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Searcharter launches its first working prototype #aviation #flying100
If you are trying to avoid being tracked by Google I don't recommend using Chrome.
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I'm at mma.sx, yes, and I love the community. :-) https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/users/1859/akater I'm interested in the topic and discuss it sporadically in chat but can never find enough time to give it the attention it deserves. (For now.)

Dependencies hell is a tough nut, yes. Though, every language has this problem, AFAIK, and the more high-level the language is, the more perfect solution it tries to implement, it seems. :-)

But unfortunately I don't have any ideas for now, due simply to lack of empirical evidence: there's yet no stack of independently developed packages meant to interact with each other, to experiment with. One probably can't derive successful solution purely from general [even if expert] understanding of contexts, packages and shadowing in WL; real-life practice should be taken into account which is almost non-present for the time being.
Looks really nice. Since I started using React, though, I've wanted to find a similarly nice charting library that is reactive instead -- that renders to a React component with SVG instead of mutating the DOM directly. This would help minimize the number of DOM updates when just a few data points change, and seems like it would fit better within a React app.

(This approach unfortunately rules out D3, which mutates the DOM directly and doesn't have smart diffing AFAIK).

Anyone know of a reactive charting library?
I have the same book and it gets used regularly. Surprisingly not everything involves gate arrays and microprocessors.
A little harsh, don't you think? The link is to a blog post - not a landing page - and it seems to me it can contain whatever the author wanted it to. The post wasn't submitted here by anyone from &yet, but by Jeremy Ashkenas (the creator of Backbone which is partly the basis for ampersand).

The actual landing page is http://ampersandjs.com (linked in the first sentence of the blog post) and has plenty of technical content like the user manual/guides you wanted (http://ampersandjs.com/learn) and api docs (http://ampersandjs.com/docs).
Scalzi's thoughts on the matter [1] are a classic entry into this genre and make for an enjoyable read.

[1] http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/12/09/a-note-to-you-should-y...
Who doesn't love a gypsy cab?
same for me. however they declared "clead" to be a non-word and well, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clead
makes one wonder how well their database would score against the OED
First of all, amazing article!

However, I believe that the bit about light being a "continuous" signal in the first paragraph invites conflicting thoughts of wave / particle duality, which distracts from and is not at all relevant to your point.

The eye samples light because it connects to a machine with a fixed number of inputs. This setup would also require sampling if the signal were not continuous at all, but instead consisted of a much larger number of discrete parts than the "sensing" equipment could handle.
I enter into evidence: Fox News 2001-2009, if not 2009-2014 too.

The actual terms used in Iraq by the US Military varied, too, from "insurgents", "Anti-Iraqi Forces" (irony, when it was Iraqis attacking the US..."), "foreign fighters", "former regime elements" (even when they were foreign and/or people Saddam had persecuted), Iranian-sponsored militias, etc.
Cognitive Computing Gives Hand Up to Healthcare
Because it takes from a few people and gives to many. More people would vote for it than not.
Most d3 books out there are entry level. They don't cover advanced concepts which are needed to build serious visualizations. The only way to learn advanced stuff is to go through your bl.ocks, which could be daunting sometimes without comments. It'd be awesome if you can think of writing an advanced book. I know its too much to ask for, especially considering your active contribution on Google Groups and StackOverflow.
>2) the definition you're using is more narrow than peoples'.

Most people's definition of terrorism is "any violent act committed by a Muslim without clear monetary gain," so this definition is actually much more general.

>"the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims"

War, then?

As you said, though, debating definitions is a waste of time.
When I read something like this:

"One of the problems we’ve had at &yet especially when working on large Backbone applications is a sane way to document the type of properties a model is supposed to contain.

Backbone models, by default, don’t enforce any structure. You don’t have to declare anywhere what properties you’re going to store. As a result, people inevitably start saving miscellaneous properties on models from within a view somewhere, and there’s no good way for a new dev starting in on the project to be able to read the models and see exactly what state is being tracked."

I really wish more people would try Dart. Maintaining structure, declaring types, readability... these things can be solved at the language level.
> We're never going to be as well-informed,

Cries of "we're too stupid, save us from ourselves!" are unlikely to ever be answered with acceptable solutions.

> or powerful as a five-star general who

You have all the power in the world. You don't seem to know it. Maybe that's the problem.

