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this exercise is useful.

1) the creators had a chance to learn/practice their favorite libraries and languages -- computer vision is hugely useful and applicable to nearly all domains.

2) the creators got spectators to think about the technologies involved, possibly motivating some to learn about them, and undoubtedly teaching a few people about things they didn't know the concepts behind. (computer vision. hell, check the comments on HN, a few of us didn't know how it worked and were thus elucidated.)
We need a Change.

Hacker should never mean a Cracker.

Cracking is illegal and brings a Negative Connotation. The Media still uses & refers Hackers for Crackers too. Why so?

Hacker word should bring a Positive Connotation. Hackers are the change makers: Working on Good & Great things.

There was a Change.org Petition: Asking media Companies NOT to use 'Hacker' when they mean 'Cracker'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838663

What can we do to bring a change? Please share you Ideas. Let's do something.
85~ megs a user huh. I wonder over how many hours. That's a lot of data!
Can it see the heat from a bird in a tree? As someone who birdwatches for a hobby, I wonder how good it is to detect wildlife.
Thanks for bringing this back to the surface. I see that SEPs design has greatly improved since I last visited it. The new looks make for a much more pleasant reading experience, right on par with the excellent content.
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I don't have kids, but I think I would tell them the truth. First, it's difficult to define "smart" as it's a conjunction of many skills. But even for one given skill, you may be the best in your class or your school, but there are likely millions that are much better than you. No need to worry too much where you lie and try to do the best with what you have.

> "Researchers have known for some time that the brain is like a muscle; that the more you use it, the more it grows. They’ve found that neural connections form and deepen most when we make mistakes doing difficult tasks rather than repeatedly having success with easy ones. What this means is that our intelligence is not fixed, and the best way that we can grow our intelligence is to embrace tasks where we might struggle and fail."

I wonder to which extent this is correct. Sure, it would be nice if it was the case. It's a nice myth that anybody can achieve anything with the proper amount of work. I see it all the time in fields such as maths or music. Some people are naturally so much better than others than even a lifetime wouldn't be enough to catch up.
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If you use Mendeley for organising your papers check out KinSync.com. Pretty good for this.
Here's the context after some discussion.

The investor in question is prominent, invests in a lot of companies, and owns let's say 20% of the company. I own a controlling interest in the business as the founder.

I've been out of contact lately with the investor, working on readying a product. The concern was about me as it turns out, due to the lack of communication. I play an integral role in the company and the product is my vision.

The investor had been pretty chill about requiring constant updates, and I got too relaxed about keeping that communication line where it should be. This is something at times I'm bad at, I have a tendency to bury myself in something and not come up for air for a long time.

So the request for source / server access was, in the investor's words, a precaution. Without actually knowing something was wrong, I don't know that it exactly justifies an investor having access to those assets directly, but it sheds light on the thinking. Clearly I need to re-instill confidence there.
I have asked before, how many projects need a distributed version control system? It adds extra complexity to the concepts, and is probably rarely needed. (Distributed, not remote version control, which I can see as being useful).
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you are not a mod, you are however presenting yourself as having the authority of one. Please don't do this.
What's the nature of your website? The reason I ask is, I'm curious as to what sort of website would attract actual 'yes he really physically showed up at someone's door at six a.m.' stalkers as opposed to just the theoretical possibility of such.
Popular where? I think I've heard her name once over the last year and I live in the SF bay area.
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Not browsed. Bought.

Maybe even more importantly, they know which products you returned and why. Public reviews on items are one thing and likely gameable, the direct merchant feedback form remains private between the merchant and the customer. And Amazon, of course, because they mediate the exchange.

For pure marketing purposes that kind of limited view could be quite valuable indeed.

As to what this means for me? More rules in AdBlock, I guess.
The idea has a lot of merit. So for that two thumbs up. But I would much rather see a separate website for it. Using Github feels very strained. Perhaps Github would be willing to help set you up with your own instance of their platform which you could modify to better suit the purpose. Maybe even Project Gutenberg would be interested in participating in that.

BTW, I recently learned the Gutenberg was not his name and is really a significant historical inaccuracy. His name was Hannes Gensfleisch. "Gutenberg" was just one of the places his family resided.
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SO do many of my co-workers.
Sure they did, but not everybody.

There have always been adamant non-smokers just as there have always been convinced smokers.
>Pretty much everything is simple once you learn it.

I wouldn't say so. A lot of things are designed-by-committee implemented-by-the-lowest-bidder messes that are painful and complex even once you know how they work.

