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Math, lots and lots of math. The new chip has an actual floating point unit instead of it being emulated, support for the NEON SIMD extensions, both of which will definitely help in speed in dealing with any amount of number crunching. It's also got virtualization extensions, so you should be able to run Xen on it and do some level of OS development if you wanna get one for that. Really, it boils down to a lot of little differences that will line up together to make a lot of tasks on the Pi a lot easier to handle.
Interesting product; but at $125, a bit rich for me.

I was just thinking of putting together a router using a RasPi. What's the best way to get 802.11 a/b/c/g/n/* capability? Should I use 2 USB dongles, one for "g" and the other for the rest?
I don't know how this is secure if I'm sharing everything I surf with some unknown company?
The Merriam Webser and Cambridge dictionaries began accepting the change as canon circa 2013.

I consider that recent, especially given its long history of misuse.
Will we know a conscious machine when we meet one?
Same SSIDs, same passwords, different channels. All your devices will then connect to the device with the strongest signal. I usually pick the channels for my routers manually, leaving them all in auto-mode results in a huge deathmatch and all 5 routers in my house changing channels every 10 minutes because somehow their randomized algorithms always pick the same ones.

You can only pick the same channels if you are absolutely, 100% certain that there is no signal overlap.
Haha - very good point!
Sex seems a lot more simple than building a dam though. I mean, how does the Beaver even know this kind of stuff? Is it in its genetic material, or is it taught by its parents?

Either way, fascinating stuff.
Yes - we can only culture a very small minority of wild bacteria.

For example, the recent antibiotic discovery that made the news came from learning how to culture soil bacteria. No, we didn't learn what it needs. We just grew it in it's natural environment: dirt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487

Revolutionary. (seriously).
Thanks for the comment! The two splash screens are because of Android: the second one is the wallpaper selector, there's no way of leaving this out. While HPSTR is set as wallpaper, you'll never see one again.

The app downloads random images each time it is refreshed, so there's no gallery - this is by design.
From other tech book authors it seems it's the former; they work many hours for a year and then they make 20k or that kind of minimum wage money
Sure. But, you know, when you use evolution metaphors, you get that what starts a change in a species is one mutation, right?

Someone first used the phrase "comprised of" in this sense, and that person, it would seem, got some traction. Giraffedata is trying to be the guy who gets traction on making the phrase ungrammatical. This does happen! At some point, we stopped for example using the second-person informal (thou). This didn't happen because the God of Zeitgeist changed the minds of millions of English-speakers all at once. It happened because individual people started to change how they used language, and it caught on.

Do I think that giraffedata's crusade is likely to be successful? Nope. But what I don't get is being all offended that someone is trying to change language on the basis of "language is always changing."
> Of course, good luck explaining this shit to a libertarian-infested hellhole like HN: they all believe they're on the cusp of Gettin' Big Bucks, so they don't want a market that allows competition,

I'm not sure where you get this idea. Libertarians are pro competition, not anti. So they are actually quite negative towards monopolies and support their prevention.
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Not GP poster, but years ago (so not recent, at all) I tried editing both for grammar and content. In a variety of article types (movies and books, technical content like math and CS topics) nearly everything got reverted. For instance, if I corrected a plot point listed in the plot summary for a movie it'd be removed. As an example, imagine an obviously wrong statement in the summary of Batman saying that his alter ego is Clark Kent (trying to remember the actual articles, this wasn't one, but they were just as bad). This is clearly wrong and easily verifiable, but someone would revert the edits and dispute it in the talk pages. If an algorithm were incorrectly described on a CS page I would try to correct it, leaving comments in the discussion about why I was making changes. They were almost all reverted to incorrect pseudo-code or python implementations. Again, these were easily verifiable (in some cases by literally copy/pasting the python code and trying to run it). It was just an exercise in frustration so I gave up. Maybe things are better these days, I haven't bothered since 2010 or 2011.
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So grandparent claims it's one of the most popular databases out there; your first links claims it's in 4th place of all open-source databases; the second link says it's 4th place overall. Sounds fine to me (of course, who knows how those sites came up with those statistics). Maybe he ninja-edited and originally said the most popular, I guess that'd explain the rage.
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Going to second buildroot. I played around with yocto/oe and found it overly complicated for what I needed. Buildrot is much easier to grok and modify/add packages.
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It's also theoretically the nature of democracy - people pool their assets and collectively decide what to do with them. Not every individual member is going to feel like they're paying in what they want or getting out of it what they want, and everyone's a critic. But where you say, "everyone else is forced to pay for stuff you want," I think the less belligerent statement of principle would be, "everyone collectively pays for what the majority decide on."
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The way I like to think about it is ... Birds build nests, Bees build hives and Beavers build dams.
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This depends on the country. In Germany I get exact change, which includes very annoying 1 and 2 cent coins. In Holland shops round up (and down, perhaps) so you always get back 5 cent as a minimum.
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I notice the two magical questions on the application page:

