skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RASPMC and a Raspberry Pi. Takes like 3 seconds to get setup and is easier to get going than a DVR. My parents have no issues using XBMC on my Raspberry Pi that I left back home.
Oh absolutely. There are lots of reasons to object to the fee. So if you want to get your money's worth out of it, you'd better start downloading.
That spectrum will be worth a bunch of money, no?
Packages should be invariant across similar systems. Configuration should vary. For a coarse-grained example, if I have a cluster of servers, they should all run exactly the same version of the OS, but have different hostnames.
By offering better service, which Netflix and similar largely have.
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This is the same women who said "It’s called protecting America" when defending the NSA's gathering of phone call records. [0] So surveillance is good, but not when you're the person being surveilled?

[0] http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/dianne-feinstein-on-ns...
The performers need to be paid if you want to hear more in the future.
From my experience tackling a postgres server that is under-specced, a good knowledge of file systems (block devices, NFS, SANs, etc.), OS caching and kernel settings for maximum memory and such (check the postgres docs). Ofcourse, this only becomes an issue once you have a decent amount of data that does not fit into memory - before that, postgres will keep everything running relatively smooth without much tinkering.

For postgres itself, make sure you know what all the settings in the configuration means, why they make sense 90% of the time and definitely do not make sense in 10% of the time (such as a low memory server with super-fast SSD disk arrays). And in general ofcourse a good knowledge of SQL, index usage/performance. Postgres extensions (arrays, JSON, etc.) are decent, but in my experience it's something you can get into relatively fast if you are solid on the rest.
"Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" was Andy Hunt, but as he and Dave Thomas are kind of a double act I can see why you'd get mixed up.

As to your point about whether they wrote any books on 'agile' I think it could be argued either way. More specifically, whether or not "The Pragmatic Programmer" (the book they made their name with) counts as a book about 'agile' is an interesting question, and one that throws some light on the wider debate.

Although they sometimes talk about "pragmatic programming" as if it were a thing, in the same way as XP and Scrum, their approach was more one of giving a smorgasbord of potentially useful techniques and practices rather than codifying a tightly defined set of best practices.
Why I Don’t Care About Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and XP
Why does it always need to be about the money?? Imagine giving a candy to a child. You make the child happy, and that is your reward. Or do you expect the child to say something like "let me pay you"?...
Well that's an incredibly dangerous command to run without thinking.
You'll work for free?
So there are really people running around, voluntarily refusing to pirate until they can pay someone for it?

What a weird, weird world we live in...
I'm a left of center guy, but this kind of thinking is a very ugly slippery slope. Its not that anyone should always expect to pay for things that are beneficial, its the fact that people who very recently WORKED to create the very thing you are benefiting from should be PAID for their work.
If everyone followed your logic, we wouldn't have 12 Years A Slave. The props cost money. The costumes cost money. The cameras cost money. The cameramen's families eat fucking food, which costs money. Please, go out and find for me a quality movie that was made by unpaid volunteers. I haven't found one yet.
Yeah sorry didn't mean bit-coin per se. Just some sort of crypto currency/ledger.
Very true, I hope the devs published this somewhat anonymously at least. It's essentially just YIFY torrents taped to the peerflix script with some node-webkit glue.
34% of all CA certificates are never used for signing HTTPS certificates
I don't know that much about her in general, but from what I do know she has typically defended the actions of the NSA. So I would think that for her to come out publicly against the CIA like this is a pretty big deal.
if you could prove that you paid for the movie you're downloading? Lets say you buy a movie using the Video app on the Xbox, but want to watch it on your old Windows XP desktop, or on your Android phone?

I'd be very surprised to learn there's a legal way for you to do this considering the movie you download on your Xbox is going to be PlayReady DRM encumbered.
One Laptop Per Child is very much alive as an idea or even a right in developing world. They may not be using OLPC or Sugar but OLPC showed the way how it could be done and it was doable. Every poor nation in the world knows this by now that education is the ticket to prosperity and computers help deal with teacher shortage . Android, ARM and the Chinese manufacturers will ensure that one laptop per child is indeed a reality one day.
Is goto Still Considered Harmful?
The question I always ask myself is: how does one learn specialized stuff like managing a DB without working with it professionally? This also applies to Big Data, scaling, etc.

I would love to work building highly scalable systems, but I don't get to do it at my current position, and all the job offers out there require having experience doing it. Looks like a chicken-and-egg problem to me.
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No.

Well, yes, replace yum, apt, etc. But once you have a functional package management system, you don't need Puppet, Chef or Ansible, because the same stateless configuration language can be used to describe cluster configurations as well as packages. So build a provisioning tool based on that, instead.

