skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh maybe I didn't phrase it correctly. I meant that I don't know anyone who prints out their own pictures - most of my friends only keep their pictures on their phones/digital cameras, physical copies are only ever printed as presents and such, never to archive anything.
Yes, but Molyneux's design was called Higher Functions - all you controlled was the "mood" bars (adrenaline, blue funk, don't remember), no direct control over the agents. Used to have some assembly source from it, I think.
> many experts recommend not making them hooked up to a system that alerts a central monitoring service.

As a guy who regularly rides a big red truck to people's houses after their cooking pan gets a little too hot and smokey... thank you.
That's brilliant, I didn't even know this existed. Thank you!
Is there a non-slideshare link?
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Yes. I have to do a thing on OS X on every new Mac to stop iTunes loading when I do random things. And 'syncing' is a little 2007.

On my iPad I have to go into 'iTunes Store' to buy books for iBooks. Which is bizarre.
What is the difference between x ?: y and x || y?
I'd say the fact that humans can cure other humans from 3rd degree burns does not make jumping into fire a beneficial.

We have only started system biology research, we barely started to realise we have more bacteria than our own cells and we have absolutely no clue how alcohol or any other metabolites affect those bacteria.

I believe any of high energy density foods (meat, sugar, alcohol, processed grains) have only short term benefits.
There's a section in the README about speed: https://github.com/eslint/eslint#how-does-eslint-performance...

"ESLint is slower than JSHint, usually 2-3x slower on a single file. This is because ESLint uses Espree to construct an AST before it can evaluate your code whereas JSHint evaluates your code as it's being parsed. The speed is also based on the number of rules you enable; the more rules you enable, the slower the process.

Despite being slower, we believe that ESLint is fast enough to replace JSHint without causing significant pain."
This is not a very helpful response. Just because your anxieties are not triggered by the knowledge of what the NSA does, does not make it right to minimize the worries of others with vague (i.e. not backed up with hard evidence) and dismissive attempts at corollaries [1]. There are massive practical differences between the NSA/government holding my emails/email data without my knowledge and Gmail's black box that your average person takes it to be. The most important being: if Google decides to wrong me in any way pertaining to my data, I have legal recourse against them with the government acting as mediator in a civil case, and secondly, Google is pressured to act within the confines of law with what they do with my data -- they can't discriminate against me if I'm searching for or sending emails about taboo topics. Should the government be holding email data, and should action be taken on that information (parallel construction issues aside), how do I go about finding recourse against the government? The judiciary has shown little inclination that they will hear these sorts of cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
We've mostly forgotten the people that created modern computing unless they've made a billion dollars
The DNA analysis not only backs up the evidence, but it's is a different kind of evidence. Language or pottery styles could theoretically be transmitted without there being a trace in people's genomes. Memes vs genes if you will.
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As a counter-anecdote, I have been very grateful for my Nest during these especially cold days. It takes the weather outside into account, and does a much better job keeping my house in a comfortable temperature range.
Better one is on the next slide:

- SQL as a primary interface

- ACID support for transactions

- Non-locking architecture

- High per-node performance

- Scalable, shared nothing architecture

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Can someone explain what the purpose of the safe min macro is?

What is the advantage of this:

#define min(a, b) ({ \
__typeof__ (a) _a = (a); \
__typeof__ (b) _b = (b); \
_a < _b ? _a : _b; \
})

over the naive

#define min(a, b) (((a) < (b)) ? (a) : (b))

?
There was a concept from Disney a few years ago that used puffs of air (like smoke rings) to add sensation to holograms.

http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/aireal/

There was also a project at the University of Utah a couple of years ago that was using images of fingernails to detect finger forces (including direction) on any surface.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jmh/Fingernail/
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I like this chat room. Looking forward to more people being around in it. I'll be sharing this with everyone I can!
"We need _fewer irresponsible_ drinkers", or even better "We need _less irresponsible drinking_"

FTFY.
Google Plus (Picasa) supports unlimited photos under 2048x2048. This is much better than printing (4x6) in terms of quality as well.

The question is what will happen to Picasa? Will it be free in 5, 10, 50 years? Will it be free?

https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/6558?hl=en
This quote is great:

"Perhaps he sensed that he was king of an entropic kingdom imprisoned by incontinence and cholesterol ads."
This should help:

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Yes, Post Money. The Company is worth more, because the valuation also includes the actual money put in by the investor. E.g.

Pre Money Valuation : $10m
Investment : $5m
Post Money Valuation : 10 + 5 = $15m

1% of $10m < 1% of $15m
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You're right - I should have read it and stated who this person was in the comment, in order to benefit others.

