skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do occur but they're rare. I remember the move from sysvinit to systemd taking about 10 minutes, and I have a 3 year old Arch install that has never outright broken on me after an update.

Frankly I remember going through more pain every 6 months from in early Ubuntu days (although that's a lot better now also).
There's a Google Plus community page https://plus.google.com/communities/104388679763490357266 which seems to work better than the (defunct) HN Google+ Circle project https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts

There's a #hackernews channel on Freenode but there doesn't seem to be much activity.
I've wondered about this. To what extend does a Nest drive the CV system? For example does it do modulation? If so, does is use OpenTherm - and thus only works on new CV systems? If not, how is it not 10 (OK, 5) years behind?
Quite. And mobile phones were tracking locations in a police-surveillance friendly manner before there were smartphones.
Actually, the comment quality, just like on HN is degrading.
Is there any generic way to preserve loss of numerical accuracy for any given function?
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> Were they able to secure such a treaty, why would there be any expectation that it'd be meaningful?

I would be very meaningful in a symbolic sense. Germany and most of Western Europe are used to seeing themselves as close allies of the US since WW2.

With close allies you expect to be able to reach an acceptable level of trust on topics like spying, even though you know both sides are still going to do it at some level.

By not being able to sign this agreement the message for Germans / US relations is "we trust you just like we trust the Chinese". That will likely lead to a weakening of past alliances...
Lua has a much smaller codebase and is simpler than PHP, so I'm not sure the comparison is apt.
Nope, except for the transporter controls. These weren't part of a normal panel, though, they were a clear proxy for the old physical sliders.
http://www.zoho.com is the one I have been using recently, but unfortunately I don't have much experience with Salesforce to make a proper comparison.
neuquant is quite good for photos but does strange stuff with graphics and low color counts. in fact, the pool table example that's used to show how good it performs, RgbQuant does better on the details and with fewer artifacts at the expense of bsckground smoothness/banding. compare for yourself http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dekker/NEUQUANT.HTML

i'll check out bright183
China imports massive amounts of raw materials, so they aren't really self-sustaining, no more than any other nation is.
Thank you very much for the extended reply!
It's possible that a different one has been solved by less people. E.g., if someone created multiple accounts, submitting to the same question multiple times, increasing the Solved By count artificially.
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Touchy, touchy! There's no need for insults.
Google Nesting
Do you honestly not know what his point was?
He is saying you are a single person with a single use case. Therefore your opinion has little value.
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$50 Honeywell thermometers, the programmable ones with the questionable UI, will adjust the pre heat interval on their own.

That isn't as fancy as responding to the weather, but the feature is pretty common.
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Dont expect to be there quickly.
I don't know how you define "small" but ARM certainly manages to defend its patents against companies that are many times larger (Samsung is a couple of hundred times bigger both in revenues and number of employees).

Patent litigation is expensive, but it's not that expensive for even relatively small corporations. Apple spent about $60 million in legal fees in its battle with Samsung in California (which resulted in the $1 billion verdict): http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/12/apple-demands-15-million-.... That case ran for two and a half years, involved a trial, an appeal, and a retrial.

$60 million over 2-3 years is expensive, but it's not intractably expensive for a moderately sized company, especially if the patents are critical to the business and adequate litigation financing is available. And $60 million is for a blockbuster, "we're taking it personally" grudge match like the one Apple waged. A more typical patent lawsuit might cost $5-10 million. And if the plaintiff's case is strong, it might cost nothing for a firm to take it on contingency.

Every year in the U.S. about 150-250 companies hit $100 million in revenues per year, about 20 of which are technology companies: http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2013/06/number-of-us-compan.... These all have the resources to defend their patents against even a fairly large company.
That's a lot more helpful, but I still don't quite get the conflict.

Building a new distribution gives these people the choices they want (a custom installer, better quality repositories, a decent system-wide configuration interface) - it's a way to create a unique take on Linux. A desktop environment is but one part of that - and it seems those people don't agree that it should be the most prominent one.

All these words written on why the available Linux DEs suck were so far unconvincing from my point of view and I would've loved to see another thorough explanation. Most of the things I've read aren't specific to any Linux DE and mostly "I don't want to adapt to change" arguments - just like "Windows 8 is the downfall of Microsoft Windows" and "Maverick is the worst OS X ever" (or "Firefox changed the default theme!!").

Technically I'd say that there are a number of decent DEs available, all with benefits and tradeoffs. In fact, my biggest gripe with Linux on the desktop isn't that there's no decent DE, my pet peeve is the inconsistent looks between applications written for different DEs/in different Toolkits. Mixing GTK with QT (with motif, tk, swing, e17's libraries and whatnot in the mix) looks bad, feels unnatural and restricts my selection of tools for a job ("Am I going to install that thing? Naaah, it's based on QT"). I don't want more DEs, I'd prefer more progress a la freedesktop / a unified path forward.