> Eisenhower could have ordered projects, divisions, and fleets mothballed

No, Congress could have done that. Not Ike. He might have tried, and he would have been cockblocked. Too much money in it. Do you think the coast states would have wanted fleets mothballed with their economies tanking soon afterward?

> Prior to WWII in this country the phrase "standing army" was one of derision.

Why isn't it now? Why when I mention the idea that I think having a standing army is bad now, people treat me like a kook?

The truth is, you want to have a standing army. You vote that way. You get neurotically worried if someone like me suggests that maybe we don't need a navy at all (but how would we save the poor oppressed people of X with our bombs and collateral damage?!!?!).

> At this point, the only way to stop these particular pigs

You're the pig.
Or just set 'allow_url_include' to 0, which it is by default, and which won't disable streams for everything else.
It lies somewhere along the spectrum between cream cheese and creme fraiche. It's basically the best thing ever invented to put inside of a dessert crepe, though it has many other suitable uses, of course.
Making open source projects accessible with Vagrant
They are unique the same way your gender + birthdate + zip code are unique. That is to say, a combination of ordinary parameters that make it unique, and only identifiable if you go to the trouble to do something with the information.
How A Woman's Plan To Kill Herself Helped Her Family Grieve
Challenge accepted! This one was definitely hard...

With her wild flouncing tresses and flouncy taupe colored taffeta bodice, the young woman made quick work whipping her mascarpone to the delicate tune of the peony, bottlebrush, and wisteria inspired Decoupage Florentine style music box remarkably given her elevated progesterone levels.
HuffPo should not be a writer's full-time job. It should be used as a platform to drive traffic/attention towards something else that you're working on.
Unfounded Founder Fears
I skimmed a few chapters and as someone who writes Javascript all day, this looks pretty good. I want to dig into it more.

But I'm going to be "that-guy" and say $39 is too much just to get the kindle/PDF version. I buy a ton of programming books and I tend to only fork that much over for authoritative paper textbooks on particular subjects. Rarely digital versions. Otherwise I'm all with Patrick McKenzie on charging more.
Hide it for the desired time, and then show up again as unread.
They also test response time, they want to make it an easy left/right decision to record the time it takes to recognize a word.
why suspended?
Womble, I like your idea and I wish you success. But, it is now constructive feedback time. :)

meowtaxi is sooo right! Seriously, I was going to post the same thing. Sure, I expected an SSL error when I manually switched to the https version of your url, but the specific SSL error I ended up getting reflects really, really poorly on an organization that aims to become a CA.

I did check your FAQ first for some mention of the site's current SSL woes...
Why apple REALLY bought Beats by Dr. Dre
Updated. Sorry about that, I hope I didn't ruin it for anyone.
> Maybe I should be doing small intermediate commits and squashing the commits into one commit.

I would recommend trying that, or at least something similar: Try committing regularly (this is useful if you ever want to go back to a prior state while working or e.g. pick up where you left off on a different machine, etc), but reorganizing and cleaning up your topic branch (via rebase -i, etc.) into a few commits before merging (fast forward). What is "a few commits"? Well, it's a bit of a judgement call, but I just group stuff into logicially coherent units which make sense as single units of functionality. Of course you must make sure each individual commit at least builds sensibly and preferably that all tests run too.
Wow, talk about black-and-white thinking.

Consider: There may be other alternatives that fall between the extremes of "My kids get all the free money I can give them!" and "The government should confiscate all possessions and give everyone a state-sponsored apartment."
Galaxy package for N-body simulation
According to comments, the project is a big bag o' fraud. Some good information: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yuansong84/ifind-the-wo...
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7280783.
any news as to why it was suspended? I checked the updates and didn't see anything
There's a lot of skepticism whether their product is in-any-way feasible. The concern is that they're raising money without a technically-viable product.
#old
Is this a parody of a libertarian comment?

The point is that people should stand on their own two feet, and not coast through life on daddy's money (or government largesse, for that matter).
Sure, but "war crime" is a phrase with a particular history and usage that means something more specific. Even opposing sides in war often agree on some boundaries.
This works as long as there are only a few commits which don't build. It fails miserably if, say, 25% of all commits don't build (don't ask). In such a situation it becomes increasingly hard to tell what actually broke whatever functionality you're interested in: The commit you end up with or N prior commits which don't build (and which is incidentally usually full of "noise").
I know, completely useless is an exaggeration. I just find it much more convenient to pull up a searchable/zoomable PDF vs flipping through the book when I do need to check a specs of a 74/54 series chip.
Yes, you can consider light a discrete signal, too. I glossed over this because resampling a discrete signal is harder to explain than sampling a continuous signal; I think about it as first reconstructing a continuous signal (typically by convolution) and then sampling it, as described here: http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-05/samp/samp1.htm...
> Shouldn't it be taken off their hands?

