skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not comparable, but related in its idiocy: governments making the purchase of a Tesla illegal in their state.
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Just wondering, wouldn't anything create a solar system?

Just throw dust everywhere. planets will absorb materials, will become bigger. Some smaller planets could crash against others (bigger ones) and could create a mini planet orbiting the other (moon-earth).
fair enough, I stand corrected.
It doesn't link for me on Ubuntu 13.10. I wasn't going to be too hard on a quick project for being unportable, but a broken build tool makes it difficult to get working anywhere.
IANAP, however, the entire concept of performing 'experiments' on your child is repugnant to me.
Use the other planetary bodies for more points. 100k in 500 years is nothing!
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That article contains exactly 0 facts. It is complete FUD. The only evidence they have that the NSA knew about it is an unquoted statement that "two people familiar with the matter said".

I am not saying it's impossible the NSA knew. But people throwing around that article as evidence is absolutely laughable.
Surely it would also make more sense to start with 30 and alternate, rather than having months 6 and 7 both be 30? Then it almost fits an alternating pattern, with only one weird month to worry about.
Thanks! Meteor really proved itself as a capable platform. We hit a few issues, but those were resolved rather quickly.

Yes, we already allow people to write their own extensions. For quick stuff, there's a built-in code editor: http://joxi.ru/SFJNUxjKTJBvQrogwYE. And for large extensions, there's an "Add your extension" button in the Extensions store.

In fact, we'll allow people to monetize their extensions, in a micro-App-store fashion.
It's not the military! America is extremely inefficient/bureaucratic in various mainline institutions. Military is %5 of GDP, health care is %17/%18 of GDP. A typical socialized medicine country like finland or canada pays about %11 of GDP for healthcare. If the USA brought health care to match socialized medicine costs, it would pay for the military plus more. Pretty much the majority of the USA's federal budget goes towards social security, medicare and medicaid.

Even though the USA pays the most in the world for it's military, I was surprised how little of the GDP it actually was.
But systemd isn't going to be in 14.04. Like bananas, over the next year we'll be moving our production servers off of 12.04. Whatever we switch to will be in production for 3-4 years. So we have to ask ourselves, do we want to be stuck with upstart for another 3-4 years?
The same is still true even if you do not run a tor node.
This is close to what was done, February is the last month of the year in the Julian calendar. Only two consecutive months have the same amount of days (July/June) and the last month varies by leap year (adding an extra day at the end of the year)

It's only weird that the last month got 28 due to doubling of the 31 day months instead of 30 day months
In my experience, urine is a bigger problem with the smell of SF's air. Surely that's localized, though.
> If you read the "Details" section […], you'll see why you can't just inline the accept method.

Oops.

Still, it makes me feel very uneasy: the accept methods dispatch over behaviours, and the visit methods dispatch over the object. This means highly non-local code.

Collision detection looks like a good example. Okay. Now even with multiple dispatch, I can't suffer the idea of having up to n² methods, for n different classes to dispatch over. In the case of collision detection, I would try very hard to have no more than 3 or 4 types of collision volumes. Just one if I can help it.

Personally, I'm not sure I like multiple dispatch at all. When you need it, you expose yourself to combinatorial explosion. It's only polynomial, but it still scales poorly.
The discussion of heuristics includes only information about admissibility and not consistency. An admissible but inconsistent heuristic can also cause A* to miss the correct solution.
I did a quick search on the glass spheres, and the only place I could find to buy them was Edmund Optics for $15.00 each. Does anyone have a decent source for the lenses?
Actually that may also be a side effect of the half lies techies tell to sell some technical orientations to management... Someone wanting to use Clojure or Scala will certainly use the JVM familiarity as a selling point.
Elm's Time Traveling Debugger
WordLens, which translates printed text, is pretty amazing on Glass.
Maybe the reported byte length was incorrect.
The way I look at it, it's that the admonition, "don't be a cheater," is stated BEFOREHAND, before any cheating has taken place. The child then still has the opportunity to make being a "not-bad" person (i.e., a "good" person) a part of his or her identity.

If, on the other hand, the child had already cheated, you would express disappointment in that the supposedly good child had displayed uncharacteristic behavior.
It's unimportant if it's called "flow" or "in the zone".

I'm midway through that book and I find the way he explains it in clear terms actually something very beneficial to how I'm evaluating my experience. I haven't noticed anything "buzzwordy" about it. So far it's one of the books I've highlighted the most and that, in my book, is a good sign. I highly recommend it to any not only wanting to "get in the zone" but understand what that means for your quality of life.
Why The Hell Do I Need Types? Because Fahrenheit can't be less than −459.67
Python :-) there are libraries specifically for parsing malformed html. I'm happy using Unix tools for scraping and parsing, but you run into a brick wall rather quickly. Python is more reliable, flexible, and easier to integrate.
Ubuntu is far too opinionated to be a stable "cloud platform".
It is for most of the important types that people move; e.g. unique_ptr (results in null dereference).
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How exactly are you going to tap that wealth? Take out a loan, on which you pay interest. If you lose ability to pay that loan, a lien on your house - or even a foreclosure results.

