs off the top of my head who have contributed in a big way to open source software. Interestingly, they all tend to use MIT licenses.

Back then would you say "system programmers are not going to ragequit the industry just because operating systems are closed source". But instead, they wrote open operating systems. Follow their example. Write a free engine. That's the entire point.

The gamedev industry isn't like other industries. You can't spend a decade writing an engine. You therefore need talent in order to write a competitive non-toy engine. This means you must work in the game industry for a period of time to get that talent. You also need to be brought up steeped in the sort of culture that makes you mentally inclined to open source your years of hard work rather than keeping it closed and proprietary. That's why it's a mistake to villify the MIT license -- you're cutting off an entire generation of programmers from open source culture. Specifically, the generation of programmers who want to be game developers. The reason is because they are going to be working in the gamedev industry, and hence the MIT license is going to be their only option to participate in open source culture. Villifying them will drive them away, and future talent will write proprietary closed-source engines as a result rather than free and open source ones.

In summary, villifying the MIT license is directly counterproductive to your philosophical goal of seeing less proprietary software.
The dropout rate for entry-level programming courses is high, regardless of starting language. Symbolic thinking is rough to pick up in a single semester. I think most people can get it, but the timeframe is tough, especially on non-majors. I don't know enough to comment beyond this, other than suggesting that we can require less of non-major students to ease them in?
One thing I noticed was that the article incorrectly claims that the RCA COSMAC CDP 1802 was used in Voyager and Viking missions, but it wasn't used until Galileo
Stop fooling yourself -- by changing your mind
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It looks like they're running Varnish for caching the pages - is the main issue the images?
hopefully we won't be obese though. Because science will have solved that problem by then.
I remember several things from before I was 3 (and plenty more after that), but I'm always unsure if it is an actual memory, or a memory of a memory.

I was a pretty introspective kid. I thought about my past and tried to recall my childhood even at the young age of 5. So perhaps my earliest memories are really just memories of being 6 or 7 and thinking back to when I was 2. Second hand memories, so to speak.
I've advocated this for a long time.

The big advantage is that it would put an end to corruption. If you tried to corrupt a member of the political class you might get a polite "no thank you" at best. If you tried to corrupt average Americans you might have some who would say yes, but you'd have 1/3 who would call the cops, punch you in the face, pull a gun, or otherwise do something that would make it way too risky.
A hollow understanding; both men and women are given to vanity and bragging.
Ever read Solar Lottery? It's not really the same, but I do wonder if over time randomly selected representatives wouldn't just milk their power for what it's worth since it seems like there'd be little to no accountability of any kind.

Not that there's any real accountability provided through elections as it is anyway.
My intention wasn't to attack you at all, so sorry if I offended. I was just trying to think from your shoes based on what is in your profile. I didn't knew you had a background in C.S.

In that case, it's even more interesting, to me, that you think like that. Given your background you certainly know about neural networks, and what the simplest models are capable of. You probably also understand how emergent and apparently random behavior can arise from well define frameworks (Rule30, prime numbers distribution). It's intriguing to me that in light of evidences like that, it's still required for consciousness to be explained by something other than emergent behavior.

And I don't think "put enough genes and DNA and neurons together and, bam, consciousness" captures the issue. That may produce a machinery like the brain, but doesn't necessarily produces consciousness.

My hunch is that consciousness is the convergence of feedback loops and the perception of boundaries, allowing the distinction between myself vs. environment, and that should be conditional of a certain structure. I believe we'll be closer to understand consciousness by trying to reproduce it.
Is "SAFE note" a valid way of referring to a SAFE security? If it's not a debt instrument, it seems weird to call it a "note." It almost sounds more like an equity option (i.e. investors are buying the right to buy a certain amount of equity at a set price in the future).
Rarely does a company enable so many interesting cultural events. They had a lot of great stuff to show off.
Would people who do this professionally be part of the general competition?
Was just looking for this, thanks!
Ah - totally missed that. Thanks - Do we know if they will turn off after being "hit" for >300ms
Good critical thinking, though you can view knowledge as the method of slurping the data NSA slurped and acting on knowledge as the slurping process itself.
In particular for large projects it works very. I decide to work on it for only 15 minutes, doing something simple like making a folder with a text document with a list of things that needs to be done for the project. After that I take a decent break feeling good about myself before I start with the next 15 minutes.
absolutely! I have barely used eclipse (or other IDEs). I know they aren't fast, but wasn't sure how many people were annoyed by the speed.

