skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly do. I have both a WSJ and NYT subscription. I probably would also pay for BBC news if they charged. I definitely value reliable high quality news sources.
I think that smaller (portable) versions are currently almost impossible to make. Square-cube law is a big factor here, and there would be a ton of inaccuracy. Maybe if it was done very well. Coil guns are more feasible and can probably be much more efficient, so more powerful, at smaller scales.
I never said anything about the skilled trades, I said janitor. You're just splitting hairs now.
What you're describing is only a collective element under the umbrella of Anonymous. There are many elements each with ability to go in completely the opposite direction.

This is actually a very interesting and possibly revolutionary form of government. Actually, when you think about it, it's like the world's governments all under the umbrella of 'Earth'. Each going their own direction and each with their supporters and detractors.
tell that to app.net
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I think much of the debate is beside the point. For instance, if I heard a piece of music that I found beautiful, and then discovered it wasn't written by a human, I would then find it less meaningful and interesting than if it were written by a human. I don't find that inconsistent, and it's just because I find some of the meaning of music in the fact that it came from a human. There's a difference between music that comes directly from translating one's personal feelings and emotion, and music (even if it's the same sequence of pitches) that comes from a simulation, even if that simulation technology was written by a bunch of humans that have their own artistic impulses. The computer-generated piece may be interesting and worthwhile, but the source of the music is part of the experience for me.
For a big team, either use Unreal or the in house engine.

I heard good things about Havok's game engine too, and their support is the best I've ever seen.
> Users will pay for services that they love. Reddit, the lively recommendation and discussion community, sells Reddit Gold subscriptions that give users special privileges and the ability to turn off ads.

Reddit's not profitable.
Imagine the irony of clicking on this article and then seeing this ad:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/smy9xlxvdynr91f/Screenshot%202014-...
Too bad. It's a pretty good read.
Part of this is the complexity of the interface (I.e. Piano keyboard vs. violin, etc.) need to be matched by complexity in controllable modulation a in the synthesis engine. The history of musical synthesis was a piling on of complexity up to about the late 90s then there was stagnation (or to a degree even reversion.). Part of this was simply the ability for users to reasonably build sounds with some of the more complex synth engines, but I think a lot of instruments (at the time they were mostly sample playback subtractive synthesis) couldn't build the complex nuance of sound from a natural system. In the mid 90s Yamaha came out with a synth called the VL1. It was hugely expensive and used physical modeling waveguide synthesis. It modeled a vibrating column of air in a wind instrument, and to program it you needed special software to design the construction and shape of the instrument (this was radical because all synthesis at the time was about controlling the sound.) It was actually possible to create instruments that couldn't play in tune, or wouldn't even make a sound. This instrument really responded well to complex inputs and was especially sought after by EWI wind players (the original was a keyboard instrument, but required a breath controller to play most sounds since the sounds were designed to require constant energy going into the system to make sound.). But it turned out to be exceptionally difficult to make musically useful sounds, and unlike most pro synths of the time, you couldn't program the models until some years later yamaha released their internal sound design software.

Since then most commercial synths have either been multipurpose sample subtractive, or virtual analog that simulate the old analog synths from the 70s.
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Cool. Somewhat different but similar... In Julia, types with no fields are automatically singletons and an array size-zero immutable values takes no storage:

julia> sweet_nothings = Array(Nothing,typemax(Int))
9223372036854775807-element Array{Nothing,1}:
nothing
nothing
⋮
nothing
nothing

julia> sizeof(sweet_nothings)
0

This seems like a cute, useless trick but sometimes it's quite useful. For example, the Set{T} is implemented by wrapping a Dict{T,Nothing} and the array of values in the Dict object takes no storage and of course all access is optimized away.
"... The idea that software should be free means that only software that isn't free gets polished to the level that anyone uses it. ..."

Linux kernel?

"... The Internet, which was supposed to be our great liberator and engine of learning, became George Orwell's bidirectional TV set. It's a TV set that watches you. ... and it all goes back to free. ..."

Telephony isn't free and is spied on. Related but not quite. Relinquishing control of server logs is the source of the problem.

cf: Eben Moglen, "Freedom in the Cloud", Feb 5th 2010 @ NYU ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA
The Everdrive GB takes micro SD cards, so it has more space:

http://krikzz.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id...
It's called "Contacts.app".
Well, for one thing, it would mean these US organisations could fall foul of European law directly themselves, putting them at risk of sanctions if they have any people or assets within European jurisdiction.

