skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is iTunes radio is Pandora, not Spotify. Big difference. One is Internet radio, the other a true music subscription service.
Based on what, actually? Did I miss something in the linked article?
That loop doesn't actually do anything, benchmarking it is pretty much meaningless.

It's important to have benchmarks that aren't trivially converted to no-ops or constant loads by the compiler. (In practice the JIT might not be optimizing that one out, but an aggressive C++ compiler certainly would as long as fast math is enabled - so at some point, a typical JS JIT will too).

Also ensure that you're benchmarking warmed code that has been fully jitted. JS code (other than asm.js in Firefox) has multiple stages of compilation in modern runtimes, typically triggered based on how often it is called.
etioleos actually does have some stuff happening, if you go and look at the mailing list :)
The Mesa improvements mentioned in the slides: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY4MjA
Fair enough, I don't think any of them used a lawyer at all. Perhaps engaging one would have made a significant difference.
As others have said:

1. Able to store your carry on near you (mine is always a backpack, or a laptop bag, or a camera bag)

2. I pick window seats, so I'd like to get to sit down, pop in earphones, and listen to music until I fall asleep.

I also fly first class, so boarding issues don't really impact me anymore.
The not secretive iron ring ritual for Canadian trained-engineers
Obvious to a software person? Or anyone that has ever used a camera?
Planes don't fly in straight lines, especially in that corridor.[0] Example flight path[1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance

[1] https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4030/4622898186_e71984d836.jp...
All kidding aside, they'd probably have this done before California gets High Speed Rail between LA and SF...
Genes and intelligence: The 3% solution
I guess my point is that it just seems like you are using any relevant point to talk about your own issues. Conversation is a give and take, not an infinite loop.

I never claimed that ethics weren't important. I am saying that your mode of presentation is tiresome and makes your point impenetrable.
Artifact Austin: Leaving Pixels Behind – Todd Parker
I like the intention but obviously it's impossible to compute consciousness because "computing consciousness" doesn't mean anything. We don't know what consciousness is.

I don't think many intelligent people realize how much of our understanding of the mind is like the wild west; we have very little-to-no understanding of how the mind works. Looking at pretty data visualizations from a brain scan doesn't tell you anything about the mind. Some very smart people still contend that consciousness may not even exist[1]. It's hard to tell because it's impossible to measure it objectively.

I think to talk about the mind, we need to use different language entirely. We're still talking about it as if it's a science.

"Chalmers contends that such reductive explanations are available in principle for all other natural phenomena, but not for consciousness. This is the hard problem."

http://www.iep.utm.edu/hard-con/
I'm puzzled by this. If it's about a streaming service, why not acquire Spotify?

Could it be about patents? Beats got custody of all the intellectual property when they divorced Monster. https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts&hl=en#aq=f&aqi=&aql=&hl=en&q...
It isn't that simple. See...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

The hard problem has to do with the mere fact of subjective experience. The fact that we experience something rather than nothing.

The various permutations of consciousness that make up the entirety of one's experience of reality and the functional relationship between them can of-course be modelled computationally.
Same here, I had to choose the European edition of the galaxy note 3 N9005. The most difficult part was to buy this exact piece of hardware. Then I played two days with the Samsung oily os, and got the real android with CM11.
Somewhere in La Jolla, Peter Schultz is probably not all that worried about it.
I read a thread on Reddit where someone discovered that disabling the "enhanced audio" feature just screwed up the driver EQ system (setting "treble" all the way up and "bass" all the way down).
If true, seems like a submarine into wearable technologies.

Apple building mood sensing tech for personalized streaming service is a bit creepy. Apple adding mood sensing tech to a huge, young, existing, user base is broadly exciting.

