skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's old is new again: plenty of lower-end TN LCD panels pull the same colour trickery to fake 8-bit colour from 6-/7- bit panels (or, reportedly, 10-bit deep colour from 8-bit ones in some cases).

That's known as temporal dithering/FRC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_Rate_Control ). To get the 2 more bits of "fake" colour depth requires a 4-frame cycle, on which you display either the darker or lighter colour in sequences like 0000, 1100, 1110, and 1111. It's a form of PWM and the same technique used to drive those large outdoor graphic LED display signs, although to avoid flickering the frequencies are in the tens of kHz.
Julia mentions atop (which is good), I think htop is also worth noting here as an improvement on top.
Vijucat's advice is excellent. It's good to hear this before you turn 30.

On a similar vein, consider looking at these two titles from Crimethinc:

"Days of War, Nights of Love"
http://www.crimethinc.com/books/days.html

"Work"
http://www.crimethinc.com/books/work.html
It's equally hard talking to non-parents for exactly the same reason. I used to spend a couple of nights a week in the pub, going surfing, doing stuff with my mates.

Now I have homework, bed time, bath kids and all the other stuff.

So when a non-parent friend says "We're going to see this amazing band for $$$ we'll be back at 3am" It is VERY tempting to say "Oh my life, my poor life, you guys are so lucky." Because you do feel a little bit like that. For a nano second. And because your mates don't want to hear "Well I HAVE KIDS AND THEY'RE AMAZING!!" so. There's that.

So you (the non-parent) hear part of the story. You are working (as I was a few years ago) on part of the information. It is a lot easier for us parents to talk 'my kids is amazing' at school drop off, or over a cup of tea at lunch time.

Re: "devote your entire life to your kids and to never leave them alone" that is a hard one, your kids NEED YOU. So you can't just drop them off at the park and go to the pub. Also, all your old friends don't want to play football with the kids, so your kids start to be your new friends. Which is weird.
It runs Ubuntu and costs about the same of a ChromeBook Pixel here a few weeks back. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9185526). Seems to be limited to 8 gigs ram, Pixel gives you 16 but has less HD space. No USB Type-C either...

How does the keyboard compare to a MBP? Love that keyboard.

Do they also include free Ubuntu stickers to cover up the Windows logo on the keyboard? :)

Would love to hear from real devs using this.
Not just my morality, as stated above. But you're clearly not following the discussion, so I'll leave you be.
A little napkin math gives that as 6000 solar masses ... so quite a big thing.
Better announcement/overview link:

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/aluminum-ion-batte...

Or the research paper itself (alas paywalled):

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
The ebooks are DRM yes (either ePub/Digital Editions style or Kindle). Most e-audiobooks are now MP3.
Gassee really overplayed his hand.

Had he been more reasonable, Apple would have acquired Be Inc and based their next generation OS on BeOS.

I had a similar feeling when I tried Rhapsody DR1. Yeah, it was kind of cool and had potential but Be had a real working OS that was just waiting for that Apple polish.

In the end, Jobs and his vision were probably better for the long term health of Apple but at the time, I too thought that Apple was making a mistake.

I still like to muse about what could have been.
str.format_map takes a mapping directly.
This was posted yesterday as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332097
I totally agree with you. What do you think is the prospect of software engineers?
"The pain OP feels is the realization he's a fraud"

Holy judgment, Batman! I think the gnawing pain he's experiencing is the FEAR that he's a fraud (which I think is far from a decided matter). What an awful thing to call him when all you've got to go on is a couple of paragraphs.

And honestly, I think ambition is probably a prerequisite for feeling the way he feels. Unambitious people are likely immune to feeling like they're wasting time.

Working on something original, that you're the sole creator of, that you're solely responsible for, is a TERRIFYING prospect no matter how much you love the work you put into it and no matter how ambitious you are.

Calling him a fraud because he hasn't figured out how to crack the existential barrier between what he wants to be doing and what he's doing is such an oversimplification of how people work that I'm actually a little offended FOR him.

Comments along these lines only perpetuate Great Man worldviews (which I also consider a gross oversimplification of how people operate).
Great writeup. I have been using Clojure for years, and I still got good ideas from this article.

BTW, I have been reading through Carin's (still beta) book Living Clojure - also recommended.
Ours doesn't have ebooks nor audiobooks (at least downloadable, maybe it has CDs), and the books it does have are translated, which is great for the general accessibility by the population, but a loss for those of us who can read the original versions.
130+ categorized WebDev resources. Perfect intro for people starting out
Second that, 8GB of RAM is a bit meager.
My Macbook Pro isn't even a year old yet, so I won't be replacing it any time soon. But hardware like this is finally competitive with Apple - I'd be taking a close look if I was in the market.