That provisioning tool is called NixOps. The article links to it, but doesn't really go into detail about NixOps as a replacement for Puppet et al.
How to Get a Custom Bitcoin Address?
It depends what they are sharing. Sharing copyrighted works without the authorization of the copyright holder is the common definition of piracy. In which case, how is it unethical (as you say) to equate the two?
So someone correct me if I'm wrong, but is the CIA really investigating a leak ..... to the oversight committee?
Yes, it's a pity it has such a license. People tend to dismiss it without even looking at it because of the license.

I don't think the language will take off unless it change licensing before it's too late, but I still find it enjoyable to use with some smallish projects.

I hope that Shen will get a successor that will make it more suitable for modern world while keeping ideas that make it unique and sound in the first place and smoothing the rough edges.
This is a shameless plug, but hopefully all some good resources:

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/categories/postgres/
http://postgresguide.com/
http://www.postgresweekly.com
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Spies spy, that's what I am saying. It is in their nature to be deceptive, that is why I said cant fault them for it. Not in a legal way just it is what they do. Until you hold them accountable they have no reason to change.
Study 1 - Likelihood of winning pitch competition. Gender and attractiveness:

Male/High 0.39
Male/Low 0.29 n=70, p=0.042

Female/High 0.21
Female/Low 0.18 n=20, difference not significant

Study 3 - Likelihood of investment on scale from 1 (low) to 7 (high)

Male/High 5.21
Male/Low 4.59 p=0.024

Female/High 4.14
Female/Low 4.35 difference not significant

Each participant rated 1 pitch, n=520
I actually found the article to be thought-provoking. I think there actually is a problem of inexperienced founders setting their sights on just getting into an accelerator, distracting them from the bigger picture.
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Because, as it's been stated before, if Aereo sets a precedent in court that they do not have to pay retransmission fees the cable/dish companies will stop paying the networks in a heartbeat.

The networks could care less about Aereo the business but they care DEEPLY about this court ruling.
You're not solving the problem, you're just pushing it out to the steps that get the right tgz files to /dir and claiming it's magically solved. If that step fails, how is upgradepkg going to work?
You are downloading torrents to do this so you shouldn't be using this without going through a socks or vpn anyway
This reminds me of a particularly devious C preprocessor trick:

#define if(x) if ((x) && (rand() < RAND_MAX * 0.99))

Now your conditionals work correctly 99% of the time. Sure it's possible for them to fail, but unlikely.

Now you might object that C if() statements are far more commonly executed than "apt-get install". This is true, but to account for this you can adjust "0.99" above accordingly. The point is that there is a huge difference between something that is strongly reliable and something that is not.

Things that are unreliable, even if failure is unlikely, lead to an endless demand for SysAdmin-like babysitting. A ticket comes in because something is broken, the SysAdmin investigates and found that 1 out of 100 things that can fail but usually doesn't has in fact failed. They re-run some command, the process is unstuck. They close the ticket with "cron job was stuck, kicked it and it's succeeding again." Then go back to their lives and wait for the next "unlikely but possible" failure.

Some of these failures can't be avoided. Hardware will always fail eventually. But we should never accept sporadic failure in software if we can reasonably build something more reliable. Self-healing systems and transient-failure-tolerant abstractions are a much better way to design software.
Reasons I like PostgreSQL compared to MySQL:

- Timestamp with time zone

- More robust, fewer crashes, less corruption of data

- More features (JSON data type, partial indexes, function/expression indexes, window functions, CTEs, hstore, ranges/sequences/sets, materialized views, too many to list)

- More disciplined (doesn't do things like auto-truncate input to get it to fit into a column)

- Not owned by Oracle, it's actively developed, regular major release schedule, developers/maintainers are talented and trustworthy, etc.

- Better Python driver (don't know about other languages)

- Choice of languages for database functions/procedures (Python, JS, etc.)

- Better partitioning support

- Better explain output, explain analyze, buffers

- Multiple indexes allowed per table in a query (I hear MySQL has made a little progress here since I last used it)
> Please, movie people, let me pay for this.

Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ICSVLPA/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/12-years-a-slave/id7403669...

And many others: http://www.foxdigitalhd.com/12-years-a-slave

Sony could not have made it any easier to get this film into your living room.

(Regardless, I don't think media companies have an obligation to make their content available to anyone, anywhere.)
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Medical marijuana and 'the entourage effect'
“When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.” ― Randy Pausch
Call for acid-bath stem-cell paper to be retracted
From phys.org's summary:

In their first experiment, the researchers recruited 60 actual investors from the business world as volunteers. They asked each to watch videos of people making pitches for a project asking for backing (from actual entrepreneurial contests held across the country). Afterwards the investors were asked to rate how persuasive they felt the people doing the pitch were, and also how attractive they found them. The research team reports that they found that the investors were more likely to choose the male pitchers over those who were female, regardless of whether the content of the pitch was nearly identical. They also found that the more attractive the person giving the pitch, the more persuasive they were found to be—but only for those that were male. The investors didn't seem to care how good-looking the women were, they rated them as less persuasive than their male counterparts regardless.

http://phys.org/news/2014-03-investors-good-looking-male-ent...
Ah, spoken like someone who has never created anything of value.
>I benefit from the work of Mozart and feel no need to compensate anyone.

