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That would only be objective if it were possible to have enough test coverage to ensure that. But that is not possible. So it is purely a subjective question of how much test coverage person A thinks is "good enough".
that "import" function is really handy for writing short programs!
Legislative drafting ought to be the pinnacle of legal endeavor, but sadly this is not the case. Indeed, a glance at the House's legislative drafting guidelines show that assessment of constitutionality is barely discussed, and then only insofar as it pertains to the mechanics of passage.

http://legcounsel.house.gov/HOLC/Drafting_Legislation/Drafti...

While the constitutionality of a proposed bill is properly a matter for debate on the floor of the legislative chamber, in practice a great deal of debate seems to consist of procedural maneuvers at the expense of substantive discussion - and as you say, the substantive changes wrought by a bill are often couched in the form of obscure and minor-seeming tweaks to existing legislation that can result in dramatic changes of scope or authority despite their superficial blandness.
I think I'm interpreting the parent's intentions the same as you -- but I was hoping that quote would stand alone to challenge efficacy of those choices (rather than their morality).

The rest of this comment is just my speculation/justification for why moral considerations might make for more effective policies than "pragmatic" ones.

I think that (there's a reasonable chance) the security agencies did themselves (by which I mean American society) more harm by acquiring flawed assets than the cost of waiting to develop appropriate assets on their own.

It's the same general problem as security theater -- a system that focuses on "doing something", rather than making a principled understanding of the costs/benefits and trying to optimize some security tradeoff.

One reason principles are great is because they (are supposed to) act as commitment devices that keep you from doing some tempting, short-term thing, and keep your actions in line with your longer term goals.
As someone who mostly writes Scala at work, I love it, and definitely recommend you to. The language is not without its faults, but it remains my personal favourite.
For software like "strings"? Startup times and memory footprint/performance due to JIT compilation / the JVM, as well as the notorious complexity and bugginess of the runtime. Just consider the frequent updates and incompatibilities you'd get with it - for example, we had plenty of Java-based remote management GUIs which wouldn't run on newer Java runtime versions. Maybe with the (limiting) static compilation options available for Java it'd make more sense.
The bummer is that the Netflix app for FireOS is old compared to what you get on other devices.
The community feature isn't in its prime time yet, once we nail most of the issues out for the editing experience and attracted a sizable audience, the Lookbook will perhaps become the largest photo style guide, crowd-sourced.
A5/3 is a block cipher, 3G connections use a stream cipher. Respectfully, this is not "near-on" identical.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/334/advantages-a...

Integrating support for these algorithms on the device side ends up being a high hurdle. Doing anything at scale is inevitably harder than you expect it to be. If it was a simple change, people would make it.
Boob Jam: Games to depict 'unsexy reality' of breasts (2013)
pgweb is pretty new, so it wont have all features that pgadmin offers, but at least you dont have to install any dependencies. check github readme for feature list.
Vim users might consider the dbext plugin: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=356

It supports a long list of databases, a variety of common development languages, has a command history, prompts for variables in statements, and more features I haven't touched. As a Vim plugin, it's fairly light on the CPU, but with all the expressive power you expect from Vim (including syntax formatting/highlighting and the availability of your other favorite plugins). I like it because I can dedicate a plaintext file to a specific task, develop my queries, save my results, and come back to it at a later date if the need arises. Some of these files are an important part of my workflow. The only thing I'd change is a more secure handling of login credentials, but it sure beats the standard command line tools bundled with most databases and requires less overhead than the GUI or web-based ones.
Can you mirror a laptop to the tv using this?
Great project. Like more complex version of 99 Bottles of Beer for the client side web apps.

I wonder why Om version has not been submitted though:
http://swannodette.github.io/todomvc/labs/architecture-examp...
HDR+ does the processing immediately after taking the images. I would hope that the "HDR" step happens before any compression.
The Workday Secrets of the World's Most Productive Philosophers
I can remember this switch back in the day, but for some reason my memory has failed me. I could have sworn the original was in Haskell, not Lisp.

Selective memory I guess.
I think just getting the data is the hardest part; there are several corpora available in academia, but not so much outside it. Although you wouldn't need the full text of the paper, just the bibliography entry, which could be much easier to get. (My PhD research was initially on scientific publication citations but the corpus we had was small, ~200 documents.)

Scientific papers are also interesting because you can use co-author relationships as a secondary graph. You could probably infer all kinds of things from that!
The machine learning course, given at Hacker Dojo about three years ago, was right out of Andrew Ng's videos, pre-Coursera, with his awful blackboard handwriting. Support vector machines, that sort of thing. Not enough graphics showing what all those functions are doing. Most of that stuff has a clear graphical representation, but in Ng's original course, you're supposed to imagine it.

