skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential to the core topic of the post, it mentions problems with the RaspberryPi's USB and Ethernet, referencing a 2-year-old Slashdot Post.

I've never encountered real issues with my RasPi, but I really haven't used it significantly. Nevertheless, that's a long time to have issues with popular hardware.

Have the USB problems been since corrected? What about the model B+, which upgrades the USB controller from the LAN9512 to the LAN9514: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-mode... ?
such programs simply range over all scheme values

That's the parametric part.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_(computer_science): If the code is written without mention of any specific type and thus can be used transparently with any number of new types, it is called parametric polymorphism. This definition makes no mention of static typing.
"The market" is not a criterion for copyright; in fact it has nothing to do with copyright at all. Some things are marketable and cannot be copyrighted, some things can be copyrighted and are not marketable at all

The photographer did not set out to get monkeys to push the trigger on the camera; the final situation that set in motion the creation of the work was not put forth by himself and is a complete accident.

There was a case of a bird stealing a camera and flying with it; it was considered to be in the public domain. It's unlikely that a ruling on this would show anything different.
See [1] (via [2])

[1] https://github.com/lmccart/p5.js#how-is-this-different-than-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8144626
I think pour-over with a disposable filter is probably comparable in ease of cleaning.
My best-of-both-worlds has been a Surface Pro 2, although I'm aware that isn't a solution for everyone.

As for "The apostrophe is inserted automatically", there are two big problems with that: one, I turn off auto-spelling-correction systems, because I have good spelling and therefore they make incorrections more often than they make corrections; and two, more importantly, if I am touch-typing then I'm not just going to skip the apostrophe so it can be inserted later; I'm going to hit where the apostrophe belongs on the keyboard, and get a newline inserted instead. Which I'm guessing the autocorrect will not correct.

I'll pass, thanks.
Correct. The content/controls are up to you.
Stacker takes care of navigating around your web app in a native context.

In the example app I'm just using Bootstrap components - nothing fancy. But you could use something completely different in your own app.
It's like reading all of (say) pg's essays to see what he says he likes, and then adapting to it. 'pg, to his credit, has bemoaned that everything he says seems to get parsed to hell by people who want him to invest.

Occasionally after I didn't get a job offer I would later stumble across a blog post by someone at the company that says "candidates must obviously do X" and I didn't do X. I could have fixed this by reading everything written by every principal at the company ever before an interview. Maybe that's how they find people who are "really interested."
No, the computers they're handing out to the kids to do work on need to be locked down. There's no way that a school district would have time and resources to help every kid work through fixing the issues on their computer after they've bollixed something up. And they don't want the kids using a broken computer as an excuse for not being able to do their homework.

What they should add though is a IT admin/hacker elective that would be like shop class. They'd have a bunch of hacker computers that anyone in the class can have root access and would be allowed to try things out.
In a market where phone screens are getting larger and larger, a watch will replace phones? I'm going to say that's unlikely.
Amen Brother.

I imagine a world where closed source software is looked down on in disgrace as unsafe and nonsensical. Soon we're going to see more and more successful closed source software companies switch to an open source model. One day hopefully people will have the knowledge to realize we can code everything our selves. 90% of our goods and services can be augmented or automated. We could and should have 3 hour work days and we should be retiring after 4-5 years.
Photographers like to use the term "decisive moment" a lot.

The timing of the shot can be as important or more important than the composition itself.

So depending on the circumstances, I wouldn't dismiss the claim of the passerby right away.
Yes, and a thief.
moreover, exactly what other parties would be in this oligarchy?
I think you're right that the ritual accounts for a lot of the pleasure, and I'm okay with that. Another drink I love, yerba mate, is all about the ritual. I don't know if this is universally the case, but the protocol I was taught includes the proper way to prepare the mate in the gourd, that the host always pours new hot water in, that making the sucking sound when you're out of hot water is okay (and I think even encouraged), and that everyone drinks from the same gourd together. It's an acquired taste, but the company and friendship that the ritual begets is worth the initial palate shock.
Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audio
Fair point, but the net result has been a shift in basic computer education from "how to use Microsoft Office" to "learn a bit of coding" which seems like a huge step in the right direction.
The site is a lot less useful now.
The CIA isn’t reporting any data to federal transparency site
To be fair, pressing SPACE gets you a 2nd confirmation screen that must also be accepted, before your fate is sealed. And even then it just places you back into normal ChromeOS mode. The installer can easily be re-run to get you back to Codestarter-factory-settings, and is actually a pretty nice learning experience all on its own. But, yeah, those are all rationalizations for what is a non-ideal experience. I'm hoping to find a good solution to the problem.
What factor was it, exactly? Is their grinder cleaned every time they use it, or is it to do with the evenness of the grind?
Some credit unions have a lower monthly price - Vancity in BC, for example, has a USD business account for $3/month, waived if the balance is over $1500.

https://www.vancity.com/BusinessBanking/AccountsAndServices/...

