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Thanks darkseas :-)

It's been a busy time since I first presented PyParallel to the core Python developers at PyCon last year -- incidentally it was also when I met Peter and Travis and joined Continuum.

I've since relocated from East Lansing to NYC, via visas and trips to Australia and whatnot, and have been very busy engaged with client consultancy here in NYC since arriving officially around July/August last year.

Peter (President) and Travis (CEO) are very supportive of PyParallel, and it's actually an incredibly good fit within Continuum's existing ecosystem. I'm primarily engaged with consultancy at the moment, but we're looking at having me spend more time on PyParallel development very soon. Watch this space!
Yes, at this stage any time I read his name involved with something I cringe.
Remember this book too. It's a classic text in AI. I think what they were trying to say in the intro is that the approach has a significant effect on how much effort is wasted. The engineering effort required to get a plane of the ground using moving wings is considerably greater than using rotational parts like propellers. Imagine how many decades would have been wasted to scale an orthinopter to handle the load of a passanger jet.

This makes me think that AI research isn't going to be a gradual process of research being built on other research but it will be a eureka or an ah-ha moment that changes everything.
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This isn't 2004. The state of development of the various GNU/ Linux distributions has reached a point where everything "just works". I have yet to see an installation with driver problems. Not to mention that the battery life on my ThinkPad easily compares with, if not exceeds, that of a Windows installation.
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Nutri Health is a company that distributes Collagen One Plus .It is established in Yonkers, New York USA. The firm strives to offer its customers high quality, research-backed nutritional supplements, while providing first-class customer service.
Google is somewhat good a discerning credibility, IMHO. At least, whenever I search for something I tend to get exactly what I'm looking for without a bunch of spammy links. Of course, this could be because most of the stuff I search for is just on Stack Overflow or Wikipedia. :)
Those of us against surveillance seem to be making the same mistake that has been made in the DRM arena. One that Chomsky is not making. Surveillance is surely bad because of technological reasons and because it violates fundamental human rights.

However the surveillance state exists not because it's creators feel it is sound technology and does not violate humans right but because strong economic and political forces want to become even stronger. To defeat the surveillance state the economic and political powers must be attacked, not their arguments.
I've read that sentence a few times now both imposing and not imposing the imaginary comma in my head and it still sounds like either a mistake or a particularly weird choice of rhythm.

Without an oxford comma, a four letter list sounds like "This...that...c and d do that!" -- which in turn sounds like naming two things, then making a completely different sentence about the final two things. People don't talk that way out loud when they mean to include the first two items in the list.
Thank you for explaining that! So, theoretically OSX could use this paradigm assuming PyParallel is (re?)written making use of GCD? How likely do you feel this will happen and sooner/later?
Name me one field of human endeavor that should be more removed from politics than the search for fundamental knowledge about the workings of the universe. "Is" does not imply "ought". We deserve better.
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Url changed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs, since HN prefers original sources.

The pdf says 1984 because the article was republished then.
Quick question, does ElementaryOS handle hiDPI better than any DE out there? I found frustrating it on gnome 3.12.
Quebec jailbreak: escape by helicopter was 'well-planned'
China's campaign to bulldoze mountains to build cities
> making it tough to actually monetize a hacked account without leading the law straight to your door.

Nope, monetizing a hacked account without doing that is trivial (at least here in Europe where money transfers are an everyday occurrence for everyone and few people remember what a "check" is):

Send out spam promising a way to make $$$ from home without qualifications as a "financial agent". Transfer money from hacked accounts to the gullible, desperate schmucks who respond, tell them they can keep 10% as commission and have to transfer the rest via Western Union to someone in Russia.

> Maybe there's a lesson here - a broader approach to security

Defense in depth, should be a widely-known concept by now.
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Yep—it could get tricky, particularly as volume increases. I also agree that Reddit's approach works quite well—in part by having the starting post be so specific in nature that it directs the conversation, whereas, Chapp discussions (already) tend to wander off track from the channel topic.

Frankly, you could be very right about our approach potentially getting jammed-up just due to the lack of structure. We're still not clear on what's going to happen here, and do consider it an experiment. Although Chapp isn't in any way groundbreaking (it's closely informed by many other formats) we see it as something that could perhaps be a bit of a "new twist."

Of course, in building something you don't entirely understand, yet, it's hard to say if you're making the right choices. For example, I would have thought Twitter's 140 character limit was an obstacle, but I think it actually worked to their advantage by allowing for faster, easier interaction for those with something to say but not enough discipline to create longer-format content.

From what we've seen during our first week, I think we might be on to something. Early users seem to like the simplicity of the approach, and a few are really taking to it. That said, we could be misreading this entirely. If nothing else, though, it's been fun so far, and we're curious about where it goes from here.

