skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously there is a point where the economy can't absorb it or there is no one to do it, which is why I think keeping it steady with GDP is reasonable. 1% for public non millitary R&D is sustainable, 10% os probably not unless there is a big problem to be solved (e.g. An asteroid tumbling toward earth or something). That also allows us to keep training a healthy number of scientists to do something useful with the extra GDP (as opposed to training more day traders/speculators, capital has to go somewhere, might as well be somewhere useful).
Would you support a government-run cultural fund which buys all rights to work from the author at market value for taxpayer money and move it into public domain? E.g. the billboard top song for 2014 was by "Pharrel Williams". Should we pay this Williams e.g. $500,000 so this particular song cannot be locked up by whoever owns the copyright and can possibly hidden away like Disney did with some movies, but returns to those people who enjoyed it in 2014?

Alternatively, this fund could be run by a private entity. What would you pay to outright buy irrevocable permissions world-wide for e.g. "The Capital in 21st Century" which sold 1.5 million copies? It seems like you cannot measure the impact of a book until after it has become a bestseller, so negotiations may be problematic, as the more popular books will end up being expensive.

The "copyright foundation" could I guess, keep selling the books but would need to pay for their future value to the current copyright owner.
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I tried Vivaldi on OS X last week and I have to say I was quite impressed. It had a Midori/Linux feel to it which I liked (and it didn't crash). I'm going to continue using it and see if it makes it further than that one computer.
Interesting Timing, Google Bribing European Newspapers?
I agree, the OP title is a bit misleading.

I use dbus every day on my laptop and it works totally fine - I don't notice its existence. I'm all for improvements, but I'm quite patient and quite happy to wait this one out.
You can have a look at;

https://www.staticgen.com/ and http://gohugo.io/
Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies
Vatican urges action on climate change
I was skimming the abstract and got as far as "forced swimming" before I realised that the test subjects were not human.
The problem with REST is that it's great for what it was intended to do initially, but there are too many engineers that don't take their medication that actually use it to do RPC :P
Number of employees over time * number of workdays they made * 8 would be a reasonable estimate.
Naive REST (HTTP, JSON) isn't exactly known for its performance
alternatives, solutions, or closure

The link you posted has what I think is the right one:

The problem is that probably this code is not needed at all.

To me, DBUS seems like a solution looking for a problem: The majority of the time there is no real reason to have such a complex layer of abstraction for IPC, when the system already provides much simpler alternatives.
My only point was that a higher IQ is not necessarily an evolutionary advantage for modern day humans and you seem to agree with me.
Code == UX
Now if the items in the minibar is free, that would be a revolution. The hotel could just tell the guest that their fridge wont be restock during their stay, but their mini-bar consumption would be free.
Apples and protocols.

REST is an architectural approach, and it can very well be using the same overdesigned XML envelopes, binary-encoded payload or anything else, really.
Whatever your views on Christianity and the Catholic Church, if the official position of the Vatican becomes that Christians have a responsibility to protect the climate, then a huge number of people worldwide should start to take this more seriously.

Although as the article says: "Whether it will prove persuasive for American Republican lawmakers - around a third of whom are Catholic - is yet to be seen."

The actual statement is here: http://www.casinapioiv.va/content/accademia/en/events/2014/s...

Alternative article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/world/europe/pope-francis-...
Agreed, that said, I'm kind of wondering what non-naive (smart?) REST is, no sarcasms :P
Not everybody subscribes to the super cynical worldview, you'd be surprised how many people live their whole lives in exactly that state of naivety. We're all brought up with platitudes like 'the police is your best friend' and 'we live in a state with fair justice'. Given that it's no wonder that people will actually try to cooperate with police expecting justice to be done. You're essentially blaming the victim here.
The Shrinking Earth (2013)
The Sofitel in Bangkok does that.
You are right, sorry if it wasn't clear - I had in mind Riemann as a replacement for the statsd part of that duo. That's how I've seen it used but my knowledge and experience are limited.
Political Science and Social Science seem to be more spurious than Computer Science. At least areas of computer science deal with physics and / or mathematics (Electron tunneling, dielectric effect etc.)

I agree that the term is used too broadly. I don't regard myself as a "Computer Scientist". I'd argue that "Software Engineer" is another term that is too loosely applied, although it does have a definition.
Magnificent link, thanks. On the Apple subreddits there are occasional discussions about moving from WIn to OS X in which this issue of the static menu bar on OS X comes up. I have always preferred the OS X way, but could never explain why.