Basicallly there is no real way to not be a beholden slave to the monetary system and debt.
In personal and small projects, yes. But not necessarily for large, scaled, infrastructure.
How about something new.

Forget this idea of a company that produces yet another fucking distro with just enough changes so its not 100% compatible with whatever it's forked from, and then charge for support.

How about a company that simply sells support services for an existing, community owned distro like Debian. If it makes sense for that company to donate to the Debian project, and/or hire staff to contribute to Debian packages to improve them, thats great too.
This makes a lot of sense, especially for anything used infrequently, with a long lifetime, and with search costs (where having a nice pre-assembled kit is worth a premium to most users).
New construction is unlikely to push down rents anywhere in the current market environment in SF. But it does limit upward pressure on rents elsewhere. The bigger supply also is likely to lead to big price cuts during the next crash.

And new construction becomes old within a few years. There are plenty of perfectly serviceable condo towers of unfashionable age in downtown Chicago with very reasonably priced apartments.
Will these sites want Twitter to have firehose access to their data? For example Tumblr, Foursquare, Wordpress? They also offer Facebook data, but it is a managed public API connection.
Interesting piece of software; Really small app. definitely a good way to get your feet wet in the product business.

Congratulations on shipping!
Interesting price hack: $1/mo (1 left), $3/mo (5 left). Are these escalating, à la Pinboard? Useful for price discovery, though up-from-the-bottom nudges artificial asymptotes (see pricing discontinuities).
I'm actually really impressed what so many of the OpenBSD developers can delete/reformat/edit the OpenSSL code at the speed they seem to be working right now and not run into issues with CVS. One awesome thing about CVS is cvsweb ( which is a separate thing, I know), I much prefer browsing around, diffing and viewing changes in cvsweb compared to say GitHub or Bitbucket.

Sort a side note: OpenBSD really seems to have picked up speed after they fundraising. It wonderful to see the money has been so well spent.
VP of Activision likens piracy to stealing a Porsche (1985)
Interesting Computer Chronicles interview featuring debating viewpoints on software piracy during the mid-80's.
Problem is you would end up w/ three months of 30 days during common years.
Amongst people who can't work out how to configure Debian? Probably.
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I see your point, but when that person decides one day to sell their house, suddenly they're done pretending it never appreciated in value.

In other words, instead of the state foregoing that person's property tax adjustments, it should defer them until the time of sale, and at that point, recover them.
> Of course, the anthropic principle is in full force.

Exactly. For instance, there was a time when Earth didn't have a Moon, which would make collisions more likely. At least one of these collisions seems to have created the Moon. We of course are familiar with the version of Earth that has a Moon; it is unlikely that we would have evolved without that Moon such that we were left thinking "Gee, it would be nice to have a moon.."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis)
I can't emphasize enough how great it is the he actually provides CODE right from chapter one that implements a network with an arbitrary number of neurons at each layer using NumPy. I've read (arguably) better explanations of how neural networks function, but the code was always either archaic or nonexistent.

To me, the ability to learn artificial intelligence concepts but also pass them on to others in a way that they can be tinkered with signals a tipping point in the field.

I would like to see all of the basic building blocks of AI (such as Bayes classifiers, genetic algorithms, etc) packaged up this way into an API that is as approachable as OpenGL. Then I would like to see multiprocessing libraries like OpenCL/CUDA incorporated internally so that training can happen in milliseconds instead of minutes or hours. With enough eyeballs looking at these things, we might be able to get from heuristics and rules of thumb for training values to something more concrete. It seems like every time I learn a new paradigm it devolves into wishy-washiness because there are just not enough years in a researcher's life to discover the subtle rules at work behind the scenes. The progression seems to always be the same: failure to achieve success over 50%, then reaching 95% after some hours/days of tinkering, then finding the model hits a maximum of 99% and another model must be learned. Rinse, repeat. If that changes, and we’re able to link up various models without having to choose arbitrary constants, machine learning will have arrived IMHO. We could throw hardware at it and let an array of agents evolve in parallel without human intervention until we see which arrangements work best. Eventually that could lead to a theory of mind that actually works because it could learn anything a human could learn, for the most part unsupervised.

