skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Microsoft is doing it for the Open-Source spirit, as many seem to believe. They have a long history of attacking/smearing open source and displaying a "I heart Linux" slide is not sufficient to erase all the FUD and their questionable software patent licensing schemes (which are completely anti-open). They called Linux a cancer, even.

I think they're approaching this from a redundancy point of view, if person X already has Windows on his desktop (on which they have the market cornered), provide them with subsidized Windows platforms on other hardware where the monopoly is not yet in place. This then would cause the interest in other platforms to dwindle, as people would flock to what they know. Here also the EET mantra could come into play again, by offering features not available to other platforms.

They need a foothold in other hardware, most likely for the coming of Internet Of Things.

It makes business sense for them to increase their reach, but don't think that equals Microsoft being fond of Open-Source.
Adwords is becoming increasingly bad with these kind of ads lately. Yahoo are lucky that they don't have the automatic redirecting version that simply takes visitors away from your site onto these fake landing pages. Most of them seem to be coming from compromised adwords accounts.

As a publisher it's very difficult to do anything about this since Google apparently let adwords publishers insert arbitrary javascript into their ad code. This makes it so the ad creative and "destination domain" in the review center mean absolutely nothing, and since the JS won't execute from the review center you have no idea which ads are responsible.
"Worthwhile" needs unpacking.

For all practical purposes, we'll be solar powered in the future, though my question is at what level of technology.

Woodfuel's proven robust for millennia, though there's the forests before, deserts after problem.

In terms of abundance and accessibility, I'd generally say direct solar (PV or thermal), either wind or hydro, geothermal, and biomass, in about that order.

It's far less a question of what's worthwhile, than what's a sustainable scale.

It helps to understand what life is, and how it has transformed Earth over the past 3.5 billion years. Humans are part of that process, and, from the PoV of Earth have largely been engaged in one of the fastest redistributions of mineral resources ever seen, post primary-bombardment.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/5l_8MqtVwLLvX_DabPjY-g

As for nuclear generally: conventional plant designs suffer from limited fuel (80 years at present rates of use, 6 if scaled to all present human energy demands), breeders entail considerable risks, proposed thorium MSR designs haven't even landed on, let alone left, the drafting sheet, and there are complex long-term systemic risks for which I find sgcollins's "Nuke Skeptic" and "For Rohan" videos quite good. If you want more depth, I recommend Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe and Normal Accidents.

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=KOBEloymLQA
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=S5hvY3atwUg

http://www.powells.com/biblio/65-9780691150161-1
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780691004129-1
Discussion on reddit[0] leads to this gem: http://docs.pydark.com/PyDark.net-pysrc.html#ServerProtocol....

Who thought that could possibly be a good idea?

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/2ufo9y/the_2d_game_f...
Data science idea for Quora: Upvotes as investment
No, while nostalgic, the Commodore and Atari scene were tiny in comparison. Since the mid nineties people have learned graphics programming and reverse engineering primarily on Windows.

It's not like OS programming is going away, but it has always been mostly a university thing.

And you could say we already are in big trouble. Since the ecosystem for multimedia weren't (and isn't) very good on Linux a lot of qualified user software exist on other platforms. Industrial, scientific, medical, music, film etc.
How is it that this logic is lost when it comes to cities and corporations that declare bankruptcy? While Detroit may spend a few years having trouble getting good loans I imagine GM (bailed out some years ago) is already able to claim low interest loans. And these are entities that were also bailed out.
What is a Frobenioid?
I think he means that if no datasheet is available, you can try to reverse engineer it by using, say, a disassembler.
Premium not over-priced. I am still yet to find any laptop with the build or trackpad quality of any of the MacBooks.
What? When's the last time you've used Chestnut? Do you have an example I could look at? I ask because it sounds like you're doing something that re-renders the entire application instead of the components that need to update.
Can we stop with this argument? Every time a business makes a business-oriented decision someone will pop out to call them out for being acting for their own benefit, as if it's somehow bad.

Like every human exchange, you don't have to be an altruist for your deed to be good. It's alright to do "good" even if it derives some sort of benefit for yourself or your company.
> A future in which Windows becomes popular on mobile/embedded devices is likely a future with more binary blobs, more OS-locked hardware, and fewer opportunities for those people who do want to hack on kernel code.

I just can't agree with that. F/OSS fan that I am, I still think the same opportunities will exist whether Windows runs on a particular piece of hardware or not. After all, GNU/Linux and BSD have flourished despite Windows running on the same hardware for the past 30 years. How is this any different? I see it as opening up new channels for learning, not closing them off.