H/T: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718083
You are wrong. The last line has the meaning of displaying the result to the user (you are supposed to implement it there, I'm lazy. The same goes for prior warm-up, I don't have to specify it here, I just show the loop). Because the result is needed to be shown, the browser is certainly not allowed to optimize away the calculation. Second, it's not allowed to replace it with a multiplication, as it's a floating point arithmetics and the binary representation of the constants involved is not "nice" an the same stands for partial results too. Do compare the result with the multiplication to get the idea (10000000.01 vs 9999999.99112945). All the additions have to be performed one way or another between the loading of the js and the displaying of the result. So it is a good measure of the quality of the translation from the js to the machine code which does the actual calculation and can also easily point to the unnecessary overheads as it's very simple. The regression I observed is therefore a real one, probably observable in other scenarios but harder to pinpoint and probably avoidable, as the better results did exist once. (Of course, if it would be part of some widely popular benchmark cheats would probably be developed, but at the moment there aren't any. Once anybody implements "we don't care for numerics" optimization, it of course should not be used anymore to asses the quality of JS).
Yeah, that one is kind of sluggish for me too. Usable, but not smooth.

I filed an issue on pdf.js here: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/4761
The whole point of Great-circle routes is that they are (effectively) straight lines. They just appear not to be on 2d projections of an oblate sphereoid — you know, a "map" of a "planet". From Wikipedia, "The minor arc of a great circle between two points is the shortest surface-path between them. In this sense the minor arc is analogous to “straight lines” in spherical geometry." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Circle
Ruby 2.1.2 is Released
How come these things never look refined and polished? Always sort of half nice and Unix-clunk.
This one is a real time saver.
This isn't practicable now, and quite possibly will never be, but it's an interesting exercise to sketch this out.

Aviation will almost certainly become too expensive to be viable in the not terribly distant future. The US saw peak avaiation fuel in 1999, from the FAA's own 2000 projections and actual usage[1]. Steve Kopits has noted that peak departures (US) occured in 2005[2]. Total passengers miles remain up, but that's due to more efficient aircraft with higher load factors (a greater percentage of seats filled).

Even if synthetic fuels (possible) or biofuels (exceptionally unlikely) are possible for aviation, fuel costs (already a major component of airfare) will almost certainly rise. The US Naval Research Lab thinks it might hit $3-6/gallon for production costs. I suspect that's optimistic and note that crude oil represents 72% of the final cost of refined gasoline, so this could translate to $4.17 - $8.33/gallon retail (present JetA price is $5.74 in the US NorthEast: http://100ll.com/). Canola biodiesel has a production cost of around $1000/bbl, or (with estimated refining costs) about $33/gallon.

A 3000 mile flight in a Boeing 777 at full capacity gets about 60 passenger miles/gallon, which equals 50 gallons of fuel per passenger. That's $287 presently, $415 at $8.33/gal, or $1650 at $33/gal, just for comparison, in fuel costs alone.

So, yes, exploring ground transit alternatives might make sense.

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1. http://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation/aerospace_forecast...

2. http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/energy/... p. 37., citing US DoT.
An essay of 10-100 pages with references to the corresponding code is completely acceptable. The problem is, nobody actually does this while they're learning about it (or rather, they have other more important things to do, like the actual refactor) so there are little or no records of it.

GoF almost managed to do it, except they removed the real system context. One can almost learn something from that book :)
Grand Prix of Indianapolis
You don't sound crazy to me, but definitely angry, which makes it painful for me to read you.

The technicalities are way over my head, but even if you're right, you're unlikely to get any reply from YC since a law suit is pending...

Unsolicited advice:

From what others say in this thread, it sounds like you're obsessed with this issue. If I understand correctly, you've been wronged and filed a law suit because of it. Let your lawyers do their thing, and move on.

Your rants cause you more pain than they cause to the people you accuse.
I see he appears to be in the San Francisco area. This means it could well be Douglas fir. More likely Doug fir, I think, than 2x material made out of cedar.

