skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something you may not know: Samsung had their own internal project to build a royalty-free codec, but they gave up because it was "too hard" (which for a large corporation usually means "costs too much"). The annual caps for H.264 are just low enough to discourage that kind of activity. The currently proposed caps for HEVC are much higher, and that may change the equation for some people.
Meta-comments[1] explaining that the conversation above isn't useful aren't useful. They take the focus off of the real debate -- that which people choose to talk about in the comment thread. Ignoring comments is easy.

proceeds to take own advice

[1]: such as this one, but this wouldn't be necessary if folks didn't find it necessary to waste space dictating what's worth talking about.
For an easter egg and bonus points:

Somehow involve Inspector Gadget's boss -- reading the instructions to you, a dot-picture, the sound of a muffled explosion in a trash can, whatever. "This script will self destruct in five seconds."
Augmentation of cognitive brain functions with transcranial lasers
So you believe that independent inventors and universities are causing great economic damage? Why?

In my mind, the people who are doing damage are those who are taking advantage of the fact that defending oneself against a patent infringement suit is expensive, by suing small businesses with little or no regard to whether they actually infringe; and those taking advantage of low-quality patents that should never have been issued, like the infamous scan-to-email patent.

I think that by equating trolls with NPEs, you are losing an important distinction between the ones doing this damage and entities with valid patents that took real R&D to develop, and who are enforcing them against actual infringers. I don't know how you can say that the latter group don't deserve to be able to enforce their patent rights, unless you want to discard the entire patent system.

In any case I don't think your proposal is going to fly. In contrast, we almost had a bill pass Congress to limit the worst abuses. I still don't understand why this failed.
Yeah, that threw me off as well. For anyone interested in actual brain lasers:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00...
The problem with emails
1) Create a file unlink.php in your php environment

2) Paste this in it <?php unlink('unlink.php');

3) Visit unlink.php on your browser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements

Including advertisements in a research resource lends itself to all sorts of moral problems, and quite frankly completely obliterates and chance of increased usefulness of the redesign.
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Actually, bootscripts would probably count. The authors here mean code that can only run once and will unconditionally fail if it is executed more than once (such as #!/bin/rm), but a few of the examples can only be run once per session, which bootscripts would likely fit in.
Suggestions:

- use if else;
- replace "if(stop){return}" with "cancelAnimationFrame";
- don't save data in the html nodes, DOM is slow, use js object to store data (timespans[currentUrl].textContent = d;).
- no need to use "window.links = ..." you can simply "links = ..."
Nuclear anything is controversial in Japan recently because of the earthquake. Japan is also under the "nuclear umbrella" of the US on the condition that Japan will not produce nuclear weapons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_umbrella
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I like to think most people would change their tone if they were talking to the creators face-to-face.
Well, they would have had alternatives. Like using a different name or just dropping the article completely and going with "Referenz". Choosing "das" seems like a very cheap attempt at copying Volkswagen style ads. Not to mention that I'm not sure there's anything connecting "encyclopedia" to "German" (as with "cars"/"engineering").
Securing SSH with TOTP (2FA)
Yep: 'Gamma' is just a name given by convention to a frequency range of interest (here 30-40Hz; Gamma can be used to refer to frequencies from 30-100Hz, depending on the species and brain area being studied.)
Part of this is that the demo is using a pretty old version of Telescope/Meteor (like 6 months back), and also that it's running on a free *.meteor.com instance that's not very powerful. I need to fix both of these, sorry about that!
Blueprint Roomba instead of DJ Roomba?
i build software accounting ... and the term open source.Are it freely downloadable or close company but open source to customer ?
Previously i use ssl for testing speed the google spdy.. but performance not much different.
sorry not git hub account for downloadable accounting software but if wanted to real code and product and sell combine,access will be given.
Call me maybe: RabbitMQ
I first read about lucid dreaming 20 years ago when I was twelve. It was treated more as a new age fringe thing back then, but I had a blast experimenting with it. My favorite dreamscape involved a purely abstract state of mind where I could symbolically visualize components of algorithms -- nearly all of my work writing motion detection algorithms that worked in complex outdoor scenarios was refined in my sleep.

That being said, I eventually "gave up" lucid dreaming after 10 years or so. At a gut level it felt like sleep and dreams are best left to the subconscious -- a neural defrag, if you will. Personally I feel much more rested now that I make no effort to remember, much less control, my dreams.
GlobalSign helped out Haskell.org and gave us a nice wildcard certificate quickly and easily. We really appreciated it.
wert da ferk! ( what happened to apple! this is awesome. :D )
The AT&T fibre splitting thing was in 2006, Room 641a. So well before Snowden, it was known that fibre tapping was being done.