And thanks for the well wishes!
Yeah, I would guess that you'd get a pretty good sample without any iOS8 devices included.

It's still a good thing IMO.
Supercomputer passes turing test
Turing test passed for test first time
Worth noting: regular housing in London currently changes hands for £1000-1500 per square foot (that's US $1600-2400 per sq. ft.). In Knightsbridge and Belgravia you can add a zero to the end of that; these are areas where Eric Schmidt couldn't afford to buy a modest family house. Most of the home-owners are oligarchs, sheikhs, and sovereign wealth funds speculating in London real estate futures.
Maybe it isn't "advice", but it is subjective interpretation, since the results are an interpretation of a single study. Nor does the study appear to account for other factors, such as physical constraints.

Obviously, in my particular case, I can't physically write for more than a few minutes at a time.

And quite frankly, my handwriting has degraded to the point where it's barely legible even to myself unless I place a rather exhausting amount of effort into it.
People don't even trust their HOAs to tell them when and where to store their trash cans. Maybe a better type of entity exists that is less susceptible to petty, hyper-local personality politics.
I tweeted this, and someone pointed me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary_architecture
Despite this it does allow apple to enable customers to choose by turning bluetooth on/off, and not forcing them to disable wifi to avoid tracking (am I a minority that have bluetooth off by default?).
I hope it still connects with the real MAC address. Otherwise that could get very problematic.
If this becomes the trend (which in my opinon would be nice) it will become a big problem for companies that specialise in customer tracking e.g. for supermarkets and big department stores. Previously it was quite easy to track a customer, how long he or she spends time in the store, which floors he or she visits, etc. by putting up dummy WiFI-networks that the customers phones find by giving out their MAC-addresses.
I love the Oxford comma, because it leaves no room for ambiguity. I've heard anecdotes of people omitting the comma in contracts and having it come back to bite them in the butt... but who knows if there's any truth in them or not.
Hey James—I'll pass this on to @shelkie and see if he has any thoughts. :-)
Livestream engineer apologizes after getting fired for misogynistic  tweets
That interview makes it pretty clear that the MIT project is not the obsolete boondoggle that the NYTimes portrays it as. They've made significant recent advances. Something I don't think they mentioned: the Alcator C-Mod has the strongest magnetic field of any tokamak in the world, several times stronger than ITER will have.

Aside from that, comparing it to ITER is a bit silly since ITER won't be operating for another eight years. We shouldn't just shut down research while we wait.
"use of em dashes"

It's worth pointing out that this is not a universal style choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash
Both my Windows and OSX machines know that if I connect my bluetooth speaker to them, to play the sound through the speaker. Likewise, they know that if I plug in a Logitech USB dongle into the machine, that the sound and mic should go through the dongle.

Elementary is better than most at having some sort of easy to use, functioning bluetooth setup, but every time I use one of these devices I have to go into sound settings and switch them to the device. It's a pain in the ass that other companies have figured out.
> Name me one field of human endeavor

Tons of stuff. I'd rather politics axe "workings of the universe" than vaccinations and disease control.
OTOH, that "wh" is pronounced /hw/ only reinforces his main argument.
Any referendum process needs to have a robust way of ensuring that the descriptions of the proposals are unbiased, truthful, and complete. It's easy to make it look like a referendum makes a situation better by using words like "sets" when "changes" is more correct, and by never mentioning the status quo, for example.
Personally I recently had more problems with windows that with linux.

I have a dell l502x of 2012. In linux all work perfectly (except obviously the nvidia card that require bumblebee)

In windows8 my touchpad has not good driver. Those for win7 runs but the multitouch is broken and the "deactive touchpad" button does not work, so I keep clicking it while writing.
Also the wifi card keep stoping randomly while on linux all work smoothly.

Long story short: I think linux has made really enough improvements firmware side to be considered as main os for all days.
The author addresses this: "contrived sentences that mean different things depending on the placement of commas, because this tactic was so successful in fixing that thing that time."
PythonJS now faster than CPython
Could somebody please explain why people are going to all this trouble to do weird things with fonts? Why not just use an image instead?
What stops them from switching to tracking via the hardware address of the cellular radio?
It's about time. I quite intentionally keep my wifi mode off for this reason until I intend to use a network. No doubt someone is tracking and selling every transmission you make.

