skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "storage" for the solar panels isn't storage. The scam, er, scheme, is at best net-metering. The idea as described would feed electricity generated from solar energy when possible. The heating circuits would draw from grid power. The SR materials and/or video describe this in some detail (as does Thunderf00t's critique).
Yes, TIME sure has a point there,
I noticed that taking extra vitamins and exchanging coffee and cola for water and pure juice definitely improved my overall performance
That also makes me wonder where that statistic came from; I first thought they were measuring the number of crashes encountered on some set of test pages, but that doesn't make all that much sense since if those were bugs, wouldn't they be fixing them (and thus the 32-bit version also)? If this is information from the userbase, then there's definitely an inherent selection bias here: users running a 64-bit OS will likely have newer hardware than those with 32-bit (a larger number of older machines with marginal hardware e.g. CPUs overheating because the heatsinks are clogged with dust, half-failed capacitors, etc.), and so the lower crash rates may not be from 64-bit itself, but because more people with 32-bit are crashing Chrome due to marginal hardware.
My apologies. I conveyed the meaning as best as I could, those who 'felt' the concept where able to forgive the obvious inaccuracies inherent in any statement such as that.

Also there is an average IQ (though a poor metric). The average is 100, a 30% increase would be approximately 133 points.

"Intelligence tests are one of the most popular types of psychological tests in use today. On the majority of modern IQ tests, the average (or mean) score is set at 100 with a standard deviation of 15 so that scores conform to a normal distribution curve. This means that 68 percent of scores fall within one standard deviation of the mean (that is, between 85 and 115), and 95 percent of scores fall within two standard deviations (between 70 and 130)."

Therefore, roughly speaking - what I proposed is that being in the top 5% can be either a blessing or (more easily) a serious impediment to a happy life.
Hello, my name is Guy Incognito. My email address is gincog@example.com.

Unless it requires you to click a confirmation link or something similar to that, just use a fake address at one of the example.TLD domains.

If they DO require confirmation, use mailinator or a similar service.
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I actually did find fail2ban in my Googling. Seems like a decent tool, have to do more research before I decide whether to use it from now on.
I meant to add that, but essentially we map /var/log in the container to /var/log on the host, and then use rsyslogd to push that into a centralised logstash.
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> On glass vs. asphalt: the question isn't the hardness of the materials, but on the durability with the added proviso that the material serve all its functions.

They don't mention "flex". Hard things tend to be brittle. Having the only flex happening at the edges of the panels is suboptimal - that's where all the connectors are.
This isn't remotely a bug, it's not even really anything to do with browsers. The browser will be doing (roughly) the following:

while pending_requests():
send_request()
read_response()

But what send_request and read_response are doing is putting data on the OS's outbound queue and then attempting to get data from the inbound queue. If the data is already in the inbound queue before the request is put on the outbound queue it doesn't matter - the browser is not aware of this fact. So long as the "responses" don't come in faster than the browser is sending requests and causing the queue to overfill, and so long as the responses send out come in the order the browser is sending requests this technique will work. In general this is just an "optimistic strategy".
Do you have log rotation?
This is an interesting story of how someone gamed the Loebner contest. He didnt set out model AI or any of that just plain cheated.
Or U.S. automakers could simply enter the segment. Kei cars aren't much different in size from a Smart car or a Fiat 500 (and yes, both are Euro designs). They're smaller than a Ford Ka, which is the smallest U.S. derived car I'm aware of that's in regular production (coincidentally made in Fiat factories).

They aren't rocket science, but they do stress elements of interior design efficiency that American car makers aren't great at.

TBH, I'd love to have a vibrant Kei car market in the states. Especially in and around big cities with lots of traffic.
Seems like the K1 solution, "BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION", is potentially in reference to his (then not yet built) Cyrillic Projector[1] sculpture and possibly a play on the word occlusion and/or a reference to Ambient Occlusion[2] given Sanborn's direct interest:

"After Kryptos, he went onto a segment of his work where he was fascinated by the way light was projected onto things," says Dunin. "He went out into the southwest of the US at the middle of the night and he'd beam a pattern of light onto a mountain and use time-lapse photography to record it. There's dozens and dozens of pictures. They look like they're made in computer graphics, but they're Sanborn beaming light on mountains."

Given K2 also seems to be referential back to other Sanborn works, my guess is that the clues/keys lie in his other works... Interesting stuff.

[1] http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/articles/1/6/8/1/6/7/0/the-...
Crashes due to hardware failure shouldn't even be amongst those counted. Those are impossible to protect against, every piece of software ever written for 'regular users' (so not avionics, nuclear plant control or so) was spec'd with the basis of 'functional hardware' as the #1 assumption.