Obviously this is all a rather subjective thing, but Linux runs fine on my desktop for a long time already.
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Come on, they're not in any way comparable.
are you running any promos? :P
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A high speed multidimensional query seems like it would be useful for visualizing and analyzing server logs to look for attacks and other trends.
I love how often the same people that are those complaining about 5.4 breaking code, throwing deprecated messages etc, and on the other hand still wailing about the weird artifacts and inconsistent function naming.
It's nice to see Sabayon mentioned. I've been using it at work for a few years now. I'd used Gentoo for a long time at home previously, and wanted something at work that felt like it, but didn't have time for the tedious installation process, nor the long builds if I suddenly needed to pull in a large number of packages for other purposes. These are the very issues Sabayon purported to address with an out-of-the-box setup and a binary package manager. I tried it, liked it, and have used it since.

The package management tool (Entropy) is nice. It feels a lot like Portage, but also handles a few other tasks (configuration updates, mirror selection, etc.) within the tool itself. It's a nice compromise between Portage and the binary package managers you find in most popular systems.
You should check out Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849963010/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Waguespack takes Christopher Alexanders's 15 fundamental properties of order and integrates them across system modeling ending up with:

3.1 Stepwise Refinement (To Elaborate)

3.2 Cohesion (To Factor)

3.3 Encapsulation (To Encapsulate)

3.4 Extensibility (To Render Extendable)

3.5 Modularization (To Modularize)

3.6 Correctness (To Align)

3.7 Transparency (To Expose)

3.8 Composition of Function (To Assemble)

3.9 Identity (To Identify)

3.10 Scale (To Focus)

3.11 User Friendliness (To Accommodate)

3.12 Patterns (To Pattern)

3.13 Programmability (To Generalize)

3.14 Reliability (To Normalize)

3.15 Elegance (To Coordinate)

He then combines those using some coherence metrics to end up with furuther properties that result in thriving systems:

5.5.1 Divisibility

- stepwise refinement and modularization

- supported by cohesion, encapsulation, correctness, and identity

5.5.2 Factorability

- cohesion and encapsulation

- supported by extensibility, transparency, identity, and scale

5.5.3 Constructibility

- composition of function and scale

- supported by identity, user friendliness, patterns, and elegance

5.5.4 Confidence

- correctness and user friendliness

- supported by cohesion, modularization, and correctness

5.5.5 Predictability

- patterns and reliability

- supported by correctness, transparency, and elegance

5.5.6 Usability

- transparency and programmability

- supported by stepwise refinement, modularization, and identity

5.5.7 Intuitiveness

- identity and elegance

- supported by encapsulation, modularization, composition of function , scale, and programmability

6.1 Scalability

- constructibility and factorability

- cohesion, encapsulation, composition of function, and scale

- supported by identity

6.2 Fidelity

- confidence and extensibility

- correctness, user friendliness, and extensibility

- supported by cohesion, modularization, and correctness

6.3 Effectiveness

- intuitiveness and usability

- transparency, identity, programmability, and elegance

- supported by modularization

7.1 Robustness

- divisibility and scalability

- stepwise refinement, cohesion, encapsulation, modularization, composition of function, and scale

- supported by identity

7.2 Sustainability

- Fidelity and Predictability

- extensibility, correctness, user friendliness, patterns, and reliability

- supported by correctness

8.1 Vitality

- effectiveness and sustainability

- extensibility, correctness, transparency, identity, user friendliness, patterns, programmability, reliability, and elegance

9.1 Thriving

- Robustness and vitality
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No, the math isn't sloppy, at least not in the way you imply.
B_n are the Bernoulli numbers - I can't find a K(whatever) on the page. If you'd let me know which bits you don't get maybe I could help.
I always love this site for when things get a little slow and I think I could use some relaxation.

Then I remember that I only took a little bit of math, so then there's the research, the papers to read and decipher, the code to write, and I finally solve the problem and swear I'll never come back.

So, yeah, I just finished a batch of problems last week so I could get a couple of ego badges just within reach. 75 down, 379 to go!
Idunno, I'm an Android fanboy but at this point I'm getting less and less impressed with it. The UI looks dated now that everybody's going flat, and the "new device" experience is now terrible with tons of services being confused about your Google Plus account. It takes a day or two for a fresh Android device and account to stop bombarding you with irritating inscrutable confirmations and Plus-related shenanigans. I recently set up a device without the Google account and added it later, and every Google app was horribly confused after I added the google account - had to reboot it to make it behave.