FWIW, once you read about a PoC of an attack/tracking vector on HackaDay, you can be sure it's already in production tracking you.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-bluesniper-pt1,review-408...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/tracking_vehi...
Url changed from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/china-tearing-down-..., which points to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELamUnF0EU
So in other words you don't like VMs when they are used in situation where VMs should not be used, and you also don't like VMs when they are poorly planned and deployed, such as running redundant services such as IIS on multiple instances.
In my natural parsing, if you are enumerating things, once I hit the "and" then I know you have moved on to the next item. So, for me it is not needed - but that may be "British laxness" [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves#Critici...
Why is that? The only good use that comes to mind is MAC filtering, and that's easily defeated anyways.
They could make it optional, but having such a technical option wouldn't be Apple's style. Perhaps it could generate a new random MAC address for each saved network, which would be thrown away when you use the 'Forget network' command.
Indeed, a multi-layered approach, while more expensive, provides some advantages. It is also interesting to compare this system to the one applied in countries where security is more of an issue.

In Brazil, for instance, where hackers get quite creative, some non-business accounts offer 2FA via authenticators.

Some banks even require you to install some "security" Windows software before enabling you to use your home computer. Needless to say, such software is not always easy to remove (as most trojans). I'm not sure how it would work on a Linux (if it would work at all).

And sometimes they also limit online transfers to ridiculously low amounts (e.g. 100$/day).

Despite all that, they only allowed numeric passwords for the online system, consisting of 8 digits (chosen by the user) + 3 characters (chosen by the system). I believe this is to ensure the same password can be used in ATMs as well.
A note on Focus Fusion, mentioned in one of the questions: in 2012 they published a paper in Physics of Plasmas, the leading fusion journal, showing they'd reached the temperature and confinement time necessary for boron fusion. Right now they're on the front page of Indiegogo (in the "trending now" section, hit the right arrow) with a $200K campaign for the next piece of equipment they need, a beryllium electrode that they think will improve the plasma density.
Is it truly mixing politics or rather about money? If the project is not funded, many will be unemployed. To me, that's the center of the issue. People want to keep their jobs.
I didn't read your parent comment as a suggestion for peer to peer ephemeral exchange. In that case you would be correct, but negotiating server less peer to peer key exchange (especially on mobile devices) isn't currently practical.

EDIT: s/parent comment/your parent comment
80% Indians have skewed lipid level, 72% low good cholesterol
tl;dr; guy increases an integer value in a field in a very large database by doing something the database owners doesn't want him to do.
Not sure why the need to invent a new word for this. Scroll "twitch" would have been a perfectly acceptable choice I would think. ie. Twitchy scrolling.
My 7 year old twitter account has reached the max of 2000 following, so I can no longer subscribe to more users. This has turned me off twitter since it's so annoying finding more interesting users but not being able to subscribe to them.

Maybe I should pony up $5 and buy some followers, which apparently increases the limit on following too.
The needed radio hardware would be more of an engineering and procurement challenge for the typical two-bit analytics startup than wifi radios.
I had the privilege of touring and getting to see the reactor directly for an ANS student conference. Even without the politics about keeping the reactor active, the way the graduate students use the reactor seems to already be mired in bureaucracy. If I recall correctly, they have to wait on the order of a year (or more) to get one full day with the reactor to conduct their experiment.

I can only imagine how horrifying it is to have your thesis work mired in these political struggles.
I've been working on a prototype to allow authentication via your voice, instead of a types password. You must know the password phrase, and only if if you say the phrase will it pass. It isn't infallible, but generally more secure than any typed password.

I'm curious, would anybody rather use that vs a typed password? It works via browser (using getUserMedia) or phone call, but the user most enroll first.
This effect can be observed in the real world, too. For example, ever been to a new restaurant which is almost completely empty? I feel more inclined to go inside if it already has a good amount of patrons if I've never been there before. Or a waiting line outside a club or even an ice-cream truck. More people in line == the illusion of it appearing to be good/interesting/crowd-approved (to an outside observer).
DHCP with static (reserved) IP addresses comes to mind.
Cable companies have been astroturfing the net neutrality issue for years. In the Boston area in 2006, a Verizon astroturfing scheme was blown out of the water when a local blogger became suspicious after receiving a strange email from a local college student (1). Comcast has also employed professionally run astroturfing campaigns to serve its own ends (2). It would not surprise me if both companies have their anonymous shills drop by HN from time to time to pollute the waters.

1. http://borderlinenewtonwaltham.blogspot.com/2006/09/lies-cab...

2. http://stopthecap.com/2011/11/15/comcasts-snake-oil-astrotur...
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I recommend using lists. I'm not sure if there's a limit on the number of people you can add to a list but I haven't hit one yet. I typically follow only friends and people who I find particularly interesting but I put lots of other people on lists. The other benefit of twitter lists is you can divide accounts by categories. For instance I have a list called hackers that is only programmers, and a list that is only designers, etc. I find lists can give useful context to twitter and help pull some signal out of the noise.
> Is this not what the government did to the telephone companies providing internet services, which subsequently caused them to stop investing in their infrastructure, thus resulting in the current market situation, where only cable companies provide broadband?

