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The model behind my project is not designed after human interaction, but rather a combination of what is the most efficient for me to maintain and best mimics human behavior.

http://acuman.us/readmore.php
They did not set fire to anything. They repudiated their relationship with something.

Compare them to a bookstore. Say the bookstore sends some books back to the publisher (without saying why, but maybe the owner didn't like the paper or something). The bookstore might not be a very good bookstore, but it hasn't burned any books.

Anybody hosting the only copy of anything on Github is making a mistake, so it isn't fair to use an analogy implying that they destroyed something.
It's not quite a synonym for "different", though. If you say "that's a very different project", there has to be some context for what it's different from; it can't stand alone, except in some colloquialisms. On the other hand, if you say "that's a highly unique project", it's understood that it's very different from 'most of the (actual) other projects'... and aside from being verbose, that formulation is only an approximation to the meaning of "unique". For one thing, "unique" suggests a holistic comparison among the whole class, while something like "different from most" suggests a series of two-way comparisons (is it different from A? is it different from B?), each of which can only be yes or no, and "most just counts how many of the results are yeses. This is not necessarily what is intended, since the meaning can be corrupted into 'different from [the general characteristics of a group containing most of the others]', but I'd call that more abusive than just grading "unique". And even that changes the meaning of the grade: if something is 'extremely different from most of the others', then it can still be identical to a decent chunk of the others; the adverb only applies within the aforementioned comparison(s) (even if to a group). If something is extremely unique, then it's probably different from almost all of the others, but chances are it's also very different from most of them; the adverb applies to the holistic comparison.
Are you implying that by using Python 3 incorrectly you can run into unicode problems? I agree with that.

However, there are ways to do this safely. At the boundaries of your code you have to deal with the unicode/bytes question, in any language out there. The good thing about Python 3 is that once that boundary is crossed, unicode and bytes are nicely separated.
There is also time of day considerations. You can generally more easily sell seats for a noon departure than a midnight one. So, even regional airports with significant spare capacity often have some contention.
Right, lies, damn lies, and statistics.

You could pick data points to make either case. However if you plot transistor density, performance, clock speed, flops/watt, or other metric people attribute to moore's law you'll find the curve isn't holding. Improvements aren't stopping, but aren't doubling every 18 months either.

Take for instance 3 generations of intel chips (Sandy Bridge, Ivy bridge and Haswell), Nvidia GPUs, or Arm chips. Sure a new feature might do encryption, floating point, or some unusual graphic feature twice as well, but that's small fraction of the normal use case for that chip.

It's gotten so bad that nvidia often just renamed the chip, not actually revising the silicon between generations. Arm's new 64-bit generation of CPUS (cortex a53 and a57) aren't improving much at all over last years arm cores. Intel's new GPUs (one of the most parallel friendly workloads) aren't much better than 2 generations ago. Compare the best of the HD6000 intel GPUs to the old HD4000 2 genrations ago.

So by exactly what metric can support the idea that Moore's law isn't dead? Clockspeed? Performance? Transistor budget? Number of cores?

What today (april 2015) is 8 times better than 4.5 years ago?
"This program is produced by the Advertising Department of WIRED and sponsored by BNY Mellon.
CLICK HERE FOR BNY MELLON DISCLOSURES"

Can someone who work in advertising shed light on how native advertising is sold, produced and evaluated by the stakeholders?

Namely are the article's objectives/editorial aim determined by the advertisers. Who has ultimate editorial discretion?

How does one evaluate the effect of native advertising? Or is it currently mostly used to build "brand recognition" for the advertiser?
> There's a difficult line to find there; what kind of neuroatypical behaviour should or shouldn't be treated?

Does it cause you to pose a risk of harm to other people or yourself? If yes then treatment is strongly suggested and sometimes forced.

Does it interfere with your day to day life? Does it stop you from living an independant life or from being part of society (usually defined on your terms, not someone elses)? If yes then treatment is offered and the plan should be to help you achieve what you realistically want.