A Stanford MSCS in the mid-1980s was heavy on mathematical logic. You could get through the whole curriculum without doing a floating point operation. I got discrete math, number theory (Knuth, vol. 2), proof of correctness, formal logic, proof of correctness, theory of programming languages, etc. Some graphics work, on a Xerox Alto. Dr. John's Mystery Hour, "Epistemological Problems in Artificial Intelligence", from John McCarthy. (He would describe a problem informally, then a miracle occurs, and it's in a predicate calculus notation where you just turn the crank to get the answer. It hadn't yet hit the logicians that getting the problem into the formalism is the hard part. Automatic symbolic math was in its infancy back then.)
It all looks so simple when watching shuttle launches on TV.

But it really is "rocket science". Amazingly complicated machines. Unfortunately 2 crews lost in 135 total missions.

And we have nothing right now to replace it.
Don't know if it may be useful for you, but Trovebox dealt with RAW import, you might want to see what they're doing and if you can take advantage of their work

https://github.com/photo/frontend
https://github.com/photo/frontend/issues/1400
Serving jury duty will fix that!
I'm not sure how HN does it specifically. In a version of our app, we had scoring which was initially modeled after Reddit's algorithm (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588). A server task updated the scores for every item every hour. We could have limited how far back we went, but had no need in our case given that the amount we indexed was within reason. We'd add or subtract from the score based on a set of rules that considered a number of factors including posted date, number of votes and number of comments. We had an admin tool for assigning more or less weight to the various factors.
Yeah, I really like the interface for Netflix on the Roku 3.
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Designing a JRPG Inspired Version of N64's GoldenEye: The Legend of Goldeneye
I would like a world map of philosophy publications - both articles from journals and works throughout the ages.

Instead of mapping by citation I would like this world map to have its geographic boundaries demarcated by topic (I think).

You see, philosophers don't even agree what constitutes the sub-disciplines of their discipline so I figure we could find out empirically by mapping.

Of course this presupposes that we can identify papers and works as firmly philosophical in the first place when there are bound to be edge-cases.

I realise that my idea may be a bit fuzzy but I accept that it is a proto-idea, not you fully formed. Thoughts?
> "If you don’t take them, it’s a sin"

That's... an interesting sense of morality that he has.
I have multiple Rokus in the house, LT, 2 and 3, and they all seem really prone to crashing and lockups. But that's only been recently. They used to be rock solid. I dig all this stuff though, so I bought one (and a couple of Matchsticks to develop and fart around with as well as hand out at Christmas)

I'm looking forward to a somewhat dedicated device. Chromecast is nice, but it still requires a smart phone/Computer to make it work. It might be nice to have something that can actually fully replace one or two of my failing Rokus cheaply.
Impressive guy, I guess, but... a gentleman wouldn't steal in the first place. Not even from the wealthy. Though refusing violence is in fact a nice thing in a criminal...
A more useful question: How far away is Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0, from Yu's "How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe"? AIs will take over when they start outperforming humans at management. When the most profitable companies are computer-run, capitalism has to let them take charge. As soon as computers can do management at all well, they may well be better at it than humans simply because they can communicate faster.

There's already a hedge fund with an AI on its board. Really.
I don't know anyone who got fired who actually committed a crime leading to their firing. Well, one guy. He got a starring role in the SEC's annual report that year.

Needless hands-on with a person who poses no danger should be a swift firing.
I'm not sure why you are bringing this up, since I'm not claiming that photo ID is a panacea for the problem of illegal voting. I'm taking issue with the other poster's claim that the extent of such voting is a non-issue. Now, it's true that a lot of people who are exercised about the issue of illegal voting are also loud proponents of photo ID as a solution to that problem, but I am not one of those people.
“If you're selling your BlackBerry Bold on eBay, Kim Kardashian might buy it”
The Hard Truth About MVP and Agile
The Roku 3 uses Wi-fi direct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct

I wonder if it's that or BT.
It has been confirmed by Amazon to support Miracast, so that would make it the cheapest way to get Windows 8.1 wirelessly cast.
Wu-Decimal uses exact rationals (they aren't base 10 floats). Division works according to normal Lisp semantics, since the CL ratio type is used for arithmetic. Let's say you divide something by 3 and now you have infinitely repeating digits: then it is no longer in set D, and Wu-Decimal no longer considers it to be of decimal type. Instead, it is treated as a fraction, again per standard CL semantics. The "Printing" example tries to clarify this (notice that 1/2 prints as '0.5' but 1/3 remains '1/3').
From my developer point of view, it is mostly distribution. It is not necessarily non-native or native but whatever it takes to make updates, on-boarding, and selling/free trails easier would attract developers and perhaps going to save them time and energy so they can focus more on building. I think thus the end users might expect higher quality works from non-native apps. But the platform web apps is building on is still lacking in terms of the "app box" metaphor as well as access to local file systems, gpu and guranteed amount of memory etc, which makes web-wrapped apps (like Slack, hipchat? dunno) appealing.
I'm a T-Mobile user and they've never asked me to pay for any of the tethering I do.
I thought it was a TempleOS post at first.
Man this makes me want to go back to Venice. Amazing city - getting lost in the back alleys and searching out the best cicchetti is a fantastic way to spend a week or two.
Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
hi, need to think, I have some experience in this topic, but don't honestly don't have any ideas of photo that can work for you website. Feel free o propose something.
Apple’s Tim Cook Challenges Alabama on L.G.B.T. Rights
We hope to improve this by having a array of filters diverse enough to capture other processes in https://www.polarr.co/lookbook