"Are you eligible for veteran preference?

"Are you a current or former federal employee?"

Are these civil service positions?
Is this position is remote only ?
True, the sandwich comparison was wrong and yours is good. But GPs question stands: what makes this worth the extra price over its competitors?

Or: what makes premium oil worth the extra money, compared to regular?
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This looks very similar to a question I asked yesterday about enthuse :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8985364
What did you try to change?
> Its a lot easier when your entire country is less than 10 million.

I just dont understand why do people use this excuse. No one is saying that you have to implement a new idea for all Americans the next day.

Start a pilot project with 1 or 10 million people. See if the idea works. If it works, implement it nationwide.

> too many variables at play someone could use for a deduction.

Going to the moon involves too many variables, are you saying that building an website to handle taxes automatically (or atleast which does most of your work) is more difficult than rocket science?
That is a crap load of cash :-) Interesting concept though.
> As a precaution we have put the Heroku into maintenance mode while we deal with the ongoing issue.

Looks like both production and development environments of heroku have been taken down. No further details so far...
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Here is an interesting study done on it. PDF warning.

http://www.jem.org.tw/content/pdf/Vol.9No.2/06.pdf
Server is getting a lot of hits unfortunately. And generations take a lot of resources. Sorry :(
But there are some of us (including me) that would love to work on both
Check out the book "High Performance MySQL" at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022343.do from chapter 9 and beyond it covers replication and high availability. All this for MySQL which is not event the shinning crown of RDBMS.

If you think that automatic sharding is the answer to handle high loads then your are in for a very exciting surprise specially when things go awry and all that missing ACID compliance comes knocking...
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If you're willing to do a little bit of configuration work you can accomplish the same thing with TPLink WR702N micro routers for $20 each.
I'm hopeful this is as solid as the video makes it look. All the points it covers - forgotten passwords, bad coverage, troublesome initial configuration, no easy way to extend a network - are things I've seen people choke on.

I don't really agree with the negativity here; sure it probably doesn't do as much as ubiquiti gear or dd-wrt or whatever, and it may cost more, but I think for the average person these are far outweighed by the "throw another box at it" simplicity.
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Are we looking at the next winner of the Ig Nobel prize for literature?
They'll also abandon perfectly good dams just to move up stream and build another. They're some of the most environmentally destructive critters on earth; like most creatures if allowed to thrive they'll just keep devouring every tree and damming every river until they starve and die off, only beavers can wind up taking whole ecosystems with them.
What is the significance of if they are? I would assume that these jobs would be. Not going to be under a 3 letter acronym branch ;)
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Which I still wouldn't do. It's a commodity, engine oil, and largely the same between brands. Ditto with PM software. Or most any other software.

If the creators of Matterhorn can continue to shelve egos, keep effecting some humble sincerity and focus on why their tool is better, we may find it's an exception to that rule.

Edit: clarified that the devs are already showing low-ego and sincerity - I realized my wording didn't suggest that earlier.
Summary:

If you look closely enough, nobody really knows exactly what they're doing.

When you realize this, you're no longer blinded by the thought that you or other people know everything about something.

Then you also realize that all the stuff that is created by people isn't necessarily how it should be, it's just the outcome of the circumstances that the people were in.

With this realization you allow yourself to think more creatively (outside the box) about things.

However, the author and me don't have any idea what we're doing so I wouldn't take his or my story too seriously.
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It looks nice, without a doubt. But I'd be more inclined to buy a poster that I can look at and remember that particular piece of code that was a pain to write/debug[#].