But CUs are provincial entities, so that may not help you or the OP.
What do you enjoy about the process of your work?
I'm finishing up my bachelors in computer science, and I've started to wonder what I found so fun initially about giving instructions to computers.

When I ask people why they enjoy their work, I'm often given an answer related to the outcome of the work. A common one is "changing the world" and "making the world a better place." Or for finance types, "Providing liquidity to markets."

So I'm wondering, what do you enjoy about the minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour experience of your work?

Perhaps it's foolish to expect pleasure every minute, but I've been wondering if I can feel the same way doing math and programming as I do when drawing or writing music.

Thank you for your candid responses.
Attempting to associate sentiment with stock prices is literally using correlation to imply causation.
I understand that avoids some platform-capability differences, but does it also protect from issues with execution-order or ghostly-coupling between threads?
(Oh man, it was weird to look up "kale". Google translate seems to offer lots of suggestions that aren't exactly edible)

I eat mushrooms raw, quite a lot. You seem to think that this is a bad idea, but.. I wouldn't know why (and would certainly have a hard time believing that this is Not Good). It might help to present a bit of a disclaimer/"this is.where I'm coming from" statement in your post, before you start?
Currently this runs on the browser, and in the future it seems he will ship the same architecture as Atom.

My question is: can a browser based editor ever handle big files as well as Sublime and Vim?
Strictly speaking, you can get traditional vendors to do firmware signing -- but getting them to put your public key in there will be more difficult, with volume most of the big vendors will be... accommodating.

Dell's 12th generation PowerEdge for example has a pretty good baseline outlined here:

http://en.community.dell.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/telligent-e...

But that only covers the BIOS really, not things like firmwares in different PCI cards. But its a start.
No but great idea, if people like it, I'll add some more features.
The idea is hardening; disallow anything extraneous to your purpose which may negatively impact your security. So, get a computer with built-in peripherals (a laptop), or only leave the ports unglued which you intend to use.

An old-fashioned keyboard and mouse port serves only one function; connecting a keyboard or a mouse. A USB port is general purpose. Since the latter is much more complex, we can expect its drivers to contain lot more vulnerabilities. If you expose your keyboard and mouse ports, and your USB ports, you're vulnerable to all of the flaws in both. If you only expose your keyboard and mouse, you're better off.

Its worth noting that none of this matters if you don't use full-disk encryption. They can mount your hard drive and add a user with root privileges to /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd in a matter of minutes if your drives are stored in clear text.
IPython 2.2.0 released
They haven't updated their release notes yet:

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/whatsnew/version2.0.html
The latest updates to Swarm reintroduced a few of the original gamification concepts, most notably an unlockable "mayor" sticker. Give it a try.
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* Ubuntu: why ubuntu?

Why not?
Let's remember that the Codestarter is giving these laptops to kids who are basically just learning how to use computers.

1) I think Ubuntu is a great choice as the first Linux distro because of its popularity: that means there is a large community of people in the Internet who can help and there is already so much information written about different common issues one might encounter.

3) Because gaming is fun and Minecraft has shown its capabilities also as an educational platform so I feel it's always better to provide a way of learning that is also fun. Kids learn by playing all the time and when we can slip in a few educational aspects into gaming, all the better.

4) I don't think introducing things like C or functional languages would be doing such great things when teaching kids to learn to program. Yes, programming is much more than just "stupid hello world programs and writing silly kiddie games" but languages like Python and Ruby are completely valid choices for writing real stuff, especially in the web app world (think of Django and Ruby on Rails). Also, it is easier to get started with languages that provide things like REPL to play with without having to first learn how to compile stuff just to get basic stuff done. It lowers the barrier of entry.

5) I don't think man pages are such great resource for people who are just learning stuff they have never dealt with before. They are really compact and even bit cryptic way of displaying the information (and not saying that is a bad thing, once you learn it, they are great, but it shouldn't be a priority when learning programming).

6) I don't know how often you have seen people try to start using vim or emacs? When people struggle even exiting an application, it's not the most welcoming experience. Again, having editors like Sublime Text or Atom lowers the barrier to start doing because you can focus on the most important part - learning how to program - instead of wasting time to learn your tools, which you can do later.
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The researchers nabbed a copy of the criminals' database.

Maybe just a one time thing, but still a pretty cool one time thing.