But mine was more of a protest at the uninformative headline.
This is a great chat room where I get to chat with people who have similar interest and actually have great input into our discussions. Keep up the good work!
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Wholesale LMPs are often more like $80/MWh at peak and -$60/MWh at nega-peak, but that still works out to 14¢/kWh, which is about the same difference you're calculating with.
indeed it would.
My favorite part is how it skips at random to arbitrary points of other episodes when playing Podcasts.
Tbh, when I bought my iPad and you didn't need to register it via iTunes I was relieved. For 3 years I didn't connect it to the computer so it never touched iTunes - this is how much I hate iTunes.

+ I am always afraid that if you sync with iTunes (yeah, soooo 2007) that I am going to lose something somewhere, a file, a tune, image or - for sure - a PDF in iBooks.

I've had so many things "lost" that way. Without warning, or a summary or an opportunity to make my decision.

iTunes sucks, big time.
We know that cars kill over 30,000 people a year in the US, and 500,000 people on Earth, every single year. Therefore, we should stigmatize responsible, considerate drivers.
One of the two values (a or b) gets evaluated twice. Eg)

min(a++, b++);

a or b would really be incremented twice.
No. I don't hate iTunes.

It could certainly be better but I wouldn't say I hate it.
If they improved the loading speed of iTunes and the App Store it would be fine. It's very similar to the Steam Apps in some regards (store and library in one).

I do hate the fact that ONLY iTunes can be used to move stuff onto an iPhone though. That's the part I hate.

If they broke it up into small parts I'd be so happy though...

tl;dr iTunes is a little worse than meh. I hate the fact that it's the only think we can use.
I only use iTunes to play mp3s on my machine and manually sync mp3s on my phone. It also does backups of the phone.

With that use case in mind, I'm very satisfied.

However, I stay away from videos, apps, sync or whatever else they shoved into this app. I don't have a compelling reason to use these features because they're either accessible through the iOS devices directly or iCloud (when it works).
I don't disagree, but I also don't think it's a bad thing. Most of the time the multiple failed trials occur in diseases where our current tools for measuring effect suck (CNS drugs). The FDA acknowledges this. Keep in mind that drug companies must submit all clinical trial data to the FDA (including all of the failures). It's not like the drug companies are pulling a fast one on the FDA. The FDA is looking at the totality of the evidence and making a call.
It evaluates its arguments once. That means min(expensive_calculation(x), expensive_calculation(y)) works how it reads.

A compiler might be able to avoid this if it can prove expensive_calcluation is pure, but this is usually not done unless WPO is in play.
Maybe I'm a cynic but that could be the point ?

Make it too cumbersome for your users to put an mp3 from their pc on their iPhone and they might just buy the song again from iTunes ?
Without reading the code, how do you know you're not inadvertently reimplementing something the same way a GPL program does?

If you are truly concerned about this, the best way to avoid copyright complaints is to be aware of what's out there already and deliberately build a different implementation. I would argue that it is more beneficial -- from your point of view -- to read as much GPL code as possible.

Let's stipulate that this hashing scenario (I don't know much about it) is an example of a common algorithm that is the best way to solve a specific problem... it probably is. The only way in the US to defend that premise legally is to go to court. If the court decides against you, you have to lobby the legislature. Is the process convoluted and costly to the point of being broken? Probably, but this is how the the law comes to grips with changes in society, and there's really no alternative if you want to live and work in the light of day.

> This solution, even if not directly copied, might end up in the code of the proprietary (and patented) product.

I and many others are deeply opposed to proprietary and patented software. I (of course) understand you need resources to build software, but I think there are other ways to acquire those resources. The vast majority of software that people use is open source, free software (Firefox, Chrome, Nginx, Apache, Java, PHP, .NET, Linux, Android, MySQL), and this has been amazingly great for society (admittedly mostly rich, western society though). Can you imagine the cost of a browser if everyone had to license it and all the technologies contained therein? PNG, JPEG, GIF, SVG, SSL, JSON, XML, 2D rendering, font rendering and layout, hardware accelerated rendering, JavaScript, JavaScript interpretation & JIT, DOM processing, CSS application, user interface toolkits, video codecs, audio codecs, network protocol licenses, memory management algorithms, blah blah blah. By the time you were done, Firefox would cost $60 a copy - if you were lucky.
I think it happens in every single mass consumer industry, not just video games. If you have a crowdsourced backing of half a million dollars, then that is a lot of people backing you. If you don't meet your goals it only takes a couple of angry nuts to get these threats.
Very nice!Here's a good follow up on the inner workings of onyx. https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/onyx/blob/0.5.x/doc/user-...
I have. The project is an event based http server and client. Mostly I work with libevent, redis, and openssl. We don't build our software on Windows so we don't have to worry about the limitations on that platform (non-POSIX mostly).
There's a few 'handy' things I'd like to do - for example, I am considering replacing my basic central heating/hot water controller with a Raspberry Pi and having features such as a low-heat, vacation mode where the system knows I am 'x' miles away from coming home (tied to my phone's location) and it will fire up everything again.

