skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick search yields this: http://www.girlwonder.com/2010/09/a-network-of-constant-inte...

"Gordon Pask developed musical cybernetic systems that count as early
cyborg hybrids. His 1953 Musicolour machine accompanied musical
performers. As the performer or group played, Musicolour responded with
lights and movement to the music would change, creating a sort of
hypnotic effect for those who played with it. But if the performer
became too repetitive and did not engage the machine enough, Musicolour
would grow bored and stop responding—the first cybernetic art system to
do so. [4] Pask also noted that while people trained the machine, it
trained them back, creating a feedback loop in which performers felt
like the machine was an extension of their minds and bodies.[5]"

[4] Gordon Pask, “A Comment, a Case History and a Plan,” in Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas, ed. Jasia Reichardt (Greenwich, Conn.,: New York Graphic Society, 1971), 77.

[5] Ibid., 85.
The vast majority of Chinese I meet here have zero interest in democracy, the few students I do meet who advocate it generally have very little idea of what it actually is.

They have no end of complaints about the government and are quite vocal about it- but huge divisions (to put it mildly) between provinces, as well as urban and rural people mean that the idea of letting "those people" have a say in how things are run is unthinkable.
It's not as concise, but you could do

List((1,2),(3,4)) map (plus _).tupled
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> Much of this was known before

For a time-capsule view of the mood on the issue, there's this 1965 novel by Rex Stout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doorbell_Rang

It's part of the series about sedentary detective Nero Wolfe, one of my literary guilty pleasures. While being all for law and order, Stout was not too keen on unbridled authority, and his characters would often tweak a policeman's metaphorical nose.
Alcohol doesn't contain sugar. Rather, it replaces glucose in the blood and can be used directly as a fuel without any conversion.

This is unlike in low-carb diets, where fat must be converted to a fuel (via gluconeogenesis) before cells can use it as energy, and this conversion itself takes energy.

Effectively, alcohol reduces the benefit of low-carb diets but doesn't necessarily increase the insulin response as would a high-sugar diet.
Hi, thanks for your comments. You can type help to see a list of commands that are support.

To answer your question about cd, mv, nano, etc I made this in the few hours I had yesterday afternoon, so I'm afraid I only had time to implement a small subset of commands.

I've now put it up on GitHub (https://github.com/grbsn/web-sh). I hope people can use it as a starting point to build their own web based console applications. Let's see how it goes!
Please don't use .gifs for videos, :(
"Microsoft made their fortune by being ethically bankrupt and breaking the law". Much like most of todays rich countries including US, EU, Russia and China.
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Thanks a lot for your reply and for providing links to your previous blog entries! I wish you good luck and hope the economics will continue to work out for you.

I do think that libraries should be distributed as open source, but I'm also hoping that at least in certain areas there is a way to commercially develop them as a product business. Provocatively speaking, if software "eats the world", then libraries are too important to just be developed as a by-product of some other ventures or in support of a platform/eco system.

Personally I'm planning on releasing a library under a GPL + commercial dual licensing scheme and later on another library under a non-commercial (incl. academic and government research) + commercial dual license. We'll see how that works out.
It is vendor lockin because it means you avoid thinking about how to deal with scaling beyond the single box.

So when the moment comes and you want to move away from AWS and you have scaled well beyond the capacity of a single box, what then? Suddenly you have to figure out sharding, replication and HA setups from scratch. While that may be the right choice for you if you're an early stage startup and it lets you defer engineering costs until a point where you're hopefully better funded, it's also dangerous:

It's far easier to get things like sharding and caching and use of read-replicas and multi-master replication right if you think about it from the beginning (if you've ever tried to retrofit any of this onto an application not designed with it in mind you know what I'm am talking about). It'd be awesome not to have to worry about this, but if you don't, you tie yourself into a platform you'll find it harder and harder to move off.

As a product, this solution would be a killer - it sounds fantastic. As an AWS-only service, I for one will treat it as if it doesn't exist, because getting tied to AWS for the long term is not an option for most of the projects I do.
True, but what you can't do is abstract over them; you can't write a function that operates on "some generic computation expression" (you can't even write that type). So you can't write "sequence" or "traverseM" or more complicated/specific things you build on top of these.
Isn't LLVM used in nvidia drivers for compiling shaders at runtime? GLSL needs compiling, and I thought everyone typically used LLVM for this?
Not sure what will happen to Mono, I believe they will continue to live side by side, and Mono will include parts of the now released framework source.