For another thing, it would mean European companies using these services could get in trouble for failing to honour their own data protection obligations to their own customers. Those companies are definitely within European jurisdictions, and they are therefore subject to European data protection regulators, and in some cases those regulators have significant teeth. So potentially this could see European businesses switching away from non-compliant US businesses to protect their own legal position.

Finally, this is not good news for the US government. Safe Harbor is already under scrutiny because the European authorities can't just turn a blind eye to US government snooping in the post-Snowden world, which means in reality no US business can truly claim to meet the Safe Harbor requirements, which means every European company that works with those US businesses has an element of risk now. Given that privacy vs. free speech is one of the widest cultural gaps between the US and Europe, and that if activist lawsuits start flying and European companies start to pull out then the US has much more to lose, this is really not a subject where the US government wants to rock the boat right now.

Bottom line: If these big US companies really are flagrantly violating the Safe Harbor deal, you can probably expect some significant pressure to be put on them by the US government to clean up their acts in the near future, and if they don't comply, you can probably expect that it won't stop there either.
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Mobile device connections work well enough -- a reliable VOIP app on Android was constructed with the DropFrog service on the backend. Generally, a network connection can get dropped on any device even for a "server" device; it is a failure case to anticipate and program accordingly. On DropFrog, by the way, the channel continues to exist if there are any participants and also for half a minute with no participants whatsoever, anticipating and accommodating failure cases. For the browser (and more) consideration, WebSockets under control of the application programmer makes the most sense, fulfilling the requirements of a persistent and secure connection (WSS). WebSocket support will be added in the future.
Maryam Mirzakhani husband is more important than her work :(
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152645840868627
A lot of services today uses the cellphone number as a more unique identifier.

Checkout Stripe.
Patreon seems to be working for a growing number of creators. Personally I've seen mine slowly rise to $70 per page of my graphic novel (before fees), during a time when I've been pretty slow on new pages. I'm really not offering anything beyond seeing new pages a day or two before everyone else, either. I'm not gonna be rich off of this any time soon, but if things continue, I'll probably be making a comfortable solo living drawing weird comics.

My first goal for Patreon was 'turn off ads on the current project'. It's REALLY nice to have them gone.

I don't know if there are any multi-person projects that're paying a serious chunk of their living expenses with Patreon yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen sooner or later.
I did consider both. HDFS, from what I read, is designed for storing large files - my files are about 10Kb in size each.

I am aware of Ceph but have not tried installing it to see how easy/hard it is to setup. Also, although this is not a hard requirement, I'd like to be able to support Windows; from what I have read so far, Ceph does not support Windows.
It's driven by code though, it's not a graphical UI.

I hoe someone builds the latter on top of it, since the flow-based paradigm is so effective in these contexts. Excellent presentation.
Reading this story brings to mind the history of algorithms in the field of machine translation. Early attempts at the problem attempted to explicitly define the rules of converting between tongues using meticulously laid out systems of vocabulary and syntax. This approach proved untenable, in part due to the complex and ever changing nature of language. Modern systems such as Google Translation make use of machine learning algorithms that are fed large amounts of source material and computationally discern relationships between them.

I wonder if a similar approach could be taken with language construction. Instead of spending 25+ years fleshing out the details of a language in painstaking detail, computer programs could be devised that, using large amounts input, determine the most "efficient" means of expressing information. The approach would not only be far less labor intensive, it could also accommodate the rapidly evolving nature of language, for example adding to its "dictionary" in response to new phenomena in need of naming.
> "the misconception that "native advertising" is "advertiser paid to publish their PR copy disguised as an article""

I follow Noah Webster's reasoning here: usage is meaning. Language follows "the same republican principles as American civil and ecclesiastical constitutions". And the term "native advertising", in common usage, refers to PR copy disguised as an article.

If you're doing something different, great! Come up with a name to distinguish it from the other stuff.
I somewhat disagree with the background data this article cites as reasons for why everyone wants email dead. I do not believe people like Slack, Asana, et. al. are trying to kill email, rather, I believe they are trying to offer services that help to reduce email's dominance over communications.

One thing that email does not provide for anyone is choice. The barrier to entry is running your own IMAP, SMTP, and possibly spam blocker servers, which almost no one wants to or even knows how to do anymore. It's also somewhat inefficient for conversations, just like regular snail mail is inefficient for conversations. You mail letters, not one-line replies.

So I tend to think of IMs, chat rooms, and other methods of communication on the Internet as simply compliments to email, not replacements for it. Nothing will replace it, because nothing needs to. It's email.

