skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I thought my comment came out a bit too judgmental, so I nuked it. (I was saying that templates were mostly useful as simple parameterization, and that the only reason to master this stuff was to read other people's code.)
The bus line is now "taking money". When you're for-profit, the homeless it is a paying customer and keeps his dignity. The hidden cost of non-profit or social services is dignity.
This looks pretty elegant, but it's a shame that Elixir uses the Ruby-style multi-line code blocks with do end. Looking at those code examples, 'end' take up around 25% of the lines with code. Does anyone know if they considered taking the Python approach? Would be curious to hear the arguments behind the decision. I've noticed that most people seem to favor the Python approach after trying it, but that it's rarely used in new languages.
This article is terrible. It tries to claim credit for TentEd's work for Bitcoin ... but if you look at the linked article about TentEd there's not a word on Bitcoin, and if you look at TentEd's donate page, you'll see they ... just signed up with BitPay to change bitcoins to dollars immediately. That's it. That's the entire relation between Bitcoin and TentEd.
He could post his thoughts on whatever he likes, but of course, we're not meant to know what they are, or to care.

Terry is the price this community pays for its pretense at intellectual purity.
Regarding documention, did you see the following guides https://github.com/lancehalvorsen/phoenix-guides ?
I'd just like to say that Phoenix documentation is getting better all the time. The core team has put a lot of effort into documenting modules and functions, which you can see on http://hexdocs.pm/phoenix.

I am also coordinating the Phoenix Guides project which, while still incomplete, is adding information all the time. https://github.com/lancehalvorsen/phoenix-guides

Sorry these didn't help for your last project, but maybe they'll help for your next one. :)
Runs smoothly on FF on my Macbook (Retina). You likely have a driver issue.
Singapore is a pro-business, large government benevolent dictatorship with a small population and almost limitless supplies of cheap, non-citizen labour.

Their society is a miraculous achievement, but it isn't clear that model generalizes to larger countries.

It's also not really in the 'Sinosphere', unless you consider all ASEAN countries to be (which they would strongly disagree with!)

I agree with your points about China though.
This is amazing. I remember playing this game before and it was all choppy. I am not sure it used threejs before. Good job in improving it.
Mathematician here, have to disagree. Knowledge about individual primes (or n-tuples) is pretty much useless for understanding the big picture of them. And if things like "solving the twin prime conjecture" had practical applications, we wouldn't need to solve them to reap them: if there's a crypto-technique that hinges on TPC being true, you can start using it today, and if it somehow breaks, congratulations, you disproved the conjecture.
> Which passage in the Bible tells Christians to shun higher education?

- He/She never said that any biblical passage tells Christians to shun higher education. Nice straw man.

He/She said "many in this area continue to shun higher education in favor of strict adherence to the bible." But, since you are asking the question, lets look at an answer:

- How about all of the passages justifying rape/slavery/violence in the Old Testament? All of these, while not outright shunning higher education, do so implicitly. Just one example among many:

"However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way." (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)

Something else to look at - "Anti-intellectualism in American Life" (Richard Hofstadter). A great book. His tale begins with itinerant Baptist ministers traveling through the bible belt, denouncing those "New England intellectuals". Anti-Intellectualism and organized American religion in the South are very good and old friends.
How does this compare to Dot? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_langua... It's been around for years and has a nice syntax. Is this intended to solve a different problem?
Very interesting data, also compare it to the Racial Dot Map:

http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/
Monolithic Nodejs (2013)
Study shows graphene able to withstand a speeding bullet
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DeQ_wfUBjws
To be honest, I had the same question last year, and wrote a short guide on how I (eventually) came to do backups [1]. Funny enough, I didn't even notice the topic article until today, which is kind of funny that I see it almost exactly a year later (only off by two days, really).

Of course, this is very Linux centric, but it fits my needs and likewise allows me to rsync back anything on the backup at any time, even if I accidentally all of /bin/ or something equally stupid. Though now I've somewhat updated it (I use a fully encrypted system and set cryptsetup to use pass-files on the main disk for the backups in addition to a set password), but the fundamentals are all there.

[1] https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2013/12/26/encrypted-backups-in-d...
No, and after a quick look at them I see that they'd help. Would be nice to have this mentioned in the project main readme under "Documentation" - do you know why it isn't there (yet)?
> But that is not going to happen.