Alternatively, since the entire money system is based in the legal system, you could simply restrict what one person can accomplish with large sums of money.
Yes, for me it's either no inheritance tax, or 100% inheritance tax. Anything in between doesn't make sense as it it completely arbitrary. Why 10%? Or 60%? Or 85%? If you support the notion that children should work for themselves, then don't let them inherit anything from their parents - in which case, the government has to provide at least a place to live in. If you don't support the notion of taxing inheritance(like I do) then you should support the idea of inheritance tax being 0. Again - no tax is being evaded here. A person who made that money/bought those things already paid the tax on them. The government got their share in this already.
Let's not pretend it's anything more than profit. Adding a fingerprint to the end of a CRL file is a completely automated process which does not place significant strain on infrastructure.

I'd imagine the file gets large after a while, but we've had ways to ease distribution of large files for quite some time..

Nevermind the fact that CRLs are of dubious value, anyways. See: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv98b.pdf
Name of the series? Feluda? Byomkesh Bakshi?
I thought Blink was just a rendering engine.
I have a podcast where we talked about this article, and we, both of us men, did know very few of the "female" words. It seems like almost all of those words were from one of two semantic fields though, so if this list tells us anything of value at all, it's that if women want to keep secrets from men en masse, they should put them in the floristry/fashion industries.

Here's a link to the clip of us talking about this for those who'd like to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLoGy6FZygA
https://fedger.io/blog/#!/article/18345869981806 works for me?
Seems there's a bit more to it than just that. They claimed that they had pending patents when they don't (or at least, the patent numbers they gave are bunk), their demo video had bluetooth turned off, and some other nasty things. It seems to me that if they do have a legitimate product, they sure picked a bad way to show that.
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Had to share, there are just too many points made to let this one go by.
Ah, Robin Hood democracy. Of course villagers would vote to take away from the king and give to themselves. It all depends on the perspective - if a regular Joe Smith realized that his child will not be able to keep his house because they would never afford to pay 85% of its value in tax, they might not vote for such a law.
A full transcript of the speech can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretarys-defen...
How many hours did it take for you to make this page? (even after you created your initial talk.)

I love these sorts of interactive, visual essays and would love to find ways to lower creation times.
Ask HN: What does your Android app's "installs by version" graph look like? 
We've had an Android app in the app store for about 3 years, and we're seeing that the current install base is pretty fragmented.

Not only is adoption of new versions somewhat slow (although it's gotten better since 4.x), we have a huge number of users on versions that are several updates old. After we dropped support for Android older than 4.x, we got about half the users to upgrade, and half seem to be stuck on the old 2.x version. This is despite the statistics showing that 88% of users are on Android 4.x. Not to mention that are users still on even older versions, according to the developer console.

Are you all seeing similar numbers? Are the "current installs" statistics trustworthy?
I then researched how long people typically last writing for the Daily Show (about 6 weeks)

This seems awfully short. Can anyone shed some light on why this is the case?
Couldn't you do this with RFID tags and a scanner on your phone? I don't know if this is legitimate or not, but something like this: http://agbeat.com/tech-news/rfid-enabled-devices-keep-tabs-o...
Why? It appears a CRL is nothing more than a file containing blobs of DER-encoded cert files.
Interesting. I bought some of the Tiles (link below), and they are basically the same thing, except they have a 1-year battery and are a bit thicker. They work fine.

http://www.thetileapp.com/
But you are talking about extreme cases, where people inherit millions of dollars, and that's probably 0.1% of all inheritance cases. I am arguing that this would hit regular people with regular incomes. You save up $100,000 for your child to go to collage over 25 years of your career, and then happen to die? Well, shit son, your child only gets $15,000, rest is taken by the government to make life more fair. But hey, at least they are not coasting through life on their daddy's money, right?
To be really clear about the definition of terrorism from when anarchists were proud to be called terrorists: "terrorism" is an action during a conflict that is meant to defeat the opposition by creating fear, rather than by removing its physical ability to resist.

