skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aristotelian distinction between essential and accidental properties is probably what yr thinking about here, but that's not really the same distinction as the one between data and metadata.
On most countries EULAS are void.
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That's great, until you hit the maximum number of invitations sent (3,000) and maximum connections (30,000).

So then what -- your LinkedIn profile is jammed with a bunch of people you're marginally related to for your professional network, which isn't going to be particularly useful to you.
I believe that back then, people thought thin clients would dominate because they didn't expect the price and size of a "real computer" to become so affordable and compact.

So, it wasn't because they thought the thin client approach was better, it was just the only realistic future they could see given the cost and size of computers at the time.
> I've heard Microsoft built a new real-time telemetry system codenamed "Asimov" (yes, another Halo-influenced codename)

[long, drawn-out sigh] No amount of head-shaking or facepalming will suffice here.
"It feels like sooner or later, big companies will have all the hardware and software hosted on their side and people will only get access to play it according to companies rules."

I agree. The "PC revolution" has gone into full reverse. It's the revenge of the mainframe and the whole mentality behind it.

There's many reasons for this, but the biggest one I think is piracy and the general mentality that "everything should be free" (as in beer). The problem is that nothing is free. Everything costs money. Really polished software costs a lot of money.

So far three strategies for dealing with this misalignment have emerged:

(1) Push everything back to the mainframe and return the user to serfdom.

(2) Create completely jailed devices (iOS, jailed Android deployments) linked to completely closed app stores and use cryptography to effectively achieve #1 without having to offload all computation.

(3) Create "free" products and services for which the user is the product -- this is the surveillance and manipulation business model of sites like Facebook.

I've come to believe that free is actually the enemy of freedom, and that the "pirate party" crowd is worse than wrong. What they're promoting is actively pushing us toward a radically less free world. The "everything should be free" ideology creates a complete decoupling between the user and the economics of software and content creation -- so now the only viable business models are either serfdom or exploitation.

In a sense free places the user in the ultimate position of disempowerment. Since you're not paying there is no reason anyone should care about you or your needs/preferences. It works for content too. In a world where people pay for music, music is made for you. In a world where nobody pays for music, it has to be made for someone else. I envision a future where pretty much all non-hobbyist / starving artist music is made at the behest of advertisers or political propagandists. It's all full of either product placements or messages crafted to get you to vote or think a certain way, and it has negative artistic integrity.
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Is that actually the case now? (that the rate is increasing).
Not aggressive taxation, but here's some anti-inequality justification: states that have recently raised minimum wages have also seen greater gains in employment.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/2014-job-creat...
Because economics as a system has a band in which it operates. Outside of that, the system fails.
The marginal utility of a tax dollar is greater to someone who makes less than I do than it is to me.

EDIT: s/value/utility/
One big reason is that people who don't have much money tend to spend what they have. The very rich tend to invest their money, frequently overseas. So by redistributing wealth you give a direct boost to the economy by transferring money from people who won't spend it to people who do.

Taxation in the States is at an all time low, and a handful of decades ago the US has much higher taxes at the top and much bigger growth. So there's also plenty of historical evidence supporting the case for redistribution.

There are also a number of moral arguments (which I think are much stronger).
Sorry to be slow to notice this and to reply.

First, I think Geiser is wonderful and you made a great choice.

For whatever reason, as a Racket beginner some years ago Geiser just didn't "click" for me, and scheme-mode seemed to have a lot of stuff that was confusingly N/A for Racket.

Part of the motivation is I think Racket deserves a mode dedicated to it, these days, for those who may prefer that.

Although partly that's about perception, it also means freedom to do Racket-only things.

For example racket-mode has commands to tidy or trim `require`s, or even to convert a file from `#lang racket` to `#lang racket/base`, adjusting the requires as needed. It's OK to add things like this without considering and implementing whatever the analog, if any, is in Guile Scheme (which Geiser also supports).

Or more basically, racket-mode has an obvious way to "run" your program in a predictable way, much like DrRacket.
This is silly. SSL is supposed to be a secure conversation between the website and the end user. No one else is between. Encouraging these things is detrimental to internet.

In fact, I would go ahead and say:
* Make browser self-signed certs less scarier
* Make users more accustomed and knowledgable of self-signed certs.

Browser vendors and corporations need to work together to make the above happen.
There's also the small issue whereby DNS MITM completely bypasses all of CloudFlare's protection...