To look at it another way, this is similar to Microsoft being late to the party on modern smartphones. The existence of Windows Phone 7 and 8 has done absolutely nothing to slow down the explosion of popularity in Android and iOS phones.

I don't foresee a huge percentage of Raspberry Pi owners jumping ship to Windows 10; maybe dabbling with it but that's it. As far as we know, GNU/Linux will continue to offer a superior learning experience.
Well I have a B+ and installed Raspbian for a little home energy project that reads from my smart meter over serial and pushes the data to the cloud. The programming was easy, I spent 5x as much time trying to get things installed. Finally got Cloud9 working, never was able to get InfluxDB installed, kind of got OrientDB installed (it crashes).

I consider myself a technical person and while I think it's fun to use Linux, it's certainly not productive.
It's like Raspberry Christmas!
It appears they've moved forward to Qt5 but they're still running on QtWebKit. This is a bad situation since QtWebKit has been deprecated (read: nobody has publicly committed to writing any new code for it, not least Digia) in favour of QtWebEngine, which doesn't have even 10% of the API richness of the old module.

WebEngine implements process separation and is based on Blink, whereas WebKit was in-process and e.g. allowed direct access to DOM from C++.

The job of moving PJS to WebEngine, if possible, when it happens will basically be the same effort as a rewrite. This release looks like a stopgap to get the best of the old WebKit line, but calling it 2.0 seems a bit shortsighted -- 2.0 should be kept for the WebEngine series if/when it happens.
This update is very welcome and for sure it will make people create more interesting "projects". Personally i'm very excited to get one of these to run owncloud at decent performance in my home. Also the possibility to install more Linux distributions or even Windows 10 will open much possibilities for development. Well Done!!
Everyone wanted to be a hacker in my childhood days :-) Though nobody actually had a clue what is it all about :-)
To me patterns have always been incredibly useful as a book of problems that have been solved, somewhat like a chess playbook. Would I ever implement them directly? Maybe, if they were directly appropriate. Often I find that my solutions are pattern inspired, "factory-like," "observer-like," "strategy-like" etc. Even more frequently my solutions are a hybrid of multiple patterns.

That's where I see their value: they are extremely good blueprints. Like every tool, they are incredibly powerful if used correctly. They are most often misused, especially in the case of verbatim use.
Wallaby.js test runner
Note: Windows 10 on Pi 2 will be an IoT platform, not a desktop OS.

You'll develop your app in Visual Studio on a Windows PC and deploy it to the Pi.

Raspbian will continue to be the main supported OS.

- Ben from Raspberry Pi
Have we reached 'peak food'?
My problem with this is someday I'll rationalize that its not a big deal and go on a spending/eating spree...
I don't think Win 10 is about teaching kids to code.

But then I don't think the Pi is really about teaching kids to code either.

The Pi Foundation has done a good job of persuading everyone otherwise, but I'm left with a nagging suspicion that a computer designed for kids from the ground up would look very different. It's just too damn complicated for most kids. The nerds get it, but expecting the average ten year old to learn Linux shell scripting or the fine points of Apache installation seems unrealistic to me.

Win 10 on the Pi is about two things. The first is about edging Linux out of the education market. Teachers will indeed prefer Win 10 to Linux, for reasons that others have mentioned - especially if it comes with a basic dev toolchain. Even if that toolchain is very easy to use.

The second is - I guess - selling Office 365 subscriptions on super-cheap hardware, and creating a whole new sub-PC market for Windows and Office.

If I'm right, it's a clever move. It will give Windows and Office access to many new markets worldwide.

Where MS hardware failed on price, the Pi version wins on price. It could be a very strong combination.
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Just want to point out that AdChoices is NOT owned by Google, and they do NOT serve any advertising.

It's a program organised by the DAA (Digital Advertising Alliance) which is itself formed of several other advertising associations, the goal of which is to be a self-regulatory program allowing to opt out of online behavioral advertising, so that you do not have to see any behavior targeted ads if you choose not to.

Google's display network is a part of the AdChoices program, but not every ad showing that icon is a Google ad. In fact, from the yahoo.com homepage, only the banner ads seem to be served by Google, sponsored articles are being served by Yahoo! directly. If you click the AdChoices button it will actually tell you who is placing the ad.

I'm not the biggest paladin of Google, but in this case everything points to the ad being served by Yahoo!

EDIT: From what I could find, it's likely the ads are being served by the Yahoo! streamads[0] self-serve platform.