That is not going to happen soon. It could happen in the future, for China at least. India is a poorer country, but both have histories of being industrious and productive, so it really shouldn't be surprising if they ascend again over time.
This "architecture" changes so much about Rails that I don't know why it's trying to build on Rails at all. If you don't like the Rails Way, just create another framework.
What a ridiculous comment. So if they don't subscribe to liberal values they deserve their fate? You sounds like lke the rednecks i've met. "Those dumb city folks just don't know any better!"
In the earlier part of the Qing dynasty, China was the richest country in the world, not to mention it had this status for much of its history. It should be no surprise that China rises to that status again, temporary mishaps (later Qing to present) not withstanding.
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For those interested in old books, the earliest movable type printed
books, printed before 1501, are known as incunables or incunabula
("Incunabula" is Latin for swaddling or cradle clothes). The British
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printings called the "Incunabula Short Title Catalogue".

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/index.html
If you want a process that takes you from problem to product I recommend one I have used in developing several real world solutions, described by Freeman & Pryce in the book "Growing Object-Oriented Software - Guided by Tests". Allthough the book uses an object oriented paradigm and Java (none of which I particularly recommend) the process described in the book's first few chapters is solid and makes quality software development more predictable - and less of an art. (For those of you in the know, but who haven't read the book, this is about TDD, London style, (outside-in) with a high level of automation (continuous delivery).)
> Computer systems built to represent human identities have contained with them many ontological assumptions about what it is to be an individual and what personal identity is. These systems define the human as a “what” ie: that which can be measured, not as a “who” ie: our inner self.

> If the state of the art in computer science can produce a unique feature that describes an individual as such, what good does that do the individual if this knowledge is only leveraged against them?

> If private citizens personal information, social graphs, and communications are being analyzed then the results should be made available to said persons to empower rather than enslave them. This attitude has become popular in personal fitness but not in communications, biometric identity, or social networks.

> “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are” - Talmud

I love this. Really fantastic work.
You've never actually visited those areas i take it?
Outside academia it is all about conformance to requirements -- i.e. you get paid to solve a problem for somebody somewhere.
Michael Brown – Dragon Seed
I've seen the API reference, but while it's good to have it, it doesn't help very much in the beginning. You need to know what is it you're looking for, and it's very hard to guess it with just the reference and no prior knowledge on the metaphors used. The guides look very nice, they probably would have helped me a lot, but I didn't find them last time as they are not linked from Phoenix main page. Anyway, looks like I will have something to read later this weekend :)
Teton County and Mono County are both unique in that they are dominated by very expensive resort towns (Jackson Hole and Mammoth Lakes).
Scary that the Chinese leadership does see Singapore as its best role model. Not sure if it will work out though, for the reasons you stated.

Taiwan, South Korea, and even Japan had or have governing structures that would be dubious by western standards, but still have succeeded well enough in reaching developed status (the former being dictatorships until recently, the latter being a reluctant democracy).
Don't panic and keep forking Debian
The coderdojo movement is a great way to get people together in a physical location, strikes me that you are well positioned to expand that into online. This pairs up with the mentor suggestion that has been made.
Backing up a few servers isn't that hard. I managed the backups(and pretty much re-wrote the entire system) at a VPS provider. We essentially went in and backed up every LV found that didn't match certain patterns. You definitely want some sort of snapshot functionality to help you out and lvm provides that to you. It also makes it a piece of cake to add another server to the backups; as long as it has LV's they will get backed up. There was of course a lot of logic to handle edge cases, DRBD, ntfs, alerting, rsync includes/excludes, etc.

The trouble comes when you need to backup an entire business, including all the VPS's, every night. The shear volume of files and the LSTAT's was killing. I remember when we crossed the number of files we had enough RAM for XFS to cache the metadata for and performance started to plummet. In the end we ended up moving to ZFS backup boxes, tons of RAM, rsync inplace, and snapshot send/receive to replicate between data centres.
Electricians and plumbers are accustomed to running their own businesses, and may be more savvy than you think, and more savvy than many people here.
With regard to the documentation and commit situation have you considered looking into Plain English? [1]

As for interpersonal communication, perhaps doubly clarifying meaning, preferably in writing. This would force thoughts to be better articulated than a throwaway spoken comment.

Alternatively, how about flipping it and learning your colleagues' languages, or at least the key vocabulary you might need to communicate?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_english
NSA Change the World
Any news on Dart VM in chrome? I was planning to make a 3D game that uses SIMD but realized JS doesn't support it yet. Are they waiting for ES7?
But it's 20% of sales that go through the platform, not all sales forevermore to the same customer, or to friends referred by that same customer.
Roberto Gómez Bolaños ‘Chespirito’ Dies
That's not what I did.

I used a genetic algorithm with facial detection/recognition algorithms as fitness functions

Recognition algorithms like eigenfaces, fischerfaces will reproduce one individual.

More general detection algorithms like YEF realtime object detection as a fitness function will result in more general faces which represent some of the learned features from the LFW database. I'm not just combining images, there's lots of machine learning involved.