The fact that OS X has gotten worse and worse with every version makes me switching next time even more likely.
I'm a non-native speaker and I know what Bedlam means. Thanks to Ultima Online and Diablo :)
You skipped over the middle of that sentence. If you're afraid that the person you're visiting has guns and is unsafe with them, or will actively try to kill you with them, by all means don't visit them. Most gun owners feel the same way. Allowing people to own guns does not give them carte blanche to handle them any way they want without being criticized, shunned or charged with a crime.

They also might accidentally stab you with a knife or have horrible aim when trying to butcher a chicken you're holding, and cut off your hand with a cleaver. Is it reasonable, then, to be uncomfortable around knives in a kitchen, too? Even when they're not in use? Within certain boundaries of storage and safe handling and usage, knives are not dangerous.

It's the same with guns. Within certain boundaries of safe handling, by someone who you don't suspect is mentally unhinged, gun possession or use is a non-problem. Anyone who is unsafe with guns, around anyone who's familiar with gun safety, will quickly be educated about proper gun handling.

As with bows and arrows, and swords, and crossbows (which, when cocked, are not so different from guns... they must be handled very carefully, but where's the casual disparagement of crossbow owners?). And all other things that have their places in everyday use, sport or culture, even when they could be dangerous. The origins of guns as weapons is irrelevant. Guns are not unique in that respect, yet many people who dislike, or are afraid of guns, treat a gun phobia uniquely as something to be praised. "How would any reasonable person not be afraid of guns? They're instruments of death!" How would any reasonable person not be afraid of a crossbow, or a katana, or even a knife? We learn to use knives safely without fear, and learn not to be afraid of swords and (cross)bows when they're being stored or carried or used properly.
As far as I can tell, he makes money from three sources. First, is the single ad on the from The Deck on his site. Second, he sells sponsorships for his RSS feed. Lastly, he makes money from ads on his podcast. So, it's not just his site. I think he makes more money from the RSS feed sponsorships than he does for the Deck ad, though.
I'm set on the lobste.rs front, but I got some more invitations. Three left now.
In South Africa we say "Ja, Nie" (which translated is "Yes, No" or "Yes and No"). In this case there does happen to be a theory as to where it came from. The story goes that during the Anglo-Boer War[1] when Afrikaaners were captured they would use it as a response during interrogations - an exceptionally defiant phrase. There is no explanation or story for how it entered common use but you do hear it almost on a daily basis.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
OpenStack: VC investments are slowing
"Then I believe that a guaranteed income would actually result in more entrepreneurship."

In a future where finding easy problems is hard, and everyone is trying to start a business... you'll going to see a lot of "sit-com" start ups.
It's unfortunate that discussions of autism make you uncomfortable. Would the world be better if Microsoft were not taking steps to accommodate autistic candidates in their hiring process?

Microsoft is already selective in their hiring process. It makes sense that they would be selective in regard to candidates with autism. What I find refreshing is their attempt to select on what matters and eliminate things like "what musical instrument do you play?" and "what is your favorite craft beer?" from their process.
From Eduard Glas, Between Form and Function, Social Issues in Mathematical Change, http://logica.ugent.be/philosophica/fulltexts/42-3.pdf

"The opposition between the analytic and the synthetic approach to mathematics in the first half of the nineteenth century is well-known.. Less well-known is that both distinctions were rooted in a cultural clash, in the period of the first French Republic, between the established analytical tradition, guided by Lagrange and Laplace, and a new, geometrically-oriented approach, swayed by the revolutionary upstart Monge. These mathematicians had been assigned by the government to normalize and rectify mathematics to a perfectly transparent and hence universally learnable 'language'"

Gaspard Monge was the Director of Ecole Polytechnique, the pioneering French military engineering school, educational predecessor of West Point, MIT and others (http://www.uh.edu/engines/asmedall.htm).

"Monge... expressly rejected the reduction of mathematical reasoning to a formalism. He insisted on the indivisibility of form and content, and denied that any rules, mechanical or otherwise, could be given for the conduct of mathematical investigations. For him, analysis was not a language, closed in itself, but merely the 'script' for the notation of reasonings about quasi-empirical, especially geometric contents."
Repeating my similar comment, str.format_map takes a dictionary directly (available since 3.2).
Any idea where the Dragonfly code is for those commands?
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Gymnist Robot No. 26
> Most successful businesses are not the result of passion projects.