Android is good, but it's quickly turning into Windows 98 - productive but messy.

At the same time Microsoft is making an impressive pace in both the hardware and web-service fields.
Big Data: One man's trash
Fair enough.

I don't see JS getting those features though, especially FS/peripheral access. By completely leaving them out it makes sandboxing JS so much simpler.
Oh no, that really looks _old_ nowadays.
Such transactions: Dogecoin seeing almost double the daily usage of Bitcoin
Nest does have an internal battery than can be charge via a USB port if you ever need to. I bought my Nest used off Craigslist (substantial savings) and have never had any low battery issues. It's bus powered, but the battery smooths over power disruptions.
The GNOME and KDE communities seem to have two completely opposing philosophies.

I'd argue the best way to achieve unification would be to make GNOME 4 a Qt based DE. Qt is just superior and GTK+ only exists because of ancient Qt licensing issues that are no longer relevant. That said, this will never happen because, being C++, it'd alienate a lot of GNOME developers. During the transition you'd also set back GNOME for years.
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It's called neoteny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny

So we've already been doing this for thousands of years.

>Some common neotenous physical traits in domesticated animals (mainly dogs, pigs, ferrets, cats, and even foxes) include: floppy ears, changes in reproductive cycle, curly tails, piebald coloration, fewer or shortened vertebra, large eyes, rounded forehead, large ears, and shortened muzzle.
Except they made a private agreement to license the patent. That was their choice and they are stuck with it.
You can't rearrange a divergent series. It's a sin :-P. http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ralston/pub/Rearrange.pdf
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MIT offering online course on Big Data techniques
Yes and we can find tons of examples where they haven't done well, e.g. Jaiku which they pretty much threw away, Dodgeball which let the founders leave in anger and got them to found Foursquare outside of Google etc...
San Jose's Nutanix nabs $101 million funding round
NINJA-IDE 3.0-alpha, cleaning up the architecture.
Ninja is now one of the most recognized IDEs of the pythonic world. We are releasing the Alpha version of Ninja IDE 3, codenamed “lawgiver”, the road we took from 2.3 to this version is an interesting one, as it poses an interesting exercise in phasing from a chaotic architecture to one designed based on the usual needs detected by the developers.
Lots of people hang out in #startups on Freenode, but it's a bit juvenile for large portions of the time.
I think I would have found it painful without join and sort, though (which, also in that list).
Bitcoin address shortener for the blockchain
Yea but I guess it's at least more honest this way ;)
My suspicion is that if you simplify your UI so that it doesn't have the massive amount of automatic layout code that HTML has, you can have optmized code for it. Thus even doing it in JavaScript, because it is a much smaller subset, you can have it faster.

The question is what subset do you choose to implement. And it will necessary not be correct for all cases. Thus what would happen is that this will be one of many specialized / simplified pure JavaScript DOMs.

But the above is just speculation.
In Quebec, Canada I find it leads me to impossible places. Even hospitals have the wrong address.
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It's probably like a lot of publishing industry paywalls. It doesn't kicked in until you've viewed X number of articles in Y time span.
Assuming you're right, then that fear is about money, if your claim stands right. But, if the fear is money, why don't they just let every developer test it early for a fee? Σ that up and you end up with a great way to fuel your startup, without causing premature investor-friction.

Here's a number:
$ 5 × (100.000 × ¼) = $ 125.000 in Free Capital

What that means for their customers (Early Adaptors) is this:
$ 5 + EULA + (Freemium of sorts in the future, for loyalty) = WIN

TBH: I thought the same, I mean the decision to lock-out so many potential developers willingly is very bad, or just ignorant. Personally I value their startup high as a replacement of <Enter-Mobile-Framework-Here>, but time is not everything, sometimes you can loose a lot of customers, because of the bad first impression you have made in the beginning.
While there are occasionally other fun linux distros to toy with for a few days, I have never found any compelling reason to stray from Debian after it has served me on the desktop and at the server level for sixteen loyal years.
Maybe a referral program like CEX will help Coinwell out
That's very interesting, considering our smallest nerve-cell -I believe- is about 4 ųm.

I'm disappointed the article doesn't mention the significance of age, or even the average age of the study.
Looks cool. Does it have access to the Arch repos, or is it actually a full fork?
Lawsuit: Oracle called $50K 'good money for an Indian'
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Google Play Services 4.1 Provides App Developers Enhancements
... with that in mind, knowing Google's shortcomings?

If I were Google, I'd blow a fat wad of those billions and buy Sony. There's a company that would really fill in a lot of Google's gaps - gaming, consumer hardware beyond the cellphone scale, a big library of media properties to integrate into the Play store.