> There's this trope that people with mental illnesses—like John Nash, or Rain Man, or Sheldon Cooper,

A minor point but only one of those people has a mental illness. John Nash has a psychosis type mental illness. The fictional character Sheldon Cooper will probably be thought to have Asperger's Syndrome by most of the audience (although the writers haven't declared any diagnosis and shift between others). Asperger's isn't a mental illness, it's (in the US) a learning disability (learning difficulty in the UK). Rain Man probably has Autism which again is a learning disability (in US and UK).

> Or here's an even more borderline case: what if someone is convinced that they're hearing messages from the beyond, and decides to spend the next ten years writing a book about how to live at peace with the world? What if the book doesn't make sense? Should they be medicated, because they've clearly broken with reality? Or should they be let alone, because there's a remote outside chance that maybe we're all wrong and they're on to something? Should they see a psychiatrist or a counsellor, who they can talk to and can keep track of how well they're doing? If so, should that person take an authority role, or should they be someone to be worked with to reach a mutually agreeable course of medication (which may be none at all)?

You've posed this as if it's some big question but it really isn't. At least, in England. Maybe it used to be different or it's different over there. People who hear voices are provided support for that if they want it, but medication is reserved for times when the voices are intrusive or distressing. Anti-psychotic medication isn't fun and has considerable side effects.
One disadvantage of conda/anaconda is that you can't, or are discouraged from using virtualenv with conda/anaconda.

True, but conda has its own virtual environments that work quite nicely. You can make a new one with conda create and switch between them with activate/deactivate. You even get the same sort of interaction with pip (for the packages you want that aren't in conda or binstar), and I've been able to use e.g. Emacs packages that expect to work with virtualenv and have (mostly) had success using conda's envs instead.
Comes on very strong with the tale of currency replacing barter as a means of exchange, which I thought was very convincingly challenged in David Graeber's book Debt.
Systematically defeating bayesian spam filters.

They're introducing a bunch of noise into those spam filters so that the filter can't tell what is and is not spam.

It's actually a brilliant tactic.

We're getting to see a Red Queen's race unfold before our very eyes. How cool is that?
I can't wait until we don't have to deal with printing and scanning receipts.
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I flew a Cessna 152 "backwards" during my checkride. Any airplane can fly backwards relative to the ground given sufficient wind. What is impressive about the An-2 is its super-slow stall speed (the minimum airspeed necessary for flight).

From Wikipedia: "The An-2 indeed has no stall speed quoted in the operating handbook. Pilots of the An-2 say one can fly the aircraft in full control at 30 mph (as a contrast, a modern Cessna four-seater light aircraft has a stall speed of around 50 mph)."
As I've replied to other people: No AIML. My bot uses its own markup language custom-made to its needs that I call ACUMANSCRIPT. What makes it special is the backend, which is much more flexible and advanced then AIML (which focusing on exact string matching).

In fact, ACUMAN beat the ALICE bot in the last Chatterbox Challenge by over 20 points, winning the "Best New Bot" prize.

http://acuman.us/readmore.php
I can't immediately tell if M-Pesa is a digital currency in of itself or a P2P payment platform.

I'd personally be skeptical of any centralized virtual currencies as their inherent lack of tangibility means they could easily be seized, shut down voluntarily w/o compensation or crippled by regulatory interference. There's been several spectacular failures of this sort, including Beenz, Flooz and InternetCash - all examples of dot-com flops, as well. A whole bunch of others are around in the present. These should best be treated as toys, if even used at all.

The cheapness of Bitcoin is significantly overstated by focusing only on high-level aspects of conducting transactions and not on the more deeply technical implications.

Finally, the article's assertion that banks will have to evolve from being mere transferers to providing more services sounds anachronistic, given that this has been the case for quite a long time already.
Maybe if a patient demands pills, fine, the patient has already been brainwashed and lost and you have to give them what they want or you will get a bad score.