And no, DNSSEC won't help here:

https://twitter.com/taoeffect/status/516650413987467266
This problem exists with Bayesian techniques also, its just more obvious how to set up the problem.
Gaps are 2^n-2^(n-1) = 2^(n-1)*(2-1) = 2^(n-1)

So yeah, the gaps are just powers of 2.
Yep. Absolutely wretched: http://shield.nvidia.com/play-pc-games/
For whatever reason Krugman chose to highlight the article by MacDonald. The part of the article that had the most impact was bringing attention of Michael Harrington's book, "The Other America" to President Kennedy. That book, for better or worse was largely the impetus for LBJ's Great Society.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Fair enough.
I think it's a misunderstanding, it only has to "constitute an expression of humour or mockery". It seems to me that this means that it doesn't have to be actually funny as long as it was genuinely intended to be funny.
Yes, just like Yelp
And then H.264 artifacts probably undo that color correction.
Let me reframe your question. What is the economic justification of deficit exploding tax-cuts? http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-debt-outlo...

Generally speaking, though, I don't think most of us who are concerned about inequality think that our tax system is the only, or even the most important, thing that needs to be addressed. The fact that I could work 40 hour weeks and still be eligible for food assistance, Medicaid, and other poverty bandaids tells me that we don't properly value work in this country... and that's a cultural problem.
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Yeah how's that work? In the US any terms made after money is tendered are void. This was done to avoid someone adding terms to a contract on delivery. SO is it true for software too? What about electronic download?
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They should fix the Incognito message then. Check to see if the search-as-you-type feature is on, then include the default search provider in the list of people who can see your data.
Interesting - so it's Adobe's Photoshop on a VPC, but is only for Windows/Chrome.

Remote storage of your designs/files, remote execution, like manipulating via remote desktop/VNC, but hopefully more usable.

My two concerns would be a) privacy of data and b) upload/download costs/time - some of the files involved can be huge.
Does copyright really mean much if all the software is GNU? Do they both share the same source of funding? How much is spent on political activities (that openbsd does not engage in)?
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If anything the problem may be increased today. E.g. IBM in 1960 had around 100k employees, and today has around 430k. The distance between a "line" employee and executive team has to have increased with that scale up of employee count. Communications technology has helped somewhat, but I wonder if large companies might be paying a scaling toll.
> The exams can be used for placement purposes; however, they aren't really that necessary considering that prerequisites are very loosely enforced.

That may be the difference, then. At both my public universities, prerequisites were rigorously enforced.
lot of saas companies offer metadata & other common metrics, as an addon to their main offering. such as crittercism, testflight, bugsense, crashlytics and helpshift.

i've headed analytics/targeting at a yc company in the past before mixpanel, flurry were in the market, and saw first-hand how portability/dumps of the data made a big difference as you grow - something that not all analytics saas companies provide.

disclosure: i work @helpshift and we have several customers who may have 100M+ data points/week but we dont price based on data points. we give the basic active, engagement and session metrics like amazon, and search/faq metrics within our sdk. slice-n-dice reports based on custom events are coming soon.

but our pricing is aligned around in-app customer support & active users. we dont track/charge for metadata, breadcrumbs and you can tie as much data to an issue/user (much like Parse out-of-box). most of our users have several sdk's and we're fine with that too.

that said, i see a lot of value in heap/keen/segment that make it less important where/how the data is and let you focus on what insight to surface
If you are just looking for a solution, DLX is already absurdly fast. Granted, as N grows exceptionally large, it may be that it is also absurdly memory hungry. :)

Also note, that it isn't even the best algorithm around. Just pretty good.
Do mean besides the hoards of research linking larger income inequality to lower growth:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2014/sdn1402.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/upshot/alarm-on-income-ine...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00142921950...

Not to mention the marginal value of dollars to the hyper rich is substantially lower.

The wealth/income distribution we have now looks very different than it did even 10 years ago, so it is worth discussing as a society what the 'correct' distribution should be. Hedge fund managers now are no better than the managers of 10-20 years ago, the system has evolved to favor them more.

We can argue about whether they 'deserve' said wealth, but research shows that the wealthy need a given dollars less than the impoverished and growth can benefit when the distribution is more equal as well.
This is the agency behind the site - http://www.webeventsglobal.com
Circle opens its global Bitcoin service to the public
Apple iPhone 6 Plus Bent By Teenagers At Apple Store
Using Maven to Push to Cloud Foundry with Java 8
On the flip side, you can consider that traditional proprietary software installs usually have full access to read and modify your system, often in ways you don't expect or wouldn't consent to. Running in a virtualized environment in a browser significantly reduces access to your system. So if you run a free software local install with proprietary programs running in a jailed browser environment, you are probably more secure than you would be if you had installed them locally.
More info about the Common Parts Library is available here, http://octopart.com/common-parts-library/about
Yeah, low-latency streaming using x264 was solved in 2010. http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/249
Oh, all right, I'll bite. Here's two.