Last I checked, they never split up Bell into separate retail, wholesale, and infrastructure divisions operating as separate companies. Look at BT's organisation for how it's better done: BT Wholesale sell everything from the exchange to the backbones to retailers, and BT Openreach (generally) maintain the last mile. Then, there's a market of retail ISPs who buy services and space in the exchanges from BT Wholesale, BT Openreach, and other companies, and sell a whole Internet service to businesses and consumers.

If BT Wholesale or BT Openreach didn't get off their arses, there's now enough money floating around in the right places for any retail ISP or group of ISPs to invest in replacing them. They don't really want to, as there'd be a bunch of red tape and figuring out how the regulations apply, but they could if they needed to. We also have Ofcom, which is a very strong telecoms regulator which keeps this market running fairly (i.e. various parts of BT can't give out special discounts to retail ISPs, new services fall under the same regulations, etc).

We've had a few bumps, but all in all, it's going well for us. Many in the cities and large towns now have access to 70Mbps fully unmetered, unshaped Internet access through a number of ISPs for no more than their previous Internet package cost, and they can also often get Internet access through American-style cable companies (Virgin being the big one).

We're still trying to solve the problem of investment in rural areas, but there's actually been a couple of success stories regarding independent community ISPs, and I've noticed various towns you'd generally regard as "small" having their exchanges being upgraded to support fibre.
Maybe he felt he didn't need to apologize because he was forced to rush and release in iOS6?

What if the following conversation happened internally:

Scott: "Maps is not ready"
Cook: "Maps must ship as part of iOS6, it's the headline feature. We are committed to this time table."
Scott: "But there are lots of issues, lots of bugs."
Cook: "Fix as many as possible before release, but we are shipping."

Then, after the fiasco, he is asked to apologize, wouldn't you feel that the people who didn't take your advice should be the ones to apologize?
Out of curiosity, what's the value of following 2000+ people on Twitter? I'm following about 100 and the noise is already incredibly counterproductive.
The problem is that many people have horrible rhythm when speaking, too. Telling them to just transfer that on the page results in horrible punctuation.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
Indeed it should be 10^9. Likely an OCR error - you can find several other 10^9 properly formatted somewhere else in the paper.
"My voice is my passport, verify me?"
Are you kidding me? I can pick 3 songs off of Modern Vamps that are better then the whole first album combined. I would admit Contra is a little bit of a hit and miss album, but not incredibly more so then the first one. I mean, who actually listens to I Stand Corrected? Or M79? And Contra gave us Giving Up The Gun, which is probably the second best VW song ever.

(The three songs by the way, if there was any doubt, would be "Hannah Hunt", "Diane Young" and "Hudson" or "Step" depending on taste)
The "Economic Argument" For Diversity
Except that the Oxford comma does leave room for ambiguity, c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_comma#Creating_ambiguity

Frankly, with writing in natural languages, hard-and-fast rules like, "Oxford Comma are always unambiguous," and, "Always avoid passives," tend to make your writing weaker, because there are still some cases in which Oxford Commas are ambiguous and passives are the right tool for the job. What makes great writing, whether it be creative writing or contract writing or what-have-you, is knowing when to apply such rules and when to disregard them.
Google is as Google Does
I was going to say the same thing. I've got about 50 followers and sometimes it's all I can do to not unsubscribe from half of them. I'd bet that getting to 100 is much harder to handle, and I can't even imagine 2000...
Toronto-Dominion Bank allows case sensitive 8-32 character passwords with special characters.

Unless TD recently changed their requirements, this is not true. TD Easyweb (lol) stores a password of 5 to 8 characters.

What's worse is that while TD does allow you to enter passwords greater than 8 characters long and will let you happily believe that it stored the password you entered, it actually only stores the first 8 characters and validates against those. That is to say if when you created your account you entered a password of "Aardvark123zxcv", Easyweb will not mention anything about your password being too long, but your actual password is truncated to "Aardvark". When you log in, Easyweb will accept "Aardvark<anything else>" as a valid password [0].

It took me a year before I accidentally discovered that my 15 characters password was actually being truncated to 8 and I didn't need to type in those last 7 characters as all. There was absolutely no indication from the UI that the extra characters were unnecesary.

[0] http://forums.redflagdeals.com/td-online-banking-should-i-wo...
Good. It should be a problem for them.
Chladni Patterns
This won't work forever. As the practice gets more popular, Twitter will have increasingly compelling incentives to crack down on it so that its metrics retain value.