That is not always the right assumption to make but for a browser I would say it is a reasonable one.
"Pretty much none"? It's more likely that "pretty much" every application that would actually benefit from being 64 bit is already ported.
Yeah, I remember reading about Tierra as a kid and getting really excited about where it would go in the future. Didn't hear much about it since, sadly.
I wonder if these kind of contract arrangments are just a consequence of lack of communication. You have to agree on a single cost because it is impossible to audit and check everything the contractor does. But the client will inevatably have to check everything anyway but in a delayed fashion. So why not assume from the outset that the client is just another part of the team and must sign-of on everything every single day. Give the client complete access to all data about the project. With sufficient communication the contractor could prove they are working correctly and the client justs pay them for the time and materials they use.
I can't believe some companies include such clause, I would never sign such bullshit agreement. I can understand a clause against creating something that can be a competition to your employer products, but other than that - stay away from my free time.
An alternative way to pump lots of webcam frames was to use multipart-MIME responses. That way, there was only one HTTP request and the response just streamed JPEG images, one after the other. No need to break any specifications to get full network usage.
Linode has "console" access through the admin. But yes, good point. One should follow the linked document steps in order.
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Sorry, but 'x crashed y% of the time' is absolutely meaningless.

Crash rates for software are measured in frequency per total number of hours deployed. 0.9% to 2.5% of the time would translate into 'unusable'.

And the Android crash rates there are also unsupported.

Imagine if 2.5% of all bridges would collapse due to engineering errors and then they'd improve it by a factor of two and hail that as immense progress...
Because the governments in Europe pay for health care and social security too. The less wheelchair bound 19 year olds, the better.
You've been watching too much House MD. Most operations are pretty standard.
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Yes, we did that too (on Netscape, IE did not do multipart for the longest time and when it did it at first was quite buggy).
I posted this as I've spent the last month with this library and it has made the creation of a multi tab dashboard a breeze.

Once you get your head around http://square.github.io/crossfilter/ and the manipulations you can do with groups, dc.js really makes rendering the data very simple.

1.7 has just been released and 2.0 is 'around the corner'.

It's a fantastic library and massive kudos to the people working on it. You make me look awesome :)
Wow, I sure have the opposite reaction to you. Makes me wonder what kind of code you wrote. Some specific points:

"One is code reuse: yes FP code is definitely more reusable. The problem is that the kind of code it enables reuse of more than OO is very small, simple loops."

Combinator libraries sure are pretty useful, and they're more than small simple loops.

"Writing the same 4 line method -- that could have been abstracted with a monad -- 10 times in a 50-150K LOC project is never a big problem"

All our goes code through a bunch of monads (mostly Future + Writer). Very puzzled how you're using monads if they only appear 10 times in 50KLOC.

"Another is state management"

I think you're referring to STM here. That's been extensively explored in the Haskell community.
Shouldn't it be up to the private automaker to make decisions about the economy of scale of its products or what is better for the private company's future? Why would the government get involved in securing the future of its automakers by taxing a class of products? The only legitimate argument for taxes might be reduced safety features. Does the US government do something like this? Imagine it adding a tax on Apple products or even American cars because of a sales demographic issue?
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Maybe do ask him: he might actually have useful tips on working smarter and freeing up time by avoiding repetitive or redondant tasks.
Kei cars make perfect sense in Japan- the density in city areas, the lower speed limits (compared to the US), smaller house driveways which could probably fit two kei cars but not two "regular" cars. At some point I saw a house (in either Okazaki or Kanazaa, I forget) that had a Ford Excursion in the driveway, and it stuck halfway into the road- that was a very rare sighting. Most people speak pretty positively of their K-car experiences. Instead of trying to pressure people in Japan into buying larger cars, wouldn't it make more sense to try to reduce the preconceptions about them and develop an export market? It sounds like this attempt will only result in more people ditching cars for scooters again, or dropping down to one car when they previously had two. Cars- of any kind- are already rather expensive to own there.

They've already had to replace most of their nuclear power with fossil fuel based sources. Pressuring people into buying less efficient cars seems like a giant backward step for a country that's generally considered to be fairly eco-conscious (when you ignore the past destruction of ecosystems for building, and the effects of concreting all the riverbeds). It's much easier to breathe in Tokyo than Beijing, it would be great if it stayed that way!