1) In a society whose economy is driven by sales of consumer goods, having wealth spread more broadly results in greater sales of consumer goods, which means more economic activity and a higher standard of living for everybody. (Concentrating wealth in a small strata of very wealthy people doesn't have the same effect, because once people get past a certain level of wealth they don't spend money they earn beyond that on consumer goods; they put it in the bank or the stock market.)

2) You've heard of the Bastille, I assume?
Is it worth filing radars with CVE references to put some pressure on this?
That's what I've heard. It just seems weird that given the glut of VC money these days, they'd have to resort to skulduggery to raise capital for a Sure Thing™.
IS it possible that there is a localized virtual machine setup and the image itself is what is streamed over the network? IE you would have a locally installed version of linux on a virtual machine and an additional drive is essentially steamed over the network via SMB os something that contains the PS application?
As the article goes on to note:

"One of my contacts said Asimov is a system that the Xbox team originally built and used during its development process."

I don't see why you'd need to facepalm the Xbox team using a codename from the Halo series, or why it's so headshaking that the larger Windows team would adopt a tool from the Xbox team they found useful.
It works in all countries with credit/debit cards (although some countries are reporting problems; argentina). Non-USA cards will be charged a 2.9% fee from VISA & Mastercard. Some cards appear not to work, some people are reporting Visa doesn't work but their mastercard does and visa versa.

Prepaid cards, atleast when I tried them, don't work.
Here is the link to the actual video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9U-NmsgCO8
I would agree that most AP CS students come from a background of CS. It was certainly less common for students in my high school (a private college-prep school) to randomly pick up AP CS to look good on their transcripts. Most had already an interest and experience.

I think there are two types of CS students, which are quite often reflective of preferred learning styles and life schemas: those who are far more intuitive learners, and grow and retain knowledge through doing (experience and practice); and those who need the rules laid out, so that they may digest them, incorporate them into their operational styles, and then figure out how to use them, push them to their limits, and break them. Both of these types of students possess the ability to operate from a place of creativity, but some have yet to develop gut intuition, and feel safer and more confident starting from a place of concreteness, and from there, launching into a more nebulous space.

I applaud the author for innovating the CS (and AP CS) curricula and teaching methodology. I think that it may very well prove more functional and effective for many students.
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ChromeOS is gentoo linux. I consider this a Photoshop port. :-)
Well, one of the main time-wasting activities of school, anyway. Filling out paperwork. Kind of like lamenting the passing of handwriting, or slide rules.
If they wanted to test they should have mined on testnet.
Which doesn't exclude the value of a Stanford degree.
Justification here:

“a more vibrant middle class… increased long-run economic growth.”

http://www.academia.edu/248659/Does_Income_Distribution_Affe...
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There is tremendous range in what a "shell script" might be. I vastly prefer bash to sh as a user shell. Often times, I have bits of logic I express in a command that I want to capture and reuse, and they get grabbed and dropped in a (frequently context specific) bin directory. I would contend that these "save me from typing it out" shell scripts should mimic what I would type myself. Once they wind up being more general, I usually rewrite them in a different language entirely. That's a very different context than something like an init script, though.
That use of NAT can trivially be replaced by an everything-out nothing-in firewall.
And I think it has a strong sell for just that - It has good features now, I just want MORE features. I'm hoping this is just the start of something bigger.
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If someone can't link me to the actual scientific publications, or at least patent applications, involved in this latest claim to have built a commercialized AGI, I have to call bullshit.
Exactly, I'm looking forward to what students will spend their time on instead. Hopefully much more productive activities.
What I would like to see from developer point of view, would be a WinRT version of the OS, using .NET Native while trying to fulfil the Longhorn vision.

Lets see what really comes out.
... [that lets the OS team see in near real-time what's happening on users' machines.] ... so this "near" is network latency?
Ask HN: Want to stop recruiter spam?
I get too much recruiter spam. But I don’t hit the spam button, because I might be interested in a few decent personal recruiting messages one day. A lot of developers think this way.

We need a specialized collaborative filter, which everyone contributes and benefits from, that I can switch on and off when I want.

Would you use one?

I think it’s a fascinating idea for my next OS side project, but it only makes sense if enough people want to use it. If you might want to use it to protect your inbox from recruiter spam, let me know. I put up a LaunchRock form at https://recruiterham.joshuafox.com to measure the interest. If you sign up, I'll let you know how it goes.

And please let me know in the comments what you think about the idea.
Not sure where you think I am disagreeing that large problems are large. Consider, how long will it take for you to find the smallest of 10^99999 numbers?