There are a number of Gui toolkits to choose from, see e.g. http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gui-toolkits/

All should work with microsofts framework just like they do with mono.
I can't help but think that the professors of the Royal Society being asked for their "wish list" today have strangely low horizons, compared to Boyle and Bacon. Yes, better detection of autism would be great, but it's not quite up there with "the recovery of youth".
> 1) Some sites place rules on the password. A bank I used limited passwords to 6 characters! Can believe someone thought that was a good idea.
That's true, but I haven't recently come across a service that I want to use on a regular basis which has that restriction. If I do need to sign up to a site which has a similar restriction it's normally something I'm going to use once so I use a garbage password and rely on their password reset mechanism if I need to use the service again.

2 is a good idea and I'll start doing that. It still keeps what you need to remember to a minimum while adding greater uniqueness to passwords.
Do you think there are more mental health issue now, or 500 years ago? (I don't mean active untreated cases, I mean cases that occur.)

You might be interested to know that it wasn't that long ago that humans typically got up to 80% of their calories from wheat in the form of bread.

Today it's about 30-40% (in the US anyway).

So there ALREADY has been a huge drop in wheat production. If anything it might be time to reverse that, not extend it.

PS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitan is quite yummy, it's almost pure gluten and is a wonderful source of vegetarian protein.
> Absolutely. There is zero regard for open source from Microsoft here.

What would it take for you to say "gosh, now Microsoft has regard for open source!" ?

If the answer is "nothing, I'd never say that ever" then you don't have an opinion, you have a fixed religious belief.

And how does your threshold for Microsoft differ from the same for Apple. Google, Facebook et al?
Yeah, it looks a lot cleaner - but if you make that code available as a library then other people can't add new shapes easily, or deal with shapes that have more than one length (e.g. a rectangle, which has two).
For the claimed 5x performance and 6 way replication, it seems pretty cheap.
I wonder, who are all these people that would prefer to live close to the existence minimum, subsidizing off welfare, and not do anything productive? Is it you? Many of your friends? Do you actually know anyone that would prefer to not be useful?

Not to mention, that I think pretty much everywhere, the amount of resources society as a whole end up wasting on the idle rich in one form or another, probably makes that wasted on "freeloaders" and "those abusing the system" a rounding error.
Not to mention indexers.

Well, programming languages do have a prescriptive aspect. Arrays in C# 1.0 were more fundamental than List whereas the situation in F# 1.0 was the reverse, and F# doesn't really want you to use arrays as much as it wants you to use list.

...

Personally, I always mark my classes as either sealed or abstract. In OO terms, I only care about extending the Shape class, not the individual subclasses because those themselves are are already extensions... of the Shape class. If I did want to extend, say, the Circle class, I would probably make a new abstract class called Ellipse that derived from Shape and then derive Circle from Ellipse.

But, I don't really think in strict OO terms any more. C# has a decent type system (despite what my fellow ML programmers might say), but one of the mistakes of the language (i.e. the spec) is that it conflates types with classes. Those are different things. You may see three classes, but I see one type. In this case it's a sum type called Shape that ranges over Circle and Square. A sum type , as you may know, is just the type-theoretic version of logical OR.

Indeed, it wasn't until I learned about sum types that I finally understood why you would use an abstract class as opposed to an interface: abstract classes are for when you want to say that a Foo is a Bar OR a Baz OR a Biz whereas interfaces are for when you want to say that Foo is a Bar AND a Baz, AND a Biz.
How would Photoshop benefit from being Rust?

Is C++ broken? I'd say with the C++11 and C++14 changes, it's getting less and less "broken" from the complaints usually levied at it.
IIRC, F# is derived from (or, at least, heavily influenced by) OCaml and that's the OCaml syntax for arrays. OCaml lists (I don't know F#, but presumably it's the same) have the [x; y; z] format. Note that lists and arrays are different: They're both homogeneous, but arrays have a fixed length while lists can shrink/grow; indexing arrays is O(1), whereas you have to traverse lists at O(n). In functional programming, it's a very common pattern to work with lists, hence the nicer syntax.
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Well, C# idiomatic would be rather

public interface IShape
{
float Area { get; }
float Perimeter { get; }
}

public Circle : IShape
{
readonly float r ;

public Circle(float r)
{
this.r = r;
}

public float Area { get { return Math.PI * r * r; } }
public float Perimeter { get { return 2 * Math.PI * r; } }
}

public Square: IShape
{
readonly float a ;

public Square(float a)
{
this.r = r;
}

public float Area { get { return a * a; } }
public float Perimeter { get { return 4 * a; } }
}

Also, with this one you can create new Shapes in another project. With F# solution there, you must have access to original code.
Probabilistic programming is already basically the definitive Next Big Thing in machine learning, since it allows us to automate reasoning over far more sophisticated models than we could previously write down by hand, while the approximate inference techniques being used make numerical evaluation of Bayesian reasoning tractable.