I would argue against that statement. What makes you say that? Passion is the necessary driving force to keep someone motivated enough to follow through.
If your library is an Overdrive subscriber I would encourage you to try again, they have improved their service immensely. eBooks on Kindle or tablet devices are now very easy and even include syncing between devices. Audiobooks have switched entirely to the MP3 format for near universal compatibility. The only annoying holdout is if you have an e-ink epub device like a nook or a kobo. You obviously continue to deal with limited availability, but the service has come a long way.

Quick disclaimer: I am a librarian.
NASA's Chris Mattmann previews his ApacheCon talk
8GB max RAM kind of rules it out for any heavy duty development.
Indeed, it would be unfortunate to lose your job to a machine, but oftentimes people fail to see the upside: if a robot can do a job more cheaply than a human, then whatever that robot produces is then cheaper for everyone else to buy! If most of the economy were efficiently automated, then you would barely need an income to survive or thrive.

Machines do not decrease your productivity. Just because a machine can make a shoe faster than you doesn't mean you can't make a shoe. If a machine can make houses in a day, that doesn't make your house will spontaneously combust because you made it inefficiently. Labor-saving machines only add to the productivity of society.

People have been losing jobs to tech since the dawn of civilization. It does suck if your job is automated out, but the overall good to society can't be denied.
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I'd be really interested to see someone take the research they did here, and extend the survey to various different cultures. Right now, this model will give you a prediction of how a sample of 244 danes will perceive your face, which may be at least somewhat representative of the danish population, but likely not too much beyond that.

It should be easy enough to survey people from different cultures and countries, and feed those surveys into the model, to get a more accurate representation. You could even take that, and have a global model, as well as different models based on cultures, to get things like "This is how you will be perceived by most people in the southern united states".
Still waiting on machines to free humanity from the shackles of manual labor.
Adobe Invites Others to Use Its Innovation-In-a-Box Idea
Fixing Broken Promises: TSDB and HBase
http://www.xmsxmx.com/opentsdb-performance-improvement/
One Million Swedish PCs Hit by Google Chrome Spyware
Surely if there are any "heads up"s they should be emailed to the team as soon as they happen. What's the point in waiting until the next morning to tell everyone that the test databases have moved?
Think of math as a more precise version of spoken/written language. We use math to describe the world around us in very precise terms. Ultimately though, it's impossible to completely abstract mathematics from language - something that should be taken into account by a discerning reader.

All we can do is observe that the behavior of an object in the physical world behaves as the model predicted. With enough observations and enough predictions, we can say with some certainty that the model is accurate. We invented the model, then we tested it and confirmed that it approximates reality, usually within a known range of uncertainty.

The universe is still logical in that causality is relatively logical. We're just describing the universe as we see it.
I've archived the original 2005 jquery script (aka jselect)
https://github.com/daniellmb/jquery-archive
The History of Board Games
I'd be concerned when trying to run a VM or two.
Since it's Ubuntu, it should have native Docker support so resource usage may not be all that bad?
There's a distinction between "mathematical proof" and "empirical proof". Physicists are certainly good at empirical proof, but I think the 'appeal to intuition' complaint was aimed at the mathematical side (ie. the Maths in Physics isn't very rigorous).

As a former Physicist and current Computer Scientist, I would agree with that complaint (although our use of empirical evidence is FAR below that in Physics).

For example, in Programming Language Theory it's amazing how many different notions of "equal" there are (isomorphism, definitional, judgemental, propositional, extensional, etc.). In Physics, there's just "=" :)
Seems like NASA announces every few months that we have found water for the first time on Mars, or in the universe. Isn't there a meme about this?
yay! i'll have to try that.
How do you decide what organizations get that special privilege?
For future reference, fusion happens in stars (and at the center of supernovas). H combining with O2 is a chemical reaction rather than a nuclear reaction.

On the other hand, the question regarding how supernovas combine/mix heavy atoms to form chemicals would be a very interesting PhD thesis. :D
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I would blame the French. Frenchmen speaking English badly often say Borat like phrases, for example "its great, no?". It happens when you learn vocabulary without grammar rules.
I don't know about the experience part. I think it's dangerous to assume that the more years experience you got, the better programmer you are.
Thanks for this, I went away for a week and didn't know this sub-thread took off so much and felt bad for not responding.
Anything reasonably under a full 24 hour day precludes sleep tracking. That's extremely short compared to the Pebbles that get the better part of a week and can be used for sleep tracking without issue.

