skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I meant was that just because it wasn't originally designed as an application platform doesn't mean that it hasn't evolved in the meantime. To your point, a lot of engineering time and money has been poured into moving web technologies way more than just a way to shuttle around scientific papers. HTML5, CSS3, and ES6 are far cries from their original ancestors, as are modern (and near-future) HTTP, websockets, etc. Technology evolves.

As for the hose analogy, municipal water distribution systems are still powered by gravity. Which is quite a bit older than the Archimedes screw. A good illustration that usually something simple is all you need.
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This doesn't seem like the best outlet to protest the FCC's stance on net neutrality. The people that are going to be affected most by this (if it does work) are going to be the rank and file at the FCC who have no decision making power and only hold a job there. The FCC has 2k employees and most of them don't even work in the relevant bureau that deals with net neutrality.

When news outlets say the "FCC's plan for net neutrality", what they really mean is the plan that Tom Wheeler and his office put together. You're going to hurt the wrong people if you do this and it succeeds. Why not write to your Congressperson instead or think of something that doesn't adversely affect a ton of people who don't have anything to do with the net neutrality debate?
> now that Munich has shown the way for others to follow

Have they published any whitepaper or technical guide to switching to Linux in a corporate setting? Is there any open source CRM or other tool that they released? It would be cool if they kickstart a corporate Linux distro that everyone contributes to. I heard they spent a lot of money on IBM and SuSe consultants and also inhouse to develop software during the switch, it would go waste if they didn't publish it. Is there anything technical from them? All I see are the same stories resubmitted and upvoted ad nauseam with chest pumping about Ballmer etc. I hope to see something of substance.
Are there any figures on ROI available for this plant?
I love free, but the problem is that free games get a lot of hackers.
Yes, see: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/44683433_Radiocarbon... which is somewhat relevant.
> While this makes little sense on the surface, I suspect the folks at Apple are far from stupid. There's likely a solid reason behind this move, and instead of doing the easy thing by saying "b-b-but their headphones are crap!", it'd be more productive to explore the underlying motives.

This isn't about Apple being smart or stupid. It's not about whether this deal makes sense monetarily.

It's about values. Apple has always trumpeted the kind of values that don't require having a PhD or the nose of an experienced businessman to judge. It's about great products, they say. Excellence in everything from the design, to the ads, the packaging, materials, hardware, software and even the stores where all this is being sold.

The reason people believed Apple has those values was that in no way anything Apple ever did either publicly or privately has ever shown any mismatch with their marketing message before.

And we'd hear the stories of Jobs crying when watching the Think Different ad. We'd know that even if you may think what these folks say is bullshit, at least they honestly believed their own bullshit.

And the confusion now is because people look at Apple + Beats, and they don't see how the sum improves on any of the goals Apple has repeatedly declared they care about. You can explain various accidents like the iPhone 4 antenna and so on as accidents, no one is perfect, but this is no accident. It's a deliberate action that makes no sense for the Apple we used to know before.

Maybe Tim Cook would like to explain why Apple + Beats makes sense. It worked when Apple shipped Macs with IE and had to accept investment from Microsoft in the 90s. And the explanation made sense.

However if we hear the typical corporate bullshit about synergy and how together they're greater and what not, without being able to explain why would this result in better products, there'll be a lot of disenfranchised Apple supporters, I can tell you that.
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I guess it is coincidence, but I spent explaining my point of view why open source should be a base platform for any public organization funding with tax money to a few of my friends last week, where each was complaining about office suite/mail/desktop/etc differences from windows-based analogs.

My major practical benefit from switch to open source by as large organization as city government is the fact that these money will go to local support organizations and results of their work will be owned by whole city. I.e. if taxpayers paid for this software patches, updates, etc it make sense to own this work at very least.
When you're pushing triple digits of open tabs, it can definitely become an issue. Plus the web interface runs on flash and support isn't great for Linux, even chrome's Pepper version has a ton of issues.

edit: Point being that playing an mp3 should never freeze any system built in this millennium, and yet it does. So this is a bit of a workaround to avoid that. Plus with this setup you can enable global media keys/hotkeys and get a lot more control over playing your music.
"When you are the richest guy in town it is hard to negotiate a good deal."

When you control distribution and can offer larger revenue streams, you have a lot of negotiating power. See: Walmart.
And China has the source to Windows, so...
I imagine you could contact the Petrie Museum and ask.
Yeah, For demo of products.
Same here. No idea. If there were any docs (other than the "tutorial" itself) I'd try to look it up :))
a great article about using anki to improve as a programmer:
http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html
B:

In a global economy, how likely is it that a local company provides the best net value in regard to something like IT?
Sure fire way to encourage politicans to take bribes as well as ensuring only the independently wealthy can be politicians,
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Not so sure about using flashcards to learn a programming language. Better just to get out there and use it to make something.
He was 20-something when he lost his memory. So barely an adult.

