skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The extended AT layout one always seemed to be more beloved

Perhaps: M0115 vs. M0116 is probably the quintessential AT vs. compact layout conflict, though, so I'm sure there were plenty of supporters on either side. I also assume that the compact M0116 actually sold significantly more, as I've almost never seen an extended keyboard used with a non-modular Mac like the SE or Classic. The M0115 was consciously part of the Macintosh II revolution (or counter-revolution?): SJ was famously among the people who presumably preferred the M0116 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/841771 .
The explanation is for the layman. They probably didn't want to use a technical term.
Hm. Cholesterol is vital for building neural circuitry and long-term memory. This bs article is selling something.
By the way - we are not mice.
Hi, I'm curious what are the other applications of Echo Nest API besides music recommendation? Can it assist composers or performance artists in composition? (e.g., input scores of Charlie Parker, output a solo on key of X based on previous known solo's). Can it identify harmonic structures in music? (e.g., which mode is used in song X and in a composition, when a key is changed). I also live in the greater Boston area and has always viewed EchoNest with curiosity, so very curious what you can do with their API other than their "acoustic fingerprinting" (e.g., genre/bpm/key/mood/color etc.)
Dorian Nakamoto denies ties. Lost in Japanese-English Translation.
It doesn't make sense that times should be added at all.
you should compare your learning speeds before and after.
All sources I've read seemed to indicate that white people only need a few minutes a day of direct sun exposure to the entire body to get sufficient vitamin D. How long does it take you to burn?
Adding times is semantic nonsense. It's irrelevant how this relates to Abelian monoids. Mathematically beautiful form is not a virtue if it just creates bizarre and confusing interfaces.

edit: last Tuesday, 5:00pm + Christmas two years ago at noon = ???
Great stuff. Glad to hear it. You could really knock all these companies on the head with your offering!
I can certainly see how Facebook could monetize Whatsapp's data, but surely it isn't legal for them to retroactively change the ToS and examine the data, right?
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For the morbidly curious, ITS#5361 which triggered the above email: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=5361
NSA isn't a law enforcement agency.

If you get contacted (or arrested or detained) by a law enforcement agency, you could ask to have a lawyer present before answering any questions. Your lawyer can help you assert your fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination.

I don't mean to deny that the Federal government might already know who the creator of Bitcoin is. They may, and they may have quite strong evidence. However, having "no choice in the matter" of whether to reveal one's identity under interrogation is less clear. At least in the context of a law enforcement investigation, the fifth amendment privilege is quite strong when properly asserted, and the government's power to compel answers from a suspect is correspondingly weak.
But I'm convinced if at all, only very reluctantly so - certanly not so over an ideology whose championing stands to benefit not those of Deng Xiaoping's orthodoxy but of Maoist irredentism (Hua Guofeng may only be relevant as a historical footnote dominated by currents with consderably more inertia now, but Bo Xilai certainly seemed to have justified a thorough purging. At the very least I'm confident enough to estabish that faction-on-faction maneuvering in the far past has been justified on ideological differences of a similar magnitude - and that we looked at Bo's dramatics for shades of that precedent.)
Don't do that. I did that once and our static ip changed suddenly despite lots of money being spent on it. That was a painful day driving from London to Manchester for me to get to the console.
>Rote memorization might (temporarily) increase the number of facts in your head. It will not make you an intelligent and productive individual. Instead, it will train you to be dependent on other people to give you information, rather than finding or inferring it for yourself.

Ignoring your completely dissimilar analogy, from what I saw from the tests that yummyfajitas linked, these are not matters of simple memorization, but actually knowing how to apply knowledge to an area. If the student passes that test, then one can assume they have learned what the test presumed to have been taught beforehand.

It's not a simple matter of listing things, but about applying methods to cases.
sam, what do you think are the exciting area's in music and tech?

Is it the advent of HTML audio/canvas to get rid of Finale/Sibelius and move scorewriters and scoresharing to the cloud? Or maybe even live coding a la Ableton but on HTML5 audio?

Or web-based collaboration of musicians and mixing of different track?

Or more back-end AI and Big Data of acoustic analysis and AI will we can hopefully get some auto-generated Miles Davis/Charlie Parker comps like those CS paper generators?
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In 2012, McKinsey & Co. reported on hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric vehicle (EV) competitiveness [1]. The focus was the impact of rising petrol and battery prices (measured in dollars per kilowatt hour).

U.S. gas prices are, as of 3 March 2014, around $3.48 per gallon [2]. This means EVs need battery prices south of $300/kWh. Even hybrid-electrics want no more than $400/kWh. The $500/kWh mentioned in the article, around Tesla Motors's costs, is not game-changing for automobiles.