And again, I was probably just overly reacting to the term heuristic. That is usually used when it is implied you can't guess on the final outcome somehow. At least, that is how I typically read it. So yeah, odds are I'm just wrong. :)
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Just plain stupid if you ask me.
If you want to use LinkedIn not as it is supposed to be used (as your personal business directory) and want to impress with lots of LinkedIn connections, you can buy them:
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Neat project. ;)
A standard deviation on IQ tests is 15 points. A 6-10 point improvement from the median represents a jump of 15.5 - 24.75 percentile rank. Even at the level MENSA is looking at, someone with a 10 point improvement could have a "true IQ" at just above the 95th percentile and qualify for their 98th percentile cutoff.
Um... the effort I had to take to patch my linux boxes was: Do nothing. (security fixes had been released and installed before I learned of the bug).

The effort I'll have to take to patch my Mac is:

* Download a new bash.

* recompile it

* install it by hand.

(and this is assuming I already have xcode/developer tools installed).

Not quite the same level of effort.

Is the article wildy off topic? Not really - its an article about yet another instance of Apple ignoring security issues, why wouldn't a previous example be relevant?
correlation not causation. this flies in the face of econ 101. if a company has $100 budget and pay min wage of $8/hr they can have 12 employees. you raise min wage to $12/hr? they can only hire 8 people. you make human capital more expensive? more incentive to automate
Pretty awesome! I like it.
Oh thank you for the context; i've misunderstood what you have said than; i thought you were joking about a "fruit fly kernel" not being a proper kernel to replace the linux kernel, with some sarcasm added to it

Sorry, stupidity mine
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And even if the country isn't broke, the principle still stands; if you put the tax burden on those who can least afford it, they pay it by cutting back on what they spend on consumer goods and services, which slows the overall performance of the economy.
Polymorphic functions exist in many languages: pay(invoice, anAmount), reschedule(appointment, aDate). Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Erlang.. They all can do that. If the function can dispatch on the first parameter given, they become equivalent to the object oriented syntax. But many languages go one step further and let you dispatch on any of the arguments, or a combination of them and so on.
I assume OP is referring to the fact that the name Asimov isn't well known for being part of Halo. At least, I hope the writer would be considered more popular.
Another item to take note of is Google's EOL policy for Chromebooks[1]. Assuming the institution depreciates it's assets on a 5-year period, this compares well with, say, a Windows PC/laptop - at the end of the period, the device would have minimal value (as it would no longer get updates). Add in the management fee, and you might favorably offset the cost of having your own WSUS and administrator.

[1] http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/eol.html
Can somebody explain to me 1) why SSL certificats are so expensive 2) Why do they have to expire?
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> In IntelliJ at least, Scala "just works" out of the box

Not for Android, unfortunately.

There are plugin issues and it doesn't cooperate with Gradle all that great. I admit that I wasn't able to set it up :) okay, I wasn't hellbent on it and didn't try for days, but it was a bummer.

Otherwise I'd be using Scala gladly - after all, you can write Scala for living, while I don't expect Kotlin to appear in job ads anytime soon.
absolutely all high-aptitude. my thinking there, fwiw, is that making something high-aptitude students like is the only way to build something that less-inclined students like.

their prior programming experience varied, though there's certainly bias in who would sign up for coding tutoring (free or paid.)

all were comfortable using computers, and they'd seen code before. about half had gone through a Girls Who Code summer program (http://girlswhocode.com/programs/), which is designed, i think, to overview technologies more than drill concepts. they all had computers had home (about 50-50 windows/mac) with new-ish chrome or safari.

i only had one student take the multiple choice questions; he would have gotten a 3 or 4 on that part. he's coming off SAT prep and is good at taking standardized tests; he was weakest on the test's particulars ("how many bytes in an int?") i spent very little time on those sorts of questions; my view is that a motivated student who can understands how computers think will learn those particulars if s/he wants a 5. and for those who don't, there's google and stackoverflow.

i asked students to answer old free-response questions in the editor that's shown in the fizzbuzz video. that worked really well; with the help of the compiler, they were able to ace those questions. (i know you don't get a compiler on test day, but it seems silly to cripple them when learning.)

sometimes i tutored in person; other times, i did so over google hangout. either way, i was working one-on-one with a student, and it was painfully clear when s/he was confused, whether it was over a CS concept or a tool i'd introduced. tutoring also meant it was my responsibility to "fix it", and i think that explains a lot of why i cut 160 classroom hours to 20 tutoring hours.
Isn't moral imperative good enough?
Found it in my history:

http://www.getormr.com/

This is why creating a good name for your startup is important. I would have never associated ormr to Image Editor at ALL.