Example: If a street gang occupies your neighborhood, you and your neighbors could remove them by 1) taking up arms and confronting them until they take enough casualties that they they have to retreat or surrender, or 2) kidnapping a straggler once every week or so, skinning him alive, recording it on videotape, and hanging him from a lamppost with the videotape around his neck.

1) is an attack on the ability to fight, 2) is an attack on the will to fight.

So IMO Scahill is getting to the essence of it in your reference here.
Why wouldn't people just use RFID tags? They're cheap and batteryless. You could slip one in your phone's battery cover to locate it (or tape it on) and the locator could be a 'dumb' brick of plastic and a tiny circuit with a 9V battery that's mated to the tags.
I will gladly run a member organization to lower the barrier of entry to end-users and non-businesses. No one should have to sacrifice security because they don't want to fork over that kind of cash.

I run a forum I want Wildcard SSL on but I don't want to buy one since I currently spend no more than $30/year to host it. The Wildcard SSL Cert alone would cost double that at some of the cheapest places.

If I can fix my problem and others, count me in.
This is a very modern definition. Most historical terrorism has been committed against property, rather than civilians.
Returning from war, the golem picked peonies from the garden of the wisteria-clad, taupe hued home of his lady love whom he spied through a window bedecked in flouncy taffeta tresses below a herringbone bodice while she used a bottlebrush to clean the dishes, her face framed by a collection of decoupages on the back wall, one depicting various mascarpone based desserts, another artfully show-casing the side effects of progesterone based birth control.
Ask HN: Private stackoverflow.com  
Looking for open source stackoverflow.com to install in my company. Any recommendations?
Have you ever considered visualizing artificial neural networks in training or in operation?

Speaking purely from a selfish standpoint, it would be awesome to SEE what back-propagation "looks like" with different neuronal activation functions, or what feature learning by restricted Boltzmann machines "looks like," or how dropout causes networks to generalize better -- to name just a few possibilities.

If anyone can visualize neural network algorithms in a way that is intuitive and beautiful, it's you!
Yea I agree, since it's online for free I think it'd be better if they went the HumbleBundle route and allowed users to enter in a price.
Plivo (YC S12) announces major price drop
If this isn't the smoking gun, it's at least the smoke:

Unlike other locating tags, there is no battery in the iFind tag.
It recycles electromagnetic energy and stores it in a unique power bank.

This is the sort of language that never describes an actual technological breakthrough. It's a combination of a description that's too pat, too abstracted, with a feat that is too impressive to go without at least some reference to the actual processes that make it work.
I'm not sure why they say these are RFID-enabled; all the tags they show are BTLE. The difference being that BTLE devices are active transmitters (they have a battery), and RFID tags are passive, having their energy provided via radio waves or magnetic coupling.

The problem with RFID is that past a few feet, you need a lot of energy to power them (it falls off with the inverse-square law), which your phone just won't (and shouldn't) put out. So RFID is dead in the water for this sort of thing, but BTLE solutions abound and are quite cheap, despite that they need to have a battery.
5 (Inexpensive) Ways to Buy a More Productive Life.
indeed, thanks. sorry for the stupid s/markdown/svg/
yep, systems are up, had fighting some ddos patterns during recent half hour.
RFID works at very close range (think swipe cards to get into an office). Readers with larger ranges do exist, but they get very pricey.
Mere details. Certainly one could devise a tax code complex enough that Joe Smith couldn't hope to judge its effect on him.
I'd love this for a special case -- account recovery. A system where your account is only as secure as a recovery email address and/or knowledge based authentication and/or social engineering of an account-reset staffer is pretty insecure.

Front loading that on new account creation is pretty dumb commercially, though, especially for low end services or non-financial services. You should do something with trivial signup and then progressive authentication. A holistic risk thing vs. binary.
I’ve made a couple starts on books but so far haven’t been able to stick with it long enough to finish; it becomes too tempting to release content as examples or smaller articles. And while those are useful, too, piecemeal content lacks the cohesiveness / comprehensiveness / depth of a book… so I’ll keep trying and hopefully find a way to make a book in the future.

(And by “book”, I’m including online publications like Mark Pilgrim’s excellent /Dive into HTML5/. I’d almost certainly publish online given the interactive nature of the subject.)