The right hand side panel pretty much does what Lightroom is doing mostly and you're in full control of which direction of your photo is moving into.
thanks, the idea to make photo by request. But would definitely post some of these photos that will not be used to unsplash.
It can also get out of control if you let it :)
you seem to have fundamentally misunderstood how shorting shares works.
This is an interesting and unusual (but not unprecedented) move that actually aligns interests.

99% of founders have a goal (it may not be the primary or secondary, but trust me it's there) to be "F you" rich. Maybe 99.9%.

This move doesn't make either of the founders remotely close to that. If the founders checked out now, they wouldn't be able to retire - they certainly won't worry about paying for college for their kids, but they're sipping pina coladas on the beach either.

Taking "just enough" money off the table de-risks the whole operation for everybody. The risks in a startup this size are

a) Founder fallout / burnout

b) Running out of enough runway to really scale the biz and make the right long-term product investments (being cash-flow positive doesn't mean you can do this - plenty of breakeven startups out there just treading water who are one bad product cycle or market shift away from biting it)

c) Inability to hire and retain the right people

This helps tackle all three.

Win-win for everyone.
I actually spent a few months putting one together a few years ago using PLOS, and it was actually fun.

Unfortunately outside of PLOS and arXiv, the APIs for building the graphs just don't exist.

Here's one of the better graphs I generated:
https://github.com/drewbuschhorn/DoctorMoon/raw/gh-pages/Scr...

https://github.com/drewbuschhorn/DoctorMoon

which is a graph centered from Why Most Published Research Findings Are False - PLoS - Ioannidis JPA

Which was a great center case to work from since his name is misspelled often in the literature, and he's done lots of work in PLOS.

Never could get anyone interested in it, but email me at drewbuschhorn @ gmail.com if anyone has any questions.
> The title of the post is "How we Figured Out What Makes People Love Ghost 1,000% More" - which I think is still pretty accurate :)

I disagree. If you choose the bucket "people who subscribed to Ghost Pro", they would convert ∞% better than the bucket "people who didn't sign up for Ghost Pro". That doesn't mean that signing up for Ghost Pro makes people love Ghost ∞% more.

More generally, how can you tell if people installing a custom theme makes them love Ghost more, or if people install a custom theme because they love Ghost more?

Getting more people into the bucket of "people who installed a custom theme" doesn't actually help your bottom-line conversion rate until you can establish unequivocally that the people you've added to the bucket convert at the same rate as the bucket did before they were added to it.
> 6502's "one really fast register, and 256 others that are nearly as fast."

Thanks. That brought back some sweet memories. The 6502's simplicity has been a source of inspiration for me throughout my career. Sometimes I wish I had designed more hardware.
I'd say the fault with HTML/JS/CSS is that the implementation of the rendered (the browser) broke the stack by not being strict in what it emitted. Put another way, a badly formed page should render badly and/or issue errors. For historical reasons, browsers did not and do not. Hence, the reason the browsers are "broken".
Developers, doctors team up to create simulation of Ebola treatment center
In my experience, dealing with the DMV has been way harder than solving simultaneous differential equations. And I'm pretty privileged.
Yeah, sure. It makes a lot more waste heat than a new one. That means that it might make 5MW of waste heat while the new 500HP diesel might only make 1.5MW of waste heat. Or a 300HP diesel might only make 1MW of waste heat.

It's 80% less! A megawatt is still a lot, though.
That's really what TodoMVC is really about... just enough of an application with a common markup and css, so you can compare frameworks.
I think this is a misunderstanding of what's going on in quantum mechanics. A photon is emitted as a probability wave function. (Note well: This is not the same as "sometimes a photon acts like a wave!) It travels as a probability wave function. It gets to the detector as a probability wave function. The form of the detector determines how the wave function collapses into an observable state. That's when the "choice" gets made. There is no projection of the choice onto the past; there is only the projection of the choice onto the probability wave function in the present. So this "retrocausality" stuff is actually a fundamental mis-understanding of quantum mechanics.

