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> Both farmer and mechanic starve and then the automated systems make neither corn nor tractor while the capital owner wonders why no one is buying.

I don't think your math works out. If a tractor is worth more in the market than the corn then the mechanic is better off to sell the tractor and buy corn in the market than trade with the farmer, and vice versa if the corn is worth more in the market than the tractor. Making the trade only makes sense if the tractor and the corn have the same market value, but in that case they could both just as easily sell to the market rather than bartering.

Automation is only a problem when it lowers the price of the things you're selling but not the price of the things you're buying.
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So just let me just get this right...

You believe that an article that describes both sides' claims without judging either is "harassment" and that instead of something that "can be used [...] against either side" we should be looking at articles and authors that are directly and openly associated with Kotaku/Gawker or Polygon/Vox for a more "even-handed" look?

Is that correct?
That FAQ entry is out-of-date as it doesn't mention the write-ahead logging support.

https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
> It sure is interesting that while Firestone has hazmat suits intended for dealing with chemical spills, that infected nurse in Spain [3] says the blame goes to her Level 2 biosafety suit since it wasn't the preferred Level 4. Please correct me if I'm wrong ... I get the sense Firestone's suits aren't comparable to Level 4.

As unfortunate as it is, it's more likely that the Spanish nurse was infected while removing her PPE.

Removing contaminated PPE is a non-trivial process. It requires practice, strict attention to detail, and ideally an equally trained buddy watching you while you're doing it. From what I've read, it sounds like they were just given 10 minutes of training.

Which isn't to say that better equipment and a proper decon shower wouldn't have helped. But the training is just as important as the equipment.
Even worse the format of article was just unbearable. Such a long article with distracting background and in your face giant images. My reaction was to keep scrolling to get gist of it and in about 20 seconds I lost interest and moved on to see comments on HN to get summary. Now I get it that it's hand gesture device but I already have a feel that article was marketing piece so let's move on.
Which, as a geek, I find superconfusing and generally insane. I wish cooking was treated as chemistry (which it de facto is) and at least used precise units and proper measuring tools.
> Ultimately I´d hope that we raise kids that can listen to themselves as much as others

This is about toddlers, not angsty youths fighting for independence from adults. Toddlers are entirely dependent on adults for their survival and require 24/7 supervision so being capable of listening to adults can be essential for their health and well being. Like staying away from pets, dangerous things on the ground and around the house. Most people have few if any memories of being a toddler. If you think a toddler should listen to themselves or disregard adults you haven't been around many toddlers. They eat dirt. They pull cat tails. They hit other kids in the head with toys. They have to have child locks in cars. They aren't making good decisions yet.

> guarding themselves from whatever neuroses the adults around them have picked up.

Yes adults are all horrible and flawed in some way, terrors to children everywhere. Always ruining their kids' lives. Forget about all those many years they spend laughing, worrying, working and working to ensure the well being of their child. All adults do is inflict emotional harm and poison the child's natural state of innocence, wonder and internal happiness that would last for eternity if only their parents weren't such terrible people.
From my understanding, all the capital (money) and other assets (equipment etc) all belong to Apple, where Apple isn't just "a group of people", but is an entity in itself.

To make it clearer, if apple has $150 Billion cash lying around, none of the stockholders can just withdraw some of it, or even their percentage share of it. What they can do is sell their "share", where the share itself can be considered a separate object that is less related to the company's assets, and more concerned with the market's perception of the company. To illustrate the last point, suppose all of Apple's stockholders suddenly decide to sell their shares. The market would be flooded by sell orders and the price of the shares would begin to plummet, even though there has been absolutely no change in the company's assets. The price drops simply because apparently no one wants to own the share. Similarly when a lot of people want to own it, the price rises. (yes, this is an over simplification)

When you buy a share, you aren't buying a percentage of the company's assets, you are buying:

- a stream of future dividends.
- A sell-able "share" which you may hope to sell at profit in the future.
What about the common man that has nothing for breakfast?
A maximum of 5 years can be restored to the patent.

In all cases, the total patent life for the product with the patent extension cannot exceed 14 years from the product’s approval date, or in other words, 14 years of potential marketing time. I

f the patent life of the product after approval has 14 or more years, the product would not be eligible for patent extension.

all regulatory periods are divided into a testing phase and an agency approval phase. The regulatory review period that occurs after the patent to be extended was issued is eligible to be counted towards the following calculation:

First, each phase of the regulatory review period is reduced by any time that the applicant did act not act with due diligence during that phase. The reduction in time would only occur after an FDA finding that the company did not act with due diligence.

