skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raspberry Pi Engine Control with Real-Time Adaptive Learning Machine [video]
Not only is it worthwhile to learn, it's worthwhile to use for real world problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eYTctGZw8

From his blog: http://blog.ndrix.com/2014/10/how-we-use-prolog.html
Yes we have been facing a few issues with Mongo and Meteor. Latency is a big problem too. But i guess the guys at Meteor are working on it as we talk.
You could take a photo or photocopy of that and leave it in a secure place.

Boom, backup.
I think a charitable reading is 'excessively academic and not concerned with the real day-to-day aspects of programming', which is a common characterization of languages like Haskell and OCaml, albeit one I'd contest. (A less charitable reading, on the other hand, would likely invoke the commonly-cited Blub Paradox from http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html )
If their contributions were licensed to him suitable for inclusion in a project released under a permissive (and GPL compatible, but most are) license, then he could relicense his code and thereby effectively relicense the project. People could, in principle, isolate the BSD (or whatnot) portions and use them in other projects, but that's probably only relevant if it's a significant portion of the code.
"Webmaster" in 1997 covered a wide range of sins, and part of the change has been that what used to be one job is now a raft of them -- design, front-end coding, markup, back-end, ops, database, and more. Smaller shops may combine several of these, but it's not unusual to see each as its own specialty.

That's part of what I was getting at.

But the other was that "Webmaster" was a really hot ticket for a few years. It's faded markedly.

I can't see my parent comment at the moment, but I saw a recent "ask HN" post where the question concerned where all the Ruby-on-Rails jobs had gone. What had been a really hot ticked for the past few years is starting to fade. A lot of kids are starting to learn their first talent-shift lessons.
Where do you get it? I'm very, very curious.
Scroll Lock is handy for at least people who are power users of Excel. If you "turn on" scroll lock,you can move the active sheet around without changing the current/active cell.

For Pause, it's useful in Visual Studio to interrupt the current build.
> we're working with so many species that we can't sequence all their genomes

Are you talking about sequencing enough to get adequate coverage for reconstruction?

Also, what do you think of the criticism that it is difficult to know the potential effects of GMO on their ecosystems in the wild?
>Where do you begin? Whether to even stay in academia or leave is a question that seems to be discussed a lot

The best thing you can do for your career is decide, right this minute, what you want to do. Do it as soon as humanly psosible.

The reason, I suspect, that this issue is cropping up is that graduate schools are incredibly bad at career development, and it will take at least an entire generation before the culture changes completely. Administrators in general are doing their absolute best and that's a great step. But it's the lab leaders/PIs that are culturally stuck in the past.

Source: recent PhD in biological sciences, spent years improving career development at school, have Real Job now
Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown operating system
#RememberAaronSwartz
Oh, absolute -- petroleum has skyrocketed in the past decade (though what happens as petro cos start running into capex conflicts is open, and the current price crash is likely not playing well).

But there was a long dry spell from the late 1980s through the 1990s where those jobs, especially in the US, were very, very hard to come by.

That said, I'd love to check my statements against historical salary data for the field.
You could fork Clang/LLVM and integrate your own GPL licensed code, but the existing code would remain MIT/BSD and you cannot change that. Practically speaking it would boil down to whether you could separate what existed previously and what a court thought constituted a derived work.
Do you see yourself in that later tenure-track position? As a bioninformaticist I'm sure your skills will be in demand. I have seen such offers on the lab research side of things but I've been told it's deceptive: very few "research associates" (what you call someone who can't be a postdoc anymore) actually transition. But I do wonder if this is because it's a relatively new concept.
We aren't just talking about proprietary software developers using llvm. The projects most hurt by GCC being crippled by design are those like emacs that want to do more advanced things using GCC AST but can't. Emacs is being deliberately harmed to prevent other proprietary developers doing something they can already do anyway.

If you are saying GPL advocates believe they are correct to deliberately cripple their software for political reasons, then what kind of lesson do you think that is teaching an entire generation of CS postgrads and academics who are forced to use LLVM for their work because RMS thinks they shouldn't be allowed to do compiler research using Free Software. The damage to mindshare and reputation is huge here. To be honest I'm not sure it's even recoverable at this point. To a lot of people GNU software is turning into "stuff you don't use because it's crippled for political reasons and they want to control what you can do with software". Very morally pure I'm sure, but also suicidal.
How can Java actually be safe when it is such a huge cause of constant security compromises that most security experts recommend disabling or uninstall in it?
A favorite here as well.
I like both Io and Ruby, but they have much different goals. The moderating qualities that make Ruby seem halfway there to you were an intentional design choice, because Matz wanted the language to feel familiar and friendly to programmers coming from other languages. Ruby also took a lot of good things from Perl (built-in regexes and other high-quality string processing facilities, especially) that helped it fit into the Unix scripting ecosystem in a way that purer languages like Io never would.