Git may have some weird design decisions but for the most part it's well-implemented and follows a simple conceptual model.
Charlie Chaplin’s great speech from 1940, still applicable today
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> but a pure thermodynamics view assumes if you eat an extra 1000 calories that it will be stored as fat, does it not?

Replace "will" by "might", and you're there. Thermodynamics just say the energy must go somewhere, but whether it's your fat cells or your excrements (or maybe some other channel I'm not aware of right now) is a matter of medicine.
There is an excellent podcast by Peter Adamson on the history of philosophy at www.historyofphilosophy.net. I've listened to 100+ episodes already, and have yet to feel disappointed.

A good start would be to listen to all the episodes on ancient philosophy, and then to approach the original texts directly, with particular emphasis on the Platonic dialogues. As Whitehead said, "The safest general characterization of the philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." The Stoics are also very approachable.

In the opinion of my teachers, the pivotal figures in the history of philosophy were Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant. If you master those four, you won't go wrong.
It rapidly evolves into Perl-style readability eventually unfortunately.
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Except that to make a few diagram at the end required a lot of Wolfram code, although the model was very simplistic.

To me (working with complex models for work) I fear that complexity with Wolfram would shoot up to unmanageable levels once you start doing serious work.
Heh. I kind of don't want to spoil it for myself. I certainly don't maintain any suspension of disbelief when it comes to Onion stories, but I do shut off some level of my naturally investigative mind processes when I see a interview pic or background to an infographic. The Onion is too good to spoil the way I've spoiled innumerable other media.
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>On a human level, they're just folks trying to make a living;

In my experience they are pushy, annoying, slimy people, often less than generous with the truth.
I'd love a tool that solves that problem. Schema / data / user / permission migrations, support for both production and development environments and integration with CM tools like ansible would be fantastic.
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Any chance they could use RISC-V in the future?
I hope they get zero applicants. Or someone really shitty.
It doesn't seem too strange to use a scale that corresponds to commonly-encountered heat levels, as perceived - yellow, orange, red, white, blue or something - it's not exactly logical, but people grasp it quickly because it has a familiar analogue. You could use a plain luminosity based presentation, but that's not the way humans have experienced heat for the last 40,000 years. It may not be mathematically perfect, but it's what we've got.
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While we are listing "typographic" languages, Fortress from Sun deserves a mention. Its syntax was designed to be renderable as LaTeX to get nice typography. Here is one small example: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/first-impressions-...

edit: more extensive example: http://imgur.com/a/grrzl (from http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/Teaching/CoursAnnecy/0506-Ma... )
Still completely unnecessary. The editor can display the string minus the escape characters with whatever color, highlighting etc. you like, and still keep the escape characters in the code as stored on disk for the compiler's benefit.

Basically, if you want an editor that displays code with colors and boxes instead of delimiters, that's fine; writing one would be a practical project. It is neither necessary nor desirable to attempt to design a new language, write a new compiler, version control system and half a dozen other ancillary tools at the same time as part of the same project.
I posted this as I find it quite interesting that the three browsers most often mentioned by "hackers"/open web enthusiasts etc are all funded by ad money, either directly or indirectly, and the two that get the most flack are funded by companies that offer them as part of a paid platform (either software or hardware/software)
Governments are slow and stupid.

Also they got the weaponry from the Iraqi army, who were given it by the US.
Within five years, the iPhone 10 or so will probably have heat sensors (and many others) built in!
Only because there weren't that many people in the vicinity! A large portion of those who did have the misfortune to be there got killed, though; estimates are that about 15-25% of the Irish population was killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Irelan...
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.. Yeah, to any destination. You just need to enter the place name (street address, region or city) and tap Create Travel Guide. Veu (that's the name of the app) will give you place suggestions. Also included are directions for every place, phone numbers and many other info. It has an availability of 27 million places.
Veu is free and you can download it from this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veu-city-explorer/id648861758?l=it&ls=1&mt=8&at=10l7qw
That doesn't sound right. Neutron stars vary by no more than a factor of two in mass; that's not enough to account for six orders of magnitude variation in height of highest mountains.
> Perhaps Github would be willing to help set you up with your own instance of their platform which you could modify to better suit the purpose.

Alternatively, you could use, and customize, an open-source self-hostable alternative, such as gitorious https://gitorious.org/gitorious

> BTW, I recently learned the Gutenberg was not his name and is really a significant historical inaccuracy.