The generality and power of the approach are, frankly, amazing.
> you can slice your own loaf at the supermarket with a terrific automated spring-loaded circular saw machine that's very cool to operate

sigh... You cannot throw a statement like that without a Youtube link!

For those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JSvmCAwQEE
> Actually non-blocking logic becomes really easy, as you can always shove an immutable value into an atomic reference (note - I'm not saying "wait free", which still takes a lot of work :))

Why the atomic reference here? I know that provides CAS but if we're talking about a single writer aren't you okay to just replace things anyway?
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That comment about shapes with more than one defining size property is very valid.
Depends on what kind of bread you're talking about. A good sourdough will last a week and still taste great.
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"Don't get me wrong I'm all for these kinds of missions"

Which you then contradicted by whining about not seeing the benefit of it; you're clearly not all for this mission or you wouldn't have derailed this top thread with your concern troll.

There doesn't have to be a tangible, short term benefit for these missions to be considered worthwhile by the majority of humanity, so your question is irrelevant to them. If you can't see the benefit to us of finding out when and where life was formed, I can't help you.
To feel 'magic', I think you need to read SICP and to do write some typical programms where lisp is really effective:
- a lisp interpreter (the second step may be a non deterministic lisp interpreter).
- symbolic derivation
- a prolog interpreter

If you try any of these exercises in a only procedural language (C, Ada, Pascal, Fortran, ...), you should feel how unnatural it is compared to lisp.
Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration. At the time Dr. Stuhlinger was Associate Director for Science at the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama.

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...
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Besides recent problems like poor C++11 support, MS in the past has pulled support for proprietary languages leaving mission critical code in limbo. Recal the death of VB6.
You've just described the expression problem.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
Yes, I agree, I think pragmatic discussion like this is important, the 'magic, beautiful, life-changing' hyperbole is probably better left alone in analysis I'd say.
The unit cost of one single F-35 jet was in 2011 estimated to be around 300 million USD, that is, only three planes would pay for the whole (European, please note, financed by the tax of Europeans!) Rosetta mission.

The US plans to buy 2443 such aircraft (of course, financed by the tax of US citizens). Do they really need so many of them?

The military budget of the US was recently around 660 billion USD per year, that is, the US could finance some 600 Rosettas (each a multiple-decade project) every year with its military budget. Approximating the Rosetta life to 10 years, in these 10 years the US spent 6000 Rosettas for military. Or 18000 of F-35 fighter jets.
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Dutch-near-German-border here. I think your opinion stems from the quality of industrial bread in France. If you look in the Netherlands you'll find a wide variety of very tasty pre-sliced industrial bread, always fresh baked in the morning.

That being said, I always buy unsliced artisan German bread from my local baker who imports it from across the border.

And for fun, let's fan the flames a bit. You can't compare the simple french baguette to the rich flavour of artisan German bread, simply no contest ;)
This is hilarious and great marketing, despite the fact I hate ads! Well done.
Yes, I am still waiting for something prettier than software VPN or OpenS/WAN. Their docs show 5 ways to connect VPCs, all of them complex, all of them with significant downsides. One would think this sort of thing would be easier.
Next step is to change all "\" to "/" and make drive letters optional to enable a better cross-platform experience :)
The screenshot of the old calendar looks pretty flat to me.
What is Creator??? Only a page telling that I need to sign up to discover if I ever need it, because devs are too lazy to explain it?? No way: it look more like a scam than anything else...
Yeah, in Spain sliced bread is not very popular either. Some people use it for breakfast toast. And it is used to make sandwiches. Curiously, we use the word "sandwich" for a sandwich made with sliced bread, and the Spanish word "bocadillo" for a sandwich made with traditional bread. Bocadillos are widely considered superior, with sandwiches used for a cheaper, quick snack, or for easier portability. No one would make a sandwich with things that are appreciated and considered good food (like serrano ham, tomato with olive oil, tortilla, a good cheese, or calamari), they make bocadillos with that. Sandwiches are universally for cheap sliced cheese and cheap ham.