But I agree with the spirit of the original. It's just a raised planting bed. Use it till it falls apart, then make another, using the lessons you learned the first time.
Technically I wouldn't call that an MVP. I'd call that a 'survey'.
What the fuck? That is absolutely not cool.
I think people that like this will also love https://mattermark.com/ . It's like Bloomberg for the startup world.
I find all of them hard to work with, because they are all aiming for the modern day "zero configuration" nirvana that Ruby on Rails achieved, and thus enormous amounts of implicit knowledge is required to understand them.

Part of the problem is that the initial steps are so easy that you're actually never forced to learn the mechanics of what is happening. Hence you get away with a lot until you need to do something there isn't a magic command for. This is also why you see blithe statements that you "don't need to know Groovy to use Gradle", etc. However these are only said after the fact when you've learned Gradle, understood enough Groovy to intuit what it's doing and then retrospectively realised there is a theoretical path from ignorance to enlightenment that didn't involve learning Groovy.

What you would probably like is Gant, which is Ant entirely converted to Groovy. It's missing all the higher level project stuff from Maven / Gradle, but it works a treat when you just want the simplest possible thing that could work.
Any idea how I can get a printed/framed version of that?
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I feel the complete opposite: the phone I use everyday and has become more important in my digital life than my pc, must be hacked (owned) by me even more.

Hacking means making it work to your needs, despite all the limitations some clever suits have decided on your behalf.

For example my phone carries some immigrant files and I need them stored as files, therefore I am not able to use non hacked Apple devices.
A couple of years back I was stuck in a crappy flight, so mid flight I decided to write a simple simulation of boarding flights[0].

The flight service usually boarded from front and rear, but somehow on that day they did front-to-rear. I also simulated different methods - like odd/even seating.

Now, it's not the best, but I ended up on a brief consulting role that ended up nowhere (the real life data indicated no statistical difference in boarding methods whatsoever). What's interesting is I hadn't taken profit motive into account.

Now that I think about it, there really isn't any motive for airlines to board quicker and take off quicker.

[0] : http://blog.chewxy.com/2012/04/04/a-better-passenger-boardin...
And it seems like you are flippantly excusing Y Combinator's ethical double standard because you're not interested in hearing about how pervasive unethical behavior is in the industry from a person you've never met but you're pretty sure you don't like, no matter how much evidence is a click away.

Tiresome indeed.
Congrats! I was on the Photos on Android team in Menlo Park. It was a great experience!
They do fly straight lines given a spherical coordinate system.

All of my flights between Beijing and Seattle are via the arctic, but I doubt a train could achieve since it would have to cross the Bering straight between Asia and NA, and the topology is still extremely mountainous, unless it is completely underground or they drill through a lot of mountains, they will have to divert.

Heck, the only way to drive from Seattle to Fairbanks or Anchorage is by diverting east in the Yukon to avoid the mountains on the panhandle (cities like Juneau and Ketchikan are not even connected by land for that reason).
The Chinese govt has been building ghost cities by the tens of billions to pad GDP over the past decade.

This train seems like a similarly colossal waste of money that could serve the same GDP purpose while building something of massive novelty value.

I vote yes.
Wait until Tim Cook realizes he actually bought Jimmy Iovine's company and not Jony Ive's company. Hilarity sure to ensue.
I don't believe that what most would consider to be 'Western philosophy' would properly include religious thought, including 'traditional Christian theology.' This is not to deny that early philosophy was coincident with religion, just as was early scientific thought. But I think that to argue that the paradoxes of theology is relevant to what would in any meaningful sense be considered remotely modern Western Philosophy is mistaken. It is perhaps for this reason that philosophy and religion and science are different 'subjects.' There are overlaps to be sure (the philosophy of religion or scientific studies of religious experience) but these fields are distinct for a reason. And by and large the author makes a very fair point that the Aristotelean principles have guided western philosophy and science whereas religion has gone its own way.
Ocean freight is almost certainly more affordable, and does have fuel flexibility aircraft don't have: both wind and solid biofuels (particularly pelletized biofuel) are possible.