What the article got right: Relativity and quantum mechanics are talking about two fundamentally different things when they use the word "time". Reconciling those two ideas is going to be critical to a fundamental understanding of the universe.
I hate Hater News for giving me a hater score of only 5.48%!
Since when is Raspberry Pi "mostly free"? My one lays right now next to me and it still cannot even boot its CPU without non-free firmware.
What did you learn? That lisp is not maintainable? The article just glosses over the details.
"White House Kremlinology" is a phrase I first ran into a decade ago; you can google it. I hate that this is the state of things, but it is.
Or, maybe instead of ballooning this thread with unending hairsplitting, we should recognize the principle as a heuristic that fails on non-representative or extreme cases...
I know all about the history of voter suppression. What I'm saying is that if Democrats can get people without photo ID registered to vote and get them to the polls, they could also help anyone lacking valid photo ID to get it (although this would be a bit more effort and require a long-term commitment rather than a short-term one that revolved around the electoral calendar). GOTV activists might be in a better position to assist people lacking valid ID than the individuals themselves.

My basic point is that if the Democrats committed to ensuring that eligible voters had valid identification they would a) be doing many of the disenfranchised people a big favor that would have a positive impact on their lives in other contexts besides voting, and b) depriving the Republican party of an easy slur that they trot out every single electoral cycle, ie that Democrats are the party of electoral corruption.

Photo ID requirements are not the most rational solution to the problem of illegal voting, but politics isn't a rational business.
dishonesty is a great way to sell a business
Chomsky Talks about Psychopaths and Sociopaths
Different groups have different moral codes. If you're a highly respected, professional burglar then not taking something so good could be considered professional misconduct.

The origin of the word "sin" as most people use it today is a word from archery. It means hitting the target but missing the center. Pretty apt for a renowned burglar to not take something which is highly valuable and very portable on a robbery.
HTTPS doesn't do anything for their DNS servers not returning NXDOMAIN as they ought to. Also, clients can use a VPN all on their own, they can't force all the servers they use to use HTTPS if they don't already.
The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired by Both Suffragists and Centerfolds
In other T-Mobile security news, their customer website only supports SSL3 and will stop working with Firefox 34 on November 24 (because SSL3 will disabled due to the POODLE attacks). (Their website login is currently broken in Firefox Beta, Aurora, and Nightly release channels.)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042380
When the Rails Magic Stops. Cookies, Storage, and Sessions
I don't see where owenmarshall said that "illegal voting" was a non-issue. They said that there was no issue with "one type of potential fraud: I go to the polls and impersonate someone else", that there were few "instances of in-person vote fraud that would've been prevented by requiring ID at the polls", and that "there's still no real evidence to indicate that requiring an ID would make a real impact." All of that seems to jive with the article.

I see how your comment may not have been advocating voter id, but then I don't see what you were actually objecting to. I apologize for reading more into your comment than was there, but I'd welcome clarification.
And would it be ethical? Hand Moravec has written disturbingly about this issue:
"So is there no difference between being cruel to characters in interactive books or video games and people one meets in the street? Books or games act on a reader's future only via the mind, and actions within them are mostly reversed if the experience is forgotten. Physical actions, by contrast, have greater significance because their consequences spread irreversibly. If past physical events could be easily altered, as in some time-travel stories, if one could go back to prevent evil or unfortunate deeds, real life would acquire the moral significance of a video game. A more disturbing implication is that any sealed-off activity, whose goings on can be forgotten, may be in the video game category. Creators of hyperrealistic simulations---or even secure physical enclosures---containing individuals writhing in pain are not necessarily more wicked than authors of fiction with distressed characters, or myself, composing this sentence vaguely alluding to them. The suffering preexists in the underlying Platonic worlds; authors merely look on. The significance of running such simulations is limited to their effect on viewers, possibly warped by the experience, and by the possibility of ``escapees''---tortured minds that could, in principle, leak out to haunt the world in data networks or physical bodies. Potential plagues of angry demons surely count as a moral consequence. In this light, mistreating people, intelligent robots, or individuals in high-resolution simulations has greater moral significance than doing the same at low resolution or in works of fiction not because the suffering individuals are more real---they are not---but because the probability of undesirable consequences in our own future is greater."
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.artic...
> "drop an image in the browser to triangulate it."

Am I the only one who finds this annoying? I would much rather be able to use any image on the web by submitting a URL than searching for something on my local drive.
A day buying (and returning) things with Apple Pay
"Fire TV stick cannot be powered directly by your HDTV and should be plugged into the wall"

That's really disappointing, I'd rather have less power and be able to power via the TV USB port like chromecast. Maybe even a dealbreaker, definitely broke my impulse buy for now.
Well we had a bookshop (Barnes & Noble), a tech company (Sony, who did not have any book content), and some pther booksellers, all of whom probably would have shipped without Amazon. But no publishers.