Recheck my site in two weeks or so I'll be posting my MS thesis about the subject with more technical details.

(Wrote this on my phone excuse the brevity)
You really should travel a bit more, it might help getting out of that very narrow mindset. There are plenty of places with precisely those beliefs that are doing quite well.
The government's ability to guide public opinion is quite limited, especially in the cities with the urban aspiring young who are already quite cynical. They get their best influence by pushing nationalism buttons, but this doesn't work very well for domestic issues.

I would say rather that the CPC manages to hang on to public opinion because they are quite stable and the economy does well enough under their leadership. But all the stuff that they do to control the minds of the public (censorship, wumao's, controlling the bloggers) is pretty much a failure, they hang on despite this.
They have a cross-licensing deal that seems to be stricter about consumer-visible features.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3239977/apple-and-microsof...
How many people are making enough money to have a home, but little enough money that they would literally have no options if their paycheck was 5-10% smaller?

I expect that group to be very small. Everyone else can put away a few percent and quickly get out of the situation of being a paycheck away from homeless.

Yes, it's hard to scrimp more than is strictly necessary, but that's part of being responsible.

Now the problem of being one medical issue away from bankruptcy is a lot harder to solve by yourself...
You can definitely compose operations, and have an operation that deals with multiple database models. The sample chapter from his book goes into a little bit of detail about it near the end, but TLDR you use a Twin object that has a reference to both of your dbmodels for defining (or delegating) validation and form building.
His project is pure poetics/politics and has no direct relationship to computer vision

Its as much anti facial recognition as a paper bag
I think Chinese leadership sees Singapore as an aspirational goal, rather than a development model.

For all their faults, the Chinese leadership is rarely dumb.
Money should be represented in the base unit, for dollars that is cents. So for your sum fields it should be sum_in_base_units = 859 not 8.59. Decimal can lose accuracy as you move around systems, it's most safe to just use base units.
They are all pretty Confucian, but China is a lot more heterogeneous (in culture at least) than Japan or Korea.
"I no longer live there..."

Not saying it isn't a complex problem, but you're not exactly helping to enrich the area and stem the likely brain drain. And, I am not judging you or others like you. It's completely rational to avoid suffering and seek out an environment where you can thrive.

Diffusing positive cultural influencers instead of hoarding them in cities or places like SV would probably help. But, I really doubt that's a practical solution. It may just be that we need to build out from the bright spots rather than spread ourselves too thin with a sweeping social experiment. We may be stuck with deserts of backwardness for a while.

"State choice" and urban migration strikes me as similar (albeit with a slower generational period) to school choice. Some areas will attract more "good" students and teachers while others will slouch and drag behind in a fractal failure. How far are we obligated to go? Similar questions came up in the wake of Katrina. Personally, I think replacing vicious cycles with virtuous ones will almost always be a good investment.
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Thank you please recheck my site in a few weeks for my full thesis
Most likely... not. That would make things awkward and more anxiety would result as you're trying to be even quieter so the host doesn't hear you!

Good thought though...
We're working on a way to gather a lot of good info about Phoenix and make it available in a single place.
Metaprogramming with Old C++: The Haskell Metaphor: https://github.com/mooseman/pdutils/blob/master/template_pse...
China bans wordplay in attempt at pun control
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi

Set the start date to 1990. Inflation has never risen above 4%, and most of the time hovers around 2%, which is considered normal and hardly "immense". You even see deflation at a few points, which is almost unheard of in developed economies and always considered quite bad.

I've traveled to Japan a few times, and noticed that it is a bit cheaper to go now than before. Definitely not expensive outside of hotels and shinkansen tickets.
Sure, but restaurants have special needs relating to getting groceries. When they want "avocados" they don't just want any case of avocados. They may want a case of "locally sourced Haas 40's with 4-5 day ripening time with a USDA Grade of #2 Combination, or #2, but not #1". Not just avocados. Instead of wanting "bread" they might need an artisan bread with a gluten free recipe that's standardized to 16oz weight for their lunch sandwiches. So it's not as simple as it seems, which is why there's dozens of huge billion-dollar companies who do this such as Costco, Sysco, US Foods, Shamrocks, etc. You just shop around and stay on top of food costs. And if you're a medium-large chain you lock down trade agreements much farther up the supply chain (producer level) to very low fixed prices for 6 months at a time. So if amazon wants to try to tackle dozens of intricacies for thousands of types of perishable goods that will have variable quality in a market that is heavily regulated by the USDA, more power to them. Source: I own a restaurant on the side.
It's not a clone, it's derived from the original SimCity source code, which EA licensed under GPL V3 with the added condition that it should not be called "SimCity" without EA's approval. So it's important that all versions of the code include that license and the required provisions.