Anybody know why it takes so long? Is it because the file needs to load up all the documentation, code bindings, auto-completes, etc. that many other people here have mentioned?

I'm guessing if an IDE is looking through a file every time it opens and mapping that files method paths throughout the project, that could take a bit of time.
Which of the four requirements listed do you object to?
This has only a little to do with the cookie directive which I agree is stupid. Why are you using this as a straw man to defend google?
I'm genuinely curious — if I understand you correctly, you consider a "permissive license" (such as BSD or MIT) to be inferior: less community-friendly, less "free". Why?

The reason I ask is because I think the opposite is the case: what you call "permissive licenses" give me freedom to do whatever I want, while GPL, especially v3, is very restrictive as to what it allows me to do.

Please, I do not want to discuss the merits of each approach, I would just like to understand the point of view, especially the seemingly conflicting uses of the words "free" and "permissive".
Not only that, but emergency vehicle will be able preempt roads directly, rather than relying on the 18 year old kid with headphones on to a) recognize the lights and sirens, b) care, and c) do something not stupid (like pull into the way of the fire truck...)
Considering insurance companies already insure airplanes, and you can turn the autopilot off without losing insurance, I somehow doubt this future. Airplanes are both more expensive and cause more damage when you crash them, and yet, you can rent them and insure them all the same.
If you believe, say, that Apple has been faking its revenue and profit numbers for the last 10 years, you can go ahead and short them on the expectation that they'll get caught, Tim Cook will go to jail and the stock will tank. In the meantime, the presence of your short will in some small way drive down the price of AAPL, or at least signal to the rest of the market that somebody believes things are not as rosy for the company as the current price indicates.

That's profiting from crime, in a way, but it's all you can do when it's not within your power to subpoena Apple internal memos or what have you.

As I read this article, this is more or less this is what JPM is being punished for doing, because in theory the small exotics group in the UK could have called the US headquarters and inspired them to contact the SEC, which didn't happen.
Of course the rest of the world works the same way too. I never said it didn't.

But the fact remains that most of the US does not suffer from extreme violence, and comparing the averages across countries doesn't do anything to dispute that.

Even though you claim to understand this, you didn't let it stop you from declaring that "most of the US does have a higher murder rate." How does that work, then?
> So... that means that the kernel is not written in C then? I'm confused.

It depends how important you consider the kernel, written in C, requires the drivers, written in C++, to perform any useful task.

> Except they don't compile it with a C++ compiler, it simply can be compiled with one.

Right now maybe not. Just wait when MSVC++ no longer does C.

> However, what would you call this, C or C++?

Actually,

It is C code according to ANSI C.

It is C++ code according to ANSI C++.

It is Objective-C code according to Objective-C language specification.
I assume your credit union isn't open source though? It's great that you're happy with your bank, but I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that banks can improve a lot, and just because it you're happy now, doesn't mean we can't try to do better. It's kind of along the lines of Ford's Quote:

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
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Let's say I had a short equity position in some company. Now, some bad guy comes and murders the CEO of that company, tanking the equity. A crime was committed, and I profited. Did I profit from a crime? Did I do something wrong?
The only Heroku information that I've ever put into repos is occasional plugin information. Nothing critical to security but definitely specific to the particular site. (potentially a security risk that I may not be aware of)

I will take care of it just in case, thanks!
Most credit unions in the US are, but I think situation outside of the US isn't the same. Europe doesn't have credit union alliances like - http://www.allianceone.coop
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Not true any longer.

As described in http://mercurial.808500.n3.nabble.com/named-branches-vs-book...

> We have users with thousands of named branches in production and have
> done tests on up to 10k branches and the performance impact is fairly
> minimal.
Feel the same. I doubt that it's 3-4 seconds, because I loose the sense of time too, but dunno about you. Hmm, isn't seconds sleep very similar to that too? I would even say that it's much more extreme. I can hang in-between reality and dream for minutes in the worst case, until I either wake-up unpleasantly or doze off.
Perhaps your memories are things your parents said when you were 7 that you did when you were two as well?