Second, after any such reduction, one-half of the time remaining in the testing phase would be added to the time remaining in the approval phase to comprise the total period eligible for extension.

Third, all of the eligible period can be counted unless to do so would result in a total remaining patent term from the date of approval of a marketing application of more than fourteen years. An additional limitation on the period of extension is that the extension cannot exceed five years. For example, if an approved drug product which is eligible for the maximum of five years of extension had ten years of original patent term left at the end of its regulatory review period, then only four of the five years could be counted towards extension. The Patent Trademark Office is responsible for determining the period of extension.

you can read more here - http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/SmallBus...
GoPro's advantage is it's technical specs (although they are pretty good, especially in the 4). It's the form factor. It's been designed to be easy to mount on things like helmets, boards, quadcopters, etc. A small handheld camera is not going to take much market share from GoPro.
I heard that Carrot includes beta-carotene. I think I'll wait for it to get out of beta.
Italian breakfast usually is made of:

* a bowl of cereals, or

* a glass of milk, cookies, jam, or

* croissant/pastry, coffee/cappuccino.
Do you want to be a professor? Or do you just want to be able to call yourself "Dr."? Don't do a PhD unless you really want the experience or need the credential. You can certainly do research (write a book maybe?) without locking yourself into academia.
Many people would find the argument against systemd and the like stronger if you did not include personal attacks on Poettering.

Postel said it best. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122

be liberal in what you accept, and generous in what you send.
> how these monies will be collected

Taxation.

> what rationale there is for distributing it (other than the implicit acknowledgement that the alternative is civil unrest)

A basic income removes the need for a long list of bureaucratic social programs like social security, food stamps, housing assistance, pell grants, etc. etc. It's the free market solution for social welfare programs. You allow individuals to decide what they need rather than having the government decide from the office of central planning.

It also eliminates means testing much to the benefit of the middle class (and simplicity and economic efficiency).

> why it won't be inflationary

Inflation comes from increasing the money supply faster than the size of the economy increases. Inflation would only occur if the money paid out was newly printed. When it comes from taxation the amount of money in circulation is unchanged, only the parties holding it change.
This is exactly the terrible part of the community the OP talks about. Lennart while not being perfect, as no human is, tries to improve the lives of ordinary linux users. Comparing him to a misogynistic nazi like weev is unfair, and you should know that.

You are forgetting this is free software, you are free not to use it, just as much as you are. If you don't like systemd or pulseaudio then don't put it on your system. Sure there is a cost associated with going down that road.

Your post deserves down votes, because there is nothing enlightened or constructive about it.

You don't even bother to discuss why JACK is better than pulse audio and for which usecase. Mark Shuttleworth is introducing more fragmentation and papercuts than Lennart ever could e.g. Wayland vs Mir or the entire reason SystemD even exists and we are not all using upstart.

Lennart's audio work led to audio on Linux systems just work for the average user.

I expect that SystemD will advance server maintenance as much if not more.

All in all you sound like a fan of the Opera who is upset because someone invented the Muscial. Irrational and silly.
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Too bad the app can't be installed when you are living in Belgium from the Google Play Store(i don't see a valid reason)
They are not at all similar.
Meanwhile in Europe LEDs cost at least 4x time more that the equivalent incandescent bulb did.
A while back I created a toy IRC bot that answers questions like this just by searching reddit and taking the top comment. It works surprisingly well for questions that are likely to have been asked before. And when it does work, the result is much better than a dry wikipedia excerpt.

I then added some simple machine learning to filter search results for the most relevant threads which improved it quite a bit.
Very nice. I clicked to try entering a recipe, went straight to a page and quite liked the experience from there. I would rather "1 teaspoon" stayed on the left of "newt eyes" than the right, but I like that they are styled differently.
Let me get this straight, you don't feel bad about owing Walmart $10, because they factor that loss into their business model, and expect it to occur?