Yet whenever I visit a doctor for some minor issue, I have never asked for antibiotics, yet Doctors ALWAYS just straight away say I'm going to prescribe you such and such antibiotics.

I always push back and say is that really necessary? And they just get all glassy eyed and spout that this is the standard course they always do, as a preventative measure. (Despite that usually these interactions are over some issue that resolves without any difficulty when I don't take their prescription).

Would it be so hard for them to just stop the bullshit when it is clear the patient has a brain and is not going to be angry with them for not "givin them their pills"?
There's great value in tangible non electronic record keeping.
That's technically correct but an extremely inaccurate summary.

The reason ALSA and AudioFlinger add latency is to hide hardware-dependent differences as well as kernel-caused scheduling issues & policy decisions.

To achieve low-latency you need real-time scheduling, something Linux has with SCHED_FIFO but it's a bit kludgy, and getting the policy right on that is tricky (obviously you don't want a random app to be able to set a thread to SCHED_FIFO and preempt the entire system). So you have to restrict the CPU budge of a SCHED_FIFO thread, and you have to only allow apps to have a single SCHED_FIFO thread. But how much CPU time you give it needs to depend on the CPU's performance in combination with the audio buffer size that the underlying audio chip needs (and those chips also have different sample rates, is it 44.1khz or 48khz or etc...).

tl;dr: this is insanely hardware-dependent.
Yes! Sorry, i hadn't finished. You're quite right, the second one is insanity. But most religious people don't have that experience. I'll edit my comment.
And this is why there are prescription sugar pills available. Give the patient something, but don't give in to their stupidity.
Is it information addiction?
I have a Windows phone and I wrongly assumed that the Windows phone is behind on features. I figured that if it's on my phone then every other phone, especially iPhone, must have it already.

The other day there was some iCloud announcement about how if you take a picture on one device it will automatically sync to the other devices...and my mind was blown because if it wasn't doing that before what was the point of iCloud? I give the other phones too much credit I guess.
Those bugs are fixed and the algorithm regarding identifying countries and states in discussion has been improved.
Ignoring the question of "why are they valued so much," I have a more immediate question... what do they need all this money for????

Capital costs are low and slack is probably cash flow positive. Why are they raising a Series E for this much money? That's enough to pay for thousands of employees.

They must have something up their sleeve beyond just chat. My theory is investment is flowing into slack because enterprise was so quick to adopt them, and slack now has its foot in the door at many of the largest companies. This puts them in a position to compete with Dropbox, Box, and other enterprise-focused companies.

Slack is playing in a field much bigger than corporate chat. They are a new entrant into the enterprise platform wars and seemingly more agile than Dropbox et al. I imagine investors are putting money into this advantage position more than the slack product itself.
Maybe you also don't know about this project?

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

They had some interesting progress lately:

http://hackaday.com/2015/03/29/reverse-engineering-lattices-...
Relax? You've got to be fucking kidding me.
>when I finally realized what the clock root of the audio system actually was

How did you finally figure this out -- any recommended references?
I was not aware there were thousands of self-taught FPGA programmers in Asia. Even accounting for that: a) I'll wager most are using pirated software; b) that number pales in comparison to the billions of people and millions of self-taught programmers in Asia; c) they still have a snowball's chance in hell of working for or otherwise influencing Western hardware companies.
The spacing (called separation in aviation) is based on aircraft weight (which is similar to size). A heavy can take off following another heavy sooner than a medium or light can take off following another heavy. This means you can increase capacity by substituting bigger aircraft for smaller ones. Some separation details are listed at http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Mitigation_of_Wake_Turbul...