Well, Mozart is dead, for one thing...
It is ironic and supreme turnabout that Feinstein is having issues with an intelligence agency over, all things, Fourth Amendment violations.

But, this "article" is horrible. It makes allusions without providing details and references a speech that was supposedly brave and important, yet quoutes no supportive portions of it.

It's all meta: Someone feels this way about something and the other person feels that. How about telling us more about the something?
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Zach Galifianakis and Obama trade barbs on “Between Two Ferns”
I haven't seen informed discussion of this product, but it's already raised nearly $100k only a few days into its campaign.

My gut reaction is to be highly skeptical of its claims, and I'm hopeful somebody here can weigh in on how feasible it really is.
I object to the notion that anything is okay so long as it's purportedly for national security.
I'm simply glad you turned your thinking around. I've applied at startups and other companies that seem disappointed I can't immediately point out for which team or project I'd like to work for. My friend referred me in and assures me the work is interesting. I am here because I trust their judgement.

To me, the job interview is a mutual interview, i.e., I am interviewing the employer while they interview me. And when it comes to deciding on teams/projects, I use the probationary period as if it were an extra due diligence after the interview to decide if the work is interesting (much as the employer gets the time to decide if I really am a good fit and productive).

I think many people have been sold by founders and interviewers on the greatness of a set of projects only to find the scope or robustness of those projects to be much less.

Thanks for the post.
>The problem with Scrum is it is rarely about principles and more about a process.

I was thinking this recently about agile. Lots of "agile" followers seem to advocate a lot of process SCRUM, or "always do TDD".

Does the Agile manifesto not say:
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools".

Basically these people are doing the opposite.
My friend's wife works in Compton, which is one of the most distraught and lowest income areas in the country. I asked as a technologist what can we do to help her. She said she needs laptops for every child.

Standardized tests are being taken on computers now and many of her kids do not even know the simplest commands -- drag and drop, right click for more options, drag to expand, etc. This is an obvious incremental hinderance on their ability to catch up to the rest of society.

Additionally, they actually have funding for computers, but the district pays the lowest vendor for the most hardware. Makes sense from a non-technical bureaucrat's point of view. More computers means more children can have access. However, these computers break down before the end of the year and they mysteriously disappear after being loaned to the children.

My friend's wife now has to bring in her own computer and use that to teach her children how to use the basics of computers because the system is so broken and because people have a generally naive and ignorant view of what is needed and not needed by the education system, even at home.
This happens because it no longer downloads to the final location, it usually downloads to the same place but with .crdownload or something appended. I get around this by downloading with a different program (aria, wget, etc...) or by hard linking the file it's actually downloading to something looking like a movie file, and vlc-ing that.
But it requires copyright holders to be part of it. Most are not, and most can not.
Agree generally with the article, my particular views on Agile:

1. Communication, communication, communication
2. Short iterations
3. Concrete deliverables
4. Client/customer engagement with deliverables

Everything else is details.
CryEngine gets native Linux support
I don't want to detract from what you are saying but you have a few typos in the article.

at one point you have "star-up" and in the very last sentence, "complement" should be "compliment."
That doesn't compromise more important aspects of the target? Very unlikely. Still, it's something you want covered.

Note that the paper doesn't say Fortuna is worthless against compromised state; just that optimization techniques can be used to build an RNG that handles the problem better.
How hard can it be to find a 275-ton plane?
> I benefit from the work of Mozart and feel no need to compensate anyone.

Even on legal side you are not required to compensate anyone as it's so old that it's in public domain.
Actually I believe it's more like

dpkg -i -E -G -B --force-overwrite --force-breaks --force-conflicts --force-depends --force-depends-version *.deb

with one or two extra things, like installpkg/upgradepkg will prompt you for what you want to do with config files, and adds one or two extra heuristics. But, yes, dpkg could totally be used in a similar way as upgradepkg. It's just more complicated so it doesn't work as well ;)
They don't have anything to hide, right? Why should they worry about being surveilled? We need to fight terrorism wherever it is, even in Congress.

Right?
Of course it's fragile attachment to friends and family in a company can be more motivating then any speech a founder can give.

You are a lot more motivated to give it your all when you know a friend or family member is relying on you then some random strangers you happen to work with.