That's how I figure it works in my head.
Does anyone know of other research about how to promote increased retention of early childhood memories?
Maybe I wasn't clear. I am not saying that macros are functions. I'm saying that without seeing the implementation, both look identical, and thus could be conflated, but do not treat scope identically.
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Agreed. All I could think reading this was how much I wish every Matt Taibbi "bankster" screed posted to hn or reddit had been replaced with a link like this.
Sounds really interesting. Are you thinking something like selecting a function/method will chain all the other functions/methods that call it and display them like a tree map?

Have you seen this somewhere already?

I'm not sure how difficult this would be to create, but I'm thinking if implemented properly, it could help in working with less/scss and show how changing a variable or class would affect the rest of the compiled css. What classes and ids would be affected, etc. etc.
Bloombergs coverage has always been pretty balanced and factual.

Disclaimer: I worked for them in a past life but continue using their website as my primary news source long after having left the company.
One might find another one of Tegmark's papers of note: http://arxiv.org/abs/quantph/9907009.
I've barely skimmed it, but being vaguely familiar with how decoherence a la Zurek is supposed to work (had a homework on it last year, regrettably), the timescales he notes seem about right.
As bad as being stuck in traffic is, usually you're having a better day than whoever was involved in the wreck, most of whom probably didn't do it on purpose.
The i7, one of the lower priced units is around $2k, so if it can do the same thing (appears to be the same resolution) it is a win.
As a game player, you're hurting an entire customer base by shutting us out of modifying your software. The primary goal of the GPL is to allow end users the freedom to fully utilize the software that they use, including the ability to extend as they see fit, not for developers to collaborate with each other.
..99% of people aren't going to bank with..

People won't "bank" when it comes to Bitcoin - There's no need of a Banking system really. And as per your concern around fluctuating value of Bitcoins, It's just a matter of how you look at it and standardization.

Assuming everyone tomorrow agrees to standardize that Bitcoin is the de-facto currency and decides to transact in BTC only, I don't think anyone will be concerned about fluctuation anymore. Item X which retails for 2BTC, will retail for 2BTC today, tomorrow and day after tomorrow. (Assuming no price change, offcourse)
Let's put it another way. I feel pain when the atoms in my brain are in certain configurations. Why is that?

You simply can't explain that with physics. You can explain the physical symptoms of pain - like crying or sweaing. But not the feeling of pain. And the reason for that is that you won't be able to define the feeling of pain. Crying or sweating is definable (or reducible), it's just a complex motion of physical particles. But what's the feeling of pain (not the physical symptoms)?
Ok, if you change the meaning of words we can't have a nice conversation.

We all understand wealth to be money, stock, ownership. So maybe the housing could come under that (if you owned your apartment) but not the others.
That's pretty cool.

A large majority (including me) are completely blank about anything before age 6 or so.
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BSD is restrictive. It protects certain freedoms at the expense of others.

It all depends on pespective. GPL has more freedom for users, BSD for developers.

Both are valid licenses that do different things. Calling one restrictive just shows that you view this from one side only.
I can't help but notice that the vast majority of commenters are missing the fundamental reason for all this handwringing. The reason isn't language schism (that too, but I'd attach a much smaller weight to it) so much as the schism between corporatism & academia.

Corporate America wants languages that are dumb, easy for corporate drones to assimilate, hard to mess up with, verbose ( verbosity is misinterpreted as documentation in the enterprise) and Java fits the bill from the get-go.

Now, that doesn't mean you can't do non-dumb things in Java - at Sun Microsystems, we worked on all sorts of very cool R&D-type shit like JavaOS(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS), Hotjava ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava), JavaSpaces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaSpaces#JavaSpaces ), JavaCC( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaCC ), Jini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jini ), ...a very long list of R&D stuff. Sun Research was fucking elite, & staff engineers were considered outright geniuses. None of that cool R&D shit got any traction.

So what got traction ? Whatever yucky shit corporate America wanted - JavaBeans( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Beans ), EJB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EJB ), Swing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java) ), various sorts of form-builders, table widgets, reporting shit, IDEs, classfile obfuscators,...

So Java became that. Rather than go down the R&D route, the pipeline became more corporate America oriented.