Gate spacing is an issue, but it is considerably easier to build more ramps and terminals, or update existing ones. The next generation 777 has folding wingtips for its longer wings so they still fit in code E spaces and taxiways. The largest is code F where a plane must fit in an 80 metre by 80 metre box. The A380 wingspan coincidentally is 79.75 metres. Landing fees at these airports are typically based on the aircraft weight, so airports are happy to have more passengers. They get more revenue, there is more incentive for connecting flights, there is more revenue for retail, parking etc. Bigger planes with more passengers are generally a nice problem for them to have.
The problem with "Tupper's self-referential formula" is that it's not actually self-referential at all. It's just a method for encoding a bitmap that's encoded in a constant value. That constant value is external data.
Chinese really is well-suited to poetry. This carries over into song lyrics, even for pop songs. Here are two that I really like:

* Tian Mi Mi by Teresa Teng - http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/teresa_teng/tian_mi_mi.ht... - which includes a line "your smile is like flowers opening in the spring wind"

* Sky by Faye Wong - http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/more/chinese-pop-songs/sky-by... - one of many beautiful lines translates as "The sky. Piled with layers and layers of longing."

There are certainly great lyricists in English, but the two songs I linked above were both massive popular hits. Teresa Teng and Faye Wong during their respective heydays are probably best compared with people like Madonna in the 80s/90s or Beyonce today (in terms of popularity, media attention, etc.). Is there anyone in mainstream pop music writing lyrics as beautiful as the ones I linked above?

(Fun side note: Faye Wong is a huge admirer of Teresa Teng, and has a great cover album of Teng's songs called Decadent Sounds of Faye. The arrangements of these songs are great and Faye Wong sings them beautifully).
Yeah, it's likely that the state of the visual cortex suffers a hard reset on the cut, but we integrate our experience at a higher level (semantic, not pure visual). It's the higher level that dictates our overall response. It might be one of the reasons why we possess intelligence and awareness.
Thank you! That's a nice compliment.

For me, it was 5% reading, 95% hands-on experience, though it differs from person-to-person.
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Ask HN: What monitor/alert system do you use to monitor your cloud servers?
I'm a nagios user, but I'm having problems to find an "equivalent" solution to my elastic AWS opsworks stacks.
I mean, machines will be created, terminated, stopped, launched or for some reason down.

I'm trying to use check_mk WATO api to configure a "scheduled down time" when a machine is stopped for example. Or even using the opsworks time based instances to avoid false alarms. I also would like to start monitoring new instances, and stop when the instance is terminated.

The hosts are running docker containers started by fig/docker-compose. Each fig.yml has its own 'monitor' container which is configured to monitor all the containers running on that host. This way I can monitor normal things on the host (cpu, disk, load, etc) and also only one HTTP check to my monitor container.

This is configured using the "custom json" opsworks and chef.

I saw that there are a whole new world about monitoring out there (prometheus, boson, shinken, etc ) and the SaaS like boundary, datalog etc.

My primary concern is to alert sysadmin guys when an http service (the monitor container) from one of the hosts returns something diferrent of HTTP 200 OK status code, for example.

Which tool or service would you guys suggest me ?

Thanks
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You should have a prominent "clear" action button, to wipe the pre-loaded example content with a click. I tried clicking on "Create New" in the upper right hoping that would generate that effect, but it just resets it all back. I think a 'clear content' button would be especially nice for mobile.
I would guess so. My last (cross border) flights in Europe were with airberlin, Ryanair and easyjet and I had to provide ID while boarding in together with my ticket, and at checkin because I showed up without a physical ticket, so they needed some way to verify I was the one who had paid for the ticket. I never showed any ID to the police, customs, immigration, or anything like that.
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PR / advertising firms seed articles into major publications like this - "Submarines" [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Python 2.6/2.7 handle Unicode just fine. I've had all-Unicode programs running since the early days of Python 2.6. Python 3 just does it somewhat differently.