I would never consider embedding Ruby like I would Io or Lua (although mruby is promising); on the other hand, part of what helped me learn and stick with Ruby was using it for innumerable Unix scripting projects that would have been much more awkward in a language like Io.

(Io also suffers from Scheme's problem, where a minimalist language is more likely to calve a multitude of private and mutually incompatible frameworks.)
It's always low, with a strict limit set by the NIH, and schools have a tiny bit of wiggle room. For example, a stipend in NYC is the biggest nationwide[1], but that's mostly cost of living.

1500-1800 was common at the schools in the mid atlantic that I knew of recently.

[1] http://www.wendychao.com/science/stipends/
Dexter was a little too early. The United States, although it had dumped the nobility concept, still had the English feudal concept that big landowners ruled, almost by right. Manufacturing hadn't yet displaced landowning as the way to make money.

In England, that model held on until 1880 or so. (http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/04/books/never-has-so-few-own...) In the US, it ended earlier. But it was still in full force in Dexter's day.

As for the follies of the rich, we still have that. Larry Ellison has a huge, silly house in Woodside, where, through much cutting of rock, a sort of pseudo rural Japanese landscape was created, complete with fog machine. In China, where being rich is a new thing, people are still trying to figure out status symbols. The results are amusing. (http://www.gq.com/news-politics/201501/chinas-richest). There are outfits selling titles of nobility on line. (http://nobility.co.uk/).
>it usually deals very poorly with a situation already unethical in nature.

Allowing code completion and complex refactoring in emacs is "unethical in nature"?
This. Henning doesn't understand licensing very well.
This is a HUGE point. It was once thought that being a chemistry PhD was a shoe-in for industry work, and you could skip being a postdoc entirely.

I met a very respected chemist at AACR last year who said all of his postdocs were scrambling for work, and that some were being realistic and considering moving to China for the opportunities.
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> what it would take to do decentralized search

http://yacy.net/ already does this.
He knows what systemic means in this context. yummyfajitas's shtick is to try to dismiss or derail any discussion of social issues by repeatedly posing disingenuous semantic questions
>First, GHC is not the same as requiring Java, since you don't need it to run the code

I think you dont read what i've wrote, or more likely, im explaining it poorly(not a native, sorry) . This can be a binary to compile and create source code, but also and often can be embedded to be used as a library.. im guessing you are using Windows because you've said you dont have a c compiler at hand.. but Windows are most a end-user thing, and end-users probably wont care about compiling code.. otherwise a c/c++ compiler is ubiquotous

Im not complaining about the tool, but about the use as a library, which is something this also aim to be, and C is a better aim at that because can be embedded in any language.. given the compiler is in haskel i cant access the AST for instance, i cant embed in my binary, but have to call another external binary instead.. but at least have a runtime to embed.. this may be ok for some.. but i was just saying that, despite the protocol language being very good, i couldnt use it instead of protobuf because i would have a more limited api and my end program/ goal would lose power and flexibility.

This is a pretty technical explanation, it could be coded in Brainf*ck.. nothing against the lang in itself.. is just that it limits the use case of this tool(as compared with protobuf)
I thought only one submission per url was possible
Coinbase is monitoring your transactions. (Poorly)
Coinbase closed account, accusing owner of buying cannabis seeds. Owner denies this, claims to live in Colorado where he'd rather buy cannabis legally at a brick & mortar store.
Not many people are capable of fixing their car personally, but they do benefit from not being required to go to Toyota whenever it breaks. Nonfree software is like an appliance which you're legally forbidden from modifying without permission from the original maker.
This sounds like the exact case where you'd use a trait.
>This is nothing new.

Thank you for bringing up this point (and speaking to it personally from 20+ years ago!). I have been beating this drum for years since I've read Paula Stephan's research[1] on "How Economics Shapes Science." The overproduction of PhDs, the delaying of retirement by professors, and the addition of institutions to grant funding have been known since the 1980s, and the trend has been linear since then.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Shapes-Science-Paula-Stephan...
Being used for bad purposes is different than having a net negative effect. E.g. if you are making weapons or something like that.

A lot of people do this. Some people do refuse to work on military technologies. Even Google declared it wouldn't produce anything for the military with the robotics startups it's acquired. Some of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan project later regretted it.

If you really do believe the thing you are working on will have a net negative effect on the world than maybe you shouldn't work on it.
I know several people who have been going over the audio issues in browsers. I remember how painful flash's audio was to deal with, and the browser vendors have managed to make something worse... I do hope that web audio gets better (good for that matter).

To really get where people want to go in terms of browser based gaming (even if the idea disgusts you) is going to hinge on 3D video, great audio composition and good controller capabilities.
While the 730 and the Sun-1 were available by the time the GNU project was started, I strongly suspect that an 11/750 was the original machine.