(sidenote: I'm pretty sure one big reason everyone uses email is because they were given an email account, and didn't have to search out the technology. You don't see people clamoring about the reduced use of Usenet in comparison to forums nowadays. Same can be said for texting, I personally got a phone one day and someone sent me a text message, that's how I started texting. Probably never would have thought getting text messages sent to a phone that I can just talk on would have been a useful enough communications platform to seek out and possibly pay for.)
Fair point, and I should have made my comment clearly about WebGL, rather than the work of the author in creating this post - that is very impressive.

What I really wanted to say is that I still find it disappointing that after so long WebGL seems to made so little progress when compared to any game running on the same underlying hardware. I'm happy that the graphics can be constructed more elegantly, but I wish they didn't stutter, stumble, and drive my computer fan to max.
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Yeah, looking at the Continuum demo, it looks like thousands of hours went into trying to build up a virtual string instrument sound. Somebody has to splice the samples and build up all the velocity levels and all that.

I'm definitely not disparaging it as a ton of work. But I think it also gives us some ideas about the limitations of our models of how sound is actually made. Along the way we've ended up producing some truly unique and interesting sound models which have given birth to any number of entire musical genres.

I think part of the problem is also build some kind of control interface which can even detect the elements of a nuanced performance. Take something as straightforward as an electronic drum head. You've got velocity, edge to middle playback area, different parts of the stick of hand, the side of the drum (not just the head). Different stick head materials. You can stop a ringing drum or cymbal, or disrupt the vibration in subtle ways. For something that just seems like it's "onImpactPlaybackSample()" it's not anywhere near that simple.
Blah..blah..blah, "the rich are psychopaths"...blah, blah.

This is just more classwarfare, neo-marxist drivel from a predictable rag like the guardian
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I actually had a 486 DX50 in the early '90s, probably around the same time as you had your 486. It had an EISA bus - a 32-bit extended version of ISA - which was roughly contemporary with NeXTStep, and that supported about 20 MB/sec of usable bandwidth. I had a Diamond Speedstar video card which allowed Windows 3.1 to run very smoothly at 1024x768, 256 colors. It could, IIRC, work very well at 1280x1024 in 16 color mode, which would definitely have been comparable to anything NeXTStep had to offer, at least in the graphics department.

But when it came to productivity applications, they were probably more conservative than anything else on the PC platform. Even though I had this great video card and could run Windows 3.1 at high resolutions, I still exited to DOS to run WordPerfect in 80x25 text mode.

I actually recently came across a box of floppies that I used in middle school. Schoolwork that I did in 7th grade, in 1992, was all saved in WordPerfect 5.1 format. Stuff from 8th grade, 1993, was in Ami Pro format. So I'm fairly certain that I didn't start using any productivity software in Windows until about 1993.

The only graphical productivity application I remember using prior to that, under DOS, was Ventura Publisher, which, IIRC, actually used a custom version of the GEM GUI. But I ran that on my 8088 XT-clone in EGA mode.
When was this?

Currently, you need to provide a code that is texted to a mobile phone for some level of proof of identity.
Only Monbiot could leap from the - correct, repeatable - conclusions of the study he first cites to the Marxist claptrap with which he concludes. Drivel, utter drivel, and fuelled by hatred.
I dunno, it seems like metaprogramming seems to refer to something more powerful than just reflecting over definitions, which is mainly what those things need. Although some ORMs emit runtime code.

I guess my question is better phased as "Ruby goes on a lot about metaprogramming. I've used .NET reflection quite a bit. What does Ruby's metaprogramming really enable that I'm missing out on?"
1. Hire really good PR people.

2. Don't listen to them when there's a crisis.

If you don't listen to PR people in a crisis, or dictate the strategy to them, there's not much they can do. Sure, they can communicate their concerns, but they know better than anyone that convincing people to change their minds is a numbers game - you can't win every battle.
And at some point you had to go through the vetting process with PayPal. When I signed on, I had to verify a micro transaction into my account (years ago, dunno about today) in addition to the traditional forms. And, of course, I thought about whether or not I trusted PayPal for a while before I took the plunge. There's baggage with every system at some point. Clearing the initial inconvenience is one of the biggest steps because it affords the user time to reconsider.
So someone showed their site that submitted to 3-40 sites, and within 24-48 hours you make/submit a clone that submits to 100 sites?
There are quite a few immediately available 'financial high-flyers' among the YC alumni. I'd venture that they've all achieved 1% status much more through intelligence, creativity, commitment and resourcefulness than by birthright, luck or psychopathy. This is a pretty cynical piece.
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Thanks for sticking to your guns.