Additional context:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28661463
This has led to the logical conclusion of an official Twitch broadcast getting hit with a copyright audio penalty.

https://twitter.com/xkeepah/status/497147167803310080
>> I don't think the courts would agree.

I'm actually interested in seeing this go to a decision in the courts. There's clearly a division of opinion in the discussion here, and it would make for an interesting case and precedent.
It should open up the URL in a browser when you choose a post, it looks like the 'open' command which I'm using is Mac only. What platform are you on? I'll look into fixing it.
The brown M&M filter is good because you want people to read every single instruction in regards to something critical to crew and audience safety.

On the other hand, reading every single Peter Thiel has ever written doesn't seem like a good use of an entrepreneur's time.

On the other other hand, if you are Peter Thiel you can make people ask "how high?" when you say "jump." I can see the heady appeal of that.
Pfft, cauliflower-cheese in a baking tree is where it's at, yo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rosminah/6005082151/
For minimum insanity, I think you'd have to assume that I meant Neg Zero to represent -1, Neg (Succ Zero) to be -2, etc., with an appropriate definition of subtract.
I had just never heard of it before!
Parameterized types are a part of parametric polymorphism.

Scheme does allow a function like (lambda (f x) (f x)), but that's because it's dynamically typed. It can just compile a single version of the lambda that is capable of handling all possible input types - no polymorphism required, parametric or otherwise.

Whereas in a language like ML with static typing the compiler would need to compile different polymorphic versions of the function for all the different combinations of types for f and x that are being used in the program.
I’m surprised this isn’ making more waves here. If you check out a video from almost any user profile that primarily plays PC games[1] or is a speedrunner[2], you’ll find most of their videos muted.

This is not going to end well…

[1] http://www.twitch.tv/kaceytron/c/4761968
[2] http://www.twitch.tv/iateyourpie/b/552446830
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Hold shift and hit the minimize button on OS X
Anyone know why this exists?
Most of data science is that. But it was fun :-) [ the process ]
I think cousin_it is not talking about just capitalism and markets, he's talking about optimization processes and game theory. The idea is, if you have two populations and one is better at using resources to grow than the other, then the first one will outgrow and displace the second. The "populations" and "resources" are free terms here; you can substitute for them "companies" and "profit", or "rat populations" and "food" - the point is, this mechanism holds in abstract.

> Either way, all you need is the non-aggression principle and respect for property rights. And these "powerful entities" will never be able to coerce their way into the full market dominance that you describe.

Non-aggression principles and respect for property are not laws of physics, they need to be actively enforced to have any meaning. For example, the reason patent trolling is profitable is that the victims stand to loose too much in a fight, even if they would ultimately win. We're having a hard time enforcing anything against rich people today, it's hard to see how this will change when the rich get orders of magnitude richer while the poor won't be able to provide any value to exchange for food.

The transition process will be hard and painful, but I do hope we'll emerge victorious on the other side, and that cousin_it's vision will be only temporary.
I cant edit my original comment, but I wasn't trying to imply anything except that I had never heard of this before. Reading the supplied links this is a lesson learned for me
but they're obviously required to do things in the demo no?
Yes, truth be told no one cares if a tribe dies. The only reason why we all have some peace is because we agreed to be educated by mainstream standards and adopt mainstream ideas.

Doctors and missionaries carry disease. Is there any standard setup to ensure these international travelers are clear of disease before they contact villagers in Africa, the Americas, Asia - say a 3 month wait period between inter village visits? I doubt it, because we view doctors as being good and trust them, and in the case of UN Aid workers grant them immunity.
"The feds put the hammer down — most likely the National Security Agency. [...] “So with this, the researchers suddenly can’t talk about it because of a National Secrecy Order. [...] The source didn’t have first-hand knowledge of this incident but based their assessment on knowledge of the NSA’s operation and its background with Tor." (emphasis mine)

So, the author of the article doesn't actually know "how"...

"The NSA likely put the screws to CMU to back off, the former intelligence official said, and there are two probable reasons: either to protect its own use of Tor or to ensure that knowledge of how to crack Tor remains within a more limited circle. Tor and its variants are used by U.S. intelligence case officers operating in the field to communicate securely wherever they may be"

...or why, to any great degree of certainty at all.

Heck, almost anyone with some passing knowledge of the Snowden revelations could have guessed all of that. Yup, the talk was likely suppressed by the NSA, with some kind of court order meaning the researchers can't talk about it, either to protect a crack they're already using, or to stop others cracking their own use of it.

Or, have I missed something, and is there an actual story there?
Old dudes as well as young dudes in old-school industries like healthcare or logistics. I work at a logistics company and inter-company integration via EDI messaging is still considered cutting-edge technology in this field.