Haskell has always had very deep roots in academia - the focus on enabling the corporate American drone with Haskell is minimal, close to zero. So what do you expect ? The focus will be on debating types & building theorem provers, not on "how to show big bank's fourth quarter report in 3 colors with 7 columns and subtotals in single widget while data-binding seamlessly occurs in middle tier using enterprise beans built from beanfactoryfactory" - this sort of shit that is commonplace in the Java EE world I inhabited post Sun, would be considered positively gauche in Haskell.
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All I remember about when I was young is due to looking at photo/video of the event, and then later on, when I'm "remembering" the event, I'm really remembering the photo/video. I'd say I have close to 0 legitimate memories of when I was young. Anyone else?
It's a little alarming that one of the major online newspapers in the world can reveal such news, yet provide no substantial information on what the malware was, what platforms it infected, and how to detect if it's infiltrated your system, and furthermore remove it.

From what I read on the guardian, it seems that it's a Java-based exploit:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/08/yahoo-malw...

More info from the original source:
http://blog.fox-it.com/2014/01/03/malicious-advertisements-s...
"One 2013 study by the Eno Center for Transportation suggested that if 10% of cars on US roads were autonomous this could reduce fatalities by about 1,000."

This doesn't quite seem right. How does a 10% shift towards autonomous vehicles only equate to a 2% decrease in fatalities? Why wouldn't this scale linearly?
I used a FLIR i7 this week to find a whole section of wall that had no insulation in it. By feel, it felt colder, but damn if the wall was 55f most places but nearly 35f where there was no insulation. It would have taken me hours to run my hand and/or use a laser-based infrared thermometer; found enough places to work on in just 15 minutes with the FLIR cam..
Reason for the downvote?
I am also of this view. We live in a semantic world. Information is fundamental and matter encodes it. There is some interesting work being done in this area but not enough. A book and summary paper is available if you search "Quantum Meaning: A Semantic Interpretation of Quantum Theory"
There are lots of communities around GPL licensed software as well, so that's kinda a moot point, no?

The assumptions you cite are not the primary reason GPL software is considered "best for users" (by some). The second point is not even relevant for users but developers.

GPL software is guaranteed to stay free. That's what's relevant for the user.

(Personally I like both kinds of licenses, so I'm not arguing for/against either)
I strongly agree with everything the author writes, but I believe that sweet.js might not go far enough. For example, I am very fond of TypeScript. I'm also very fond of React's JSX. Yet, I cannot mix the two, and neither JavaScript extension could be expressed as Sweet.js macros.
My own experience was that I came from statistical languages like SAS, bounced right off R, ended up learning Python and then came back to R and was like "ohhhh…"

It's an odd language, that makes assumptions neither group really hold dear to their heart, but it's also intensely useful.
But there are a lot of APIs required. Web apps didn't have access to even basic things like the phone dialer before (on Android or iOS at least).
I might be one of those people. :P
If they are short Madoff, it's in their interest for its value to go to zero - i.e. him getting shut down by law enforcement makes them a lot of money, so their incentives are very much aligned with those of the regulators. (If you're cynical, you might argue that in an ideal world they'd like the rest of the world to remain in the dark for long enough for them to build up a sizeable position first). Conversely, investors would benefit from it finding more investors before being shut down so they could cash out first.
Right, but none of those options are particularly fast.

In Sublime, if I want to open my Gemfile(at root), I just go

Cmd+T: Gem

And it's selected.

If I want to open my admin_controller, located inside of /app/controllers/, I use

Cmd+T: adm

And it's selected.

If I wanna do my Admin Controller test(spec) file, at /spec/controllers/admin_controller_spec.rb?

Cmd+T: adm sp

This is all a ton faster than what I'm seeing currenltly in Light Space, where I'm essentially forced to use my mouse, or OSX's poor keyboard controllers for open menu navigation.
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Your CEO could care less, so things could be worse, correct?
News aggregators are not hosting the actual content, which is very key to the design. For news articles, usually you want to post a small blurb or a picture, where as a news aggregator is nothing but the title.

News websites also need to maintain visual continuity between the navigation and the articles themselves, while aggregators only need to design navigation.
Lisp macros were introduced in 1963 by Tim Hart at MIT.