Do you have any source for this fact that Gutenberg wasn't using "Gutenberg" as his last name?
You make that sound like a bad thing, but as a driver I'd be happy if I could get this data. I want driving to be safer too :-)
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I am so so sick of this stupid hacker word. To me, hacker means immature loser who would rather piss around breaking some cheap commercial software to impress his naive peers than create something truly great with contemporary technology.
Its a word to describe the feeble minded. Don't think so ? Go to a hacker convention. Fat kids in black tshirts smoking pot. Small minded people. The mcdonalds of innovation. Of course they try to rubber stamp every tech icon in the forehead with their tag. Fuck off, pretty please.
This is really cool, but ultimately not that practical because it doesn't display the zipcode boundaries.

If it were integrated with zipcode boundary information as this [ http://www.usnaviguide.com/zip.htm ] site does with google maps, it would be pretty awesome.
One might think that the financial companies' reliance on their IT infrastructure would translate into some real influence and authority for IT staff. But it doesn't.

At Morgan Stanley, for example, no one on the operating committee is focused on technology. I would have expected at least a CTO, but no, nothing.

http://www.morganstanley.com/about/company/governance/operat...
It's false, Madagascar will be safe.
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Good points. The code is indeed only intended to be used as a client.
I've mirrored the terminology used in the Memcached protocol specification, but now that you bring it up, it's true the word "packet" can be confusing.
Well, consider that Sullivan has a reader base of tens or hundreds of thousands. So while it is hard to impossible for any one reader to be able to know or determine the location of a particular VFYW shot, among all of his readers there is very likely at least one and probably a handful who do recognize it right away.
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Along the lines of some things I have proposed before like in this post http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4998 or this one http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3033 (need to read most of my comments in there to get to the details of the idea).
It's not just Silicon Valley. More and more employers see employees as an unnecessary cost. Even though they would crash and burn without them. A lot of people are pretty delusional in the current business world.
There's a nice video interview with the designer of this font that explains the purpose of the font better than the official website

http://vimeo.com/103907391 (3 mins long)
If you read the end of the article you saw large amounts of construction around the training camp.
Knowledge is the grasp of the facts of reality.

Most of the ideas produced by Socrates / Plato / Aristotle were in fact wrong. They are not a good primer on epistemology, concepts, percepts, metaphysics or anything else. They're a good primer on the history of philosophy.

They inspired incredible progress on thinking and understanding, but they were wrong more often than they were right, and are a poor reference to understanding what knowledge is.
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I think maybe (it's been a while) the generators in Icon[0] do something similar, i.e. cause implicit iteration in the surrounding code.

Also, don't like the mascot character so much.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_%28programming_language%29
I don't think we can ever salvage the old meaning of the word. Hacker mostly means "computer criminal" now. That is literally what official dictionaries define it as: "a person who hacks into a computer system" [1].

But that's just the mainstream. We know what hackers really are, because we are hackers. It's like a password. If you know what hacker really means, you probably are one.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker
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I know that the Goto isn't necessary but I believe that the implementor demonstrated Gotos exactly to prove that even that can be done in Haskell. The "decent" constructs were probably easier to implement in Haskell.

I'm personally honestly totally impressed with what the author did because I've learned a lot, not actually using Haskell myself. It's a good demonstration of what is possible, especially when the generated code is shown. I'm one of those that only care for performance, and according to one comment the generated code seem to be even better than the one produced by idiomatic Haskell:

"Don Stewart said...

And the assembly we get from GHC with just the obvious recursive implementation in Haskell,

go:
comisd .LC0(%rip), %xmm5
jb .L4
movapd %xmm6, %xmm5
jmp *(%rbp)
.L4:
movsd .LC1(%rip), %xmm0
movapd %xmm0, %xmm7
divsd %xmm5, %xmm7
addsd %xmm0, %xmm5
addsd %xmm7, %xmm6
jmp go

"

The one made from the Basic source by Haskell as cited by the article author is obviously better:

LBB1_1: ## _L4
movsd LCPI1_0, %xmm2
movapd %xmm1, %xmm3
addsd %xmm2, %xmm3
ucomisd LCPI1_1, %xmm3
divsd %xmm1, %xmm2
addsd %xmm2, %xmm0
movapd %xmm3, %xmm1
jne LBB1_1 ## _L4

So it seems using Basic idioms in Haskell is still a bit more effective than using the Haskell idioms in Haskell. Or more poignantly "the spaghetti code in Haskell is faster than the idiomatic Haskell." That was the starting point of my former comment.

I'd still welcome the comments from the language implementors.
Please explain how superuser2's argument is undermined by that.
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I think you've lost track of the big picture here. Measuring against the goal of weight loss is the point. In absolute terms it's a terribly inaccurate way of finding calorie use, but in diet-management terms it's perfectly sufficient. Despite a multi-pound margin of error, given several weeks of data you'll have more accurate information on net calories than on income.
If you try to mass scrape almost any major site (millions of pages of content) they'll block you.