http://donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/olpc-ea-contract.pdf

https://code.google.com/p/micropolis/wiki/License

2.1 Modification. EA hereby grants to OLPC a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub licensable, non-assignable, revocable right and license to modify the Original SimCity as provided by EA for the sole purpose of producing a version of the Original SimCity for distribution on laptops provided through the OLPC Program pursuant to the specifications set forth in Exhibit A ("OLPC SimCity"). All right, title and interest in OLPC SimCity and any interim modifications shall belong solely to EA. OLPC SimCity, and any subsequent versions, will not be distributed by OLPC unless the software meets the requirements set forth in Exhibit A. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to limit or restrict EA’s right to use, modify, sell, distribute or license the Original SimCity in any other manner as EA so desires.

And on a completely unrelated topic:

Q: How do you know there's an elephant hiding under your bed?

A: Your face is pressed up against the ceiling!
AMA Geoffrey Hinton: MachineLearning
Because Rails has 10+ years of development on backend tooling that shouldn't be nixed or reinvented on account of a reorganization of files?

Yes, it replaces view rendering completely with Cells, but routing, dispatch, request serialization, activerecord, asset pipeline, rails-provided view helpers and more are all used basically as-is.
Perhaps a better version of Colobot [0]? Ie. better graphics, more rewarding gameplay, some multiplayer. If someone who otherwise wouldn't even try, will find programming fun due to that, well, that's it, s/he will figure out the rest.

Maybe an mmorpg where some sort of botting is openly encouraged and made accessible?

I don't like hand-holding ideas: if someone is motivated it's not necessary, if not motivated, useless. There are tons of tutorials, forums and books already.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobot
I quit my job 8 months ago and I'm still many many months away from homeless. If you're frugal it's not difficult to save up a year's worth of living on the money from a couple years of programming.
I used Ecto in Phoenix to connect to PostgreSQL. I didn't try it to connect to anything else but I understand that it should work with most DBs.
All that effort to litigate Aereo out of existance, and technology marches on.

https://www.tivo.com/discover/antenna
This is not much different from WPF's animation support, and I don't think it really helps. The interruptions are still not very natural looking. It was definitely useless for Surface (the table, not the tablet) when I was doing UX prototypes for it.
Is Elixir production ready now?
It's a bad cycle. Imagine you're the "wealthy" person in a town of poor, jobless people. What local businesses do you spend you time and money in? Groceries and gas? Both are probably not locally owned, so most of what you spend leaves the area. You drive 2 hours on weekends to get to the nearest Walmart to buy clothes, so again most of your money leaves the area: and none of the places you're spending at employee lots of people and/or pay them lots of money. Most of the jobs servicing those industries will be part-time anyways.

For the people who work in the mines, they make more money, but they honestly don't really know what to do with it...and there's nothing in particular to spend it on locally anyway.

Even worse, arable land is a rarity, it is a mountain area! So it's hard to even build a local agricultural economy. It's isolated from transport links, landlocked and hard to navigate. If you pick a route from anywhere East of Appalachia, and take it to San Francisco or L.A., you'll be routed entirely around the area in favor of a Northern or Southern route.

I didn't grow up in Appalachia, but I grew up in an area not too different from it. Honestly, if we hadn't been within commuting distance of a major city, my career options would have been farm work or gas station attendant. There wasn't even enough of a commercial sector for "retail clerk" to make the list.

It's a useful thing to drive through that area: it's stunningly beautiful, but you start to get a feel for why there's so little going on there.
Yeah, and Appalachia isn't one of them. Maybe it's time to try something else.
The site is nice but, having read through most of it I don't think I care for it.

It seems to promote (among other things) aristocracy, dictatorship and censorship (to varying degrees). It glorifies mindless ritual. It seems to believe that those who know best should be in charge (De Botton himself?) structuring life for others around them. It concentrates far too much on supposed motives (jealousy, envy, ambition, desire for respect, the desire to remake the world etc.) which may apply to the author, but are not necessarily as universal or basic as he seems to believe. Maybe, just maybe, on occasion, a person might buy a nice car not because they want to be seen in a nice car and thus respected, but simply because they like nice cars. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

To me, the individual is paramount. The society where the individual can expand is a beautiful and increasingly vanishing thing. I'm always wary of want-to-be kings dressed up in talk of a better world. Traditionally, not much good has come from them.
In both examples I am renting space in which to place my antenna. In the first example, I own a single antenna and pay fees to my landlord. In the second example, I own a single antenna and pay fees to Aereo. I would argue that the only difference is marketing.