The poster can be a good thing to get after shipping a milestone!

[#] maybe displayed as a big "snake" with all the code put together
When was the Denver trip? I was a college debater (in Denver), and Chipotle #1 was the campus burrito joint for me.
Yet another argument for building static websites https://eager.io/blog/build-static-websites/
Thank you for the feedback! Custom quizzes would be really nice to have and they are probably quite easy to add. In fact, I already have the tools to generate custom city collections:

https://github.com/sharkdp/quizzity/tree/master/geodata (see cities-EU.json, for example).

Contributions are always welcome, of course.
This is also how I see a lot of human behavior. We do things for emotional need or feel compelled to do them, then later justify them logically. I dislike the modern idea that humans are somehow fundamentally different than animals, from a cognition standpoint. It just seems overly self-serving.
Any details there? wrt or does it work out of the box?
If he has got 4Gb of RAM it's more likely he's using a 32bit OS that can't address the extra memory.
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It is in fact an issue of grammar. Irregularity is primary feature of human language grammar--a source of delight to some and a source of annoyance to others. One of my favorite examples from language acquisition research is the small child who says "I goed to the store." In this case it's literally the exception that proves the rule.
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My pleasure. I like this meta-introducation approach - i.e. when there is abundance of introductions its worth make an introduction to introductions.

As a side note, one of things that made me using Meteor.js is the easiness of starting (largely to great official examples and tutorials).

BTW: I highly recommend Discover Meteor by Sacha Greif & Tom Coleman (https://www.discovermeteor.com/). One of the best tutorial books I went through.
> I'm kind of like the view

Are you like the view, of the view or do you like the view?
Why is 'so fun' so wrong?

Fun can usually be substituted freely for a word like 'entertaining'. Is there something wrong with saying "That was so entertaining"?
This is a thing that I have learned as well.

I have done projects that seemed small, and then by the end they were enormous, but I knew them intimately.

But when I start a project with the idea of it being that big in my head from the start, I'll get stressed and psych myself out, sometimes from doing it at all.

There's something to be said for ignoring the forest for planting the tree, to turn a proverb on it's head.
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You shouldn't need two routers in normal apartment conditions. Unless your walls are filled with water or contain a tuned copper mesh, you should probably just spend more on your main router, make sure to use 5GHz, and run wires if that doesn't work. Unlike 2.4GHz with 1-3 non-overlapping channels available (depending on your chosen bandwidth), the 5GHz band has 21 non-overlapping channels.

You're pretty much guaranteed to be fighting with several neighboring wifi networks in an apartment (and you're more likely to get the hidden node problem), so that's pretty much worst case for 2.4GHz.

If you have a legacy requirement for 2.4GHz, try a single ASUS RT-N66U before installing two routers. I've seen it effortlessly cover several-thousand-square-foot areas from the back room or basement. I was able to get reasonable signal from one in a lobby through four vertical floors (and through many other active wireless networks).

If you want AC / have AC-capable devices: get an AirPort Extreme if you use Apple hardware, or any of the ASUS AC (like the AC66U) routers otherwise. Be forewarned: many AC routers on the market combine their maximum 5GHz N speed and 5GHz AC speed for their "total capable speed", for example "N600 + AC1800 = AC2400!" [1] (it is a very nice router, but you're just about as well off in an apartment with an AC66U). Also, if you get an ASUS router, make sure to replace the default firmware with Tomato Shibby or asuswrt-rmerlin as the stock software has a bad habit of sprouting moderate to critical security vulns (ASUS isn't special here. Many of the consumer router vendors have this problem.).

[1] http://www.asus.com/us/News/hE5SJg3y7bbIBIGO
True. It's hard. And the industry may not have a winner. That Uber is at all in contention is a big surprise. It's also what justifies the valuation.
That's mainly correct. Or they used for it something it simply isn't suitable for.

You can't just throw random data into it and expect it to work. Proper document modeling and understanding write concern solve almost all the problems people have with MongoDB.

It still has a ways to go but so many of the comments here are issues from way back in v2.0.