Well, you should care, because they factor it in by increasing prices for consumers. You're just getting everyone else that shops at Walmart to cover your debt. That's irresponsible, and I see no difference between owing Walmart $10 and owing your friend $10.
Google Now tells me the population of New York city, which is probably what most people want to know. If I wanted to know New York state I ask it again what is the population of New York state and it tells me. This is far better than every single query for what's the population of of New York asking to clarify if you mean city or state IMHO.
I think there's a decent amount of latent interest in the environment in general and birds in particular since they are probably the most visible. The hard part is getting from somewhat interested to quite interested - that would make a big difference in environment issues - but that's hard to do unless you find out about local birds clubs, etc. which are really targeted at the serious/obsessed birder. Cornell do a reasonable job of engaging people's interest and the data available on eBird should help.

eBird adoption is growing here in Portugal - the main advantage is the moderation which is useful in keeping out the, shall we say, less reliable observations. As a result we see a decline in the use of other databases as people move to eBird.

I use the eBird API for www.birdinglisboa.com which provides a news service for birders in the Lisbon area.</shameless plug>
"The problem is in the US most of the bad ones don't end up getting a CS degree where in India they do."

There are plenty in the US that have a CS degree and aren't good at programming. It isn't a magic ticket to knowledge.
we still are - plenty of startups don't even start making money before they're acquired.
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I'm in the Seattle area. I might get down to SF in a bit for my job, though.
Or just structure your time differently, work really hard for 2 days. Take a day off, work a half day the next and work a normal day.

There are gains from working in long shifts, but if it's done everyday they completely disappear and turn negative.
I tried the Language Identification service (http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/liddemo.html), put in Vietnamese from wikipedia and "en-US" returned.

I did sign up. Note that in incognito mode, I have access to that link. I am guessing others do too.
which site ?
Really a nice iniative
I am also from Bangalore. To cater for varied tastes of my siblings, my mother is following a timetable for morning breakfast in which nothing repeats in a month except for Idli and Dosa(which are there once in a week),
Couldn't you reuse a disposable number given some time interval?
Cannot click the footer links, it keep pulling more data and pushing it down. Was trying to get to about, faq etc.
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Are there no alternative currencies in Venezuela (like the Palma in Brazil)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Palmas
Great. I thought my Belkin router croaked the other day, so I'm already out of $200+ for a new router plus overnight delivery. I was going to return it when I saw the old one was working again, but after reading this I'm getting rid of the Belkin on principle.
IBM should have an Ask Watson app. From what I've read it seems like Watson would run circles around all three of them.

edit: And #12 on the front page right now appears to be essentially just that.
Google is definitely an ad company, but its main product is Google Search.
A long pending complaint. Been keeping it to the backburner for a while. SOrry about that. The auto loading stops after a while and becomes user triggered.

Meanwhile here is the link you were looking for http://cucumbertown.com/humans
The more data the better although the relationship isn't linear.
>Only the NSA could predict the output of the generator with the same level of security as ECDH or ECDSA.

Only the NSA could generate the key initially. After that, who knows who will get access to it? You still have the same fundamental problem as with all backdoors, you've just eliminated one that most of them have (the fact that they're crap enough that you don't even need the back-door key to access them).
How do such personal agents work? I mean after the speech recognition and NLP (part-of-speech tagging, named-entity recognition, etc):

Do they use template databases for different topics? (like afaik WolframAlpha) Do they use (scientific) ontologies or are the templates more flat and stored in a SQL database? [and web search results as fallback]
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I don't know enough about how it all works, but perhaps -- because the number isn't valid on its own -- giving the number to a different customer, with a different name, effectively invalidates its previous use and means it can be safely reused.
Same here. I appearently scrolled too fast, the images only faded in way too late, I could barely see the lower border fading in before it scrolled out of the view. I'm on a pretty fast machine, no notebook, and a fast connection, too.

At first I thought it was a rendering error leaving half the page empty. I can't really grasp the purpose of the fade in effect anyway - the images are already loaded, so why not display them immediatly? This constant movement is distracts the eyes unnecessarily.

edit: I was mistaken, they actually only load the images on demand. That explains the fade effect. Distracting nonetheless, perhaps the extra images should be loaded earlier, e.g. an extra window height below the current viewpoint?
Uh ... So all the talk about hagelslag is just nonsense? I haven't tasted it, but just from the looks of it I'd say it probably contains quite a lot of refined sugar. And it seems to be very popular with kids (as the article says).