And memory tests are not quite the same as dissecting his brain on television, then putting it on permanent display in grotesque life-sized cross-sections.

Further, he was institutionalized. So the guardians were - who? the doctors doing the dissecting?
As I mentioned below, Beats is first and foremost a fashionable hardware company for the mass markets, which Apple is too. In that sense they're very much in sync. As the dominant hardware company, why not acquire an up and coming fashionable hardware and accessories company? It happens in every other niche by the dominant company.

People in the tech community, and Hacker News more specifically, are having a hard time grasping this deal because they still see Apple's roots as a niche tech company of superior quality, whereas they've long moved to a mass market company. For a long time Apple was seen in a similar light as Beats; they charged a premium for commoditized product (personal computers with operating systems) and were heavily driven by marketing. Wether Hacker News wants to accept it or not, they're both predominantly mass market fashionable hardware companies that charge a premium for their ostensibly superior products. Beats has created a justifiably large brand, whether techies want to accept that fact or not.

On top of that, I assume that Samsung's announcement just last week that they're entering the "premium mobile audio" space had a lot of influence on Apple doing this deal. So far this seems to be overlooked by most pundits.
> On the other hand, companies that are providing SDK's or libraries to interface to their systems have an absolute obligation to provide their code in Python 2 and 3.

Why did you state this as if it were a self-evident fact? There are seemingly clear reasons why this belief is completely absurd.
I'd be willing to bet Tom Wheeler and the "higher ups" of the FCC are not at the office a majority of the time.

It would be sweet if businesses in the service industry (like lets say Manny's) had pics of the top X guys at the FCC in their kitchen. See one of them walk in - just delay their service ;)

Here is Tom Wheeler
http://tinyurl.com/mlwnlgr
Strings have built-in conversion, right?
Forget making fun of people Googling for "facebook" or "gmail" instead of using the simple URLs.

I do this all the time actually.
Its amazing they actually made the switch. I would not want to working at the helpdesk if my company switched to Linux!

Too bad I hate open office because that is my last dependency on Microsoft. I'll still take OS X for my daily computer over Linux any day.
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This is amazing. I have no interest in weapons or whatever. However, from a design perspective, the obsessive focus on simplicity is very cool. Also, they are remarkably optimized around their constraints: multitude of forces, scarcity of resources. So a tank is designed not to be comfy for the soldier but for the other resources.
Also, webgl is disabled by default in Safari. You need to enable the developer menu to turn it on.
there is plenty of hardware which "just work" with existing drivers for linux. with large organization like that they can find right configuration which will just work. this is how apple does it too - they spec their hardware to perfectly match their software. same can be done with that kind of transiton.
I'm certainly not saying what they have is ideal, so don't take offense on that note. I welcome a native-ish client ala Spotify since I foolishly subscribe to both.

But as someone who keeps their open tabs in the double digits (although pushing it sometimes), I've not encountered much playback issue.
with VAT the ticket cost 7737,50 NOK. Which is indeed about ~950 Euros
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Asking out of curiosity Is it legal to automate tweet in twitter?
I mean if twitter detects someone is doing so wont they ban them?

Edit: I Read the post properly the replies are manual not automatic so I don't twitter will have any issue with it.
The UK has the Mental Capacity Act. It's important to recognise tjat lack of capacity is limited - a person may not have capacity to look after their own money but you should not assume that they lack capacity to decide where to live for example.

Informed consent is mostly not that informed. Clinicians don't understand risk, cannot communicate risk to patients, and patients can't understamd that communication.
For people already using Anki, if there are any decks you can share, please post them in this thread. It could be useful for people just starting out. :)
I went to Thailand a few years ago to do a research project for school. One of the requirements before leaving was taking a two month intro to Thai course. I used Anki to make flashcards, and they worked pretty well. Apparently I was the only person to realize that digital flashcards existed and when I sent them out to the rest of the class everyone loved me after that, haha. Didn't end out learning that much Thai but the cards served their purpose in helping me pass the class. I especially liked the feature that let you play a sound clip for both the question and answer. Given the tonal nature of Thai it was great to have sounds accompanying each card.
Show them what life will be like if you're on the internet slow lane in the hopes they'll wake up and realize what it really means.

How do we get from "the kind of deal Netflix struck with Comcast will continue to be legal in the future" to "Comcast will start serving web sites to customers paying $50/month at dial-up speeds"?