Regardless, it's still very popular and only gaining popularity. And improving.
Since this is for git repositories you'd probably want to sub that `find -type f' for `git ls-files'.
It's good to see disruption in home networking with better UX.
It's not hard to agree the "Admin Consoles" running at 192.168.0.1 look a bit outdated now, both in terms of ease of use and elegance of design. Also the reliability of WiFi will be more critical as more devices are connected in our home, especially to non-technical users.

But the price is a bummer. Routers are dirt cheap nowadays ( during Christmas/Thanksgiving a dual-band was only $18). I've got one WiFi router for each room, backed by Powerline, and the total was probably only ~$200.

Well I guess $100 isn't too much for peace of mind, if it really works as advertised...
As someone whose gone through the hiring process for the USDA and Dept. of Interior, how is it that the USDS is bypassing the normal usajobs hiring process?
That one is a Disneyland roller coaster, loosely themed after the real one. And a decent one, at that!
No one who eats meat can have morals stronger than those of the butcher.

Of course, that implies that U.S. citizenship is already tainted---if you aren't actively protesting, working for the government in an unrelated area isn't any worse.
I'm not familiar with the history of Krispy Kreme. Can you elaborate?

Last I heard, they had been doing pretty well throughout the early '00s.
The transition went much much slower than it does today most people are missing a very important point here.

We aren't just talking about automation of physical things we are also talking about automation of intelligence based tasks.

Also people often bring out the horse carriages as an example of how the people who controlled those just went on to become car drivers instead but the horses they never found new occupation.

Automation is replacing higher and higher levels of thinking and that is the problem. Its not just going to compete with you for your physical abilities but your mental ones. That's the big deal and thats where we are headed.

Driverless cars illuminates that point quite substantially.
Agreed. I do like "About Us" pages, and read them frequently. Luckily, this founder uses his personal email address all over the site (see Contact Us, Learn More buttons). So, with a bit of Googling I was able to learn what I wanted to know about these guys.
Apple is getting into automotives - the question is for what. They're hiring engineers away from the other auto firms. I think it's for something bigger than car stereos.
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Well, not quite the same thing... the TP-Link product is 2.4GHz only, which is kind of a big deal these days. Support in DD-WRT and Tomato for 5GHz and 802.11ac protocols is somewhat shaky today (on some devices at least), but hopefully will improve.
Have them on the same SSID.

Have the 5GHz channel on a separate SSID. Some devices (Apple seems to be bad at this) will end up having an "affinity" to the lower speed 2.4GHz because of signal strength (often only trivially different, and usually with more interference).

I have "My Home SSID" and "My Home SSID 5GHz", and set the 5GHz with a higher connection priority and it works well - only if the 5GHz noticeably deteriorates does it switch down (and devices that are not 5GHz get more access to the 2.4GHz network).
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One of the key "strategies" is that you leave it in the foil for structural support. It makes a pretty huge difference in the overall experience.
Compuware aquired dynaTrace in 2011, that was the exit. A risk capital bought the department from Compuware and created an independent company again.
My professor in college made the statement and his class said "oh yeah right GCC is everywhere".

He spent the break writing tests for GCC and found errors in it's parse tree. He submitted bugs and patches cause good guy coder.
What about gas prices? Why do we, as a country, put up with "$2.59 9/10" as a price? It's ridiculous.
Depends on your point of view. North America used to be a festering swamp of mosquito-ridden beaver ponds. Built over millions of years. That WAS the ecology. The landscape we see today is unnatural and temporary.

We reformed this continent to suit ourselves. Most attempts to protect some bit of land and trees in the name of preservation is ... shortsighted at the least.
Awesome, I had been wondering about Slack.
This service looks really cool, I like that it's flexible for different preferences. Some guys on my team like Trello's columns better while others like full blown tickets a la JIRA.

Will you offer some sort of micro plan for small teams of 5 or 6?

Here's a good comparison of the various PM tools so you can compare Matterhorn to the established players. http://stackshare.io/stackups/trello-vs-asana-vs-basecamp-vs...
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Does anyone know if this does (or has plans to) integrate with GitHub / GitHub issues? I have a pretty similar setup with Trello right now that feeds off of various repos, but this would be a simpler setup if it integrated nicely.