Disclaimer: I'm from Sweden, but I've been to the Netherlands quite a lot.
I don't see how the code is any more or any less relevant for a game than for any other pure software product.
Funny to read that today. Some of the pontificating experts really do look silly. I'm not sure the Google founders had a much clearer grasp of the future, though. Legend has it they had tried to sell the company for $750k a few months before (http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/google-excite/). It's a pretty mental jump to go from trying to sell the house for $750k to raising $25 million in a matter of months.
At the heart of it, it's just different priorities
The most depressing thing is that our generation can achieve so much more. We have more scientists, more engineers and much larger economies than babyboomer generation. But most of these money ends up corruption in underdeveloped countries and in wars and busted healthcare system in developed countries. For example US spent 1 trillion dollars [1] just for stupid Iraq war alone. With same amount of money we could have vaccinated kids of entire world, could have had multiple missions to Mars, permanent bases on moon, accelerated research on all kind of diseases, funded more research on fusion and alternate power sources, and could have built sanitation facilities for all in multiple under developed countries for free - and even then we would have some money left over. Just 1 trillion dollars is more than enough to make huge progress on all of these front but we spend it out on wars and busted healthcare system.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
Linux and Windows both allow you to run Firefox so they must be the same thing right?
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For example, the Switchboard corpus (300h, 8khz, transcribed audio) is about 16GB.

That is a common size for LVCSR, and you need something around that area to get good performance (maybe minimum 100h). In academic papers by Google, they usually use their own private training data set, with e.g. 1900h. (E.g.: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.1128.pdf)

Some crowdsourced effort to collect transcribed audio under a CC-licence would be great!
Interesting! Care to share some sample question that is likely to be answered by reddit? I tried it manually and can't find answers to any question I can think of right now (looks like I could be failing a Turing test any time soon)
Can people outside the USA get final? Your website doesn't say.
42 and working on a Clojure web framework:

https://github.com/zubairq/coils
One thing I've always wondered - at what age are Indian kids (or kids from other cultures with spicy cuisines) introduced to spicy food? They mention kimchi for toddlers in the article, what about in India?
One state-of-the-art framework is Kaldi, which is Open Source: http://kaldi.sourceforge.net/

You can even download trained models: http://kaldi-asr.org/

It supports many state-of-the-art methods, like DNNs, sequence training, etc. So you can get quite good results with it. To train it yourself, of course you need some good training data from somewhere.
What you are saying is exactly the point of Peter Thiel. Basically he is saying that Google is a search company, with a monopoly in search, and they try to pass as a an advertising company (the Ericschmidt quote). According to Peter thiel that is SOP for companies that have a monopoly in a market. they do this for many reasons, including evading regulatory oversight. So it seems to me you are agreeing with him.
Thanks for the correction. Anyways, at least tripling foreign aid (maybe multiplying it by 10-100) is something that would be controversial.
Sure, break things when you're trying out a lot of new features. I get that, and for the user-facing side of Facebook, it makes sense. It doesn't make sense (and is extremely frustrating) when you apply the same principle to your third-party APIs.
No :) I said I was not allowed, nor were most of my friends nor are most kids of my friends now. Just on special occasions and then the darkest kind (pure hagelslag). The about being the tallest (we are) was a joke; that works (apparently) fine with Hagelslag as well.
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I've noticed lately that many times things I know Alpha will slam-dunk don't get routed to it by Siri. I'm not aware of the details of the deal we have with them but from my observations of Siri it looks like Apple might be looking for certain keywords (such as how, what, why, etc) before it tries routing anything to Alpha. I hope they can relax that in future.

Luckily if you say "Wolfram XXX" instead of just "XXX" Siri will route your question straight to Alpha no-questions-asked.
> google's revenue comes about because they provide something of value to their users

Their revenue comes about because they provide something of value to advertisers: users.

Yes, search results are valuable, but not valuable enough to charge for them - unlike ads. It's chicken-egg, but their value is not simply in providing search results.
Inflation comes from increasing the money supply faster than the size of the economy increases.

This is a strange Austrian definition and is not widely accepted.

The normal definition of inflation is increases in the value of a basket of consumption. CPI is a good proxy for this over the short term (in the long term CPI becomes useless for this purpose since the basket changes).

If BI increases demand for consumption (as most of it's proponents claim it will), then the price of consumption will increase - hence, inflation.
Butterbrot with some kind of spread or cold cuts still seems to be the typical German breakfast. Except for Sundays when the sliced bread is replaced by fresh rolls and possibly croissants.
> Do they use template databases for different topics? (like afaik WolframAlpha)

What do you mean by a template database?
Is it just me, or has down voting become more of a thing lately?
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I'm British and as far as I could see, when visiting in the 80's my very middle class dutch cousins in Eindhoven and Amersfoort practically lived on Chocoladepasta and Hagelslag sandwiches.

http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/2011/03/06/hagelslag/