It's nonsense. Why have so many ostensibly smart people bought into it?
I use CloudFlare which might be throwing a false positive.
On net neutrality, the FCC’s chairman increasingly stands alone
I'm the author of the unofficial client library OP referenced. It's great to see folks building such awesome things on it =)

Shameless plug: gmusicapi has plenty of contributor-friendly work for all skill levels. If you're interested, shoot me an email or feel free to dive right into some issues.

https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API
Looks like they already made a page with pics for us:
http://www.fcc.gov/leadership
I use this every day, on my commute. Currently focusing on:

Physics

Python module stuff. It's not my main language, so I tend to forget exact names for functions in modules. I.e. what was that function that did that thing? Is it in os or os.path? If I look something up on stack overflow or in the Python module docs, I tend to create an Anki card for it.

Same for Cocoa / Obj-C
Implicit conversions != Type inference
Triple digits of tabs? You're the guy with more icons on his desktop than can fit, right?
Here are some scripts I made for importing transactions into ledger journals from various formats: https://github.com/clehner/ledger-scripts
That doesn't seem high at all. What's you're frame of reference?

State of Georgia, US (likely a small government state)
Population: 9M
State employees: 82k
Ratio: 109:1

Add in county and city, and it's right in line.

You can cut this various ways, but the ratio seems within the range of normal. I would like more data for comparison, but it doesn't seem unreasonable.

The number of people it takes to maintain rule of law, social services, etc. is not a small undertaking and also doesn't ebb as much as the private sector due to the need for consistent levels of service.

Police and fire correlate pretty tightly to population and geography (size). Similarly, licensing, inspection, etc. etc. scale with population. Tiers of management necessarily increase with increases in head count for larger municipalities at fairly standard ratios. For similarly sized populations in wealthy cities and states, I wouldn't expect extreme divergence if services provided are roughly equivalent.

Phoenix, AZ is roughly the same size an Munich (1.38M) and has 17,000 city employees. That's 1 CE to 81 residents.
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For a long time, people carrying Macbooks were seen in the same light as those that are seen wearing Beats headphones: suckers who bought over-priced (ostensibly premium) commoditized hardware with superior marketing. Perhaps these companies aren't so different.
After fiddling around for a short while I got an index out of range exception and it crashed. It seems like a good idea, but the execution is not that powerful yet. Not stable, so I'll pass for the time being.

Error 2014-05-09 15:42:45.8796 AppBootstrapper Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.Collections.ArrayList.get_Item(Int32 index)
at CShell.Modules.Repl.Controls.CSRepl.ShowPreviousCommand() in c:\Users\luke\Dev\GitHub\CShell\Src\CShell\Modules\Repl\Controls\CSRepl.xaml.cs:line 241
at CShell.Modules.Repl.Controls.CSRepl.TextAreaOnPreviewKeyDown(Object sender, KeyEventArgs keyEventArgs) in c:\Users\luke\Dev\GitHub\CShell\Src\CShell\Modules\Repl\Controls\CSRepl.xaml.cs:line 377
at System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs.InvokeHandler(Delegate handler, Object target)
at System.Windows.EventRoute.InvokeHandlersImpl(Object source, RoutedEventArgs args, Boolean reRaised)
at System.Windows.UIElement.RaiseEventImpl(DependencyObject sender, RoutedEventArgs args)
at System.Windows.UIElement.RaiseTrustedEvent(RoutedEventArgs args)
at System.Windows.Input.InputManager.ProcessStagingArea()
at System.Windows.Input.InputManager.ProcessInput(InputEventArgs input)
at System.Windows.Interop.HwndKeyboardInputProvider.ReportInput(IntPtr hwnd, InputMode mode, Int32 timestamp, RawKeyboardActions actions, Int32 scanCode, Boolean isExtendedKey, Boolean isSystemKey, Int32 virtualKey)
at System.Windows.Interop.HwndKeyboardInputProvider.ProcessKeyAction(MSG& msg, Boolean& handled)
at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.CriticalTranslateAccelerator(MSG& msg, ModifierKeys modifiers)
at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.OnPreprocessMessage(Object param)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
at MS.Internal.Threading.ExceptionFilterHelper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)
> In my experience, switching over PC's to something like Ubuntu is no issue in most cases.

If it's an issue or not depends on the software people use to do their work. If 90% of it is spent in a web app and the rest is e-mail plus the occasional presentation or letter, then yes it's not a huge issue.
However many people in work environments depend on specialized applications that may not be available on linux. Then you not only have to change OSs but also end user applications.

I have been through a failed migration to Ubuntu from Windows. The new head of IT and CTO were huge linux nerds and wanted to transition promising huge cost savings. As it turns out LibreOffice plus Evolution could just not replace MS Office and Outlook. Our accountants refused after after a week of trying to use Calc instead of Excel. Sales and Marketing people found that Outlook had features that were not available anymore. A major internal FileMaker application was supposed to be replaced by a LAMP web application. That project languished for half a year before it was given up after it failed to become usable. It was never even attempted to replace the Exchange server. The designer never started to switch away from their Macs.