Oil is preferred to coal for ships for several reasons, among them that oil can be pumped, while coal has to be shoveled or otherwise managed -- and rebalancing a ship's coal bunkers underway was a significant operational concern.

Recoaling is another -- it takes longer and is less convenient than loading up with even no. 6 fuel oil (which must be heated to flow).

And there's ash removal to be concerned with, as well as the indirect power generation of steam as opposed to diesel engines (which at ship scale are truly impressive).

Pelletized fuels address at least some of those concerns. They're not a direct substitute in existing powerplants though, and I've got my grave misgivings as to just how much energy can be derived from biofuels in any regard, though marine transport is very efficient overall in energy per ton-mile of cargo moved.
This makes even less sense than the Square acquisition rumor.

1. Apple has the tech and library to do their own subscription service if they want to. You think they can't do their own licensing deal? They surely don't need to pay $3B to acquire someone else's.

2. Apple wouldn't want to operate a cross-platform service. They'd pay a huge premium to acquire a bunch of Android customers than they'd promptly purge. Plus, it'd probably invite anti-trust scrutiny.

3. The argument about Beats headphone quality is moot. Even if it's more than just marketing / bass-heavy EQ, Apple would not pay $3B to acquire headphone technology.

None of that makes any sense at all. I have to believe someone thinks Beats and Square are interesting to Apple because their products have a certain superficial Apple design aesthetic. But it makes no sense from a business model standpoint.

Or maybe Apple's doing some kind of next-level mole hunt here to level-up on secrecy.
I think its really interesting. I did not associate any of the words gruber did with Queen. I think if you don't have those negative associations, then the usage does not appear sexist.

I can understand why people might think that its sexist, I can also understand how it can be used in a manner that the writer did not intend to be sexist.

I struggle with this. Most of the time its hard enough to convey the message you want, without then having to second-guess every word you use to see if someone somewhere might consider it offensive in some way
You disagree. With what? Did you read it? Do you have any thoughts on the ethical issues presented? Or are you trying to score some karma points?

Is anyone here actually willing to discuss the actual points I've raised? Just want to get that on the record.
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> Aviation will almost certainly become too expensive to be viable in the not terribly distant future.

You are assuming jet fuel as it is today will be the only way to fly planes tomorrow? What about improved batteries or even fuel cells?

Even those trains will need power, and creating a lined system for that distance without many local power plants to drive it would be a logistical nightmare.
Purely speculating...

Modular phones will create opportunities for high quality audio drivers for Android.

Apple products are synonymous with quality audio, and Apple's success is partly attributed to it's investment in music technology.

A brand like Beats which is popular with young audiophiles could potentially transform Android into a recognizable music platform if they provided a Beats audio driver and quality headphones.

This is a risky proposition for Apple as it would drive more of their high-end audience to view Android as a serious audio contender.
Because the 2 clause BSD exists now. The 3 clause makes some things a little weird. What actions are included by 'endorse'? Exactly what is a 'contributer'?

And even the 2 clause has the documentation requirement. Different projects interpret it different ways, and many projects ignore it. But, if you have documentation (exactly what is meant by that?), you had better include therein the disclaimers of all the BSD-licensed projects you used. It can be a lot to keep track of.

There are other licenses out there that do a much better job of being liberal. MIT is the most popular, but there's also ISC, Fair, even LGPL, ...
If one wants an opportunistic encryption, there're tcpcrypt or IPsec for that.

If one wants to encourage others to blindly accept untrusted certificates from whatever server decides "to hell with authorities" - that's not a good idea. When those World Power Adversaries will consider messing with the site, visitors will already be trained to accept the certificate (hah!)