Additionally, does anyone know of *nix (preferably Linux) DE that does it the OS X way?
What is stopping you from doing this course project right now? Not meant as a criticism.
Don't get worked up by one highly stylized sentence from someone trying to make a literary point. There isn't nearly enough information here to pass that kind of judgement.
Another great Linus quote:

"The people who talk about how kdbus improves performance
are just full of sh*t."

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1930358/focus=193...
Ubuntu/Unity?
Google is the exception. Most major closed source vendors, even those known for their security, hide vulns that were not externally reported.
I believe he follows pep8 ;)
He was asked kindly by a man on the island not to publish anything embarasing about his wife. The writer thought the story would entertain others and improve his book so he disregarded that request. The islanders decided that someone who wasn't open to reasonable requests from them wasn't welcome on their island.
> That is why I believe the onus is on the owner of the ecosystem where illegal activities are occurring to take action, to boot out the users attached to the activity and, if it makes sense to do so, to put their materials out where it can be found.

That's very wrong. This implies that said owner is the one who decides what is and is not legal, which is moving away from a position of ignorance to one of facilitation for those cases where the law of the land does not exactly overlap with their actions. Besides being a breach of the privacy of those communicating using the node, which is what TOR is all about and which in turn could lead to records being kept and people losing their lives.

Not all TOR use is bad, and it's not up to the exit node operators to decide (but plenty of exit node operators should be assumed to be law enforcement of one form or another).
And apparently still nobody has read the mailing list to see what it's for...
He is actually more or less correct in the case of both Microsoft and Apple.
PDFs discussing topics like that used to look much more bleak. The code listings here look better than most of what I've seen before. Even the (dis)assembly has some syntax highlighting. This content deserves to be that nicely presented, I love it.
No, if you participate in the swarm with any upload activity at all. You know, the whole P2P thing...
So, if it's used in physics, do you define it as a tool for applying the scientific method?

If so, do those methodologies in physics also stop being "science" and start being a tool as well?

If you use a Bunsen burner in a method according to the scientific method, does it count as "science"? Or is it just setting fire to things?

Not sure where you're drawing the boundaries. Science is done with tools and methods, and mathematics is one of the most important tools of science, used to define some of the most important methodologies.
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Unity has never done it for me, and on my hardware it has not performed as well as I would like.

edit: a google search of unity doesn't show it with a menu bar for file, edit etc anchored top the top of the screen like OS X, those menus are still in the application window.

I'm an Enlightenment user when not at work, so maybe I need to create a E19 fork (I wouldn't know where to start).
It's a lot more subtle than that.
| "de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre."

Is literally: "To not know how to remain at rest in a room"

There is certainly no mention of one's own room, but it is a conclusion one could draw from the previous paragraph: these issues would certainly be avoided if one did not leave their house, but without additional context, it's not the only conclusion.

From the given context, my interpretation is closer to its literal core: people cannot content themselves to be still, in a state of calm.

People routinely and actively flee moments of calm, moments of idle. Glance around public transport, and you'll see people cramming every second with something - the ageless inability to remain calm in a room.
Not just the traffic data, also when the traffic was sent or received, which can be a powerful tool in finding the point of origin.
Thank you, very interesting perspective.

Increasingly that data can be obtained using collections of interacting phones in a community-driven way using travelling data from Bahn users, a la Open Street Map. The spectre of this happening might nudge transport companies towards embracing a more open approach.
It all started with a microbenchmark:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1930358/focus=193...

DBUS implementation aside (which seems to leave a lot of room for optimization), my initial reaction was that the gain was rather minimal compared to the claims of the systemd folks.
Those drives are all in one location. In addition to being many, the sensors also need to be widespread.
I can only think in all this remote islanders and how their way of living will be equivalent of the space settlers of the future. Tiny communities almost completely isolated from the rest of human kind, but yet at the same time, having to deal with the rest of the universe.
Politics is not defined by logic. Computers are (although "computer scientists" may not be).

You can argue that they're both not sciences, but not in the same sense.
The author talks about the fact that Computer Science is useful to real science and understanding the natural world – fine, but kind of irrelevant. Same is true for statistics, maths, programming, engineering etc., none of which are generally considered a subset of science.

What you need is a compelling example of the scientific process of hypothesising, making predictions and collecting data happening within the subject. I'm not seeing that here.

Computer Science usually proceeds as theorising from a set of axioms (where your axiom is a Turing machine or a type system, for example). It seems pretty clear to me that that makes it a branch of maths – which is not exactly a criticism of the subject!
Maybe mice let us evolve millions of years ago, so we can take care of their issues.
Martini is cool but you probably don't need it.