The connection runs outside your control, why would you think it would be safe? Maybe they didn't think it likely, but the threat was always present and available for anyone with the desire and resources to exploit.
Fastmail is really good.
I'm guessing not all fibre optics run under water and don't need special forces submarines.
If you're able to configure firewall rules, you're well outside of any normal users able to make up a significant amount of P2P traffic. And to most users, port forwarding and configuring a firewall rule are nearly identical.

Truth is that for most users, NAT today is almost always synonymous with a firewall that has deny in, allow out policy.

10+ years ago, a lot of folks often connected their machines to the Internet in the way you specified. You could go around scanning people's systems, viewing their fileshares and so on. NAT "fixed" a lot of that.
Thanks for the suggestions, I implemented them, and also un-obfuscated and formatted the code. Also, now it's much faster since it doesn't use DOM.
I love the look and feel! I'd love for it to come to Android.
The device I want: a computer keyboard with built-in storage or support for a memory card or flash drive. It can be used as a normal keyboard with a desktop computer.

You can also take it away from the computer and put it into "note taking mode". In this mode, you can type and it records your typing. When you return to your desktop, you can tell the keyboard to play back your notes and it sends them to the computer as if you are typing them.

Optional feature: a one line LCD display so you can see your typing in note mode.

This gives the speed of typing, without the distraction of a laptop.
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IANAL, but Including material that is not referenced by the claims, gives you the chance to submit amended claims at a later date if your original claims are invalidated.
A patent troll only uses patents to sue people and return money to it's investors.

So, I think there is a reasonable argument that if your actively doing research your not really a NPE. AMD and University's both make money from both obvious and non obvious patents but they have positive contributions where companies that only buy existing patents and sue don't contribute anything as the patents already exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuQ8vskDST0
So they should pay to make it more secure? It's not like you get to skip domain validation.
Isn't what you're saying in essence replacing the cult of "Newer Is Better" by the cult of "Newer Is Worse"?

You can't know that Wikipedia doesn't need a redesign until you see that redesign. People 7 years ago thought their phones were just fine, until they saw the iPhone.
Atwood's Law in action, I love it :)
1970s Bunker Home, 26ft underground. Complete with fake yard.
Keep it simple check

My site+blog http://motyar.github.io/

code

https://github.com/motyar/motyar.github.com/
It's just so much easier and safer to nit-pick than to take the time to explain what you love about something.

But hey, on the plus side nit-picks can be useful to a project creator too, if only to help them anticipate people's objections better.
I eventually found a job by starting as a Technical Writer,
for which age does not seem to be such a barrier. I did a
good job a several projects, and when a programming job became available last week, I was hired on a contract basis.

Now all I have to do is learn GO in couple weeks and be brilliant! -- :-))
He's not kidding about law school and heavy books. I noticed first semester of first year that my law school books already took up more shelf space than all the math books and science books that I had acquired during four years at Caltech getting a math degree.
You'd be very surprised at how resourceful game-developers are at using the tools they prefer. Either way, console manufacturers will add support where there is demand. Certainly you're more likely to see it used first in more limited capacities and on single platform games.

IMO, a much larger stalling block will be Windows platform support. Game Development is one industry where not only is Windows a major platform for games, but the sole, primary development platform of nearly all modern games. All modern console toolchains run exclusively on Windows afaict.
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Something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
> Should I leave America if I don't like the NSA?

The NSA spies on the world. Their spying on America is notable because they aren't supposed to do that.
In The Wordly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner tells of a tactic of John D. Rockefeller in which the assistant hired by a competitor to signal trading information was bribed to the benefit of Standard Oil.

One of the few apparently verifiable elements of the Rothschild legacy is their use of time arbitrage to trade advantageously on early news of the outcome of the battle of Waterloo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family#The_Napoleon...
Thanks, I suppose I should have been a little more specific -- I'm not surprised Summize, Tweetie, Gnip and TweetDeck lives on. That said, Crashlytics, MoPub and Vine does seem to indicate that not every Twitter acquisition of an "independent" product leads to product death.
That reminds me... the first "web app" I ever built was a home automation interface, hacked together with AppleScripts, because that's all I could figure out how to do on my Mac in high school (circa 2001). I don't remember how the webserver portion of it worked (but I definitely didn't implement it myself)
I find normal dreaming much more fun. It's like playing Stanley Parable for the first time, instead of of opening Garry's Mod...alone.