(I wasn't running GNU (emacs) until 1984, and didn't contribute to GCC until 1987.)
Back in the day, there was Gilmour who would publish an article about Twitter every week on TC. "Twitter this", "twitter that", "twitter is the answer to any possible problem out there". Now it's blockchains. That's TC's MO, nothing new.
In what way is Emacs being "deliberately harmed"?
There is an interesting discussion of this phenomenon in the Winter 2014 issue of _Boom_[1] called "On Becoming a Historic Resident of Oakland".

1: http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2014/12/winter-2014/
Disputing definitions is pointless. Obviously voluntary housing choices are segregation_dalke but not segregation_fajitas. Now lets get back to discussing objective reality, and remember that words are merely convenient shorthands for that reality.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/

The point I was making: Yzzxy was arguing against a straw man, acting as if enlightenedfool advocated in favor of using violence to confine certain groups to certain regions ("separate but equal"). Enlightenedfool argued no such thing.

Now if you really want to argue against consumption choices based on tribalist preferences, make that argument. Also be wary of the fallacy of expanding a definition and then expecting all conclusions drawn from the narrow definition to also hold for the wide one - I've noticed when people dispute definitions on topics like this, that fallacy often follows.
Because the whole used bike market is theft? Please, that's just an irresponsible assertion...
There's a little more to it than that. NIMBYs and outdated housing density restrictions are a problem, but prop 13 is incredibly harmful as well. The entrenched interests for that particular mantle includes "anyone who owns property".
I can thoroughly recommend the audiobook - http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Martian-Audiobo... - R.C. Bray's narration nails both the inner-monologue/diary and also the rest of the supporting cast. The 12,000+ ratings on Audible are also a good testament.
Per year, I think.
I agree! And if you read the comments on the TechCrunch article, many of them agree about the article being badly written.

I get that it's sarcasm, but what was the TechCrunch writer's message supposed to be? That nobody needed this product? That it was badly built? That the author just doesn't like YC kids? Whatever the author was trying to say, there was probably a better way to say it.
This woman chose to get shot by a robber instead of give up her Android phone
> Imagine you make a tool and someone proposes making a change to that tool that would be potentially useful to slavers, people who enslave other people. This makes you hesitate. Pointing out that people already use similar tools for slavery probably wouldn't make you change your mind.

In this case, though, the tool is trivial to make. Any "slaver" that wants it can easily make it themselves. Foregoing making and using that tool for use in Emacs does nothing whatsoever to impede, dissuade, or discourage "slavers" from getting the tool. It just makes it much harder to give Emacs some features that many of its competitors have.
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Bevers build dams which divert the flow of water, sometimes drastically. Are they playing with nature?
I'm asking you how you define "better". All you've told me is that it's good to be able to get there more quickly, which is almost tautological.
> there's effectively no accountability, it's ripe to be gamed with fraud and cronyism

Are you talking about NIH funding here, or crowdfunding? The accountability for government funds is vigilant (some may even say restrictive), as anyone who's applied for a grant or sat on a study section will tell you.

I disagree with the accountability aspect from experience, but I concur about cronyism, which is a major bias that the system is not set up to handle. It takes time to get good at winning grants, thus older applicants (tenured professors) have a much greater advantage over new ones (postdocs). There is a cultural sentiment that the best years of one's research career are near the end after amassing knowledge (or influence). This leads to many PIs shunning retirement and dampening enthusiasm for any new recruits.
So what's the modus operandi when going to the doctor? I've got some legitimate symptoms - lack of energy, focus..especially in the afternoon, but I'm wondering what people are saying to their doctors? Are you suggesting Modafinil?

Also, what's the cost for a monthly supply with insurance?
The authors intending to make proprietary derivatives is itself not very nice.
Maybe add this to your .bashrc file?

randword()
{
if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo `shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words`
else
echo `shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom -n $1 /usr/share/dict/words`
fi
}

Test output:

kobra@stormforge blah $ randword 4
crackpots fragmentation maximally Bradly's
kobra@stormforge blah $ randword 6
turnover's nonproliferation's bestowal's sulkier hillbilly Narmada
kobra@stormforge blah $ randword
Marciano fibulas roadwork mobilizations organics
kobra@stormforge blah $ randword
coins bronzed housemother's forefather supposing
The hard problem with porting DOSBox to Emscripten
Alibaba to Invest About $575M in Indian Online-Shopping Service, Paytm
Do you have a link to the source code for it by any chance? :)
"Note/Disclaimer: This discussion is limited to likely effects under Australian law. Some of the arguments made are of a generic nature and might be profitably applied in other common law jurisdictions, such as the UK and the US – but, then again, they might not."
Mongo is perfectly capable of point in time restores... in fact Mongo corp has a SaaS that does this... I know of several who have done the same on their own. There's been plenty of work in side-channel events with Mongo's log shipping system.