I’ve learned just enough about this stuff to wonder about the endgame. I have a hunch that it will involve something akin to version control, so that an AI can try different approaches until it finds a solution, but with the ability to roll back in case it goes off the rails. Does anyone have a starting point for things like imagination in AI, or trial runs that happen in simulation before the AI acts in real life? And maybe how to merge new solutions into existing ones?
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Ok, that's fricken cool.
I don't really think a good developer can replace a good sysadmin. The reverse is true too, this is not a flamebait! :P

I don't see "DevOps" as a way to replace some roles - but as a way to make everyone work better together. Instead of living each in their own bubble (and in my - pretty limited I admit - experience it always) everyone has to know, at least a little, what someone else does. It really helps everyone at the end of the day.
And the developer can keep coding without me screaming at him because he placed the database connection string in a configuration file that sits inside a .jar that sits inside a .war and so on.
While this may work for some, be careful of listening to advice on the internet. I have read dozens of articles like this.

For us, to be totally honest, our conversion went way down when we introduced the 30-day trial. When we had a free plan (which we do again), our conversion was way higher, because I suppose it took >30 days for people to truly see the value in the product. So for us, a free plan is what worked best.
Despite being left out of that initial communication, Ubuntu released an update before Red Hat (as far as I could tell).

Ubuntu patch on April 7 at 22:01 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2...

Red Hat patch on April 8 at 03:21 https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2014-April/msg...
You're claiming "safety in numbers" by moving away from Ubuntu on the desktop? Surely you're joking?

> Unity

So don't use it. Ubuntu is more than just priority support items from Canonical. I'm using Xubuntu right now - it works great.

> Launchpad is a total pile both from a tracking and management perspective. It's basically a baron land of neglect.

As opposed to...Bugzilla? Again: surely you're joking?
Microsoft's "Scroogled" campaign bites the dust. Or does it?
Contradicting Wikipedia does not equal a lack of truth.
>...Anyway nobody gets thrown out of their house for owing property taxes in California because the local authorities just put liens on the property.

Who are you kidding? You get a lien on the house and then that is used to force a sale to cover the amount due. Hell even home owner associations do it all the time if you don't pay your monthly dues for several months.
This is the money quote;

"They have a lot of investment guys, who are like bankers, and they don’t use their engineering talent to do due diligence."
Losing your car affects that too - you'd likely have to move. But yes, housing is a bigger hit.

Still, people move for all sorts of selfish reasons, and take on all that burden anyway. The difference between the free market making you do it is an emotional one.
This book looks awesome. Grabbing one tonight thanks for letting me know about it!
I don't get what you're saying. From a cursory reading of your link, I don't see anything Ubuntu did wrong, it just seems that things moved very quickly with the disclosure. Am I missing something?
You said 'home'; I said 'house'. This underlines the emotional aspect perfectly, thank you.
> What ever happened to "Small tools that do one thing well"?

That's nice in the Unix world, but I think in the OS X land the motto is "it just works".

I'm glad you use ImageOptim and ImageAlpha, but please obsolete my tools :)

I think of them as a stopgap/bugfix for other tools that don't compress well themselves.
But they didn't intend to build a J2ME platform, but rather a shim for J2ME apps via some compatibility mode. From some of the original Google documentation:

> "Leverage Java for its existing base of developers. Build a useful app framework (not J2ME). Support J2ME apps in compatibility mode. Provide an opTMobileized JVM (Dalvik)," one slide reads.

I think there's a pretty big difference between building a platform on top of something, and planning to support it via a shim layer. At that point Android was already planning on breaking from J2ME by supporting things like JNI (which is listed on that doc but is explicitly not included in a conforming CLDC implementation for security reasons).

Besides, the only microedition APIs that are in the platform are a few khronos libs, so I really don't think any of that thought really affected Android as we know it today (which was the parents original argument). I will give you that there's more JavaME heritage than I thought, but it was thrown out pretty quickly as far as I can tell.
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You can just like feel that they're looking at your profile and salivating over your qualifications. Gross!
This article is mistaken. The fire icon next to the header of Trending Repos on their Explore page [1] clearly shows that those repos are "hot".

[1] https://github.com/explore
There are tons of production servers and laptops using upstart. It will take a while for Debian and Ubuntu to migrate to systemd so you're probably overthinking it.

RHEL7 isn't out yet, what server distros can you run in production today that use systemd?
Yes, they escalate up to a predefined list price (also shown on extension card). I just wanted to thank early adopters by giving them a discount. Do you think it's OK or not?
A quick fix is to grab the video and throw it right on the top of that page. I have 27" Mac Display and I still had to scroll below the page to see your sell.

I was also confused by the 2 offers. What was the difference?

(Please take this constructively. I think you have something that looks smooth once I saw it.)
"Normal people use their equipment to listen to music. Audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment."
Had me until:

"My code could be running on anyone's computer right now, anywhere in the world," said open source developer Andrew Benton. "Frankly, that is terrifying."
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I tried it.