[1] http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/energy_resources_materials/...

[2] http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
That's great to hear. When I was homeschooled we had to take the same standardized tests as the public school kids. We always did extremely well but it was a stressor for us and my mother the teacher. More recently they've eased up on that requirement in my home state apparently.
BeerVM was also considered as a name :o)
It does look much nicer than Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+8...
As another commenter pointed out, nuance is important. However, there are times to break break compatibility and accept that people will struggle. The way to do this right is to give real warning and provide reasonable migration paths.

I will give you an example that bit my project hard, caused hours upon hours of wasted time for bugfixes, broke our software, etc. and yet was a good thing: PostgreSQL 8.3's removal of most implicit type casts. Prior to PostgreSQL 8.3, the following query would be valid and evaluate to false:

select '2014-01-01' = 2014-01-01;

What would happen is the system would look for possible types to compare and find that text matched. It would then treat this as:

SELECT '2014-01-01'::text = (2014 - 1 - 1)::text;

And further to:

SELECT '2014-01-01'::text = '2012'::text

which was not what you meant. The team made the right decision to make this change and subsequently broke a lot of apps out there. I think it took us a couple months to be sure we had all the breakage out of LedgerSMB 1.2.x. Painful change. Broke a whole bunch of apps. But it was an important one and we are all better off for it.

Now, Linux exists in an ecosystem of mostly source-compatible operating systems. People write portable software that they expect to run on FreeBSD, Linux, and so forth with minimal tweaking. I am not sure "we don't break user space ever" would be a compelling argument against fixing non-POSIX-compliant but existing and documented behavior. But this scenario (and frankly the stupidity in the midnight type handling in Python) is what pre-review is supposed to help prevent in the first place.
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How much do you make from donations for your website?
You have a website, and have a donation button : how much do you on average per month ? What is the ratio donation/traffic ?
One of my favourite games - Star Control II had a DOS program to test what keys were not blocking - so two players were able to choose 2x6 = 12 keys in total that would never block.

And then for a while was the craze for finding this good old keyboard (IBM, HP, whatever) that did not block to play SC2 and other games (back in the days multiplayer was divinding the keyboard - to two - and much better fun if you ask me)
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It is a rather interesting situation. Especially when you take into consideration how quickly the real Satoshi Nakamoto issued the statement saying he wasn't Dorian Nakamoto when this isn't exactly the first story to come out supposedly identifying the man behind the mask of Bitcoin. The statement was also issued rather quickly, but I can see why though in a non-conspiracy kind of way.

The man being targeted by NewsWeek is old and just because he says he's not the real Satoshi won't stop conspiracy nut jobs from stalking him and trying to find out the truth. Pictures of his home and location, children's photos and names have been plastered all over the Internet, I really feel for the guy even if he is the real Satoshi.

This whole situation highlights while the real Satoshi will probably never come out of secrecy if this situation is anything to go by. Not only that, but given NSA's extensive surveillance program, he would no doubt be subjected to more focused observation than others.
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> The dentist couldn't understand why I would do this. I told him it was my legal right, and a decision that my husband and I had thought through carefully...
> Yeah, yeah. Silly comparison.

Yup, would have been better off without it.

> testing is the backbone of most school systems at present.

I think that's exactly where the problem is: kids are not supposed to help schools get funds, schools are supposed to train kids for real life.

The purpose of SATs is deeply questioned. They try to give a single number to evaluate someone.

There is a common fallacy on the matter. Say you want to evaluate programmers. You find out that your best programmers write code than the others, so you decide to track how much code each one has added to the source. You know what happens next: your code base just grew tenfold. That's because when you use a measurement, you are evaluating this measurement and nothing else.

Getting back to SATs, it means that you are evaluating the skills of kids at taking standardized tests, and I don't think this is a very useful skill as an adult.

> The author of this article does make the case that the school didn't argue very convincingly in favor of the tests, but neither did she make any form of convincing argument against the tests beyond stress.

Good, then it does not matter if they are taken or not; it is therefore very reasonable to avoid an unnecessary burden.

> Arguably, learning that early and thorough preparation reduces stress is a tremendously important lesson for kids, even beyond what they're actually studying! Testing also teaches children to remain calm under pressure, and that random chance ("Oh, I won't study that. What are the odds it will be a question?") is a cruel mistress.

I find it quite depressing to see that schools are now supposed to train you to take a test. How is that any relevant? What was the original purpose of school again? This is the same fallacy as I above: tests are made to check the training pupils where given, not the other way around.

> Yes, it is your legal right to opt your children out of both taking tests and flossing. Take a stand! Hooray for your legal rights!

How is that an argument?
That's how I understand it too. But this rewrite will be what? ... a couple of hours of work? A day tops.
That's the crux of good tests. That they test the unchanging interface between parts of code, without enforcing no change in implementation.