Programmatic is always tricky to properly validate, because it's expensive to fact check every single creative that comes through. It's likely that, if reported, Yahoo will ban the advertiser from their platform.

Facebook uses a whitelist approach where they'll manually validate your first few creatives and then whitelist you for automatic validation, not sure if Yahoo employs the same method.

[0] https://streamads.yahoo.com/
Shame on Yahoo!
"Fake?" is not a very descriptive title. From the guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

I think this is not "fake", only "wrong" and very "misguided".

It's a common mistake to mix some anagogic parts and forget to use the counting argument to "invent" a new compression scheme. The problem is that all the legalese and the lack of a working prototype (or at least something remotely similar to a blueprint of an implementation) doesn't make obvious that this won't work.
"Low cost and hobby market" companies like Intel, TI, NXP etc..?
99% of online advertisers give the rest a bad name.

Not only is this why online advertising is ultimately doomed, but it's why we hugely and desperately and badly need to find another way of paying for content.

The alternatives for the moment are gratis, patronage, "native advertising", and subscriptions. Few of these strike me as ultimately scalable.

I've been a fan of Phil Hunt, of Pirate Party UK, and his broadband tax proposal after more-or-less independently coming up with the same idea myself. Hunt's proposal was principally aimed at music. I see no reason why it cannot apply to all content published and distributed online.

http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-fo...

My own sketched proposal:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modest...
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2h0h81/specifyi...
The following code is legal C++ and does exactly what you’d expect it to do.

auto result = "Hello" <repeat> 3 <join> ", ";

I had no idea what that might do. No expectations at all. Is this an attempt to write language X in language Y?
Where did parent say they got a subsidy? AT&T was certainly insulated from normal market forces which had a lot to do with their ability to fund Bell Labs to work on a lot more fundamental research than is the norm just about anywhere else. Google is the outlier today--at least until such time as their search money press slows down.
Facebook is now nothing more than a glorified feed reader for me. All actual communication happens on WhatsApp. All pictures from last night's party go on Instagram.

Which is to say, Facebook is dead, but it is also very much alive and kicking
This is awesome.

Actually, I wonder if I could get ReactOS running on a Pi, might be the perfect testing platform. Hmm.
for those looking for it, it's "The city of silence"

archive.org has a copy https://web.archive.org/web/20120221185906/http://worldsf.wo...

and you can buy it here: http://www.apexbookcompany.com/collections/all-books/product...
You speak prescriptively of a canonical form, but I do not know what canon do you refer to. What do you define as a "page"? Are you possibly arbitrarily drawing a line at a HTTP GET request between the article and the edit button? If that's the case, Google Docs and Etherpad would fail to meet your definition of a page/document. Right now we see a declining rate of collaboration on Wikipedia, so it's natural that the evolution of the wiki would do more to encourage editing/forking: http://mashable.com/2013/01/08/wikipedia-losing-editors/
This makes me want to puke. Nice one, Yahoo.... makes you look GREAT.
It's not like Linux is going away. I think more possibilities in regard of OS is a good thing, and also in align with the RPi's mission statement.
No? Tiny? I'd love to know which games industry you think came before the games industry on Windows. Did a legion of Windows programmers appear overnight?

Audacity, Bitwig, QTractor and Ardour have made great strides - and that's merely stuff I know about. Userland software is quite beside the point I was making.

Closed-source single OS dominance without an open source alternative would mean much worse trouble than the trouble we are already in. To avoid this, you need OS programmers, many of whom never get to University.
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You don't have to install Visual Studio on your system drive, it'll happily install and run on another drive.
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3 years ago, in Cyprus, the reverse happened (savings were cut off) but people still deposit money into their bank accounts without getting increased interest, despite this precedent. Why should a loan writing off cause loan interests to go up?
Do you think your ISP will let your host a webserver without asking them first?
I am thinking, maybe I should get an ad-blocker. Not tu reward the webistes, but stop punishing poor folks who buy ads and then waste money showing them to me, because I never click them…
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Foremost, it would kill meaningless and useless jobs. At the very least, enterprises would have a much harder time justifying them.

Low-paid menial jobs are either useless, easily automatizable, or not so menial. In the later case, why are they low-paid?

It should also be noted that monetarily we are already paying for it, without having the benefit of it, by means of Quantitative Easings. Instead of making it a Universal Dividend, we just pay a few banksters amongst the 0.0001%.

The rational thing to do, is to perform reasonned quantitative easings, based on the lifespan of the human beings, distributing a Universal Dividend. For the lifespan in an economic area like Europe, this would give about 530 euro/month/human being.