The main thing lacking from net/http is a flexible router. Using the standard mux and parse params out of the request is doable but something like httprouter is often worthwhile.

Wrapping Handle or HandleFunc is easy enough that you don't really need some framework for middleware. If you keep to the standard interface there is plenty of middleware about if you need it. Though you can use things like Gorilla context for request context it is so easy to use a map of requests pointers to data protected by a mutex it seems silly to use a library to do it.

I feel like Go is a bit of an anti-framework language in general. Anyone trying to offer an all-things-to-everyone solution is going to stray into reflection and interface{} everywhere and I think the more Go you write, the less happy you get with this sort of approach.
no, both concept and implementation is bad. This thing shovels and computes a LOT of data per call, you cant optimize that out because its what authors of kdbus intended.
Its typical 'look at all that CPU we have now, lets use it' mentality that keeps Wirth's law true.
Free speech means that even though your speech can have consequences, but those consequences can't come from the government, as was the case here.
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You're right, it is important to remind that GPL is shooting for user freedom, and final users getting free access to modifications; that authors enjoy modifications is only a nice side-effect that isn't even required at all, but is in practice common. The misunderstanding seems to be from the clear separation between users and developers that GPL does.
Memory is in 3rd person.

This is entirely irrelevant.
> Is there any precedent for that, it sounds impossible, that publishers would block one of the major browser brands like this; wouldn't it just mean people would use UA switchers?

Some websites already detect ad blocker extensions and instruct users to disable them. If Firefox Tracking Protection was enable by default, it's possible publishers might do the same for Firefox users. Another precedent, though different circumstances, was when OkCupid asked its Firefox users to switch to Chrome or IE to protest Brendan Eich's appointment to Mozilla CEO.

Probably less than 1% of Firefox users know what a User-Agent string is. The path of least resistance, and the one likely suggested by the content sites, would be to switch to Chrome or IE. Even if Firefox users changed their User-Agent strings, websites could still detect whether a user is using tracking protection or ad blockers (by requesting known-blocked URLs to see if they are blocked).

> The only reason FF wouldn't want to serve it users like this, that I can see, is so as not to annoy those they're in commercial relationships with like the company they forced the browser toolbar button on to everyone's Firefox to get sponsorship from.

Which toolbar button is that?
I did it a lot as a child but everytime I forced too much to generate things or whatever, I would wake up, ruining my sleep.
It was also a good way to remember some things I could not remember awake. Nowadays I can't sleep much so I stopped.
> The coercion could and would take the effect of requiring you to vote while the coercier was watching you. If you voted before then, you'd suffer the consequences.

Yes, and it's not the "gun to the head" type scenario but voting with family, partners, friends that would be more typical. Or voting at work, knowing your boss is right next to you and hates party X that you want in...

Voting on paper in a booth is antiquated and low-tech, but it works. It's simple, pretty easy for interested parties to watch for misconduct, understandable by everyone. It's hard to fake on a large scale, too.
yes leonard susskind's stuff on this is excellent!
"Gladwell" is a synonym for "ignorant glibness". He doesn't understand anything he writes, and keeps right on going just as if he does. (Continued execution past a stack overflow.) Everything he writes should be assumed to be on the way to "not even wrong".
I made a silly desktop app some time ago and it used DBUS to get notifications from NetworkMonitor when the system went online/offline. Nothing too fancy, very few lines of code.

When I was implementing that, I managed to get several segfaults from my Python code. All together seemed a little bit fragile to me :(

That was 5 years ago, things are probably better now (to be fair, I don't know what was causing the crashes; NM was 0.8 back then), but when I read Linus comments I can help to think he's probably right.

This is an anecdote and all, but my point is that until I had to use it... DBUS was pretty good and was working fine :)
Personally I've always read the Greek ministers statements as those who are already planning to leave the Euro. It's the only way they can live up to their promises both to their debtors and to their countrymen.

I imagined this winter a printing press has been running in secret to ensure if the tipping point did come then they would be ready:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Rue

Plus I agree with the suggestion from years ago that German should be the one to leave. Technically its the odd one out in the Eurozone.
He does seem to be saying that kdbus is pointless since those fixes would be in userspace where it's spending most of its time. Or am I misunderstanding?
Diesel is essentially a hydrocarbon, so water and CO2 can provide all the elements required.

The normal problem is that the cheapest/easiest source of hydrogen is from the stream reformation[1] of natural gas, but here there are using high temperature electrolysis[2] of water powered from green energy (they don't seem to specify exactly what this is).

The CO2 comes from atmospheric capture using a device from Climeworks[3], and biogas. This is CO2 neutral as all this CO2 is either in the atmosphere already, or will naturally end up in the atmosphere.