Perhaps you can point to a relatively simple walkthrough to setup PostgreSQL with plv8 for replication (with an easy promotion of a slave to master), that doesn't take a commercial support license...

Everything I've seen seems incredibly convoluted and more difficult than say MS-SQL, MongoDB, RethinkDB, ElasticSearch or several other databases at data replication and spinning up new nodes, or handling a primary failure.

Also, most of my work with Mongo has performed very well, if your data is a good fit, which I will admit it isn't all a good fit. Honestly, I'd rather use pgsql with plv8 over mongo, or elasticsearch, or ms/azure-sql... The support costs and my time are important to me, and better spent working on architecture or development. If I can make an operations level decision that works well enough, or is easier to scale then the development time is almost a wash.
Are they learning better, or just learning to take tests better? I suspect the latter. Is that really the best use of their time and our money?
Interesting point of view Mr. Snowden. I think it's not just the government policies that are weak. Its the whole system of cyber defense deployed which really needs a huge overhaul.
I've seen this at 2 Apple shops in Vic, Aus too.
A good use of these maps is to wave them under the noses of real estate agents and inform them that it is the Western Addition, not Pacific Heights.
aside from obfuscated or secret source, proprietary software relies on legal restrictions. RMS would be perfectly fine removing the artificial legal restrictions that proprietary terms use if it didn't hurt the ability to protect software freedom for free software.

Proprietary software terms should be illegal.
I think it's more to do with the fact that most people don't want to live in a violent or crime-ridden area.
I think I disagree with you and OP, but for different reasons.

In R&D, it's a matter of career path. A PhD is expected to become a lead, someone to guide a research program. A Master's degree holder will be closer to the action and likely develop technical skills that make them an asset lower on the org chart.

The problem, I think, stems from the fact that PhDs are also expected to master their techniques and to perform well as a requirement for advancement. They have a career path that extends to management, but are using mostly technical skills at the beginning. The Master's degree holder does not have this difference.

I think "PhD is a poor predictor of how well a person might function in industry R&D" is spot on. PhD is a poor predictor of most things that hiring managers are looking for, I might say!
Or maybe I'm trying to understand. Discussions like this involve a lot of jargon, non-standard definitions and hidden (or nonexistent?) moral assumptions.

I do this in all sorts of discussions when I don't understand the terms. "We want to increase engagement." "How do you define engagement?" "We want the estimator to be robust." "How do you define robust?"

You can call a request for clarification of terms "derailing" (or just flag me and call me racist, as many people do), but that makes it look like you simply want to avoid clarity. Asking for clear statements of claims and definitions of terms isn't derailing - it's simply good practice if your goal is understanding.
Link below is dead dismissing your comment.

To be honest, I'm not sure why your own comment adds to the discussion either.

I appreciate my time in EPA, because it was a little microcosm that trapped some of the larger, harder problems of the real-world, hidden inside the bubble that is silicon valley.

I suppose it is that.

[1] dead link made a snarky comment towards bravery and a movie flick.
This comment is unbearably smug and lacking in self-awareness. You were almost certainly a bunch of kids fresh out of an elite university, choosing to temporarily forgo six-figure salaries in hopes of making millions by enrolling in a prestigious startup accelerator. Your situation had nothing in common with those of people trapped in a cycle of generational poverty resulting from years of segregation and violence. One would hope you might have learned some humility and empathy from your time there, but instead it seems to have become grist for your self-aggrandizing origin story.
> Should Apple not have a right to make their own proprietary language?

Should Apple's users not have the right to use, share, study, improve, extend and share improvements and extensions to the languages and tools they use?

Or, in answer to your question: no.
I think competition is always good. Having only one company dominating the market is truly unhealthly. Business should have more options.
I started learning how to program in Prolog a few years ago. I found Prolog to be very difficult to understand, mostly because I did not understand what symbolic logic was. I then purchased a significant number of books on symbolic logic and started studying them. I don’t think it is possible to understand Prolog without first understanding how symbolic logic works.

My recommendation for someone who is interested in learning how to program in Prolog is to start by reading “Logic for Problem Solving” by Robert Kowalski:

http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Solving-Revisited-Robert-Kowal...

I am currently about halfway through an earlier edition of this book, and it is the first book I have found that clearly explains the ideas upon which Prolog is based.
Looking forward to how this can be put to good use on Facebook!
Magnets under the table I imagine?
Unburdened by the civilized world's chromatic biases, they've achieved a reasonably attractive use of ISO-POISON-GREEN.
PFQ: Framework for Line-Rate Packet Proccessing in User Space
Lamborghini Huracan vs Ferrari 458 Italia Drag Race
Dance Builds Confidence
mind blown at how much of osx they've copied.