I'll pick a Stanley Parable any day over Garry's Mod.
My understanding is that Japan hasn't been to successful in space launch, which also happens to be the main delivery mechanism.
In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer
Any php file with the following should work.

<?php unlink(__FILE__);
Fair enough. What about the plantation land? Fair game for redistribution to the slaves, or would that be a violation of the plantation owners' property rights?
This is really great. Plus I love the attention to detail in the documentation, and how the demo worked right away. We currently use Mailgun for this but I would love to switch over to using Mailin and host it ourself.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-IIA
Oh how the rich have bad taste.
> They’ll just need good higher-level design thinking so they can clearly, logically explain the computer’s task.

... and how do you develop that skill?

While the "search all existing code" approach may lead to improved security (for example) if such considerations are factored into the search, I'm unsure how this would permit us to do something a part of which has never been done before. The article probably does a disservice to the project by projecting it in the wrong direction which hides other very significant benefits it can bring to the table today.

IMO, Wolfram Language deals with the human interface in a much better way than whatever (I think) searching through code can give you. WA generates multiple programs that are possible interpretations of a given query and runs them all, or a pruned set of them, depending on out-of-query context (at least as far as I understand it). This is possible only for those cases without side effects. If some imperative code for calculating prime numbers surreptitiously has an instruction to launch a rocket, how would a naive user know?

In other words, such an intelligent system will need to distinguish between "doing something" and "an instruction to do something" - which is basically imperative languages versus monads. The vast majority of code is written imperatively and this kind of eager execution of multiple possible interpretations of an ambiguous instruction would be unsafe without that ... at least unsafe without the ability of the "programmer" to read the resultant code before accepting it.
"Don't hate the player, hate the game" is a false dichotomy. It's perfectly possible to conclude that the system is rotten and still call out those who take advantage of it in ways which hurt others. The fact that there's money to be made and that it's legal doesn't make it any less sleazy and immoral.
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>In other words, chimps can read numbers and understand their order?? That is new to me.

How about: can see symbols (numbers or whatever) and remember their order (as opposed to "understanding it").
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Yes yes, you are definitely onto something here.

Awfully, the standard deviations of almost every item in their validation study [1, Table 1] is greater than the means --in some cases even twice as big--, which themselves are very low (the majority are below 2, and several are below 1). This is, at a minimum, strongly indicative of bimodality --which would make sense since, among other things, participants were drawn mostly from Bonn University's lucid dreaming student club [p.11]. As a matter of fact, they report they threw away two data sets (!) precisely because of "extreme answering style (all items were scored as 0 or 5)" [ibid].

Why they didn't heed these warning signs (and at the very least use medians instead of means from then on) is beyond me.

[1] http://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophie/files/2013/04/...
tex4ht cv.tex > html > copy-paste into/open in word > save as word?
after first year, my lecturers handed out the whole year's worth of notes (photocopy of something they wrote in the 60s...). you revise _before_ class and then listen and try ask just one _good_ question. having the goal of having to ask one good question works wonders. pity i didn't learn this tip until near the end of me degree...
In honor of this I wish people would post links to startups focused on eradicating cancer directly or indirectly. All too often we focus on the few startups doing something in a noisy consumer space and miss the hundreds toiling away at some noble goal. If you know of one please post a link so we can learn more about them and hopefully direct help their way.
I was trying to remember that as well, but I think I now do - it's the "Internet suite", which has a CGI handler implementation.
No, I mean I don't recall seeing them ever.
http://www.cancer-iq.com/
Proof that "...the determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN in any language", or more specifically FORTRAN 77, since Fortran has acquired the sorts of features the author eschews.
One of the smartest guys I know always carries index cards and a set of pens and records almost everything he works on that way, before putting it into a formal digital design.