Although I'd consider doing more (ESP8266 modules with MQTT looks interesting, albeit in its infancy), the proliferation of 'standards' (properitary and otherwise) is offputting. Then there's the standards designed to interface between all the different standards...rinse...repeat.

Edit: Spelling - I have a dodgy laptop keyboard with melted keys due to a motherboard failure!! Waiting for Dell to come back again and change it!
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Dumb detectors can have the same problems. I'm not sure if they get contaminated or suffer some kind of other breakdown, but I had to switch out two smoke detectors in recent time due to their propensity for going off on a whim. Of course, normal smoke detectors don't come with the Nest's hefty price tag...
To give credit, I saw this on reddit this morning.
I feel like http://archive.org/ deserves a mention here for their efforts of preserving digital history. Personal photos or other data are not in their scope, but they do wonderful things with web pages and other stuff that's publicly available. I just read Brewster Kahle's interview from Founders at Work this week and it blew my mind how determined to build the Internet Archive he's been for practically his whole career.
Yes.

On Windows at least there are some iTunes alternatives for loading stuff onto iDevices. You'll have to google around for them, but the couple I tried on my niece's iPhone worked fine.

I don't iDevice on my rMBP, and I think I accidentally launched iTunes once before I remembered to install VLC. Other than that, I simply pretend like it doesn't exist.

(being Android all around makes life super easy)
I feel like the odd one out. I am happy with iTunes. I like the way it presents my library and the store. I find it reliable and easy to use.
Yes, I clicked on iTunes store today and could not find the 'App Store' anywhere.
I don't hate the concept or utility of iTunes. I just hate the business model of not being able to port/copy/relocate my downloaded files that I bought to other devices. So my personal preference is to stick to DRM free platforms like Amazon and Google.
Why aren't there any alternatives ?

I remember fiddling with some tools on Ubuntu to put some music on an iPhone - like, half a decade ago. Is that now blocked somehow ?
I really like it. Easy sync with iOS. Not only music, but also contacts, calendar, all that jazz. Even though I use Firefox for browsing on OS X, I still find it handy to use safari for browsing where I left from iOS. Transcoding from FLAC to ALAC is easy and fast with XLD[1]. There's the nice visualizer from SoundSpectrum called WhiteCap[2] (free version is included). Organization is simple.

[1]http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23430/x-lossless-decoder
[2]https://www.soundspectrum.com/whitecap/
Nice thanks. Makes perfect sense and I can see that making for a hair pulling debug session if you weren't aware of it.
The purpose is to evaluate `a` and `b` only once; consider `min(i++, j)`.
Ah lawyer weaselwords. From the paper, that definition consists almost entirely of people who don't need closed captioning,
Nope. Every piece of software has its limitations. I learned to use it, accept its limitations, and moved on with my life. I have better things to do than wrestle with a software application or expend time and energy actively disliking it. It will not change, but is necessary for daily use. I got over it.
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I've just jumped over using slack with 3 channels, just added this one too :)
I don't hate it, but I don't like it enough to use it. Any apps I download I do from the App Store from my iPhone, and for music I use Spotify almost exclusively.
Strange, I would call these preoccupations BS if not for the source. This was a common concern some 20 to 30 years ago, when the internet was practically non existent and people still used old floppy disks and cds. Today, a good part of our personal files are stored in the cloud and storage devices have become more standard through the usage of universal interfaces. Some of our personal data will be lost (whatever is left in the hard drives of old computers and not backed up) but the trail of information the world is leaving behind is so huge that what worries me is rather that time seems to have frozen. Everything we leave behind us, documents, pictures, looks as fresh today as it was the day it was produced. And as easily retrievable.
Nice and very interesting to chat and very easy to go
I've been using shumway for a while now. Thank you so much for making my web browsing experience lighter and faster. It's a huge improvement.
Yes. Lately, as a replacement, I've been using VOX[0] and it's a pretty sleek player.