You can't have a united, motivated team that you can chop up however you like without consequences.
Mt. Gox granted protection from U.S. suits during Japan bankruptcy
My company runs 120 machines on AWS. For technically defensible but for this purpose irrelevant reasons, there are CentOS and Ubuntu machines in our stack. How do you propose I provision nginx on exactly the ones I want it on? How do you propose it do it for me so I'm not getting paged at 3AM?

Simple solutions regularly fail when you add zeroes.
Potentially worse than all of those, it might install just fine, but actually install a newer version of nginx than the one that you tested locally or on your test environments.

This is one of the things that Docker solves, as you are able to test and deploy using exact filesystem snapshots.
Once upon a time, the United Nations threatened to leave New York unless the city allowed diplomats to violate parking regulations with impunity. Giuliani replied, "Great! Do you know how much that land is worth?"

Similarly, I say to CBS: Fantastic! Imagine all the wonderful things people will invent to make use of your spectrum.
I'm not sure about the sensitivity of pressure sensors so I can't comment on that, but in most cases where oxygen masks are required, it is rapid decompression caused by the pressurisation system failing or a physically broken part of the aircraft that has exposed the cabin to the outside atmosphere. I'm not aware of a case like this (if this person's theory is at all plausible) where depressurisation happens slowly.
Before we descend to argument by contradiction ... what language or culture are you interested in seeing (evidence of) content for?

For Spanish, Science and Math there are:
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/browse/type:1/ca...

For XOs with network access (including just to a classroom network) included activities allow students to add books.
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4304

And the Vivtar tablet include non-free educational content from many licenses in English and Spanish (for the Americas):
http://xotablet.com/#features

Wikpedia subsets in local language are included in the XO images I've seen, though I don't have detailed links to those handy (It's on my XO).

Does that help?
This reminds me of the team best advice someone ever gave me. "People. Process. Technology. In that order."
yes, check ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AC3-HDMI-Dolby-HDCD-5-1-2-1-96KHz-24...

almost every HDMI decoder chip has 4x I2S outputs and just spits out digital audio

for example ADV7604

Cheap chinese HDMI-2-VGA adapters use chinese made hdmi receivers, those lack proper i2s outputs and provide only 2 channel SPDIF.
example:
http://www.taker.im/up/138624609420664378890.jpg
http://lontiumsemi.com/English/ProductShow.asp?ProductId=4
What is your experience with Pulse Audio? I don't know much about Linux audio but my understanding is that various transitions between technologies were a source of many frustrations. What is running under Jack on your system?
These guys should come hang out in the Twin Cities startup scene. Due to the presence of some health care giants (United Healthcare, Medtronic, etc), we have a lot of health-oriented startups, a lot of domain-specific talent, and a lot of interest in our local investing community.

As we've been growing our startup community here, one thing that interests me and a lot of others is how we can turn our concentration of Fortune 500 and big enterprise companies here into an advantage. Health care seems to be the best lever, to me.
well one of them isn't a standard so should be ignored
The State of Logging on Docker
Interesting concept! Maybe we got a better snapchat way here.
I don't read that list (my understanding is, it's all pissing in the wind) --- is it amusing? Can you give us a capsule summary?
Benchmarks where we're not given the data, code, scripts, etc to reproduce them are not useful.
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I don't have time to go link-hunting at the moment, but I know I have read they had big problems with the infrastructure and community aspect of the plan. This is almost always the case in technology applied to education.

Handing out laptops (or iPads, or whatever) is easy, developing a curriculum that uses them effectively, achieving buy-in from relevant stakeholders, and keeping the hardware updated and in working order are challenges that are orders of magnitude greater, yet they get less attention and funding.

This is why I would be interested in genuine, academically rigorous evaluations of the success of the project using pre-established metrics (not just press releases trumpeting their achievements).
This is just as true in the developed world as well. I always cringe at laptop placement programs (or even worse, iPad placement programs) in k-12 schools. They always turn out to be a waste of money with nothing to show. The most needy students don't even have internet access at home anyway.
Ah. This old argument again. It would make sense if people actually support artists. Every time some one brings this up in real life, I ask them for instances where they have actually supported somebody.
Its implementation of arc4random, you mean; not its /dev/random, right?
I came here to say exactly this. The TV broadcast spectrum has some really desirable FCC licenses. Imagine if white spaces became the de facto standard simply because the old-guard broadcast TV companies went cable-TV only ...

The same cable TV that is losing cable-cutters in the US [1] and elsewhere.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044379260...
Source code here https://github.com/ov3y/2048-AI
> Those are people you are so callously and casually equating with zero, and a person's economic status has nothing to do with their value.

Get over yourself. That was not even remotely what was said or implied.

Being in a situation where you have near-zero utility from a computer is not "being equal to zero".
What are the differences between this and the more common client [1]? This seems to support a subset of the functionality.

[1] https://github.com/defunkt/gist