Of course it doesn't just mean pre-internet standards like ANSI X12 and EDIFACT anymore, these days much of the messaging is CSV and XML data pushed over FTP or AS2. But it's almost like no one has even heard of an HTTP REST API or JSON (or even SOAP) yet.
What's wrong with Caltrian? Seems fine to me, except the difficulty of getting to/from stations.
The mechanisms to completely wreck Windows are simpler than the same process on Linux.

At least on Ubuntu, you need to enter a root password to delete /usr. On Windows until really recent versions deleting /Windows/sys32 was as easy a few explorer clicks.

But even then, you can still just delete a few arbitrary DLLs and wreck the system all the same.
It's not that hard, CWOP[1] and wview[2] support doing this out of the box. I've got a setup[3] in my parent's place that submits the data regularly to them all the time. That said I'd probably trust this guy more than random weather stations setup by unknown people.

[1] http://wxqa.com/
[2] http://www.wviewweather.com/
[3] http://weather.voots.org/
You would. But the camera owner owns the equipment and all the physical materials your copyrighted work is embedded in, so he or she owns the only physical copy; you'd find it hard to make yourself rich with it without the photographer's permission.

And of course, the act of taking the picture might conceivably constitute some other crime, such as criminal damage (if a film camera, you're rendering good film unusable) or computer misuse (if digital), so in general, this selfie-taking exercise would be even less of a smart move than usual.
What you are describing is known as the Biological Species Concept. It's one of at least 28 species concepts that have been proposed in the scientific literature -- they were surveyed in a review paper whose reference irritatingly escapes me. Anyway, the BSC is not the only game in town (and is particularly useless to those, like me, who are palaeontologists.)
I haven't used Calculix, but I was under the impression it uses an Abaqus format input deck? Looking at the documentation, this appears to be the case.
> If I hold an account at a bank, I'll use their stellard, and exchange credit issued by them. I've already trusted the bank to hold all my money, so I'm not really taking on any new risk by also trusting them to run stellard.

I'd trust USTreasury!USD over WellsFargo!USD any day. Since the US government is the actual issuer of the currency in the first place, and the institution which guarantees it as legal tender for all debts.
Mozilla Working On Data Compression Feature, Similar to Opera Mini
Cue the mass exodus to other services that don't attempt to police content proactively.
HN shoots the messenger again, I see. I don't make the law, I just tell you about it:

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/rome/summary_rome.html

wikimedia itself observes that shoting without a permit may put you in breach of a contract you signed when you purchased the ticket, as I alluded to above:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by...

...which is why publishers won't buy photographs without a signed release, such as this one:

http://images.tbd.com/entertainment/gaga-release.pdf
I used a Chemex until I dropped and broke it one day and then replaced it with a Bona Vita automatic drip coffee maker that I'm rather pleased with. The Bona Vita is oft-cited on the various forums I researched as striking a good balance of value and quality for demanding coffee connoisseurs willing to venture into a non-pourover option. It is supposedly "engineered" for optimal brewing temperature, water/grounds contact time and uses a shower head for good, uniform coffee grounds saturation.

http://www.amazon.com/Bonavita-BV1800-8-Cup-Coffee-Carafe/dp...
Lots of problems dictate code that depend on the ordering of floating point operations. It's not something that you can design away.
I'm not surprised they did and at the same time this just makes it obvious that the way in which copyright for "performances" is done needs to be fixed.
Except that that aggregated data frequently aggregate useless info into a very reductive score. If I go to a $ restaurant, I don't value a poor review which bases itself on poor service. If I'm paying $10 a plate, I can handle almost any level of service if the food is good.

It's a sliding scale though, at $$$$ I would rate the service related review more highly.

I would LOVE if yelp let people rate reviews, as well as restaurants. Useful reviews deserver more weight than ones that say, "I hated it, and didn't leave a tip because the waiter was ..."
Yes, though if you're taking a picture of a scene which was set up by someone else then they may own the copyright in that scene. There can be multiple owners of copyright of different aspects of an image, e.g. if I make my own cartoon and include Darth Vader as a character, then I naturally own my own the copyright to my work but it still infringes on Disney's copyright and I don't have the right to reproduce those aspects publicly.

Also if the images you take have no creative merit then there's no copyright.
It's a big deal, but not nearly as big as it would be if it affected live streams as well. Vods are much less popular. The top videos of all time have around a half million views or less. Top videos this week have around 40000:

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/videos/all
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/videos/week
You can adapt humans as well. Bolt in the drill and a battery pack to the human "frame" and you're good to go. We're not Borg already only because "we have civil rights and we tend to riot if we are treated badly".