A quick Googling puts Sony's market cap at $18B. A big chunk of Google's cash reserves, but imagine how terrified Microsoft would be of Android-powered PS5s.
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Stanford eCorner and Harvard Business Review podcasts are really good to listen to if you have to stand. If you've listened to all you can go with conference speeches, I usually grab them from Youtube.

If you can sit most of the time I would advise you to buy a Kindle and read books or blogposts. It is much more easier to concentrate on the material and it doesn't make your eyes tired like a phone.
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What pythonistas think of ruby
The article directly contradicts itself.

>A government spokesman said the talks between the US and Germany were ongoing and they hoped to “get something in the next three months.”
I got a Masters degree in Computer Science and my research focused on software security. I got a bunch of offers to go into security when I graduated. (I decided I was more interested in building things than breaking them and chose a software development role at a startup instead.)

I would suggest working towards CISSP depending on your formal education. If you're interested in software security learn IDA Pro, start a blog, set up a honeypot, start analyzing malware you collect, and write about it.
Let's say "honest in the eyes of the citizen/voter", b/c no politician would seriously consider putting any real trust in any such agreement.
I think the problem was, I could have your account shut down by gifting you a game and charging back the purchase.
In the same vein, spending a couple of hours working Project Euler questions before you go into an interview is a great way to warm up for the types of questions you tend to get in interviews but don't see as much during day-to-day programming.
There weren't any. The treaty was a method for chancellor to look like she reacts at least a little bit given the situation, while still effectively doing and changing nothing. The former was important because of the elections the later because germany is not a sovereign country.
Also, universities. Relevant paper:

"Are Universities Patent Trolls?", Mark Lemley, 2007

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=980776

From the abstract:

>Finally, I think we can learn something about the raging debate over who's a patent troll and what to do about trolls by looking at university patents. Universities are non-practicing entities. They share some characteristics with trolls, at least if the term is broadly defined, but they are not trolls. Asking what distinguishes universities from trolls can actually help us figure out what concerns us about trolls. What we ought to do is abandon the search for a group of individual companies to define as trolls. In my view, troll is as troll does. Universities will sometimes be bad actors. Nonmanufacturing patent owners will sometimes be bad actors. Manufacturing patent owners will sometimes be bad actors. Instead of singling out bad actors, we should focus on the bad acts and the laws that make them possible.
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Hmmm. So the benefit of this is offloading plugin processing onto a separate thread(s)? I guess I see the theoretical benefit of that, but I'm unsure of how useful this actually is...
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I solved about 80 of them, then my interest waned a little. But I wonder, are there any hints or recommended reading for the harder ones? Some of them I have no idea how to even start working on..
The reason for piracy is simply bad salesmanship.

Nobody would bother with torrents if there is a much easier and correctly priced alternative - when Steam started selling games in Bulgaria I stopped pirating games. When Spotify started selling in Bulgaria I stopped pirating music. When, eventually, Netflix starts selling in Bulgaria - I'll stop pirating movies.

The solution to piracy is simply knowing how to sell your product. DRM is an attempt at a technological solution to a non-technological problem.
Disney Research has done some interesting work on touch screens for the visually impaired.

http://www.olivierbau.com/teslatouch.php

One of the side benefits of this kind of tech -- for everyone, not just visually impaired -- is being able to experience otherwise untouchable objects (camera takes an image, you touch the screen instead of the object).
Mathematicians hate civil liberties - 100 prisoners and 100 boxes
As far as ssh, I bet it was already installed on the device when you got it. Can you uninstall ssh and install it again without rooting Android? If you downloaded some ssh "app" from Play you probably just downloaded a cute interface to the real ssh--which must place nice with the Google proprietary JVM in order to work. Does the real JVM work on Android? Why not? There was a presentation posted on HN recently from a Python developer explaining why he can't code Python apps for Android. He explained it pretty well--you must use Eclipse, you must use the Google Virtual Machine. If you do a few searches for "code Android app" the only way is to download Eclipse and compile through the Google Virtual Machine. I'd rather pluck out my eyeballs.
In PHP cycles are slightly faster, but Scala lets you do away with lot less cycles. Not only because of awesome library, but also because excellent IDE support with instant type-checking.
Yeah Literally World is coming to our finger tips !
Wonderful Tech. Kinda Smart Ring..!!!
Yeah, obviously the specifics matter.

The broader point is that the average heating season temperature at the location is more interesting than the coldest temperature experienced during a given decade.

That still ends up being something like (1-8/50)/100 for a lot of people, so an easy opportunity for 15% during away times (and 70->62 isn't an absurd night setting...).