Create 12 planets as fast as you can, watch the sun in the middle.

After some time watching and focusing, change tabs...

"Real life image burn" :)
indutny: your sibling comment is dead because it's the exact same text as your previous comment, and HN code killed it as a double-post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7576670 <- from 3 days ago lol
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Going on a walk outside in the morning like I do is probably better exercise than yoga.
> You could simply connect the GPIO lines of one 'pi' with the neighbours!

How fast you reckon a GPIO based bus would be? Especially if the rpis are required to do something more than just shuffle data around.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580380

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580953 (12 comments)
Is this a joke or a real problem?
I think a balanced proposal would be to enable someone to lock in their property tax but forfeit some percentage of the capital gains to the state at death.
Another way of looking at it: A* is Dijkstra where the edge weights have been modified. http://11011110.livejournal.com/135302.html
I like the universal calendar with 13 months, all with 28 days in four weeks.

One extra day at the end of the year. Another extra day for leap year.
I always liked the basic income plus flat tax combination - simple and fair. Due to the means testing of various aid programs the tax system if often regressive and always confusing for low income earners. Exactly the opposite of what we should all want.
That is cause port 22 is ssh used to push git stuff.

So not dumb at all. If something is dumb, it is the article.
>In other words, instead of the state foregoing that person's property tax adjustments, it should defer them until the time of sale, and at that point, recover them.

In other words a lien.
What physics model is being used for this? I can't seem to get tidal acceleration to work properly (it seems to for the first orbit, then it doesn't change.)
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It changed with the launch of Windows Phone. They opened this up to enable folks to write apps on their spare time and publish them.
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For those who are interested, there is also another one called Femtoduino, very small too: http://www.femtoduino.com/
And you can choose from a few different frames, which is a good start.
The more you know I guess. Thanks for the explanation!
I remember Transputers - they were very popular in Germany due to Parsytec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsytec).

Other than for fun and learning - what are the advantages of a fabric vs. something like a GPU system? From my experience with micros it seems there's so much power lost in the peripherals that it's inefficient to use anything with a small number of cores for massively parallel systems.
out of touch how?

the ubuntu pkg security update for openssl/heartbleed was available the same day of the public announcement, without the benefit of prior notification (unlike redhat who had prior notice and released their fix a day after the public announcement).

http://lwn.net/Articles/593861/
Sure, you're not limited to code when using Git. Especially when collaborating with others (and more so when working with plain text files), Git can help a lot.
I'd suggest you give it a try; both Git and the online version of our book are free!
My personal experiences doesn't lend me to think much about news articles regarding such studies.
It isn't clear to me whether "which OpenSSL forwarded to Red Hat and others" includes Canonical or not. It is clear that Red Hat was included by that statement, but what makes you think that this is a bias in who received a direct notification, as opposed to a bias of the author of this particular article?
I worked with Adbul when I got my current job. He's very capable and professional and I can strongly recommend him.
There is a pilot program to use it at Beth Israel hospital: https://www.google.com/search?q=beth+israel+google+glass

This sort of use, having a lot of context-specific information to do a job, is the best category of use that I can think of. It seems to me that others who need to move around, see specific information, and need their hands free, like mechanics, would also benefit.

I haven't found it useful with any software to the point that I can justify buying it as a practical device, but it has been a lot of fun to experiment with. I wore it on a 100K run a month ago, and while I didn't have enough time to write software to do what I originally wanted to do (put what I was looking at on a website every minute or so, and enable friends to hassle me during the run), it made taking pictures a lot easier.
not sure which distro is dominant on scaled projects but Ubuntu gets plenty of use on large projects too - from the article:

"Global enterprises including AT&T, Bharti, Bouygues Telecom, British Telecom, China Telecom, China Unicom, Cogent Communications, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Korea Telecom, NEC, NTT, Numergy, Orange France, Time Warner Cable, Turk Telecom, Verizon and Yandex, as well as leading web scale services such as Netflix, Instagram, Hipchat and Quora are all building next generation services on Ubuntu"
I had to use WP professionally a lot of times, even though I didn't or don't like it.

Last year, I started using a Restful API WP plugin and find that Wordpress is actually really good. Specially because there's so many interesting plugins for it and I don't see any other CMS that have that amount of features available for free and specially being able to customize it quite easily and fast - by reading a few lines on the docs, etc.

I think that services like prismic.io are good, would solve my problems a few years ago, but now, Wordpress + Restful API Plugin + Angularjs and I'm done!
I think it is safe to assume, with I/O around the corner, they're selling off the rest of v1 stock. I'm looking forward to v2 and a price drop in v1.
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