For example, if you went one by one through Stack Overflow and sucked out every question and answer, your scraper bot would get banned (unless you're doing one request per minute, in which case you'll never finish).

Or if you tried to scrape Twitter.
The style of visualisation is indeed configurable within their app, as noted in Wired's review:

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/a-review-of-the-iphone-infrared...

There are, apparently, also third-party apps available.
I also found it to be incredibly fair in treatment to what is ultimately an extremely varied and vast base of ideas, philosophies and philosophers. A difficult balancing act indeed.
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SBCL doesn't currently have whole-program optimization. Its focus has been on standard Common Lisp, which is quite dynamic and can't make the kind of closed-world assumption used by whole-program optimization (i.e. we know the entire program at compile-time). It has quite a lot of optimizations, but they operate function-at-a-time.

Its predecessor, CMUCL, did have a mode called "block compilation" that has some similarities: http://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/doc/cmu-user/compiler-h.... It isn't currently present in SBCL; it was axed as part of the CMUCL->SBCL cleanup. I've occasionally heard suggestions of adding similar functionality to SBCL, but I'm not sure there's any active work on it.
It's gone, do anyone have a copy?
Is there something inherently wrong with fat people in black t-shirts that makes you think they're feeble minded?
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Please - don't hold your phone while driving. It's incredibly dangerous for you and other people on the road.

If you absolutely have to interact with your phone while also steering a couple of tonnes of metal around, please spend a couple of bucks on a dashboard holder.
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I agree with this (the second part). You HAVE to somehow make that string a string. So maybe you will only hit one key rather than 2 (quote, and quote again), but honestly you have macros that allow you to hit it only once.

I think one big part of all of this is speed of execution: both maximum speed, but also the learning curve. And I'm not at all sure that we can do better than typing text. Hell we've been trying to get rid of the keyboard for years, and yet nothing is faster than a VIM ninja
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It will look like this https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
Pick one: either it is a cheesy gimmick or it makes the sensor vastly more useful. Those are pretty much opposites, it can't be both.
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Haven't been to San Francisco. So I can only give you my view of Amsterdam. And it's pretty disappointing for software engineers.

Basically, web development and mobile are king. And not in the good way. Both startups and bigger companies are focused on it. So if you're not into them, you will have a tough time finding a job. There are some engineering jobs too. But they are usually for support purposes. Banking, automotive, industrial etc. You work on software that supports another product. And you're basically non-essential personnel.

The startup scene is not very impressive. A small hub, an accelerator once a year and some meetups (mostly web dev). However, you will find plenty of coworking spaces. And there aren't many software companies either. Amsterdam is a small city. You will easily finish going through all of them in a couple of days.

When it comes to expats, Amsterdam is a city of self-employment. You either do some freelancing, work a low-paying job in hospitality or work on your startup. There are some expats with higher paying jobs. But they are the lucky ones. It takes a while until you find something. There are plenty of expats and dutch people looking for a job. And layoffs have become a common occurrence since the crisis finally hit the Netherlands. So trying to find something will be pretty hard.

So if you want to move, bring cash. You're going to need it.
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Am I completely wrong in thinking that this isn't really e.g. "removing delimeters", but effectively changing the delimeters into invisible markup?.. It seems to me kind of an arbitrary distinction whether the way you represent a string to a compiler is with quotes or markup that renders a green box.

As far as the concatenation thing surely that's solvable by a grammar that interprets a single line list of expressions as an implicit concatenation. It doesn't seem like something that requires a particularly smart compiler - or a new IDE. Maybe I'm overlooking something inherently hard about the problem though.
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I am skeptical, it is yet another level of indirection. You write ascii code with control sequences that is compiled to this semi graphical representation, and then that is compiled to running code. You can't write the semi graphical code directly anyway.

It would make more sense is with a custom keyboard perhaps, like apl.
I too have personally had the best luck with 1.5 lbs - 2 lbs per week. The proper caloric deficit to achieve those weight loss amounts per week, along with a 25% carbohydrate, 47% protein, and 28% fat diet has allowed me to lose mostly fat with very little muscle.

With my body at least, it seems that the difference between 2 lbs per week and 3-4 lbs per week is huge in terms of how much muscle is kept during the fat loss process.

If you're already hugely overweight than of course it doesn't matter and fast weight loss should be expected.
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The best way I know is to open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat and export to HTML. Then convert the HTML to epub or mobi in e-calibre.