[0] : http://coppertino.com
The Spectrum article was very informative. Thomas Pynchon riffed on this story extensively with his iconic (for geeks) 1974 novel "Gravity's Rainbow" in the tale of "Byron the Bulb". Another of Pynchon's prescient fantasy creations that is breaking into reality, the sentient light bulbs are self aware and communicate with each other.
I believe its because more often than not, the employer is profiting direction from the mobs own ignorance of itself. A classic case is where employees are not allowed to discuss their wages, as this of course allows the 'owner' of the organization to make bargains and deals, and so on. So the function of leadership, expressed as control over the crowd, has its own degrees of +/-'ve reality. In an open group, where everyone knows everything, its quite difficult to rile people up and get them to pick on an individual member; the dark line that forms around mysteries, lies, deceit and intrigue, is precisely the abyss into which any individual may fall. And it is always 'others' who push them into it.
The Domesday project has faired rather better than many other projects it's content is accessible online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday

And I believe the content on the original Laserdiscs has been reverse engineered more than once. Hopefully once content is on the web (unless it's behind robots.txt) it gets sucked up by the Internet Archive.

That of course doesn't take care of any rendering issues.
Yes, I hate it so much. I have had many discussions about how great other Apple products are and how frustrating iTunes is. It's like they are made by different companies.
If you're in bed, how do you know those lights are on?

Also, why wouldn't you turn the light off as you left the room?

Most of these "smart home" devices really do seem like a gimmick at this point. Maybe in the future, they'll be well enough debugged and refined to be useful, but for now, I just don't see a benefit in a normal* home. My dad uses Nests, "smart" locks, and remote cameras alarms (off-season) on his beach house - that makes sense, as he's a 5 hour drive from the house.

* normal for the US: 1970s 4-bedroom, 1800sqft, 2 level, no basement. I can walk across the house in the time it takes me to get my cell phone off the hall table (where I leave it to charge). The house a single thermostat, so I can't heat/cool zones, and the existing thermostat is programmable by day and time.
I tend to think of "smart house" features in this way. Every once in awhile I would appreciate having my living space adapt to my needs or respond to remote commands, but 99.99% of the time, it just doesn't matter.

I find there is only a tiny overlap between the many modern technologies I would like to have in a new home and the many so-called smart home features that are aggressively advertised. There are plenty of new systems I think I would find valuable, and quite a few of them distribute some function throughout the house but could usefully be controlled from a single location, but I've never seen much advantage in controlling everything together. That just seems to create one more point of failure, not to mention glaring security/privacy issues if any of the control systems are remotely accessible, which almost all of the major suppliers of home automation control systems proudly claim to be.
Sure, there was evolutionary pressure for it because fermentation products exist in nature and omnivores like humans are going to end up consuming them incidentally.
Ah, I assume the reason we all get identical avatars is that gravatar api access gets stopped by the corporate proxy. Any chance that's easily configurable? You're probably going to see a lot of corporate use by places who insist on self hosting everything so you might want to consider dealing with avatars yourself.
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No. No linux support. I got an ipad as a gift and to use it is a mess. Spotify can work, but the fact that you need Itunes to pass items to the ipad annoys me as hell.
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Google won't, that's the fact. That completely useless snapshot will live till the end of the digital age, whenever it will be. That's why I don't understand Cerf's concerns.
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That page is almost as much fun as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cultu... .
The whole point he's making that we do not know what might be valuable to future civilizations. We simply cannot foresee the way they would study our culture, in the same way the ancient civilizations would not be able to comprehend our current civilization.
Maybe if it didn't run like it had two broken legs I wouldn't hate it.
Regarding LPM for IP forwarding, there are similar high performance data structures: Luleå algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lule%C3%A5_algorithm or hybrid trees http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2007/15/LTU-DT-0715-SE.pdf
A lot of keyboard places will send you a sampler, with a few keys of different types: http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/wasd-6-key-cherry-mx-...
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Using itunes makes me sad. I wouldn't say it was a terrible product but it has way too many features all of them at a mediocre level, which amounts to a poor user experience
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One question: Your basic package says 1GB of RAM. Is that 1GB available to me or is the OS using some of that to. The reason I am asking is I have been considering something like this to run a Minecraft server for my kids and their friends. Ever since I changed providers their port forwarding is broken and I can't serve it from home. However to run efficiently a Minecraft server needs 1GB to itself so if the OS is using some of that RAM getting the basic service is out and so are the other options since they are not affordable for me.
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unfortunately gamers are more likely to be internet users and it is easier to threaten someone over the internet. i dont think this means that gamers are necessarily worse than other groups its just that the vocal minority are really vocal.
Yes, but it's his bike shed :-)
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