Interestingly it's also the crux of good design. Breaking code up into composeable pieces that aren't braided together.
The journos are mice. In a trap.
... which means that your screen stays orange for hours in the morning when the sun is already out.
Media doesn't care about truth anymore - it's all about page views and clicks.
Of course not - but don't expect to be able to throw away lines of defense, like regulation and state enforcement.
There's no more journalism - only pornalism.
I just realized for the first time that I'm apparently using F.lux differently from all other people. For me, it's about making the color palette more compatible with the lighting situation in the room. I'm not into all that circadian stuff at all.

I love the new features, but I'm not wild about the software calculating the "night-time-but-not-bedtime" duration for me. Though F.lux seems to go into the opposite direction, I would prefer more configurability not less - for example letting people set the transition times themselves and enabling them to have as many lighting modes as they want.
I'm under the impression that depending on your skin type you can burn within a few minutes.
Help Satoshi by claiming that you are not Satoshi and don't tell anyone you read this here.
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Looks interesting!

I assume it is US only for now though? It is probably worth making that clear on the sign up page :). Good luck!
Second that. This is what still keeps me at AWS.
It was absolutely unusable. Here in the north you would get two hours of sunlight during the winter, and f.lux would work accordingly.

Similarly in the summer, you would get only a few hours of darkness, making f.lux almost completely useless except for a few months of the year.
A professor these days, even at MIT, needs to have the presentation skills of a entrepreneur - raising grant funds is no different to raising a series A.

Sadoways TED talk is in my personal top three for inspiration and sheer chutzpah. I not only hope it works, I hope he takes his billions and funds engineering schools all over
Is there a legal way to stop Whatsapp from sharing my address book with Facebook?
My fix is to not use dark themes anywhere. When I'm on a website with a dark background I click my "zap colors" bookmarklet which reverses the colors: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
Mockito easily leads to a false belief that code is tested. Mocking dependencies and simply asserting those mocks is useless yet I see that all the time.
Makes me want to bust out my Northgate keyboard w fn keys on the left and top, two full keypads, Reboot button and detachable coil cable. Weighs almost as much as an IBM kbd.
When I was working on this stuff, the most popular GPLed code was ABINIT – do people still use that? (My lab was a SIESTA shop, and there were a lot of CASTEP people around, but not many using VASP...)
blog - http://uddhabh.blogspot.in/2014/01/notepad5.html
Can we quit saying the word doxing? It sounds idiotic. How about the proper English word of "exposing" instead? Or is that too much to ask now that Internet talk is mainstream and therefore we have to use incorrect grammar?
This is funny because the first keyboard I had, back in the 386 days (1992 I think), didn't had this problem. I remember playing two player games on it without any "ghosting". The keyboard was very solid - hard plastic keys and metal backplate. It was nearly indestructible. Even though new keyboards appeared over time, we still used this one for about 12 years, particularly because that all new keyboards had this ghosting issue. I never understood why. After the 12 years space key began to malfunction a bit and we had to throw it out. It was a sad day for us :(.
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That's a lot of english for a German guy. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Do they have IPv6 yet?

What about actual security too?

Maybe they'll stop the censorship if they want to be a real VPS player? (https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/)

Oh, and I wish they'd use real industry terms, not stuff like 'Droplet'. That's just stupid.

Right now, anyone at all who aren't GoDaddy or Network Solutions are better than Digital Ocean. You get what you pay for (AWS excepted, who are price gouging).

Full disclosure: Happy Linode customer.
Over the past three years, I've lost 80+ pounds thanks to a lot of exercising discipline (I just cannot stick to diets) and I honestly feel brighter.

What motivated me was vanity, so I won't get on any high horse to tell people what to start or stop doing with their lives. However, I should mention that what helped the most was a meticulous measuring of my calories intake against the calories burned through the day. Plotting data and observing the results turned the process from a matter of faith and will, to strict science; something I could believe in.
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Other gems - ITS#5991 http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=599... which required us to hack up a workaround. It also triggered ITS #5992 http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=599...

Discussion of the GnuTLS bug is summarized here https://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/42

And people still wonder that GnuTLS certificate verification bugs continue to surface?
That signs like a nightmare job.

I'd be stuffing resumes into every other related job I could find because the grass can only be greener in a situation like that.
The background, the patterns of the tiles on the ground, the buildings all match. The pictures were taken in that location.
If I stopped to investigate the motivations of every bureaucrat who tried to discourage me from exercising my rights and outright lied about their motivations in the process, I'd really never have time for anything else.