This is of course a very small-scale pilot by Audi, but I've often thought that using hydrocarbon fuels manufactured from atmospheric CO2 and water might be an excellent solution for transport and space heating.
We have all the infrastructure for distributing these fuels, they are manufacturable using something like solar energy, and can be easily stored and transported themselves.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_electrolysis
[3] http://www.climeworks.com/
BRB writing a future New York Times bestseller.
"That is a far smaller pool of people"

The population of England in 1801 was ~7.75M people (versus today's 53M).

"For example, someone with the right super athlete genes may never know it because all he does is sit around writing compilers."

Very unlikely. Most people are exposed to a decent amount of physical activity as teenagers.

Some "potential top athletes" end up never having a career as an athlete, but the kind of person who has the predisposition to be a "super athlete" at something like running a mile, can be spotted very easily among his/her peers while doing normal "school physical activities".

Also, no one achieves extraordinary results without being highly motivated and training extremely hard on their speciality. That is something that people "in those days" certainly didn't do. Working physically hard in general wouldn't have helped them to achieve extraordinary results at specific events.
The gap on Ubuntu is actually smaller than the same gap on Firefox/Chrome.

Incidentally, I like how you can make notes on sites. I wish there were public notes as well for each domain or maybe page. That feature of stumbleupon was great. People would add comments etc on many pages. It was a way to have essentially a reddit thread for every page without having to search for it. Too bad they got rid of it when they redesigned it a few years ago.
That was my first reaction as well. But to be fair, the kdbus people always said the real speedup will be seen for large packets.

However, the real issue is how slow overall DBus seems to be according to those numbers. As Linus says earlier in the thread: "No way should it take 4+ seconds to send a 1000b message to back and forth 20k times." This is indeed rather shocking.
Suprastructure – how come “Microservices” are getting small?
I'm gonna give the same advice I give everyone who is told about mechjeb, learn to pilot manually before using mechjeb. I suggest using it once certain parts become routine (launch, rendezvous, precise powered landing)
Depends how you define male and female.
Is it based on genetics, physical characteristics or how the person "feels".
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It's called Plan 9.

In Plan 9, each process has its own filesystem tree, and other programs can expose themselves to this process as file servers, meaning that data internal to the programs can be accessed via the same read, write, delete, etc. calls as files. For example, when running under rio, the Plan 9 window system, the current window contents are available at /dev/window and you can write draw calls to /dev/draw to do graphics.

REST is pretty much applying Plan 9 principles to the Web and http.
wodenokoto, don't get me wrong. I'm not even a native English speaker, let alone an US or UK citizen. But this issue is just overwhelming.

I recon that Asian countries, not only Japan and China, but also India, for example, are not so exposed to US as Europe, or America (continent) or Africa. I guess this has as much of cultural as historical -- for instance, Japan has always been a pretty much isolated culture historically speaking.
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What's more bizarre is that turning the key should completely devastate the car. Faulty switch or not, that sounds pointlessly hazardous. I'm hoping there's a good reason for this, but it sounds really terrible.

Do "keyless" cars immediately shut off when you press the stop button while driving?
The point of kdbus is to do dbus in kernel space. The one spending lots of time in userspace overhead (not doing actually useful work) is regular dbus.

Linus is saying that kdbus is pointless because its performance gains don't come from being in-kernel, they come from the code not being a complete shit-show, and he believes the same performance should be achievable by fixing regular userspace dbus.
most client will upload while you are downloading. I believe in BitTorrent terminology it is only call seeding when you keep uploading after you have downloaded everything
There are a lot of transgender prostitutes outside my workplace. I am not sure if that the only work they can find or if it pays well. It doesn't look like a wonderful life, hanging around a car park after working hours. (Though at least one of them has a very flash car).
So, basically, systemd-bus would solve the problems even without kdbus, if it avoided all the extraneous memory allocations.
Physics should be taught to everyone, for one simple reason: this is the only science which studies a simple enough subject for all the classic scientific methodology to work really well.

So it is the most natural way to learn about scientific methodology in general. The other sciences are still largely in a phenomenology stages, while physics features multiple nice, small, tidy, very well-developed theories, and it is pretty much unique in this sense.

Medical students will find it much easier to comprehend the reason behind the double-blind method after comprehending the classic, simple Popperian methodology on the obvious physics examples.
there is no real reason to have such a complex layer of abstraction for IPC, when the system already provides much simpler alternatives

This. So many things that freedesktop does I just kind of look at and think "this just isn't remotely a problem I have, so I can't judge whether it 'solves' it or not."
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