I didn't have children until my 40's (admittedly, that's probably kind of too late). Why? Because I wanted to have a stable marital and financial situation in place for them. If you have no husband and no job, you shouldn't be having children just barely out of your teenage years. Children don't happen by "accident".

And you're very right, nowadays people feel that they're entitled to a Ferrari just for being alive. Our society sure has changed in recent decades.

Bah. Watch me get voted down along with you. I don't care. It needs to be said.
I see a lot of 'Sell Herbalife, retire in 5 years' signs too.. Same dynamic.
dont have enough karma to create a poll :(
This has been up for three hours, and it's telling that no one has replied to it with a rebuttal.
> Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

Which is precisely what Category Theory is all about.
it's as simple as the game of "tag". You see something in life that requires action(you're "it"), you have "a certain set of skills"(Taken quote), and you act to right the perceived wrong.
Sadly enough, those already exist:

"Fusors have also been developed commercially, as sources for neutrons by DaimlerChrysler Aerospace" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

But you're right, plasma is not the deadly weapon. Neutrons are.
Wikipedia editors sued by Blacklight Power
Blacklight Power Inc. the Cranbury, NJ company that recently demonstrated technology to extract energy from the hydrogen in water, has filed suit against three wikipedia editors for defamation.
Court filing PDF at http://www.williamslopatto.com/uploads/2/5/8/4/25843913/blacklight_power_inc._complaint.pdf
Funny enough in most places parking meters are/used to be like that. I think most cities have retrofitted them with live authorization but there was a time you could use expired CC's for free parking to your heart's content.

I never did so myself but read about it as part of a massive upgrade program.
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I have a lot of similar concerns, but I think the challenge is that just a few of us being willing to pay for our software/web sites is insufficient to overcome the momentum that ad-based models now have. There need to be enough people willing to pay that going ad-free becomes a credible business case and/or enough people routinely using ad-blockers that relying on ads becomes commercially unattractive and alternatives are more readily considered.

Neither has happened yet, though I remain optimistic that both will improve with time. Look at how the music and TV/movie industries have responded to piracy: amongst all the bitching and moaning and laughable claims of losses, there are a few big success stories, and all of them involve offering content to customers at much more realistic price points and with an emphasis on easy access one way or another.

(Disclosure: I am involved in running several web sites, some of which do not include ads and instead fund their original content by charging for access. Those same sites often advertise via the big on-line ad networks, and do take advantage of the basic demographic targeting that they offer, but we draw the line at using some of the more sophisticated and effective techniques offered by those networks because we have moral reservations about the underlying creepiness.)
> I need some sort of simple contact rolodex that simply shows who I know, why I know them, and why they're important…

Would you be one of them? Would you actually keep and update yet another online profile, so that other people can find you on this particular network?

> something that I would use most of the time simply to search.

The answer to the above question from almost everyone you might want to search for seems almost certain to be “no”.
Thanks a lot! I suppose I was getting caught up in a limited definition of metaprogramming, as essentially every Ruby example I've gotten is "we moved a parameter to the method name".

The LISP macros make me jealous. What non-LISP-like languages have macros? Nemerle does and looks fairly neat. It'd seem like somehow passing the AST to user-defined modules would get ya pretty far, but there must be a ton of complications, otherwise more languages would offer it.

I suppose we can consider converting quoted code to another target (like GPU, or database) as metaprogramming. I guess I had filed that under "just reflection".
How is it irrelevant? Most of the lady's problems were because of her being a young single mother with a very young child. I didn't see the word "rape" in the article, and I assume the pregnancy wasn't an immaculate conception.

Most of her problems are due to this very bad decision on her part.
I've subscribed to The Economist for many years. It is the easiest way to get access to a good quality overview of current affairs, without drinking from the firehose of daily newspapers. I usually read it using the iPhone app, as the current issue is available even before the paper edition has been delivered.
"the incoming class is regulated to be approximately in line with the annual demand for new lawyers"

There are dangers with trying to predict demand for individual goods and services for larger countries/markets.
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Points north of seattle would be added later, after the initial pdx leg - I dont consider the border to be a huge issue.

I dont think you can add enough traffic by going cross country, not to Chicago to tie to the eastern network.
It's my experience, even in boring business code, that learning more techniques can significantly help. Common OO/procedural code has a ton of boilerplate that can be eliminated with functional and metaprogramming techniques, for instance.

But you're right, you don't need to learn anything. Facebook is doing well and it was written in PHP. I hear many popular books were written on typewriters, or even with pen and paper.
Can I play this game in full screen?
again, I'd add that post PDX-SEA - You could call the whole thing the Cascadia Corridor, and eventually take it as far south as medford.