If you need to print byte strings, you use

print(repr(os.listdir()))

That's worked since Python 2.6.
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Why was implicit int removed?
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Question: What are your favorite blogs/resources to use for guest posting?
I've heard over and over that there is tremendous value in guest blogging and posting. I produce primarily video content--lessons with experts on a broad range of topics pertaining to startups and entrepreneurism. I feel like getting blogs to include my content as a supplement should be relatively easy, but I've run into some walls with bigger blogs. What are your suggestions for the best smaller/niche blogs where my content might have a chance to reach an engaged user base?
Does your definition of "bad reputation" also includes modern software basing itself on ideas and implementation that either originated from Smalltalk or greatly improved by it, like GUI MVC , mouse integration, VM , Test Driven Development , IDE and much more ?

If yes then I hope Pharo keeps bringing a lot more of this "bad reputation" I find it very useful and productive. Frankly I wish I was aware of this "bad reputation" 25 years ago, would have saved me a lot of trouble learning all these languages which just recycle the same old things slightly modified. Unfortunately I converted to Squeak and then Pharo , a couple years ago. But better late than never :)

By the way you do not need to be a "snob" Smalltalker to be upset about mainstream's software disregard of good designs. There are endless posts on C++ design, Java design, Javascript design , Eclipse design , Visual Studio design, the horror of MFC, the horrors of web development, the horrors of android development and so much more.
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Yeah, sorry that wasn't clear.
This seems like a good time and opportunity for Debian to try their hand at one of the recent languages that have popped up like Rust, Elixir, etc.
...or those with pacemakers? ;)
IRC is quite capable, but Slack is like IRC without all the rough edges and with a nice API.

There's only so much a bot can do, and the presentation of IRC varies wildly between clients. Slack normalizes all of that, which for casual users is huge.

Clearly it's drawn a lot of inspiration from IRC, and rightly so, but it's measurably better in a number of significant regards.

There's still a place for IRC and XMPP, but where Slack is a good fit, it's a great fit.
Seek and ye shall find :)

(1) http://www.fpga4fun.com/ "FPGA projects: 25 projects to build using an FPGA board."

(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er9luiBa32k "FPGA 101 - Making awesome stuff with FPGAs [30c3]"

(3) http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/index.php/FPGA_course "I want to help hackers take the plunge, purchase an FPGA development board and get their first projects up and running."

(3b) http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/index.php/FPGA_Projects

(4) http://www.nandland.com/articles/fpga-101-fpgas-for-beginner... "The following pages give a quick overview of the basics of FPGA design. Read these tutorials to give yourself a solid foundation on your journey into the wonderful world of Digital Design. "
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This is a cross-site scripting vulnerability, yes, but client-side crypto does not necessitate cross-site scripting.

This implementation just so happens to not protect against it properly. There are legitimate arguments against client-side cryptography; this is not one of them.
Does this cause audio de-sync issues on Android?
I love highland one of my go to libraries these days.
You're one of the few people I've seen mention the usage of baby shampoo.

I saw it mentioned as a treatment for chronic sinus infections.
http://blog.sethroberts.net/2014/01/19/journal-of-personal-s...
My grandfather liked to tell the story of when he flew a Luscombe 8A backwards by pointing the nose into a headwind that was too strong for the plane's tiny 65hp engine to overcome.
I concur. In this case, I also think the development time to port the code to Python 3 is worth it, simple because Python 2 will be EOLed in 2020, which isn't that far away!
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The Samsung Galaxy S6/Edge has wireless charging (Qi and Powermat) built in.
very similar story as the discovery and loss of the Scurvy prevention/cure:
http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
There's a lot of emphasis in this article on how that era's ideas of what constituted science and medicine blinded them from the truth and cost them lives.

What analogous contemporary ideas will people be laughing about in the 22nd century? What parts of how we view science and medicine are costing lives?
what isn't mentioned is the speed at which the editor reads out code. i remember reading a similar story where the blind programmer recorded some code being read out, and it was extremely impressive to say the least. i could not understand a single word. i thought the recording was broken.