What's worth defending here?
I'll forward my mortgage, health insurance and credit card bills to you then?
Alternatives:
Post a pic with a pet, e.g., a dog saying "Such identity" or cat saying "I'm Satoshi. I can has your Coinz now?".
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This is an attack that could happen to any site, Wordpress is irrelevant here. I know people like to bash and blame Wordpress for security issues, but in this instance it was the person who received the email that is to blame for not being diligent and aware of such attacks.
So am I a bad person for advocating exercise and a healthy diet despite generally failing to observe my own recommendation?
saaaaam and others under the top parent comment have provided really good answers.

Spotify is the parasitic record label, they're owned and in their command.

Ill never miss a chance to point out the hypocrisy of spotify, which was founded on piracy, its initial load of mp3s came from dc++ and thepiratebay.
Which format can support both lossy and lossless images?

I spent 2 seconds in GIMP to make the following GIF: http://i.cubeupload.com/kbrcfQ.gif Please show me the video format that can replace it.
Also check out JazzHub, IBMs entry in the online software tools space. It provides source code management (unfortunately based on Rational Team Concert and not something like Git or Mercurial), agile tools and a decent web based code editor based on Eclipse Orion. It integrates nicely with BlueMix, you can one click deploy from within JazzHub.

I had early access to this so I could write an article for their developerWorks site on using the MEAN (mongo, express, angular and node) stack to build a polls app. The platform's not perfect, but its good to see IBM going in the right direction with this sort of stuff.
(Unrelated to my other post here...)

Aside from gaming, one application that's hurt by rollover is the open source stenotype program Plover:

http://plover.stenoknight.com

I would like to try it, but I tote around a MacBook Pro and I don't care enough about Plover to try to carry a keyboard around and awkwardly put it on top of the built-in keyboard or something. Still, this is one of the few cases where I feel constrained by the unreplaceable hardware.
From the AP article [1] he has a response that seems really odd:

When shown the original bitcoin proposal that Newsweek linked to in its story, Nakamoto said he didn't write it, and said the email address in the document wasn't his.

"Peer-to-peer can be anything," he said. "That's just a matter of address. What the hell? It doesn't make sense to me."

Asked if he was technically able to come up with the idea for bitcoin, Nakamoto responded: "Capability? Yes, but any programmer could do that."

For someone who only recently heard about BitCoin this seems like an odd response. It almost seems like if you made a factually incorrect technical statement about BitCoin in his presence -- he might correct you.
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Well, 1000 was just a number I blurted out.
That's an interesting comment - we're building a SaaS 'point and click' style D3-based chart designer (http://chartblocks.com) but hadn't really given much thought so far to people that prefer to self host.
Nope, though you may be interested in David Cope and Experiments in Musical Intelligence. Input Bach MIDIs, receive 500 compositions in the style of Bach. Turing complete.

Echo Nest has a few other fun features, like danceability, mood, tempo, and others. An API playground, too, for now.
The main reason not to use PyPy is that Perl 6 is a gradually typed language, that is some type information is available at compile time. And that makes PyPy a less-than-ideal target platform.

(It actually seems that runtime environments that are optimized for statically typed languages, but have some support for dynamic stuff, suit Perl 6 better than dynamic runtimes. The CLR and JVM backends have the best run time performance so far, but they suffer from large startup times, which is something that the Perl community is very sensitive to).
I'm still not clear what a developer license to build and test against GHE is. "Take on the enterprise" links to a support form.
So, who will come along and provide an alternative to the likely hundreds of competing streaming stores/platforms that would likely prefer Spotify not to have their data? Would a crowd-funded music tagging system in the style of Pandora's Music Genome Project have any chance of success?
That's not a valid generalization. I grew up in a city that was/is tops in it's province for education. This province is consistently at/near the top of the country, and that country's education system is consistently rated in the top ten world-wide and always well above the U.S.. We had standardized tests in grades 6, 9, and 12. They were weighted heavily towards our grades (50% in grade 12) and were, hence, a pretty big deal. The grade 12 tests also serve the same function for universities as SAT's, only on a per-subject basis. e.g. If you apply to a University mathematics program, they might not care about your results in social studies.

Note: A key difference between these exams and SAT's is that curricula in the U.S. are often designed to help students pass SAT's, while the standardized tests here are designed to test the province's curriculum.
I used, and enjoyed, f.lux for a few years. These days, though, I just recalibrate my OS color profile to something reddish and leave it there. Why should I want to look at blue light during the day?
A serial bus of unique identifier switches (1wire or similar) connecting all the keys with a single loop could be cheaper at scale and solve NKRO. Possibly work on many vastly different (a few buttons to hundreds) product lines with the same ASIC with say only one or two support components per application.
Don't forget how they censor on demand for their friends.

http://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/digital-ocean-...