In the end it was decided that everyone could use the OS of their choice. So we now have mix of about 60% Windows, 30% Macs, 10% Linux on the desktop. The attempted migration cost the company a lot of money and time.

> haven't had any problems installing Linux on any business model Dell desktop

Installation is not the issue.

>Can we stop pretending Linux has no use for anything?

Nobody says that.

> performance

Firefox is faster on Windows than on Linux. Battery life usually also is better, though Macs are miles ahead there.
Why would anyone knowingly subject themselves to 80-90 hour weeks. The money and success you make in the short term could very well be overshadowed by health problems.

A guy at my work doing high stress support work recently had a heart attack.
>they said they had consultants working to develop the underlying OS itself

I think a lot of people make the assumption that just because you're running windows you're not going to run into any road blocks that require hiring developers to extend this or that or create a plugin here or there. Of course you can't extend the windows OS, and why would you want to? Probably to optimize something. Why would you want to optimize something? Probably to make things run better. Why would you want things to run better? Probably because it saves money. So for all we know the development on LiMux may have been what saved them the money.
Yeah, it's almost like saying "look you have an alternative to Comcast; you can use dialup!"

Yes DSL isn't as painful as dialup, it's 100x faster or whatever. But the 5mbit is the TOP speed (which we all know you never get) and the likely usable speed is anywhere from down in the dialup range up to perhaps a couple of megabit.
I think the focus on the FCC is too narrow. In my opinion throttling all .gov addresses would be more effective.

Including .edu addresses would affect a population with plenty of time on their hands and who aren't afraid to let everyone know about their problems.
I haven't run into any issues on my i5 machine, but on a core2duo machine it was many many times a day I had to kill firefox/plugin-container just in time or I'd have to reboot.
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Great idea. One thing I see is that you're graphing FPS, which means that your data becomes useless once enough of your target devices are able to sustain 60fps.

What I did for my HTML5 benchmarking solution for JSIL games is to instead record the timing in MS for the update and draw stages of every frame. This ensures that even if the benchmark is throttled to 60hz (Chrome does this no matter how you schedule ticks) you can compare timings across browsers on the same configuration and tell whether things have gotten faster.

You can run the benchmark for yourself here:
http://www.playescapegoat.com/?replayURI=/stages2and3.replay...

Click 'Show Log' to see the timing data. It's been a very useful tool for evaluating improvements in JITcode quality, GC performance, canvas performance, and various JIT regressions for complex JavaScript. Just running it periodically has revealed dozens of regressions in Firefox and Chrome.

Hopefully with more usable data, your benchmark will contribute to spotting regressions too :D

P.S. feel free to harvest stuff from the JSIL benchmarking code. Everything is open-source.
>And this is because governments and administration never choose any kind of product because it is "easy to use", "simple to maintain" or "easy to extend".

The same is true for enterprise software. It's not optimized for the users. It's optimized to appeal to ones paying.
> he'd be capable of giving answers and they'd necessarily be the right ones.

> (After all, there is no conceivable way in which this harms his medical interests. It's not like they're asking him to consent to e.g. limited palliative care options with an eye towards getting his organs in the most usable possible state.)

Your comment seems to assume that medical or hedonic interests are obviously more important than interests in dignity, aesthetics, or tradition. That's a popular view, but the proper way to handle these sorts of cases does not rest on it.

It's very reasonable to think that one could get a legitimate answer to the question "HM, are you in pain?" without being able to get a legitimate answer to the question "HM, do you want your body used for scientific study?" The "true" HM, which we generally approximate as the man before the accident, might very well consider his dignity (as personally conceived) to be more important than pain.

That's why the correct answer to this, as already pointed out by others, is to rely on his gaurdian as our best guess as to HM's true preferences.
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Where to buy a dual-CPU linux workstation for HPC? (ideally in Canada)
crippled, interesting.

Perhaps you'd like to explain further?
Type inference in C# with the var keyword doesn't work like a dynamic language like javascript. It works by simply using var as a placeholder for whatever type the right hand side returns, which is determined at compile time.
The only built-in implicit conversions in C# are for numerics, and there isn't a loss in precision for those (with the exception of int/uint/long/ulong -> float and long/ulong -> double, where there is a loss of precision).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y5b434w4.aspx

int i = "5";

would not work.
Those are all polite, reasonable things with a reasonable range of answers.

But what they did was, saw his brain out on TV, then slice it into grotesque slides that they preserved on permanent display. Lots of people would have a problem with that.

Its questionable if he could be considered an adult. Certainly not an adult like you and me. Not able to 'think about it for a while' for instance. Perhaps the only answers he could give were impulsive ones. It would be childs-play to get him into a frame of mind where he was anxious to be agreeable, then pop the question.