I carry a notebook and I highly recommend it for all the reasons described but I have one more - going through them years later is a huge amount of fun. Seeing old ideas sketched out makes me happy and I keep all my notebooks in a stash for later perusal. Looking at old digital documents doesn't give me the same feeling, with tangible paper and ink bringing back memories.
He posted one of the realest things that I've ever read on twitter the other day

I thought the stress of going from two to three kids was overwhelming, but it was nothing compared to the stress of going from three to two.

https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/474237830470696962

RIP
This sort of reminded me of Phillip K. Dick's art book Agrippa [1], which was given a limited release on a floppy disk that would corrupt itself after its contents are displayed on a computer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_%28A_Book_of_the_Dead%...
The real problem is that patents have become an intellectual land grab, no matter how obvious, whether or not violators were even aware of the patents, and whether or not the patenting company has any interest whatsoever is using the patent in an actual product. The majority of inventions are not strokes of genius - when the time is right, ideas emerge naturally and tend to be invented by multiple people around the same time.
I don't think you understand. There is no way to tell your users' browsers to reject the bad cert other than revocation.
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I think you missed my whole point. Whoosh.

I (or the OP) didn't tell anybody to use Java instead of Python. What we said is that it will be better for performance to optimize CPython's core speed instead of its multi-core capabilities.

So the remark about Python having more libs than Java is beside the point, since Java wasn't mentioned as a migration option, but as an example of how far single-core performance can be taken, and as an advice to try to get some of that to Python.

Oh, and the "but still it doesn't matter because Python has fast native libs" is not an argument either, because if that was enough people wouldn't care about parallelizing Python to get more speed. Which was the whole topic that started this thread.
For those who don't know who this is, she is Eric Meyer's daughter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Meyer
If you didn't read the article, the first part is related to this blog post:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2014/02/19/distributed-semaphor...

That post talks about how to build a distributed semaphore using RabbitMQ in the "clustered" configuration option.

Aphyr's post is good but RabbitMQ make it pretty clear that this setup is not resilient to network partitions. They even mention it at the end of the blog post. That is also clear in the documentation.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/distributed.html

The big general question is how likely are you to encounter network partitions?

Aphyr believes they are very dangerous and likely to happen to you at some point and should be taken more seriously by the programming world.

I tend to take a more of "it depends" on your environment. Recently with VM and cloud deployment network partitions are quite likely. So they should be at the top of your "things to worry about" list. But, I haven't seen it happen on a local LAN. During testing I have induced it by hand (but pulling the network cable out from a switch), but I just haven't seen it happen otherwise. I probably got lucky. Now I have seen other things come like memory corruption, memory leaks in software, and so on. So many other things that worry me more than network partition on a LAN.

All that said, it is great to see these experiments run. Please read and study all the other "Call me maybe" series. They are just very good. It turns out most products with a "distributed" component will fall over in the face of a partition. And keep in mind that it is best to have Aphyr discover these issues than your customers ;-)
I admit I'm a bit conservative, technologically speaking. But no, I don't subscribe to the cult of Newer Is Worse either. Mostly, I reject the notion that saying "Wikipedia teleports its audience into the year 2004" is valid criticism of its UI.
I doubt politicians would give a shit, perhaps notwithstanding a few minutes of grandstanding during some floor speech or committee hearing. Certainly, no action would come of it.

Lobbying, though, would get their attention. Like it or not, that's how one operates the levers of power in Washington at the moment
I'll second the vote for Haraka. Good support via IRC, and a very strong, accessible plugin architecture. I like the basic mechanism Mailin is providing (convert e-mail to a semi-structured doc) - I just don't know their smtp wrapper's reliability. It's tempting to just build a Haraka plugin to provide a similar output (and feed it to Elasticsearch for logging/searching later on).

Reading through the source it looks like it spawns a child_process per-message to for checking both SPF and DKIM via a python script... That feels inefficient, but I don't know if there's a better node-based solution.
For those wondering Eric Meyer was one of the early advocates of modern web design techniques and CSS. He's also an established author and international speaker.

Tragically his daughter passed away today. You can read some of Eric's heartbreaking writings about it here:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/cancer/

He's also quite actively tweeting before and after the passing, some of the tweets bringing tears to my eyes:
https://twitter.com/meyerweb
I don't think someone catering to exclusive clientele would bring "scrap riff raft" into a property. It seems ludicrous and completely credible to me.
Which cancer?
I have trouble believing this story.

For one thing a used digger would be worth far more than $10,000 USD, and for another there are strict building codes that must be met. I'm sure a used digger would not be considered legal fill-dirt material and they would be forced to dig it out and re-do the whole lot if it was buried in place. I remember when I was a kid in California the apartment I lived in filled in a pool and they had to bust up the concrete. Someone threw an old couch or stuffed chair or similar down in the hole and they just threw the dirt over it. The city found out and made them dig it out and fill it with proper fill-dirt. I believe the reason was that something might eventually be built on top of that area and it had to be up to code.