Squabbling over 16 vs 18 vs 20 hours doesn't matter.
Look, I think there's some subtext to their statement, and I stick with that. You are fully within your rights to disagree with me on that. I see where you are coming from and I hope you can see where I'm coming from.

I definitely feel that there is some type-casting here for people with autism. They want them to be the dorky lovable genius that they see on The Big Bang Theory every weeknight at 5:30 and 6:30. I read subtext in the article as, "Yes, these people may have social issues, but they can make up for it with their intellect, and that's our motivator!" And I disagree with that.

These people don't need to qualify themselves at all. Their social issues are not intentional. They don't need to make up for anything. An autistic person with the same qualifications and skills should be considered for employment equally with someone not facing those difficulties.

And if an autistic person isn't a genius, well then he's just an average person who becomes an HR liability for being an asshole. That's what I sense from this article. You make some good criticisms though, I shouldn't have put in the "What they actually mean" part. I'll keep it in mind as I go forward, thank you.

Closing thought: We don't make homosexual programmers qualify themselves, right? Because we can accept that it's who they are, and that it wasn't their choice. So why is autism different? Because they might offend someone? I assure you, there are many people that are offended merely by the existence of homosexuality.
You're 26. I'm 30. This is how I feel about you.
Okay, that sums up how things were about 5 years ago; PSNR and friends can catch some problems, but we still don't have great objective metrics for video quality.

[edit]

Some well-known, but hard to measure objectively psychovisual effects are that some kinds of noise are well tolerated in areas of high detail, and very large loss of detail can be tolerated in high-motion areas.
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No, English is messed up :P

I learned about some of this from learning Japanese where I had to learn you answer the question directly rather than confirm the negative by repeating it.

In Japanese:

Q: You don't like cigars do you

A: Yes (Yes I don't like cigars)

In English

Q: You don't like cigars do you

A: No (it's effectively confirming the negative of "like")

My Japanese friends learning English of course found English very confusing. I'd point out if you answer the question with more than just "Yes" or "No" it's almost always clear.

A: Yes, I don't like cigars

A: No, I don't like cigars

Both have the same meaning, whereas just Yes or just No is ambiguous.

Of course the article had examples of just yes or just no. To someone of the same language background they are probably unambigious
Lol, I don't feel any pain. :)

I can see that my words can be easily interpreted like you did but I was quite literal is stating that the culture is WONDERFUL. I have no hatred against them although I'm definitely an outsider.

Also, I was literal when I referred to the closed source of these creations. I don't demand or expect them to release any source code. I'm merely wondering whether these demos would be MORE interesting with the source code released as well. As always. In 2015 it seems slightly weird that they don't.

To be clear, I definitely share the joy the authors feel accomplishing these feats. Deep respect.

But I don't get your sexism comment. I maintain that the sub-culture involves some behavior that can be described as "alpha-male". Maybe I was inaccurate with the wording. Could have said "competitive" as well.
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Oh there is a built in version in the Chrome debugger.

And it can sure handle js uglify, etc there are tools and systems that allow you to remove more than that and then it becomes really difficult to get a handle on WTF is going on.
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> I find it surprising that, despite the Haskell community's claims that Haskell is great for writing domain-specific languages, xmonad does not expose a DSL for you to configure it with.

I presume it's nice that you can actually customize xmonad with code. So an appropriate DSL would be a programming language so using Haskell makes sense. Any other DSL would be more limiting.

> If you want your config to use a Haskell package that's not provided by your distro, as many of the config examples do, you're out of luck unless you want to take the cabal route.

I can understand that this would cause pain. I suppose it's up to cabal and/or distros to fix this.
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That doesn't seem funky to me, given that `x` in your example is in fact not local to `inner`. It may seem surprising, but it's consistent with how Python handles locals in general.
NASA: We Expect Alien Life in 10 to 20 Years
I see this more as "No, you're not taking it far enough. It's even more of that thing you said than how you said it," and less as an auto-antonym.
His first book "The lights in the tunnel" is a great book too.
is that really any different than "Isn't it great?"
So from an energy prospective are robots better? Would generating all that power to run all those robots cause problems in natural resources?
Geography analogy, some people can discover a continent for some bunch of people, but the only thing you can invent or create is a map.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
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It isn't the physical ability of the robot that matters much to jobs, it's the intelligence. How about a future where each person is given a computing wattage allowance for an artificially intelligent workforce at AmaGoogleBaiduSoft. That way, each person can advance in intelligence and productivity in tandem with technology.
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