If one really insists on self-signed certificate, there should be at least an HTTP (i.e. accessible without accepting anything!) page describing the reasoning behind the whole situation and providing means to validate the certificate. Like, say, a PGP signature of certificate in question, signed with a key that could be traced to site owner with reasonable level of trust. Or at least TLSA DNS records (dig says there're none).
Or this, which is AFAIK the only 100% blob-free PC-compatible:

http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/ibm-lenovo-thinkpad-x60-c...

https://www.fsf.org/news/gluglug-x60-laptop-now-certified-to...

If the FSF likes it, I think you can be pretty sure it's as free as it gets...
Wouldn't that contradict http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5831 which claims that the laws of physics are computable? To be honest, I'm just a layman so I might be misunderstanding something.
There was quite an audience here for Elon Musk's pneumatic tube transit idea as well, which was at least as off-the-wall. I don't find this particularly credible either as it doesn't really solve any major problem, but there's no arguing with the fact that China has a taste for such large-scale undertakings.
You aren't actually listening to what I am saying, so it should be no surprise that I am not listening to what you are saying.

Do you see how this works?
YC founders are predominantly 'young' so it could be chalked to general mentorship.
But this is part of the point of the article:

The philosophy of Buddhism that seems strange and illogical to many who are used to Western philosophy and classical logic actually fit into systems of logic that were conceived separately, without knowledge of Buddhist philosophy.

Buddhism serves both as an example of how these systems can be useful (they allow us to subject unusual - to us - systems of philosophy to rigorous logical treatments), and as an example of how philosophical traditions that can seem unusual and "weird" and that we might dismiss as illogical may simply follow different rules to what we are used to.

For my part, without relating the maths to something else - like Buddhist philosophy - the maths would have been quite uninteresting.
These arguments don't make sense to me.

I'm not sure why it matters that different distros put Tomcat in different locations. Embedding Jetty just means that now you have to restart every time. You could just do the same thing with standalone Tomcat instance. The only reason you are running out PermGen space on the redeploys is because your application is not cleaning up its threads on shutdown.

Why is it difficult to do any of those development things without having the server embedded in your application? Pretty much every Java build tool (Maven, SBT, Gradle, Lein) makes those things easy to do without specifying an XML file for your server. Also, they will frequently let you reload your application, which is faster.
Fold that into the "spend money for the unique benefit of the company"?

A lot of these really fall into "fiduciary responsibility", but a more 20-year-old accessible statement of that would be ideal.
At least one Valve game will be running on Android soon, Portal is coming for the Nvidia Shield in the next few days:

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/8/5695340/portal-nvidia-shield...

It looks like Nvidia is handling the port themselves, though, so who knows what that means for other Valve titles.

EDIT: Well, apparently Half-Life 2 is getting ported next. So Valve games are coming to Android, although only for Nvidia Shield users so far.

http://www.androidcentral.com/half-life-2-coming-nvidia-shie...
I believe in law it is perfectly possible to settle with no admission of guilt. Are you then innocent or guilty?
You mean they've been spending tends of billions on ghost cities. As written, it suggests that they've built >20 billion ghost cities, although it fun to imagine that they have access to some extra spatial dimension we don't know about :-)
Founder uses accelerator funds to buy himself an Audi
> The mythbusters segment

I don't think that was mythbusters.
It's so clear that you didn't read a single word of the paper. Even if you want to argue that consciousness is somehow unknowable and not worth discussing scientifically because humanity is still too dumb (lol, wat), the authors provide a perfectly reasonable working definition of consciousness.

The theory proposes that consciousness is an information processing phenomenon and can thus be quantiﬁed in terms of a systems’ organizational structure, speciﬁcally its capacity to integrate information... What we mean when we say that the human brain produces consciousness is that it integrates information, thus producing behaviour which reﬂects the actions of a uniﬁed, singular system.
>If airplanes got rid of the overhead bins

This. And actually enforce the baggage limits they say they do. I usually only take a small carry on that fits under the next seat but I've seen people with enough provisions to supply the entire eastern front as carry on and it's ridiculous that they're even allowed.