As an aside, I think Japan's regulation on diesel exhaust for large hauler trucks is actually less strict than the US. I was in Okinawa last year, and there was constant traffic from large construction trucks that were always billowing black exhaust that smelled horrific- it seemed much worse than 18 wheelers here. I also noticed it when I tried backpack from Nagoya to Osaka on a rural road in 2010- the truck exhaust seemed to hang in the air longer and felt more choking than modern truck exhaust in the US (familiar with this from doing distance runs on roadsides).
I sure would have been happy to have you on our team in '95, it wasn't obvious to me at all. Afterwards of course it was obvious. But I'm always a little bit suspicious of myself when I think after I am presented with how something works that it is obvious.
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...so what exactly is it you're trying to read into his self-deprecation? Because it's not there.
Is it emotional to say that the majority of classes are changed be directly changing the implementation, not by sub-typing?
Or that designing plugin systems is not the norm?
Did you read this or just look at the mullet picture?
M, as per the international standard SI, duh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
Purely from personal experience (I know, I know), Flask's Python 3 support is solid. With a little bit of intuition, I'm sure any Py3-related problems from following the book could be worked around.
Yeah, probably. But mistakes are how we learn.
Sounds like exactly what I would have recommended when the sub-prime market caused Wall Street's collapse ... people should have gone to jail but instead received performance bonuses. Executives who directed the bridge construction seem to have landed cushy non-government jobs instead, but the level of corruption and blame-shifting amazes me in both cases.
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If this is interesting to you, another topic to look into is corewars evolvers. A very similar concept, and the results from the programs that are generated are pretty amazing.

http://www.corewar.co.uk/thorsell/paper.htm#_Toc466352756
I so want to learn how to do the splicing now. :D

Creating fiber networks is something i always wanted to learn how to do.
Flask, Safari and HTTP 206 Partial Media Requests
It is fine to respond early to a HTTP request, e.g. returning a permissions error when a user tries to upload a file. Beware however that some clients will go badly wrong if they don't get to send all their data.

What can happen is:

* Client starts to send HTTP request (e.g. POSTing a file). The file is large, so it will take a while to upload.

* Server spots that the user isn't allowed to upload the file and immediately returns a 4xx error of some kind.

* Server then thinks all is finished, closes connection.

* Client, still sending the file, gets an error as the write() fails. Complains about the broken connection to the user but never notices the actual HTTP response.

Many HTTP clients are written in a simple 'send my request, then (and only then) read the response'. They don't react well to getting an early error message. Often you have to work around this by not closing the connection to the client, and continuing to slurp up any further data received.
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To alleviate this somewhat, at least in Federal contracting, "best performer" can be chosen over "lowest bid" and often is if the project will be put at risk by an inexperienced contractor, or somebody trying to slip in on the cheap and provide substandard contract completion and/or try to squeeze the money out of the government later.
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I don't know Swift, but ... use a vector?
A 3rd "no" from here. Scala is unnecessarily complex because of the Java/JVM compatibility. It's not built from ground up on functional principles, but rather "augments Java" with functional features.

My recommendation is that start with Haskell or Scheme.
Started working on https://nota.io while employed as full stack dev. The idea actually came from my day to day workflow.

Quickly I found that I had trouble focusing on the job that was actually paying me and all i wanted to do is build my app. So I quit (my employer totally understood my motivations). That was 6 months ago.

Now I've launched a few week ago and I am realising that I planed a bit short budget wise, so soon I am afraid I'll have to go back job hunting. I wish i had plan for more slack.

The lesson that i've taken form that is that if you want to build a software that you are passionate about soon enough it will take all your focus. So do plan on that. Validate and plan as much as possible while keeping your day job and when you are as ready as you possibly can just take the dive! Good luck.
I know of several companies that are already doing that, for example I know the founders of this one:

http://www.doctor-rehab.com/

They're already on clinical trials.
And yet that complex JVM interaction makes one possible way to "get toes wet" is to wrap existing lower level java processes (and libraries and things) in a larger functional wrapper. Top down. Assuming you have some experience, confidence, or sample code in java that you can use or understand in the problem domain. So rather than trying to find a way to use recursive functional definition of a factorial in your code (bottom up) it Might be possible to work top down and make the "main loop" or whatever of your java program a functional construct of some sort.

I am in no way claiming this is the best way, only way, or even a good way to learn FP concepts but it is a possible way to at least get feet wet, plus or minus your personal characteristics. It is merely an alternative to the extremely popular nearly universally pushed educational strategy of bottom up introduction of FP.
"A higher Klout score put me higher on Bing’s search results."

Where is OP getting that from? Enhancing Bing's Knowledge graph result set. yes. Improving ranking. Not so much.
Why so? Of course it is fair to make an assumption -- it would be a different story if there was a claim made based on that assumption, as in your comparison. In other words, you made up a silly case and attacked against it to argue against the original point -- you constructed a straw man argument.
That was a nice talk.