For more information, have a look at:
http://www.creationmonetaire.info/2012/11/theorie-relative-d...
( translation of the mathematical annex: https://github.com/informatimago/LatexTRM/blob/master/LateXT... )
PGP creator Phil Zimmermann: 'Intelligence agencies have never had it so good'
One does not simply change the cloud
This is great detective work, and hopefully Yahoo steps in and fixes this.

Online advertising has become and more vicious - on all my computers, I run adblock/no script, etc, but on my phone, browsing sites like retractionwatch or theatlantic, I've been redirected to full page ads for subscription services where the automatic subscription button is about 1mm where the 'close window' button appears.
Better array 'countof' implementation with C++ 11
Russia’s Collision Course with Recession
Not sure about CPU but you can get Windows 8.1 devices with 1GB of RAM which run fine (and that's full desktop 8.1, not a cut down IoT build that this is likely to be)

For me it's the lower limit of what's possible and it's slow if you load up many apps, but definitely possible.
Why do the Chinese streams exist? The Chinese streams exist because Chinese people are interested in watching the games. Why are they interested? Because they are betting money on the games. Why are they doing that? Because their local teams and sport are susceptible to corruption. The obvious result? Chinese organized crime are sending people to influence these teams as well, causing corruption.

So, the Chinese streams may seem like a good thing, but they are a symptom of a bad thing.
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Contrast with a known transformer explosion in NYC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxXd09Wv94

0m15s and 2m55s.

They're bright as all fuck and would light up the sky impressively.
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FreeBSD has "flourished"? I seem to remember only two years ago before Christmas they were begging for donations or they will close shop.

Linux and FreeBSD/OpenBSD certainly hasn't "flourished" on users' PCs either, which is the above commenter's point.
Last I checked, Micro is too small and lacks crucial things you want for everyday development, and that is for a normal developer, not a language runtime-designer.

It was targeted mostly towards very low-specced hardware, closer to a Arduino than a Pi.

I'm guessing things like F# relies on too much things which are not included here.
This device might be a good candidate for experimenting with sandstorm.io for this kind of thing.
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“[…] sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV.”

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/physical.html
Do you think the servers of multiplayer games also run on windows?
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> and hopefully Yahoo steps in and fixes this.

and Forbes, CNN, Discover Magazine, etcetera sue both the company for plagiarism, as well as copyright and trademark infringements. They should probably sue the advertising company behind it too, those organizations have the moral obligation IMO to ensure the quality and legitimacy of the companies that buy advertising with them.
I'm also inclined to believe that. Only one problem: in addition to crop circles that can easily be attributed to humans there are some that has been really hard to pin down it seems. (Because of the product of precision and timing etc.)

I think it could be interesting if someone would watch those places with drones and IR etc but until it is thoroughly explained I'd admit that we expect to be able to explain it but at the moment we don't know.

Edit:remove hyperbole (be more than happy -> think it could be interesting )
Except this move only really benefits Microsoft. And it's certainly not for the "love of open source".
In fact they use the NT-Kernel for Windows Phone as well. [1]
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-windows-phone-8-fina...
But it won't help much, because they're all shell companies intended to be cheap to dispose of whenever the backlash strikes - and before that happens, they will already have whisked any proceeds away.
Didn't PL/1 try that? (Or maybe they made the classic error of "worst syntax" instead... not sure. Been a few years since I looked at it =)
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No:

"Note that there are two way to interpret this result:

The speed of light was constant with respect to the aether. This theory turned out to be false. Read more about the Luminiferous aether.

The theory of Relativity"

The most they say is just the assertion: "Maxwell's equations are Lorentz invariant"

Before the Michelson-Morley experiment 'disproved' it, it was assumed that the waves propagated through the 'aether', and that c was therefore the speed relative to the aether. So, in addition to Maxwell's equations, extra experimental data was needed.
Delayed display of text is terribly bad. Consider the following scenario:
1) I click a link to "Decorator Pattern".
2) A new panel with the title and no text appears.
3) I assume a major malfunction.
4) The text of the page deigns to appear.

Then I tried clicking on "Category: Pattern" and page text took about a minute, not a few seconds.

Regarding the "stack" of previously read pages, it offers a typical stack behaviour: it can be blown away easily and efficiently. You can forget large pieces of history by the apparently harmless interaction of clicking on links in a previous pane.
>At least US banks had the decency to not laugh about it publicly.

It is good to know that US Banks take seriously and in a professional manner the frauds they commit.
> No, you're wrong.

And you and he both gave evidence to the initial assertion that "it's confusing".