In summary, the phrase "the best thing since sliced bread" sounds very awkward in Spain because sliced bread is not associated with something good. It's associated with something quick that can do if you're in a hurry or if there's nothing better. Kind of as if we said "the best thing since Perl scripts" :)
I think that the idea of software bugs (vulnerabilities) as a product is a scary concept and a bad precedent for overall security

That was my first impression as well however, after giving it some thought I wish there are more vulnerability trading companies. The point is that currently this business is reserved for government sponsored customers:

According to three sources familiar with Endgame’s business, nearly all of its customers are U.S. government agencies.

Expanding this business to the private sector might have positive effects. Corporations could buy the "zero days" in their own products in order to fix them. To some extent such outsourcing already exists in the form of pen-testing companies, but it seems like a different league.
Logic Programming, e.g. Prolog.
Once again, Stallman was right.

What you describe is not Unix console tools vs. mobile/web apps, but free vs. privative software. The infamous walled gardens.
You do now! (Its called debt, citizen. Harden up!)
Linux as the best platform is subjective! It isn't the best for desktop use, not for me anyway.

C# has been available for Linux for years.

I would argue that C++ is also a brilliant language, and is just improving and improving.

But anyway, just another platform to write another language on. More employment opportunities for all of us.
Note that we're not eating the same wheat as our ancestors though:

http://authoritynutrition.com/modern-wheat-health-nightmare/
Every MMO, regardless RPG or not, will require you to invest time to repeat some actions and pay attention to it as much often as you can. See Travian for example. Screeps will not, if you manage to write decent scripts.
This is a rather poor example. If you distribute the C# code above as a library, people can extend and introduce another shape, while they cannot do it easily with you F# code.
Interesting, but again too long... I hate when people stretch articles like that and It's frustrating that it doesn't have a picture of the actual building.

I've googled and this image looks like the real thing

http://www.asknature.org/images/uploads/product/373ec79cd6db...
There are a lot of answers to this, but I think the central point of the post is not being addressed.

The job of democratic government is to take responsibility for the things that the people choose to delegate to it.

I am not a doctor, a scientist, a hydraulic engineer, a military officer, a policeman, a lawyer or a civil engineer to name just a few relevant specialisms. I don't have the time, expertise or inclination to get involved in choosing how government should address all of the services it provides. Therefore I am happy to participate in choosing political leaders who I and my fellow citizens delegate to make those decisions for me.

I do not think it is reasonable or would be beneficial for every single citizen to have to decide how every single penny of tax money should or should not be spent. I cannot believe that a system organized in that way could ever be made to function no matter what modern communications and decision making (voting) technology we used.

Finally, living in a society ruled by laws is a system of coercion. Our fellow citizens are coerced into not robbing each other, not murdering each other, not driving their cars the wrong way down one way streets, and yes not avoiding paying tax. If you don't like that, tough.
Most of what made Lisp special has been pulled into other languages. These days IMO Lisp is more of a preference than a magical language.

You really have to think about what it was like in 1990 to understand the appeal of Lisp. No Python, Ruby, Scala, C# or Java. First-class functions were not considered an important part of a language. Garbage collection was widely considered to be something to be avoided in a real language. C++ (this was long before even C++98) was a cutting-edge language.
You seem to think that this is a publicity stunt (rather than a sincere offer of heating services).

I don't think it is.
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This really depends on who is considered to be a customer.

Imagine a street musician who wants every listener to pay money instead of few voluntary contributors. (Would fail - too little reach)

Or a shopping mall / water front/ etc. with an entry fee as an alternative to charging their retailers (without significant wow effect driving people in..)
”Whatever the ultimate solution, we need to have one. We can’t keep treating the client as sacrosanct when attackers are well aware they are the most vulnerable component in the transactional chain.”

I guess she has a point there.

On iOS and OS X, the App Store to some extent already provide additional client protection.
I don't want to sound rude, but based on the title, I understand that this has something to do with PNG files.

It might be worth putting a bit more details there.
Nice, I have found some hard to reproduce bugs using tools like this.
On Mac OS X and iOS, there's the Network Link Conditioner which is built into iOS and part of the developer tools package on MAC OS X I believe (installed as a Preference pane).
What does Churcill Downs know about mobile games? Is it as much as Time Warner knew about dial up internet?
I assume this means that as well as the harpoons, the ice screws in Philae's feet didn't work because the thruster wasn't functional.