Why am I getting the Jobs stanford speech vibe in your talk.
I'd buy one of these ... most of my driving is in town and the Kei would be perfect for that type of driving. (Note that our primary car is an eight passenger Sienna with just above half the city fuel economy claimed by the NT100.
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That's a legitimate fear. I added a few words pointing that out in the takeaway section.
Doesn't look like that in 2014. Using GNU/Linux since 1995.
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DC.js is great, but ironically it's deep integration with crossfilter makes it much more difficult to use with other d3.js-based charting libraries. A team I am on ended up switching to another charting library and handling the data manipulation and filtering with crossfilter ourselves.
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This gotta be one of the funniest and catchiest music videos i ve ever seen!
> What I wonder about is what's in it for Microsoft.

I've always thought of video games for Microsoft as a vanity project in the same way family sedan car companies build supercars. It provides a high-performance focal point for development that trickles down useful technologies everywhere else in the manufacturing process.

DirectX, for example, probably wouldn't have ever happened if Microsoft just cared about making office productivity software.
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I couldn’t find the reference of the colors in the map:

* Green: Decimal Point

* Blue: Decimal Comma

* Red: Other (more details hovering over the country in the map)

* Light Grey: Unknown (by the author)
Which is easier, innovating out of your comfort zone or using your contacts to have another country's laws changed without the informed consent of their electorate? Oh.
scala or julia
Yes, I founded https://hiburo.com and had the idea while being employed and started building an early prototype on weekends/evenings.

However after I left the company, we changed the design and did a complete rewrite (switched from PHP/Kohana to Python/Django). Now it is up and running for a few months and growing slowly but steadily.
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unless Apple also decided to stop sending out the SSID list..
Perhaps, but are "regular folks" that inclined to buy an Xbox One just to play a few Kinect games? Sales figures suggest not.
Depends how big you are.
Linux 3.15 and continuation of merge window
This is somewhat related - tracks predictions by various sources to assess creditability:

http://www.pundittracker.com/
Meta-use of a shared company calendar is worthy of a whole separate article, IMO.

From personal experience - even if you can't see where your management is meeting or who they are meeting with, just knowing they will be out of the office can be valuable. Especially when you are job-hunting.
Apparently, GM is strong in dealing with governments.
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Are they a danger? (That article is from 2013, and my understanding was they'd made progress on the bolt issue...)
What can they do? Send their executives on random vacations and plane trips?
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Beer startups from Europe. Cheers
If your goal is to learn FP, Haskell is a better option, since it will really force you to think functionally in a way that 'softer' FP languages don't. With Scala there is always the temptation to do things the 'obvious' procedural way each time you get stuck on something.
Frazz has been a sequel to C&H for years :) http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/fz/
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There is a similar effort in Scotland called B4GAL: http://b4gal.org.uk/
Largely because when you hit somebody, or they hit you, instead of a minor injuries claim, what you'll have is a death on the road.

Realistically, you'd have thought the insurance on them ought to be huge due to the huge decrease in safety features.
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That's all I ever hear from recruiters. Send a Word version.
Do they care about topsoil? I thought this was primarily for construction purposes.
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I know. I'm taking the risk with it for a few more days because I was already in the process of moving those apps to fresh boxes (the other app is http://mondrian.io). I'd rather not take them down because they get considerable traffic. At this point I'm just keeping the server alive until I can fully replace it - not using it to do anything new.

I did immediately change www's password again and de-privilege the ssh key that that box had been equipped with. In fact I've recently started always ssh-ing into servers with the -A flag so I don't have to give them keys at all.

So far I don't see any more mysterious activity. Thanks for the word of caution.
Realistically all they are doing is removing a bizarre tax benefit which doesn't exist for any practical reason.
Because as a EU citizen I want to know for certain that something that is on the market here is not dangerous to drive around.

The same as you can trust that the carrots sold at a local supermarket do not contain arsenic - there are regulations against that. But according to your logic, it would be better if there were no regulations, surely a producer of arsenic-containing carrots will naturally go out of market after sufficient number of people die, because no one will buy their carrots anymore,right?

I believe that a car with a cabin that folds like origami in a crash should not be allowed to be sold in the EU(or in fact, anywhere).
The Wikipedia entry is quite unclear. The paper itself states at this point it's a proposal of academic and not practical interest, since a vote buying attack has been discovered.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-TheThreeBallotVoti...
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You can't understand patterns from random data. Am I missing something you're seeing?
Also the linked HUBS and Tegola projects - more for wireless access in really rough spots like Knoydart:

http://www.tegola.org.uk/